skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Should they have exploded? I was under the impression that to actually get the powerful chain reaction you have to spend a lot of energy bringing pieces of fuel together (to the point that explosives are used for that) otherwise they'd just melt and not explode.

Can anyone more knowledgeable chime in here?
Honestly it's mostly just lack of familiarity, which is getting better every day.
For amusement, try this web query: "sunspots and climate"
> Rainwater almost everywhere on Earth has unsafe levels of ‘forever chemicals’, according to new research.

And yet the title of the research paper, the journal in which it was published, or even the vaguest description of the experiment that was performed are not mentioned. I've given up ever getting a direct link to a paper, but this takes laziness and cynicism to new extremes.

Abysmal science reporting.
They'll know nothing about the mildew-stinking catacombs I used to explore. Never know the feeling of finding a bargain, or a book that you couldn't find any information about. Everything is coffee-comfortable, tastefully decorated, and overpriced. Every indie bookstore a chain-in-waiting.
I’m not sure how the court case will turn out, but if Disney/Netflix lose, they’ll just charge residents of Texas more money to cover the fees.
If you end up in Manhattan: Mercer Street Books, Alabaster Bookshop, and Joanne Hendricks Cookbooks are some of my favorites. The latter two aren’t necessarily cheap but have some really cool stuff.
The amount of work put into this from single person seems astonishing. Per a forum post the author doesn't even care about the donation page working.
I wonder how people get to this point in their life that they can spend all days just coding their oss projects for fun. It seems so out of reach for me.
Yes, but those sweet phone numbers are a valuable targeting product.
I don't know what other manufacturers are focusing on, but it sure looks unimpressive. I just received my shiny new macbook pro 14 inch. I spent the last few months using a Linux laptop. Overall a good experience and it works. But I'm glad to be back on a mac.

Quality and performance are where Apple just shines. Most PC manufacturer's seem to mainly compete on how bad of a screen & touchpad combination they can find. There are some truly awful things on the market of manufacturers that just stopped even trying a long time ago. Touchpads are universally awful in the laptop market, with the exception of Apple. I found this out by connecting my magic touchpad 2 to my Linux laptop. Works great! As good as with a mac. The software support in Linux is fine. Precise, responsive, smooth, just like it should be. It's the hardware that is the problem. Even brands that are supposedly premium keep opting for these cheep plastic touchpads with poor sensitivity, awkward button mechanics, etc. Apple nailed this decades ago. On this front they have no competition.

That, the screen, and the stellar performance of the M1 is making the difference right now. I connected an external drive with x-plane on it a few days ago to see how far I could push it. Turns out, I can max out all the sliders and it runs at about 30-40fps at the normal screen resolution. That's with lots of add ons, some of which are really demanding and using the rosetta emulator. Very impressive. For work, this thing runs circles around my Linux laptop. Build speeds are about 2-3x.
These seem like pretty reasonable ways for them to be lost. Though the headline suggestion did give me a scary thought: if we do end up on a trajectory of social collapse, most likely caused by ecosystem breakdown, then the resulting failed states could make it very easy for weapons such as these to get "lost".
Steve Jobs negotiates Apple's deal with Microsoft (1997)
This is great communication advice. Your original state sounds a lot like the "asker" vs. "guesser" cultural problem [1]. I've found putting a label on those two outlooks to be very helpful.

1: https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/05/askers-...
A Trucking Fleet of One – 80K Pounds of Dangerous Goods
With even lower dose, no effect was present. See my response to one of the other replies.
It's pretty easy to design a nuclear bomb to tolerate a plane crash / accidental drop without detonating.

Perhaps more amazingly, both bombs' failsafes failed.

