skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for the insightful comment. I work with Elixir/Phoenix on a few of our projects, and while I do love both, all of these points ring true.

Only thing I don't agree with is Ecto. I have found it more straightforward to work it and reason about, much because of the functional syntax of Elixir.

But yes, I do hate generators. Adding auth to an existing project was a bad experience, since you need to do a diff to understand changes being added. Not only that, wanting to keep the code clean, removing redundant or completely unnecessary features requires you to understand how the whole thing works.
On one hand, great, it's never a bad thing to know every single detail about your authentication. On the other, it's time-consuming, and maybe I would prefer the separate "blackbox" that I can opt-into with clear API which I can always dive into that doesn't mess directly with dev-written code.
> Binfmt_misc support for Linux users

You love to see it.
Modi was running the state government in Gujarat when his government fanned religious hatred leading to one of the worst riots in the state's history. One of the prominent victim of this hate and violence was Bilkis:

(TRIGGER WARNING - rape and death)

> Bilkis Bano was in a group of 17 people that included her three-year-old daughter, her mother, a pregnant cousin, her younger siblings, nieces and nephews, and two adult men ... On the morning of 3 March, as they set out to go to a nearby village where they believed they would be safer, a group of men travelling in two jeeps stopped them. "They attacked us with swords and sticks. One of them snatched my daughter from my lap and threw her on the ground, bashing her head into a rock."

> Bilkis Bano had cuts on her hands and legs. Her attackers were her neighbours in the village, 12 men she had seen almost daily while growing up. They tore off her clothes and several of them raped her. She begged them for mercy and told them she was five months' pregnant, but her pleas fell on deaf ears. Her cousin, who had delivered a baby girl two days earlier while they were on the run, was raped and murdered. Her newborn was killed too. Bilkis Bano survived because she lost consciousness and her attackers left, believing she was dead. Two boys - seven and four - were the only other survivors of the massacre.

Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-39843555

For 15 years Bilkis braved death threats and government intimidation through the police to fight for justice. And eleven people were finally convicted for this rape and massacre and sentenced to life imprisonment. On this year's independence day Modi's party, BJP, in power in Gujarat used their power to curtail the sentences of these convicts and free them.

The released convicts were treated like heroes. The BJP / RSS in power right now in India are right-wing religious fundamentalists who want to convert India into a fascist theocracy, where anyone who isn't a Hindu and doesn't believe in their twisted ideology is to be treated as a third-class citizen with limited or no rights (like the "untouchables" as per the regressive caste theory of Hinduism). Indeed, one of the reasons given for releasing these convicts, by a BJP politicians who was on the panel who granted them their freedom was, “They are Brahmins, and as it is Brahmins have good values”. (https://thewire.in/rights/bilkis-rapists-are-brahmins-have-g...) ... Brahmins are one of the communities at the top of the rigid caste hierarchy. And apparently for these religious fundamentalist, even a rapist Brahmin is still a good Brahmin .... this is just one of the example of the sorry state India is in today, under our dear, glorious leader Narendra Modi.
One could optimistically assume noone wants to crap in the streets and provide public toilets. Individual doors on them if assaults within the building are a hazard.
Sure, but now you've added an extra layer of indirection which can have a significant impact on performance
>A good example that’s a little closer to home and easier to experience for many is DIA Beacon outside of NYC.

Just want to add, if you're heading to DIA Beacon and the weather is nice, don't miss Storm King on the other side of the river.
Why can't Safari just use Blink? What's the value of having more than one engine?
I call the phenomenon you describe "aaaaaaahht." It's all about status posturing and has nothing to do with the art or enjoyment of it.

Fine wine is just booze for rich people.
> So can viruses, including ones that can "intelligently" modify themselves to avoid detection, and yet this isn't a major problem. How is this any different?

I now regret spending half an hour writing a response to your earlier comment.

You can't tell why a mass deployment of motivated autonomous "NSO-9000s" might be more dangerous than a virus that just changes its signature to fool a executable scanner? I don't believe you.

