skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The economic situation is actually not that terrible

Are you referring to your situation or others? Because, Germany and many other governments are announcing packages for aid to get through. I’d say that itself is a good enough indicator on how “not that terrible” the economy is
People bitch about the Android kernel and its lack of upstreaming because we get stuck with perfectly serviceable devices that are dangerous to use because they don't get updates 3 years after we bought them. Forking a project with your only intent being to get something to market is a bad idea, see the current effort Google is having to put into getting Android back to the mainline kernel, and they're still years away from actually succeeding.
A lot of research from ~1960-1990 seemed to be "How can I make <idea I want to work on> sound like something the DoD would like to fund"
My parents got an early 2002 LCD display... I never knew what I lost... by not gaming on a CRT. Low rez too... sad. All for what, space and "enviroment"?

Like, look at this shit:
https://imgur.com/a/FiOf7Vw

https://youtu.be/3PdMtwQQUmo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ya3c1Ni4B_U
well one of the weakest point of crystal is it's slow compiling time. A full-featured framework for crystal looks nice on paper, but after your app grow it will become a hinder instead, solely for the additional compiling time overhead of all the nice features the framework provided.

It hurts my productivity so bad I have to split the code base to multi independent services, each one use a simple server to serve some part of the system. After this those frameworks just cease to being helpful.
> How would one handle this in Rust, C++, or Java?

In Rust you'd prefer to write the parser to slice the original memory and not copy out until you're done parsing. You can see this in, for instance, the signature of methods in the httparse crate:

pub fn parse_headers<'b: 'h, 'h>(
src: &'b [u8],
dst: &'h mut [Header<'b>]
) -> Result<(usize, &'h [Header<'b>])>

To translate, this means that you must provide a byte slice that lives at least as long as 'b, and a mutable array of Headers that lives at least as long as 'h, and those headers then may reference data that lives as long as 'b (that is, the original bytes).

This way we avoid creating the garbage in the first place by demanding that the original allocation live long enough.
> their wording sounded like the EU had a leaver with which they could switch from fossil fuels to renewables overnight.

They did have such a lever, and they finally pulled it this year:

Heat pumps.

Even if the power plant is burning fossil fuels, they greatly reduce emissions vs. the alternatives.

Some governments are offering large subsidies to install them, but, more broadly, people are voting with their wallets.

It is too little, too late, but it is a start.

I think the whole planet should be in a WWII-style mobilization, with every factory we can spare converting to clean energy / energy-conserving appliances.

I also think we should divert a significant fraction of our military budget to clean energy infrastructure (TVA- and CCC-style), and tax fossil fuels at 2x the cost of direct air carbon capture (~ $1-2/gallon).

None of these things would be as disruptive as climate change has been for the last few years.
> Between TikTok, Roblox, Minecraft, call of duty (and other triple A multiplayer games), we’re already there.

How are those "metaverse"?
Yeah, Prop 16 was the "no" outcome that the administration was upset about.
If you are 48 years old, you were about 6 years old in 1980.

I was certainly not referring to you, but people who were in their 20s during that time.
>here are really only five possible movie plot lines. Boy meets girl. And then... There are at most five ongoing narratives in U.S. political history. Outsiders take power, to redress grievances. And then … There may not be even five master narratives in world religions. People suffer. But then …

7 plots, there are 7 media stories.

Jaws, overcoming the boogyman/shark.

Cinderella, good personality poor becomes rich and deserves it.

LOTR, you need to bring widget somewhere wierd to save the world.

Hobbit, you adventure to strange lands and come back.

Annie Hall, comedic character has to overcome adversity to get happy ending

Sweeny Todd, flawed main character who fails, then ultimately learns to overcome their flaw and become good and happy.

Groundhog day, time travel forces bad main character to become better.

All these are aligned in the news as discovered by the author. Realistically just following 'hate inc' by matt taibi. Which really the article/author and matt just comes from Hunter Thompson. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzo_journalism

You can imagine, over and over in the election system the characters of democracy play out exactly this way. Once you realize this, it forces you to personally answer the obvious question. Are they doing it intentionally or is this all fake like these fictional movies?
IMO, they're in a weird place. Their proportions/shape are clearly cartoon-y, but the rest of them is relatively "realistic". It makes them a little unsettling.

If the whole art style was more cartoon-y, then they'd fit right in. As is, they feel a little mismatched.

That's just me though. And they are unique
You're sort of right.

In one sense, the answer is right there in the subtitle:

> knot theory has driven many findings in math and beyond.

The article then proceeds with mentions of possible applications in Chemistry, "to understand the makeup of matter" (and makes no mention of protein folding overall - is knot theory not used there?).

