skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is not an unlimited amount of skilled construction labor or construction equipment, especially over the short term. When you ship massive quantities of both off to a desert far from your country you get less construction.

So yes,it very literally reduces our capacity to construct infrastructure at home. Before you you get to the non imaginary budgetary issues.

The "fallacy" this article is trying to combat is econ 101
More nits:

- In Fig. 6 (Scenario 787-08), lines 2-4 appear to be truncated. [edit: I see you already responded to this elsewhere in the thread.]

- The layout of the figure labels is confusing; at first glance it looks more like they're labeling what's under them, rather than above them.

- The quotation marks are all turned into curly closing quotes.

- This is more of a style thing, but the code snippets appear to be using a variable-width font laid out as if it were fixed width, which looks pretty bad. Perhaps the font isn't embedded properly.
I can’t take this list seriously if it doesn’t have Designing Data Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann.
AI can tackle complex social problems, from loneliness to stigma
FWIW, the overhead of calls across the cgo barrier is quite high, which can have API architecture implications -- https://github.com/dyu/ffi-overhead#results-500m-calls.
I generally haven’t found it useful. Too many false positives, and too many aircraft not using transponders - especially helicopters in Class G airspace.

Personally I’m hoping for some basic radar functionality, but that is going to be tough in smaller drones!
Show HN: SlashApi – a web platform to build REST APIs without code
Almost bought one but the server stopped responding. Will definitely bookmark this and try again later
Using the criterion at the bottom of the page: "a specific book I would tell myself to read at the beginning of my career as a developer", the closest for me is probably The Pragmatic Programmer.

Not The Tao Te Ching (huh?), not Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (really now?), not Advanced Windows (that I did read near the beginning of my career as a Windows C++ programmer), not any of The Little/Seasoned/Reasoned Schemer (all of which I read and I had tremendous fun with).

IMHO, this sounds more like a "I'm a programmer and this is a book I remember fondly" kind of list.
I'm quite well aware of what's happening in NZ, thank you, and the reason they locked down the whole nation is because that one case a) could not be immediately linked to another case, implying there were likely others out there, and b) had moved around quite a bit, meaning other cases were likely widely spread. As we now know both these turned out to be true.

Nevertheless, it is still a literally true statement that the entirety of NZ was locked down over one (1) case, because if they hadn't found that one case, they wouldn't have done that.
extroverts , the center of the party ("me me me me me!") : have lesser mental bandwidth to observe and understand others.

often, they observe less, listen less, and talk more.
> Because crypto transactions, which are recorded on the blockchain, are untraceable by governments and other central authorities like banks, they’re often the preferred payment among ransomware hackers and other criminals.

And literally two paragraphs above that:

> The prosecutor added that the case was the first in the country’s legal history in which cryptocurrency was seized, so there was no legal precedent to look toward.

The preferred payment method of crime that has never been encountered by legal authorities in one of the most developed countries in the world. Very interesting.
> Fast forward to an hour or so later, and I see the same family at one of the coasters, standing in line while I walk right ahead and past them to the front. I start to think -- geez, is this sending the right message to this family, that those with more can just zoom ahead?

I think it's great that you are worrying about this and that you ended up giving them your pass later.

OTOH, there's no end to these thoughts. Some families cannot even afford a park visit. Other families might have time but no money for a FastPass. Why is your ability and willingness to pay for the pass an issue by default?
That family might go to Disney every year, save up and enjoy the experience. You took a limited opportunity to go and hop on rides, you might have not done without the FastPass system.

> I do tend to think though that with a little empathy for everyone else, you'll do pretty well.

Another family could have used the FastPass more, could have swapped an airplane seat etc.

Ultimately your empathy cannot fix things / make the best possible choice, but yes, it's still preferable to not taking the opportunity to be considerate. And it will make you feel better as well. Win/win.

Though, in the end, it doesn't mean we shouldn't look to improve policy / systems to address these issues of imbalance.
Just curious what's behind the name... "ploopy"?

