jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> I read your comment as the only reason to have a modular design was because of Conway's law.

I have no idea where you got "only", it was not in my comment or the one above that I responded to. "a way" was what the original comment used, and I was saying that it was true about modular design generally as well. Neither of us used "only", that is an invention of your reading and is a bizarre one.
No, sports are not pretty close to battles. People killing and getting killed makes a difference. My emotional state would be very different if I would meet a rival at dawn for a fight on life and death than if I'm fencing for points in a club. And most importantly, by reading I get the thoughts, feelings and motivations from other people, which teaches me different ways to see the world and empathy.

And if we for a moment ignore the fact that reading about food is one of the most boring things I can imagine, reading about someone else's experience of food let you see aspects you aren't aware of which your own experiences richer.

People don't read as a substitute for living their own life. People read because it enriches the life they live. Not only in the moment of reading, but also in everything else they do.
Can it be extended in a way similar to CGI back in the day? I would just want to compile it with the CGI program rather than expect it to dynamically load.
I was in the market for a car last year, and wanted to specifically buy a car from $BRAND. To my dismay, all their 2020 models were replaced with touchscreens, after many years of being behind on replacing their older hardware controlled infotainment.

I ended up buying a second hand lease return model from 2018 instead. I understand why they don't provide that as an optional upgrade (increased manufacturing and maintenance costs for two different systems), but I really wish they did.
To disable ibeacon you turn off bluetooth and/or location services. I don't know about find my - it may locate other people's stuff no matter what you do. You can't really disable deep linking. If you get a text message with an amazon link, the amazon app will see it.

It is not apple's way to advertise this capability is available, and give you granular control.
Will they do this every time, and what's the breaking point before reform?
What would you buy with an extra $100 next time you're playing in PSN?
As someone currently shopping for a new car, the current CX-5, the current MX-5 and the Mazda 6 come with a touchscreen setup.

*EDIT: Also all the VW models in the Golf and Passat Range come with a touchscreen, the low-end Fiats are the same, Mercedes is no different, even the low-end at Dacia comes with a touchscreen. If you can find a car manufacturer that does not think a touchscreen is the way to go, I'll be surprised.

\EDIT2: Since I looked at everything else in my neighborhood as well... Audi does a touchscreen center console for everything. You can get the Renault Twingo without any electronics but if you take the climate control you also get a touch screen. Honda and Hyundai will include a touch screen with everything as well. The only cars I got offered without a touchscreen center console is the Mitsubishi outlander and there it is only 1 model.
The legs were definitely like that, and it's too bad I didn't get the eyes then!

I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't particularly known, considering it was deep within the Indio maiz reserve (not just by the only town of Greytown but 5-10 hours by boat into the reserve from there)
My understanding (happy to be proven incorrect) is that's still a matter of disagreement. AFAIK, the idea of the brain having feature detectors of various kinds remains a matter of research as it has been for decades.
I too have a 2015 15in MBP but I'm waiting for the M2 14in refresh. For heavy duty stuff I have my desktop and mobile, well, I'm not going out much nowdays lol.

The biggest reason for me is battery life. Going from a 3 hour life to 15+ is game changing.
Putting aside the fact that there’s various bash implementations for Windows, Windows is not UNIX.

UNIX is file-based and Windows is object-based. Windows and UNIX users/engineers tend to have vastly different philosophies.

When Microsoft set out to create a new shell that rivaled bash, they came out of it with PowerShell.

I think they succeeded with that, PS performance issues aside.
I can't see any ethical issue with the students' actions, so long as they were honestly under the impression that the professor would be creating a bespoke exam, and that canned exam came from a legitimate source.

The appropriate response, in that case, would still be to invalidate the exam due to the unfair advantaged gained by the students who studied from the canned one, but I can't see punishing those students much less disparaging their moral character.

Practice examinations are routinely used to study for standardized tests, and the organization responsible for creating and administering the LSAT even sells previously administered tests directly. If that isn't cheating, I can't see how this instance can possibly be construed as such.
Since the kids are all about sea shanties these days:

https://archive.org/details/78_rio-grande_leonard-warren-tom...
What I'm saying is this:

Person A: "I hate foo."

Person B: "Oh, yeah, me too, it's banned."

Person A: "Great!"

Person B: "NOT!"

but person A is already bored with the issue, so everyone is happy.
The most frustrating part about the USA setting the drinking age to 21 is that they give 18-year-olds guns and airplanes and bombs and tell them to kill people in Iraq.

