skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interestingly, in the Shona language it means 'puppet' which I found very appropriate as it is a functional framework which you have behave in whatever way you want.

This was my primary assumption re nomenclature
Maybe the difference is that the shops are allowed to sell it? When I was young, many decades ago, I had hoopt that our gedoogbeleid would turn into full legality, but ah well.
I think treated pine sleepers in Australia are mostly CCA (copper chrome arsenate). For garden beds, lining with plastic is usually advised. The less common (?) alternative is ACQ - alkaline copper quaternary.
If you're actually intending to bring pressure to bear on US industry then the online clothing industry via Amazon et al is a massive relatively new waste generating sector.

That domain has normalised ordering three, returning two .. and then discarding the return rather than dealing with possible contamination on resale of returned items.

Garment waste figures are staggering (been a year+ since I last looked but I still recall my stonishment at the scale).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Mohamed_clock_incident
Snake Game in a QR Code
There are reports of uBlock Origin occasionally not working on YT, and I experienced this 2 days ago on one video. I can't recall which video was, I thought I clicked on the wrong video, then realized it was an advertising, checked if uBO was active and indeed it was. Happened only once to me, others were apparently less lucky.
This could be the result of different tests performed to discover adblockers limitations.
I find their git integration limited as well. When using git I always find myself using IDE's integrated terminal, or OS's terminal. But, I've reported bugs on their tracker - it took a while, but they fixed it.
Where I live, e-bikes have been using crosswalks instead of obeying right of way. I think most these people are new riders who are paranoid and seem to have no basic understanding of the true capabilities of their chosen mode of transport (namely acceleration), judging by their behavior around cars. This single behavior becoming normal in my area has led to a strange reaction from drivers, where they now habitually give up their right of way on busy thoroughfares ostensibly to allow both electric and acoustic bikes to cross the busy road, even if those bikes are waiting behind a stop sign while the driver has none. The problem is the drivers are completely unaware of the traffic they cause on these thoroughfares when they force all the cars behind them to stop, which has been forcing more speeding cars onto side streets, making things more dangerous for pedestrians and cyclists alike.

There's no perfect but it would be nice if people were educated on the basic rules of the road. They are there to encourage smooth traffic flow.

If you're on wheels, you do not get to use the crosswalk. So much for "law-abiding".
The First Name I registered on that account
read something recently that makes me think google is doing this to develop tools that allow browsers to detect replayed tokens on platforms like macOS and iOS.

https://medium.com/@danielraffel/compromised-apple-id-expose...
Yeah, agreed: in that case spinning a container is evidently an operational advantage.

However, I was specifically answering to the different case highlighted by the parent comment: how a potentially cohesive application is cut along some of its internal APIs, and some functionality is allocated to different processes living in different containers.

It is an extreme point in the continuum "single thread" -> "multi thread" -> "multiple processes" -> "fully distributed". In that continuum scalability increases, while efficiency progressively decreases.

Cornering oneself to a specific point in the design space is problematic, and for some cases has direct implications on how many resources are wasted.

A very didactic experience is, for example, running a simple local application under a microarchitecture profiler, such as Intel Vtune. It is not uncommon seeing that even straightforward C/C++ programs use a core resources less than 10%.

What I am reflecting about is that the choice of fragmenting that program among tens of systems (maybe in a scripting langiage) should be conscious, and done after encountering performance or scalability bottlenecks.

How much of the resulting total system workload would be useful work?

The quantity of potentially wasted resources is astonishing if you think about it.
I'm sorry but are you really going to pretend like car and cdr are not core to lisp?

>list[0] and list[-1]

That is not car and cdr; closer would be list[0] and list[1:] if lists were cons in python.

>Mathematica expressions are in many respects like LISP lists. In Mathematica, however, expressions are the lowest-level objects accessible to the user. LISP allows you to go below lists, and access the binary trees from which they are built

This is a quote from 1986. I wonder if the language has changed much since then

https://reference.wolfram.com/language/tutorial/Expressions....
Both of photochemsyn's criticisms are largely accurate.

Looking at resource requirements as mapped to land area is highly instructive, and one of the more illuminating exercises I've done is to plot population growth as the falling available land area (for all resource and ecosystem service value afforded) over time. We're well below "40 acres and a mule" --- with 8 billions of souls on Earth, there are about 4.6 acres/person, or 1.86 hectare.

Many of the most interesting and useful analyses of Earth's resource situation provide a similar mapping.

I'm aware of David MacKay's Without the Hot Air which maps just energy use by land area (with a focus on the UK). What becomes painfully evident is that it would be immensely challenging to supply energy equivalent to present utilisation from wind and solar potential of the British Isles alone, meaning something would have to give. (Less energy utilisation, imports from elsewhere, and/or both.) Many industrialised nations face similar challenges.