If you honestly believe that an "intelligent" (as adaptive as a slime mold) virus is basically as dangerous as a maliciously deployed AGI then there is literally nothing an AGI could do that would make you consider safety is important during the endeavor of building one.
Like many decisions in life, it may just depend on the spirit with which a plan is carried out. If it's intended to help the homeless, even a bad plan will likely do good. If it's only intended to get the dirty people out of my eyesight, then it will probably do harm. How do we know the spirit with which a state-level plan will be carried out? Not sure. The plan will not dictate how they would be treated on a personal level once on this fantasy isle.

My experience with the homeless has instilled that it can be very difficult to help them in a way that I would consider helping. I always accuse my wife of believing that each homeless person is just one protein bar away from becoming a contributing member of society. But if I convince you that many homeless people have a best case scenario of net negative to society, what do you propose then? Probably just help them as much as we can? I think there are probably best paths, but no total wins.

This is all based on my experience volunteering at homeless shelters (in SF) and trying to interact with the homeless near me (now in NC). 100% anecdotal. But now I'm just another member of society shrugging at the homeless. I suspect most of us here are. Lots of strong opinions, but not much action. I'm guilty of that too now.
This seems to be a pitch for GM crops and Nuclear.

They've mixed in evolution, climate change (which Reason themselves admit lying about for political goals), and the Big Bang to make it feel like "rational people should agree with this" but then note that the headline doesn't actually apply as strongly to those.
This is such a neat idea! I’ve been doing this manually for years… I’m surprised Bandcamp hasn’t done something like this on its own. The Bandcamp weekly show is cool, and I appreciate curation, but a simple random walk through the best sellers as “radio” is what I’ve always wanted.

Thanks!
It seems so fake... Apple adds "privacy" by crippling their competitors, then turns around and adds a bunch of their own intrusive advertising. They don't care about you, they just want to be the next Google
It's not just fire trucks, but also vehicles for garbage collection, delivery, ... . I'm from Europe, and American-style vehicles feel to me oversized and and too heavy for the purpose, while the equivalent vehicles in Asian cities often feel undersized.

It's interesting, I think. I think it's a combination of different requirements and different cultural outlook on things.
Where did you get that from the article?

It's not saying "women are different than men", it's saying "journalists treat female managers less professionally than male ones".
San Marino is "near" to Venice in the sense that Baltimore is "near" to New York. It's a fun place to visit, and its towers are striking, but I'd hardly call it the most beautiful place in the world: it is largely a kitchy land of tourist traps, factory outlets, and the "Museum of Torture".
The stats seem substantially better for Canadian cities vs. major US cities [0].

Not that I'm suggesting Canada is some kind of model implementation for how to utilize social healthcare in assisting homeless citizens addicted to drugs.

My main point is before you have resources to even get to fail to use successfully in treating what is a social health problem, we need a damn socialized healthcare budget to even try make mistakes with.

The US can't even manage to treat healthcare as something every citizen needs let alone start caring about the citizen addicts in the streets as sick people in need of medical help.

[0] https://media.blogto.com/uploads/2021/10/19/1634663178-chart...
Less technical, but I love the paint jobs / exterior design on many US fire trucks. I guess they're a byproduct of US fire departments using more custom-made gear, which I just learnt about.
Comedian is designed to be a joke though, it's literally poking fun at the stupidity of modern art and all the gatekeeping in the art world. More than that, it's a true meme: it's an idea more than it is an artwork. How many other artworks are memes?
Checking out raindrop.io now, thank you.
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It's a semi-regular question https://hn.algolia.com/?q=ask+bookmarks E.g. "Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22105561 with 250 comments
New research from Northwestern University, claims to have destroyed PFAS
Not sure why this is getting downvoted - it’s ABSOLUTELY true. And if you think it isn’t, ask yourself, would you rather see a female counselor or a male one? I personally prefer to talk about personal topics with women. I don’t feel as comfortable opening up on that stuff around men - even though I am one.
Putting aside opinions on the current situation, appears possible that the US Constitution allows for some to be elected even if currently in prison; unlikely, but would be very strange if it happened.
> Yeah I realized that, but still it feels sloppy or disingenuous when you consider the extent of the subject matter.

