skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FreeBSD is often used as the base for appliances, so some downstream users it may indeed be unnecessary code to maintain. (You perhaps get 'extra' CVEs against your product that may increase maintenance.)

For those with CLI access, adding a more full-featured shell is fairly easy with pkg.
This SRI document is based on research funded by a ARPA grant:

"This work was supported in part by the Advanced Research Projects Agency under Contract F19628-92-C-0071."

Which implies that it was in development long before the date on the PDF.

Earth mapping was a very hot field in the 1980s with most of it being funded by intelligence agencies and classified.
I disagree with Peter in a lot of ways but it is fascinating to hear an intellectual that completely goes against the grain. There is something valuable for everyone in what he has to say. We need more divergent people like Peter. The media has portrayed him as Satan unfortunately.

You’re doing a disservice to yourself for not listening to him. Highly recommend Spotify playlist of all of his interviews, just search “Peter Thiel”.
That's not quite true. Some math is objectively useful in ways that poems are not because the math corresponds to -- and hence allows you to accurately predict -- the behavior of physical systems.
It's sad that we still don't have an idea how to produce high g-forces in a simulator.

The feeling of going with a car through a turn at 2g is incomparable to the simulators we have. Never mind F1 cars that can corner and brake at up to 5g.
It seems like that’s one way to prevent lock-in to a single device, or a single browser on that device.
Test was closed all apps, launched Firefox, and waited for it to complete loading news.ycombinator.com. iPhone and pixel were on the same network.

Just showing the app filling the viewport isn’t fair because iOS and android handle splash screens differently. All of my side-by-side comparisons are waiting until the initial load completes.

I am running grapheneOS, so slightly different, and you might say that’s unfair. I’d expect a distro without the bloat to perform better, but it does have extra hardening to try to get closer to an iOS level of security. I do consider that a fair comparison, since that is the bare minimum you need to trust the device. Looking at the network traffic of an android device really gives one goosebumps, even in the best of circumstances.
It's already broken idea. What good is a global time system that can't even know what day they're talking about. Monday Q:45?

One location can say Q:45 that matches another's Q:45 but if they're talking about a Q:45 several days out I can see people missing connections by 24h.

I'll stick with UTC date+time.
More of an "exploit" than an "assist"
Wait, are you trying to say it's not wrong?

It was specifically paid for and used to cast widespread doubt on smoking leading to lung cancer. It tried to convince people that "the science isn't settled" when the evidence was overwhelming.

It's an incredibly disingenuous and cynical piece of work that posits truth does not really exist b/c all "experts" are just lying to you with an agenda. Therefore, you can't ever really know the truth, therefore keep smoking.
Other way around. It is designed to deflate over time like gold. Of course if you mean it’s price is designed to inflate you’re correct.
For a lot of businesses, yes - that's exactly what they're striving for.

I think what's confusing to me about this and your previous point, is you mentioned this inability to access objective reality outside our own subjective experience, but now appeal to a shared human experience (i.e., there's a general human accomplishment we should all be working towards that goes beyond our subjective experience). I can understand one or the other, but it seems there's some tension between those 2 views.
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Just learned that apparently BitTorrent 2 supports multihash in magnet URI , including the merkle tree thing, so yeah that does sound like, exactly what I’m looking for?

So, sounds like I ought to learn to use bit torrent.
See https://github.com/gitpod-io/openvscode-server which has that design philosophy.
You can use `explicit_bzero()` to bypass DCE (dead code elimination). Otherwise, simply initializing your memory before using is enough to trigger magic failures when you use-after-free. C programs barely function if they do not initialize memory. Context, I work on Varnish which the OP referenced for this.
I just want a search engine that gives me AND, OR, and NOT qualifiers or something similar. Parens, too, if possible. Ideally, an sql interface, but that's probably pushing it :)
Wrong. That's a software switch, not physical hardware.
Perhaps forget the idea that it should be hard scifi then? Seems all your criticism is that some label doesn't apply to it.
It's an interesting thought. Personally I don't mind explicit ordering, since it's just one more way to cross-check correctness. Also I can imagine leaning on the type inference to resolve which argument is which might not be the best for compile times.
Without knowing a lot more about the context and what precisely you did, it’s impossible to comment about your negative experience.

> What is the rationale for liking rational functions?

They are cheap to evaluate, (relatively) easy to prove things about symbolically, and will efficiently approximate any reasonably smooth function.
Given something in this article or some other part of his biography not included?
As well, employers maintain the status quo because an employee who is literally terrified of losing health care is less likely to even consider quitting.
A transpiler is typically converting from one high-level language to another. Assuming that the level referred to by the phrase "high-level language" is level of abstraction, then yes.
> much better than any Unix-style shell

TIL zsh is even better than zsh!
Flow Club (YC S21) is hiring across engineering, design, and ops
"has zero positive effect on the environment" and a lot of negative effects: pesticides, fertilizers in water, monoculture bad for the animals, etc.

