skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice work on the sim, that's really cool! Love the synced video as well.

This is such a fun space to fiddle around in as an amateur. I've been experimenting with using actor systems for automating Kerbal Space Program with the KRPC extension; first projject can get a Vostok-like ship into orbit [0]. I thought I knew quite a bit about rocket guidance & control until I started writing these wee projects! And that's even using the simple "auto-pilot" built into KRPC to keep the rocket pointing in roughly the direction I tell it. I've been very slowly starting out on a new system which uses parallel WASM runtimes, so you can program rocket control in any WASM-targetting language. Starship/Falcon style landings are definitely one of my goals.

[0] https://github.com/dmfutcher/strelka
That tool is proprietary; BloomRPC[1] has 80% of the features and is free and open source.

[1] https://github.com/uw-labs/bloomrpc
Zeynep Tufekci published an excellent article about this. Her thesis is that medical dogma insisted COVID (and other infections) spread through droplets and not aerosols. Social distancing is enough to prevent infection from droplets because they don't travel far. That, it turns out, is wrong, and COVID can spread through smaller respiratory particles that can float, making social distancing alone ineffective.

https://www.theinsight.org/p/the-few-sentences-that-explain-...
Sounds like more Scala sophistry. I thought they were supposed to be aiming for pragmatism with Scala 3.
Indeed. It's my understanding that in economics wealth can be created (and destroyed!) and isn't necessarily a zero-sum game. The UK had huge problems with the combined effects of the pandemic and brexit in getting its vegetables harvested. The most convincing explanation I've had as to why migration ends up being hated so much come from The Simpsons, in which Mayer Quimby [sic] blames migrants for other political problems...
7 years is not long for beheading, defiling, and cannibalizing a stranger on a bus
Why would you waste your time? Life is too short. Someone using IE 11 at this point is well aware that many things are destined to break.
I think they are already. I don't see a file with code as linear text but as a shape. And several files are the other dimension.

And I think not everybody is like this, though! I think there's a difference between "visual programmers" and "text programmers", and this is what causes the flamewars between people who want to "remove noise" by getting rid of parens, braces and semicolons, and people like me who use them as a sort of "signage".

The real problem is that I bet the "text programmers" also write more, well, normal text, and are overrepresented in blogs, articles, and whatnot. (Even though they're wrong XD)
The strange thing is that we have loads of research done over decades about all of this. It appears that the prominent doctors on the news don't know anything about it. Everything pumped out for publicity is about a sixth grade understanding of biology and epidemiology; but we know a lot more, it's just that Fauci doesn't talk about it and neither does the nightly news. If the role of journalists and the government was to inform, we would have well written articles on the loads of studies we have.

Journalists should give advanced information in digestible form about topics you didn't need to know about, but which are currently relevant. Instead, we get sixth grade hand waving in propaganda form.

Things like adaptive immune response, T-cells, immune escape, antibody dependent enhancement, viral loads, and lots of other things could be explained well but simply. It's a tragedy of modernity that we have so much information and so little understanding.
Denmark to ban all PFAS in paper and board food packaging (2019)
If this goes anywhere let me know - I work on BSPs at Arm
Yes, I also saw Sign up first and at the time I was about to leave I noticed the Edit button.

It mentioned I can "click Edit and try" but it was not clear I can do that immediately at the landing page without registration.
Browser Wish List – Tabs and bookmarks are the same thing
> Fouling and breaking the rules does not make you a better football player just because the referee did not notice. You won, but you're not smart, you're a cheater. Playing by the rules requires more effort - you need to be smarter to win.

A smart person dutifully operates as best they can within the rules.

But a smarter person realises that actually the rules aren't what everyone thought they were in the first place.

There's lots of examples in history.

Navies originally thought that submarine warfare was unfair somehow or against some unwritten gentlemanly rule. The less smart thing to do would be to take that rule and not use submarines. The smarter thing to do would be to say 'don't care' and build submarines anyway.

