skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shift shift is go to anywhere with fuzzy matching. But yeah, it's the same window, the command palette is in a tab on that.
> Why is Scala not a realistic alternative to JS?

- Userbase. Hiring Scala developer is insanely harder than hiring JS developers in most of the world

- Worse ecosystem. This ranges from anything like finding libraries to finding help online.

- Generated bundles and performance are very subpar to most compile-to-js languages.
Our journey in dropping the ORM in Go
> but today there is a lot of entitlement going on in software communities

I'd generalise it: There is a lot of entitlement going on right now.
So you want a Git Database?
This is a great analogy, I'd never seen it translated into tangible terms like that before.

I remember reading that, at close enough range, the neutrino emissions from a supernova would be intense enough to be dangerous to structures made of ordinary matter, despite the weakness of their interactions, and that they would reach an observer earlier than other forms of radiation due to their ability to escape the collapsing star relatively unimpeded. Neutrinos would be the least of your problems if you were the observer of course.

As I was trying to find a source for this, I discovered there is a unit [1] for the amount of energy released by a supernova called the Foe, which seems apt (it's an acronym derived from 'ten to the power of Fifty-One-Ergs').

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foe_(unit)
I don't know about other devices, but the PS4 has a unified "TV and Video" portal that I think tries to do something like this:

https://www.playstation.com/en-ca/ps4/ps4-entertainment/

Unfortunately, it's hobbled by the fact that the underlying apps are not reliable enough— Netflix works great, Disney+ is trash [1], Jellyfin has to be used through the browser so the interface is wretched. Not sure about Prime, Crave, and Hulu.

[1]: https://screenrant.com/disney-plus-app-playstation-4-bufferi...
Ask HN: Do you think ISP should be allowed to duopolize a community?
So I am trying to get internet service for my dad. He stays in South Florida. The community he lives in doesn't have internet and everyone has to use mobile Hotspot or hubs, internet service through towers as opposed to fiber optics. The area is congested so the internet speed reminds me of dial up. I've talked to the front office and asked what service is provided here, and they said ATT. I call ATT they say Xfinity and ATT are the only ones who provide service to that area but for some reason not the community. XFINITY says that two other companies own the area, Spectrum and Atlantic Broadband. I go to their websites and they both redirect me to Xfinitys website and have me search there to see if service is available. The Xfinity representative told me Spectrum or Atlantic isn't owned by Xfinity, and as I suspected, they aren't owned but they clearly work together at least on a level that deals with web coding. So these companies control the area and are also unable to service here, yet right across the street they used to have Xfinity Representatives trying to sell their services in Wal-Mart. Are companies legally lower to do this? Force people onto mobile networks and Hotspots, not allowing high-speed internet?
> People are 100% free to pursue sky-high reliability and bugfreeness in their project, no matter what it is.

Of course they are. But they should not complain that the only people interested in their project are, well, not super-star programmers but beginners.

In other words: they can wait for the other programmer who is almost ;) as perfect as they are. But chances are these people are not interested in the 4535th copy of $TOOL (if they were, they would probably write that themselves - that's why there existed 4534 versions of $TOOL).
Supporting every hardware under the sun is as simple as dumping an mp4/avi/... file.

The reason they don't support high resolution is just DRM. They will happily deliver 4k video to your underpowered Windows machine which will lag and not play it properly, as long as it uses Widevine L1 or similar.

You can argue if this makes sense or not [1], but let's not pretend they are doing this for some difficult engineering reasons.

[1] This doesn't seem to stop pirates in any way so I can't see how it does.
> Thus it was impossible to watch it in the UK

Based on the first three seasons, I believe the UK is being done a favor.
Nothing I said has anything to do with duration of positivity?

A few citations on why the evidence leans towards reducing the spread being more effective at reducing variant selection: https://twitter.com/trvrb/status/1462816243245719558?t=9OCuB...
Here is a citation regarding viral load. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01575-4
Perhaps it isn't a question of will but rather a question of rights.

