skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This might be unrealistic, but it would be nice if the human race acquired some wisdom at some point instead of just blindly rushing ahead into whatever makes money. Maybe we could lessen the negative consequences with a little bit of restraint and foresight.

For example, did nobody stop to ask what would happen to all that non-biodegradable plastic meant to service a disposable economy?
I'm a relatively new member - I don't doubt it's changed over the years, much like Hacker Dojo sadly did. In Redwood City I haven't sensed much community activity happening or a sharing culture - I chalked that up to Techshop being for-profit. Still very much enjoy my time there though.
It is explained further down actually:

"But in paperwork filed with Nevada regulators last July, Otto claimed that it “developed in house and/or currently deployed” a 64-laser LiDAR system in its autonomous trucks. Uber now says this was an error. “Every single self-driving car that Uber has put on the road to date uses commercially available LiDAR sensors from third parties,” Uber wrote in its filing."
Do you mean "insidious," in that the tech celebrities that people use as role models might be charlatans?
Seems like most of the image optimizations are undone by WordPress/CDN, saved >60% on the xkcd-styled charts.
If the problem was as simple you make it, you could write your backend code only once, then re-use it in every project.

Why you are expecting a relational database which has many more use cases than the web programming (and web is not even a primary one) to solve this difficult task for small use cases?

Anyway, there were attempts in solving this and those were called frameworks, which shows that hardly there's a one size fit all. If you use a framework and have complex project you reach a point where the framework will just stay in your way.

> Exactly. It doesn't have to suck - our databases could provide a nice interface to do all this stuff cleanly instead. We just need a resumable event stream, with versions and some other API tweaks and we can do computed views out-of-process of the database, written in whatever language I want.

Not really, a database as name suggests is meant for storing data, it's an already a difficult task by itself (if you want durability and still make it fast). What you need is a backend code that provides this functionality.

> I'm firmly of the opinion that all databases should provide a Samza / Storm / Kafka / etc style event log.

All the technologies you described are stream processors, while they work on data, they operate completely different than a database and they have different use cases. Postgres does have LISTEN/NOTIFY but that's meant more like a side channel for communication.

Perhaps what you need is AQMP?
The problem I have with this approach is that with many companies, particularly larger established ones like AmaGoogSoft, base salary is just one portion of a compensation package that might have contributions of up to 50% from stock, bonus, incentive pay, benefits/matching, and perks. If you start anchoring on one piece of that puzzle, it limits your ability to move on others. If the goal of negotiation is to maximize your total offer (which it should be), then the only reasonable answer to the question is "depends on total compensation factors".
The Western world isn't doing a great job of advertising democracy at the moment. There's no natural progression towards free speech and democracy. It will happen if a majority of Chinese people are persuaded that it's a good idea. When they look at Trump and Brexit, I'm not so sure that they will be.
That's not the message I got from your earlier posts, which to me were saying that people who are trans are not at very much increased risk (whatever the cause might be) of attempted suicide.

Which was weird to me because from the evidence we have they are.
I disagree that they shouldn't be developing LIDAR. It is such a critical piece of Waymo's implementation that they would be fools not to have a development program.

Google has more money to invest in this than any part supplier. Why would they let another company own their destiny?
Speaking of sound, I played around with a BASIC stamp kit[1] and it was pretty cool that it supported polyphonic sound[2] easily, so I was able to program music with harmonies on it right away. It's also fun for creating DTMF signals such as dial tones, busy signals, and dialing numbers.

(Personal note: I've had a lot of fun doing sound on computers from the PC speaker (1 voice square wave), to the SAA1099 as found on the Game Blaster and optional add on for the Sound Blaster (12 voices square wave, 6 per chip), the BASIC stamp mentioned above, or most recently generating wave forms with math (adding sine waves together) and outputting it to DirectX which I learned from Handmade Hero day 007 through 009.[4])

[1] This one exactly: https://www.parallax.com/product/90005

[2] Two frequencies per pin with FREQOUT command: http://www.parallax.com/go/PBASICHelp/Content/LanguageTopics...

[3] http://www.vgmpf.com/Wiki/index.php/SAA1099

[4] https://www.youtube.com/user/handmadeheroarchive
Bailing out and dropping to the rescue shell when a mount point in /etc/fstab failed is FOR SURE the standard systemd behavior.One has to mark it as nofail otherwise systemd will assume it is required for boring the system.
I wonder who will win in the long term between Brotli and zstd. http://facebook.github.io/zstd/
Don't feed the trolls
This paragraph resonated with me:

The complexity of the world model was such that Ultima VI became the first installment that would let the player get a job to earn money in lieu of the standard CRPG approach of killing monsters and taking their loot. You can buy a sack of grain from a local farmer, take the grain to a mill and grind it into flour, then sell the flour to a baker — or sneak into his bakery at night to bake your own bread using his oven. Even by the standards of today, the living world inside Ultima VI is a remarkable achievement — not to mention a godsend to those of us bored with killing monsters; you can be very successful in Ultima VI whilst doing very little killing at all.

