skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience (and coming just out of a meeting alike) these types of respectful and forward-moving meetings are typically in a case where each attendant has roughly the same level expertise in a given domain and knows the basics of scientific principles. Hence, everybody in the meeting brings in his or her unique view of the topic at hand and knows intrinsically when it makes sense to contribute something to the discussion. Usually things get out of hands, if somebody is talking just for the noise or, and this is worse, a clearly bad idea wins the discussion because politics or the messenger has shouted the loudest.
Yeah, and 20 people looking at this room, booked 10x in the last hour, last one left.

When you go to the hotel website instead, you see plenty of rooms left and sometimes with a nice offer.
i think he was praising their ability to not bring in their egos to the discussion while trusting that best idea will win. best idea won without lot of inefficiency of repetition which often happens.
Actually it should be (2015), when the letters were actually discovered.
Distributed systems are not limited to distributed computing: once you start breaking your monolith application into multiple services, you have yourself a distributed system.
These things are all just tools in the programmer's tool box. Which one you use will come down to the one you think is most suitable at the time based on your knowledge and experience.

Generators are very useful in more complex scenarios, but when used in simpler environments they'll just add confusion - in fact the article is a good example of adding confusion with a Generator.

Personally, when dealing with arrays I favour using .map, .reduce, .filter and .forEach.
Yeah same. Seems worth it though. I’ve spent more than $200 over the last 5-10 years on umbrellas easily.
This has been debunked even by Nassim Taleb, wrong statistics.
I don't have that much experience (don't really have many use cases for FPGAs personally tbh) but:

Icestorm is for iCE40, Trellis is for ECP5 (which comes in variants up to 85k LUTs);

the flow is simple enough to do manually but there are things that make it one-click. This tutorial series https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEBQazB0HUyT1WmMONxRZn9Nm... uses one.

As for handling really big designs, I don't know.
Not even once I have seen a higher price on the hotel's website. But I travel mostly to Europe so your experience might be different.
Much as I'm trying to use Linux on a Thinkpad, I much prefer MacOS on a MacBook Pro unfortunately (battery life, things "just work"), but I use Linux on my main desktop workstation.

So unfortunately I need fairly native and easy-to-setup MacOS support.

To be honest, Disk Image (i.e. mounting a small 50 MB image which is encrypted) is pretty much perfect for what I want.
Having an effect on the lungs makes sense to me - its a respiratory illness. But why would a respiratory disease cause blood clots?
Totally agree. I like his style a lot, it's a normal conversation, he is who he is and it's honest. But every time he speaks someone has to point out how he's not the greatest presenter, even if he presents the most amazing new things.
Hi q-base, it all comes down to the single responsibility principle. What is the single responsibility of the Customer class?

What methods should it have? What does a Customer do exactly? Or is it just a POD which simply stores customer data? If so which data? Does it mix authentication information with the user's purchase history? Maybe not that but what about the user's little Avatar in the UI?

The answer is none of the above, the single responsibility of the Customer class is to identify a user, that's it. In the end that's just a number, no need for a class. The purchase history of a user is only relevant to the system that manages the purchase history. The avatar is only relevant to the UI. The authentication information to the authentication service.

A Customer is not in and of itself an "entity" of some sort with associated behavior in the OO sense. But you see this all the time with companies trying to model these taxonomies of their business as class hierarchies.

It's an unhelpful practice that imposes a structure on your code that's not relevant in a any way to the actual functionality of your software.
>Is this your program?

You sir - should write flyers and product-copy :)
readability is subjective, ymmv.

jsx makes my eyes bleed, it's like php4 in js, and it's full of corner cases you could never guess without cheatsheets and round trips to the docs.
I’m not a native speaker, so this might be a dumb question. So far, I always associated word “discover” with “something is there, someone just managed to stumble upon it while wondering around”. Thus, I find the word’s use quite strange when it comes to scientific work, especially equations —- the authors probably didn’t wonder around and invested quite a lot of work to come up with the equation.

Does it make sense to say “someone discovered an equation for X”? If not, what would be a better word?
The most annoying dark pattern for me was not being able to give 0 stars for something and then averaging across completely dissimilar topics so that it was impossible for most hotels to score less than about 2 out of 5.

So the location was great, 5 out of 5 but that doesn't make up for the terrible service and the noise 0 out of 5.

Another thing that got me was the window dressing. They show the nicest room of the hotel on the site but the room you get when you arrive is nasty. Booking.com were famous for this kind of stuff and probably helped AirBnB get to where they are.
You still require a place to pump that water into. Forming a lake isn't exactly a very ecology-friendly thing, and as much as you'd love to drown <city>, requires absurd amounts of work.
It can be both. It's already known that vaccines increase rates of Myocarditis, especially amongst young males.