But other than that, the paper is just a gentle introduction to knots, with little to no direct relation to the title.

Perhaps an editor thought a "Why ..." title was better/more clickbaity?
> Rental scooters are like if we lived in a society where everyone rode horses

Speaking of.. the Amish use scooters fairly extensively, but not typical scooters. Their scooters have very large tires by scooter standards; tires meant for children's bicycles. I think these would be much safer than typical small-tired scooters.

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=amish+scooter&iax=images&ia...
It's legacy. A lot of people know jquery from when the things it does were verbose in vanilla JS. New devs rarely learn jquery, so it will die.
Separating Nuclear Reactors from the Power Block with Heat Storage [pdf]
>The article doesn't need to make the presumption of innocence

Nor does the article have any business making the presumption of guilt, but it does exactly that.

I am criticizing what the article actually does, not expecting it to do something more.

All it takes is a person registering a name then receiving notification that others have registered the same name, then conflating that with evidence of guilt in the same exact manner the articles does.

If the article didn’t set such a good example of how to ruin an innocent person’s life, I wouldn’t be concerned.
1. How would you get a helmet that fits safely?

2. How is cleanliness handled? Maybe I’m an outlier for sweat, but I don’t think many people would be ok with wearing my used helmet.
No, the real solution is spread stuff around, so that not everyone wants to go to the exact same place at the same time.

Residential and business districts should not be a thing. Offices should be located right next to houses. (With the exception of "roudy" or loud places like music halls and bars.)
Two billion years, and it seems to be quite the fluke. One kind of single-celled organism ingested another, and instead of killing it or being killed, it provided a support system and in return got more energy back. This was a one-time thing that changed the course of evolution, making multi-cellular life possible.

Question is how often does that occur on other planets with life? Maybe Earth is unusual in that life sticks around for long enough that low probability events happen. Maybe it happened far earlier than it would normally take. The universe is big, low probability events will happen.
That's a silly attitude. There are consumer safety standards for good reasons. You shouldn't have to investigate say helmet manufacturers to make sure they aren't made with dangerous substances or will fail without protecting you.
The answer is in the concluding paragraph.

>It began as an applied area of mathematics, with Thomson attempting to use knots to understand the makeup of matter. As that idea faded, it became an area of pure mathematics, a branch of the intriguing and still unpractical domain of topology.

Basically because they're interesting. A better headline will've been something like "knot landscape in mathematics" since it covers the knot theory history and advancements.
Well when the narrative is that all white people are at least slightly racist and that only white people can be racist to begin with, white people aren't really allowed to advocate for themselves, and any instance of it would immediately be designated as a hate group.

I'm waiting for the day that "caring about discrimination against asian americans" is listed by the ADL as a dog whistle for white supremacy.
My dad keeps spare tubes for his HF amplifier; it would probably be fine.
NYC to require salary ranges be included in job postings
It's not hard to make a CA.

Make a key for your CA, make an SSL key for your sever, sign the key with your CA and add the CA to your in-house browser/list of trusted CAs.
This is more of an indictment of Tesla than anything else. And if governors were actually required then they would come with a good open access source of data with updated speed limits on all roads.
Yes, proto3 "singular" fields are a big problem. But now that proto3 supports "optional" fields (which remember the difference between unset and explicit 0) you can use true optional fields for all new messages going forward: https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/proto3#s...
Are the scooters powerful enough to take you up Queen Anne hill?

Much could be done to "fix" the scooter issue by working with the city rather than antagonistically against it, for example, on streets with parking (almost all of them) the first parking space on each block could be a designated "scooter pile".

Then modify the app to charge you a $10 "you're a dick" fee that is refunded when the scooter detects that it was thrown in the scooter pile, or similar. If you make it more advanced, let anyone with the app claim the fee if they return a scooter.
500. Although I thought the JOBS act increased that number to 2500, but my google-fu is failing me. In any case, once you have that many shareholders on record, you HAVE to go public. This is what forced Google and Facebook to eventually go public.

Companies often get around this by not doing everything possible to prevent an employee from becoming a shareholder on record. E.g. settling option contracts for cash.
I’m confused here, in your first comment you suggested that you had a problem with the Fed using treasuries as it’s primary monetary policy instrument, and now this comment would appear to suggest that you are put off buy activity that falls outside of that scope?

What exactly would you like to see the Fed do?

