skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ancient Mesopotamian discovery transforms knowledge of early farming
Waifulabs is certainly a good marketing instrument for Arrowmancer. And regardless of whether the game gains traction it will be a great showcase in case you ever want to offer this as an API for other mobile game creators.
Organizing a crime in conjunction with other people is an offence in basically every jurisdiction, including the US.
Is a forkbomb also a Quine(s)? I love this famous one from Dyne.org[1]: :(){ :|:& };:

[1] https://jaromil.dyne.org/journal/forkbomb_art.html
Ah, "rumors of my deaths were greatly exaggerated".

My opinion is something like:

Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies will not die, but long term the current ones will become fringe techs except for some of their aspects which will be merged into the mainstream. It's too early to know which aspects will remain and which will go away. Plus at this point we cannot evaluate the beneficial/negative aspect of cryptocurrencies as a whole, but the general impression leans towards negative (a ton of negative externalities and 99% of the time used for raw speculation and we could have used those resources for things more beneficial to humankind).
For me the answer is it's both.

A 1000+ group isn't really a messenger service anymore.

A 20 people family group clearly is a messenger service.

So IMHO the question is where is the limit? And is the
limit based on other factors then just the number of involved
people?

Also pushing this IMHO this doesn't change any of the problems they want to change. It likely even makes them worse.
This isn’t what we strived for. It’s what we compromised upon
What are the changes for people who don't want to use TS when they consume TS from JS ? The packages are shipped as JS with additional definitions.

The stripping part is just a fallback option if you decide to move away from TS, you never actually use that in practice.
I will probably be banned from any Haskell forum after that, but isn't the do notation a async, and the <- a await ?
That's a strange thing to say. Are you suggesting that the German people are especially vulnerable to committing society-level mass crimes (compared to other nationalities) and thus have a duty (to who?) to be extra vigilant and tough on themselves?
Yeah, duh. The argument is that there is a group of people who wants types and write libraries. Before they used JSDoc, which is effortless to use from JS, as it's just actually vanilla JS. Some of those started using TypeScript now for everything, including libraries. If I want to use those libraries, I need to fork the project and rewrite them to vanilla JS, something that was not needed before. Or find a different library/write it myself.
People describe anything and everything they don't agree with as 'fraud'.
I'm sorry on what planet do you live? Up to the point of food (and probably after) I was thinking you were being ironic, but though HN are reputed for humor, could you not humour me and explain why food prices would skyrocket? Basic foodstuffs are cheap, even in Switzerland, 500g of good cheap brown bread at Migros cost 1$... noone is taking noones savings away, according to google Switzerland spent almost 17B$supporting the swiss franc in 2021...
yes the common joke is swiss are apoplectic at having to stop work (thereby dying of appendicitis?) however reality is they have one of the highest suicide rates currently , due to burnout? and imo are a society where fear of the future is one prevalently to keep (people)change in check...
This is such a great advice, thank you for illustrating it with such an impactful and personal background story.
Here's my totally unstructured thoughts on it.

Most programming being done is either DB backed CRUD APIs & UIs.

For the first part, having to write a REST API is mostly repetititve, not same but similar logic.

Some well designed ORMs & automatic wrapper generators get you quite far (compared to hand writing SQL), but the mismatch is still there.

The best backend language will natively work with database. I haven't worked with many technologies in this, but spring data jpa looks like a good initial step to look at.

Second one is UI. Reactivity is the norm but languages are still mostly procedural. Look at all the state management confusion in eg. Flutter.

Svelte is a quite big step here. I think UI language of future should have reactivity built in.
Ahah, will do, my optometrist I think!
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/tree/master/test

I work on D too, feel free to email.
Oku – The companion app for your book shelf
I know about that option, but the price per port, including RJ45 transceiver, is huge compared to 1 Gbps ports. Also it is limited to 4 ports only - even for home use it is not enough, all the switches in my home (more than 3) are 8 ports and above.
I would suggest that an opinionated website documenting a curation of crate choices might be better than a crate (which would be a pain technically). I’ve been considering making one if you’d be interested in collaborating.
You mean like this?

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/collections/index.html
So true!
I don't understand why the government does not provide grants to open source projects that help the most people.
Things are changing (i.e. Sweden & France using Matrix), but I see some projects like public infrastructure (roads, sewage, power lines.) If they are good and strong enough, a business can piggyback on it and be more efficient.
Google Chromebooks were very disruptive to the educational environment that Apple used to own.

I am a huge fan of the iPad, but it is definitely too expensive for the educational market. I would love if they released a durable version.
I don't think drawing a line to that thread and coloring the expectations one would have about it is not very fair.

"Ending work" conceptually is more about the need to rethink work, to eliminate bullshit jobs, to prevent most of the value workers create to end up in the pockets of bosses. It's more pointing at the problem than offering a solution.