I mean, when a name manages to combine "plop" and "poopy" in a way that makes it really hard to think of anything but the toilet... it just makes me wonder why they chose that association?
You're missing a word, but it seems like you're saying octopuses is wrong. But it's right, and not just because a spot informal weird had been accepted: it's technically correct. As sibling comments have said, the original plural would be octopodes because it's from the Greek, not octopi because it's not from Latin, but English doesn't normal take Greek plurals.
> The world may be 2021, but their lifestyle is still that of hundreds of years earlier.

First of all, Afghanistan was not always Taliban country. There was huge amount of people living completely different lifestyle - women in miniskirts were normal. Until invasion of Russian armies in the process of exporting communism and eventual victory of Taliban via arms.

> If western ideology is correct, why not let them sort it themselves out and get to the point where we are?

This is not fight of ideologies, but of violence. Second, this is an odd theory of history in which "right" ideology wins and nothing in history confirms that. As good feel this theory is, it is not how world works.

> Also, in a decentralized and failing state that is Afghanistan, a theological junta wouldn't be so bad for them now seeing as it's a structure many know.

This is not theological junta tho.

> Injustices happen everywhere worldwide. The system the Taliban is reinforcing (yet again...) is hardly something as unethical as a corrupt and failing democracy where women can't even trust the law to protect them.

It is hard to parse this. Injustices happen everywhere, some places more then others. Some places are more cruel and unjust than others. Taliban is among those more oppressive and unjust.

> where women can't even trust the law to protect them.

Women have better protection ... pretty much everywhere else. For instance, forced marriages to taliban fighters are still a thing, for instance. It is absurd how you minimize level of violence and basically slavery half population is subject of.

Just because Americans failed to achieve goals does not mean that Taliban is not as cruel, injust or oppressive toward half of population as it is. Pretending otherwise might make you feel better, but it does not make it reality.
for me, as an occasional wikipedia editor, wikidata is just the annoying thing I need to deal with when linking different language wikis together.

I can never figure out anything there, but it’s just the UX I guess
They should do fundraising. There is a critical energy needed to go over the hump - stay on the left side and forever keep making low volume goods. Get funds, seriously invest and it can become a solid competitor to high end mice from Logitech - difficult but worthy of pursuit. I've worked on both sides of the asymptote, not trivializing but products like this are in uncanny valley. Folks at WASD keyboards took 3 years to scale their Code-keyboards - it is hard to do but their keyboards are rock solid now.
> On the right, it’s a running joke

The FBI had been surveiling, infiltrating, and eliminating domestic American Political organizations since it was established, both on the left and the right.
I don’t like big corps but my specialized bike has a feature (front spring shock absorber) that no other road bike has.

Also their triathlon bikes have multiple unique features
Good Apples Unite
I'm a cyclist of many years and am sympathetic to the plight of the small retail business, but over and over I've had even minor repairs botched by the minimum wage kids often doing the wrenching. I started buying tools and learning maintenance, because as I've said after many a trip to the shop, I could have fucked this up myself for free and saved some driving!
Hard to read papers are more likely to get accepted by reviewers. At some point the reviewers just go "aww fuck this" and approve it.
Generally I prefer to keep both separated, either with two devices or two different OS users. I certainly wouldn't want to keep both on the same profile/device (especially since I have to deal with two profiles for the browser, password manager etc... anyway).

But when I need to make a quick exception to this (private project on my work device or work project on my private device), I'm just using the `.git/config` of the repository. It's far easier and reliable.
See the last paragraph of zarzavat's comment :) They wouldn't be added today, and they aren't widely used any more (they have non-codegen alternatives now). In other words, breaking changes in semantics shouldn't be a worry any more, since the TS team has consciously decided to attempt to avoid them a few years ago.
America is the land of immigrants. Every batch of immigrants provide the fuel for growth and innovation.

