skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The language in the last 5 years added so much and is on the way to adding so much more.

Highlights are hard to name because different people like different features!

The packaging/dependency situation is pretty much solved now. Cabal v2 has been a godsend. That used to be the big issue. Stack is still around and works fine. ghcup makes installing everything easy. And Nix support is excellent and offers diversity of choice between nixpkgs and haskell.nix (which opens your way to proper x-compilation!)

I don't use it, but the Haskell Language Server is also vastly improved.

The library ecosystem is also the best it's ever been. Again, depends on what you wanna do. But there are more people and companies out there contributing to Haskell OSS than ever.

The compiler and RTS also keep solving problems and pushing the bleeding edge. Compact regions, a new latency-optimized GC, and the eventlog have greatly improved the RTS. And linear types landed recently - still nascent but still a big deal. And dependent types are definitely on their way.
The thing more of us need to understand is this has never been about "safety", it's about power and control.

Becoming able to control someone's thoughts is very, very powerful and sought after, and what are thoughts composed of? Language. Define the language and you define how people think.

Define people of latin origin should be referred to by "latinx" and nothing else and congratulations: An entire collection of cultures was removed of their identity and subjugated.

Define all environmental concerns as "global warming" and later "climate change" and congratulations: You just invalidated swaths of inventions and solutions created by our forefathers and turned entire fields of science into a handy little political tool to fling around for profit.

Define science as something to be unconditionally trusted and congratulations: You just turned science into a religion and gained one of the biggest religious forces known to man to use for profit.

The people behind all this are very ingenious and very dangerous; he who controls language owns the human world.
> If you have a PC with the Spotify app running, that appears as a remote play device to other clients.

The issue I've found with the PC setup, which I've been using after being somewhat unconvinced by Volumio, is that for dynamic playlists, the clients don't seem to agree on the contents. I have to manually go load the playlist on the player PC so that when the songs advance I can see it on my local computer. The player PC only does that, so I never interact with it.
The Internet Archive has archived both the sheet music, lyrics, and songs as FLACs, so when the site disappears, it won't disappear.
225 euros each; but prices have since been going up considerably due to shortages:

https://www.zonnepanelen-store.nl/aeg-as-m1202z-bhm6-365hv-g...
Kazuo Ishiguro's entire career revolves around memory: remembrances, sometimes unreliable, and always moving. If you like Ishiguro can I recommend W.G. Sebald? Rings of Saturn is like nothing I've ever read before.
Different Solar techs. Highest one being concentrated 4+ junction cells.
> If your project builds a Docker container, also create a .dockerignore file to specify files and directories that should be excluded from the container.

I would nitpick this. You build images not containers and since files are not copied by default there is more nuance here that the .dockerignore file makes builds faster by not including them in the build context.

That does ultimately prevent COPY directives from using them but it is these sorts of brief, slightly inaccurate summaries that mislead folks as they build understanding.
Countries Agree to Protect 30 Percent of Earth to Halt Biodiversity Loss
Metabolism Research Upends Conventional Wisdom about How We Burn Calories
Why specifically a YouTuber?

I think that you are a bit too hung up about what happens where on the internet, especially considering that your complaint is about bad faith actions of the large platforms.
I work with Spotify links and the Spotify API regularly for work and have never seen a link to a playlist or track randomly 404 or not work. Spotify share links are really basic, they're just an ID and type of link, like "/track/{id}" or "/playlist/{id}".

Not saying you're wrong, I've just personally never had issues with them, and I work with lots of share links from a variety of artists.
Ask HN: What is the most memorable sentence you read in 2022?
It's the year end and we have our usual flurry of best-books-you-read lists. How about the best sentence(s)? Some of my favorites are ones that pack in a lot, are many-layered, and yet economical with words. Here's my favorite:

"To reliably capture 3 kilowatt-­hours’ worth of fuel requires knowledge, wit, skill, and persistence — ­plus considerable help from your friends. H. sapiens occupies every niche — ­but always with company." - from the book "What is Health?" by Peter Sterling

What are your favorites?
> You seem to have an agenda, perhaps Hacker News is not a place to be discussing this for you.

I hate to break this to you, but this is the comment section. Everybody has an agenda. If you don’t like his agenda, explain why he’s wrong. No need to beat around the bush.
"Program evaluation and review technique"

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

Built by smart people... for smart people. =)
But what about tracking and ads? Would be difficult to track users that are in a different instance, with no way of showing ads to them - not sure twitter could survive without that.

Idea itself is a neat one though.
Isn't that how it's supposed to work?
Honestly, showing up with a SWAT team as a first step suggests a certain lack of courage, particularly if the officers know how prevalent SWATting is.
Let me remind all citizens of the dangers of magical thinking. We have scarcely begun to climb from the dark pit of our species' evolution. Let us not slide backward into oblivion, just as we have finally begun to see the light.
> Does anyone have any good alternative to saying "dad joke?"

