skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do this for my open-source self-hosted project. The reality is that Discord provides a good experience, with good controls for a community, in a way that's friendly and easy to access for many. Additionally it saves me the hassle of hosting something.

I don't see it that differently to using GitHub for hosting the code. In terms of privacy at least it's fairly clear to users, wanting to chat, that their data and content will be owned by discord. Users have the choice to enter the chat or not, it's not required to browse the website or use the software.
You must be pretty young... They were always on the dark side.
> it needs faster time to plot

Time to plot is much improved in 1.6 and should continue to improve in 1.7. It's definitely being addressed.
Agreed. They likely see Cloudflare as targeting customers with lower requirements than AWS customers, and so to compete with them they can just extend their free tier while assuming that as companies grow they'll exceed that tier.

For high volume customers this isn't going to make a huge difference. For many who were considering Cloudflare, it could mean their service is now free.
Sure. What's your point?
Actually Java has had a repl called Jshell since JDK 9.
Reductionist, there’s simultaneously many public and private sector “overlords” in capitalist liberal democracy. Sometimes a private company can also resemble a public utility through government granted monopolies as well (Bell System)
Ah thanks for that. I dunno, I suspect most TCL users are those that are forced to use it (because of EDA tools probably). Kind of the same reason Bash and CMake are popular, even though they share similar levels of insanity to TCL.

The one thing I'll give it is that the "function bodies are just eval'd strings, quoted using braces" is a kind of neat trick for implementing functions. Like if you want to make a language that supports functions with the minimum amount of code possible, that's a fun idea.

Not a good idea, but a fun one. The correct response is "ha that's a neat trick. Now please delete it and do it properly."
Close to mid terms + if it becomes an actual big body count/hospital overflow in the US I'd bank on political pressure to approve fast.
This is a pretty shocking claim to make without providing any evidence.
Creative Commons is shilling NFTs
AFAIK it can only do text games, but I don't know what improvements IBM has made in two decades. The other limitation is that the terminal buffers input until you press Enter, then sends the entire screen, so only turn-based games are practical.

The buffering is a neat feature. Your AS/400 could be extremely busy (sometimes the operator would prioritize a very urgent process), but you could do a screenful of code, then press Enter and go for a coffee.
Hmmm, I take it you live in a city? You may not need anything other than a train or bike but other people have different needs.
The problem is we don’t pay for the operating system anymore.
Could you point to it? Thanks
If you can still edit your message on the older thread/page, you should link to this discussion (or post a new message). That way, the circle of life will be complete haha

I’m kidding of course (you should still do it if you can/want) ;)
Just recently I was setting up Windows 10. One of the first things it asked for is an email account or you can create one. Ugh. I remember the days when you didn't need an email account to setup an OS. Also Windows 10 has many nagging notifications if you are not logged in to Microsoft services.
That's what they were saying
The communist-anarchist concept is interesting, to somebody like me, who tends to be frugal (not wasting resources) and willing to work without some kind of carrot-stick mechanism. I can easily imagine living in a community of like-minded people. However, I'm not sure that it's for everybody, and it would be contradictory to try to force such a system on people against their will. What I'd like to see is more experimentation with different social and economic models, perhaps in special economic zones, instead of the prevailing notion that everybody must be forced into a particular model, just because a dominant group has decided that this is best.

The question I have about communist-anarchism in practise is about how well it would manage supply-demand issues. I can imagine that you'd get massive overproduction in some areas, e.g., perhaps a lot of people would fancy themselves as artists. In other areas, needs would probably not be met, e.g., a lot of people might like to have all their meals in a nice restaurant, but there may not be enough people willing to operate the number of restaurants required. Or perhaps there's not enough land for everybody to get all they want, but some guy is farming 100 hectares with some crop that nobody wants, or getting very low productivity, but perhaps he has every right to carry on doing it. I remember in the classic anarchist novel "The Dispossessed" that some of these issues are considered, such as communal eating places which perhaps aren't especially fancy.
Is that how it's pronounce? Letter O + micron like size? My first read was ohm eh cron, like the job
But they're a biologist? Cosmic forces are outside their field, unlike a physicist who believes in perpetual motion.
Other posters have addressed the other questions so I'll focus on your comment concerning "massive IQs to come up with all this so fast".

