skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Likewise, but ML rather than Haskell.
This site shows how some ordinary problems in multiple programming languages. It is actually quite interesting if you know multiple languages. The COBOL examples brought back some memories why I never wanted to program it.
Would I need 10tb of storage connected to the chia network to be able to use these plots?
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100% population literacy is neither reasonable nor attainable. Yet, functional literacy has drastically improved throughout the past century.

To say programming is never to attain such a characteristic is making a statement against the trends of history in all other academic disciplines. Focusing on the present state is an ignorance of underlying trend.

A couple thousand years ago, groundbreaking advances in trigonometry were made by some of the worlds smartest people. Today the average high schooler knows soh cah toa.
iOS only has high market share in the US, even in other, similarly rich western countries, Android dominates.

Additionally, iOS prevents you from keeping a background connection, which means anything else than polling or (apple-controled) push notification is a no go. Briar mostly works through Tor, which cannot work properly on standard iOS, due to the previously described limitations.

If you want software on iOS, complain to apple about their dumb policies, not on HN comment threads.
Why are we talking like this? We’ve been using systemd for over 5 years. It’s weird. Time loops.
Your instinct is spot on - it does not, and just does high frequencies in the RF range using acoustic resonance to amplify instead of using electrical amplification. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_resonance

One big aspect of this is that is from what can tell, has lower noise and with that a pre-amp/amp that has less noise in the RF domain is epic, it will allow lower power to be used for transmit and also offer longer range at the same power used today. But an amplification that has less noise than existing electrical only options has so many uses that for discovery - I'd rank this up there with graphite.
If it's not on the keyboard, nobody is going to type it.

Solutions:

a) only use characters in the intersection of the top N most popular keyboard layouts

b) issue programmers' keyboards with an agreed character set

c) issue programmers' keypads with supplementary characters

d) add on-screen supplementary keypads
I highlight it. Then 2 new lines, then the actual body of the message, i.e.:

@recipient

TL;DR: ......................

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..............[2]............
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[1] footnote A
[2] footnote B
After reading a lot of recipes and watching pictures/videos from same authors I learned that the description of browning is very subjective to the author.

Very few recipes actually required onions browned through (as in entire volume) and if they actually do, the author will for sure mention it. Onions that are completely browned have very overpowering sweet aroma that is undesirable in most recipes except the ones that are built around it (like, famously, french onion soup or various caramelized onion dips).

Vast majority of recipes actually require the onion to just get little hints of being gold in places or some gold just on the surface of it. That is enough to add flavor that will distribute once you add some liquid to it.

From my experience most cooking book authors seem to be testing their recipes. Many times I have been frustrated by being unable to get the desired effect only to find some missing technique that the author very likely did not think important enough to mention or maybe difference in ingredients or measuring methodology.

I have learned to prefer books that describe the methodology used by the author (for example how they measure things, how they make broth if they use one in recipe, etc.)

I have also learned to search the book for a recipe that I already know and figure out if it agrees with my experience and if I would be able to make the recipe from that description.

Another important point is that usually you need to understand particular cuisine from which the recipe comes to be able to make it faithfully. Every cuisine is a little small system of thinking about how to choose, process and combine ingredients. Recipes tend to be silent on a lot of stuff that is completely trivial to natives of particular cuisine.

For example, I have been practicing Italian, Indian and Thai cuisines for the past 20 years. I can make Italian, Indian or Thai dish on a pinch from whatever I can find in my fridge and pantry but I still can't make convincing Creole dish even if I tried.

(edit)

If you are asking for best books for beginners, I suggest to skip books and rather research the recipe on Youtube. Watch couple of people doing the same thing -- this is going to provide much more valuable information than you could ever read in a book. This mostly because having visual reference of how it actually looked when the person was cooking it will give you immediate feedback when you are getting something wrong.

It is still my preferred way of learning new kinds of dishes.
Image caption triggered my greek cheese-seller's nerves. Those are not "slabs of feta cheese" shown but mizithra or anthotyro.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthotyros

Now for the important part. Region locking is completely idiotic. If i was living abroad, i wouldn't dare to buy, for example, imported greek feta. White cheese is not the kind that matures. They are very delicate has to stay fresh.
Surely there must be standards of HOW a certain kind of cheese is made but not where.
The killer feature for me is having a single identity and being logged in to many servers/organizations at the same time.
Don't people in the US use credit cards? If you are going to payback the money on your next payday, why not just use the credit and pay it on your payday?

