skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In this universe there is no way trashing the booster instead of land it would have less environmental impact.
No we dont need a 20 page paper to make that claim. Basic understanding of economics and common sense is all it takes. Only small things or things that have very title environmental impact could ever challenge that. So unless you use boosters that grow on trees, is not even a debate.
Debian builds and signs which is rather different from just signing what someone else builds. This makes sense for Debian since they often make changes to the upstream code a bit, primarily for consistency with the rest of the distro, which you can see in the source packages. It's good for the signing party to be the one who built it asserting 'this is what we intended to ship'. It's also very clear that they are Debian packages, rather than anything originating from the upstream author(s). That's a very different thing than Google's new policy.
The difficulty of mastering the tenses is something that I think a lot of English speakers overlook. There's a lot of really precise and difficult-to-explain subtleties in English. (Of course, English isn't unique in this regard -- but I feel like certain things are taken for granted).

Something that catches a lot of English as second language people out is the correct time to use the gerund form (i.e., the '-ing' form). For instance,

(1) I am walking to the shops.

is clear -- it is occurring in that moment. But what about the subtle difference between (2a) and (2b)?

(2a) I live in Berlin.

(2b) I'm living in Berlin.

To me -- a native English speaker -- (2b) implies that the speaker generally lives elsewhere, while (2a) doesn't. But they're both technically correct if the speaker is, at that moment, a resident of Berlin.

There are more examples I could give. Teaching these sorts of subtleties, though, and mastering them can be very difficult.

A final example that I really like, and one that my syntax lecturer used to use a lot:

(3) She would have had to have been being watched.

Seven (or maybe six, depending on how you view 'watched') verbs in a row! Native English speakers grasp this really intuitively, but non-native speakers may have trouble parsing these into a coherent picture. To illustrate this -- try and gloss this sentence another way while conveying the meaning. If you speak another language, try and translate it! English verbs are hard.
Gendered pronouns

Some of the verb tenses (e.g. past perfect continuous) don't exist in other languages.

Verb inflection
> I don’t know, it sounds like the exact opposite to me

That's a ridiculous statement.

When you tell someone the grocery store is 5 mn away, you're expressing time, not distance, because you think they're interested in the time, not distance.

Yet you don't convert meters to minutes when you're telling someone how high they should build a wall. And you don't say "drill a hole 1/2000000 minutes by car wide".

That's the point of having a well-organized system of units, you can clearly express whatever you need to, always using the same system, and anyone who knows the system will understand it regardless of context.

Not being able to express distance as a separate concept is clearly inferior, since in our system we can express time, like in your example, but we can also express distance precisely when needed.
One of the alphabet agencies is incompetent. I recently looked at my iPhone to see battery usage per app - and Facebook nearly used all of my battery for two days. Weird thing, Facebook is not installed, nor any subsidiary on my phone (Instagram, Whatsapp).
This one seems a good place to start:

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/coronavirus/fl-ne-ss-prem-covid...
Not really, you can evaluate PoS-based by the bandwidth and the message complexity of their consensus mechanism and the space required to sync and run a node.
I have written hundreds of thousands of lines of plain old C, as well hundreds of thousands of lines of Go over a career spanning three decades. I've used Go in earnest since 2013.

I would pick Go for any large project in a heartbeat.

I have to concur that the haters who post to HN probably have never used this language in earnest.

Here's what you get out of the box:

* Extensive standard library
* Cheap concurrency
* Fast compilation
* Built-in test/benchmark framework, including coverage and race detection
* Built-in heap and CPU profiling

Of all the complaints the one I understand the least is the reservations about performance. It is within 10-20% of C, and callouts to C and assembly are possible. (My 8-way multiplexed MD5 routine was written in AVX assembler and lives on in minio.) Extracting that last 10-20% is two or three sigmas away from the norm of how programming languages are used these days.

The objection to generics is similar. The lack of generics shows up -- once in a long while. It doesn't prevent me from being immensely productive with this language.

Looking back at the last few years I've wondered if I could have accomplished what I did in Go by using a different language (C in particular) and the answer, for me, is "not a chance".
I think the way to look at is that, smart contracts are not behind the contracts/agreements, smart contracts are the contracts/agreements. Once you realize that, if a smart contract executed successfully then the operation was legitimate.

Of course, ethereum forked when a big hack happened, but it won't be forking for every hack, otherwise it's not really a reliable blockchain.
That it's junk food that's aimed straight at children. Why does it make it any better if it's not marketed to kids under 12? Is it more healthy to eat shit when you're over 12?

Can I ask back? My concern is that junk food is junk food. What is your concern with me pointing it out? Am I really causing such irreparable damage by pointing out that it's shit and people shouldn't eat it? And is the damage I cause by pointing out it's shit more than the damage that's caused for example by advertising this shit to kids over 12?