Football isn't a good example because you're volunteering to play by the rules in the first place.

Operating inside someone else's artificial rules is not smart.
Irish health service’s IT systems shut down after ransomware attack
There’s a saying, earthquakes don’t kill people—buildings kill people when they collapse.

In the open air on a grassland, covid won’t kill a population. The design of our hermetically sealed buildings is what’s killing us.

Back in the 1970s the air outside was full of lead and smog, so the safest thing too was completely seal all office buildings.

Today the air inside probably contains more hydrocarbons (from volatile organic compounds offgassing from carpets and furniture) so the best thing to do is vent air to the outside and keep the windows open (assuming you live in a mild climate)

Of course, that flies in the face of all efforts to make things green…which involve better insulation, sealing windows against leaks, more air filtration systems and etc.

Here in Canada the temperature drops like 5 or 10 degrees when you walk into a forest. I’ve stepped into a traditional mud hut and experienced a similar cooling effect. The common denominator is that both environments have a high surface area compared to say concrete. This acts as an efficient radiator so that when water to evaporates it removes heat. In low humidity climates this is one way to reduce cooling demands. Beyond that if we cool micro zones or interstate cooling into clothing itself through hoses or something that might be the next step in efficiency…until it gives birth to the next problem.
Astrophysics was probably a thing before chemistry, so maybe the chemists ought to have picked a different word!
What's happening in India is a culmination of immense population density, dismissing and ignoring of recommendations by the government, dissemination of propaganda, massive incompetence, etc etc

It's not a binary choice. There is a huge amount of room between the two. I believe you know that, so think about whether your comment was made in good faith.
I run ScamStableCrypto.

I create a billion ScamStableCoins and claim they are worth $1 each.

I give a billion ScamStableCoins to ScamCryptoExchange. ScamCryptoExchange is run by me. ScamCryptoExchange writes an IOU for one billion US dollars and gives it ScamStableCrypto (my right hand gives something to my left hand).

I, as ScamStableCrypto, write down in my balance book that I have a billion dollars of Commercial Paper.

I announce that ScamStableCoin is fully backed.
Long before it was ML it was called data mining. The textbook example is Walmart discovered that men buying diapers rewarded themselves with beer so Walmart created endcaps with beer and diapers. What the textbook didn't say is whether the cost in millions putting the data warehouse together ever was matched by the extra money made putting beer with diapers. Data mining was a fad long before ML co-opted its throne. A human eyeballing data has a better chance of finding these kind of new trends. Where ML weighs in us with fine tuning known trends such as with auto pilot, voice recognition, facial recognition, etc. Even then ML is only as good as the things being tuned.
All the news articles I've seen mention that actual numbers are perhaps 10x or more the reported numbers due to lack of testing and overwhelmed healthcare.
There are other stakeholders involved in a transaction like this, most importantly banks. Payments, especially large ones, are heavily regulated. You cannot hack a finance department and issue a monero transaction of that size without triggering a lot of alarm bells.
> He is excited by the possibility that developing this idea will solve the measurement problem of quantum mechanics as well as uniting quantum theory with relativity. He also thinks, even more controversially, that it could identify meaning in the universe.

Sigh

> But Barbour seems happy to swap the roles of science and the arts. He even suggests that art might provide a better guide to the true nature of the universe than science.

What did I just read?

> ...he writes that human moments of deep creativity “might be subliminal inspirations from the whole universe,” and that a performance of a great operatic aria can capture something of the cosmos as neatly as any mathematical equation.

Riiiight.

If I would get a dollar for every story along the lines of "Lone genius... famous university... mumble mumble... quantum gravity... mumble mumble... meaning of life..."...

(Not necessarily criticizing Barbour, whose work I haven't read)
Ireland health service shut down IT systems over 'significant ransomware attack'
Because we/they decided it, probably based on the relative economies of different countries, chance of illegal overstaying etc.

