skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No. A group of 4 socks is not a computational system. That's just MEMORY. Same with iron bars. It doesn't compute on it's own because it's not a full computer.

Agreed; that was a rather throwaway rhetorical remark. But if you concede that four socks can be a memory, then it's not a huge jump to see that a bunch of arbitrary objects can in principle compose a computer.

My contention is that whether that arrangement of objects is in fact a computer is subjective; it depends on whether anyone conceives of it as a computer, or uses it to obtain computational results.
Why is consuming nicotine very terrible? Do you feel the same way about caffeine?
Dying younger is not a benefit. Years of people's lives are worth the taxes they pay during those years. And everything is taxed.
Courier Raises $35M Series B to Make Notifications Delightful
I’m thinking of a specific school that has a prominent, and very liberal, journalism school that has deep ties with Qatar: https://freebeacon.com/national-security/inside-qatars-multi...
> I don't see a Win download on their page

On the download page, just above the "Download" button, there is a dropdown to select the installer. There should be "Windows (32-bit)" and "Windows (64-bit)" there along with the Linux and MacOS installers.

https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download/
This the same FDA that was going to take 75 years to release the data on a vaccine that is defacto compulsory because they lacked the resources to do so?
Following a slightly different path, "Modern compiler implementation" goes over several topics mentioned in the review (lexing, parsing, type checking, code optimization and generation, runtime environments aspects e.g. garbage collection).

There exists various flavors of the book (in ML, Java, and C).
For something to be a "big thing" it really has to enable new uses that actually matter - once we hit day+ battery life, longer no longer matters (especially with wireless charging); and 3G to 5G hasn't really been noticeable to anyone beyond 3G being slowed beyond belief.

A new connector, a new display, these just are minor changes and though they may cause some howling, they don't really change the use of the device.

What's the next big new thing? No idea, if I knew I'd make it. But I suspect that it's already been done somewhere, but it won't be big until Apple or someone picks it up.
Time Enough for Love
"We can solve any problem by introducing an extra level of indirection."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_theorem_of_softwar...
Is it me or the second picture or whatever that is doesn’t load?
What's your stance on nicotine gum or pills/lozenges? As far as my understanding went, it wasn't clear those things were exceptionally unhealthy, although I'd love to update my stance if someone can provide me with evidence.
"The human eye can't see past 30fps"

Well with the advance of video gaming and high refresh rate displays that went out of the window quickly. Nowadays you even have 120hz displays on smartphones so easy to show someone the plain difference between 30fps and 120fps.

At home I have a 240hz monitor and even the difference between 144fps and 240fps is noticeable albeit not that big difference as between 30fps and higher ones.
Would many companies pay for user data if they weren't allowed to store it?
This looks great! Does it support RPE or other similar metrics?

I currently use Strong, but the Apple Watch app uses 1/2lb increments and there is no way to change it. Super irritating to scroll through hundreds of ticks to log a deadlift...
Which ones? The milk solids in the butter will obviously burn, but the others seem about as suitable as anything can get.
Older famous car often considered to the "best" even if it isn't the top performance, etc. Read as "pinnacle".
Stephen King is a special case for all sorts of reasons.

He's undeniably talented, which even his detractors will admit. (The complaint of literary snobs isn't that he's a bad writer, but that he puts his talent toward genres of writing they don't like.) His quality profile is also notably variable, which is also part of why he has so many detractors. He also came up in a time when publishing was more forgiving of idiosyncrasies and personal difficulties. (In today's world, a literary agent will fire and cancel you on Twitter if you get a pronoun wrong by mistake.) Finally, he was always a high-functioning drug addict, and there are a lot more of them than most people think (although it seems rare to stay high-functioning for more than a few years).

The thing about King, love him or hate him, is that he loves to write. Most people, even among successful novelists, don't--and that's OK, because it's extremely difficult to do well, and the rewards are astronomically uncommon. I think this explains why he was able to write decent books even while battling these demons.
In the US anti-capitalists are opposed to global economic integration but they are also opposed to nationalism.

It's been a consistent error of the left because nationalism sells. This book

https://isreview.org/issue/111/revolution-could-have-changed...

points it out as a fatal error of the Germany left post-WWI. If the left in Germany had not rejected nationalism we might be flying the hammer and sickle everywhere! It's one of a long list of own goals in the communist movement starting with

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Brest-Litovsk
> 1

Let’s see. It’s the 1980s, and our economy has been beset by 8-12% annual inflation, amidst general stagnation.

Is there anything we could do in this situation to increase economic output, and thus the supply of goods and services, and maybe even increase employment at the same time? Might any of those, perhaps, be promoted through the investment of capital, in any manner at all?

