skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wasn't Trump elected based on his promise to end that behavior at the State Department?
Or just plain old financial destruction: the US government isn't bailing out anyone who's house is on it's way to being inundated by rising sea levels, it sure isn't going to expand that non-existent program when it hits low lying coastal areas which discover they're suddenly vulnerable to storm surges.

Guess who wants to buy land you can't live on: nobody.
"because it's pretty much impossible"

It is possible. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_impact_avoidance
The Dutch article on the public broadcasters website I link below spends a paragraph on the crew composition and their previous history in the program.

Perhaps Le Monde isn't quite so representative as you appear to think it is?
This is a slightly different meaning of start. It doesn't mean to start something _new_ necessarily.
Dang has alluded it's being worked on so long threads wont need to be paginated anymore.
We Need Build Systems
Probably even more reason they wanted to remove it along with the other scripting languages. All of which are better suited to be installed by the user to get the correct version they need.
right, that's the US.
My browsers are stuck loading :( - tried two (Chrome/Edge). Any specific requirements?
Indeed.

Windows Subsystem for Linus sure has been a game changer!
Perhaps 'view source' should link to the authors github, highlighting the repo that can be built to produce the page.

If the repo can't reproduce the contents of the page, simply treat that as an error and don't render the page.
I don't think most people around here have a problem paying for something that's valuable to them.
So you do e.g.

{ option: true, __proto__: bar }.foo(…)

To extend

bar.foo(…)

?

(I think you are implying that functions would care about properties of this and that one would achieve “dynamic scoping” by modifying what this is.)

The first issue is that this doesn’t go deep in the stack. E.g. if you want to affect the option used by the foo function on a whole list of objects, it is hard. If you want to affect a call deeper in the stack that can be very hard (elisp example: some extension might want to switch to a buffer but you might want it to pop up the buffer or make some other windowing choice. The solution is that by dynamically binding certain variables around where this extension/function is called, you can make switch-to-buffer call display-buffer and you can override the way display-buffer behaves)

The second issue is that it is ugly.

Compare the elisp example of:

(let ((option t))
(bar-foo bar))

bar-foo can call baz which can call whizz which could then depend on the value of option.
Under the hood, we're turning the POST requests into get requests, so that limitation shouldn't affect us.
As far as I know, underlying C@E behaves like the one used in a VCL service.
Like what, painting Earth white? Constructing a massive dust cloud in space to reflect/disperse sun?

Nothing short of that or removing GHG will fix things. And even if we do those, we will have problems with increased CO2 concentrations, acid rain and seawater acidification comes to mind. Current biosphere is unable to adapt to huge CO2 levels on a short notice.
And it is usually very easy and straightforward to see what is going on inside.
Sure. Email is here: https://github.com/ezekg/
There is still no competitor for the standalone headset (Quest) which seems to be a more likely candidate for mass adoption. I own all of the (Oculus, HTC, Valve, several models for each) and I can tell you that convenience seems like the key more that quality of graphics.
> Does someone need to literally drag you to each and every factory farm?

This is a threat of physical violence and it is very disturbing, especially as
it comes after your offering to buy me a book and asking me to contact you by
email. You've crossed from creepy stalker to online bully behaviour.

The most disturbing thing is that you seem to not even understand what we are
disagreeing about.

What I keep saying is that factory farming is typical only in the Americas. Yes,
there are factory farms outside the Americas. No, they are not the norm outside
America. Outside America, most farms are small-scale farms with a few dozen
animals.

The typical farm in most of the world is a small-scale farm, run by a
family, often not even commercially.

Despite your threats to drag me to factofy farms and your insistence that I
don't know they exist (clearly, I do, I have repeated several times that
"factory farms are an atrocity that must be eliminated"), it is you who hasn't
seen the world with your own eyes. It is you who relies, for your knowledge of
farming, on books and youtube videos. Books and youtube videos that are
specifically created to spread vegan propaganda: they show you the horrors of
factory farming, that should rightly outrage everyone, and pretend that there is
no other way to farm animals, and that all farming is an atrocity, that all
farmers are Freddy Krueger, monsters who torture animals and kill them in
"horrific ways".

Instead of trying to coerce me into agreeing with your misinformed beliefs,
you're the one who should go and look at the things that the brainwashing
rhetoric you try to spread hasn't shown you. Go to the rural communities that
subsist on farming, in Europe, in Africa, in India and Bangladesh, in South-East
Asia. Go and see the farms, see the animals, talk to the farmers. If you really
care about animal welfare, go help the farmers to care for the animals.

