skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So that's about 1500 pages of source code for each of the two modules. That's incredibly small, it would literally fit into a thick book.

It's often claimed that a modern car contains more program code than early spacecraft. Obviously that's true, but what an understatement! I doubt that even the hardware abstraction layer provided by 2021 Toyota models' embedded operating systems could fit into 1500 pages – and that's just the tip of a huge iceberg that includes everything from ECU firmware to the entertainment system to the built-in web browser, navigation, countless sensors and monitoring systems, protocols like Bluetooth LE, file systems so the music from your USB drive can be read, audio codecs so it can be played, the list goes on and on and on.

And it still cannot lift itself even an inch above the ground, much less to outer space...
> But the complete failure to consider the possibility that I might also be intelligent, educated, and able to understand the applicable research just because my day job isn't in medicine immediately disqualifies a doctor for me.

It’s not that doctors think you unintelligent, but you are not a doctor. It doesn’t matter how many YouTube videos you’ve watched on a subject or how many hours you’ve spent reading about your current symptoms to convince yourself that your special intellect justifies doctors paying closer attention to your opinion, if you haven’t gone through the 7 years of education and passed the exams, then you are not a doctor and you will not be treated as one. Patients should be more accepting of this fact. It does not make sense in general to have doctors ask their patients to self-diagnose, even if their patients are intelligent, it doesn’t add value.

The problem is that every gambler will tell a statistician that actually their odds are abnormally high. And it’s true, if you pull 5 cards from a deck, the odds of getting exactly the cards you drew are incredibly small… no matter what you draw, so when you try to post rationalize events that have already occurred you even feel that statistics will back up your claim, but that’s not how it works, you can’t do that, just like patients being correct occasionally does not mean they should be treated as doctors because they don’t have the required education and experience.
I’m not going to be the one to defend the actions of a group of my least favorite companies in America, but you hit on the main point that stands up globally: where it is profitable to lay cables down. So yes, where it makes sense to shareholders.

That’s not to discount Starlink, it is a comparative advantage to be able to cover the wilderness, but that and not being an existing ISP people have had lots of experience with are its distinguishing features.
The Odd History of the First Erotic Computer Game (2014)
Yeah, me too. There are lots of great shows I had to stop watching because of this. Breaking Bad, Dexter. I mean, I guess they did okay on those shows without my contribution, but I feel like they could have been just as powerful without as much blood.
The Jesuits were the targets of the CIA during the Cold War; they're the ones the death squads went after, for preaching liberation.

I don't know what Alinsky or "intersectionality" has to do with any of this. You didn't need the Soviets, or Marcuse, to get Alinsky's Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council, which predates not just the CIA but the OSS.
Opinion based on my experience: Typescript kicks Python typing to the curb.
Two different philosophies of hope:

(1) Optimism. The world has been getting better and all present evils can eventually be cured by developing the specific know-how (think Apollo programme)

(2) Eucatastrophe. The world has been getting steadily worse yet looming evil may be defeated by an unexpected turn of events among a few good people (think small fellowship of hobbits)

The first says that if we apply creativity and work energetically at solving problems in a scientific manner then we can solve them. No guarantees but also nothing in the laws of physics to prevent it. It sounds reasonable but in practice the argument seems to persuade very few, least of all in Hollywood where science fiction has all but given up on spaceships and the future. As Douglas Adams pointed out the stories are mostly set in LA about 5 years from now and it's raining.

The second is almost the opposite. It says that if a few unimportant but good people get involved, things may unpredictably and dramatically improve, perhaps by the intervention of grace or Providence. It sounds supernatural. Hope was indeed one of St Paul's big three ('Faith, Hope, and Love'). Yet consider how many scientific discoveries and inventions occurred purely by accident. How evolution succeeded in making ears out of jaw bones. Etc.

Historically I've sided with (1) and I've always wanted it to be true however however many times it is pointed out by the likes of Steven Pinker with graphs and statistics that conditions have improved through most of history, the pessimists still prevail in public news and debates. They get more headlines and seem more serious than their naive opponents.

Why do pessimists carry the day and with such preternatural authority? The very fact that they do hints that they're unwittingly cashing in on the fact that (2) may be correct or at least the predominating factor.

That is, most good things happen by accident, but they do require a few good people to show up.
yeah idk about the macos app personally but i can say that the windows app is definitely electron. at least last time i checked.

by 'react native' i'm guessing you're referring to RNW, although a port of their iOS app is possible
Facebook had previously just used a port of their iOS for their Windows app too.
> In only 3 years, we were able to bring Kubernetes on weapon systems, including jets and space systems, where we demonstrated that containerization was not only possible but game-changing on Real-Time OS and legacy hardware.

