jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I agree - traffic lights galore.

Thankfully, Clover Moore put in cycleways with kerbs in the CBD - Sydney drivers unfortunately have a somewhat deserved reputation for being notoriously ill-mannered.

And now the State government wants to tear up the cycleways to make room for....more car lanes...sigh...

Sydney taxi drivers are the worst though...
Sounds like Chemo
As someone who has studied maths Proj Euler is infinitely more interesting especially in the harder questions. For me, most of time spent in advent of code is basically about parsing a blob of text. Project Euler inspires much more interesting ideas. Mostly it is number theory and algebra.
No, you're right, you can't build your B2C "bank" on it. Other services exist for that (e.g. https://www.solarisbank.com)
Also from the Associated Press - the National Guard was oddly absent from all of this, when they are normally involved [1]. Can that be a fact?

Here's Congress already asking the same questions, and a few more facts supporting surprisingly bad and out of character police behavior [2]. This is only 1 day after the event - give it a few to see if it takes off.

The statements by trained intelligence professional are not facts? Sometimes by looking at evidence and seeing there is likely more going one leads one to dig and find more facts, right?

Many in law enforcement have called what happened ridiculously surprising. Assuming it was all just random bad luck and not investigating it in detail is a sure way screw up again, whether it was bad luck or had some component of insider issues.

Certainly Congress has fired some people over it, some have resigned, and it looks like Congress is certainly going to investigate.

Just a few months ago capitol police certainly had multiple layers of police around the Capitol building, so it's clear they can do that. This time they didn't, despite being given ample warning many in the crowd have been posting for weeks they will storm the building.

So I don't know either way, and neither do you, but these questions are from reputable sources, not some far out left wing rag, so it's worth looking into them.

[1] https://www.syracuse.com/news/2021/01/national-guard-troops-...

[2] https://abcnews.go.com/US/lawmakers-demand-answers-outrage-e...
Wow this is extremely wholesome and coincidental. Glad to see the artists are going to be getting the credit they deserve, pretty crazy to see this transpire over HN comments!
Thanks a ton for the detailed responses. Do you have any links you recommend for me to learn more about the latest advancements of nuclear so I have my knowledge up to date ?
What's the Qualcomm story?
> Preql uses an “Interface-Protection Clause” on top of the MIT license.

Can you license an interface?

Does that mean that anyone interested in possibly implementing something like this shouldn't look at this project to avoid the copyright risk? That seems antithetical to open source - why not just keep this fully propriety and private if you do not intend to share the ideas behind it?

This seems like a cool project but, with a license like that, I'm not even going beyond the README.
Humans are special because of our ability to forecast and run scenarios. You can "practice" dangerous situations in your mind -- a great tool to mitigate them if they arise!

This can go to an extreme, of course. People seek security by modeling everything, playing it all out, and trying to prevent bad things from happening.

It's normal human behavior that is supercharged by modern information overload.
That's really only true if you have perfectly elastic demand.

As soon as you need to store energy wind and solar become much more expensive.
I was thinking the same thing, but then, what's the reasoning behind moving the barricades out of the way? "There are too many protestors, we need to help them move the barricades" doesn't make sense. They then turn their backs on the protestors and casually walk towards the capitol.

More surprising is that this protest wasn't a "flash mob" - it was planned and known about publicly for weeks - even promoted by the president. Why were they so unprepared?

Certainly possible that the explanation was "sheer incompetence" in both cases.
Boston Dynamics, a wholly owned subsidiary of Google, produced the WildCat robot for DARPA's Maximum Mobility and Manipulation (M3) program[0].

[0] http://www.darpa.mil/our_work/dso/programs/maximum_mobility_...
There's still a useful distinction to be made -- the "sketchbook" talked about is the collection of stuff you've done over some longer period of time that you can look through / look back on. It's not a description of a tool, although as you noted the language used in the last paragraph of the post is very similar to the language people use to describe the use of a REPL.

