skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same experience. Once I observed that most (about 9/10) times there are only 3 tiles to select, I stopped looking for a 4th and selected only the 3 most obvious.
That's true, though Perl was around when there weren't a whole lot of choices in languages too.
Oh... on second thought I realize the exception would have to come from `event.pointermove` (for example), and that object doesn't know anything about the receiver or whether it should cancel. So yeah, this does seem problematic.
Hopefully it's got that old-iron design where you can run it off used fryer oil or basically any other long chain liquid hydrocarbon. There's something to be said for not optimizing your engines too much.
Ask HN: Why is the universe depicted as a cone?
Given this links to a Penrose’s Hawking Points based diagram [1], i am constantly wondering why the universe - or its history is always depicted as a cone.

It’s hard to get my head around it since if there was a big bang, you’d expect a spherical visualization.

I am aware of WMAP and even if the reality is a, b or c - it all goes back to the theory of a flat universe, thus space time.

Since everything we see - on earth and through instruments in space - has three dimensions it is hard to understand gravity by showing a warped plane by spheres.

That works when showing the earth and its moon but is hard to follow once you add a galaxy, a cluster, etc…

Does anyone know of any good explanations and above all visual models that might make this more comprehensible?

Cheers and thanks!

[1] https://physicsworld.com/a/inside-penroses-universe/

Edit: Formatting.
"Do you agree to allow your data to be shared with 3rd parties as necessary to provide you with the best service possible?"

[races off to something much worse than you imagined with your data]
I checked those those 11 links to issues for major software. 10 bugs were actually in tests...
I agree with your general point (that crypto mining does come at the cost of energy for other purposes) but I'm not sure that's a good example -- I thought the energy input to fertilizer plants was from all the oil they take in which is chemically necessary; the major input isn't electricity per se, so being near a hydro dam wouldn't help.
That's a great trick. How much money have you actually paid doing this so far I'm curious though?
Water helps people live. We should all be constantly drinking water. We will be so much more alive. Every living moment: drinking water.
Ask HN: Why are cookie banners in Europe much more aggressive than in America?
I turned of my ad blocker for a while today. It disables most cookie banners (or auto clicks them, I don't know). So while it was off, I was bombarded with cookie banners.

What I noticed is how much more aggressive they are in Europ.

On US sites, the banner is usually a smallish banner on the bottom.

On European sites, the banner is usually a giant "in your face" banner in the center of the screen.

Examples:

US: https://www.cnet.com/news/

Europe: https://www.heise.de/

US: https://www.nytimes.com/

Europe: https://www.spiegel.de

Why this difference? Aren't they all trying to comply with the GDPR?
I thought calling it "statically-terrible" was unfair because Siri is getting much worse. Yesterday I discovered that asking it to play "Bring the Noise by Public Enemy" plays a dreadful Benny Benassi remix, even if you specifically ask for the album version. Apple's last big keynote led with some marketing of a voice only plan for Apple Music, and yet Apple Music / Siri has no concept of the canonical version of a song.

My favourite though is asking it to "play Richard the third by Supergrass", Siri responds that it can't find that song on Apple Music, so you ask it to "play Richard eye eye eye by Supergrass" and Siri responds "Now playing Richard the third by Supergrass".
It would impact poorer consumers, though not evenly. The population facing the most food insecurity issues, subsistence farmers, would be largely unaffected, since they generally aren't using artificial fertilizer.
>if there are really 20,000 armed fighters

we would see some pictures of them, so far the only armed fighters Iv seen were in Russian uniforms shooting on a move in a column of Kamaz Typhoons
In Ruby one too many commas can also cause problems:

# list

list = "a","b",

# function

def foobar

end

=> ["a", "b", :foobar]
Using "External File Versioning" on that page you could probably have it commit to a git repository. Then view that repository on GitHub or Gitlab to get nice diffs.
Something like 95% of people who get myocarditis from the vaccine will have it resolve on their own in a month. There have been 8 myocarditis related vaccine deaths total. Further, myocarditis isn't the only risk from covid (not is death), so your overall risk of serious (long term) complications is higher from covid than the vaccine.

