skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If learning a language was useful to people in the UK, they would do it. I don't know why you are saying that people in the UK are not in the same position - they evidently are, which is why few bother learning languages. If what you say were true, it would be reflected by reality.

In fact, although the UK is near other countries in Europe where speaking non-English languages is common, anybody who travels anywhere in Europe will find that everybody speaks English. If you are in the UK and want to do business with anybody across the EU - they're going to speak English. If you want to learn any materials for any speciality - it will be available in English.

The majority of people in the UK go through their whole life without ever having to communicate with people who don't speak English. That includes the odd week they might spend on holiday in France or Spain.

So people in the UK are in much the same position as those in the US. There is no economic incentive to learn a foreign language. That's 95% of the motivation to do so, completely gone.
Meh, Fisher-Price was cute. I've never understood the fascination for those drab Windows 3.11 grays.

And Fischer-Price was also functional, you just got extra colors.
It should be the same for any potentially dangerous drug. Legalize it, tax it and ban advertising it completely. This should be applied to alcohol and tobacco as well. Advertising beer, wine or smoking should be forbidden.
It may not be deadly, but female flight attendants become infertile earlier than women working on the ground.
Under the influence, I realize that I am truly indeed, a creature of habits. I do many things without thinking about them. Learned behavior that are consistent and doesn’t really change.

Cannabis use somehow helps me focus on things I wouldn’t normally do; it’s like having a burst of energy and the mental capacity to do almost anything I put my mind to. Things that seem hard, complicated or long, seems simplified, doable and ordered. I’m a programmer btw.

There is the high, which I don’t really enjoy. I prefer the energy and focus over the high. I’ve been recommended CBD before as well.

I could be completely oblivious to its permanent affects. However I only use on occasion and go months sober.

I want to believe that there may be certain chemicals in Cannabis that can help the human brain be more productive and efficient, however I know nothing about the science.
Perhaps having fewer laws on the books would be a good idea? Especially if the laws were simpler?
Where did you see anything about the cause of death?
> once back in England, he and most of his crew volunteered to serve in World War One.

A very sobering account is, after being cut off from the rest of the world, arriving at the South Georgia whaling station he asked "Tell me, when was the war over".

The date was May 1916.

"The war is not over" he answered "Millions are being killed. Europe is mad. The World is mad".....The reader may not realise quite how difficult it was for us to envisage nearly two years of the most stupendous war of history.... poison gas and liquid fire, the submarine warfare, the Gallipoli campaign.

Above text is from Shackleton's 'South', his own account of the journey.
> Our headset is equipped with a 35.5 PPD ("Pixels-Per-Degree") display & optics system, which is crucial for the clear display icons, text, and other small details. This is higher than any other portable VR headset currently on the market, and is equivalent to having a 40" 1440p display 2 feet away from you, everwhere you look.

That's actually pretty low resolution IMO. I don't want to get any lower than 1080p at 24" at 2 feet from my face. At my current desktop I use 4K at 24" at 2 feet, however I use 200% scaling so it's effectively 1080p.

I would try Simula though if I could get it to work on my Oculus Quest 2. Even with the even lower res, I'd like to explore the concept. But I wouldn't buy hardware just for the purpose.

I hope someone will port the software to general Linux PCs and more headsets like the Quest 2:) The idea of floating windows instead of virtual screens is very appealing, I tried Immersed and this was not ideal indeed. After all the Simula window manager seems to be open source so technically it could work. And wireless would be much nicer.
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Just a personal anecdote that might be useful to you: a bit more than a year ago, I was on Windows / Android and it felt wrong being spied on constantly.

I just installed Linux on my desktop and GrapheneOS on my phone and despite the loss of functionalities I felt liberated.