I'm a fellow emacs user, I use SLIME-like functionality practically every day. My "sketchbooks" are my ~/workspace folder and my github account. I have some older "sketchbooks" in the form of tarballs of my ~/workspace folders from old machines.

I thought that basically everyone who wrote software had similar collections of little projects, finished and un-finished, until about a year ago when it came up in discussion with a few other devs who didn't.
Knock the horns off and make sure it doesn’t moo was how my grandfather ordered his steak
Amusingly as I read this my tinnitus is hugely amplified and unescapedly present. I have also feared this onset last year may have been caused by my AirPods. Sadly I am unwilling to draw that conclusion based on hundreds of people reporting this issue. If 1,000 people reported getting heartburn after buying AirPods, we’d laugh at the stupidity of this ridiculous correlation. I want my tinnitus to go and I want to blame Apple. I won’t thought ugh unless a clinical study is carried out.
white nationalism is the core of contemporary nazism; land has no sentimental attachment to the white race or even people in general, but rather sees intelligence (abstractly) acting via darwinian selection as the agent of history. this is not limited to human intelligence; he sees capitalism as an intelligent process, and inextricable from AI, which he expects to subsume humans.
We see that most stimulants, legal or not. They don't lead to fair wage for producers unfortunately.
Add to that -

1) Red wine is good for health is consumed little daily.

2) WHO preaching at the start of the pandemic that everyone doesn’t need to wear masks.
Which company are you thinking of?
I've never ever tried VBA.Net.

But my private NVBC (NecroVisualBasiCon) repo has some great stylings that I tap into at least once a year.

Nevertheless, when are they going to relase Office with Python bindings included?
At the end...“This article was written entirely by GPT-3”...are you also GPT-3?
The problem now is that you can condemn something repeatedly and still be accused of not condemning it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99-yicMhjGo

https://www.factcheck.org/2020/02/trump-has-condemned-white-...
Here is another one you can add that I have found works with sales that I make (although those are big ticket sales).

Attach some proof of what others payed in higher prices. As in "10 people paid $x for this last week".
(though the adverts cause some loading unpleasantness from time to time)

It seems most sites that have speed/responsiveness/usability problems, get those problems mostly from their ads. It doesn't reflect well on the site or on the ad. I suspect it's because the metrics ad networks are using don't capture their crappy performance. I wish the original sites themselves would track ad problems and thus drive SLA compliance.
That's actually a really good idea. A lot of times people have big dreams for projects they really enjoy, but little knowledge and expertise in those areas, and so they aren't confident enough to see it through to the end. I myself have a website trading business that is in this state.
Indeed. I'd also add Code (by Charles Petzold) and D is for Digital (which I desperately want to read but haven't yet).
We really ought to figure out fast homomorphic encryption or something similar to it.
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1. White noise.
Sometimes we have to decide for ourselves when 'sometimes' is.
The only thing I can think of is on subsidized flights to places like las vegas. If your destination isn't actually vegas but the supposed end point is, I can see it possibly getting hairy. A bit of a stretch though.
I don't get it.

There is no reason to sue struggling startup, because if you sue for too much then the startup would simply fold.

That's the main way startup protects itself.

Struggling startup usually does not have funds to lawyer up.

BigCo on the other hand is a very attractive target, but has funds to lawyer up.

If struggling startup successfully transitioned to BigCo then potential exposure from past shortcuts is small (relative to BigCo revenue).

How could "contractor vs employee" shortcuts applied in 4 people startup be a significant problem for BigCo (which already transitioned into lawyered up way of doing business)?
> Edit: Also a protest is a nuisance, terrorism is an actual threat to your freedom.

Eh. My freedoms are a lot less threatened by terrorism than by the people responding to terrorism.
Xiaomi produces their devices and sells them for almost no profit: they only made $56 million in 2013.
Huh, I use Slick quite a lot and never have trouble. Never used Spray. I guess I don't write terribly complex stuff (I really do use Scala largely as I'd use a JVM C#, I suppose) in general, though.

