skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This sounds just like human behavior of retribution in the mob and street gangs. Or even Twitter. Fascinating.
You had my agreement until

> (Also screw all Python programmers, what a bunch of losers with their indenting rules and PEPs. Weirdos. Whenever you hear somone say Python is good or interesting, run.)

Even as a jest, it's a poor representation for the Perl language.

Python has problems but has enjoyed success for a few reasons.[1] I think one of the worst side-effects of Python is that Python programmers tend to look at any powerful language with disdain if it has any non [a-zA-Z] characters. "Can't we just replace everything with Python?!"

Becoming a language bigot -- or joking like one -- does not help.

Perl can stand very tall on its expressiveness, stability, speed and simplicity.

[1] I'm going to say...

a) Python is more readable, but makes the crazy compromise of using whitespace as logic.

b) Python has adequate threading for many use-cases.

c) Python's built-in OOP has better affordance than Perl5 OOP. BUT... Perl enables building anything you want. If you want a dictionary with only two methods, you can build it. And Perl5 will have a more modern OOP implementation.
A system in which soft robots “evolve” to walk or climb
I see your point, I guess it makes a perfect sense.
We are not stronger than chimps. Our arms certainly aren't.
This article is based on a Reuters report it links to: https://www.reuters.com/world/china/amazon-partnered-with-ch...
Ask HN: Best Reviews?
Where do you like to go to get "good" reviews? It could be for any subject like computer hardware, books, movies, etc. My hope is to avoid SEO hell, and get honest, competent information. If you don't have specific places, maybe you can suggest strategies or tools you use for wading through the junk to get to useful information.
I kind of find the minimalist interiors most enjoyable and refreshing. I’ve driven cars that, in comparison, look like a Concorde cockpit and that’s not a design win.
Supporting Remix with full stack Cloudflare Pages
Present it
More than anything C should have had "slices" (aka fat pointers) added to the language. They wouldn't solve issues like use after free but they would enable sane ways of working with strings and buffers like every other language in existence.

Instead we got VLAs (now deprecated) and _Generic. Neat but who cares? The C standards committee doesn't really know what to do with the language it seems.
Sorry buddy, but a troop of larger monkeys would tear any dog to shreds -- doesn't matter the breed or size. They're fast, strong, agile, and smart.
I found that Modern Perl to be quite good.

http://www.modernperlbooks.com/mt/
Nice post. I like the focus on developer experience rather than just performance.

Workers' implementation of pipeTo() is indeed optimized to avoid entering the JavaScript isolate at all during the operation. I agree this probably explains the performance difference here.

For setting `Content-Length` on a streaming response, Cloudflare has a non-standard extension called `FixedLengthStream`. It works the same as an identity `TransformStream` except you pass the expected stream length to the constructor.

Example: https://cloudflareworkers.com/#c2a014c7f67df83f9ad3ea90e9c60...

We would of course prefer to implement a standard API here, but at present there doesn't seem to be one.

(I'm the tech lead for Cloudflare Workers.)
Man dies after he is shot by the police with a stun gun and catches fire
One of the early patch sets had a much higher speed of light; but it was eventually fixed.

There's debate about further revising it in a future release; but no consensus on if it needs to be faster or slower. People kept hard coding it as a constant so the legacy issues would make the tachyon situation look simple.

More seriously: when the Universe was smaller and denser could the speed of light been higher, analogous to speed of sound in higher pressure and density materials?
An NFT is a URL. Anyone can sell URLs pointing to anything.

I can mint and sell NFTs of something you hold the rights to and there's nothing legally wrong with it.
I agree that there is a complete culture mismatch. People come in with a mindset shaped by Silicon Valley and the nonprofit sector. It all seems to be about "organisational growth" and making money, money, money. Lots of committees, bureaucracy, policies written by people who have never contributed one word to Wikipedia, pages and pages of management-consultant-speak on Meta.

The "Universal Code of Conduct" for example which they are intent on ramming down the community's throat is a complete disaster. But rather than looking at the problems with the text, they are busy having another committee write enforcement guidelines for it ... even though no community has approved the UCoC.

Generally speaking, the Wikimedia Foundation has had some really poor leadership over the years. Well, let's say "mixed" to be charitable.
> Is it not just timing? I thought the effectiveness of the vaccines only lasted around 6 months

No, it is not (just) timing.

"Three doses gives better protection than two doses ever did" (1)

Immune response is very complex (2) and we're not experts; but we should not measure it in just 1 number: that gives the impression that the response is a range from "high alert for this recent threat" through to "threat forgotten" - effectiveness did not last that long.

There are there are other states as well when the threat is "on file" in the immune memory. Another exposure months later influences this process. My guess is that the evolved heuristic is that "a threat that recurs more is worth remembering better".

