skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Weird, when I was learning Haskell I felt like the Option type looked very familiar. Then when I learned about fmap and bind it was immediately obvious why these would be useful. You mean I can apply a function to a nullable type that has no knolwedge of nullable? Cool! Or I can compose general operations on nullables? That is neat.

In fact I think this was the easiest way for me to learn monads - to learn them in the context of things I already understood.
Last time I looked at that it wasn't usable with a Windows guest. Looks like it's come on since then, thanks. Though the setup instructions are still far too complex (when compared with VirtualBox!)
I don't come to HN for politics, so I'll try to say this as apolitically as possible:

I'm reading in some places that after deciding to pull out, the United States decided to not fulfill promises to emigrate many Afghan civilians who helped the US or the US-backed government by serving as translators and such. These "traitors" may find life particularly difficult under a reinstated Taliban government. If this is true, it is shameful and (for better or worse) may make attempts at finding local support for future regime-building adventures much more difficult.
I had a tear for the apparent sad state of education. I've had my fair share of herp derps, but 2.5 years? Involving others?
> NAT-upon-NAT(-upon-NAT)

But there is also a fundamental limit of 2^16 = 65536 concurrent connections, right?
Protopia
That is an amazing story.

I had a few nice conversations with some of my favorite musicians (Firefox, Uncle Tom, Jester, etc.) and many of them are shocked and overjoyed that things they worked on for fun a lifetime ago are being enjoyed by new waves of people every day.
> I mean, we can certainly believe the Judge applied the law correctly, but also disagree that the law should be this way.

I'm not sure what issue you see with the law here. It seems to both be written and applied quite well. The Pepsi ad isn't really misleading or reckless, and obviously just a bit of fun hyperbole.
Economists are captured by their employers - govt. and businesses. Either they provide the expected answer, or they're gone.

Dr. Thomas Sowell once told the Dept. of Labor how to directly calculate and verify a certain category of unemployment that they wanted to remain fuzzy, and all hell broke loose. The drama turned him from a Marxist to a Capitalist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sowell
Playing Nintendo Switch online doesn't work if you're double NAT'd unless you go through some router hoops. It seems small, but it's quite aggravating if you're not tech oriented like the majority of the people on this forum.
Because that wasn't the truth from whoever was pushing, probably to paint a prettier picture than the true reality.

The "US Afghanistan" govt has collapsed and the Taliban are the new chiefs in town.
That makes sense. They need that electricity now not later. But as soon as they have an alternative* they will decommission.

They continue to have a lower per capita footprint than the West. And I could be wrong but it would be consistent with everything else I've seen them do in the past decade - I spent part of the year over there every year for the past decade until the pandemic and that's just my take. YMMV.

*https://spectrum.ieee.org/china-closing-in-on-thorium-nuclea...
Marketing agencies keep underestimating the number of crazy people out there that will not only crunch the numbers but attempt to execute.

Like that guy that bought a pallet full of dessert to get unlimited flight tickets
Even if you can keep using it without such an account, it is another datasource for Facebook. Another way to track you in your daily use of tech.
Rightfully? I mean the goal is a non-profit is to help with a specific problem in one way or another.

Often long term goals are involved, so I don’t see any problem with holding appreciating assets so the power and influence of the organization can be maintained into the future.

Of course using non-profits for investing shell games is probably a whole different problem I am not familiar with. But holding assets as a whole doesn’t seem like a big issue to me.
"The US ended its combat mission in Afghanistan is December of 2014"

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

The U.S. military carried out at least a dozen operations, including commando raids and airstrikes,

in early March 2017, American and Afghan forces launched Operation Hamza to "flush" ISIS-K from its stronghold in eastern Afghanistan, engaging in regular ground battles.

"In January 2015, United States Forces began conducting drone strikes in Afghanistan under the direction of the administration of the United States President Barack Obama against Taliban militants".

