skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> wrt Java

Not just Java. Python, Ruby, Node etc suffer from the same problem. And I am talking as an end-user here.

I once downloaded something based on one runtime which then proceeded to download another runtime which it needed to run one little script. There are programs out there that have node/npm as a dependency.[1] People are crazy.

> your 3 listed reasons make a very argument for "a normal compiled language"

One of my hobbies involves writing compilers and parsers.[2][3] I have tried a lot of "normal" languages and have stuck to Java (in spite of its excessive verbosity) for work reasons. Some languages I cannot tolerate for aesthetic reasons.

For now, there is no alternative to TypeScript.

> you wrote software 2 ways: shellscripts and Java. You replaced them with...any entirely new interpreted language(JS)

I used to run a mixed-environment (Windows + Linux) and a lot of glue code that drove other software had to be written twice (sh/bash + cmd/bat) before WSL came along. That problem has disappeared.

I also used to write a lot of tools (servers and cli apps) in Java. Some of those I have moved over TypeScript-on-Deno.

> I'm not denigrating JS/deno/node/whatever

I used to look down on JS a decade or so back. My experience with Rhino and now Deno changed that. There is a lot of stuff I do now which I simply would not do if I have to fire up an entire Java project to do.

[1] https://archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/nodejs/

[2] https://github.com/s-i-e-v-e/ut

[3] https://github.com/s-i-e-v-e/sxml
Anybody knows any resource to learn music theory using tools like this?
If you don't believe the numbers, ask anyone you know who has relatives in China.

Lockdowns, or mass hospitalizations/deaths from Covid are a bit difficult to hide from the people living through it, if either of those two things are happening, everyone would hear about it through the grapevine.
That's definitely not true. Source: my wife is French and from Paris, I lived in France etc. Paris is AMAZING to eat, in every single tier. And that doesn't mean you'll be eating French cuisine everywhere. Asian food is incredible in Paris, so is Moroccan for instance. It's a deep city though, if you do "shallow dining" you'll eat garbage, like in pretty much every single major western city.
Purely outsider anecdotes:

Despite also using a similar (or even less!) amount of spice and largely enjoying the same “beige” palette and textures as the rest of the continent, I found Northern Europe’s cities so delightfully open to the rest of the world’s cuisine in contrast to my experiences in the south, I don’t think the other comment is completely off the mark in how immense “local pride” kind of definitely factors into a very certain way of doing things to the exclusion of others, even locally between eg Barcelona & Valencia.

It probably isn’t a coincidence how curry, and donër kebab are devoured left and right by rich-ish and poor in England and Germany to the point of entering the national identity after rocky starts in the middle of the last century while France and Italy’s right wings are still to this day thriving on specifically culinary othering, to the point of coining things like “kebabization” and trying to ban kebab stands in the city centers of Florence and Marseille.

I would also maybe be careful conflating simply being very French or very Italian, and being a food snob in food circles these days. Interest in French, and recently the Italian cuisines have absolutely plummeted globally and its over the top vocal adherents are often linked to some rather unpopular social attitudes (in food circles, anyways).

eg Indian and Thai are booming, though! https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=french%2...
This is why I only browse, both on desktop and mobile, with a bunch of extensions to make the nonsense (mostly) stop.
I respect Michael Hudson but he is slightly wrong here. They can also buy U.S. stocks like the Swiss Central Bank does. [1]

[1] https://sec.report/Document/0001582202-21-000003/?__cf_chl_j...
It is a political wedge issue because it generates fear. Anything that causes people to be fearful is going to be exploited, and amplified, by political parties in whatever way they feel would benefit them.

It's a handle they can pull, so they pull it. It can be xenophobia, it can be "look at what they're doing in country X, what if they did that here?" It can be fear of loosing jobs, fear of wildfires, sea-level change, and it can be fear of getting sick.
> But would a sqlite port limit itself to safe rust?

I suppose they wouldn't have to, but why would they bother with unsafe? They proudly announce how few system APIs and syscalls they depend on, so they have no need for that (assuming they chose to not use any number of safe wrappers). Complicated self-referential data structures, perhaps, but that again is the kind of thing that could be exhaustively tested and tucked into a safe interface.

And yes, you're absolutely right about integers: Rust itself is not going to save you in release builds. But it does avoid a major source of overflows in C (implicit conversions and promotions), and has explicit, fallible APIs that are easy to enforce as a lint.
Neat, thank you for posting. Though the biggest problem for me is not technical, but finding a collaborator who uses Emacs...
Have Any Human Societies Ever Living Underground in History?
I have no idea how anyone browses the web without NoScript.
Startswithabang and other science educators, particularly Veritasium, do excellent jobs.

