skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is the advantage over Crystal[0]?

[0] https://crystal-lang.org
from your own WaPo link:

> on average, Afghans did not care whether the Taliban had majority control over a post-peace government.
Spreading false information on Facebook and capturing many followers is called "power of influence"...
When Tesla Says It Recycles 100% of Its Batteries, What Does That Mean?
Wow! Average 57 mpg in Europe - really?
Even for diesels, that sounds extremely optimistic; is that from manufacturer-supplied figures?

US gallons happen to be smaller too, fwiw
I love how similar the building is to a lot of bars you see in Latin America. I could easily picture a bunch of stools on one side of the S-shaped table/stove, with people chugging wine and snacking, while on the other side you had two workers preparing food.
Ask HN: Which dev product (API, library, etc.) gave you the best dev experience?
As a developer, which product/open-source project/API gave you the best, most flawless developer experience?

And why?

To me, ElasticSearch official reference has a great in-depth explanation. However, I'd love to see more guides, examples, use-cases to be able to learn by example.
> None of this would have been possible using a clojure-style let.

Why? Clojure already supports pattern matching in its `let`, e.g.

(let [[head & tail] (produces-a-list)] ...)
Nice one, any chance you can share a link here?
Was. It was shuttered by Google in 2019.

It started to gain traction in some technical circles; I think Linus Torvalds used it to some extent. That was the only "social network" I was interested in back then, as it seemed more "serious".
Compare that to every single bank refusing to pay out my $150 check. Most banks even having no idea if this is actually still a thing, some had to get their boss to ask because they never had this situation before.

I still have that check because it's literally worth nothing around here.
What's the most efficient Lambda language?
I may have fixed a bug in bash
Wanted to scoff at the retro trend, but this thing looks beautiful.
That's pretty awesome, hadn't heard of it before.

That said, I think it's important to consider how much development time is spent on iterating as a new product's design is figured out. The company developing Slack has probably done the net work of building it 20 times over as its feature set developed and morphed over the years—and I'm sure Slack's actual complete feature set eclipses Ripcords (most of the difference coming in via features not essential to most individual users, but key to the business).

The workspace and tab counts are also hard to read much meaning from since most of the memory usage is dependent on the media that's been loaded into the app. How many web page previews, videos, images, etc. are in those tabs?

In any case, at the end of the day our sample sizes here are just too small to draw the conclusions people on here so often do about Electron. We know you can move fast with it (development speed), and that apps built with it can be fast (e.g. VSCode, Github desktop client, Discord)—but people can also build slow apps with it (no surprise), and there is a somewhat large constant factor for install size (~50mb base).

In my mind that does not stack up to merit the kind of complaints about Electron that can be found here every day.
This is excellent, just what I use spotify for, music.
It has never failed here and once in 19 years is actually a big praise. BTW what's with those 15 minutes of preparing to update?

There are funny UX issues with Software Update. I press Restart now 3 times, nothing happens, after a while the system begins restarting and on the black screen I see a notification saying "We'll restart to update later tonight" or something. macOS is full of embarrassing stuff like this.
Bomb thrown at Single Ladies by pastor Mrs funke Adejumo
I mean, yeah - that's why it's so valuable.

When something is so rigorously guaranteed that it's almost absolute, it's able to change your behavior, dramatically. It's incredibly liberating. It's like turning on the water tap, and never fearing that you're about to drink something toxic. You can do things quickly and casually, because you know you've got a solid bit of "terra firma" to stand on. If we didn't have things like this, we couldn't have i.e. airplane travel.

It's absolutely commendable for them being at such a high watermark for reliability, but - much like a doctor saving sick patients, or the mail service delivering letters, aspirationally speaking "nothing less than perfection is acceptable".
This. 100%
> Other than the rendering engine, what is so hard about writing a browser?

