skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's the difference between professionals and amateurs, besides that the judges can overrule the jury.
> I'm not blaming the file, i'm saying that using a hammer as a drill is silly, and that it's not the screw nor the hammer's fault, it's the user's.

No one is claiming the opposite. An appropriate argument is that some nails are bigger than others and this hammer in particular chokes on big nails.

> When I need to open large files, I use tail, or ed, or notepad++, or just grep or something else.

Breaking your workflow in the name of progress seems counterintuitive.

> I'm sure they know how to open a file without using 1GB of memory.

The realities of Atom prove otherwise.
Yes, of course. And a type of boat that assures several pictures of the woman on board, sightings, etc.

I was more addressing the idea that you can't away with murder. Perhaps not in this case, but it obviously happens, and quite often.
I didn't realize why I hated some of the concepts behind vim until I saw a recent article that explained the creator of vi was using the older style keyboard with esc and control keys in more convenient places as well as arrow graphics where movement keys are in vi. I know I would have loved it back then but I also know that if it were created today decisions would be very different and could be better right from the start with out me having to mod the hell out of it. I'm not good at keeping config files for my personal setups from matchine to machine and I wipe operating systems and try new ones all the time, just doesn't click with me. I'm sure if I stuck with it and these things were second nature I would love it.
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I'm not sure I'm understanding... my home was built in 1953 and is standing just fine. It's got new windows, new insulation, and a new roof. Are you saying I should abandon it and go build a new one? There's a brick building in town that's been there since 1842, you're saying we should rip it down just because it's old?

Has everyone in this entire thread lost their damn minds? First meth-head farmers are "living in luxury", then "street cars will replace every road in the nation", and now "buildings should be torn down and rebuilt every 30 years".

Are you people listening to yourselves?
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> Also, "getting rid of the evidence" would only be used if he did commit the murder.

No, if it is an accident getting rid of the body and sinking the sub is also getting rid of evidence and would have been material in determining whether or not it really was an accident in the first place.

So either way it is destruction of evidence.
What domains are you using CL in? The last time I used a Lisp was inside AutoCAD and it was a lot of fun.
> where x is anything but decent human with differing opinions

People wearing swastikas are not decent humans. People calling for the subjugation of other races or minorities are not decent humans. There is no nuance here.
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Yeah that Empire State Building is almost 90 years old, time to tear it down and build a new one closer to the streetcar line.

Jesus you are absolutely insane.
> Goes without saying that he is a despicable human being.

Assuming the allegations against him are true. (I freely acknowledge that I can't even come up with an explanation that absolves him at this point - but I'd rather not convict based on news articles and a couple of police statements)
I do most of my work in PHP, JavaScript, and sass. VSCode is far faster and much more responsive than PHPStorm or WebStorm on my 2014 MacBook. It's missing refactoring support for PHP so I can't use it for everything, but for my day to day it's the best editor I've ever used by a mile.
There's a valid concern that Medium would be sending money to those with "alt" viewpoints, or that Medium ends up having to censor those same "alt" viewpoints (de-platforming) to avoid that.
I hear you. There are many reasons for why people react this way, and you might be right that the other situation deserves more attention.

To be honest, though, I don't see complaining about it here changing that. I think it's better to focus your own attention at problems that require it, in your opinion.

For example, if you feel the people were wronged and HN crowd should hear about, why don't you submit the article?
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The degree to which globular wheels would complicate such a design is such that it would leave you being passed by your competitors right out of the gate, on top of that it would complicate all kinds of things such as certification and potentially reliability and safety as well as supply chain issues after delivery.

Solving too much is a fantastic way to crash a project.
Ask HN: Senior Eng – AI Eng?
I've been working on engineering teams for a long time and just completed the fast.ai course. It's truly a hoot and I want to do more. It seems a lot can be done even without a PhD.

How does one transition to even a Junior ML Engineering role from more traditional development role?
To be honest my Python usage is much less than it was a few years ago. I generally only work in small standalone scripts and some contributions to larger projects every now and again... So I wouldn't be able to help all that much with that.

But for your GUI that you want to build, you will have a significantly easier time doing that in Atom than in VS Code. I don't know much about writing plugins for VS Code, but I hear it's much more restrictive compared to Atom in terms of what you can and can't do.

I believe that a plugin that can generate a "visual language" is going to be difficult or impossible to do with the tools provided by VS Code, they mostly have specific APIs for dealing with editor windows as text.

With atom you could roll your own display stuff but you have the whole power of the browser to do any styling/layout/display you want. You'd basically just need to "render" your UI to a web page, then embed that as a pane in the editor.