But if that kid wants to have a goodbye beer with his dad before he goes to war, he'll be thrown in jail (and maybe his dad, too?). WTF!? That's just bullshit. Killing people = okay at 18, drinking a beer = okay at 21. Crazy.
Ha! The key phrase is the following: "The test subjects were 91 software engineers working at a Mysore-based development firm."
It must suck to work there...
The real problem is that you have to "play ball" with entrenched institutions, both public and private, in order to get anything done. Political parties exist to perpetuate their franchise and prevent outsiders from being elected on their own terms, and they are much more effective at executing this task than they are at governing well.
Maybe people just don't like being told that their moral stance is less strict than yours when they don't feel they're doing anything wrong. Your post is almost literally asking, "Why are people upset when I have a holier-than-thou attitude?" What is really the difference between, "I have chosen a stricter moral stance," and holier-than-thou?
Related/competing: Xilinx's "Extensible Processing Platform", a SoC with dual Cortex-A9 cores + various hard-IP peripherals + FPGA fabric (http://www.xilinx.com/technology/roadmap/processing-platform...).

I'm interested to see where these chips go.
Another perspective is that Salary and competition for Java programmers are way beyond affordable for most start ups who have not made it big.

Java is widely used in Financial, Insurance sectors. (There are several others as well but I speak of these from personal experience) I can offer up to $95k for a top level Java programmer. I do not think start up salaries can go that high. Of course there are no big stock options pay day like in a start-up but it is easy to see why some programmers would rather work in a bank than at your start up.
So it's an intensifier?

Thanks.
When I was 19 I thought I was the greatest programmer in the world and that everyone was ignoring my ability because of my age.

I am still 19. I already realize that I am not such a hotshot. I never felt discriminated against for my age.

I guess people have difference experience.
> Dude that is a really ignorant and insulting thing to say.

Why? We have it within our power to prevent that particular form of animal suffering. Give me enough money and political power and I could round up all the antelope and lions and keep em seperated. How is ignoring that form of animal suffering any different than ignoring animal farming?

> And here you demonstrate your limited grasp of evolution which a resort to a naturalistic fallacy.

I'll bite. How is it a fallacy? Fact: Humans are capable of digesting and processing meat. Fact: Humans have been eating meat for as long as we've been around. Fact: Humans get a number of nutrients in meat that are not easily found elsewhere in a form we can process.

>> Our metabolisms work best when we eat both in moderation.
> Actually the research demonstrates otherwise.

Citation needed

> That is trivially true in a society where adding animal products to many foods is routine. If even 20% of the population was vegan it would be trivial to follow a vegan diet.

Because the market would provide? Either way you still have to work harder and be far more careful with what you eat in order to pull it off so my point still stands.

No where did I say it was impossible. Notice I said in moderation as well. You wouldn't have to eat a lot of meat to get the required nutrition.
Banks are part of the problem too. In Atlanta the city has loosened up many of the density restrictions and parking requirements only to find developers unable to build dense pedestrian focused housing because the banks won't make construction loans for those types of properties.
I'm in Europe (geographically anyway, technically the UK isn't in Europe right now). It isn't trash but I'd gladly swap my job for a remote one that pays NY wages.
On the point of the media. Of course some blame can be put on the researchers but science media also presents perverse incentives for them to popularize their findings by extrapolating and speculating on sensational consequences.
Keep a fire axe under the bed to create a new doorway as necessary :-)
The big miners in China and Iceland are using hydro and geothermal. Pricing the other miners out might have some interesting side effects.
If you just look at the present state of things, the split doesn't make much sense. Instead, consider the choice of legislators that are about to change taxes on already existing employment agreements. There are two sides to each employment and affecting one is not the same as affecting the other.
Yes. Gab is a Christian safe-space. Parler a right-wing safe-space. Twitter a left-wing safe-space.

Centralised communication platforms all eventually trend towards echo chambers.

Decentralisation is the key to restoring unfettered free speech.
> One of those has been decimated by a fiat printing press, the other has been a great investment

How has the US dollar been destroyed? It has enjoyed remarkable price stability, very close to the target rate, which is what everyone expects and can plan for.

The other has seen astronomical, wild price swings, which no one could plan for, and while it's currently enjoying a high value (just as tulips once did), it was worth 95% less just 10 months ago - and probably will be again soon.
The difference is that Volvo does not disclaim liability.
In an emergency like that, you just put all your engineers and technicians to work in whatever is critical to save the crew. If you have some spare personal, you put them in whatever is very important. Don't worry, you would not have enough people to cover the important task, you must hope that they doesn't mater.
Exactly, this is basically a physical manifestation of what google already does with your online presence.
"goto checklist feature?"

Does the language have goto? Check. Okay, now let's write a security library! :)
It's a shame. I do think they look somewhat look a like, and there are solid reasons why it would or wouldn't cause confusion in trade.

But if the plaintiff is indeed BCBS, then Watsi would have definitely lost. Since BCBS will probably be regarded as a famous mark, and any similarity would cause an issue for Watsi.