Docker on fighter jets. Now all we need is NodeJS on nuclear submarines.
The mortgage rate before the 2008 crisis was floating around 6.5%. The mortgage rate in 2020 dropped all the way below 2.75%. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=NUh
A mortgage rate of 6.5% has a monthly payment of $1977 if a house is $300k with a 20% down payment. Most people make their financial decisions based on short term ability to pay. At 2.75% that same $1977 will pay a monthly mortgage on a 410,000 house (assuming a 20% down payment) https://www.nerdwallet.com/mortgages/mortgage-calculator/cal... . People are willing to pay more because they can afford more per month, and outbid people that will not match those prices.
Reading the article it seemed to me like courier management was the deal here; multiple couriers, some which might be free and some which weren't, marking them as busy when the email is sent and as available when they said so.
It's getting real
Mess is freedom. It gives many choices.
I don't have a Compose key, and I really wish I did. I tried mapping my left Alt key to act as a Compose key, but I couldn't get it to work on Linux. As a workaround, I mapped a keycombo to pull up a rofi [1] menu with a list of common Unicode characters, and upon selection of a character it gets sent to my system clipboard, from where I can just paste it. In that regard, it's more like Character Map than like an actual Compose key, but it does work quite well for my needs.

When I'm on Windows, mapping a key to Compose is actually much easier to do, through the excellent WinCompose utility [2].

[1] https://github.com/davatorium/rofi

[2] http://wincompose.info/
Same here. I’ve heard this complaint a lot, but I’m very happy using it and don’t find anything horrid.
Babbage's technology was feasible in principle. The differential engine was successfully built as a museum project, though it was complicated by Babbage not leaving behind detailed plans[0]. It can be argued that gear-based computational engines face inherent technical challenges that electrical designs don't. But simpler, far more successful versions of mechanical calculators have been developed as well[1].

There is a far greater resolve to invest in Quantum Computing technology compared to Babbage's technology in the 19th century. It remains to be seen whether ultimately something useful emerges. But we might discover other things along the way, just as the Manhattan project and the Race to the Moon were the pathway to develop several other useful technologies.

[0]: https://www.computerhistory.org/babbage/modernsequel/

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curta
The ARM revolution has already happened, in this case I viewed the mention to be more of a wishlist for the types of computers the global well-off buy.
This is part of Datalevin, an interesting open source Datalog database: https://github.com/juji-io/datalevin
It's kind of a shame it didn't stick around, since it is closer to the real dynamics of COVID-19 (and flu, probably) than the droplet dogma that replaced it. It turns out there really are invisible floating clouds around that can get you sick.
Harry Potter and the Conspirator's Planet.
I take the alternate view. Tangible stuff is great and I like having something to toss on the kitchen table for the family to work through.

And a little rubbish is not a problem. Paper does sequester CO2 afterall.
> We need those stories, always, but especially right now.

Why do you need those stories? Is it because you don't have your own narrative? Is it because you've prevented yourself from following your inconvenient thoughts to their conclusions?

Your cosmopolitanism is not far from globalism; would you have me believe that MNCs are not 'the man'?
There is also the fact that investors can get a higher rate of return by buying and managing a rental property rather than selling a mortgage, so that money is also competing to own the property. I personally feel we are in a bubble, that will pop less explosively than the 2008 bubble.
I don't think so.

Typescript is a decent language, but severely suffers from the javascript compatibity. On the frontend that does not matter as much because you usually don't deal with critical data persistence, but on the backend it's different.

If what you said was true, Javascript would have already taken over the backend, but it hasn't. There are two reasons why:

1. There are still languages on the backend that are more productive / powerful / mature than typescript.

2. On the frontend side, the hurdle of getting into things is much lower. That's why, on average, folks working on the backend are usually more involved and have a broader exposure the languages.

That being said, there are surely languages, I would love to see replaced by Typescript (for example looking at you, Java). And while it might look like Typescript could do it from someone who uses it for frontend, I'd say it won't happen.
https://strlen.com/treesheets/
none of which killed a soul.

On the other hand CIA handled instigators killed far in excess of 45,000 people during the 'cold' war.
They aren't a traditional Union. They aren't organized around professions or industries. They are fighting against anti-semites, nobility, for occasional odd causes (sanitation).

Unions are more of a labor vs capital thing, banding together for more bargaining power. In the 1632 series this isn't a big issue yet because most people aren't working for employers with many employees, so the power imbalance isn't yet as bad. Also the ring of fire "back-ported" some labor rights legislation.
Can you expand on that? Creating a public transit system that suffers from overcrowding doesn't sound like a failure; it sounds like a good start. (Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded. - Yogi Berra)
Well, according to a press conference with the mayor of Abbotsford on Nov 16th at 9 pm pst [1], 50% of poultry, dairy, and eggs consumed in BC come from the Sumas Prairie region. This is an area that has just been ordered to evacuate and further flooding poses significant risk to life.

