skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have two, one more ambitious than the other.

First is a site that has existed for around 25 years now, although it was shut off for several years. It came back to life when the pandemic started, and is behind private auth now. Basically, it lets me and other creative writers collaborate on branching fiction novels together. I write a chapter and put a couple of choices at the end, which serve as writing prompts. A reader comes along, clicks a choice, and is faced with the need to write that chapter, and so on. Our favorite story is currently 288 chapters, and is projected to reach about 1000 pages when it's done, which will probably happen in the next few months. We're all good enough writers to pay attention to characterization, dialogue, and theme, so all the threads tend to reach natural narrative conclusions, and I'm even able to export it to a printed "branching fiction" format and publish the books through Amazon KDP. Someday I'll find a lawyer and figure out how to open it to the public (it supports multiple in-progress stories) but for now I'm quite enjoying having weekly Discord meetings with my writer friends, writing a handful of chapters per week. As for the tech side, probably the most fun recently was writing a react component that lets you graph out the animated chapter map in all sorts of fun ways.

Second actually has some technology in common with the above. I'm enamored with using propositional logic (not predicate logic) to make and verify argument graphs. Meaning, you create some nodes with sentences and truth values, and build up actual visual graphs with sentences in bubbles that you can derive from other premises, and then collaboratively judge whether the truth value is propagating throughout the graph. It would enable people to browse to someone's conclusion, and then explore down through their entire argument down to their facts (which should have the same truth value for all people) and values (which should have truth values that can differ from person to person), and then people could pick points in the argument to disagree with or challenge. Kind of my own attempt to turn the current age's destructive argument habit on its head, into something constructive and collaborative, in a journey to discover shared truths, and opposing perspectives that we can respect. Like I said, ambitious.
Reminds me of a helpdesk job I had back when Windows 98 was the standard. Before the display settings had that handy confirmation countdown, it was surprisingly easy to set your display to something the monitor couldn't handle, leaving you with no way of seeing what was on the screen to change it back. Eventually I memorized the series of keystrokes required to get into display properties and reduce the resolution, which usually fixed the problem.
I mean, actual genbank has cyanobacteria in it[0]. Not to be discouraging, but you're just duplicating a lot of work there. And I assume that's where you'd have to go get your sequences from anyway. So are you actually just building the file parsing and analysis tools?

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/?term=cyanobacteria
Accelerating ISM ions near your destination requires no additional energy at all -- it's just drag. The kinetic energy of the vehicle suffices.

The Local Group is embedded within the WHIM -- Warm/Hot Intergalactic Medium. This is a hot, ionized gas with density maybe a few ions per cubic meter, maybe 100,000x less dense than the ISM in our galaxy. Even better, it's ionized: a magnetic field will enable the ions to be guided around the vehicle without any erosion whatsoever.
I still have the whopping 5 meg hard disk that my dad bought for his model 1 in my garage. I vividly remember him yelling "tell it to park" before shutting it off. It's huge. The hard disk was about 6x bigger than the actual computer and cost around $1k, but you still had to issue a "park" command before powering off or you could ruin the thing when powering on next time and the heads seek. You couldn't boot off of it either. Still had to load the OS via 5 1/4" 360k (IIRC) floppies before accessing. It also made some pretty cool squeaks and squawks while in use - sounds I've never heard from any other HD since.
So, the smoother the function, the easier it is to approximate using SGD? Does that mean there's a relationship between training time and parameters and beyond a certain parameter count we can discover an equivalent approximation by trading one for the other?
Might just be for publicity... Wordle is a massive buzzword right now, arguably the fastest way to get clicks.
> ends up creating so much more.

This is primarily because of inheritance, which seems counter-intuitive.
In a meta-analysis of OOP-based designs, inheritance is used as the primary form of composition with other strategies being either last-resort or added later when the inheritance is already deeply embedded as part of the design.

Inheritance is a brittle form of a composition (no-reinherit) that nests state in a deep tree-like type system, rather than isolating it into attachable modules. Most OOP-based languages have slowly had to adopt additional forms of composition, as inheritance is not suited well for cross cutting concerns. Ironically, almost anything added after the base class (and maybe some abstracts above that) is a cross cutting concern added after the core functionality is established.
The only illiterate folks I know are my niece and nephew, who are young kids.

I don’t know what I thought my 3 year old niece was going to do on her iPad when she asked if I wanted to watch “dog shows” with her, but I was surprised to find out that she knew about the voice to text feature built into iOS and used it to search YouTube.

It’s kind of amazing what you can do with just your voice and a determination to watch shows about dogs. :)
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As soon as anyone gets it right then perhaps async/await will be the wrong choice but not until then.

