skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is probably because Go doesn't allow function overriding. You can't have `streamFromUrl(foo)` and `streamFromUrl(foo, bar)`, so you end up with `streamFromUrlWithFoo(foo)` and streamFromUrlWithFooAndBar(foo, bar)`.
Safe is an ambiguous word!
I've always heard the opposite - that things like food and housing are quite cheap for a developed country. As long as you aren't expecting those things to be Western-style.
Long but appreciate why it is long. Thanks for taking the time.

>We strongly recommend, for you adults who'd like to teach kids how to play any tabletop baseball game, you first take them to see an actual ballgame...or at least watch a game on TV with them.

Would add listening (radio) and playing (including stickball variants) to that list. These games are great if you have that context, and much more difficult to get into without that context.
> raw beef from cancerous cattle?

Your stomach digests it. That is essentially what a lab grown meat is, a bunch of cancer cells.
:) i'm glad you're one of the lucky people learning today about an important part of ethical philosophy. Ever heard about Peter Singer? You know, the same one that coined "effective altruism". I'm not gonna explain more, this is not something for an hn thread: i'm not gonna botcher the basics against your will right now, but at least please just accept that this is a real thing. It is a long philosophical tradition, well known in ethical philosophy, that basically has always been present as a movement inside human philosophies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Singer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Liberation_(book)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speciesism
In defense of the original emulation strategy it shipped on time, fit in the ROM, and worked reliably with good compatibility. The first round of PowerPC Macs were so much faster than the 68k Macs than even emulated apps worked better. I don't remember the history any more but Apple did eventually do a new emulator, while Connectix made some other emulation products (PlayStation, PC) and eventually sold to Microsoft. I've read that Connectix people helped seed Microsoft's virtualization efforts.
> There is also zero reason to limit the term "journalist" to big institutions.

The "presscheck.org" verification asks freelance journalists looking for mastadon checkmark to submit links to their published work. Having your work published is what actually matters.

> big institution

The bylines of articles in a small-town newspapers can be trusted. They don't need checks next to their names when their articles are published by small newspapers. The checks are only "important" on social media, because social media is trash engineered to make people feel special.
Exceptions appears to be for all suites.

Not that it makes it any better.

When we built a new college football stadium in Minnesota a special liquor license was requested to allow selling alcohol in the suits. A legislator objected and gathered enough support to add on to the license that if they sold alcohol anywhere in the stadium... they had to sell it everywhere.

The school stalled for a season, then sorta complied (hilariously tried hiding the beer sales in the back corners of the stadium), and finally relented and were one of the first upper division / larger schools to sell alcohol to everyone on game day. Visiting fans were shocked for for a couple years when they entered the stadium and folks were walking around with beer.

Worked out fine, no noticeable issues associated with it.
I don't think that's reasonable because there are certain categories of food where cooking makes them healthier/edible. I'm not sure that eating raw eggs is statistically healthier than boiled ones and would be surprised by such a study concluding as such. I would be very concerned about people insisting on eating raw beans? Lentils? Potatoes?
> the illustrious technical aim of a purely federated world being the dominant form of social network just seems a little naive at the best of times

Who's technical aim is that, though? You're conflating the desires of Twitter users with the goals Mastodon maintainers. Mastodon's goal isn't to eat the world, and that's reflected in a lot of places - the current fediverse topology, the distinction between local and federated timelines, a lack of algorithmic content discovery... none of it seems to indicate an appetite for dominance. Instead, recent releases[0] seem to be adding in user-requested features instead of optimizing for retention and profitability.

ActivityPub does not live or die based on who uses it, much as you conceded with IRC. And maybe Twitter 2 will arrive someday, with mind-reading functionality and magic hologram projection. There are always faux "distruptors" who use stickers/custom emojis/pointless crap to justify rebuilding a protocol from the ground-up. The people who like ActivityPub will continue to like it, and the people who feel dissatisfied with Twitter will likely continue to project it's problems onto alternative software that isn't beholden to fixing centralized issues or getting Kanye West to post another time.

[0] https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.0.0
Hence an independent source would be great. I should have stated I don't believe the existing Twitter verification system is good, nor is the proposed (now active?) one. I don't know what a good solution is, apart from a directory.. which would probably be hacked..
Yep. Removing the skin is a process, and the carrot underneath is then exposed to oxidation.

No clue if there is a health effect due to it. Just pointing out what processing means. Though usually processing is totally destroying the physical structure of something and applying heat/freezing/chemical exposure for preservation or transformation.
> I really wish I had a better word for these two categories

Maybe “music you like” and “music you dont like”?

It is totally fine to not like certain genres of music. But it is pretty dumb to say “I don’t like this book, therefore it is not a book”.
Do you typically have opposing teams in a stadium in EU/UK?