No!!! Like Nixon and Ford and Carter before us, we shall maintain very high taxes on the returns from capital investment, as we try subsidizing demand once again with stimulus spending! It’s sure to work this time.
Thanks! Starting smoking was the worst thing I did to myself and I'm very happy about successfully quitting.
This is what scares me: a FOSS project maintained by a corporation. I tend to install FOSS because imo they are more "future-proof", but some of them are developed by companies (e.g., Fedora Linux) and that makes me wonder if they're truly future-proof.
Let me get this straight: the FDA is banning e-cigarettes but not actual cigarettes? What a bunch of clowns.
Freedom is never granted, it is earned and paid for at the highest price [0].

What's their excuse?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Massacre
> Are we talking about the same company?

Yes.
> Are you implying they're much less terrible?

It's outright benine. No need to frame it in a negative way (« much less terrible »).

> I like to say that vaping is slightly less terrible than combustible cigarettes because it is very clear that you. should. not vape. unless. you. smoke. cigarettes.

Sure. And vaping shouldn't be made to look dubious or suspicious to smokers who would otherwise wildly profit from switching off cigarettes. Drawing an equivalency relationship between smoking and vaping is really bad from a public health perspective.
openoffice came out years before libreoffice, so if you had learned to work with it at the time and you still find it sufficient, then why switch? I doubt libreoffice is 1:1 identical in terms of UI/hotkeys/etc
Others have already noted that the windows release is easily findable, so instead I will ask: what features are missing from LibreOffice that OpenOffice has? The former is a fork of the latter, and LibreOffice has undergone extensive further development where OpenOffice has stagnated.
I have a really hard time hearing out Americans who put things in condescending scare quotes it's like your worst national character trait
This is a shame. For those who don’t know Juul uses a special nicotine salt that hits the brain hard fast and satisfying. Additionally their mango flavor was top notch. I guess I’ll have to switch have to cigarettes now. I wish the government would stop mandating what I can and cannot put in my body.
I’m also curious. Also compared to OnlyOffice?
> Dunno why you would fight against a fair, open, censorship-resistant, global financial system

If that's all it was then you would be correct, only nasty folks would be against it. But that's not all it is, or even the main thing it is. The same qualities that make it useful for your friends during a war also make it useful for various sorts of crime, but all the time not just under (what should be) highly unusual and dangerous circumstances.

The fight here is all of us against the dictators and warmongers. If we work to create a "fair, open, censorship-resistant, global financial system" together we can do that without enabling scammers and crooks.
I really want an app-store filter for paid/free apps, where I can filter OUT the free apps. Anyone else?

I feel like a big part of the problem is that the entire space is filled with junky 'free' apps, and getting to something high-quality is difficult. And so we're trained not to value apps because they're awful, and therefore not worth paying for anyway. A vicious cycle.

If the apps are reasonable quality and solve a problem, what's $5 or even $10? Many people spend around that for a cup of coffee that will be gone in 30min. I'd happily pay that for a good app - if only I could find one.

I'd LOVE to see super-cheap subscriptions too - like maybe ten cents or even less per month. This solves another issue: Once a dev has gotten most of the one-off sales they can, there's not much incentive to maintain the app. A subscription model is much better for this, but for most simple utility apps it needs to be very cheap.
Yeah good catch - OS-native keyboard shortcuts are really important & hard to reimplement well!

Nobody uses the built in date picker because it’s ugly, and making your own date picker is relatively easy. (Well, at least on desktop). Rich text editing is the inverse - it’s basically impossible to make your own. But theming a built in rich text editor should be really easy.

All the browser should implement is a rich text area itself. Leave it up to the web developers to add our own buttons for bold / italics / etc - since people will want to style that stuff themselves anyway. And add a clean, simple event API for “onchange” or something which gets called before any change is applied to the text area - initiated by a user or by the system. The event should tells you exactly what the change is (including styling) and let you tweak the change before it gets applied to the input element.

I think web devs would go bananas for something like that if it was designed well. I’d use it for sure.
Android and iOS app developer speaking. If you've got Android development skills, the easiest money would be to get a normal job with a normal company developing their app. If you're interested in long-term gains, invest 50% of your salary into index funds. They are are currently offered at a big discount because we're in a recession!

Most of the mobile industry is normal companies who need developers for their app, in the same way they need developers for their website. The image of the lone app developer making some passion-project app and posting it up on the store to sell for millions gained some popularity because it's so inspirational, but that's not how most app developers make money, especially in 2022. The market is over-saturated.

If you are more interested in a risky passion-project than a normal job, then the emerging market of VR gaming apps on Oculus still shows some promise.
We had a project in a relatively modernized Islamic country, and all the women were basically ripped off the project right before go-live.

Men were sent to the country in their stead, and had to pretend they were the ones responsible for building the thing.

The women were told it was for their safety, but the rumor was that a week before we were set to travel, the customer had apparently said, "by the way, we don't do business with women."
This is the correct response.

