skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We are still early on our journey, but I'll share this post with the Stainless folks (who are further along); maybe they'll chime in.
Vintage video game ads from the 1980s and 1990s
If you had some talent/training - absolutely.

In the 80s my high school journalism class used an ancient typesetting machine in order to make our newspaper. We would print things out and put things on giant white poster board with glue sticks that would later get photographed and converted to printed pages.

After one summer we returned to school and entered class. My journalism teacher, Mrs. Forehand, beamed and beckoned us to a back room.

The typesetting machine had been replaced with 2 Macintosh computers, one equipped with a MASSIVE 20MB hard drive. Inspired by Alien, we called that machine "Mother". We also had a laser printer for test prints.

Suddenly we could print out pages that were 100% perfect, without any x-acto blades or glue. It was stunning.

At home I had a Commodore 64 (with WAY better sound and color graphics). But I could see instantly at school I was dealing with a "professional" machine that was way out of my family's league budget-wise. There was no game scene from what I could tell, but I knew deep down it was a game changer.

And I knew the ground had shifted under my feet.
I think the bitmap being shown in MacPaint implied that you were supposed to create your own clip art from scratch. Which would technically be possible, if you were already a good artist.

But the real weakness, at the time, was in the final step--printing. Apple only had its Imagewriter series of dot matrix printers, and there was no support for vector graphics in any case. So you could print things, but they wouldn't look very professional.

A few years later, when Apple licensed Adobe's vector font software and built their first laser printer, that's when everything changed.
>If you hold software devs to the same standard, require them to sign off on projects and be criminally liable if it collapses later, you're going to create shortage of such engineers, and would also give them immense power. They'd be more powerful than lawyers and politicians probably, given how much money is tied to software.

I don't think anyone's arguing for the certification of every software developer. Just those who wish to become a professional engineer. A software engineer will then work on such projects and may even be the one to sign-off on it. They will be held to a higher account and be expected to produce robust, safe systems. All the things that come along with being a professional engineer. And just as it is in other fields, the majority of those employed are not engineers and will work on other projects. We're not talking about anything novel here; the approach would be similar to that of any other professional engineer.
Twitter is full of fortune telling experts who gaze into the crystal ball to predict the future (horribly inaccurately).
I think Docker is great, just needs a new interface.
I appreciate how the comoany I work at does it, it seems to work (entirely my opinion):

- when hiring, culture is at the top in terms of requirements. The company go as far as to call people back if they were amazing culture fit, but didn't pass the interview for the role they applied to, when a lower-level role becomes available
- standup is scheduled to last 30 minutes, the first 20 are reserved for random talk. As people join, various chat pop up and you get to know others
- weekly lunch
- cto is an amazing person, there is a lot of comradery, people are very affectionate to each other. I'm still not sure how this came to be, might have been a lack of social interaction due to covid? Point is, everyone is extremely caring for each other. The company allows it (sometimes doing this has economic costs), and it seems to go well
Technically that’s not addressing my point, rather you are suggesting how to learn J, but sure I’ve tried this in the past and I’ll try it again perhaps with a cheatsheet.
This looks like a very interesting project.
What I object to, at least, is that GA could ignore incognito mode users, but doesn't. Yes, other ad networks might still get incognito users' data, but they're not the biggest spy company on Earth, Google is. It's misleading that they collect data on both ends of the HTTP call, and have a feature called "Incognito mode" that only affects one end.

I don't see the difference between that and, say, Coke selling a product called "Diet Coke" that just has regular coke in it. A disclaimer reading "Warning: this is just regular coke," might make it legal but it's still messed up, and I wouldn't blame someone for trying their luck in the courts over it.
Socrates benefited from very good press from Plato (primarily) and others like Xenophon. His opponents were not so fortunate in this regard.
I think the parent is raising the point that knowing that there's a problem is only half of the issue you need to solve. Being able to assert that certain types only appear in certain places is still important: if I pass the wrong type as a function argument, I don't know whether there's a bug somewhere upstream where that data came from, or whether there's a bug in the function where I'm using a parameter incorrectly. Or if I'm not returning where I should be, or returning where I shouldn't be.
I have an F-91W that I've modded ... by filling it up with olive oil with the purpose of making it water resistant to 1500?! meters. It is so cheap that I can wear it and not worry about destroying it.

