skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
lol. No, seriously. I thought it was about a band. sigh.
Precisely. New renewable energy installations should replace the worst offenders not the other clean energy generation infrastructure. There was an article on HN a few days ago about how the 5% most polluting power plants pollute as much as 75% of the total.
I really, really like type systems, but I’ve built enough software to know that the returns for most applications diminish after a Go-like type system is in place, and there are many other factors that are more important than type systems (and Rust gets a lot of these right too!) such as performance, productivity, tooling breadth and quality (especially build tooling and package management), ecosystem, deployment/distribution story, learning curve, readability, etc. Ultimately I’m of the opinion that as cool as type systems are, for most software they need to exist in service of productivity which means you need a basic type system that helps you but gets out of your way. Type systems can’t catch many classes of bugs that are increasingly prevalent in a world where our services are getting increasingly smaller (or rather, where more infrastructure and networking are being put in between the logical components of our application) and we’re often able to detect bug fixes before they impact a significant number of users (progressive deployments, automated rollbacks, continuous deployment, etc) but the discourse around type systems hasn’t caught up yet.
I'm imagining that our intelligence will lead us to an elegant solution that initially appears to work but later proves to have catastrophic unintended side effects. Maybe just copying genes is enough? That brute force approach might be smarter than it appears, given how incredibly common it is in nature. A key thing is that the copies can repair themselves off each other. The more copies that are available, the more robust the system is to error. That's part of why humans have their ribosomal DNA in super high copy number in five psuedo-homologous regions on the short arms of our acrocentric chromosomes. The genome keeps lots of copies of the most important stuff. For humans, cancer wasn't so important, until recently. So we might need to accelerate things and increase our tumor suppressor copy number. It works for people with trisomy-21.
Current anti-viral therapy has made AIDS a chronic disease. We don’t need a vaccine to survive, though it would be helpful in eliminating the disease.
Fear Is Good (2009)
>Being stuck writing boring SQL reports or struggling with open-ended problems

I REALLY like SQL amd open ended problems. But sometimes I don't like work because work gets in the way of my SQL and BI stuff
When I ask to pay by card in the UK or Norway, it's 50/50 whether the driver claims the card machine is broken. If you say you don't have cash, they're like "oh, well, let's try just in case", and lo and behold, it works every time.
GitHub made it easier than ever for people to share and collaborate on code. The options that predated it were pretty awful by comparison. It's no wonder that within a couple of years most OSS projects had moved over.

GitHub launched in Feb 2008, Git soared and SVN plummeted.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=%2Fm%2F0...
> The core of the kernel is actually pretty small and very well understood and maintained.

I still find that even Linux based OSes like Ubuntu crash at least once a month or so. I've had to boot into initrd and manually do fsck on my laptop once this year. I'm not a software guy but I assume the reason for all this crappiness (windows as well) is because of all the patents on operating system stuff by Microsoft and Google. I'm saying this slightly tongue in cheek beacuse as a display guy I frequently see software people say display technologies suck because of all the patents so I assume that's what they experience in their own industry?
Online dating has basically become a joke anyway. I've met several women on it but more often than not, it never feels right. It's like the expectation of the event is to pursue a relationship. Not to actually have fun doing what you want to.
> Googler here: RSS is effectively dead. Most of the people working on software these days barely know what RSS is

Most of the people working on software these days barely know what a memory allocator is. Memory allocators are dead.
Demonstration of splitting a polygon (GIS concept) using Leaflet: https://gavinr.github.io/split-polygon-demo/
Visual Assist Support for the Visual Studio 2022 Previews
> general concept of a business model where you buy unknown items and hope they end up covering your costs

Seed stage VC?
The other problem with naively measuring the frame duration is that you'll get sub-millisecond-jitter because modern operating systems are neiter "hard realtime" nor "soft realtime", which in turn introduces micro-stutter because your game frames will be timed slightly differently than when your new frame shows up on screen (because of the fixed display refresh rate - unless of course a variable refresh rate is used like G-Sync).

This is also my main pet peeve on the web. You can't measure a precise frame duration (made much worse by Spectre/Meltdown mitigations), but you also can't query the display refresh rate.

In the 80's we took perfectly smooth scrolling and animations for granted, because most 80's home computers and game consoles were proper hard-realtime systems. Counter-intuitively this is harder to achieve on modern PCs that are many thousand times faster.
As if people didn't lose their jobs during the pandemic, unemployment didn't skyrocket, and people didn't have to pick up new remote jobs which pay less and force you to live outside NYC... Get in reality
> ... [W]hy [are] a lot of new web languages/frameworks are mixing logic and content in the same file again...?

