skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder why people find the book Dune difficult?

It's very short and the prose is straightforward. Most "alien" words are real-world words with alternative spellings. There is a glossary, and in any case Lord of the Rings language (English and made up) is way more difficult. The plot of A Game of Thrones is likewise harder to follow than Dune's, with more factions, more intrigue, and mysteries that are still unfolding many books within the series.

There is political intrigue in Dune ("plots within plots within plots") but it's often explained out loud or with inner monologue by the main characters. The Baron Harkonnen explains very early his plot; a deeper conspiracy is soon explained by other characters. The religion and manipulation of the Bene Gesserit is explained very clearly by Jessica. There are almost no "long" mysteries that are not explained close to their introduction.

The book also wears its real-world influences on its sleeves.

So the plot is not particularly convoluted, the prose is straightforward and the made up words have real equivalents (mostly).

So why do people find it difficult?
> It's just filled with random words with no explanations (yet?)

Do you mean Kwisatz Haderach and gom jabbar?

I mean the very first page has:

Paul lay awake wondering: What’s a gom jabbar?

And on the next page:

He mouthed her strange words: Gom jabbar … Kwisatz Haderach.

So, it's not like the book expects you to know what they mean. The protagonist himself doesn't know what they mean!

I totally appreciate differences in taste but giving up after two pages when the prose itself acknowledges that these are storage words seems a bit odd.
so what would qualify one to do this kind of work? a graduate class in parallel programming?
The menu of istat specifically. I'd say the developer needs to address that https://bjango.com/mac/istatmenus/versionhistory/ I use istat and there's always issues with every new release of MacOS. https://bjango.com/help/istatmenus6/knownissues/
I remember consulting for a tech company around '07 that needed to send remote (extremely high compute) tasks to a heavy iron server they dedicated to such work. They were using SOAP and having a very difficult time getting all the pieces and parts to work. At the time, Drupal 6 (a PHP web framework that used to be popular) had just released a "Services" module/plugin that enabled one to add a REST Service to any Drupal site.

Working with them to initially understand what the SOAP tooling required, and then comparing that to what that REST Services Module required was a no brainer. They had a team of 11 people working on the SOAP infrastructure, and they were all super happy to ditch it and get back to their real work. Re-writing as a RESTful API using Drupal Services merely as a bureaucrat to communicate with their heavy iron server only required myself and one other programmer I brought with me. About 3 weeks later we completely replaced their SOAP infrastructure. For years afterwards, I'd check in on them and it just worked.
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You're just talking anti vaxx drivel. In reality the risk benefit analysis[1] is clear: the benefits massively outweigh the risks.

No vaccine ever stops 100% of infections; stop making unnecessary preconditions.

[1] https://wintoncentre.maths.cam.ac.uk/news/communicating-pote...
I teach a mobile dev class at a University and I'm always excited about new edtech. But I don't see how this is different from other LMSs. Not saying it isn't, just that your value prop isn't clear to me.

Personally I don't believe in peer reviews for my class. I tried it but the problem is that the students don't know what they're doing yet - so when I reviewed their peer review comments, they often were extremely short and poorly written, or even plain wrong advice. Students themselves said they didn't benefit from the peer reviews, both giving and receiving.

But even if I did believe in peer learning (I'm not claiming it can never work) - how exactly would your LMS help with that?
I wonder what capital letters looks like, and all the symbols. Should have at least the upper/lower characters, numbers and symbols listed at the top. Then some CSS code is OK but there should be perhaps some small samples of HTML, JavaScript, Python, Java/C#, and/or C/C++ in there.

More fonts besides Google Fonts would be nice.
Yeah, war is terrible but it ain't contagious.
As far as I understand, it connect to some NHS server and after authentication it fetches a certificate that has been signed by the server.
If you read foreign literature, every single novel is like that anyway. Except that there is no convenient glossary at the back explaining the unfamiliar words.
You may prefer it, but you are not. If by remaining anonymous you mean keeping the belief that you aren't tracked, that you may, ignorance and passivity received a great promotion recently.
I've understood it the same way. We have fraternities and sororities. A gender-neutral term would be a social club.

However, I've just looked it up in Merriam Webster, and it looks like this term can include female members, too, even thought the word and the related adjective have strong masculine associations. Wikipedia basically says the same, "Although membership in fraternities was and mostly still is limited to men, ever since the development of orders of Catholic sisters and nuns in the Middle Ages and henceforth, this is not always the case. There are mixed male and female orders, as well as wholly female religious orders and societies, some of which are known as sororities in North America."
This looks very nice! is it possible to download the dataset?

(PS: comparable initiative of citation datasets that are downloadable: S2ORC https://github.com/allenai/s2orc and Internet Archive Refcat https://blog.archive.org/2021/10/19/internet-archive-release...)
Came to write the same thing.