It's unfortunate and sad nonetheless.
I'd love to see dart going mainstream, but nobody would integrate VM, except google.
So, is there anywhere that indicates that the github codebase (under the apache license) @ https://github.com/OpenNI/OpenNI2 is also going to be scuttled? Or just the website?
Are you saying you find it... fishy?
I know what you mean, how small do they make violins anyway?

In a 24/7/365 cargo operation for a hundred years the port chemists were on call to open their lab after hours and on weekends & holidays each time our ships came in, to operate the office no differently than when you get a vessel during the regular workday. But during regular office hours you definitely need to be there too. These ships are big and they don't always come in every day or on time very often. You get an ETA but very few things can make a vessel get there early, and many different things can delay a vessel, either case being unpredictable. For these call-outs excessive after-hours fees would be added to the nominal invoice, and good incentive pay would trickle down the food chain.

Statistically since there are only 45 office-hours in a 168-hour week, most of the vessels had always incurred call-outs.

After being in my own private practice for a while one day there was a little flood and lost everything I had worked for for 20 years.

I could recover better financially with a business than a home, and I couldn't keep both so I gave up domestic life and started staying in the lab.

Sure I was "homeless" but I had a roof over my head and I worked with what I had remaining, to survive attending to the vessels where I still had capability.

Since I was always there, I made a deal with a small contractor to get right to work whenever they needed it, charging only decent basic fees per vessel regardless of after-hours. They were expected to benefit by not passing on this arrangement to the ultimate clients who would still be charged after-hours premiums, which was most of the time.

It made survival possible and he was only revealing to clients that things were now covered 24/7 without having to wait for people to be called in. Within a few weeks all of the much bigger international operators in our ports had changed over to full 24 hr shift coverage along these lines just to compete with little old me, the homeless CEO.
This argument really holds no water to my eye because the average consumer is subject almost solely to paid adverts and maybe a little knowledge about tidbits like this rather than any deep knowledge about the platform or Apple - the information asymmetry is hook, line, and sinker in apples favour so there is almost no inherent protection for the consumer in this regard when compared to (say) even an Android phone, or better a PC
The world needed more expensive server!
The DEC operating systems (eg. RSX with its MCR shell and VMS with its DCL shell) also handled command-line switches this way (eg. PIP/LIST to list files in a directory).

Of course, they didn't use unixy paths for directories. A fully-qualified file name would be something like (and it's been decades so if I get it wrong forgive me) DRA0:[SYS.USERS.BREGMA.PROJECT.SOURCES]HELLO.C;1 and anyone who was sane would use logical names in DCL to make things readable.
Anything similar available to UK investors (connects to a UK brokerage)?
Firefox for iOS has a suite of tracking protection features built in, including a strict ad blocking service.

I've not gone to compare them both -- are you sure that what's in Firefox Focus for iOS isn't also in Firefox?
I really sympathise with this point of view, but when it comes to messaging with family and friends, I just don't really care. Matrix seems to want to be an IRC replacement rather than a one-to-one / small-group chat app. That's fine, but often not what I want.

Teaching my mother in law to use Signal:

Install. Accept permissions. Choose a PIN. I can send you messages. You can see your friends who already use Signal. Well done!

Matrix:

When you start you will get to choose from [matrix.org], swirly symbol "element matrix services" (the biggest and middle option, but not the one you want), or other.

Choose matrix.org (nothing else, or we will get very confused). Then click "sign up". Then enter a username and password (need a username which no-one has used before, you can't use your email address. Make sure to remember it).

Oh, but do put your email address in the next page, which is how people in practice are going to find you.

Bonus feature: How do you join a room? Click on it. How do you leave? Maybe long-press the room name, or swipe? Nope, you enter the room, click on the triple dots, settings, scroll down, leave room.

Bonus feature 2: Once you join a popular room, all users of that room are added to "Known users", making the list completely without value. How do I actually find people I know?
A GPU driver for a new undocumentated architecture is "trivial" compared to properly doing an input driver for a touchpad?

You make "properly handling any type of free-form user input" sound like rocket science, when it's the regular multi-touch kind of driver we have on billions of mobiles, and laptops...

The "properly" here is just the sauce for macOS handling, not some inherent difficulty of "handling any type of free-form user input" on a 2D surface...
Plastic as in synthetic banknotes, or plastic as in credit and debit cards? The latter might be a bit of a problem, indeed.
Open Source is probably not the right model - because this gear is very complicated, only a few entities can possibly be involved.

The 'best software in the world' is often written by some dude, at home, working when he wants, possibly in his pajamas, possibly collaborating interactively with other people.

Software often does not need experience or teams, just intelligence, creativity, assertion. Although experience helps.

This kind of gear, or anything physical really, 100% requires the experience of various kinds.

