skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The fact that the US doesn't already have offensive/defensive drone swarms means they're asleep at the wheel.

How sure are you that the US doesn't have drone swarms? They haven't announced that they have them. So far as I have seen, it hasn't leaked that they have them. But I suspect that the US military has several capabilities that are not generally known.
> This is self inflicted.

Not totally accurate. I have a highly curated twitter made up of finance and tech yet the suggested trends are HORRIBLE. Wonderful topics such as "Nazis", "RacistSoAndSo", "JimCrow", "UncleTom" etc etc etc.

Its a black hole, pile on of hate. I call it the trending two minutes of hate; and its built in with no way of turning it off.
I was surprised that Wikipedia's description of Blue Zones seems to miss that they have minimal road traffic pollution.

Through traffic is physically constrained in each case - due to them being islands or peninsulas or mountain villages.
> I believe you could arrive to your destination and look back and see yourself before you warped - and maybe as you traveled - as the light catches up to you

That does sound like traveling faster than light, but I think there's a reasonable view that makes it not.

Suppose you traveled at some very fast speed around a black hole. It bends space time in such a way that you might, at some point, be able to collect photons that could be reconstructed into an image of you earlier in time.

In short, when space time is flexible and bending, there are paths in which you can see your previous self. An alcubierre drive is a means to bend space time.
It's an American media outlet, so being upset about seeing American-oriented news in an American media outlet seems confusing.
The train mention is important. My understanding (and my experience, from the few trips I've made to Europe) is that your transportation infrastructure is generally much better than ours in the US, and thus driving isn't nearly as much of a requirement. (Plus there's not as much of a sharp divide between walkable cities and car-dependent suburbs like we have in the US.)

I'm sure there are significant regional differences within Europe, of course.
I’ve been following Andreas and SerenityOS since the very beginning and this is absolutely very cool news. I am so psyched to see where SerenityOS will go!!
Matt Taibbi is relentless in documenting media like NYT, etc. covering their tracks when they run with bogus news stories that end up having harmful effects on our country try.
> "well you have an engineering degree, we will see about that".

Well this means you dodged a bullet early :) It's better they wasted your time for the interview (couple hours or days of preparing?) than months or years of your time working there.
Most people don't actually have a phone company for "broadband". Right now, "broadband" is defined as at least 25Mbps down and DSL often tops out at 3-7Mbps. While 25Mbps will fit a few HD streams and might (5 by Netflix's specs), 3Mbps DSL simply doesn't offer the ability to watch HD video and likely makes things like Zoom a very rough experience.

I think it's also likely that a lot of people will end up seeing 2-3 wireless broadband options given that there are three wireless carriers.

Maybe you live in a Fios area so you feel like there is competition. I wish I lived in a Fios area. For so many people, wireless home internet means getting another competitor (or another 2 or 3 new competitors). I have access to Verizon DSL at 3Mbps. I can't leave my cable company for that. I could leave my cable company for wireless home internet in the 25-300Mbps range.
>SerenityOS [1]

Graphical Unix-like operating system for x86 computers.

SerenityOS is a love letter to '90s user interfaces with a custom Unix-like core. It flatters with sincerity by stealing beautiful ideas from various other systems.

Roughly speaking, the goal is a marriage between the aesthetic of late-1990s productivity software and the power-user accessibility of late-2000s *nix. This is a system by us, for us, based on the things we like.

[1] https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity
There needs to be a tax treaty between the US and the other country.

I first moved to the US in May of 1989. At the end of the year, when preparing my US tax returns, I had to report my UK income and UK taxes. The tax treaty was essentially reciprocal, so the final position was that the the US government treated the taxes I had paid the UK as part of my US taxes. Since the UK taxes at a higher rate, I actually got a refund from the US government!

I figured all this out by going to the library and actually reading the full text of the tax treaty between the US and the UK. It seems that most people wouldn't do this, and would pay "an expert" instead.
Using the iPhone camera as a Linux webcam with v4l2loopback
I don't see similarities with COBOL other than Beads has a low percentage of punctuation, but that is from imitating Python's indent-significant code structure style.

COBOL generated a lot of billable hours. I did early years in my career as a consultant-for-hire in a SF body shop, and occasionally would have to fix some COBOL thing. I sure hated it. Woke up one day in a puddle of drool from passing out because of boredom, and then switched jobs.

Beads is from a word-count metric, is probably within 20% of the minimum word count for the sample programs i presented, if you exclude techniques that greatly obfuscate the logic such as those used in Oscar Toledo's famous chess program.

