skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that the choice of implementation language was unfortunate.

Which is a statement that is equally valid for VS Code and Emacs, so you get to interpret that any way you like.
But it's still one extra language to learn, for in practice no benefit.
Looking at the official website trying to understand what's the value of this mobile phone over any cheap feature phone from Nokia: https://mudita.com/products/pure/.

The device has an e-ink display and claims to have a very good speaker. The operating system has a meditation app and an "inspirational quotes" app.

I'm still curious about which kind of person would purchase a device like this instead of a feature phone, given that they are way cheaper.
Yeah, it is. To put it bluntly, it's a lot of internet boomers venting about how everything is terrible.
The vilest? Not even. That was a mild 4chan thread.
You seem offended at the thought that someone else doesn’t value the tooling you use. Why is that? There is room for different approaches.

FWIW, in my experience I haven’t seen JIRA add anything besides overhead, regardless of how tidy a PM makes it.
Fuck the police

edit: reading this made me sick
"Market rate" can and will be low because it's not in the interest of any one company to increase the wages - even if that means the wages are exploitative. Same goes for child labor, off-shoring jobs, environmental damage, ...etc. It's this external factor - pandemic driven layoffs and benefits - that's driving the change.
Sure - but who wants a human reviewing their private photos? I don’t.

Unless you understand the technical bits you have know way of knowing how rarely this is likely to happen in practice.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixin#History
DeepfakeHTTP – Your 100% static dynamic back end
I'd love to learn about parsers but I need an ELI5 version.

I've written a parser for CSV which I think works very well but I'm self taught and have no idea if it's any good.

Any 'parsers for dummies' guides?
I remember that it was a video like this that made it click for me in high school: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M198uHJd_8
Not in this context. In POSIX exit codes, 0 means “no error”, i.e. success. && and || in the shell even work like that.
Well, I was responding to the comment about fat people in general, not obese Covid patients.
I don’t think the obesity factor should be taken into account at all.

Re your response: ICUs are overwhelmed because of Covid patients, not because of fat people with non-Covid conditions.
The technical reason is that a very powerful system call is blocked on iOS that’s required to build a custom language runtime needed for a browser. This is done to increase security of the device. The trade-off is that the JavaScript engine and renderer must be shared by all browsers on iOS.

But if you can’t tell the difference, does it really matter?
I have a PhD in compiling Ruby and I struggle to read and modify that file.
This is why I think downvotes aren't necessary for HN comments.

I can't, for the life of me, figure out why this was downvoted.

It's accurate, and the lists are funny to me, and I didn't know about them before.

When people's feelings get in the way of facts it makes the world a shittier place.

Thanks for the info bud.
The ant eclipse plugin does some lifting for you. Sometimes, it can be better this way than having 2 buildthings not in sync... But yeah ant all the way if everyone's happy with it...
Compilers have parsers, not languages.
Many languages have more than one compiler (e.g., C), and the various compilers may use different techniques for parsing.
So how does it really work? What does the arrow actually mean?

Is the point that the information on the DNA gets copied onto RNA while the DNA remains intact?
You have to make minimalist things configurable sometimes so they each persons minimal set can work for them without adding bloat to somebody elses.

I’ve been rewriting some logic for a writing prep app right now based on this idea. It’s delaying the launch by about a week but it’s really important. There is no such thing as the average person

(Obviously, great defaults are critical too)
This line of thinking goes against not only everything that the original inventors of programming languages ever taught, but it goes against almost 20 years of my own professional experience... And I've written and worked on many highly maintainable projects which had loose coupling (including in some very complex business domains).

In fact, they're the only 2 rules that have consistently delivered value across all the languages that I've tried and for all different kinds of system that I've built. Closest thing possible to a silver bullet.

I find this kind of mindset that x is not possible to be defeatist.

Instead of acknowledging that programming is difficult and can take many decades to master, people prefer to pretend that programming is easy but unavoidably messy. People always try to come up with narratives which make it easier to accept mediocrity rather than work hard to keep improving themselves.
A copyright notice is relevant to willful infringement, which may result in higher damages. Willful infringement requires that the infringer actually knew or should have known (or deliberately avoided finding out) that the copied material was copyrighted.
Yeah I think this is better suited as an Android fork.
That's right! But HN has a title length limit. See the (actual) blog post title and the blog post contents. :)
Nobody was mistaken about this fact.
The Pyret site has a section "Why not just use Java, Python, Racket, OCaml, or Haskell?" https://www.pyret.org/pyret-code/ that does not mention Haskell after the title. I wonder why Haskell is not being used in the course.
According to their promo video, it can "act as a data modem" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58bJLakzVPo (but yeah, no wifi I guess)
Pretty worthless without WhatsApp, which in many countries is the only way to actually make calls and send texts. They state in their FAQ that they have no intention to support it.
The reason they have such a special lines is because unions represent tens of thousands of voters, and politicians care about getting their votes. They are a very strong force in deciding elections.
Show HN: Hire hands-on marketers for your project
Poor, or incompatible with your personal political beliefs? The person I was responding to is a science denier who made a claim he couldn’t back up which is incompatible with most of human experience. It’s unclear why you are so committed to their defense?
I love pull requests. We do PRs for two line charges. They are part of the QA process and release process. We code review everything, especially those two liners. Code review is non-adverserial. If you can't check your ego, you're not going to work out, sorry.
In the context of my comment, incentive means incentive of the university. I do agree most of what you said.
When it ends up consuming days or weeks on end then yes, something is wrong.
Is it possible that you are at healthy weight for you? Because given lifestyle you described, it is quite possible.
Inverting the question might be more useful:

