skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Warmer doesn't imply milder.
"Everything is hotter" = "there is more energy in the system", which is evident from the uptick in both the number of powerful storms and their intensity. Warmer air can hold more moisture which is leading to heavier downpours and bringing floods. Perturbation of atmospheric and oceanic streams is leading to strange pressure systems maintaining much colder weather for days in some places in unpredictable ways as we've seen on the east coast of the US the last few winters.
> Not in every case. You can look at workers in the Rust Belt

And the old coal mining towns in Northern England (and South Wales).
Musk says “Epic is right,” takes sides in battle with Apple
A bit of a tangent but you can scan virtually any film made between 1915 and 2000 or so and get a pristine, super sharp 4K to 6k copy. That’s because they were shot on 35mm film. 35mm film is estimated to have a “resolution” of around 4K.

Even black and white films, if you see an old nitrate print that’s been well preserved, it will be incredibly sharp. And I’m talking about stuff from the 1920s - 1930s. You might not know about this because the digital/tv versions of these films might be lower quality. But film capture technology has been sharp for 100 years.

The exception to this is ofc stuff that was shot for television on video since its invention. But that would be mostly television shows or live broadcasts.
Fair enough, I didn't realise it was that bad. It wasn't possible to contact him some other way though?
It's not even only removal-moderation: dang even emailed me directly to encourage me to repost an interesting link because he thought it didn't get enough attention first time around.

He's seriously one of the best moderators I've ever seen.
You're redefining consciousness here to mean physical awareness in the brain, though. That is not the same thing as conscious experience. Using the physical material of the brain at the electrochemical level to try to explain the hard problem of consciousness is a bit like trying to use the water cycle to explain the weak force in nuclear physics.

I'm talking here about the hard problem of consciousness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness

The only solutions which don't involve a fundamental reworking of physics basically end up denying that consciousness (as phenomenal experience) exists at all.
Yes why can’t a mac control the volume of an external monitor on usb c/display port/thunderbolt.
It’s completely ridiculous when you think about it, that such a fundamental and important requirement for so many users, is completely missing, in 2021!
Employee shortages: Where have all the workers gone?
And people used to die of polio and measles, why do anything about it?

And genocides happened, why prevent another one?

As they say, "one death is a tragedy, a million deaths merely a statistic". Don't fall into this trap.
Freedom to not die from infectious disease? 36 deaths per million, versus US at 856.
Gian Giorgio Trissino,. 1524 formalized the distinction. Prior to that it was just two variant shapes of the same letter.

I saw it still being used on some street signs. Jonio, Jesolo, ...
It's not wrong, but it's also misleading and cited as part of the larger "hurrdurr JavaScript bad" meme.

It was originally intended as a simple scripting language to add interactivity to browsers, so the initial implementation was quick and dirty, but the language has evolved a lot since then. The "10 day gestation" has nothing to do with the quality of the language.

He calls the language "quirky at best". Lots of people find it expressive and powerful, and those quirks are easy to ignore. For example, == is terrible, but we have === now. In 5 years of professional JS development, I've never seen anybody use the former.
That would help indeed, and so does keeping the lights on at a high level. But my 4K is so bright at 0% that it feels too bright for me even with the brightest artificial light I have :) Only in daylight it's OK (and I still keep it at 0% then!).

But there is another reason I don't always have lights on. I live in Barcelona where it gets hot in summer and I don't have AC. So at night when the temperature outside is lower than inside I leave all the windows open to cool the house. If I have lights on it attracts bugs. So I stay mainly in the dark.
There's actually a lot of very useful and surprisingly "basic" improvements in recent releases. Things like String.replaceAll(), optional chaining operator, private attributes/methods in classes. These features allow you to write cleaner code. On the CSS side "content" family of declarations help with optimizations.

I usually adopt latest pretty quickly since I can afford ignoring Safari.
Apple didn’t announce it at an event for general consumers, they announced it at WWDC. WWDC is an Apple event, run by Apple, to announce Apple products. Not all Apple products are aimed at general consumers.
Unlike on iOS, we are unable to determine access per app at a file level on MacOS (OSX). The permissions are at a folder level. Thus, if we give access to the Documents folder today and then pick a single file, the app is actually free to scour the Documents folder and act on its own (scan the meta data of all the files, upload all the files somewhere, for e.g.)
With a different ranking formula it's actually quite promising. I created a simple simulation and some plots: https://github.com/fdietze/downvote-scoring
Are we still talking about a monitor stand? You can VESA mount the monitor if you don’t want to buy the stand. I think it’s assumed you’d use a third-party VESA mount, and the stand is there as an alternative for the few people who just don’t want that.. As far as I can tell, you can use a standard VESA mount, you don’t need some kind of Apple-specific one.
Interesting.