If you distrust big companies handling your data, make the jump it's absolutely worth it. I wouldn't go back.
Any single galaxy reveals the composition of an entire universe
Too cheap for the climate, i.e. too cheap for anybody under 40. A tax-and-rebate system can help poor people without hampering the effect of a high carbon price.
Meat Loaf, 'Bat Out Of Hell' singer, has died at 74
No, I guess it is only applied to computer science. Most people sort it more towards math than engineering.
You can do some things but I wouldn't stretch it and say you can "basically do everything a modern phone can do" because in my country I can't use it to identify myself, I can't do banking on it, I can't ride the bus, buy tickets for trains, make payments and a lot of other very essential things that are now in our smartphones.
JavaScript should be enough Lisp for everybody. Fite me.
Except for the taxes part :-)
There is a massive library of analysis on the effects of broadcasting, from McLuhan to Eco. Most of it was put together in the 60s/70s and became popular outside academic circles in the 80s.
>It would be but it's so, so, ever so hard, to go without even one single meal.

Huh? You'd be surprised...
I get that languages are just tools, but each tool has problems it is better at solving. My original comment was pointing out that this stack is ill-suited for the task for which it has been built.
So much effort to solve a self-inflicted problem!
Lots of reasons, but often not what you think of as a typical desktop or server OS. FreeBSD is often used by corporations as a base to build things on because of its more generous license. Playstation's OS is based on FreeBSD. NetBSD is used on lower power or exotic devices since it is designed to be very portable, and is used as a base for some rump kernels and being able to compile device drivers into application software. OpenBSD is quite popular for bastions, routers, and firewalls because it is easy to administer, secure by default, and has pf for firewall rules. It is also a research OS and can experiment with changing things or deprecating things more quickly.

And some of it is just preference and what you need it for. I run OpenBSD servers because I like how administration works, it is secure by default, upgrades are extremely easy, and all of the software I need works on it.
Not comparable. Easy dig though, I guess.
Thanks a lot for the feedback, I will integrate it into version 0.2! I will exclude some of the more obvious false positives such as the apostrophes you mentioned. My thought was to overshoot in the beginning for the false positives and adjust later on.
I just want to say thanks, this is why I love HN. I'm a fairly new user, and the amount of "inside people" that show up in threads really blows my mind.
> Customers no longer want to just store and query the data in their databases. They then want to analyze that data to create value

Presumably create more value. I know it's a marketing post but still - storing and retrieving things is pretty valuable in and of itself.
I think this article is very much about wasm running on the server rather than in a web browser.

In fairness there's been some very exciting development on that front, mainly pushed by Fastly with their own compute @ edge proposal and opensourcing a set of tools like cranelift.

I think their use case of cloud fonction @ edge is absolutely perfect for webassembly on the server, and I'm actually impressed.

I agree the technology needs to mature a bit more. We need broader langage support, and then we'll have a very powerful and exciting tool to add to our tool-belt.
I still had Ubuntu upgrades requiring me to edit the xorg.conf for a bog standard single CRT in about 2007 or so.

And I definitely touched xorg.conf a bunch of times even a few years later.
"You need to learn to observe what’s going on in your mind almost like a third-person observer."

This mindset reminds me of Vipassana. Observe your feelings (or "modes" as OP said), and avoid trying to force yourself to switch from one mode to another because it is unlikely to work.
As much as I hate it, I think economics will make WebGPU a thing the same way it did electron.
could maybe considered similar to what Griswold https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rufus_Wilmot_Griswold did to Poe.
I’m the opposite, I always code when I’m high, though most of time it’s for my personal hobby projects, I try not to smoke in the day time though.
Considering the Phantom 4 can only carry about 300g of stuff for about 12 minutes, is it worth it? You can only launch and deploy very light materials, and I'm no expert on bombs, but I thought you'd need more than 300 grams of explosives.

Very interesting use of the Phantom tho, just wait until they get their hands on a DJI FPV that flies at 140km/h...
> Shackleton died some 7 years later in a subsequent expedition.

Yup.

