skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What was being discussed upthread went a lot further than what you're talking about. The string concat thing is a specific piece of ordinary static analysis that any language with a compile stage can perform. It's also pretty trivially defeated in ways that crop up in real code. I'm not saying it isn't useful, I'm saying it's nowhere close to what would be required to render the performance costs of doing strings the Java way equivalent to the Rust way. Therefore, to go even further upthread, Rust still provides a meaningful choice, trading Java's convenience for Rust's performance.
Kinda off topic with what this is about but I have a few technical questions regarding the website (which is just a logo and a YouTube video embed on a white background):

- Why is it built with React?
- Why does it need to load so much JavaScript?
- Why does it need to load a custom web font? (There's exactly zero text from what I see).
- Why does it need a CSS grid framework?
>When it comes to creating art, there seems to be a great potential for better tool UIs. A guitar and hands is not the optimal way to create music. We don't seem to have found the optimal tool for creating music yet (if there is one).

My company is working on just that, creating the next generation of music instruments to allow anyone to create music.

Here is our first prototype where we've changed the UI of the guitar, but also left in traditional elements to allow beginners or experts to play music by switching from what we call "Magic Mode" to traditional guitar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkM4sr2socQ
The problem is not that they cannot imagine the concept of adding new lines, it's just that the costs, both monetarily and politically for doing so, are enormous in the Western world. The eminent domain, permitting, and labor issues around these things paralyzes the development of cities, especially in the United States.

If you want to see ambition in infrastructure, check out China. Being a technocracy bent on having world-class infrastructure, combined with the ability to remove people from their homes for the greater good with little repercussion, they've built some of the most thorough infrastructural improvements ever seen on the planet. For instance, the first line of the Shanghai Metro was opened in 1993; today, it is the longest metro in the world, with 14 lines. And this rapid growth can be seen not just in the megacities like Shanghai, but in countless smaller ones throughout the country—not to mention their incredible construction of their thorough long distance high speed rail network. And on top of that, since their system is so modern, the trains are a hell of a lot safer and more reliable than any piece of infrastructure in the USA.

I think they've made mistakes with how car-oriented the streetscapes are, the generic architectural styles throughout that country, overbuilding before demand arises, and a lack of mixed-use neighborhood zoning, amongst other things; but when it comes to imagining an integrated, efficient commuter rail network, they've killed it.
Yeah! So the bakery's speciality was whole wheat, which has lots of natural oils. You'll find that a lot of recipes for home using store-bought flour (whether whole wheat or white) usually throw in few few tablespoons of melted butter or oil. My understanding is that this helps prevent the bread from drying out.
> technical hiring is broken

This was my first thought also. There are two issues here: One is: do you need to cram to prepare for the job? But the other is: does the interview measure your job preparation?

Most technical interviews don't. Even good ones that discern strong candidates often depend on knowledge and memorization way outside the actual job scope. (Often, way below the job scope. O(N) palindrome search is not a professional skill.)

So it's great to say that you should know what you need for the job, but conflating that with what you need for the interview is an unproven leap.
i use a similar program named isync aka mbsync. it is written in c and i like it more than offlineimap!
First, I want to say that I'm a _massive_ fan of what Elon Musk is doing with SpaceX.

> he uses his own money after all and does not have the support of every tax-paying citizen like NASA used to during the Apollo missions

This isn't really true. SpaceX, like pretty much all private Spaceflight providers, has received many development contracts from NASA. These are basically NASA giving the company a bucket of money to develop launch capabilities to certain requirements.

SpaceX has _absolutely_ been supported by the US taxpayer, and likely will continue to be. It definitely has been _much_ cheaper for the taxpayer than Apollo, but we haven't gotten a free lunch on this one.
Is a product roadmap contrary to agile philosophy?
fetchmail or getmail? I once used a very-slightly customized version of getmail (the Charles Cazabon program) in production to sync customers' GMail accounts into Salesforce.com, and it worked great (continues to work great, AFAIK).
Do you simply omit the oil ingredients that are common in cookbooks?
Or a person who actually understands what people want in a transportation solution. Nobody outside of city planners and environmentalists take the train/bus solution seriously because it's such a lifestyle downgrade from cars.
Very interesting. Your comment should seriously be at the top.

