skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Part of me wishes the international virology community was as coordinated as you imagine. It would be nice if we could place the blame on a shadow cabal who sickened the world on purpose for grant money. It would be convenient.

The real world is not nearly that tidy. Most of the Wuhan lab researchers' counterparts don't even speak Chinese, and you're imagining some kind of international conspiracy to drum up a disease and the cure for it.

Oh, to have the naive optimism of the conspiracy theorist. A lot of my projects would be so much more easy if people worked that way.
In the 1980s I had a girlfriend whose father was completely blind and he was a programmer. I don’t know what language(s) he worked in (what was available in the 1980s? C, Fortran, Pascal, COBOL, uh…) and it didn’t occur to me to ask since I didn’t knowing about computers back then. I have thought many times since that it must have been harder for him with the technology restrictions of the 1980s versus today. Just documentation would be hard. No www to look things up. Even up to the early 2000s we were still using physical books for documentation. Was there any digitized documentation in the 1980s?
https://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/bretagne/finistere/j...

Well, isn't "following construction rules" basically means "use concrete and established plans"? I hope i am wrong, but sounds like it's just impossible to satisfy regulations while building something from dirt and grass
Impossible given the original design requirements for C with Classes, while being developed at Bell Labs, require nothing more than a standard UNIX C toolchain.

Hence name mangling, the only way to add some linking type safety, while using a bare bones UNIX linker that only knows C and Assembly.
You're an excellent writer! Some scenes feel poignantly vivid. As in, my thinking "That is the those way those things go, both in moments of happiness and others."

Hope your late November CT brings good news.
As someone who doesn't use Go, how would one handle a situation where two modules actually depend on each other? For example, a parent object owning a child object is normal, but what if that child object sometimes needs a (weak) reference to the parent?
Ask HN: Does bad UI demotivates you when you code?
I know that I'm an opinionated perfectionist.

But sometimes, the interface (and usually code, database, and the whole architecture) is so bad, that you simply have to make bad decisions.

And it really demotivates me.

Business needs money, yes, I heard that. Why business doesn't take into account that by restricting or limiting money/time on making good products (okay, at least decent products), developers and other team members might be frustrated?

Or is it only me?

I could as well ditch VueJS that I use and use jquery, set position absolute for everything and it will be super fast. Sure, we don't need responsible design, we don't even need design at all.

This happens quite often: we need the feature asap, no design provided, let's make is as soon as possible, forget about code review, blah blah
There's a perfectly legitimate reason - citizen's united allows corporations to bribe government officials into writing laws that benefit them.

If taxes worked simply and logically, the whole population wouldn't have to pay $100+ each year to Intuit and H&R Block, which would not please the shareholders.

https://www.propublica.org/article/filing-taxes-could-be-fre...
> nowadays its a solid choice for backend stuff

Hell no. PHP is awful for background processing. I do DevOps for a bunch of different languages (Node.js, Elixir, PHP, Java) and PHP is always the problem child. Poor concurrency, memory leaks, general RAM bloat, etc.
I assume they released equivalents for Linux?
Really appreciate the detailed comment, encouragement, and references. This is just the first step for Floutwork. Down the road, I plan to create functionality ('layer below web apps,' as you put it) to extract useful details from websites and present them in ways that are both private to you and beneficial to your workflow. Also, the task times shown on your calendar will automatically adjust to your busy meeting schedules, and any updates to your meetings are recognized, prompting a new plan to be presented. This way, you don't have to worry about dragging and dropping events all over your calendar; you can focus on your task list and provide essential details like duration or priority. The rest will be taken care of for you.
Months before the federal government did the same thing to the wetsuweten anti-oil blockades.

Politics or deplorable status isn't the problem, it's that out government turned tyrannical.
hopefully permission is required somewhere for this

It is and you provided it when you signed up for a GMail account.

PayPal is now a Google partner/associate/affiliate --- along with anyone else Google ever chooses to designate as such.

Read your TOS carefully and I think you will find that permission has already been granted for this sort of "info sharing".
I wonder when Comma AI is going to start being impacted by takedowns like this?
Here's the announcement of the successor chip (not a successor to the Milk-V although I suppose that will come later): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37927575 It's interesting although not surprising that they ditched T-Head.
I think that physical representations of data will become more and more important and useful.

Like a totem, a card catalog isn’t really needed anymore but it represents something and may as well have something like that in the “real world” as the interface to the actual info.

