skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Siemens Step5 (for maintaining an installed base of S5 PLCs - the most indestructible piece of computing hardware ever designed, IMHO.)

Also, some work in MPASM (Assembly for the Microchip PIC series of microcontrollers - same reason)

Edit: I am not sure just when S5 got introduced, but I've got installation media - on 5.25" floppies - for CP/M in my office. Made in West Germany.

That old.

Luckily, the IDE has also been ported to more contemporary operating systems.
"Whoever happens to be in power" already decides what's legal or illegal. That's what being in power means. No one respects a piece of paper; power ultimately comes down to the ability to exert force to see the decrees of the powerful imposed. If this isn't underneath the covers somewhere, the power moves to someone who does have this ability.

There's already a huge amount of finagling by powerful individuals and groups in our government, they just have a lot of pomp and circumstance to try to cover it up. Removing some of the formalities makes flexibility more accessible.

Sure, you can spend the millions of dollars it takes to successfully lobby Congress if you're a big multinational corporation. If you're a niche concern, you're stuck.

Everyone hates mandatory minimum sentences these days. They were put in for a lot of drug crimes in the late 80s-early 90s, and they result in a lot of unneeded incarcerations, not only costing the taxpayer a lot of money, but costing society, family, and community the participation and productivity of someone who would be much more beneficial outside than in. Because of our rigid legal traditions, mandatory minimums must be enforced regardless of circumstances.

When you get down to the bottom of it, no matter what system of governance you have, you need its administrators to be benevolent and wise to get desirable outcomes. I believe that more local authorities are more able to make wise decisions because they not only know the area more intimately, but are more impacted by the outcomes. A far-off judge doesn't care if he sends 40% of the community to jail. A local judge does.

This is kind of like being entitled to being judged by a jury of your peers. Peers know the cultural norms and the local expectations. High-powered attorneys sitting on a bench in Washington, D.C. may not.
Fortran and Holy C.
That's funny because Anders Hejlsberg was the chief architect of both Delphi and C#.
There's nothing wrong with that. Charging more than the underlying cost is how companies make money. The airline industry is fairly competitive, so if there's room to cut prices, it'll happen.
vba/excel/sql for reporting automation.
Some links:
Polish city polluted more then Beijing.
https://www.ft.com/content/6712dd66-c91d-11e6-8f29-9445cac89...

33 out of 50 worst polluted cities are in Poland (due coal)
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CyIT4l4WIAEpzuF.jpg:large

Poland could be fined up to 900 mil Eur for crossing the pollution limits.
One of the bigger challenges I've seen is driving usage. We've got the MVP up and running, and it's possible to improve the experience, but getting more people to message in (FB Messenger) has been a hurdle.

Anyone have tips or experience with that?
Yeah, I'm really sorry that some people were offended -- perhaps a few 50-year-olds who haven't aged well???

/S
First, you can auto update extensions distributed via your own web server. It says so right in Apple’s docs how to do it:

https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/To...

Second, he writes:

“Maintenance of Safari Extensions is also about to get even worse”

And then: “All four of the other browsers use effectively the same APIs — Safari is potentially going to change that in some ugly ways” and To develop a Safari extension may eventually require Xcode” (emphasis mine).

So it implies that Apple is forcing a switch to the Safari App Extension model, but there doesn’t seem to be any evidence of that. Both the traditional extension model and the new app extension model are supported side by side right now.

While I agree that the review process is ridiculous, I think the author is disingenuous or uneducated on a few of the key points of the article.
Existence of cheap labor negatively impacts the investments into robotics. Disappearance of cheap labor makes some numbers (total addressable market, costs per unit produced) look very attractive.
I really want to write something in 6502 assembly this year. I've read tutorials and played with it, but I've never used it to build a non-trivial program. I've also been wanting to build a NES emulator in common lisp, and this would be the perfect opportunity to pair the two projects.
I'm surprised this isn't getting much attention here.

There really isn't a technological solution for class breaks. Go big and you replace one kind of class break with another (a top-tier security system for hotel card readers just focuses the attacks on that system). Go small and it isn't cost effective or plausible at scale (everybody install gentoo! Compile your own kernels!).

Honestly, I'm stumped. We rely on these systems more and more to squeeze out every bit of productivity we can get, but that only leaves us at the mercy of our systems.

Is it even possible to fix this kind of situation before it really turns on us, or are we doomed to suffer a cataclysm we cannot yet imagine?
VAT only taxes added value. So, if VAT applied to fuel, the airline gets a VAT rebate for everything that they buy (including fuel), and then pays VAT on their total sales. Nothing is taxed twice.