I got into western RPGs only recently - I played only JRPGs on the SNES and then later consoles. My first western RPG was Mass Effect 2, and since then I played ME3, Dragon Age: Inquisition and Skyrim. When playing Skyrim, I realized that the wolf pelts I was accumulating by killing wolves as I walked the countryside could be smithed into leather armor! That leather armor would fetch considerably more money when sold than wolf pelts.

My first thought: I found a cheat to more money! My second thought: I found a business.
Why should AT&T be coerced into allowing racist phone calls? Why should ISPs be coerced into hosting racist web sites or allowing racists to download racist content?

The distinction between telecom infrastructure and Twitter/FB/Google is becoming less and less clear by the year.
I live in a suburb, we don't have many sidewalks and we don't walk anywhere. I've been yelled at and nearly run over for using crosswalks, and walking to get where you're going is something only the poorest of the poor do here. Sad, really.
Who here came thinking it's a new modern Vim alternative?
A tmux or screen theme possibly?
you can find plenty in italy, all sounding like 'in most expensive city x, lead architect, full time, 6yr experience, 30k$ RAL'

rip market.
> https://github.com/corkami/pics/blob/master/binary/CryptoMod...

This one is great. Nothing as using crypto wrong so that it becomes useless.
The road to continuous web deployment at PlanGrid
for snopes and politifact the answer is no.
It's in a book called Otherness
When I was younger I played on a text-based MUD called WotMUD (Wheel of Time) for years. It was like an early MMORPG you could play on telnet. To this day it is the most fun and intense game I've ever played.

I had several blind friends on the MUD, and I remember talking to them about their setups. One owned the braille keyboard described in the article. I thought was so cool that we could share a game experience together.

It's still around and active in case folks are interested: www.wotmud.org
In developed countries 40% of the jobs from 40 years ago are almost certainly automated at this point. And we're richer than ever before if you look at absolute richness (not in relatives, but that's an entirely different discussion).
Another possibility is this:
https://docs.python.org/3/howto/cporting.html

If either their library (or a dependency) depends on something which binds to C, it could take some effort to make it python 3 compatible.

(FWIW, I use 2 or 3 depending on the OS or libraries that I am dealing with)
> "Most of the good ideas are obvious, Andreessen says. They just might not work right away"

That seems like a gross simplification of the way things usually work. Saying good ideas are obvious sounds a little egoistic, which seems ironic, considering the title
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GDIt, why didn't i try a HN search in the first place...

https://blog.bethselamin.de/posts/argh-pm.html

seems to be what i was thinking about earlier.
Getting+to+the+Bottom+of+Antimatter
California breaks 50% solar – electricity pricing negative
> customers will publicly complain and say they will take Lyft, but privately will vote with their wallet

I don't know about everywhere else, but i consistently find lyft to be cheaper than uber for rides here in Seattle.
At this point I really am not expecting it ever.
Just turn off the windows. Click Voila, no car sickness. ;)
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He looks like a giant unhappy thumb. I can only laugh at the mental image of him "spar[ring] with the likes of Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and Larry Page" in some sort of super-sized thumb war. Anyone taking bets on Andreessen vs. Bezos?
Yeah, but again, the people aren't necessarily mean-spirited or hostile. They'd cooperate more if the structure to affect that existed.

You're acting like they don't talk. They do talk, they just don't care. They know that guy x is making thing y, but they don't want to do it in the language/platform/framework/whatever he's using, so they make their own thing y. Structure needs to be in place to make cooperation happen.
Very good.

I'd add don't smoke weed much either. Ya I know, it makes you more creative and no one has ever overdosed on it etc. etc. But not many who achieve a lot smoke it habitually either. Except Snoop Dog maybe but that's probably not the career you are going for. The "creativity" is often not quite as valuable as it seems at the time. You'll spend a lot of time down dead end paths before you realize how dead end they actually are.

Don't speculate is huge. If I had the money back from when I was younger and thought I was very clever and going to make a quick mint through this or that I'd be quite pleased.

