skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn’t every implementation of a new function on a standard type possibly break existing code?

For example if I have a trait Foo with a function bar, and I impl Foo for HashMap, and then a new version of std comes out that has named something HashMap::bar, now every call to my_map.bar() is ambiguous
Everything except health care.
> I find the Network State manifesto laughable for a couple reasons

Arguments for/against aside, I think it's important to note that every new powerful sociological concept that hadn't been done before was laughable at first. This sort of classification isn't really useful for reasoning about it.

Maybe it's a great idea, maybe it's a terrible one, but its laughability does not tell us anything about either of those states.
I was very surprised when I walked by a video rental store the other night. Most of them are gone now, of course, but apparently a few of them still survive.

Blockbuster, though, no.
A humidor is also a box that controls humidity and heat. How much do people pay for those (and cigars sold separately)?

If there’s a market for that, why not this?
Slightly brighter dots. You’re not going to be able to get a multi pixel image of an exoplanet with JWST.

There is good exoplanet science to be done, like atmosphere spectroscopy. But not direct imaging, other than as points of light.
I'm pretty sure they either sold it or used it too. The article does state it was unusual they didn't consult the authority that fined him.
Show HN: We built a personality test on AWS amplify
prolly paid millions of dollars for this and there's a typo on pg.18 smh
I did this for a project at my old company. We were using ApacheDS as a LDAP server, but we were doing a lot of updating to the datastore, and DS kept having issues with corruption.

But our use case was really limited, so I wrote a server process that talked LDAP, but it was essentially hard coded to support the 4 or 5 queries that we actually did. Then it was backed by our core Postgres backend.

The ASN parser was the trick of it to be sure. For whatever reason, I had a lingering bug in it that I could never track down. Some kind of heisenbug that I was never able to duplicate, and even spamming the logs with tons of debug info, I could never get a handle on it. It wasn't fatal, but it was annoying. Been so long, I don't recall the details.

ASN is tricky, but it's not that hard.

But, in the end, it worked for our use case.
Sorry, I misspoke. 1 gram per pound of body weight. I was multitasking.
The quantity given was in calories, about 1/2 of what you need in a day. Yes PB is heavy, yes that amount should register.
My fondest Blockbuster memories were around video games. The very best weekends were when my mom would take us there on Friday after school and let us each pick out a game. My sister and I would fight for turns with the TV all weekend.

Just getting to explore a new game for a little bit and then try something else next time was so much fun; you never knew what you were gonna get, just going off the box art. Even better was during the cartridge years, when you'd take a game home and it might already have a few different saves on it from other people, and you'd get to visit their characters and worlds, jump in at different points in the game, and try to imagine how it all fit together.

There was a gap of many years between Netflix killing Blockbuster, and game subscriptions becoming a thing where you could try them out casually again. Though of course even then, all the same physical nostalgia is missed; browsing the aisles, scrutinizing the boxes to try and figure out what it'll be like when you take it home, etc.
It's impossible to get rid of the state by voting for more statists.
A follow-up to the Negativland classic Dispepsi [0]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispepsi
A company could voluntarily create an opt in system, but the US government couldn’t mandate it. Not sure if it’s realistic to think any companies would though
Do the science yourself!

All you need is an InBody machine. Many gyms and trainers have them.
When done right, the process should make sense to a layperson

Yes, absolutely. A company I worked for paid big money for a design firm to do a brand makeover.

The head of the design firm cautioned our CEO: "If we do this right, the result will not be mindblowing to you. In fact, your reaction might be 'duh - that's really obvious.' Because you already know who you are."

(paraphrased)

I really liked that sentiment. I thought that company did a great job, both on the brand identity itself and on the communication.
If that button were 100,000 lives to 4 I would.
they lost me at pepsi universe
Remember when Netflix had the context for the best recommendation algorithm? I don't think they ended up using anything from it.
> Yes, I mostly see people saying that laws don't matter because billionaires are beyond law at this point.