If there's some tax benefit to splitting a fuel surcharge out, obviously taxes on fuel aren't an ordinary VAT...
My company has a multi-million-LOC application directed at medium to large healthcare providers written in FreePascal. I have worked with a lot of different codebases, and this is by far the best one. I would like to say it is because I have been the code dictator since it's inception, but it is probably because things are quite easy to structure using pascal.
You're right. Charging for baggage is reasonable, but the in-cabin consequences are pretty annoying. I'm actually surprised that it's worth it, given how much extra time it must take to turn around an airplane.

The "right" answer would, of course, be to charge for carry-on luggage too. I think some airlines are starting to do this now. I bet their customers won't be happy though.
> I didn't see any misunderstandings of evolution in the book

The greatest feature of evolution that it makes teleology unnecessary. It can operate as a mindless/goalless algorithm. Of course evolution may be operated by someone/something with specific goals instead of pure chances, but thats just an unnecessary assumption until it proved - so we may employ Occam razor here until someone proves it. The possibility of design without a designer is one of the main point and contribution of the theory and it should be fully understood - even if if later turns out (which have not happened yet, and no sign for that happening beside metaphysical opinions...) that there was a designer.

> of actually existing computers is also extremely complex, and not obviously any less complex than the mapping from these states to physical states of rocks

You can't be serious:
First map a Computer chess program states to human interpretable visualization to play chess against it
And then do this with your rock.

First is mainly one-to-one mapping of digital signs to pixels by using a static table, the second is..., I'm not even sure how to inject my move into the states of the rock, but no idea either how to extract its response. You know why? There is simply no one to one mapping there. The states of a rock is a large bundle of everything without interpretation, the states of the chess program is CLEARLY more constrained - the proof is empirical: it CAN be implemented.

Like if you say that the set of all positive integers contains the solution of factorizing any large number. Of course it does: you just have to point to those numbers. ;) But how? All states are not the solution - selecting the proper states is the computation, and if those selection mechanism is in the mapping process then the mapping IS the computer.
Warren Buffett predicted the fall of Eddie Lampert and Sears over 10 years ago
Mirror: https://archive.is/Tltad
IIRC around 20-30% obese people have ADHD, and they use food as a form of self-medication when their dopamine levels get low.

Unfortunately it's not screened for in obese people, so most of them never get tested :(

Myself, once I began meds, the need to eat constantly evaporated. The first month I felt no hunger whatsoever (I guess there was no dopamine deficiency any more, and regular hunger systems still haven't kicked in), and after that time my hunger got to normal levels - meaning, the weight stabilised, and now I eat only when truly hungry.
What I am saying is, Is that if Uber is profitable right now in the US, then this isn't "undercutting".

This is the fair, free market price. That's how normal competition works.

If they were significantly not profitable, then you can use the price dumping argument.

But since they ARE profitable, then this is the price that the free market will go towards.
Perl 5, of course!

It's an awesome language and both the language and the ecosystem is getting better and better all the time
To be frank I think studies like this give some people an excuse. They become wrapped up in all the other factors beside calories (macro break down, genetics, hormone levels, GI, insulin spikes, meal timing, illness etc) yet ignore what is by far the biggest part of the pie (terrible pun, my apologies) - calories.
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It's common to include a profit margin in pricing. Apple makes an iPhone for <$300 and sells it for >$600.
Who is going to 'take' people and teach them skills?
COBOL, definitely COBOL
This is mandated by law. The businesses have fought tooth and nail against ACA employer mandate.

And yet as of today in the United States an employer of 50 or more has to either separate business operations into two distinct units or buy employer-linked insurance.

https://www.uschamber.com/health-reform/employer-mandate
Marketing is brain programming
This is a great way to find ideas that have all their obvious improvements covered by newer patents, and get sued anyway.
that's the Richard Stallman approach: https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html

he has a script that he can poke to download the content and email it to himself. then he reads it with emacs or maybe lynx with no networking enabled.
This is my biggest fear starting in China besides the pollution and cultural mismatch: A dozen local Chinese startups bootstrapping by copying you with the government and market heavily favoring domestic solution vs Western solution.

It puzzles me why so many people in the West are trying to chase after the elusive dream of making it big in China. I can't name any white person that made it in Chinese startup scene in the way immigrants have IPO'd in the US. I use race as an important metric to compare the two cultures. One, where anyone regardless of race can make it and have made it (even if it's extra harder for a non-white person depending on the industry) and the other, where only Chinese speakers and ethnic Chinese have a far higher advantage and restrict outsiders.

In addition, I don't know a single American using Weibo instead of Twitter.