I may disagree about falling in love. The effects can indeed be bad but it can also be more than worth it. This reality is about a lot more than how much we can accumulate in life.
>>I have succeeded when demanding they present a number and when presenting a number.

You can do this if you have a lot of leverage. But if you don't -- and most job seekers don't -- then giving a number first will put you at a disadvantage because it reveals how much you think you are worth and simply gives the other side a starting point from which to bring down the price.
The code uses dividers[divisor] so dividers[3](6, 3) so undefined(6,3) and that does not work
I am 51. I think my best years are ahead of me, not behind me (assuming I don't throw myself in a river between now and June -- kidding, not kidding).
Well, when 1000+ hackers have domain expertise you typically end up with at least a handful of projects containing working code. That's even if the code itself lives in a legally grey area. (Remember the various Popcorn Time forks?)

So I don't think legality is the fundamental issue. Rather, I think it's that there are probably only 2 people with the domain expertise necessary to lead a successful reverse-engineering project of this particular chip.

As a general response to the grandparent: I think the reason we don't have an affordable, fully-free modern laptop is because it requires many components for which the free software world only has a handful of domain experts. In other words, such a laptop is in the category of problems for which hackers tend to vastly overestimate their potential resources. (I think secure messaging applications also fall into this same category.)
Thanks for the info. It's pretty hard to get clear, updated info on these languages as they have yet to gain that much traction (and they tend not to be backed by big entities that have a PR budget).

For anyone else who's evaluating D and looking into its GC situation, the most recent blog post on Dlang.org (https://dlang.org/blog/2017/03/20/dont-fear-the-reaper/) seems to embrace the presence of the GC, but also ends by saying the next blog post will describe how to go without the GC. So there is indeed awareness/activity on that front!
The future of driverless cars is a bus
VIII is meh. VII and Online I wholeheartedly agree with. Best cloth game maps ever.
Hit thread limit, but I'm asking about @clavalle's ranges here:

How often does your eventual accepted offer land at the high end of your offered range? How often at the low end?

I ask, because it often seems unproductive to negotiate within-range on merits. If you're willing to pay up to X, I as a candidate am going to expect that amount. Anything less is letting you, the employer, capture the surplus...
Sound and Music resources for your app
Could you be more specific? It doesn't seem like there's much room in the conventional definition of memory safety (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_safety ) for variation, other than, I suppose, putting conditions on when/which things are actually guaranteed.
It a world where economies, political systems, and even entire ecologies are being horribly degraded by historically extreme concentrations of wealth, a massive tax hike is a feature, not a bug. Some may ignore this aspect of UBI programs, to others it's just as important as the social security and well-distributed economic base that UBI provides.

"But...but redistribution!"

Yeah, about that. Unless you've been protesting the massive policy-driven upward redistribution of wealth that's happened over the past three decades, your position probably isn't as principled as you imagine. More on the specifics of how the great grift worked can be found here https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-04-07/how-middl...
Despite the puns, as long as people start building production systems with those languages, they're going to stick around.

And several of those languages are probably used by 10x or more people than D is.

Luckily, there are so many things to build and so many programmers out there that almost any languages gets a spot under the sun these days.

When was the last time a programming language died out? My guess the last one was a language tied to its hardware...
"Being business-friendly is shit". --> Who pays your bills mate? Fairies or a business who employs you, pays you a salary and you know, the inherent Darwinist biological urge to move up the food (value) chain to survive built into all living beings?
I'm guessing by 'not in CA' you mean 'unbelievably shitty employment laws.' I feel like that's something we have some power to change, though.

And I agree that the online resources are fantastic, but to be fair, that's true no matter where you are in the world. KiCAD and group board buys like OshPark are amazing - I particularly like how KiCAD tries to prevent you from connecting traces that you shouldn't - but they do take ~ a month for your small batch of boards. You really can't complain for the price, but some smaller local fabs would be suh-weeeeeet. And sites like Digikey/Mouser/Jameco are expensive in small quantities, and the shipping adds up quickly if you go with small impulse orders. They also tend to be 5-10x more expensive than taobao for parts more complex than small discretes. The proven provenance is nice, but is it $1.50 vs. $0.20 nice? At those prices, it's worth just putting out several 20-50 piece sample orders and picking out the highest quality listing to grab in bulk.