Huh. Weird. Well, I don't see it brought up on HN all that often (once a month tops?), so we must hang out in different circles outside of here.

Anyways, you have a good one.
Optimal play doesn't really involve much novel planning unless you're an absolute god at the game. Until then you're likely to see more improvement just improving your execution... which sucks
Klarna closes major financing round during worst stock downturn in 50 years
How many people are making 200k a year in a no-income state? 1%? This isn’t the point you think you’re making.
non-EEA probably means illegal immigrants too. You can’t really contribute into the social security system when you are not allowed to work legally. That doesn’t mean that you don’t contribute to the society through your hard work.

I’ve met people with refugee status who did receive some benefits and worked hard illegally. I’m not going to count them as a cost, they were working in construction jobs, making honest living and not taking the benefits was not an option for them because they would have had to explain how do they sustain themselves. A Palestinian guy that I met who was in this situation is now doing real estate development, now legally since he eventually got a legal status. There are plenty like that.

Do you know how expensive UK is? You can’t have a life on benefits, unless you are rich you have to work.

It doesn’t make any sense to go to UK to spend your life in a room barely being able to buy food using the state benefits.
AoM was pretty solid in my opinion
Solar and wind are also inflexible (they generate when sun and wind are out, not on demand). In addition to hydro, natural gas is on demand, which is why we’ve shifted a lot of generating capacity to it. But that makes Europe dependent on Russia and contributes green house gases even if it doesn’t emit much air pollution.
Indeed, if it's only on VHS, it'll be degraded past watchability by the time of future generations. VHS doesn't last.
I feel like the set of people who

* Want to compile the software, not just install a pre-built binary
* But, don't want to actually hack on the software and so don't care about up-to-date tools

... is probably rather small. Even for them, though, surely just an old source version will work? Or is there some reason that doesn't help?
I post this both as a news item and also because this press release is so heavily editorialized. How are they getting the "worst in 50 years" data point? It might turn out to be but we're not there yet.
That's a lot of work to get people to drink carbonated sugar water.
I love this place! Too bad the one near me also closed down during the lockdowns. It was a relatively new location too.
What UK social construct, exactly?
Ask HN: Has anyone come across a gamified To-Do list tool?
I'm imagining:
- a leaderboard with your friends/colleagues showing how many jobs you've completed
- some type of tracking system that takes into account how long it took to complete a task
I thought the same thing.

I just wonder do any of these people actually move? Apologies if you're less-than-abled but good lord, if you're not and you're surviving on so few calories, I just wonder if you're moving enough to actually be healthy?? Thin !== healthy, necessarily.
On BS in Investing
You find one person and go from there?
What's a Pile-On Dupe?
I took away from these that we should write more when there's no intrinsic goal to the writing to see where it takes you the author. But writing with no goal is a goal in itself.

I think this is how you invoke the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man.
Yup. massive media black out on this. only know about it because a canadian youtuber/lawyer (runkle of the bailey) was talking about it
It behooves one to know their opponent. The mere act of viewing the media does not "support" the film-maker or the regime, assuming you're not paying for it.
Is this an indirect admission that the right-wing conservatives are really just trolling everyone else? How could you want to give the fetus more rights, yet simultaneously not count them when it would reduce the states traffic violation revenue?

I'm sure a judge will throw it out, but this is so offensive.
Tell you 1) you have an issue... 2) everything is fine 3) perhaps you are imagining things.
You guys are right, I completely missed that he waived his rights on this term. My apologies, I made an assumption (which was wrong) that Musk was acting reasonably.
I think it also depends on what you do in a day if you're sitting in front of a computer you bet 150 calories can work, if you're actually doing physical work something like that would likely be brutal.

The big breakfast is called a farmers mreakfat for a reason.
>Parts of the earth are off limits because of nuclear errors. And there will be more as long as we continue to use nuclear power.

How long will it be until parts of the earth are inhabitable due to climate change? There will be more as long as we continue to neglect nuclear power.