Made in China just isn't good for branding and China isn't "cool' yet. Hell, even Chinese buyers will pay premium for western names and avoid locally produced good, if they have the money to spend.
I mainly meant to say that it's a ridiculous idea to suggest business/first class as a solution to basic needs given the absolutely insane pricing structure. Obviously reality makes it impossible for everyone to enjoy exactly the same advantages, regardless of their in-born traits.
This is not a very enlightening article. Very few people care about Bridgewater, especially on HN. More focus on specific issues and possible fixes with 'distorted news' would have been of interest, but is not present in this article.
Diet definitely has a bigger impact than exercise, but isn't there still a correlation between more urban areas and lower obesity even when controlling for poverty?

There may be other factors to urban, non-car-based living besides the extra physical activity that encourages lower weight. It's maybe as simple as without a car you can't go to Costco and stock up on huge sacks of unhealthy foods in one go -- beats me, I'd be interested to learn more.
"To counter these trends, the U.S. must invest in raising the skills of the workers most likely to be affected by the disappearance of routine jobs..."
Not sure how's that going to play out for example a welding machine operator can't become a mechanical engineer in a short span of time because those routine jobs are eventually going to be consumed by automated robots, per this study. Why not motivate people to look into alternative booming industries? Healthcare and therapists for example. With aging population, people would require more health therapists and similar service oriented jobs.
I see a Davis Instruments weather station there, too. Another $600.
I would like to learn some rust and/or elixir
I recently joined Rust community to develop some crates. I always wanted to learn a system programming language but haven't had a chance to try C / C++.

I like the Rust community, friendly and helpful.
Rust. I think its got everything I want in a replacement for C. Plus the project I'm working on is considering using Rust to replace C for parsing untrusted input. I just need to get past the syntax.
One of their papers (pdf): https://icrc2016.exordo.com/files/papers/45/final_draft/ID04...

Not exclusively silicon-based work, btw.
Haha..beat this for esoteric: http://dshanestewart.blogspot.com/2012/11/cadol-blog-overvie...
That's great, thanks for sharing it. Another thing that has pros and cons is the fact that I work from home, so I'm always worried if she breaths, sneezes and if she moves :).But I like the idea of working as a team, thanks for the advice!.
I had the opposite experience! My girlfriend and I walked from the Bronx to Battery Park, it was great. We saw the neighborhoods change from block to block, bought bootlegged DVDs from a sweet old lady, and even ran into Robert Krulwich outside of Central Park. If you have 10 hours it's worth it.
I have heard the same about this freeing up more room for paid cargo. It seems plausible, but I would love if someone has hard evidence of this.
So providing a faster sort would be a violation?

The standard doesn't seem to say "or better" here, but I know that in other places it does (or least used to say something similar).
They'd been doing it for about nine months before this explosion. It wasn't the proximate cause, but it was a major change to the vehicle, one which is highly unusual in rocketry, and without that change, the proximate causes for the explosion wouldn't have happened. Without supercooled propellants, there wouldn't have been the need for faster tanking (because the fuel can just be at ambient temperature, and the LOX maintains temperature by boiling), and even if there were, the LOX wouldn't have been cold enough to solidify.
Lots and lots of SQL, which is now 40+ years old.
Routine doesn't necessarily mean low skill or low pay, it just means that you do pretty much the same thing from day to day. There are probably surgeons out there who have fairly routine jobs, make half a million dollars a year doing it, and earn every penny.
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Introducing rkt’s ability to detect privilege escalation attacks on containers
Which is really a function of rent control. NYC heavily subsidizes a retired population while discouraging ultra high density development. Further, after changing jobs it's often better not to move.

So, you sacrifice density on people who don't have a economic incentive for living in the city, discourage short commutes, and discourages increasing density.

ED: Yes, that includes Rent Stabilized.
Mostly, I'll be writing a lot of fairly old fashioned C++ (my current project is yet to use a single smart pointer or lambda, lots of templates though) for high performance numerical work.

Also, I guess writing code in Python 2 is considered outdated nowadays, so that too. Plus the usual shell scripting (bash on Linux and simple batch files on Windows).

I do hope to avoid writing any new Fortran this year, so there's that. Some of the less performance critical code will instead involve Julia, and I've been experimenting with D and Rust for fun. Not sure which category Java and C# fit in, but in all probability I'll also use those at some point.

And finally, LaTeX. Very old and, unfortunately, indispensable.
Meh, I've spent about 20 hours on this project so far, and I'd estimate probably 2 minutes of that time was spent managing .h files.
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I started learning Rust a few days ago. It's an interesting language and I can really see the motivation behind creating it.
NodeJS push streams, lightweight to run, includes notifications:

https://github.com/nextorigin/godot2-dash
Thanks for spotting that! I'll switch it over to S3/CloudFront soon
SQL. If I had to pick a language that I'll use my entire career that's the one. It has been overused and underused, but always relevant.
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I dont see the point of this. If I were to start a farm I'd buy some farming books on amazon, do my research, and buy the best equipment part per part. I dont see why anyone would want to spend 50k on some random farming kit.
The STL sort uses operator<, so they can't implement it as radix sort without changing the interface. Maybe they could manage to special case it for some fundamental types, but most likely they'd need to add a new function, like for stable_sort.
This seems like it's aimed at rural farmers in Africa and other developing nations who may have the know-how, but not the equipment or the means to get it. Presumably, the goal is for these things to be subsidized and then shipped out to establish self-sustaining farming.