Evolution does not work that way. It is not a conscious decision or process on the part of the organism. It is the result of mutations due to imperfect copying of genetic material. Very likely most of the mutations are useless or harmful to the organism. But once in a while the mutation gives the organism an advantage and allows it and it's progeny to outcompete the other, unmutated organisms.

Even the process of evolution does not make decisions or have a particular direction or goal. It's all randomness and depends on the large number of chances.

As far as becoming more efficient at killing is, most viruses mutate to a state of being less deadly. Not killing the host is an advantage for a virus.
I feel like we are doing this to ourselves. All the lockdowns are breeding viruses which are stronger and more infectious than ever.

The way viruses normally work is that they evolve to be less deadly over time, and this evolution happens quite quickly. The less deadly strains spread quicker (because carriers aren't walled up in bed), and by the time the deadly strains get to people, they already have partial immunity after catching the less deadly strains.

Anyway, something has clearly changed. Coronaviruses have been around since forever, now we are getting more and more super spreaders appearing, seemingly, out of nowhere. As far as I can tell, the only thing that is different now than in the past that could be causing this is the lockdowns.
It's not such a problem if we want to keep on a 'disposable society' path, but even then, the more complex the electronics, the more likely they are to fail, or just be bricked when support ends.

It definitely is a problem if we want to make things that last longer and are repairable.
The unofficial workaround being to not provide any WiFi information. But if you do it once, it remembers.
OpenLibrary also do automated OCR type stuff, though generally its subsidiary to scans of the page.

But search and some recent tools for extracting data from books (e.g. they find URLs in books and then save them in the Wayback machine so people can see what the book linked to) all rely on automated OCR so any improvements will help.
Doesn't free tier last only 12 months?
Timing the market i usually easier said than done. When do you buy back? What if the market goes down initially and then bounces back, are you still a seller or do you buy?

I have a strategy to bring forward some of my regular investments if the market dips and sort of average into that.
Out of iCloud Storage space or phone storage space? If it's iCloud Storage Space it would be ... weird if they didn't, since iCloud stops working (rightfully so) when you fill up the storage space.
“merely”

I’m not exactly a Musk lover (what’s everyone gonna do on Mars? ..live indoors!?) but the constant refrain that he hasn’t really done much is exhausting. Jobs wasn’t a coder, Musk “merely” renames thighs… etc etc. Either they’re super exceptional, or charlatans. Probably both, and yet something else… surely.
The EU covid certificates that I've seen have way more data (this one has 3x3 alignment markers, the certificates I've seen in production have 4x4).
Sure, maybe maps apps shouldn’t be preinstalled or we should have something on setup that allows you to pick between a set of different apps for maps.
I installed the alternative https://yunohost.org/ and I'm very happy with it, but now I want to try this one!
Auckland's climate is pretty mild year-round.

Seasonality is a confounder, for sure, but I haven't heard any experts claim it as an explanation here.
Could the -MAIL-FROM requests somehow be tunneled through a VPN so that they are only accepted through that VPN and not the wider internet?
> Thinking of hardware, I've never been much for Apple products, but the iPhone (particularly early models) is undoubtedly a design marvel.

I am surprised that no one else has mentioned the iPhone. It seems to me like an obvious choice.

I'm speaking of the hardware, not of iOS. There's a lot to admire about iOS, but it also has its share of design flaws.
I was diagnosed with severe crohn's disease in the late 90s. Doctors started learning about Vitamin D and the immune system in the 2000s. My only specialist who knew about it in the 90s is now at an elite hospital. It was rare knowledge 20 years ago. Medicine is still pretty much stuck in the last century with nutrition knowledge. It's all about pushing pills for the most part. The synergistic study of different nutrients is still pretty lacking.

