skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to books such as "¡Es la microbiota, idiota!" (ISBN 8413440688 but I don't know if it's available in english) it's not that simple, I think they said that not all the strains are identified and even then there are strains that aren't easy to grow in vitro (I'm NOT a scientist, don't quote me on this, I just listened to the audiobook).

What they make a point on is diet, she insists on the importance of having a diet that gives desirable bacteria strains an environment where they can thrive to achieve a balance.

IIRC she also mentions how it's not as simple as having "good" and "bad" strains and how balance is key.

It's a really interesting and funny book to listen to if you have a few hours for it.

So in the case of OP I think you're right about finding out more about the donors diet and replicating it as well as adjusting anything necessary for the newly arrived colonies to last through time.

I don't know sh!t about it nor do I intend to sound like I do so please correct me if I'm wrong.
Let's say you have a todo app with a million users checking an average of five boxes per day. Currently, you have a simple color shift animation which lasts 200ms and doesn't prevent the user from interacting with other elements. Then a designer suggests a fancy animation popover which takes 3s and blocks interaction, because they read some article about gamification and how it'll increase user engagement.

Disregarding that your app is about providing a specific function and user engagement metrics are meaningless, you implement the fancy animation. Your users are now collectively spending 1,400,000 hours per year waiting for an animation to finish.

Please don't be that person. Your users' time is more valuable than your desire for UI whimsy.
Comparisons to competition are just a way to map out the market, and where you may fit.
Ferrari says 60 percent of its lineup will be electrified by 2026
The dark side clouds everything. Impossible to see, the future is.
I’ll post this great documentary about the rise and fall of the Aztec empire. This is the first part https://youtu.be/f8JVdpWCKeM
There are some aspects of 'systems' programming languages that don't have a good history of being properly documented. Pointer provenance, as you mention, is one of them. The semantics of concurrent access to memory is another.

So it's not too much of a mark against Rust that it doesn't have proper documentation for those aspects either.

But there is much, much more to a large programming language like Rust than those things, and Rust is missing documentation (of the sort that intends to be complete and correct) in many important areas that don't have that sort of excuse.
> if Amazon is getting more out of the worker than it costs to keep them around

That's a pretty simplistic argument. For one thing, it assumes a zero-sum game. But in economic theory both sides need to gain something in order for a transaction to occur. Walmart is not exploiting its customers just because it gets more from the customer than it cost (i.e. profit). Both sides are benefiting: the customer gets thousands of products in one location at pretty much the lowest possible price. Likewise, Target is not exploiting its customers just because it has higher prices than Walmart; customers get thousands of products in one location with somewhat higher quality than Walmart and a good deal better style. Target has a fairly loyal following, in fact, indicating that customers derive value from Target, even though Target is turning a profit; they could always go to Walmart if they were unhappy.

My employer is (hopefully) getting more value from me than they are paying for. I do not see it as exploitative at all: I could be in business for myself, but I already tried it and I discovered I did not want to bother with a lot of the business stuff, and people were not interested in paying for my product. So I switched the (internally perceived) product I am selling: now I am selling my software engineering services. In return I get some money. I'm a lot happier now than when I felt like I was an employee.

The problem is not that Amazon is getting more perceived value from the worker than the perceived value that they are paying the worker. The problem is that Amazon is abusive; people work for them either because they pay enough to make up for the abuse (at least the initial perception), or the worker does not feel like they have other options. The latter is not a problem of companies making a "profit" on workers, though; that is required for any employment to take place. It is a problem, but it is a different problem.
Makes total sense now that you say it :)

In maybe the far future, when a larger proportion of the population holds digital assets, I see a potential functional value in having this type of note - it's harder to digitally fake these notes, and "burning" might be harder than just ripping up the piece of paper.
I don't think you get the point of this app or the check box. This is for an app that is meant to foster habits and the checkbox animation is an infrequent reward for completing a habit forming task. Secondarily the goal was also to win over the Apple user demographic and win a design award.

You're thinking of user interface in an app that you have some intrinsic motivation to use, and the UI in that case is just a means to an end.
You're right! I missed it. This'll probably replace skitch for me after all.
This is the Twilio demo you should watch https://avc.com/2010/08/how-to-pitch-a-product/
This is pure nonsense. Neither Musk or his company owes you a job, and you certainly shouldn't work at his company if you disagree with his vison or politics. Shedding the woke weight has to feel good, for both Musk and for other employees, who no doubt had to endure constant whining.
Yeah, I think that bounce at the end could use a bit of tightening up. I would have made it quicker but with less horizontal movement, so it feels more elastic.
You write this comment as if you regularly liquidate people. Is this something you've done a lot?
It is hard to take something like this seriously when the opening paragraph relates why the probe will try and communicate with Brownian motion or the random perturbation in a cloud; a similar reworked sentiment of the oft quoted intelligent desire to contact automobiles of earth; an absurd concept
This is the living proof you can't even trust the governments that are removing bureaucracy and regulations.