Do stores not allow split payments?
Experimental wind-assist sails of various sorts for modern cargo ships have been around at least a decade, and the question has generally been whether the fuel savings is worth the added capital and operational expenses of maintaining the sails. My understanding was that it isn't yet clear that this is the case, which is why they aren't deployed everywhere.
Bodegas in NYC make no pretense about being a good deal. It’s understood that you are paying for convenience.
Systems research has changed drastically in the last 20 years, but it’s still a pretty strong community. Interest in OS-specific research, on the other hand, is mostly dead, general internet in OS likewise (people generally have what they want in an OS by now).

PL research on the other hand, is in trouble, but that’s a different topic.
Opposite use case, but basically same idea. If only some forward-looking intellectual freedom fighter had beaten these bastards to the punch and applied it to the home-building business like those guys did to music.

Hm... Maybe someone ought to go through all industries, check whether they rely on common and semi-obvious "intellectual property" like this, and start algorithmically generating and publishing all combinations.

But who? I don't think I'm up to it on my own... The EFF or some body like that?
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LGPL is not GPL. You are for example allowed to dynamic link from proprietary code to LGPL libraries. This is not the case with GPL shared libraries. You should take look at the LGPL license agreement and then see how the code is used.
> Service and runlevel management wasn't any better in the sysv era, nor were any of the multitude of custom start and boot scripts.

Things would have been fine for a lot of people if they had stopped at SysV script replacing, and general start up.

At this point, with all the additional functionality continuously being added, I'm waiting for systemd to fulfil Zawinski's Law:

> Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.

* http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/Z/Zawinskis-Law.html

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski
This is just the English/Esperanto problem again. Do you do the thing that's the most fair or do you do the thing that's unfair but has the most benefits for everyone involved? Yes, it's unfair to limit people to ASCII but it's also the only way their code is going to see widespread engagement.
i feel the same way, systemd also has some comprehensive sandboxing capabilities built-in.... i have my gripe with systemd too though. mostly with journald because it is slow, likely due to its on disk format, really could have used sqlite for this...
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I want to mention connman.

Does everything you expect of single programmlet to manage your NTP, resolve.conf, DNS caching, mDNS, network devices, and etc.

Importantly, it weights only 1/100 of SystemD
> For shipping this inevitably means to switch to green fuels

Dunno, as with all of these things we have to look at the lifecycle; how long is a ship in service? How many are being built with non-hydrocarbon fuels, or converted, today? It's a very small number. Mostly short-haul ferries on government-influenced routes e.g. https://www.cruiseandferry.net/articles/scotland-explores-fe...
This is not the case if setting up and using Mumble would have caused net more friction for the rest of the community. See all the comments about needing to perform constant troubleshooting for mumble users.
Coca-Cola Nigeria grows E-commerce Sales threefold
So far the ideas are not amazing, but let's see how it goes
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These products are so well optimized now they're mostly margin and packaging/shipping/handling cost.

I doubt your toothpaste tube cost more than $0.50 in actual materials to make. And on a store this can go for $3? $4? (from a quick look in Amzn - approx values the cheapest one is $8 for 6)
I honestly don't remember, but i definitely remember the checklist became more formal as we made a lot of errors like this.

I left soon afterwards but the stack was also a transition-to-AWS stack so was later moved to something more suited.

5 mins downtime was definitely small for that place - we regularly had larger issues. I learned a phenomenal amount in my time there though.
So far the only mass use-case for crypto has been speculation, so the only success story being Coinbase is fitting.
That's a different question. You can make a different dish, quicker.

The dishes being described in these recipes call for slow cook onions. The chefs writing them prepare them this way. Maybe it's not worth the time, but that's the recipe. The printed recipe is a lie.

In any case, it's 40 minutes of waiting.. not working. You can also onions them in advance. They last a few days in the fridge.

Worth it..? If you're efficient with timing/prep then it doesn't really add any time. I would definitely say that it is worth having good onions if onions are the main part of the dish.. which these are.

Meanwhile, the best quick alternative to caramelized onions is grilled onions, not quick fried onions.
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Thanks for the info, good to know that it's easy to implement from kernel's perspective
People with bad/no credit can’t get credit cards (except secured cards, in which case you have to have the money upfront.) The Venn diagram between patrons of payday lenders and people with bad/no credit is a circle.
Is this rocket example real or imaginary? If latter, rockets do not have explode-on-assertion-fail schematics, afaik. I’m not a rocket engineer, but I find that at least restarting a subsystem is more appropriate than letting it explode “because yeah anyway”. The difference between a regular error and UB is that you can’t handle UB by definition.
Same for me. Firefox on Windows.
Seems like that would still include all foods that have been around a long time in old countries. Such as sushi for Japan.
> Now is it systemctl restart myservice or systemctl myservice restart? I have no idea as I’m not at a computer.