For example, most Drs now know about vitamin D. But do they know about A and K and the dosages and which minerals you should probably take with it when someone is extremely D deficient like in a lot of autoimmune patients? Probably not...

Do doctors know most patients with resections or digestive issues who are B12 deficient can absorb methylcobalamin sublingually? I've never met one that does.

I can go on. Most doctors understanding of B12 is still stuck in the 1970s along with most other aspects of nutrition.
Ask HN: What are you working to help make the world more sustainable?
I saw this video from economics explained today: https://youtube.com/watch?v=kVOTPAxrrP4

Which talks about how an MIT computer model from 1972 ‘predicted’ a collapse of our growth based global economy. And how it appears we’re on track to meet that prediction.

So it has me thinking: Yes clearly political and social change are needed more than anything. But engineers like me don’t control governments.

So what is there that a person can work on which is most likely to have to greatest positive impact on helping the world get past the coming energy, climate and population crises?

At the moment I’m working on a robotics project which it is hoped will make fully autonomous mining and manufacturing closer to reality.
Microsoft Teams and the lessons from Relay [video]
Issues with cloudflare

1) They do not have public egress pricing. That should be a red flag at this time.

2) They are currently LOSING a lot of money on their offerings - AWS makes a ton. That should be red flag #2.
Biologists have to know statistics. Horoscopes are evidently impossible to anyone who knows basic statistics, if the generic fortunes weren't evident enough.
1) It's too late (for this variant). So you can't act reactively.

2) When would you ever open then (since you need a proactive approach)?

3) How would trade look? I can't think of a single way of halting a contagious virus between countries that wouldn't completely shut us down as a race. The cost to humanity would be beyond imagination. Perhaps on the order of 100x-1000x that of corona.
It is not easy for me to vaccinate myself when I've had adverse reactions in the past.
The advantage of browsers is that they are becoming the de-facto "universal operating systems". That's why users like them, and that's why devs like them, despite all their defects. I kinda believe in that direction too. It's just the path that is a massive mess. Would I delete and rewrite? Yeah, but browsers and traditional OSes both, to become a single thing.

..and then regret it afterwards :D
Tonal <www.tonal.com> is amazing. It is the fitness system of my dreams. A resistance training setup with digital weights that hangs on the wall. It is filled with high quality content that showcases how to take full advantage of the tech. An ai combined with a well designed adjustment system and suddenly weight training is so fun and fluid I can do it every day.
Oh, and of course: Super Smash Bros. Melee, whose bugs & quirks led to the most transcendent and buttery smooth movement system imaginable.
Let’s say there are 100 injuries for ever 100M miles driven. That’s 1 injury every 1M miles driven. Let’s say the average driver drives 10K miles per year. That means 1 in 100 drivers are injured every year. Not super likely, but not super unlikely either.
I said shopping, not working there.
If you find that $14/month gives you access to all of the quality content you want and denies you access to none, then you're definitely winning.

This article is asserting that enough people don't find that to be the case that it's become a problem. I think they're on to something.
Cases in Scotland with mask laws and Hugh adherence seem higher than in England which doesn’t have laws and has low adherence.

Be interesting if anyone has done a proper comparison between say Glasgow and Manchester.
Thanks Cloudflare!
You seem to be under the misconception that I have been "schooled". None of the other opinions expressed in this thread in any way change my opinion that calling someone a 1950s housewife is an insult to an employee's dignity.
http://lexicon.quranic-research.net/data/12_s/195_smsr.html
Oh yay a new standard! https://xkcd.com/927/
Yeah i'm pretty pro vaccine but it seems like safety should be evaluated because it's creating a different antigen. maybe this is some relic from the flu-shots being made yearly without any real safety testing to my knowlege(which, to be fair for the flu, I haven't really followed so i don't know how accurate that is but i don't think much meaningful safety testing can be done every year)
But people are probably going to use it for larger amounts where that flat fee would equal a much lower apr.
Not really. Linus thought he was building a toy kernel but as soon as it was released it became a real OS as people got it working on their systems, got all GNU programs running, etc. The X windowing system was ported in less than a year so it was a full fledged OS immediately.