But do you really care about animals? Do you really want to know what's going on
in the world, or are you more interested in fighting a pointless culture war on
the internet?
(1) Needing a place to put them. isnt that much of a problem since we can are hosting for our site only. Therefore its only about 7 RaspberryPis (which is way more than we'll get from AWS). 7 PIs can be chucked in a cool corner. Ventilation/overheating is easy for 7 PIs.
(2) someone to manage them is that hard either since its only 7-Pis.
(3) spares to replace the ones that fail etc etc - again -- It appears to me that points #1, #2, #3 will only be problematic if the life-span of a PI with this setup is low. But it appears that since the setup has no SD-cards, it can last more than a year + . This isnt bad at all for 7 PIs.
(4) I think the only problem is bandwidth -- I have not looked into this because I didnt think of it. Let me look into this now.
And it's still barely enough to sustain a studio without Facebook's cash injections. The consumer base is growing but it's still not big enough to be sustainable.
Yes, I am insulted by Atlassian. But mostly because they are responsible for creating Jira.
When the citizen revolution comes, should we jail them or just cut their heads off?
Building large features: my process for branches, requests and reviews
I included zhe Russians because the approach seems equivalent.

Somehow, the average Dutch anonymous website commenter thinks Putin is an evil dictator who must be punished at all costs and the Chinese are performing a literal holocaust while their citizens have an awful unfree life.
"Realistically, there's no way we could stop a 500km diameter asteroid from impacting earth no matter how much we prepare."

I'm not convinced. See [1].

Anyway, it doesn't have to be that huge in order to completely devastate the Earth. So even if it was impossible to stop one that large then it would still make sense to prepare to stop smaller ones.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_impact_avoidance
Thanks, I appreciate that!

For others reading, one of the best resources I've found is InspirLang: https://inspirlang.com/
React Ruined Web Development
Thoughts on how the evolution of the React ecosystem influenced the web dev community and new generations of software engineers.
This is what I don't understand about the cryptocurrency security model.

How I it possible to keep a private key private, if you have to use 3rd party hardware and software (no one builds their own computer components), to use the key?
You can send email to grandma from both map and reduce.
Let's say you're printing out a paper backup of your seed words?

Or sharing a screenshot of the avatar on signal to confirm its authencity?
Fun fact: The reason Safari/Chrome/Firefox had to freeze the MacOS version in the User-Agent string is because of a code-snippet from StackOverflow that assumed the version started with "10" that snuck its way all over the place, including the Unity web player and a major wordpress templete.
European Commission cheated Unitary Patent to hide high costs for SMEs
> Why can I accomplish anything I set my mind to?

"Vacuously, because I don't set my mind to anything."

Rest of instructions unclear, head (still) stuck in procrastination toaster.
In which ways such ban would benefit people living in Ohio?
Node because that's not a major software term yet.
Principles of Argumentation and Linguistics
Top fantastic Software ideas in 2021 to nurture startup dreams
Reminds me of an F1 story. A car was able to finish the race but stopped before reaching the pit lane. The team communicated it as being a fuel pick up problem. The underlying cause was that there was no fuel left to be picked up.
Deep-sea creature is long-armed and bristling with teeth
The primary format is probably some type of WYSIWYG format.
Congratulations on your hard work building an app that you care about.

As a user, we are all trained to be vigilant about locking ourselves into services/companies because of circumstances. In this IT landscape, users are not just limited to Windows or Mac or iPhone. The base set of expectations have gone up, particularly when there are passable alternatives that are farther than the incumbent in features.

For a note-taking app,

MacOS App
Windows App
iPhone App
Android App
web interface (for all others including Linux users)

ought to cover it. I realise how much of work that is. But, that is the playing field when competing against apps that do different subset of the above list.

Staying away from resource hungry electron app will make me happily pay for it (just my opinion).
This seems quite plausible- moreso than using the first two letters of "Not."
Those claims are well-supported by evidence. If you would like to dispute that evidence, go ahead.

But if that sort of news is all you read about China and Russia, you seem to be clicking only on the political headlines. Plenty other news is covered from those countries.
Can Virtual Reality be used for military urban warfare training?
One of the things that hype me about IPFS is that URIs can't change. Resources are immutable and the URI is only the hash of the content.

https://ipfs.io/
Article title is: 'This deep-sea creature is long-armed, bristling with teeth, and the sole survivor of 180 million years of evolution' but I couldn't reduce it to fit within the story title limits.
Consumer VPN isn’t a market where competition is driving better products. All of the products are the same technically - it’s a trivial service to standup. Sort of like a home security company… there are good ones, but most are garbage peddling FUD, especially fear.

The differentiation is purely marketing. Some VPN providers are basically grey market means to bypass TV blackouts. Others claim to be privacy focused, but are in fact the opposite. A few are actually privacy focused.