If you ask my kids, a good alternative would be for me to just not tell any jokes.

(See what I did there? That's a dad joke, and I'm proud of it.)
> there are probably enough to build a pedestrian layer _above_ the car layer entirely. Isolating large vehicles from fragile human beings is the best engineering

As far as I can tell, the general consensus among urban planners is that building pedestrian overpasses/Skyways/skywalks is a _really bad idea_.

They suck pedestrian life away from the ground plane and surrender it to cars, which has all sorts of second order effects.

The ground level becomes darker, and more dangerous with less "eyes on the street". Car focused transport planners are more bold to increase traffic volume (with increases in pollution/crashes/noise). Businesses on the street struggle.

> Isolating large vehicles from fragile human beings is the best engineering solution.

It may be the best _engineering_ solution (don't get me wrong, I love some Brutalism and textured concrete), but it's usually a horrible outcome for street life. The best solution for a healthy, livable street is to build large spaces for pedestrians and cyclists, reduce car speeds to 30kph/20mph, or remove cars altogether.
> Using person-first language helps to not define people by just one of their characteristics

For people so obsessed with language, it seems pretty silly to so readily conflate "definition" with "classification".
> surprise escalation

surprise escalation into an unknown, unverified situation where the only basis for the use of deadly force is whether the police feel there is danger. Of course they are in fear for their lives because they are leaping into the unknown, unprepared.

We hear about the militarization of the police. I hate that term. They are playing soldier, not acting it. Having been in the military, if we had a situation and the time we would monitor a location and find out everything we could. Apparently that wasn't passed along to the police, only the guns were.
> If MS wanted to kill off Linux, Linux would be long dead by now.

How do you envision they could do it? Doesn't seem plausible to me, given the distributed nature of the development of Linux.

BTW, they actually tried:

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

Just totally failed.
Watch the bbc documentary “the crusades” by Terry Jones. I think it is pretty well researched.
I can think of a few more!

"register" - might indicate that someone has to register as a second-class citizen, enemy alien, etc.

"bit" - might imply that someone is only a 'bit player', leading to feelings of inferiority.

"tool" - an obviously offensive word meaning that someone is only fit to be used by others.

"terminal" - we need to be sensitive about words that bring up the concept of death, to avoid triggering effects.

"inheritance" - individuals are not the product of their ancestry!

"class" - we don't need a class-structured society, that's a leftover from a feudal past.

"polymorphism" - too close to hermaphrodite, must be eliminated.
In my state, one of the laws is

> Whoever discharges a firearm as defined in section one hundred and twenty-one of chapter one hundred and forty, a rifle or shotgun within five hundred feet of a dwelling or other building in use, except with the consent of the owner or legal occupant thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty nor more than one hundred dollars or by imprisonment in a jail or house of correction for not more than three months, or both.

This is the law that would definitely apply. Interestingly, it appears that there is a bill before the state legislature that would cover specifically shooting at a dwelling (with intent to hit it), which would carry 5 years/$10k fine.

Depending on particular fact patterns, it might fall under attempted murder, reckless endangerment, or other charge in a similar vein. This sort of stuff tends to be extremely jursidiction-dependent.
>>Cramium (still in stealth mode), approached me to advise on open source strategy

Why is a stealth mode company interested in an open source strategy?

Isn't that counter intuitive and purpose-defeating?
easycron.com

$24/year and you can basically do anything you want.

All you gotta do is select the desired interval, you tell easycron which endpoint you wanna hit, and that's it.
These people continue to swallow themselves through the ratchet of cancellation.

They are like the Star Bellied Sneetches. Except instead of applying and removing stars from their bellies until no one knows who is in or out or good or bad, they include and exclude by ever more tortured use of language.
Totally agree about returning a 5XX error. In my app that would be a single RetryableException back to the caller instead of the internal db error.
> Passkey/Webauthn/FIDO2 ecosystem finally seems to be hitting the tipping point

Where N is the number of services the key unlocks, is there a O(1) migration story yet?
Looks like the inmates are running the asylum at Stanford. <ducks and runs for cover>
> If you think white space is useless, try reading a document without any.