As for minux, at the time Linux was released microkernels weren’t considered practical outside of research OSs until the mid-to-late 90s and even today Mac OS is the only widely used micro kernel OS. This is a big topic of Linus debate with Tannenbaum. I don’t recall the exact reasons but iirc microkernels we’re/are slower than a monolith and at a time when computing power was much lower they didn’t make sense for workstations.
Mixed Personality Disorders Are More Common Than You Think
Yep, that is known as the bullwhip effect: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullwhip_effect
Nothing further from that. This is the best AWS can scramble in the near term as they continue seeing a decreasing trend in customer acquisition rate for the sector in which Cloudflare is predating them.
And yet you just decided to compare it to a host of EU countries whose demographics are radically different from Sweden.

Rather surprised you don't think Norway and Denmark are appropriate peers against which to compare Sweden. So please provide better suggestions for peers, rather than comparing it as you are, apparently, against Greece.
Non linearly. It’s like saying $5 off anything from a turkey wrap to a Lamborghini.
I can't speak to the framing of the paper or the title. Maybe that's where he felt the evidence was least solid (which I understand; there is almost no evidence supporting cloth masks).

Regardless, the paper covers pretty much ~all of the prior literature for masks and respiratory illness.
I literally sold my iphone because it would not shut the fuck up about icloud. So here's one data point.
The supply chain situation is much worse because individual actors are trying to optimize for themselves for an advantage at the cost of everybody else.
It's a business
catting a file in kitty can delete files from /tmp [1]. I don't think Kitty's enthusiasm for merging features without thinking about them hard enough is a good way to go either.

[1]: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/blob/2350952d054bcaf945a...
They are doing R&D atm that’s where the investment is going. The Cloudflare TAM isn’t static, it keeps growing.
My personal favorite feature in PL/1 was the zero overhead matrix transpose. You achieved this by mapping two matrix declarations onto the same storage, one specifying column-major and the other row-major. We used to joke the PL/1 declaration system was turing-complete.
That may be the case but outside of my MacBook I much prefer Linux/GNU to “real” UNIX. It is improved upon in a lot of (subtle) ways and is a lot more feature rich. That’s an opinion though as people who prefer BSD/UNIX tend to think GNU is bloated and inconsistent.
" ... and to legally prevent anyone doing it from calling it eco-friendly."

Ok, that bit I can agree with.

Buuuttt, what I have a problem with is this - if Sweden / EU wants to ban crypto mining then simply create a specific industry code [1] that covers crypto mining and legislate/tax accordingly.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Industrial_Classifica...
Are there any other examples where an incumbent lowering prices in response to competition was a positive sign for the incumbent?

I'm also trying to unpack "legitimize" to something more concrete... One possibility is that AWS's action is a signal of AWS customers' moving business to Cloudflare (that we wouldn't otherwise know about). Or perhaps it's simply AWS flinching and consequently customers perceive Cloudflare as more legitimate and move more business there?
A step up from the cheap plastic units with the snap-off blades, but if you want to cut linoleum or do some similar heavy task, try this:

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B005HVYSSW/ref=ppx_yo_dt...
a decentralized, unlogged, e2ee chat system nobody uses is worse.
Reading through the original article it seems that the only thing hindering this idea is it's scale. Considering how long it will take to kick off effective terraforming of Mars, it seems to me the at this could be achieved in time with a relatively small amount of effort.
The real problem is too many people in Western USA buying too much stuff they dont need.
> Also Apple went out of their way to make Linux and other OSs able to boot on it, so don't expect Apple to take away what they worked hard on.