One acted like it was armed when it wasn't. The other's fail safe switch flipped to the arm position, but didn't actually arm the bomb.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/nuclear-bombs-dropped-...
I hate that so very much. There's no problem starting with a salutation, but just hit alt-enter or else I have to wait 5 minutes for you to finish typing out the entirety of "Moby Dick" in chat.
Guessing no I, L, or O to avoid confusion with numbers.
There is a strong possibility that even fusion reactors will use turbines. They are a very efficient way of converting heat into electricity.
Start with "Safer C" by Les Hatton. It is getting on a bit now but still a worthwhile read.
I actually find this refreshing, and a reminder of the types of arguments that gave the internet it's original charm.
Like a catalog is a bookstore.
In any fast paced business, APIs constantly change. Versioning is not straightforward. Often corners are cut, and deadlines have to be met. There just is one version of the API, the one in production!

In my experience the most pain around GraphQL was due to a lack of care/time. Too often schemas are not strictly defined, are too generic (type: any) and fields are not documented. Errors are poorly defined etc. Combine that with untyped code, it's almost the same as sending blobs of arbitrary JSON around. In the short term it works, the feature is live, business is happy. But takes double the effort to untangle the code when you need to change something....

GraphQL also requires effort to make tooling and monitoring work well with it as it deviates from a traditional REST like model.
I think they’re talking about people like John Major or John McCain; people with conservative views but at least a patina of decency, restraint, and respect for the rule of law. If Boris Johnson and his coterie can express their opinions publicly, Major types certainly can.

It’s just not a winning proposition anymore; there’s not much market for “conservative who is reasonable”.
I am now tempted to spend time creating a deep fake of Larry Ellison singing happy birthday to Curio-chan.

On the other hand, I feel I would be insulting Curio-chan.
Top-rated educational math apps may not be best for children's learning
Surprisingly recent example that is really borderline[1], but they are indeed exceedingly rare (however I do count corporate/private RnD as being staffed by people coming from academia here).

1: https://www.quantamagazine.org/statistician-proves-gaussian-...
Comparing GQL to REST is like comparing a framework to a protocol. Of course it's easier to build up from REST, but if you're lucky enough that your project survives it won't be long before you're reimplementing the same GQL features you rubbished in a half-arsed way.

In an ideal world, we can grow into the tech pulling in features as needed, but REST (in its modern form) is all about day 1 productivity, not day 100.
Ask HN: Website listin all genres/styles of art?
Is there an exhaustive list of genres and style of art ever made, including artists too.

ie. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_art_movements
You're probably right about my original comment, and I apologize. These threads are full of very impassioned, very poorly-informed comments --- I'm not saying I'm well-informed about NIST PQC, because I'm not, but, I mean, just, wow --- and in circumstances like that I tend to play my cards very close to my chest; it's just a deeply ingrained message board habit of mine. I can see how it'd be annoying.

I spent almost 2 decades as a Daniel Bernstein ultra-fan --- he's a hometown hero, and also someone whose work was extremely important to me professionally in the 1990s, and, to me at least, he has always been kind and cheerful; he even tried to give us some ideas for ECC challenges for Cryptopals. I know what it's like to be in the situation of (a) deeply admiring Bernstein and (b) only really paying attention to one cryptographer in the world (Bernstein).

But talk to a bunch of other cryptographers --- and, also, learn about the work a lot of other cryptographers are doing --- and you're going to hear stories. I'm not going to say Bernstein has a bad reputation; for one thing, I'm not qualified to say that, and for another I don't think "bad" is the right word. So I'll put it this way: Bernstein has a fucked up reputation in his field. I am not at all happy to say that, but it's true.
it seems weird that you would talk about supposed shortfalls of plant nutrition and then in the next sentence talk about cheeseburgers (who considers these healthy?) and multivitamins (which are not considered a substitute for proper nutrition[1][2])

1. https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-preventi...

2. https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/do-multivitamins-work
I was homeschooled too, but touch-typing was part of the curriculum. The process didn't come naturally; I used a training app. It had a series of drills you'd run through which built up the skills gradually.
The thing that got me into computing was watching an engine simulation my dad, a mechanical engineer, wrote in BASIC. He wanted to get some numbers on the mechanical advantages of various crank designs, so he only simulated the piston, crank, and crankshaft. And it chugged at about 1 fps on a TRS-80 Model II. But still, seeing that piston and crank arm move made me realize computers are capable of truly wondrous things.

