skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Propaganda is political, promoting your company is marketing. Besides, this seems to be more extreme in it's lack of fairness/ journalistic merit. It seems to be just like I said, weird propaganda, not really even masquerading as news. It looks auto generated, like a bot farm created a web site and got it on hacker news for the clicks.
Yes, why so surprised? How else do they send and receive messages? Postfix scales extremely well and is used by most of the Fortune 500 in some capacity - either as edge servers, internal relays and as common-or-garden MTAs. The IMAP part is another server, at a guess something like Apache James or Oracle Communications Messaging Server, but possibly Cyrus (as Fastmail do) or Dovecot.
I think the majority (80% I’d guess) prefer to have the requirements come from someone else. To be honest I’ve worked with many people who would always say there isn’t enough ‘design’, as if the classes and methods should be written out for them and do as little thinking as possible.
I believe it depends on people. For some DuckDuckGo works perfectly, and they rarely go back to Google, if at all. For others it just does not work.

This reminds me of the dream of displacing Microsoft Word. Can we make a better product? No we can't. Only Microsoft can, through upgrades. The competition is stuck with making the same thing, and therefore not better, or something different, which is always "worse" because people are used to Word.

Also note that DuckDuckGo has a fundamental disadvantage: by not tailoring its searches to your history, it cannot possibly guess what you want to see as well as Google. Sure you're not trapped in your own search bubble, but you don't feel that. You only feel that the damn search engine can't find that website you are searching for for the fifth time already.

Pro tip: to get back to a web site, type its URL, or use bookmarks. Somehow I've seen many professional programmers fail to do that. I give them a URL, and they type it on the freaking search bar. (The more modern version is failing to type or auto-complete an actual URL in the omni bar.)
Bioinformatics just finished transitioning from Perl to R and Python. The last thing I need is a Perl renaissance. Hope it never happens.
Good point - I don't know where exactly they are coming from.

They are all in on defunding police

"ACLU’s executive director says defunding police budgets will be his ‘North Star’ going forward"

https://www.fastcompany.com/90512811/alcus-executive-directo...
The Hateful Eight.

Really long (it's more of a stage play), but like most of Tarantino's films, the dialogue is stellar.
> Do you really think that if I isolated myself with hundreds of hours of say Mandarin audio recordings, TV shows and newspapers and novels and spent 40 hours a week listening to the recordings or staring at written text, that in a few months I would acquire the language?

Yes, it does work, according to various accounts I've seen, although 40 hours for a few months might not quite be enough
(the usual figure is around 18 months of full-time immersion, and more is obviously better), and this is actually quite challenging to do for long periods of time (esp. without distracting yourself with your native language excessively) and that's why it can be a challenge.

>not hundreds of hours of passive "experiencing".

It's on the hour of thousands, not hundreds. There are people, especially in the refold community, who have reached fluency in languages very different from their native, with mostly input (active output is part of the equation, but it can be done later, after your comprehension is very high).

>Speaking will not just "happen" if you don't actively practice it.

Yes, you do need to practice speaking to get good at speaking. But from aforementioned accounts, this process can be quite fast after a high level of comprehension has been gained.

I can confirm that for myself, over the past half year or so, increasing the amount of input I get every day has greatly accelerated my japanese learning process, versus the previous year, where I got far fewer hours in (1, maybe 2 hours a day at most, versus my current 4+ hours every day), although I'm not fluent yet.

In just that time I went from barely being able to read, and only being able to understand simple beginner podcasts to being able to fully understand easier shows (stuff for adults is still mostly out of my reach), and understand most of all the podcasts I listen to, (as long as I'm actually focused on the audio, if I'm passively listening I don't understand as much). My reading hasn't improved as much, as I spend probably 80% of the time listening/watching shows versus reading, but I can read basic manga easily now, and I'm working on reading through some essays now, novels still seems massively difficult, but we'll see in another couple months.

I've found that many hours of audio input each day have greatly improved my ability to keep up with native-speed speaking, although for increasing my comprehension, intensive study (making sure I understand each line in a show, or careful reading) is more effective per unit of time. I have no doubt you could acquire the same results as intensive study with enough exposure to the language though, as I've seen it happen with myself before I tried adding intensive study, it would just take more time.

Most people wouldn't call 4 hours a day massive though, so I can probably still increase my rate of improvement if I find more time to use.
I found the Republic pretty accessible without much background in Plato. I had some exposure in philosophy and had read the Apologia, but otherwise had no Ancient Greek exposure.

This absolutely could be a function of the translation I read though (I read Desmond Lee's)
Wondering how this compares to Gatsby or other React-compatible static site generators...
What about fracking for gas? Seems pretty novel to me? Why not focus on that. Fracking sites leak huge amounts of methane into the atmosphere, destroy water tables why focus on a crypto currency that some people actually use?