Also, keep in mind that the fed is quasi private. It is the central bank. While it is governed by a publicly appointed board, its primary responsibility is undergirding the banking system (and fulfilling its “dual mandates” by congress). It’s creating was bought on in response to numerous banking panics in the 19th century.
> These days, there seems to be nowhere left to explore. Victims of their very success, the explorers now, pretty much, stay home. Maybe it's a little early- maybe the time is not quite yet- but those other worlds, promising untold opportunities, beckon. Just now, there a great many matters that are pressing in on us that compete for the money it takes to send people to other worlds. Should we solve those problems first, or are they a reason for going? Our planet and our solar system are surrounded by a New World ocean: the depths of space. It is no more impassable than the last. - Carl Sagan
Most people I know who had this happen, it automatically got fixed quite quick, and IG has confirmed they are working on to fix it.

As for if this will cause them to leave - they didn’t leave after incident when it was down for half day, why and Where would they leave now?
I love/hate that "drop" is an autoantonym. In this case, Ford ceasing its efforts towards self-driving.
What about adult Heelys, can we normalize those rather than try this rent-and-litter startup scheme again?
Where does he say that how fast you can code is the most important metric?
The scooter forces users to go 20mph? You’re talking about the stand on scooters not the mopeds right?
> So you think greens are going to want to make a deal with the guy purposefully leaking methane? Maybe some of the people in Stockholm will want that...

If they did make a deal, I don't think they'd do so happily. But if you think that climate change is an existential threat and and addressing it now is the highest priority, then you may have very little choice but to make a deal like that or suffer a major priority inversion error (like pausing an airplane's fly-by-wire application mid-flight to defrag its book disk).
Agreed, I find the GP comment kind of bizarre. Like, the thing Perl is truly great at is processing text files. Hell, it's one of the main reasons I use it (that and as a general replacement for shell scripting when I need to do anything moderately complex).

And if you really wanna deal with files and directories, IO::File and IO::Dir are easier interfaces to work with and there's plenty of other helper modules out there. I'd never use the base primitives as described in that article.

Mix in File::Find or equivalent and Perl is incredible for file handling.
Will do, looks great, thanks!
Over what period of time? In a year, those numbers don't strike me as terrible and would need to be compared against the alternatives to draw a directionally valid conclusion.
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Problem solving is problem solving, so I'm not sure there's much of a substantive difference.

There's this: back then I made good hey from my excellent memory for APIs and minutia of system behavior. That's a completely unimportant skill now. Now you can look any of that up in a few keystrokes (at worst -- probably your text editor just pops up the relevant info as you type).

But my main skill is as useful now as it was then: I find solutions to problems. And I don't fall in love with a solution before I fully understand the problem (which is really never).
At least scooters do a lot less damage when they hit anything!
The word "just" is doing some pretty heavy lifting in that statement.

It pre-supposes you can event build a bunch of invincible perfectly programmed micro/nanobots in the first place. Then you can identify a target body in a solar system a long ways away. Then predict that system's position with an accuracy your probe could land on it after a trip of hundreds of light years (or launch a probe with a bunch of fuel to do terminal maneuvering). Then those probes would function after millennia of dormancy.

It's all possible. But the concept shouldn't be treated as inevitable.

It also runs right up against panspermia theories. What's the practical difference between a single celled organism and a self-replicating nanobot?
Fortunately those in charge of policy-making in the US seem to understand how dangerous it is. As long as only one side has nukes, the danger is greatly reduced.
Because everyone gets harassed on the internet, and your one anecdotal experience does not mean that Twitter as a whole does not have a left leaning political bias.
Finally, I don't have to leave HN to get my Julia Roberts news!
Design roads to the speed. Too many of our roads (US) are wide, open, and "trick" drivers into going faster than necessary.

Things that can help reduce speeds:
- narrower lanes
- less shoulder/median space
- trees, bushes
- traffic circles instead of red/yellow/green signals
- various curbing arrangements
Four words: Too big to fail.

Dark days ahead for Intel.
> does the negative consequence of inflammation due to overtraining on how one feels subjectively outweigh the cascade of endorphins and neurotransmitters in response to exercise that correspond to an uplift in mood or an alleviation of stress?

Usually exercise in overtraining doesn’t feel good in the way you are describing it. It creates extra stress and the body won’t be inclined to release endorphins to encourage that behavior.
> flawed main character who fails, then ultimately learns to overcome their flaw and become good and happy

Ha! I'm not sure that final sentence works for Sweeney Todd. Not a lot of redemption in that story. But the rest of your point is good - although I would think that the "flawed main character" bit covers Groundhog day just fine, and I don't know that Groundhog day deserves its own archetype, as great as it is.
Oh no!

* WARNING: Deprecation!
The following systems are deprecated in this release:
- OS/2 (EMX)
- AmigaOS
- Xenix
- Cray
Wikimedia gets a TON of money each year, way way way more than it needs to support "The Projects" (including salaries of developers). Yet the fundraisers still cry out like if you don't give them money, the site might go offline. Also most everyone at the WMF is not getting paid amazingly (seeing is how they are San Francisco based).

