skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Java people regularly refer to a particular JDK version as a Java 17 or Java 11, even though they actually refer to versions 1.17 and 1.11, respectively[0]. In Clojure land they just say 1.x, even when large new features are added.

I like this because it emphasizes the community's commitment backwards compatibility, which I greatly value. I've spent a good deal of time writing Javascript, where library developers seem to have very little respect for their users and constantly break backwards compatibility. In ecosystems like that, upgrading fills me with dread. When I see a library on version 4, I have learned to keep looking - if they weren't thoughtful enough about their API design for the first 3 major releases, I shouldn't expect it to be much better going forwards.

For an application, I'm pretty open to version numbers signifying big features - Firefox and Chrome do this, and it's helpful with marketing. But for a programming language? A programming language is a tool, and when upgrading you need to carefully read the changelog anyways. A programming language is no different from a library (in Clojure it literally is a library), and backwards compatibility is /literally/ the main thing I care about. Is my tool going to intrude on /my/ schedule, and force me to make changes /it/ wants instead of being able to spend my time making changes /I/ care about? I want to know that.

[0]This is apparently an awful example as I've just learned that Java is actually doing the major version only thing. It still sort of works because the only reason they can do that is because they Will Not Break Compatiblity.
1% decrease doesn't diminish their size and political influence substantially, even of the disproportionate elderly population. Then only a fraction of the remainders that lose a loved one would re-evaluate, a large fraction of them would still be bounced back when they realize the other ideas "your group" inherits is even harder to accept as a personality trait. Most of them will inherit just enough to not think further about the matter.
George Carlin: the planet is FINE!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHgJKrmbYfg
They're not that bad if they have decent wrist detection. I'd rather use a proper keyboard and mouse of course, but my laptop is quite comfortable to use with a touch pad (on Linux).

Although I don't buy into the whole gesture stuff. I just want the basics.
Well at minimum at least something, at maximum - fully what cryptobros already promise today (so that their messages won't be lies) - proof of ownership, transfer of ownership, enforcement of ownership, decentralization, universal standards and so on. Nothing special, only the things crypto fans already say today to the gullible buyers.
Definitely still the case. There are so many teams looking for people, anyone with a pulse gets spammed.
Doesn't this depend on how much cross-immunity it provides?
If it was an attack that one guy was specifically being attacked.
Obviously you can't do this here. I've banned the account.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
GopherCon 2021 – Generics
Which laptop do you have? I'd like to keep clear of it and its manufacturer when I'll have to buy a new one. My nearly 8 years old ZBook from HP loses maybe 3% per hour with 32 GB RAM to keep powered. It was much less with 16 GB. Don't you have a 128 GB laptop, right?

More seriously, did you check if people have the same problem with that laptop and Windows? Or some firmware update from the manufacturer to fix the battery.
Right. The 100m miles is more useful because it sets the scale of usage. 1 in 100 odds over your lifetime doesn't say anything about how likely you are to die at any given point in time. It's just that when you do die, there was a 1% chance it was in a car accident.
I mean... we eat biomass? Mass starvation will occur when we can't grow food anywhere. We literally grow the food we eat in a year in a year. I don't think it's ridiculously optimistic to assume that if starvation was on the horizon, we'd be able to spin up food production in the places where the climate allowed it, and this stuff is going to happen on the scale of years at worst, but probably the scale of decades. I think it's a hell of a pessimistic assumption to make that half the world's population is going to starve to death.
As an example lets pretend a majority of reports say a vehicle is moving forward and going to hit someone but the reports differ on the speed. Someone puts out a video with the vehicle moving backwards and an object in the video falling upwards. The correct response is you don't say "ha! all the reports are wrong, no one will be hit" because of the video. Even when a report says the vehicle is moving slightly to the left when moving forward is contradicted by a report saying the vehicle is moving to the right while going forward does not mean you dismiss both reports and assume that the vehicle is moving backwards or stopped.

If you don't want to expend the effort to evaluate the reports within the context of the greater body of work yourself that's fine (and absolutely sane) what's not a great idea is then going on to ignore the majority of experts on the subject saying this is happening and it is a problem.