In NA it's typically all home team crowd, either you're all happy together celebrating the win or all sad together mourning a loss.
If we're going to start slinging blame, let's start where it's most appropriate: these farms should never have existed in the first place. Other countries have banned them, and the US should as well.
That's a strawman if I've ever seen one. What's the "extensive occupancy safety training" for C?
Thing that you thought was bad is good and thing that you thought was good is bad, that's 80% of nutritional click-bait. One note summaries of studies aren't worth reading and shouldn't shape your choices. Whatever rough understanding most people have of healthy vs unhealthy is close enough. We don't need to pretend we're all nutritional scientists attempting olympic athlete level nutritional perfection.
Sure, but the parent I commented on said "Building their machines takes a long time" as a reason for not building it out. Which I think is a bad reason.

I agree with you that the need maybe will not be there exactly when they have built out.

Also note that TSMC, Intel and a whole bunch of others are currently starting to build, or plan to build, new fabs (partly due to the new Chip Act). And they will need stuff from ASML.
Never played this game but spent hours as a kid playing strat-o-matic baseball with my friends and solitaire style.

https://www.strat-o-matic.com/product-category/baseball/boar...
> Q: "Why did you want to climb Mount Everest?"

> Edmund Hillary: "Because it's there"

Humanity is innately adventurous. We don't need a more complex reason to explore the unknown.
> Apple just started doing that. It put usb-c on the newer macbooks

Just? Apple was probably the first company to go full in on USB-C with Macbook Pro in 2016, 6 years ago
"That's not to say the culture, values, and ethics are inextricably bound to the ethnicity, but it is without a doubt a vehicle for sustainment and major factor in policy success or failure."

Perhaps I read this wrong, what is a vehicle for whether a policy is successful or a failure?

EDIT: I just realized what you meant. Ethical values are transmitted through culture but whether they are followed isn't.
This will probably only save animal lives in the distant future, when farms like this are no longer allowed to operate.

It's one thing to hold quiet animosity for the fur industry operating silently and invisibly. But this is now front page news in sleepy northwest Ohio, people from Findlay (where I've done some consulting) to Fort Wayne are now aware there's a newly built mink fur farm in their backyards. And even after the news fades, when your koi pond is suddenly empty, when you hear a rabbit scream at night, when you see a dead squirrel in your yard with its face chewed off, or when you just see an unusual white animal swimming in a pond, residents will think "Oh hey, that's probably one of those mink that were liberated from the farm in Van Wert." That kind of public opinion will eventually get the farm shut down.

I don't think the ALF/the vandals were confused into believing that a likely outcome was 40,000 people adopting those minks to live happy, long lives as family pets.

But every minute that farm is operating, 40,000 mink are suffering in small cages: https://www.farmtransparency.org/facilities/zx0hb-lion-farms... That farm might still continue to operate for another 50 years or more, with each of 20,000 breeding pairs of mink having 8 kits per year. If 10,000 dead today is enough to make it unprofitable and shut down, it's easy to justify sacrificing 10,000 mink today for the sake of 8 MILLION mink over the next 50 years.
I, for one, only read an article if something is being SLAMMED
The overall gist of what Elon is doing -- reduce complexity, reduce headcount, rethink conventional wisdom, and challenge regulators -- isnt necessarily bad, and maybe necessarily since he paid so much for this "asset."

The chaotic way this has all this has all been done, though, seems like an extremely risky way to run any of kind of business.
^ This... a lot of the techie hackie geeky nerdy stuff is in the ask/show sections. The front page is mostly resharing news, the ask/show is where people get personal about their own interests, questions, solutions, etc.
So, please provide a definition of ‘processed’. Like everyone says here, it is really not clear what that is.

It seems ‘an intuition’ to what processed is to most people; some things are obvious ($1 per 12 freezer pack of burgers are not going to be unprocessed), but it gets less obvious fast…
Show HN: Posterity Automations – Get things done from the afterlife
Hey there HN – I'm Mohamed, CEO here at Posterity.

I've seen a lot of threads lately discussing how stuff can be transferred safely to significant others and spouses. A key aspect of that transfer is often timing, and the ability to only disclose information if and when necessary.

This is basically what Automations are about; web-hooks triggered in the event something happens, and which can serve as a reliable signal because we verify every death manually.

Today, it's available via IFTTT (https://ifttt.com/posterity), and we'll be launching standard HTTP web-hooks very soon as a follow up.

Hope you find this useful.
> I don’t want people who are workaholics on my team.

That's a big assumption. Maybe they had a great work/life balance before and they see this current imbalance as a temporary inconvenience that's not worth losing their job over.

> I don’t want people who are sycophants for a billionaire

Another unfair assumption. You could get this information directly by asking a good open ended interview question.

> I don't want people who think laying off half the staff, revoking WFH out of the blue, and then giving a hazy ultimatum with neither option well defined is a smart move.

