skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same thing happened to me when buying a graphics card from a computer parts website. Klarna was so well integrated into the UI of the checkout process that I didn't even notice I was giving my details to them.

Only afterwards I noticed on my bank statement. I sent them a gdpr request to delete my data.
Now if we could just make a Beowulf cluster of these...
Exxon Lost a Climate Proxy Fight
That's a strange lisp...

A few other strategies for solving this problem include something along the lines of the Small Clojure Interpreter (1) and Defunctionalization (2, 3)

[1] https://github.com/borkdude/sci

[2] https://blog.sigplan.org/2019/12/30/defunctionalization-ever...

[3] https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~plclub/blog/2020-05-15-Defunction...
This is with really slow audio. The default setting is much faster, and can be turned up even further than that.
>> Tried it and it's so beautiful!

Thank you it means so much.

Yes, in our earlier version we could connect to Planetscale and create tables (this was at inception stage). With recent Planetscale release DDL are no longer supported and branching is the way. We would love to support if anything changes.
Telling people to have fewer children in an area where few children make it to adulthood due to factors like poor healthcare, war, crime, etc... is kind of cruel and likely to be ineffective. There's a lot of evidence that simply improving the standards of living will reduce birthrates naturally.

It's better to attack the cause than the effect.
Thank you. I'm going to take a look at this for the project I mentioned in my other comment.
We have a Discord group, and am very eager to hear from users. https://discord.gg/pTAdsSW

User suggestions and bug reports are promptly followed up on. There are almost no known errors at this point, so it is very good shape.

You are correct that it has elements of JavaScript, but that is inevitable given that the primary output of the transpiler is JS code for use on the web, so some JS functions have to be present for that to work, and to inter-operate with JS, one has to use their string system.

The attempt to offer an integrated programming system, where we return to the simplicity of VB6, or Borland Delphi, is actually quite ambitious, as in order to offer such an integrated product one has to build in a database (graph in this case), a layout engine (novel, Renaissance proportion based layout model), a drawing system, and a way of coordinating between client/server (a novel subscription to a single source of truth system, with remote procedure calls).

The language is primarily based on Modula-2, which the author of Beads used for 20 years quite successfully in large commercial products. There is nothing from COBOL or Ada that i can think of (although Prof. Wirth did contribute to Ada I believe), not sure what the M language is. There are some elements of PROLOG built in that are not readily apparent, as the core programming pattern is State-Action-Model (see sam.js.org), and if you change a state variable, then any drawing code that used that variable is scheduled for refresh.
I only remember the timing because I was at the MySpace parent company before/during its hypergrowth, so all sorts of architectural patterns were being discussed/evaluated/used. This was during a time when complaining about SOAP/XML was the trend, greybeards liked to remind the young'uns about the nightmares of COM/CORBA, and Domain-Driven Design and Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture were the new shiny things.

> As for implementing things

That's on me, I took a cheap jab at consultants. I've worked with many great consultants, more often than not people I've worked with in the past that went independent (or someone they similarly worked with).

> Being good at naming things is almost a job requirement

I wish someone had told me that moving up the seniority ladder also meant more PowerPoints, presentations, and buzzwords. Every startup CEO I've worked with seems to fall for the allure of language, since they're now point person to investors and are expected to provide 12-16 hours of board meeting material a year. Finding succinct language to explain ideas that will likely cost millions of dollars is hard work.

> changed the name to sidestep the animosity

I had a boss that liked to tell me "Don't focus on getting more people talking louder about your idea, but to stay quiet so the loud few are heard". I didn't need to get people to love my ideas, just not speak out against them. Neutrality is sometimes just as good as an endorsement, and that's doubly true with engineering work when you're usually trying to convince non-or-slightly technical peers to invest in your recommendations.
> One thing you can guarantee is that the value of GBP could only go down with these fools in power.

