skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not as hard as you think, and the correlation with nutrition and social class is disappearing and even non-existent in many places.

See Japan: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/12/national/scienc...

There's an increase in low birth rate babies (not due to malnutrition), probably due to increased survivability of smaller more frail babies. The fact that they grow up and lead healthy lives means that their society is indeed selecting for the survivability of smaller people.
I am curious what you use SML for. Any examples? Just interested in seeing what you can do in SML.
Substance is all you need
Based on this page, 110 out of 400 were born elsewhere (I searched for number of "born" entries) I can see some cases where they immigrated to the US at a young age so all their education was in the US. So another way to look at it would be where they got their college degree.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_by_cou...
I didn't say they have held it for decades, I'm saying they own the exclusive rights for the next couple decades (I think it was a 25 year exclusivity period, which they are now ~7 years into).

There's nothing stopping an unaffiliated race series from starting up, but good luck attracting any top tier drivers.
I was referring to excessive makeup, the "inch thick" type. Where the result in no way even resembles human skin anymore.

To each their own though. I do like elegant makeup, it can definitely amplify natural beauty.
I would be expect hostile behaviour when you mentioned T to W. But that is quite fun.
>As somebody who grew up with the Amstrad CPC in France (it was the best selling 8-bit micro there), I've always found the cult status of the ZX Spectrum in the UK difficult to rationalise. IMO, it's the biggest f**ing rose-tinted reality distortion field in all of retrocomputing.

I don't get it either.

64 was and is clearly the better choice over Spectrum—superior in every single way other than perhaps the BASIC—but the relatively small price difference even then (and even more 40 years later) was enough to cause many Britons to choose the latter. That said, there is a reason why 64 dominated the wealthier US, Canada, Germany, and Australia.

The only explanation I can come up with is that we all feel nostalgia for our youth, no matter the circumstances. But there is a difference between respecting the creativity borne of technical limits (what happens with ZX81), and actually celebrating those limits as virtues as happens with Spectrum.

One might feel nostalgic for the happy days of youth, even if one grew up in a poor ghetto. But not so much if one associated with others with better living quarters. Nowhere in the UK is a town where families could only afford Spectrums; rather, every schoolyard rang with debates between Spectrum, C64, Amstrad, and BBC Micro owners on their computers' merits. (They all uniformly pitied the owners of Oric, Dragon, and other true also-rans in the UK market.) It's one thing as a 13-year old Spectrum user to stand up to the taunts of the C64 owners by bravely citing any possible superiority (or, in this case, minimizing the uniform inferiority), but to still do so 40 years later?!?
I am sick of hearing about labor supply problems in the hydrocarbon industry as it is a problem entirely of their own making. I was in the Industry for 12 years and in that time the industry laid off something like 40% of the workforce twice.

Half of my ex colleagues had to drive Uber to make ends meet for years. I remember a reservoir engineer walking down the main street in the oil city I worked in with a board saying "qualified petroleum engineer will work cheap".

I spent 4 years (and $$$) doing a master's of petroleum engineering whilst working full time. None of the 40 odd students I went through the degree with got jobs due to an industry downturn and all left the industry. We happened to graduate during a low oil price period. Too bad. So sad. 4 year degree down the drain.

This affliction of no staff happens every boom, and the mass layoffs and industry exodus happens every bust. If the industry actually planned for this cyclical nature by avoiding overexpansion in good times and reducing mass layoffs in bad times this wouldn't be an issue.
Isn’t the whole point of electron that people don’t want to learn a new language?

Asking these web devs turned desktop app developers to learn python is probably a bridge too far…
nice, I'll check it out
And piraters will happily play that cat and mouse game and find ways to keep sharing content under the radar. I have zero sympathy for the parasite executives pushing this stuff when pirating hits their bottom line.
The US has hundreds of years of legal case law around the 1st amendment. Calls for violence, fighting words, and other well-defined things are NOT protected under the 1st amendment.
She was working on AR which she was able to take after she was fired and form TiltFive https://www.tiltfive.com/
Obviously there was a lot of refinement and development going on in those engines.

For another example, the Ohain axial flow turbojet is quite recognizable even up to modern jet engines. The Whittle radial flow turbojet was a dead end.

Innovations 1..3 are all revolutionary, not evolutionary, advances in rocket engines. 4 maybe is.

https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/v-2-rocket-eng...

The Saturn V engines needed much more powerful turbopumps, and so used a secondary rocket engine just to drive the pump. How cool can you get?
Erlang is very cool, and Go has certainly achieved a notable measure of popularity — both served as an inspiration here — but a super-popular language like Java plays in a different world and a completely different scale than languages with a smaller reach. Virtual threads will bring the benefits of lightweight user-mode threads to an audience that is many times that of Erlang and Go combined.

