skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First of all, congrats! Whether you accept it or not, it's always an honor to be recognized.

I did a technical review for a small O'Reilly e-book, so my experience is probably a "lite" version of the process, but it mostly consisted of general fact checking and verifying the completeness of the content. The process was pretty straightforward: they sent me the book, I read it a few times, added relevant comments to the document, and sent it back.

Overall a positive and interesting experience that I would definitely do again.
Spotify Is Using the Toilet to Teach How to Use Internal Code
We don't need to know anything about your web application to know that you need a RDBMS.

If you happen to have an exception to this rule, you are a VERY VERY rare case indeed.
Especially when the SSN is used as a stand-in but has no security whatever.
But the resulting agreement might not be enforceable. So in a contract-law sense it's not negotiation. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_form_contract.
> Surely these sorts of errors in major systems are already being/have already been addressed [...] search for which members of a GP's practice are going to be pensioners in 2040

If you know anything about programmers, you know they found that error at some point during development, thought about how other people dealt with that, remembered that windows used to treat >30 as 1900s and <30 as 2000s and did the same. So probably the people in this thread planning their retirement solving this will have to figure out which random unix timestamp number is treated as pre 2038 and which one is after. And then they will have to undo all the last-minute spaghetti code tying it up on the original program.
two black poker chips stuck together with elmers glue
Interesting. And... the nesting you describe is messing with my head! :)

How did the erratum get fixed? Hardware re-re-release?

Definitely filed crashme away, sounds like a useful tool.

The Sibyte 1250 sounds cute. There's a "650000000 Hz" in https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-mips/2009-Septem... although I'm not sure if MIPS from circa 2002 (?) was that fast (completely ignorant; no field knowledge - definitely want to learn more though).

I also noted the existence of the BCM91250E via http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/broadcom-announces-n...
sibytetm-bcm1250-mipsr-processor-to-accelerate-customers-software-and-hardware-development-75841437.html, which was kind of cool. I like how the chip is a supported target for QNX :)

Now I'm wondering what you were using it for. Some kind of network device? (I think I saw networking as one of its target markets.)

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As an aside, I'm also very curious what HN notifier you use, if you use one. (I use http://hnreplies.com/ myself, but it's sometimes slow. I saw your message after 4 minutes in this case (fast for HN Replies); typing/research + IRL stuff = delay :) )
A brand new HN account is worthless, so typos don't matter because you can make a new account and redo your single post.

Changing a name that was correct is a totally different problem from a typo at ingest.
My dad is a mechanical engineer who loves cars. I spent my youth listening to him lamenting the fact that modern cara have too many electronics and DIY protections. That you can't even make an oil change without also notifying the computer, the interface for which is proprietary and only sold to licensed dealers, or the car would refuse to run because it would think its oil is bad.

He reminisced about the good old days when all you needed was a wrench and a hammer and you could fix anything on a car.

This was 10 years ago. I imagine it's only gotten worse since.

Coincidentally he grew up on a farm where they would hack and build from scratch all sorts of farm equipment.
The title feels a bit misleading. Americans are eating less beef because it is more expensive. As a side effect (not a significant motivator in and of itself), this is helping the fight against climate change. The increased price has definitely driven down beef consumption in my house.
Simplify routing logic unless you want to route based on URL, which e.g. AWS ALBs or nginx or haproxy can do, but they don't understand GraphQL. What's the alternative?
CeBIT '17: Edward Snowden “Datasecurity and Privacy in the Age of Surveillance”
> Kluthe, for example, uses pig manure to power his tractor, which requires engine modifications that would likely violate John Deere's terms of service on newer machines.

> "I take the hog waste and run it through an anaerobic digester and I've learned to compress the methane," he said. "I run an 80 percent methane in my Chevy Diesel Pickup and I run 90 percent methane in my tractor. And they both purr. I take a lot of pride in working on my equipment."

There's also a chance that this violates EPA laws around Tier IV emissions. Totally sympathize with not being able to repair existing equipment but I think it's important to separate it from things that can have emission implications(much in the same way you can't go dumping tons of RF everywhere over protected spectrum on your router).

That said I wonder if Case IH/Claas/etc has similar agreements.
The issue with bad ratings from users with shitty phones where it's actually a miracle you got it to work on their phone at all is such a real pain...

"App crashes on open when using my 1989 car phone, 1 star"
Show HN: ThreadJob lightweight asynchronous scheduling and execution
If this is the type of error you want to minimize, NATO phonetic alphabet [1] is worth learning. (Amateur radio is a good place to practice, though I'll admit I'm a bit rusty.)