Value of GBP compared to what? £1 = £1
"centuries"

Centuries is a long, long time in science and technology. It is 2021. If we take "centuries" to mean two centuries, railways with steam engines were not yet a thing in 1821. Cars without horses much less so.

None of us can predict the state of computer science in 2221.
I guess economists can say that they're "just responding to the incentives of the market".
So sad Blizzard lost its soul and forgot how crucial modders and the community are to a game. They showed this by missing the boat on DOTA and then trying to catch up to a new genre their own community created.

The original Blizzard allowed the community to play with their games beyond the intended main experience of the game. They could have taken the route of making all their games as open as possible, providing the modding tools themselves, and then rewarding the best ideas because they can easily spawn another genre which opens worlds of possibilities. Unfortunately they have become yet another games-as-a-service company that provides theme park style experiences with guard rails for the players, and apparently won't hesitate to slap people on the wrist when they attempt to deviate from this.

It's soul is gone, and I don't even have hopes for D2:R, it might be fun for a bit, but it will not last as long as they hope. They will not provide the same freedom to the players, and the guard rails just get boring rather quickly.
Do you seriously think if congress passed a law stripping Facebook and Twitter of Section 230 that somehow, overnight, they will just magically disappear from the world? I sure don't, especially since it costs money to moderate content.
You don't need to limit it, as quality of life increases people have less children. Population growth rate is on a steady decline worldwide, and has or will plateau in developed countries in the near future.
The Egyptians weren’t sailing, Herodotus claims it was a fleet manned by Phoenician crew.
SSO / SAML will be be in enterprise versions.
This reminds me of a fearmongering TV "documentary" narrated by Leonard Nimoy about 40 years ago I saw that warned that a new ice age was coming and that the evidence was that snow storms were becoming more frequent.
Dang,

Why is there a total upvote count for users? I think it makes me focus excessively on social status -- after all, it's right next to my name. What would you think about removing it?
Remember the conspiracy nuts who said WMDs were a lie? Or the nut jobs who said the lab escape origin for Sars cov 2 should be taken seriously? Yea. I didnt see the comment you just replied to but Im pretty mad at people who dismiss everything they've been told not to like the way you just did.
It's absolutely no more difficult than colonizing Mars along a similar timeline.

Everything that we face here, in the most extreme possible interpretations, can be survived by humanity with effort and ingenuity, and we even get to build our hardened shelters etc. on nice sunny days with oxygen to breathe and water to drink. Mars is MUCH harder and may also be possible.

If we're really, really ambitious and lucky we may also be able to sustain the global population we've currently got: that's a nice broad gene pool that can absorb a lot of evolutionary shocks, I think. I doubt we can expand global population much, but that won't be happening: weather alone is going to wipe a hell of a lot of people out.

It's going to start to feel a bit like bracing ourselves to live on Mars (except for on our home planet), as climate events ramp up, but humanity is definitely going to get through it. There will probably end up being a backlash against those who got us into this, as well as a predictable backlash against climate refugees that will cause a huge amount of basically genocide. It will be like 'stay where you are!' under conditions not conducive to human life. Even then technology might be able to shelter people to some extent.
This has been independently reinvented countless times, in countless languages. Would be nice to get a somewhat generalized standard in place.
> That also means they aren't familiar enough with the problem domain to find a duplicate/related question.

It would be a valid point if only the answer wasn't so often the first result after pasting the title of their post into search engine.
I'm more interested in the control plane but maybe I'm in the minority.
I just looked up Norwegian and it's Den lille larven Aldrimett there.
What, you don't think the greatest harp player can summon a dolphin and ride them across the sea?

That said, his political stories are entertaining, and the philosophy is interesting. It just hurts reading wikipedia and seeing how his account vaguely lines up with archeology.
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Further, Lehman notes, “Heterosexual men may fear that the representation of the penis gives women a basis for comparison and judgment, and, although men have long engaged in such behavior toward women, the thought of the tables being turned is nearly unbearable.”