And if that was the Lv 1, this is the Lv 99.
Thanks for explaining! Yep, that's what we mean. We use serverless services like S3, Lambda, Athena, MSK Serverless, Firehose so you don't have to maintain any servers.
In my teens I nearly wore out my local library’s copy of the Terminator 2 Illustrated Screenplay. In the late 90s, on a whim, I went into a B&N that had just been added to the mall where I worked and placed an order, even though I knew it had been long out of print and the likelihood of it ever showing up was near zero.

Around a year later I got a call that my book was in and I could go pick it up. When I arrived, a pristine, new, old-stock copy was waiting for me as if it were still 1991. I still have that book proudly displayed - both the joy of its contents and its discovery will accompany it for the rest of my life.

eBay, Amazon, Shop Goodwill have made this process immensely easier, but I still find joy and thrill in the random second hand store finds.
Multiplexed RT-qPCR using plasmonic nanoparticles for POC Covid-19 diagnosis
Addressed in the article - the church’s opposition to bathing came much later than the medieval period according to the author.
I always assume I am buying single-player features. Who would want to commit to maintaining multiplayer for an ancient game?
The one true bookstore in nyc is Book Thug Nation in Williamsburg. The best curated selection of used literature I’ve ever come across and a smattering of other stuff too.
Excel is also super dangerous. All numbers are stored as double, which means that if you open a csv file that contains large int64 ids, they will likely be rounded. And then there are dates, and people who still think it is a good idea to store dates in a US or European format in a csv file rather than something unambiguous and universal (yyyy-mm-dd).
The analogy seems to fit goats a little better anyway. And we'd all like to be goats, right? Nobody wants to be a cow. I wonder if the specification of the ruminant was an addition by author of the article, and not really what was originally intended.

> “Books, like the leaves and shrubs known as the browsage, provide ruminant-readers with their nutrients,” Deutsch opines, at his purplest. “What an unparalleled activity it is to browse a bookstore in a state of curiosity and receptivity, chewing one’s intellectual cud!”
You get that the most important "peer review" in the PQC contest took the form of published academic research, right? NIST doesn't even have the technical capability to do the work we're talking about. My understanding is that they refereed; they weren't the peer reviewers.

Replying to your edit I've been an academic peer reviewer too. For all of its weaknesses, that kind of peer review is the premise of the PQC contest --- indeed, it's the premise of pretty much all of modern cryptography.
And now, the second author of the selfish mining paper joins in:
https://twitter.com/el33th4xor/status/1555926860067921920
Haskell (at least as implemented in GHC) has TemplateHaskell, which is somewhat of an inbetween: at a distance it kinda resembles lisp macros if you squint a bit (it's of the "eval and quote" kind, so to say) but it's exclusively compile time. It's also quite unwieldy, and most of the time it ends up being unnecessary because Haskell can do things through other means. Laziness for control structures, Typeclasses with all the extensions for code generation... nowadays I only really see Template haskell used for two things: generating top level bindings that don't really belong in a type class (e.g.: singletons, lens, polysemy) or embedding of another language (yesod's hamlet, or some sql libraries). Haskell is not really built to support macros from the start, they're seen as more of a necessary evil, IMO. If you've used rust before, it's kinda like rust macros except worse :)
> And yes, I've tried it. It made me high, but generally I was far less productive than I would be taking stimulants for my ADHD instead.

I had some coworkers try microdosing several years ago.

They were convinced that they were smarter and more productive on those days. Meanwhile, the rest of us could clearly see that they were just operating slower than normal and had a weirdly positive response to even slight achievements. Eventually the illusion was shattered when the rest of us would casually guess when they were microdosing and call them out because they were making obvious mistakes, missing things, or being amazed at benign realizations.