Vaclav Smil is another, with Energy and History and Energy and Civilization both looking at energy-as-land-use based on 1 kW/m^2 influx (and lesser densities of wind, hydro, geothermal, etc.). Smil is the source of one of the more picturesque descriptions of oil wells: punctiform sources of energy, a hole in the ground a few inches wide through which millions of years of accumulated ancient sunshine spew forth. Combine that with Jeffrey S. Dukes "Burning Buried Sunshine" (2003) <https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1026391317686>, which I've posted to HN a few times (limited discussion), to realise that we're consuming fossil fuels at millions of times their rate of formation, a cost utterly unaccounted for in market prices.

(Imagine a YC-funded startup had a similar burn-rate....)

And yes, social sciences, including economics, sociology, political science, and political economy very often utterly ignore these facts, on both the left and right, simply because they're ideologically inconvenient. As I've already commented, my first impression on seeing this item in the HN queue was that it was some far-left woo along the lines of the Jacque Fresco's Venus Project (<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Venus_Project>). Such schemes are often surprisingly similar to right-libertarian theology, as this turned out to be. The physical and natural sciences (physics, chemistry, ecology, environmental studies) are often deeply and legitimately critical of such views.

Mauricio Schoijet's "Limits to Grwoth and the Rise of Catastrophism" (1999) is a good treatment of how both the ideological right and left frequently reject Limits to Growth arguments: <https://www.jstor.org/stable/3985399> <https://doi.org/10.2307/3985399>

Given that the criticism is also being voiced to power, and to interests which are deeply vested in oil and gas, HN is once again disadvantaging the disadvantaged who speak to truth power, and tone-policing them to boot. I know what your justifications for this are, but it remains a very bad look.
Isn't that something they've already been doing?
I find it hard to wrap my head around a liberal European country letting a river stay so contaminated it's dangerous to swim in, at least in this century.

I think your assumptions around liberal European countries is seriously flawed.
This is true for the US but I there are good functional recycling concepts that work in Europe and probably even in some places in the US.

What I would like to see is a limit on which plastics can be used in packaging which is destined for trash incinerating so that no additives are present that are difficult to filter. Most trash here where I live is incinerated to produce electricity and heat for the surrounding building.
What's DD in this context?
It absolutely works for things other than naked and cartoon women. Here are some generations of my daughter and dog (together!). I believe most of these are from a fine tuned model of them and not an extracted LoRA, though I use that sometimes too: https://imgur.com/a/naHgnel
Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
How often is that done?

I'm overwhelmingly in favor of transparency and disclosure, but there are pretty big national current security concerns here.
chromebooks can boot from other sources in developer mode, pressing ctrl + u on startup brings up a generic SeaBIOS when certain flags are enabled from crosh
As it appears to be in Japan - which retained low interest rates.

According to mainstream theory theirs should be accelerating to the stratosphere and it isn't.

Almost like interest rates are a distributional variable, not a control variable...
Dreamstudio (and ClipDrop, also) uses Stable Diffusion, gettig new SD models generally before public release (both are owned by StabilityAI.)
Depends where the thieves discard the old license plates.
KVM Forum 2023 Day 2 10:15 AM https://youtu.be/hyrw4j2D6I0?t=4684
How did you even get that username? Short ones go so fast, you must have been in the first 1000 users!
Nowhere near half the people support these extremist policies. The senate doesn’t represent popular opinion by any reasonable margin at all, and it’s harmful to imply that it does.
What can the average person do with program names, people involved and locations?

Program names mean nothing unless you can look up their details as they're usually fancy codenames that spark everyone's tin foil hats. Makes for a great news story and a conversation on HN about "what it might be" but apart from that its useless.
I have never understood the appeal of this. You can generate good looking presentations, but that is all.

Is any real science done with this or is it the Powerpoint for PyCon talks?
Victoria,BC has been dumping untreated sewage into the ocean up to a few years ago.
This is just second-hand chit-chat from Bay Area parents, mostly living in Palo Alto/Los Altos/MV/Sunnyvale/Cupertino, about their kids' lives, that I'm talking about.

> Even if it was like that daily, how do you know the Asian kids weren't still playing and enjoying time with friends?

I didn't go and measure daily -- I avoided the place because I didn't want to hang around a bunch of high schoolers -- but it's a sight, and a vibe, that would simply never happen, ever, where I grew up.

It's not like every kid in the school district was there, with nobody left to play on the sports teams.
I also found this tedious and made a tiny vscode extension to make it less tedious

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=TomJenni...
Pix is a great system and I definitely appreciate what our central bank has done.