Other than THAT, how was the play, Mrs Lincoln?
As others have pointed out, degradation and imperfect copying are serious issues, they can't really be ignored. Also, language itself changes over time, adding significant difficulty to understanding what the book was supposed to have said. And of course, metaphor and references to then-well-known people or events become unrecognizable very quickly.
Jeffrey Sachs' Speech at the UN Food Systems Pre-Summit [video]
> we demand

Can you name a few, or even one, consumer-level boycott in, say, the last 50 years, which actually accomplished its goal? Accomplished by the actual boycott alone, I mean.
I think this is by far the best quantification of this phenomena.

Did you read about the "what survival means to us" somewhere, or was that just convos with friends?
> China basically achieved it

No, it didn't.

> (I am not a China fan or defender)

Then why are you making B.S. “rah rah China” claims that even Chinese state media doesn't?
At least work Mac you can still choose not to update. That seems harder and harder to do in Windows 10.
There's a lot of wisdom in those books, I really like 'em.
I agree. It is a great novel. Taught me a lot of about the history and lives of people in Iraq.
Not sure what's in it but there's https://archive.org/details/archiveteam_googleplus
"The Taliban is sanctioned as a terrorist organization under US law and we have banned them from our services under our Dangerous Organization policies. This means we remove accounts maintained by or on behalf of the Taliban and prohibit praise, support, and representation of them," a Facebook spokesperson told the BBC.

How was it possible to negotiate the peaceful transfer of power a few months ago if the Taliban is still sanctioned as a terrorist organization under US law?
TIL, I only ever used it on Linux and assumed it was the same everywhere
TBE is another terrible tick borne neurological disease that’s increasing rapidly, currently only in Eurasia. There’s no cure, but at least a decent vaccine. It requires booster shots every 5 years though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tick-borne_encephalitis
Maybe I am wrong but shouldn't you normalize (in a Bayesian way) to the percentage of vaccinated people in the sample? I.e. we should look at the probability of contracting serious COVID for a vaccinated person vs a unvaccinated one.

Since 60-plus people are very likely to be vaccinated the effect of the vaccine could be much lower than reported. It's the textbook case of confusing conditional probabilities and while physicians surely know what they do it is simple for published data to be in a form that is misleading for the average reader.

EDIT:
My bad, the data is already this way BUT if you look at https://datadashboard.health.gov.il/COVID-19/general (Hebrew) you see how the effect of the vaccine has decreased

Probability of contracting COVID for an unvaccinated 60+ y.o. was 15x than a vaccinated one in February, now it's more like 3x.

Probability of getting a serious case for an unvaccinated 60+ y.o. was 30x than a vaccinated one in February, now it's more like 8x.
The issue is whose fault it is, because that's who needs to be helped and/or pressured into fixing it.

We should have regulations on exporting waste, but the west exporting waste is not the cause of the pollution.
How to Use Luos with Arduino? Step 1 – Setup the IDE
Yes. It's very similar to when you encounter compiler or operating system or hardware bug as a programmer.

You are trained for years to NEVER BLAME THE LOWER LAYERS because that makes you a worse programmer. So when it is actually their fault - you might look stupid for exhausting every other possibility before checking these basic assumptions.

But this is still a good rule, because it breaks very rarely.
I don't get it - are you are woman? Then just stop this nonsense with "partner", "travelling the world". Get married, have kids, and you'll be more than happy that you have a good paying job that allows you to afford the kids, kindergarten and so on. You're 34, there is nothing else in life behind the corner, that's it, don't run away from it. Trust me, this is the source of your pain.
Headless means without any monitor.

You could reasonably refer to running in clamshell mode as headless, but calling a system with external monitors connected headless does not make sense.

But I get what you mean.
> I’ve never seen someone throw their car into park or toss their burger out the window upon seeing a confusing stop sign.

If you ever travelled by plane, surely you've seen people at the airport trash their perfectly edible food (snacks, etc.) upon seeing the confusing signs just before the safety checks, even though in many cases they would have been allowed to pass it through the gates.
That's the state budget which can be financed by resources (ie: oil), loans or federal aid. The budget for Qatar is certainly not 0 because they have no income/capital/sales taxes.
Glasses that show objects in 3D overlaid onto the real world sounds like XR to me.