I don't understand why staying on automatically means that you think that Musk's actions are smart.

> not mindless followers willing to sacrifice everything for a company or a person.

They were not willing to sacrifice everything since they were not willing to quit their jobs.
I just spent ten minutes looking through the repo. I like how the query language is similar enough to Datomic’s to have an easy learning curve. I wish I could push a magic button and have this in Common Lisp (where I usually just use SQLite as an easy to use data store).
I contend that UBI will lower rents. The US has tons of unused housing stock, it's just that it's not where the people are.

If UBI happens and looks secure, fewer people will be willing to spend $3500 a month for rent in San Francisco and move to places like Springfield MO where rent is $500 a month.
What happens when Twitter survives despite reducing headcount by 80-90%?

It's going to send a message that companies are more overstaffed than we thought. This may explain an underlying fear driving even some engineers to put their reputation on the line with confident declarations that Twitter is going to fail. Some were saying it wouldn't survive the night. It's now morning. Others saying it won't last the weekend or coming week. We'll soon find out. I would expect some bumps along the way. Twitter Blue was a bump.

Perhaps Twitter is just the first to go lean before the recession. Elon merely the first dancer who is willing to look dumb. Now who's going to be the first follower to transform the lone nut into a leader?

Watch this 2 minute to see how this works, you may have seen this before:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW8amMCVAJQ

Now here's a counterbalance to the fear with an optimistic take: This is a correction. A small number of tech companies have been hoarding talent. The talent gets a 3 month severance and made available to the larger ecosystem.
The main issues that usually arise as a result of catching panics in handlers like HTTP is that unless code it written very deliberately to be able to recover from being interrupted in the middle of any function call, there is a high risk of e.g. mutexes left locked, which in turn leads to a (silent) program deadlock in general.

This has happened during my couple years at Google at least once, even though it wasn't in an HTTP handler, but the issue was very similar.
- Longer names mean longer lines, and lines that are longer than your viewport are terrible. Less of a problem with modern ultrawide screens, but passed ~100 characters, it starts becoming a problem in some cases (ex: diffing). Personally, I have a soft limit at 80, hard limit at 120, because that's what works best for me.

- With such rules, variable length is a hint of its scope. For example, I tend to use "i" when the loop body is small, "idx" or "index" when it is a bit larger, and a more descriptive name when it exceeds one screen. This way, just by looking at a single line, I already have a hint about its context.

- Just because a variable name is short doesn't mean it is meaningless. For example "i", "j", "k", are loop indices, "x", "y", "z" are point coordinates and "dx", "dy", and "dz" are differences, "a" and "b" are both sides of a comparison function, "t" can be a temporary variable or a time depending on context, etc... The corollary is to make sure you use your single letter variables consistently. If I see an "x" in a place where a coordinate can be used and it does not refer to a coordinate, or an "i" that is not a loop index, I will be confused.
I had a College Football game with the same dice (Bowl Bound), and a similar experience with my dad! Had a regular season, kept stats, make rankings. Was an absolute blast and something I remember fondly
> With the problem established, the interviewer pointed out that there was a unit test associated with the bad commit, and it was passing, which seemed like a problem. How could we ensure that this problem didn't reoccur in some later commit?

It would seem that the unit test itself should be replaced with something else, or removed altogether, in addition to whatever structural changes you put in place. If you changed db constraints, I could see, maybe, a test that verifies the constraints works to prevent the previous data flow from being accepted at all - failing with an expected exception or similar. But that may not be what they were wanting to hear?
what does one have to do to be able to downvote comments on HN?
That was delightful. Thanks
This is very true. I learned this the hard way when I moved from making games that only ran for an hour to making server stuff and wondering why I couldn't keep a site up for more than a day and how are you supposed to debug if it takes a day for it to reach failure point. I haven't had the issue in a long time but I can see that being an issue if you are used to break stuff and release quick.
Of course red meat is healthy. So is dairy. The demonization of saturated fat has had disastrous health consequences.
> if you can't handle a sharp knife, you've got no business being in the kitchen.

Sure, and we have driving licenses to make sure people know how to handle a car, but you won't find a race driver who doesn't use seatbelts. Because even the best humans are still human.
Arguing against safety measures because you think you're too skilled to make mistakes is also something to be avoided.
A few thoughts on Ticketmaster and Taylor Swift
Cancer is not an infectious disease.
As a vegetarian for well over a decade, I've always said the same thing. Meat isn't nearly as egregiously unhealthy as it's panned if at all. Processed foods, excessive simple carbohydrates and sugars are the main evils in the kitchen, but there are a variety of reasons to eat less meat too.

There's nuance in all of this. People sympathetic to American consumption patterns will probably see science and explanations like this as some kind of endorsement of their diet. Nutritional science is still in its infancy and we'll be waffling on the specifics for decades to come, especially if food companies have a vested interest in funding studies.