My understanding is Go UIs are mostly using html or some other languages/frameworks for UI work. Can you link me to a popular native Golang GUI framework to look at?
In less than 10 years, being able to recompile a modern projects will be a new kind of jobs, going around legacy version of webpack with legacy version of babel that support some syntax that would have never been made a standard with a spaghetti of deprecated library like axios who only became popular because their users was too lazy to look at the standard.

That will all become very interesting if we start to find some XSS issues in today's major frontend framework
If you want to sell in two different countries don’t you have to comply with two different legal codes and support both of them?
i.e. completely stop or just reduce? Because I was going to say it would make sense for the "threat model" to go beyond "traditional" stalking to domestic abuse etc.
What's the sort of timeline on GIS extensions? Great work btw, I've been following since the alphas and I'm excited to try it out :)
Based on my experience with C# annotations they require cooperation of the function being annotated or the code that calls it. There has to be code somewhere that checks if an annotation of expected type is present, reads its attributes and possibly executes it, and then proceeds based on results.

Python decorators are basically true proxies. The code being decorated or the code that calls it - does not need to be aware in any way of the decorator’s presence, and the decorator gets inserted into the call stack and has access to all call parameters, including the lambda of the decorated function.

Regarding context managers I would need to come back to this post, as I don’t think IDisposable is capable of solving the same use cases, but it’s not on top of my mind as to why.
> "I don't understand this bickering about Trump signing the checks, I got a check from Biden as well, with his signature."

Ah yes, but he only did that because Trump started it. /s
I guess if you are free of debt and living paycheck to paycheck, inflation is pretty bad. But that's not most people.

> IF their wages catch up. If their wages don't, do the math.

It depends on your situation. If you have $20K in remaining student debt and make $40K a year, then, yes, assuming a fixed wage, any real decrease in the value of your outstanding debt would be wiped out by the decrease in your real wages over that time period. But if you owe $300K on a house and make $60K a year, the math is different.

> Why? Because they will have a wider margin of survival? Do the math.

No, because their debts will become larger in real terms. It sounds like you're fixated on the case of someone with no debt and very low wages. That's an important case, but it's not the only one.
English is really good at "graceful degradation".
I don't have a problem with arrow functions, just saying you can make a huge mess with OOP or FP.
Don't kid yourself though - no major party in Australia supports nuclear. The Liberals will say they'll think about it, knowing there's a couple hundred idiots who'll actually believe them and give them a vote while they greenlight Indian-owned coal-miners finishing the destruction of the Great Barrier Reef.

Both major parties (Labor and Liberal) have huge donors from coal-mining concerns, as well as union support from coal-miners who - in a startling display of unification with the capital class - also oppose it because it's not coal-mining.

The world will be building fusion reactors in 2050, or spacebeamed solar power or opening a portal to the Warp or something for limitless free energy, and Australian politicians will still be talking about how "we can't just give up on coal".

Progress in this field is going to come from the private sector in-spite of the government who are already trying to kill solar power projects.
Yes of course. I just have to find out they lied after I do all the recommending.

If what you were saying were true, then it would not be economically profitable to lie to customers. However we see that lying to customers is more or less rife. Therefore we must conclude that it is profitable to do so.
My nearly literate 5 year old does pretty well in Kerbal Space Program. He learned how to do this by clicking around for hours and memorizing what happened.
Our meat obsession is destroying the planet: How to change how we see animals
I don't think anyone has a problem with professionals using tools fit to task. (I certainly don't.) I just personally don't want to have to walk or bike on streets where trucks are moving a combined weight of 5 or 6 tons at high speeds. I think this could be solved with smarter street/highway design, which would also help drivers get from A to B more efficiently.

And FWIW, I grew up in rural Indiana (USA), soybean and corn country. It's definitely not just professionals driving these vehicles. Actually I'd say most trucks on the streets growing up were NOT used by professionals, the real farm trucks were often barely street legal and could never seem to get past 30-40 mph with a load (or without heh).
An uncertain future for the web in Europe
It's available as a set of Markdown files in a git repo, if that helps: https://github.com/edgedb/easy-edgedb
Imagine money capitalists abandoning physical capital and laying off workers because their grocery bill turns the yield on employment negative while the yield on money itself is positive.

You'd be foolish to sell products for lower prices, you don't get a discount on debt for example (negative interest rates).
My project would focus on the ITS region motifs. Which I think are not in genbank. Genbank has the whole sequence but the motifs are not identified.

The way the bio people I talked to explained it to me, when they want to compare ITS structures they need to find the motifs themselves and compare it that way. Is this incorrect?

I’d love to chat if you are in the world.
At this point I absolutely don't want my personal blog to "succeed." I don't want attention, or fame, or any of the shenanigans that come along with a large following. If it ever achieved these things I'd probably delete it.