And I don't know how it is now, but back in the day (about 10 years ago or so) their spending internally was hilariously wasteful. It's been a while, but based on what news keeps coming out about them... I don't think it's gotten any better.
This makes me saddest in the game market with day-one patching. I'm old enough to remember bringing a game home, plugging in the cart and playing it, but if I was to do that now with a disc or cart, there is likely a download in my future. At least some of the game publishers will pre-download so I can play when the game is made available, but I miss the days (not the bugs) of instant playing once the game was acquired.
Yes, my bad. Completely forgot.
Make it 3D instead of taking space from cars and I agree.

Cars are dangerous and the best engineering solution is to isolate pedestrian scale speed and mass transfer from multi-ton industrial equipment. So go 3D, give cars their own isolated layer, give pedestrians and slightly faster moving exposed humans their own layer.
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/computer-skill-levels/ <- I think this is absolutely crucial to keep in mind with these discussions. Figuring out that you need extra accessibility tools, finding them, installing them, configuring them, and using them seems at least level 2 on the skill rubric here – so we're talking about skills that only about a quarter of adults younger than 66 have. Older adults have lower skills and tend to have higher rates of vision issues.

As a comparison, more than a third of people in LA county speak Spanish (http://www.laalmanac.com/population/po47.php). It would not be reasonable for supposedly public communications to be only available in Spanish for the #aesthetic, and to tell the 60% of the population that doesn't speak Spanish to kick rocks – and these numbers are better than the portions we're talking about.

Compare insurance designed around the idea that an expert is going to need to design an assistive technology setup: optical insurance so a professional can tell me my prescription. Or the "wheelchair" comparison: even with ramp requirements, using a wheelchair involves ongoing management by a doctor over a user's often lifelong use. (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7384540/)

There isn't a professional service that exists to unbreak the display of websites that could just have been made properly contrasting in the first place, and... there shouldn't be.
I agree that it's clearly intended to model an IKEA store. I don't agree that the developer should desist for this reason, as it's also clear that it isn't a product, or endorsed by IKEA - and I think a reasonable person would agree.

This game, IMO, should be protected by some right to parody, because it's clearly the experience of IKEA shopping that the SCP - and subsequently the game - is trying to satirize.

Just another case of corporate bullying.
The system developer has to look at race to de-bias a system, but the system shouldn't take race as input, unless it's somehow able to de-bias itself. In this example, I'd wonder why ZIP code is even an input.
A bus can never kill anyone, it's public transportation and is therefore infallible. Cars are heavy killing machines remember, but busses and trains are perfectly magical and never harm pedestrians at all.

(Sarcasm, for the uninitiated.)
Or...you can see Dark Forest theory for what it actually is: PRC propaganda.

It's fascist projection, applied on a universal scale.

EDIT: To expound upon this, I'm not really trashing Dark Forest theory. I mean, it's possible. But I find it to be deeply rooted in a particular brand of game theory that is convenient. I also find it's easier to justify genocide and other such things here on earth if you pretend the entire universe is out there doing the same thing.

As such, I hold the entire theory as suspect and someone trying to justify a particular mode of human existence. This extends deeper into the trilogy as women continually are painted as too soft and emotionally empathetic to make the cold hard decisions that will kill many humans but ensure the survival of the race.

This is a Very Big PRC Thing. "Someone must make tough, manly, destructive decisions and you will suffer because of those decisions. However, they are for the Greater Good of our Nation."

It's hard to take the theory seriously when it conveniently justifies the entire history of the PRC.
You should try reading the article (and other comments), the data collected was pre-covid.

> We report an effect each day beginning the day after the policy implementation, 10 August 2019 through 22 September 2019.
I see nothing on this site that indicates this theme is intended to be used for public websites (excepting the one on which it is demonstrated). Quite the opposite, actually. Reading the copy it seems pretty clear that this is intended to be used for personal tool theming - changing the color scheme for YOUR editor, terminal, etc.

Personal theming (how a user themes their own tools) has no accessibility requirements. At most, this site probably should include a warning that this theme may not be suitable for some users and should be avoided if your visual needs require more contrast than the theme provides.

If they attempted to extend this to be used for public sites, then yes, it's not fit for that purpose.
Undead?
Great example of interpreting my words in the worst possible way!

What about Elizabeth Warren? Is she white, native american, or mixed race?

My point there was that these are self-identifying labels on the census, and "two or more races" wasn't even an option until 2000, so that option can't be compared to 1960 - we have no way of knowing how many of them would have picked "white" vs the others.