1) https://twitter.com/PaulMainwood/status/1460191035531878405

2) https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/08/covid-19-...

3) https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/09/waning-i...
This is great! Wish our senior director would understand this. The man loves the idea of butts in seats for long hours and can’t wait to have us back in the distraction riddled office.
Can you get absorbed in a movie or binge watch a TV show? If so, I suspect your attention ability is still intact. You just need to re-practice consciously directing it again. I still struggle with it too, but was able to "get lost" in a book again. It was key though to move my phone way out of the room, and was hard to get started.
As opposed to netflix users who are more likely not to binge because not having ads and having the next show play makes it less easy to binge?
I hope the dog is stronger than these guys:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAWy9DqsnU0
But the article argues caution, not at all what you're arguing.
For what it’s worth they are reducing their pricing by $15 while they figure it out.
Which is to say they know right from wrong.

I doubt it

"Law of the jungle" and all that
i had a non-french canadian company (i'm ameri-can) try to get my domain name twenty years ago.

they wanted to buy at some point, i asked for something they shit on -- maybe $10k? -- they said no, sued me thru icann, i won -- fuck them -- and twenty years later i let the domain expire, and they got it and now use it.

they could have paid what i wanted, or worked some kind of deal with me -- i'm often a reasonable person -- but once they got testy, it became unlikely that i was going to make a deal, and once they went to icann, it was never going to happen unless i got rich from selling it, or stop caring about it.

my first response to the french would be like, 'go fuck yourselves. i love french people and french culture and french fries and for saving us from the brits, but you particular guys are a bunch of assholes -- and your app sucks -- vive la france!'.

i'd prob try to ping an IP lawyer, then just hold onto it forever, or until they met my price, which would be some very significant sum, based on the company's revenues/worth.

i don't know domain/ip law, but "don't buy and use a domain that is used by some asshole french company" doesn't sound like law to me -- unless maybe it's a '.fr' --- then maybe.

i'd make them pay for fucking with me. 100%.

this is still gd America (if that's where you are), and we got some serious mf property rights (too many, imo). time to use/abuse them mf laws just like those french assholes abused the rules of decency. :-D
>I would look at things getting parsed and throw some fuzzers at it. Maybe data mining Github to use some real world strings for it. I think with that approach even my normal sized brain would find problems.

Given that you're mentioning fuzzers and a decent source of inputs you could use, I think you're either underestimating yourself or overestimating the actual "average" of software developers.
We both are stronger and have more stamina than macaques. The biggest male adult macaques are 18kg. That’s probably more that the average adult can raise with one arm but not by much and I insist on average. That’s nothing exceptional for someone in shape.

Considering the weight and power in a human leg, a swift kick would seriously harm and probably kill an average macaque. The issue is not strength here.
I am not a programmer but can read Ada Language :D
The Space-Out Competition Where People Do Nothing
Boston police bought spy tech with a pot of money hidden from the public
Wish we would stop saying "use a cloud service" for everything. People can and do operate their own hardware, manage their own databases, and build and maintain their own application stacks. I don't know how we got to this point of learned helplessness where now we just have to use cloud providers for everything.
Another possible reason is that the user can load help pages or search results even if the primary browser is broken, has a corrupt install, etc.
Use Twitter to follow the most widespread tech magazines maybe? Wired, IEEE Spectrum, Quanta Magazine, and so on. You will get a comprehensive number of articles and references about the hottest takes and the flavors of the month.
> Why are people surprised

Who said anybody is surprised?
Monkeys are also capable of tool/weapon use.
I think the natural point of comparison with C here would be printf().
> Another problem, one tech people tend to ignore, is that journalism is as much about values as facts. And so long as we disagree on values, collections of consensus will quickly turn into competing consensuses, each motivated by values that aren't recognized by the others, which is exactly what we have now.

A classic example here would be the widespread believe that "all politicians are corrupt", good journalism would A.) point out that the corruption is not equally distributed and B.) There is no other option than condeming those who get corrupt and electing non-corrupt representatives.

That means instead of seeing journalism as a pure source of information, it needs to be recognized that journalism performs crucial functions within free democratic societies, that go beyond pure distribution of facts.
It’s interesting that the correlation gets weaker over time.
There's also late night talk shows, reality TV, etc. I don't really watch any of this and, hence, don't get cable TV any longer but many do. I think just having something on in the background is appealing to some (although there are alternatives to that).

My sense is that there's very little really interesting scripted TV on non-premium streaming broadcast/cable at this point. I certainly haven't heard of any "must see TV" on any of the networks or even stations like AMC for ages.
An NFT might point to a URL or it might represent a self-contained digital asset. Yes, these are Art NFTs which generally (but not always) point to an external URL.