It seems to be that the spike protein is responsible for this, which is present in both the virus and the vaccine.
Here's a Booking.com employee that was part of the Consumer Psychology Team coming forward and arguing that what they've been doing is not illegal in the EU, after they were forced to change course because what they've been doing was incompatible with the law.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29472233

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29471213
Agreed. I was answering the inaccurate sentence "your electricity is much more polluted than France's is."
Just leave old shitty non dev friendly stacks like java, c++, scala etc and switch to something made for people like ruby, or at least typescript.

This helped me get my motivation back.
> Personal and eyewitness testimonies count for nothing now?

Can't see your original comment, but assuming this refers to side effects with sub-percent occurrences, then the answer is "no, random testimonies have no statistical significance without a base rate to compare to".

You could put hundreds of people into the same room whose testimonies show that eating bread is deadly - you just have to find enough celiacs. That doesn't make the baking industry a big conspiracy.
Possible things like documents, larger key files (4Kb).

I'm using KeePassX currently and yes, it does store files technically, but the user-friendly-ness of it leaves a lot to be desired. I know there are likely better options, but I'm happy with it for passwords, so...

Basically, mounting a 50 MB encrypted image on MacOS and Linux would be a perfect use-case, and will hopefully be futureproof for 5 or so years.
I'm glad it got a second chance; this is vital historical information, straight from the primary source
Could you add two multi-player options?

1) participants guess in turns, every correct choice gets a point

2) participants guess competitively and first right choice gets a point. Wrong choices are shown to others, result in a point deduction, and the game continues until the right choice is made
I interpreted it as it merely being a side point, this aspect of obnoxiousness. What Feynman was impressed it was the fact that they didn't need to repeat the ideas more than once. I think you're trying to see a deeper argument when this is the argument itself. Even in groups of smart people I've found that the group needs to write ideas down as it discusses them and repeat some of them to clarify to one person in the group that didn't get it the first time. If you don't do the writing down / repeating most people will lose track of most ideas, the same way most people can't play blind chess and remember all the pieces on the board. It's a comment on mental capacity moreso than manners.
The mirror-test is biased to vision, though.

Dogs pass the scent-based mirror test for example, their eyes are just simply not the primary way of interacting with the world.
Thank you so much for the kind words. I couldn't agree more.

I really think some of the best features happen when you start a conversation - so if you are inclined, please try: https://taaalk.co/start-conversation

Additionally, is it clear from the UI that if you follow a Taaalk you will get email updates for every added conversation "blob"?
I can imagine there being a small positive correlation between wearing an Apple watch and having heart attacks, somewhat like the plane armor story from WWII (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias#In_the_milit...).

Without the Apple watch monitoring your heart rate: you don't see the warning signs early enough and have a fatal heart attack, once.

With the Apple watch: you get alerted earlier, get to hospital and survive your heart attack. So you can go on to have another, and another, and another. All contributing to the "heart attacks while wearing Apple watches" statistic ;)
I don't think moderation here has a political bias. They avoid by banning all controversially political content. It keeps the signal to noise ratio high and avoid a lot of strife. I've adopted this policy for a few relationships in real life. That said I do hold strong political views that sometimes land me in close to anti social behavior.
It sounds cool, but then this:

> a composite made mostly from cellulose nanocrystals mixed with a bit of synthetic polymer

So it still contains non-degradable plastic, just less plastic than before.

There have been a spate of such articles recently, where "less plastic" is pitched as "no plastic".

I'm not saying it's bad, but it's not as good as it appears.
Yeah things are getting better. The IPCC report was discussed for one 1 day in French medias.

> Oh, and we got a recent report from our national energy company (or something close), that laid out several plans to reduce our CO2 emissions, and most contingencies involved both nuclear and renewable, including the "nuke max" scenario. We'll definitely need renewables, but it's pretty clear shutting down nuclear plants is one of the riskiest plans — hopefully our politicians will wake up to that.

Great. Hope they don't forget what scientists say: we must use much less energy.
I'm not sure how that contradicts what I said? Most of the people in the COVID-19 group tested positive before the vaccines were approved in December 2020. Yes, they might have been vaccinated afterwards, but my point is they did not have vaccine-induced antibodies at the time of their infections.
I like your "bullet points" and agree with them all.

Wat are your thoughts on (super simplified example):

* 1 state-var with 3 values ?

* 2 state-vars with 2 values each ?