As to legacy code, Java programs have been using the thread-per-request model for over 25 years (there's been a lot of talk of reactive, but actual adoption is relatively low), and Java's threads were designed to be abstracted from day one (in fact, early versions of Java implemented them in user mode). So the right fit has been there all along. Migrating applications to use virtual threads requires relatively few changes because of those reasons, and because we designed them with easy adoption in mind. This particular experiment is about simple, "legacy" Java 1.0 code enjoying terrific scalability.

BTW, Java's observability has come a long way in recent years (largely thanks to JFR — Java Flight Recorder), and even Erlang's is no match for it, although Java still lags behind Erlang's hot-swapping capabilities.

[1]: BTW, I always find talk about the "average Java programmer" a bit out of touch. The top 1% of Java programmers, the experts, outnumber all Rust (or Haskell, or Erlang) programmers several times over, and there are many more reliable Java programs than reliable Erlang programs. The average Java (or Python, or JavaScript, the two other dominant languages these days) programmer, is just the average programmer, period.
Yup. I hear similar complaints from a friend in the food production industry (think Coca Cola).

“We can’t find people!”
“They all quit within a few months!”
Not crap, it’s a hard job (welding inside a giant metal tank, etc) and the pay is good but not great. Even at a 10% premium, you’d be hard pressed to get people to take this job over driving for UPS (for example). Still physically hard, but more regular hours, union job, pay is decent, etc. And compared to just about any office job? No competition - most would pick the lower paying office job because it probably has A/C, more vacation, and roughly equivalent health care.
Apparently Microsoft had their own implementation of the Java 1.1 API, Sun Microsystems sued them, and Microsoft decided to pay $20 million out of court.

Flash cut to 2021, the new owner of the same API, Oracle, sues Google for the same exact thing, but Google takes it to court and wins.

Interesting to think what would have happened if Microsoft had taken it to court and won.
>Why does Musk care so much about this? Why would a guy who has pushed the boundaries of electric-vehicle manufacturing and plumbed the limits of commercial space flight care about who can say what on Twitter?

His wealth is rather locked up at the moment and depends on continued operation. He sees this as a key way to ensure this. I agree with him, someone needs to do this.

>“free speech seems to be much more of an obsession among men.”

Why even include this in the article? Really drops quality of the article.

>But “free speech” in the 21st century means something very different than it did in the 18th, when the Founders enshrined it in the Constitution.

No it doesn't. It means exactly the same thing. Nothing changed. No idea why the author thinks otherwise.

>The right to say what you want without being imprisoned is not the same as the right to broadcast disinformation to millions of people on a corporate platform. This nuance seems to be lost on some techno-wizards who see any restriction as the enemy of innovation.

So freedom of the press you have an issue with as well?

Closed the article here. Can't believe the quality of time.com has dropped so significantly.
I earn my living by looking for things which I believe need to be done, which help the overall state of things to the best of my knowledge, and then doing them without trying to be immediately and directly compensated for them. Some call this "karma yoga".

I recently posted a somewhat detailed comment about my practice, and linked to even more writing about it, which can be seen at this address: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31077742
Users of non-mainstream browsers are now being required solve CAPTCHAs.^1 If hitting the Cloudflare CAPTCHA for HTML results, it appears JSON results are still available. Rate limit unpublished.

curl https://api.marginalia.nu/public/example.com

1. Or users of mainstream browsers that turn off Javascript. Yikes.

Hope the author finds a new job that satisfies his requirements. Maybe he will get some help from fans of marginalia.nu.

It was nice to see an on premises, non-commercial search engine project. Proof of what's possible and the quality of results that can be achieved on a relatively small budget.
That would require the persons in question to self-reflect. It’s not often a process that people who denigrate others generally engage with.
Caesar was Caesar, but he was supposedly pretty sensitive about his (lack of) hair, and contemporary historians (ancient Roman historians were a bit closer to gossip columnists than modern historians) went on about it a lot. You don't really seem to get the same thing for Alexander.
There are actually quite a few Python-in-the-browser implementations, not just those two! A couple of years ago a colleague of mine wrote up a comparison, including Brython and Pyodide:

https://anvil.works/blog/python-in-the-browser-talk

(We chose one of the Python-to-JS compilers, https://skulpt.org, for the Anvil web-app platform, because it's much lighter weight than this. It's a couple of hundred kb on the wire, and you can call to the server for any heavy lifting.)
How about a consumer protection bill that refunds your monthly streaming service fee if you didn't stream during the billing period
If women aren't morally compelled to find short men attractive, why are they morally compelled to not feel negatively about them in general? I don't see how anyone is morally obligated to feel any way about any other human.