> It uses Ruby fibers under the hood,

I'm sure you are aware of ioquatix's work on Async/Falcon etc, how do you see your project differing from his work? And why hasn't anything changed in the Ruby server space - it's all processes and threads afaik.
For me it's more about skin in the game.

What happens to Musk and friends when his car catches fire by itself and kills the people inside ? Not much, it seems. So "the people" do have a point and it's not so much that there is a higher safety hurdle, but there is a clear lack of accountability to guarantee he can't screw up too much.

Take the opposite: if you make an experimental automotive technology and happen to get into an accident there will be consequences - you pay a fat fine and serve jail time.
how many of them are pissing in bottles?
Wow, that's tough man... You're life is precious, keep rocking it!
A weird extra effect this time around: a sizeable chunk of the internet is trying to trick journalists into talking about the silliest thing imaginable as if it were something people really believed.

(I wasn't around for the first Satanic panic, nor am I American, so perhaps that was happening the first time too and I just don't know about it?)
France does not get to invent a new name for colonialism and just get away with it
It should be noted that there are indeed other people who work remotely which are not SWEs.
:D

That's a poor representation of the big smile I had on my face while reading this.

I've spent 25 years now "messing" with Linux. Installing over-the-air interactive TV Linux-based mpeg stream devices in central London-based TV channels. Managing web servers and compute clusters for US universities. Wrangling SANs and VMware together to create email services for education. Load balancers. Macs. Private compute environments on VMware for developers. Kubernetes clusters for what felt like a million microservices.

All the while, Unix has been there for me to hack on, mess with, debug, wrangle, chase down, curse, and praise.

It's an old, dependable friend now, but has lost none of its vigour. I imagine it will be there long after I'm gone, probably long after any of us are around.
USB Attached SCSI is the answer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_Attached_SCSI
can't test stuff like ITP though. I ended up just buying an iphone 6s for $50
You can simply prepare yourself by not doing anything online. Including asking. If they are looking for an excuse, don't stick out.
There is Epiphany: https://twitter.com/m5blum/status/1421412967007010819
I had a horrific personal experience of this grief. It took me a long time to understand it was grief.

This resonated: https://twitter.com/FutureJurvetson/status/14004853611977973...

This also:
“Grief, I’ve learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give, but cannot. All that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest. Grief is just love with no place to go.” - Jamie Anderson

Remember, as painful as it is, "this too shall pass"

All the best to all of you out there. You have my love.

There should be counsellors / therapists who understand and can help.
Same in Tunisia, and honestly I'm quite for it. In the Philippines, the police doesn't care about the tourists. The locals sees that and as a result tourists get mugged a "lot". I had my phone stolen and the police seemed to "enjoy it".

A tourist is very unlikely to be mugged in Tunisia (comparing to a Tunisian person) because the police is more reactive when it comes to tourists.

As a result you have a country of 11.5 million and 9.5 million tourists in 2019 despite all the crap that the country is going through.
> give Trump credit for operation lightspeed

Your idea wouldn't work. MAGAs hate liberals, and whatever liberals say appears to them like the voices of the grown-ups in the Peanuts cartoons. Maybe they pull out a few phrases to parody.

We've had over a year of near-continuous propaganda from the Republicans. Masks threaten your freedom. COVID is just the flu. No one dies from it, they put it down on every death certificate. Vaccinations kill you, not COVID. Vaccinations spread COVID, that's the new one.

Giving Trump credit for it would change nothing, even if the MAGAs heard it, and they wouldn't.

> which I think he deserves

It astonishes me that after years of watching Trump lie and lie and lie and lie, rambling and incoherent, often contradicting himself from day to day, watched eighteen months of him lying about COVID including that first key year where he did everything he could as President to prevent an effective response to COVID, that people somehow believe that he's secretly a competent administrator who "gets things done".

What Trump "deserves" is to spend the rest of his life in jail. His deliberate mishandling of COVID resulted in hundreds of thousands of needless American deaths: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
I remember a report on how Sydney was the only Olympics for a while that was net positive.

Paris might also be, as they have very little new infra to build.
Which problem?

Yes putting it in ram will be faster than downloading it over the network. I don't think anyone ever doubted that.

I imagine people who wanted to download it would just use kiwix. The potential to download isn't the part that makes this project interesting.
Careful observers will notice that the Milwaukee Tool Company also sells other tools. I don't think anybody in the drill department of the company thinks that you should use a drill to cut a tree or trim a hedge.
Yup. Not being able to easily mute my speakers connected to my monitor was something that annoyed me greatly with my Mac mini.
Not who you are replying to but...

>How is anyone supposed to get actual science done...

One would hope that scientists would not be diverted by questions by people they do not work with or know on Facebook and are able to get actual science done regardless of a minority thinks.

I wonder if it's rational or a good thing to defend scientists by potentially restricting the ignorance of lay people in public places?