Substitution and concatenative languages like FORTH regularly win code-length contests, but they aren't very readable. Beads tries to find a happy medium between brevity and clarity. I think people writing it will enjoy the careful balance that was struck.
That's a good observation. LinkedIn is so boring and chill, you can actually have difficult debates on there with everyone being polite and accepting lol

What's strange is facebook. The fact it's more segregated by close circle make the discussion nastier than on linkedin when you have your company name on top of your mean troll.
Anyone with less than an 8 figure budget shouldn't even begin to consider self-hosting.
Electron app obv implies more privacy in a sense (assuming that no data is sent to their server).

You wouldn't but "average users" would prefer to run it on their phone. For example, this could turn into a social media management tool for "influencers" and celebrities - managing their social media profiles with advanced deletion conditions etc.
^ as a former WordPress developer, this is where I'm at. If anyone with a small budget wants a website for their small business or project, I would not suggest WordPress unless they are working with an agency they can afford who specializes in it. SquareSpace, Wix, SpaceCraft, etc are much easier to work with.

Also agree re: lock-in. This is actually improving somewhat with Gutenberg, but transferring data from a WordPress site to another platform is still usually going to be a giant pain in the butt unless your content is extremely simple - no metadata, widgets, forms, custom blocks, etc.
Or pay a non-sketchy moving company, perhaps?
> So do I.

Thanks, I studied law.

> AdaCore retains full rights on the later, limited by whatever private agreement they have with the FSF.

No "private agreement" is necessary. It's just about whether Adacore grants the runtime library exception for their contributions or not. And they apparently only do that with a delay (a year or so).
The media is the message. Criminals don't launder bitcoin at non-profitable nail salons either.
Life in 2050: A Glimpse at Space in the Future – Part I
"If even HN can't do it, I think some of these topics can't be discussed online at all."

They can be, just not in a any format where anyone can post, let's say, 10 paragraphs of whatever, and then hundreds of people can jam their 40 paragraph rebuttals and threats right underneath it. While convenient for many purposes, the formats where the interactions are this tight and integrated are not the only formats.

You need something more like a weblog-structured community, where people can post their lengthy thoughts at their leisure, and others can post their own rebuttals on their own weblogs, but I think it's actually important that there not be tight integration such that everyone is getting a phone notification every time someone posts some link to them.

I would agree that online platforms that stick everyone into one metaphorical mosh pit have certain topics that simply can't be discussed reasonably, but "metaphorical mosh pit" isn't the only option.
Databricks does have a really bad habit of trying to use their product names as general terms, but other than that nothing in this post is particularly esoteric to data engineers anymore than DDD/CQRS/WET/DRY/SOLID/trees/nodes/links/references are to software engineers. Might as well pull out 20 year old jokes about snowflake and star schemas.
You are right, it seems that a lot of people develop antibodies after the first vaccine.

source: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210114-covid-19-how-eff...
Author here: Glad you asked

I laid out 4 tips that have helped me focus better.

I purposely made 2 of the 4 tips directed directly at myself. I create the most interruptions to my day.

My team has worked together to reduce unnecessary interruptions (see tip 1) as a courtesy to help me with my bad habits. The key point here is small interruptions are okay, but often not worth it, because I'll go off and do something else. If I could easily bounce back to what I was doing, I'd be much less frustrated at the interruption. My frustration lies with my inability to quickly go back to what I was working on, not the interruption itself.

Notice that I'm not passing the blame at others, I know my weakness. If I open chrome to check Slack, I'm gonna check HN, I'm gonna look at my email. This is something I need to work on personally
You say "dv" four times like people should already know what it means
You don't have the authority to decide what is misinformation and what isn't.

If you disagree with it counter it with your own facts but you are not the speech police.
Hi HN, I have been trying to find a way to better organize all the awesome lists on GitHub that is more searchable and discoverable. I find long lists great for finding a single resource but not so great for discovering resources. I wrote some scraping scripts along with the Github API to create a massive CSV of resources and tons of useful attributes (15+).

I then used the data platform Polymer Search to convert that to a searchable & interactive web interface. I will continue improving this list, so please let me know what else you find useful!
Thanks, this is a sound suggestion.
Air source heat pumps are fine for the places where most Canadians live including southern Ontario & Quebec and coastal British Columbia. If you live in Winnipeg or Saskatoon it might be dicey, but unless it routinely drops below -20C for extended periods you're fine. And you can have backup resistive heating elements for the occasional cold snap anyways.
Is it just owning the money which grants you a better score? In that case that's the problem indeed. But if you think that investing money in your or your kids development is a problem I tend to disagree. That's the whole point of having money.
First of all, I suggest you go take a look at the dimensions of a modern, high performance sailplane - this is what you're talking about when you describe an aircraft that's capable of a glide ratio of >50:1. They're not heavy, but they are large, and they are cumbersome.