Growing seasonal plants with sole purpose being biomass energy (burnt or whatever) should be banned. Using the leftover is something else, but the amounts are too small.
This is on /blogs and has an author under the title of the post.
I think there’s a camp of Bitcoin investors who are essentially USD skeptics, thinking that political brinksmanship will soon result in a catastrophic event that damages the US Treasury’s credibility, like say defaulting on our debt. In this sense Bitcoin is a safe haven from political instability, so he may be saying that a rise indicates more people are concerned by political instability.
Ah yes, because when facebook, netflix, amazon, google, airbnb started we all sat around with our perfect insight and said "These will generate a lot of revenue!"
Try it for yourself: https://rootnroll.com/d/fish-shell/
Good theory, mine was there is such little tolerance for them to be incorrect, so it's "what I said because I said it"
If the world is the most peaceful it's ever been, and people are the smartest they've ever been, what does that mean for land and housing prices in a fiat economy?
Thank you for that link. I guess I need to adjust my assumptions.

I guess my assumption was based on the fact that women are increasingly more active in the workforce in the past few decades: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/female-labor-force-partic... (roughly from 40% to 60%)
FTA:

"This simple gateway to the local machine quickly opens some interesting scenarios for using VS Code for the Web as a zero-installation local development tool, such as:

* Local file viewing and editing. Quickly take notes (and preview!) in Markdown. Even if you are on a restricted machine where you cannot install the full VS Code, you may still be able to use vscode.dev to view and edit local files.

* Build client-side HTML, JavaScript, and CSS applications in conjunction with the browser tools for debugging.

* Edit your code on lower powered machines like Chromebooks, where you can't (easily) install VS Code.

* Develop on your iPad. You can upload/download files (and even store them in the cloud using the Files app), as well as open repositories remotely with the built-in GitHub Repositories extension."

Also various interesting URLs are now possible:

"For example, change https://github.com/microsoft/vscode to 'https://vscode.dev/github.com/Microsoft/vscode'.

For Azure Repos, do the same. Change https://dev.azure.com/… to 'https://vscode.dev/dev.azure.com /…'."

"As you can see, vscode.dev URLs are a powerful way for us to deliver new, lightweight experiences. Another example is that Live Share guest sessions will also be available in the browser through the https://vscode.dev/liveshare URL. The sessionId will be passed to the extension to make joining a seamless experience."
There is a big fight over Avgas going on in San Jose over Reid Hillview airport.

Yes, while total use of leaded fuel now makes up a tiny percentage, it is still measurably significant to the people who live in the flight path of a municipal airport.

https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2021/08/18/reid-hillview-a...
Here's Walter's comment which the OP refers to at the beginning:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28658090
The problem is that people who become prostitutes are often people who have no other choice. So you'll get a bifurcated distribution: people who will only take the job at some incredibly high multiple (because prostitution is really awful compared to other choices) and people who will take the job at any price because the janitors aren't hiring and they need to eat. The point of the comparison is to capture this problem.
For folks who use nvm and find it slow, try out Volta[1]. It’s much faster, and IMO a lot nicer to use in general.

1: https://volta.sh/
>There are more dimensions than popular appeal.

In the context of a consumer product, not really. Everything is always a tradeoff to optimize for multiple factors. Mcdonalds may not be the highest quality, but they've sold billions of hamburgers for a reason. Their product is what the market wants, with enough acceptable tradeoffs to operate at a scale that fulfills demand.

tl;dr: The customer is always right.
You're absolutely right! I built this mainly to see if it could be done. I noticed uvicorn's main function uses an if-statement like you described, and I wondered what it would look like as a decorator.

My next goal is to see if I can make the resolution "static", i.e. Once all the functions are loaded, avoid the dictionary lookup at runtime, and just assign the appropriate function version as the bare module attribute.

It's fun to do things like this in python, simply because you can. But it's also important to point out that there's a lot of things you _shouldn't_ (this may be one of them!). I'm glad to see this sparked some discussion!
I used fish for around a year and a half and wound up switching back to zsh. fish's startup time is way too long for my tastes, and the devs seem completely uninterested in providing a "don't load plugins" flag. I open up new tmux panes/windows/etc all the time, so fish's slowness here is really noticeable. It also negatively affects using things like `tmux popup`, which spawns a shell. Things like this that take no noticeable time under zsh are sluggish under fish.
I think a lot of people miss the Cold War. There was this far away, monolythic, scary enemy, that can be reliably used to justify any amount of military expenses. And to a certain point it was, of course, since up until 1953 they were expecting a "world revolution".

The situation changed ever so slightly after 1985, culminating in dissolution of USSR. Good riddance!