But what I don’t see people talk about are the other motivations (other than no fees compared to credit cards)

The last number I remember is that around 30MM Brazilians did not have bank accounts. There’s a large amount of “informal” work that happens in the country where people just get paid in cash. Pix is an alternative to that. It incentivises people to get a bank account.

My tin-foil hat alter-ego can’t help but think that this helps the central bank have more oversight of where the money is going. And the central bank does share data with our “IRS”. That’s probably a good way to find people that should’ve been paying taxes and aren’t.
Do you still vote for them? That's the only message that matters.
I run Jupyter lab with R and Python kernels for bioinformatics analysis. I saw it once in some tutorial and kind of liked it more than notebook.
Yep, but some of the bugs take years to fix. Some are fixed quickly, some are not fixed for years, and it doesn't always depend on bug severity. Long time ago there was an UI bug in the debugger that wasn't fixed for a long time, maybe like a year.

Although I admit that I rarely see serious bugs now. They were more frequent 10 years ago. Still, bugs with docker/docker compose integration remain and they are highly annoying to me since I almost exclusively develop in docker now. And it seems that docker integration has much less priority for evolution and bug fixing than other areas of JetBrains IDEs. In almost all new releases there's no bug fixes and improvements related to docker integration (and I try to browse their release announcements often).

As of git integration, for me there's almost everything I need. I even started to do rebase more often in the IDE rather than in command line.
Little Nully we call him
Can you connect to a running server or other running application, inspect live in memory data, change live in memory data, redefine functions and classes and have those changes take immediate effect without restarting the server or app?

I think that is that is the big difference.

It’s a triple edged sword bonded to a double barreled shotgun though, and the very antithesis of the idea of functional programming vs mutable state.
Let’s say I want to do something simple but slightly beyond the scope of a traditional toy demonstration:

* Read some environment variables and a local file

* Start a monitoring thread that consumes from a channel or something similar, then every X s or X events writes to a local temp file and then sends a request batching some metrics to an external system

* Configure and start an http server

* Said server has a handler that 0. Starts a timer 1. loads, then increments an atomic “num requests served until now” variable 2. uses synchronization to lock on a list or ring buffer containing the last 5 requests’ user-agent headers 2.5 copies the current last 5 values, replaces oldest one with the one from the handles request, unlocks 3. generates a json response containing like “num_so_far: x, last5agent: [..], “some_env_var”:..” 3.5 stops the timer 4. write request user agent and time interval to monitoring thread’s channel 5. write response and end handling

* server’s gotta be able to do concurrency > 1 with parallelism

* On sigterm set the server to a state that rejects new requests, waits for existing requests to complete, then flushes the monitoring channel

I’d consider this a trial run of some of the most basic patterns commonly used by networked software: init io, immutable shared state, atomic mutable shared state, synchronization locked shared state, http ingress and egress, serialization, concurrency, parallelizarion, background threads, os signals, nontrivial cleanup. In Go, Java, or C++ I could write this with my eyes closed. How easy is it in Haskell or Lisp?

If you know of any demos or repos that do something like this - not a pure toy or barebones demo, but not a huge task all in all- in either I’d be interested in seeing what it looks like.
I was talking about web servers and web apps, not about businesses. They can patch the software if they want to allow Chrome users.
I don't get why no one ever throws out time travel as an explanation over extraterrestrial.

Given the limit of the speed of information and the expansion of the universe, there's a VERY small area that would even be aware of the signals we've started sending out over the past century to come looking.

But Earth would be an extremely interesting destination....for future Earth.

Though personally the most likely answer is that it's our own tech that the people sighting it don't have clearance to even know about which is why USINT is so against more attention to reports of sightings.

But if I had to put my money on outlandish claims, time traveling ships would get my best any day over extraterrestrial ones.
Yes, that's true.

What makes you think that the API described in this post would be subject to those kinds of legal and/or regulatory requirements?

Could it be the case that the author knows prima facie that no such requirements exist for their service?
Well for starters, you would never have to hear that awful fan noise from your computer :)
> Does the Eupnea Project collect any telemetry?

> No, setting up telemetry services is too much work.

Ha
In wartime, he is their Commander in Chief. A common wartime saying is: The enemy of my enemy, is my friend.

I don't know what his policy was like before Russia invaded, but right now that's on pause, and his job is to lead his country through.

Now is not the time to ring the Division Bell. Zelensky has been doing a good job against a formidable opponent and invader. Weakening his position from the inside seems quite counter-productive.
https://japantoday.com/category/entertainment/will-twitter%E...
They wanna force you to buy premium
In Detroit I think unemployment rose (and quality of life declined) before the population started to shrink - the order of the cause and effect are important!

