skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the western/european world, we have access to maybe a couple of dozen types of fruit (including various berries); try listing all of the fruit you know. That is just a small fraction of the (estimated) 2000 types of fruit eaten across the world, particularly in the tropics.

Relatedly, in central and south America, _sapote_ is the native american term for (roughly) "edible fruit". The word has nothing to do with the taxonomy of these plants. European colonists made the mistake of adopting the word "sapote" for various different tree species ("what's this called?"; "sapote"), which has led to a lot of subsequent misunderstanding. If you google for "sapote" you'll find some results which naively attempt to give a latin classification to the unqualified "sapote". Now we have fairly useless english names for a variety of these regional fruits, such as (read "sapote" as "edible fruit" in these examples): "green sapote", "white sapote", "black sapote", "yellow sapote", "sun sapote", "south american sapote", and so on - although many of them also have more distinctive names (such as "canistel" or "chupa chupa"), which are much less ambiguous and should be preferred.

The company United Fruit was formed by the merger of two companies in 1899. One half of the merger was originally founded by an american railwayman, who obtained a 99 year lease of 800,000 acres of land from the Costa Rican government in exchange for constructing and operating a railway from the capital city to the carribean port of Limon (during the construction of which, thousands of laborers died from tropical disease). Once the railway started operating, usage was insufficient to pay back the debt on the loans that he'd taken out for construction, and so he pivoted to banana exports; the story goes that he had planted bananas along the tracks during construction as a cheap means of feeding his workers (which doesn't quite make sense given that bananas take 14+ months to fruit), and so he doubled down by increasing the density of planting over the area of the land that he owned, of course clearing more primary tropical forest to do so. The United Fruit company (today Chiquita) became heavily involved in politics in the countries that it was operating in, with the most famous example being its significant role in instigating the CIA backed coup in Guatamala in the 1950s that overturned the democratic government and installed a violent dictatorship, and led to 4 decades of civil war in which at least 140k people died, and which set Guatemalan economic development back by decades or more. So yeah, bananas.

Oh, and finally, there are dozens of varieties of bananas. The one that's exported most commonly (Cavendish) is relatively large and travels well, but is far from the most flavorful. There have been rumors of a killer fungus for many years, which hasn't had a significant impact on availability (yet); however, there are many varieties of bananas that aren't impacted by this fungus, so in the next decade or two we could see one of the other varieties replace Cavendish as the most widely consumed.
I'm going to need an example on the differences, because in so far as statistical entropy is entropy - it's ultimately describing an information function (and the lean in quantum mechanics these days is that information is describing physical properties as well - hence holography and the blackhole information paradox).

The heat-deathed universe for example would be the ultimate compressible information: 1 measurable state, across all space, for the rest of infinite time.
Standard HN. Henry Ford and his faster horse would be spinning in their graves.

Another day another group of people criticising a language they’ve never tried.

If you paint a house grab a paint brush. If you need to hang a picture a hammer and a nail.

Writing a program? Pick the best language for the job.
Yes. There is no backlight; the screen doesn't emit any light whatsoever by itself.
You and I are saying the exact same thing. I guess for me, this is valuable as an example of how frivolous the exercise of modern mythbustimg can be.
- Bash/awk

- PHP event loop to use it with AJAX/websockets to make browser games

- SQL. I know SQL but I feel I need a deeper knowledge

- Rust or Go

- Spoken English
But this is a game of colour perception. Isn't your comment akin to "Dyslexic person here. This is unplayable" leveled at Wordle?
Not sure, would have to discuss and think about it. I just put my email on my about page if that helps
"Free market" economics are broken for nonrenewable resources, since they misprice them - don't take future scarcity into account at all, and encourage an all-you-can-extract economy.
MVC 2.0: the email-View-Controller architecture
Watch Venus and Jupiter as they converge for this weekend’s great conjunction
I live in Morocco, and painting the roof white has greatly reduced the temperature inside the house during summer.
I work for one of the biggest e-commerce sites in Sweden, in the fashion industry.

We are a group of 8 engineers using Haskell exclusively working on payments and checkout related solutions.

The experience has been amazing so far. We are able to ship with great velocity considering the size of the team. We have also been able to refactor things easily when requirements change. Haskell has helped in keeping the code in good shape even after the many direction changes.
I think AWSs very granular permissions using IAM helps. Even tho most people I talk to hate it. I quite like it. Start out with a role with no permissions and open only what’s required for your stuff to work.
Warriors of the OpenBSD tribe.
So the person who sold those bonds after buying them from the government gets that money - in effect the government gets that money. In a puritan world sure, but if you expect the Fed will buy the bonds you can just buy them from the government and then sell to the Fed. And because there were negative interest rates for a time, that is exactly what happened as any other reason would be irrational.

