skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Programming languages are restrictions. A 'program' is information passed to an interpreter, where the language describes what that interpreter will do with your program. That interpreter has restrictions, upon which the language may add further restrictions.

The only language with zero restrictions relative to the interpreter is the language that interpreter acts on, e.g. aarch64 machine code for a specific processor instance. And even then, the restrictions of that CPU are very much present.

What do you have in mind for an unrestricted language?
The linked article appears to be an April Fools joke https://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Prank-the-Instructab...
How much CO2 is actually needed to make that toy or T-Shirt though? I expect uts pretty minimal.
Trauma can be lifelong if it isn’t worked through, but some trauma can be worked through (and hallucinogens are showing promise of working through trauma quicker than medication&talk therapy alone). I think the actual emotional trauma response however is individually maybe 10-15 mins long at maximum, but feeling the emotion often causes you to think other triggering thoughts or behave in a manner exacerbating the trigger, thus making an individual 10-15 minute thing take hours to sort itself out.
> Yes, I am ok, I am just moving on a higher plane of reasoning than pretty much anyone else currently

Real talk: anyone who talks like this isn’t in a good way. Please take that seriously, and take care of yourself.

I’m not sure engaging any further would be fruitful, but reason about the likelihood of yourself “operating on a higher plane of existence/seeing the inner truth/understanding that everyone else is blind/cracking the code” against simply having a manic episode of some kind.

Because what you’ve described above is just… programming, just stripped down to the abstract and ignoring all practicalities.

There isn’t a great truth in that, or a higher plane of existence, and the lack of your ability to clearly articulate the concepts combined with classic delusional catchphrases is really, really indicative of something else going on.

And the inability for others to understand your great discoveries is not evidence of your higher plane of existence, it’s because you’re spouting semi-delusional abstract nonsense without a clear train of thought or concise argument.
I've done modelling work for mine planning projects when people were deciding where to put a mine. Quite a lot of it.

Lithium has been a trendy commodity for years. If the US doesn't have a lot of active lithium mines - which it does not - it is going to be because of legislative impediments. Probably environmental ones. There aren't a lot of other reasons. It is common for environmental restrictions as the root cause of mines not being started, particularly in lithium from what I gathered.

You're not going to get a citation, this is literally just stuff I happened to know quite well a few years ago.
"Git scraping: track changes over time by scraping to a Git repository" (2020)
https://simonwillison.net/2020/Oct/9/git-scraping/ :

> Every 20 minutes it grabs the latest copy of that JSON endpoint, pretty-prints it (for diff readability) using jq and commits it back to the repo if it has changed.

> This means I now have a commit log of changes to that information

A static site builder can rebuild just the pages of the site that need to be changed once in a Github Action that updates the site when a Pull Request is merged to main.

Though, if the data quality is insufficient because the data sources are not updated, then downstream apps and static sites that depend upon the data are also insufficient.
Al Gore strikes me as one of the many boring centrist politicians we have been electing here in Denmark for the past 60 years.

Obviously that means he has no chance in the US.
I never heard about Mopria framework or certification.
Would this mean that now we can assume that all printers should work in Linux by just supporting this single interface?
I've not worked in tech support exactly, but dev on internal apps that we also run the ops for.

These types of users beyond the morals/niceness issue just seem plain stupid.

The most intelligent manipulative users I observed were the ones who do the exact opposite - chew out the boss regularly, but are absolute saints to the lower level "doers".

They engender good will with the people actually doing the ops work, often end up getting them to go the extra mile. Plus they shell shock the boss enough that the ops people are given the priority to work on their issues.
That's what happens when you remove the GIL.

Edit: the video was the best laugh I had on YouTube this year, thanks!
Crazy how a bunch of CIA connected people got him that job giving him that access, probably nothing.
Absolutely agree; I think the anti-skeuomorphic "clean" fashion of the last decade has been terrible for discoverability even in mobile apps, and it's somewhat ironic that the same design cues have gone back to WIMP devices, giving us interfaces designed to look like touch screen mobile apps even though the tech is different — and design cues matching a different technology in order to give a sense of familiarity is the actual definition of skeuomorphic.
> Knowing the precise identity and number of killers won't give any extra useful detail.

