skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article doesn't mention the Hijri (Islamic) calendar: if a bank decides to use it, the length of months and number of days in a year are variable, dependent upon the visibility of the moon.
DoHQ! Internet interop ftw!
> How do you suggest the removal of a dictator should occurs? A stern letter?

I am not going to suggest how anyone should achieve their political goals, nor am I going to engage another "ends justify the means" argument. I am simply pointing out that calling armed isurgents mere "protestors" and putting them in one cohort with protesting civillians is a very blatant attempt at misinformation.

> Is ‘bandit’ a common translation that gets used

It's a borrowed Itallian word, widely used in both roman and indo-european languages, not a "translation". Please don't accuse me of "parroting" something when you base your assetions on such illiterate mental models.

Thank you for the link, but I don't suppose hackernews crowd really needs some journalist of a state-owned political media explaining complex politics to them.
You can join me in a mourning session because when I stumbled upon them years ago I never took the effort of so much even writing down their names so now it's a blank stare from me, sorry... :(
> I respected SA for that. And I think it was on topic for them given the anti-science sentiment transpired from one of the sides.

One of the sides? Like Biden and Kamala saying they wouldn't trust the Trump vaccine?
You have no way of knowing if a developer squashed locally...
I would consider setting up an LLC. You can do it as an individual, it offers legal protections if you are sued and doesn't double tax you like a C-corp will.
Not to be confused with:

https://www.bumblebee-project.org/

which also expanded use of the Linux kernel in new ways.
just was about to post that. that opening chapter horrified me. i had to put the book down and come back another time
RSS feed embedding/autodiscovery is a thing. I don't even remember the last time I've bothered with a feed link.

https://www.rssboard.org/rss-autodiscovery

Back in the day, I think Firefox even put an icon in the address bar when a feed was available.
California Considers Doubling Its Taxes
Generally, I've found that if it's active at all (requires a click, reading something, opting-in etc) the vast majority of people will miss it.
theworknumber.com is yet another symptom of a much larger problem in that it is currently impractical for a regular person to enforce their rights via the court system.

According to Peter Thiel “If you’re a single-digit millionaire like Hulk Hogan, you have no effective access to our legal system...” https://theintercept.com/2016/10/31/trump-fan-peter-thiel-sa... So never-mind the non-millionaires.

However it is really nice to see efforts by some regular people out there setting up services such as https://yourdigitalrights.org which is the service I just used to request my information from Equifax. It will be interesting to see what comes of it. I suppose if they do not respond in 45 days I'll file a complaint with the CA Attorney General to put yet another ping regarding Equifax on their radar. https://oag.ca.gov/contact/consumer-complaint-against-busine...

This shows that ultimately it is the regular people who drive progress, while the powerful and the wealthy just take credit for it.

Ultimately United States will transition to European-style privacy laws when it comes to private information like income and these credit agencies will be abolished, but the way to get there is for the regular non-millionaire people to exercise whatever "rights" they kinda have to ultimately get these annoyances shut down.
It's just a coincidence that these companies that have been working for years on this stuff failed every single time in the past, but then within a few weeks in early 2020 they suddenly figured everything out.
>Poland is actually being sanctioned, AFAIK, for 1M EUR/day as of now for some violation.

That's 0.5M/day related to dispute with Czechs over environmental impact of Turów mine. It seems PiS strategy for negotiating with Czechs is just completely ignoring them, which lead ECJ to impose fines.
In theory yes, but they are quite a bit larger than AAs, so a significant redesign of the shell and battery compartment would be needed to accommodate them. They would also make the handheld bulkier and heavier. Meanwhile, these devices are already designed to accept AA batteries.
Makes sense. This might sound counterintuitive, but my solution is to make sure that I'm always working on multiple projects, which I call a "project stack." It's a mix of professional, social, and personal projects, so the proverbial well never runs dry and I always have something to do with my hands.

For example, in my system, "travel to X continent" is itself a project, existing alongside multiple other projects. I find this pretty helpful not just for staying in motion, but also for avoiding that sense of guilt that I haven't been productive on days when I'm dealing with these kinds of environmental change. It's a reframing: "It's not that I've been unproductive while moving. It's that I have been productive on my moving project."
Given our current understanding of mathematics and physics, it is much more plausible that a mathematician (or small team) could achieve a breakthrough advance in prime factorization than that an inventor (or small team) could achieve time travel or an FTL drive. Plausibility is not essential in speculative fiction, but it improves the sense of being grounded, and tends to make ideas age better.
Sweet Jesus. I hoped that after Israel became front runner for the Pfizer vaccine, there is no stupid shit like this.
Since now, multiple concurrent connections will work after my patch. (Need to add subshell) i will need to consider using fd as output cache. Instead of temporary files.
If you find this topic interesting, I highly recommend John McWhorter's course, The Story of Human Language. It's available on Audible / The Great Courses. I learned a lot and was fascinated throughout.
We bought it new. It’s not the type of thing to take a chance on!
Of course bloomberg doesn't understand NFTs.