I think this is really just Elon's goal, and the talk and fluffy marketing video are just that. Fluffy marketing and PR for his companies.
Is it not also true that spicy foods elicit an immune and metabolic response? Given that won't achieve anything, insofar as the spiciness is concerned at least, perhaps the effects of these are nonetheless felt to be favourable.
There is obviously more coming soon.
Nope. Mining companies in Central America are universally (removed: disliked) hated, and everyone knows that they exploit the country, environment and people while extracting all profits out of the country. Guatemala hasn't gone as far as El Salvador, but it's coming.
I think you're making a mistake in assuming sophisticated AI is going to be used everywhere. This will easily defeat simple word filters, for instance, which are still commonly used.
Typo in HN title...it should be Tesla Semi (not Simi)
I don't think anyone really enjoys hiring or renting cars on both ends of the journey. Being able to BYOCar would make me use this system immediately.
Olive oil is spicy? I can't say I've ever noticed and I cook with it a lot.
I don't entirely agree with the Twitter thread, but it's also possible to "weaponize" and "suppress" because you think it's the right thing to do. Overly-influential people exerting their power to harm others in the interest of what they believe to be "right" is something that bothers me a lot about the power structure of our industry today. I don't think the comparison is at all unwarranted.
I think the video was just to look flashy and show off the Model 3 design. I imagine most of the tunnel boring will be for mass transit.
I must say, this is the first time that I have seen not spending money defined as "hurting yourself."
What are the prerequisites for getting to a productive level at using formal methods (with or without TLA+) in a non-trivial way?

And what are some suggested resources for filling those prerequisites?
Those subway cars are used at all hours that the system is in operation. If you're trying to compare costs with Boring, note first that a personal car is used much less and second that Boring involves these weird platform things which will also cost money, so the equivalent is more than just the price of the Tesla that sits on the platform.

Also, each LA subway car can fit over 50 people seated and probably three times that standing. $3M divided by the price of the cheapest Tesla is about 85. So the number doesn't seem high at all.
The increasingly plausible story of Uber failing is Google or other big players beating them by a large margin to self-driving cars (including for the kind of taxi-service Uber provides). None of these smaller players (aside from Didi which appears to be quite large and backed by internal Chinese interests) give the semblance of having even a minutia of a chance vs. Google.
> Because that’s hugely inefficient compared to a subway network. I live in Paris, France. 100% of its inhabitants have at least one of the 300+ subway stations under 1 km (0.6 miles) of their home.

That's actually pretty awesome, but you may have noticed that Americans don't really care about efficiency.

Once the tunnel is built, you can put anything you want into it. But I suspect we would still choose cars over trains.
The quote didn't say "fabricating", it said "not entirely true." The way you're interpreting the quote, it would be ludicrous, I can agree. The way it was actually written, along with what I interpret to be the broader point, I think the article is somewhat true, and has a valuable message.

STAR and SOARA are a way for the interviewer to drive the requests for information, force a conversation, try to frame the question so that candidates can be more easily compared, and prevent the candidate from rambling and offering irrelevant information. The article's suggestion has the same goal, aside from the truth detection part, which I'm downplaying here.

Don't focus on a single quote and ignore the article's larger context. The author also said "If you get too far into a story without making sure they are still with you, it comes off to the interviewer that you cannot explain things well." and "If it’s not obvious yet, force the interview to be a conversation." All of the sections lead to "force conversation", if you can get past the part about speaking backwards being more truthful.

Conversations almost always run backwards, in portions. Anytime you answer a "why?" question for example, you're telling the first part last. I suspect that's what the author was trying to say, less that narratives should always be presented backwards, and more that conversations are desirable and conversations often run backward.
This! Also much of the military spend is oil related...
Yeah, that's also not the conclusion I would draw, either. And that's fine: I don't have to agree with the whole thread to get value out of it.
They definitely buried it, but it seemed extremely clear to me that they're shutting it down:

> To that end, we’ll begin winding down the Yik Yak app over the coming week as we start tinkering around with what’s ahead for our brand, our technology, and ourselves.
swallow a spoonful of fresh extra virgin.
> The fact that is raised nearly 9 figures along the way is yet another terrible indictment of the herd behavior found in private equity.

How so?

An app that targets college students, shows high user acquisition, DAU, has serious potential.
fallacious appeal to authority as your only defence? cool story bro.
I did this for sites with paging.
https://github.com/indatawetrust/reporter
It saves it in a json file by pulling the data according to the desired properties. It is not very good but it can be brought to a better condition if you wish.
Ktsn/houl: Gulp compatible build tool for huge static sites
And unethical people tend to follow ethical guidelines?

Ethical guidelines can be useful for times when the person wants to do the right thing and the area is gray (e.g. should I represent a client I believe is guilty), but people who are content with unethical behavior will not be swayed by a code they promised to follow. An imperative to honor a promise implies intrinsic ethics.

Most of the actions that would actually get you disbarred are pretty flagrant.
There are ways to teraform the planet, but they are well beyond our capabilities.
Like everywhere else there is mining. But how will they compensate the miners? I don't care one bit for the mining companies but those miners will have to eat somehow.
I don't quite understand... Do the locals or larger Nordic/European populace not eat as many oysters? Why the Chinese versus any other nationality?
Sort of.