Yes it does matter, if the official story established by the Warren commission is not true, it does matter to know why was Kennedy assassinated and by whom exactly, because Kennedy's death has had so many worldwide implications, that this isn't even just about USA.

If that story is ever debunked one day, factually, it will change the future of the USA. If the government lied about all that, then what other things the US government lied about? It will shake the very foundations of that country. It's literally the definition of a smoking gun, no pun.
Oops, indeed, brain fart.
It removed the ability for there to be a different narrative. Either Oswald was a lone gunman, or you're a crazy person and believe in conspiracy's.

Read up on Allen Dulles.
But he does have a book coming out now…
For context, we produce about 2000 great pyramids worth of concrete every year.
Interesting, I guess. Lots of things matter as much or more - ductility, toughness, crack resistance, corrosion resistance.
There's also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChromaDepth which uses diffraction grating prismatic lenses to enhance this effect.
I’m in Adelaide and was thinking this week that agapanthus has to be the most socially accepted weed (or close enough) in town. I can appreciate the value of greenery in a dry location though.

I have jasmine as a ground over and sour sobs through it are very difficult to weed out each year. Drives me nuts.

Those from the article that we get here are thistle and mallow AFAIK.
> but spread out across many willing nations

Right after you just wrote off international cooperation to reduce emissions?
Reminds me of a similar project https://hackaday.com/2021/11/25/bring-a-minitel-terminal-bac...
A brushless motor is a 3 phase motor without brushes. A brushed motor is a dc motor with brushes.

I say that because both can spin up very aggressively.

What you’re seeing is not really because it’s brushless- it’s a “soft start” feature… most likely. It could also be that your unit is a variable speed.

Now — I may be completely misunderstanding what you’re asking. If so apologies. I went from an old unit to a newer variable speed, and the starting does seem very smooth, even when cranking up to full vs the jarring and faster spin up of the old unit.
So Kennedy was the first one even
Nothing ad companies like GOOG do is for your benefit or harmless. Everything they do it to increase or maintain their ad revenue. That's why ad companies make web browsers.
There's no way (for most of us with finite resources) to verify the vast majority of history, even recent history, even history that happened today. To me this is like saying "who cares what may or may not have happened in the past".

This particular conspiracy theory is interesting because the assumed enemy here—the Soviet Union—was ostensibly (and seeming authentically) unhappy to see this happen. So who wanted JFK dead and why?
> ... adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere

It seems to me, that is what happened here. Russia is an enemy of US, at least at the moment. Musk gave Russia (an enemy of US) aid by preventing Ukrainians from using drones against Russia.

I am curious, how will US respond to Musk?

Will Musk respond by claiming Russia is not an enemy of US?
Was that a thing though (in the west) as the dowry was usually brought by the womans family? Wasn't it more like the womans family bying the son in order to have someone to support them. Trades was not really a thing for most people throughout history so the ability to toil in the fields were of paramount importance as the only way to support the family.
Ah, a fellow person of culture. Mine is called shite [1], which makes my site [2]. The name alludes to the software quality :)

What I like most about it is I haven't had to upgrade anything, and don't expect to forever. And a close second; it "hot reloads" without javascript.

[1] https://github.com/adityaathalye/shite

[2] https://evalapply.org
> No longer purchasing women from fathers

That is not how dowry worked. The bride brought the dowry, not the groom. So basically the father/family would pay the husband to be to take the daughter off their hands.
We don't have to convince every nation to contribute to carbon capture.

OTOH, reducing emissions demands cooperation from everyone.
My roommate through all of college was a man from Taiwan. We were and still are good friends. He started dating a girl from Japan around our Sophomore year and the next thing I knew our room was full of cases of canned coffee.

