skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>trying to work in the US without a visa.

Yes, but that is a case where they're getting paid in the US to work.

The one conference horror story I recall from a few years back was someone was going to speak at some small UK(?) conference and they were getting an honorarium or something like that. And they told immigration and I think were denied entry for that reason. But I've spoken at dozens of events for free and it's never been an issue.
I'm not confusing a lone developer with the GNOME Foundation. I was referencing statements made in a GNOME Foundation press release.
> we're something like 10,000 years into developing the ability to drink milk

Yes, I said "developing" for a reason. It's mostly northern Europeans with the ability.
This thing relies on jet engines. There are lots of odd machines around the world that use jet engines for strange high-energy tasks (ie speed record attempts). Invariably they rely on used aircraft engines that are, for whatever reasons, no longer suitable for flight and would not be financially practical if built using new engines. As they are no longer flying, these engines are likely not serviced appropriately. They are likely just using them until something pops. You wouldn't want to be around an aging jet engine when it decides to give up the ghost. Things get very energetic very quickly.
Still absurd.

The amount of oat you have to feed a cow to get a single litre is not even close to the literal handful you need for an oat-based milk - let alone the time and how of work that went into caring for the cows, handling the mess, etc.

It should not even be close. We simply industrialized the whole diary thing, and consider it essential.

And I say this as someone who cannot live without cheese. It should just be way more expensive and reflect the cost it has on the environment/society.
Because they are a very small number of people with a massively outsized amount of power. Allowing them to possess the amount of wealth they do is, by its very nature, unbalancing and damaging to the entire system.
As someone else with a SaaS side business of around the same age, it gets painful around then: You have to make tough decisions and the early fun is gone. Plus keeping up with new and existing customers can make it feel like you're not really steering the ship anymore but being tossed around by the storm.

I understand James's desire to step back, though MIT is an interesting choice since now anyone can do anything with it, including selling it.

What did you end up doing with your SaaS business?
> And the baby boomers who created the upset of the 60's are now in charge

No, "they" are not. The few people in the inner political circles of that generation are in charge, same as every other time in history. The normal hardworking people are never in charge.

I remember when in middle school (Gen X here) I thought when our youth generation grows up and gets to be in charge the world will be better, because everyone I knew in school and out was so reasonable and so nice. Surely none of these people will be the corrupt politicians of tomorrow?

And turns out they(we)'re not the corrupt politicians of today. Because none of those regular kids of then are in charge. Who is? The children and grandchildren of the corrupt politicians of back then, groomed from childhood to be the corrupt politicians of today. They weren't in our middle class school of course, so never met any of them.

How to break that cycle? Ideally by voting for people not affiliated with the dominant two parties, but the system is rigged against that succeeding, so I don't know.
We fixed f-string typos in popular Python repos
I ran Ubuntu desktop as a server with NVIDIA GPUs, that sits next to my desk. I access it with my MacBook Pro, mostly through PyCharm or CLion remote runtimes, so nothing runs on my Mac. The latency is single ms, so you don’t feel it at all. I get the benefits of nice Mac UI and standard Linux server runtimes for both Python and C++.
Isn't translating filesystem operation verbs into an HTTP based protocol what WebDAV does?
Ask HN: Which books in your field do you think are perfect for self study?
In almost every field there are encyclopedic reference books which are for experienced people to look up stuff when needed.

Then there are books with wonderful prose that are suitable for self learners that want to learn the topic for the first time.

Can you name some books of the second type in your field of study?
I suspect the ideal behind that is the "variables with small scope should have shorter names" concept. So in a one-liner it's ok to abbreviate.

I don't necessarily agree with this especially for examples. But in practice I haven't found the fp communities I'm familiar with (clojure and ocaml) to be too bad about using confusingly terse names. Php and go are by far the worst there, again at least from my experience.
I was buying CDs to rip lossless right up until Apple Music added lossless. Now I am down to just very special releases/extremely loved albums I wouldn’t mind being my “car cd” when I don’t want to listen to the radio or fiddle with my phone

The crazy part of my brain, every time I add a cloud album to my Apple Music library wants to set away $15 for when this all comes crashing down and I have to actually buy it.
> There have been quite a number of leftist political commentators who recently have been offended that they are labelled right-wing now. Bill Maher

Was never a leftist, or a political commentator with any coherent ideology at all. AFAICT, he was only ever painted by some as a leftist because of the Right painting everyone who wasn't in lockstep with the racist war fury of the early 00s as “leftist”, and because being a comedian when the Republican Party was at a local maximum of control, for a while all the easy targets for his contrarian humor were in the Right.

And he’s evolved on the positions that got him perceived as leaning left then, becoming more positive retrospectively on the Iraq War, more Islamophobic over time, etc., more openly supportive of foreign dictatorships in general.

