skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, rule of thumb is that if it’s not unit testable, it’s fragile. Testability doesn’t necessarily mean you lose performance, though.
To re-iterate: there is no biodiversity in agriculture. As an example, "non-GMO" bananas are cloned from a single species the world over. If you'd be concerned about a single disease destroying genetically-identical crops worldwide, that happened with the Gros Michel cultivar in the 20th century. Competing GMO banana products would introduce more diversity than exists today.
I think Clojure on Go (Gojure)? Would probably do nearly as well as the JVM hosted version if done well.
Here is a link to the CDC where they mention 68 confirmed deaths and strongly link it to black market marijuana cartridges, not nicotine.

https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/basic_information/e-cigarettes/s...

> National and state data from patient reports and product sample testing show tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)-containing e-cigarette, or vaping, products, particularly from informal sources like friends, family, or in-person or online dealers, are linked to most EVALI cases and play a major role in the outbreak.
> Those of us who live in democracies don't have enough free speech on the Internet, because most of us do not want to have it. We don't want other people to speak unless they agree with us.

You should try talking to people even when you don't agree with them. At least if you use the word "democracy".
Hello, I'm the author. Ask me anything :)

Thanks fn-mote for providing some context. In fact, I think you could appreciate most of this article without even knowing anything about Turing Machines. I spend almost the entire article just answering the question: Given a set of exponential transition rules, starting from C(5), does iterating these rules ever lead to Halt(N)? If so, in how many iterations? And what is the value of N in that case?
I am basing my opinion on data. The nicotine industry spends hundreds of millions of dollars per year on studies discussing the incrementality of "years of life saved from switching to vaping from combustible cigarettes minus the years of life cost from net new people starting to consume nicotine"

Also this comment is correct that a poorly regulated and operated vaping industry fuelled a youth nicotine crisis: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31836842
Because of all the organic internet traffic it brings them. Hey, stay awhile, maybe use one of their ML/AI projects and donate some money too!
Depends; has LibreOffice gained any features since the fork? I've had to use it on and off at my previous job and the experience was pretty poor, it ran slowly, dated UI, etc.
> A side-effect of a Chromium-only web is that it gives the Chrome team at Google less incentive to invest in the web platform. It used to be a way to differentiate Chrome from other browsers. Now-a-days that is no longer the case.

That's what happened with Internet Explorer but the reason Microsoft was perfectly happy to stall the development of the web once it took over the browser market was because it didn't really have any incentive to use the web in the first place (it was better off if people just used desktop apps), and it only developed IE so that if the internet was going to take over it could be the one in the position to control it.

On the other hand, outside of Android, Google is extremely reliant on the web for its products on desktop and on chromebooks (there used to be chrome os apps and chrome browser apps but they have already been deprecated).

Google actually has an incentive to add new features to try to give PWA's feature parity with desktop apps, so rather than ceasing development, it may be more likely that they start just adding new features that aren't compatible with other browsers.

E.g. they could probably now go back and immediately undeprecate WebSQL and just say, "we don't care what firefox thinks now." If they announced that, they have enough market share that they could probably get people to start using it again and that would immediately break compatibility with firefox.
The last release is from 2022 not 2014.
This is really interesting, worth the read.
Enterprise version for 39,999 a month where the data stays private, for now. Sign in with your gmail. Our AI will manage all suspicious activity.
I’m currently using IglooIRC + ZNC push module (https://github.com/jreese/znc-push). Works decently well.
Conceptually, xargs applies some logic to each item in a list. Many programming language support this, e.g. Python:

for item in some_list:
foo(item)

Of course, the above is a replacement for "xargs -n 1" only; but I argue that the batching functionality of xargs isn't really needed in programming languages.
There are startups out of MIT like Ayer labs using 30 nm node tech to make grating couplers, but fundamentally if you are using light with a wavelength of 1500 nm, there is a limitation in how much it could possibly matter to go to single digit nms due to the nature of light.
> I've seen this many times but it makes a meaningless healthcare = health correlation .

It doesn't, it's just making an observation.

> America has lots of systemic problems that affect health outcomes that are outside of healthcare. Low quality fast food, food addiction, industrialized farming, corn subsides, food deserts, deceptive food marketing to name a few.

Sure, America has many issues and many more than you've listed. So do other countries. And they all have many differences in healthcare systems. All this makes it impossible to formulate a mathematical proof. Which fortunately I was not trying to do.

So we can't really measure the precise effectiveness of healthcare systems and health expenditure, sure. But surely the burden is on the people who would to claim that 2x healthcare expenditure for worse (or not significantly better) health than many other countries is a reasonable cost efficiency, to come up with some pretty strong evidence to support them.
There are several dozen studies on nih.gov, here [1] is one of them connecting nicotine with atherosclerosis.