What is your concern, exactly, with my comment, can you explain?
There was a study released not long ago that came to that same conclusion regarding schools. It found that most students who were infected didn't catch it at school, but from family members and friends after hours.
> impossible to offer a competitive rate

Then they can charge apps for downloads that dont go through their own payments.

But more importantly that's assuming that Apple needs to have rates as high as e.g. stripe, but they can probably get better much better rates due to their size, hell they have the cash to create their own bank (as they should as they re becoming a services company).
It's more pertinent that meat used to mean any food, and has since been narrowed to what used to be called flesh.
I have spent 3 years being employed to write Go, and i think the language is abhorrent. Once I moved to a job where I didn't need to write Go, I quit smoking.
I've heard it suggested that there was a lot of voluntary distancing and othet measures taken in sweden. It wouldn't suprise me if there was more actual distancing in "not locked down" sweden than in "locked down" US. But perhaps the protests etc I've seen on TV wetrre exagerated?
Only Rebekah Jones, who left her last three jobs with criminal charges, has claimed that. None of her claims have ever been substantiated by a single legit source.

Only followers of fringe left wing Twitter believe any of that.
Apparently suicides and deaths from starvation were also up significantly.

It will indeed be interesting to see how the distribution of deaths plays out.
Adactylidium
I once listened to an audio version of this from librivox.org. It was read by someone with a German accent and it was hilarious.
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> But on a normative level, perhaps a project that doesn’t want to support users shouldn’t have subsumed a huge swath of user land things?

It's not that the project doesn't want to support users in some absolute sense, it just doesn't want it happening in github issues.

The project provides the systemd-devel mailing list for that, but it's still preferred that users stuck on old versions determined by their distro's release cadence seek support from their distro vendor. It's likely such slow-moving distros are patching their LTS versions anyways, and are best positioned to support what they ship.
I'm looking forward to a npm ads follow up. I feel like opinions have changed around money and open source.
I'm not sure it's fair to compare an authoritarian country to a western country that's nominally free.

What western government could pull off welding doors shut the way they did in China? Even if the government had emergency powers that "allowed" it, would they have had willing workers to do it?
I find this both surprising and not.

Early in the pandemic, when most everything was shut down, I had to run an errand and ended up driving down some streets I’ve driven many times before. The percentage of cars driving erratically on the road was much higher than usual.

I figure one of these might explain it:

1. People are stressed / distracted, and driving poorly because of it
2. Most drivers are well-meaning and conscientious, but most of those conscientious people were staying at home as public health officials directed, so the few people left on the road were more disproportionately less conscientious
3. Fewer cars on the road meant I noticed the bad drivers more readily

Other hypotheses?
The full playable version is now accessible here: http://www.capnmagneto.com/index.html
> It's an obvious benefit to the US to not have variants arising outside its shores and coming into the country.

I hope you meant this as a way to sell it, because this view is a terrible, terrible way to approach the world, as it lives outside of the US are only to be preserved insofar as doing so protects USians.

Saving human lives is sufficient reason itself.
"The impact seeing the Palestinian flag next to the IGN logo had on me is impossible to overstate, or the article on Game Informer. Even if it was only up for a day before their teams were silenced, that day matters. How many people saw that flag, that post, & educated themselves?"

— https://twitter.com/tha_rami/status/1394003484605915142
I worded what I said very carefully.

Fertility does decline in men with age, but it's not really a concern for most men until 45-50: https://www.britishfertilitysociety.org.uk/fei/at-what-age-d...
Far more people in poorer countries will die from the economic consequences of lockdowns and travel restrictions than the disease. Decisions that were neither inevitable nor necessary will lower the opportunities for people to double their incomes from $1-$5/day for at least the next decade.
This solves a huge problem for me, and is easily worth three times the amount I paid for it. Thank you!
China might be fine, or it might not be. But only a fool would trust CCP numbers.
Or search “Bitcoin SV”, what does celebrity gossip have to do with this
I know a guy that caught it bad, he was less than 50 years old. Almost died, like really, he would have died but they brought him back. He is doing better, but is far from completely recovered.

I know other people who treat this like some kind of joke. You just don't know how bad you might react to it.