I think EU and UK people can visit the USA for a job interview under the visa waiver programme. A Nigerian can't. It's the same difference.
> When it comes to automated monitoring, there are two big philosophies, “checks” and “metrics”.

There's a third, "events". Just push an event out whenever something interesting happens, and let the monitoring tool decide whether to count, aggregate, histogram, alert, etc.

Events require less code in the app (no storage, no aggregation, no web server), and allow more flexibility in processing. I have used events to great effect. I am baffled as to why monitoring people still only talk about metrics.
Zulip is uglier in every aspect, like colors, icons, spacing and content organization. They should hire or recruit an UI designer.
There is a blog post now https://www.scala-lang.org/blog/2021/05/14/scala3-is-here.ht...
Azar, a Korean Chatroulette-style dating app quietly taking over the world
As long as they actually provide the service they're advertising, it doesn't sound quite as bad as an actual scam. Reselling something at a markup but with better advertising is common in commerce. Up to the customer to decide if the price is what they're willing to pay. It's only government services that have a kind of aura of "don't be a dick" around them, maybe because people feel they can trust them not to be profit driven.
Funny thing though - this benefits decentralized, diverse infrastructure- like small solarplants with storage.. (checks) yep still up. Until the plant is air-gapped of course.
On the contrary. Many other key rights in the US are curtailed and restricted - like security against unreasonable search and seizure, the subject of this story - while the right to bear arms has been expanded massively in recent decades beyond the context of allowing for a well-regulated militia.

Also, people _have_ been in the streets in the US last year, a lot...
A majority of people ARE vaccinated in the US. And you're vaccinating over 1% more per day. Don't undersell yourselves.
It doesn't matter "who did the trick". It is well known that Java was influenced by ideas in other programming languages from the beginning. And also other languages - including Scala and Kotlin - are similar in this respect... So yes: Kotlin influenced Java and Java influenced Kotlin. Let's compare final products with final products and not "how did we get there"...
Yeah, I can't see how the operating cost would be much different.

I do think the initial cost to install/upgrade to such system would be substantial, though (as in, existing systems may not have the capacity to ventilate that much.)
A long time ago I did some work for British Airways at Heathrow. The staff car park for Viscount House where I worked was directly under the flightpath and by the end of the south runway.

Minutes after a big jet had landed you would hear the noise of the vortices reaching the ground - they sounded like someone whipping a long stick to and fro.

This was when Concorde was still flying - that would set most of the car alarms off from the engine roar and the dirty brown trail of partially burnt fuel was a sight to behold!
The Zulip Django source code (the "zerver" subdirectory) is a great read too. It's Python 3 with a lot of typing hinting (has no mypy errors).

Unlike a lot of Django code bases it heavily uses function-based views. It also uses relatively few third-party django apps.
I started a little project to mitigate risk like this - run firefox from unprivileged podman container (it will work with docker too). https://github.com/grzegorzk/ff_in_podman

I always get the same ID on the demo because 0 apps are detected :) and this makes the browser unique because not many people run browser on system with 0 apps installed.
In genuine scams, yes. But nobody will accidentally pay millions for a business license that's also available for free.
He said recursive descent, so he meant LL I guess.
Or we might discover that brains are not so fundamentally different and most of the differences arise from the environment? It's the centuries old nature vs nurture debate. Perhaps that is the wrong question to ask.

I agree both extremes are possible. I don't feel confident betting on either extreme. I would bet it's both at the same time (nature AND nurture) to the point where the individual influence of each is practically impossible to disentangle.
I do not have any iTunes installed anyway.
I agree that for many use cases, IE11 featureset is fine. We jump on the SPA ship too often. I think that static content and server-side rendered apps are often the best option that is for some reason considered out-of-fashion.

However, for those who see a Web browser as an application runtime, IE11 should be out of question. Vue is an application framework, and as such, it should benefit from all the improvements in the Web platform implemented in the modern Web browsers.
You usually login in the West Coast, then, all of a sudden, you started login in the East Coast -- hey, GOOGLE, FACEBOOK, isn't that ODD?????????????????