And is buried on South Georgia, in a grave facing south, rather than the traditional christian east.
They possibly need to be cured in Spain so that they can be called Spanish (e.g. Serrano or Ibérico).

And I guess they aren’t fungible because they get tested for health reasons and protein content.

In the EU, tracking is needed. If people get ill from eating ham, it’s important to exactly know where the meat came from (factory, farm, sometimes even the specific pig. Conversely, if animals get ill, it’s important to know where their milk went. https://ec.europa.eu/food/animals/traces_en)
I heard that behind the scenes they were actually using Algorand.
It's economy was bad before. And they didn't switch, just got some adoption.
Generally Git/Github is a good choice. But you could throw a 3 sided dice and pick any of them and be fine.
Ok, a more charitative reading of the parent: it is (badly) referring to the idea that public services are not a bad idea just because they operate at a loss, due to their positive externalities. E.g. a road is a “bad investment” if you only look at direct profit (which is 0 if you dont set up a toll).

Obviously they do provide value and that value can often be defined as indirect monetary return. There’s also value for the country that is not easy to monetize in money terms, such as more education helping voters be less manipulable.
That's gotta be VALIS for me.
"Out of concern for my privacy I have decided to switch to a phone that has an abandoned OS and I type messages to my wife using WhatsApp"

seriously?
I mean everything is what you make of it.

The fact that wasm is sandboxed allows some genuinely new things. Imagine a JSON file starting with a line that gives a base64-encoded WASM parser for JSON. (Or a hash on a public database if you're worried.) Switch to YAML or TOML by changing that line up top, or add comments to your JSON, or get fed up and ship SQLite databases instead. Oh wait I have security concerns, I need to encrypt this file at rest, better change the code that consumes it—why? The registry has a NaCl container, just prefix the encrypted version with the wasm hash to prompt for a password and decrypt it.

It’s a technique that used to be popular and then died out as networks proliferated—you could no longer be sure that your machine code did the right parse on someone else's architecture.

Your container crashes and we coredump to an S3 bucket. You know what’s better than downloading gigabytes of coredump? If S3 can just let you spin up a container or run a WASM program on the storage node itself. You send the programs to the data so you don't need to pull the data to yourself.

This post describes something like Erlang actors, but if each can be a pure function encoded in WASM... That is also a neat dream. But the next step is the MonadArrow instance, programs sending programs to each other. Then we’re “thinking with portals.”
1. Crudely speaking, money that stays in a savings account acts like money destroyed, i.e. deflation. Deflation encourages more people to do the same, because the effective savings interest rate is ≈ $nominal_interest + $inflation, leading to a spiral.

Except: money stuck in savings accounts also means the money isn’t spent on goods & services, so fewer jobs are supported, so productivity goes down, which is effectively +ve inflation even with the money supply perfectly fixed, but fewer jobs also encourages more savings and also triggers a spiral.

Which effect dominates (+ve or -ve inflation) depends on other factors, but both ways are a spiral of economic pain.

2. What? This is specifically about which is worse, how can you not make this type of comparison?
This would be the last step predicted by this 2014 (!) talk: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...

At the time it seemed unrealistic; asm.js was only just invented
It's similar in that it adds even more overhead to just running your software to make your life just a tiny bit easier. You don't need to think about files and networking if you can't do any IO, after all!

I don't see how webassembly would by any different from just running a JAR file or similar in terms of ease and usability. It's just a new method of writing bytecode that can do less. Bytecode interpreters already struggle to make efficient use of things like SIMD and this is just another layer on top of that.

What's the point of using low level languages if you're going to compile them to semi bytecode. You can already set up virtual machines with predetermined state of any kind, see Firecracker for example, there's no need for a WASM overlay.