Looks like the supply of the food is going to be pretty harmed if the flooding continues.

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FM1xwaqtnpg&feature=youtu.be
How do you police what your imports import? Serious question. Let's say I'm building a Discord app (as I want to do.) Well, either NPM or Python PIP to get one module - the discord module. But who knows how safe what it imports is. That's the point.

Are there stable dependencies from reputable companies that do the things I want without me vetting 10k submodule imports?
hmmm, I thought they were WORM devices.
"Guide" and "stop" are not only English words, but present in lots of European languages. "Shop" is a common loanword from English in lots of these European languages.
Even if these numbers are correct, why is Netflix making any of this public?

Won't competitors see what works and attempt to copy the formula?

Is Netflix so confident in its content strategy that it doesn't fear competition?
People still do:

https://mbays.sdf.org/htalkat/
This article felt pretty consistent to me, but I wonder if you aren't looking at it in term of a call to action, some practical advice, or trying to reach a simple conclusion.

I feel these kind of articles are harder to sell (we step outside of the fact based approach, right into beliefs and opinions). There is also the issue of most of these call to action and opinions getting buried pretty fast by virtue of ours current media system, as more often than not the conclusion is pretty brutal and disturbing to a majority of people.
Happy to be wrong but both of you sound like you're commenting without any operational knowledge about either database technology.
Haha. Low-key means not trying to build a rocket. Just having excess money but living way below your means.
worse is better.

it is a protocol for a specific purpose, and because it has that specific purpose, it was used for that, and desired for that. http can do it, but without the constraints, of course nobody will use it for reinventing finger.
He responded to comments in that thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=28410812
Tabbed browsing just has full-window tabs though. Was the ability to resize, move, and stack these windows within windows ever wanted by any significant amount of people, or is tabbed browsing just a better implementation of the same concept (multiple "documents" open within one window)?
That particular sentence on the wiki is uncited, so trust it with extreme caution. That said, yes, anything is feasible with enough money, and generally you pay an engineer to determine what method will cost the minimum amount of money.

That's effectively what the Millenium Tower did - their engineers determined that friction piles to the sandy layer would be the cheapest acceptable option. Then, due to factors they may or may not have been able to predict, it turned out to not be an adequate solution.

If they had known beforehand, the next cheapest option would have been chosen - likely end-bearing piles to the bedrock, like they are now retrofitting. Floating raft foundations are truly a last resort due to their expense.
That's a perfect analogy for Rust.
I’m sure you could write a Reddit client that emulates this. For better or worse, it’s the most like Usenet today.
The article utterly sucks. It's essentially a clickbaity rendition of the banal rant about American consumerism.

The arguments are poorly constructed, even when there is a point to be made. The sentence "Americans haven't always acted like this. We've entered an age of overabundance." is followed by a a graph showing that Americans consumed more than major European countries at least since 1990. (And I don't think that graph is purchasing power parity adjusted)

Apart from the confusing graph, most of the numbers in the article don't have a corresponding European version for comparison.

What has happened to the Manhattan Institute? I kinda thought their senior fellows were better than this.
Privacy, Triage, and Risk: The Art of VP-Wrangling (2020) [video]
Both of these facts would be quite irrelevant when ultimately discovered. It is hard to make people care about anything that happened 30 years ago that did not affect them personally, and in the latter case the alien-hybrids would have to just... accept the fact.
Maybe 10 stable dependencies without dependencies? Otherwise it's dependencies all the way down.

Is vendoring in a dependency just slowing things down? Slows down development and bakes existing attacks in longer.
The video doesn't mention that the tower is a lot of reinforced concrete, not steel as in most high rises. That makes it much heavier than other friction pile buildings which is at minimum contributing to the problem. IMHO I think it's insane anyone proposed not drilling to bedrock and that the city ever allowed it. In an earthquake zone bedrock piles should be an absolute requirement for tall buildings.

Last I heard the modified drilling procedure didn't help and the accelerated sinking hadn't fully stopped so right now there is no plan to resume.

When the pile drilling started lean was 17". In less than a year of that work it's now 22". By building settlement standards that's blindingly fast and makes me think the soil on that corner is in much worse shape than anyone assumed... possibly bad enough it won't hold in a large earthquake. It may be a more complicated interaction than just compression due to the load.

I'm not sure what they can do at this point. Have a bunch of crews get the piles installed as quickly as possible and hope you can do it before the sinking becomes dangerous? Given it is a concrete building rather than steel they probably can't do much to reduce the weight but moving everyone and everything possible out might help a little. To counteract the leak maybe they can drill on the other corner (that's always been part of the long-term fix) to get it to settle at a faster and thus more even rate?