It's complicated and worth the time to understand what they present.
The author of the article doesn't understand science:

"Distancing, hybrid models, classroom barriers, HEPA filters, and, most notably, requiring student masking were each found to not have a statistically significant benefit. In other words, these measures could not be said to be effective."

No! If you cannot find a statistically significant benefit, perhaps your experiment design is flawed. Perhaps your sample size is too small. Perhaps you have too many confounders. But you cannot conclude the measures are not effective!

It gets better! Read the article. It says:

"COVID-19 incidence was 37% lower in schools that required teachers and staff members to use masks and 39% lower in schools that improved ventilation. Ventilation strategies associated with lower school incidence included dilution methods alone (35% lower incidence) or in combination with filtration methods (48% lower incidence)."

In other words, the study actually found many significant interventions in schools, among which masks. Unbelievably bad reporting from Intelligencer.
- Social Share buttons served by a third party script loaded with trackers. Bonus points if they include the usually pathetic number of likes and retweets.
Ahh, I bet you really think you're doing something to the system by being so cool.

No lol, you're flagged and omitted. Do you think everybody is as dumb as you?
It's a lot of technical stuff, but here's the ones that leap out to me specifically:

Rust is a really nice to use, low level language. It competes with C in terms of performance, but also with other modern languages in terms of features. It's almost as easy to integrate with rust as it is C, which also makes it attractive since you can re-use known good C libraries instead of having to find / port / bind them yourself. My specific use case is wanting an embeddable game engine I can use inside Flutter, and it's way easier to bind to a 'native' library like this than to use Flutter's platform system to integrate Unity (I know from first hand experience).

There's also the tinkering factor: Some people just aren't content with what's there, maybe this library started as a way to smooth over a frustration the original developer had, or just to learn about game engines, or to learn rust even, but then it proved to be useful and liked and has grown a community.
Did not even break the back button. What a joke joke.
Given how much they are used, the market disagrees with your preference
Here's how your typical Linux desktop app can be notified of an upcoming hibernation, and prepare accordingly: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/inhibit/

(I'm assuming hibernation is not a requirement outside of the desktop space.)
I'm confused.

> If we want to criticize the War on Terror from a perspective that does not betray sensible macroeconomics, we should not rely on calculations of cost, or suggestions of crowding out to do the work for us. America could easily afford the War on Terror.

How is "crowding out" still not a reasonable argument? Sure, he says you can print more money, but then you run against the constraints (like inflation) that he talks about earlier in the article. So there's a limit to how much can be printed, and does that not "crowd out" other potential spending targets?
It seems like eradication is a blunt instrument approach to the problem. We know that some people are much more likely to get bit. How can it be so hard to determine the differing factor?? To your point (and ignoring the extreme solution), why have we not put the requisite energy towards solving this problem?
I'm yet to be convinced that there are niche experts in any field that aren't on the spectrum. Or even people consistently engaging in systems thinking.

Yes, I'm half-joking. But it's funny how "special interests" are only seen as pathological if they can't be used to generate profit.
I didn't say it's 99 times as difficult
Check your moles Diagnosis of melanoma at home
<Start Key> Control Panel

"What are you crying for, Windows 10 piece of shit settings app that doesn't understand how to let me control individual sound devices the way I want?"
You forgot the broken AMP page that only loads ads! Needs another step to click the top left, then click the page url, then wait for another page load.
> and Dojo is one of the most exciting things in the field if you ask me

Why do you think this?
>But some anarchistic belief in self-policing is totally unrealistic.

I'm telling you that Canada has this. There are 12 professional engineering organizations in Canada, all are self-governing, all have legal backing to enforce sanctions against engineers that act unethically.

>truely authoritarian societies

Canada has its issues but I wouldn't call it authoritarian.
> The problem used to be that many software implementations (not just XMPP) would happily continue unencrypted if STARTTLS was not offered.

Thanks for the correction. I thought that was in fact a "feature" from a StartTLS perspective.

> easily block TLS handshake packets on a direct TLS connection

But then no downgrade attack is possible at all.

> (relatively new) ESNI

Is there any deployment of that in XMPP clients/servers yet?
I expect this to appear in Marvin soon.

https://www.comicskingdom.com/marvin
uBO and sponsorblock work for me. Have you updated your lists? On my phone I use NewPipe+SB. I use privacy redirect to go to nitter.
Yes, you could trust in the CPU's branch prediction and the optimizer getting smarter in the future, or you could do the thing that's not only more self-documenting (Vec == need to read the code to notice it never grows, array == obviously fixed size) but also guaranteed to work already.
The site is banned. This article was unkilled by user vouches.
The latest Bootcamp drivers fix this.
I think I already made myself quite clear. Tegnell was famous by saying that lockdowns are crude measure and covid will be a longterm problem therefore we need to learn to live with instead of trying to eliminate it (I think it is called zero covid now). He didn't demand lockdowns although Sweden had certain restrictions and measures to contain the spread. I would do almost the same.

