skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, that’s mildly terrifying.

> The Woodland Trust, which records seasonal changes, has received its earliest ever report of ripe blackberries - from 28 June.

I wonder if we fully understand the knock-on effects of this.

Early berries

-> fewer in winter when they’re one of the few source of food for birds

-> fewer birds

-> more insects

-> worse crop yields?
> The layer that was—and still is—responsible for standardized text transfer on top of TCP/IP: HTTP

Um, wait. HTTP is for transferring documents. There are other text-based protocols that run over TCP, that long pre-date HTTP. And I for one deplore the use of HTTP for everything; I'm afraid the common firewall practice of blocking everything outbound except port 80 is probably largely responsible.
That's a poor example. We have plenty of models that vastly outperform OpenWorm on whatever task you choose. Their failure simply suggests AGI is unlikely to come from direct emulation of existing intelligence.
Yes, that is what cloud computing is all about, with the added benefit making UNIX irrelevant.

Now it is all managed runtimes, on top of type 1 hypervisors, and containers, with browser based shells and IDEs.

Unikernels have won even if it doesn't look like it from the surface.
> I’ve solo foundered nearly 30 companies

How/why did you end up with so many? Over what time span?
Thanks for the reply! i'm afraid this is exactly the inconvenient truth i needed to hear and i'm avoiding the real work by looking at keyboard layouts instead.
The idea with the matrix sounds good, i will try that!
What's the trick?
I used to use FrameMaker over a 28.8kbps modem and, while it wasn't fast, it wasn't impossible to use. Typing latency was reasonable, but setting up the screen was slow. Expectations were also different back then of course. Running Frame on my 486sx-33 on Windows 3.1 with 4mb RAM would have been a bear, too.
That’s why u do these things when parents are out for the weekend.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_de_l%27H%C3%B4pital#...

Though it seems people write it both ways (it is pronounced without the S though)

> In the 17th and 18th centuries, the name was commonly spelled "l'Hospital", and he himself spelled his name that way. However, French spellings have been altered
That Apple’s change is wrong, I mean.
Really, these people are poison to engineering culture, and once that deteriorates, the company soon follows. Look at Palm, HP, Intel, I'm sure there are numerous others.
Without supporting Windows, the whole thing makes little sense.
Wow.

It had been observed and tracked, which seems surprising at first, but of course the Victorians and Edwardians would do that, and I would expect that activity and sharing of information goes back much further. A history would be fascinating.

While it had not been named, by pointing that out the article implies that others were. I wonder what Edwardian conventions for naming icebergs were. Current ones are rather bland:
https://www.antarcticreport.com/articles/the-us-national-ice...
It does seem like things are getting better, but certainly when I was growing up almost any behavior the slightest bit feminine in a male was called out as “gay”. The phrases “act like a man” or “real man” are often not just valorizing masculine traits but admonishing feminine ones. So, I’d say very yes.
I played with Elixir and Phoenix for about two years. I absolutely loved it. To be honest, Elixir wasn't my favorite, but I felt like Phoenix was everything Ruby on Rails ever set out to be.

I did find the documentation a little sparse at times, especially when dealing with heavily nested tables (or even just many_to_many relationships were cumbersome to work with).

Things like Plug, hex, pattern matching and so much more have stuck with me and I still miss them almost daily in my current stack.
Outlayer (different from outlier), like bricklayer
I‘m always speechless when I see something like that. People who are supporting such projects over years or even decades, that don’t really bring some value, but are just beautiful to have around.

It’s probably like being an artist. They don’t create useful things, but they create nice things.
This piece is fantastic and makes me want to learn Rust !
Well I'm not sure about the resolution part. Mine was nothing notable, maybe 1920x1080, but it seemed okay? Maybe there are other problems though.

I'm running an AMD CPU and that worked fine. Perhaps it's the built in GPU that causes a problem? The system I connected to has a standalone GPU.
About half-ish is new track. There was an existing single track owned by the Florida East Coast Railway used by freight trains, and they are adding a second track (double-tracking). But to be fair, they already owned the right of way from when it was previously double-tracked in the 1920's, so adding the second track hasn't been hugely expensive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_East_Coast_Railway
That's not really true. OpenStack never attempted to create generic APIs other implementations could use, it attempted to build an open cloud implementation you could use.

Ultimately I think OpenStack was too complicated, in much the same way that Kubernetes seems to be embracing. That said it is still widely deployed, mostly by telcos, large enterprises, and governments.
Channels are great, LiveView is good, Plugs are elegant, although one thing I don't quite like are Contexts. Actually a lot of its strength come from using Elixir & the Beam.

For everything else I still feel it's inferior to my other framework of choice Symfony (well ok ... maybe not regarding Ecto vs Doctrine, but "transparent" caching would have been nice).
Many commenters praising this here but parent selectors have been in discussion almost since the creation of CSS and the repeated conclusion has always been that they're a performance nightmare by definition.