But if you consider this to be AR, how is it different to XR and how can it be solved for AR but not for XR?
I'm sure it works both ways. If Github was somethingelseHub, somethingelse would be popular. Git started gaining popularity thanks to great UI and communities on github and gitlab.
There are cases where pranksters painted a road on a wall, and drivers were fooled by it. So it definitely happens with humans too.

We are just too much used to the existence of optical illusions for humans that we fail to consider them a possibility for attacks. Adversarial attacks on neural networks are simply that: optical illusions, but designed for neural networks instead of humans.
That’s just basic human decency right there.
Aloha! from India.

Well, the biggest headache of the fiasco in Afghanistan is going to be for India. Now the fighters are free from fighting in Afghanistan, guess where they are going to be redirected!
See https://support.google.com/groups/thread/120495835/rss-does-...
> Many modern JS/Electron apps

made my blood boil every time I had to use them. Even the poster child for a good Electron app, VS code, while packed with cool features, feels so sluggish next to Qt Creator that it distracts me from my work constantly when I use it.

Thankfully, on my Linux desktop, the actual number of such apps I actually need is precisely zero, everything has at least one (much snappier) Qt or GTK alternative.

> just try to use element.io in a Tor Browser on a normal xDSL connection and you'll see what i mean (unless it's improved recently).

I just tried without Tor and counted 5-6 seconds between the time where I clicked on "Open in your browser" and the page actually showing up here: https://element.io/get-started, so I'll happily pass
Banksy: A guide to his 'Great British Spraycation'
In my mind the fact that checks are used in any situation is definitely "extensive" use.

I have never in my live used a check or seen one outside of movies.
Not OP. It's kinda hard to find examples at this point, and I don't feel too inclined to trawl through pages and pages of google results before finding what appears to be SEO-demoted results.

Some examples I did find:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/20/world/europe/germany-36-a...

And some other relevant links from Wikipedia:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Germany
Good old data driven decision making.
Don't know about regular updates, but the beta ones should definitely be avoided, regardless of iOS/macOS.
Related discussion: there was recently some move within the community to try and topple the current maintainer. That calls was based on technical/UX disagreements (regarding the local timeline) and on the maintainer allegedly having connection to a surveillance project called Eunomia: https://seedy.xyz/posts/0005-open-letter/

I am not a member of the Mastodon community and i have no clue to the veracity of these statements, but i believe they're worth considering in the topic of Mastodon changing governance model.
I'm highly skeptical of people who claim to have found salvation in Jesus, and righted all their former wrongs. I never know if they're telling themselves that, or just trying to convince me it's true. But I've lived in Buddhist countries and watched the same pattern of individual behavior juxtaposed with belief. And you're right, they both rendered unto Caesar and probably survived and propagated as a result. And to be clear, neither one is malicious or bad in its basic construction - telling people to be mindful or live according to ethical ideas.
What does suck though is that both of them try to pretend that ethics spring from their written dogma, rather than teach people that ethical behavior is a rational and completely natural response. And by making it part of dogma they rob people of credit for having ethical impulses. So you want to help the poor - you're being "Christian" as opposed to being a rebel, or a good person. They deprive the individual of authentic agency in this regard. And an individual deprived of that agency passes down the dogma; and after generations it loses meaning.
While keming is important, it's still exciting to see how far along vector font support is already.
> ... remember that the Systemic Stability Principle is completely false, and just happens to be a false belief that it’s often useful to hold. A system being stable in the past doesn’t mean it’s stable now, and evidence that the Systemic Stability Principle works is not the same thing as evidence that it’s right.

That is, the only way you can get better at a game like this is to assume that the system is stable (otherwise you'll attribute failure to bad luck instead of bad strategy).

