skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nihilism is probably not a very helpful evolutionary strategy for an individual or group so no surprises there isn’t much of it around.

Better to believe in anything however pointless and get doing something productive.
I’m pretty sure I tied up another kid and transported them to an island as a child at summer camp in the 90s.

It’s possible.
Yes, my criticism is not directed towards the effectiveness of the supply chain. It’s true that we are mostly rich with consumer goods. However there are also numerous very serious problems with how we live in the United States, such as sustainability, even distribution of resources, efficiency and waste.

My point was that people in the United States do not have experience dealing with even very minor hardships effectively. If they were presented with truly difficult physical situations similar to what people in many parts of the world deal with frequently, they would not be able to handle it effectively on a number of levels.
What I didn't understand about growing on Twitter
They did tell me that the business was working well. I didn't care to ask how much they made from it, and it is public knowledge at this point, I just never bothered to look it up.
I'm similar, except that I use Debian as the underlying system, and install with Guix. I imagine it's the same with Nix folks.

I'm still unsure whether Docker injects that much more complexity and runtime burdens, but it sure feels a little more messy after installing a few tools.
The availability of wild game gives the lie to the notion of "food deserts." Even in the most dire of inner city environments, children can find free sources of quality animal protein, consumption of which has been repeatedly shown to be healthier than eating ultra-processed snacks and sugary cola.
AFAIK, Debians conservatism was the reason why Ubuntu got so popular. So complaining that Debians packages are too old is somewhat of an old story itself ;-)
I'm sorry I strongly disagree your language is either literal or accurate.
Why not treat it like a propane tank exchange? The company owns all the tanks(1); you don't own the tank(1) and aren't paying for the tank(1) (other than maybe a deposit to ensure you'll return it someday). When you swap it, you pay only for the propane(2) inside; you're just buying more of the contents.

(1) battery

(2) electrons
Do companies take tweets, emails or petitions seriously?

IPv6 adoption is going to drag along, unless there is a compelling reason for people at large to adopt it.

There are reasons, but most of them don't apply to companies that either have enough v4 space or have enough budget to get the space they need.

As more consumer networks push towards v6 first/better, you'll see more hosting support v6 as an equal option rather than a second class option, but I don't think we're there yet. A lot of LTE networks do v6 as well or better than v4, but a lot of residential networks still don't do v6 or do it half-ass. A host doesn't lose a lot by being v4only, dualstack adds extra complexity, and v6only loses a lot of potential customers.
> Is it evidence-backed as a causative mechanism?

My understanding of the role soluble fiber plays in fruit digestion comes entirely from talks by ucsf professor of pediatrics Robert Lustig. There's a bunch of his stuff on youtube, you may have heard of the famous one Sugar: The Bitter Truth. In some talks he goes more into the role of soluble fiber, but I don't recall which, and it's a bit of a rabbithole to go digging through again. Plus it's been years since I spelunked this particular hole, it's presumably even deeper now.

I'm sure if you do some digging you could find reliable info on the subject. It's not my impression that we're breaking new ground here, pretty sure dietary fiber's effects on digestion are at least partially understood scientifically at this point.

Unfortunately you'll still encounter a lot of folks fixating on "the physics" and calories in vs. calories out, which ignores the fact that your body is full of living organisms. The composition of your food largely determines how much of its calories get taken up by your body vs. your guests vs. simply pass through.
Some of my fondest memories are of building computers with my dad at a young age or receiving hand me down parts from him and throwing them into my machine as quickly as I could.

I know you said about a laptop, but would a cheaply built desktop be feasible to compliment the Chromebook? Could be a nice way for the two of you to bond, if you think she may be interested.
But why does having infinity suddenly give meaning?