It's just really weird to me that some people get angry about being short (understandably so) but instead of just admitting that, they turn to some kind of universalist morality as a way of shifting the burden to others
I’d be concerned about the lifetime costs of the vehicle regarding maintenance, repair, and replacement parts. I’d guess that insurance would be much higher too depending on how that’s handled. Would chip shortages cause issues?
Just this weekend Formula E held the Monaco ePrix, using the same layout F1 uses.

As a comparison, the FE pole time was 1:29.839. Last year the F1 pole lap was 1:10.346.
The Internet Archive is one of those charities I started donating to many years ago, and I've never had a reason to second guess that decision. Be it stuff like this or their broader mission to back up parts of the internet that could otherwise be lost forever.

The internet archive, EFF, and ACLU are all very important organizations to protect internet freedoms.

PS - You should also consider using Amazon Smile for "bonus" donations to your favorite charity. Gave an additional $100 that way.
It's one thing for Google to have a problem with something and quite another to anti-competitively leverage their other market positions as the solution.

Other comments describe a few specific examples of that abuse (like also thwarting Epic's attempts to be preloaded by OEMs), but I think it's more interesting to look at how money is changing hands as evidence of market power being abused.

In particular, consider that Google in theory should be fine accepting payments as low as their hosting costs (and probably much less since their app store helps attract phone purchasers to fuel their ad network, since they also take a cut from OEMs, etc). Compare that to each individual developer on the store who in theory is able to afford at most some large fraction of revenue for the privilege of being on the store. Note that the latter number is (usually) much greater than the former and that the latter is what's actually being paid. If there were any real competition for something as trivial to build as an app store then you wouldn't expect Google to be able to successfully price discriminate across so many orders of magnitude of prices and extract nearly all of the surplus value from the end user purchasing an app. The fact that they're able to do so and are doing so should serve by itself as a strong indication that something suspiciously anti-competitive is happening. My $20 app wasn't 20x harder for Google to host than your $1 app, so why are my fees 20x higher? Because they can get away with charging that much because they stomp on any competition.

That isn't any kind of nail-in-the-coffin proof mind you, but it serves as a useful heuristic for spotting abuses of market power in many markets. Throwing that same idea at the right to repair movement, the amount paid to John Deere for tractor repairs is many times greater than what people have been able to achieve on their own (when they've been able to do so), and the only barrier is DRM that was added to prevent unauthorized repairs. If John Deere were really that much better at repairing their tractors than third parties then they wouldn't have to artificially exclude everyone else from attempting it to retain market share and command those prices.

Nobody's saying that Google or John Deere shouldn't be allowed to profit from the things they make, but using existing power to hamper competition and seek greater rents isn't good for society as a whole.
The rest of the comment supports the first sentence.
So long, Wordle — Knotwords is my new daily word-game obsession
The idea of a six or seven figure bonus for a software developer is - no matter what level of their career they're in - absolutely bonkers to me. Completely beyond my ken.

Separate from that, who in their right mind would enter into a contract to make so much of their salary optional for their employer to pay them?

And yeah, if you set them up as the reward for a prisoner's dilemma, of course you'll see insanely bad behavior.
What? No it doesn’t?

Python doesn’t stop until you attempt to use Nil, no different from JS or any other lazy bound language.

You might be conflating null/undefined handling with type coercion, which is very different, and much worse.
> the shorter ones (around 1,73m)

Ahem, that's almost exactly the average height for a male in the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average_human_height_by_countr...
Scaleway in Europe is great and cheap, and they have many of the same services as the big parties. I like them anyway :P
> It's apparently common for Koreans to make operations to widen their eyes to look more like anime characters.

I don’t think that’s the exact reason, and they’d probably get mad at you if you said they wanted to look like something Japanese.

Korea and China are developing an independent “anime-like aesthetic” based on MMOs and anime-like American PC games these days; eg Blue Archive and Genshin are a lot more technically advanced than what Japan’s famously poorly paid source of actual anime can produce.
Your point relies on the causative link not being that having a freeway through a section causes it to decline into being the worst part of town.
“Stop Spreading Fake News: The Ghost of Kyiv Is a Legend”
Given how many “Web3” platforms and content creators this law would nuke out of existence, I’n genuinely surprised there isn’t more $$$ pushback.

Lobbying isn’t exclusive to supervillain-y agendas, it’s strange that deep pockets with a lot to lose aren’t being more active / fiscally vocal about their opposition to this type of legislature.

And can you imagine the sheer footprint of this type of tech? Given that there is no incentive to make filtering software efficient for these lobbyists, this could spell doom for companies that would need to scale it to ridiculous sizes; e.g. imagine what this would mean for Twitch, which already has a tough time with DMCA, as they would be legally mandated to run bloated filtering software on hundreds of thousands of live video streams all at once.