As a result, representations of human penises tend to be strictly regulated."

I rolled my eyes so hard I sprained them. I don't know what it is with a certain class of people who need to explain everything in reference to straight men.

If there were no regulation on representations of human penises, these same people would explain that due to straight men: "Because heterosexual men have penises, representations of penises are celebrated and glorified..."
It's disappointing that they don't include any performance results from Sparkplug itself, only from V8 using Sparkplug some unspecified and unknowable percentage of the time. While it's true that Octane doesn't provide optimal performance targets for engineering V8, it does provide a legible approximation of the relative speeds of different operations.

From what's in the post, we can't tell if the interpreter is 128× slower than optimized code while Sparkplug code is only 32× slower, or the interpreter is 32× slower and Sparkplug code is 16× slower, or the interpreter is 32× slower and Sparkplug code is 4× slower (which is my guess as to the reality of the situation.) I'm more interested in this is-it-4×-or-32× question than the possibility that microbenchmarks might misrepresent a 32× slowdown as being a 48× slowdown or a 24× slowdown.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/13c-xXmFOMcpUQNqo66XWQt3u... does offer more performance numbers, but they're for "an early prototype", and more importantly they don't break out the compilation speed vs. the execution speed.

The description in the post makes it sound like Sparkplug output is pretty similar to direct-threaded Forth code, just a sequence of subroutine calls to other methods and implementations of primitive operations, interspersed with the occasional open-coded primitive (=== maybe) and control flow. And typically that means an overhead of around 4×, although maybe it's more with JS's aggressive implicit coercions and whatnot. It sure would have been nice to see some disassembly listings, too.
One of my favorite serif font is Lyon Text: https://commercialtype.com/catalog/lyon_text
In the early 2000s an acquaintance told me about the time they joined as spectator a crew who were dragging down a forest with a massive chain between two huge tracked vehicles. The downed trees were then burned. Is this still practiced?

Edit: this was in Australia
Also, 1.5°C increase was guaranteed in almost every model, in the near term. I don't think anyone had doubted that.
I would not call it a "good amount" but I know women who elected for C-sections because they attribute too much value and significance to the date of birth.
We jumped off the CentOS boat after their statement and switched to OpenSuSe, no regrets so far, smooth sailing.
This is the kind of stuff where the agency needs to be prosecuted for perjury. Alas, there's no money in pursuit of a perjury claim like this.

We can only dream of a world where protections of individuals trump the protections of corporations. Comcast Xfinity is also to blame here as they forwarded on a dmca notice something which they have no duty to do but they voluntarily did so without even taking the most basic review of it.

Without civil liabilities being held to people who report falsely and agencies who forward this on and without criminal prosecution of the perjurious testimony that was given to file the dmca of these kind of abuses will persist.
Including Tracing Headers in Nginx 1.18.0 Access Logs Using Custom Formatting
Google's new extension interfaces are reasonable though. They really are more secure. I want extensions to have as little access as possible.

uBlock Origin just happens to be important and trusted enough that these limitations should not be imposed on it.
That's a great point you make about the niche market. For serious board gamers, there are already good solutions. But non serious or family / happy hour type board gamers, barrier to entry to those platforms is high. There might be a need for those who fall into that bucket.

Agree that, if we can use / integrate with existing solutions like tabletop simulator, we could potentially focus on how to make them fun for not-so-serious users.

One concern there is about the classic debate - feature vs product. Intuitively it feels like a feature rather than product, but that's where we have to push and figure out.
The defacto support, such as it was, was "run DOS/4GW".

An actual MS-DOS running in protected mode would be an interesting thing. Win95/98 might qualify(I don't know enough details, but it did identify as DOS versions 7/8, and they dropped support for pre-386 CPUs).
As for one, at least, if the Ancient Greeks and Egyptians knew the world was spherical (as they did, and had an approximate measure of its dimension), this could be easily predicted and might make part of whatever speculative discussion they had that was the equivalence of HN or general interested internerdery here.