So, Perl?
Music is so obscenely post-scarcity I don't see how anybody has anything to complain about. There's so much you can listen to exactly the kind you want until the end of time.
thanks for sharing this. Was looking to read about the space.
Let's agree to disagree here because we are clearly not talking about the same things at all. I suggest reading up on what Chinese mega apps look like and Musk's personal comments that referred to WeChat. Adding longform video is exactly part of a conventional mega-app and it is absolutely not revolutionary whatsoever.
The motivations of people who joined Jan 6 are very simple: they thought they had been disenfranchised because of unprecedented anomalies during vote counting on election day, which their opposition made no effort to explain.
> And "Preferred pronouns" is hate speech, because you imply that pronouns are merely a preference, as if the person can choose their identity

But their position has been that gender is socially constructed and thus malleable, so it follows that pronouns would be too.
> Do police in other countries simply not have the capacity to deal with people in imminent danger?

Speaking from europe, we just don't have that here, at least not enough to have SWAT forces ready immediately.

I can't think of any times that it was a problem the SWAT team was not ready.
How very interesting. Thank you.
Or maybe that proves the point that just because you had ancestors of a certain stripe does not mean you are of that kind.
> on all the reasons I think Alcor is kind of shady

If Alcor actually is doing shady things, then I would certainly agree with you. I read up on them quite a bit around 10 years ago, but I haven't really kept up since then. But my impression was that they weren't giving false hope, and were telling people that the chances were slim that they'd ever wake up again. I also didn't read anything to suggest that their post-death care is something other than what they promise, and I thought it was sensible how they require patient care to be funded. But admittedly I didn't dive as deeply into third-party criticism as I probably should have (instead I just lost interest).

> I really just want to chime in to push back on the idea that "modern" cryonics have the problems worked out

I don't think anyone is saying that, though? If I've said something that made you or anyone believe that, my apologies, because that's certainly not what I believe. Certainly modern cryonics is more advanced than simply "lower body temp slowly until it seems like it might vaguely be safe to bring in the LN", but "advanced" in this case doesn't mean "it works". No one knows, still, of course, and I would strongly expect that it doesn't work.

> I think it's kind of likely that the insurmountable problems here are fractal.

The promise of only-in-sci-fi "suspended animation" or "stasis" is, well, just that: sci-fi. I certainly would hope that these problems aren't insurmountable, and that we can actually find a way to more or less press the "pause" button on organic degradation. Certainly the current cryonics tech is nowhere near that; the hope is that any damage done by the cryonics process could eventually be reversed with sufficiently-advanced technology, and then eventually the cryonics process gets good enough that little to no damage (beyond the cause of death) ends up being done.

Who knows if that's possible, eventually, but I'd like to think it is.
Crushes are often just misplaced ambition
I did guess something like that eventually, but given the context my first thought was "let's see, COefficient Of, uh, hmmmm..." :D
The fragility of the American mind.
Could be a fun game to create social media accounts just for the purpose of problematizing terminology popular with self described progressive people until they are speaking jargon incomprehensible to anyone else.

Or maybe it already happened.
My method is usually to ask a few people to make a quick guess, take the average and multiply by 5. Works like a charm but is unfortunately not "scientific" enough so people do story points and task breakdowns which then also take 5 times as much as estimated before they are really finished and buttoned up.
Azure functions, as far as I know, have milion executions for free. You can use their "timer teigger" which is a fancy way of saying cron job.

More info:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/functions/

https://www.serverless360.com/blog/azure-functions-triggers-...
Wow are things that good now? It's been about a decade since I've played PC games. Linux support was not great back then. There were a few titles that worked well.
> The section you cite appears to only apply to crimes committed "within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States", which is defined here [1]. By my reading, it does not include crimes committed inside of US states. It is limited to ships, areas outside of other countries, and various other places. Am I missing something?

It applies to land in states that is owned by the US government, which can include a lot of land thought of as inside states (national parks and military bases are the goto examples here). If you want real fun, try working out which law applies when you're on tribal land.
British Airways: Flights leaving US grounded over technical issue
Bills need to be mailed to my health insurance company if I want to be reimbursed for anything — no online uploads whatsoever, and this is for one of the major national companies that everyone knows.
Just call them dad jokes because there's nothing wrong with that.
> They strong arm with laptop manufacturers to nearly force users to pay for a Windows license for all device (non-Windows laptops exist, but let’s be honest, it’s insignificant).

Google does the. same thing with android and olay store access?
No, they are correct, it means "don't start crossing." Not everyone can run, eg, people in wheelchairs or people who need walkers, or able bodied people carrying lots of groceries. Running as a pedestrian is very dangerous. It creates confusion for drivers, it makes you more difficult to see, and it makes it more difficult for you to see if you're running in front of a moving car.
It ends up sending a lot of heat into the battery though, so probably isn’t the smartest idea unless you have some kind of external active cooling.
The threat actor shared a post on its data leak site and claimed to have stolen 200GB data that includes finance data, business data, personal data and more.
This could also be achieved by locating the pointer and the (offset and length) as separate.
You can email the mods to appeal such actions. hn@ycombinator.com
I fully agree. Perhaps a circular icon that fills up a full 360 degrees next to the submit button will solve this.
Your statement is offensive to victims of nuclear war, and also some types of birds.
It's too difficult for Nigeria to enforce. Nigeria has a very weak government that has trouble enforcing a lot of laws that other states have no trouble with. OP mentioned Russia and China, and I would be very hesitant to extrapolate either country's capabilities from Nigeria's.