And before anyone asks: Yes, they tried many different doses down to minuscule amounts.

In retrospect, this is actually the least surprising result: That taking a micro-dose of a psychedelic produces a micro-trip.
> And just about everyone thinks they're the oppressed ones

An important point. True oppressors tend to view a move toward equality as oppression of themselves and they fight it hard for that reason.
Having worked in big tech and small startups, I think GraphQL is a brilliant way to solve an organizational problem that massive tech companies have.

It's that the team maintaining the API is different from the team that needs changes to the API. Due to the scale of the organization the latter doesn't have the access or know-how to easily add fields to that API themselves, so they have to wait for the maintainers to add the work to their roadmap and get back to it in a few quarters. Relevant Krazam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ

At a small start-up, if the GET /foo/:fooId/bar/ endpoint is missing a field baz you need, you can usually just add it yourself and move on.
i find the notion of ego-death to often be quite misdirective.

folks are getting taught that the source of their problems is their “ego”, ignoring that we need a functioning ego to survive. it’s not something to be demonized or eliminated. rather, an opportunity to integrate that part of ourselves and our relationship to it, including any stories that we may be telling ourselves about the inherent pathology of ego.

please note i am using the term “ego” in a psychoanalytic sense, not in the pop-connotative sense of displays of narcissistic arrogance.
I took inspiration from that repository too! :)
Code on a few side hustles. Affiliate marketing on authority blogs that are subsidized by my 9-5. I own several high traffic blogs which are sprinkled with affiliate links. All on reputable shared hosting providers, with a CDN that I pay for, alongside the domains which I keep renewed to a max of 10 years (ICANN's arbitrary limit).
At cost of reducing cache ability though no?

It is cheaper for me to put my react app in front of a cdn, split out my app into an api and front end than for me to have my site be entirely uncacheable.

I can also cache certain endpoints behind the cdn that are mostly invariant for users.
And, the network egress of json is much lesser than the egress of markup.
Well put. Problem is we can get emotionally invested and tie our identities to these systems in a way that we couldn't if we were comparing the trade-offs between 18/10 and 18/12 inox steel.
Try before you buy is not quite the same as buy a spread in order to pick one.
Jacques Pépin, in Search of Lost (French) Cars and Cuisine
e.g. postgraphile
https://archive.ph/Bjbmo
What is convenient behavior for Excel in one domain can cause errors in another. Scientists should not use it for what is not meant for, and they should learn R or Python etc. when those tools are more suitable.
Excellent advice. This is like the golden rule of dealing with people. Well, the other golden rule. The professional one, I guess you could call it. Be explicit, polite but firm.

It works well for both managing people or doing customer support. It doesn't work for everyone. But as you note, it works in the vast majority of cases.

If you've read the Ask a Manager column, you'll recognize it as a core principle there. And if you've ever watched The Dog Whisperer, you quickly discover it works for dogs, too. (You just have to learn a few tricks for communicating with them.)
> There just is one version of the API, the one in production!

Unless there are multiple in production, i.e /v1/api, /v2/api, etc
Sometimes projects "go" earlier precisely because they keep adding shit. Others are eternal because they keep a very narrow scope with high quality.
I don't put on sunscreen unless I know I will be outside unexposed for over an hour while the UV index is 5+. If I can wear a hat and long sleeves or know there will be shady spots, I still avoid sunscreen. I rarely get anything close to a burn and I believe this is probably healthier than the religious screen use that everyone seems to recommend.
What's the prank? That article just says gog.com went offline.
Typescript is the way.
The Sid Collection
edit primates should be primitives. that's what i get for trying swiping on my phone and not triple checking. ;)
Though my TI-89 pocket calculator could do that in the 90s
> Why are we repeating these same questions when we already have an answer?

What are the questions? Are renewables the answer?