I'm I man under 30, and got my (Moderna) booster. It was an easy choice.
Implicit things are rarely nice in code for production environments. It makes bug tracing and security much more complicated
Maybe there should be a chatroom for tipping off about simple bugs by users who aren't interested/qualified in proper bug reports.

So simple things like "Docs refer to wrong PR number" which can quickly be verified can be passed to someone already prepped and familiar to raise a PR.

I'd structure it so that documentation bugs where separate room from other kinds, and that way you would burden people to supply python version / run env or irrelevant things like that - just ask for a url link to the relevant doc page as mandatory.
history will be written by the winners

web 3 will come to mean whatever the next phase of the connected digital computing experience comes to be defined by

the money seems to be overwhelmingly on the "web3" cryptopia

money buys you brainpower so I would not underestimate that juggernaut

but at some point all this speculative money will seek an exit out of its zero-interest rate supersized echo chamber and into the "real economy"
Hey Varun, this is fantastic and I see a ton of good technical and ux decisions made here, esp. for your age! As someone who was pursuing similar stuff at your age, all I can say is you've got a really fun career just ahead.

It's so valuable working on these kinds of projects, where you're not just building things for yourself but actually building things for your peers to use. It'll create a feedback loop where you're iterating towards actual people's needs. Keep working on projects that people around you can use and you'll go far!
I mean the zen being wrong is kind of a meme at this point. The whole “only one obvious way to do it” isn’t just false but the exact opposite is true. Python is one of the most flexible languages with many many ways to do the same thing; more than any other language I can think of.
Adding to this fun fact, they used urine because fulling societies hadn't yet invented soap. Cicero's family were fullers. Caesar, Cleopatra and Socrates lived in civilizations lacking soap!
There's a local sewage treatment plant that's producing fertilizer[1] and selling it. Why couldn't this be done on a large scale?

[1] https://www.cleanwatergrow.com/
Britain invented and filmed the James Bond movies which surely have attracted more young men to the service than anything the Americans have ever come up with, right?
Top programming languages: This coding favourite just topped the list again
South of Fifth (SoFi) and north of 17th are where the pricier condos exist. The Flamingo Park neighborhood are older (1920s) bungalows and apartments. This is the neighborhood where most of the families, retires, and service workers live. So while I had a few friends that lived in $5000/mo Portofino, I making substantially less, lived in a cute walk up with a great parking a block away and my choice of ventanas nearby.
> I would have thought it would be a no-brainer to just ban it and insist on an explicit + operator.

Maybe as a matter of linting. As a matter of language design, I think + for string concatenation is a big mistake; using different symbols for numeric addition and string concatenation is something Perl got right.
I live in Northern WV and I'm fully aware that our rivers flow North, but for some reason, when I clicked on my area and saw the route run up to Pittsburgh before traveling South to the Gulf, I was taken aback.
- company builds a profile on your likes and dislikes based on commands you give

- company surreptitiously builds a profile on everything it hears, ostensibly for "training" their ML / AI

- data is viewed by snoopers within the company

- data on public figures is leaked to media / public

- data is sold to other companies you do business with

- data is used to build a "social credit" profile. Say something casuallu offensive? Forget getting that loan!

- data is accidentally leaked. Organized theft rings now know your routine, and the routines of everyone in your city all at once.

Then there are the odd stories of people who are expecting a baby suddenly getting ads for parenting supplies, or gift surprises being spoiled by recommendations, etc.

At the end of the day, FAANG are not my friends. They don't get to know things about me for free, and rarely are the goods they offer worth what they get in exchange.