- What are the characteristics of interesting discussion?

- What are the requirements necessary to meet those characteristics?

The DL;DR: is that conversation is hard, and it scales poorly. Twitter meets the fundamental requirements poorly. As to most technological platforms.

The underlying question and problem is the one that philosophers have tried to address for millennia, in particular the distinction between the philosophers and the sophists (dialectics and rhetoric). Twitter is principally a rhetorical channel.

I think it's Juergen Habermas who has done some work on participative democracy / group truth-seeking, though I've been at a loss for the specific reference or terminology, or even if he's the key figure in the movement. That said, there are domains, particularly truth-and-reconciliation movements, which also apply similar principles.

If you're looking for informed expertise, some level of reputation, garbage collection, and gatekeeping is required. Soft methods work better than hard ones (see HN's own moderation policies and practices for an excellent example). Ungated forums tend toward noise.

The flipside is that gated forums tend toward groupthink and self-selection mechnisms, typically favouring conformity over correctness or truth value.

And there are other goals of various communities. There's story-telling, community-building, support and encouragement, entertainment, teaching, demonstrating capabilities (and its flipside: "virtue signalling" or "alliegience signalling").

My best results have been with smaller groups of reasonably-well selected people. Anything much over 50 people seems to fall apart fairly quickly. HN itself isn't perfect, but among larger forums is among the best I'm aware of, and has been for over a decade, whcih is a remarkable record.

Communications turns out to be complicated. Especially between people.
Yeah, I've never understood people's aversion to running Postgres or MySQL locally. They're super easy to install, and they'll run in the background using minimal resources ready for you when you need them.
I don't have a direct answer to your question, but that's very close to the representation of black Americans in the total population. That number is cited colloquially as 15%.
(Richie's co-founder here)

> The catch with this "wonder drug" semaglutide is: It has to be taken _life-long_, not just during a diet!

This is why the coaching part of the program is so important.

Whether it's taken for a while or just for the first year will depend on the person, whether they are also diabetic and how much weight they have to lose. It's a personalized decision based on a conversation with their obesity doctor.

After around 12-months on these medications the weight loss plateaus (at an average of 15% body weight). If one stops the medication then but hasn't made any changes to their lifestyle they'll likely put the weight back on. But during the 12 months of the program we will be tackling the other factors with the coach: sleep, stress, nutrition. And so after the first year it might well make sense to reduce the medication or stop completely.

It's also likely we'll continue to see new medications and improvements with our understanding of obesity that makes being on this particular medication for 40+ years very unlikely.

> Long term side effects are not known yet. In animal studies, semaglutide caused thyroid tumors or thyroid cancer. It is not known whether these effects would occur in people using regular doses.

Semaglutide was FDA approved for diabetes in 2018 (3 years ago) and in June this year for weight management. It's part of a class of medication called GLP-1 RAs which operate in a similar way (they all stimulate the same GLP-1 receptor). Liraglutide is another common one that was approved by the FDA in 2010 (11 years ago) for diabetes (by the EU in 2009) and for weight management in 2014. So there is a 3 year of history with this particular medication and an 11 year history for this class of medication.

Here's more about the history of GLP-1s and other weight loss if you'd like: https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/02/15/gl...

It's worth noting that, as with any medication, there is a cost-benefit trade-off. In this case it will depend on someone's current weight, what they've tried in the past, and the risks of other conditions e.g. heart disease, diabetes, and their past medical history. Each person that joins Fella has an in-depth discussion about this with an independent obesity physician and is welcome to speak it through with their own PCP too.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2032183
Haha, yeah, while looking for similar offerings I stumbled upon Directus, and was a little confused.
I got myself a minimal second phone yesterday. 10 dollars for 4 months with ~160 minutes.

This second phone will always be on loud if anyone actually needs to get a hold of me.

Otherwise my phone (as I like to say, "butt computer") will always be on silent. I check it roughly 3 times a day for responses. All other times I pick up my phone it must be with intention. I record myself whenever I pick up the phone without intention or out of curiosity of notifications of new messages.