The second is harder to find an excuse for.

(O/T) Of interest to me is something I learned from HN - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Bojador - a large rocky shoal off the North Western African coast that scuppered many attempts at sailing around that area. It was, somewhat naively, the first thing in my long life that made me really appreciate how challenging old sea faring would have been.
Laws are only valid for the length of the public's attention span. There are countless examples of citizen-friendly laws that were slowly chipped away until they were irrelevant.

I'd rather not have to trust my government at all. I'm not sure that I buy the premise that trust is necessary- quite the opposite in fact. I think accountability is necessary. Any system that requires trust or goodwill is doomed to failure.
17 million tons of methane in 2013 and rapidly increasing. Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_methane_emissions
I dunno. Does it? You seem to know…
I'd be quite content with the option of hiding mine. There's zero programmatic value to me or any other HN readers (we don't have sub-HNs we have to moderate ourselves), and I tend to determine credibility by reviewing a person's past submissions and comments rather than gleaning a simple score.

For what little that's worth.
I believe it was J.P. Morgan

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/5273325-j-p-morgan-tells-th...
> Leaving aside the fact that Hamas isn’t for blowing up commercial airliners, the identity it chose for a Hamas representative was bizarre. Ahmed Yurlanov?
While we are at it, why not declare national emergency, and implement a one child policy in the high per-capita carbon emitters?

Like Australia and US?

Somalia - 0.1 Metric ton of CO2 per person per year

US - 15 Metric ton of CO2 PPPY
Have you considered tea? I don’t know if you’d like it better, but there are other caffeinated beverages than coffee.
Yes it would. "BTC" did not pay for the ad, a trading platform did. Trading platforms are required to warn customers about risk.

This company has agreed to do the same going forward. Otherwise they could have just kept the ad up and let the regulator take them to court.
For those who enjoy radio construction and repair, whether vintage or modern, from crystal sets to SDR through regenerative and superhets, take a look at The Radioboard forums. http://theradioboard.com/rb/
Well, of course. Bitcoin is zero-sum. For every winner, there has to be a loser. It's not like investing in Chinese solar panel makers or wind turbine makers in Denmark, which generate actual revenue and profits.

Bitcoin needs a growing supply of suckers. At some point, the sucker supply runs out.
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"Anti-social ideas" is in the eye of the beholder, given that a society is generally a diverse social landscape. I know many people who consider cryptocurrencies to be one of the biggest social boons in recent times.

A unified, international ban on something is a nearly unprecedented achievement, apart from perhaps chemical weapons, and even then i'm not sure all nations had a seat at the table.

You also referred to cyprots as "evil" earlier in this thread. What specifically about cryptocurrencies has given you this strong sentiment? (To be clear i appreciate your passion on the topic, i'm legitimately trying to understand your viewpoint, if that isn't obvious).
> Books for babies and toddlers are pretty much all the same: cute drawings and simple sentences. On some level, they're all goofy and inane.

If you're tired of that, I'd highly recommend Happy Dog the Happy Dog:

https://topatoco.com/collections/ryan-north/products/qw-happ...

It's based on this comic:

https://qwantz.com/index.php?comic=484
the 1929 and 1932 stock crashes weren't a straight path down.
"Ayaan Hirsi Ali became a Dutch citizen by illegally emigrating from Kenya. She appeared on a blatantly anti-Islamic film produced by Theo van Gogh, and since then she has been fearful of the consequences. She continues to rehash her anti-Islamic statement, and is now taken on tour by organizations seeking to smear Muslims. She was one of the interviewees in The Third Jihad, an anti-Islamic film produced by The Clarion Fund." https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ayaan_Hirsi_Ali

"The Clarion Project (previously the “Clarion Fund”) is a nonprofit organization initially launched by neoconservative activists in the United States and rightwing Israelis that produces alarmist films and publications aimed at hyping the threat of “Radical Islam.”" https://militarist-monitor.org/profile/clarion_fund/
> They are now the network that tried to build a Berlin Wall to keep the users in.