In olden days, the DOM was treated like something shared. This could lead to a single DOM elements receiving changes from all over the place: Multiple CSS selectors would include it and apply style rules, and multiple JavaScript scripts might select and manipulate it. Spitting the CSS/HTML/JavaScript into multiple files just makes it harder to know what's doing what.

The new frameworks are built around the idea that when we need to manipulate or style a DOM element then it should be isolated from the rest of the DOM, and so should the CSS and JavaScript that do the manipulating. In other words, what we often call "components".

For convenience, we often group these three things into the same file, or into small files sharing the same directory.

Reasoning about them much simpler, because each one is like a tiny HTML document with just a few DOM elements. No need to review hundreds of CSS selectors or JavaScript event handlers, because everything is together in one small package.
In the developed world. It's still a death sentence in Africa (as is being gay).

I'm actually thinking more about the vaccination against a shifting-antigen bug.

That's big juju.
Isn't the problem with automation on the tube less the technology but more the unions ?
"In recent years, New York’s Department of City Planning, which supplies data to the Census Bureau, added 265,000 housing units that had been missing from the bureau’s list"
As I already explained, there is no extrapolating: pointing out one example of poor software quality does not mean that is the only evidence at hand. In fact, you are the only person who seems to be making that argument. Which is nonsense, since this incident report is one of many, many documented problems that clearly indicate a decline in software quality.

I have worked in a technical role for many years, and if my department shipped Big Sur, I would find immediate replacements for everyone in that department.
More impressive then some of the 'Journalist' that have articles posted here from Axios, Atlantic, NYT, etc who's only credentials are that they are warm bodies willing to shill for whoever will pay them most.
The vacancy rate in Manhattan is around 11% today compared to the more typical 1.5%-2%. Im sure it will come back over time.
Several years ago I played The Witcher 3. I couldn’t finish it since it had so much content. After about 20 hours in, I think I only got halfway through. For many people that much content for the price is an amazing deal but for me it was too much! Putting in an hour a day sporadically playing the game during the week, I was playing for almost half a year. From my perspective that’s a big commitment compared to a movie or something but probably equivalent to a good book or television series. I guess it all depends on your commitment to games but I also enjoy shorter games.
The bacteria can cause long-lasting damage, basically, and the symptoms of Lyme disease can just be that damage.
Have you tried washing on cold and using cold water detergent?

https://www.maids.com/blog/pros-and-cons-of-washing-your-clo...
Perhaps we should abolish the NIH then. They seem to have a repeated history of failing to grapple with pandemics.
Thanks for the insight @dspillett, makes sense.
I think a highly useful metric would be how many homes this battery installation could power alone for a one day period.
Be careful, some people (perhaps even the majority) aren't made for this. Do everything solo and soon enough you may hate everything, everyone, life itself and just wonder why you're even living.
Note to self: 1) Implement screenshot tool to provide motivation; 2) Implement the rest of myOS.
It's funny, every time this gets brought up people always say "it's not that bad/inconvenient" as if their experience is the only one that matter. If you live where it's hot and humid climate, a cloth face covering will get extremely uncomfortable (and drenched) very quickly. Or god forbid you have glasses, long hair, and/or ear rings that get tangled constantly. I've smashed a pair of sunglasses on the concrete at least twice in the last year because of masks, and very nearly my prescription glasses (which are far more expensive). Not to mention the psychological harm of (mass) mask wearing.
Avon Hungary Increased Revenue and Reduced Cart Abandonment by 16.5%
That's phase 1, phase 2 is then pulling up the ladder and increasing quality.

It works the same in every country.
What Happens When a City Releases 1.5M Balloons at One Time
It's way better not to catch a disease than to survive it. Vaccines, while they may not entirely get us rid of a disease, will improve the way of life by helping people not getting ill.
Upvoted, but wanted to clarify this for others. That's if the vaccine is part of the program. Vaccines not part of the program can still be (I think the lyme disease one wasn't part of the program, so the manufacturer got sued).
I'm convinced you can become and/or grow immune to Lyme, though. It's purely anecdotal.

I grew up where we built our house (deep, deep in the woods). I spent my childhood on the farm there. Ticks were a constant menace, I honestly don't know how many hundreds I pulled off myself as a child.

When I was able, my spouse and I purchased it and built a house. 6 months after moving in, my spouse developed Lymes disease. I have no explanation, other than I am immune to the ticks in the area (or I have had it my entire life with zero symptoms maybe?).
"I understand that this is largely a pre-Covid population, but adding over 600,000 people is like adding the population of Miami."
I don't think many game industry techniques are very well described in the open.
That's a better question for you to answer, since the incident you brought up contradicts the point you were hoping to make.