Only hydro can store energy cheaply. And solar and wind are not available constantly.
You recently started using GH projects for one of our new products, and we actually like it a lot. Although this article feels like a bit more SEO fluff
Thank for the archive!
I agree that it's a quibble with the article, not Deutsch.
There is an add-on for firefox mobile that changes the user agent to chrome when yoh visit a google page.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/google-search...
Can I ask that, if you're going to accuse me of shilling in an HN thread, you at least come up with something that I'm shilling? I don't care what it is; you can say that I'm shilling for Infowars Life ProstaGuard Prostate Health Supplement with Saw Palmetto and Anti-Oxidant, for all I care, just identify something.
Nobody has managed to build even an experimental fusion reactor that produces more power than is necessary to start each reaction cycle... unless you count bombs.

Assuming we did, to get away from mechanical turbines and generators as the heat->motion->electricity step would require a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetohydrodynamic_generator -- which have had more success but still face serious material issues.

As for "why does it take so long?" -- the first of anything takes longer. And the US has terrible problems in building anything new or big.
Weren't they bought for their music streaming service?
That model is possibly better for securing (high value) private systems, but not for social media and non-contracted (public) services like Gmail.

As I've said in other places here, those other sites and public (corporate owned & improperly-regulated) services need to be properly governed and instructed to not store data they don't need at all, like phone numbers, passports, and driver's licenses. There should be harsher penalties imposed on companies for data compromises to discourage unnecessary personal data gathering.
It's really not.

Some groups due to historical or biological reasons require special protection. It is why we protect kids, it is why we protect people with disabilities. But if you take negative liberty to its extreme this special treatment that we offer these groups of people become unwarranted privileges. A world view that is based entirely on negative liberty ends up in a "survival of the strongest" state.

Obviously there is a big discussion on which groups require what sort of positive reinforcement from society to be able to truly enjoy and perform as close to the rest as possible. One simple example is access to buildings for people in wheelchair. When the government requires businesses to put these they're infringing on the businesses liberties to decide how to, well, run their business. But I know very little people who wouldn't agree with this situation.

So, i don't know, I think a purist vision of the state as a non-interfering voice (negative liberty) has for a long while been deemed an inadequate way of structuring society. So I don't think it's a wonderful compliment.
I was psyched to hear about GraphQL, but when I looked at it and found no apparent way to do joins... I wondered what the big deal is.
BYD Seal has a rated range of 435 miles. Battery prices are also cheaper per kilowatt (The Seal is $100k cheaper than the model S). You are misrepresenting the state of play on batteries.

But according to you batteries are getting more expensive, so does that mean hydrogen vehicles are also going to suffer from this price inflation?

Electrolysis requires energy… so you think it’s more sustainable to turn energy into hydrogen then back into energy than instead just store the energy?

The well-to-wheel efficiency of an BEV is double to triple that of hydrogen, and the well in hydrogen = fossil fuel, where as the well of an BEV is renewables.

Betting on BEV is betting on the fact we already have global electricity infrastructure (which is a pretty safe bet, because it exists). And so far hydrogen at scale has involved processing methane… so just make a methane car, and stop pretending you’re being sustainable. Build the hydrogen car once you’ve solved electrolysis at scale. Because before then you’re just making another gas powered car.
> That will help adoption of Lambda. The primary point of serverless (financially-wise) is trading fixed costs for variable costs.

I'm not sure that's the case with AWS Lambda. It's main use is to serve as glue code between AWS services, and for that its free tier is quite roomy. I'm sure vendor lock-in plays a much bigger role than the classical cloud computing selling points.
> strdup(x) is equivalent to malloc(strlen(x))
This exists as third party services. IIRC it’s exactly how bountysource used to work.

I think the model never took off enough to be attractive to github to implement on their end. But yea I think it would be cool and more popular if integrated directly in it.
> if you're lucky enough that your project survives it won't be long before you're reimplementing the same GQL features you rubbished in a half-arsed way.

Unless you don't need those features to begin with? I also think with this mentality you'd end up with a lot of teams saying "lets do GQL in case we need it later" and it ends up being a ton of work for no benefit later.