For example, perhaps the musicians who played on the Star Trek series had a contract that only covered the US and Canada and any further distribution required a separate agreement? The studio could have negotiated from the start for global rights but maybe the money wasn't there and the show wouldn't have been made otherwise?
how is that significantly different from someone downloading several segmented 4k\1080 "clips" and running them? Youtube seems to be able to do it just fine.
CloudAtCost is not a good reference for cheap VPS, they were never cheap and that maintenance fee make it even worse. Their performance is abysmal too, but that could have changed since the time I used them.

If you want some good cheap VPS, go check on https://www.lowendtalk.com/ you will find plenty of good ones there. I would suggest to pay a bit more and go with BuyVM, at 20$ per year for their 512 MB offering, but you could definitely get some cheaper just as good somewhere else.
Heimer 3.0
> Why would anyone even attempt to contribute if their efforts are likely to be dismissed in this way?

Because they are adults with enough emotional maturity to not require constant encouragement in every aspect of life.

It's one thing to make negative, targeted statements against an individual contributor. It's another to make a likely true, slightly negative outlook about the quality of contributions on average. Potential contributors should be responsible for maintaining their own emotional equilibrium in such a case, in my opinion.
I stand corrected on the timeline!
Ble.sh seems pretty cool. The path hacking it does on readlink doesn't work right and causes the CNF handler to launch on NixOS.

I guess it does the PATH hacking based on whether the system is GNU or not so that it can get `realpath`/`readlink -f`-like behavior even on systems that don't natively have that because they include *BSD coreutils.

That might not behave as expected (and is unnecessary) on my macOS systems, either, since I like to keep GNU coreutils (with no `g` prefixes on the executable names) on my PATH there (heresy, I know).

It's also noticeably slower, to the point that there's a bit of jitter as I type.

It's pretty cool, though. If it's any better after I patch the readlink PATH hacking out, maybe I'll configure it for bash on my systems.
From the article:

"Casper said that there have only been about 10 observations of tau neutrinos in all of human history but that he expects his team will be able to double or triple that number over the next three years."
> Walking in CVS and stealing a candy bar would feel like 50 years in the future as well

Or present-day SF.
That's true, but the labor that actually produced the data is not receiving the full value of the money that people pay to access the data. If the money went directly to the creators, I think people (and myself certainly) would feel much more amenable to paying for it.
Nobody will work for you for free. It’d be better and more fun to work on their own project. HN isn’t exactly full of crypto enthusiasts either.

If you don’t enjoy working on it any more, I advise you to stop doing so.
FYI: My meat thermometer got right up to 170 when I took the turkey out. It was perfect.
The analogy doesn't work, because eating is a fundamental need to survive. The movie that just came out isn't.
The science is not at all set on whether peak viral load is the same or not. Most of it seems to suggest that it is not the same initially, but might revert to it after 6-9 months after being vaxxed.

Spread is also less common among the vaxxed as I said, so even if it turns out to be no difference in load, there is still less opportunity for selection.

https://twitter.com/trvrb/status/1462816243245719558?t=9OCuB...
We don't invest or speculate with fiat money. We use it to acquire goods and services, and since most fiat currencies are (luckily) inflative there is a pressure to spend them and move the economy.

Apples and oranges.
I think the idea is that a loop in many cases doesn't express your intent. What you might want to do is to "set the property 'foo' to 'bar' on all items in an array".

What you might write is "create a variable and set it to zero, then iterate that variable as long as it's smaller than the number of items in the array, and do this between each iteration: take the item at the variables index and set its property 'foo' to 'bar'".

Of course any programmer will instantly see what's going on, but that's not from clarity but from prior experience and familiarity.
No, the logic in your last paragraph doesn't hold at all. You should read the Menezes paper rather than trying to derive this stuff from faulty axioms.
Of course, everything is possible, but resources are limited and so it matters that it's harder and requires ongoing effort to keep this right.