>When we are talking grid storage batteries they can degrade extremely significantly and still be useful

I doubt it. It will be a major blow to energy efficiency.

>Lastly, that you try to claim that battery production waste is worse than nuclear waste is beyond absurd. You have bought in way too much to nuclear industry propaganda.

Nuclear waste is extremely manageable compared to mining waste.
Some of you will remember the "Pepsi Challenge" [0] when Pepsi would make commercials about random people tasting unlabeled soft drinks. People usually chose Pepsi in taste tests because it was sweeter than Coke. What the commercials didn't show was that most people actually bought Coke because Pepsi is too sweet for many people when they drink a whole bottle.

Movie and music recommendation engines seem to work like this. Human tastes are much more complex and multi-dimensional than "This person prefers genre X" but AI systems don't even come close to grasping the subtlety.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepsi_Challenge
Incredible. If each of those galaxies has on average a few hundred billion stars (our is estimated to have between 100b-400b), and each of those little dots is an entire galaxy, well, that's a lot of stars in this image.
I think the only way it could work is with fairly severe information asymmetry. The RTS player would need to have a lot more information than the FPS players. And I don't think you could do both.
Yeah, you’ve probably used debit cards. That’s functionally just cash.

Credit cards are no-go. No airline miles from picking up psychoactives.
Should Machines Replace Mathematicians?
I personally prefer SLIME over any IEX client I've ever seen, but that's not a limitation of Elixir. Since Erlang has a Smalltalk-esq image just like CL does, the Elixir REPL is in principle as powerful as a Lisp's. In practice CL has lots of additional little things which are nice, like the ability to update instances in place after changing a class or DEFVAR forms which don't clobber their contents on reloads, but for me most of the advantage comes from just how well designed SLIME is.
It’s entirely serverless, leverages a ton of services and pretty much every feature of amplify for web. It has its warts, and I may write a tech write up if anyone is interested.
>a MASSIVE 1200 calorie dinner

Yeah no one likes your humble brags about how little you eat and feel JUST GREAT. You're probably worse for it.

I'm 5'11", ~170 lbs and rather lazy right now, running ~15 miles a week and a couple light lifting sessions because I'm busy. I eat 2500 calories a day and maintain just fine.

I just ate 1200 calories at dinner, no problem, so I'm going to try real hard not to feel judged by you!
If I dump ten pounds of Lego on your desk, that’s not sophistication.
Learn a language by writing too many forths
It says that this could help with semiconductor design but I'm curious how. From what I can tell we only observe this behavior in very specific materials at incredibly low temperatures.

Is it as simple as "understanding electricity better will let us design electronics better?"

Apologies if this is a silly question, I'm completely out of my depth.
I'm not so sure. They _could_ start from scratch, building the same feature set but paying extra attention to security in every possible aspect of design, do you now have a system guaranteed to be free of malware? Never. We are talking nation state actors here. Doing that would ignore the really great (if merely suggested) admittance that apple is making here: reducing the attack surface is the only way to mitigate the unknown unknowns of software security.
When You Absolutely Hate to Travel, but Do It Anyway
I suppose the folks at the UN must have been swept up by racist rhetoric when they started writing reports about Replacement Migration for Western countries.
Strange, that sucks. I guess either you're unlucky with your hardware compatibility or I'm lucky with mine. Hopefully the open nvidia driver programme will bring better compatibility to both our systems!
Nuclear kills 10% as many people per watt hour as solar, and << 1% as many as fossil fuels. Also, in places with reasonable regulatory regimes, it is inexpensive.

Provisioning enough nuclear to meet peak demand is certainly feasible, assuming you measure in dollars, environmental impact or human deaths.

Of course, building a mix of renewables and nuclear would be even better, but let's not pretend clean, essentially limitless power production hasn't been a solved technical problem for 50+ years.
Lolls like this device won't even fit most blocks.
Wow. They sure do a lot of work trying to justify a shitty logo. And it worked. Let that be a lesson for us all.
This reminds me of the pseudo science of new age “sacred geometry”
It the ecosystem of the "crypto" is self contained, and both the sender and receiver are living in the ecosystem, then they may not need an exchange.