With some of the others like Sublime and VIM I know even less about their plugin abilities, but I have a feeling it's going to be difficult to do in either of them.
You are likely to be eaten by a grue..if that thought seems particularly cruel...consider whose fault it could be...not a match or a torch in your inventory.

-some nerdcore rapper (can't remember name)
Absolutely. Similar things happen in other fields from engineering to showbiz. (aka brainstorming) What amazes me is that people have a different "mode" in publicity/advertising that allows them to consume this stuff seriously.
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Amazon isn't one of the 2,575 companies to pull ads from Breitbart
Then how has this happened so many times in the recent past? Its easy to say "a captain wouldn't do X", but I'm having a hard time understanding how this happened without such a level of complacence. Obviously there should be multiple mechanisms, but none of them worked. Why? Also I said GPS or similar. Obviously they shouldn't be relying on AIS data from other ships alone, why did radar not pick it up? Why did the bridge not see it with flir/nv? Something really isn't making sense here.
First off, thanks for all your work with the Ionic framework! I use it in education as part of an undergraduate course on cross-platform development, and the students thoroughly enjoy the developer experience.

Question: Do you have an ETA for release of the "Web Componentized" Ionic components? So looking forward to it, especially the potential of teaching e.g. Vue + Ionic components instead of having to put so much focus and effort on teaching Angular (which is a great framework, but requires a lot).
I come from a middle class background and I haven't personally seen what retirement based on your own savings looks like. My grandparents lived off of social security, my parents are living off of a combination of pensions, social security, my mom sort of working as a consultant when she gets bored and generous company stock benefits from when my dad was working as are most of my relatives of that generation.

Because of a lot of dumb decisions made earlier in life, my retirement savings are relatively meager. But on the other hand, I don't dream of the day that I can retire. My job as a software developer is not physically demanding and my job was my hobby for 10 years before I started working professionally. In 20 years of working, I've never hated my career. I imagine retirement for me to be doing contracting/consulting/ teaching part of the year instead of working for a full year.

I wouldn't need to retire to enjoy my hobbies -- I enjoy my hobbies everyday and get paid for it. My only other hobby is exercise and I don't need to retire to enjoy that.
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What's this "engine management software" you speak of? :-)

Seriously, GA aircraft engines are seriously old tech.
I agree. So far we just haven't heard anything from PM's past that would indicate the lack of empathy ... until now. It's going to be interesting once the police starts talking more about the accident that should've happened. PM must have given a version of what happened, and to some extent a plausible one, since the prosecutor is still sticking to involuntary manslaughter (and most likely also improper interference with a corpse after today's identification and facts).
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Weird, the article made it seem like it was some kind of last-resort thing, saying that people with no savings will have to keep working.

Why is there a need to save for retirement then, if there's already a national contribution system?
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>Breaking your workflow in the name of progress seems counterintuitive.

Using another editor where opening large files doesn't break my workflow, but needing to alt-tab over to the browser to see how my changes look does is much worse for me. I look at log files every few days at most, and generally while they are on another system.

I look at the results of my development on my app hundreds of times a day.

If it's different for you, then Atom might not be the best tool for you!
Beyond `typeof` and `instanceof`: simplifying dynamic type checks
Why? It's the consumer's fault s/he over paid for one article. Author got lucky. Good for them.
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I was going to reply with a "is this reddit?" But these compact comments are insightful into what could happen.
Email prank 'tricks' Breitbart editors
On a similar note, I consider the moment reddit abandoned text only their first large mistake. (Many more since then)
Click-bait titles can be moderated and edited more easily.
Cars already communicate their speed through the EM spectrum, and it's very hard to spoof this. LIDAR can easily determine if it is approaching an object at even 1 cm/s.
Were you on windows? Because I can't imagine fancier find and replace than grep, awk, sed, cut and friends. Or maybe 'less' if you want to page and do simple searches. But maybe that's just because I'm used to these tools.
Yeah, indeed it does look really nice, the API feels a bit weird though, not sure why lifecycle events are named after react.
That sorta makes sense. If you were the one article that brought a user online that month, and the user is a full paying user, perhaps you earned it.

Really though I think you should give articles a weight that's got a six month half-life or so. Users who read articles 6 months ago are still paying out to those authors, but not as much as they are paying out to the recent articles.
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Next step: "dumb" phone.

Next step: no phone.
I'd get something that supports ANT+ along with an ANT+ usb dongle.
I've heard multiple people stating that it took months of using it (and configuring it) until they kinda get used to vim.