I will say that this could be a valid use case: if you have an ineffective oppressive regime, you may benefit.
Some tech enthusiasts just aren't old enough yet to become tech people :-)
Chevalier de whatever ?
> All the water storage options are pretty much at full capacity everywhere in the world and for a good reason, it's relatively effective, easy to build and the tech is old, that won't help for renewable deployment because you can't build it much further.

Yup. Pumped hydro is aall taken and there's none under construction. Just look at this map of projects under development https://professional.hydropower.org/page/map-pumped-storage-...

> I'm not saying nuclear doesn't have its downsides, it's just that it's one of the only realistic option with the current tech. Renewables really aren't up to the task as we see it now in Europe.

It really isn't because every potential Uranium mine on the planet would have to be under development right now for it to be remotely relevant. And even then it would take far longer.

> Additionally since you're talking about finance, usually external costs aren't counted in renewables that's why they falsely appear cheaper, Germany for example already spent around ~2x the cost of the whole French grid and is still very far from the transition from what France achieved

Citation needed. Be sure to include the costs of enrichment, reprocessing, and colonial mining activities. Additionally Germany ate a bunch of the first mover costs. For a valid comparison you'd include the manhattan project.
I would say that it's a necessity for dance/club tracks as they're meant to be mixed/edited on the fly by the DJ and listening to a 7+ minute track in full on the radio/Spotify wouldn't be ideal. On occasion when I'm up for it, I'll 'listen' to tracks by mixing them for myself for an hour or three and see what interesting transitions/mashups might arise. I've thought about getting a Reloop Ready (which is barely wider than a a 14" Macbook) specifically for personal travel use.
People want the allure of stealth while also having the street cred of.open source, apparently.
No need to spend a millennium on the problem, it'll be substantially peer reviewed the world over many times with additional discoveries supporting or not supporting it well before 1/100th that time. Minding motivations until that point not only plays a role but is a core component, doesn't take long for major discoveries as interesting as this, and does help illuminate the truth as time marches on. Acting like biases aren't relevant doesn't help any of that. Science isn't some absolute truth waiting to be mined it IS that process of discovery, insight, doubt, and review repeated forever. To skip part of it only makes it worse not better.
Never understood the quest for immortality. We are the children of our time. When our time passes, we will live as strangers in a strange land, drowning in the sea of nostalgia. Death will simply takes us back to where we came from before our birth. Don’t fear the reaper.
Not sure if this is sarcasm, but obviously this is not a valid comparison given the population size.

OTOH, Texas and Florida are both a fraction of a population compared to the sum of NY + CA + MA + IL.

By the way, even the states you listed (not nearly growing as fast as TX/FL) are still building more per capita than the NY / CA / MA / IL.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1240622/new-residential-...
The root problem here seems to be that the CTO had no clue how long that feature would take to build; that seems like a criminal blunder for a Chief Technology Officer, who can’t estimate technology work!

This seems like the pattern in general though - successful tech companies (though most “tech” companies today are not really that) only succeed if the person at the helm has the ability to tell tech from bullshit. Or you need to have a truly trustable confidant who you can fully trust on their opinions (which honestly is rare looks like).

Without that ability you’re left to either guessing or depending on judgements of people beneath you who almost never have a fully aligned incentive to be honest either deliberately or just instinctively. If anything their incentives are often anticorrelated.

I also think this is the issue with most pharma biotechs. gSK is (was?) run by a lipstick maker. What do you think their ability will be to tell if an IND is gonna actually work? You end up having to trust the CSO who might have more interest in making sure their drug gets to market than their eventual success.
If the mods are lucky, the content isn't directed at them (though often it can be, either directly to known mods or to an unknown / anonymous mod team).

And the depths to which some people can go are pretty awful.

I've only had modest experience with this myself, but have memories well over a decade out, from a site that would be small by today's standards.
people with dissenting opinion.
This is my take too. Even modern cryonics is crude, but it's still better information preservation than the current approach of letting the body decompose and dissipate entirely.

The article covers the state of the physical complications quite well. I doubt we will be able to reverse the physical damage and safely reanimate before we learn how to digitize people, so I think the best bet is likely going to be in digitizing the brain after death.

Even if that comes with some damage, we know the brain is pretty plastic and functions well enough even with entire areas missing.

Still seems like a reach. But what's the other option? You can't take the money with you and there's no better alternatives if you would like more time.