skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Forth crossing (north of Edinburgh) seems to show this progression quite nicely.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Forth_Replacement_Cr...

Three bridges built in 1890, 1964 and 2017 respectively (from right to left in the picture above).
Hmmmm. You might be right, but I'm just thinking about what I read about difficulties replicating the Saturn V rockets, which obviously were built much later than 100 years ago, under extreme scrutiny of top-of-the-line engineering of their time, and yet, we can't build them again from original blueprints.

The issue seems to be that despite having extremely detailed blueprints a lot of the actual assembly was left to skilled welders and technicians on site, and they used techniques which were not documented. So You can look at the blueprint, you can look at the actual remaining Saturn-V rocket, and still have no idea how two elements were welded together to withstand launching into space, because it's just not documented anywhere. The person who did the weld is long dead, so in a way, an extremely important element of assembly is lost and has to be replicated by experimentation.

I'd imagine it's the same with bridges - blueprints might say that a column of specific durability was used, but it won't say how it was made, and therefore you won't know what can break inside it.

Edit: corrected Atlas to Saturn V
The recording of the Emperor's surrender had to be sneaked out to NHK studios past a military coup in progress, so certainly not everyone was convinced.

Personally, I tend to believe that the nukes, the potential cost of defending against an invasion of the mainland by the US, and Russia's invasion made surrender look like the obvious choice, but remember that the initial plan for Pearl Harbor assumed a negotiated surrender with the US which, Japan hoped, would let them keep certain territories necessary to maintain supply lines for their colonial wars, which was what they really cared about.

Fanatical resistance by the military, both due to their own racist ideals and out of the fear for self-preservation (the Japanese people, the Western world and the rest of Asia basically hated Japan's government by the end,) drew the war and the surrender out longer than it needed to be.

Although, I also believe the main reason the US dropped the atomic bombs is that we had them, and therefore needed to justify the expense of making them by using them. It's likely that, without Japan's surrender, the US would have used nuclear weapons and invaded Japan at the same time.
Probably you do find something, and then presumably go on to dig out the interesting bits and then present it.
But it would not surprise me one second if students on an assignment stop when they have a tool for exploring with some dataset loaded.
That would be problematic. Exploration is a means, a starting point. Not the final thing.
>The author is claiming that people don't get paid to explore data, they get paid to find things. IMHO, this statement doesn't even make sense. When I explore data, I almost always find something.

People are not paid to find "something", they are paid to find specific things.

Hence, the following makes even less sense that TFA:

>This something might not be useful to an "end user," but it is almost always useful and necessary.
Did exactly the same a few weeks ago after ~6 months of trying to adjust my typing position to a new chair and I'm already seeing an improvement to how comfortable I feel typing/using my PC!
My only worry is they don't seem to have very many PCIe lanes. But they're cheap enough that you might be able to get a motherboard that supports multiple CPUs, and still save money compared to going 1 high-end Intel CPU. And it might perform better too, if the workload has mixed computation & IO.

Web development like the article mentions is probably the perfect fit there. Analytics is probably good too(R, Python, SQL). Careful if you need a video card in there, though.
Or, you know, he should do exactly what he did, and use more precise terms instead of vague ones.
The ones at my gym would be fine since they seem to be about 15cm wider. Mine is fine for running but when walking I seem to have a wider step. Other than that there would be no problem with it.
> UK: policing is a bit different here

That's an example of typical British understatement, too.
> Are there other reasons why I should switch to Neovim?

I've switched back and forward between neovim and vim since last year. Most people won't notice a difference right now. I think around version 1.0 we'll start seeing people do some more compelling stuff with neovim.
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Sounds like this is an opportunity for a SVaaS (Subpoena Verification as a Service).

(I'm joking -- right up until the point where I am not)

I'm not even sure how one would verify that a subpoena is valid.

I suppose the same goes for verifying badge numbers for police, fire marshalls, city inspectors, etc.
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I vaguely recall some of those big statements about programmer productivity came from observations of the relative performance of programmers developing IBM mainframe operating systems in assembly language.

I bet you'd surely find 10 to 1 or 100 to 1 differences in programming productivity on a project like that following waterfall methodology in the 1960's.
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Ask HN: Is Google worth leaving a good position for
I have recently been offered an interview onsite at Google for an engineering position. If I was offered this position, I would have to relocate my family to another city where we have no other family and only a few friends. (Neither I nor the position are in the US)

I currently have a great job at a small but highly technical consulting firm with an experienced team, above average pay, training and conference budget, flexible hours and the ability to work from home one day a week. I have been here seven years but have not real desire to leave as I am still constantly learning.

I personally don't know anyone who has worked at Google, therefor I am asking, are the opportunities and experience provided by Google worth leaving an already good position for?