We must create arbitrary rules for ourselves to protect us from society. Then you must keep track of when you break your rules. It doesn't really matter how good or what your rules are. You just need to make them and then create ways to make sure you follow them. After a while you won't need to keep track anymore.
I need a connected phone that isn't built for addiction.

For example, I need Uber for the rare cases where I'm in a jam at 3 AM and need to get back home. I need maps for when I'm looking for directions. I need a web browser to access my bank and the occasional Google search.

I can live with or without Whatsapp or Signal, that depends on how much you use it I guess.

However, I don't need Facebook, Twitter or TikTok or any social app.

I feel these "minimalist" phones fail to be useful.
Listening to pretend play chatter (as a parent), I find that topics in the play world often reflect recent real world events. I always figured that children must be reprocessing and reinterpreting their experiences for learning and understanding.
If you're in the US, $5 from Tracfone, though it's locked to them. $15/month for unlimited talk/text.

https://shop.tracfone.com/shop/en/tracfonestore/phones/alcat...
Shell commands use an exit status of 0 to indicate success, and any other number indicates failure
You can actually configure chrome to be able to edit your local files and save changes directly. Although admittedly it was a bit unreliable when I tried it.
Probably Brzozowski’s derivative of regular expressions, e.g https://matt.might.net/papers/might2011derivatives.pdf
Without vaccination mandates you run the risk of an epidemic amongst nurses which can knock out 40% of your ICU beds at once. That's why nurses have to be vaccinated against dozens of illnesses.
H.P. Lovecraft Writes Olive Gardens Dinner Menu
> read ebooks [...] Kindle Fire HD10

Kindle Paperwhite is a much better book reading experience, IMHO.

(For comics, a large non-eInk tablet is probably better. The experience of panning around on small slowly-updating screen was not good for me, and you probably want colors too for comics.)
There have been many variations of assisted steering between mechanical assistance and steer by white, though.
> Is the point that the information on the DNA gets copied onto RNA while the DNA remains intact?

Close, but I think it's more that the information gets used to assemble the RNA, and the resulting RNA also encodes information. Saying "copied onto RNA" can imply that the RNA previously existed in some kind of blank slate form.

So the arrow denotes a transfer/flow of information, but does not denote a chemistry 101 style reaction that changes a physical piece of DNA into a piece of RNA and then into a protein.
Can you find any source which suggests that vaccine mandates are the reason for the shortage of nurses in Oregon? The first 5 results on Google for “Oregon Nurse shortage”, which are mostly from April-May, list workplace stresses and at-risk family members as reasons for the exodus.

Some articles are as old as December, which is before the vaccine was even available, let alone mandated
I legit saw this title and thought “oh is this built on Amazon Braket?”, so I’d disagree that no one could be confused. Quantum Computing may be a while away, but a lot of companies are claiming to have launched “Quantum-ish” things, so when I see things like this I do in fact assume that they’re implying some relation to quantum computing or something else quantum.
What exactly do you think the overlap is between people interested in a Rust game engine and people who watch american football?
Personally I'm wary of any surveillance of my life, period. Governments are a worry, but so are private entities, at least because they'll hand over their data to governments with minimal resistance, but also because their goal is to use information about me to influence my behavior and worldview, a very insidious proposition.
I took a compilers class at an ex-Polytechnic in the UK that taught recursive descent - I now wonder how old the textbook they were using was!
FB suppressing the accounts of the NYU researchers was a deeply problematic.

FB choosing not to release a report that they, themselves generated, was FB acting as any corporation does.

If every company was assigned an internal watchdog whose reports they couldn't suppress, I'd be fine with that. But that's not happening and companies have the freedom to publish or not publish whatever information they choose.
It's pretty simple yeah, you start withdrawing funds and federal services from people that don't get vaccinated. If there's one thing you can get from US history it's that money rules, and this approach does work historically.

Now I don't know that they should be implemented, and there would be some unrest, but it would end up working.
You say that like a networked RDBMS isn't meant to be a replacement for fopen() at the end of the day.

Yeah it does a lot more than fopen(). So does SQLite. It's still, bottom line, just secondary storage with a fancy API.
I have seen the cost per day of being in Afghanistan as $300 million, each day, for 20 years.

While that greatly increased stock price for defense contractors, there seems in retrospect to be little other value for that money.

More of that tax money should have been devoted to cybersecurity, stem education, and even physical infrastructure that would safeguard water and food supply.

I am not naïve, I understand that both political parties are controlled by corporate/Wall Street interests. Still, you would hope that our elected officials could perhaps accept fewer kickbacks and function more in the interests of the American tax payer and not serve those financial interests who pay to get them elected and control them.

Really a sad situation. President Eisenhower was a good guy, and he nailed it when he warned the American public about the military industrial complex.