I actually kinda enjoy these minor discrepancies, because it exposes who has sold my customer data and to whom -- though I've never gone as far as giving anyone intentionally incorrect data with this purpose in mind. I remember my parents also being amused with these copied mistakes, and with greater frequency. Seems plausible that the error rate goes down when most of my utilities/accounts were self-created online instead of typed in from a handwritten form or during an onboarding phonecall.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_phonetic_alphabet
I wonder if RoboVM never really caught on because Swift turned out to be a decent language.
The New York Times’ most famous tweet is ten years old
And up until recently didn't even give you access to a guaranteed monotonically increasing clock!
Also note that IBM mainframes can run 64-bit Linux just fine. Indeed, IBM's been marketing its LinuxONE mainframe line as a z series machine that doesn't run z/OS at all.

(disclaimer: IBMer, but not a mainframe person)
So very tired of "less punctuation saves typing time" fluff here. If ()'s etc are really that much of your typing time I question what you're doing.

Readability is a subjective concept but many of these "remove unnecessary parens" languages irk me because I would argue that they /do/ make code more readable (subjective!).

A lot of the "unnecessary" syntax has never been necessary for a parser - it's there to make the code easier for /people/ to interact with.

it also counts the benefits of static typing multiple times (seemingly not acknowledging that the earlier compiler errors are a by product of static typing not an addition to).

It tries to make a reasonable argument about how errors are handled in JS vs Go, but instead of saying "JS uses exceptions for error handling, whereas Go uses explicit error return codes" it goes into a weird "coding style" ramble where it complains vehemently about stack unwinding, but ignores verbosity (that a few paragraphs earlier was the worst thing in the world) of explicit error handling.

I think if the author hadn't tried to say this was a comparison, but instead said "reasons I like Go more than JS" I would not have had as much of a problem with this article.
Aptible Enclave does as well: https://www.aptible.com/blog/managed-https/

(I'm CEO there)
I'm not familiar with the case, but others are saying that it was the terms of a settlement, not the court ruling.
The problem was the wifi was incapable of handling all the passengers trying to connect throughout the entire flight from SFO to LHR. Even if I wanted to pay them money to watch a movie, I couldn't.

So United saved costs by not retrofitting their airplanes with seatback screens and by offering shit wifi.

Of course Louis CK would say: https://youtu.be/ZFsOUbZ0Lr0
[citation needed]

There is no vehicle on the market (that I know of) which will refuse to run without an oil change.

On my 17 year old BMW and 2 year old VW, the oil service indicator is just a reminder, a courtesy. On the BMW I can reset it with a paper clip. On the VW I can reset it on the screen on the dash.

Honestly, most of the major things that go wrong with cars these days are still mechanical, and are still fixed in the old-fashioned way. I've done countless brake jobs, oil changes, suspension changes, fluid changes, cooling system swaps, and never once been stymied by a computer.
We took "helping fight against climate change" out of the title. Normally we'd ask the submitter not to editorialize but I suspect this was just NYT up to its usual title tricks.
I've mostly cut out beef from my diet, but that's mostly because chicken is cheaper and because beef tends to be a bit fattier.

Helping against climate change is a nice bonus all the same.
I do miss the high DPI screen when using my old Air, that's a good point. Though I usually don't feel my internet surfing is enhanced by holding a heavy tablet.
The problem with all of these seems to be: where could you actually live in one in any city or suburban area? I don't reckon you can just buy a small plot of land on a residential street in San Jose and plop this down, hook up utilities, pave a driveway, and live in it. I doubt any homeowners here would want it next to them. I've never seen it done in the Bay Area. Is it possible?
There are a few errors in your comment. I hope my comment can clarify some of them.

Electrons, Positrons, Neutrinos, Muons, ... are elementary particles. You can't break them.

Protons, Neutrons, ... are composed by three quarks. Quarks are elementary particles that you can't break.

The quarks inside the proton and neutron are bounded by the strong force. The strong force is really strong so no one have seen an isolated quarks.

We only know they are formed by three quarks because if we make them collide at high speed the quarks from one of them can be recombined with the quark of the other and form a few new particles.

It's more complicated, because during the collisions it is possible to create a pair of quark-antiquark. So if you collide a proton and an antiproton at a high speed, after the collision you have to rearrange the 3 quarks from the proton, the 3 antiquarks from the antiproton, and all the quarks and antiquarks that appeared in the collision.

The exact number of pairs of quarks and antiquarks and their favors are determined by probabilities derived from difficult calculations.

And actually, all this mess is not instantaneous, the quarks can rearrange themselves in some particles that later decay in other particles with other quarks.

In particular in this experiment they didn't see the "new" particles directly, because they live for a very short time. They only saw the particles that were formed after the "new" particle decayed.