For example, a Jonker JS-1 Revelation is a fairly state-of-the-art design manufactured with high-tech materials (including carbon-fibre and Kevlay). It is over 7 meters long and has an 18 meter wingspan, in order to carry a total payload of ~300 kg, which is roughly about where you start for bombs expected to have serious effects on blue-water combat ships.

How exactly are you delivering a swarm of these from 60,000 feet?
I think this is a important point, for what I understand from some old posts, there are basically three versions of Gnat:

- FSF: Is GPL but contains an exception that allows you the create programs
which are not GPL (basically the same as e.g. g++)

- AdaCore Community : Also GPL, but no exception. Hence your program is also GPL.

- AdaCore Pro: Commercial and allows you to create programs which are not GPL.
> If I had >50% hashing power of BTC(for exactly 1 transaction), I can make the current chain say anything I want, like give me all the BTC, and it would become valid and "permanent".

No, this is a big misunderstanding of how it works. Having more than 50% doesn't give you superpowers, it just means that you're able to create VALID blocks faster than the rest of the network combined (creating invalid blocks is useless), which allows you to censor transactions (by not including them in your blocks, which will be the chain with more work because you have 50%+) and you can TRY to do double-spends.

A double-spend gets exponentially harder and more expensive to pull off the longer your target waits before considering the original transaction final, because you'll have to rebuild all the blocks generated since that transaction was included in the chain, so that your parallel chain that doesn't include that transaction becomes the chain with the most work that everyone follows.
If rewriting in a safe language is the main driver why not rewrite everything in Ada instead of Rust?
NASA’s Mars helicopter goes on ‘stressful’ wild flight after malfunction
"Demonizing" is probably not a thing you want to be doing to renewable energy. There are tons of people out there doing that.

I know you want there to be a difference between "demonizing" and "daemonizing", but the former is a word that appears in mainstream dictionaries and the latter isn't. And other existing uses of it use the word in a significantly different fashion.

So good luck on your project; it sounds great. But you might want a new slogan if you want to get anywhere with it.
Unfortunately, the reason you can't see the hand is because it is up the government's dress.

If you think we have a free market in the US for telecom (or medicine, or a lot of other things), I have a monopoly to sell you.
Thanks for the feedback! I added a comment. Let me know what you think :)
Ask HN: After testing positive for Covid antibodies which vax is most beneficial
I am taking this test: https://elicity.health/our-tests/details/covid-19-antibody
I will soon be required to get vaccinated for COVID. If I test positive for antibodies which of the multitude of vaccines would be the least risky and most beneficial long term? I have not received the results yet but would like to be prepared with a decision when they come back.
Very interested to hear opinions!
Nuclear weapons secrets exposed via flashcard apps article insta-dead?
There's a bellingcat article that's been submitted at least 15 times in the last 3 hours, going Dead each time. It's titled "US Soldiers Expose Nuclear Weapons Secrets Via Flashcard Apps"[0] and seems totally within HN's interest area. Also, other articles from the same site seem to have survived.

Is it a glitch? A new-ish ban? Keyword filtering to avoid getting on a list? Zealous users flagging the links?

[0] https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2021/05/28/us-soldiers-expose-nuclear-weapons-secrets-via-flashcard-apps/

ETA: someone vouched for the most recent posting at the time, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27317946 , but it's still strange how we got to 15 dead entries in 3 hours.
Yeah: when you debate you never change someones mind, especially DURING the debate. The very first rule of debating is that you try to change the mind of the public reading it, not the debaters.

Now what you learn is mostly to argue your way around your opinion better, not exactly to change it. But why would you: you change your opinion when looking for insight (reading a book), not when looking for a win (debating on an advertisement platform).
Yes, I think at absolute bare minimum you need regulations to keep industry from capturing/controlling government, or else the most powerful capitalists effectively become the government. I don’t know a lot of people who like that scenario.

Clearly IMO you need regulations to deal with issues markets are not addressing. Again, the environment being the prime example.

My preference is for the government to intervene in other areas, e.g. capping prices on life-saving drug. In those instances I favor the simplest laws that achieve the desired result. My understanding is as laws become more complicated and harder to understand the more convoluted (and even bizarre) companies behave.
This discussion is frustrating and I feel perhaps we should agree to disagree at this point. It seems we keep talking past each other and I don’t know how else to explain my position. It also seems that perhaps you have some more specific ideas in your head about what some of these terms mean and you are seeing what I’m writing through that lens, but unless you explain those ideas the rest of us can’t productively discuss them with you.