Sometimes I steer my design too much to first example and then other times to the last example. Both extremes can make things ugly
Inevitable I guess. People just can't really travel much these days
Ignoring storage, wind and solar are now very cheap. For example, companies now pay to rent pieces of North Sea to place wind parks there.
I doubt that there are numbers to prove that. SMR might just be a buzzword. From the page below there don't seem too many operating or under construction (5 operating, and 4 under construction). https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fu...
> not illegal

> incompatible with the law

This is amazing.
Thanks for that link. It contradicts previous studies that put the risk of myocarditis from unvaccinated COVID infection at between 6 and 15 times higher than that from vaccination (and 30x general baseline rate).

So I read through it and in fact, it doesn't say what you assert to say it does. This is comparing vaccinated Vs vaccinated+COVID. See the comments from vepe for full explanation.
there's something wrong with upstash service, looking into it.

Vercel is good :)
I don't see you posting links to papers that support your assertion.
There were breakthrough cases pre-omicron, but apparently less.

What was very dishonest in the way this whole thing has been handled and portrayed is that Coronavirus vaccine escape-variants were completely foreseeable and therefore no surprise.
> I am not free to use add-supported US services when they stop being provided to EU citizens due the onerous requirements imposed on them by privacy laws.

Those companies are free to not to do business wit you but it is not the EU privacy laws making that decision. Those companies can provide their service in a privacy-respecting way and many will - the EU is not a small market to give up on. You can also use a VPN.

> I am not free to use a website and give away "my data" by default without having to click Allow All on a damn cookie popup.

You think users should need to be technically competent to block cookies but don't want to be technically competent to install an extension like https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/i-dont-care-a...

And don't forget that hose consent popups are likely specifically designed to be annoying in order to get you mad at the privacy laws. Don't fall for it - the EU privacy laws do not required websites to be user-unfriendly.

> The EU politicians unilaterally decided to steal these freedoms from all EU citizens.

I am not going to pretend the EU is a perfect democracy, but ultimately, those decisions are made by those elected by the peole - directly or indirectly.

> The right to privacy is not a freedom. I am not sure it's even a real right.

It is a real right that has historically been enforced in many EU countries. The recent laws do nothing more than update that enforcement to the digital age.

> But it was easily accessible even before the current privacy laws, even if it needed a little technical competence.

No, it really wasn't. You can block cookies but you cannot stop companies from tracking you via the 10 million other ways they have available or to trade information about you with third parties. You cannot use technical means to find out what information companies have collected about you. You cannot use technical means to compel companies to delete information they have already collected. THAT is why we have new laws.
...book banning/burning
As a European with a lot of family and friends in the Bay Area, I have to say the place really does seem very clearly in need of fixing.

Forty years I've lived in the rest of the world, saw a lady who was demented walking around in the street once, waited around until police came to help her. Seen a handful of people in need of mental health help shouting out loud aggressively, but it doesn't happen much at all. Never seen anyone poop on the street.

I went to SF to visit a relative for about 5 days just before covid, put together maybe I've been there a month, and I saw all these things more than in the rest of my life. It seemed to be a reliable daily occurrence that I'd meet a shouting person.

I visited Twitter HQ at one point yet not far away there were homeless people with no shoes. I saw tent camps. Not far from where I tried VR goggles for the first time, a lady was so desperate to eat she barged into where I had finished eating to grab my leftovers.

A lot is said here on HN about what is wrong, but I just gotta say it's not just some ordinary large city level of problem, I've been to plenty of large cities that did not feel like this.
This also describes companies during the "we're creating a great product / service" phase, when meetings aren't "won" by those who can sell themselves or their ideas best.
Companies on the decline will always have very charismatic / well-spoken / authoritarian characters at the top who'll put their own ego before sustainable success. Think Ballmer at Microsoft.
The memory one could be, depending on how much detail and new ground is covered. Imagine your first day as a developer and you hear their architecture for the first time, and you recall all the points if a discussion between 5 expert people there. You remember the words and build the mental model simultaneously. It would be impressive, unless your full time job is consulting in such meetings.
Are you mad? I didn't even criticize Unix at all!
China has applied the rules to everyone(although you get really fancy quarantine facilities if you're important). There is also interprovince quarantine requirements.

Apparently Taiwan is playing with fire again. They have 3 weeks of quarantine(two in real isolation and 1 where you have to avoid crowds yourself), but apparently contrary to official policy some business travellers have been offered 3 day quarantine(that's how their "second" wave happened, 3 day quarantine for airline staff). The offerings were made in private meetings and not in writing though. I guess everyone learned that paper trails are bad if you want to keep outrage and accountability low.
Source generators might help with this.
I rarely get true flu, but if I do, my physical fitness is compromised for weeks.

After real Covid (alpha, pre-vaccination times, a mild case), I was getting back to normal for some six months. Heart palpitations never seen before, muscle twitches never seen before. A cardiology checkup revealed a lot of extrasystoles.