Can we please stop with all the NFT stupidity that's been going on. At least here on HN people should be able the make the distinction.

NFTs (Non Fungible Tokens) is just a method to represent a unique thing on a blockchain (it's a 256 bit int), and some extra functionality to transfer ownership and approve operators. Take a look at the interface [1].

Metadata can be attached to this ID. People make the mistake of thinking they bought an NFT of some pixel art. They in fact bought the pixel art. The NFT part of it is the representation of the ID on a blockchain (and the functionality around it)

Using NFT to represent game assets seems logical, that's a step above the pixel art peddled as something of value, when the only value is purely speculative.

[1] https://docs.openzeppelin.com/contracts/3.x/api/token/erc721
I see how my comment was badly worded and misunderstandable, my point is to refute the strong undertone that a nation can only ever be allied with one side of a cold war bloc as outdated, overly simplistic and completely missing the actual reality of politics and economics in the region.
> Please explain what part of that comment is false?

This one:

> This document shows that 1223 deaths are linked to the Pfizer vaccine in the first 90 days.

“Occurred after” ≠ “linked to”, and the document does not show the latter.

EDIT: in fact, it provides detail (for at least those causes I reviewed, didn't do the whole thing) on reasons why the specific “occurred after” events should not be considered “linked to”.
The PhishBowl page it links to is great!
https://informationsecurity.princeton.edu/phish-bowl
Behavioral standards within the Game Boy modding scene aren't great. Lots of other PCB projects (reverse engineering and original boards alike) have been stolen with credit stripped; novice end users demand Apple-level support for hobbyist projects regardless of what level of support the creator is able to provide, and for these full console PCB projects many people overestimate their ability to perform the necessary soldering (ask me about my OEM AGB firestarter...actually please don't).

None of these issues are unique to this scene but it's what we have to deal with. I'm not expressing this so that it can be debated, because I don't represent everyone's thoughts, but there is a fair amount of regular self-critique around these issues and our approaches.
Only the rich should get FOIA?
A Wordle clone with options for 3-7 letter words
Vile.
The problem of people starving to death due to high housing costs is not going to be solved by blaming it on single developers buying at a lower price and selling at a higher price, a thing that every business does.

What would solve the problem and help people is writing articles about who is causing the supply of housing to be insufficient relative to demand, and how political power can be re allocated to increase the supply of housing.
Do you mean if the song has a vocalist singing? At the Music Technology Group (https://www.upf.edu/web/mtg) we have some classifiers that do something similar there are some demos at https://replicate.com/mtg/music-classifiers, see the output of the "voice_instrumental" classifier. This is built with a dataset of examples of instrumental songs and songs with singing in them. Normally classifiers are trained on timbre of the song to identify this.
Earlier versions of this classifier are also available at AcousticBrainz: https://acousticbrainz.org/
If your worried about it why open source it?
Many of those documents contain personal medical information.
ReScript Programming Language: Fast, Simple, Fully Typed JavaScript
I love Glengarry so that's a pretty spot-on recommendation, I'll check it out
Your addition is your interpretation of how we might meet 1) and 2). There are other options, like addressing the causes of high CoL. Whereas you can't really fix severe intellectual disability or argue what exactly "dying from hypothermia" actually means.
Also it automatically pops if you have a Volvo, at least that’s what happens whenever I pump it.
How does one "instigate riots"?
Then it should be unpatentable - you should be able to patent a novel technical solution that's necessary for a desirable feature, but not the concept of a feature; patents are for "how to achieve X" not for the outcome.
I still think it sounds nice.

Is the place you grew up intrinsically so much worse than the rest of the world? Would it be so bad to be invested in a single community for a lifetime, and to have a deep connection to the people there? I feel like I lack that, deep connections where the pull of cultural influence goes both ways. I'm not convinced that the cosmopolitan breadth of experience we may have gained outweighs the deep experience of locality that we sacrificed to get it.
It pisses me off that hearing aids are so expensive in the US. The model that I wear costs around $3500 per ear. That's $7000 for both ears! I am "fortunate" (sarcasm) that I'm completely 100% deaf in one ear, and so I only need one hearing aid. Two would be insane.

And most insurance won't cover any of it. So people with worsening hearing have to settle for off-the-shelf models from Costco or something, and they're losing out on a lot of life from it.