Also your citation is poor. It's from someone who doesn't even understand partial pressures of gas (as evidinced by his claims CO2 participates out of the air in Antartica! He even sticks to that claim after having multiple people (including climate change skeptics) try to explain this basic principle to him) and a quick google search shows actual analysis on many of his other claims and debunks them.
but why are you so adamant on making everybody so perfectly safe?

there used to be something about freedom and risk; heck, about life and risk.

it's risky to be alive but it was more risky live way back in the day

at what point does safety begin to stifle the drive to live?

we as humans originally evolved in a risky environment, we thrived in it, we made it safer for ourselves; but maybe, just maybe, we also acquired a need for this risky behavior and without it our lives feel emptier?

the point I am trying to make (granted not very eloquently) starts out from this idea [1] that humans are kind of crazy, and that maybe this crazyness is what makes us so successful; so I put that too much safety may undo this crazyness, it puts it to sleep?

see also anti-fragility

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97jBvbmY03g&t=252s
Holy cow, that was a LOL from hell. Are you serious? 6-12 months is the biggest tease. "Here's this really cool thing, but maybe, if you're lucky, you'll be able to use it in a year or so." That's the quarter super glued to the floor kind of frustrating.
The real reason for the software as a service model is that it makes it easier to extract/capture value. Many SaaS offerings would be better at providing value to customers with non-SaaS architectures, unfortunately providing value to customers is second to providing value to shareholders.

Don't pay for SaaS, don't encourage this bullshit. If foss offerings don't cover your usecase piracy is better for humanity than paying.
> But doesn't this demonstrate that the selective pressures tend toward higher contagiousness but less severe disease? So if there were a new variant, wouldn't it likely be just more of what makes this one favorable?

No, evolution doesn't work that way.
After the dinosaurs were wiped out, millions of new species evolved. So causing a climate disaster that wipes out humans scores higher on the "diversity of life" scale than keeping humans alive. Live evolves. The Planet, "Planet" here as Gaia, will survive our extinction.
So fuck everyone else as long as I’m okay. You’re the exact kind of person that comes begging and unprepared when it finally effects you.
> That's exactly what I get. I can picture an elephant, rotate it around in 3-space, imagine how it looks and how I might draw it from angles that I've never seen an elephant pictured from, etc.

I can do this too, but it is not literally a visual experience, it is just engaging the higher levels of visual perception, not visual sensation in the way that a hallucination does.

Meaning like, if I picture something in my head, with my eyes open, it's not as though it could block my view of something in my literal vision. Which is what some people are making this sound like, which is why it's so confusing to talk about.
For something like spending or calories, you probably have to cut back under 20% or under 10%, and even that is hard enough on its own.

Trying to simply cut back for CO2 needs something like a 90% reduction to actually solve things. It could theoretically work but it very quickly hits diminishing returns and becomes a bad allocation of effort. Projects like actively replacing all our power plants, and making sure all cars have a minimum electric range, are much more "low hanging fruit" than trying to directly cut consumption that far.
The same company sells a standard three prong to two prong adaptor for $45. Package of three for a buck at my hardware store.

Admittedly for $45 you get a sticker on the side and a product that "treats it with 1,000,000 volts of electricity in a process we call Quantum Tunneling for an amazing transformation in sound quality from this modest plug."

https://www.synergisticresearch.com/isolation/accessories/qu...
> The narrative has evolved to suit the deficiencies of the vaccine and keep profits from sinking.

The narrative may have evolved but that was more due to the virus evolving rather than some conspiracy driven by Pfizer and Moderna to sell more shots. More people being vaccinated benefits everyone, not just the pharmaceutical companies, and saying otherwise is a bit paranoid.
How does this differ from what Fedora is shipping in Gnome? Touchpad gestures, sans acceleration are flawless.
€8.27
That's a fair question – but I'm going to assume the open-source nature is being meant with this.
yeah, I'd say my description could be pretty similar. But when it comes down to sparse descriptions, I think memory also has a role. My memory is not fantastic, so I might have just dropped the memory of eye colors, unless that came up a few times for some reason for me to fix that memory.

But thinking about coming up with an unknown, generic face (GAN style, if you will): I cannot see it. Or something simpler, an apple: very foggy visual+takes a lot of effort to keep seeing the vague blurry image I might be able to come up with.
Ok. Say it's a Python conference and you've never met them before.
This is an update by EFF to an earlier article posted about a week ago with significant discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29502439
Monoclonal antibodies, Florida is taking a early treatment approach and you can receive monoclonal antibodies as prophylaxis if you have been in contact with someone who has been infected[0]. Apparently it reduces the risk of death by 70% and the risk of even having symptoms in the first place by 82%.

[0]https://floridahealthcovid19.gov/monoclonal-antibody-therapy...
True, that's very typical in the USA! Still, I think it can make things pretty complicated with work colleagues, with people you have to see all the time and can't easily cut off without having to actually leave your job. As for me, I don't experience sexual attraction before an emotional bond, which is atypical. With that, take my perspective with a grain of salt
I did something similar leveraging SQL table and DB comments. In hindsight a migrations table would've been easier to understand and maintain. Still I could see an incrementing counter working for resource constrained projects.
Let me explain my downvote:

1) Obviously such efforts will help non-power users as well. A lot of people use touchpads.

2) Yes, power users also use touchpad. Duh.
> and even kids who are so impacted by at-home learning and impaired social lives they commit suicide.