I certainly don’t see the value in releasing NFTs that represent public domain images if they don’t come with actual utility.
In regards to medical “fact checking” at least ( though obviously extended to pretty much anything ) the same people who tell me men can get pregnant and women have penises are the same ones telling me the vaccine is good. The same people who “fact checked” covid passports as a conspiracy theory a year ago and the same ones “fact checking” it as effective and necessary now. The same people who call me selfish for wanting to live normal after so long and the same ones having galas and parties for themselves.

I don’t know about you but I don’t like being gas lighted.

I do not believe fact checks. They have zero credibility.
What's "GenuineIotel"? Did an actual processor report this ID?
They are all accelerating away from us, in every direction.
Just looked it up and wow this is actually true! I'm feeling very confident of my upcoming booster now. Guess I'll just hedge my bet by buying Pfizer stock.
At this time it is much better. I can sign up for a service for a month and binge some shows. Then cancel the service and repeat for another offering. By rotating the services I subscribe to each month I’m effectively watching the content on all the services for a low monthly rate. Eventually these companies will charge an annual rate but right now it’s much better financially and otherwise than cable tv.
>There seem to be two camps here...

Third camp reporting! Here's my take (as a Bose product user):

1) Bose QC-35 II headphones are a hazardous product that, in at least one instance, has spontaneously burst into flames and caused chemical burns while being operated according to the manual

2) This product does not come with appropriate warnings[0] that this is a possibility, while, according to comments here, hazards of the battery used are common knowledge among engineers

3) The product's manual instructs the user to take the headphones off if they experience a "warming sensation"[0], indicating that the engineers were aware of the risks, but neither the risks nor mitigation were not described in the instruction manual (compare this with the labels on something as common as epoxy resin)

4) The OP should report this incident to CPSC (as they did[1]!), since this is the body responsible for keeping track of such incidents and that will be able to act upon them if there's a pattern of them happening

5) The medical injuries sustained by the OP are unacceptable; and at the very least, Bose should pay for the medical treatment and resulting productivity loss, as they occurred at no fault of the OP, who trusted Bose's device to be safe to use as described by Bose. (Reminder for our friends outside the US: we don't have universal healthcare)

6) There needs to be some incentive for companies to ensure the safety of their products or actions. In the US, this seems to be (punitive) damages, whereas in Europe it's more through stronger regulations.[2]

7) If the OPs report is true, I also hope they sue Bose. It is important for all of us - people who use Bose products, their roommates etc - that they thoroughly check this incident and make sure it never happens again. They will not do it unless it costs them money and bad publicity.[3]

Please let me know what's so radical about it, as many people seem to get angry about it.

And fully with you regarding treating others with respect (particularly, it's sad to see the OP being called "hypochondriac" and their concerns dismissed as "paranoid"). It is, as you said, unbecoming.

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Disclaimer: I love my Bose SoundLink Mini II speaker. I bought it, for myself, with my money, which was fully worth it. IMO, it sounds better than any other speaker of the same size that I tried.

That doesn't excuse this situation happening, nor how Bose handled it so far.

[0] Bose QC-35 II manual: https://assets.bose.com/content/dam/Bose_DAM/Web/consumer_el...

[1] As per https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29602614

[2] In the words of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29603800

[3] In the words of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29603321
The current bug was either found or first exploited by Minecraft trolls, to bring down servers and clients via chat.

If you want to find issues in a code library, embed it somewhere in the hot code paths of a game or DRM system to maximize the number of eyeballs looking at every single instruction.
New Flying Car: A UK Startup Aims to Bring Its Flying Car to the Market by 2028
Do they just, like, not have a QA department over there? Have people really still not understood that they amount of resources spent on QA must be exponentially proportional to dependents count? And that QA, not software "engineering", is the most important job that requires the most highly qualified people?
>New York’s attorney general is investigating the death of a 29-year-old man who was badly burned when he was shot with a stun gun after dousing himself with hand sanitizer during an altercation with police officers, officials said on Thursday.

This is strange. What kind of hand sanitizer was that, if it was in fact hand sanitizer ? The alcohol content is really low and evev if you light the thing directly, most of the content is not flammable.
20 Reasons America Is No Longer the Greatest Country in the World
I’m not sure which is more alarming - that this happened in the first place, or reading some of the hateful negative comments here and on his post. Can we not just acknowledge that a fellow human got hurt and see how we can do better?

Personally I find OP’s experience helpful - it never occurred to me that a failure like this might happen, and it causes me to question if I want to keep using my wireless headphones.
Oh I'll also say...one trick I've done sometimes is to read using the kindle app or if it's a PDF, xodo...where I can highlight. I treat it almost like I'm reading a website.
Zero value to me now that ESPN (Monday Night Football) is off the platform.