Edited to add: I retrospectively realised the above comment had an auto-correct mistake where "easy way" had been misscorrected to "way way" and so it wasn't clear I meant only that it's needlessly harder
There's a similar thing with Kitty, which has a pretty bad looking icon that has sentimental value for the maintainer. The maintainer has expressed that they have no interest in changing the icon.

I simply made my own[0] and replaced it on my machine, easy enough and I fully respect the maintainer's position. It takes 30 seconds to replace the icon with an alternative, in fact you can probably automate it if you wish.

0: https://github.com/k0nserv/kitty-icon
> I often spend just as much time reading through and digesting the comments here as I do the original posts.

I think most of us spend more time with comments than articles …
Exactly, so mostly only Apple apps have been redesigned.
Heimer is a simple cross-platform mind map, diagram, and note-taking tool written in Qt.

[0] https://juzzlin.github.io/Heimer/

[1] https://github.com/juzzlin/Heimer
Best turkey ever this year, new trick was buttering between the skin and breast.

16lb bird, brined. Followed the "in the fridge for 1 day per 4 pounds" rule of thumb. Loosened (carefully, without puncturing) the skin between the breast and smeared in-between with 2 sticks of herb butter. Stuffed it with 2 quartered lemons, 2 quartered onions, and a tied-up bundle of savory herbs (sage, thyme, rosemary) Put a couple pats of butter on the top as well, and started it off with 30 minutes at 400. Then reduced the heat to 325 for the remaining 3-3.5 hours. Tucked the wings under the bird on the roasting rack, tied the legs. Baste on the hour, when it's the right color, cover with foil.
Be careful with certain anti-bacterial drugs, they might affect your mitochondria.
They take I think 30 pixels across known positions on the screen and that’s apparently enough to recognize content without being able to look at your confidential data.
I started moderating my vitamin D intake a little last year too, the blood test is a good idea, but during the initial parts of the outbreak, everything was closed, and rightfully so, so I was relying on gut instincts and luckily didn't overdose.

I'm not a doctor, but I have read that Vitamin D also benefits bone health, especially in people of color. The price of the supplement went up dramatically last year, a $2.50 bottle of 1,000 IU pills here (East Coast US) costs now anywhere from $5.45-$15.00 now in retail stores. It's sad that opportunism is usually always the first move in health care in the US now. It's a shame how much better health (and even proper education on it) depends so much on income/wealth here in the US.
The basic measure of a countries "success" is GDP. You never hear any language (and yes the language is import here) about a country reaching GDP stasis, our current economic theory is it can always improve and grow. We even assume that the best interest rate target is not 0% preventing inflation but somewhere close to our nominal rate of GDP increase relative to our actual GDP potential. We assume that even "backwards" nations like Papua New Guinea should aspire to increase their GDP to "grow" into being a developed nation. "Developing" nations alone is the type of language that shows we won't take you seriously until you have grown your GDP to be per capita like that of the good and mighty nations.

Just by the fact alone that we assume the human population is growing, and that everyone should have at least the standard of living of their predecessors, we assume economic growth will occur. Of course this cannot happen forever I recommend reading this tidbit (https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2012/04/economist-meets-physicist...).

What decades are you referring to with Japan? https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG?end=2... . Japan's GDP slowed down for sure but it has certainly been growing. I think you are confusing the value of Japan's stock market which was overvalued drastically at one time.
Obesity is killing people for decades now.

Telling people "just get fit" doesn't work.
Voice telecom operators have this all figured out. Companies exist to function as interconnection hubs only and are very successful at it. Billing systems (mostly built on RADIUS) keep track behind the scenes of every second of voice call routed through these companies.

All it took was a regulating agency to force the telecom operators to open up and allow 3rd parties to interconnect to provide their own voice service and/or act as hubs. And all of that at regulated prices per minute.

So let's say you subscribe to Voiceflix for 5$/month but want to "call" Game of Towers which has a different techprefix so you're routed outside your network at a (hopefully reasonable) cost. Initially it will be expensive (remember the prices in early '00 per minute of voice call?) but eventually it will come down to earth.