I like the following take on infinity

https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/11/1000000-grahams-number.html

>P.S. Writing this post made me much less likely to pick “infinity” as my answer to this week’s dinner table question. Imagine living a Graham’s number amount of years.8 Even if hypothetically, conditions stayed the same in the universe, in the solar system, and on Earth forever, there is no way the human brain is built to withstand spans of time like that. I’m horrified thinking about it. I think it would be the gravest of grave errors to punch infinity into the calculator—and this is from someone who’s openly terrified of death. Weirdly, thinking about Graham’s number has actually made me feel a little bit calmer about death, because it’s a reminder that I don’t actually want to live forever—I do want to die at some point, because remaining conscious for eternity is even scarier. Yes, death comes way, way too quickly, but the thought “I do want to die at some point” is a very novel concept to me and actually makes me more relaxed than usual about our mortality.
> > Focus more on libraries, frameworks, and applications

> I think this is the most important thing. Say I'm writing a web app -- I want a language that can run on both the server and browser and that has a web framework.

One of the things that bugged me initially about Racket (and still kind of does) is the implicit typing of some of the functions. Take `length` for example:

$ racket
Welcome to Racket v7.2.
> (length "asdf")
; length: contract violation
; expected: list?
; given: "asdf"
; [,bt for context]

If I wanted to get the length of the string, I have to use `string-length` instead. (Same with vectors and other sequences.)

I personally favor default abstract protocols over explicit type:

$ sbcl
* (length "asdf")
4

I know that Racket's `sequence-length` will do the same thing, but it feels like a misnomer to have `length` really mean `list-length`. It introduces cognitive load where it's not desired, usually, and tends to make my code longer (slower to read, slower to type, etc.).

Maybe this is a silly peccadillo, but as I wrestled with Racket over time I found myself frustrated by this in a way that Python, say, didn't. It's these sort of bits that I'd like to see sanded away, and not the parentheses, to make for cleaner, easier-to-read, easier-to-write code. More concise syntax for indexing and other such things could be nice, too! Standard means for accessing nested hash tables (here's looking at you, deeply nested JSON! Who wants to `(hash-ref (hash-ref some-hash key1) key2)`? Yes, the language can accommodate more concise idioms through macros, but it seems reasonable to have standards around this access.

I really, really want to use Racket: I'm attracted to DSLs (maybe moth to flame) and boilerplate reduction, but it's been a challenge to get over these humps.
Texting really is ruining personal relationships
Complex configurations should simply use configuration programming languages like Lua. They can start as simple as JSON/YAML but stay flexible as the complexity grows thanks to functions, references, etc. Parsing them should be also easy (configuration languages are meant to be embedded in others, just like JSON/YAML).
I agree, and the same applies to the Mac and anything that narrows it. They are for different audiences.
> and you will be pressured through your dating app to do both
Care to explain more? Are people with HIV in dating apps required to say they are HIV-positive? I'm unfamiliar with the world of people with HIV dating online.
Storytelling is important, and it's a good skill to have. Just learn a template, and apply it.

(Notice how almost every "success" story involving entrepreneurs, prestigious job offers, etc. seem to be some variation of the Hero's journey)
Aren't magic swipes basically the analog to keyboard shortcuts?
Gotta love the internet, where you can find people trying to convince themselves that a candy bar is healthier to eat than fruit by posting the nutritional contents of a Snickers bite sized mini. The confirmation bias is strong with this one.
Hasn’t it been proven many times that fruits are healthy, period? Let alone comparing fruits to processed/refined sugars?

I never understand these claims of fruits being unhealthy — or an unhealthy substitute for processed/refined sugars — yet there are many sources stating that fruits are fine/healthy [1].

There’s more to the story than just comparing the amount of “sugar” from nutritional facts between fruits and candy.

Yes, juices aren’t great. But be clear that whole fruits and fruit juices are vastly different, and shouldn’t be thought of as equally unhealthy.

[1] https://www.cancercenter.com/community/blog/2016/08/natural-...
> the ability to create(!) and combine small specialized tools into something that's bigger than the sum of its parts

Funny, the possibility to do that currently exists in a walled garden, for audio apps: https://audiob.us . This is used by creators and live performers, exclusively. I don't think anyone uses applications in this ecosystem for "consumption" purposes.