American forces have increased raids against "Islamist militants"

Throughout 2015, the US launched about one thousand bombs and missiles at targets in Afghanistan

"Despite US airstrikes"

"U.S. forces have been carrying out operations with Afghan forces"

"According to Defense Department statistics 9 U.S. service members were killed in action"

"US aircraft conducted around 30 air strikes in Helmand Province"

You get the point.
The source[0] below seems to contradict what you're saying about sustainability, at least with regard to land use - which seems (to me) to be the most pertinent issue in that aspect.

"Livestock takes up nearly 80% of global agricultural land, yet produces less than 20% of the world’s supply of calories (as shown in the visualization). This means that what we eat is more important than how much we eat in determining the amount of land required to produce our food."

I know you aren't supporting traditional livestock (red meat), but the breakdown of the numbers from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization shows that plant-based food sources already account for 83% of the global calorie supply using only 23% of "Agriculture land". Based on that land use/calories ratio, we could increase to 100% by taking only ~4.7% of the total agriculture land from the livestock portion. If we assume that we definitely need all the protein listed, that would have to be increased to ~6.2%.

Obviously there would be other issues, but if we could return most of the remaining portion of the livestock land to its natural state (even scrub land can benefit from reducing livestock grazing), that seems like an enormous gain for sustainability.

Of course, this doesn't diminish your initial point about eating fish in a sustainable manner. How we could enforce the sustainable aspect is a another matter, given the number of news stories of issues with fish farms and continued over-fishing in protected areas, but that's beside the point. I just wanted to flag other potential gains from more vegetarian diets.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/agricultural-land-by-global-diets
They were ridiculously wrong.
Sounds like he didn’t actually have a liquidity event? In which case, his net worth is mostly paper money, so while I’m sure he’s doing nicely and I wish him for this money to become real money eventually, it is just not the case at this point, so he’s probably not as crazy rich as you’re thinking. At this point, he probably can only liquidate some of it with board approval, and can’t do it too much because of the signaling risk that comes with it.
The even bigger disaster had been that they are leaving behind several fully functioning military equipment which are now under Taliban's control. Basically a gift.
Catalytic converters last longer than the catalysts used in fuel cells (fuel cell catalyst is a powder so it is harder to contain).

Hydrogen does embrittle most metals, but it does not affect aluminum at moderate temperatures and pressures. Obviously a piston and cylinder head experience high temperatures and pressures but it would in theory be possible to develop ceramic pistons and heads that can mitigate the embrittlement problem, as a sibling comment mentioned.
Yeah good luck with that Outlook. I think Steve Ballmer is the one who knocked the wind out of the sails and the sales of Microsoft more than the antitrust lawsuit but maybe I'm just crazy.

My own experience with Microsoft during the naughts was shortly after having unified Windows NT and consumer Windows through Windows XP, they scrapped it for a glorified CPU/GPU hardware land grab called Vista. And everything sucked again for another 5 years 100% unnecessarily.

As for GDPR and CCPA. Yeah, thanks a whole hell of a lot. The tech companies are just as creepy as they ever were, but now I have to fill out a form to acknowledge how creepy they are. So privacy, very security.

Go split Amazon into Amazon retail and Amazon Web Services. Go split Microsoft into Microsoft OS, Microsoft gaming, Microsoft office, and Microsoft Cloud Computing. Go smash Google into 10 or more independent companies. Pull any one of those things off and I'll be impressed. Otherwise it's all sound and fury to me but I guess it keeps the bureaucrats gainfully employed and off the streets so there's that.

The funny part is that the whole Microsoft antitrust thing was about Internet Explorer, which was always a crap-tastic web browser, and it has now more or less died off of natural causes because Google outcroptasticed them and Mozilla, despite abundant internal funding, squandered it all.
I’m not getting tested in anything. I meant screened out at the ATS level.
If it is just a backend, why not port it over to one of the myriad of cloud autoscaling solutions that are out there?