I used to wear a mechanical watch not because it told time but because it was a physical thing that represented complexity and architecture and time. etc etc

As a kid, I read these books by Gordon R Dickson, the Final Encyclopedia. And the it was a giant place that had all the information in the universe and an AI to sort and deliver it. But it was neat because it was a place, like a temple. This was before the internet so it really could be distributed, but the idea of having limited interfaces stuck with me as a kid.
So now nonsense is based on your beliefs and not facts. The statement I said was fairly easy to verify as well[1]. Palestinians don't seem to want free Palestine. And yes now that free Palestine is out of table, Israel doubled down on settlements.

[1]: https://www.haaretz.com/2008-08-12/ty-article/pa-rejects-olm...
Why do you think electricity is increasing?

Inflation adjusted electricity costs have been steady or even falling. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/APU000072610

In August 1990 average retail rates where the equivalent of 20.49c/kWh (8.7), and 2010 18.35c/kWh (13.0), but in 2023 it’s only 17c/kWh.
Andreessen seems to embody the final evolution of tech libertarianism as depicted in Adam Curtis's documentary "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace" [0].

If you haven't seen the work, I urge you to check it out. SV has always been filled with people like Andreessen, and now that they have accumulated so much power they can just say the quiet parts out loud.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Watched_Over_by_Machines...
That's been the last 15 years of oncology, afaik.

Old: type cancer on location and characteristics, give treatment statistically effective against that combination

New: sequence cancer, feed into software, study treatment options and plan from that

It's been a huge change.
10-20 years ago it was a terrible language for the time. Nowadays it's a fine language for the year 2000.
No, it has been the same since compiled languages exist, modules only improve the packaging and type safety story.

CPPFLAGS ensures not such thing when using binary libraries.
Office isn’t just for spreadsheets. Office is the whole shebang, including Outlook, Active Directory, Teams, etc.

If your company uses Office, then your employees typically have their employee accounts managed through Active Directory. Which means that every single employee gets their own licensed Office seat, even if they don’t touch anything in the Office beyond email and Teams.
downtempo as well
Sophisticated evolutionary models are needed to accurately estimated expected mean and variance in genetic distances. For example, rare events of large effect (e.g. recombination) also introduces variation beyond within-strain mutation.
conan begs to differ. they distribute binary packages for many options: arch, compiler, debug/release, flags, custom, ...
True, I meant pre-mixed bag of cement + sand.

>Even if you used just cement and water I think you would get more than 12L from 25kg.

The thing will crack very soon. The density of concrete is around 2.4g/cm3
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Memory leaks in PHP? Poor concurrency? Thats new. However what you describe is more of a developer skill problem. Although i’d use other languages for background processing - ie python or nodejs PHP can be pretty solid too but you know, use the right tool for the task at hand. Being religious about a language is a symptom of poor engineering skills - common in the php world, where they tend to use it for everything.
Fair enough, if a user asks for a random float between [0, 1e-38f] then subnormals are expected.

I was just thinking about the (0,1) case, under the mistaken assumption that one could map it to (a,b) via multiplication/addition, but you're right -- if you want (a,b) perfectly () then it's not obvious to me.

() up to inaccuracies of cosmologically negligible scale
Streaming is very different from radio: https://thebaffler.com/downstream/big-mood-machine-pelly
When I pay for music I don't want harvesting of my listening habits to be part of the price.
> It's like installing land mines in a residential neighborhood and then blaming the residents for stepping on one. It's not even reasonable if you warn them.

No this is seriously a DMZ. I cannot stress this enough. Seriously any game with anticheat this is an automatic ban. This is not something unexpected whatsoever, this is what anticheat does.

Try this exact same stunt with R6, battlefield, OW, gta, valorant, whatever and you'll get banned almost instantly unless you work with the game developers.

It is very literally anti-cheats job to lay down land mines.

> How is that supposed to work with existing games? There are games where the developers no longer even exist but people still play them.

If there's no anti-cheat there's no problem. If there is anticheat then expect a ban if you try. Anticheat is not mod friendly. You cannot go around modifying the game all you want in online games with anticheat.

> It's claiming someone cheated when that person did not cheat.

This is correct however Anticheat doesn't allow _any_ modifications to the main game code. Seriously test any anticheat in any online game and this will be a ban. There's very, very, very few exceptions ever made to this.
Would you mind to share what pathogen you're dealing with? In case it's tick borne, I can second your observations
The owners of Waterstones took over Barnes and Noble and put Waterstones management in charge. Seems to have worked
It seems that HN has a lot of anti-user features for the sake of it. Perhaps the rationale for graying out self posts is to make them not stand out (so that the post from OP doesn't get any undue advantage over the comments), but it's just an accessibility nightmare. It's as if people with poor eyesight were not welcome here.