What about mass international air travel? There are lots of novel things happening, why focus on bitcoin?
Let's follow that argument to its logical conclusion. There is nothing special about the property you've described here. My high school, university, half a dozen previous employers, and several ISPs also gave me email addresses. I did not get to keep any of them when leaving those institutions.

What about smaller webmail providers? Yahoo and Hotmail gave me email addresses back in the day, and then deleted them for inactivity. Your argument applies equally well there. How about those Fastmail accounts that people are paying for? Should they get to keep them even after terminating service?

Clearly all of this is completely absurd. The "important stuff is tied to a single email address" case is extremely weak.
Ok so it is a static site generator. Wasn't really obvious from the landing page.

Doesn't almost every large front end framework have a static site generator? I think Vue for example has it built in for example.

Why would anyone use this over the already existing one in their current ecosystem?
That's an intriguing point. I always thought children of professors/teachers would be better in school because their parents would push them (gently!) in that direction (and because they are probably genetically inclined to be good learners...), but this type of indirect watching of their parents and what they value must have quite a big impact as well (also in that the parents are natural role models). My parents had quite a hands-off approach (they're not teachers, as you might have guessed ;)) and I subsequently didn't care much about my grades or certain school subjects that I found uninteresting.
> So how about this, the upfront cost and effort of typing in a different URL is at least a few orders of magnitude easier than drilling a well.

That's missing the point.

Regardless of whether you personally type google.com or duckduckgo.com, most people use google and so they get directed to other Google products and don't see competing products, and that hurts competition in those spaces.
> purity also isn't a defining characteristic of functional programming

Disagree. It is in fact the defining characteristic of functional programming.
It is quite interesting, that they were rearranging valence electrons in atoms, while discussing how to persecute others for doing the same thing with different atoms.
Pay more attention to renewable energy, we are making significant progress over the last 10 years. Now if only we could get China on board so those coal mines stop increasing global emissions…
You are describing what is known as the typical mind fallacy.
Check out the islands architecture info, or search around for info on partial hydration. It's similar to how things worked in the jQuery days--you serve up plain old HTML and have a JS function that runs on page load to attach all the event handlers (onclick, etc.) to your dynamic elements (i.e. 'hydrating' the static HTML into dynamic HTML + JS components). The thing with frameworks like Astro is that they try to automate and manage all of that hydration for you, which is nice because for complex sites with lots of different components it becomes a huge, error prone chore to manually wire things up.

edit: Island architecture background info: https://jasonformat.com/islands-architecture/
I'm a semi truck driver and I have a god's eye view over all of you people.

And I will tell you, anecdotally, that large pickup drivers are the most aggressive and intimidating. I thought that's the whole point of those things, with their big boy yellow clearance lights, giant mirror arms (I actually have to watch out for those) and fat ass dually wheel wells.

Sometimes they'll even tailgate me, trying to intimidate me into doing ... something? Which is so cute.

Then they'll finally zoom by me, roaring the engine to let me know how annoyed they are, as I trundle my 15 liters along at 1500 rpm.
> But at the end of the day your infrastructure is essentially data not code. Your infrastructure is permanent, it exists even if it isn't being used it has inertia. At the end of the day your "infrastructure" is really just an entry in a database of a cloud provider, it is data not code.

That may well be true, but it doesn't solve the problem (note also that HTML is just data, but we don't typically expect people to copy/paste the same HTML blob for every blog entry they write nor do we expect them to update each of them when they need to make a change):

We often have N very similar, large, complex YAML/HCL/etc objects that we want to manage with Terraform. If we need to make a change to all of them, we have to update N different places. Keeping these in sync is tedious and error prone. So we need to be able to factor out the common code into some reusable unit that accepts the bits that vary as parameters. Terraform's notion of "modules" is a great big acknowledgement of this need, although it's amazing that the whole time they were building this no one thought to themselves "guys, this seems really heavyweight and cumbersome for what ultimately is just a function" (and that general failure to notice that they were accidentally building a fully fledged programming language seems like an apt summary of Terraform's development).

Note also that there's nothing special about infrastructure as code here, this is a general application of the DRY principle.

> I think we are seeing things come full circle again where people are finding the limitations of declarative infrastructure tools and decreeing declarative infrastructure dead and moving back to imperative infrastructure tools like Salt or Ansible.

Just because you're using a programming language doesn't mean you're imperatively updating state. You use a programming language to generate the static configuration (e.g., the YAML) that verbosely describes the desired state of the world that the application engine can then diff against the current state to figure out what changes need to be made. This is sort of what Terraform is doing these days, but by all appearances they didn't realize what they were doing and consequently the programming language they built was predictably awful.
Earnest question - Why does the utility have to honor the request of the owner? Doesn't the utility own the meter and is allowed to make changes to it as it sees fit?
Why is it so difficult to spell Ethereum correctly?
To break it up effectively, you'd want to separate out at least a few different business units and restrict the businesses the units can enter as well as the relationships between the units.