Not hard data, but interesting to read also:
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/66wnd/how_long...

When it takes reading tutorials to set up mouse + clipboard support, then I feel it's just simply not for me.

It just irks me that someone finds editors bad that sacrifices resource handling in order to gain extreme flexibility and the he then concludes that the best thing to do is to learn something he spent probably a lots of time mastering. I skip tips from the ivory tower.
Technically, you're right. It's just that he would never phrase it as getting rid of evidence nor would his lawyer, as it implies that he was guilty of whatever led up to the point of having evidence.
On that note, here's an interesting interview with the analysis lead for Mission and Fault Management on the NASA’s Space Launch System program: http://omegataupodcast.net/100-system-health-mgt/
But does that even make sense? That would mean they redesigned something that they are not able to build in realistically at least the next 5-10 years. Or to go even further, they tried to make something better that does not exist yet. Wouldn't it make more sense to just go for the self driving car first and then, after you are sure that you can build that, creating teams which make it better?
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Ask HN: Have You Ever Migrated from MySQL to PostgresQL or Otherwise?
I hear this suggested in talks / on the web frequently enough to wonder if any company has ever successfully migrated from mySQL to PostgresQL, or from database technology foo to database technology bar, without coming close to killing the company or blocking the development team from doing more profitable work? Or is this something that many people suggest but have never actually done?

Just move to a "real" database and all your problems will be solved, right? I don't think so - you will just replace one set of problems with another. And when you're dealing with a schema that is multiples of TB, hundreds of tables, stored procs, triggers, poorly normalised, contains a mass of undocumented domain knowledge, goes back over a decade, then it's not going to happen.

If it does happen then it's probably over a period of years, or effectively a rewrite. Databases are like mortgages, they're technical debt that take decades to pay off.

So, have you ever done the migration? How did it go?
This is a great article for those unfamiliar with publishing, but rather sparse on any interesting material for anyone with a basic knowledge as to how it works. To be honest the most surprising thing in this piece is the fact that the author didn't have this experience until his sixth book--you mean to tell me this guy wrote five books without ever having to do a major revamp--without ever running into the knowledge that each book often brings mental collapse, incredible stress, and emotive highs and lows with it? I'm not sure whether I should be impressed or disillusioned.
I can't see spherical wheels working well. They would have a smaller contact patch on the road surface than a standard wheel, and consequently less traction.
Wikipedia (what it's worth) says 97,6 % clearance rate for murder in Germany (2008). With 662 murders (2011) this would mean ~16 murderers get away.
Maybe they just want a nicer car?
To copy from the FAQ:

Are paywalls ok?

It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds.

In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help other users do so. But please don't post complaints about paywalls. Those are off topic.
I remember a study from a few years ago, but I sadly can't find an authorative link. The result was basically that for your circulation, it doesn't matter if you sit or lay down (both are equally bad), but laying down is much better for your back and joints.
I can see the niche that GraphQL tries to fit in. But seriouslly, REST is much simpler and good enough for the huge majority of use cases.

Striking the middle ground there is also postgrest[0] and their queryable REST approach.

[0] https://postgrest.com/en/v4.1/
>As research budgets shrink, and fewer people go into oceanographic research, it’s hard to say what is on the horizon for FLIP.

Why is it that budgets everywhere from businesses public/private to government to scientific research are always shrinking?

It's like it's the invariant of our age: well you know, budgets are shrinking...
> the contrast between the iPhone and the rest of the industry was blinding 2007

Totally:

No third party applications, none. So no SSH client.

Browser, compared to Nokia, was utter shit.

Screen resolution was mediocre at best.

Fixed storage - only 4 GB, meanwhile I had all my mp3 collection in two memory cards for my Nokia phone.

IT COULDN'T EVEN RECORD VIDEO, what. the. hell. Let alone changing ringphone to mp3. MMS? No.

No copy/paste, but I guess it's alright because it couldn't multitask anyways.

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When I saw how many iPhones Apple sold I audibly gasped, was not yet that cynical and didn't expected people being so dumb. And got never ending hate for dumb people - they just set back phone development at least 6 years back (I'm pretty sure if people like 2bitencryption wouldn't exist - I would be living in Mars now).
does anyone know the viability of hydrogen fuel cell electric motor airplanes? It seems like this is a more logical step, since from what I've read the energy density of batteries really isn't optimal for something like an airplane, even with technologies projected to come to market in the next couple of decades. And the whole thing still has the possibility of being zero-emissions.
It's called hustling.
Given that the word 'software' only really started appearing around 50 years ago [1], that might be a stretch, but nonetheless, I think you do our current set of technologies a disservice.