I don't know how to fix this, but hearing is so important to having a vibrant and successful (and productive!) life that it rustles my jimmies that it's so prohibitively expensive...
I mean you could start with the abuse of power mentioned in the article.
mitigations=off

is IMHO a save thing to do on a single user desktop unless you have nation state level adversaries
The computer parts of Wargames were good, but the military parts were hilariously silly. When that movie came out, I was working in the missile business at the time. It was a good popcorn movie, but that's it. The hype of being a serious movie was advertising. The only bit of the military part they did right was the interior of the Launch Control Facility, the room where the two officers turn their keys.
Removing that last layer doesn't gain you all that much in high humidity conditions, and in some situations it's going to cause you sun protection issues.
The "ISO Standard" argument against inflation is that it favors the capital class over the middle and lower class, because money loses value over time faster than capital does. This means it steals from the poor and gives to the rich, because the upper class puts most of their wealth into capital, because they have a higher return on investment, while the poor and middle class store most of their wealth in savings accounts, because they need the ability to access significant chunks of their wealth in a hurry if they suffer an emergency (the rich have "lots" of cash on hand, too, but it is a smaller fraction of their overall wealth).

This seems like it implies that a deflationary currency would be better, but it does not, because in a deflationary economy, the behavior of the rich would change. In effect, the rich would keep most of their wealth in cash, while the middle class and the poor would not be able to change their behavior at all. The middle class family that has 50% of their wealth tied up in a house would still have that wealth tied up in a house because they actually need to live in it. A rich investor who owns hundreds of houses in the current economy would, however, move their wealth into cash and sell the houses. It might help the housing market, but it would screw up the currency market in exchange, and would probably not do anything for wealth disparity.

In short, "wealth" is the ability to make a wider range of choices. Both paths, deflation and inflation, favor the wealthy over the poor because of this.
"certainly doesn't have an SNES-level FM synth."

the snes soundchip plays samples.
How? By enacting the will of an authoritarian majority, of course.
I think you are kind of right on this, for me the “really cool thing” is seeing the routs not the fly through. I wouldn’t be surprised if that was the same for most people. I think it’s one of those cases (which I have done myself, multiple times) when you build something and you think the best thing is this clever thing you built, and you love it, but actually the basic functionality is the “cool bit” most people want.

If it were me I would not have an auto play at all but a really big fat arrow pointing at the play button saying “this fly though is really cool”. Might not seem “professional”, but it works from experience.
That adage is meant for tasks that require a large amount of coordination, e.g. large software projects. This is no such task.

It's like saying you've got a large wall that needs to be scrubbed clean, and having 10 people do it at once would be slower than having one person do it. That is obviously not going to be the case.
> This jaw-droppingly moronic.

It can be slightly inconvenient but doesn’t feel moronic to me. It means that except for the built-in functions, everything can be traced to either a definition or an import. Makes tracking code much easier.
I'm still confused where they're asking for a pan-Europe government to step in and force a country to cede some of its sovereignty to it (the EU) and calling that liberal.

That strikes me as slightly different than, say, a coalition breaking up a human rights-violating empire and RETURNING democratic sovereignty to its people.
Someone recently emailed me that they had found my website through https://stumbled.to/ and I was delighted to discover:

> Stumbled was created by Kevin Woblick to revive the famous discovery experience StumbleUpon offered back in the old Web 2.0 days.
NJ resident.

Being able to refuel your car without stepping outside is really nice, especially in winter. There has been attempts to repeal that law to no avail.

The only drawback is if there aren't enough employees you may need to wait a while. This is especially annoying at Costco where there's always a line.
The claim is absurd even if its factually true. Why would you possibly care about CO2 when visibility is 4 blocks, your lungs are filled with coal dust, life expectancy was 2 decades shorter, and kids are dying of polio and smallpox? Its missing the forest for the trees. Its a paperclip maximizing argument... advanced by a human!
Debt is necessary to invest if you don’t have sufficient savings. To say that we can do away with debt is the opinion of someone who both:

- already has a good stash of resources, and

- is incapable of seeing the point of view of a poor person.

Also, all debt is very much not magic money. Most debt represents very real, hard value. Businesses routinely provide goods and services to each other with 90 or even 180 days to pay.

You’re confusing all debt with speculation and irresponsible borrowing.

If some Americans want to borrow $200k to study an arts degree, does that mean all debt is evil?

If somebody somewhere overeats, does this mean humanity should swear off calories?
One of the absolute coolest things I've seen here.

However, I would absolutely love to be able to play it without running kubernetes. Geometry wars Was an awesome game
Hopefully they also statistically validly sampled the full patient information.
As the creator of zenAud.io I'd like to congratulate you for this super cool app. I wish you all the best with your release :)
RE: your second point, it can easily be covered by a declarative DSL with a few conditions (in macros / code generating constructs).

Example: in Elixir you have the so-called streaming functions you can pipe to each other that can do e.g. filtering, mapping, chunking and what not. But they don't actually operate on the data you passed them; they generate further functions and produce chains that only start working when you put a certain command at the end of the command pipe.

