skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a trader, I can say that at least in Finance, the dead internet theory does apply. Type any stock ticker into google, especially a small one (random example: MRAM), not a single article for "mram stock" is written by a human, you have AI generated pages such as "stocknews.com", and dashboards like FinViz (which fwiw is a good and useful website). The articles are generally generated based on quantitative (and therefor easy to automate) aspects of stocks, for example price to earnings, or that the price has grown alot.

A second type of website exists, which I learnt of from searching tweets in google, and finding that algorithmic spinning (replacing words to avoid plagiarism detection) was clearly being employed. The grammar is often laughably bad, but clearly in terms of google is either the best content available (as their algos see it), or the only content available.

One more Note: Google Trends data is 'deflated' to the number of searches (you can verify this by using Google Ads which gives numbers of searches and comparing to trends data). I assume the method is similar to what is in use for the transparency report's "censorship / outage" feature (explained here: https://transparencyreport.google.com/traffic/overview?hl=en)
I have this ebook on github [1] which I use to teach Python to my CS 2nd year students. It is quite short on information and has lots of exercises for them to practice and get up to speed with the language, fast.

[1] https://github.com/joaoventura/full-speed-python/
If minesweeper was a 300mb binary. Yes.
Nikola, the Emotional Android Kid
It's not very precise talking about whether a monad commutes -- it's not clear what "commutes" should really mean (certainly not F . G = G . F since that's way too restrictive).

I started working it out by hand, but then figured nLab had it somewhere, and indeed: https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2017/02/distributive_la...

F, G, and F.G are monads if and only if there is a "distributive law," which is a natural transformation G.F -> F.G satisfying some properties. It's like something that satisfies half the braiding properties, where braidings are already a weaker version of commutativity.
> but you can't start from the harmonic series and find your way to Western classical music.

You absolutely can, because that's essentially exactly what western classical music (and more or less all other forms of music) already did, just spread out over a very long period of time.
It would be nice if 1Password understood private key + certificate pair, how it is used often for TLS connections.
Show HN: Simple-HTML – type-safe, template-less HTML rendering for Python
In a sense. There are certainly protections they can implement against non-browser clients; what I meant is that it would be more difficult for them to implement the usual sorts of defenses you see against screen scraping since the surface area available for fingerprinting is much smaller.

We haven't seen brokerages expend significant effort on this, and the industry seems to be moving in the direction of providing more open access to APIs, so we're (cautiously) optimistic that we will be able to convince them to provide more sanctioned integration paths such that we don't need to continue playing cat-mouse with them.
I'm on the top floor so my version is to casually walk up and down 4 flights of stairs 3-4 times and then shower. The entire process takes 15-20 minutes. I feel so much better afterwards.
Interesting. It's still been removed from Youtube.
Sam Blankman-Fried of FTX had a Twitter thread about playing League of Legends during work hours to let his brain reset without dumping all of its context: https://twitter.com/SBF_FTX/status/1357123542999916544
Sure, but the amount of traffic inside AWS is way bigger than the amount of traffic that crosses its boundary. This is true for a lot of operators. Netflix and YouTube and similar loads that are virtually all egress are special cases.
I agree that people in the comments make that argument. And I think its likely correct.

But it certainty was not a justification made back then. I don't think anybody argued people back then were considering that.

> Maybe there were even better alternatives.

If you disagree with the strategy followed, your argument would be more powerful if you had an alternative strategy that would have been more human.

I am very open to alternative strategies. I have fought about it a lot, but I don't really see it.

> An hypothetical weapon which could simply evaporate all of Japan with all the people inside would also have saved American lives, but it doesn't seem so good, does it?

Japan had 77 million people around there. If such a weapon existed. How many million Americans would you sacrifice in order not to use that weapon?

Would you for example kill everybody in New York even if 10-20 million would die anyway?

What is the calculation you would actually make if you were in the position. How many American 20 something would you sacrifice per Japanese civilian.

And how do you measure Japanese victims in China, Korea and other places that were suffering many causalities with every additional day of the war.
That would be a great way to handle it. Maybe hide a link to the persons wiki page in a data tag or something similar.
Apparently their pitch standard was an Oboe at room temperature (20 degrees) which went up just enough to make up that 4 Hz difference compared to tuned at 15 degrees against that fork. It's a neat little hack.
To plan meetings with colleagues and such? Remind you when meetings are about to start, have links to online meetings?
I can count on one hand the number of people I’ve met that did windows programming, both before or after 2005.
Without knowing any statistics on the demographic of HN, I would assume that it really isn't that diverse speaking from a cultural ground, but rather that we have a place that accepts disagreement a lot (or at least doesn't punish you as hard compared to other places). Which can be seen as a form of diverse-ness I guess?
Isn't the Earth going to run out of mass and shrink away to nothing at this rate?
Pretty sad that the solar lobby is trying to destroy the credibility of nuclear. I hope we one day see a resurgence of nuclear, the drama and fear around it really shouldn't exist in 2022.
> slam slam balls