I use Refined Hacker News https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news which alleviates some pain points, but unfortunately it doesn't fix this issue.
I think it would be good to change. IMO I have learned that downvoted comments are gray, so unconsciously I associate gray comments with suspicion.
I also agree that solution to this whole conflict is very simple, and that it's to totally destroy one's opponent. It's a very very good solution. There should be no negotiation and no diplomacy. I think Hamas is said to have the same goal, destroy Israel, but I don't know, maybe TV is lying to me.

And in any case, Isreal should be actually able to implement this. I trust it! It's a local superpower! So let's support a realistic solution and the side that can actually implement it, and end this loong conflict, because Hamas is clearly not the side that can practically do it. It will finally be the final solution so to say. (Because then there will be no conflict. So it's final, you know.) Palestinians will forget about it all, and there will be peace from then on, and ever after. There will be no national shame for them like in 1948, because this time, we're also doing it for them, because Hamas is also bad for them. They'll have to leave Gaza for a while, but that's ok. They'll be fine in the desert for a while. I've heard the good people from UN do take care of people in such unfortunate situations. It's not really our problem.

There has to be no nuance this time!
I used to be part of the music scene back in '95 and it basically changed my life. I'm so proud to have a presence somewhere in the dark corners of the scene.org FTP.
lib on Linux contains library files. On native languages, this means they contain native code, but not all library files are architecture-dependent. See Python files at /usr/lib/python<version>

/usr/include on the other hand only is used for C and C++ header files. Modules are not header files.
Or easier - I worked with a few blind people in the 1980s.

Recall that everything was a text based interface back in the day, there were no widespread GUI's and hyper graphic interactive mobile interfaces.

There were simple text to speech interfaces, not great, but they were coming along - and there were "braille boards" - that converted screen text to a strip of braille via raised pins.

Ponder that and ask yourself which age of technology was harder for blind people to navigate then Vs now.

It's easier now to build a good blind interface, but there is a vast amount of interfaces out there that are a nightmare for the unsighted with no consideration given to access.
The "updated" charter is a wolf in sheep's clothing as an attempt to appease the international community.

Hamas is still waging a holy war jihad, and their updated charter still does not recognize Israel as a sovereign state nor does it accept a two-state solution. They are still completely willing to use terror and violence to achieve this result. As evidence by their daily actions.

You can read the updated charter here:
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/hamas-2017-document-full

> Palestine symbolises the resistance that shall continue until liberation is accomplished, until the return is fulfilled and until a fully sovereign state is established with Jerusalem as its capital.

...

> ...Its frame of reference is Islam, which determines its principles, objectives and means.

> Resisting the occupation with all means and methods is a legitimate right guaranteed by divine laws and by international norms and laws. At the heart of these lies armed resistance, which is regarded as the strategic choice for protecting the principles and the rights of the Palestinian people.

> A real state of Palestine is a state that has been liberated. There is no alternative to a fully sovereign Palestinian State on the entire national Palestinian soil, with Jerusalem as its capital.

Regarding Likud. I don't agree with Likud or Netanyahu either. An important difference though is that Israel is a democracy and power will shift.. probably soon.
"Don't work with aholes" is assuming the premise that the author himself isn't not the ahole in the story. If his company was so good, why he wanted to sell it in first place?
Kennesaw's law allowed for conscientious objection and had no penalty for non compliance so it was effectively dead when passed but did make quite the splash in the international press. Crime rates in Kennesaw did drop significantly after the law was passed but the same was true for surrounding communities without the law, most likely due to them becoming affluent bedroom communities for Atlanta's white collar class.
I'd also like to bring up why downvoted comments are increasingly dimmed? It is very difficult to read them. If the idea is to discourage users from reading them, why not just remove them after a few downvotes.
The failsafe is backups.

This is such a trivial problem to solve. In fact, libraries are really good for distributed storage so have a peer to peer replica all over the world.

Libraries are trustworthy and stable so good spots to distribute 100 durable replicas of the catalog data.

If you’re worried about surviving Armageddon or something then that’s a different problem. Not that the books will likely be around, but I suppose you could dump the data out to records or something and bury it under the library and that’s more likely to survive whatever takes out the library.

But I think a digital copy of the catalog distributed around the world and into space is more likely to survive.