I haven't seen this mod before. I'd be all over it if it offered a Python interface.
I don't think the intended purpose of the app is to tell you whether a mushroom or plant is edible or not, I think it's merely meant to identify plants, fungi, and other things for a hobbyist who's into botany and the like. I could definitely see where you're coming from if the app advertised itself as a "a great wilderness survival companion app" or something like that... But we're pretty much speculating, here. This is specific as the story gets

> he used the plant identification app

Which I think is a different category of app altogether from a fungus/plant edibility app.
1-wire is not hard to implement but unfortunately it requires two wires (they never count ground)
For anyone that missed the disclaimer at the top:

This is satire and not a genuine letter from the past by some disgruntled college student (to be honest, I wasn't sure until I saw the notice)
I was lucky enough to be onboard for some of the certification cruise. It is incredible how resourceful the team can be while at sea with a problem to debug and a dive scheduled for 8 am the next morning.

They kept a blog throughout the certification process: https://ndsf.whoi.edu/category/alvin-6500/page/6/

We're hiring engineers of various stripes: https://careers-whoi.icims.com/jobs/search?ss=1&searchCatego...
Such is the impact of Larry Tesler - ios software feels very modal (though that might be made more difficult to avoid on the mobile platform).
In a different genre, Dorothy Dunnett might lay claim to the same historiography, she meticulously researched real events and documented behaviours of the time, and wound up recruiting historical figures of often quite minor note, not by any means all princes and masters, for her cast.

I am tempted to say Colleen McCullough too. But I think less so.

Mantel was perhaps unique in the genre of being celebrated for literary qualities much more than historical. I don't think the Booker committee cared if she did the research.

Also, like all good historians, other historians do take downs on her portrayal of Cromwell. They're "standing on the toes" people more than Newton's "standing on the shoulder of giants" (which of course predates Newton and I will deservedly be castigated for naming it thus)

I really liked "a place of greater safety" from 1992 which proceeded the Cromwell books by some years. Spine shivering stuff. The film "Danton" came out some years before in 1983 and I remember thinking that the book influenced how I thought about the times when I saw the film, long after release.
It's from Google, they deprecate things every 6 months including APIs your app is using, if you don't follow your app will be down pretty quickly. AWS nearly never do breaking changes.
Where does Docker guarantee that it won't trash your system?

See here: https://www.docker.com/legal/docker-terms-service/

Under EXCLUSION OF WARRANTIES and LIMITATION OF LIABILITY.

Here, Bocker is also a replacement for Docker in exactly the same sense: Bocker's simple statement "I can't guarantee it won't trash your system" is a concise alterantive to a wall of legalese.
That's such a huge reach, its hilarious.
It's maddening to me that Melzer's reagent, which is commonly used in identification for microscopic inspection of fungi, is a controlled substance.
Even then, Apple took enough care about every aspect of design, materials, and manufacturing that they could non-ironically show a high detail photo of the back of the machine on the back cover. Not only is it delightfully quirky; it's beautiful, even today.
Sure, a rational version of FDA would accept it based on EU approval data.