What's changed in that regard?
I think this looks pretty. Complex One has some Cold War and Hyperion Time Tombs vibe to it, and the whole thing feels like the garden of the drone Hassipura Plyn-Frie in the Hydrogen Sonata.

It generally reminds me of what the Banksian Culture allowed by its post-scarcity: exploration of grand artistic endeavours for no other reason than that's what the artist wanted to create.

I've always had a soft spot for architectural and land art. Though this kind of brutal sterility has its beauty, Arcosanti[1] has a more human appeal.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcosanti
Yes - you can look at the long history of feminine men getting bullied, no matter their age. Or the decision for eyeliner-wearing men to not wear it to work. (My spouse carried a polka-dot bag that I bought for a while: He, a man in his 40's, found that coworkers laughed. For a while afterwards, he carried it out of spite).
The top 100 websites are all big enough to experiment. Only Google cared enough to push for new shiny and fancy standards though.
No, it isn't. Seven upvotes and zero comments don't count as having had attention. Please read the FAQ linked at the bottom.
Bicycle Gear Calculator
>Their favoring Progressive ideas is no more surprising than powerful monarchs favoring the Divine right of kings

This statement is what really makes no sense to me. I don't understand the equivalency
Well, 50 years ago was 1972, and the first skatepark was built in 1965, so it's definitely plausible.
Caltrain electrification project is independent/notdependent on CAHSR and also not dependent on grade separation projects, which seem to be tackled individually/ad-hoc in partnership with the city it's in. Everything I've seen suggests Caltrain will still have at grade crossings for the foreseeable future due to the high cost of grade separations (hundreds of millions each), while overhead electrification is slowly approaching completion including over existing at-grade crossings. Nothing prevents a high speed train from using an at grade crossing, albeit at appropriate speeds.

While it would be nice for CalTrain (and most rail crossings) to be fully grade separated, it's incredibly expensive, doesn't add much value for rail users as the train already has the right of way, and it primarily benefits auto traffic. It only makes sense if road money pays for it, rather than more limited rail money.
Amazon may be big but even then resources are limited. Individual teams owning the roadmap for services are still small. And there are always competing priorities. Do you prioritize these security and availability improvements or do you pickup some operational improvements to make our engineers oncall easier? Oh there is also this long line of customer features you need to deliver. And re:Invent is also approaching.

When you look at it like this, not very surprising that initiatives like cost savings optimizations may take a back seat for periods of time.
I dont know, I see macros and code generators as the one tool to battle boilerplate. Functions often have boilerplate syntax rules. Macros do not :^)
It is up to Pine64 to decide if, and who, they choose to support with cash for OS development. Is what they did a good choice? Probably not. Are they still the only modern hardware vendor that published (almost) all the driver's source code and register level documentation for the MCU. Yes!

If I as an individual want to do something with a modern SBC that packaged in software doesn't do Pine64 is the only choice for hardware. Same in wearable tech space (pine watch). Good luck trying to get register level documentation for some parts of a raspberry pi's, or any other sbc's.

I've spent last few weeks working on pine64's hardware at a very low level (mostly rewriting sony's imx219 sensor driver to fit my needs and trying to squeeze out the latency out of the image processor). Specifically I use Soquartz and Quartz64-A (they're very similar).

I went from knowing nothing of the hw and the tool chain and finding every prebuilt image on the Internet as not booting to being able to rewrite the camera driver and tweak the rkISP drivers, generate my own os images etc in few weeks of spare time. This was possible only thanks to the rockchip documentation, the open source BSP kernel (that runs Linux 4.16) and someone at pine64 forums who published how to setup the tool chain. Without pine64 all I'm interested in would require significant reverse engineering effort. Also the mainline kernel support is progressing too.

Is the documentation really good? No, the English versions, save few crucial docs, are quite bad. The Chinese versions are better, but still they leave a lot of important stuff out. Is pine64 making only good decisions as a business? No way. Is the community vibrant? If you can call 2 guys doing all replying to questions on the forum than maybe.

Still, if we want truly hackable hardware to exist in future we should support their efforts. Let's explain what they do wrong, but let's not turn our backs on them completely.
You’re describing American hegemony like it’s some sort of character flaw or deep-rooted cultural thing rather than a geopolitical reality, and I’m not sure that’s a fair point to make. We’re past peak hegemony anyway, so I guess we’ll find out soon enough.
A concerned citizen files suit in federal court.
It speaks volumes that a shareware copy of a multi decade old game running on a browser entertained me more than all the crap games optimized for engagement that are installed on my ipad.