At first I didn’t realise this was a verb followed by a noun, and thought to myself “damn, these slam slam balls sound like fun!”
This is a non-sequitur. And you haven't actually substantively rebutted my claim (or anyone else's here, for that matter).
I'm so confused after reading this. What exactly are they doing?
Yeah, I kept waiting to eventually hear that this was caused by some other random issue, and not them expecting deterministic behavior for floating point ops, but they actually confirmed it a few days ago in their blog: https://www.halowaypoint.com/news/closer-look-halo-infinite-...

The relevant section is:

"The first cause is rooted in the fact that the simulation needs to be deterministic. This means that when the client performs an action, the result of that action is the same when the server performs it."
arguments against this principle were discussed here recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30328446

I honestly don’t think an implementation of TCP that would try and follow this principle would bring anything but misery. I lived on the internet since IE5… imagine including “hacks for Cisco” in your packets
(OP) I think that would be a great idea. My friend is the person who wrote this article and he uses the ECO2 as his speech device. It can be SUPER cumbersome to bring it everywhere. It needs to be attached to his chair or have someone else carrying it, which kind of defeats the purpose of easily accessible communication.
There were plenty of comments like this 2yr ago. They were gray and at the bottom so few took notice and eventually people stopped making them.
I agree, Promise<Exn<T>> is an admittedly bad example. See my response to the sibling comment for a better example.

Effect sets don't prevent you from using monadic wrappers when appropriate. In combination with delimited continuations, effects allow languages to reify effectful computation in an understandable and computationally efficient manner.

> You have errors and nondeterminism? Well, do errors cause rollback or abort the entire thing?

It depends on how the handler is implemented, meaning the user of a function who is calling an effect has the ability to override the way the effect is performed.

Traditional exceptions, exceptions that resume, or computations that can be canceled can all be implemented using an effect system.

There are a lot of papers on Algebraic effects, but the best way to convince you of their utility is to look into the literature yourself. The koka language guide, 'Algebraic effects for the rest of us' and (later) oleg's work are good starting points.

> or pretend that ordering does not matter when it clearly does.

Ordering does matter; effects are performed in the order they are produced.
Wake between 8 and 9. But can't eat until 12 - 13. Then usually I eat a sandwich. Meat vegg and bread
My Favorite Debugging Hack
or something more prominent so it didnt just look like a CSS bug
Negative tone aside, indeed: the problems that Rails "solves" here have long been solved in computing. Not just .net. In Ruby too, just not in Rails.

Event-based architectures such as event-sourcing, -listeners, -subscribers, message-buses, actor pattern. All of them solve the problems that Rails tries to solve with delayed jobs. But does it with different tradeoffs.

Rails is first and foremost an MVC setup with a heavy and tight coupling to the database. That is a poor fit for apps or domains with lots of sequential logic, messaging, services or orchestration. Rails is perfect for reasonable simple "CRUD", its less perfect for "CRUD+business-logic" and a very poor fit for complex domain models with (eventual) consistency and/or message passing.

For the middle-scenario, Id -personally- forego Rails, and choose or build an archictecture that focuses more on logic than on "getting stuff in and out of a database". But I see why people will choose Rails there too, and then bolt the logic and consistency on top of it.
Yes, amazing how things are more expensive when your competition can emit unlimited carbon without paying anything for the externalities.

Or when you're stuck running on 1960s technology because nothing new has been built in 60 years.
The use of pentatonic scales is extremely cross-cultural, with independent discovery on at least four continents:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentatonic_scale#Use_of_pentat...

As far as I can tell, 12 ET is the smallest equal temperament that acceptably encodes the common variants of pentatonic scale. Meanwhile, the pentatonic scale probably appears because (3/2)^5 ≈ 8.
Ask HN: How to tell Google/Apple maps that a road is for buses only?
I was just fined £60 for passing through a "bus gate" in the UK that Google Maps navigated me straight through. I am sure will continue to happen to tons of people.

I recently changed my address's GPS coordinates on google maps—is it possible to do something similar for navigation?
Does anyone know how they got a soundtrack tuned to 432Hz? If it was just an existing soundtrack slowed down a bit, that's not going to sound right. Did the study get an orchestra to record a whole soundtrack at 432Hz?
You can write code in any language that fails at runtime depending on the day. What's notable about this is that its _syntactical correctness_ depends on the day, which is not possible to achieve in many languages.

What's being noted is the degree of flexibility that Perl has with respect to its execution environment.