And I know how things work in The Philippines, I've lived there for some years, I've driven past the the shanty villages built on landfills and the storm drains filled with garbage. I know about the corruption. And I'm not saying there's no single piece of plastic pollute the ocean from Asia that came from western waste exports, so that kind of angle would be a strawman.

I'm questioning the extraordinary apologetics for the worst polluters when it comes to this issue. The evidence doesn't seem to stack up that the majority or even a significant part of the problem is the western waste export trade.
> We don’t need a vaccine to survive

As long as there’s no antiviral therapy resistance.
Fair enough - and so you skip the languages that doesn't fit that bill for you and pick one that you feel bring you those outcomes. No hurt feelings!
Postgres Query Execution: Plpgsql
It's so weird why they're adding a slices package instead of making them functions on the slice itself. They did the same with strings.

Compare

strings.ToUpper(strings.Replace(strings.Trim(s), "a", "b")))

Instead of

s.Trim().Replace("a, "b").ToUpper()
Congrats

How do you make money out of it?

Are you working full time on this?

Why YC funded this, could you tell me opportunity here?
That was my point. If you design your system so that the links stay well below saturation, then you would not expect to see drops.

However they can still occur, maybe due to some unexpected congestion or other issues. So long as your application can deal with that you should be good.
The Aibo. Famous for indicating Roast Beef's transition from circumstances to confidence. http://achewood.com/index.php?date=11122004
Bell's Palsy:

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/bells-palsy/s...
I'm on Big Sur, think I did disable it on Mojave now you mention it. Guess it got turned back on.

Obviously there are always work arounds but we have to remember for 99% of users this is just the reality they're stuck with.
What I think is funny, is that developers get the most advanced tools out there (IDE, repl, debuggers, etc), for free. But deliver junk, blaming "the user"

The same is true for resource requirements and performance. People complain about their OS (windows, macos, sometimes linux or some VM), and that it takes 1 whole minute to boot, while some projects take a couple of minutes to start.
Are tick repellents any good? Any recommendations?
> but more often than not, it never feels right

I’ve talked about this before, but the entire culture of dating apps feels like everyone is putting up a facade and you have to too if you want to play.
It's 21 milliseconds one reviewer said. And remember, it's a refresh happening under the stylus and under your fingers, so it's not comparable to regular screen refresh times.
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9-10% of the 8.8 million would be 800-900k, taking population back to about 2010 levels.
youre missing states eith no income tax like TN
Python Web Apps Are a Terrible Idea for Analytics Projects
This is a very informative article.

BTW this cat should now and forever be called Lena.
Until we develop an inoculation against nuclear war, I wouldn't get overly excited about the next millennium.
Would this brain become sentient? If so, would this open me up to litigation from activist groups? [1] I am linking a science fiction show, but I have seen sci-fi becoming reality and I suspect much of tech is inspired by these shows.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HN3HBjHkm5o
Glad to see this important step in securing the future of software that is more than just code.

Having been a member of the Fosstodon instance https://www.fosstodon.org/ for six months I expect that many HNers may find it an interesting and engaging instance. It's centred around free/open source software and similar services and is fully of friendly, witty and knowledgeable folk.
The US military and the security services are a corrupt joke. Their humiliation is glorious.
No. It's actually a new OS, as in a completely new kernel.
Biden Administration Expected to Call for Covid-19 Booster Shots
That is true of the European textile industry as well, although Italy still makes clothes. Made by Chinese that moved there.
Or reintroduce wolves.
Yeah; from time to time we reuse old t-shirts or bed sheets and turn them into handkerchiefs. We do use a lot of handkerchiefs with a small child :). But also other things, eg my wife took a pair of old jeans and cut off all but the waist+pockets -> an extra pair of pockets while lab'ing at work.
Let's not forget the huge success of PrEP (Pre-exposure prophylaxis, or treatment-as-prevention).

But a vaccine, especially if it is affordable and works for a long time will go even further in ending this pandemic that has gone one for 40+ years.
Thankfully there are places with a "SHIT-TON" of space throughout the USA and Canada.
Single mom here, on a weight loss journey, my four kids are my whole world, tired of playing games, looking for a real man for a serious long term relationship ONLY. I have no particular interests or characteristics.
Really nice read. Nice to see that sometimes theres more than what meets the eye.

Alternatively, I have seen so many SaaS products calling their first package as starter, sometimes that pushes me to go for the more expensive package from get go if I am buying with company card. Sometimes enterprise packages have negative connotations too.