You can find online how much the UK estimates QALY to be worth for treatment purposes. That would be the starting point I would use. I wouldn't try to overturn the field by wild changes thinking that many smart people before me had made very bad policy decisions.
>the standard tech bro who lifts weights.

I feel personally attacked
As others have pointed out they're able to totally control their border and quarantine every single arrival.

But more importantly, how will it end for them? Australia and New Zealand are among the worst corona zealot nations. New Zealand just shut down everything over a single case and the PM told people to not even talk to each other anymore. How will they get out of this? If they looked at the facts they'd understand they will have to open up eventually, might as well do it now. Instead they're now trapped in eternal 'zero covid'.
Web 2.0 included cool stuff like Flash. The real culprit here is Google AdSense. A few sites made a ton of money, and then it became the entire business model for "new media" companies that in turn loaded up search results with SEO-optimized listicle garbage.
It's ease of use with streamlabs (a must/default on streaming platforms), makes it the first thing people are reaching for when streaming.

I think the only concern is taking attention away from an opensourse solution when they could get more funding/attention to keep it current. Though I doubt it will ever go away, since once you deal with a crash or something weird with SLOBS you immediately go back to OBS.

Its OBS on training wheels, shiny pay for more shiny training wheels.
The distinction only matters if it has practical effect.

Having no data causes you to be uninteresting and they leave you alone. Having data that says your phone wasn't there causes you to be uninteresting and they leave you alone. It's the same result.

It's only when your phone is informing on you that you get into trouble, because then when you're unlucky to have been in the vicinity of a crime, you then become interesting and have a bad time even when you're completely innocent.
Didn't know this! Assume it's this study: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02195-1

Was posted on HN 4 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28239113

(in case other people want to check it out)
The UK already went ahead and reponed prematurely with a huge influx of new cases following
To me, "speed and agility" are code words for a culture that tolerates long work weeks and hours:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/996_working_hour_system

With a society that had been dealing with famine, poverty, and labor opportunities consisting of subsistence farming in living memory, working 72 hours a week to receive a steady paycheck and a full belly seems like a pretty decent trade.

When you look at the history of the Industrial Revolution and the Western labor movement, I have to have doubts that this "speed and agility" will last. People who are prosperous start to have higher standards, especially as new generations enter the labor market. There is already significant pushback against the 996 system.

It's not hard to out-produce when the average person is working almost double the Western standard.

I thought the documentary "American Factory" was an interesting window into the lives of Chinese and American factory workers. My own analysis/opinion: the factory workers in China were indeed shown to be working quickly, obediently, and working long hours. The Americans looked lazy at times.

I thought the reasoning for this difference was that American workers used to union protections already had generations of knowledge about why they should not become wage slaves risking their health and safety for their capitalist employers, despite having few other options in a town where most of the factory jobs left.

I personally wonder when the typical Chinese worker will wake up to that same reality: that speed, agility, and fast innovation aren't really worth selling your weekends and joints and tendons away just so that the boss can buy a third vacation home.
Elon described this robot as taking directions like "go to the store and get me this list of groceries", implying that it would be able to, like, read the list, choose a store, drive a car there, use a cart, locate the groceries, go through checkout, etc. It's going to need to do a lot of thinking for itself to complete tasks like that. And more generally he described replacing human labor to the point that a universal basic income becomes necessary. AGI is definitely the ambition here.
Technically unrelated yes, but the one post seems clearly a follow-up to the other. Normally we downweight those, since avoiding repetition is a principle here:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

In this case that didn't seem indicated though.
Ah, yes. FPS #0

People tend to seem to start from #1
I haven't found anything other than anecdotal accounts but I would love to see a study/more detailed article about Mother Dirt products[0] - I found them super interesting because of the different approach.

[0]: https://motherdirt.com/
Also because known physics are really inconvenient!
good. I only do it for required surveys. I dont do other surveys
It looks like the ability to read the CR3 format may be available in freshly-compiled distributions of darktable soon, at least for some cameras. It relies on the exiv2 image library, which added support[1] for CR3 in v0.27.4.

That said, there are some notes in the darktable issue[2] that suggest that the darktable rawspeed library also requires some updates[3].

[1] - https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/releases/tag/v0.27.4

[2] - https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/issues/2170

[3] - https://github.com/darktable-org/rawspeed/pull/271
Absolutely, but that's one of the nice things about Rust, it benchmarks almost exactly the same as C. The benefits rust offers are almost entirely in their lexer / analyzer, that's the whole point. Dart does a similar thing with its sound null safety, being able to guarantee what can and can't be null / invalid pointer removes the need for the language to test those cases, your CPU doesn't give a shit if you read uninitialized memory and get into a bad state, but your language does, so being able to divert all that checking to compile time is a nice boost in runtime perf.
> The idea that science is somehow apolitical is dangerous. It's no more true than the idea that journalism is apolitical.