The problem was never was the current OSs, it was just about app makers not willing or not knowing how to collaborate amongst themselves. It was also never about open vs closed, since AudioBus is proprietary and 99% of the apps that support it are also proprietary.

The thing about UNIX pipes is that they use plain text. AudioBus uses audio. Those are two things that naturally impose limitations. Developers seem ok with those "natural limitations" but whenever you want to impose limitations to something else you immediately get pushback.

You wouldn't be able to do that in a business CRUD app for example. The amount of wheel-reinvention is too big on those, compared to audio/video/unix-tools.
Science is for everything that can be objectively measured, and politics is for everything else that people can't come to a consensus on. Bad things happen when you try to frame your subjective political opinions as objective scientific reality. "Misinformation" or not, you can't control what other people think, at least not within the confines of a free society.
The dist upgrade is more of an example meant to dispel the myth that non-rolling release distros break less frequently than rolling release. Or at least, an anecdote anyway.

Jumping down from the meta level of rolling vs non-rolling, I personally find Archlinux style of packaging much much simpler than Debian's. I've writte numerous PKGBUILD files over the years and it's been dead simple. But my eyes gloss over whenever I look at Debian packages.

I'm sure the complexity in Debian is warranted for one reason or another. But it ain't for me.
Maybe, but XML has a whole host of other problems.
Your premise about “HTML or some other real hypermedia” is bunkum. There is nothing about REST or HATEOAS that depends on HTML at all. The whole _point_ of REST was to build on the semantics of HTTP without regard for the transport protocol or encoding format (and HTML, XML, and JSON are all encoding formats).

What makes a RESTful API a HATEOAS API is that it provides you actionable hypermedia definitions. There is fundamentally no difference between:

<link rel="self" href="https://my.server.example/api/customer/id/1">

and

{ "link": { "self": "https://my.server.example/api/customer/id/1" } }

When you include child responses, you include reachable endpoints for them, too.

{
"link": { /* top-level item refs */ },
"posts": {
"link": { /* post collection level refs */ },
"items": [
{ "link": { /* post level refs */ }, /* the rest of the object */ },
/* more objects */
]
}
}

And yes, in fact, that is _exactly_ what the API that I developed did—so every application client that worked against the API was required to work based on that (and it made making Postman collections really interesting, because you could not just “guess” at the URL required, you had to look it up through the chain). It worked.

While it felt nicer from a “purity” standpoint, it made the server slower, less agile to client requirements. We eventually abandoned it as a mistake in the next generation platform that we built.

There are a lot of good things about REST, and I like the idea of having discoverable APIs as expected in HATEOAS. But the number of people who _get_ it on the client development side is vanishingly small, and there’s always unfortunate drift where you get people templating API URLs even though they are given the exact API URL required to perform an operation.

These days, I’d much rather write up a good GraphQL API with Absinthe and just get the job done rather.
I see that this is a best effort service, and I’m not trying to be overly critical, but I would think your best effort could involve not displaying links that lead to no content. Can’t you check that with the API?
To give a bit more clarity....

Canada is not a police heavy state. And you get a premier, and mayor, saying the police cannot be trusted.

You cannot deploy troops domestically for police action in Canada, without the war measures act.

What would you do?

I find it best to ask such a question. What would you do?

You weren't there. You aren't even fully aware of the complete history, nor what the RCMP domestic terrorism unit said to the PM.

what do you do?

Not that, you may say. Well, arm chair quarterbacking seems all too easy, to me, and is often wrong.
Considering the radically different quality of stonemason work in older structures, and in lower parts of structures, used by Incas, it is hard to understand why historians insist everything in Peru was built by Incas immediately preceding the Spanish invasion. It is often quite easy to distinguish later Inca repairs from masterful original construction.