Building stuff just for yourself is underrated.
I'll see it, if you type it out right now in this comment. I think shelf-stockers have more power than ever to get their views heard.
The funny thing is that people just remove the speakers of that small thingy and hence it should just be banned as a whole
Appreciate the suggestion. Will give them a look too.
Fuck, this is hard.
What would homotopy types bring to the table?
Looks very good. Who uses it in production?
Ok that is my bad! Sorry I was curious as to the answer to the question in the * scaling cell in the original blog post and searched 'materialized scaling' and came across that. Regardless I am actually a user of Materialize and quite like it.
Probably, because you step through it in a debugger without bouncing all over the code base for each expression.
first commit 2009, so we're roughly 12 years later. Whats the saying? It takes about 10 years to create a reliable DB? Good on you guys. Looks super interesting.
I've noticed big strides in making the site more annoying to use if you aren't logged in.
Makes you wonder who you can trust out there.
Rocket startup's Florida launch debut ends in ocean crash
I don't see how you can ban AirTags without also banning products like Tile
Completely stop.
True. But Niger is not an exception, it just happens they had some uranium. In the other ex-colonies, it's petroleum, natural gas, wood and exotic products of all sort.

In fact, this has been such a continuum that the prefix "neo" in the expression "neocolonialism" isn't really appropriate. It's rather business as usual without having to maintain order directly. Military agreements still link France and most of its ex-colonies: the French Army has many bases and has the duty to intervene in case of coups.

Or not, depending on which side will be the most beneficial to France. In general, France helps to maintain the powers already in place, very often authoritarian regimes. Quite a few truly democratically-elected African leaders have been either bought, jailed or assassinated with direct support of France.

Things have changed though after 1991 on the political part, with a French foreign policy pushing more often towards democracy. On the business side, very little. Each country is a specific situation.

In all cases, the African "elites" of those ex-colonies are as much responsible of this continuum. Let's not be naive nor Manichean: the people of these countries have been actively betrayed by their own elites and France has cynically profited of it.

To sum it up, France behaved and still behave with its African ex-colonies very much alike the USA have and still do in Central and South America.

NB: I have both the French and the American citizenships and vote in both.

So I get a double dose of shame.

But let's not look at these countries as passive victims from bad richer countries. They have been independent since 60 years. If the local elites had been focused on improving their people's life instead of amassing tens of billions $, French cynical influence would have receded.

So it's less "neocolonialism" than converging interests between the ethically and financially corrupted elites on both sides.

In our so-called "modern democracies", American and French citizens have little influence in the foreign policy of their own country. It's rarely a matter of debate since elections mostly focus on internal issues.

Well, some of us demonstrated and petitioned regularly on obvious wrong-doings ... with just no effect. I remember demonstrating in Boston against invasion of Irak ; a few thousands people, students mostly, just to watch many Democratic officials like... Hilary Clinton voting for it.

What can we do? I still had to vote for Hilary against Trump, knowing she knew that the intel for invading Irak had been bent. Because Trump was far worse.

The French political theater is totally different, but still: the French economic and political "elites" are on both aisles implicated in dubious relations with African elites, as well as Arabic elites from Saudi Arabia, the Persian Gulf, etc etc.

What can we do really, as citizens? Foreign policies are even further a reach that a true ecological transition. On which nothing is done despite polls showing that the matter is among the 3 priorities of French voters. Democracy as we know it is a just a show.
Exactly– the SmartThings tracker didn't ship with any of these features. Tile didn't either. The only reason this is such a conversation is because Apple built these anti-stalking features and marketed them.

Not to mention I could probably make a crappy GPS tracker with none of these alerts and stick it to people's stuff. It may be clunky, but there are plenty of good hiding places. Or I could just get this[0]. Or this[1]. Or any of the dozens of trackers I can find on Amazon that would be perfectly good for stalking.

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/Amcrest-LTE-GPS-Tracker-Geo-Fencing/d...
[1]: https://www.amazon.com/LandAirSea-Waterproof-Magnetic-Person...
Is that something that can/has been proven? From my understanding there are many other smart animals that are self aware.
It's the "Electric cars will never work until I can drive across the country on one charge" argument all over that line of reasoning.

Different areas will require different trade-offs. Higher latitudes, excluding inside the polar vortex, tends to have larger amount of wind in the winter.

Currently storage does not make sense because the cheapest store of energy is a smart consumer. It will be very interesting to see if actual storage outside of governmental emergency backups will ever be needed in wind heavy deployments.
I would reach out to Apple about that. It’s not supposed to work that way.
What about mosh?
It's a disjunction between data-analysis enabled tech people and their interests and the interests of neoliberal managers.