I hate it, but I really do pay that much per month to watch a single game a week plus have the convenience for guests having access to "regular TV".
I think Disney is hoping it’ll drive people to sign up for Disney+ which cuts out the middleman at the cost of not being able to channel surf but instead opening an app.
+1 to the CMU database group channel. High quality content with excellent (not to mention often entertaining) presentation. The recent Quarrantine[0] and Vaccination[1][2] tech talk series’s have been especially interesting.

[0] https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSE8ODhjZXjagqlf1NxuBQwaM...
[1] https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSE8ODhjZXjbeqnfuvp30VrI7...
[2] https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSE8ODhjZXjbDOFN4U4-Uv95-...
Something not being a done science is one of the core assumptions of science to begin with. Any statement where further progress is excluded is not scientific in a strict sense.

In my opinion scientists (and everyone else) should be allowed, maybe even encouraged to fantasize. Fantasizing, play, shifting around assumptions can help progress. But the problem arises if we accept anything a scientists says as scientific truth.

Understanding that science is always evolving and that scientists often need play and fantasize, increases trust and accelerates progress. We need both to face the challenges of nature.
I think you’re generalizing way too much. Java is old. The libraries are old. There is a lot of bad old code out there, and very little glory in fixing it.
Even the estimated time was right. I'm impressed! HN does seem to be the best customer service hub for tech cos.
The options are nim c --styleCheck:hint --styleCheck:usages (you need both). Though not on by default you could put it in your config.nims or nim.cfg's to make it on by default for you or for your code.
Outside the US, yes.

Inside the US, the term swapped to refer to social-liberalism rather than classical-liberalism during the great depression.
SQS vs "Postgres Queue", I think mainly:

- Closed/lock-in vs. Open/lock-free

- Rigid data access pattern vs. Very flexible SQL access

-Managed by AWS vs. Managed by you/your team (although you could use one of those managed Postgres services to reduce ops burden)

- Integrates well with other AWS services (e.g. Lambda, SNS, DynamoDB, etc) vs. No integrations with AWS ecossystem out of the box
The same term is used for cattle. I guess species at the top of the food chain choose the terms of art. I wouldn't be surprised, though, to learn that the monkeys have their own sound/ utterance to mean the killing of people.
It's posted to HN. You wouldn't see "${western_city} Animal Control Removes Stray Dogs from Park After Child Killed" on HN.
Find the subreddit for whatever niche you are looking for reviews in, sort by all time top posts and do a url analysis :). You may also find some outbound links in the comments.

For cannabis reviews, give my site The Highest Critic a try. [0]

[0] https://www.thehighestcritic.com
Let Nadia Murad Speak
Afaik they do this because they wanted to avoid admitting so many Jewish students in the 1900s.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2018/09/14...

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/03/histor...
More than 10k new Omicron cases confirmed in UK
Would you care to elaborate as to why? Is productivity or Pareto optimization universally more important than agency? How did you arrive at this conclusion?
Related video from Nomad Capitalist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnZ-C-42Vds
For papers in computer science repo below lists a good number of resources

https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love
HG Wells speculates about this in The Time Machine. The futuristic humans lost their revenge instinct and are helpless against their subterranean tormenters.
I forgot to add: Socrates actually does sort of say that even writing is okay—as long as you're doing it in the right spirit (seeking truth) and are not deceiving your audience.

In the Phaedrus, Socrates rails against the "speechmakers" who don't truly know what they're talking about, but instead write based on "what is likely" to persuade the audience.

And yes, in the later dialogues (e.g. the Republic), many scholars agree that Plato used Socrates as his "mouthpiece". I don't care either way, they're insanely fun to read.
Do you think this could change ?
The reddening is because of the additional mass of the dark-matter-containing structures, and also because the distribution of the dark matter into halos allows for slower orbits of stars and gas clouds, thus suppressing their non-gravitational non-cosmological redshifts. (In an edge-on spiral galaxy without dark matter we would see a greater difference in the blueshift of one extreme tip of the thin disk and the redshift of the opposite extreme tip of the thin disk, compared to the same spiral galaxy with dark matter; the light-and-radio from the central bulge would be less redshifted in the absence of dark matter).

This is the exact opposite of the truth. An edge-on spiral galaxy without dark matter would have less extreme observed rotation velocities (comparing the blueshifted and redshifted sides of the disk), because only the visible mass (stars and gas) is relevant. But in practice we see higher rotation velocities (greater difference between blueshifted and redshifted sides) than can be explained by just the visible mass, and so we have to postulate extra mass in the form of "dark matter" in the galaxy.

(Dark matter halos are not just dark matter outside the visible galaxy, they extend all the way to the centers of galaxies, and in fact become denser the closer to the galaxy center you get. Of course, the visible matter also becomes denser the closer to the center you get, and usually faster than the dark matter does, so the central regions of massive galaxies are dominated by the visible matter. But there's still dark matter there, and in some dwarf galaxies, the dark matter even in the central regions.)