WASM is a cool technology, don't get me wrong, but in my opinion this is a stupid way to use it.
Net negative in calories but that tentacle is stored energy, so maybe it's like burning fat?
OpenBSD is the place where ssh development happens, as well as LibreSSL and some smaller projects.
I'm in the UK and I use the TrainLine app - it allows you to add tickets to Apple Wallet (and there's a watch app as well). Then you just scan the QR code on your watch at the ticket barrier.
Well, one of my work buddies was Basque (sadly he passed away) and spoke about “vascos” all the time. He could speak Basque perfectly (even to the point of recognizing the different dialects) and he was from a small town, were Euskera es more prevalent. That’s my experience.
Great, because I also saw this, otherwise fly is great.
>> When the iPhone became successful, before that it was all utility, then fashion took priority when the iPhone out sold literally everything.

> Pretend everything else about the iPhone happened; The charisma and leadership of Steve Jobs, the brilliant marketing, the countless number of talented software engineers, but instead the device basically looks like a blackberry.

> Physical keyboard, plastic case, More or less a knock off aesthetically.

> We're deep in counterfactual territory but I think it can be argued that this imagined iphone with a very conventional aesthetic would have done effectively just as well.

Yeah, but AFAICS that doesn't really contradict the hypothesis. Sure, I might agree with your counterfactual and also conclude that it wasn't really the design -- and, side note, I think what was originally meant here was the narrower sense of the ever-dumbed-down GUI, not physical characteristics like keyboard or not -- that led to the iPhone's breakout success... But just because you and I think so, CEOs didn't (necessarily) agree.

If they thought it was the cheery skeumorphic (and later stylised, then rounded-corner, then sharp-edge-rectangular, then rounded-corner again... yadda yadda) graphical design that led to the market success, then they started listening only to graphical designers, and that is what has elevated graphical designers to "gods" over actual developers.

And that's not just a counter-hypothesis to yours, but my theory; it's how I think it actually happened.
> It’s complicated than that. Valencian is at best a dialect of Catalan

If anything, Catalan is a dialect of Valencian since Valencian precedes Catalan. Source: look it up.

Catalans are taught a different story in school, which makes most of them believe your statement. Source: I am from Catalonia and I was taught Valencian to be one of Catalan's dialects, until I met some friends from Valencia who educated me on the subject.
Non-fungible physical items have existed forever, the whole point of NFTs is (attempting) to do this digitally. The Mona Lisa is not fungible.
14 year olds don't get access to weed without someone either giving it to them or giving them the money to do it. I doubt you showing him up had much to do with the suicide attempt, so don't worry.
Or just get rid of silly nonsense like this rule so people are not incentivised to drive 6000km by the government.
The htop screenshot was an immediate, appropriately-colored red flag for me: that much red (kernel time) on the CPU utilization bars for a system running etcd/consul is not right in my experience.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11850240
> “testserver4.mycorp.example” (no trailing dot) is not fully-qualified and as such could refer to any number of things of differing identities, e.g. “testserver4.mycorp.example.atthomenetwork.com”.

Whether a domain is fully qualified depends on the application. There's no universal syntax. The trailing dot is merely an interface convention followed by some applications to allow the user to indicate that the domain name is complete. It's only useful for applications that don't always deal with fully qualified domains, and perhaps ones that deal with top level domains.

RFC1123 6.1.4.3 Interface Abbreviation Facilities:

User interfaces MAY provide a method for users to enter
abbreviations for commonly-used names. [..]

If an abbreviation method is provided, then:

(a) There MUST be some convention for denoting that a name
is already complete, so that the abbreviation method(s)
are suppressed. A trailing dot is the usual method.

If you add trailing dots where the dns root would be implied anyway, this could be regarded as an "over-qualified" name. It is considered an error. For example in SMTP. RFC1123 5.2.18 Common Address Formatting Errors:

o Some systems over-qualify domain names by adding a
trailing dot to some or all domain names in addresses or
message-ids. This violates RFC-822 syntax.

RFC822 says "The root node is common to all addresses; consequently, it is not referenced."