There's a PR effort to manufacture a PR crisis... But by and large, it has seemed rather ineffective outside the filter bubble.

It seems like the news is trying to prescribe a reality, instead of describing it.
Star wars was inspired by dune
Agree. The comparison drawn by the original commenter is completely devoid of scale and avoids the existential nature of global climate change.
So the trick is to first learn all the world's languages, and then go read it?
The idea that louder motorcycles are less likely to be in accidents has been debunked.
I can't speak for the universities or such. I have no plans for solving this issue with a magic wand.

But people think race is real, they treat people of different races differently, people of those races think of themselves as that race, or gender, or etc. That's a real measurable thing.

I think the social issues of a given race struggling largely as a whole is also real and have real effects on everyone, I don't oppose efforts to address it.

I don't fully understand your last line but admittedly I'm personally less concerned with "diverse" as I am addressing social groups that have cycles of poverty and other issues.
The way I see things now:

- Avoid this entire conversation if you can (web only, blazor, live wire, business constraints, etc.)

- Use JSON if your API is exposed to the general public. Keep the nesting of complex types to a minimum, preferring to reference nested items by identity rather than placing them inline.

- Use out of band mechanisms if your API is very complex and/or shared between business entities only. Example of this being SOAP/XML.

We have been consuming WSDL files for purposes of integrating with a complex banking system. I would argue that JSON would make our jobs much harder in this particular case.

The primary reason I don't like the XML path is because of the up-front schema sharing session. Once you get over this and run your codegen, life is actually really easy. For example, I enjoy having my compiler yell at me when I try to send a string vs a Datetime to a vendor endpoint.
This development is for 768 GB on a single module
> are you really stopping the server, compiling again, run the full server when doing changes the logic for the server?

Yes. I use something like `cargo watch -x run -w templates` for my personal project. If I make a change to any source file, this command will recompile my project, then restart the web framework's (Tide currently) http server. It also watches changes to the templates (Tera, which is like Jinja2). It's not nearly as fast as some of the dynamic language reloading I've used in other languages/frameworks, but it works and I can move pretty quickly this way.
The irony that a UK `spy agency` is hosting with a foreign provider born out of selling books like "The Catcher in the Rye" is a level of humour nobody expected.
Oracle has UK datacentres in Scotland, used precisely in circumstances where location is important. Needless to say that not all operators are UK based though - Oracle's business model requires cheap manpower from developing countries...
I uhhh you are kidding right? Sounds like those metaverse crypto scams...
Dismissing everything you don't like as fantasies is the surest way to eventual harm.

https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/continued-CO2-emissions-wil...

Combine this with wetbulb temperatures which force everyone to stay in airconditioned indoors for weeks or months in large part of world (this too is supported by climate science). Fantasies? I hope so but expect the worst.
Yes... there was segregation... then things started to normalize, and race didn't matter anymore (atleast not as much). Instead of going further, and making race irrelevant in everything, things turned around, and we gained back new segregation, with PoC only places and events, even graduations ( https://hsdm.harvard.edu/event/harvard-black-and-latinx-grad... ) and "white people need not apply" at taxpayer paid jobs ( https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1452228/bbc-job-advert-ban... ).
Timestamping does exist but it isn't used in the Web PKI (what you're calling "TLS certificates")

Both backdating and forward dating have been done in the Web PKI for various reasons, both legitimate (e.g. historically if you couldn't randomise serial numbers enough it was acceptable to randomise the notBefore time parameters slightly, this is no longer allowed) and illegitimate (we have pretty good circumstantial evidence that StartCom issued SHA-1 certificates long after such issuance was forbidden, probably for $$$ from companies that realised they should have bought one before the cut-off) but there is no inclination to insist upon timestamping to try to prevent that.

The most likely place you'll see timestamping in arguably publicly trusted certificates is code signing.
That’s good news!
I wonder what other languages/ecosystems embed the versioning into the binaries.

This reminds me of the mcs(1) command (Manipulate Comment Section) used for some Solaris 10 binaries to display the patch level information:

# /usr/ccs/bin/mcs -p /kernel/crypto/sparcv9/aes

/kernel/crypto/sparcv9/aes:

@(#)SunOS 5.10 Generic 150400-64 Dec 2018
I would like to see a source for the first claim. If I recall correctly from my parent's expertise (energy domain) an efficient large power plant (~60-65%) can be ~ 1.5 times more efficient than a modern ICE engine (averaged, Diesel being better than gasoline, around 40%). 3x would push the efficiency over 100%.
* Denmark: Usually only a quick glance at the QR code