But that's not the FDA we have.
Sounds similar to programming
Given the link between milk thistle usage over time and thyroid disorder, I'm amazed it's available.
This was in February, so the situation has likely improved even further as more people have acquired natural immunity: https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1492138139103768576

If influenza deaths had been counted in prior years the way Covid deaths were counted, they would have been far higher than the figures you cite.
Chicken Kiev vs. Chicken Kyiv
May I recommend motif.land? Not open source yet, but it seem to be ticking all of your checkboxes.
Yep. A patient typically has to be morbidly-obese and have tried stimulant weight-loss medications. The issue with waiting until someone is metabolically-ill is diabetes becomes very expensive to treat when there's insulin, anxiety, depression, high cholesterol, wheelchairs, blindness, and/or amputations involved. A former neighbor overfed himself to death not long after retirement by maintaining blood glucose levels of 400-700 mg/dL. Another issue is that it seems being overweight causes metabolic changes that lead to less satiety. OTOH, being underweight can lead to an anorexic spiral down too.
Further to your point, our history is littered with examples of, to steal the Jurassic Park bit, being "so preoccupied with whether or not they could, that they didn't stop to think if they should". Things like moving horrible invasive ecologically devastating species around to "solve a problem" or "it looks pretty" (Cane Toads, Rabbits, and Kudzu, for example) have had dire results.

Cloud seeding is definitely a well practiced thing by now, but it's unclear what the short and long term effects are if we do it at a significant (continent or hemispheric) scale.

I'd love for it to work out and for humanity to actually deflect the looming impacts of climate change.
> Thing is that for most/many startups 100k users is not a lot.

Depends; if you're a startup offering free or ad-supported services and the exit plan is "be bought out by existing entrenched competitor", then, yes, 100k users is not enough to hit your goals.

If you're a startup offering B2B services, even 10k users is enough to be madly profitable.
> That business model work work today.

I'm not sure the opening premise is true:

>> In America, the "Yuppies" -- Young Urban Professionals -- are having babies at an unprecedented rate.
You can import malicious client side plugins irrespective of if it’s an SPA or server rendered. I’d much rather a silly plug-in be limited to client side JavaScript (which is sandboxed) over server side logic, which is not.
Also I got 4/5 posts about guns…
If docker is overused, what would you suggest instead?
huh. I guess I never knew what yuppies was short for. Dinks I understood to be "double income, no kids."
Conversely, a poorly optimized SPA may not even load in a reasonable time span.
With the ridiculous prices of health care in America it's likely also cheaper too.
You could've chosen any letter yet here we are.
Have you even tried using it?
Tirzepatide delivered up to 22.5% weight loss in obese or overweight adults
The phages we are interested in here would be grown against human intestinal pathogens, and human gut conditions are not that hard to simulate, right? They are not volcanic thermophilics. A patient’s fecal sample could be grown in an incubator, and the phages on file could be tested on it. Surely this can be automated.
The author is mostly not saying that. They're principally saying "offer your values as a gift". That's not the opposite of "consider your values up for debate", not quite, but it's absolutely not the same.
Ask HN: Do you remember sportsweb.com from 1994-1995?
Are there any archives of this website from this time period? I have been searching for years.
If you build your grid big enough it works.

https://model.energy/?results=f476509869f9cee1582db8e09905fd...

It's stupid (arguably even stupider than a 100% nuclear grid and twice as expensive), but it works.

Luckily storage does exist and electrolyser prices and needs for rare metals are dropping precipitously, so you don't have to do something stupid.
If you are applying for jobs described as opportunities for “software engineers”, and you qualify, it makes total sense to refer to yourself as such.

“Software engineering” is a common globally recognized phrase. Anyone overthinking a popular phrase after decades of use doesn’t understand language.

It is as ridiculous as a medical association getting worked up about PhD grads, a rapper, or the author of “Seuss” books being referred to as “doctor” without a medical license.