This works really well if you work with a collection of 100_000 elements. Since Elixir is an FP language, you don't want to copy this huge list, say, 7 times one after another (assuming your transformation pipe has 7 stages). By using the streaming functions you only use the original list and produce a final list. Just one roundtrip to the memory.

But... it has a performance impact and it's definitely not worth doing if your collections are e.g. less than 1000 elements, maybe even 2000.

A declarative DSL can easily cover for such cases and have separate code branches addressing them.

RE: tinkering, obviously. I am not saying normal programming should be "banned". But it's about time we have higher-order programming, man. We're all collectively slacking off on that and should be really ashamed!

The rest of your points I don't see how to automate and that's OK. Like any tool, declarative programming should be used sparingly and only where it truly applies.
It's idiomatic in C.
I don't buy that "shepherding" is a strong inherent quality of a language, except in the negative sense that a language can make a particular style of programming impractical, and I don't buy that calling for "discipline" in a language is a denial of its inherent nature. "Discipline" boils down to acceptance of the lessons of experience, and it becomes easier over time.

Around the turn of the century, Java seemed to require a lot of "discipline" because the people who were embracing OO at the same time they were embracing Java did all kinds of stupid things. They created deep object hierarchies with unnecessary layers and strained relationships, and their systems were slow because simple operations like formatting a date required ten different object allocations and acquiring a mutex lock or two. The GoF patterns book, a good and well-intentioned book, was co-opted as a kind of extremist OO programming handbook, so that if you got stuck trying to apply OO to a problem, you could always find a way to move forward by adding even more OO. Languages like Java enabled this (some said encouraged it) and a lot of people thought it was impossible for programmers to rein in the tendency for Java codebases to blow up with OO excess. Meanwhile, a lot of fanboys thought that OO shouldn't be reined in, that the way out was through, and they doubled down on their principles.

In other words, OO was the hot new thing, and early adopters using OO languages like Java had a tendency to spiral into an OO frenzy that created ridiculously convoluted codebases and slow, complex systems.

But this wasn't inherent to Java. It was a combination of Java's ability to write that kind of code, along with a naive zeal for exploring the kind of solutions you could build using inheritance-based OO. Even the fanboys warned that you could, if you weren't sufficiently dedicated to OO principles, write procedural code in Java, putting your logic in static methods and your data in behavior-free, non-encapsulated record-style classes.

Twenty years later, we no longer think of Java as a language that infects people with an insatiable desire to create inheritance spaghetti, which they can only resist through discipline. It selects for people who are infected with that desire, sure, but an average programmer coming to Java will be leery of building complex inheritance hierarchies and using inheritance to solve problems it isn't well-suited for. It isn't discipline any more; it's just something people know to do, for their own sake. Building deep inheritance hierarchies and FactoryFactoryFactoryFactories is foolishness, not the one natural way to use Java.

Right now, I think something similar is happening in functional programming. I wouldn't be surprised if every fundamentally new programming model suffers from the same growing pains, until the lessons are learned, blind optimism becomes educated appreciation, the zealots are forced to find something else to be fanatical about, and we no longer say it takes "discipline" to avoid the pathologies but merely an awareness of what has been learned from past mistakes.
Foray implies it was a break from his previous trajectory.

He founded a mass surveillance company and is generally right wing/conservative.
https://github.com/facebook/folly/blob/main/folly/docs/Overv...

This has library contents: it’s a mix of various utilities - type conversion, data structures, memory management, random numbers, concurrency, etc.
I don't know if we could get all the required nitrogen to sustain our current agricultural methods, but there are definitely people working towards normalizing the capture and reuse of the nutrients in urine. Our current practice of polluting waterways with our urine is a travesty though, and it behooves us to process our 'waste' in a more regenerative way.

See https://richearthinstitute.org for more.
I feel like most people in this thread aren't understanding thoroughly that this game is telling you all that money is worth less every year incrementally, I wonder how long this can go on.
Huh.

I have a very nice 64-DX/C-65 on a shelf in the lab.

I also have a factory sealed, brand-new-in-box, Sun Sparcstation 20 :)
> If the test suite is ten hours and you have ten commits on a branch then it quickly becomes silly to bog down your build servers

That's a fair point, but I would say that if you encourage your devs to make each commit logical, meaningful and self contained, this is worth the extra cost.

Also, you don't need to run ALL unit tests - just the ones affected by commit you are testing. This of course requires a build system with good dependency analysis.
> It’s me cynically suggesting that they’ll do that just to get rid of this annoyance.

Yes, i was just making a joke about how google kills things.

> That’s what Facebook and many other big companies would do.

I feel like this is pretty common across industries, idk why FB gets called out?

> I don’t know if Google has done in the past but it wouldn’t surprise me.

I can't remember anything they bought after losing a suit, but they did this with Moto, and i think also Kodak.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2011/08/google-to-buy-motoro...