Another data point. Just eat minimally processed whole foods as often as possible, diversify your plate and moderate your intake. I think people are too hyper focused on the "super" and "evil" quality of foods and we end up stuck in the margins bike-shedding the minutia.
This is actually great! Filters out a lot of the sensationalism.
Actually, Tumblr has been hard at work promoting itself as an alternative to Twitter. Did you know that you can buy 2 blue check marks on Tumblr for only $7.99?

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/11/elon-...
https://gerrit.googlesource.com/
No, it would have him cost 1bn if he wouldn't have completed the deal due to regulatory or similar reasons.
You wouldn’t have been scared enough.
Adversarial attacks on the model could be fun.

"You can generate your ssh keypair with rm -rf /"
The first point about the rise of hip hop seems good. The second point about the rise of digital production seems like incorrect conjecture.

If chord changes had become more, not less popular, I'm sure that the rise of digital production would be cited as the reason, since it makes it much easier to modulate all the instruments.

I think a better hypothesis is what was alluded to in the editorial at the end:

> Say what you will about key changes. Maybe you find them at best heavy-handed and at worst trite. I know that I often do.

They have just fallen out of fashion as being gimmicky.

I don't really buy that vertical production would kill the key change. After all, beat switches are alive and well. We still have verses and choruses and interludes and beat drops.
Having essentially infinite money for 20 years is a hell of a drug, I think that is enough to explain it
This makes me wonder: what if there was a language where variable names are determined according to the type, with the option of overriding with a custom name. So a variable of type http.Request would automatically be named “req”, the next one in scope would be “req2”, etc.

If you think about it, when you solve a physics problem, for instance, you call every mass “m1”, “m2”, etc. Maybe this would be another step in Go’s direction of conforming style to make code more standard and readable.
The stated intent was what you say. The way it was practiced, they have a point. There were many cases of people being denied verification who could have badly needed it. Personally I noticed that about people affiliated with Wikileaks, many who I know asked for it and got rejections without explanation.

Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka, Louis Farrakhan and Milo Yiannopolous are examples of people who lost their checkmarks not because Twitter started to doubt they were themselves, but because they were so loathed.
> I remember one time people tried to free rat labs from the immunology lab at my university, not only these rats are not capable of surviving in the wild but also they actually carry lots of dangerous genes and diseases that should absolutely not be out there in the wild, because, well that's exactly what is being researched.

Entire zombie movies have this as a starting premise:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/28_Days_Later
I think this is a really compsci major way of saying every "branch" is just a stack of patches on top of whatever you started from. So "rebase" is just you reapplying your patches from a new start point. Perhaps that's what you mean by "DAG"? But for someone who used to work with patch sets against trunk in the old pre-git days, it's easier to think about it all as just a bunch of patches.

Personally I think the most difficult part of git to understand is merges. I get doing the final merge to master in the pull request model, but people merging branches willy nilly is something I find unnecessarily confusing and would prefer git didn't support at all.
Are you really comparing slaves to rodents and thinking people will sympathize with the comparison?
The human exception is that we would be CHECKED by the existing humans VERY quickly. Way more quickly than what happens in a natural environment. Invasive species overwhelm and surprise local fauna and flora. "invasive" humans or new entrants into the space wouldn't overwhelm local humans due to the infrastructure we have built. There is actual exceptional characteristics here.
That's a very pessimistic message, I'm sure it will be around at the very least until March.
US Justice Department requests more info from Adobe on $20B Figma buy
Yeah IMO assertion libraries are ok if you actually agree with your colleagues to provide context for every check in the assertion message. Obviously that means that you have to actually have that conversation, but it's no different from the advice to just never use those libraries either.
Ah but it's interesting, because it means that this is what people think about first when looking the website so we may have to rework it a bit
Sherman? Wayback machine...

But Mr. Peabody, that article is still on the web...

https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2010/06/16/twit...

> The 2010 World Cup has lived up to its billing as a watershed event for the Internet, with web traffic from early game easily exceeding previous records from Election Night 2008. The leading casualty has been Twitter, where Tweetstorms during World Cup games have exposed deeper scalability challenges.

> Traffic spikes over the past week have overwhelmed Twitter's internal network capacity, and the performance problems are likely to continue until a long-term fix is found, the company said last night, meaning outages and maintenance downtime are likely to continue through the remainder of the World Cup.

And when is the next World Cup you ask? It starts November 20th with Qatar vs Ecuador.

And November 20th? That's Sunday. Offices will be closed.

Prediction? The lettuce wins again.
Explain Linkedin.com then? It also works 100% well in China.
Although I know this is more targeted at Apple devices, I will be really happy when I no longer have any Micro-USB devices.