And now the same forces - or new incarnation of the same forces - are working again to create that image of an absolute enemy - on both sides. It's just so easy.
There absolutely are good VCs. It’s probably about a bell curve, like anything else.

Most VCs you’ll meet are nice people and mediocre at what they do. They have money, which for many startups is enough of a reason to work with them.

There is a remarkable difference between partners at Sequoia, Greylock, Benchmark vs. a random fund.
For me the point is more around generally pushing things towards the cloud and away from snowflake local environments. One click app generation from templates, one click deploys of your app to ephemeral environments for testing and sharing... all without requiring any setup, and integrated into GitHub for collaboration. Want to onboard someone to working on your app, just send them a hyperlink to the repo.
Hey all, Thor from Readup here! I started reading on Readup in Dec. 2019, when it was still just a browser extension and tiny web app. Readup gradually opened a new world for me: the variety and quality of articles I found made me read much more, and more deeply.

Readup hit all the right chords. The read-before-you-comment and ranking algorithm was a great response to my frustration with incumbent social media, and Readup could feed my curiosity like no other venue. Over the course of 2020 I got to know Bill & Jeff better, and in June this year I took a serious leap quitting my job to join the team. I blogged about all that in more detail here https://blog.readup.com/2021/09/08/why-I-joined-readup.html. Glad to answer any questions!
This is pretty cool. You actually have a working page when posting here. But you might want to have a better post recommendation system. This post - https://allverts.com/posts/ZewMvi3Z14Z is much better in quality and newer than the posts on top of it.
He is just a regular do as I say hypocrite.
network effect means the more users and the more active the users are, then more value the users will perceive, and they will engage more. It is a strong positive back loop.

Do you provide values that do not depends on the network effect? Ethical is nice but it does not stand on its own. Also it requires a leap of faith.
Again: it's a matter of quantity, background or other source rates, costs of reduction, measurement capability, and alternative harms, etc.

All quality standards are specified on some acceptable deviation. The goal is to not exceed the standard.

Equipment, water supply, source materials, packaging, extant air containation (if in an area in which, say, leaded fuels remain in use), etc., might all contribute to trace contamination. If you have an interest in the reasoning / conditions, rulemaking hearings and evidence likely refer to this.

I'm not about to dive into this, but if you have a genuine interest, the US regulation is in 16 CFR 1303.1, created in 1977, amended in 2008. Hearings reports are likely available and will have scientific, industry, and public-interest statements.

https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-16/chapter-II/subchapter-...

https://www.cpsc.gov/Regulations-Laws--Standards
+1 for GitPod .. Stellar integration with GitLab as well for CI / automation

They claim Github integration as well (although I have not tried that yet).
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For those who think web-based IDEs are inefficient, I recommend giving VS Code in the browser a try: nowadays it's just as performant as it is on the desktop.

Even on the iPad it's just as performant (with 120Hz scrolling!), although as noted in the announcement, the file system limitations make it a bit of a pain to work with for ad hoc coding.
Proud to be a Bostonian!
I still love Perl. If I had the opportunity to work on an existing Perl project, I would relish the nostalgia.

I would never, ever use Perl for a greenfield project unless there was a library that was absolutely crucial to the development, for many reasons.

Perl 6 was so disastrous to the ecosystem that it effectively killed the language. If 20% of the effort that went into Perl 6 had gone into keeping the language fresh, I think Perl would still be part of the conversation today.
Keep in mind that (SPOILERS) the scientists were aware that their results were being manipulated. That's what the suicide note said, and that's also seen in the countdown that was clearly the result of an intelligent being.
> A campaign supporting "white men who happen to have strong kinks"

Transgender people aren't all men (whether you are referring to gender identity or, as seems more likely from the overall tenor of your comment, a bigoted misgendering by sex assigned at birth), and are disproportionately Black and Hispanic compared to the general population.

> shooting down actual bona-fide minorities.

The idea that trans people aren't a bona fide minority whereas comedians are is...odd.
Up-up-Ctrl+K to kill the line; down to go down one in the history; end to go to end of line; `; and` or ` &&` to join the commands; ctrl+Y to yank the line from the killring. [0]

Seems to work in bash too, fwiw.

[0] https://fishshell.com/docs/current/interactive.html#copy-and...
It's a nice rule of thumb, but it's not always practical. For instance, something like a vulkan compute pipeline has a ton of parameters just due to the complexity of the domain, and breaking it down into sub-objets to a greater extent than is already done would just add artificial hierarchy.
The article offers a solution of idea.system.path=${root.dir}/JetBrains/Rider/system but doesn't mention the C:\JetBrains directory permissions. Directory permissions under %LOCALAPPDATA% (the location that works for people without a Polish character) should restrict write access to one user. With the Windows default behavior, creating C:\JetBrains would inherit permissions from C:\ - and wouldn't restrict write access to one user. Maybe 99% of the time this is irrelevant (i.e., there's no realistic threat from malicious actors who control unprivileged user accounts on your own development machine).
Still, it's a potential downside of the solution, and more motivation for the vendor to fix their code so that Polish characters can be used under %LOCALAPPDATA%.
News alert: expert shyster (Thiel) gives talk to junior shysters (FedSoc) about shyst (BTC being the basis for a financial system, rather than one of many assets).