Whatever might be the political climate but US is still the country to come if you want to make your dreams come true.
We are already living with unintended consequences, which are getting relentlessly worse. All we need is for the consequences not to be as bad as what we are already getting.
A similar story happened with Mt Gox, which was insolvent at the time of its bankruptcy:

Those 200,000 Bitcoins he found have sat untouched since he found them. The bankruptcy case restricts him from touching them but since 2014 when Mt. Gox filed for bankruptcy, the price of Bitcoin has skyrocketed. At the time of this recording it’s now worth over $10,000 per Bitcoin. Mt. Gox owes their creditors 450 million dollars which is what the Japanese courts have locked in as what he owes. But his 200,000 Bitcoins are now worth two billion dollars. If he were to pay off all his creditors today, he may then get to walk away with over one billion dollars. [1]

[1] https://darknetdiaries.com/transcript/9/
Same for me. My knees are staying put. There's nowhere else for me to put them.

You're welcome to recline as much as you want, unless it gets in their way.
Remote Story of Melissa who has been named as a Trailblazing Female Entrepreneur
Kudos to your teacher, for recommending you the book (personally because of your unmanageable curiosity :-) or generally to the class ?). I wish my teachers had tried drowning teenage me with good, challenging books.

Kudos getting the courage to write to an author you admired. Putting your words on paper, letting someone that wrote know that they reached you. That your motives might not gave been noble (arrogant is a good phase to live as a teenager, we need to learn that we are a crafty, amazing bunch, we humans, to celebrate it, and we need to be taught hubris concretely, its positive and negative sides, etc.).

Kudos for him to write you back, with encouraging words. He probably got a good chuckle or two, and took the time, in a way, to show you you'd touched him.

Wholesome human story, thanks for sharing.
Please do not argue like that. I understand you are a fan of the language, I love the OCaml language myself. But pretending execution speed does not matter is disserving the cause, especially since many people came to OCaml because it's a great trade off between execution speed, expressivity and safety.
Let's take an island nation with an island nation - the Isle of Mann.

58x less people than New Zealand. Only accessible by plane and boat.

37 deaths to NZs 26.
go crypto!
4k Wallpapers: Aesthetic Wallpaper and Background
This was just a silly misstake by the prosecutor, obviously the seizure should had been specified in BTC, not SEK.

A similar (but opposite) thing happened in a civil case during the 90's [0] where a transport company delivered oil to a refinery in Sweden. The oil producer sued the transport company, and asked the Swedish government to seize the payment for the oil (denominated in dollars).

The Swedish government seized 3M USD, but immediately exchanged it for SEK. During the court case, the SEK was devalued by ≈ 17%. In the end when the case was resolved and the seizure was released, the transport company sued the government because they wanted their 3M USD back, not 17 percent less.

The transport company won and the government had to pay them 3M USD back.

[0]: https://lagen.nu/dom/nja/1990s137
Flying Guide Dog: Path Discovery for the Visually Impaired Utilizing Drones
The tall tales of Mr. Feynman, is an instructive guide that one can assist the narrative about themselves if only they cared to try.

While I am sure he was a maverick, he loved to talk about himself as such even more!
"Help starting a major rewrite in an innovative and market disruptive framework".
https://archive.is/QzupC
Not influential, but very informative:

- Annotated Turing by Petzold

- Code by Petzold

Maybe influential?

- Designing Data Intensive Applications by Kleppmann

- Digital Design and Computer Architecture by Harris

- How to Solve It by Computer

- Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs by Wirth
And if those 'somewheres' where you bought it and spent it don't know who you are there is little to trace.
Lol i recently saw the 2auth for an isp in my country. It works like this.

To see/change your banking details they bring back the banking info (api call) and display it on screen, BUT their security is to 'quickly' bring up a modal(js) to 'hide'
the sensitive information... of course just modify 'display:none' on modal and you can see everything :s
My first guess would have been that this is from a European company, which often have product names that don't sound quite right to a native English speaker [1], but cursory Googling [2] reveals that Ploopy Corporation appears to be run by a Colin Lam from Mississauga, Ontario, next to Toronto and not even in Quebec. So your guess is as good as mine.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plopp

[2] https://www.bizapedia.com/canada/ploopy-corporation.html
PS2 Gets the Ginger Portable Treatment
> In Bavaria we have most bike lanes as part of the sidewalk.