Though if you include preprocessors, you expand the number of languages for which you can do something similar.
Connecting to your headphones requires bluetooth. Getting access to bluetooth means you can scan for nearby bluetooth devices. This may leak your location if identifiable bluetooth beacons are nearby. Hence, you need location access.

iOS is similar. But they do not give apps access to the mac address of scanned bluetooth devices which makes the platform borderline unusable for actual bluetooth apps.
Sideloading might be the best thing for the iPhone
That's how we are thinking about this as well.
Both iOS and Android desperately need a "Network" permission (as is found on GrapheneOS.) I'd say at least half my apps don't need internet connectivity.
> "Industrial revolution" started 4 years after the British setup trading ports in India

That's oddly specific. What starting date do you put on the Industrial Revolution, and why do you pick that exact starting date?

I would have described the Industrial Revolution as a gradual process, building up over a century or so. What basis is there for picking one specific year and saying "that's the start"?
Are you saying that U.S. leadership is responsible for the murders of those that were killed in the strategic bombing of Japan? If you are - then you are wrong.
Apparently. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing#Cryptanalysis:

While working at Bletchley, Turing, who was a talented long-distance runner, occasionally ran the 40 miles (64 km) to London when he was needed for meetings, and he was capable of world-class marathon standards. Turing tried out for the 1948 British Olympic team, but he was hampered by an injury. His tryout time for the marathon was only 11 minutes slower than British silver medallist Thomas Richards' Olympic race time of 2 hours 35 minutes. He was Walton Athletic Club's best runner, a fact discovered when he passed the group while running alone. When asked why he ran so hard in training he replied:

I have such a stressful job that the only way I can get it out of my mind is by running hard; it’s the only way I can get some release.

That doesn’t say he ran back, to, though. Maybe call that a half-commute?

https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Turing_running:

Alan Turing ran a little while he was at Sherbourne school, usually when football was cancelled because of bad weather. He did not run while an undergraduate at Cambridge, preferring to row, but once he had won his fellowship to King's College he began to run more seriously, his frequent route being from Cambridge to Ely and back, a distance of around 50 km. He did a little running while at Bletchley but only when he moved to the National Physical Laboratory did he take up running more seriously
Shhhh, this money's going to a good cause. Namely middle management bonuses... /s
Just because you haven't personally experienced this problem doesn't mean that many others have not. The experience of others is just as valuable as your personal experience, and to denigrate the experiences of others demonstrates a lack of empathy and understanding. Not everyone has an SSD, and not everyone has more than 8GB memory in their laptops. Many laptop manufacturers (including Apple) continue to sell lower-memory systems in droves; and there is a widely-installed base of older computers dating 5 years and even longer.
Key finding:

"the critical mass required to induce norm change is dramatically reduced when non-committed members of the population are less susceptible to social influence than previously assumed"

This suggests a corollary: that a general weakening of people's receptivity to social influence makes disruption of norms easier and thus more frequent. This seems closely related to the ongoing "truth decay" efforts which - not specific policy positions - are the primary focus of professional disinformation groups.
Yes. SSH keys work literally everywhere and not just for Github.
They're not rules unless your teacher is an asshole.

Music theory is a language used to be able to have conversations about harmonic and melodic aspects of a piece of music. Rythmic aspects are less well supported (that's putting it mildly) by western musical theory, but the same is true there for whatever formalism or terminology/nomenclature you might pick: it's not a set of rules, it's a language to facilitate non-musical discusison.
Roughly how many people have you got paying for it? (Obviously don’t share if you don’t want to, but the pricing seems spot-on)
From a local NBC affiliate: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wGwRCSPucwk

What are some other reasons a public video might be changed to private?
What is Big Tech’s surveillance-based business model?
Microsoft was once super scared of Java because it could have filled the role that WASM and desktop browser apps now try to break into. Microsoft tried EEE, but Sun bit back.
Thanks so much, Darby!
Note that CD here is "Continuous delivery".
Congrats on the launch :) I built an integration for 2 brokers and it was such a pain. Plaid didn't work and TradeIt just disappeared. Will definitely take a look.
The judgement of others matters little to me.

My blood sugar definitely does. Being morbidly obese really really sucks. Needless to say I really hate when the Huffington Post and other left leaning papers glorify obesity.

Yes you can lose weight, but you need to put the work in. I don't even drink soda anymore, sparkling water is generally the same price and is much better than for you. Add a little bit of lemon juice if you want to be fancy
Wow!!! This is awesome, I've wanted something like the mix tool for quite some time.