I disagree a bit with "middle ground", but nobody here is proposing we all turn to stereotypical mad-max style anarchy. (There are far better styles of anarchy to consider after all)
I was arguing that languages are following the "add async/await" trend recently, including rust. That other comment brought up that it exists in C# for a long time, hence not a recent trend.
> Occams razor clearly indicates it was engineered at this point. We have had years to prove it was zoonotic, it's not.

You and I have very different ideas of what constitutes a proof. Failure to prove A does not imply ¬A and how/if Occam's razor should be applied here is an open debate.

> > It is a plain stupid move, politically, to outwardly entertain the idea that COVID was engineered - unless you've got proof so damning not even China could ignore it. Unlikely to exist. And even then it is only going to score you a few feel-good points with the plebeians at home.

> Not sure I agree with this point. There's a wide gap at this point between 'engineered to release and attack the world' and 'lab leak because they were incompetent.' Which is exactly what was already established. Many sources clearly indicated they werent following basic safety procedures at that lab.

This is not addressing the paragraph you quoted at all. Was this supposed to address something else?

> On the contrary. They cannot do their job effectively without doing exactly this. If we ignored reality like we did, they now will react inappropriately. Which is what happened.

This sounds to me like you believe "people saving lives" is referring to Fauci and colleagues. It's referring to the tens of thousands of researchers and doctors sharing data on treatment, studies, and tracking the evolution of the virus and its variants around the globe. Fauci's job is to enable them to do their work, not make it harder. There is a very real threat that if accusations were levied against China on the political stage, cooperation would cease or become more complicated. Remember that China comprises about one fifth of the world's population.

Is it really a mistake to forego an opportunity to gloat and score some cheap political points at home, swallow some pride, contain the urge to point fingers, whatever it is, to save lives? And that's not even considering other ramifications. Just because you believe someone fucked up does not mean it serves to immediately rub their face in it.
That's one of the tough parts about headline interpretations because you're right. I think editors use it as a sort of con knowing it can leave them with a way out. Here's an NPR headline using the same term that could be seen as just as misleading:

"Scientists Debunk Lab Accident Theory Of Pandemic Emergence"
April 22, 2020 4:08 PM ET
https://www.npr.org/2020/04/22/841925672/scientists-debunk-l...
I don’t think the specific number is important and the theme of the post seems to be about reading more.

50 is just arbitrary and I still like it better than “how to read a lot of books each year.”

I don’t think the goal should be high quantity. But the goal should be developing a habit of reading and getting good information and/or pleasure from books.
Hmm, I think "sun" predates the revelation that stars and "the sun" are the same kind of thing. I think Sun can mean both/either the (terran) sun, as well as other "sun"(s).
The main thing that makes „far right“ look not that bad is downplaying the term. Now it's super easy to become neonazi/far right/fascist/antivax and whatnot. But once you get called names once and the world doesn't stop... Stigma is gone and then good luck trying to establish that this position is just a little bit wrong, but THAT is truly bad.
"Trust the science" I think has been corrupted a bit in an Orwellian way by the likes of

>Dr. Fauci On GOP Criticism: ‘Attacks On Me, Quite Frankly, Are Attacks On Science’

whereas I'm more into

Feynman: The principle of science, the definition, almost, is the following: The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific 'truth'.

War Is Peace. Freedom Is Slavery. Fauci Is Science.
This isn't just a random scapegoat. It just happens that the company (Ecohealth Alliance) proposed the gain-of-function research on the virus to DARPA, which was subsequently rejected as being too risky. NIH later funded similar research to the same company for its work in Wuhan during 2020.

I'm far from a conspiracy theorist. But, what are the chances of this being coincidental? The "from the wild" theory doesn't have any evidence either but requires more assumptions. Occam's razor.
> There are very few young and healthy in the parts of the country where vaccination rates are low

I'm not quite sure what to make of that claim. There are an awful lot of unvaccinated young people in the USA.

"13.2 million of US children and adolescents ages 12- 17 are fully vaccinated. [this] represent[s] 53% of 12-17 year-olds"[0] (as of 5 Jan 2022)

also

"Child vaccination rates vary widely across states. In 10 states, at least three-quarters of children (age 12-17) have received at least 1 dose, and in 16 states, fewer than 50% have received 1 dose."

[0] https://www.aap.org/en/pages/2019-novel-coronavirus-covid-19...
I think they want something like a ‘map!()’ macro.
Yeah, just saw it linked [in this comment](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29902330 ).

Currently, it seems most helpful in aggregating some of the arguments folks put forth in examining claims, including describing the basic issues and linking some references. Plus it seems to offer some insight into what folks are thinking.