(As long as the transaction throughput and transaction fee are reasonable)
It's just your usual nostalgia. I lived in the age before internet and it was shit.
Then Kazaa happened and I could finally download Naruto and Gundam.
I’m confused. He explicitly wanted to remove the opportunity for violence, yet he tried to have multiple people killed? He was against violence yet was so unphased by his crimes that he kept a photo of a victim in a folder in his hard drive?

I think there’s an easier explanation. He may have started the Silk Road with high hopes but things went haywire around the time he started making millions…

Ulbricht should have taken the plea. It was his only chance of breathing free air again. As it stands now, he doesn’t have a hope. It would be very hard for a judge to sentence based on a dream to remove violence when presented with evidence that the accused was actively trying to have people killed. The plea was his last chance and he didn’t take advantage of it.
What a pleasant piece by the way. I really enjoyed his style.
So beautiful!

So many questions to be asked and natural mysteries to be probed by man made in the image and likeness of God.

May such research give glory to Him who made the Pleiades and Orion (Amos 5:8), for His greater glory and the salvation of souls.
They fell off because they weren't single player anymore. RTS games feel very strategic in singleplayer. You're often working to overcome a seemingly more powerful asymmetric force. In multiplayer you're just grinding through a hyper optimized meta or you're losing.
A system where an unaccountable pseudonymous warlord tries to hire nonexistent hitmen to kill people who steal from him isn't a very good system, but it's better than the system we have, where the US imprisons 2 million people, where heroin addicts die of fentanyl overdoses, and where at unpredictable times those addicts are forced into agonizing withdrawal when their dealers are arrested.

The undisputed fact that DSR existed to help people do all kinds of illegal things doesn't make those things wrong, and it doesn't make it bad for DSR to have helped them do those things. Fortunately, I wasn't a user, but as I understand it, DSR dramatically reduced the violence and risk of contamination involved in illegal drug use—the next best thing to actual full legalization of those drugs.

The US's drug laws are morally utterly indefensible, and the fact that DSR was violating them on a massive scale is something to be proud of, not ashamed of.
> Corals have persisted through the geological past when atmospheric CO2 was many times today's level.

We're heading toward something similar to the Miocene, both in CO2, temperature, and ph. You might want to look into the "Middle Miocene disruption", which refers to a wave of extinctions of terrestrial and aquatic life forms that occurred following the Miocene Climatic Optimum. There's a big oceanic fossil gap in the Miocene, because of this peak-temperature which seemed to tilt ecosystems too far. We do know the hard-coral scleractinians (same as modern corals^1) didn't appear because of this change, but likely because they were one of the few types that can survive it. Unfortunately, if the trend continues, the hardiest of the ancient species all die^2. 7.2 doesn't sound like 7.95? The ocean isn't uniformly affected^3 and will likely kick off another "disruption" of the existing ecosystems causing a collapse. ie You don't need to set fire to all the trees for the forest to burn down.

^1 https://bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-...
^2 https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1419621112
^3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_acidification
Wait... so the US army did poorly against guerilla combatants half way across the world, and therefore another country that lost in Afghanastan and a country that hasn't successfully invaded anyone that doesn't border them are a good match?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrogradation_(starch)