Thank you!
Personally, mainly for OTP recovery codes.
Every material possession I own. Why I live nomadicly
The appeal of theories like these to a lot of people is that they are quite simple to understand. Has also to do with that in a society where all subjectivity is informed by the valueform everything seems to appear as a market. And isn't it flattering to be part of the group that has access to the hegemony of scientific knowledge? Probably. You can thus think about why you re conditioned to find ideas like these appealing. Or why a popularscientific enterprise (the authors book in the article wich is basically advertisement and as such partaking in libidinal economy) emphasises these aspects and reserves the position of "exception to the rule" to cutting edge research on neuroplasticity.
Icons should make sense, otherwise, why have them? Many people using computers today have never seen a floppy disk and probably never will.
"The announcement of his death was carried in the local paper of Montreuil-sur-mer. M. Madeleine appeared next morning dressed in black and with a black band on his hat.

This mourning was noticed all over the town, and there was talk. It appeared to throw some light on M. Madeleine's origins. The conclusion was that he was in some way related to the venerable bishop. 'He's wearing black for the Bishop of Digne,' was the talk of the drawing rooms; it elevated M. Madeleine very much and gave him suddenly marked consideration in the noblest circles of Montreuil-sur-mer. The microscopic Faubourg Saint-Germain of the little place considered lifting the quarantine on M. Madeleine, the probable relative of a bishop. M. Madeleine perceived the advance he had obtained, in increasing nods from old ladies and more frequent smiles of young ladies. One evening, one of the dowagers of that little social world, curious by right of age, ventured to ask him, 'The mayor is undoubtedly a relative of the late Bishop of Digne?'

He said, 'No, madame.'

'But,' the dowager persisted, 'you wear mourning for him?'

He answered, 'In my youth I was a servant in his family.' "

Victor, Hugo, Les Misérables, Vol. 1, Book 5, Chapter 4

I think myself old, until the real grey men of HN answer, and then I'm young, and I have no idea who the people they talk of are. I, too, noticed the black band and had no idea who it was for. It would be good for me, and perhaps the HN community, if the black bands were accompanied by a description of the person who commanded the tribute, or their name at the least.

I use 'bc' at least once a week, I had no idea 'dc' existed.

> Cherry raced rally cars as a hobby.

Respect!
I would love to see them fund (and drastically cut back the red tape) for some of the newer reactor designs that are looking very promising, like Nuscale Power. I know they are working on new plant in Idaho, seems like it should be sped up. (currently looking at 2029 and 2030)
MilliCent
> "Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State"

By Fredrick Engles, known most popularly when associated with his co-author Karl Marx. Who among their many philisophical ideas advocated things such as

- "All history is class warfare"

- Dialectical materialism that proved to be so wrong no one even knows about it anymore.

- Or my personal favorite that the communist revolution would come first to the most capitalist countries, when in fact the only countries that fell to communism were backward feudal societies or those that had communism forced on them by the Soviet Union.

My point if your source of information is Engles then I'd suggest checking out some resources from people haven't been quite so thoroughly eviscerated by actual reality when their ideas were put to any sort of test.
https://www.techmeme.com/river is one you might like for tech news.

https://engineeringblogs.xyz/ is one I created and now use for work reasons.
As an amateur musician (and amateur nerd) I found this article to be insightful in many ways. The author’s opening disclaimer renders most of the HN criticism moot.
bash is a pitfall. In this world of IAC, powerful tools, unit testing, CICD, well crafted languages and libraries its a relic of an old time long gone.
mRNA isn't new (it was discovered in the 90s), and has been arguably studied far more than other types of vaccines. Also, there are non-mRNA COVID19 vaccines available as well, if that is your issue.

Accounting for both these facts, how is vaccine hesitancy justified ?
Because people are so dumb today and don't even understand the critical importance of having and displaying different opinions.

Now we want everyone to agree with us, because if they don't, we go into a tantrum.
Detained in China after trying to visit woman found chained up in hut
So for ~ the cost of one SLS launch spacex could put more into space that all of history.

At this price points this low for mass to orbit it starts being reasonable to forgo technologies like super light materials, and reclaiming every molecule of water you bring up.
You can build payloads for super cheap in a conventional terrestrial fashion and ignore the weight.
Note that that's 50MB more when the 1Password window is open. When it's running in the background it actively uses less memory than it did before. And that effectively means 99% of the time it's running faster than it did
yes, sorry my bad. It is $2.99. By default pricing page goes to "Team & Business" tab. I need to select "Personal & Family" for the price I was looking for my use case. Thanks!
Why jump to "trying to bury" if you're not looking for a fight?

There are many reasons for not specifying what framework an app is built in, the most obvious of which is that the general public both has no clue what Electron is nor a desire to find out.

Just because something isn't listed doesn't mean it's "buried". Like the other commenter said, you don't routinely see users of other frameworks and languages put it front and center, why should that expectation change with Electron?