So now you have two types of entities:

- content storage: tries to get as much exclusive content but for overlapping content tries to "bid" the lowest price so it gets the traffic.

- hubs that want to take your money and stream from content storage services and don't care which one has the content as long as it is within profit margin the user can stream it.
What are the weaknesses of Fudgets compared to real FRP as imagined by Elliott or FRP as seen in Elm or Reflex?
I don't understand why you single out Windows. iPhones seem to get owned by iMessage exploits regularly, every Android patch seems to include critical fixes to the media framework (if those patches even reach your device), macOS has had its fair share of exploits and viruses, and Linux is just not interesting enough at the moment.
Reading this triggered some good nostalgic memories of the time when pirating video content was a bit of a game to see who could amass the best (ie early release non cam) collection. Back in the late 90s I hosted a FTP dump site on an OC3…and it was a constant effort to keep up with evolving sources mIRC, CuteMX, Filetopia, Limewire, eDonkey, etc. Eventually I had something like 1000 movies but actually watched only a handful. Haha. Anyways, agree with the author that pirates are motivated by the “fun” of it - and it is a hobby for many.
I've always said that the neurobiology of sarcasm is woefully understudied
The scarcity of the labor is completely disconnected from the artificial scarcity of data.
Yes I'm only taking it to the limit of zero heating and infinite time to make the point obvious, but what's room temperature (I don't know Fahrenheit) 90F or something - call it that, point is that just the act of heating it at all, doesn't magically kill (e.g.) salmonella. Wikipedia lists 131F for 90min as being sufficient - that doesn't necessarily mean it's possible at all at 120F, however long you leave it.
It's interesting that SA has a pretty small population (compared to the world) and has produced 2 out of 8 (?) concerning variants.

It would be a small chance for this to be completely random.

South Africa has ~3M reported cases (~1.2% of global) and ~60M people (~.7% of global).
> Cuban coffee in a Cuban or Cuban-American home is almost always made with a moka pot; the Cuban concoction cafecito is made by quickly whipping the first few drops of moka pot coffee with sugar, creating a paste that both flavors the coffee and simulates a classic espresso foam.

We make cafecitos with a Bialetti moka pot in my house. It took quite a few tries to get it right, the sugar paste especially, but they're a real treat now that we have it figured out.

Here's our recipe and a few notes: https://snippi.com/s/jrn4ig3 Note that we're using brown sugar instead of table sugar. This is simply a preference.

Enjoy!
> blank spaces/tabs will kill a Python program

That's a lousy dig at Python. Stuff you solve with a free text editor and 15 seconds worth of configuration aren't real problems.
A meat thermometer
I didn't have a choice w my 3 kids. In fact I was forced to give my second child a name (we waited a couple of weeks deciding on a name) otherwise the name was going to be "Baby" in the birth certificate. We received SSN cards which laughably they had to sign. Interesting since I didn't get a SSN until I was a teenager.
MY network is plenty fast. I have 1gb down.

If they can't make it work with 1/10th of that, that is their problem, not mine.
I don't understand the premise of the question. Are you suggesting that a project's time to completion could be shortened if you are allowed to just out right use the script of other previously produced content, or use their footage? I really hope not.

Take the True Detective series as an example. The first season is highly regarded, and took forever for it to get made. Lots of love and effort went into developing that story. Because of its success, the producer was asked to do a new "season". It was litterally pulled out of thin air with no iteratitive development time on the story, and was univerally panned and the creator admitted this. The point? Sometimes it takes time to develop a good story. Just ask JRR Martin.
PHP runs the long tail of the internet. And somewhat accidentally, it also runs Facebook :-D
Not to mention the speed of fish vs zsh launching is quite noticeable, zsh taking a second or so longer to launch
disclaimer: i'm a co-founder.
https://joindeleteme.com/
we consistently find in our DeleteMe searches fairly "rich" profile info sold by data brokers and SEO'd on Google not just on our customers themselves but also their family.
This often includes: spouse full name and age (and obviously relationship) and, more disturbingly, children's names and ages. We try to remove all this via opt-outs. The implications of such full family profile data being easily available by simple Google searches and for sale "cheap" at data brokers are not imhop awesome. Lastly, leaving privacy aside, from a security perspective, do NOT use children/family members names and years of births in ANY passwords.
I'll wait until Alpha Go Zero improves itself to the point it decides to do something that isn't playing go.
The traditional ones are aluminum and therefore need an adapter to use on an induction stove which can be a simple ferrous sheet. The gp was quite obnoxious about saying that though.
It's also a lot easier for a virus to burn out when there's limited international travel.
Those are both hypothetical statements directed at an author, which nobody here has done or advocated doing.