* Switzerland: Usually, but not always, scanned

(Obviously anecdotal.)
We have a deposit here in Portugal too. Didn't know Lithium production had all those complications. But wouldn't mine it and move it away to processing be an alternative? I don't know, the US has a lot territory and probably lithium, wouldn't mine it and move it be profitable?
It's not like there's not covid on the other side of the border too.
That's some careful wording ;-)

https://www.oldest.org/culture/bookstores/

As a student, I used to stock up on books and foreign magazines at that Bertrand in Rua Garret. It was most of the side of small street block, a series of large rooms, each with its topic. Good stuff for youngsters at the back, I had to cross the whole store.
Oh yeah I wouldn't expect the mail carrier to make a judgement call on when I want mail if my name and address was on an envelope. But for the flyers from supermarkets and things that get stuffed into every mailbox should really respect the "no flyers" sticker. Ah well, it's only a minor inconvenience in the end
That theory has been debunked.
> Every item I've listed offers something unique.

You then go on to characterize components grafted in from another OS as "unique". That is a laughably low bar, making every potential permutation of existing operating system components distinct offerings in competition for mindshare.

> Honest question...

Honest answer: you are running code I've written. I've been using ZFS in production for as long as one possibly can. My home file server has been SmartOS for many years, before that it was FreeBSD.

> I really hope you at least have enough experience with BSD to realise...

I'm keenly aware of their differences and commonality, having tracked the introduction of a terminal mode bug all they way back to a time when "Melbourne getty" was a thing.

> There's no way on Earth we have less choice now than in the 90s.

Well, I suppose that if you are including abandonware and dead product offerings in the list of competing operating systems...

> We might have the industry largely standardising on...

It seems like you are trying really hard to avoid using the more appropriate word for what has happened: "consolidating".
Actually, yes. Paternal/Family name is Hispanic; First name is after my great-great-great grandfather. That gives me an "ethnic sounding" name.
I don't think so. Declarative programming is all about describing what you want. The order of instructions required to accomplish this is, for lack of a better work, undefined. Simplest example is SQL.
This was the common mantra ca. 15 yes ago on Slashdot that made you look extremely in-the-know, with that ineffable quality of genius that cynicism is often mistaken for.

Have you read anything in the intervening decade-and-a-half? Battery and solar power prices have come down by 90%+. Wind by 70%. (https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/li-io... for batteries, https://static.dw.com/image/56696354_7.png for the rest). Nuclear power is more expensive than ever, and easily 3x as much as the alternatives.
Ah nice, a quick search revealed it's used in Australia, NZ and Canada too :D
It's like 2049 in the sense that both overly rely on the admittedly really great cinematography, score and atmosphere. I enjoyed both but 2049 had a somewhat thin plot while Dune spent most of the movie on exposition and set-up as if I'm watching the first episode of a TV show.
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It would also be neat if it identified any properties that were shared in many of your top picks. A higher than average x-height would probably be on my list.

One property that might make that list is whitespace between lines. This one is misleading though since it can be adjusted when rendering (in some IDEs) with leading.
Can't disagree with that, better than any drug. They should be the first prescribed thing even though they aren't. But if that happens the definition of eating healthy will be compromised by the capitalistic superorganisms, so lets at least keep that in mind [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-s5szfPYKY4&list=PLx3iBgOf5c...
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> So compare that 30,000 lbs of oil to the amount of lithium in a Tesla battery pack, which is about 138lbs. 138lbs < 30,000lbs

I think you need to account for the amount of material that was mined to get to that 138lb battery. My understanding is that it's orders of magnitudes more than what gets removed/disrupted for oil. I don't know the figure (and I welcome someone telling me) but I think it could well be in excess of 30,000lbs of raw material mined.

There's also battery recycling to consider.

I don't know which way the result swings; I'm just saying that it's much more complicated to figure out, and far less clear cut, than you suggest.
Why do you feel that OP is looking down on you? That's not at all what I took away from his post.
A white south african kid at my high school that graduated a year or two before me (20 years ago) put in for an african american scholarship as he had dual citizenship. Denied because he was white. Feels similar enough and shows someone challenging an answer.
Berlin: Seems like most places will actually scan it.
Best time of my life was living next to the coast. I would leave train one station early and just walk 30 minutes. My social anxiety gets triggered if there is any friction in my surroundings. I know I could take a buss to the beach or go to the park but having any kind of negative experience pushes me back to my gaming station. Living in small town in Alps also had similar effect as the beach. Lots of woods where you only meet other people who want quiet walk so nothing but short hello and good day. My five years living in city center seem the same even though I move 3 times because I never left the room. Esp after 20h. My job is stressful and I just dont have patience and energy to deal with other people problems constantly.
Maybe, but I installed the Scottish validation app a couple of minutes ago and it's still coming up green.
>The United States at least is actively in a great depression. It's just being papered over with currency debasement so rich people don't notice.