Suicide rates may rise in future, but all the available data says that they have not gone up yet. This is using real time monitoring data.

> Don't lie;

Quite.
No it doesn't allow proof of ownership. Ownership is a set of intellectual rights encoded via laws. NFT can't do anything about IPs or laws, and won't be able in future.
Do you prepare your rollback snippets in advance? If not, how do you deal with urgent rollbacks? If yes, how do you make sure those snippets work in advance?
TIL Taoism is "dumb", well put.
You can't attack others like that on HN, regardless of how right you are or you feel you are. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and don't post like this again.

You may not feel you owe your target better, but you owe this community much better if you're participating in it. The damage this sort of poison causes to the ecosystem greatly exceeds any benefits it may have.
Is it art? Or are they just pictures?
We Now Know What Information the FBI Can Obtain from Encrypted Messaging Apps
Luongo: Davos' Last Stand Flops at the Box Office
Azure DevOps is just another runner for your migration. If it works from your machine it should also work in AzDO, so as long as the pipeline has direct access to your database.

> Where does it store the state of what scripts were executed so that it doesn't have to redo those the next time?
It stores this information in a table called "migrations".
Yahoo Finance shows -30% on BTC: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/BTC-USD/
It looks like some bug...
The headline says "with" and the first bullet point says "from". The first paragraph says

"the first publicly confirmed death globally from the swiftly spreading strain"
Trying to flirt can certainly be interpreted as harassing in the wrong context. If someone has never so much as said anything to you that wasn't strictly work-related or banal small talk, flirting with them is not likely to go over well.

In a different situation, where you and this person have been chatting, bantering about silly things, etc., they might be open to casual flirtation, since it's now not just coming out of left field... and you could still be wrong about how it will be received.

Been there, done that, apologized immediately and we both moved on from it to stay friends.

But that's the difference: realizing that you did something unwelcome and genuinely apologizing for it. Most reasonable people will be accepting of that behavior.
No one has ever found or been shown one of the affected boards.
Don't bother, all your projects will be rejected by openAI team.
I have spent few weeks working on 3 different prototypes... All rejected because of crazy rules about what you can and what you can't do with gpt3.
>literally the future head of the most peaceful faith on the planet.

Tibet was a much poorer place that was mostly serfs.slaves before China invaded. They lived in worst conditions. It is only in pop culture is is a religion of peace.

https://medium.com/illumination-curated/the-truth-about-tibe...

Unfortunately I would advise you to learn more about Tibet's dark history. I used to think that Buddhists were all peaceful until they justified rape, killing, theft and other genocidal actions towards the Rohingya. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohingya_genocide

Religions can be good, but they can also make good people do evil things. There is not a religion I know that has never had been used for evil. Do not group relidions, see people as individuals.

>sword rattling for Taiwan

They do not want to destroy it, they want to capture its infrastructure. The weather will force China to take it over in basically 2 weeks or withdraw due to the weather too treacherous.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/09/25/taiwan-can-win-a-war-wi...

> Yes, the Taiwanese Army projects that it can only hold off its enemy for two weeks after the landing—but the PLA also believes that if it cannot defeat the Taiwanese forces in under two weeks, it will lose the war! Yes, the disparity between the military budgets on both sides of the strait is large, and growing—but the Taiwanese do not need parity to deter Chinese aggression. All they need is the freedom to purchase the sort of arms that make invasion unthinkable. If that political battle can be resolved in the halls of Washington, the party will not have the power to threaten battle on the shores of Taiwan.
Emulating sum types in languages without pattern matching is extremely awkward, to the point of being almost useless.

type Result[T] struct {
ok: *T
err: error
}

Great, so how do you work with it?

* You can have a `ok()` getter that returns `*T`. Now you you need an `if x != nil`

* `isOk()` + `isErr()`

* `unwrap() T`, which panics on errors

* `split() (*T, err)` that splits into separate values, especially awkward since you both need `if err != nil` AND dereference the pointer

That API is more awkward then the status quo, and doesn't buy you any correctness guarantees because eventually you have to do an `if x := res.ok(); x != nil` or `x, err := res.split(); if err != nil {` anyway.

Pretty much the only convenience you gain are functions like `map()` or `unwrap_or`, but eventually you always have to take out the value and without being able to pattern match you can't get an API that improves correctness much.

(std::optional in C++ is a great example)
Konsole itself could probably be considered bloated. You can easily write a super functional and performant terminal emulator in 50-100K by only using the external dependencies that are absolutely required - i.e. on Linux, the POSIX/Linux syscall interface and Xlib. You shouldn't even need libc, but AFAIK on Linux it's extremely hard to not use it, for stupid reasons.