About all I find myself using refactoring tools with for Java is renaming, honestly, so I guess I'm more likely to have my itches scratched by the current state of tooling.

Thanks for the explanation, though!
I suspect the airlines use an algorithm to maximize the prices the tickets sell for. This will have absolutely nothing to do with how much it actually costs the airline to provide the service. It will instead be based on some crazy mix of supply, demand, competitors prices, time until flight (to allow better prediction) etc.

Some routes will lose money, some will be cash-cows. The algorithm balances it all out for a net profit.

Enter an anti-algorithm that starts mucking with all of the carefully balanced numbers to do an optimization of its own and you end up with very unhappy airlines.
so relevant..
Many coders died in the getopt() wars of the late eighties. Unexploded shar files should be treated with great caution.
Food waste != food waste. Animal-based products have a significantly higher environmental footprint than plant-based ones. Therefore, the majority of this 10% is from animal-based products.

Reducing livestock agriculture will automatically decimate this number, too.

Edit: It's rather misleading that they put a carrot on the cover of their report, too.
OCaml has subpar windows support. The native version is experimental, otherwise it's cygwin or WSL.
So you are suggesting they take over from the royals or from the US president?
Perhaps you are reading a different article than was posted, but nothing in "http://www.scribd.com/doc/209535200/Business-Plan-MtGox-2014... mentions "private keys being lost", nor does it discuss anything regarding an "inaccessible cold wallet" - did the article change between when you read it and I did 30 minutes later?
Yes, I really love racket. Congratulations to the team!
I think the author's recommendations at the end, on making <meta> and <img> and <script> more sane, are good examples of where the "implement then standardize" process that the W3C uses falls down. In fact, XHTML2 (which was never implemented) had some good ideas. On the other hand, as we've seen so many times, implement then standardize reduces foot-dragging and needless bike-shedding. You take the good with the bad, I guess.
That is one disturbing site, though it tries to make its point on how much it dislikes the article :)
In my experience, scalability issues are often rooted in either not understanding your infrastructure, or not testing it. My WordPress blog survived a pretty heavy Reddit effect with no caching enabled and "only" 6 PHP processes. Similarly, my other applications seem to scale fairly well on VPSs with under 1GB of RAM. Knowing the infrastructure causes me to profile and optimize frequently.

My other issue with the cloud is the vendor lock-in. Google App Engine is pretty cool, but who else provides Big Table support? Amazon's datastore is similarly unique although AWS lets you run MySQL at least. Lastly, I found that it is cheaper to run your own VPSs. The AWS is at least twice as expensive for the same amount of RAM.
http://a904guy.com/dislike?url=http://www.fsf.org/facebook/m...
"Process" is time bound by definition. There are also other characteristics of God's causality that natural processes cannot have. For instance, free will is the ability to create something from nothing, and natural processes cannot do this.
Here's a good discussion of a common use case: http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=20001030
This would be incredibly useful for publicly traded corps to help prove that they made information public at a specific time (i.e., disclosure requirements were met).
Already posted: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1937059
POS advertising is still relatively new, the market size is still fairly small (~1 billion dollars) but it's doubling every 18-24 months. That's the kind of market startups want to be in.
This font has the unusual property that zooming in (using e.g. Ctrl+ScrollWheelUp on a Mac) actually makes it less legible.