Pushing back use of Machu Picchu a few decades is fine, but I think they still have nothing material to suggest when construction began. It could have been built a thousand years before, abandoned, and then re-occupied and repaired later.

It is troubling that visitors cannot easily tell what parts have been reconstructed since it became a tourist site.
It's very reminiscent of "The Soul of a New Machine" which is an early example of the genre.
Haha. Two days after this post the drier started acting up. Luckily it was just a matter of opening it up and putting back the rpm counter/home sensor.
Same opinion.
Graphql With nest.js (code first) and prisma is nice!
The only real requirements for getting something included with Emacs itself are that you assign copyright to the FSF and that the code basically works.

There are well over a million lines of Emacs Lisp code included with Emacs (a million and a half, last time I checked), and most of that is for things that the average user won’t need right away, or won’t ever need. The goal is to make Emacs (and by extension Free Software) comprehensive, not to limit the amount of work that the maintainers might need to do. The work they do is naturally limited by the amount of time that they have in a day, so of course it falls to the rest of us to chip in from time to time, especially with language–specific modes where the maintainers may not use that specific language themselves.
> Or maybe a first-sale doctrine that allows a single sale but doesn't allow further sales.

Nitpick: that’s the exact opposite of the “first sale doctrine”. The first sale doctrine says that, once I buy something, I can do whatever I want with the product. If I want to shoot bullets at a $1000 smartphone for YouTube views, Apple, Samsung, etc. can’t prevent me from doing so.

There are exceptions to this (EULAs and all that), but the general idea is that.
>According to their latest earnings report, iPhones made Apple $39.57B, iPads $7.37B, and Macs $8.24B

These are just device sales right? You have to remember iPads have the App Store revenue and the cream scooping of IAP/subscription revenue of most applications running on them.

Apple doesn't get a cut of my Photoshop subscription on Mac, it absolutely gets a cut when I buy Procreate on iOS.
Any idea on the timeframe of publication?
The Leprechauns of South East Asia. So what does that make the Leprechauns of Ireland? A remnant of Denisovans that fled west?
If you have legal insurance, ask the lawyer to look into it and write a letter. This seems very illegal and a single letter from a lawyer will scare the company enough to stop it.
I like that! The way I interpreted it when hearing it at the conference he was saying that we were all here at the conference because he had organized it, but he was there because we were all there to talk about our research. But the great thing about a good parable is that there are endless interpretations. :)
In 2013 kidnaping and robberies were quite common; a colleague escaped a kidnaping attempt after a car chase with AK47 fire, some colleagues were extracted covertly from the country when they were incidental witnesses to a gang shooting in the restaurant they were having dinner, I saw in the shopping mall all security guards carrying big, bad shotguns on they back - this is the only country where I saw that, even Israel has less obvious security in place.

No idea how is it today, it may be a lot better.
Isn't that basically what FirefoxOS/KaiOS and LG's WebOS are?
Prove it. I guarantee you 100% you don't know how and you can't ever prove it.

You are completely and utterly wrong and you don't know what you're talking about. That is a fact.

In fact I'm willing to put money on it. $1000 over venmo to you, a random stranger. You down? Give me a formal and correct proof that if a solution exists and that it is deterministic and I swear I'll venmo $1000 to whatever address you wish. Can you do the same? No, you can't.

If not then I'm right. We don't KNOW whether it's deterministic because our BEST model is probabilistic.

We really should raise the stakes and seriousness of HN comments to prevent random uneducated people who really don't know anything from posting random comments. Like come on... HN is better than reddit but some random set of "rules" against unsubstantiated comments doesn't stop people like this guy from posting unsubstantiated comments.
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Truck Insurance Brokers
I skimmed through the paper, what isn’t clear to me is how the original Registration Procedure is modified exactly. How is the Authentication Procedure done by the AUF when it doesn’t know the shared key K between the USIM and the network?