The opportunity cost of spending time figuring out why only 29 workers are receiving requests over adding new features that generate more revenue, seems like a quick decision.

Personally, I just start off with that now in the first place, the development load isn't any greater and the solutions that are out there are quite good.
Performance is the only thing that is holding me back to consider Python for bigger web applications.

Of the 3 main languages for web dev these days - Python, PHP and Javascript - I like Python the most. But it is scary how slow the default runtime, CPython, is. Compared to PHP and Javascript, it crawls like a snake.

Pypy could be a solution as it seems to be about 6x faster on average.

Is anybody here using Pypy for Django?

Did Clubhouse document somewhere if they are using CPython or Pypy?
This discussion is also in the news today in the Netherlands with regards to our own involvement there. Some translators have been evacuated, some have not yet been picked up. And apparently there are others that weren't local translators but that did support the military there (e.g. as drivers or suppliers) and are at risk. That last group hasn't been saved yet and it's unclear whether something has been arranged.
Instead of trying to tackle crime, drug use, depression, etc. at a surface level, the government should take a step back and try to look at WHY we are slaves to instant dopamine.
Or maybe airlines just plain don't care about passenger experience in any other way today, so why would they care about this?
oh boy another theocracy. can't wait for the idiots to come out of the woodwork saying it's some phobia or -ism to criticize because religion or skin color.

e: flagged, lol. i'm sure women and homosexuals in afghanistan appreciate your concern for the feelings of muslim theocrats.
My wife is a master gardener at 5500' elevation in AZ. If the monsoon happens (50% chance) then there are two difficult months, May and June. June is the real bitch. Highs in the high 90s, hot winds out of the southwest everyday, and no clouds. If the monsoon fails (again 50% chance) then every month is difficult.

She grows many varieties of tomatoes, okra, blackberries, three kinds of eggplant, basil, cilantro, and many varieties of beans.
It's AZ, so of course there is a cornucopia of chiles, and garlic.

Peaches and the other stone fruits are more dependent on the weather in Feb. (it snows here).

Here are the techniques: partial shade from large trees, shade cloth over seedlings, timers on the drip, and the drip runs three times a day in June. Missing a single irrigation day in June means death to the garden. She does have some spray heads but most of the garden is just drip. Oh, and you can't plant too early, we've lost an entire bed of tomato seedlings to frost in May! That seems like it's a diminishing problem, however.
The soil is the kitchen/garden compost + a few bags of water retention garden soil every year.

I have seen gardens in Phoenix in the summer and the only possibility is full shade cloth over just about everything.

The water is just city water, it's expensive. $100/month May-Sep. Because we're food snobs, and the flavors and textures are so much better, it's worth it. There's a lot of work in the spring getting everything going, and we joke about the "garden nazi" in Sep-Oct, where the harvest pretty much demands constant processing (which I do). But the middle 3 months are less than 1/2 hr/day.

If you're curious about your local growing environment and how to deal with it, the local university agricultural extension are the goto folks. They literally exist to help you with this.
What the US thinks is not really relevant to what UK regulators do. Facebook still has to deal with their actions one way or the other.
Yes, but people still buy it (and market is bound to grow, ceteris paribus) because they think tap water is worse somehow. And with crumbling public water infrastructure in many countries, that's not really far from the truth.
Not really that rare. Have you heard about Whatsapp, AppDynamics, LinkedIn acquisitions?
Ants Move in a Strange Formation
Thanks for the suggestion! However, that link takes forever to load. I gave up after 2 minutes.
yeah that's probably true, I guess the reality is that I wasn't looking at ones accepting stock, but physical art and crypto. Some do and that number is growing by orders of magnitude each year because its now the 2020s, but many think it's still the year 1997. It is surprising how low tech that entire sector is.

