skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What languages are you talking about? I find that the weaker the type system the more I feel fiddling with it is a waste, eg Python, but I don't feel that way when I'm working with a strong type system that can not only help eliminate bugs but aid the compiler in analysis and actually deliver a better artefact, eg Rust.

LSPs are a sort of middle ground where I derive a lot of the value from, and even weak type systems really help the analysis of the LSP. They make me immensely more productive. I've been writing a lot of TypeScript lately, and I may not have taken the plunge to the frontend if LSPs hadn't made it dramatically easier. So in that case the impact on my productivity is +100%.
From Meaningness:

> [Those sailing in the sea of meaningness] must be collaborative, creative, improvised, intimate, transient, beautiful, playful, and spiritual.

https://meaningness.com/fluidity-preview

From the same work as the section Geeks, MOPS, and Sociopaths in Subculture Evolution:

https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths

Anyone know how where absurdist philosophy (Camus) falls on the meaningness stance scale?
Do you have a plan to add snowflake as a datasource ?
Methane decomposes on the atmosphere (it burns into CO2 and H2O). It has a ~20 years half-life.
The counterpoint is that this isn't a step that is being taken because we are desperately trying to feed all of humanity.
Its a step thats being taken because these providers want to increase their profit margins.

The question is whether thats a good enough reason to take whatever risks are being taken here.
I just realized there aren't any bugs on my windshield when I drive but that wasn't the case when I was a kid...
I will fix. Thank you.
Yeah I have no idea either. To me what is happening (not happening?) is surreal.
We build a train and then someone asks to turn it into a skyscraper because skyscrapers are the in thing now. It already looks like one on its side, how hard can it be to turn it right side up?
I've got an engineers style mindset for these kind of calculations.

897 is about 900. 394 is about 400. 900×400 = 360,000. Only 2% error!
Oh neat, thanks for sharing!
Shorts are gross. A great example of the medium becoming the message.
On top of that, pesticide application and environmental effects are the dangers of pesticide application, not human consumption. Most pesticides are just CO2 by the time they get to the shelf and ALL pesticide residues that don’t become co2 must be verifiably 100% safe for people to eat.
Array programming is an extremely powerful paradigm that is criminally underused outside of data science applications. It also feels like the full power of array programming hasn't been explored yet.
No, they're saying the claims made about Henry Cort in a paper lack historical evidence in favor of telling an ideological story, which shouldn't have passed peer review.

A couple of historians have already done the fact checking.

Edit: Oh I misread your post. You're referring to commenters critiquing ideological opponents, not the author.
(This was a reply to someone who replied to you, but they deleted their reply while I was writing. They had mentioned that online sellers will sell you single capacitors at decent prices but shipping is a killer)

Yeah, it is the shipping that is killer. You are doing some hobby project and find you need a capacitor or resistor that you don't have, and then you either order just what you need and pay 10x on shipping, or order a whole bunch of them hoping that someday you'll need them, or you find other things you also need or might need someday to add to your order.

It's particularly annoying when I just want a few cheap parts that are all thin, weigh practically nothing, and are not fragile. Why can't Mouser or DigiKey just toss them into an envelope, put a first class stamp on it, and mail it? I'd be willing to accept the risk and eat the loss if somehow the post office manages to break my resistors or capacitors.

What I've done for resistors and capacitors is order some kits that contains a bunch of them. I got a resister kit that has 860 resistors (10 each of the E12 values from 0 to 10M ohm), and a capacitor kit that has 645 capacitors that has a range of ceramic and electrolytic capacitors, with 30 each of the most common values and 10 each of the less common values.

I've also got a 600 transistor kit (15 common types, 40 each), and a 220 piece inductor kit (22 values, 10 each).

The particular kits I bought aren't available anymore, but as an example here's a currently available 1280 piece resistor kit for $11 [1].

The kits will probably have all the resistors, capacitors, inductors, and transistors I'll need for a while, and if I do end up using all of a particular value from one of the kits I'll then also know that is a value that is worth stocking up on.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Resistor-Assorted-Resistors-Assortmen...
I think your first sentence that one "can't slander the dead" would be highly controversial, especially considering "don't speak ill of the dead" is an English proverb.

I personally believe in that proverb (there may be extremes where it would be okay), and many others do too - or else, it wouldn't have attained its status as one.
"It's the man, not the machine."* - Chuck Yeager

* "Without me, my rifle is useless. Without my rifle, I am useless."**

It's the man and the machine together as a super-organism.

** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rifleman%27s_Creed

Disclaimer: I played with a Da Vinci prototype sewing grapes but I'm definitely no surgeon. My hands shake more than someone with Parkinson's. I cannot fathom subsequent generations of refinements in steadier hands with surgical experience. Clarke's third law applies here. Although, I wonder before how long AI and mechatronics will receive credit for simple veterinary surgeries as a testbed on the path to a truly miraculous, sci-fi "surgical chamber".
Because it's perfect the way it is.
Yandex image search/visual search is also pretty good.
i think it’s a super cool concept. my favourite aesthetic must be the Gen X Soft Club
I don’t think it’s in you’re head. I’ve driven across most of the U.S. and have lived in major cities that are known for their traffic/bad drivers, and Texas, by a long shot, had some of the worst drivers I’ve seen across the U.S. Same experience as you, reckless speeding, drivers running red lights and making unsafe lane changes in massive pick up trucks.

This might have to do with an old law that was changed around 2008-2010ish that allowed permitted drivers to skip the physical driver’s test if they opted to learn through the parent taught driver’s ed program (the driver’s parents could essentially just sign a form saying the driver had enough hours of driving experience which would allow them to waive the in person driving test).
> And that's far from being enough.

Based on what? We already have optimistic signs in developed countries where emissions per capita have declined.

As others have said, no idea how you impose degrowth short of dictatorship
Consider El Niño as a sneak preview.

What El Niño events do is bump sea-surface temperatures up by a degree or two. That's equivalent to looking a few decades forward to see what an equivalent whole-globe temperature rise might look like, excepting such issues as general ice-cap melting (Antarctica & Greenland), though including accelerated glacial melting in regions seeing EN warming.

But for at least some weather, wildfire, drought, crop-yield, and species-adaptations (both invasive and extinctive) potential, we're getting an early look at what's already in the pipeline.

It's also a warning that future EN events, on top of further warming, will likely be much worse.
OK, it's a shared web hosting service, but with metered everything rather than flat-billing. Is this a win over HostGator, DreamHost, etc.?
Have you ever thought about combining coding and social networking? You might want to explore websites like http://val.town/, which hosts a Reddit-style community where users can share web components. Since coding can be a solitary pursuit, adding a social element could be a fascinating concept.
Basically the local politicians were suckered in by the promise of massive investments, and made some terrible decisions including forcing out some local residents to make room for development that never happened. It's definitely worth listening to the whole thing, as it's a pretty compelling story about why local communities should be very cautious and skeptical about these types of investments promises.
Many times throughout history it seems tied more to a refusal to conform to the consensus reality of the ruling class, e.g., not worshipping some emperor as a god, not having the same theology, questioning “settled” narratives, etc.
Why was the title changed? Isn't HN policy to use the original title unless it's very misleading?
This is not a new problem. How many places was Amazon going to build the new HQ? When I was a teenager GE got a big financial package to build a factory in our area. They built the building but it always remained empty. And on it goes.
People have been hearing "more is better" their whole lives, hell, I was promised vacations twice a year, sports car, big comfortable house. I won't get that and I am ok with it but that's not a popular stance I am afraid.

My latest train of thought is going semi off-grid just in case degrowth hits us too rapidly. Big cities will not be fun.
A 2020-level reduction just slows the disaster down slightly.

What we need is a wholesale conversion to a fossil-free civilization. That means building a whole lot of stuff, and we need a growing economy to afford that.
Yeah. Walker also turned down federal infrastructure funds because he didn't want to be seen using federal tax dollars.allbbecause he thought he was gearing up for a presidential run ... Until Trump ate his lunch
where do seasonal populations like you describe stay in Geneva? (I'm imagining they're not camping for the summer.)
> It doesn’t work for many people whose idea of a workday is to put in 1-2 hours of focus and then browse the internet all day, which is a larger portion of the developer population than I would have guessed before becoming a manager

Yeah, but not necessarily for any malicious reason. It may not matter to you. My impression is that these people are burnt out from high school and college. But they fit a superficially, stereotypically identical profile to like, the one person you know putting in 80 hour weeks, so they keep getting hired. This is not a fringe idea, it's common enough to be made fun of in movies.

My point is that there are a dozen commenters litigating all sorts of irrelevant issues, when the explanation for how people who want to work 1-2h weeks keep getting $200k/yr+ jobs seems obvious to many non-industry laypeople.
Well if you want to avoid getting into the weeds, since it appears you have a peculiar idea of validity that does not reflect the legal or logical usage, then by all means.

Anyways I agree this is a tangent from the main comment chain, if that's what your implying. I included the last paragraph for that reason:

> And in any case there are many real world products which so far have not been reverse engineered to a sufficient degree to recreate, such as the fixed glass trackpad previously mentioned. If you can prove otherwise then I would welcome a link.
What has your personal website or blog deprived you from?
I see it’s common for people on HN to have a personal website/blog prasing it.

What has your personal blog deprived you from?
Here's a paper on the effects of rosemary on long term memory [1]. And a great video explaining how aromatherapy is believed to work [2]. After I saw these, I went and bought a bottle of rosemary extract and was surprised to find out it smell exactly like VapoRub to me (even though it doesn't contain any).

1. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2314808X1...

2. https://youtu.be/zackfqlOwZ4
Funny how often we allow shitty practices in one area because we already allow shittier practices in another. Why not have good policies instead of accepting bullshit all the time?
It isn't like farmed salmon is a crucial staple food without substitutes - nobody will starve without it. There are plenty of other fish breeds that are less damaging across their production lifecycle.

Farmed salmon is a luxury good and we shouldn't be harming the environment for that.
I tried https://news.ycombinator.com and it's saying an error occurred.
Does anyone have a Dracula (Bram Stoker's) edition that they can recommend? Have always been interested in reading it and this discussion has piqued my interest again.

Edit: I was searching for a good version and came across this article with this interesting tidbit:

> Bram Stoker did not intend for Dracula to serve as fiction, but as a warning of a very real evil, a childhood nightmare all too real.

But his editor prevented it, apparently concerned it would alarm the public.

> When the novel was finally released on May 26, 1897, the first 101 pages had been cut, numerous alterations had been made to the text, and the epilogue had been shortened, changing Dracula’s ultimate fate as well as that of his castle. Tens of thousands of words had vanished. Bram’s message, once concise and clear, had blurred between the remaining lines.

> In the 1980s, the original Dracula manuscript was discovered in a barn in rural northwestern Pennsylvania. Nobody knows how it made its way across the Atlantic. That manuscript, now owned by Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen, begins on page 102.

https://time.com/5411826/bram-stoker-dracula-history/

Now I am very curious what the dracula/castle fate changes were. If the published version is good I would expect the original may have been even better. Especially since the criticisms against it (would alarm the public) are no longer relevant.
Incompetent politicians and a lot do wishful thinking.
2-3 C will probably break society. I have heard opinions about Earth's carrying capacity being 1B people at 4C, imagine that possibility.

At 2 C a cascade of tipping points might start:

https://climatetippingpoints.info/2022/09/09/climate-tipping...
Beer is great for gut health?
2 things:
1. Modern agriculture is generally better for the soil than traditional. Look up the difference between till and no till. You just can’t do no till at the scale needed to feed the world unless we all start picking weeds full time.

2. The point that they are making is that there are ways to create biodiversity within modern ag that are actually required by law. You are not supposed to plant gmo or spray your whole field to keep a remnant of the original population, riparian buffers, cover crops (voluntary), and other voluntary buffer zones (pollinator fields etc). These can all preserve biodiversity and prevent resistance while still outputting the food needed at the price we all want to pay.
It's not size, it's function. Their evil only becomes apparent at scale, it still exists at every level. Capitalists, fundamentally, are parasites. I think a better idea would be to make it so that all companies must be worker-owned coops instead of slavery operations owned by a small group of parasites.
An important propaganda function in forming group unity.

In the case of national unity, it seems to have been most effectively implemented by various Chinese dynasties (in fits and starts, of course) and France under Louis XIII and Louis XIV. Famously it was seriously pursued, but luckily not especially effectively, by the Nazi regime.

The case that amuses me most is famous to English speakers, is of course cited in the Wikipedia article: the emergence of a blended "British" culture in the reign of Victoria: Tartans being the most famous, but also national anthems, brides in white, today's formal fashion (suits, military dress uniforms, and the like) and so on. What amuses me most is the ad-hoc nature (so consistent with how the british developed an empire) and especially how widely it spread: North Korean military uniforms look like 19th century upper class dress and Japanese weddings remind one of Victoria's.
If you use it for all general prose, Vale is terrible for those reasons. So is dogmatic adherence to any style guide.

For docs, technical writing, and other formal content where you have multiple authors and consistency matters, Vale can be a fantastic tool to remind users of situations where rules help maintain standards without needing to dedicate time to editing. It can also be terrible, if it's used to force awkwardness to satisfy rules arbitrarily, especially in something like CI (which is where I see Vale abused most often - never block a docs contribution on a prose style rule violation that has no functional effect on the content, just iterate on the language).
Dupe:

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37350943>

2 days ago, 45 comments.
I disagree, why can’t land ownership be in sealed documents much like court documents can be sealed? It’s still registered as before but the documents are available to just anyone anytime without reason and they stay out of the clutches of the sleazy data dealers and such that get my address this way and send me junk and harass me in other ways.
Obfuscation past this would still be possible as you said but the default should be privacy to the owner.
If only there were some person who's job it was to deal with said busy work because you think it's beneath you. Some sort of manager of the program, who is also technical.
nfs.net has been around for as long as I can remember. They offered real shell accounts for a dollar, by snail mail (just to prove you are a real person). They continue to be awesome. Recently (uuh, maybe 15 years ago?) they have offered more capacity for good rates using a metering pricing model.
So, why the hell aren't governments putting clawback clauses in these taxation contracts with companies? They claim the world, and provide a couch, they should have to pay for the contract.