Brand I’ve not paid much attention to, but he never struck me as particularly leftist, either.
A:

"Ten professional singers performed a passage of the Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Ode of Joy” in two experimental setups—each with and without surgical masks. First, they sang with previously inhaled vapor of e-cigarettes. The emitted cloud was recorded by three cameras to measure its dispersion dynamics. Secondly, the naturally expelled larger droplets were illuminated by a laser light sheet and recorded by a high-speed camera."

Are you serious?

B:

Have you even read through your own link?

CRCT: "No difference was found between hand hygiene or hand hygiene plus face mask in household contacts of influenza patients"

Case-control study: "No marked reduction in infection"

Cohort-Study: "The use of masks does not seem warranted if other infection control procedures such as handwashing are used"

It was well known before 03/2020 that masks don't do anything. That's why every public health expert and official was adamant that they don't do anything. That's why nobody had any. Didn't you ever wonder why no one had PPE on hand if it's so important?

Here is the 2018 review of this topic by the WHO:

https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/329439/WHO-...

On page 25 you can find a table of RCTs that show exactly how useless masking is vs Influenza.

People who "follow the science" seem to be particularly unclear about positivism and the scientific method. Whoever is making huge claims about masks, lockdowns and vaccines needs to understand that burden of proof is on them. THEY need to present a theory that is consistent with ALL of the quality data that exists, not just some cherry picked retrospective garbage from China.
The problem with direct linking is, that content is sometimes changed without any indication.

Something happens, you link to cnn/fox/whatever, and discuss the news story or their comment or whatever, and two hours later, the whole article is rewritten, the headline is different and the subtone is different. This would be ok, if there was a "history" section at the beginning of the article, saying "this article was changed on date X and Y and Z, click here to see previous versions", but usually it's not.

an example widely publicized last year:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210525043631/https://www.nytim...

Then people get angry for newyork times using anti-semitic attacks for left-right politics, and soon after:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210525173242/https://www.nytim...

Different headline all together, same url.

Now if i said that ny times is using those attacs for politics, and linked the article directly, you (visiting the second version of the article) wouldn't find the headline "problematic", and you'd think i was just some far-whatever nutjob conspiracy theorist... by linking to the archive, you see the headline that I saw.
What was your in-laws annual income when they bought the $60,000 house?

What would be the income of someone today, looking to buy the house for $800K?
For people struggling to pay rent, sometimes working multiple jobs and or with kids, there isn't a lot of energy or executive function left. And even rice and beans aren't terribly nutritious. If that's a staple for decades it can also cause obesity, especially for certain genetic demographics.
You're too optimistic about defusing tricky BS. And I was deliberately avoiding making a claim about the article, only about the idea that the existence of a template to "dismiss" your argument implies anything about your argument. It does not.
Well, no particular use case I can think of. The OP asked for anything that you find interesting so here we are. =)
A cell phone app would be handy for remote monitoring and control. Say you lived a mile away from the ocean where it is deployed. You could turn it on and off depending on the tide and know when the container you are filling is full.

Having just completed a home remodel where all the home automation features have an app, having apps is a handy way to monitor and control your hardware without leaving your couch, or even if you are off-premises.
Ideas and sayings evolve and grow over time, becoming pithier and more accessible.

Few ideas are born into the world fully-formed, but we should still attribute them to those that birthed them.
>It is very clear how badly bolted and rushed generics were in Go.

They were designed with the help of type system experts like Phil Wadler: https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.1171

Not sure why you think they were 'rushed', given the timeframe involved.
I suspect realistically, more like 30 years. Because I doubt anyone with the capability will even be trying any time soon.
Wait how did you go about finding ocaml day jobs? I pretty much never even tried it seems so niche, and jane street doesn't appeal to me at all.

I sneak it in at my jobs when I can justify it but it seems like there are very very few jobs that use it primarily.
Check out Laksmhi:

https://github.com/sarvjeets/lakshmi
Citation please. That doesn't pass even a cursory sanity test.

The people who are on top of the current system are the last people who want to unbalance, damage it or otherwise rock the boat.
Painting systemd in that way is also bad faith, because it's not a single product "take-it-or-leave-it" either. If you think it doesn't have enough review for your purposes then it's time for you to step up and start reviewing, either in systemd or in another project.

Part of the reason why people seem to (falsely) think systemd is monolithic is because distros have been historically bad at packaging it and haven't split up the components, but that's been improving over time.
IIRC, it was already tried years ago with Auroracoin. This was given to everyone in Iceland, supposedly initially (nominally) worth $20/coin. Icelanders merely had to opt-in and get their coin. Few did, and most seemed to sell immediately. Last I saw some years ago, there were multiple zeros to the right of the decimal point before the first significant digit of its value in any hard currency.