EBITDA is Earnings Before ITDA. Quick example, with super simple math:

Scenario A (AWS)

- Over 5 years, you bring in $1M per year in revenue

- Every year you pay $200k in AWS fees

- Your earnings (Net Income) are $800k per year, your EBITDA is $800k per year

Scenario B (Buy your own hardware)

- Over 5 years, you bring in $1M per year in revenue

- You pay $1M in year one for hardware and depreciate it over the next 10 years at $100k per year

- Your earnings (Net Income) are $800k per year, your EBITDA is $900k per year

There are a ton of nuances to this, but this is generally how it works. As you can see the depreciation schedule affects this a lot, as well as when you choose to make the investment. Hence why it's feasible that Dropbox took out it's largest operating expense, i.e. AWS storage, which literally overnight increased EBITDA. It just so happens to be that a year ago they switched over to their own data center, and now they are touted "EBITDA profitable".

Long story - these stories are kinda stupid unless you get to see the full income statement, balance sheet and cash flow statement.
Neither was the action of calling law enforcement...
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Living there at scale is an issue too; the experiments ran here for a year in the desert require lots of training, careful planning and in general lots of time and resources. If we want to go to mars and stay there indefinitely we'll need bigger communities, which means manufacturing in mars, making the transition more seamless for a wider range of people, and in general just making more from less.

PS: Don't think this comment is down vote worthy, just healthy discussion imo.
I think your point is well taken, but, on the other hand, I think that a willingness to screw other people over really is a pretty major red flag for business partnerships.
I am pretty sure that a criminal who trespasses on a property that clearly says "private property" has no standing to sue you for what befalls them on your property. Within reason, of course.

That is why private islands have those signs - otherwise someone coming ashore could assume it is a regular public island.
Ah, it has a name, nice.

Also, this is very, very closely related to "satisficing", which is worth understanding: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satisficing
In theory, you just go there, plop down a habitat, and live in it.

In practice, it might be a little tougher than it sounds. :-)
"[T]he more immigrants you take in the less independent you are". I don't see how this follows. The way I see it, you can be more independent because your size allows you to develop large internal markets, make it easier to develop cultural products that cater to your populace, and (as the poster above pointed out) make it easier to put together the scratch to defend your borders etc.

I think people are worried about immigration not because of independence, but because they worry that:

* The cultural makeup of the country is changing

* Immigrants will be a drain on public finances (particularly healthcare and welfare)

* Cities will become more crowded (really, people who speak of Toronto as crowded should visit Asian countries...)
Population.
really? I am from El Salvador and was completely unaware of this
> First of all, "greater responsibility" is not an advantage, it is a liability you accept in return for other advantages.

This is an interesting point. We tend to conflate "greater control" with "greater responsibility", but we shouldn't. The first is a benefit, the second is a risk. They often go together, but having had a job with lots of responsibility and no control, they certainly don't have to.
Who would notice a small drone that far away? It would zoom in as they approach the door. You are right - a few drones is better.
It's a bad idea to use anything that might change. For example, "What was the make of your first car?" Might be OK. "What is the make of your favorite car?" Not good, odds are decent your favorite will change between setting the answer and trying to use it.
Even with $5B in capital?

I know building a self-driving car is hard, I don't think it's that hard though.
Because the men are able to evolve some things separately from women (eg on the Y chromosome) and versa - mitochondria is from the mother. And even if this was not the case - some genes express themselves only in men (D'OH) like testosterone and baldness.
The FUPC Network
test@strawberrynet.com

test test
test, Burdur, Eastern, Hong Kong , Hong Kong

Daytime Contact Number: 1234567890 ; Mobile: 55555555
Isn't this what nginx -t does?
Probably a lot of what's been most popular is stuff that very few people on HN would appreciate.
As long as the area is an economic powerhouse, people are going to want to move here. The primary countervailing force is the cost of housing. Do you have some other plan for how to keep people away? Because if not, the area is going to get denser, or more expensive to live in, or some of each. Personally I'd rather see it get denser. We have a long way to go before we match SF, never mind NYC.
Have they lost the plot? Has HN lost the plot in the comments supporting this.

Why not just ban science?

We need metals to live and prosper.

If it was really that minimal as per 'NGO' advise then the pollution would be minimal.

Why not just make companies pay fines if they polute? The government obviously doesn't kowtow to them?

Perhaps if their people weren't so poor you could excuse banning things like gold and diamond. But this (as the article tells it, I doubt it's close to the full story) is like going back to the middle ages.
> One thing I find interesting about this turn of events is that the person shutting the app down is Jack Dorsey

Where did you get this idea? From what I read it's just saying they're shutting down and giving their developers a soft landing onto Square, it's not even one of those "acq-hires".
No, it's still a pain.

Titanium is MR-compatible: the magnet won't rip the plate out of your head, which is good. However, it can cause huge artifacts that obscure things around the titanium implant (and, sometimes, depending on the scan parameters and implant location, elsewhere too).