> It’s also important to avoid refuting observations by appealing to system definitions. If someone says “This feels like it’s doing more damage than it says”, resist the impulse to say “Nope, it does exactly this value; it’s written right here.” Instead, try to design an experiment that would prove whether the value written in the system is correct. If designing the experiment is very hard, that should be interpreted as a risk factor - if no one can check that the system is doing what it ought to, then maybe it really is wrong! Play yes-and with systems skeptics, letting them invest their time into correspondence work if they think something is wrong. Or be the system skeptic yourself, if a certain observation sits wrong with you.

That skill is a superpower in software development when dealing with complex systems that behave unexpectedly.
If I were working at Apple, I'd be low-key proud of this blog post, if anything.

One upgrade bug in 20 years. That's respectable.
There's also people like me who have serious PTSS phenomenons with masks (for me caused by nearly suffocating several times when I was an infant). I hate it when people call it 'a small ask'. Living for the rest of my life with masking is just not an option. It's manageable during the crisis but we can't give up on finding a real solution and keep them forever.
Ask HN: HN Why are there no real time hardware/operating systems available?
That's only one way. Don't forget about the return trip.
Great work. Despite all the amazing landscape, somehow, and I dont know why...this was my favorite photo:
https://travelphotos.everything-everywhere.com/Atlantic/Sout...
> While it seems crude, the way we used to do it, the way the Soviets used to do it, the way China does it now, seems to work best for this kind of interest. While it seems crude, the way we used to do it, the way the Soviets used to do it, the way China does it now, seems to work best for this kind of interest.

Aside from ethical issues, the inevitable case is what they think is theirs and what you think is yours end up conflicting, which is how that strategy fell apart with the Soviets in Afghanistan. And with the US and Saddam Hussein in Iraq. Among other places.
The packaging has a barcode so it can be scanned faster at a checkout. Faster scanning means less checkouts and staff which means lower capital and operating costs.
This is my favorite rant on HN yet

Buddhism was already distilled “Hinduism for Export”, it is foolish to distill it further. IMO the whole fad is a result of Americans mistaking Buddhism for religion, and not pre-western psychology, so in a bid to get the benefits without the baggage, and to be allowed to teach yoga in schools, mindfulness practitioners dropped the spiritual framework and just said “focus on your breath, it’s good for you”
Previous discussions:

6 years ago (150 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10725859

2 years ago (50 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21674610

3 years ago (26 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16713012
> Search is just so basic, you can not have any typos whatsoever.

I'd rather have queries for exactly what I type then Google's irrelevant "never gonna let you down" answers.
IMO: The real killer feature is the stuff Pine64 is doing with lorawan plus the phone's expansion bus.
And yet you can pay with card nearly everywhere but in small kiosks.
China may align with Taliban and try to exploit Afghanistan’s rare earth metals
If you think mindfulness is garbage, I think you don't know what it is. And I wouldn't blame you for that, because I think I've only ever heard one monk give a good definition of it.

Mindfulness is this: remembering to watch the movement of mind's attention. In other words, remembering to know which of the six kinds of knowing you are doing at any given moment.

Anyone who practices for a while can verify that it's true -- attention really does flicker rapidly between six kinds of knowing. We're only ever knowing one thing at a time, but it gets stitched together into an illusion that knowing is continuous and panoramic.
If you find a post that starts interesting conversation you can select it as root (or simply double click) and you will get that conversation - all replies and their children, grandchildren etc. So I don't think there is a real need to have tree style comments as the approach to this is different.
Reply system with ability to select conversations is one of the main differentiators from other similar sites. I know people might find it uncomfortable in the beginning simply because it's unusual but I think it's superior system to upvotes/tree style.
Not sure, if you are trolling, but assuming good faith: That's not what privacy means. That's secrecy.
You'd have to sit perfectly still for the car not to detect and react to your very-pedestrian-like walking pattern, at which point it's not really messing with them but rather like sitting near or in the middle of traffic and trying to make cars... not run you over?
Clearly some sciences are better than others.