I felt so alone in the world until this moment
Great analysis. I would like to add a few more points.

Energy extraction from oil is typically a low efficiency cycle. ICEs are around 30% efficient. Gas Plants are around 40% efficient.

Energy from solar -> batteries -> application usually hovers around 70 - 80% efficiency.

Motors are around 98% efficient. That covers most of our requirements for manufacturing. Conversion of electricity to heat is almost 96-98% efficient.
I think the mumble/ teamspeak ship has sailed a long time ago the UI/ UX of discord is just better.

I would like a open source solution similar to discord, I think the closest thing we currently have are Signal group calls.

Current features of Signal calls:
- peer to peer no need for a central server which sells your data (Discord) or needs to be setup rented, maintained (teamspeak, mumble)

- end to end encryption

- video calls

- Screen sharing

- large group sizes for text chats (1000)

Wanted features:
- adjust the volume of individual participants

- multiple voice/ text "channels" for a group (something similar to discord servers)

- usernames so that not everybody needs to know my phone number

- more participants in a single group call (currently maximum 8), I think 10-15 should be enough for most use cases, with more voice participants voice chat breaks down regardless, because of people constantly interrupting each other

- the UI for group calls is still a little confusing
> I called my cousin

Is your cousin's name by any chance Vincent?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Cousin_Vinny
All of IP law is a bunch of lawyers getting you to concede one reasonable point and then them taking it to a place of absolute absurdity.
CPG industry margins are quite public as almost big brands are owned by listed companies. They're not high. The highest margin categories for big retailers i believe tend to be clothing.
Wow, that's quite an experience! I wonder what conditions you must have had for the oil to not already be on fire / smoking, but hot enough that a disturbance caused immediate combustion.
It certainly does sometimes happen that difficult software projects end up being implemented by people who (at least at the start) don't understand the problems involved, for reasons related to the "winner's curse" [1].

That is, people who underestimate the difficulty of a project are more likely to attempt it, and people who don't understand the area well are more likely to underestimate its difficulty.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winner%27s_curse
This is spot on. The decision is not made not (necessarily) because it benefits the company, but because more middle management actually think it’s “right”. FAANG are practically run by Chinese these days. (I am Taiwanese and hear about this kind of struggles all the time from friends working in US companies.)
Perhaps a more likely split would be along authoritarian/libertarian lines.

That said, early enthusiasts notwithstanding, the majority of businesses are likely far more interested in the profit potential than political or ideological aspects of technology.
the corner baker is a llc last I checked
I too have been screwed by Aliexpress escrow. It’s worthless and protects the seller first.

I got a combined shipment that was missing an item. I sent a message telling them that one item in the shipment was missing. They responded by saying that the tracking number showed delivered, closed the case, and gave me no way to respond.

I buy from Chinese sellers on eBay instead, their buyer protection actually works.
I'm not claiming Basic is the best language, or that it doesn't matter what language you start with, but "practically impossible" is clearly way off.
FYI: the directory contains 957 files; 798 of these files are NOT dual-licensed.

But of course it's not a "majority" decision, nor are all files equally important.
Degoo Cloud [snooping data / users data is pay-walled
I posted this once and the page has moved.
Energy density of solar power and battery setups is nowhere close to that of oil based ones.

Also, as oil is consumed, the ship gets lighter and easier to push. Not so with batteries.

Making it more efficient is the only way forward.
Nobody says "let's tax the corner baker", but often will advocate for tax policies that would negatively impact that baker in the name of taxing the "rich".
The comment makes sense to me if I read “state” as “government entity” rather than “individual state in the union”.

Elections cost money to run, someone has to pay for that, so allowing funding but forcing all the money coming into the system to come from the government makes it harder for private individual or group X to subvert it in a “I scratch your back here and you remember this later” way.

I suspect that first amendment will bar bans on advertising that would be necessary for this to be fully effective (without another amendment, of course), but a lot of progress is still possible without running afoul of 1A.
A few things I have learnt over time.

The thinner you slice the onion, the faster they caramalise.

The hotter the pan when you drop in the onion, the faster they caramalise.

Too much oil ends up frying the onion, and doesn't caramalise them.
You can make speakers and mic sound good, but you need solid software support and also a really decent mic. I have a friend who does this with a Blue Yeti mic sometimes. If you put it in cardioid mode, have the speakers not too loud, and position the mic so the speakers are behind it, you can't hear feedback on Discord. But people running mic setups this fancy are definitely the minority.
Here is an example that I'm quite partial to:

Presentation - https://www.infoq.com/presentations/DDD-Clojure/

Code - https://github.com/zololabs/zolodeck

Its a Domain-Driven/Hexagonal Architecture codebase written in Clojure. Its not uncommon to see this sort of approach in Java/C# so it makes comparisons of the code relatively easy.