You can’t regulate global language trends. (Successfully)
I'm from Ohio, and even before the apps, it was common to hear stories about people being poisoned by mushrooms. It's also relatively well known (though not well enough, obviously) that there are several species of toxic mushrooms that look nearly identical to edible ones. Perhaps people think an app is going to be infallible. I really think app stores ought to pull any mushroom-identifying app that doesn't come with a prominent warning. I live in Hungary now. Here we have mushroom identification centers at the local markets where we can bring mushrooms collected in the wild to be identified by professional mycologists. Maybe Ohio needs this as well.
The problem with Apple's extensive advertising was that they ended up having to price the Mac higher than an individual could afford so they could cover the marketing budget. Combined with the lack of software and the small amount of (non-upgradable) RAM, this meant that Mac sales slumped after the initial rush of early adopters. More information: https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor...
Apple branded cards have existed since long before the Apple Card we have now.
It's not a scam. A scam is a deliberate deception. Engineers working on this are genuinely trying to solve the problem.
Prompted by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33218746

Study: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04184622?term=surmoun...
This is a lie spread by the meat industry to imply that the majority of farmland used for animal feed couldn't feed humans. The 'useless' kind of corn is the kind that stores well and has high protein and caloric value and can be made into a variety of shelf stable foods. Animal feed corn isn't as tasty as other kinds of field corn (which can be grown on the same land), but other than that it's what you want as bulk primary food (where sweetcorn is borderline useless).

You need to soak it in lye or potash if you intend to eat a lot of it, this is the 'complicated processing' that is scare mongered.

High starch varieties may lead to protein deficiency, but will keep someone alive.
Did you think I was suggesting it didn’t?
VW bus? Mine tilted left due to bent axle. Still drove from Arizona to DC that summer.
In Australia where I am the insidious Stelvin type screw cap (aka the Pewsey cap so named after the wine district where it was first introduced) has almost taken over from the traditional cork stoppers: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screw_cap_(wine)

The Stelvin cap is both a blessing and a curse, bottles can be opened dead easily with just a quick twist of its screw cap which makes it highly convenient (especially so when one misplaces one's traditional cork screw as so often happens). It's also very handy for resealing bottles that have been only partially consumed.

For me, the Selvin cap is also somewhat of a curse because I no longer have access to a reliable source of used corks which I use for a multitude of diffetent jobs—of which one of the most important is capping sharp tools.

Before the Selvin screw cap was introduced some decades ago, the quality of corks used in bottling wine in this country started to fall below par and the reason was that the demand for wine suddenly shot up in the 1980s. The quality of wine corks was pretty terrible, they'd either crumble or break into pieces when one was extracting them, or they'd leak or not seal properly and the wine would either age prematurely or it'd go off (oxidize) whilst still in the bottle.

Effectively, both the cork shortage and the concomitant price hikes for corks set the scene for the mass takeover by the Selvin screw cap.
"These tools are technologically great, but they are not 10x better than notepad.exe."

That's cap. Obsidian is many, many times more powerful and useful than notepad.exe. It's a completely different class of product. It's virtually an operating system unto itself.
What's your take on Helion? They're acting exactly like every other scammer on the surface, but the more I dig the more I find evidence of thinking about things like how much quartz will evaporate and get into parts you don't want it to over 10 years. I can't see an overriding reason why it's immensely stupid like all the other schemes out there either.
And approve a life-saving drug that's already proven in Europe.

It seems reckless and stupid to not immediately approve it given the impact.
Tom Stoppard Resurrects the Past in “Leopoldstadt”
> the key is, you have to understand that you should know upfront what species around you, in your current season, are edible and eat only exactly those species

This is missing a very important factor, which is that there are some edible species with highly toxic lookalikes. These lookalikes are quite common in Ohio, hence why poisonings from misidentified mushrooms are also common.
> Your definition of engineer doesn’t apply to how the word has been used for the great majority of history but it is what some paper pushers would like you to believe.

I don't think this is correct. There is no shortage of professionals, project managers, or others in positions of great responsibility who seek qualified, professional engineering because of the criticality, risks, complexity, liability, etc. involved in their project.
I love the idea, adding a destination would be nice.