Turns out the girl's father had tried to start up an export business shipping cans of coffee to the US. Didn't work, but my roommate loved it so his girlfriend off-loaded all of it on him, after her father had done the same to her.
i cannot tell you how much i enjoyed this article. it was very funny. it had so many great elements. a fun tech problem, pizza, getting me to look up what “s-tier” meant, a dash of humor (as if the premise wasn’t already hilarious), the mea culpa at the end and the ideas as to what the bug was (his theory sounds plausible to me, but idk).
AYA Neo Flip handheld gaming PC with clamshell and thumb keyboard is coming
Would you let me inject 0.02% of your blood volume worth of hydrogen cyanide into your body and we see if it's a "miniscule amount" that can't do anything? Of course not, that's well enough to kill someone! Discounting something because the number looks small must be the laziest bad-faith argument one can make...

And of course nobody wants to remove all the CO2 in the atmosphere. Another silly, bad-faith diversionary argument...
> around 10B tonnes of C every year

For comparison world uses around 97 000 000 barrels of oil per day, or about 3.5 billion tonnes of oil per year.

Switching to synthetic oil (or any other hydrocarbon - I think methane is the easiest) would make a significant difference (and would make renewables much more viable, by solving the energy storage problem).
What negative responses do you expect? Don't feel like there are a lot of HN dualists out there.
All true. It goes even farther: hiding the file structure, and even the concept of files. Ask a nontechnical Windows or Mac user where their files are stored - they have no idea. Ask if they are in the cloud - no idea. Worse - just as with UIs - there is no consistency where different apps store their data. We also shouldn't forget the idiocy of hiding file-extensions.

To add insult to injury Windows lies to non-English speakers. In German, for example, it will tell you your home directory is in "Benutzer", but there actually is no such directory, there is only "Users". These attempts to hide complexity wind up creating confusion and more complexity.
Why the obsession (it seems to be the prominent point in the readme) with configuration via API? How often do you need to add php support on the fly? I want to configure my app server via files so it just starts up in the state that I expect. What am I missing?
Cloudglance
Yes, hence the question about why one would wear a lead apron for welding. UV, hot metal bits, and metal fumes are the primary dangers.
Still not much compared to the world industrial capacity. S Bagger 288 costs $100 million and can excavate 10 great pyramids a year.

Excavation capacity is not the bottleneck here.
and why not?
Both are neural nets.
Carbon versus Silicon.

It's just scale at this point. At this point, maybe human neurons and connections are more complex than what can be done in a machine, but not for long.

Humans only think they are special, that a machine can't feel.

But that is only our subjective experience of ourselves, which itself is also just interpretation. It seems like everyone is in agreement that our perception of the outer world is fallible. But so is our perception of our internal processes. Our inner thoughts are just as opaque to us as the outer world.

"Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills." Schopenhauer.
I'm all for synthetic, cheaply produced diamonds replacing all others in these scam markets. For example, the re-sale loss often encountered from selling on those old diamonds you find lying around the house is often a 25% to 50% haircut [1]. It's not some old rusty Nissan for goodness sake, it's precisely the same thing you bought previously, with none of its apparent purpose diminished in any way.

[1] - https://www.brightonsavoy.com.au/why-does-a-diamond-have-no-...
From just a UI point of view, my preference is MacOS 8 — and I don't mean Mountain Lion, I mean Classic.

The rest of the OS would be a nightmare today for so many reasons; but the UI was fantastic.
It's not unlike a tragedy of the commons, clicking through Wikipedia maybe "Collective action problem" is even more apt? Individual app makers do things which they like and want without considering the wider implications of cross-app usability in the operating system.

In isolation many apps may be acceptable, but that falls down in the wider context.

The problem would be less of a problem if everyone did the same thing (bad or good UI) in a similar manner, because then there is predictability which is a powerful concept in user interaction.
> There exists a problem on the web where anonymous visitors are being served unrelevant ads

No, the problem is that ads shouldn't exist at all. Ad companies like GOOG should just die.
As a wise man once said: ”Back and to the left”

Also, was Oswald’s own assassination at the hands of a mob figure ever satisfactorily explained?
You need to prohibit them worldwide, which requires plenty of coercion of other countries.