I addressed three specific claims you made in the comment I first replied to. The first was true as written and my point in that case was that it doesn’t tell the whole story about how React relates to your own application code. I have tried to be diplomatic, but the second and third were simply incorrect: you claimed that React permeates your code and makes migration between rendering libraries difficult, and that it enforces a specific architectural style to the exclusion of others, but as I have tried to explain, my own experience on multiple occasions has proven otherwise. These things are only true if you use React in a certain way, and my greater point throughout this discussion has been that you are not required to use React in that way and a different approach may be beneficial in some respects. I feel like the old saying applies here: perhaps someone who says a thing cannot be done should not interrupt someone who is doing it.
Isn't this the other way round from my original post - you are a UK citizen in the US?
YouTube answer to why 29.97 exists: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GJUM6pCpew
The frustration with interruptions is that they introduce a sudden increase in required working memory.

It's the same frustration that people with ADHD experience regularly, because they have less available working memory in the first place.

Managing an inadequate amount of short term memory - whether caused by a deficiency in memory or overload of stimulus - is done mainly by restructuring your surroundings so they don't interrupt you.

Software development tends to be very appealing to neurodivergent people (including those with ADHD), so a strong distaste for interruption at work is to be expected.
What will be – Minimum viable future
Lol, depends on the east coaster.
reddit can be incredibly angry as well. Downvoting has advantages, but a disadvantage is creation of echo chambers where people feed off each other to get more and more angry, only hearing the worst from those who disagree.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc
I think that the web is pretty much done for in the long run and I've been meaning to try an write a number of posts around what its replacement might look like.
This first post is just attempt at setting the foundation of what the future we'll be building for looks like.

I would really appreciate any feedback on both the content as well as format and style of the post as I'm really new to the mystic art of blogging.
I'd be also really interested in reading what other people think our future looks like.

ps. If anyone interested in chatting more about this I'll be keeping an eye long term on this thread and will be linking to it from the post.
If you are not comfortable doing so in public, please do get in touch. (email in my profile)

Thank you :)

~ geoah

---

ps. I understand this first line might sound a bit harsh but by no means I
think we should not be trying to improve and fix the web while thinking about
what comes next.
https://youtu.be/HUMGc8hEkpc
Anthropic AI
I don't see how supporting malformed documents has allowed the internet to grow in a decentralized fashion?

The decision of some website/internet property owners to decide to 'wall' themselves off has nothing to do with the desire to create well formed documents. They've done this walling off already
Ohh thanks for this I'm going to try this out looks awesome!
Amazon reportedly removes NAC-containing dietary supplements
A carrier group is not going to let an incoming missile pass a few kilometers above the carrier.
Ah my mistake. By "right to wealth/comfort" I meant their right to pursue those things.

High talent immigrants are objectively beneficial to the US and to those individuals.
Watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J52mDjZzto
Could you please stop posting snarky and/or assholish comments to HN? You've been doing it repeatedly and we're really trying for something else here. There are other places on the internet to do that kind of thing.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> This is more of a general question With the availability of free languages such as Rust, Clojure, F#, Go, Typescript, Idris, Raku You have a solid option that cover ever possible paradigm and style of programming you may fathom

> Why would any one invest time or effort in a commercial language such as Ada,

(1) Ada isn’t a commercial language

(2) What other free language covers the style and paradigm Ada addresses? Rust maybe (I haven't really done a detailed analysis) now subsumes Ada, but has a different focus and a lot of cognitive overhead related to that focus. Haskell or another static functional language with a robust type system might provide an alternative approach to some similar benefits, but not the same style and paradigm.
There's a lot of research about this and I'm not going to link it all here, you can check wiki. One example is doi:10.1016/j.jdeveco.2015.12.001 "Emigration and democracy":

"Migration is an important yet neglected determinant of institutions. This paper documents the channels through which emigration affects home country institutions and considers dynamic-panel regressions for a large sample of developing countries. The authors find that emigration and human capital both increase democracy and economic freedom. ...Simulations show an impact of skilled emigration that is generally positive, significant for a few countries and for many countries once incentive effects of emigration on human capital formation are accounted for."
Obviously the solution is to give more tax breaks to these businesses. All that extra money will surely flow down in the form of lower prices to consumers, and not in the form of bonuses and 4th-homes for the company execs.
Complete deregulation would not solve this problem.

The problem is that it is really, really expensive to lay brand new fiber in most places.

If we had complete deregulation, the companies that already have the fiber laid would dominate. A competitor might look at a market, and see the price that the incumbent is charging and think they could provide the service for cheaper and still recover the cost of laying fiber. However, if they decided to actually start laying fiber, the incumbent would just lower prices and the new company would be unable to compete (since they have to recover the cost of laying fiber while the incumbent doesn't).

The only way for true competition in this market is to do what a lot of countries do... have regulations that say whoever lays fiber has to agree to rent it to competitors at reasonable prices. That way, you don't have to keep laying redundant fiber just to compete.

The free market would just lead to monopolies.
The biggest difference is that volt.fm supports playlists and as I mentioned, the upcoming feed feature for sharing music with a group of people.