I realise this is a very subjective question and it would be a lot easier to answer if I was to get an offer, but any insights would be helpful.
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If the attacker just provides a file system that contains setuid shells or unsecured device files, that's not really a bug and not remotely exploitable. But it's still a vulnerability.
The largest Dutch cities are at best medium-sized in total population and density compared to American cities, though, and a lot richer in wealth per capita. For example, using 2015 numbers, Amsterdam with 848k people (4.3k per sq mi) wouldn't place on the top 10 list of largest or densest American cities. San Jose, California at #10 has over a million people (5.3k per sq mi).

New York City (#1) has 8.5 million people at a density of 27,012 people per square mile. In other words, NYC has over half of the population of all of The Netherlands and roughly 20 times the average density. I don't think you should assume that anything about policing strategy in The Netherlands can be applied to these fairly radically different environments.

Edit: I can't reply to the comment below this about education spending. Let's look at the data:

http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.XPD.TOTL.GB.ZS

"Expenditure on education as % of total government expenditure (%)"

> Netherlands 12.1%

> United States 13.3%
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The English continuum also includes pidgins of various kinds, and Engrish.
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customer facing issue level:

- we're literally dying

- we're actively losing money

- we're not earning enough

- we're just being annoying
>>you mess up the team chemistry.

True, only if you have a great team already and you don't desire messing it up. If that is the case, you wouldn't need that method at the first place.

On the other hand, teams are pretty dynamic these days given the interfaces and responsibilities are well defined. Or at least are largely defined well. So replacing team members is never really a problem.
Didn't the Performa use the PPC 603? ISTR it did. The 603 was the 'cheap-n-cheerful' chip in the family, I suspect the Quadra upgrade would have had a 601 or 604, both of which had more oomph.
These scumbags are actively ruining computing. Cars, bridges, infrastructure... can't these warhawks pick on something else?

Then you get the NSA, the ASD, the rest of the clowns coming in and ruining it, and what is the point? Are we all just fighting each other in an ape war?

I thought we were better.
ah good ole corporate agile, never change.
Ver nice and technically better than gRPC. However i better bet my company success on a standard that the big giant Google is betting on, and other companies are embracing. Also client side libraries for all langauges is important. Probably gRPC is probably better here too?
Our policing is done by consent. Also the police are arguing (I would wager correctly) that they're taking the brunt of the effective cuts to mental health provisioning in the NHS.

Over here (England and Wales) if someone was an immediate danger to themselves or others, I'd call 999 and be put through to the Police operator and explain.

If the person I was calling regarding wasn't an immediate danger, in theory I'd ring 111, but in practice I'd ring Mind because I've had extremely negative experiences with NHS Direct.
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No service that I know of deletes everything even when there are billing issues. No public access is nearly equivalent from the end user's perspective, and usually there is a grace period before everything is deleted. All in all it is an interesting conflict of interest on the cloud provider's part.
I'm interested to know why you dropped Clojure. How Clojure wasn't meeting your needs?
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For me, a metric ton is exactly as much as a regular ton.
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If that's true for this specific site I'm sure the proprietor would appreciate a heads-up!
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Ask HN: Do you think Electron is good for building Desktop Apps?
At Oursky, we built several apps with electron.

We find that it's easy to set up, you can use npm packages. Yet the build size is quite big and it might not support all native features. What's your thoughts?
I understand why they started neovim, but don't think the split between vim 8 of today and neovim is a good thing. Makes me think of emacs vs xemacs but worth because they use slightly different dialects of vimscript (closures, currying in vim 8, different api for asynchronous calls). I personally wish they'd meet on some common, standardized ground. This would require both parties to accept they are not alone though.

Edit: I realize that "Vim 8 features: partials, lambdas." might solve part of my problem.
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Maybe 0.5x? I'm sure I had a negative performance impact on my former team. They would have been faster doing all features by themselves instead of reviewing and correcting my pull requests. New team isn't as good as the other one, but I'm still behind.

I've learned quit a lot in the former team, the new team on the other hand.. I've hardly coded anything this year. I work with code, but I don't build stuff. As a result, my coding skill progression stopped almost completely, while general IT skills improved somewhat. In my former job, I was able to work at my own pace and do everything by myself (SQL dev). I believe I was good there. But now? Working with big systems in Java developed by others in unknown frameworks, done by high skilled people.. I suck.
Elon should do AMA on Boring company to answer many questions and confusions here.
I extended memory in my Mac Plus to 4MB for about $5 a few months ago. Nowadays, when anything marked with the "retrocomputing" label can be ridiculously expensive, this kind of 30-pin SIMM memory is still considered as obsolete, not classic.
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The diffwrence in performance is hhuuuugggee!