IMO, having megacorp(s) roll up the junk use cases actually drives meaningful competition by putting the lousy players out of business or driving consolidation in a crowded market.
Is there a realistic way for the US to get away from piling on extra conditions to large existing bills? This kind of thing seems to come up every few months and especially with budget bills. Or is it basically in the "as soon as there's more than 2 parties" area?
Yes because all code is available via GitHub.
@mxstbr Looks cool! Small typo

> our 58 data centers worlwide

*worldwide
If you follow the news in the kinds of places that are washing into the sea you'll note that many of these people and towns have been very successful in getting the state to bail them out or at least spend stupid money delaying the inevitable.
I believe it comes from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
There's usually some lead time between becoming an annoying nightmare and another service getting traction and then before the avalanche hits.

But when it hits nobody should believe it when someone said "it all happened so fast".

Because this is a long time coming for both Google and Amazon.

Which will prove that with enough effort even the mountains of goodwill that Google and Amazon has kept piling up for it's first decades can be burnt through with effective (ab)use of bigdata, ai and "UX".
What I love about HN. You can discuss almost anything and the project's creator pops up in the thread.
The saddest thing about these VR companies (or any other hyped yet insubstantial new thing for that matter) to me is the fact that they got acquired too quickly that one cannot short them on the stock exchange...
I wasn't talking about those vitamins. I was talking about B12, which we largely get from meat...meat being the original topic.
None. But it would benefit the big ISPs, so...
At some level of incompetence, you might ask whether the underlying assumptions are wrong -- for example, perhaps they're looking for excuses to reduce internet access more generally.
I just don't see them making any decision that does not make the MacOS CLI less useful with each and every release since at least the big cat series, and the user pattern is changing with those changes.

IT's an trip the classic macos took before it and i think there is an signficance in apple returning to the MAcOS branding thats subly hinting that the days when OSX was an relatively open unix is ending.
Hell of a story teller, I enjoyed it.
This kind of goes against the fundamental nature of bash/Unix, no? Everything is text, and every program does a small text manipulation thing well.

Also what would be the type of a command like `echo '{"foo": "bar"}'`? Would it guess that that's JSON or just say "well it's echo therefore string"?
This sounds like the kind of thing someone would write when the world switched from mono to stereo. Quite a few parts of it are completely wrong too not to mention insulting ("... more music is being made by individuals in bedrooms, home studios, on a budget. They have neither the equipment nor the skill to mix in Dolby Atmos").

Apple has done quite a poor job showcasing it so far. Some of the tracks they've put in their playlists sound like crap. On the otherhand some of them sound fantastic. Jazz in Atmos is wonderful. It's also important to note that 'head tracking' comes with iOS 15 and in my experience improves spatial further.

A lot of music made for stereo won't remix well. If you listen to most of the rock tracks they don't sound good because they don't have a lot going on. 3 or 4 instruments + 2 or 3 vocals tracks aren't going to take advantage of spatial. Listening to some modern pop with lots of synths and layers upon layers of backing vocals, the experience is much better.

Atmos/spatial is a new tool like any other. People will write and record songs that work for it and take advantage of it. They'll use it creatively. That's what will be interesting. Most remixed songs from the 60's aren't the least bit interesting but the possibilities for the future are.

I could be wrong and it could end up largely ignored, time will tell. But there is the opportunity for a lot of creativity regardless of what cranky old music critics think.
When Facebook bought them, I remember part of the delusional gaming crowd saying crap like "no don't worry guys, FB will respect the Oculus, they won't ruin it! FB login? They won't require it! Ads? No they won't!"
Then people can go back to Fink, which existed before Homebrew (and MacPorts) and actually worked better. Literally the only reason people moved to Homebrew is that a bunch of Ruby on Rails developers bought Macs and Homebrew was written in Ruby while Fink was Perl scripts over dpkg.
The GitHub site itself is commercial, but unless I am missing something the GitHub Desktop client in question is actually open source (MIT) https://github.com/desktop/desktop.

In fact, as was mentioned elsewhere, there is an actively maintained fork of the project that adds support for Linux environments. https://github.com/shiftkey/desktop IMHO this is the open source ecosystem working as intended!
duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27538804
I'm a jazz player, though by no means great.

I think there are a couple of things that make jazz tend towards being more "difficult" for lack of a better word. One is that for whatever reason, jazz accommodates music with a very high level of complexity, and it's fun to go there and explore.

Another is that jazz no longer rules popular music, and is therefore not constrained to produce music that is "utilitarian" in the sense of being able to sell lots of records, fill dance halls, promote consumer products, etc.
If you own ISP shares and live in Ohio, very much.
Just letting the onlookers know it is not a "random pdf".