All those bribes must have made them forget their fight for freedom.
I am so glad to see this rational response to the woke mind virus at work.

Politicize and campaign on your own time. I’ve had to keep my mouth shut at work for decades. Time the fanatical left learn the same.
> didn't find it offered any features that would significantly improve our process, but found 1000 more ways to shoot ourselves in the foot

You're not wrong about this.

I really like git for the cheap branching, which encourages branching and merging often. But SVN might have cheap branching now, as another commenter implies.
> significantly reduce the military budget

You have missed specifying the preliminary operations required to enable that.
My definition of low level is no tracing GC, values are unboxed by default, and users still have control to do low level things (raw pointers, other unsafe operations) when needed, even if it is not the default.
I have an old vim config that I haven't had motivation to switch over to Neovim.

I find configuration frameworks, which are so popular right now, a lot of work to understand and not very flexible/opinionated.

Lastly, vim is usually available everywhere, so I am just a git clone away from having my configuration deployed.
Abuse is OK because it's universal? Come on.

> I think it should stop in all places

This is the only appropriate answer across the board.
Rather than digging in after your initial mistake, it'd be better to google it. This is a no-stakes random internet argument, so you've gotten the lesson cheap; but if you repeat the same mistake elsewhere you could do yourself a lot of harm.
You're twisting things a bit. He views Twitter as a virtual extension of the real life town square. Namely that the government/Twitter can't remove you from that real/virtual town square for what you say.

SpaceX isn't, nor will it ever be, a town square so the rules don't extend there. (Nor do they extend to Twitter the corporation itself.)
Perhaps. Would you say working in academia is mo different from working in industry?
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That's right. The idea that a global network wouldn't have existed with DARPA is not credible. Everybody with two computers wanted to connect them, and various schemes of doing it flourished. Heck, even I came up with an outline of how a global system could work before I'd heard of DARPA. (I never did anything about it because I was stupid.)
Since its beginnings the FDA has always genuflected to business. Many people in the department worked hard to document toxins that the American public were being exposed to (e.g. arsenic and coal tar used as food coloring, formaldehyde and borax used to preserve milk and meat). However the department's leadership, and in a few cases the U.S. President, intervened to protect business interests. If you're interested check out The Poison Squad[1].

[1] https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/312067/the-poison-s...
Gnome is what you get when you combine the worst parts of Windows 8 with the worst parts of MacOS. Bad ideas + bad execution, but most major distros ship it by default for some inexplicable reason.
I'm sorry ... but where is the checkbox?
> fun stuff of algebraic effects, lifetime inference, and refinement types

> I'd really like to find "the low-level functional language" without "the fun stuff"

But current stable Ocaml has neither of the "fun stuff" mentioned and compiles to native code. So isn't that exactly what you want?

It doesn't even need lifetime analysis because automatic garbage collection be praised.

And algebraic effects are awesome. Sure they are not mainstream yet but conceptional there is a strong parallel to the Common Lisp condition system which is quite established. Not sure why you wouldn't want to have them. Also it is still a long way until we will see them used in user facing stuff in Ocaml.
>management banning a project that was raising money to support violence against conservatives (the actual physical kind, not words)

What? The article you linked says this is about a comic book about punching Nazis. How is this "not words" ? We are seriously getting angry at comic books about punching Nazis? Captain America comics have been doing that for 80 years. Is there more to the story that I am missing or are people just equating a comic book about punching Nazis to literal "violence against conservatives"? This sounds exactly like the "words are literal violence" idea that conservatives are always mocking.
The number of services is just crazy - I've worked with AWS solutions architects in trying to find the perfect solution to our particular problems, and even they don't seem to know what half the stuff does.
Frequent problem with Google:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31026257

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30855065

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30811297

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30770671

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30771057
Sure, and fined them pennies
Librem is a sad joke[1] when it comes to actual hardware security, so no, thank you. I don't know what's the situation with Pinephone, but I'd rather use a device vetted by people who understand hardware security better than me (e.g. an iPhone, or anything targeted by GrapheneOS). If I ever find myself needing a physical kill switch, all I need is to wrap it in aluminium foil. The rest of the chocolate bar is a nice bonus.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30761886
On Android, they solved this with "Custom Tabs", which is an API that opens a nicely integrated webview with extra buttons added by the app (like a tweet button) but internally is the default browser. Almost all apps use this now. I have this with enabled with Firefox
Free speech implies a certain amount of freedom from consequences of that speech.