I can't believe they act as they don't know what's going on and have no means to deter this. They SHOULD BE LIABLE!
Scala 3 Is Here
http://dotty.epfl.ch/docs/reference/metaprogramming/inline.h...

But it's there for meta-programming purposes, not micro-optimizations. I don't think trying to outsmart the JVM at inlining is worth it.
For anyone as fascinated with this substance as I am, here [0] is a YouTube video of someone making it 'from scratch'. It's a very detailed explanation, and includes some comparisons of the outcome VS commercial ferro fluids.

[0] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6L8yUY-doNc
If they redeem tokens net of negative interest, it may not be pegged at 1.000 (as the cumulative negative interest is then rolled into the price of token) but it would still behave the same as competing forms of "electronic USD deposits", so one could argue the peg is not broken.
Apparently the CDC has yet to catch up to 19th century physics.

The physics of small particles moving in the air ("Brownian motion") was completely figured out by Einstein back in 1905.

Given a virus' size and weight, it should be trivial for a physics graduate student to simulate how long it will be airborne.
Nails on chalkboard.
Before the 2008 financial crisis, a lot of banks listed commercial paper as assets. The highest-quality, highest-rated commercial paper! Backed by solid assets, such as mortgage-backed securities!
The separation between a heavy flight and a small one is 120s. There are many studies to take into account wind (speed and direction) and to have finer table of spacing (often around 85s) taking into account both aircraft types. Near the runway, there is also a ground effect with reflection of the vortex.
I almost never even register the knowledge box at the top because I don’t _just_ want the answer, I also want at least a little context and chance to vet the credibility of the answer. In this case it says appropriate internal temperatures for cats, but I’m looking for the kind of answer my vet would give me if I asked if it’s okay to leave my cat on the balcony during the summer. I don’t want to take her temperature. The majority of the links on page one repeat the 105 degree internal tidbit so I could easily filter them as irrelevant, but they are all couched in paragraphs of keyword fluff and narration “many cat owners like to let their cats play outdoors during the summer months but how sunny is too sunny for your furry feline companion blah blah blah”
Yes, I've helped tutor kids in web dev & game dev and I'm passionate about making tech easier for them. Remake was made for beginners, so they don't have to learn everything about full-stack web development [0] the first time they want to build a simple web app.

If your kids know enough to build their first website (HTML + CSS), they can also build their first web app with Remake.

I'd recommend checking out the Remake Recipes page [1] to get an idea of just how easy it is to build something that works. All of the editable examples on that page – as long as they use Handlebars.js {{variables}} – are examples of fully-working Remake apps that can be pasted into a Remake project (the app-index.hbs file). After that, they'll be working apps with editable data and user accounts that can be instantly deployed.

However, if you want to start by understanding the vision of Remake and get a broad overview of how it works, I can recommend this video I recently made: "Why Build With Remake" [2]

Also, here are a few of the more difficult parts you might run into:

- Terminal. You will need to run a few commands (remake create & npm run dev) to get the local Remake server running. It sounds like your kids are familiar with the command line, so this probably won't be a problem.

- JSON. In addition to Handlebars.js templating and CSS, your kids will also need to learn a little JSON. It's a pretty simple version of JSON (just objects, arrays, and strings all the way down), but it's still an extra concept to learn.

- Routing. If your web app has multiple pages, each with it's own editable data (i.e. it's not just a one-page website builder) you'll need to turn on Remake's unique IDs. There's good documentation around this [3], but unique IDs is a slightly harder concept to grasp than just HTML ⇄ JSON.

Good luck and let me know if I can help in any way. If a concept is confusing and you send me an email [4], I'll be happy to make a custom tutorial on the subject.

