skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Author here. In the article I highlighted how easy it is now to translate OCaml line-by-line into other languages while at the same time preserving exact semantics. That was the cool news that deserved its own callout. But as you noticed I didn't spend any time talking about how translating OCaml helps solve the problem of managing types "all with slightly different variations".

Briefly: atd, Cap n' Proto, Protobuf and many others occupy the role of representing the same datatype in different languages and transmitting values of that datatype across the wire and/or persisting in storage. But I'm finding most programs have a need for multiple variations to that core record datatype. For example, when you persist an OCaml/Java/etc record datatype to a database, you don't use the OCaml/Java/etc record datatype. You use the data types provided by the database (VARCHAR, BLOB, etc). You can adopt an ORM solution, use an object database, or write a pair of type-conversion functions from OCaml/Java/etc to your database datatype. That is one example of a "variation" that you must spend engineering time on.

I mentioned in the article that my user needed 5 different variations. For example, with the sqlite3 database they were using, the database table variation required writing a pair of datatype-conversion functions to and from the sqlite3 database. What if there was a way where we could write these datatype-conversion functions in one place (cough cough: OCaml with a line-by-line semantics preserving feature) and have bindings to/from the database, the view layer, the controller and all the other variations generated in the appropriate Java/Swift/SQL/etc languages? And what if we could deploy modifications to that datatype (ex. adding a database field) in the same uniform way we do all other minor variations to a datatype? That is the "drastic QOL (quality of life) improvement" win my users asked for.

That QOL win deserves its own article. Yes, I'll post it when done.
I definitely feel that modern software is more frustrating, and thinking about it, my number one complaint is the use of mouse-over to trigger things. In late 80s/early 90s software, I could roam the mouse cursor over the screen and _nothing would change_. Now, moving the mouse is like navigating a minefield. Two examples:

- I want to select a bit of text in Microsoft Teams (yeah, I know - it's not my choice), and as I move the cursor to the desired line, it moves over the line below, which causes a context menu to pop-up, which obscures the text I'm trying to select, so... swear, back off, and try again more carefully.

- I switch applications on macOS with the command-tab keys, but I'm also anticipating where I want the mouse to be, so I start moving the mouse too. Sometimes, the mouse moves over the row of icons, which changes the selected icon, and I end up in a different app to the one I want.
No, they'll just forbid any extensions/apps they don't like from their store and that's that.
Indeed in an off-grid build, I know someone that optimized their panels to produce earlier in the morning instead of maximizing production, because switching off battery power a little earlier was most valuable to them. Losing some throughout the day and evening wasn’t as much of a concern because they were primarily charging for night-time.

Focussing rooftop installs that have a more eastern or western angle, or steeper slope, could be a way of flattening this curve.
I'm not that surprised alternative relationship structures like this are becoming more attractive in our commitment phobic "I want it now" culture.

Basically it allows you to believe you can have your cake and eat it too. The mindset of "I deserve intimacy/sexual fulfillment whenever I want it, and if you love me you'll accommodate that." That's not love, that's selfishness.

I can speak from personal experience that most that try it fail, largely because they have other relationship problems, the kind that keep them from doing the work to actually grow and nurture a deep relationship with another human being. It's a lot easier to f*ck the pain away.

Sure there are exceptions to the rule. You will always be able to find people that make it work for them. But it will never work for the masses.

Myself, I eventually realized the root cause of my dissatisfaction was inside me. As I worked on myself, I found my desire for poly/open relationships went away. It's way too much work to truly "love" that many people. Commitment is hard work. It takes, well, commitment.

Trends like this are just a sign of the times. People are becoming more disposable to each other, and we want to normalize social structures that embrace this idea. We'll pat ourselves on the back as we do this, telling ourselves it's so cosmopolitan.

Ultimately most of these people aren't capable of maintaining a real long term relationship, just a relationship of convenience. When things get hard, the relationship is jettisoned.
Is that more or less impressive than the equally integrated set of footpaths that once existed? Almost every past footpath has been obliterated by roads and railways. I once knew someone tasked with rediscovering an indigenous trail, with an eye to restoring it. She found the location: right down the median of a divided highway. It turns out that indigenous people didnt like steep hills any more than cars fo.
What is 'an iykyk type of thing"?
> I wonder if the economics are distorted here. It looks like there is 0 demand during the day, but people are obviously using electricity during the day. Should we not make electricity actually free at the hours when there is too much of it, to encourage its use?

In my state (Queensland, Australia) demand is actually negative during peak production hours on many days.

The wholesale price actually goes negative during these times - that is, if you are a wholesale consumer, you can get paid for using energy.