> It's supposed to be an article about Freedom, Privacy and financial communication, not specifically about Bitcoin (or is it?).

Dergigi is a Bitcoin maximalist

Here's their book: 21 Lessons: What I've Learned from Falling Down the Bitcoin Rabbit Hole https://www.amazon.com/dp/B083L93MJ7/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_ZN4ZBQ...
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This article is exactly what a skeptic suspects: Amazon had a vision, rushed to roll it out quickly, and didn't care about its many shortcomings falling short of the law, best practice, or its own stated goal of quality health care. Some gems included: forcing patients to hang up and dial other numbers; asking nurses to store blood samples in their own cars; not collecting emergency contact information by default, settling for subpar medical software; and ignoring nurse safety concerns on house visits. There was also a remark that suggested Amazon would really like to take a "yeah, no" approach to HIPAA - gotta get that sweet sweet lucrative medical data, after all.

>The former telehealth nurse remembered an Amazon staffer telling her, “You know, a lot of people here consider you the warehouse workers of Amazon Care.”

I don't really want the person treating me to have a warehouse worker's skill set, and be evaluated on a warehouse worker's criteria.
Biology is biased. Basic stuff, pregnancy and lactation. Then there are emotional issues, the special bond between the mother and her infants, which can lead to life-long emotional disability issues, if not handled properly.

See e.g. https://positivepsychology.com/attachment-theory "This provided a clear indication that emotional attachment in infancy, gained through cuddling, affected the monkey’s later responses to stress and emotion regulation (Herman, 2012)."

Sadly, we run our society by Powerpoint, obsessively focusing on a handful of poorly measured metrics. We have trained entire generations to reflexively point out any differences in those metrics as "bias", with a very negative connotation. Edit: Consider using a less charged word, e.g. "difference".

It is only human to give women space to be women.
> Phoenix has no django admin. nuff said.

Just curious, did you try Torch or Kaffy?

https://github.com/mojotech/torch
https://github.com/aesmail/kaffy

For the ORM and auto-generated DB migrations, I actually prefer the Phoenix way. Ecto makes it much harder to trigger N+1 queries than the Django ORM, and in practice I find the explicit migrations make people actually think about what they're doing and what to index, so the schema is cleaner. But I could see why someone would prefer the Django way, and I'd be curious to see the same kind of system in Elixir.
looks like a movie set, wonder if itll be used that way in the coming years
That one is especially funny because (like a lot of stuff) the practical sprawled out into the weird and pretentious.

Hand makes heat, so heat close to liquid will change the temperature a tiny bit, maybe. You can hold it accordingly, but also, probably doesn't matter if you're drinking relatively quickly.
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Original HTTP (now called 0.9) did not have headers in the request. HTTP 1.0 added headers, including the "Content-Type" header (reused from the MIME e-mail standard), specifying the type of the data being transferred. Before that, all data was indeed implied to be HTML and nothing else.
I love Storm King! If you do during the week, you might be one of the only people there. It feels like you’re exploring a desolate alien planet.
> “There were people with many different racial backgrounds, religious backgrounds, all present … in Western Europe,” Grollemond pointed out. But in the centuries since, a narrow, whitewashed vision of the past has frequently been perpetuated in popular fiction and fantasy versions of the Middle Ages.

This is a lie. This is an absolute lie. It is simply not true. There were no “different racial and religious backgrounds”. For medieval Western Europe, it was europeans ( for the americans, read white ) of different ethnicities, entirely catholic. There no other “races” and certainly no other religions.

“But but the jews” - No. A few of them were occasionally tolerated in the middle ages, for short periods of time before being expelled. Again, I am talking about the medieval period and western europe. Renaissance and after, as well as eastern europe are somewhat different but for medieval western europe, there most certainly were not different races and different religions.
Well, I’ll put it this way. I doubt you can tell the difference between the Downtown East Vancouver and the Tenderloin in SF.