So it's not a closed loop - it's just printing with more steps.

Likewise now its destruction with the removal of these reserves.
Is this vulnerable to sock puppets? What if I run two accounts, post bait on one, reply with my troll reply through the other sock? Have I then succeded in creating 'troll theater' that is visible to 3rd parties (the real targets).
I already encounter lots of reddit theater, which seem to be performed to influence 3rd party readers.
How about ‘Ministry of Truth’?
How do you power a rocket engine?
Cities section does have it.

https://www.ndtv.com/cities#pfrom=home-cities
Also bear in mind that most* educational needs can be met by the Pi 400, which generally hasn't suffered a shortage to the same degree. So they can often be satisfied by the 400 whereas the industrial/commercial uses are typically more constrained (esp. if it's a design based on the compute module)

* - but perhaps not all, in case there are some pedants
I feel like there is a second part to tell. Can you say more?
Famous english language example: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/four_score_and_seven_years_...

Originally from literal score in wood made as a tally mark when 20 items were counted.

Plus, dozens (and gross).

And base 60 becoming standard for time and degrees of a circle.

Minute (unit of time) comes from "minute (smaller part)", and second from second minute (small part of the small part).
Maybe it’s worth creating a throwaway account and posting the message that way to make sure your point has been made.
As someone who was in Europe for one of the heatwaves of recent years, and whose appartment was in one of these older buildings designed this ways with thick walls etc., I can attest that this only works up to a point. This design relies on there being cold air for the building to retain. However, in a heatwave it doesn't even get cold at night. The result is your apartment gradually heating over a period of days / weeks and turning into a sauna. It is not pleasant.

By the end of that summer I was dreaming about moving back to north america where air conditioning is much more common in rental units.
I appreciate a good post mortem. Respect to the founders for having clear perspective on the realities. Best of luck in your future endeavors
> Having to bring in the entire Rust toolchain

I relate to the general sentiment, mind you, but Rust is brainlessly easy to install.

But even if you seriously don't want to even do that (two shell commands) you can still pull a Docker image and work inside it -- but that's a bit more involved, granted.

I applaud the Rustler Precompiled effort because apparently it lowers the barrier to entry for many -- yourself included -- but at least for me installing Rust was never an actual problem.

As for Explorer, I have a few friends that curse at Python and Pandas every week, I might be able to "sell" them this project instead!
I've been thinking that evolution might resolve this issue on its own in a few generations. Right now people who are naturally high-willpower have a huge advantage, since they can resist eating unhealthy/too much food and wasting time on useless addictions. I would assume that translates into having more kids, on average.

Although, there are some questions about this:

1. If technology progresses so rapidly that each generation faces totally different challenges, evolution might not be able to keep up with the changing demands.

2. Contraception might be decoupling material success from reproductive success.
There is soooo much junk on Apple and Play store that I like it’s being cleaned up. But there’s some really bad apps that have dark UX that need to go.

I downloaded a “free” game / learning app for my daughter and when it loads it doesn’t let you do anything until you pay a $15/m subscription fee. But in the description it said free. It’s really annoying they get downloads to make themselves popular but the app is useless.
another is the default font for tty which uses cursive capital letter, so instead of Y, you get 'y' magnified.
1. Climate requires that we make some compromise

2. If we used cars less, there is a good chance public transport would have less of those issues you're talking about. It's a vicious circle. Urban planning has been favoring cars for a long time.
I recommend "Can a Scientist Believe in Miracles?" by Ian Hutchinson, physicist and professor at MIT. It covers the rational arguments for Christianity and how to integrate a scientific and Christian view of the world.

And C.S. Lewis, of course, but you're already reading him.
This would be my concern too. People fail to understand how in heatwaves there ceases to be cold air to move around. Everything heats up. It's brutal.
> the company says the buses are "fitted with a new generation of batteries... with high energy density and optimal safety" spread around the roof and rear of the vehicle.

Placing batteries in the floor makes perfect sense for lowering the centre of gravity; why would you want to spread them to the roof (which is where the video shows the fire erupting) ?
> Their ominous conclusion was that the sooty smoke from burning cities could bring on a "nuclear winter" — months or even years of cold so severe it would gravely endanger living creatures.

> The scientists did this work mainly for public consumption. When they announced their results in 1983, it was with the explicit aim of promoting international arms control.