While carbon capture can be unilateral.
This thread correctly identifies "discoverability", perhaps aka "progressive disclosure", or "some form of incrementalism" as the measure by which good user interfaces are evaluated. Operating systems such as Windows, OSX, and Linux -- inevitability -- contain much complexity, and multiple modules, not all of which are necessarily in use by the users at any given time.

Therefore, the problem of GUI design becomes one of navigating the complexity/depth-of-knowledge curve, as much as it does creating a usable set of features at each point along it.

The most egregious offenders are the latest Windows, 10 and later, IMHO. When I was a kid, (coming from the world of RISC OS which had a much shallower GUI) trying to understand the big deep Windows interface, I joined the dots by telling myself "This is how they put it together. This is how they are trying to make the things work consistently and in concert." I rarely broke out of that story-telling loop.

Now, when using Windows 10 or later, and a few clicks brings one to a Windows 2000 and before-era network dialogue box, the "fourth wall" as it were, of GUI design is broken, the story-telling loop above is replaced by a jarring feeling of bewilderment or all-too familiar frustration, and it's obvious they are shipping the org chart, and doing so over time, as much older GUI components are still available.

At the risk of sounding nihilistic, I fear that both OS X and Windows have reached their respective local maximas of design, and we won't see any changes for the better (by the above metric) any time soon.
I think the Monkees had something to say about that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFUOnT0ZnUc
I as well moved to this sort of approach a few years ago [1]. Definitely like the simple approach and it just stays out of the way.

[1] https://tiehu.is/blog/blog1
Looks pointedly at graphQL projects.
> This can be mostly explained by a mental disorder

Kinda like the Reichstag fire huh
No it doesn't. e.g. the top three countries already emit about 50% of global CO2 annually
I’d also be interested in knowing how much equity engineers get when they join a bigger startup later in their maturity. Ie engineer #100 for Databricks
No, there were a few (iirc 2) prior but I started at Kennedy because the thread is about him, hence recent history.
IME, it's much of the slog you mentioned, until things go sideways. Then suddenly, the few people in the org who actually understand the nitty-gritty are called upon to fix things. Rinse and repeat. That said, at my last place the SRE team did actually create some interesting and useful tooling.

> SWEs don't know how to use a DB

If by "use" you mean access it through an ORM, they do. If you mean "have an inkling about normalization, index design, and the query planner" then no, they absolutely do not.
Where's the "No Ads" checkbox? Ad companies would never honor a "No Ads" checkbox just as they didn't honor the no tracking checkbox. Ad companies like GOOG publish sanitized propaganda to peddle their latest attempt to coerce and entice users in a new direction. The death of GOOG can't come soon enough. They are cancer to the internet.
It is true and the intelligence community lied when they said it wasn't.
I love the code [1]. Mine [2] is a bit over engineered because I wanted hot-reloading (without JS), and it was a delightful yak shave.

But the basic idea is the same --- heredocs for templating, using a plaintext -> html compiler (pandoc in my case), an intermediate CSV for index generation. Also some handy sed-fu [3] to lift out front matter. Classic :)

Very nice!

[1] https://github.com/karlb/karl.berlin/blob/master/blog.sh

[2] https://github.com/adityaathalye/shite

[3] I'm doing this: https://github.com/adityaathalye/shite/blob/master/bin/templ...