Peter Thiel is only one of the first to side against neoliberalism. There will be many more technical people siding against managerial interests in this new form of class conflict.
Go 1.17.7 and Go 1.16.14 are released
I don't get how Apple got this so wrong, and how they continue to get it wrong, even after getting the change to fix it when moving from HFS+ to APFS.
Switzerland is 10 years and then you need to pass a language and general knowledge test. The contents of the test depend on the region you live. Honestly I don't see it as that ridiculous.
Most of the time, a month-to-month comparison might miss the forest for the trees. Except that in this case, the forest in question has just gone through a pandemic.
Nothing in common? Lets see. Nuclear power plants and weapons were supported and approved by the same president, regulated by the same governments, with the same members from the same parties, sharing the same feedback and moving in the same direction as the politics requested

If you look under the masks of the people sharing the final responsibility you will see the face of the president in all cases. All nuclear things are intertwined, in the same way as Facebook and Instagram are different, but anything affecting one of them, will instantly spread and change the other.
Wow, that was just rude. You don't have to argue with me, but if you do I'd appreciate you doing it without insulting the social skills of perfect strangers.

Obviously we disagree on what is proper... both for hiring and for Internet forums.
yeah, agree. Unfortunately there's always a too big (IMHO) focus on growth, not only on Twitter but in general, instead of offering a good service that is healthy (in terms of paying the bills and generating revenue). They failed to grow in users, then they try to grow in engagement, but everything they do makes the experience less pleasant
> New privacy warnings during AirTag setup: In an upcoming software update, every user setting up their AirTag for the first time will see a message that clearly states that AirTag is meant to track their own belongings, that using AirTag to track people without consent is a crime in many regions around the world, that AirTag is designed to be detected by victims,

I expect that this will be about as effective as the antipiracy warning at the beginning of every movie is.

> and that law enforcement can request identifying information about the owner of the AirTag.

Haven't there been a lot of stories of victims going to police with an AirTag, but this not happening?

> iPhone 11, iPhone 12, and iPhone 13 users will be able to use Precision Finding

How convenient. Now you need a modern, expensive Apple product to protect yourself from stalkers.
You know what's even worse? When you do all that, invite the candidate to apply because they need to be in the ATS and then HR throws the resume out without even telling you that the candidate applied....
Started college in 1982, and had already learned BASIC and Pascal via a mainframe terminal at my high school. So of course I swaggered over to the college computer center to see if they had any student jobs. I thought I was hot shit. Well, jobs involving the campus mainframe were reserved for CS students, which I was not. But they said I could have the job of maintaining the "micro lab," a room with a half dozen TRS-80 Model III's that was pretty much ignored by everybody except the kids of a couple professors came in after school to play games.

Among other things, I discovered word processing. I decided to try word processing a term paper. Turning it in was a bit dramatic, first I went to the professor and showed him a sample of the printout (dot matrix) and asked for permission to use a word processor. He tentatively said yes, but...

This triggered a lengthy discussion at the all-faculty meeting, to decide if they would allow word processing. It was the physics professors who talked them off the ledge, explained that the computer isn't actually doing the writing, etc. The faculty issued a ruling: Word processing was OK, but you're on your honor not to use a spell checker! That was fine, I didn't have a spell checker anyway.

I started "doing the research" on getting my own computer. I set myself a budget of 1000 bucks for computer, monitor, software, and printer. This was a time when a lot of computers were "bundled" with basic software. I came in close to my budget with a Sanyo MS-DOS computer, Zenith monochrome display, and a super cheap daisywheel printer. Software was Wordstar and Sanyo BASIC. My dad read this article in the Wall Street Journal about a guy who was selling a software app for just $39, so he got me Turbo Pascal for my birthday!

I don't think my professors guessed the real advantages of word processing, but I have a hunch it bought me at least 1/2 a point on my overall GPA. I also developed a love for microcomputers that influenced my career. At my college, the CS program used the "real" computer, but the people doing cool things with microcomputers were in the math and physics department, so I majored in those subjects. The profs were pretty heavily into the TRS-80, and had even networked them in some primitive way, so they could transmit their manuscripts to the department secretary. Plus, of course I got to learn about hardware hacking!
unwanted tracking should be an open standard.
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I've been to Italy, it seems hand gestures are also an excellent language facilitator.
Of course. Californians part themselves on the back for being anti-racist or whatever, but really it’s a bunch of mostly white women doing it.

The people that actually accept others just don’t talk about it, instead of treating minorities like children so they (the whites) can look like saviors.
"i BeFoRe E eXcEpt..."

Ugh.
Remember the term "carbon footprint" was popularized by BP[1] specifically as an effort to distract from efforts at systemic regulation that might effect corporations by making CO2 seem like an individual moral concern.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_footprint#Origin_of_the...