I make some exceptions, but voice assistants aren't one of them.
Federal Income Tax Spreadsheet
Interesting! What a pivot - from Gas Pump Golf to Instagram for $1B /s
I luckily never accidently used this space-concatenation thing, but I've been bitten by the fact a=(1) doesn't create 1-element tuple multiple times in my early days learning Python.
Light-Matter Interactions Simulated on the Fastest Supercomputer
Exactly, I've been doing this with letsencrypt.
Some are already getting cancelled

https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2022/01/06/des-fetards-con...
Thanks for the links! I'll check them out.
No? Syncthing syncs your data to other instances of syncthing that you authorize, in a p2p mesh.
Solving the ‘big problems’ via algorithms enhanced by 2D materials
While I agree, this is somehow something I expect. Implicit string concatenation without operator or function around it sounds just like a terrible idea. It breaks the basic syntax concept of `foo X bar`. On the other hand it is probably very handy with DSLs and things like that.
More so, 3 FullHD screens (!) of text could be replaced with:

"Couldn't work on iPad because couldn't find a comfortable position after my injury, reverted to using a laptop"

It's even fits in the current %MAX_TWEET_LENGTH% (and probably could fit in 140 with some work). Okay, okay, you couldn't fit it in 140 chars if you add "and iPad versions of apps I use sucks d....". Or..?

"Ditched iPad for laptop: apps suck, can't sit comfortably after injury": 72 chars.

Between this type of posts (KBytes of nonsense spread with "responsive design" over multiple screens even though I'm clearly on a desktop with FHD monitor in the landscape orientation) and 30+ tweet series (eg Foone) I hate both.
Jup, josephcsible mentioned it before and it got me into a rabbit hole that resulted to the following research:

https://www.cell.com/trends/immunology/fulltext/S1471-4906(2...

I'm receiving external feedback based on my findings later on. I have a temporarily conclusion, but it's debatable because of lack of domain knowledge.

Tldr: too early to conclude anything with reasonable certainty
I was going to comment something like "who would even use this?" and then I remembered that I have in fact used that feature :) It's a somewhat "nice" way to write long strings and keep the code from getting too wide. I never did it inside an array, but I found breaking up a long string into smaller ones and wrapping them in parens without a comma was convenient, for things like error messages.

But that's just what comes with a hyper flexible language like python. You can do lots of things in lots of different ways, but you can also screw things up just as easily, and your IDE won't tell you because technically it's valid code.
yeah something like sonarqube or https://codereview.doctor (if you use GitHub)
Do you think things could be less than ideal before a facility reports a "critical staff shortage"?
Reportedly, 400 dollars so far. But also made significant progress, my life is shaken up.
Just to be clear, the V8 "bug" was in the test runner code and caused mis-parsing of command line options for testing for non-SSE hardware. Not exactly a critical bug.
they aren't very good at extracting data about the object based on the image

I’d say they are pretty good:
https://towardsdatascience.com/a-guide-to-image-captioning-e...
That’s a complaint against the entire type system, nothing to do with misspelling.
blosxom: The Zen of Blogging
The worldometers on recent cases is a MASSIVE SPIKE. It could be the prevalence of home testing, or it is just that omicron is that transmissable.

(Daily new cases graph is a fair way down):

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

that is 300% worse than the worst point of the worst outbreak we had of COVID before.

The death rate spike trails the case surges, so that will tell me personally how bad omicron is.

I had predicted we reach a million deaths in April or so based on a post-christmas surge matching the previous year's surge.

This virus is amazing in how well it is adapted to attack American social and political structures. It kills people we don't care about (medically vulnerable, elderly, poor) while almost being completely asymptomatic in the young and vibrant (and socially influential, all we care about is pretty young people in the US). So it undermines political support that would stop it.
It depends on the plant. Most plants grow faster at higher levels than the current 400ppm, so CO₂ supplementation in greenhouses is a thing, which you can read about if you like. Some plants grow fastest at levels around 1000ppm, and I think for others it's closer to 10'000 ppm, at which level it starts to become toxic for the humans. Of course if Earth's atmosphere were 10'000 ppm CO₂ we would see mass extinctions, major ocean acidification, etc.
Have you thought about buying a business? Take a look at websites like microacquire and see if that fits your lifestyle.
I dont think that's the same kind of thing. Your example is a tradeoff that anyone who uses a language that doesn't require explicit variable declaration faces, and it's pretty tough to argue such languages really shouldn't exist.