[1] - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3755365/
Someone should sue them, for knowingly, willlingly releasing bug ridden, security issue laden software.

Seriously.

This is a perfect test case.

It should start with a 15 day demand letter, and progress from there.
I've gotten confused in the metaphors here.

Do you think that with the collapse of every ponzi scheme that the next ponzi scheme is somehow less ... scheme-y? I'm not even sure what that really means, but it seems to me that ponzi schemes, by definition, always go to 0 in the long run. There are no foundations, just greed and misery.

Can you clarify?
Yep. The only constant is change!
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.

Why are you being so over-dramatic? Juuls weren't the only e-cigs on the market. They also weren't the only alternative (to cigarettes) nicotine product on the market, either. You don't have to switch to cigarettes.
> I used to believe nuclear energy was dangerous and nuclear waste was a big problem. In fact, nuclear is the safestand most reliable way to generate low-emission electricity, and it provides the best chance of reducing CO2 emissions.

It releases less radioactivity than coal, just to make things clear.
Love your UI - nice work.

Edit - no way for me to delete my account though

Just as a note - the reason I decided to stop using it was it was too hard for me to find anyone else on there, just kind of gave up and left.
I guess it's also a latency tradeoff?
"dumb advertising company" is trivialising the amazing tech and products Google has. Google has very justified bad reputation around product shutdowns and privacy, but I don't think being dumb is one of them.
Yeah, I just find it funny with all the data collected in advertising, I get ads designed for teenagers.
I really think that a new browser is possible. The people that worked on Firefox and Chromium over the years learned a lot. Programming languages and tools have improved massively.

That doesn't mean it will be easy, but I have little doubt that with enough pressure, some people will start their own browser from scratch, and some of them will be successful.
Hi! I'm making this comment via a work computer that has Office 2010 on it. It's not the same thing, sure, but it's a great example of how people are definitely still using old office-related software.
I love it when getting things done easy also means getting things done securely. <3
Hm, I thought that Scotland pledged fealty without a fight, the last king of Scotland just bent the knee.
"Divinity: Original Sin 2" is available on the iOS app store. It's the best game overall (not just among the tactical RPGs) I've ever played in my life.

https://apps.apple.com/de/app/divinity-original-sin-2/id1458...
> Ask any woman what it's like to go to a tech conference, and then try to guess if they would be comfortable using a tool like yours as it currently stands.

Why did you ignore their reply to you entirely?

> Please mind that the demo room is an open space to show off the features. Once you create your own flat, you are able to edit moderators, guest list, allowed email domains, banned list and keep the flat open and closed whenever you want. There is also ability to kick & ban.

What would you do in a Zoom call with co-workers, friends, or attendees of a presentation who were disruptive? You'd kick them or leave.
> if the corp goes belly up or insane, you can in theory fork the project

Yes: for a small + useful + easy to maintain project.

No: for bloated or difficult to build projects, which makes most of popular browsers, corp-driven programming languages, devops tools, office suites, corp-driven IDEs, Linux distros...

Not to mention non-copyleft licenses that allow proprietization and discourage communties.
I don’t think this is a valid read of the criticisms. You’re taking the author’s performance claims at face value, and other people are not.
> Bartr wants to help us get back to what makes us truly special: our ability to love; and what better act of love is there than giving?

What sort of data are you collecting in the process, and how do you intend to monetize it?
> Could you tell me what the best car to buy is?

No, why would I?

> From what you've said, I think we can agree that [...]

No, we cannot agree on nothing of the sort. Where did I say I'm a car design expert?

Please stop trying to make me say things I don't want to. I'm just pointing out Ive's misleading use of language. Since Ive is a design expert, I hold him to a higher standard, but he certainly didn't "make the cut"! Maybe he wasn't the "best" after all.
Vermont (a tiny state) would suffer much more from that than would California.
I recently heard (on HN, maybe you did too) about a form of energy that sounds pretty utopian to me. Ultra deep bore geothermal.

Geothermal has been around for a long time and has problems like causing earthquakes and needing very specific geological formations that only exist in certain places. But these limitations are mostly due to the fact that we can't bore that deep.

Geothermal energy exists under every point on Earth, in quantities far greater than we could ever use, in the form of heat which can be used to run steam turbines that existing power plants already have.

The problem is that this energy lies deeper than we have ever dug. If we could dig deeper, we might be able to replace the fuel burning part of most existing fossil fuel power plants with geothermal steam. Deep boring is a hard problem to be sure, but is it harder than fusion? Seems unlikely!

Anyway, this startup https://www.quaise.energy/ was on HN a while ago, and while I have no idea if their specific technology works, it seems like we ought to be allocating at least a medium size fraction of the fusion research budget to deep bore geothermal research instead.
If the woman is pregnant by him but the man remarried, he must pay her continuing child maintenance and pay for accommodations for the child as well, according to islamic law.
> Oh we are playing major version minor version!