> To really compare them properly, you'd also need to make the typescript compiled into equivalent JS VM assembly.

That's like saying, to compare Usain Bolt and myself in terms of sprinting performance, you should consider the fact that I'm chubby for a fair comparison.
JSCharting v3.2 What's New (numeric and text animation)
Gross. It’s still going to be cold a lot. Endless seas of mosquitoes and biting insects during the brief summer. Hell on earth.
Certainly any large scale change will bring benefits for some groups and problems for others, but at a net level it is hard to see the benefits outweighing the costs for climate change. But all of those things are so hard to model and this article is one of the many pieces that points to that.

Curious questions though: If the Arctic region becomes habitable, who presides over it? Will it just become a haven for the rich? Can it be used as a model to figure out how to settle other planets?
Vaccinated people are between 60-80% less likely to infect others, and they are infectious for less amount of time.
It reminds me of an issue with the gsconnect GNOME extension. They apparently fixed it. I reinstalled it today and it seems OK.
Notice Bitcoin SV supposedly spiked to 467 B USD and is currently at 237 M. Because of this I supposedly have 5 M.
You don't need gestures or touchpad at all in a terminal. I surprised the touchpad doesn't go against some sort of ethos, then again, maybe that's why they suck so badly.?? Real coders don't let their hands leave the keyboard!
We are actually discussing this on the Weaviate Slack :-) https://weaviate.slack.com/archives/D02JM9D3HND/p16347312830...
Doubtful, I think Webb only sees in the infrared. Looking at the earth would blind it. This is why it'll be a million miles away protected by a fancy heat shield.
Honestly, it's not the looking out for yourself and not wanting to take a lowball offer that makes this come off as entitled to me, it's the idea that they were apparently so offended that they name names about the situation, and post what appear to be chat logs, just for what looks like a fairly benign negotiation fail.

It's professional to treat yourself and your time and skills with the respect they deserve and not bother with lowball offers. It doesn't exactly come across as professional to me to throw all this online for the world to see because apparently they either didn't want to pay (or couldn't afford) what they needed so offered far less than was needed. Maybe there's some subtext here which I'm missing or isn't explained? Did this company disparage her conduct or skills publicly or something? The level of the response (even how it's called a "hate story") just comes across as weird and overly petty to me.
Isn't Any essentially:

type Any interface{}

?
it's up to 1 Trillion now
With SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) we get desired-state schema management, which seems much better than writing any kind of migrations. In practice it works well, and the code you're writing is plain DDL. I wonder why it's not more commonly seen in other ecosystems.
Is there a description somewhere as to what it's doing under the covers?

A simplistic version could be just to ship a static binary of your shell over, like:

tar -cf - ./bash-binary | ssh $host 'tar -xf -;./bash-binary -c "echo hello world"'
I agree with you right now, but I wonder if I will change my mind after having had some experience using the new generics. Maybe it will feel more natural then?
Assuming if the banks are bad, please tell me why are we replicating them them again but in worse way? (opaque, unregulated, anonymous and usually sitting in offshore fearing IRS sanctions)
is this the fabled "moon" we've heard about?
REU is a bit of a cheat, and for some releases people are using cartridges with far higher capacities than ever sold back in the day. Cross-platform tools and emulation are also huge dev speedups.

But a big thing is that back then, games were often made on a timescale of months, and with a budget. Hobbyist dev has no limits to how much time they want to sink into doing something properly. Ideas & techniques have had many years/decades to percolate into existence.
Please don't post in the flamewar style. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Most of these seem to imply you don't remember the plan while still following it, so in a sense, you don't have a good reason not to talk about them, since you actually wouldn't know what to talk about.

That means the only thing I take from this is that you get really good followers by indoctrination which is a combination of leading by example, shaming/rewarding people at a social level, and possibly force or power, and that requires you to be sleazy about it, by never divulging the real motives to others. Maybe you can get yourself to believe in it as well to a point and forget, but that seems less likely to me, most likely you just got others indoctrinated to follow your plan without knowing the real reasons why, which eventually get forgotten to history.
You'd run into the same problem with Python notebooks. For a lot of data scientists out there, Python is a notebook based language.

The Stackoverflow thread had a few other interesting ideas beyond discarding the notebooks entirely.
Definitely weird. Coinmarket cap claims Algorand is >$1M [1] while the AlgoExplorer website says it is ~$1.30 [2]

[1] https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/algorand/
[2] https://algoexplorer.io/
After generics (coming soon), a proper sum type and then I'll shut up.
Where lambo?
EVs could lead to a resurgence of drum brakes
I had 1.3 Billion... I will be able to buy the 65 inch tv I always wanted!
Yahoo uses CoinMarketCap. Can't tell if new number is failover or overflow.
Coinbase statement: “This is a display issue only and does not impact trading”