But nooooope. We small folk have to pay OUR taxes each year without fail. When have any of you individuals got a "5 year abatement" from your household taxes? Anyone?
Everyone could be saved a lot of trouble in the above scenario if it were socially acceptable to simply wear a yellow sticky note stating your annual income on your forehead.
This bans hasn't nothing to do with pirate sites that have scams and deceptive design patterns? The last time I visited the pirate bay without ublock origin, I was bombarded with ads with scummy copy like "you won x" or "stream for free now", fake search results, adult ads, and deceptive invisible clickable areas on top of the UI that opened new tabs with suspicious full page ads.

I never followed those links but I'm sure that it will ended up on installing malware or asking for credit cards.

I will understand if the Google Search algorithm de-ranks or bans sites like that, many people totally will fall to this scams.
Maker of ‘smart’ chastity cage left users’ emails, passwords, locations exposed
Ironically, perhaps, considering its popularity among technical writers, Vale's documentation is ambiguous in places and difficult to navigate.
This is why the first order move when "rebalancing" is to just adjust your allocations of new investment money from your post tax income.

e.g. if your stocks and bonds are doing very well and have inflated beyond their allocation, stop buying them and divert all of your savings to cash and gold/bitcoin.
Guesstimate: Fermi Estimation for Startups
It seems your confused 'runnerup', your behaving as if I had initially responded to your comment, when in fact it's the opposite, even more so as you started asking strangely combative questions under a response I made for 'reaperman'.

Usual HN custom is to answer one question after the other user answers one, or two for two, etc., not to ignore them and immediately demand answers to subsequent questions. And I had already answered two without even getting an answer to:

>Why would I be asserting that to you or anyone else?
Life expectancy has a lot to do with healthcare, which is most definitely a political topic in America.
Here's another alternative: Itsycal

brew install itsycal

https://www.mowglii.com/itsycal/

I like that you can customise the menu bar formatting, even adding custom messages.
Ask HN: Has anyone noticed how hard it is for ChatGPT to obey all instructions?
I can tell it over and over in multiple ways to output all the code and skip nothing and time and time again it skips things and puts in comments saying "fill this in".

Will a day come when AI knows how to do what it is told?
>In some countries, the government sends out a tax bill as if it's a fait accompli and the poor citizens just have to take it.

In Australia at least we get a pre-filled form, but we still need to validate and submit it. If there is a discrepancy we can correct it then. The government isn't just "sending a bill", and because of pay as you go taxes happening via the employer most people are more likely to get money back than they are to owe more - for example if you get a pay rise you are taxed on each pay cheuque as if you were getting that pay rate for the whole financial year, but often people have part of the year at the old lower pay rate and so might get some back.
This was my experience as well- I started my career with an agency, and it grew from 80 to about 500 people in the course of 7 years. My last two there made it abundantly clear it was turning to the grifty side- every year, we were less profitable, and every year, they kept pushing for ways to get more hours (document more! Test more! Add more value!) despite the fact that the quality we delivered varied greatly from one team to the next.

It was really hard to watch what had been a committed group turn into a grubby machine.
Odd thing to acronymise. (If you insist on doing so, it should probably be EdT or simply ET in any case).
Dupe: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37359310>

2 days ago, 36 comments.
With all due respect, I think 99+% of people who Google “coronavirus” are looking for info about Covid-19, and as such the results being about C19 is pretty reasonable imo. It’s like how if you Google “watergate” you’ll near-exclusively get stuff about the watergate scandal (because that’s what most people who search “watergate” are looking for), and not about booking at the watergate hotel or other amenities of the watergate complex.
What about using chromadb without langchain?

I am currently using it this way and it is really easy to just get started.

I don't know how well it compares with others, however.
Maybe "hero" is over the top, but "star of the show" would be appropriate.

And I'm sure we'll get to autonomous surgery at some stage, but we can't even get autonomous driving right, and I feel like surgery is even more precise and potentially dynamic.
Second hand on Grand Seiko quartz watches moves once per second, but makes two jumps. You can see it in slow motion video, but not with a naked eye.
It took more energy to respond in such an abrasive way, than it would've to just ignore the comment if you found it so silly. Go take your social ineptitude elsewhere
Ahhh. I was misunderstanding. Thanks.
It can go a lot deeper: take the Tokyo University CPU project as an inspiration:

You need to use FPGA board to build a machine that runs an OS ported to this architecture, which has a high level language with a proper tool chain, all built by yourself. Then you use the language to build DB, Webserver and such.
This protocol graph idea sounds intriguing. I'd love to hear more about it if you're interested in sharing.
I don't know (and really don't want to know) the philosophies of any of the people who've made most of the things I really like. The artist is different from the product.