case ${file_type} in
org )
# Multiline processing of org-style header/preamble syntax, boxed
# between begin/end markers we have defined. We use org-mode's own
# comment line syntax to write the begin/end markers.
# cf. https://orgmode.org/guide/Comment-Lines.html
sed -n -E \
-e '/^\#\s+shite_meta/I,/^\#\s+shite_meta/I{/\#\s+shite_meta.*/Id; s/^\#\+(\w+)\:\s+(.*)/\L\1\E,\2/Ip}'
;;
md )
# Multiline processing of Jekyll-style YAML front matter, boxed
# between `---` separators.
sed -n -E \
-e '/^\-{3,}/,/^\-{3,}/{/^\-{3,}.*/d; s/^(\w+)\:\s+(.*)/\L\1\E,\2/Ip}'
;;
html )
# Use HTML meta tags and parse them, according to this convention:
# <meta name="KEY" content="VALUE">
# cf. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/HTML/Introduction_to_HTML/The_head_metadata_in_HTML
sed -n -E \
-e 's;^\s?<meta\s+name="?(\w+)"?\s+content="(.*)">;\L\1\E,\2;Ip'
;;
esac
Simple Testing with Git Diff
I dont have any information about canned tea, but I would assume that it exists, since Japan has a whole tea ceremony ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_tea_ceremony ).
And the battery makes the car 1.3 times the weight of a gas-powered car. Making the battery requires much more energy than making a gas tank. The charging infrastructure might prove more expensive than a network of gas stations. Long trips are punctuated by idle periods needed for the battery to charge, so the car's "utilization rate" is lower than a gas-powered car. All I am saying is that it is not 1.00 certain which technology will retain the lowest total cost of ownership as both technologies improve: battery tech is more likely to win, but not certain to win.
Neural nets and brains are fundamentally different. If you cut open a brain you won't find attention blocks. There's no evidence as far as I know that back propagation actually happens. It's a nice model but it is a model.
I've never had any issues with Chase and Firefox combo. Not the Chase is anything more than the garbage heap of banking so maybe it rejecting FF would be a blessing.
Up until a certain point, yes. Then you start wanting back links, navigation, etc., and doing that with make alone doesn’t quite work, especially if you have a deep tree of files - single folder sites don’t typically have a lot of content in them.

(My site is generated by a Python commit webhook that indexes new files, diffs an Azure storage container and uploads updated files only).
Growing trees then cutting them down and burying them is actually a decent carbon capture mechanism, except for the fact you're then depleting your soil and you'll need to burn even more CO2 making more fertilizer...
Should be fixed:
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1700789411279966339?t=71...
It's not about it being a contest, and while hateful words are hateful no matter how "badly hateful" they are, it's also not fair to just lump all words used in a hateful way together because it equates words legitimately used to demean, dehumanize, etc. a group of people with ones that are at worst moderately hateful, like boomer, which is what my point is. Basically, a hateful slur is the N-word, boomer is not the N-word, and equating them in any meaningful way belittles the legitimate hatefulness of the N-word. It's disingenuous to say that boomer is as bad at something like "bitch", but they're a lot closer.
He's right about Gnome for sure. I used to use Ubuntu 14.04-16.04 from 2014 to 2019 along with macOS all these years.

Although macOS has a lot of problems, I returned to Ubuntu (22.04) since July in a new workplace, and it is horrible. This weird empty horizontal top panel and menus behind the hamburger button are just madness.
I mean he did win the popular vote when he ran for president. And likely would have won the electoral college if all valid votes had been counted.
i tried to acquire the taste coffee and honey. never succeeded. though it should be noted that I used acacia honey which is quite acid itself. so yeah, it was a dumb exercise. now I got no time to explore coffee anymore. as long as the coffee tastes bitter and a bit sweet AND goes well with cig, then I'm fine with it.
The house analogy makes zero sense, as my house is not a commons (I am sole owner, even with a mortgage, methinks you don’t have one of these), but if it were then yes, anyone agreeing to the social contract of the government of my home would be allowed in or out.

It’s about how to manage shared resources amongst people who all have equal claim, which is everyone who has agreed to the social contract. When you agreed is irrelevant.

Frankly, I would argue that many people born in the US do not hold up their end of the social contract, and should thus take a backseat to immigrants who would come here and care deeply for the social contact in their place.
Sorry but this is insane.

I want electricity, or more accurately I want to heat my home, wash my clothes, etc.

It is not my consumption that has caused us to continue subsiding oil and not investing properly in renewables for over half a century.