I'm sure it would be relatively incidental for the majority of HN readers to cobble something together that fulfils this sort of functionality without much work. If your complaint is that languages don't form higher abstractions of things like 'thumbnails', I think that is just due to us collectively preferring the flexibility of lower level code - it's certainly not because it would be difficult to create a language with such abstractions.

[1] https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=software&year_...
The stresses on that hull when it is at the 45 degree point during a flip must be immense.
Good point. I wonder if this might be measurably worse. A click-bait image might have the power to grab your attention from your peripheral vision in a way that pure text, however click-baity, can't.
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No, it really is. So far I've seen people saying buildings older than "a few decades" should be torn down to move them closer to street car lines, people calling that "urban renewal", people saying that the problem solves itself because all young people are moving to cities as a rule, people saying self-driving cars will never work and every road should be replaced with street cars that lead to busses that lead to trains, but for the rural population the median solution wouldn't work so they'd have cars of course, but you wouldn't need them because you would just tear down your home and move to the city. Oh and also farmers are rich, but at the same time farmers have to move to the city.

Every single person in this thread lives in a big city and never stepped foot on land that didn't have a sidewalk next to the road. We're not talking "minor points" here, we're talking about 46 million Americans who don't have cable internet or cell phone reception, but somehow public transport will work there or we'll just force them to move.

I knew HN was a bubble but god damn, this is some next-level shit if you can just pretend 15% of the country doesn't exist.
According to Wikipedia they can overrule a guilty verdict, but not a non-guilty verdict. I think that's actually very similar to America, where judges can set aside a jury guilty verdict if they deem "no reasonable jury" could convict based on the presented evidence.
Gulf War 1 was pretty successful.
He was apparently very contentious about the submarine and his history with others involved in it as well.

I could see an escalating scenario where she, as a reporter would, started questioning around that topic. She hits the right buttons, and he loses it and injures her badly enough that he now has to make a decision.
Sure, the smartphone is a great thing to take with you when something unpredictable happened and you're forced to wait 1/2/10 hourse, and you didn't take anything with you (a book, your computer, etc).

But how often does this happen, and how often, instead, does a smartphone distract from better tasks? How often I choose not to pick a book when leaving, because I've got the smartphone "just in case" ? Of course I have ebooks on it, but many times I waste time on facebook/HN/twitter/surfing. It's TOO EASY to get distracted.
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We are fans of react and think the events fit the component model well, it's not a perfect 1-1 though
So what?

There's no 'obligation' for companies to pull ads from sites and services you don't like or consider 'offensive'. If Amazon feels Breitbart delivers them traffic and hence wants to keep advertising there, so be it.
I guess more work could be done around limiting features on a device when outside of a set period. For instance, Data services could be restricted outside of a person's normal working hours. Or if not just data, limiting all features that aren't core to a phone, taking it back to simple calls and text messaging.
> I'm not blaming the file, i'm saying that using a hammer as a drill is silly, and that it's not the screw nor the hammer's fault, it's the user's.

Except in this case, we're comparing two hammers - just different brands. If we were trying to use Microsoft Word to code, you'd have a point.
Let's build a wall!
As a 20+ year listener of NPR (and Terry Gross), I always thought Gross was the best interviewer without a doubt. About 2 years ago, I stumbled upon a Howard Stern interview and was blown away. Never thought much of the shock-jock before, but you should check out his interview with Letterman from last week.
200 lines? That's ridiculous. We have methods longer than 200 lines in our code. Splitting it into smaller methods would be a waste of time, and would make th code more complex. None of the logic is reusable, the intention is well documented and the code is all in one place, rather than having to jump around to 5 diffeeent files and step in to 1 line methods.
I suppose Hitler did accomplish a...thing. Not the thing he wanted but, a thing.
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I've noticed Langid doesn't always work well with short texts, so I'm looking forward to try the Equilid library!
Yea more trees would be nice. The area I frequented had a nice bridge I'd use for shade haha
A lot of math takes decades to become something practical, it must be gratifying to discover something that has immediate and widespread applicability.
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What is your setup working with gerbil compared to emacs/slime?
I guess "intentionally killing someone in a rage" didn't come to my mind. I can imagine planning to kill someone and then doing it or unintentionally killing someone in a fight/assault. But knowingly killing someone out of the blue never crossed my mind. Not sure what that says about me, if anything.
> Which books

Symbolics Common Lisp - Language Concepts (volume 2A)

It also covers parts of Zetalisp.

I am also big fan of pg's On Lisp and ANSI Common Lisp.