All those problems went away after half a year or so. I now got something that looked like a weak cold and might have been Omicron. No strange effects at all, just a running nose.
The numbers on mass to orbit are fascinating. To date humans have sent 15,517 tons of stuff into space. SpaceX wants to be able to send 15,500 per year with a single Starship, and Elon wants a fleet of 10. That's amazing. That really is "we can have a moonbase now" levels of ambition.
The presenter is Rich Hickey. He is the guy who created Clojure. He basically designed the language around this principle (it is a very opiniated language). If you want examples, look at Clojure and its ecosystem where the ideas of Rich Hickey are held in high regard.
The difference here is that the company actually wants to hire people, and is generally not that efficient at reaching out by itself (hence headhunters, etc), so sending your resume is helping them. Me, on the other hand, I do not want to buy a samsung S22 ultra edition.
Hulu will get their own Futurama, with no blackjack! And no hookers!
Absolutely. Why make const char * data private in a string class otherwise? I have know it's in a valid state so I can get it to the next valid state when caller runs an operation on it.

But then a lot of proving (small p prove) an object in c++ is in a valid state amounts to hoare predicates and other spark-ada like expressions.

Certainly FP could do same and like c++ define that away when callers and callees think undefined behavior is gone?
Agree, but the hotel will not alocate the all the rooms for booking/other platforms, just N rooms at Y$ price.
As a native speaker discover sounds fine to me but you are likely looking for a word like derived or calculated.
Germany is serious at talking about climate but what Germany says (and does) makes little sense unfortunately.
> You are probably in a position to retire earlier than age 86!

Woohoo!
Where's the utopia in The Expanse? Humans move offworld; two communities with stable infrastructure spend a century abusing a scattered sub-class; then they all get into a war because a sociopath egotist finds alien technology powerful enough to wipe them all out or mutate them into components of itself. And then there's the meteorites...

Sounds idyllic.
Facts About the Vikings
I have been pondering the same concept for years. The problem seems to be: A) Making AI that is able to plan for goals set by players and achieve them is not just "not mainstream", its actually unique when its used. Even the algorithms like GOAP (Goal Oriented Action Planning) is very limited (eg cant really chain goals, one goal at a time,...), and while better algorithms have been proposed (UDGOAP - Utility Driven GOAP), they havent been implemented in any game yet. B) This type of game is not proven, so noone is gonna invest big bucks. And implementing completely new and untested mechanics and core loops will likely burn more cash as you iterate for usable outcome.

Theres a wishing for games of the future, tho
In Portugal and Spain we have pumping stations doing exactly that.
I couldn't find a link in English but maybe you'll find this useful: https://www.iberdrola.com/sustentabilidade/central-hidreletr...
The EFF's position against the EARN IT Act is in the best interests of people in the U.S. and of people who use U.S. technology services in any country. Nobody needs to undermine end-to-end encryption (E2EE) to investigate anything, including speech. Surveillance is becoming more common, but that does not justify the elimination of E2EE. If the government already has access to plenty of data through surveillance, there is no reason that the government should violate its citizens' privacy even further by preventing citizens from having legal access to E2EE. I agree that laws should protect individual rights and freedoms, and I recognize the use of E2EE as one of those freedoms. Trust in government is no substitute for E2EE, which also protects the communications of users from being intercepted by people outside of their own government.
> This is why we wrote (and will continue writing) full-featured first-party database client implementations for common programming languages (currently available for Python, JavaScript/TypeScript/Deno, and Go).

Why no C API? Pretty much every language has a C FFI, PostgreSQL's libpq is in C too, and then it's easy to make bindings from other languages. But with a few individual implementations in other languages it's not as easy to use from more languages. Always makes me to wonder about these decisions when I see projects heading that way.

Unrelated to the subject, but the text on the website is #B3B3B3 on #FFF, which is hard to read as is, and violates WCAG recommendations. When overwriting it with a custom CSS, it's visible that headings have weird margins, covering parts of text before them.

While looking for more, I noticed that the website suggests to `curl | sh` things in the introduction, which is quite awkward too (and a subject of light flamewars), adding another barrier.

The brief project description made me to wonder how well it abstracts out PostgreSQL (and how to work with the databases it creates via PostgreSQL itself, if it's possible at all, how to debug it when things will go wrong), but after brief skimming there's no PostgreSQL bits in sight: just a special shell, a dedicated language, its own drivers. Which is a bit scary.

Neither have I found a description of its graph-relational model, how it's built on top of PostgreSQL, how one can be sure that it'll work more or less smoothly, how things like profiling are done (or is it designed to never need explicit profiling/optimization?), is there more to it than PostgREST-like interface abstracting out the SQL bits for DDL too.

Looks like an interesting project overall though.