I am most worried about the long term effects. If you die, that's one thing, but having lingering after-effects would really suck.
No, I didn't mention Rust at all. Resist the impulse to reduce everything to zero-sum competitions between languages.
Um, no. It's a nice folk etymology, though.
I was going to comment on this as well - different coins made different decisions on how to scale their blockchains. Some have an expensive base chain with the intent of moving most transactions to layer 2. Some have a cheap layer 1 with lots of transactions. Some have a mix of the 2. There are different tradeoffs for each approach, but I'd love to see some of these scaling attempts included rather than just assuming that layer 1 transactions are the only ones that matter.
The post I responded to said "imagine if nobody did anything". I gave Florida as an example. Saying that California also flouted restrictions does not really refute that.
Using a map might not be faster as others have pointed out, but it's often more readable. The core library does this in several places. A map[someType]bool makes for nice, readable code:

if haystack[needle] {
The vast majority of cases will basically always be in big cities because that's where the most people live. We'd need per-capita data for it to be a useful comparison.
It doesn’t quite hit all those points but have you tried paying for a service with Bitcoin lately? The lightning network plus QR codes to autofill details all works pretty well.
"Fluidics has been used for years in industry however. Both in automation and for vector control on Jet engines and other areas with high temperatures."

Here on Earth we assume that the areas with extreme conditions can be contained, and normal conditions can be taken for granted for everything else. Yes we have engineering involving high temperatures, we also have easy available heat sinks. That is totally different from Venus, where we'll have to assume that the entire system will quickly reach to the environment's high temperature, that there will be little to no practical means to significantly cool off the equipment, and that that will be the assumed normal functioning parameters in the long run. This is a challenge, because as I said, we have limited technology that does not rely on conditions comparable to those on Earth. Part of the challenge in "all solutions will need to be adapted to the conditions on Venus" is that there was little incentive for this to happen naturally on Earth and thus it now can benefit less from the "free" progress that otherwise happened in society at large. There aren't good off-the shelve solutions to be picked and used. These have to be yet expensively researched and developed.

"Wind technology is a mature technology however. I cannot see why other means of energy generation on Venus would have a head start."

The issue is not how well the technology works (even in Venus' ground conditions), my comment has been about the mechanical nature, i.e. a bit on a lower level. Anything with moving parts will be exposed to a high degree of wear and need for maintenance. From an engineering POV you normally want to either avoid that or compound the problem by designing maintenance.

"You just need to reach something like an airship or balloons higher up. At higher altitudes you temperature and pressure is no longer an issue and you can use whatever technology works on Earth."

Not getting into the technical means of production and reception of the sound in Venus' conditions, nor into the reason for choosing sound as means of communication, this calls for a chain of balloons placed close enough to be able to "hear" each other in order to relay information up to an altitude where normal EM communication can be used. That's something we have yet to develop here on Earth. It would be interesting to know how we'd ensure balloons positioning, considering the unavoidable winds and other interference from atmospheric activity.

Despite the reserved attitude conveyed in what I've written here, I'm actually all for Venus exploration, and I consider it the most important next-target in human evolution, as may be reflected in my previous comments, for example like this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24594285
PoS still encourages using more powerful hardware and faster internet because it equates to more transactions. That said, I've seen people use Pi's as stakers. But you can still test the current draw per transaction much the same as with PoW currencies.
The mortality is 0.5% WITH functional healthcare. Thankfully we do not have data of mortality from places where healthcare collapsed, although India might provide us with a glimpse of what Covid looks like in its unmitigated form.
Linked to a quack's WP entry, what are we looking at/for?
> Following the most recent set of violent military strikes by the Israel Defense Forces that have leveled entire buildings in Gaza and left over 180 Palestinians dead,

> As Israeli attacks against Palestinian civilians continue

> Palestine and various charities that are trying to help the victims of Israel’s ongoing military attacks

What a one-sided simplistic load of garbage.

I fully expect this article to be taken down when an actual journalist points out how sub-standard the writing and journalistic integrity is in this piece. Utter trash.
Turns out it isn't.
I appreciate you adding context to your negative comment. I wouldn't really call it feedback, though, as you kinda just said "I hate it" a couple different ways.

What didn't you like about it?
Counters are often depicted as a unique feature in Japanese but I think it originated in Chinese, as their use of counters are more systematic (e.g. instead of saying "this book", you can say "this [book-counter]" in Chinese, which is not allowed in Japanese "*この冊"). Also many onomatopoeic words exist in English, but they just exhibit in a different way (e.g. "glitter" or "slippery" sounds very onomatopoeic to me). Politeness is indeed an interesting feature, and I see a lot of Japanese natives (especially in their teens) struggle with it.

Disclaimer: I'm a Japanese native learning Chinese.
SF fared a lot better than LA, which was a lot looser with restrictions...
I don't really see a meaningful difference between those two scenarios. In both cases Google has the ability to exploit your app and you have to trust them not to do it. Whether one approach is more politically acceptable than the other is an interesting question but I don't know if it matters that much in the end.
And perhaps unintentionally the Nintendo folks come out looking cool, authentic and passionate about making great games while the Sega folks seem like a bunch of cargo cult marketers who happen to be trying to sell games.
Sweden's early success with their 'herd immunity' experiment was short lived.