Now I got the quest for the water supply poisoning but I cant find the entrance. Is that area even available on shareware version?
I'm not a firefighter (nor do I know much about firefighting), but I really enjoy seeing the differences in these sorts of specialised equipment across the world. Even the uniforms are pretty different (which a layperson would probably notice when visiting). The helmets used by North American firefighters are very distinctive, whereas European helmets look more like daft punk or fighter pilots.

I'd love to see this sort of comparison on other jobs you'd think would be the same. I'm also curious what differences there are in other parts of the world like Asia or South America.
AFAIK there was some posts by Jose Valim on twitter about static typing exploration, I think it was spurred on by their work with NX/Numbat (scientific Elixir libs).

Twitter wont let me view more than 3 tweets without making an account so I can't find it...
Which popups are these? The only one I ever received was when I hit the limit on my iCloud account. Certainly not anywhere as bad as all the adverts in teh start menu on my Windows work machine.
Why would anyone use pinkie for modifier keys? Nowadays you can reconfigure positions of CTRL and Meta and Shift to your taste. I happily us Emacs without ever stretching my fingers, because all these keys sit happily under my thumbs (literally).
Using cognitive network models of moral, social beliefs to explain belief change
> Desktop Linux GUI is still painful and really only suitable for those who love to tinker.

KDE is pretty nice.
There's some of these on F-droid.
Linear perspective is an abstraction. It works great for some scenes but once you get outside of its sweet spot it rapidly falls apart.

As an artist, it is very useful to learn so that you get a feeling for how to map the complexities of the 3d world to a 2d plane, and it can be great to lean hard on if you’re doing a lot of work that does fall in that sweet spot, but you’ll need to learn a lot of other kinds of perspective to be able to balance precise rendering, emotional factors, and your deadlines. Curvilinear perspective is generally lacking in digital perspective rulers, though you used to* be able to buy massive sheets of paper pre-ruled with curving construction lines to draw your beautifully warped scene on; atmospheric perspective is one of your main tools for creating a sense of depth when you’re not in the middle of a rigidly gridded-off city.

* maybe you still can, I haven’t really looked at drafting supplies since like nineteen ninety-something
I think this is really cool. I'm tempted to pony up the $150 to go see it, but it'd have to be in winter; I live in Nevada and there's no way in hell that'd be a pleasant experience in summer. Zero shade, zero plants, just heat, for 1½ miles on foot. Even in spring/fall, I'd definitely hydrating beforehand and bringing lots of water.
TIL, I'd never have thought something line gensyn could be possible using C macros (though this is an extension). This is both amazing and horrible
Thank you so much! Glad you liked it! If you want to learn Rust, check out the book (https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/) and Rustlings (https://github.com/rust-lang/rustlings) (runnable in the browser), both are amazing resources
Hosepipe ban starts as drought declared in south-west Wales
I guess they'd have answered that most team communication happened via email, which didn't work very well.
I think LiveView has taken a lot of effort off the main Phoenix project.
It’s survival mode. Leaves need a lot of water, and the water evaporates through the leaves. So trees just drop them, before they die of thirst.

It’s probably not critical for many trees, but an important warning sign.
> But then came the physics class, why we could go from dy/dx = f(x) to dy = f(x).dx and integrate both sides remain a mystery.

This never made sense to me. When I asked about it, I was just told to go with it.
>But then came the physics class, why we could go from dy/dx = f(x) to dy = f(x).dx and integrate both sides remain a mystery. "dx" suddenly became an infinitely small things, when it used to be a notation for a linear form OR a notation for f'(x) === df/dx.

It's the mathematicians who changed it.

Infinitesimals used to be how differential equations were defined as in the first place (by Newton and Leibniz). Physicists still think like that because we are end users of mathematics. So the interface has to stay the same. Old text have to keep working etc. Mathematics for us is not so different to software as an end user.

In the quest for formalization, infinitesimals have been removed and replaced by limits by mathematicians.

And now they have found a way to have a rigorous notation that has infinitesimals again:

https://people.math.wisc.edu/~keisler/foundations.pdf

Your example is explained on page 34.

On the other hand, a notation of mathematics that is incompatible with infinitesimals will not be a success in physics or engineering, for obvious reasons (compatibility; and also by using infinitesimals one almost always gets to the correct result anyway--even in very complicated cases--, and they are way more intuitive than limits).

So there's no problem--it's just that life is short and there's too much to learn.

If you want to prove theorems, by all means, use the most rigorous tools--but to use the result it's nice to have a simple interface.