From my experience (in the UK) how usable those lanes are depends hugely on pedestrian discipline. There's one of those running alongside the seafront in Brighton that in my experience works well. The same style of lane that I've seen in and around London generally doesn't work as well: there are often pedestrians on the wrong side, not infrequently looking into their phones and/or wearing headphones.

What makes matters worse is that in the UK the rules are asymmetric: while it's an offence for a cyclists to go on the pedestrian side, there are no rules preventing pedestrians from walking on the cycle path (source: [1]).

[1] http://www.cyclecraft.co.uk/
"Slow" can be subjective indeed, but not "slower".
Never heard of static vs dynamic type checks ?
Space-based mirrors are about the worst imaginable idea. Stratospheric sulfur is almost as bad.

Neither one gets any acid out of the oceans, and instead allows their acidity to continue rising until the entire ocean ecosystem collapses. Then, billions go hungry.

Meanwhile, the moment these shading projects hiccup, e.g. from mass starvation induced global thermonuclear war, temperatures skyrocket to where they would have been, but much more quickly. And then of course there is the starvation and war.

What "unstoppable chemical chain reaction" are you imagining? The exact moment you stop spreading olivine powder, the chemical reaction process stops dead.
Why is that strange? Universal Health care doesn’t mean you don’t have options if you can pay or is that a sign of failure to you? Also the article mentions that 700k Canadians are waiting for health care (it doesn’t mention how long they have to wait). The US has 40M people not getting healthcare at all. I’d rather wait a bit than not getting it at all.
We altered the environment pretty radically in 150 years without trying. How does that reconcile with your time-constants?
She sounds like a jerk, but other than acting out like a child, she isn’t wrong. Personally, I would let it go, but it’s not her fault someone else messed up your ticket. I’m very short and that typically gives me a disadvantage is many scenarios. One of the few places it works to my advantage is aboard a flight. However, more than a few times I’ve sat next so someone very not small, who occupied some of my space for the duration of the flight. Politeness dictates that I can’t complain, because obviously I can’t expect someone to drastically alter their shape for the next few hours. But how is it fair?
Microsoft wrote down billions of dollars on many attempts at being king of mobile.

These were colossal failures. The fact that they were such a cash generating machine doesn’t imply that they didn’t lose out on being a much bigger business.

They didn’t step back from mobile prominence, they stepped back from repeated mobile failures, licked their wounds, and refocused on other areas because they had lost their chance.

And they knew it.

Of course, every day is a new opportunity. Microsoft seems to be far better managed now.
If you follow the list to its source, it was written in 2012. That's a fair omission considering DDIA wasn't even published yet.
> Which in the analogy would be me exchanging my potatoes for carrots.

In the United States and in many other jurisdictions, if you realize a profit through commodity exchange, you owe tax on the fair market value of the exchange.
She was a communist. That is why her ideology is not written about and why people are surprised.

They want to teach nice parts of her and dont want to teach off-putting ideas of her. That is the whole point of that chapter in his book.
The floor for random four letter .coms is only around $100 currently. Gail.com would go for 1,000-10,000x that though.
Would it be possible to make a simpler version of this that just find your eyes? You sit/stand up straight once to calibrate it, and then it notifies you of your eyes drop below the calibrated level? All of this AI stuff sounds like hard work.
> OCaml is much faster than Go in the bytecode mode

But doesn't the compiled code run slower in bytecode mode? I think that counts.
Would you recommend using Newton’s laws to model the behaviour of colliding toy trains at a few feet per second, or Relativity?
Even if it is own special flavour of Java, with Kotlin toppings, and many love to bash it, because managed, the irony is that all the alternatives are much worse in device performance.