I think many would say it's good to avoid Harm and protect lives. It's easy to be irrational to defend rationality.

Edits. Oh, it could be that people are extending "follow the science" and seeing how others are not and thinking this as a kind of lack of faith. Perhaps the idea that actual scientists are being stopped doing science because of no faith in them by small numbers of the public is actually a religious thought. That actual science needs people to believe in it for it to work, and if an other doesn't believe it, they are anethema. That could have explain my feelings about the irrationality of this.
Well, Tokyo is most far from wasteland in Japan. It wastes money to most crowded city despite most towns are declining.
Composable, repeatable, piped commands are a huge boon to me.

It really does feel like a spellbook sometimes, or a huge Lego model where brick A can fit onto plate B in a dozen different ways to create anything from a dinosaur to a SHIELD Helicarrier :)

cat | grep -i | grep -v | awk '{print $4}' | something | something --else

And from the chaos, beauty emerges.
> Just have Javascript as an option, not a default.

This is already the case, isn't it? You can easily disable js for good, and then enable it as needed on a per-site basis.
And to your mind Bolivia is a thriving economic hub to warrant being a weathy dictatorship?

Whatever the case may be, bad apples abound. Thats just human nature. Just because democratic leaders dont do things publicly, I think you should disabuse yourself of the notion that they are incapable of depraved acts of violence. Sexual or otherwise. Amd while they might not inflict such violence on their constituents - people from poorer countries have no such luck.
I agree, personally I've left my email address there, though the only email I've ever received was a rant how I bash javascript and I'm wrong and it's in fact the future of CS(along with some things about my ass and whatnot lol)...
Every Olympics held in the United States has been profitable for the host city (and all but one in Canada) in large part because the infrastructure already exists.

Los Angeles is looking forward to having the games in 2028 because it gives them extra money to pay for infrastructure that they've been planning to build anyway.

San Francisco really wanted the 2028 games as well because it would have allowed us to finish building BART/CalTrain around the Bay, and we would have already had all the venues necessary with the various pro and college facilities around the Bay.
I’ll do that when I can remove comments being attributed to this account. There’s a huge history of comments that benefit exactly nobody but potential adversaries. Huge histories are stupid.
Ask HN: Why not publish into the Public Domain, instead of OSS licence?
Hey HN,

I am about to publish my long year project and have not yet choosen a licence. Anyone should be free to use it, for any purpose. (So definitely no copyleft licence)

But why should I use any licence at all and not skip all this alltogether and choose the public domain?

I mean, I still want the credit (and donations) directed towards me. But in my understanding there is not really a difference? Fraud happens with proper licensed projects, too (when some shady website repackages vlc for example and sells it as theirs or redirect donations) and claiming ownership of something you do not own is fraud either way? So what is the advantage of a common OSS licence, except the overhead of long license text (with maybe my name and email) to be included everywhere?

Am I missing something important?
> The C programming language is famously prone to memory-safety problems.

I thought it was the programmer to make mistakes, not the language to be error prone.
I'm not sure where your jab at London taking govt funds came from.

London, like most modern cities, generates a surplus that subsidizes surrounding suburban and rural areas[1].

It was still an awful waste of money, but it wasn't part of any trend.

1. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/may/23/uk-budget-d...
“So many issues” compared to what?

You are comparing an industrial site fire to residential fires. They are not comparable. Best wait for the incident investigation before declaring batteries dangerous and demanding they be banned.
That's not correct. Sydney lost money, and Atlanta (4 years prior) made money: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_the_Olympic_Games
Who cares? These are rail lines which will be used for centuries. Trust me, nobody will even remember a few years of delays.
I don't think it would be impossible, although I think it may be easier to just use a JavaScript Git client and something like Critic markup to make changes.
And on HN you can’t change your name, so hope you’ve made that decision to obfuscate when you’ve signed up.
So accompany every battery fire report with reports of all the fossil fuel fires in the same period.
there's the DWTFYW license (Do What the F--- You Want)
The "interest" is a metaphorical measure of how sustainable your situation is, and how urgently you need to address the "principal".

If you incur technical debt as a mismatch between your codebase and your requirements (owing to the evolution of requirements) initially you may just be able to work around the mismatch, but it starts to incur "extra" work - this has been called the "interest" in the extended metaphor. Everything you do that isn't addressing the mismatch keeps adding to the debt though, so eventually the "interest" becomes equal to your entire budget and no more forward progress can be made, and typically bankruptcy is called (give up on code base, propose rewrite to address the actual requirements) and the cycle starts again.
Clang (and modern GCC) warning are quite helpful, but they are ignored because by default they don't break a build (and only a small fraction of C/C++ projects use -Werror). If ignored they may cause problems later when an app will be used. Or may not cause any problems at all - that the case for subpar code in general - it is more likely, but not guaranteed to break.
> our in-house Ruby compiler is now 22–170% faster than Ruby's default implementation for Stripe's production API traffic.