If we had a really competent industrial board that understood medical technology, we could feasibly put together a kind of 'shared IP' contract very quickly.

Bidders could be quickly approved, sign up, get the plans, and start making according to specific terms.

Just because we're in a panic doesn't mean there can't be standards & controls - they just have to be rapid and risk-adjusted.

It could be a win-win-win even in a time of the pandemic.

I have little faith in our governmental leaders for the most part. It's not that they're not smart, it's that I don't think they generally have operational wherewithal to make decisions, push stuff through in such a crude and cold manner. Surely they are some, but you need a critical mass of them, and political backing as well.
Not a real answer, but the article says one person can treat two people. So somewhere around 0.25 to 0.35 liters is a rough guess, assuming "one person" means "one typical blood product donation".
I made a mistake. I was reading about a study yesterday trying to show that stomach problems were a common symptom for people with coronavirus. This had me thinking "asymptomatic" meant showing irregular symptoms, when it is showing no symptoms.

That said, if you are asymptotic you aren't coughing or sneezing, so I'm unsure of how helpful a mask would be.
Got you. Thanks.
The problem with powerful languages is they're great for allowing you to create new abstractions, but they're terrible at piercing that abstraction and let you know what's going on inside when you need it (such as, when learning what the abstraction means when you find it for the first time).

Current modern languages are built around the false dicotomy that you have to choose between one of two representations, like those in the provided example:

1. mydict1.merge(mydict2, handle_duplicates=(key, v1, v2) => v1 + v2)

2. mydict1 + mydict2

A mid-level language will use the first style so that programmers will know what's going on, but then the team will be stuck to using that style everywhere even when they already understand that it's "oh, just adding two dictionaries". Powerful languages let you use the second style but then, as the article explains, it's hard for a new programmer to tell what's the mental model behind that complex operation.

A good powerful Lisp-like language should allow you to build the second abstraction in terms of the first, and use the simple syntax everywhere, but then switch between both representations easily.

I.e. you should be able to inspect the meaning of the more abstract syntax by expanding its definition in place and see how it works in context. Programmers typically address this shortcoming with support of powerful (yet ad-hoc) IDE's runtime debugging tools. But why that approach is not integrated into the language itself, I have no idea.
React is a framework if you let it be a framework.
1.75gb is not big data. It's not even small data.
You misunderstand both the meaning of the word "snake oil" as well as the concept of science.
This is a single anecdote. This kind of thing happens with human doctors, lawyers, auto mechanics, and even engineers.

With incomplete information, you sometimes make an incorrect diagnosis. It doesn't reflect the overall value of the profession.

Your cat could just as easily have died, and from the experience of dating a vet for many years, I can tell you that they very often do.
I don't think there is as much of a fear of someone important getting angry like Steve Jobs used to. Without that fear, they are more likely to ship bugs.
I listened to this last week so it's not entirely fresh in my mind, but i remember this particular portion of the story seemed jarring to me and was a disappointing end to the story.

Correlation does not imply causation.
I agree that it's a scary argument. That's why I was careful in how I put it forth. The problem is that many skills are dual-use. At some point, a threshold is reached where a student is more likely to use the knowledge to harm than to help. This threshold depends on the skill and the student.

To use a hypothetical: Would you condone someone teaching particle physics in North Korea? How about biology? Chemistry? Turbine engineering? Teaching any of these would probably increase North Korea's ability to threaten and harm its people and the rest of the world. It's sad that this is the case, but it's hard to argue otherwise.

Unfortunately, I seriously doubt education will help free North Korea. If you read the stories of defectors, you'll find that almost everyone in universities is indoctrinated. Also, because of how people are encouraged to report each other, no underground network of dissenters can exist. Even if 90% of North Koreans wanted to overthrow the government, anyone who voiced dissidence to a few friends would likely be reported and thrown in a prison camp (if not outright executed), along with their family. It doesn't take much to control many.

I really wish it was as easy as, "Education is good." But there can be dire consequences to actions, even ones as typically benign as teaching others. It's important to have a finely-tuned sense of ethics, otherwise we risk harming people who we mean to help.
Add a Lisp or Scheme dialect to your list and I'm sold. Homoiconicity, macros, s-expressions and such are too powerful and novel not to cover in a college CS curriculum.
Having read Flash Boys it's pretty clear that HFT is just legalized theft. The vested interests can keep it going for a while but it's not viable in the long term.
> It is, but I am afraid the next thing Apple will do now would be to DRM the memory chips.

They already do that(check the other article on the frontpage), but at they moment, they still give you software to re-DRM it :)
There's more choice in the flask ecosystem, but then again, you can suffer from poor choices and a lack of architectural consistency.

I'd say the big thing is SqlAlchemy for Rel DB. and Maybe alembic to compliment.