You can put air quotes around sciences if it helps make my point any clearer.
What about SFINAE?
> fossilized pizza

It's here:

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/07/07/ancient-bread/

https://museum-of-artifacts.blogspot.com/2018/05/a-carbonise...

You joke, but the ovens in Pompeii (pictured at link above) look a lot like the wood-fired pizza domes down the road in Naples.

The Romans could have made flatbread with cheese, herbs and fish or meat bits on it. But no tomatoes until they came back from the Americas in the 1500s. https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/noodles/2018/07/03/history-of...
I don't know for sure what they meant, but that's my interpretation of the numbers (and ambiguous phrasing) given in the article. Do we have any better/more detailed sources?
Perhaps this will be a spur to invent a better mask? I believe fear will subside as over time most people tend to adjust to new realities.
For those who don't know: Mastodon is like Twitter, except decentralised and open source. Becoming a gGmbH means Eugen is seeking to expand it further.
vim-wiki for cli notes.

Zim-wiki otherwise.
One option is the Aibo funeral: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/in-japan--...
I'm not antivax but if the company is sure its vaccine is safe, why should they fear lawsuits ?
I had a similar setup and got sleeping problems, anxiety and worse after a while. Also started to eat there. It all mixes up and you slowly lose structure, motivation and confidence. If you have any opportunity to bring in structure into this, preferably through separated spaces, and most importantly through routine/schedule, start now!
> renders the editor completely unresponsive

I thought one of the points of neovim was to support true async stuff. So in theory, it should be possible to just open the file without syntax highlights but still be able to edit?
The C++ I wrote in 2013 still looks and works the same as it did 8 years ago, and I can write code in the same way, or opt in to newer features in C++14/17 too. The C++ code that I wrote in 2007 (when I started writing C++) also still works.
Before going for help, please watch these two videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_m7uL4Q44ws

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6jItZF5ZeU

It is said that history repeats itself!
You never once worked a blue collar job, did you?
You don't think vendors that sell products that can leave you maimed for the rest of your life, damage or eliminate entirely your earning potential, destroy your marital relations, and destroy future of your children should not be liable for injuries caused by their product?

Really? You are against holding people liable for faulty products?
It only knows your location when you open the app, why is that a problem?
Same here.

With Windows I'm doing regular updates and know that these take 15 min max. Make coffee and update is completed.

But with MacOS it is usually at least hour to complete update and it is always showing "2 minutes remaining" for 30 minutes...
OP specifically mentions the sensor, so I'd speculate they use an interface to download data which is different from the control mechanism.
In Romania we have a couple of expressions with very specific meaning:

- some guy asks on Radio Erevan (Yerevan, Armenia) => that is obviously a joke

- the UK scientists discovered that => rumors and unsubstantiated claims
The only bottleneck I am aware of are the sometimes way to slow internet connections these terminals use. My cards just work
Have my TBE jabs.

But just last week I had another course of penicillin to treat Lyme disease.

Where i live, ticks are prevalent and this year seems to be particularly bad for just Lyme disease. I know four others who also have it, which seems higher than normal.

A vaccine would be most welcome.
I havent read the full article, but why is this the number 2 story on HN? Have I sorted incorrectly?
The 4 Hour Workday
This is a great example of why underground railways are so expensive to run. I don't believe the London Underground has ever been profitable.

Not only is it expensive to install equipment, you then have to maintain it and replace it and in this example, not even "like for like" are going to fit in the same space.

When I used to go round various equipment rooms, there was electrical equipment that was the best part of 100 years old. Who would ever remove it in case it is wired into the signalling system or whatever? For that reason, they have to wait and then do a massive re-signalling etc. so they can safely remove everything and put nice expensive new stuff in!
I have a non-mac keyboard, I had to unplug it before the latest update would get past the boot screen, that's never been an issue with the past updates, maybe that's what they experienced?