Since SNI always uses fully qualified domain names, there is no purpose to having a trailing dot.
On desktop sure, but just plain safari on iPhone. If I hit an article like this one I just click straight off it.
also, "instantaneously" is a stretch on a galactic scale. 299792000 m/s isn't as fast as it sounds if you need to cross the entire galaxy.

Time dilation doesn't matter here.
Not sure I follow, what group are they comparing the 40% risk reduction to?
Upvote for content -- but, if I could have simultaneously downvoted for near-unintelligibility of run-on sentece, I would have.
I hate these "languages implemented in comments" jsdoc is another one.

They force you to write more comment code (sometimes the comment will be longer than the actual function), they force you to repeat yourself, but with ever so slightly more information and different syntax (but this time, forget about syntax checking or highlighting!).

They disconnect actual code from the documentation, even if they're "right there next to it" it's annoying to have to edit two different places, and possible to forget to update the comment.

I'd probably accept one that scrapes comments, but has no syntax, except maybe something _VERY_ short to enable/disable the scraping of an individual comment.

I'd prefer it if the language allowed me to write this metadata directly into the syntax, so that it is natural flow to include the explanations where they are needed.

One thing I found interesting and nice about Objective-C syntax was the way function declarations made them self-explanatory. You never needed think twice about what the parameter was for (assuming the function author did a slight effort in naming).

(int) Multiply: (int)x with: (int)y

result = Multiply: 23 with 3;

(int) Subtract: (int)a from: (int)b andMultiplyBy: (int)c

result = Subtract: 1 from: 4 and MultiplyBy: 2;
> I imagine that 200 years from now we might look back at using all these substances as something as dumb as drawing blood with leeches for a migraine or something.

The reason to take those substance is to get a modified state of mind. In that effect, they are successful. It's not comparable to something that was just doing 'nothing' toward its stated goal. The goal is not to live to 120+ years. No one takes coffee thinking 'this will help me live an exceedingly long life'.

On the other hand, it's not so much imagining a society with this list banned that is difficult. It's to imagine a government capable of enforcing such banning.

I think it is infinitely more likely that in 50 years, it will be recognized as a folly to have spent so much money into trying to ban those substance. If the goal is to effectively reduce consumption, outright banning is not the way to go. Also, I have a personal belief that mental health is on the verge of revolution, and psilocybin in particular will be made more available, possibly even for recreational use.

I have not seen a good reason for now to reduce my caffeine consumption. I drink two cups per days, one of which is decaffeinated. I try to read regularly to see if new info arises there, and so far nothing. The only justification I might have to stop this consumption is the work condition for the producers and having to import it from afar.
That's not how mortgages work, at least in the US.

There's a limit to how often the rate changes, etc.

Just looking at one now, and it's set up as follows:

1. Rate is allowed to change only on the 1st day of every 6th month (after the initial flat-rate period ends).

2. On that day, the new rate is set to a spread + the max of 0 and the value of the 30-day Average SOFR Index (as published by the NY Fed) as of 45 days before the day when the rate is changing.

Nothing being applied on the daily basis here.
Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook...
Really depends on what you do, I mostly follow some researchers and bug bounty hunters. Portswigger and related people are a good starting point, terjanq is crazy, people around mario heiderich are insane. I mostly look through replies and everyone that interacts with the ones I know might get a follow.
I drink about 6-9 cups of coffee per day.

The withdrawal journey that is published in the lying internet is not true (at least for me).

I get all sorts of diffuse pain in the legs and lower back area. Not to speak of the killing headache and depressed mood.
Overhyped, over engineered, and overly used?
Doesn't seem to be related to the discussion, does it?
Can someone know if exsist a tool that can replicate the sidebar/organization of notion (and this tool) but use google drive files (gdocs)?
in the company we use google drive and their docs, but the organization highly depends on who creates the folder. I just want a bookmark tool basically that is a standalone app.
nothing fancier.
i'm struggling in finding it out.