Not that one try means all others will fail, but any new proposal must at least attempt to discover and overcome the factors of failures like that one. I don't see any such effort in this proposal.

Too bad, because overall, the idea of distributing new currency from the bottom up is vastly superior to any other distribution proposal. Giving directly to the population will create the largest multiplier effect as the velocity of that money will be highest — almost all of it will be spent, and re-spent in a matter of days, whereas going into the banking system it will both be delayed in effect and also have much fewer transactions/currency_unit.

But does it need a blockchain? Not convinced.
Came here to say the same. Reduces the authority of the article imho.
The article has two Em dashes in the first paragraph. I believe haven't noticed the double hyphen anywhere. I know some word processors turn `--` to En dash and `---` to Em dash, so it might be a mix-up there.
> If you're trying to "control" who I can allow stay at my house and for how long, you're infringing on what I deem to be my "rights". I don't get how its not about these things?

If you were to demolish your house and build a 3-story building in its place with a number of identical units within it and then ran it as a hotel, you would be in violation of zoning laws and would be required to stop. Would the enforcement of that law be an infringement on your rights? Should this behavior be allowed? If not, what is the fundamental difference between doing this and running an airbnb with a rotating door of extremely short-term visitors?

> Maybe we should ban renters as well. Higher home ownership rates has been shown time and time again to be critical for psychological health and societal success. So why not nudge out renters?

Don't blame the renters. Blame the landlords that hoard homes and make it impossible for renters to afford to make the transition to home ownership.
assuming you're talking about z-machines, the only functioning way i've seen to get data out is to use savefiles. there is an editor written in inform that does this. otherwise the interpreter has to be modified, see multizork for example.

https://multizork.icculus.org/
The GNOME Foundation defense fund donation website for this case is still open and accepting donations. In fact donations have been made to it recently. Why hasn't the site been shutdown or the text at the site modified to reflect that the suit has been long settled by the GNOME Foundation?
>I'm actually curious to push on your idea that "we can all agree that violence isn't the answer".

Survivors always universally agree violence isn't the answer. I'm not saying literally 100% of people are opposed to violence. Will Smith just ruined his reputation and ended his career with violence.

> Because I think there are more and more people who think it is the answer. I would guess you're saying the vast majority rather than all (Sorry if this sounds pedantic but it's not meant to be).

The federal government has many responsibilities but 2 of the fundamental ones.

1. Military and police to prevent all violence. Government gets full monopoly over violence.

2. Borders to define where violence isn't allowed.

Fundamentally the government who represents everyone is the 'all'. Obviously it's more complicated than that because violence is allowed in some examples. Boxing -> MMA for example, but my understanding is that it's well regulated.

Even more complicated yet, there will always be a portion of every society who wants to kill. It's an evolutionary thing that Joe Rogan likes to call Chimp Brain. For whatever reason they are wired to the point they need to kill. Imagine the helicopter scene from full metal jacket: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S06nIz4scvI

Those people exist. Even in Ukraine right now. There are Russian soldiers who are doing this. Everyone is the enemy and needs to be killed. Stupid ukraine for whatever they did to force me to be there. I'm going to punish ukrainians equally, they all need dying.

These people are going to push toward violence. You have to proactive to avoid this.

>Also, is it ok to call for violence if your next tweet says that you were joking? I do not think there is not agreement on what a violent extremist is.

Great question, and what is the 'correct' solution? I dont care about the next tweet but perhaps you are banned until you delete the tweet? Commonly that's what twitter already does.

Unfortunately there is a disagreement over calls for violence. It's difficult to find examples of calls for violence from the right wing. Obviously that is well censored. Yet there's lots of examples from the left-wing that go unpunished. The entire 'punch a nazi' thing from the left is insidious and bad.

Here is a verified checkmark on the left calling for violence as an example: https://twitter.com/JeffGrubb/status/1086707229137485825

The context is that this is an off-the-cuff comment during the early part of the Maga kid Nick sandman story. The truth hadn't come out yet. That is to say that nick sandman was completely innocent and now rich after multiple settlements by media who smeared him. Obviously a ton more verified checkmarks called for violence toward the maga kid. Lets not even mention the number of non-checkmarks who never had their call to violence ever censored.

That maga hat represented much more than the situation really did.
Even here on hackernews you can see people fiercely defending DeSantis' action as "not retribution", claiming that it's somehow beneficial for Florida to dissolve the district.

We're living in strange times. Ideas like like civility and good faith debates have all but disappeared and each side is blaming the other for the state of politics today and continue to use that as an excuse for their own toxic behavior. It's a straight race to the bottom.
What's crufty about WebDAV? I've never used it, but it seems good enough to just use a useful subset of features to avoid the cruft.
I think the one with the Internet as the base is my simple favourite.
Which Animal Viruses Could Infect People? Computers Are Racing to Find Out
Counterpoint:

X86 is dying. It is my understanding that Intel/AMD will have a hard time making x86 chips have a competitive performance-per-watt with ARM chips. This is because x86 has a large instruction set, and those instructions must be physically implemented in the silicon. It's why you never had an x86-powered smartphone.