[0] https://github.com/kamranahmedse/developer-roadmap

[1] https://recipes.remaketheweb.com/

[2] https://docs.remaketheweb.com/why-build-with-remake/

[3] https://docs.remaketheweb.com/nested-pages/

[4] https://remaketheweb.com/contact-us/
> they incorrectly tagged a shared file as copyright-infringing - it was a bit too invasive for comfort

OneDrive also opens all uploaded pictures and automatically tags them based on the visible content. As long as an online service doesn't offer end-to-end encryption it's a safe bet that they'll read all your files (famously leading to the Google Drive-based DDOS attack scheme[0]).

[0] http://chr13.com/2014/03/10/using-google-to-ddos-any-website...
They also own notion.com but the things I people like .so better.
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Without support for an open source OS and ideally open schematics, bootloader, etc, these are doomed to become unsupported and in landfills like everything else. Just more marketing with promises they can't keep.

If companies want to be honest about providing consumer repairable products they should behave as though they will go out of business at any time... Which incidentally might earn them the respect and endorsement of people that understand how supply chains work to help keep them in business.

Yes I am going to be that guy. Open everything or please don't pretend to care about changing anything.

Compare to Raptor Engineering that opens almost literally everything they possibly can. It may be expensive but when you buy a Talos II it is yours.

Also made in the US.
Because our government has been caught many many times lying to us. In particular the CIA and various police organizations are constantly covering their asses. In general when the CDC goofs that’s just what happens, diseases and health is hard, but I don’t recall a lot of reports where they were actively murdering people
Tide: Developing a Distributed Database in a Breeze
Hmm, does it delete? I think it ends up in 'drafts'?
I mean if you really believe in what you said e.g. Tesla gets above $1,000 or Bitcoin goes above $100k, you can very well bet on it by buying into it, no? I wouldn't bet my savings on that though. Musk can very well post another tweet tomorrow saying that Doge is worthless... I guess when people look back on this 10 years from now it will be all 2000s internet bubble again.
It's great that many HNers like Syncthing, but personally, I seriously tried it maybe two years ago and didn't have a great experience.

I wanted to sync my personal files between three computers, two desktops and a notebook, which don't always see each other. At first, this worked great. Obviously, there were conflicts when I accidentally edited something in two places without syncing up. What I didn't figure out was how to permanently resolve those. I ran into endless cycles were I had a conflict between two systems, resolved that, but the third one hadn't seen the conflict resolution, which produced another conflict, which I resolved, which the first system hadn't seen yet, ad infinitum. At least, that's what it looked like. Among other errors, files long since deleted on all systems would still show up as conflicts.

To be fair, I didn't actually lose any data, and it's very possible I did something wrong that would be obvious to other people. But to me, it wasn't at all clear what and why, which scared me enough to move away from this setup. I don't want to take a lot of chances with my data.
What are good wrappers (not services!!!) for the apple and Google (and browser) notification APIs that handle the entire process? I only used Firebase for this purpose as when I started to look for self hosted solutions, they were all scattered libs with 'only 20000 easy steps to set up notifications for x!'. Maybe this has changed and I missed it: I would like to move away from Firebase.

For email we run bsd (not that that matters, it is just a factoid) servers, correctly configured which seem to work well (mail does not get to spam unless it is).
What Are the Seven Seals in the Bible? – Gospel of God
The thing with Scala is it depends on the pattern you want to use. I am a big advocate of it, and the function pattern being used fully with something like Cats or ZIO. However I would not suggest starting there.

I would start by playing about with the syntax and writing standard OOP code, as its probably what you're most familiar with.

When you want to dive into the power of FP then I recommend http://eed3si9n.com/herding-cats/. Its basically a companion to the Haskell book 'Learn you a haskell' (http://learnyouahaskell.com/) that takes the theory coming up in that book and translates it to Scala. I found it the most direct explanation of the different types and theories (Monads, Functors, Applicative, etc).
Thank you. Video should have been embedded at the top of the website. Only a video can explain the value of the idea.