It does help you appreciate just how small we can make pixels, though. Given that we can make pixels so small, I wonder if there could be a market for B&W triple-resolution display? If I valued high-res over colour?
Looks like it's working now.
Different people are offended by different things

Certainly true, but this makes the whole exercise futile. How can one try to prevent their platform from becoming a medium for offensive speech, when every viewer can potentially be offended by different, orthogonal, thresholds?
Actually, I think Blue Apron has been posting promising revenue numbers since covid hit. The post-IPO year-on-year revenue charts looked like a water slide, but they've been maintaining a consistent client base for the last year. That one, at least, isn't built on a lie.
Don't really want to defend Facebook, but the amount of cynicism and bad faith here is too much. This article should be welcome, it gives us more information on what happened. It clarifies that this was not some sort of database leak (which is much more damaging), but a API abuse that allowed bad actors to figure out people's phone numbers. Overall article brings transparency to the situation, which is good.
MicroSoft Research,mGoogle Labs.
Unclear if they have developed anything significant.
There are many startups out there with meaningful visions and need experienced devs like yourself.
Crypto integration was one of the things that arguably killed Keybase for a lot of users, and damaged trust. Given that trust is the selling point for these type of services, I really hope Signal don't lose it.
As Yoric mentioned, that would require some custom Qemu patch to corrupt memory, some test boxes with dodgy RAM, and/or other things along those lines.

Removing those "impossible" code branches is a bad idea. "Impossible" things happen millions of times a day to Firefox.

I used to work for LimeWire, which had tens of millions of users. We were sometimes seeing bug reports of "impossible" stack traces. They went down dramatically when we added a splash screen that calculated SHA-1 hashes of all of the DLLs and JARs before using the reflection API to load and start the actual application. Given that the "corrupted" JARs were still presumably passing the JARs' CRC-32 checksums and bytecode verification at class load time, I think we were most often just detecting dodgy RAM that would later have caused "impossible" errors by corrupting bytecode or native code after bytecode verification.
OK. I will dive in as well.

Programming needn't be hard for simple business problems.

With how rich of tools are out there, every white collar worker would benefit from putting at least some scripting tools in their toolkit.

Banging out scripts is easy. Cobbling together hacks is easy.

Software engineering is hard.
After working for 20 years with weekly status, switching to daily status is a big change. It removes developer autonomy and responsibility. Instead of toughing it out and trying different ways to solve a problem, we report our status and management leads us in a different direction each morning. Instead of gaining breadth, we get emasculated. Minor problems get elevated to obsessions, inverting priorities. Over the longer time frame, all the intelligence of the leader is "harvested" and ant-like developers haven't been practicing problem-solving skill so progress ossifies, but people still feel busy because they're trying new things every day. And the new things are only from the repertoire of the leader who isn't developing either. But hey we have chip makers speeding up chips every year, so this will continue. This honestly used to be much more fun in the old days. It was less productive, of course, but also less reverent. It didn't feel like a morning mass or pledge of allegiance, more like the Superfriends.
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The treatment of the preliminary report as a publication (in the legal sense) was the source of bitter acrimony between factions of the EDVAC design team for two reasons.[3] First, publication amounted to a public disclosure that prevented the EDVAC from being patented; second, some on the EDVAC design team contended that the stored-program concept had evolved out of meetings at the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering predating von Neumann's activity as a consultant there, and that much of the work represented in the First Draft was no more than a translation of the discussed concepts into the language of formal logic in which von Neumann was fluent. Hence, failure of von Neumann and Goldstine to list others as authors on the First Draft led credit to be attributed to von Neumann alone. (See Matthew effect and Stigler's law.)
”””

This seems more vague than what have been disclosed here...
In this case we didn’t even press “Publish” :) The original link was just a preview link that was shared internally so people could review the announcement. Unfortunately someone received it without proper context, didn’t realize it was a draft/preview link, and thought it was ready to share.
What has happened is that the "old generation" of programmers is dying out / retiring. And they aren't passing on their knowledge to the new generation. The "old generation" of programmers were high-math, abstract algebra and more, while "new generation" programmers just never bothered to learn this stuff.

There may be some survivorship bias here. Even in the 1990s, business-grade programmers (the ones who, quite frankly, aren't inclined to learn difficult subjects) either went into management or did something else, although the timeframe and ageism are more aggressive these days due to the infantilization and humiliation (e.g., Agile Scrum) that engineers face today.