> ... The computer models were so simplified, and the data on smoke and other aerosols were still so poor, that the scientists could say nothing for certain. ...

https://history.aip.org/climate/Winter.htm

Keep in mind that among the assumptions made here are that a 1D vertical weather model is meaningful when trying to estimate global weather effects from localized emissions and that Western and Russian cities are built mostly from wood, like WW2 Japan.
My comment was a direct illustration of the difference between Twitter’s reply-limiting system and Radiopaper’s, and one of its primary effects, which is to dress up discussion in niceties out of fear of not getting accepted. The first sentence is a direct quote from one of the threads on Radiopaper, one which seemed to be echoed in many others in their own way. It was a very light parody. I didn’t direct vitriol at anybody. And I raised a point that nobody else had. If you thought I was being sardonic and nasty towards the question about Twitter, all that went way over your head.

I don’t think the over-friendliness would last as a phenomenon because frankly I got quickly bored reading replies like that, so I would expect the community to get over it and switch to trying to write good posts instead of performatively respectful ones.
Can you recommend a go-to library to start solving a charging network problem?

The domain is somewhat unique since our charging points are mobile and stochastic, but charging demand is scheduled in advance
1. Climate requires that we make some compromises.

2. If we used cars less, there is a good chance public transport would have less of those issues you're talking about. It's a vicious circle. Urban planning has been favoring cars for a long time.
Some French speaking countries use a more logic term for higher numbers. In Belgium and Switzerland 99 would be nonante-neuf which is ninety-nine.

My uneducated guess is that at the time, it was easier to keep the base 20 to visualize a higher number. Just like we say "a few dozen eggs" to get an overall sense of the volume, it made more sense to keep it that way instead of a more arithmetic approach. Not sure why it never evolved, tho.
Now that's an existential crisis right there. There's no way to determine if I've literally flashed into existence and am remembering this sentence, and am thinking of how to continue it, versus actually existing on the timescale of a human life.

Urgh.

Then again, does it matter? Probably not.
Pis are pretty picky about the charger you use. You need 5.1V with at least 2A if you don't want undervoltage warnings or worse. That basically rules out any spare USB charger you have lying around (they are 5V).
Top navy admiral wants rust-free ships
Yup "nongu" as it is called in southern parts of India is commonly sought after in summer.
You cannot tell the difference between types of events. However the science says that the frequency increases.

That is what is actually the thing that climate change models say: more exteme weather events.

Climate != Weather

But climate shapes weather.
Family members don’t call out narcissists as a polite way of moving past it. They don’t want to fight every 5 minutes.

I’m sorry that gave you the wrong impression.
Loom sets out to give you a sane programming paradigm similar to what threads do (i.e. as opposed to programming asynchronous I/O in Java with some type of callback) without the overhead of Operating System threads.

That's a very cool and a noble pursuit. But the title of this article might as well have been "5M persistent connections with Linux" because that's where the magic 5M connections happen.

I could also attempt 5M connections at the Java level using Netty and asynchronous IO - no threads or Loom. Again, it'd take more Linux configuration than anything else. If that configuration did happen though now you can also do it in C# async/await, javascript, I'm sure Erlang and anything else that does Asynchronous I/O whether it's masked by something like Loom/Async/Await or not.
I've honestly considering it but I'm afraid they will just say "lol you created a new account just to say that? pathetic" or something.
Kind of distinct but could solve similar problems where they overlap.

Worktrees let you have different branches from the same repo checked out to the file system at the same time, without needing seperate repos.

The clone --shared --reference-if-able and -dissociate options let you have multiple repos with less of a space hit.

They almost certainly can be used at the same time, though I've never heard of anyone doing so.

The limit of only having at most a single copy of each branch checked out, which makes sense for development purposes, made worktrees unsuitable for my use, which was mostly (ab)using git as a deployment tool.
Don't want to be the grumpy sceptic. But when I summarize the requirementd that's just CSV with some particular formatting rules, right? What about "space efficiency" and "quick to parse"? I guess those are some properties that don't really work together with easy to read. Right?
This is still sometimes done. The newest section of the Freie Universität Berlin campus (the “Holzlaube”) was built so that the inside remains comfortable with no A/C and minimal heating. Thick walls, as you said.

I don’t know how applicable architectural cleverness will be in densely populated cities in the developing world that are threatened by global warming. That seems like an impossible situation.
All those are good things, but in the US, it will be seen as socialist measures.
Immediate:

- Introduction To Graph Theory

- The design of approximation algorithms

- Introduction To Topology

- A book of abstract algebra

---

Long Term:

- GEB

- Linear and Geometric Algebra + Linear and Geometric Calculus

- Geometric Deep Learning: Grids, Groups, Graphs, Geodesics and Gauges

- Elements of functional analysis

- Cracking the coding interview

- Pattern Matching and Machine Learning

- Elements of Statistical Learning

- Probabilistic Machine Learning

And the list never ends.
SQLite is among the most reliable software you can choose, and there's nothing about a multi-machine, multi-processing (?) environment which changes that.