Mostly because NDK is only meant for games and native methods, so everything else needs to go through JNI all the time.
Overnighted cash drops to a PO box are fairly reliable. Localbitcoins and its spinoffs used to be a popular option, but it seems they're a shell of their former selves.

It's definitely a lot more difficult nowadays, though.
A vital way to collect bad data, as evidenced here. Why would you trust what people say anyway?
35% of crypto buyers say they are influenced by ‘Dogecoin Dad’ Elon Musk
I used NoScript heavily for years. No ads on Youtube all that time. A couple of months ago something went wrong and I started seeing ads again (wow, that was literally a headache for me). No matter how I configured No Script, I still wasn't able to get rid of the ads. After trying uBlock - because a lot of people here recommended it - it works fine again.
*Most influential books for programmers
These are books considered most influential for programmers from this StackOverflow thread.*

That was point farming question on SO and people were voting on what was most influential for them.

Title might be tricky to read. Because title is saying that those books are not influential on the scientific field but are about that field. Problem is that there are books that are not about that topic so it adds to the confusion.

Books are about "computer science" topic and those books are meant to be influential in general.

It is by popular vote of how influential those books are on practitioners of software development.

I don't find that list useful or valuable.
So far, Delta is the only variant I know of where it can be easily transmitted by people who are vaccinated. They may not suffer as much from the disease itself compared to those who are not vaccinated, but that can still pass it on.

Unfortunately, children still aren’t cleared for vaccination yet. And even if they were, anti-vax parents would prevent them from being vaccinated anyway.

So, there’s a huge population of people out there who are at grave risk of catching the virus and getting seriously ill, if not even dying. And among other things, that ties up a huge amount of medical system resources as we valiantly try to save as many of those lives as we can. And that has knock-on effects for other people who might need an ICU bed for some other reason.

If you just want to take all unvaccinated people and lock them up on an island without any medical care, so as to save the healthcare system for the rest of us who are vaccinated, that would be one solution to the problem. But I don’t think it would be a very publicly acceptable solution.

The other choice is to get EVERYONE vaccinated, whatever it takes. So they’re not as sick if they do catch the disease, and we can continue to race to try to come up with a proper full sterilizing vaccine.

But the healthcare system is being crushed by all the people who are not vaccinated and getting sick, and humanity is not well served by a healthcare system that has been completely destroyed by people who are not vaccinated. Humanity is responsible for protecting itself against those kinds of circumstances if it wants to continue to survive.

It’s not the direct effects. It’s the side effects and the knock-on effects.
Per the site, the fully assembled retail price for the Ploopy Classic would be $209.99-$227.49 CAD if it wasn't out of stock. Even the DIY kit runs $139.99-$157.49 CAD depending on options.

https://ploopy.co/shop/classic-trackball-full-kit/
I believe he's commented on reddit that he likes how it's a memorable, funny name.
I was just looking for smaller scale iron spreading projects, and apparently this was already done, with mostly positive effects, wikipedia seems to have good info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_fertilization

There is also fertilization from natural sources of iron and other minerals that we can observe - the sands of Sahara that fly to the Atlantic and the Amazon basin, some vulcanic eruptions had high iron content, etc.

I suppose slowly increasing the scale of iron fertilization experiments could be a good direction.
NASA delays ISS spacewalk due to astronaut’s medical issue
NASA Curiosity Rover Snaps New 360-Panorama of Mars’ Mountains
very cute, but the ball on the mnt looks a little undersized for comfortable manipulation, and it's not shipping until december. and i'm impatient so i went ahead and ordered a ploopy :D
i have a shortcut on the lower-right of my desktop called "real windoze sound settings" (linking, of course, to the actually useful windows sound settings) for exactly this purpose xD
https://www.techradar.com/news/people-are-buying-the-oculus-...
Interesting. Although he really should have gone with a serious, enterprisey name like "Google" or "Tiktok".
What Is Multiverse Theory?