The alternative is propaganda, which we already see enough of with journalism, and has happened in science when the government dictates the science. Science and the news should be held to an objective standard independent of any political considerations, even though humans are fallible and have biases, including political views.

> In many ways the position that science is apolitical is itself political.

This is like saying that atheism is religious. If you say everything is X, and I tell you that Ys are not Xs, then your rebuttal that my statement is X is abusing language and conflating X with Y. I could turn around, "everything is political", to be, "everything is scientific", and then claim that your statements to the contrary are scientific. But that would be collapsing meaningful distinctions, and potentially violating the law of identity, since it doesn't make sense for all political things to be scientific.
> I've been barely outside at all over the past 18 months because the risk of infection has been too high.

I'm truly sorry you've had to go through that. My mom has a compromised immune system so she went through much of the same until she was able to get vaccinated. I still worry about what would happen to her with a breakthrough infection.

> I would rather have a short, strict lockdown (followed by a period of being open with extremely low infection risk)

If that was a choice, I'd gladly take it. But Hong Kong, Australia, Vietnam, etc. have shown that even the best lockdown implementations fail eventually. New Zealand may be the single outlier, but I'm not sure what their end game is as it requires completely sealing their country from the rest of the world, which is also unsustainable.
Youre better off drawing a piano keyboard or playing with one to learn music theory IMO.
Light-up diapers sound like a rave fashion trend from hell. Maybe I should patent that just to prevent it from taking off until I'm too old to attend raves...
No. No, no, none of that is correct. Stop saying things that are untrue simply because they feel like they should confirm your priors. Delta outbreaks in many places have peaked and subsided well short of saturation. Look at India, where it was first detected. They peaked in May and are now at about 9% of peak infection rate.

In fact objectively India's net response to Delta, both in width of infection wave and peak outbreak rate, has been better that the US's, despite near zero net vaccination.

And why is the US so bad at this? Largely because of PEOPLE LIKE YOU who insist on crazy pseudoscience theories like "Masks don't work" or "treat it with dewormer" or (sigh) "Pandemic controls are already doomed to failure" instead of just doing the right thing. Stop it. Stop trying to be smarter than everyone. Just get in line and do the right thing.
BC to require proof of Covid vaccination
It has a fixed floating header though.
If I didn't think my job improved people's lives, even a little, and did no harm, I couldn't stay in the job.
For the same reasons, I think that lucky rabbit’s feet should be mandatory. Also, horoscopes should be consulted prior to attending schools. If you can think of anything else that didn’t work for this or any other illnesses in history, then I think that you should demand schools make them mandatory, just in case.
Wikipedia is garbage.
we've accidentally killed so many species, can't we just do this one single one on purpose
Ok - ummm... how do you rotate the shape? :)
Not the person you're asking, but

- Long iteration time kills productivity, a lot of AI work has long iteration time because hardware is slow.

- It's possible that bigger models on faster hardware are actually all we need to solve some problems. For example see GPT-3.
I think the point is to enlarge the community. More local bike shops and services will lead to more riders, firstly because they’ll notice it as an option whereas many wouldn’t have before and secondly because the more there are the closer they’ll be to anyone’s home or workplace, thus more convenient.
> Import them from where?

A url. The files are cached. You can always explicitly vendor dependencies and use relative imports (or import maps) if you don't want to rely on random urls.

> Also, if I have more than 10 packages, it makes sense to bundle them

And Deno has a built-in bundler.
The commenter was making the assertion that Starbase is not exceptionally unique or an advanced outlier in its impressiveness.
I think he means the ad thumbnails, not the in-video ads themselves. Ublock hasn't been able to hide them for a while now.
83% first vaccine dose uptake among age 12+, with second doses closing in, yet introducing this mandate with no hospitals currently overwhelmed, while many businesses still have mask mandates. What is the end game here.
>> They never expected the US to leave them. For many, it was a cushy paycheck that put them on easy street - it was never about defending their country, or having a sense of patriotism or duty.

To be fair, it's hard to imagine any person with a sense of patriotism or duty accepting to be trained by the invaders of their country to become a kind of native garrison for them.

Although I don't pretend to understand how Afghans saw the war, the US, their allies, or the Taliban, or anything else. It can't have been simple.
Do you see opportunities in a "missing middle", where maybe a direct airship route may be more efficient than criss-crossing a rail cargo network? I've been interested in this space for a long time!
For someone so value sensitive, what is keeping you in SFO inspite of the insanely high rents? That's money down the drain unless you can justify it.