/rant
Learn what lexing is. That's step one. Once you have a token stream, look into how you'd transform them into structures.

PUB FN ID(main) OPAREN CPAREN COLON ID(i32) OBRACE NL RETURN NUMBER(0) CBRACE

Look familiar? How might you parse that into something like

{
kind: "function",
name: "main",
args: [],
public: true,
return_type: {
kind: "integer_type",
width: 32
},
body: [
{
kind: "return",
expression: {
kind: "number_literal",
value: 0
}
}
]
}

A recursive descent parser is just a parser that starts at a root node type and recursively traverses a token stream and calls handler functions based on what's next. Those functions might also call other handlers (e.g. for nested expression parsing, etc.) which is why it's called recursive.
Also it's kind of an interesting project that can probably be worked on at fairly low cost given it uses the car hardware. I get the impression it's more a case of let's see if we can hack this stuff into a bot rather than a commercial plan.
I simply dont have facebook, twitter or tiktok installed on my phone.
Perhaps this would be better as an Android ROM than its own phone?
So, for example, all federal funds should be withheld from Florida until they introduce and enforce statewide vaccination? And we are going to do that with booster shots as well?

This sounds like tyranny to me.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1429173367643516936.html
I hope you are not making the same mistakes as your teacher at Stanford did (and leave students clueless).
I agree completely about Graph DB's. I used a third party Graph database that was schema heavy on Nodes and edges and it was amazing for mapping business processes as the customers can actually understand the data model and we did not need any DBA's. I wrote several custom enterprise systems based on this graph backend that were very successful in their deployment and upkeep.

The company that has this DB never sold it on its own and its only available with their $$$$ CAD / CAM / 3D / PDM / PLM software packages used by the big guys (E.g. Boeing, Honeywell ...)
Story of Mint
Anton Commissaris was one of the founding team at Mint - now part of Intuit. His recent book: Mint - The Arc of the valley (https://www.amazon.com/ARC-VALLEY-Silicon-Soaring-Success/dp...) is an insider’s view of the entire journey from start up through acquisition. As an engineer have you ever wondered what BizDev does? Or have you wondered what it is like building a company that everyone thinks could be a unicorn for plans to change for the most unexpected of reasons? Or what the inside of an acquisition process looks like? While the Arc of the Valley gives great insight to all these questions - its far more than that it is a great read about a pioneering startup and everything that happened there.
I only bring my apple watch when i go out and leave my phone. I want to look around, collect my thoughts, let my mind wander.
The Apple Watch is the right form factor for this. You can do almost anything but certain things are so annoying you wouldn’t bother. Voice control is the best way to use it which makes it great for getting directions, making a call or etc. but you wouldn’t consider scrolling reddit on it.
> However, I don't need Facebook, Twitter or TikTok or any social app.

So... don't install those apps?

I guess that's easier said than done. I keep an `/etc/hosts` list of distracting websites (includes HN) and route them all back to my hobby trello task board. Message to myself being, "hey, distractions from work are fine, but wouldn't you rather be working on one of these things than screwing around in a comments section?" And I have a shell script that will wipe a given line of the /etc/hosts for 30 minutes in case I decide "nope, I really do want to screw around in the comments section this time."

Maybe someone should build an app that does something similar -- redirects you when you try to either visit or install fb/twitter/tiktok... not sure if possible without jailbreaking or using an alt app store, though.
It’s UX is unbearable! Individual functionality is pretty good - teams channels, chat, video, but the UX bringing these things together is total garbage!
You have better self-control than me.
A 0.2% infection fatality rate when treatment is available is pretty obviously not the only consequence of covid.

We'll hopefully get just about there once enough people are vaccinated, but it doesn't take a genius to realize that the lockdown measures were/are intended to prevent an overload of the healthcare system that both sends the covid IFR skyrocketing and also increases deaths and other health complications from other conditions that can no longer receive timely treatment.

This has been played out enough places that it should be obvious. Those who want to just let that scenario play out (with eyes open or otherwise) are clearly in the minority.
Remote desktop on NetBSD with Xnest (no VNC)
This never happened once in any of the teams I worked on in my 5 years at FAANG (Amazon specificially).
I find it amazing that you think you can decide for someone about a health issue citing that face to face is just a “reality” to people who have been doing their jobs for 18 months effectively from home. Managers think they own people. They don’t and good luck to anyone on “your” team, as if it ever was. What exactly is the work-related task you can’t do except face to face? The insecurity is really coming out here with middle managers. You don’t pay the salary. You are an employee too. Middle management is a dying breed. Problem is the future is here 20 years early. Good luck with retention.
You could call your phone provider and ask them if they offer a signal booster or something like that. I’m in Eastern Europe and if you nag Orange enough about the signal issues at your house they will actually send you a little device you plug into your router and power that provides 4G to nearby phones.
I think it is aimed at undergraduates learning for the first time.