I think the point is, you can lead a horse to water, but you cant make them drink. If people don’t want to stop using drugs, then they won’t.

Free healthcare, free counseling, free clean drugs and a generous social safety is clearly not going to solve this problem.
The pain points that you brought up (forms and live component exchange) are real and they are definitely in our radar.

For example, the new function components are meant to reduce the reliance on LiveComponent and ease the learning curve. We don’t have an answer for complex forms yet.

I truly think the programming model is solid and is the next step in building server driven interactive and real time applications. But we will definitely stumble here and there as we iron out the finer details. :) thanks for the feedback!
Climate change makes the days shorter [video]
I don't know of any major markets that don't have '3 choices/person'. Rural areas are kinda left out, but with increasing consts of fibre, I doubt that will change soon.

& competitors already get subsidized; tax write-offs.
I wish Safari developers would spend their valuable time on fixing the horror Safari is. It's literally the new Internet Explorer. If you work on building web apps with complex interactions, animations, etc, you get to hate Safari with all your heart in a very short amount of time.

There are things they've done that are amazing, and which I respect (like JavaScriptCore), but overall Safari is the worst popular browser. I don't get how people can stand it, but again I don't get how people can stand iOS either.
When I went I didn’t wait hours just to see the Mona Lisa. I waited hours to get into the Louvre to see everything. Mona Lisa wasn’t hard to see.
There’s a reason a wine glass has a stem, after all.

But more seriously, the main reason people don’t hold a glass by the stem is because they are used to receiving too heavy a pour, and it becomes unstable to hold by the stem.
I tried to put the length of the video (5'37") and the name of the YouTube channel (SciShow) in the title but it got removed and left only "[video]". I wonder why.
> His article mostly says what you just said... He didn't elaborate a lot on PoW, but he didn't say anything wildly offcourse.

He said that Bitcoin is centralized because there may be 51% of miners controlled by one entity. However that has been proven to be false (see The Blocksize War). Bitcoin is controlled by the nodes, not by who has the most mining power
> The Centre Pompidou is just down the road and it's full of way more interesting stuff!

So much this. Don't go to Paris without visiting the Pompidou. Allocate a day because it's huge. But it's also uncrowded so you can wander peacefully and get up close to some amazing art.
Glad I'm not the only one. I'm 90 minutes in and finding some of Lex's questions really bad. Especially "What is the best programming language?", but I'm also astonished that Lex doesn't seem to know what an x86 is, hasn't really heard of Pascal, and was incredulous that anyone could write a game in assembly language (but as Carmack points out, everyone in the 80s was writing games in assembly, BASIC just wasn't fast enough).

Maybe Lex was trying to dumb things down for a non-technical (or younger?) viewer, but it doesn't come across that way and just interrupts Carmack's flow. Carmack is excellent though.
> NoMachine is a very good remote desktop software

Glad someone mentioned it. I wondered if NX was still a thing...

fast

secure (over ssh)

NoMachine blows past RDP every day of the week and twice on Sundays.
Not _exactly_ what you're asking for, because certainly you're looking for a write-up/blog, however, if you haven't peeked at ape.S you absolutely must:

https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/master/ape/ape.S

It is very commented, in a good way.
> fails to acknowledge the fact that PoS is just putting the Eth supply in the hands of the rich

https://mobile.twitter.com/ercwl/status/1555719147941683200
How many effective altruist billionaires five years from now?
Long-term, same boat.

Short-term, when it's just a few islands here and there literally losing ground, I don't anticipate a lot of urgency over saving Homeless People Island.

I anticipate that if this plan goes through, and if the island is threatened by sea rise before Miami, there will be incidents. The people living on the island will obviously want to leave a disappearing island, but there'd be no place for them on the mainland, and confrontations result.
But why tax everyone to subsidise the trains for the ones that use them? Even more so for tourists that barely pay taxes here and would have paid the full price anyway.