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> If the strong and weak forces are particles

No. It's important to distinguish the difference between a force and the particles that are the carriers of the force. The differences and relations are subtle, so it's better do delay the discussion for another day

> gravity ... mass ... higgs

They are also different things, that are interrelated but different.
since all manufacturers just assemble readily available parts , time to market will probably be less than software.

you'd be surprised how many common parts are in a ford and bmw. Mostly exterior and dashboard are trade secrets today.
Gate off the water for the canal separate from the sea, so that it doesn't fluctuate. Usually this involves building a set of locks so that ships can traverse between the different levels - basically, a pair of floodgates with mechanisms to drain water into and out of the pound between them. Push ship in, lock the near gate, drain or fill the pound, unlock other end.
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The standard of life and suffering doesn't revolve around that of United States, just because you have an unimaginably fucked up _justice_ system doesn't discounts the struggle and suffering of others.
Those "market costs" are based on some exceptionally deep accounting failures of both externalities of use, and externalities of formation.

The "market price" is off by roughly seven orders of magnitude, for petroleum.
If you think the capital costs for Tesla are bad try getting into a smaller market where tractors start at ~$150k. Kubota has been trying to go upmarket but it's not something that can be done overnight.

I'd be more curious if some of the other players(NH, Case IH, Claas, etc) could use this to their advantage. You see similar things in the CUT(Compact Utility Tractor) segment where LS/Kioti/Mahindra generally offer much more capabilities/features over Kubota and JD.
Always seems like a good idea? I've got an iPad2 that I really wanted to love, and used until it became so slow it was useless (a couple of years ago). It still sits on my kitchen counter as a plugged-in weather station, though the app crashes frequently.

I've got an HP Touchpad I bought during the fire sale for $50 or whatever the going rate was. I think its got Android on it. It was less of a fun project than I expected. Mostly I realized I don't like Android.

I've got a 7" Fire I bought at christmas for $30 but never use.

My wife's got a 7" Nexus she got as a gift but rarely used.

She's also got a Kindle she used to use occasionally.

Plus an iPad Air she uses quite a bit.

I'm pretty sure there's another tablet or two in there somewhere but nothing comes to mind.
Soap.com (Quidsi) is an Amazon subsidiary.
That's a really good idea! I love the concept of "the voice in our heads". Thanks for the idea!
The shower is also the toilet. It's a big basin which you rinse with water. What's the real difference?
OkCupid is over a decade old. XDR was pretty good back when people started writing our services.

My goal here isn't to migrate our RPC system... yet. My goal is to stand up Rust services in production. I need to be able to issue calls between services and thus, I need it to speak XDR. Migrating your RPC system in a production website is a non-trivial task.

I've done some investigation into switching to something like flatbuffers or cap'n proto. That's a project for another day though.
Increased Lateral Separation Urged as A380’s Wake Flips Challenger 604
are you really disputing the fact that there are some people who make a shit ton of money owning property that dont really deserve it? thats crazy.
Dead people can't fill out surveys. ;)

I knew of the attack at Ataturk Airport and I'm fine with a layover there. I'd even change to a stopover to hang out in Istanbul again, but don't have the time this trip. If you can get over your fears and fly the two airlines, I'm sure you'll find Turkish to be a better experience than United.
I tend to agree here when i hear people equating love of animals with love of children and it kind of bothers me when people make such an equivalence. I've had many pets throughout my life, and my love for them pales in comparison to the love for my children. I'm certain i would give my own life to save any of my children, i can't say the same for my dog.
Not sure, but all American's now get to reap the benefits.
Instagram Tools and Strategies No One’s Talking About
This article provides a brief follow-up of a story covered in a recent post here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13890618
The Roar of a Totally Rebuilt 331 Chrysler Hemi FirePower Engine
> fire extinguisher off amazon.

I literally just had mine delivered yesterday from amazon. Now I'm a little woried
For OSX I have been using this native app MacPass -
http://mstarke.github.io/MacPass. Actively developed from what I see on Github.
> 85%

you are ignoring your own effect on that.

The fact that every developer moved to API 19+ is why most users gave up and spent another $400~600 on a new unneeded phone.

And thanks to that, no manufacturer will ever support the latest release on a month old phone, because they now know people will just buy a new one.
Fair enough :) I guess my mind latched onto the "it still seems under-explored" part and wanted to try and respond to that.
Doesn't make sense to call for Dorsey's head based on this specifically — it's been a problem on Twitter for years.
The first time I saw this was in Google toilets something like 7-8 years ago (before I joined Google later). The series of tutorials there were cutely named things like "learning on the loo" or "pondering on the potty" or some such.
While there is nothing wrong with adding up, down, roll, pitch, and yaw commands (I guess yaw is already provided by RT and LT) it feels like you are missing the point of LOGO when you make statements like these.