If you are a free speech absolutist, it would mean believing in no consequences.
Also good luck landing this thing with strong crosswinds. Or god forbid rupture the pressure vessel with a hard landing... It's an interesting concept but looks very impractical.
It's not indicated anywhere visually. I don't even remember how I found out about it.

This is a downside of macOS and iOS design - lot of hidden gestures. For example, you can right-click the text title of a Finder window to open a quick navigation to all the parent folders of the current directory.
He didn't fire them, the president of the company did for harassing their coworkers and wasting time.
Waves.
this is seriously a mystery to me. how do people use gnome? how can you be productive with it? i tried so hard: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31782882
> People need to read some history.

But they'll get distracted before getting around to it. Gore Vidal wasn't kidding when he used the words "United States of Amnesia" in his essays.

(Also, "our owners". Good stuff, tangy with aristocratic vinegar - acerbic, I believe the tasters call it.)
Water companies tend to use a lot of energy which is a major cost for them. That is the math that is going to be most significant.
A referral won't make you skip all technical interviews.
Bit of what in music we would call a drop denial --- was really hoping to be able to click such a "satisfying" checkbox by the end of the article
There was a game called Battle Chess 3000 or something, on Windows 95. It had aliens and robots who would kill each other in funny ways when pieces were taken. The moves sometimes took 20 seconds or more to show. Fortunately, the developers included a "skip animations" option to move things along.
Highly suggest if you are ever on the Internet and find yourself getting hyped angry about something to shut it off.

You might note that I didn't say anything about my emotional state (calm, bemused) nor the viability of the class action suit. But to deny that the suit, and the complex of behaviors leading up to it, are not a distraction to Musk's companies and the employees thereof is patently absurd.

To insist that his subordinates put on blinders, ignore the news, and just focus on doing their jobs, don't speak up about their working conditions, is some peak totalitarian bullshit. We live in a free society, deal with it.

To paraphrase OC: how dare the new church criticize the old church!
This deserves a top-level comment. John Britton's NY Tech Meetup demo of Twilio[0] in 2010 is legendary. The CEO had been doing it in small groups for a little while, but the whole dynamic of it changed in such a large venue. Epitome of "show, don't tell." Hard to overstate what an impact it had on the company at the time (I think we were about 25 employees).

[0]: https://avc.com/2010/08/how-to-pitch-a-product/
I would say that he is indeed in favor of cancel culture, as long as it doesn't get you removed from the town square (virtual or real).
Let's build an end-to-end encrypted data store
Lifetime inference originates from region inference which is actually completely unrelated to linear/affine/uniqueness typing. Uniqueness typing can definitely complement lifetime inference, but isn't really generalizeable to it.
Mine too! (Perhaps we should introspect each other to determine why we feel this way....)

I find it particularly ironic or confusing because introspection seems so much less likely/more rarely to occur in anything technical; so why does it get that association? Because you're right, people do seem to use it as though it means 'highly technical inspection' or something.
Which makes sense. New technologies should be approached using a precautionary principle.
Wow, the author managed to take away any effect the "super" check box may have had by completely deconstructing it over the course the article, teasing and selling it endlessly (even in the final video).

TL;DR: Put the checkbox front and center at the top of the page, directly the "amazing" effect with no foreplay.
> have massive levels of unionization. Finland has unionized entire sectors of the economy

There's an opportunity for tech to create a less antagonistic form of unions. Simply creating a Board seat for the ESOP, voted in by the ESOP holders (excluding senior management), would be shareholder aligned and beneficial to employees.
I built a Python version and dependency manager; program is a standalone executable coded in Rust. One installation method is as a wheel, by using this trick. Hosted on PyPi, users can install with Pip etc.
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Again, kindly notice that there are other people in the planet besides yourself.
Intellij flow analysis as demoed here was pretty mind-blowing: https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2019/11/intellij-ideas-stati...

It is actually pretty awesome in practice, although my bugs tend to be way more trivial.
Ask HN: Whats the difference between cross-site cookies and third-party cookies?
Firefox’s Enhanced Tracking Protection uses both the terms “cross-site cookies” and “third-party cookies”. What’s the difference?

Screenshot of Firefox’s settings: https://imgur.com/lXLgd8o
> Their speech is less likely to be publicised/reported on though

I'd expect them to go on a interview campaign after this actually. I think they'll be quite publicized and amplified.
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Slope: A hackable hobby programming language
Sorry, you can't make hydropower without constructing a dam, turbines, and completely disrupting the stream. This is environmentally destructive, and due to the scale needed, there are few suitable sites.

There are indeed many unused mineshafts, but a shaft would be only suitable for a small weight, maybe enough for a single house. This does not scale.
A hackable hobby programming language and toolset for having fun and making cool things
Employees have plenty of power.