There are technical defintions. USA's GDPgrowth is at 6.7% and inflation is at 5.4%.

china is at 0.2% gdp growth and 0.7% inflation. The numbers are scary bad if you exclude all of capitalist china. China is at 300% debt to gdp and on the verge of collapse. Greece was what 250% peak during their collapse? That's the importance of taiwan, hongkong, shenzen, and others. It's not the USA that's of concern.

>But if you actually visit parts of this country that are outside of the wealthy, coastal bubbles, you'll see first hand the real world devastation that's happening to people.

Oh for sure. You can read about the failure of krugman from his own words. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-10-10/inequa... Which he still doesn't understand how much failure he has had.

> It's why there's a major opioid epidemic in the Midwest.

This has far more to do with marijuana legalization. They cant legally market their own product but they can FUD their competitors.

>It's why homelessness is exploding.

Far more related to rising minimum wage rates. There's a >95% correlation between homelessness and minimum wage in california. That's basically causation.

>It's why rampant, degenerate speculation in stocks and crypto is going crazy and rife with scams and conmen selling hope to the hopeless. It's why populists like Trump and Sanders have so much political energy behind them.

Oh yes, check the bloomberg link above.

>People are depressed and dying everywhere, but us winners in our gilded bubbles have the privilege of being able to look away and continue living in our illusory, drunken stupor.

That's actually a super interesting factor. Is there any relationship between psychology depression and economic depression. This was analyzed heavily during the great recession and it certainly seems like it is connected. Which is an argument for single-payer psychiatry. If a society could eliminate depression, economically we would likely be hugely benefited at a higher rate than the cost of the psychiatry.
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Is database daemon the right word, when the database is running locally?

I thought the database process was still a server when running locally, like how Wayland is a display server.
I'd promote it to essential.

The problem is that in open conversation like this a simple statement like 'Yet here we are talking about a lithium mine, which is not clean' is insufficiently contextualized to know where the commenter is coming from. Are they just trying to be transparent and realistic? Are they someone that has no dynamic range in their understanding of ecological harm? Are they long in petroleum and want to throw interference up at any point where electrification of transport comes up? Are they just being a contrarian troll?
In the same way C++ always did
There's plenty of exposition in Dune. I never used the glossary once. People familiar with fantasy and SciFi have no problems absorbing weird names and such at face value with the idea that context will be added as exposition continues. Looking up each term you don't know in the glossary is actually the wrong way to read these types of books. Youll be presented with information that you shouldn't know yet.
Yes, just 14 days to flatten the curve.
> Now, if your own place of work took a large turn towards the unethical, would you live up to these expectations or call yourself an exception to the rule because you have reasons?

I've quit better jobs for less, to be honest.
I would include the commit metadata, otherwise you have no easy way to figure out where that source came from. The issue of out-of-VCS builds can be solved by putting the commit-hash into the directory/tarball name or a VERSION file, e.g. $PROJECTNAME-$(git describe --tags | sed "s/^v//").

When converting VCSs most converters will preserve the old hash in some form, e.g. by appending it to the commit message.

Github downloads however remain a problem, as they just include the branch name, not the commit hash.
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Schema languages for "REST" exist (OpenAPI, RAML), and many people use them, but they certainly haven't taken off to the extent that WSDL did. I find that odd.

The new hotness is gRPC, which is based on protocol buffers, which uses an out-of-band schema file (you can do a certain amount with protobufs without a schema file, but nothing very useful). People appear to be happily adopting that, and aren't complaining about the need for a schema.
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I've never read the book and what you and your gf say is exactly what I thought while watching it. I was really immersed by the world-building and visually delighted the whole time. I don't even remember some of what the plot was about, I dont care.
Electric scooters in China look more like a Vespa scooter, not a skateboard with handlebars.
I am glad that the movie didn't do that, I liked it precisely for the reason that it made me the fly on the wall of a greater story. I know we are used to get likeable protagonists, but ultimately I often perceive these as cheap tricks that take away from my feeling of immersion for a place. Because all the usual plotpoints and hyperfunctionalized narratives ultimately tend to turn the world they take place in into exchangable backdrops, which is the polar opposite of the idea of the Dune series, where a Place (Arakis) influences the lifes of whole societies in interesting ways. I am glad that Villeneuve managed to do without the classical Hollywood-Three-Act-Script-Consultant-Techniques that make so much of todays movie production bland and unwatchable (for people like me), precisely for the same reason: I can't care for stories where I feel the cheap tricks that make it up at every corner.
I think the only really sustainable car is the one that doesn't exist. Regardless whether your car is electric or ICU it's just a method of transportation that is wasteful of energy and resources and doesn't scale.