I'm curios, what's the baseline like here for Ruby? I.e. how does vanilla ruby compare to something like Go or Rust for a use-case like webservices?
Of all the boroughs I've lived in, in London, the East Village (a.k.a. Olympic village) and the adjacent Queen Elizabeth Park is by far my favourite, and it's still improving. It has also had an impact on the surrounding areas which, negative in terms of gentrification and ridiculous house prices, but very positive in terms of the flourishing local economy and community.
That's also a correlation of a correlation, which can be extremely misleading. It might be, for example, that Biden supporters in Trump-dominated districts are less likely to get vaccines.
What are the technical advantages of having a Wasm based BEAM implementation?
This reminds me of the South Park episode where everybody works for Amazon to buy stuff from Amazon. What a wonderful world...
The difference is that the tech companies between them control a huge amount of online communications. The bakers, florists and small web-developers don't.
Out of interest, what do you mean by automated garbage disposal? The urban infrastructure of someone taking away your garbage, or the mostly-US device installed in your sinks?

The latter does not exist in Europe so I haven't ever thought it would be an important step in reducing chores. We have bio waste bins for food leftovers which seems pretty efficient already.
> And there is no secret police in Tunisia for now.

If you knew about them they wouldn’t be secret now would they?
First public human-operated eVTOL aircraft demonstration
It is an option, the web has just evolved past no-javascript sites.
That's like arguing that no one has been able to prove that you can't make a universe out of extremely large volumes of soup.

The phrase that applies here is "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."

If you're going to claim that consciousness is fully explainable as plain wet chemistry, you're going to have to provide more evidence than a sentence that starts with "Well, obviously..."
To be honest even the back office ones are paid at least a bit better. Although much duller from what I know from friends.
> JavaScript, as I recall, was the answer to Java being crashy and slow on 50 MHz processors.

Not in the least - The early scripting language Mocha, was first renamed to LiveScript then Netscape and Sun did a license agreement and it became JavaScript. And the idea was to make it a complementary scripting language to go with Java, with the compiled language.

Purely marketing, to attempt to use the popularity of stand-alone Java for an in-browser scripting solution.
Impressive implementation of a digital twin. Looking forward to finally taking a ride in this thing when it opens.
Vaguely remember Boeing(?) blocking something in a web spec because would mean upgrading a lot of desktops.
If you want credit then use the ISC license. Otherwise people aren't required to give you credit. Even if you do public domain, you still need a license-like disclaimer like Unlicense or Creative Commons Zero. You also have to live in a country that permits you to place your work in the public domain and you can't be employed unless you get your employers explicit permission.

Just because fraud happens doesn't mean you should throw your hands up in the air and give up. If you choose ISC you can monitor GitHub and other services to see who's copying your code without giving credit and then set them straight.

It should also be noted that public domain is sometimes treated as suspect, because there's been instances where people have chosen public domain because they didn't actually invent the code or the math or the algorithms, and felt that stamping their name on it and demanding credit would actually put them at risk of being sued by the actual copyright or patent holders, which effectively punts the burden of tracing down the works provenance to the user.
Try to shift your income to something extremely apolitical.

If you are a programmer, go work for a company that makes billing software or manufactures pottery. If you aren’t, go be a chef, accountant, or taxi driver. Anything that doesn’t require you to share your opinions on sociopolitical issues.
Especially working with friends is dangerous.

Many friends wanted to start something with me, but I never gave in.

They did so with each other and it never worked out. No big fails, but still it was a quite sobering when the alpha of the group turned out to be only words and looks.
You're right, I stand corrected. It was a WWDC, hence original reaction from audience as opposed to usual scripted applause/laughter/camera pans.
Maybe because Firefox is stricter? Netlify (incorrectly) sends a 4,583 byte chunk, while GitHub (correctly) sent precisely 1024 bytes. Chrome might just trim it to 1024 bytes, but Firefox just fail-safe at the difference.

Edit: Netlify is indeed wrong: asserts in the headers that the content length is 1024 bytes but sends up 4,583 bytes of content. That will definitely fail in Firefox.
Thanks! Author of lunatic here.

Processes don't share any memory, so the message will need to be copied from one process to another. This should be the biggest overhead involved when sending them.

Erlang uses a trick for big binary data structures, they are allocated inside a common memory space and reference counted. That way big messages can be sent just by reference. I was thinking of doing something similar, the wasm spec allows you to import multiple memories and one of the memories could be a commonly shared one. The only issue is that most higher level languages, like Rust, don't have a concept of multiple memories. So it would be really hard to use this trick inside them.

Once we can run lunatic in a distributed way, some messages will need to be sent over the network and we can't cheat there. From this perspective it's even better if we can force architectures where the messages stay small.
Embed Plotly-Dash Apps in Flask