It seems to be a recurring story for new entrants to the non profit space to be the "tech savvy one doing things differently", because the whole space is, I guess, not market driven as it isn't motivated by being technologically aware. Only getting a few recurring donors and doing their mission.
I was wondering what the basis of the article is: personal expertise? research? It's not the former:

> Sydney-based writer and photographer, Michael Gebicki has been writing travel articles since 1982 and is Traveller's resident Tripologist.
Here in Bavaria, Germany, we just had and still have a normal German summer. Lots of rain, highest temperatures still below 30°C (86°F).

The rains are more violent though, sudden, lots of water in a short amount of time, high winds, right now even hail (just passed through half an hour ago and there is a warning out for worse conditions in some areas). In another state we just lost well over a hundred people to floods, which is a gigantic number. So there's that too.

Still, temperatures have been perfect. I got an A/C two years ago when we reached 40°C (104°F) which kept me cool for the two or three weeks when it was needed last year. It's just been standing in a corner this year, could have left it in storage.

I remember, going to school in the 1980s in East Germany, when the thermometer reached 26°C (77°F) by 10 am we would get the rest of the school day off ("hitzefrei" - "heat free") - if I remember that correctly (if not I'm not far off). It happened only a handful of times in my ten years at that school. -- https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitzefrei (German - showing the current state of that particular regulation for work places and schools, they depend on the state and what I see is similar to what I remember)

This years rains were enough for parts of West and most of South Germany to get enough water into the soil, but East Germany still counts as drought area, map; https://www.ufz.de/index.php?de=37937 -- Too bad that lots of East Germany has a lot of very large fields, so that's not good. Still better than the last few years that created those drought conditions.
Do you have evidence showing this? The few long term maintained programs I am aware of are decidedly not what one would call modern functional.

(Granted, the most ported and maintained software I know of is either Linux or SCUMM.)
Why do you need ipv4 on your backend to reach ipv4 destinations?
Think BIGRRRRR!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Water_and_Power...
I appreciate that they put the most misleading and misused "advice" up front so the article could be dismissed and discarded as quickly as possible.
Its got the full page width headline on NYtimes now
B-52s are a design that will turn 70 next year, with individual airframes built 60 years ago still in active service, and planned to continue in same beyond 2050, a century of use.

Aeronautics hasn't changed all that much. Many of the interesting parts can be readily swapped out. (A re-engining of the B-52 was considered in the 1970s, but shelved on a costs-benefit basis.)

A drone Harrier role might not make strategic sense, though it could. Age alone has little to do with the question.
tell me you're bad at math without telling me you're bad at math.
Add to the fact that MariaDB doesn't have AVX512 instructions used yet, and you can see that Intel's unified L3 cache is just better for database-like workloads than AMD's split L3 cache.

x265 is more of an AVX512 test scenario, which the Xeon 40-core also is demonstrating proficiency at over and above the EPYC 64 core.

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I'm mostly impressed at how well the split "chiplet" strategy is doing in all the other benchmarks however. The AMD "I/O die" is clearly a winner. Its probably not a latency winner, but it is efficiently giving the memory bandwidth and distributing it to all of the dies.
How are the disk and RAM usage? Compared to elasticsearch and typesense?

It's an information that is typically missing yet very important!
I think the problem the US did was we announced we were leaving prior to doing any of that necessary work before we even announced or started to leave.

In hindsight I'm not sure why but it felt liked it was indeed a rushed effort, obviously started by the Trump admin and now Biden's admin, either way I think everyone is tired of the situation in general since it's not a society or place anyone will ever change unless we decide to stay there for a few centuries.
> Even on the ground this is not true when the gear is mounted below the wings.

Above or below, it would seem to be the same amount of stress where the wing joins the fuselage?
Link to the video in question?
and it could happen every year if unicorns were not dodging their taxes
use PHP ;)
It's 20 years, 100s of billions of dollars, and many thousands of lives -- all wasted. The government that was setup (and then propped up) to replace the Taliban is gone, and replaced again by the Taliban: 0 net gain. All those rights and liberties that had been gained for women and girls have vanished literally overnight.