That might be a fun project, to broadcast the data out into space at something that will reflect it back in 10-100 years so we’ll have a copy coming back to us in the future. Is that possible, astronomically?
I have another pet theory on why the demoscene died.

Up until the late 1990s it was not possible to playback full screen video on regular PC hardware, because of both CPU and storage limitations.

This meant that if you wanted smooth high resolution animations, you'd have to resort to programming and a lot of tricks.

As soon as full screen video became an option, the only limitation was the actual content of the pixels, and everything could be prerendered. Competing as an individual with, say, Pixar in that context would never make your stuff look nice.

The same story goes for tracked music or chiptunes, compared to MP3s.

This reduced the audience to those who could understand the effort that you went through. In many ways, that just never compares to the original demoscene feel.

It was an amazing time to be alive, but it will never come back, because technology has moved on. I wonder what underground scene kids these days will cherish as much later in life.
Suppose the value of a network to an individual user is proportional to the number of users. Then the total value of the network, summed across all its users, is proportional to the square of the number of users.

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect .
ultimately, Google is just not run very well and having a firehose of cash for twenty years meant no one noticed
One advantage or Powershell though is that in it you can put something into the pipeline from anywhere in your code, even within imperative code like in the middle a loop, just by mentioning a bare value at nearly any spot. And traditional shells are the same way (though they only support byte streams output), where you can send stuff to stdout/err at any point.

But in nu, it's more like you're just dealing with collections as in most programming languages. If your collection isn't amenable to being generated by a simple expression like a map or fold, then you have to create a collection, prep the collection to be what you want it to be, then you return it.

In that sense it's really different from both Powershell and traditional shells, and more like just using a traditional programming language. So in Nu I miss being able to just "yield" a value from anywhere without staging into a temporary collection first.
the remark was about "architects were blindingly obsessed", concrete is a 'better alternative'
You see it in processes where something spreads to its vicinity.

This isn't really a natural example, but if you draw a square on a sheet of graphing paper. Next iteration you fill in each adjacent square. Repeat this process until you get tired of it. The radius increases linearly at a constant rate, but the area, the number of squares, as a function of each iteration, is growing quadratically.

Take a circular forest in a place where there are no fires and no logging. Its rate of growth is proportional to its circumference, which is proportional to its radius. Its area as a function of time is a quadratic function.
I agree with you about the effect on the eyes.

That's the default color of the page, set with

body { font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size:10pt;
color:#828282; }

in https://news.ycombinator.com/news.css

It's also the color of the name and data of the people that write comments.

Comments text has its own color, set with

.c00, .c00 a:link { color:#000000; }
Edit: I was wrong, the word "slave" comes from Slavic people's self-ethnonym, I remembered it the other way around.
Because this isn't reddit and blogposts should go, as the name suggests, on a blog.
+1 Microsoft Word is a very capable piece of software. If Microsoft's software engineers were forced to write board papers and legal contracts, it would probably be more intuitive too. IntelliSense for defined terms would be amazing.
It might have been proposed for that reason but it was actually enacted in England (in 1916) for war time productivity during WW1.

It’s not really clear if it ever would have been adopted if it were not for the war.

Edit: really interesting snippet I happened upon:

> This Bill, as your Lordships know, will have effect only while the war lasts. It may therefore be regarded in the light of an emergency measure, and as an experiment. If the public are dissatisfied with the results produced, the Bill can easily not be renewed at some future time.

That didn’t turn out as expected eh
They’re perfect for storing collectible card games. A friend of mine has been trying to buy one for 10 years and they are really expensive.

He’s convinced he’ll eventually find a surplused one for nothing. But I think many others feel the same.
They are removed after a few downvotes, unless you turn on showdead in your profile
I hate both. But to be fair I started hating JS 15 years ago when IE6 support was still important, and I haven't touched PHP in 10 years so it may have improved significantly. I'll still use either if I run into a proper use case for them.
To be fair, imperial gallons are based on 10 lbs of water (with very specific atmospheric conditions), which while a nice round number, isn’t as easy to recreate as the U.S. gallon, which is 231 cubic inches.

Of course, liters make way more sense than either of these.
After over 1,000 performance measurements of MongoDB and MongoDB Atlas we put our lessons learned in one article.
Yes, she knows it’s a multipass.
> Surely you cannot copyright "functionality" even in the US

Not a lawyer, but my underatanding is "No." That is why you can find so many different "opoly" games that look very similar to Monopoly but do not use any of the same branded words or cornerspace graphics.
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