With the normal ticket prices people pay for that they use, which sounds more fair to me.
Also most wine (at least in homes, bars, and casual parties) is served far too cold today anyway.
Indeed! Try this:

# git clone https://github.com/cosmopolitan
# make -j8 o//third_party/python/python.com
wget https://justine.lol/ftrace/python.com
mkdir .python
printf 'print("hello world")\n' >.python/hello.py
printf -- '-m\nhello\n' >.args
zip -r python.com .python .args
chmod +x ./python.com
./python.com

This is a great way for white-labeling the APE Python interpreter as your own program. You just put your source code inside the executable using the zip command. Then you add a .args file that specifies the default argv[] array if the user didn't specify any arguments.
No because the issue is the same as stated above. I have seen numerous conservative statements on HN and most progressive ideas I've seen stated are rather conservative in themselves.

Perhaps it depends on perspective, therefore we can't use such analogies at all
then all it takes one bug in code written by outsourced, tired devs and suddenly you cant control your arm or your bowels. that would be fun, shifting blame
This is basically correct, the theory of distributions can be presented in terms of linear functionals. A functional is a map that takes a function and returns a scalar. I'm not sure how to encode linearity in your type system though...
Those are absolute overpriced crap. We scrape about 2T a month using mobile proxies, and testing those put us a in month-long nightmare of crashing, errors, connection drops, etc.

There are much better solutions out there.
The amount of hours wasted by this Qt bug is immeasurable. I'm one of the commenters on the issue 5 years ago and still people are being plagued by it.

Qt should've posted a public advisory announcement when this was discovered. Instead it has plagued users for nearly a decade now because very few Qt developers even know that their Qt5 apps are ruining the WiFi connections of their users.
Please read comments before responding
"Proof-of-work mining is a crime against humanity". Really? If proof-of-work is an issue because of how we consume energy, surely the problem goes beyond crypto. Meanwhile, I really hope countries print bills in an ethical manner.
So Marx "Das Kapital" hasn't taught you about Marxism because it's not "real"?

Indeed "The Dispossessed" has taught me more about syndicalism in reality than reading syndicalists in my philosophy studies at university.

I've tried to found a cooperative twice with some friends, but should not have bothered, should just have taken "The Dispossessed" more seriously.
I use the SingleFile extension, which downloads the website with the CSS, images, etc. That way if the page ever disappears, I still have a local copy. It also makes it very easy to search things.
The Future of Software Depends on Synthetic Mathematics
> If you can rely on the name of the protocol as an accurate description, then LDAP would actually be "lightweight", UDP packets would be assembled by users, and SSL would be secure.

Also SOAP would be simple: http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/xml/soap/simple
Good article on zstd: https://gregoryszorc.com/blog/2017/03/07/better-compression-...
Phoenix (and similar projects, but this is the best I tried), are what things are supposed to be like. React etc are depressingly overly complex for the programmer imho. I mean I made very large (because it's more popular so more people want it) react/react native applications and I made large-ish phoenix & laravel livewire applications. There is simply no comparison in the experience as far as i'm concerned. Sure there are negatives to the Phoenix approach, but nothing can make up for the productivity you gain.
When you buy a new tube of toothpaste, one is generally liberal with the application of it. Big, fat generous gloops of minty freshness are applied to the brush, representing an obese caterpillar dressed in lycra. WTF?
People are getting hung up on their own issues around mortality, death, and autonomy around euthanasia and projecting onto others.

Safeguards are mandatory but so is free will.
Maybe it looks weird now because libraries were collections of subroutines, then have evolved as sub-programs (some spawn their own threads to do their job), and then eventually got so big that they became the main program in which you plug your own moving parts: frameworks.

Moreover, it is interesting to note that in the same time, the opposite trend exists: some libraries used to be the "meat" of a program, but as connecting two programs in flexible ways is not always easy, that core was extracted and made available directly to other programs. Well-known examples are libCurl and zlib.