Efficiency is a killer app for laptops. It lets manufactures design thinner lighter computers with all-day or longer battery life. This is more valuable to most consumers than support for every legacy app that doesn't get ported to run natively on ARM.

Most recent software written in C#, Java, or Electron can be trivially recompiled to target ARM architectures. There's a chicken-and-egg situation here, but Apple's M1 launch is likely to push Microsoft off the fence and get them to seriously support Windows-for-arm. Microsoft's x86 emulation is currently bad, but if they can make it half-decent, the corpus of software that can't or won't be ARM-native will be usable -- if slow -- so this won't substantially impair adoption of ARM PCs.

There will still be some niche users who need run software that's optimized for x86, in the same way there are niche users who still need to use parallel ports or PCI cards. The industry will support those users, but because they are a niche, volumes will be low and prices high.

Also important here, is that besides competing with Macs, Windows PCs are also competing with Chromebooks. Chromebooks have already dominated the large education market, and companies are beginning to make premium Chromebooks because there's a whole generation of young adults that grew up using them and it's the computer platform they're most comfortable with. There are already ARM-based Chromebooks, so this is a platform where backwards compatibility with x86 is largely a non-issue. This will further push Microsoft to support ARM chips to avoid becoming an also ran.

I'm not saying this is how it's going to be. But your take is pretty maximalist on x86. There's a similar story where x86 becomes basically irrelevant in 5 years or less.
I never said it doesint require hard work, dedication and focus. If what I did say was insulting they need to get over themselves and their egos are out of touch with reality and thats why it hurts them to read what I said.
Oh don't worry regulations will catch up soon enough if crypto ever takes hold beyond speculation (and even then).

It's basically a technology stack swap. We are seeing the same issues as banking because it's the same problem space.
At the expense of all current property owners. Maybe a net win, maybe not.
VDI is an excellent solution for certain environments, it's a perfect fit for healthcare where you really want your data to be mobile yet centralised. In general I think the rise of work from home is the final killing blow for VDI because you have a bunch of people using videoconferencing over a WAN. What nonsense, do your processing locally. Local is always better, you can't beat the latency.

I agree with what you say about capacity planning and dual environments. VDI to me has this feeling of trying to have one foot in legacy and one foot in the future and it doesn't really work. Chromebooks + thin apps work much better as a sort of "thin client" solution when executed well.
>China is soon going to overtake the US as the world hegemony.

I don't think this is guaranteed. I think the world should be prepared for it, be resilient against it, and (ideally) undermine it if possible.

Six months ago, I don't think many would have guessed that all of Europe, including Germany, would unite in ending their relationship with Russian fuel. Perhaps at some point, the free world will unite in diversifying or ending their relationship with Chinese manufacturing.

The rest of your analysis I agree with - the automation/"AI" process marches on. Ownership of production and capital continues to concentrate, and population grows while employment needs will shrink for non- and semi-skilled workers. Oh, and climate.
At 90, having a special ceremony for you with all the accompanying attention and well-wishing is probably a greater gift than the cake. So happy birthday to her!
I'm not gonna purposely stunt my child's growth over the selection of drink product at the grocery store. 1.5cm at 3yo is 3-5% of the kids total growth since born and probably more significant if you subtract 1 year of breastfeeding. That would be 1.5cm within 2 years of growth.
This is pretty universal to all industries. You just don’t get paid well for the work you do in X hours. You get paid well became you’re expected to put in a high amount of effort that isn’t measured in time or stress, except by you.

Mo’ money, mo’ problems
Most soy is AFAIK used as food for farm animals. I wouldn't worry about it, many cultures were eating soy products since millennia and they were fine the whole time. Tofu is just solid soy milk.

Almond milk contains almost no almonds (and tastes horrible IMO, but YMMV, may also just be the brand I tried), I would assume that it's not that big of a chunk of the global almond production.

But in any case, oat milk should be safe, right? It's just a very watery porridge, isn't it? :D
I’d love to see how Snap justifies stealing another company’s brand! Check out the Pixy cam.
What would be the advantage? Apple have shown that ARM cores can compete at the high power end, and Intel's little cores aren't that far off at the low power end.
But please don't do things like this:

> Cross-references, denoted with small caps, are clickable.

> Links to outside material are denoted with a red circle, like so.

Hyperlinks are almost universally distinguished by underlining them. There is no rational reason to invent a new design language and expect people to learn it. And for what benefit? The seemingly random capitalisation of words and weird circles in the middle of the text makes it much more jarring than simple underlining.