And regarding 2, the original was a general statement about the existence and prevalence of (low) skill; not an indictment against any specific author of 'garbage' who may (or may not) be capable of better.
The trouble is the authorities won't learn anything - many could care less about science or history, they just care about power and influence.

I do agree that more dissent and conflicting expert opinions were needed in this crisis. Especially dangerous is the idea that "if only everyone did X", then all will be well. This is rarely true.

I think the government's role should be to transmit the best possible information available at the moment, give some strong recommendations and incentives (and change them when new information comes to light), but never use force and coercion. It simply doesn't work in the long run.
Surprisingly, YouTube comments can have a high signal-to-noise ratio.
I did sous vide but I didn't choose that due to any kind of overthinking. It's just the easiest, most idiot proof way for me. I started our turkey at 2 which meant we could eat anytime after 4:30. If we wanted to eat at 5 or 6 or 7, we could.
You would be some special kind of fool to think that what I call “death rate” isn’t the most obvious and only relevant statistic when it comes to describing vaccine effectiveness
Zig does not have a borrow checker and allows footguns with relative ease. It's a C replacement, after all.

Sounds like you want Nim.
The ownership and future of Mullvad VPN

"Mullvad VPN is here to stay, and we are not interested in ever selling it."

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2021/9/16/ownership-and-future-m...
Put your configuration for stuff like this in a private github repo.
Controversial Berlin law gives postdocs pathway to permanent jobs
I don't get it. So it was a disingenuous request?
Any chance of a copy of it, for testing my website with?
Observations of Starlink Satellite Downlink with Software Defined Radio
>After the Node incident, it's highly likely Ashley Williams is involved again due to her propensity for racism and sexism.

I didn't know what this was referring to so I looked it up.

Here's a Reddit thread which seems to be the genesis of the complaint (an archive link because the actual post was removed)

https://archive.md/VEtHu

Link to original Reddit thread

https://old.reddit.com/r/node/comments/6whs2e/multiple_coc_v...

NodeJS GitHub issue thread

https://github.com/nodejs/TSC/issues/324

HN threads

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16085545

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15115989

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16073017
More likely, this is because the DP didn't support HDCP (which requires a dedicated license while the DP port does not). I suppose the HDCP license cannot be shared between HDMI and DP.
Merging black holes may create bubbles that could swallow the universe
I think merged or not merged is not the problem here.

It's about learning from each other, so it's a win-win.

It's fine that your first PR doesn't get merged, just learn from other (reviews) and go on with next PRs. Just never give up.
Dead by Daylight Became the Ultimate Game for Horror Fans
> even if it turns out to be no difference in load, there is still less opportunity for selection.

How so? Load means number of virus particles. Number of virus particles increases with the number of replication cycles. The probability of mutation increases with the number of replications. So, same number of replication cycles, (roughly) same chance of mutation.
Considering I can get AAA games for $10 after waiting a year or so, I'm not sure if $5 for a decade old movie really that worth it.

A-la-carte needs to be substantially cheaper to realistically compete with buffet style streaming services.
In Finland it was over 50% last time I checked (BMI of 25+). Or it might've been deaths. In any case a significant number.
On one of huggingface's explanation blurb of a training set, they half-jokingly speculate that GPT was trained on libgen. Apparently Google won't reveal what book data it used...