Big things would be Advertising separate from other things and bound to only advertising, and require it contract with the other units on public and FRAND terms. Web Search would be another unit, and it would be barred from developing its own advertising platform and need to use a mix of advertising platforms based on public criteria, probably with a cap of say 75%? AdWords. You'd have at least one more group for communications (mail, the 7 messengers, etc) which maybe includes the document tools too, and might include G Suite; this group could develop its own ad platform, but not to sell ads on 3rd party sites. Android would need to be a separate unit, it could either require a per device fee or FRAND terms for search etc bundling (similar the what they do in the EU); Chrome maybe fits in this group, or may need its own group. Google Fiber would probably get shut down or sold to an incumbent telco, but maybe just spun out. Waymo and other research stuff would probably need to be spun out, not sure if that can live on its own though.

Cloud services would be its own group, perhaps providing services to the other groups, possibly requiring public pricing, but I don't know if that's really an issue.

I think that's most of it. Lawyers from DOJ and Alphabet could work out the details. Getting a competitive ad market out of the deal would be hard, but at least it could be more transparent, and eliminating cross-subsidization of Google businesses is definitely possible.

Start by cloning the whole source repository for each company, and prune out the things that don't need to stay; if in doubt all successor companies get access to all of it.
I wonder what people think of Norwegian system where everyone’s tax information is public. https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidnikel/2020/09/04/in-norway...
Either that's slander, or it needs some explanation and, preferably, documentation.
> Dunno, do agile rockets dodge? Or just follow a simple preprogrammed patterns (like low, then pop up to attack from above)?

Modern antiship missiles have complex programs. Some are capable of flying in formation with each other, with one missile flying high for visibility and communicating with the other missiles in the formation that are flying very low. If/when the missile on top is destroyed, another missile in the formation can be automatically selected to take its place.
It took me years, (I don't mean that to sound like I was trying) but I have actually started recognising quite a few usernames. Not even particularly prolific/high karma users, or at least not only them, just people with some common interests so we're frequently reading/commenting on the same things I suppose.
Isn’t it like half a percent of total electricity spending though? So even if you had a magic wand to get rid of people’s mining hardware, you wouldn’t solve the problem. So why focus on Bitcoin so singularly? What’s the agenda here?
Even if they were all using renewables, and they're not, that's renewable low carbon energy that could be put to productive uses by industry. Bitcoin uses as much energy as Argentina FFS! All for a 'currency' which will never be used as such. We need revenue neutral carbon taxes now. When miners pay for the damage they do, we'll see how quickly they move away from algorithmic busy work towards proof of stake.
Amazon has 10000+ open positions for software engineers in the U.S.
Certainly true. I found the context with the Toys R'Us car quite funny, that's why I shared.
On mortars, I found this: https://www.timesofisrael.com/after-failures-in-2014-war-iro...
Isn't DDG just a frontend for Bing? I can host my own searx instance, but that's not a real search engine and it shouldn't count IMO.
In the current build, there is an about:config setting to re-enable compact mode.
> The website alleges

That's an unfortunately dismissive way to refer to ProPublica. They're more accomplished than most news rooms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProPublica#Awards
IE also worked great if you "took the win" and wrote exclusively for IE and not for the standard.
The rest of it still applies. It makes the numbers not work for starting a business. Besides, selling off pieces of it means making less and less money off of it. You wind up working for the people you sold it to in order to pay the taxes.

You might as well kiss entrepreneurship goodbye with wealth taxes.
Very cool! Yeah I wish SSR was more of a thing in the web component world. Someday soon hopefully!
there is also khard [0]

[0] https://github.com/scheibler/khard
As someone who can't see images in their mind (except for very rare, very brief, very blurry images that kind of just show up uninvited on their own), I have to disagree with the conclusion of your premise here. It doesn't come with practice. It's like telling a paralyzed person to just practice walking. The wiring just isn't there for some of us. Probably because we're zombies that haven't gone feral yet.
The main, monopolistic solution of municipal water certainly is. The point is that options can still exist in a monopoly. Google still has a monopoly despite the existence competitors.
As per the other commenter, but also they have a 10 year development pipeline and 10 years ago some major rockstars started hitting the market (ipilumimab, traztuzumab ) which are anti cancer ones but many others also). These were essentially the second generation of these drugs, the first gen sort of came out in the late 90s/early 2000s (ie Bevacizumab, infliximab ) and proved so versatile that they’ve spawned whole industries.