Research-grade programmers were the minority, even then, although this problem is a lot worse today due to the near nonexistence of R&D jobs.
Honestly, I think you really do not get it. Why would the loss of ability to mine lead to a price increase of Bitcoin? The mining efforts are driven by the price, not viceversa. I am certain you are familiar with it for a long time, but the way you put the problem kind of points out you are missing something.
Are you looking at BME680 vs CCS811 vs SGP30 or something else?

https://www.jaredwolff.com/finding-the-best-tvoc-sensor-ccs8...
The architecture limitations exist b/c App Engine essentially scales effortlessly once you abide by them.

If you insist on using SQL, then use a company like Heroku, but realize that if your app gets popular you will be paying Heroku a lot of money for the same level of performance you could get for a few bucks a month using app engine.

After I wrote my first toy app a few years ago, App Engine doesn't really feel like it has any significant limitations other than the absence of naked domains and SSL. The recent reliability problems have been a nightmare, but as of Nov 6, I feel like they have been resolved.

I should add that I love app engine and use it whenever I don't need naked domains or SSL. (SSL is only available via .appspot.com domains)
I have to go to the US next year for a family gathering and I seriously would rather not go at all because of this ridiculous TSA stuff.
Hit me up, i have something going on over here, which i think you might be interested in. My email is 'hackernews id here'@gmail.com
I do quite frequently for various reasons. It would be disappointing to lose it, but at the same time, I still want to see X go.

Perhaps the future tool will have a way to push ui data over the network, as well, and we won't lose those abilities.
I'm getting divorced at the moment. Curious why you think its relevant
well when you're spending more money on basic necessities, paying off your debt is gonna take a back seat. Bankruptcies and defaults, sir.

"In an inflationary environment it would make sense to borrow dollars to buy goods which increase in price under inflation: stocks, gold, etc."

That is just not so easy when you're spending 90% of your paycheck on food, rent, power... Who will loan you the money knowing you're a default risk?

"Congress will never default on the debt. The debt is in dollars and congress has the power to print dollars. We are going to print our way out of debt."

i agree. The end result is hyperinflation. But I reserve the possibility that congress will come to its senses, do the hard thing, and default.
But it so startuply to do that! ;)

(Also, be glad it's not 2004, or it'd be fabrc or fbric ;)
Your allegations that Assange is falsely accused because of some sort of conspiracy.
Yup, it's on their roadmap: http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/roadmap.html
The FSF needs a good Joe Sixpack visible flagship "product". Most programmers respect code before the message. I think a decent flagship product would go a long way towards increasing the visibility and understanding of the message.
You can still do development locally with 2.6, but you need to be a little bit careful that you don't use any 2.6-only APIs or syntax before deploying to production.
Failure is inevitable and it is only a matter of time until it happens. You're going to be finding the same issues with any other nas/raid solution and with the drives you use in them. Maybe drobo is more likely to fail than the others or something by unfortunate design (and with droboshare, I could believe the fs corruption), but they all have the potential to fail in some way. (You're also talking to someone that's had more SSDs than hard drives die on her in the past six months...)

When I was shopping around for drobo alternatives (back when I couldn't stomach the price just yet to buy one and I was getting a bit sick of my hacked-together raid in one of my computers), product reviews and blog entries read exactly like what I see here with the drobo being hit or miss. There were people that were all "DO NOT BUY!!" because they lost all their data next to the people just gushing over how much they liked theirs cause it was working like a charm. This is a tough market, because people don't want to lose their data, and when (not if...) they do they get quite pissed.

It's really up to you to determine your needs and to find a device or twenty that meets them. I rather like the drobo because it's zero maintenance. I don't trust my data to it, I only trust it to keep working when a drive has failed. But that's about all I can expect from any such device. The whole market is pretty much hit or miss for people - it's a hit until it misses, then all you can think about is how it missed.