Everything, all efforts, sacrifices, and losses are for absolutely nothing. The depth of this historic failure is mind-boggling.
Remember that kubernetes doesn't actually use YAML anywhere - it just makes it available as convenience, and you can just as well call the API manually or use one of the client libraries.
so they just sell immediately and its no problem? or does momentarily holding it tarnish their reputation or whatever since filings from donors can be public.
Is this confirmation/survivor bias, though?

I would love to know that there is a panacea that automatically improves productivity. Unfortunately, I haven't seen one in my career, as yet.

I am certainly more happy in many functional languages. And I can see happiness contributing to some. But I can't count that as data, without RCTs or something similar.

I'm not going to go so far as to claim that computer science isn't science. But I do fear that there are more claims than there are checks in our industry.
This wavering with helping our friends will surely have an effect on our chances of making friends in the future.

It's quite frankly dishonourable to leave them in the lurch like is happening. I do appreciate the advance has been swift but it should not have been hard to simply put everyone on a plane and process their claims someplace less dangerous.
The number one passenger experience is cost.
Carvana’s success rides on used-car loans
Very nice work. Try putting byteswap into the set of possible instructions and see what happens.

-Austin, murmur3 author
https://archive.ph/njgI4
Yep. They were wrong. The us Intel agencies are wrong on important topics quite often. The predictions went from 1month away to 72 hours to it's already taken within days.
It's the first video that plays on the website.
'Wokeness' is just another way for some people to have power over others. If you don't comply with their demands of political correctness, or you fall out of line in other ways, you are bullied into submission.
You're a fascinating specimen!

You literally said the flu wasn't an airborne disease in a previous comment!

And almost everything else you claim is either an outright falsehood or a disingenuous misrepresentation.

Yet you fervently, fascistly, and insanely fight for your narrative in a gish gallop style of conversation that resembles an amphetamine fueled rage.

And you can't believe anything you say is even remotely incorrect! Even if presented otherwise!

It's hopeless to talk to you but fascinating to see how your mind works and the minds of the other Covid zealots!

You are a rich specimen of a human being!

Best of luck!
Where's a good place to find a guide to that?
So much this. Practically any other option is better than Python for web development if you're looking for performance.
Yeah I called this one in real time right as I watched the planes hit the towers. Knew we'd kill hundreds of thousands of people in the middle east before we had to pull out defeated. I didn't quite expect it to take 20 years though.

Then protested Iraq and they cheered our freedom of speech, then rolled tanks into Baghdad anyway and the WMDs weren't there, just like Scott Ritter told them. That worked out well.

Really should have listened to us when it came to Kuwait in 1991 as well. The towers might still be standing.

I eagerly await the mental tap dancing and 'splaning that results in us being the hopelessly geopolitically naive ones, when the other side of the argument has been wrong for a solid 30 years straight.
> fake advertising if they accepted his money but failed to uphold their end of the bargain by giving him a functional jet.

no, the money was for the points, the points were for merch selected from the catalog. Not giving him the points was actually false advertising.
Choosing a Programming Langauge
I have found that my best use of functional programming occurs within hybrid systems.

When you can use either technology on a per-function or class basis, it really helps with adoption. Languages like C#8+ almost feel like cheating when it comes to mixing ideologies. Some developers think this sucks, but I view these complaints similar to those who would complain that someone might try to use a hammer to install a screw.

The general theme in my mind is to use the imperative code to construct the walls of the functional matrix wherein I author the actual business logic as pure functions.

FP for me is usually in the form of SQL, LINQ or switch expressions. I personally have never wanted to go all the way with FP. I see how you can do it in theory, but I question the practical engineering value of actually pursuing this. The most important & scary parts of our product are within this "hosted" functional scope.
Appears to be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHckeZoYx04

The site video wouldn't play while adblock was on.