The particular advantage is that a drug company can generate an antibody, clonally produce it, and demonstrate efficacy but no one else can claim the same efficacy because any other drug company is going to have an antibody that binds slightly differently and so has a different efficacy. (Ie so a generic here is called a bio similar antibody).

There have even been bio similar that have had the opposite effect to the desired one (by for example acting as a receptor agonist rather than an antagonist)
I really like PDL, even though I don't get to use it much anymore. Here's a fun application, FM radio demodulation in a page or so of pretty straightforward code:

https://hoytech.com/talks/fm-demodulation
One would certainly hope that your exhaled breath contains a higher concentration of carbon dioxide than is present in the ambient air! For it to be lower, your lungs would have to be somehow removing CO2 from the air, which doesn't sound much like what mammals do; for it to even be exactly equal, you would have to not be emitting CO2.
Solar is the cheapest form of energy generation in 2021 [1], it's for political reasons fossil fuels are a cheaper.

You should be more concerned that your government hasn't banned coal power generation.

[1] https://www.resilience.org/stories/2021-01-03/solar-now-chea...
This tickled a memory... I remember seeing a Bioinformatics for Perl book ~20 years ago. I found it on O'reilly's website: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/beginning-perl-for/0596...

Searching more I see a Python one appears in 2009: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/bioinformatics-programm...

And now there are several out. Plus expanded topics like Python and Machine Learning, Python and Data Analysis, etc.
I've seen people complaining that the article is disingenuous because it conflates income taxes with capital gains taxes. My response is 'so what'. When you make above a certain income level, you don't need anymore income and can play around with reinvesting capital gains to push taxes into the future while amassing wealth. Sure, you're not realizing the income, but what you're doing, I think, is gaining power and influence. To me, it makes some sense to tax capital gains the same as income, at least above a certain amount.
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That question was asked in a thread on the same topic earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27434929
book is called "the world until yesterday"
Bioinformatics today is much more about complex statistical models applied to sequencing data. There’s some pattern matching when doing low-level FASTQ processing for your fancy combinatorial barcoding. But other than that you need tools capable of processing huge datasets. Python ecosystem fits better in modern era.
You opted in to G Suite by pointing your domain there, as well. You can opt out just as quickly.

Every time you smash that "log in with google" button, you're opting in to letting Google serve as intermediary for access to your account at a third party.

People are fools for doing this, but it's not Google's fault.
Over my life I've seen the Overton window on this debate move from:

> Global warming isn't real.

To:

> Global warming is real, but it's not our fault.

To:

> Global warming is our fault, but it's too expensive to fix.

To, finally, sentiments like this. Summarized as:

> Global warming is out fault and we could fix it. But why bother, it's too far gone already.

At this point pessimism has set in. I'm just tired. COVID showed us that the capacity for personal sacrifice in western nations is very low indeed. I don't expect anyone will want to do anything about global warming if it threatens their job, hobbies, or investments. Long term consequences be damned.
I believe it. Some people exhibit pretty extreme behavior. It sounds like that was extremely nice of him :)
I would like to learn more. Why is a well cleaner or higher quality than a big city municipal water supply? Is it because city water requires harsher treatment because it comes from a huge pool of waste while a well comes from a clean watershed?
Agreed. Insufferable. Also, isn't this just the Anom story we've already seen posted on HN the past day?
People creating wealth are not taking it from others. Wealth is not zero sum.
I can't speak for every frameworks' SSG tool but most of them load a full SPA on the client and have poor performance. Go pick out a random website for Gatsby's showcase page and see how much JS is loaded (spoiler: a lot).

Astro focuses on partial hydration where you only load the JS for the specific components that need to run in the client. Very few tools and none of the framework SSG's that I'm aware of do this.

There's also a variety of other features that Astro brings, the blog post talks about them.
I guess I have a different theory of burnout. to me it happens when I can't connect the dots anymore. its not because I worked too hard. company found a vertical and how I spend all my time trying to fix 'bugs' that are really because the product is being mis-applied. most of the senior team left and its clear that we aren't going to be taking on any other work than cleaning up. sales are flagging and its clear that the whole narrative was corrupt to begin with.

the only projects I can remember, paid or not, are the ones that took up a huge fraction of my output and really did something cool. do that. shoot big. make something really different.

don't turn programming into sitting at the end of an queue, picking up random things and gamifying retiring them as fast you can. you have a chisel. make a sculpture.
> People turn out to irrationally not want smart meters.

Some people may be irrational, but smart meters are a huge privacy concern - the electricity company can figure out your patterns from the power usage and the "shape" of it.
This is the reason why I don't want a smart meter.

Disclaimer: I actually was involved in building firmware and management software of smart meters.