Missing an operator resulting in explicit behavior is much more subtle and not even obvious behavior. For those who use python, it is worse.
k-ah-gi as in tawdry

k-ay-gi as in lady

k-aa-gi as in laggy

Which one is it?
>which based on a quick Google search (hah) would be about 35 MILLION search queries

Public numbers are a decade old. You're off by an order of magnitude.
> I didn't make that argument.

Fine, but that's not exculpatory. What that means, then, is that what you wrote is a comment that has no bearing on the thing that I wrote.

Do you have something that is relevant to what I wrote—or is your input in the thread limited to the sort of dismissive, superficially-relevant-but-not-really pseudo-retort from your first comment?
I always keep in mind when I have my first cup of coffee in the morning that it might have a bit of the last breath of Elvis in it, or diarrhea from a T-Rexx.
Send a desktop notification over SSH:

DISPLAY=:0 notify-send "I see you"

In ~/.bash_logout:

[[ $(( $RANDOM % 30 )) == 0 ]] && espeak "I See you"

Straight up evil:

export EDITOR=/bin/rm
"At that rate, the 10 employees would have to work non-stop 24 hours a day, seven days a week to produce the 55,000 pages a month (and would still fall a bit short)."

The reporter suggests the FDA reassign other people to process the FOIA requests but I would prefer those people continue working on important things like reviewing the safety and efficacy of medical devices[1] and reviewing the safety of food and infant formula [2] rather than spending their time processing paperwork that will, at best, be used by anti-vaccine activists in social media disinformation.

I would be interested in seeing who this 'Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency' front group is. My guess is it's a group of charlatans looking to sell their own COVID cures similar to the doctor who produced the original study claiming vaccines cause autism (which was later retracted)

1. https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices
2. https://www.fda.gov/food/recalls-outbreaks-emergencies/alert...
You seem to also not know what "not statically typed" means. It certainly does not mean "not properly scoped".
> Emphasis on little, I think.

You must be fun at parties.

> I shoot for an exact number of liters

Checks out.
Are you saying that raising $100M makes a company ipso facto no longer a startup, or that some transformation that makes it a startup has almost always happened by then?

I joined my last company about a year before they raised a Series C that brought total funding to $95M, and I think that by almost any other definition it was a startup before and afterwards.

(And it was enough of a startup to do a "hard pivot" to something largely unrelated when the pandemic destroyed its core business model, instead of shutting down.)
Thank you, as you’re the only one who gets it.
The first time I encountered Prufrock, it took my breath away, and I was inspired by its beauty. I honestly cannot imagine my mind, then an English major, and now an aging fool, without Prufrock's influence giving me such a sense of deep pleasure at what a person, and by extension, all men, despite flaws, can create. It is foolish, I believe, to lay judgement on men of the past, without the context of the environment that shaped them. To deny ourselves the pleasure and inspiration of cultural works shaped by flawed men is to ignore our own imperfections and lessens the hope and confidence that we can do great things ourselves, despite our great personal failings.
I don't have ADHD, and I have this issue. I have (or have had -- seems to be in remission at present) issues with depression, which can also result in this.
I'm not advocating for capitalism, I'm just against socialism/communism because it fatally corrupts people's minds - watching local movies from this era is painful, as you can see the horrific distortions it imposed on the people from above. I mean stuff like parents teaching children to never stand out, never excel, never strive for more, never be different - in a panic try to protect them from state-mandated harm.
This is part of the reason why I’m excited for things like starlink - access that can’t be cut off for media companies in these locations. It’s going to go a long way in changing the power dynamic.
> You should behave as an employee like the employee you wish was working for you.

Why should I serve my employers interests over my own?