Can you elaborate a bit on that? Is every USIM using the same shared key?

Thanks!
Both options work, but you have to choose one style depending on the stage and type of the startup.

If you are founding a new coffee shop, or a trading company, probably you should spend more time working on the actual problem. But if you are founding a future tech (eg SpaceX at its beginning) or anything that requires huge capital or fast scaling in team size, you should spend more time on getting everyone buying the story and provides you with talent and capital to actually solve it.
> If you've written off an entire country as rude, it might be on you.

To quote thomas jefferson out of context, “uhhh, France?”

Kidding, but more substantially… you’re being a bit pedantic to the poster. When talking about places to possibly live for a while, anecdotes are helpful. And saying, “There people were rude” is a perfectly legit anecdote that clearly isn’t meant to imply the entire population was assessed.
> he does show some other tendencies that could be considered racist

Do you have some specific examples and had the Perl community informed him about these?
I'll say one thing, and I know it will come off as cliche: If you weren't there, you may not understand.

In the early days of the consumer Internet (mid/late 90s) there was a real wild west / gold rush feeling to things and it did feel like we were changing the world (spoiler: most of us weren't).

I am not defending or excusing anything here, just saying that I'm sure it was a lot easier for some people, perhaps already predisposed to such behaviours, to become unhealthily obsessed with working on new Internet tech at the time because it was incredibly exciting to be working on what was genuinely a new frontier back then.
Aspartame makes me crave more aspartame, not sugar. I am addicted to Diet Coke, but I can’t even finish a single can of regular coke.
Did this actually lead to better error handling? I'd be worried that it leads to silent idioms of "catch-and-drop" to silence the Slack blow up
What he said about developer productivity might be technically wrong, but misleading. Certain types of work require one to be at certain level of mastery, not just in software by the way. One who performs at that level can do the job, but just barely. Below that level you are a burden, not an asset, whoever worked in the industry knows such people, they don't do anything productive, but mostly get in the way. If we then assume that this level is zero, then everything above it it is positive, and or measurement of how much one engineer is better than another is exaggerated.

It's like when you are playing an RPG. Quest that requires level 5 is pretty much impossible for level 4. Doable for level 5. Level 6 can pass one easy. Level 10 would zoom through it. He's not 10 times higher in level than level 5, but certainly would get the job done 10 times faster and more reliably. That's where this comes from. Small advantages can mean difference between failing the project, barely pulling the project, or acing one; all of which translates into business losing or making money.
If you're sweltering then maybe something is wrong with your setup. I've been on Rocky Mountain Power's version of this program for seven years and have only noticed that it's one or two degrees hotter than it should be maaaybe three times. In seven years.

Why don't you just unenroll from the program? I only get a $30 rebate per year. You make it sound like someone's holding a gun to your head and making you live in hell.
Bawwawahahahaha.

There are no one bedroom apartments in Queens that are $1K USD a month that exist where the apartments reachable by the public transportation from Union Sq for under 2.5 hours one way when everything is running ( so most often ~ 3 hours ) . So that's basically living in Poconos.

To get there for 1.5 hours one would have to buy a car and pay for insurance and find parking by the subway.

Dave Ramsey who peddles FIRE is a charlatan who makes money not of following his advice but of selling his advice to his followers.
I mean, the alternative is to grind out an eking existence on nights and weekends until you're bootstrap profitable and then a "Chosen One" gets funding, or a FAANG comes along and eats your little niche for breakfast...the motivation for raising funding comes from survival instincts.
Make sure that he can do said telemedicine from outside of the country (per his contract or law). I know more than a few doctors that have tried to do it just to discover that for some reason it wouldn't work for them. For instance, they could read an x-ray and comment on it but per some rule it wasn't actually allowed to count as "official" and still had to be checked by a second radiologist. I can't recall what the blocking factor was, I just know it's kept him from buying a sailboat and taking off or buying a large house in Thailand.