And see the resistant starch link as well.
A funny parody song of this presentation by the legendary Neil Cicierega (potter puppet pals, ultimate battle of ultimate destiny, brodyquest, mouth sounds, etc…)

https://youtu.be/fu3ETgAvQrw
His aspirations are much larger than Ukraine.
The best time to plant a radioactive tree in your yard is never.
See also https://youtu.be/fu3ETgAvQrw which I believe is the official video to go with the song
In the context of games: There's a lot of space used for high resolution textures which users normally never see... but they can see if they zoom in, put their nose up to a wall, etc.
If it’s that cheap, why did you need to upheave your life to achieve it? Would love to see a cost breakdown of homeschooling.
Nuclear power has the lowest net carbon emissions of any electricity source besides hydroelectricity [1]. And no, most don't contain many components from China (besides the nuclear plants actually built in China). Most nuclear plants in the west were built during the 1960s through the 1980s before China became the manufacturing powerhouse it is today. The main components of nuclear plants are concrete containment structures, pressure vessels, heat exchanges, and turbines. These are too large to ship long distances. Good luck shipping one of these [2] across the Pacific!

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life-cycle_greenhouse_gas_emis...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PCPOST_BabcockWilcox_Trai...
If embedding C functions into my database is the ‘right way’, well I’ll stick to the ‘wrong way’.
Not to mention, Even if they fork, the value of the token depends on what the community believes it to be. Even if the majority of miners are in support of a hardfork, it's the majority of population who decides which chain has what worth (by simple supply/demand).

It will be another Ethereum Classic.
The Bittersweet Story of the Real-Life Peaceful Bull Who Inspired Ferdinand
In Germany, the total taxes on 100K is 34%. The marginal rate is 44%. That's before deductions, which in Germany will be plentiful.

At that level you will pay 800€ per month for public health insurance (it's a percentage up to about 65K income, then capped). Public health insurance allows you to cover children and non-working spouses for free.

https://www.bmf-steuerrechner.de/ekst/eingabeformekst.xhtml
Article by the same author back in 1993, "The Death of Proof"

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-death-of-proo...

Some key quotes for the tldr crowd:

> Anthony Bordg, a mathematician at the University of Cambridge, worries that his field could face a “replication crisis” like that plaguing scientific research.

> Researchers at Microsoft have already invented an interactive theorem prover (https://leanprover.github.io/) called Lean that can check proofs and even propose improvements—much as word-processing programs check our prose for errors and finish sentences for us.

> Advances in computer-aided mathematics ... raise a profound question: what is the purpose of mathematics? ... worries that tools such as Lean will encourage a “stunted vision” of mathematics as an economic commodity or product rather than “a way of being human.”
Oh sweet. Looks like quantum PoS is just .5 + .5i months out
I freelanced for 20 years. I had one iron rule - no jerks for customers. If someone seemed like a pain to work with, I wouldn't start working with them. If a customer turned out to be a jerk, I would "fire" them after the project finished. (I think I only had to fire three in 20 years.) Over the years, this worked out GREAT!

One truth is that customers tend to refer customers like them. Easy to work with customers, that pay on time, tend to refer others that do the same.

I spent almost all of my years working with wonderful people.
Gravitational. Pull. Of. Pepsi.
Why do people post paywalled articles? Seriously I’m not subscribing to some bullshit newspaper out of Houston. If they don’t want to let me read it I don’t want to read it. Just. Ignore. Paywalls. We have plenty of open information. Let the closed stuff stagnate and die.
Something tells me the HN crowd wouldn't be looking to invest in whether the "Pepsi Energy Fields" are "symmetrical" and "in balance."

I agree though that the HN crowd as a CEO would want lots of effort to study how to make the most recognizable and liked brand.
I’m glad that I’m not the only one who shares the distinct memory of helping my dad pack up piles of Costco joint support vitamins and chocolate for when he went back to China. This article really hit me with nostalgia.

I also remember hearing stories about the first opening of a Costco in Shanghai. Given the rest of the comments here about initial openings in new countries, it’s funny to see how much of a cultural impact the brand has.
> Isn't allowed by whom exactly?

To be clear, as suggested by the rest of your comment, it is currently not allowed due to various political reasons. Nobody is arguing ideal situations, only reality.
I Am Bored
Ctrl+f for "Goodhar" right away to see who called it first +1
Search for SRTM DEM for global elevation data, and Microsoft building footprints for buildings. That will get you pretty close