Mathematics, for us, is a tool to communicate ideas (about the physical world). Overcomplicating it will obscure the ideas.
Sorry about that! I'm still trying to find a way to get good support for dark mode with a dynamic dark mode switcher, and it seems that the current one I'm using (from V8 labs) behaves... erratically when JS isn't enabled. I'm working on it!
Respectfully, and not to start an argument, but I think you don't need to defend the artist or say people shouldn't comment if they want to criticise. I don't think artists who do this stuff care if people think it's pointless or bad. That other people can enjoy it at all is something. Artists who created things this big aren't overly sensitive people, if they were they would have stopped decades back, after the first thousand people said it was an expensive waste of time. So I think people should be honest and say if they think it's crap. And the artist may get a kick out of it, or not care. Likewise don't say nice things about it if you think it's crap, just be honest.
> 50 years ago was 1972

Please excuse me while I go age in a corner
I don't really see the design or packaging as an issue, after all that can be done for cents apiece in high volume productions. But the USB drives are definitely interesting. Even when ordered in large batches from cheap chinese manufacturers, they will probably cost a dollar per drive. So if you send that to 10k people, you have to expect a very high payout. The approach is certainly more effective than a spam mail, but then again sending an email costs several orders of magnitude less. So I wonder if this is really orders of magnitude more likely to capture people. Perhaps with strong pre-selection.
They are only a wart, if the typesystem is not powerful enough (such as Rust's typesystem). With dependent types, this is a non issue. In fact, you can implement something like typesafe "printf" as a regular user-defined function in a language like Idris and to some degree even Scala.

See e.g.: https://gist.github.com/chrisdone/672efcd784528b7d0b7e17ad9c...
This looks like a good option. Thanks!
Thanks, fixed - this is a confusing word :)
"First you need to buy a custom keyboard that puts all the modifier keys under your thumbs" is not a very enticing pitch for a text editor. Doubly so for those of us on laptops where the idea of carrying around an external keyboard is a non-starter.
You're making a good point. However, taking inspiration from differential topology (and differential forms in particular), the notation dx can be made sense of once you interpret x as a coordinate function x: M -> R on a manifold. So in a sense you are replacing the variable x with a function x (whose parameter is usually left unspecified).
One of the reasons 'City' is notable, is because it is just so big.

The first time I heard about was in a video "Monumentality" [1], which explores why humans throughout history have tried to make monuments; big things, skyscrapers, pyramids etc.

Michael Heizer will die one day, as will we all. But by its nature of being a huge complex made of rocks and dirt, 'City' will continue to stand for thousands of years probably.

[1]https://youtu.be/bwGKqiOyIAM&t=46m43s
It’s also profitable for both companies and governments (income tax) to make women delay staying with a baby at home and focus on work instead in their most fertile and productive age (late 20s, early 30s). For men you don’t need extra motivation, as they are not making this choice anyways.

They can feed the lie of ,,having lots of time to have a baby later’’, and I’m seeing many women at age 40 realizing that no man wants to start making a baby with her at that age, because it’s just biologically not practical.
> I once actually asked my teacher directly about the dx schenanigans, and he basically said 'whatever, it's just what it is'.

I received pretty much the same answer…

Did you study in the Netherlands as well? Your name suggests that.
> So there’s a non-trivial probability that “it works on my machine” advice is just a method that hasn’t been caught running afoul of legal and tax laws yet.

> Or given by people who are willing to run that risk.

This does seem likely.
Made-for-Instamatic
Glad you liked it! If you want to learn Lisp, I'd recommend something like Racket (implementation of Scheme, a dialect of Lisp), it's a "batteries included" Lisp that should be easier for a beginner to learn. The built-in code editor (DrRacket) is, eh, good enough.
I poked around, but didn't see any application software for OpenGEM/FreeGEM. Is there any or are the people that use it just using it as a graphical shell and file manager? Ports of Atari ST software maybe?
(Applied twice, got in second time)

Don't hide anything.

Applying again is not a problem, from what I have seen. One thing you'll see in Paul Graham's writing is that persistence/resilience is the most important attribute of a founder. PG's thinking has defined YC's culture, and that does not seem to have changed.

Secondly, don't do things to get into YC. Do things because they are useful for your business.

Assembling a strong founding team is the foundation of your business - you should do this because it's intrinsically useful.

Don't focus on getting into YC - focus on building a product people want, and a company to seize that opportunity.

Ironically, if you stop devoting mental energy to getting into YC, and devote that into your startup, this will make getting into YC easier.
Work chat. There have been many iterations of chat products for companies and Slack just did exactly what people needed it to do with a pleasant enough interface.

That said, the Slack vs Microsoft Teams numbers go to show the power of ecosystem integration and a widespread network of existing customers.
It sounds like you don't need YC, to be honest.
We use it just because it feels more professional than Whatsapp, Discord or such
Did you really just ask what the “real thing” is? It’s live music.
He talked about it at length at the most recent elixir conf eu : https://youtu.be/Jf5Hsa1KOc8 .But it might never materialise.
Very frustrated by this while messing around with some CSS this morning. I was using the .cover class from every-layout which adds margin to this element making it very obvious that it's there.