Here in the US, at night time, the local stations shut down, or go low power, so that the Clear Channel stations can be heard over much wider areas. One example, is WLS at 890 in Chicago, once described as "a 50,000 watt clear channel blowtorch".

You should be able to hear it in Kansas at night.
This might be a dumb question but

Tonne is a mass measurement... How can 1 tonne store 73 tonnes of CO2?

The source of that fact is here [0], but that is counting the forest that makes the cork. However they aren't growing a new forest for new cork, so that 73 tonnes of stored carbon is static. Each cork harvest lowers that 73:1 ratio.

https://www.amorimcork.com/en/media-center/news/research-hig...
"Professional" is relative - compared with PC state of the art the Imagewriter was OK - laserprinters weren't really a thing yet for anyone
I think Elon has a Savior complex. Nothing wrong there just a bit cringy. But again he's not a regular business man.
Now I can finally learn what's this Hypercard everyone at HN is talking about:

https://www.exporeader.com/posts/634b8ebdfc37286976884f97
Or for that matter Sun (now ONC) RPC, CORBA, DCOM, DCE, gRPC, or XPCOM?
Yes of course!
Show HN: First Working Interpreter
Hello everyone! I'm an undergrad in computer science in my last semester. I've tried my hand at a few interpreters the past year. This is my first one that I've actually got set up, with a working lexer and execution tactics.

I've implemented the input and output prefixing primitives of the pi calculus. I intended to implement the replication and restriction primitives soon. I find process algebras very interesting. They seem to be an important area of research, to bring the computing ecosystem to a concurrent-first paradigm.

This github project isn't much to look at currently; it's my first project of any substance. However, you might find the linked research papers interesting!

Feel free to share criticisms, insights, or your favorite process algebra!
https://docs.riak.com/riak/kv/latest/learn/concepts/clusters...
A bicycle accident bill can be over 100k USD without any surgery or being admitted overnight. Having a stroke can be 500-600k which might cause another upon seeing the bill.
I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that covid has already made its way to humans, and doesn't need to jump from monkeys.
Silychristin[0] and mycotoxins[1]?

[0]: https://academic.oup.com/endo/article/157/4/1694/2422745?log...
[1]: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jafc.5b02105
Are there any examples of specific things philosophy tends to lack discussion or are you just speaking in general?
There are some good hackers in India, no doubt. But having managed a few bug bounty programs, the majority of submissions from that part of the world are spam. People run vulnerability scanners, count on ignorance on behalf of the company triage teams, or just plain count on being able to badger someone into paying small amounts.
Type annotation is not shit. It’s a contract.

What’s the point of you discovering the return type is a string. If I write a function and I set the return type to string and return a number it blows up on my face. With a deduction that’s not the case.
With the FDA, you need to follow the money.
Incidentally, I've heard that a significant number of people get poisoned by mushrooms when they learned to recognize edible mushrooms in another country (often China or Eastern Europe), then move to the US and try to forage for mushrooms here. Knowing one region's edible/poisonous mushrooms doesn't make you an expert on anything outside that region.
The operative word being good, which most APIs unfortunately aren't. You could make the exact same argument about APIs that you made about HTML endpoints, and vice versa. The problem, imo, is that writing a fronted is a lot harder for many people than writing a backend and they tend to spend more time on the front-end.

Security is hard, especially when most developers are ignorant or negligent about basic best practices. If I had a nickel for every website I've found that only has client-side validation I'd be rich.
> how one is able to tell the difference...

Easy, you just hire a another hacker/PI to investigate them first...
The notes about the author, and the accompanying Reddit post, about feeling full remind me about an anecdote with a friend who was an alcoholic.

Somehow we got on the topic and it came up about how I would drink and just stop.

His comment was very telling. He said “You can stop?”

It just plays to how different people coexist but live in a different reality. Whether it’s eating, or drinking, or whatever haunts us. Just because some of us can “just stop”, doesn’t mean others live in a world like that.