Do you have more details? I was under the impression Apple did nothing and haven't published any documentation, making a Linux port an exercise in reverse engineering every little bit. If Apple really wanted Linux to be able to run on M1s, they could have upstreamed patches / sponsored the development required. Instead people are volunteering their time to do that without any help (direct or just documentation or tooling), hoping Apple won't pull the rug from under them.
// updates the whole table, ignoring conditions
db.Model(<table>).Where(<conditions>).Updates(<values>)
// updates the rows matching conditions
db.Model(<table>).Updates(<values>).Where(<conditions>)

This is a massive footgun in Gorm. Don't use tools that help you make catastrophic errors.
Sorry to hear that, but that's a small minority of people. And I hope you've talked to your doctor about it --- we're lucky with COVID to have a variety of vaccines with different makeups to choose from.
Why are people so angry? Easy solution: don’t use windows
In contrast to the selflessness and charity of rush hour commuters?
Agreed. Just finished earning my masters in C.S. from Georgia Tech and well worth it. Classes were intellectually stimulating, particularly compilers, distributed systems, and algorithms.
This is the study the Stanford press release was talking about.
I do like JS quite a bit, I was a hater until a few years ago when I had to start working with it more than a snippet here and there, but I still prefer python on the backend. I think JS makes a lot of sense for frontend with the way everything is async.
Jupyter-book depends upon MyST-NB (MyST Notebooks) which depends upon myst-parser which depends upon markdown-it-py (which is a port of markdown-it (TypeScript)) for parsing [MyST] Markdown.

https://github.com/executablebooks/myst-parser :

> MyST is a rich and extensible flavor of Markdown meant for technical documentation and publishing.

> MyST is a flavor of markdown that is designed for simplicity, flexibility, and extensibility. This repository serves as the reference implementation of MyST Markdown, as well as a collection of tools to support working with MyST in Python and Sphinx. It contains an extended CommonMark-compliant parser using markdown-it-py, as well as a Sphinx extension that allows you to write MyST Markdown in Sphinx.

https://github.com/executablebooks/markdown-it-py :

> Follows the CommonMark spec for baseline parsing;
Configurable syntax: you can add new rules and even replace existing ones;
Pluggable: Adds syntax extensions to extend the parser (see the plugin list),
High speed (see our benchmarking tests) ;
Safe by default

https://github.com/markdown-it/markdown-it :

> Follows the CommonMark spec + adds syntax extensions & sugar (URL autolinking, typographer), Configurable syntax!; You can add new rules and even replace existing ones;
High speed;
Safe by default;
Community-written plugins and other packages on npm
> All other Unixes (BSD, System V, and Linux) are in some sense contaminated by outsiders who did not fully get the Unix philosophy. Both BSD Unix and System III/V added and changed things which people find objectionable and non-Unixy, so ignoring these as 'not in V7 and in the original intentions of Unix' is sometimes seen as convenient [...]

Whoa, it would be very interesting to hear some (obviously optionated) examples of this. And which modern BSD "gets" the original V7 thinking best? OpenBSD?
Your argument seems to approach that any measures against covid that significantly impact daily life are bad utilitarian policy, since even the most extreme outcomes where healthcare capacity has collapsed leads to less than 1 percent of the total population dying.

Could you post a clarifying remark on what you consider the correct place to draw the line where more inconvenient quarantine measures are warranted?

It's pretty obvious that this is a very contentious subject. But it's also very obvious that a considerable democratic majority in most Western countries seems to agree on where the line should be drawn for their community, and that this line is much more conservative (on the side of public health getting priority over business as usual) than with most earlier pandemics. This is an interesting policy development.
Many would be content with maintaining a sustainable, comfortable life.

Today the general worker in developed countries is more productive than 40/50 years ago but gets less for it. Less and less middle class workers can afford to by their own house or apartment and those with lower paying jobs are barely getting by often under harsh conditions.

Life should be getting better for all due to overall increase in productivity, but it's getting worse for many or is stagnating, while there are few who have been amassing obscene amounts of wealth and power.