Developers do need to understand that it's SQLite, not a poor man's Postgres. This require correct engineering, and the SQLite docs are in a class of their own in patiently explaining in simple terms how to do this.

If you embrace what SQLite is, you can do a remarkable number of things with it, safely and reliably.
Here's an article (+video) about a non-electric bus that caught fire.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-01-12/cctv-captures-sydney-...
Since the author is foreign, he can perhaps be forgiven for confusing idioms, but not for being so pedantically wrong about it.

Specifically, he claims that true yak shaving is not really yak shaving, but “rabbit holing”.

The term “going down the rabbit hole” comes from Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, where she follows a white rabbit on a nonsensical series of adventures as she gets distracted from her school work.

The term “yak shaving” comes from the Ren & Stimpy Show, a nonsensical Canadian cartoon, and is about all the interdependent tasks that need to be done in order to accomplish your seemingly simple goal, and thus revealing why it is that the yak (a creature with notoriously long, tangled, dirty fur) never gets shaved and a cautionary tale about why it must not be neglected.
Have you considered the "game" Rocksmith from Ubisoft?
RethinkDB 2.4.2 Released
RethinkDB 2.4.2 has been released.
>it seems there is nothing that will truly limit fossil fuel consumption

Nothing will work while companies and consumers are free to ignore the externalities of their own actions.

Tax carbon.
I searched for a number that's similar to mine (not my own).

I found google hits listing it as a german number, italian number, swedish number and more. Clearly not all of these are "my number" even if it's the same number. It's not reasonable that those pages are all delisted, is it?
> Christianity likely still had happend and so our current world might not be all that different…

I don‘t know about Christianity. I think that without the conversion of Constantine, Christianity would have at best been something like Baháʼí is today, a relatively small, persecuted religion. It was Constantine’s conversion and the subsequent adoption of Christianity by the Roman Emperors that made Christianity what it is.
You can also inspect the application storage, monitor for cookie changes, etc using the dev tools protocol
>No, it isn't. Pulseaudio is based on a push model, which is completely broken.

These two statements are both very wrong. The push model is absolutely not broken, it's actually better for media players, networked sound and other non-pro-audio applications because it uses less power and can do more efficient buffering strategies. You're right that it's not good for pro-audio and other latency-sensitive applications, but pulseaudio was not designed to do that on purpose because jack already filled that niche. The pull model has to wake up every application every quantum on a strict deadline to do processing. In some situations pulseaudio should still be able to provide the smallest power usage compared to pipewire, even just continuing to use the pulseaudio API to do buffering on top of pipewire should be a benefit for applications that want it.

Even if it was broken (it's not), that would be an aspect of the design, not the code itself. The code itself is structured in mostly the same way as pipewire.
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> Population reduction is the most effective tool we actually have

This is the ultimate "do as I say, not as I do", never seen a single person who has argued that there are too many people on this planet follow it up by removing themselves from the tally. It's always other people who are the "too many".
I still think a forced comment on downvote is the best improvement one could make to the hn comment system.

Same for reddit.

Using mail is interesting in the long term as I see SMTP replacing all IM protocols.
And they put this bozo in charge of it.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/watch-bidens-new-russia-...
It seems to be the counterpoint to plausible.io:

> It's time to ditch Google Analytics

> It's time to embrace Google Analytics
I actually googled to check the rules, I didn’t think of the first alternative.
> SQLite is great, but I would not use it in a multi-machine, multi-processing environment.

Yeah great, you shouldn't. SQLite is meant to be replacement of custom files to store data by apps (mobile apps, desktop apps, server apps). This isn't meant to scale to millions of users, but just store data in a structured manner.
Hey, creator of HyperUI here! Thanks for your feedback, this should be addressed in the latest update.
Thats cool as hell thanks for sharing!
I doubt it. Those electronic shelf labels (ESLs) are PIN protected for the pairing process. If you steal them from another store you can't pair them to your ESL network if they've already been paired before.

You'd need the PUK from the manufacturer based on the device S/N to unlock them first, but the S/N of each device is tied to the store that bought it so the manufacturer will know it doesn't belong to you and not give you the unlock PUK.

Plus, at the kinds of volumes retailers are buying ESLs, I doubt they'd go through all this trouble to pair a few stolen units.
Cite your sources? This is 10x any estimate I've seen.
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Wonder what makes people do this, reminds me of the marathon runner faking his results discussed a couple of months ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30622770
No access to this site here. It's probably GDPR-blocked for me, which is fair.
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