Individual households can opt to go on to wholesale plans - my uncle does it (in Sydney, much further south) as he has way too much solar and battery capacity for his household to use. Been a whole since I spoke to him but I know he had a couple days where he made $20. (He is a retired nerd and spends a lot of time optimising usage patterns to maximise money.)

This kind of thing will become way more common, especially as automation gets better and storage becomes more prevalent.
Just responding to what you said.

> No one is forcing you to go to Youtube or whatever
>The Romans sacked Greece and killed Archimedes. All you have to do is look at the rate of mathematical and technological progress before and after Rome to see that Rome was a dark age.

So you really ought to take look at technological progress in Rome since you've got it absolutely backwards. The Romans were less inclined to sophisticated abstract thought than the Greeks, the sophisticated discourses on political theory especially were dead, and they weren't sophisticated mathematicians, but the Romans were certainly more sophisticated technologically than the Greeks.

Also the Greeks didn't just disappear once the Romans conquered their territory. The great Greek cities like Syracuse, Alexandria, Antioch, et al. carried on under the Romans while the Romans took great pains to preserve and promote Greek learning, while Roman engineering picked up every trick from every culture they encountered. You're surely familiar with the Antikthera mechanism, that was an orrery, a sophisticated Greek astronomical calculating device which the Romans continued to build for centuries.

The Romans had remarkably sophisticated technology which certainly eclipsed the Greeks on many fronts in architecture, aqueducts, et al. The development of concrete was a Roman invention that opened tremendous inventiveness.
This is one reason I'm over and done with proprietary consoles. So tired of shitty company's like Nintendo being able to call any kind of shot. They may still know how to make fun games and do that on accessible and reasonably priced hardware, but beyond that they are an objectionable and ass-backward company on so many levels.

I vote with my dollar. I vote against Nintendo.
I guess you have plenty of lights that you don’t leave on “all the time” such as lights in toilets that typically run at low duty cycles (I guess the light in my toilet is on for less than ten minutes a day, and only in winter, for example)

For such lights, the permanent power usage of the controller can be much larger than that of the light, even if you accidentally leave it on way longer than needed now and then.

The EU limit allows each controller to use 0,5w. See https://commission.europa.eu/energy-climate-change-environme.... And they do use close to that. The Philips Hue bulb uses 0,4W when off. See https://www.anandtech.com/show/6805/philips-hue-automated-ho....

So, that’s about 10Wh a day. If you use that to control a 10W light, you’d have to decrease its ‘on’ time by a hour a day to come out positive in energy usage. I have many lights that aren’t even on that long each day.

I think home automation of lighting fixtures as a way to conserve energy made way more sense before LEDs became common.
Output at the morning and evening should be higher with steeper panels as the sun hasn’t moved up as much. It is a hit to total production, but kWh aren’t fungible throughout the day.

The morning and evening kWh are becoming worth more than the mid-day ones.
> Pardon me: a single power plant. Well, not even a whole power plant. Parts of a single power plant. Doesn't change anything.

A large power plant with six reactors. Zero of them are operating anymore. None will. Nothing of that was a political decision.

> The reactors were fine.

Fukushima reactors have three melted cores. They are fine?

> The decision to shut them down was a political one, not a technical one.

Look, you claim that you are knowing it better than the authorities in Japan. This is laughable.
Good question and I had to Google the answer. Until now enforcement was apparently lackluster but EU is tightening up: "As of January 2024, Payment Service Providers (PSPs) have a new role in tackling VAT fraud. They need to report cross border payments to CESOP (the Central Electronic System of Payment Information), a large digital hub. This disclosure is specifically for the purpose of combating tax fraud. It’s focused on business activity, doesn’t record payment reasons, and has strong privacy restrictions." https://www.paddle.com/blog/eu-vat-compliance-for-us-softwar...

This is a good link from the article: https://vat-one-stop-shop.ec.europa.eu/system/files/2021-07/...

EU VAT law is very well documented, compared to say German income tax law. It's actually fun to understand if one can use such a word here.
Yeah, here much of the advertising is that you will receive zero prices but the fact is most consumers have limited ability to shape their usage due to local energy storage constraints, poor building design, and simply not being technically adept enough to use existing solutions.

Fundamentally this can be changed if, and only if, there are higher standards our homes are built to, more cost effective methods of storage, and the vast majority of the solution being automated.

But there will be winners out of users paying the real cost of their energy.
Is there an archive of ipas that would work on the version of iOS that this is emulating?