They have the power to work someplace else.
That does not sound very empathetic for the kid's perspective. You might not realize it now but it sounds like next year they're quite likely to massively protest things in your country by simply not showing up.

Do you have children of your own? What are their points of view on the matter?
I live in Seattle and pay for The Seattle Times. Anyone who can afford their local paper should probably subscribe. I learn a lot about how Seattle works from the paper. You can get federal news anywhere, that is boring. Make sure you are informed about local and state issues.
Let alone which ones are the good ones. That only comes from experience.

AWS never cancels anything... but they never complete anything either and they abandon 80% of their products in minimum viable state, where "viable" is defined by the PM's bonus packet, not by anyone who has to use the damn thing.
On your own hardware, in your own safe.
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"But his customers kept asking him to make sure their websites looked good in Explorer, which remained the default browser in South Korean government offices and many banks for years."

I wish this were just South Korea. (Sorry, Koreans.) But it's also true here in the US, and it boggles my mind. Many of my team's clients are banks and other large financial institutions, and it wasn't until a few months ago that we started rewriting our web app with zero regard for IE. Until then, we had to constantly test all our code on our company-provided MacBooks in a VM running Windows and IE11 (IE10 until last year, in fact). I am overjoyed that Microsoft has finally put their giant mistake to rest, and I only hope everyone using it follows suit (though I doubt it for awhile).

Man, who remembers the days of requiring massive try-catch sequences attempting to instantiate a variety of ActiveX plugins just to get XHR-facilitated AJAX to work in IE? I do, and I wish I didn't. Or specific comments -- or was it CDATA? -- to cause JS to only run in IE? Ah, the bad old days.
Possibly. Though functionally this isn't much different from a flying wing, as the fuselage is a lifting body. It's basically like a large capacity powered glider.
Have the memories of that Green color checkbox from Symantec and Norton Software which used to come after scanning.. Remember the tag line - "Relax, you are Safe".. What an (aweful) era..
The Seattle Times
It can but each situation requires a multiplier. A $10,000 cash drop as a media story picked up nationally or regionally will be worth more.

In Ford's case he doubled the daily pay to 5 dollars but this also provided a steady workforce so it had other benefits because a steady workforce means a trained and more productive workforce.
I think many here are getting sick of workplace activism and the self-involved crowd pushing it. I didn't become an engineer to deal with their bullshit. I just wanna work on interesting problems. If I'm unhappy I'll switch teams or get another job.

There is an increasingly troublesome number of people entering the industry who simply don't enjoy working hard. I think every company would do better to fire them.
> Free speech implies a certain amount of freedom from consequences of that speech.

Yes. Like not getting banned from the public square for giving your speech, or not getting arrested by the government for your free speech. No one has ever argued that truly free speech means no one can judge you on what you are saying.

> If you are a free speech absolutist, it would mean believing in no consequences.

It would mean either that, or that you are using the phrase in a different manner than other people who use the phrase.

I find this whole exercise silly. I view it as

1) I don't like someone

2) Someone says he is X

3) To me, X means Y

4) Someone is not a Y

5) Therefore, someone is a hypocrite and (1) is justified.
Agreed. Other whitespace sensitive languages like Haskell, F#, and Ante handle multiline lambdas just fine
That's funny, because you may very well be wrong on your main point then! I guess the problem starts when you use terms like "protected class" that don't remotely apply; it gives off an ignorant vibe. Meanwhile, employees acting in concert to complain about working conditions are of course protected by the law; Shotwell, Musks little minion, doesn't help the case when she calls it activism.
> drives down costs for all technology in society

I am not familiar enough with the data to argue one way or another. But a counterargument would involve productivity. There are several fields where good-paying shops run rings around their budget-minded peers. Even for relatively unskilled roles, e.g. Costco. Sometimes consumers care about that directly. More often, it shows up in productivity.

Again, can't argue one way or another. Removing competition opens up novel channels for corruption. But I wouldn't say that a conclusion can be reached from first principles.
You can be certain that when someone implies that you are a "bootlicker" for holding an opposing viewpoint, that the accuser has reached the last line of their intellectual sub-routines and can no longer store any further instructions.
My wireless mouse has always been crappy and glitchy on osx. Has been for years.
Yup, they have you covered there too:

https://www.conservapedia.com/Counterexamples_to_Evolution

It is full of "checkmate" logic like this: "Limestone and fossils exist at the highest peaks of altitude." The implication being that the earth has been inundated for long periods of time to a depth of many thousands of meters of water. What geology really says is that those limestone fossils were formed near sea level and subsequent uplift is why those fossils of sea life ended up at the tops of mountains. But because one of the presuppositions of conservapedia is a young earth, that explanation isn't accepted.