The turtle graphics are great at getting you sucked in, but the language is so much more powerful than that. Logo is a lisp and can be used to do many wonderful things in addition to turtle graphics
Is it known if he microcode patch affects performance?
I do. What else does auto form fills based on urls, client side encryption, and runs in chrome, IE and Safari?
Beef is expensive. Which is strange considering the factory nature of it, plus the subsidies on the feed.
Probably didn't have to, but chose to for any one of many reasons.
I've lost many beloved pets throughout my life, it's devastating for sure but i've also felt the pain of losing both of my parents, for me, it's not even close. You make a good point about irreplaceability. It doesn't bother me that my kids didn't get to meet my childhood dog, but it really hurts they will never get to meet their grandparents.
Please don't take HN threads on generic ideological tangents. It's tedious and leads to flamewars.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13926144 and marked it off-topic.
My dad's from Libya, his entire side of the family are in Tripoli (a few in Benghazi). The general consensus was that people welcomed the outside help.

It wasn't the bombs that did the damage, it was 50 years of living in fear and afraid to criticize the leadership because you could, and would, just disappear and never be heard from again. You didn't have community organizers or anyone with a public persona that could help get people back together.

Instead you get a void that opened the door to power struggles from parts of the country that had been getting played against each other for decades. Then you got jihadists, etc. and we are where we are.

It sucks, we've had to help get some cars from Europe because they're all blown up, or can't be repaired because there's no parts. My aunt has had a hell of a time getting insulin, we had family have to go to Algeria for medical care after getting injured in blasts.

It's not in any way good over there, but don't think for one second those bombs were as bad as the poison that had swept in to that country since the war started- and don't think that they were nearly as bad as the thought of Ghadaffi and his family in power for 50 more years.

Since the Romans, to the Italians, and until recently it's been a place under near constant rule. It's gonna be bad for a lot longer, but don't blame the US for where it is.
nope that's not me. i don't even use hn that much or know what flagging even is.
Our company was PathScale, and we were hoping that the Sibyte 1250 would make a great supercomputing chip. Opteron wasn't out yet, Intel was pricing 64-bit Itanium very high, and this dual-core Sibyte thing was projected to have a reasonable clock and it could do 2 64-bit fp mul-adds/cycle. We had Fred Chow and the GPLed SGI Compiler on our side. And the next revision of the chip had these great 10 gig networking features that I thought I could make work well with MPI, the scientific computing message-passing standard.

You can guess how it worked out: Sibyte was late, slow, and buggy. Even simple code sequences like hand-paired multiply-adds would start running at 1/2 speed after an interrupt. Our experienced compiler team was unable to get good perf on several SPECcpu benchmarks despite the code looking good. (Fred didn't have much hair left to pull out!)

Soon after we raised our A round we pivoted to using Opteron for compute, building an ASIC for a specialized MPI network, and Fred's team did an Opteron backend for the compiler.

The descendant of the network is now called Intel Omni-Path, and is on-package for Xeon Phi cpus.
HN doesn't hate $what_you_like, it just feels that way when you find yourself in a defensive position for whatever reason. This sort of perception is largely in the eye of the beholder.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13926022 and marked it off-topic.
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Raising cattle requires a lot of land (both for the cattle themselves and to grow the feed they eat). Land is a finite resource.
A significant percentage of the US beef herd is raised on range lands where they are a critical part of the natural ecosystem (replacing bison in that niche primarily). I have long argued that a moderate reduction in American beef consumption would allow the demand to be satisfied entirely with ecologically necessary cattle herds, which I view as a win-win. Ecosystem stays healthy and people don't have to give up beef entirely.

People tend to focus on feedlot beef but there is also a lot of range beef in the US. Absolutists on both sides tend to ignore the fact that balanced ecologically sound options exist.
Even better, put the LNG back on the boat, send it to Australia and make 110% profit!
You haven't experienced it, but this sort of thing does exist.

Want to replace your relatively simple Volvo throttle body with a junkyard pull? Nope, it's programmed to your VIN.

Similar for many radios. And the notoriously glitchy matrix display on the dash cluster of 90s BMW's.

Also, PCM and body control modules, and more I've forgotten.
Also, where did all the USDA prime meat go? I remember being a kid and seeing USDA prime in every grocery store as the standard meat for sale. Choice/select was always in a corner... Now when you go into any grocery store, USDA prime is missing or you need to ask for it. I believe only Costco sells it locally for me.