Are you sure that wall is not to keep them out? /s
Just because they have a good relationship with the management doesn't mean they're toothless. Some employees don't want to be threatening a strike every week.

But yeah, people who identify with the more militant unions kind of despise the CFDT types.
I know of two people that went through the whole social media mob thing. The most hurtful thing to them was the lack of friends actually standing up for them. They felt completely alone. And with nobody taking their side, it feeds the narrative that they really are as bad as everyone claims. So no, I think you're completely wrong and what you are suggesting is cowardly.
Humans ARE the cause.
Because the leadership (CEO) is ineffective at best. Poor leadership led to poor decision-making and lack of strategy and focus.

I was once a strong supporter of Mozilla but never again.
What structure did you have as original co-founders. This will likely dictate a lot of what is going forward.
It doesn't need Docker to function. You can export static HTML and host it however you like.
There are much-safer-by-design reactor plans out there now. Hopefully the "nuclear is horribly unsafe by default" opinions will consider the new options.
Ok but I hope you're not saying OP's article is an apocalyptic narrative. It's a pretty mild projection given that we've already hit +1.2 degrees, and are already seeing effects from that.
Thank you! There's lots of evidence that living beings of all kinds actually feel compelled to reproduce _more_ when faced with stressful selective pressures.

We don't have a population problem, we have a crisis in greed and hypercompounding concentration of capital and dominating, ineffective forms of power. We have a status quo that abhors any idea of slowing down, even though studies show slowing down would naturally reduce rates of energy consumption and carbon emissions. We have a trickle-down rent extraction problem that's pushing people and communities around the world to the brink.
Remind yourself that humans have adapted to quite literally ever problem in front of us. We will have no choice but to adapt to a changing world. It is vastly more practical to mobilize people to engineer and deploy solutions to problems they immediately face.

Humanity as a species will not collapse, we will adapt and press on.
I agree with that, hence the quotations.
The end of the Dollar as world reserve currency
I wanted to point out the native GUI tools are very friendly, cross platform and do their job pretty well that come with git (Gitk, git gui).

Rather than a paid tool like Fork, Git Kraken, Tortise, Source tree and the list goes on.

Also vsCode has some free extensions that give you the graph tooling as well and it's really powerful along with modern IDE's like Visual Studio & IntelliJ ecosystem.
Thank you for that link, had no idea.
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Thanks for the input. I submitted this because I’m looking around for ways to define a matrix for accepting a given “credential” within the schema of the credential itself — a bit hard to explain without getting into it. This is the best model I’ve found so far to do what I’m trying to do, but it’s still very imperfect.
Looks cool. But what is the ConvectApp exactly? It's blocked on my work network.
Yep. Here's my anecdotal story:

I am involved with phone call centers. I have a lot of numbers. I use phone numbers like others use throwaway catch-all email addresses.

I signed up for the covid vaccine through my family doctor who partners with a hospital. They required registration (no walk ups) and the online form was branded (domain, privacy policy, everything) to the hospital. I used a unique email address and a unique phone number. I'm a curious person.

To confirm the appointment they send you a text. Guess what number the text went to? Not the one I typed in. It was to a unique number that I only used with my Google billing account. (I was using a corporate computer in no way tied to Google.)

I looked into it and the hospital partners with a fourth-party health care scheduling servicer, who then has some sort of partnership with Google cause all I saw was that Google bought a low-percentage stake in the company.

Something tells me the integration between these types of companies and Google is much stronger than the article lets on.
I don't like that and I don't like it when I'm voted down, especially when, for example (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27304811), I can't understand why the down vote was set on this point. This arbitrariness leaves me with a strong negative feeling, which is then also transferred to other down votes, even if they were justified.