Westerners also need to lobby their government to grant temporary asylum to western-aligned smart Russians.
I think the difficulty is that we all have many desires that are in equilibrium. We might say that we want to quit smoking, or lose weight, or whatever, but in practice that desire has to overcome other desires, and particularly the individual's time preference, to come to a new equilibrium.

The fact that the new equilibrium doesn't shut out all other desires in favor of a single focus shouldn't be surprising at all.
A valid conclusion can come from studies for which, in this case, there was no funding because of poor rhetoric like this. Correllations which merely suggest causation are indeed sufficient as the focus of hypotheses.
Scientists too often forget that a hypothesis is a valid part of the scientific process, and the aversion to adoption of one without an attempt to gather further data about it is shoddy, unprofessional, and more reminiscent of dogmatic orthodoxy than of science.
The next time you think to say "correllation does not imply causation", maybe think to ask if anything more can or should be learned about either the correllation or the cause being investigated, and consider that such obstruction of efforts to collect more evidence is precisely why the present data is inconclusive.
The fact here, from TFA, is that there was no such problem with the studies' design, but rather with the myopic cognition of those who obstructed them.
Honest question: wouldn’t one person knowing the password and the other owning the 2FA device also achieve the same result?
Yeah yeah. Bitcoin is an open financial network that anybody can use and nobody controls and is secured by energy. What an amazing, historical feat of human ingenuity. It's neutral and just like the internet can be used by anybody. We're not going to apologise for its energy use.
The situation of games is dire. I wish there was a good rpg that I could pay for upfront, without micro transactions. I don’t even look for one because it’s unlikely to exist.
You're shifting the burden to the parent asking for metrics for something that is common knowledge amongst middle schoolers.
Yes, because regulating and authorizing drugs and food are their primary mission and support for FOIA requests is done at the legally-mandated level. This is not particularly contradictory or surprising; the amount of data that was FOIA'd would take 75 years to emit at the rate of 500 pages a month (that might even be a reasonable rate, given the risk of leaking PII in the raw disclosure of medical trial data; each page being emitted should be seen by human eyes, ideally human eyes familiar with PII concerns).

The legal orders were changed to mandate a 55,000 pages per month rate and the disclosure should now wrap up before the end of this year. I have no idea what the PII controls look like.
To be clear that was a black-market additive in unregulated cannabis vape cartridges, nothing to do with nicotine vapes and definitely not relevant to a company as regulated as Juul.

This would be like saying Coors Light is dangerous because your cousin's moonshine had methanol in it.
>We need three layers of mocks to verify that an empty repositories key leads to an empty dictionary. And if I didn’t use a lambda for the json function, it would be even four layers.

Yep, but those 4 or even 5 layers ought to be mostly reusable between one codebase that mocks an HTTP call and another - if they are abstracted away this line of reasoning falls apart, coz then it is simple.

I think the "what to mock?" argument suffers from an overabundance of dogma and a lack of trade-off based decision making. This article is one of many examples of this.
I believe that no tool is perfect. Not even Rails. We reach for other gems and sometimes do things not "the Rails way" and we get the job done.

And there's a fallacy there. We don't go saying "Rails doesn't do everything I need it to do, so I'd rather spend more time to write my framework from scratch". But we're (and I'm including myself too) very quick to say things like that about certain tools just because "it's never been done before", "Nobody uses an off-the-shelf package to build their app on", "I'll hit a ceiling with it...", and so on.

Yes, Avo isn't perfect, and yes, Avo isn't right for any kind of project. There are some that are more suited and some that aren't. Sometimes you might hit a "ceiling" with Avo, but I baked in a ton of "escape hatches" (add own content on multiple levels, override views, override controllers, multiple ways of interacting with the data, Stimulus JS). Using these "escape hatches" (I gotta stop using that term), will help you get the job done.

This message is not fingepointing towards you or anyone else, and I respect everyone's way of doing things, but we should take some time and reflect on that. We don't go and build linuxes, nginxes, pumas, railses and other pieces of tooling everytime beacause we might get stuck at one point. We make it work. Same should apply with pieces of software like Avo.

Thank you for the message!
I wager this answer wasn’t obvious to most on HN…
Apache has a few good projects and so much abandonware it’s very difficult to know which to avoid entirely.

At this point I think Apache has about 15 different data streaming/queueing/event processing systems.
Nothing is future-proof.
intel i9-9900 3.60GHz, 32GB DDR4 RAM, and a 6TB 7200RPM SATA HDD running manjaro
Individual states cannot legalize it, they can only decriminalize it- at least, until a court case makes its way to the supreme court that removes marijuana from the federal government's ability to regulate drugs via the DEA.