Designing package names is a hard a problem, you have to know the target customer segment really well and see what terms work well and what doesn't.
That code is even easier to read with semantic highlighting than "basic" syntax highlighting. That said, syntax highlighting definitely helps when handling embedded strings, differentiating between value types, figuring out if something is a macro, function or global variable (which is important, as in a language like C++, the behaviour of `foo(x++)` depends on which of the above it is)

Highlighting doesn't tell you what's important, it tells you what's different. You should find a scheme that roughly weighs what's important to you;
I think the figure is "48 million tons" in January sent from US to Malaysia and Indonesia.

I still need more context data to change my mind, but it's a huge improvement over previous links, thanks.
Don't hate me for this — but you did not misunderstand the problem, and it is not impossible. I did solve it back in the 1960s. Besides which, if I give you the answer, I will ruin it for others who would rather try to solve it.
Ahhh classic Hacker News "West good, East bad" level of "critical" thinking
Homes are just one thing that consumes energy, and they're no more important than street lights, factories, night clubs, gas stations, electric charging stations, and hotels. there are no bonus points for renewable suburbs
Yes, mask wearing when sick is very common there. The vast majority of people do not (or rather, did not) wear masks during normal day-to-day life. There is a massive difference between wearing a mask all the time when in public vs wearing one when you've got the sniffles.
Heh, on the other hand it's also not uncommon to see complaints that developers refuse to pay for good tools, despite knowing first-hand that good software is hard to make.
I just want taking notes and then chopping those notes into spaced repetition items to be separate.

I didn't mean present the entire page, although a link back to the entire page for context would be nice.

Also, being able to remember things by their spacial layout on the page is an advantage, not a flaw. It allows you to employ your spacial and visual memory to help in memorizing concepts and facts.
The only game I've had to buy was Forza Motorsport 7, which is deeply discounted because it's leaving the service. Oh, and I couldn't resist Splinter Cell (the original Xbox version) and Beyond Good and Evil, which are also discounted to like 4 Euros. I might just end up buying the whole Splinter Cell series.

Otherwise, I have a list of 100 games installed that I'm slowly playing through that Game Pass has given me access to. Now today we're getting Humankind (on PC) and in two days Twelve Minutes. It's a ridiculously good deal.
Again, depends on what you were using.

Borland C++ or Watcom, probably not much help.

Delphi, C++ Builder, Visual C++ for Windows 95/2000 mostly work, naturally you might need to use the IDE wizards to upgrade project files, or fix tooling paths on the makefiles.
In humans, a defect in the TP53 gene that leads to genetic predisposition to cancer is called Li-Fraumeni Syndrome. It explains a lot of people who have a strong family history of cancer or those who get it early in childhood.
"Any run-of-the-mill engineer can design something which is elegant. A good engineer designs systems to be efficient. A great engineer designs them to be effective."

- from Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design
Take a look here: https://www.frontiersin.org/files/Articles/628045/fneur-12-6...

These are spirochetes in the brain/spine of a dead patient.

She had proven lyme diagnosis in the past, has been given the standard treatment and had good response(!), only to relapse, never recover and went on to develop neurological issues years later, and died.

The brain was donated and autopsied.

Full study: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fneur.2021.6280...

Are you saying the lead scientist on this paper, from the Tulane National Primate Research Center is a scammer? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulane_National_Primate_Resear...)

Seems like a big accusation.
I remember seeing a defederation list a while ago that was supposedly for "alt-right/nazi" instances.

It of course contained qoto and fosstodon due to their being pro free speech.
This is the same kind of story with my mom. She got a gastric bypass done, stuck to her diet, loss the weight, and now she doesn't even need any insulin or pills to regulate her blood sugar now. Mind you that's purely an anecdote but I thought I relay it anyway since it's nice to see there might be an underlying correlation or benefit others can employ as well.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28198581
There are so many issues with this article its hard to believe it got past the editors and into publish. The other top comments at time of my posting already covered the most egregious but I will add this one:

“I understand that this is largely a pre-Covid population, but adding over 600,000 people is like adding the population of Miami."

This is such horseshit that any rational reader should immediate see through it. Miami, the largest city in Florida, and one of the largest cities in the united states, being reduced to just "Miami City" population is an absolute joke.

Miami-Dade, with 2,716,940 people in 2019, is the seventh most populous county in the United States.
...
Miami metropolitan area, with 6,166,488 people.
Census, April 1, 2020 Miami City: 442,241 people.

Miami City has only ~600,000 because practically every 4 square mile area of Miami is its own incorporated city like Pinecrest, Coral Gables, etc.
So they were profitable...discounting all the times they lost money.