Then from an academic perspective, I really like the sort of approach that they're trying to use. A well-developed implementation of that general approach would seem like it could be awesome.

That said, dunno if I find their current methodology or numbers too convincing, as far as actual conclusions go.
good json parsing is important these days.
crypto is a must too.
golang's crypto is really good (ssh, tls, sha, md5..)
Right now in rust we rely on rust bindings to c libs.
> Minecraft Raytracing and Quake Raytracing are rather low-specs and probably would run on an RX 6500 XT.

[citation needed]

Strictly speaking, it will "run", but if it run well that's another thing entirely.

It was the reason why the meme for heavy game morphed to "but can it run Minecraft RT?" for a while.
https://archive.is/HbjIQ

(it was blocked for me because it's a VPN service provider)
> Where will you draw the line between public and private – at the moment your consumer-facing app is on github, but less "server side" stuff (in common with many other VPN providers).

All source code for all software on our VPN servers must eventually be public, and all build artifacts must be reproducible by 3rd parties.

> I understand that probably you want to keep the database of "active numbers" private, but if I understand you correctly, you want to move to a model where anyone can download your in-memory image, run it in a VM, and audit it independently.

Exactly, but we will also have to measure each artifact in the boot chain into the platform TPM, and allow anyone to issue a challenge to the TPM to get a signed quote of the boot chain measurements.

> I would welcome this. I'm particularly interested in how you maintain access to your bare-metal machines (e.g. do you have ssh / a serial console enabled)

We’ll have to constrain our own ability to access the VPN servers. We cannot be allowed arbitrary root access as that would make the TPM measurements meaningless from an audit perspective. Well, you’d be able to conclude we have root access, so not totally meaningless.
Further north, it's mostly spruce.
> Any epidemiological connections to WIV? There aren't any

I am neither a geneticist nor an epidemiologist, however my understanding is that as further tracing of early cases has occurred that the earliest cases identified were employees of the WIV and predate the case cluster that started in the wet market. This was one of the strongest pieces of information that swayed me towards believing a lab leak was likely, and that it was most likely accidental rather than purposeful.
sometimes I feel like it would be better for everyone if we had one engine that all browser makers contributed to.

This would mean that there is only one engine that needs to keep up to date with the html/JavaScript spec and then browsers would then be competing on features rather than if a web site will render correctly.
I've been working in the UK for just as long, if not longer, I've gone through multiple DBS checks.
> So its okay for people to leak addresses of politicians and call on other to kill them?

To leak their addresses? Yes. To call on killing them? No.

Knowing where your elected (and/or unelected) officials live is very useful for civic purposes. It helps to identify various forms of corruption.

Case in point: when I lived in Finland, our local municipality had 6 snowploughs. Only five of them were ever really in used for clearing out roads. During the long winters, the last one was essentially parked, with a person inside, next to a particular neighbourhood. It only cleared out the roads in that neighbourhood, and the roads directly connecting to it. That neighbourhood housed the chair and two other members of the town council.

Being able to associate uneven allocation of public funds and the home addresses of those deciding how the allocation is done is useful, and I claim, even necessary.
Exactly. Same thing in the China-not China relations.
IMO rust is much easier to learn than both C and C++ for anyone who is not already familiar with those languages. I suspect it will pick up adoption merely because people don’t want to deal with C or C++.
Stupid it may be but it is not unethical. We live in supposedly free world and one has full right to decide how their work is to be used. Don't like it, just use GPL or whatever license you might want to concoct to prevent / limit corporate use.
Yes, some scientists did and they didn't want speculation and suppressed the fact with political means. There were other scientists that did entertain the thought publicly and they were branded as being anti-science. Just for entertaining the thought, not for saying the had any conclusive evidence.
No, I'm saying we should look at the actual data to make a decision to see if they're worse than human drivers and whether potential future payoffs of improved self-drivings are not worth running the experiment any further without modifications.
Additionally we should also look at the first derivative, even if the numbers are bad today they might be on a trajectory where they'll be great soon.
> My other big beef with Rust is its lack of a comprehensive stdlib, unlike Go.

I think many of us are feeling these days that the rust standard library might already be too large and it's better to be very conservative adding stuff there or only after an extended period of time of independent vetting. I have yet to not experience that standard libraries turn into very stale and outdated things relatively quickly that carries an enormous maintenance burden.
As they say “we have yet to find a problem that blockchain doesn’t solve”

Now we can add heat death of the universe to the list!
The answer to your second question is yes IMO - I read HN comments for hours but don’t have the patience to read a book and digest it’s contents - a skill that is tested on the SATs and many times in college which I sucked at.

FWIW I started reading Artemis last week by Andy weir after watching the Martian
Industry funded TR-069. It is a lovecraftian nightmare, not even open-source efforts could salvage anything useful.