I will behave as an employee in the way that is most beneficial to me personally. How much I care about my employers success is 100% dependent on how much I personally benefit from their success. If my employer wants a better transition than 2 weeks, they need to start thinking about how to incentivize that behavior.
Less prerequisites for contributing. A lot of first-time contributors are overwhelmed and turned off by CLA's, style guides, and CI/CD, resulting in mainly corporate contribution to mainly corporate open-source.
Right- in the audio engineering world, this is basically a summing mixer.
I was looking for ways to automate tax planning [0] and found this website. It does US federal tax basically all in a spreadsheet. So now I can plug in my accounting numbers and get an estimate any time of the year. Pretty awesome.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29826395
The PR has been merged (for lists and tuples and sets only).

https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/pull/1655
Updates on the Jami Name Service – Part 1: Byzantine Faults
I was curious as well and it seems they are located in Japan, judging from another comment.
For an A/A/B test are you taking three samples (instead of two), and two of the three get shown the same thing (A)? Then you only consider the results for the B group if the two A groups show the same behavior?
Thank you! I had never heard of that site or one similar. I will look into the opportunities.
I thought in this context it’s pretty much irrelevant what Western countries do now - the ball is in China’s court. We can all stop driving and flying tomorrow and it won’t make a difference.
This is so cool, I'd order one if it were ever possible to manufacture them for a reasonable cost. Like many people, the GBA has a special place in my heart - in my case, envy because I wasn't allowed to have one, until I finally got an SP.

I wonder how much of this would have been possible (at a higher price point) when the GBA itself was designed. Probably quite a bit, but I bet the cost would have become prohibitive given the market.
Primarily: medication
Secondarily: being able to have a short hand category for looking up strategies to handle my own challenges and finding a sympathetic community of people with eerily similar challenges.

The medication has been surprising. I have all my life thought that I had anxiety. So I did various compensating behaviors to manage the anxiety. I now know that I was anxious because of my ADHD behaviors, and addressing the anxiety made things tolerable, but didn't really deal with the underlying problem. I am a curious person. I will hyper-focus on rabbit holes, which is a super power when you are hooked on a relevant problem. But if I should be doing work, but I am hyper focused on something interesting but irrelevant (like, for example, the history and usage of the Shopsmith woodworking multi-tool), it creates anxiety because I should be working.

The drugs are helping me control my focus better, which is something I have never been able to do. I just had to ride the current before, but now I feel like I have some control of the current.

It's not perfect, I am still sorting things out, I have only been on this path for a few months.

I think that "ADHD" is poorly named, because I don't think of my hyper-focus as "hyperactivity". And I don't really think I have "Attention Deficit", so much as difficulty controlling where my attention is directed.
Cockroaches smell terrible, but I suppose Stilton does too.
This change would break a lot of legacy code for no good reason

The most common way to split a string in lines is using this concatenation formula.
north will become south, and south will become north

i expect a switch in the coming decade

it's speeding up

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/earth-mag...
Sure I would, if someone else can pay 50% more than my perfectly reasonably manager could.
Cool!

I tried to drop near the North American continental divide to sort of get a random path to the east or west, expecting pacific or to the Mississippi river to the Gulf of Mexico, and it wound up ending the the Great Salt Lake of Utah.

TIL... thanks!
It's interesting how some Wikipedia articles are carefully fact checked and other articles at the same notability level were clearly written by PR hacks. I do my part when I find the latter. I remember going back and forth with someone from Theranos who tried to insert really promotional stuff into their article years ago. Guess I got the last laugh there.
More generally, I would say that any advice of the form "don't do X" is useless unless paired with "instead, in that kind of situation, for the goal(s) you were optimizing for, do Y".
Does Python support the concept of allowing code to opt in to new safety features? I can understand rejecting something like this for the sake of legacy compatibility (something Python has abandoned too readily in the past), but it seems like an option—or maybe even a default—might be nice.

I suppose this is also something you could catch with a linter?
I have complained a lot about HN's rewriting of submission titles[1], but this was amusing. This title was rewritten to "BlOS Xom: The Zen of Blogging"

[1] why do they have to silently rename the submission, I could much easier stomach a note like the "x characters too long" and needing a confirmation.