As for machine shops, I guess you've had better luck than me. I've combed most everywhere North of downtown (couldn't even find anything in the industrial parts of Ballard,) but I'll have to look into TechShop, thanks.
...I didn't say "insidious" at all.
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I feel like the main factor in whether I can do something and listen to an audiobook is whether I need to use language for the other task. For example, I can cook while listening to an audiobook, but I have to pause if I'm going to refer to the recipe, even though the process of alternately stirring a base and slicing vegetables without chopping off my finger requires more concentration than determining from the recipe which measuring spoon I need.
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Reality may have a slight liberal bias, but that should not be confused with American Liberalism.
WikiLeaks publishes what they get

Maybe they do, but it's also within their power to withhold information or publish selectively. It seems a little odd that they only seem to get information that hurts the US and its allies, but never information that would create problems for other superpowers.

Perhaps that's entirely coincidental but then again perhaps it's not. I support Wikileaks' existence but don't take their claims at face value and question whether they are really the disinterested actors they claim to be.
There's lots of alternatives to Pinyin, some based on the Latin alphabet, others not like Bopomofo.
> Or you can write an article in which the facts are true, but they're cherry-picked to support a particular bias.

IMO that is the single biggest issue with most of the stuff that I see out there. It's not about what you include but what you leave out. A reader can scrutinize what you put in but only somebody with existing knowledge of the subject will know what you're leaving out.
I know, I collaborate with several, and I am both an Ubuntu an d Debian developer :)
Just that I know no Canonical employee is working with us on Reproducible Builds. (I only remember a very spotty contact like 2 years ago on IRC from somebody saying Canonical was interested)
If they are working, they are doing it behind a curtain, which I'd find interesting ;)
An alternative way of doing this might be to annotate the story with which measures of unemployment the speaker must be talking about.
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The difficulty with this is also convincing people that the research is valid and itself not politically motivated/without rational thought. As much as I would like research on what benefits societies in general (sociology?) to feed into how social policies are generated, I feel that there is also significant questioning on the validity of the research and how such research is conducted. Given that there are no real ways to fully account for all variables in the scope of this study, there may always be the argument that such research is shoddy and can't be replicated.

(I'm not actually arguing that such science is shoddy, only that the perception that they are shoddy and invalid is a strong disincentive to listen to any research on this matter. It's actually really disheartening to me that this is the case.)
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I think Trump's statement is wrong under many reasonable interpretations. But literally false under "any reasonable interpretation" is in fact the criminal standard for falsity of statements. How do I feel about my chances of acquittal in this case? Pretty damn good!

First, he never said "There is 'no system to vet' refugees from the Middle East." That's your paraphrasing of what he said. Your charging him for saying something false when more than half the words in the allegedly false statement are your own.

What he actually said was:

"Altogether, under the Clinton plan, you'd be admitting hundreds of thousands of refugees from the Middle East with no system to vet them, or to prevent the radicalization of their children."

And it was in response to Clinton saying:

"Look, we’re facing the worst refugee crisis since the end of World War II, and I think the United States has to do more, and I would like to see us move from what is a good start with 10,000 to 65,000 and begin immediately to put into place the mechanisms for vetting the people that we would take in."

Second, he meant a "system" that both "vet[s] them" and "prevent[s] the radicalization of their children." The system described in PolitiFact's article only does the former, not the latter.

Third, "vetting" can mean lots of different things. When we "vet" Supreme Court justices, for example, we're not just checking to see if they have criminal records or are on terrorist watch lists. We're trying to see if they harbor secret desires to overturn Roe v. Wade at the first opportunity. Trump's reference to future radicalization confirms he's contemplating "vetting" to include digging into peoples' ideologies and motivations. Nothing in the process described in the PolitiFact piece gets into that.

Fourth, it makes total sense for Trump to have meant "vetting" to encompass more than just the checks performed today. He was responding to Clinton, who said that we would have to "begin immediately to put into place the mechanisms for vetting the people that we would take in[.]" The obvious implication is that such "vetting" is not happening today.

Finally, by "no system," he meant "no effective system" or "no good system." It's common for people speaking extemporaneously to say the former when they mean the latter. Running checks on Syrians in U.S. databases isn't going to tell us much about what kind of people we're dealing with. Lots of very bad people won't be bad enough to show up on a foreign country's databases.
I see your 3 shots and raise you 60 cruise missiles
did you guys ever read that story, which I believe I found on HN, about the guy who live in SF and wa basically the EVE accountant and manager for an EVE sydicated where he didnt play the game, but just managed monies and logistics?

Ill have to find the link.
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I played a lot of Ultima VII and really loved it but got increasingly frustrated with one weird bug: every time I went to sleep (as in "I", not I), the screen went blank and there was no way of going forward.

In the end, after hitting a bunch of roadblocks, I found a way of robbing the bank, bought a ship and started exploring the world. Didn't even know what I was supposed to to at that point, but boy, was it fun.