Vim lags on my project, nvim doesnt! Quadcorei5, 16hb ram!
I was mistaken with Vultr. Sorry ( see my parent post)
I'm not sure either but I guess I was trying to say that the weakness to lifting a weight is exactly the same as to getting up, ignoring x, y and z and do something. Because first of all, the brain is the biggest muscle and second of all, because training is impeded by distractions, whether training to ignore distractions or to lift weights.
I have been using Vim as my primary editor for many years and am happy with it. People I know who use developer editors are split between Vim and Emacs. Neovim usage is minimal. Why? It is an honest question.

I see developers of the editor happy, which is a good thing, but IMO to get more users NV must show why it is better from a user perspective -- have several demos on the powerful things easily achieved with NV that are painful with Vim (via plugins is OK).

If NV devs can do this, it will go far. If not, then the case for an upgrade hasn't been made yet for most users. My 2c.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14226775
Yup. I also think it matters if you come at it from an implementation angle or a math angle. It's a contradiction from the latter, but from the former, it may not be.

Maybe I'll write a blog post.
> I personally wish they'd meet on some common, standardized ground. This would require both parties to accept they are not alone though.

Yeah, not going to happen. ViM's author is remarkably hostile to the efforts of NeoVim and the ideas it brings forth.
Annual billing works for my model because my users will not be making enough frequent purchases to justify a monthly fee (which is what I initially started with). I provide actionable information which they can use once, twice or more times a year.
Such as?

The AOSP, BSD and LLVM ones surely aren't such projects.

AOSP doesn't get any of the Google Services stack nor OEMs changes.

The BSD hardly get any updates from all those routers and embedded devices using them, to the point they were forced to beg for donnations last year.

clang is being adopted by embedded vendors that had to contribute their changes back to GCC and now don't need to keep doing it.
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I recommend Clash. I've used it in production.

http://www.clash-lang.org/
THIS:

It's very much a novice mistake (one that I've made a dozen or so times, sigh) to think that you can jump straight to your "ideal" architecture without any of the steps or missteps along the way.

Code evolves as the problem evolves and NEEDS to be adapted. Is impossible to foresee the future.
Yeah doing the research now - the 5200 had a 603 @ 75 MHz, and the PowerMac PDS Card had a 601 @ 66 MHz. I was also reminded the 603 had too small of a L1 cache to hold the the 68K emulator, reducing performance even further...

Now I'm curious what made the 5200 better at MP3 playback. My recollection is that the only way to get the upgraded Quadra to play MP3s in realtime was with SoundApp monopolizing the CPU so you couldn't even click anything else. On the Performa, you could run MacAmp in the background while browsing the web, with stuttering "only" during whole page repaints. This was 20 years ago, my recollection could be poor... I soon got my own Quadra 660AV (video digitizing!) and eventually a PowerMac 7500 (that I upgraded to G3 and could even run early versions of OS X with Xpostfacto)
Love to see how you present the pricing, have a link?
I think we should talk more about 10x organizations. A lot of people can perform well if they work in a good environment. Most 10x people I have seen had the ability to do what they needed to do to get the job done. Give them a process where they need approval for everything and have to report every day I think the 10x is gone soon.
Oh I have to get this off my chest. So many companies saying "Yes, we're sort of agile, but we have a fairly bureaucratic structure that is unamenable to change".

If you're not agile, stop lying about it. I saw a job on Seek the other day advertising a DevOps roles - turns out they want a helpdesk operator. Stop lying in job ads, and stop drinking the kool aid.

None of it helps.
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Same except it's several dozen since once friends/family see what I got for what I paid the next request is "Can you build one for me?".

I do it for beer/nice bottle of scotch and to keep my hand-in for when I build my work machines (I have Ryzen parts on order at the moment just waiting for them to turn up, for the new jobs desktop).

If you take your time, read the manuals (heresy I know) there isn't very much that can go wrong.

It's also gotten remarkably easier over the years, connectors have improved etc.
The case has gotten substantial national attention. Which, it turns out, is enough to get the prosecutors to change their practice, but not enough to get them to apologise, and CERTAINLY not enough to burst the veil of prosecutorial immunity. As for getting fired, it is normally an elected office, so there is no such thing. Prosecutors have incredibly potent powers in the US system with few if any checks and balances.
The Moore's law is maybe not dead, but it indeed feels that the speed isn't changing that much.

Think about that: a 4 back your PC started in 10 seconds and 2 years back it's starting in 5 seconds, that's 5 second difference that you feel.

Currently the PC's start at 2.5 seconds and the speed difference is much less, so it feels like the power is not progressing that fast.

I have recently "upgraded" my desktop with an SSD (but have an old CPU i7 4780k or something) and it loads in a few seconds. But I don't want to upgrade my CPU just yet as it will only make everything only 1 second faster, not worth 300 USD I think.

But if you do a lot of data processing, software builds, ... You can increase the speed much more, and then it should matter.
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Citysearch has/had a huge database of reviews, too. Didn't keep anybody out of the market, thankfully.
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