Definitely a difficult problem.
Among U.S. children, reading for fun has become less common, federal data shows
There are many smaller communities that are cut off due to floods and mudslides too. For example, I live in Chilliwack, about 90km East of Vancouver, and we’re completely cut off from anywhere else - the three highways entering the city are all closed. All rail lines are damaged or flooded.

Hope, a bit further to the East, is another community that is completely cut off. It’s full of stranded travellers right now.

Once people realized we were cut off, the hoarding mentality took hold; most gas stations are out of gas and grocery stores are emptying. Hopefully the supply chain bounces back quickly.
Counterexamples: DNS and it's silly, idiosyncratic compression; FTP and its absolutely batshit control/data channel connections; the ASN.1/BER nightmare of SNMP. Also consider the "simple, plaintext protocols" that should not have been: the r-utils, for instance, had to be supplanted by encrypted binary protocols; NNTP failed, and ultimately ended up centralizing Internet discussion on sites like this, because it was doggedly optimized for text and inevitably abused for binary sharing.

The moral of my story is: those old protocols were bad, practically all of them.
They almost never shut down the actual VMs, they are simply re-allocated. (Semi)Auto scaling exists behind the scenes but once a provider becomes popular enough the VMs become more expensive to stop.
We are often told that the color of light is determined by its wavelength. So why do violet/purple appear as if they were smooth interpolations between red (high wavelength) and blue (low wavelength)?

It's a weird artifact of how the brain reconstructs wavelength from the measurements taken by the retina.

The retina has three types of color-sensitive cells (cones). Each one carries a light-absorbing protein that absorbs only certain wavelengths of light. Photopsin I has maximal absorption around 530nm (a sort of yellowish green) and some absorbption towards higher wavelengths, up to 700nm (the red end of the spectrum). Photopsin II has maximal absorption around 530nm as well (so it's green too), but unlike Photopsin I, its absorption drops off rapidly, and does not go toward red. Photopsin III, however, peaks in low wavelengths, around blue.

Even though the peak responses of Photopsin I and II are very similar, the brain can use absorption ratios to detect wavelength.

If your Photopsin I is absorbing some light, but your Photopsin II isn't, the brain deduces that your retina must be being illuminated by red light.

If both Photopsins I and II are absorbing a lot of light, the brain deduces that you're seeing some shade of green (this is why we can tell greens apart better than other colors: we have two receptors for it, but only one for the other colors).

If only Photopsin III is absorbing light, but the other two aren't, your brain deduces that your retina is being illuminated by high frequency blue light.

Other color perceptions arise as combinations of different wavelengths. If all your Photopsins are absorbing light, the brain deduces that you're seeing a combination of all visible frequencies, white light (this is why prisms can split white sunlight, and why we have rainbows). Similarly, If only Photopsins I and III are absorbing, you must be seeing a combination of red and blue light, which is what you see as purple. And that's why purple appears to interpolate smoothly between red and blue.

Okay, but where does violet fit in? Violet isn't purple (a combination of different wavelength light sources), but a pure low wavelength light. Why does _violet_ also appear to interpolate between red and blue? Well, Photopsin I has its absorption maximum around green - but it happens to have a smaller absorption peak in low wavelengths, around 400nm as well. So very low wavelength blue light is absorbed by both Photopsin I AND Photopsin III: and your brain deduces incorrectly that your retina is illuminated by some combination of blue and red. And that's why violet looks similar to purple, and the color wheel appears to wrap around as wavelength decreases.
This is an excellent point. I just finished reading the book “Domain Modeling mad Functional” [0] and it absolutely opened my eyes in terms of the power of strong types and functional design.

I believe that strong types can absolutely help to improve a code base, but they can’t do it alone. And they certainly won’t do much if one only associates strong type systems with intellisense.

I agree that a strong type system might make some things harder, but I think that’s because you’re design probably requires a bit more thought up front. I don’t know that I agree with your “real functional programming” statement though. JS lends itself to functional design really well. I don’t use TS, but as a superset of JS, I’d be surprised if it didn’t work as well in an FP design.

[0] https://pragprog.com/titles/swdddf/domain-modeling-made-func...
You can use the "Lists" feature to zero in on, for example, just your team.
Yup. I've begun and mostly completed my xmas shopping (for fear of not being able to get anything), and accelerated some purchases I was putting off (new phone, new computer etc).
Maybe the belief that everything must be human perceptible was the real breakthrough. “Fruit flies occur naturally from miasma” sounds simple enough.
Consumption of coffee and tea and risk of developing stroke and dementia
A side question: I'm probably out of touch or something, but what does the author mean by "colored websites"?
“Why do you look at the speck of quantum dust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the GPU in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a GPU in your own eye?"

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%207:3-5...