In other news, dog bites man, details on TikTok.

Nothing to see here, move along.
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Then, the government will tax you so they can pay someone to remove that carbon from the atmosphere.

"Yes the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders."
This article's understandably very critical of the man but is there much in the way of hard evidence he knew just how dangerous these inventions were and wilfully ignored the risks? Geninely asking, it just feels like the article is a bit of a hatchet job.

Nobody's disputing that his inventions were awful in the long run for humanity and the Earth but it seems a little harsh to criticise someone for lacking the gift of prophecy. As far as I'm aware we only figured out how harmful CFCs were for the environment in the 1970s for example.
I have a friend who works at FB, and he says he does standups and other meetings in VR.
um.... No thanks.
This is how we end up in a world where cutting edge porn platforms are run by European art museums.
"they are aware that no amount of education can help them if the planet is nearing inhabitability"

Do you really believe that? That Earth will be uninhabitable within the lifetime of a person alive today? Or their grandchildren? No climate scientists argue anything remotely close to that outcome.
Did you experience Aerophagia and any weight gain when you got on the CPAP? I hear a lot of people have this issue..
> Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at https://wfqgbuowhqftnhuyreqe.supabase.co/auth/v1/signup. (Reason: CORS request did not succeed).

Registration doesn't seem to work in Firefox :-/
The problem is Epic's mentality of "do it our way Or Else" which seems to be across the entire software package.

I once asked my former hospital IT team why we didn't get Epic ourselves and it was described to me as "You don't get to buy Epic, they reach out and 'offer' to sell it to you". You then buy what they tell you to buy, hire who they tell you to hire, train what and who they tell you to train. If you do any bit of it wrong it eats into your support costs because of a "quality of install" score that either raises or lowers your annual support fees.
IQ tests are still banned in California for certain kids.

https://www.kqed.org/news/11781032/a-landmark-lawsuit-aimed-...
Oh man, good food for thought.

I guess... "Compilation of Kotlin, then emittance of JS"?

Because I believe this uses the shared "FIR" IR that the JVM/Native backends use right?

This is why the whole argument/topic is so subjective/pedantic haha.
There's a ton about public land usage that has to be reformed. There's a law, dating back to the days of the Gold Rush, that's still on the books. If public lands are determined to have hard minerals (e.g. gold) someone can stake a claim and purchase the lands, and that overrides any previous usage of the lands, like leases for grazing or logging. The law also fixes the price per acre when purchasing public land through this method. And said rate hasn't been updated since the law was passed, so it's embarrassingly low, like $150 per acre IIRC.
Sadly, it's out of (misguided) convictions...
Also agree. For me, I want to be able to do simple "for each file run this command" loops in the shell. But if those loops get much more complicated than that then I switch over to Ruby.
Why?

I feel like you're just asserting disagreement without argument here. I think this is primarily a philosophical dispute on the nature of symbols, where both are just different foundations leading to the same concept. But if my take is backwards or wrong, then it should lead to some disconnect between it and what people mean by symbol in practise. So what is it?

> The whole point of symbols is that they retain their essential properties through a variety of changes in their physical appearance.

Whether they keep essential properties through multiple physical forms or whether many different unique symbols all point to the same (non physically realizable) "form". Doesn't seem materially different to me, just different foundations for the same idea.
It does seem inevitable that Tether implodes. Whoever is holding those coins at the time will lose once crypto players decide to stop playing with tethers. Whether they lose all or partially is unclear. The loss may the total value locked or recently purchased in tether. Perhaps it is the same as the market cap due to the fast turnover in the coin.

My conjecture is that Tether's collapse will result in temporary losses to crypto values overall. It will likely lead to regulation. But with regulation the legitimacy of DeFi in particular will be more solidified and raise the markets. This is my guess for the next 5 years or so.
Exactly - besides this technology will effectively be moot in the longrun :

If it works well enough, firms will put their CEOs speeches through models to ensure that their speeches rank well, and that will cause it to fail.
I think the biggest problem with FB right now is the way they force groups content into your feed. It's way, way overdone. Back when people joined those groups they were smaller and more focused and people were hoping to get occasional updates on some topic they're interested in.

Now it's at least half your feed if you don't trim the groups and your actual friends get lost in the noise. I'm sure FB has some data about engagement or some such, but they should remember why people use their service and refocus.
Accessible Palette: stop using HSL for color systems
They must be doodie head science denier trumpies, there is no other explanation why someone isn't terrified of the air.
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