They failed to actually achieve 'herd immunity' and did not avoid the eventual virus death toll:

https://www.news.com.au/world/coronavirus/global/sweden-cris...

By comparison Finland, it's neighbor took a much stricter approach and never reached the same level of death.

Finland: 931 deaths at 168 per million with a 1.0% death rate.

https://epidemic-stats.com/coronavirus/finland

Sweden: 14275 deaths at 1406 per million with a 1.4% death rate.

https://epidemic-stats.com/coronavirus/sweden
It varied from state to state. I live in Maryland, and there was maybe a 2 week period last spring where you weren't allowed to drive anywhere except to get groceries and medicine, or if you were an essential employee for a business that was allowed to stay open. Outside of that two week period, the only travel restriction I know of was a mandatory quarantine period for people traveling in from other states.
There was a global 24% spike in roadway deaths? I find that hard to believe. Please provide evidence. In my country we saw a 10% reduction in road deaths through 2020.
I love how the term misinformation is now used to say "I don't like what you are saying and it doesn't adhere to my worldview, therefore it is misinformation".
I'm not surprised. Low-tech website with zero marketing and no big players using it or throwing their weight behind it.

I've perused their docs and the immediate question for me is, why would I use this over another more popular search library or database that already has a wealth of stackoverflow and blog posts?

I'm sure it's a fine tool, but I don't see a reason why an enterprise should hedge their bets on this unknown.
Not sure about articles but I can recommend Crypto Kittens Tutorial[1].

It has been some time since I did it(Late 2018 I think), but was really informative to get the mindset and different constraints people deal with in smart contract world.

[1] https://www.cryptokitties.co/kitten-class/breeding/introduct...
So all nations are creating fake deaths now?
- Try open source projects

- join a programming meetup group in your area
That's identical to contracts Epic signs to be on the Apple Store in the first place.
Really... not many. In my city of about 14k people last year died 19 people, that is like 3/4 more than the norm, but with these numbers, we are well inside statistical error.

Also we must evaluate the increase in mortality in a longer period. I can as well being that most of the people that died of COVID were either old people or people with other health issues that would have died anyway in a year or two.

The problem with COVID to me seems that everyone just remembered that people will die. In the old days death was normal, there were wars, there were al sort of illnesses and infections that caused death, it was common to see people die even at young ages. And I don't talk about centuries ago, it was like that till the end of WW2.

Nowadays we are used to people that lives till 90 years, we no longer have wars, we are able to cure practically every illness, so a virus that kills slightly more people that we are used to see terrifies us. But in reality, it's nature, we will all die one day, COVID or not, so there is no real reason to fear it to me. In fact, we will live worse life because of the fear of this virus, and all the restrictions that we had put in place to avoid that (without so much success, in the end).
> 2) a string is always "" vs null!

This is really just semantics, because nullable strings do exist in go: *string. The difference is you pay a surprisingly severe performance penalty for them.
If you go filing bugs against old versions of systemd in the github issues, you're likely just going to receive a canned reply along the same lines of what I've already said.

You may not like it, I'm just playing messenger here, to try save some bother on both sides of this subject. Use the mailing list for support questions, or contact your distro vendor for support.
I don't think thinking of these places as "islands" really makes sense. The USA could do the same for all people flying or driving in. It just has chosen not to. The US could close its boarders if it wanted to.

Just because we have two neighboring countries on north and south borders doesn't mean we couldn't lockdown people from coming in...

Literally do not get this argument.
That's an ebay thing. I haven't seen different product descriptions on Amazon. There is only 1, no matter which seller you buy from.
Federal Gov. left ‘completely blind’ on cyberattacks looks to force reporting
Of course there's no ham in hamburger - it's a hamburger steak sandwich, where "hamburger" means "of Hamburg" or "Hamburg style". The generic "burger" is a back-formation from hamburger and is the thing that makes no sense.
Your point is unclear to me. Gender doesn't mean genre in contemporary English. And context is enough to distinguish grammatical gender from other meanings usually.
The 'BAMBAMBAM SHABAM' as you type and then hit carriage return. The desk vibrating from the force of the impacts. You're right, it was an experience.
"...you really intend that the virus becomes extinct."

Which might not be possible due to many factors, including non-human hosts.
English media & social media of every kind is covering this in great detail.

The answer to tha_rami's question is none. Most people are blindly repeating what their favourite social media stars have posted.

How many people have a clue about Hamas or their actions or their policies?
I don’t agree with this at all.

The “value” was lower cost (and later, convenience). But by hiding the actual cost.

Amazon grew a large customer by cutting corners, like sales tax; not taking monetary responsibility for defective and dangerous items; making IT “easier”, but eventually more expensive.

When that became insufficient, they began stealing small business ideas and making it their own.

In other words, their only path forward is becoming a monopoly. Not innovation.