I was just thinking about this because of the Nintendo server shutdown and it feels similar for iOS apps that only worked on previous versions or require specific servers to hit - wondering if a lot of these older apps & services will just be lost. Even services working today would have the same issue a decade from now if there’s not some standard to archive the data & api layers as well as the apps themselves.
Maybe on a per member basis, or theoretically. The risk in a monogamous relationship is if a member acts outside the relationship. The more people you add to a relationship, the more that risk increases.
Those were all SPI-alike, or at least run in their SPI mode, including the ones linked. (I also used a Nokia 6100 LCD back in the day, and it was SPI, though with a wider interface option).
You are drawing bad conclusions about whatever you define "generate plausible text" as.
I bet GPT vision will do that like cutting a piece of cake. It'll even do the OCR for you and organize the text nicely.
HN started with the readres of the pg's blog.

SO started with the readers of JoelOnSofware and CodingHorror

So, try writing an interesting blog and cross your fingers that you can grab a nice initial comunity.
that's technically a title change.

real world systems might have to change actual ids. like the article. or say you grow to some other use case not covered before because of new regulation etc... 301 is the only rest way.
idk why you got downvoted. But I do too. I think it’s because of the band Joan of Arc - they use “live” in that way in a couple of their records’ titles.
Maybe this works for a 1 week market where hydroponic can be competitive for some small % of supply

but the hydroponic costs are like 10-500x the cost of traditional modern farming of specialty crops (think lettuces, berries, leafy greens) and worse for row crops.

Also the effectiveness of electrolysis of the soil also varies greatly based on CEC (cat-ion exchange capacity) — which is the water holding capacity of soil profile — which in the right range is what allows the increased microbial activity which is what increases the root uptake of nutrients.
I read in a book about the area i live in that the highways that surround the city all follow native american walking paths. Kinda a bummer
> Now, you change a little thing in your code base, and the only thing the testing suite tells you is that you will be busy the rest of the day rewriting false positive test cases.

Never happened to me, and we use a lot of junit tests at work.

I don't see the value in "Do not isolate code". Isolating a single method or such is often necessary, especially a unit test of a Utils class. But I only tend to do this if the "user story" centric test cases don't end up covering everything.
psychologists may well not be medics, so no. psychiatrists very often are medics.
You could say this everyday in definitely into the future
Thank you jonatanheyman. This is absolutely brilliant and I see myself using this daily.
It's always interesting to see which majors/backgrounds are singled out as culprits or as part of the problem. I've noted over the years that physicists are never named in such callouts. I've always found physicists to be capable of figuring out the nuances that those in narrower disciplines may struggle with and I'm interested to hear what others' experiences are.
Neat : Nice :: D : Java ~1.3

Well, the names (which I enjoy) are similar anyway, that's what made me think of the no doubt overstated analogy.
I'm surprised the 3DS hasn't been hacked trough this functionality. It would be an awesome opportunity to create some kind of worm that quickly spreads around the world and you also get to name it with a trendy name like "Fail Pass".
I'm aware that that's a distinction people make, but I was just responding to what OP was citing.

I would expect that the numbers wouldn't move much if you could do a poll on polyamory as distinct from polygamy. The distinction is so far removed from most people's experience that it's not likely to change their sentiment.
Is your point entirely based on statues an emperors? None of what you said proves anything and you make baseless claims about them not caring about the natural world or philosophy. Bother to read actual Roman and Greek sources of the time and you will find yourself contradicted soon (Plutarch's Parallel Lives might be of use, then Cicero, etc). Seems clear to me that this opinion is not your own.
To clarify, the DMCA does no such thing. The exemptions you refer to are the result of the Librarian of Congress exercising a statutory “fail-safe” role to specify circumstances that the (otherwise very broad) anti-circumvention provisions in the DMCA will be construed not to apply to.

https://copyright.gov/1201/2015/fedreg-publicinspectionFR.pd...
Might be we would need to use less fertilizer- not only if it helps plants mature faster, but also because a good amount isn't used by plants anyway (water runoff, etc).
None of them were happy, none of them had less problems only more. It’s a stupid idea that’s been trying to pass and never works. The reason I bought they were spiritual is because we talked a lot about selflessness. I am not spiritual I was just hanging out with these people. I’m assuming they were seeking spirituality to massage their guilt and hide their greed.

I’m saying this new popularity of polyamory is based on the liberalism because it’s the belief that you can have whatever you want and there’s no consequences for it.
You end up, externalizing the pollution like all the corporations do.

Even calling it polyamory is idiotic because these people were just in mutual, romantic and sexual relationships, many of them had kids. There been any studies on what polyamory does to children.? One woman in the group even admitted she wasn’t telling her children. Is that healthy? A healthy thing is something you could tell your children.