The fact that the federal government has chosen to not interfere in states that have decriminalized it is merely a policy position- it continues to have the authority to go after people in any state for the production, distribution and (I think) consumption of any Schedule 1 drug, which marijuana is currently listed as.
Because it's basically an outdated version of the same software. Do you also keep on using Word 2003?
The "future-proof" is that if the corp goes belly up or insane, you can in theory fork the project and continue it, which if there's enough of a user base will happen.

But if there's enough of a user base the company probably won't abandon it.

Things like Fedora are potentially at a bit more risk, because if IBM decides to stop developing it for whatever reason most users will probably just switch to an entire different distro (or a related one) than bother continuing the existing.
(Founder / CEO of Convex here)

Hi Shawn. I don't remember you bringing this up when we spoke in person recently, but it's a great question.

In our opinion, the very best way to evaluate yourself as a backend developer is how directly you solve problems for frontend developers. We believe in the merit of customer obsession, and the customers are not buying queues. They're buying the product as they see it: its surfaces, workflows and experience. And that's what the frontend developers, PMs, and designers are creating.

Historically, all these backend technologies that only interoperate with each other are only useful so long as they make product creation and improvement easier, more reliable, etc. We strongly believe as soon as you don't need them anymore, you should toss them out. They're complex and not proprietary to your product.

Convex (and serverless in general) is just the next step in providing more powerful abstractions that allow companies to double down on frontend engineering (work that adds product value) instead of reimplementing the same backend/devops plumbing the users never see (work that, at best, merely sustain product value).

So, given that we recognize this need, I respectfully disagree that we're not well equipped to solve these problems for frontend developers! Most of our team's recent our work has been designing synchronization and storage platforms to enable product development, including work on web, desktop, and mobile libraries/SDKs. We feel like we have both a lot of empathy and experience for this space, and we're very proud of our early product and the enthusiasm from the web dev community.
Because with public health policy all nuance gets lost. If you say "well actually nicotine doesnt harm you but the tar in combustible cigarettes does so if you vape you're really doing no harm" people will render that as "nicotine does not harm you thus cigarettes are fine" this is literally how we got into this situation. There can be no grey area: if you do not smoke combustible cigarettes do not vape.

Btw all addictive substances are bad for you by definition.
This is not correct. You can filter on the same field twice. What you can't do is filter on different fields, eg:

I want records where record.score >= 10 and record.date <= 2022-01-01

The first form (single field) is a simple range query on a single index - that's what Firestore is optimized for. The second form (with different fields) potentially requires walking the near-entirety of both indexes looking for matches, and therefore has unbounded time and computational requirements.

Firestore is designed so that you can't do things that don't scale. Sometimes that sucks, especially when you know that the data volume for that query will always be "reasonable". But the limitations are not arbitrary.
So what’s the cutting edge for macro forecasting these days? I thought it was HANK models?
AOSP on its own was perfectly usable, in the early days. That frog has been thoroughly boiled.
As a self taught musician this is totally bullshit TO AN EXTENT. I fucking shred and know zero music theory. All self taught and I can tune by ear as well.

When you start to play with a higher caliber of musicians, it becomes an expected threshold. I think its a bad analogy but it kind of is true the better you get. Still bad analogy
Is someone maintaining a significantly different version of the chromium engine that I'm not aware of? Google can always change the license on Chromium as well which would require a hard fork and basically you end up with diverging versions. No we need multiple (or at least two browser engines) browsers.
I think this was like the ancap version of concern trolling where you pretend not to know what simple words mean in a specific context to try to make some obtuse political point.
Don't hold me to this, but if I recall, the recommendation is to consume 8 cups (1 cup = 8 oz ≈ 0.23L) of water a day, and the water contained in our food counts. This is to say, people conflated 8 cups of water to mean 8 glasses of water.
how do you delete comments
I wonder how this will play out in court when a neural net that underpins the tech of a company also can't properly handle health data. Start over?

The right to be forgotten would have to be built into it all right from the get go, wouldn't it? Neural nets embed things, like you said. If Facebook pivoted towards being a hub for healthcare data as oracle seems want to do, could they use all of their facial recognition tech trained from profile pictures now that it is supposed to be detached from any one identity? I'm thinking of the equivalent of github's co-pilot spitting out comments alongside the code.
Right. Don't want to mess up the AlGoreithms that run the interwebz!
Why would a SQL query show stale data? Inserts and selects are fine, the only thing needed is signaling. You can use Firestore for that, or just a separate thin layer on a much more capable database backend.

> "that few development teams have the skill"

This is the fundamental problem. There's no magic answer to a lack of skill.
LibreOffice was forked from OpenOffice after Oracle bought it. The community switched over to LibreOffice, so it's not like OpenOffice has a longer history than LibreOffice. They have the same history for the first years before the fork, and OpenOffice essentially died as a community project after the fork.