> I proved

Lol. No comments.
The vaccinated threaten a Marek's disease situation in humans. For a virus that the vast majority survive.
What do you gain from taking shots at people who aren’t a threat to you?
I agree that the shut-down seems over-broad, but, at the same time, might it be too narrow? Couldn't people also use "non-data" mobile communications, like SMS or even voice calls, for cheating?

If they're not stopping voice calls and there's a working landline within 100 metres or so, an enterprising cheat could probably set up a private Wi-Fi access point connected to an old-school modem doing dial-up either internationally or locally to a shortwave radio shack.
The relevant metric is not reliability, it's reliability per dollar spent. And in that metric a grid built for 95% mix of renewable 5% natgas peaker with geographic diversity will trounce a nuclear.

Building nuclear in 2021 is like buying UltraSPARC in 2021. Sure, it's more reliable than a single PC, but a cluster of PC's is way cheaper and more reliable in aggregate.
Wise is becoming a public company
Safari has a long-standing bug where animated SVGs chew up CPU cycles like they're going out of fashion. Happens on desktop too.
we have a CI CD system at my work. Honestly I think we spend more time fixing bugs and errors in the system than it gives us in benefits.
It still amazes me that people will just plug random USB devices they don’t know the provenance of into their computers. Let alone store valuable information/crypto on one.
I think most of those poor-quality studies are something they can show the FDA: "We want to put this new variety of dental floss on the market. Here's the crummy study we did showing a bare minimum of effort. Can we?"

(I don't know much about dentistry, but that's what they do with new food ingredients and supplements, with which I have a little familiarity.)

As for dentists, yes, they ask people about their flossing habits. That's not as good as a formal mathematical study, but we're talking about so many people that a real effect would be obvious.

(We put too much weight on statistical significance. It's great to have a rigorous process, but in a lot of ways, if you can't see the effect at a glance, then it's not really going to do all that much good. We have a number of drugs that are better than placebo or alternative drug, but not that much better.)
I remember they put out a statement saying it would never require a FB login, and that you were ridiculous to suggest it would ever have ads.

Had an oculus rift DK1 at the time - deleted my accounts, unsubscribed from everything, and bought an HTC vive shortly after it came out. Wasn't buying that at the time, and I feel vindicated now.
I understand the greater problem is cultural, but I wouldn't make it very far having a go at politics or being a significant influencer or public opinion. So that leaves the technical.

I'm under no illusion that we are going to make it through the next century (or even the next couple of decades) without some terrible horrible consequences of our collective inaction over the past 50+ years (and continuing today).

I'm just wondering if there's something worth pursuing for my day job that uses my skills and might reduce the damage a tiny bit beyond just my own personal reduction of waste and emissions.
played it on my phone, it is really nice game. thanks.
I understand the opposition to another government service on ideological grounds, but the response in Ohio seems merely pro-monopoly and not pro-market. Is there anywhere in the country where state Republicans are looking for ways to increase competition in the broadband market? Everyone uses the internet, I don't understand why only one party is looking for a solution to this problem.
The problem isn’t with plaintext, but with lazy development and lock-in dark patterns.

If you look at org-mode, it can do a lot of these things (perhaps even all of them on the GUI emacs), while keeping it plain-text. It, of course, needs the necessary elisp to properly display such a rich plain-text file, but things are still pretty accessible in a normal text editor.

Perhaps the best way to understand this is to see org-babel, which is more powerful than jupyter notebooks, but still uses plain text (as opposed to JSON). Databases (as the source of truth) are not a prerequisite to rich, multimedia files.
> Yes, I’m guessing it will potentially greatly increase the size of audio data downloaded/streamed to the listener,

Most music only has say 10 instruments, so it's only a 5x worst case blowup.

And many of those instruments will be silent a lot of the time... And even when not silent, there will be a lot of easy to compress repetition. It's simply a matter of having good enough compression algorithms.
ISPs cannot compete with local cities offering the fastest and cheapest access in their area, so rather than improving the services offered or incentivizing their customers they simply buy a stake in the Ohio legislature and ban the competition.

This is so, so stupid.
It's strange that this comment chain is trying to teach agys about how to use SimpleHTTPServer when their comment says they tried it and it didn't work for them.
Democracy?

The issue is that we have too many people per representative.

You representative doesn't need to care about you, they need to care about donors for mass media.

I see parallels in tech as well. Some companies are openly anti consumer but run massive advertising/brainwashing campaigns. One will go as far as saying 'privacy' but turn around and give your information to the US government and China.
"I've never used the pen mode because I don't have any device with a stylus, but I prefer text anyway for it's searchability and typing speed."

The pen mode is pretty good because it does OCR on your writing and indexes it the same as plain text. What I don't like is that it happens asynchronously. When I was testing it, I could search and find notes from yesterday, but not today.
Interviews with young Party members in China's space program [video]