To think that people can be in relationships and there be no jealousy and no problems or they can manage it somehow, and have everything they want is Ludacris and it’s never worked in the history of humanity.

I don’t care have sex with all the people you want, but just don’t try to rationalize it as some healthy lifestyle if one of the people in the relationship is in a long-term commitment with you.
Consoles are not the only place where this is happening. More PC games are requiring always-online access even for singleplayer content. User experience be damned.

I just had to refrain from a Steam purchase because I saw that it requires the Origin launcher, an EA account, and is always online. For a singleplayer game. Madness.
Obfuscation of revenue is a really bad idea, all the way to a federal criminal investigation.

The idea is that the continuity requirements should not be onerous, given the revenue, say, less than 1% of it, "a good problem to have".

Publishing a reasonable spec would be a part of that.
One metric could be 'number of hard crashes per thousand end-user usage hours'.
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Speaking as a recently retired PM who knew my business cold, my biggest challenge was designers and developers who prioritized resume enhancement over even the semblance of business/customer success. Not wanting to implement critical functionality because it was “too hard” vs hard selling me on how Rust would change my life (like Scientology) if I’d support a total rewrite.
No. The APA has an ethics code, but that's about it. Even the Hippocratic Oath is not as legally binding as we might want it to be.
The funny thing here is that the idealization of the Greeks that you're up to here is directly inherited from the Romans who idealized the Classical and Hellenistic Greeks. But it's worth learning more about what the Greeks and Romans were really up to, since you've got ideas that are not well informed by the source material, and if you took the time to examine the evidence I think you'd be surprised at the sophistication of the Romans.

Also in this day and age the idealization of the Greeks is something that's largely an old cultural memory, but if you look at the Greeks in their ancient milieu, the "Greek Miracle" was largely an illusion based on lost earlier sources. The Greeks certainly were sophisticated intellectually and they've left a mark on history for it, but they didn't appear in as much of a vacuum as folks thought existed before modern archaeology.
Doesn't that support their point? If its mostly just more popular in a relatively small, famously progressive area, then has it really gotten that much more popular?

IMO we're still at the stage where the localized waves of ENM could see a heavy backlash as a lot of the participants who are pressured into it start to reverse course and leave those relationships. I myself know one Midwest couple with an open marriage, and it's pretty clear from speaking to them that it was a one sided deal.

Note: I am not saying all ENM relationships are based on pressure, but frankly many are, and that's not sustainable.
Upgrading from NetBSD 5.1 to 10_RC1
Probably the most pompous drivel I’ve read all year.

This isn’t a software blog post. It’s a juvenile political screed with some tech buzzwords.
Unfortunately the data seems to be limited, and quite poor, at this time.

I'm guessing this probably stems both from under reporting due to societal stigmas and due to a lack of research. However, I found the following meta-analysis that appears to indicate an increase in interest over the past decade and a half.

You may be able to access these articles through you're local library for free, or if you have a subscription. I do not have a subscription at this time so I'm unable to retrieve the full details. I previously looked into this topic in 2011 when I was still a psych undergrad, there appears to be more research since then.

https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fcfp0000074

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0092623X.2016.1...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X2...

A survey from YouGov in 2016 and again in 2020 appears to indicate non-monogamy is a growing preference among millennials.
https://today.yougov.com/society/articles/27639-millennials-...
"The EULA for your potatoes is being updated to make it easier to understand how we use your soil profile data. Hit A to accept the new agreement, or S to starve."
I strongly recommend nobody try to lift or move an engine or transmission out of a pickup bed by themselves without a strong swing-arm winch. Those suckers are really heavy, and the damage they do when they fall on something costs more than the parts. If it falls on a person, woof...
I'm not aware of any studies I find very cite-able or credible, sorry.
How can you find out if it's a security concern and wether or not its legal if you don't even know who it comes from???
> Which answer do you give? Whatever your software tells you (e.g., 87.14234%) or a number made of a small and fixed number of significant digits (e.g., 87%).

> The latter is the right answer in almost all instances.

and

> Most human beings are happy with a 1% error margin.

While he doesn't say it as a rule outright, the author repeatedly uses a "small and fixed" two significant digits. He later says this:

> You must choose the number of significant digits deliberately.

which I agree with, but is at odds with the "small and fixed" dictum with which he leads off the post.
I’m going to say too. It’s exactly like people not being satisfied with one house they need two. That’s why I bought up the neoliberalism. Peoples lives are empty and doll and so they’re looking for more ways to excite themselves. In their lives are empty and because of neoliberalism.