This is particularly annoying because the implants are often right near the areas you really want to image....
The same is true for the sprawling mess of Java interfaces and Factory patterns. Except now you have two sources of truth. Having worked with regulated clients and having to audit the entire stack it's much easier to to do with less code than more.

I've seen databases like that and similar teams that didn't take care with their change management.

Either way it's never pleasant to work with such systems.
If you believe this, I have a bridge to sell you.

We'd need to understand what their definition of NSA, or collection, or emails are.

I think it's most likely they are saying that the entire NSA as a whole isn't doing collection, only some subset of the NSA is... and maybe they define collection as capturing and retaining information for 10 years, and now they are only doing it for 9 years 11 months... and emails mean everything you ever do online and SnapChat and Signal and Texts too.

Do not trust these people.
That's impossible; water runs off and then reaches someone else. Like the other said: if pollution is recognized at illegal then mining goes along with it, and more. Si a la vida.
There is definitely a cultural factor at play here, and I'm absolutely not surprised to read this in the Guardian.

As a French expat in London, I find the British crazy in love with chilli. I'm unfortunately not, and it's a daily struggle when grocery shopping or eating out because it will rear its ugly spicy head everywhere you least expected it : from soup to confectionery, nothing seems off limits!

With a few notable exceptions, I liken the use of chilli in cuisine to gratuitous violence in movies : a lazy fix for bland meals that otherwise wouldn't stand on their own feet. A smokescreen of burnt tastebuds to hide behind. A pain that I'm aware (but can't understand why) many people enjoy inflicting unto themselves.

Sorry for the (slightly tongue in cheek) harsh words : I have an axe to grind with chilli ever since I walked into the confectionery aisle of my local supermarket for the first time, shortly after I moved here.

Naively looking for my standard French/Belgian fare of dark chocolate with roasted almonds, hazelnut, or rice, I found nothing of the sort. Instead, what they had on offer was perfectly good chocolate laced with Wasabi, of all things ! Wasabi ! And yes, you guessed it, chilli.

I suppose that's the same sinking feeling British expats in France experience the first time they hear French rock'n'roll / hip-hop on the radio.
Despite the downvotes, this is an accurate statement. There are 13g of sugar in 8oz of milk, which is half of what you'd get from a Coca Cola but still a fair bit of sugar.
I don't think my family is reading my blog. Let's just say we're not exactly close for obvious reasons. But no need to make it easy on outsiders to make the link.
not only that but it highlights the costs associated with human cognition, automated systems don't need to spend time making the buttons they click visually pleasing or ergonomic
The digital physics everything-is-computation view of the universe is also not obviously wrong; it is taken seriously, as you say. But even if the universe is computational there's presently no example of running a human-defined instruction sequence at that fundamental level.

The quote I was reacting to emphasizes feasibility:

"To appreciate the feasibility of computing with no energy and no heat, consider the computation that takes place in an ordinary rock."

There's precious little to suggest feasible computing with a rock. (Or to suggest other feasible ways to run computations of interest to humans with no input energy and no waste.) It's like reading "to appreciate the feasibility of supplying civilization's electricity sustainably, consider the energy released when two neutron stars collide." Both are strong contenders for "among the least feasible engineering programs not yet proven outright impossible."
All that volcanic activity makes for rich, rich gem and mineral deposits, of igneous and metamorphic types.
London is seeing a bit of this - people are building massive 3+ story basements under existing properties. http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/24/business/going-underground-lon...
Anyone know what other distros support UEFI? I hope Debian supports it in a later release I wouldn't mind going back to my second distro ever (first one was Slackware, not an option for me these days).
Why should I be surprised? Questionable people exist. People in general are going to ask for questionable activities to be performed regardless of if they realize what they are really asking for.
how to become ant people
Above ground rail isn't practical in urban areas. The video had silly car tunnels, but in practice, I'm sure the bulk of their business will be subway tunnels.
In Germany/Europe there's basically a clone called Jodel and it's filled with shitty, reposted jokes and I'd say usage is declining too. They also do not have a monetization model, there aren't even any ads in the app.
What Software Gets the Best (and Worst) Feedback from Users?
Agreed, I enjoyed it. It wasn't needlessly long and they said what they wanted to say. And I even feel a little bad they're shutting down, because Yik Yak seems like a pretty sincere company from the looks of their blog.
The question, though, is: will even a bad deal prove to have been preferable to no deal?
Reports I read on this a month or more ago suggested that yes, part of his goal is to improve the speed/cost of building tunnels, so that it's feasible to go build a whole bunch of them quickly.

(That being said, building a bunch of tunnels in the bosom of San Andreas strikes me as hubris... But having lived in LA and its traffic for many years, I'm willing to be convinced. :-) )