OTOH in countries with decreasing overall populations due to birth rate and not lack of economic opportunity (emmigration), it might be possible to sustain high employment rates, low crime, and good quality of life. (There might be more need to fund social services, however, if the population is also aging).
Pine64 vs. Odroid EMMC Performance Testing
> Being able to run self contained postgres with a single command is an easy ergonomic win. You don't necessarily need to be an engineer or write code for containers to be useful.

Postgres is a poor example; it's far far easier to do `apt-get install postgresql` than to run it from a container.

The latter needs a container set up with correct ports, plus it needs to be pointed at the correct data directory before it is as usable as the former.
It does seem like America is the best as having UFO stories and alien conspiracies.
But that’s not the same thing at all. If you’re debugging an exception in Java, you cannot continue execution as if the exception had not been thrown at all. With Common Lisp’s condition system you can.
Nobody has ever collected money for a TCPA violation
How long do you keep the transaction logs before rewriting them?

I too had a few EC2 instances go down with signs of being severed from the EBS in the recent couple of weeks; mine were in eu-west.
Note that Common Lisp contains CLOS, which is one of the most advanced object-oriented systems even now. Most Lisps are not functional like Haskell is.
Did the development of Excel 2003 not benefit from all of the work done in the previous versions? Even if it had been a from-scratch rewrite, which it was not, it would have still benefited from the design iteration and experience of the development team in solving the same problems in previous versions. Excel 2003 was not a first-release that was suddenly a refined product that would be useful for years without additional maintenance. I used Excel a few times in the 80s, and regularly through the 90s and early 2000s on Macs and Windows and wrote quite a bit of VBA for them professionally.

What part of my claim is bizarre? My claim is simply that Word and Excel had 20 years of history prior to the 2003 release. Your claim that it was originally written on a different OS is not really a reasonable counter-argument. The Windows version of Excel came out 2 years after the Mac version, so that only knocks the history of the "Windows" version down to 16 years.
> Because it's easier, cheaper and better?

I refuse to accept that recycling a glass container is any easier, cheaper or better than just washing and reusing it. Probably similar for other products.
I primarily use Jupyter Lab. I have some frustrations but I generally like being able to manage multiple kernels from one notebook, having multiple views into one notebook, having context-sensitive help, and having some of the other features that were only in Lab.

That being said, I'm glad they've switched course and continue to work on Notebook once it became clear some people preferred it to Lab. With some of the added features and the ability to switch between Lab and Notebook more easily, I may give Notebook another try.
Why do most FAANG-type businesses require use of Chrome then?
Lets try regulation and see what happens; something has to change.

How difficult is it to undo a law that """"protects""" children? Political suicide for anyone
It’s not an officially banned word but I live in the USA and folks turn off their brain if you advocate for communism. Also it’s not very specific to advocate for communism because doing so leaves things quite open to interpretation. Would that mean I want Soviet style communism? Chinese style communism? Advocating for “community ownership of the means of production” is precise without being overly proscriptive. I’m not talking about a government at all - we can achieve this ownership a variety of ways. Way better to discuss specifics than use a term that will cause a million comments like “we tried that and it failed”. This openness allows people to decide on their own how the goal might be achieved instead of believing I am going to come in like Lenin or Mao and push a specific plan. I don’t want to do that!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36884155

And this particular feature? They want to pretend it's s standard. You don't create a spec proposal for a feature you don't just develop internslly
Due Diligence. Check that it is safe and clean.

No obnoxious currents (generally or due to recent rainfall) for example.

No debris. No disease. No sewerage. Rocks. Sudden depth changes. Things that will eat you.

What about boats? Locks?

Is it legal?

Even then probably would want a life jacket anyway.

That said back at 20 I’d just jump in on the basis that if someone else has it is probably ok.

But watch what they do when a baby poos in your local aquatic centre. They don’t fuck around. Everyone is out in seconds.
SNOWDEN ALERT: It'd be yet another great excuse for the government to spy on their citizens. It's not all bad... for those that don't really care and aren't breaking any laws, and "don't care about privacy", they might be fine with it, as most of us are when we hop on to any social media account we use.
I usually use arthur@example.com, guaranteed to be a permanently valid domain name and also not to spam anyone.
Is it Lee or Kim? LeeKim-99
I come from a place that has experienced a population drop of ~30% over the last ~30 years. During the same time period inflation adjusted GDP has ~doubled, quality of life has increased immensely.

Granted, all of this is due to historically extraordinary events playing out. But still, less population doesn’t necessarily imply no or negative growth. There’s an interplay of factors affecting if growth is possible, and population is just one parameter of those.