I also had some doubts, especially after a quick look at Apache Open Office[1].

Then I checked the announcement of 4.1.{9,10,11,12}.
They are all maintenance or security updates.

Compared to the Release Notes of LibreOffice[2], there are improvements with each release.

1: https://www.openoffice.org/
2: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/7.4
LibreOffice does have some form of online version: https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-online/
Probably any price for now, but psychologically easier when it’s down.

If BTC does become a real international settlement layer then it’ll be worth a lot. It’s basically an asymmetric bet on that (which is why small % is good enough).

Similar for ETH being the default for programmable token.
It depends on the book. Most sci-fi/fantasy I enjoy at speed. Anything where I want to find out what happens NEXT. But poetry and math I would want to read more slowly. I read more quickly than I think, and a full appreciation of the rhythm of language takes time.

What I do isn't what most people call speed reading, though. I don't skip any words, and can recognize and pull out exact phrases. I don't know how much text I could hold like that. When I was 19, a long book. But I think my capacity has gone down with age.
Higher insurance rates seem likely, and significantly better research seems unlikely.
Some guy created this play store search alternative(1) that lets you find apps by filtering IAP, Ad free, etc. It's very useful but I think it's on a small server so it takes a lot of time to search. Still very useful imo.

(1) https://playsearch.kaki87.net/

edit: sorry it looks to be down right now. Was working before last time I tried. I'll just leave my comment here in case he updates it again.
Love ten principles, but it’s always going to be specific insights to specific people. Answering ten questions is again seeking the utopian solution. Some people may be happy with just getting three of the right questions. There is no silver bullet and we will tackle climate change, but not by 10 questions but 1,000,000 little questions everywhere.

The default should be let’s not burn things. While we deploy the nuclear powered negative CO2 technologies
I personally use this, I love how it lets you "try out" a package
I've been thinking how to enter the medical space with software.

My cousin has EDS, diagnosing the illness is pretty trivial. It took her 15+ years and when she was diagnosed she was already in severe decline. She could have been diagnosed a decade ago but some doctors just have no interest in googling symptoms and listening to patients.
...or add instructions to "have text between _underscores for italics_ and **double stars for bold** - just adopt a subset of markdown and be done with it - we need to stop catering to humanity's lowest common denominator.
Everyone talks about how many lives climate change will ruin, but not enough talk about how many lives are lifted out of poverty from energy abundance from fossil fuels.
This photographer did brilliant work for covers of that magazine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Scavullo
If the amortized benefit is less than one minute per month, then it's probably best to simply pass instead of hoping for a price adjustment.
I’m my experience, you get most of that kind of coverage with integration test/user story tests/however-you-call-them.

Solutions like vcr aren’t bullet-proof either and are a variation of in-process servers that the article mentions.

To put it differently: the question is not whether vcr, but _where_ vcr.
What about drivers licenses? Surely they issue those to foreigners and it should be considered a valid form of government ID?
> Unfortunately before Altria acquired Juul it was a terribly ran company

Altria is a terribly run company. I was part of their previous attempt at entering the e-cig market (Green Smoke and Mark Ten). Everything they touch turns to dust, so this news about Juul is not surprising. I've never seen a company with so much dysfunction, in-fighting, and ineffectiveness.

When they shut us down in favor of the stake in Juul, we joked that they only took a minority stake in order to save Juul from them.
Reading that is a sad reminder of why people make such poor decisions. He’s still arguing about things in the abstract without a basis in the underlying mechanics of these systems. And the sad thing is he’s effective at convincing people.
That's funny - thanks for the heads up. In context I hope that at least one of them would be flattered. I added the "by" and the "with" hoping to clarify.
Yep and every lock is a spinlock. ;-)
I may be wrong, but results will only show performers who were directly commissioned to participate in this project. Since you mentioned Glenn Gould, I highly recommend Jean Rondeau's performance of the Goldberg Variations played on the harpsichord.
Or a PWA!
Ukrainian deep tech startup has trained an AI to paint war art
I think that’s MTr/mm^2
"Don't do X, don't break the rule, you're doing it wrong"... that's why people don't write tests (well, maybe not the main reason, but that was my case at least).

Do whatever that will increase confidence in code and testability. If I want to make it easier for me to develop, I'm gonna do anything that will enable me to get shit done. Test takes 0.1 second instead of 0.001? Whatever. I can improve it if needed, when I get more knowledge or I can discard it completely.

When I stopped caring about 'should I use mock, or inject closure, or interface...' I started writing more tests and producing better software. Because often the end goal is about writing clearer code even with shitty tests.
True. I was addressing both of the GP's use cases.
IIUC, the central Apache organization can’t or at least doesn’t declare projects dead. I’m not sure what would happen if the maintainers literally disappeared, but as long as the project’s PMC stays active and wants to keep going they can.
Although I'm not a mobile app developer, I wish the app stores made it easier for developers to charge for upgrades. There are some excellent apps out there that feel like they are too inexpensive. The purchase model with crazy low prices doesn't feel sustainable.