In other words, it's probably not for when I get pissed off at my job and decide to move into my parents' house and work their two acres in Texas with no idea of what I'm doing.
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I agree that what remains of welding work isn't a routine job for sure.

I think the article is discussing the repetitive, low to medium skill welding and machine babysitting that has been automated or is just plain unnecessary with new manufacturing processes. What's left is the higher skill and un-automatable welding work.
It's hard to retrain when you live in a town with no higher education facilities, don't have any peers or role models in those careers, and there aren't employers in the area that require those skills.
That's well and good except the economy doesnt give a shit about not wasting human potential. Gives a shit about profits and return on capital, which can go either way in terms of destroying or building human potential and skills.
I know I'm late to the game but Go. I've been wanting to play with it for a while but haven't had the mental capacity to really dive in after work. As it turns out the company I work at has a project or two slated for the new year that will likely be written, at least partially, in Go. I look forward to getting my feet wet.
When will renewable be cheaper, though?
Too true. When I was 13 or so, I read the DOS 5.0 manual from cover to cover. If I recall, a lot of it was about batch files (autoexec.bat and stuff). Batch was really my first "programming" experience.

Then when I was 22, after a good computer science education, my first job was working at EA, and the build system involved a bunch of batch files. That knowledge from nearly a decade before came in handy! The CS stuff didn't come up until later.
It's those fat Goldman Sachs paydays.

No, here you go, actual reasons:

* Every cryptocurrency I’ve seen is a fractal scam at every level. When phrases along the lines of "a whole new form of money" and "the old rules don’t apply any more" start going around, people get gullible and the ethically-challenged get creative.

* Every cryptocurrency I’ve seen is a disastrous waste of resources and effort at every level – “proof of work” in particular is literally wasted to secure a distributed thing that should not be distributed, and which naturally recentralises anyway. (4 miners do 50% and 7 miners do 75% of Bitcoin, and 75% of hashing power is about to be in a single building.)

* Cryptocurrency advocates are frequently both strident and delusional about technology, economics, human nature and computer science itself.

* Bitcoin ideology, which has carried through to its descendants, is based on John Birch Society and Eustace Mullins conspiracy theories about central bankers, based on economic ideas which are most generously described as "not even wrong".

* Cryptocurrency advocates want a dot-com payday, where you get rich for free, only without even the step where you build an enterprise that does something that's useful to someone.

* Cryptocurrency advocates are almost universally either scammers, suckers or - best of all - suckers who think they're the scammer. Sorry, "early adopter". Pretty much everyone who got in after about 2012 is playing the role of "sucker" in the pump'n'dump. A "trustless" currency seems to attract people who absolutely cannot be trusted.

* Blockchains only approximately solve the problems they claim to (coordinating information amongst actors who distrust each other), and the approximation breaks down as they recentralise.

* Blockchains have no use cases outside cryptocurrencies, insofar as those count as a use case.

* Literally everything about smart contracts is bad. The DAO (and the fallout from the DAO, i.e. smart contracts are inviolate until the moment the whales might lose money) should have conclusively buried the idea and I'm still amazed it didn't.

* Everything about cryptocurrencies is, in practice, a bad idea for pretty much anyone to be involved in, and warning people off it is a public service.

* I feel like it.
> This is, for society at the very least, a "good thing".

That depends on if you live in a society that believes people should be free to pursue their 'dreams' or in one that uses work as a measure of a persons worth.

The US is the latter.
But first class largely costs more because of its larger legroom. Certainly there's no problem with having a long-legroom-but-no-frills class of seats. Indeed, unbundling services would probably facilitate this.
Independent fact checking seems like a great idea. Discrepancies in news stories should absolutely be pointed out. But I'm hesitant about the idea of having an "established party to assess the accuracies of what is being said".

Are we supposed to censor stories that this party designate as being fake? Who should oversee such a thing? What qualifies as "news"?
That would be certainly be a nice thing. But I think the BIG problem here is the part where you "teach them skills". What skills? who will teach these skills? and most importantly who will pay to teach these skills?
Even if the parts were very optimized price/performance wise, would it still be a good idea? I would imagine that each place has a specific biome that is suitable for specific crops, each person has a different amount of acrerage, etc.