While the overall code layout is the same as what you'd see in Java/C#, a big distinction is that the "entities" that make up the core functionality of the domain in the Clojure version are simple data structures (rather than classes), and the logic that operates on them are pure functions (rather than methods on the classes themselves).

With this approach, a lot of the hoops you'd usually jump through with dependency injection to enable testability go away, since its easy to test pure functions that operate on simple data structures, no mocking required.

This sort of approach isn't limited to Clojure [0], but Clojure makes it idiomatic.

[0] - https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/boundaries
Family Dollar operates a store near me in Atlanta. Their parking lot is so filthy sometimes the neighbors organize to go clean it up.

It appears to me Family Dollar hates their customers given the food choices, the attitude of the employees and how they maintain their property. I avoid them all.
The biggest tech companies have a market cap of around 2 trillion USD, so it seem reasonable that a company with a "mere" 2.5% valuation of the big corps is not "big tech" TBH. This says more about how humongous FAANG is than about the size of coinbase though.
> I would prefer a much more robust housing support system for lower income people. Almost all of society's problems could be fixed with more affordable housing.

> When I was young I was able to find a $600 apartment, on the free market. Now the same place is 1200$.

The issue is that the overwhelming goal of politicians at all levels is to increase the value of individually owned residential units above the rate of general inflation. This is far and away the most popular form of welfare and impossible for any politician to oppose. It is also diametrically opposed to affordable housing so any and all affordable housing proposals are bound to be ineffective bandaid proposals.

If we want affordable housing the only way to get it is first lower the homeownership rate.
Binary is too limiting; we need real number based transistors.
Only complaint I have about systemd is their docs aren't versioned, so it's difficult to see if the functionality you're looking for is available in the version you're running. Most of the time I have to Ctrl F through the NEWS doc in their repo.
>> hundreds of years worth of collective professional experience is wrong

This isn't what the author thinks. He thinks recipe writers are lying, not wrong. If you learned face-to-face, they would teach you the proper way... 40m. When they cook the dish themselves, they do 40m onions. When they write the recipe, they say 5-10m.

Your onions are great topping onions. Lovely on a burger, spuds, yum. Onion soup needs softer onions.
FWIW Linux Unplugged[1](one of the best linux discussion podcast) still uses mumble[2] to connect and communicate with their community.

1: https://linuxunplugged.com/

2: https://linuxunplugged.com/mumble
The US has a well developed and competitive national backbone market.

When building networks the geographical extremities of the nation do not matter, only the distance to the closest point of presence.

Europe and the US are not that dissimilar in geographical extent or population density, so neither of these can be used as convincing arguments for American exceptionalism.

The fact remains that the US is just that dysfunctional compared to Europe.
The most ironic title in a while.
Uh, it seems like it tracks a US population map pretty well. The Western half of the US is largely pretty sparse with only pockets of densely populated cities.

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_population_map....
I think that stuff is fairly “done” now.

What is really the point of computing is the interaction and capabilities for the end user which is where the commercial focus is.
Same. I deployed a fleet of transcoding servers with the worker logic being a simple Go program. It was super simple with systemd.
I've not used it to move from one physical drive to another. Just in-place migration. It's worked fine that way several times.
Haha. I read larsrc's confident comment and thought, ah, the blogger must have been wrong. Then got to the equally confident replies and realized everyone's confident and coherent on HN (vs confident and ranting looney on the general internet) and I need to calibrate my gullibility :P
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Um, err we have a few tens of 1.5TB memory nodes lurking around. There are plenty of use cases for that out there.
Combined cycle gas plants are about 60% efficient (on a LHV basis).

Large marine diesel engines can have a thermal efficiency > 50%.
> Here you have real world cooks and the collective experience of them

This. There's plenty of people backing this up.
The fact that there’s a long debate about the definition of caramelize might be a hint that people don’t agree about what it means.
> So far the only mass use-case for crypto has been speculation...

so you can't send crypto to another person?

i'm confused.

to downvoters:

When you say the mass use case, you mean everyone is using crypto to scam each other?

So there is absolutely no other good usecase for crypto and we should ban it completely?
What we need is a programmer orientated IME.
UFOs Won’t Go Away (2019)
And fraud/scams.
"The" science, whatever that is supposed to be, doesn't say we are all doomed.