For example, Procreate on an iPad with the Pencil is probably my favorite program for any platform from any time. I think I paid $10 years and years ago. Since then the creators have continued to develop the program and it's way better than it was when I bought it. I would have been more than happy to send them another $10 here and there for some of the significant updates.

However, I don't like the subscription model unless it's implemented like JetBrains does it where the subscription fee entitles you to updates and you have a perpetual license for the software once you have it.
I remember how much "snappier" the iPhone 3GS felt compared to the 3G, and then a few years later I went back and couldn't believe I waited 5 to 10 seconds for an app to load, it's incredible how fast the SSD has become on smartphones.
I think that change clarifies it nicely. :)
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> the state has done a terrible job

agree with the substance of your comments if not the spin, however please note that in California, the large majority of lands are Federal not State. Add to that the private lands, and also a remarkable mess of tiny borders and claims even deep in the woods, and you get an idea of how things are legally here.
I’m not getting involved in the debate over what’s a “woke” university and what isn’t (partly because everyone’s definition is different), but here is a non-exhaustive list of American universities partnered with Qatar:

- Northwestern University

- Cornell University

- Carnegie Mellon University

- Georgetown University

- Texas A&M University

- Virginia Commonwealth University

That’s just the ones I know of in Qatar, there’s also a bunch more in other gulf region countries (like the UAE).
IMO, it comes down to the basic human needs.

1. Health - Without it, you can't do much
2. Dating - The need for romance/sex/relationships
3. Finance - To ensure food/water, housing, savings
Why not both? It's not a dichotomy.
I'm not sure if this was an unfortunate accident but almost every banana worldwide is essentially genetically identical: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavendish_banana
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I imagine that for a while it was conclusively proven that heavier objects do not fall faster than lighter ones but it was still commonly believed. Maybe it is still widely believed today.
nvidia drivers work on FreeBSD. No CUDA, though.
I found the article quite weird for some of the points. But following the optimism spirit, first are things that I found optimistic:

>Child mortality, childbirth death decrease
>Child labor.
>Life expectency
>Literacy increase
>Smoking decrease

For others, there's possibly quite a large room for cherry-picking data. I'm very happy if the following can be proved to be negligible ( or wrong ):

>Extreme poverty falling
I'm not sure how the math ($1) can already be an adjusted for inflation / price variances. Probably should be using the income / wealth equality instead.

>People in developed countries have more leisure time
But not in developing countries. Following the links, I find our working levels stay pretty much the same above the 2000h line. Also I'm interested in how much we compare to pre-industrial level.

>Smoking is down, but not so much in developing countries
>Homicide rates have fallen dramatically, but only counting US and EU
>The share of income spent on food has plummeted in the US
No mention of developing countries. World-wide the homicide rates looks to be about the same-ish ?.

>People have been getting taller for centuries
There are more to nutrition than height, and world-wide looks like it has been same-ish since 1970.

>More people in the world live in a democracy now
50/50 on this one, mainly cause I'm not sure if the democracy index is measured objectively, or they just extend to whatever countries on good terms with the US.

>Tech & Moore's law
I'm skeptic of more tech leads == better life, particularly when more people reported more internet time ~= decreased mental health.
You usually can't tell they are broken until you get to the last part of a multi-part checkout process.
I am flabbergasted how much governments, media and institutions lie to the public about the feasibly of wind and solar as a replacement for fossil fuels.
"Best in some aspects" is not an unqualified best. Maybe Ive should have been more careful about his wording -- which was my point, after all!

> its probably your hatred for Ive that seems to be clouding your judgement

Wow. Hatred. I don't even know the guy, how can I hate him? I don't own a Mac, I just use one provided by my work. I don't own an iphone. I really don't pay much attention to Ive at all, just pointing out a flaw in his wording.

Hatred. Really. Is that how you normally debate?
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The cost per kWh of solar and wind is a third of natural gas and nuclear. It's not even close. Filling the gaps left by intermittent production with storage is rapidly decreasing in costs, and will soon be low enough that Solar/Wind/Storage will outcompete Natural Gas or nuclear 95% of the time. There is probably a small role for other sources in filling capacity gaps during uncommon weather events (i.e. natural gas peaker plants during heat waves), but this blog post is a lot of complicating noise in what is a fairly simple economics of implementation problem.
Curious, but what's your take on what this foundation is, functionally speaking? Is it indeed a decentralized financial alternative that will address the current woes of tradfi? Or is it something else? Or is it, again in your opinion, sort of a blank canvas, and just SOME foundation that's being emerging, and eventually people will be building on top of it?