Another industry funded FIX. It is just a bit less of the same.
Combine the speed benefits of C++ with the freedom of lisp. I don't think it's possible.
this is a fantastic answer for several reasons and I’m commenting because an upvote alone just doesn’t do it justice.

> I also believe your conviction could be turned into your strong asset - you already have a unique and genuine story to tell

I so love this. It reminds me of Frank Abagnale, Jr., whose story is told in “Catch me if you can“. He went from convicted felon to savior of the banking industry and implemented a ton of solutions to the very things he exploited.

> you could get a speaker slot any any AML|Legal + tech related conference.

this is also a wonderful suggestion that could help you rapidly reframe your story.

> I also believe going informal networking is more efficient then going through the formal recruitment process

Can confirm this is crucial. I am the son of an executive recruiter who placed a ton of CFOs into midsize startups back in the dot-com days. When Mom was teaching me how to land jobs she suggested only using job boards and the like to get a feel for who is hiring and then networking in.

Would be even more important with special circumstances like yours. People hire people, not resumes for the most part.

I also know at least one company who specifically hires only ex-cons (in construction so this isn’t directly relevant to you) to help them get on their feet and keep them from repeat offending out of desperation.

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The rest of this post is wonderful too but I don’t have much more to add to it.

The nice thing about jobhunting is you only need one person to say yes.

Reframing your problem into an asset and thinking about how you could uniquely help the industry could set you apart in a positive way.
True, but I see a trend where everybody is trying to "hack" reading by listening to audio books on 3x or other tricks which is a complete nonsense for professional books and absorbing the information.
what do you mean by banned? You got it the other way around, async is a special case of the do notation, and await is the special case of <-
It’s an indication that you read a lot.

I don’t think it’s useful for sorting people or friends, but it tells something of someone’s preferences.

Of course people can fudge the numbers or read tiny books or whatever but that’s like cheating at video games.

I don’t think the goal should be broadcast or talked about, but having some goal is useful for prioritizing time.

I also think that there’s no absolute number that good and I’d rather read 1 Brothers Karamazov than 10 pulp sci-fi. But a book a week is an easy to understand target that means you need a habit. Some books will be long and some will be short, but averaging a book a week means you probably spend a lot of time reading.
Golangs stdlib is very nice to work with.
BlackBerry made a very success business doing exactly this for years.
Add me to the club. I'm rooting for Julia for ML as well.
Doesn't the presence of uniform "bullhide" copper ingots at prehistoric sites testify to widespread trade already? Folks running metals all over the world were likely not just carrying the ingots.
The kids were lucky they didn't need his help in the end (less flooding than worst case scenario) and the old white expat wasn't even a rescuer.
Mlibc: Portable C Standard Library
PaulGraham hypothesized this way earlier in a tweet. But the important realization to me was that not all riches are the same. Not all rich people have access to the most important information. Certainly being rich in tech sector is powerful.
I, and many people I know, are of similar thinking.

I’m actively recovering from what appears to be Omicron. I cannot A/B test my experience as an unvaccinated person, but it feels like a light seasonal cold.

We don’t get time back. IMO I want my life and city back.
Google "BMI letter to Mark Zuckerberg"
I love the concept and I even wrote a blog post about how to set up a fully pxe bootable server environment using Alpine Linux [1] (which by default boots from RAM) in 2019. I still use it and it's one of those things that makes recovery or testing so much faster because I don't even need a usb thumb drive

[1] https://blog.haschek.at/2019/build-your-own-datacenter-with-...
Maybe true, but... I thin the real "names" of the sun is sol, and of the moon is Luna.

Just mankind is so pre-occupied with particular sun/moon(s) that the language heavily leans into the context where "moon" refers to Luna, and "sun" refers to sol; unless the context explicitly implies otherwise. Hence "the moon" isn't just the proper title for Luna, but rather a reference to "some moon in particular", which has always been Luna for so long, that the term is now an idiom. In contrast, I think if you where on a planet in a different solar-system, "the sun" might reasonably refer to the local star, and "the moon" to the local moon, assuming just one prominent moon.
A society's best shot of protecting itself from the potential negative effects of unknown future technologies is ensuring that everyone's basic needs are met. Desperate people do desperate things.
Well it wouldn't be American if people aren't allowed to leech off the system to enrich themselves!
Sibling nailed it but I can’t reply on that post. There are variations such as Vec!, map! Macros collect_vec, collect_map etc.

It would be great to have a unified interface that exposes a common set of instantiation mechanisms and apis. Other lib authors should be able to implement this api and get the same calling conventions.
The basics of rust really are not that bad. It gets funky once you start diving deeply into types. If you are just hitting an api and getting json out followed by working with storage etc in AWS, the situation is pretty straightforward.