All I’m saying is if you have to name your legislature “SMART” you’re clearly compensating…
"Iron is strong, but not that hard and would wear away quickly."

I was simply making a bit of a joke about progress. Why is the bronze age not called the copper age and why is the iron age not called the steel age?

"Tooth enamel is actually harder than steel and very wear resistant." Really? In which case I would like you to take a bite out of any RSJ you care to choose. That's a rolled steel joist which are not hardened but designed to work well as beams.

Material properties are quite tricky. Hard really means errr hard: a diamond is hard - it can scratch glass. Glass is hard, most steels can't scratch glass. Steel is generally not that hard but can be depending on the alloy (mixture with other elements/etc) Then there are the other material properties such as stiffness, ductility and elasticity and the rest.

Iron is generally brittle so if you make a sword out of just iron it will be quite stiff and look lovely until your opponent smacks it and it breaks. I can give you a load of steels with loads of different properties depending on what you need. The difference between iron on its own and steel is amazing. Pop in a bit of chromium and it resists rusting, for example. Steel is much more than just adding carbon.

Please don't bite any of them - they will destroy your teeth.
The CAPTCHAS should be limited to only some IP ranges, I saw a spike in botspam a while back and had to dial up the bot mitigation a bit to be able to maintain service. Will reduce it when they give up.
If oil workers are essentially contractors in unpleasant environments then they should be paid appropriately, i.e. so highly that they can cover the off years with the good years, pay for their own insurance, and foster other lines of business for their downtime and for future career, etc. The era is now over of masses of cheap labor you can always draw on when needed.
They are if you’re competing with someone paying cash. But that doesn’t matter either, the question is if there’s any for sale in the first place.
I suspect that we'll see a big wave of Large Transformer models getting built into high cost professional tools.

Need to write some random background NPC dialogue for a game?

Need to generate a draft Cad design for "Airframe supporting a large turbojet engine with X newtons thrust"?

These are problems where the high cost of inference won't be significant, and there is an expert available to revise and discard the result if its not working.

I'd be curious if there is a good startup model for anything in this space, seems like you would already need to be a vendor of the underlying technical software to make a viable business (CAD,Game Engines,Creative Tools etc.)
Moleskine was the "in" thing for a while. It's practically impossible to talk about notebooks without someone remembering one fondly.
Google already had a black and white emoji font. I think from before color fonts were a thing. However they stopped updating that in 2015 (https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-emoji/commits/2f1ffdd6fb...). This is likely a descendant of that rather than completely from scratch.

It's also interesting they call out emoji being too detailed as a problem. For some characters like Pistol (apple-fied into Squirt Gun) they've copied Apples style -- presumably to avoid confusion. So acknowledging that not all fonts need to look the same is a bit refreshing there.

Though of course the black and white pistol still looks like a squirt-gun
Optional or Maybe is just “type or null” which is the implicit type of every language with nullable by default types. It’s worse in every way to null.

If your language can’t enforce non-nullable references then you have to worry that your Optional might be null. And if your language can enforce non nullable references then you’re boxing your types for no reason because inside if x != null you could just use x unboxed instead of x.getValue(). The only thing you miss is that None<A> and None<B> are distinct types but Go solved that with a typed nil.

For example Python with mypy is so much more ergonomic.

def foo() -> Optional[int]:
return None if coinflip() else 4

x = foo()
if x is not None:
print(x + 5) # no error
y = x * 2 # error None doesn’t have a __mul__ operator.
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running it has a business does not preclude requirements placed upon it by government. All businesses have to comply with government regulations, and a regulation that requires USPS to service rural routes would not preclude running the organization as a business.

It could change things like Frequency of delivery, or other cost cutting but I have advocated for that anyway even for non-rural routes. personally i think residences should get mail delivery on Tue and Thur, and businesses on Mon, Wed and Fri with none of weekends. that alone would be a huge cost saving.
I haven't tried it either, but I've tried moderating a decent size community, though nowhere near the numbers of Facebook, of course.

There are two challenges which combine into one problem:

1) The amount of bad content posted to a forum rises exponentially with the size of the membership. For every x new people reading, x^y bad content is posted. This is because a large target becomes much more attractive to spammers, trolls, and anyone else looking for a cheap audience.

2) It is extremely difficult to find good moderators. A good moderator will be, within reason, consistent, reliable, AND unbiased. Even with a salary at stake, it is difficult to find people who are even two of those things.

In order to succeed in moderating content well, you need to leverage reliable moderators (today, this means rare humans) with unreliable ones (text analysis and less rare humans) through some sort of statistical system. To date, we have not found a reliable system which can work at scale with this problem, but my faith is in a transparent and verifiable web of trust type system. Slashdot does pretty well, but it's still too opaque, in my opinion.
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