skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, numerous studies have shown that workouts don't reverse the negative health consequences of sitting. That being said, such workouts can definitely help avoid (or at least reduce) other issues such as pain, e.g., by strengthening glutes that are weakened by sitting, etc.
John Taylor Gatto (NY State Teacher of the year 1990) would beg to differ, and has amassed a fairly extensive set of arguments:

https://www.amazon.com/John-Taylor-Gatto/e/B001K7S0AE/
Given the Red Sox lost 3 out of 4 in that series, the Yankees should just given them a video feed next time.
Answers like this truly surprise me. Do you not see a problem with normalising the idea of telling people how and what to think?
So, what? Uber is now the new IBM Watson consultancy?
I will definitely write something about it one day, I just think it's a little bit prematurely.
> also ref.counting overhead per item (AFAIK even when reading stuff).

That's the beauty of the borrow checker: no, there's no reference counting overhead when reading stuff. The borrow checker guarantees that the reference you used to access the value won't go away until you're done with it, so it doesn't have to increment the reference counter.
It'd be a waste of my time, but I could document the times I've seen Solaris SMF break a system so bad it was almost undebuggable, even with the help of many Sun staff. If you never had crippling registry issues, you were lucky. Other than those unlucky moments, it worked great!
I'm not really sure what similarities you see between the two.
I didn't make it past "democratizing" and "internal" in the same sentence. I think their words are different from our words.
Can we crowdfund a militia to protect and secure archives for digitizing in conflict zones? We are losing too much priceless history to fools over ego.
You can revive Turbo Pascal code with Free Pascal. Here's a port guide:

https://www.freepascal.org/port.var
Reading a book is probably just as harmful to your ability to walk.
> I think the prevailing view on living standards is that they're no longer rising for those who enter the workforce at the bottom.

Hmm, how is "living standards" defined exactly?

It seems like many of the technological advancements of the last 40 years have become cheap and affordable by almost everyone. Even smart phones are relatively inexpensive and widely used. 64% of individuals making less than $30k a year own a smart phone, for example [1].

Life seems to be getting better for all income levels. Though, this isn't easy to track statistically. The citation I was originally responding to (an article on stagnating income vs inflation [2]) uses CPI as the measure of inflation. But the CPI only tracks the prices of basic commodities like food and fuel. It misses a huge part of our lives.

1. http://www.pewinternet.org/fact-sheet/mobile/
2. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=eUHS
Half of the things you mention are related to system calls, any language that has a C ffi/provides syscall in stdlib will let you that.
> unelected bureaucrats

you make it sound as though this not desirable. To seem it seems likely that career professionals have higher chances of being effective and unbiased than elected officials whose campaigns need to be funded and poses no other qualification/ experience than being adult citizen .
This is one of the major downsides of living in a dense city without your own car and relying on the "transportation as a service" model. It works fine until it doesn't, and then you're screwed. The system is fragile with very little resiliency. (This is just a general comment, I don't mean it as a criticism of your personal choices.)
"...authoritarian..."

I don't think that word means what you think it means...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authoritarianism
This has been my consistent frustration with the development philosophy. I like to describe it as deciding to build a sweet new car to get from SF to LA and starting by paving the roads. Using 30 year old asphalt. Focus on what you bring to the table, and use LLVM or, god forgive me even GCC ;) as your foundation. Great writeup, thanks for sharing.
Have you considered C#? It only has a single string class. With async-await, concurrency is fine too.

Not long ago, they open sourced the compiler and a subset of runtime, making it cross-platform: https://github.com/dotnet/core It’s a but tricky to install on Linux, but for me it works OK, at least so far (an embedded TCP/UDP server app).
Love it. What a wonderful project!
Main point I was thinking of. I'm self-employed, and my business is growing. Once I reach a certain income level, I will incorporate. Before that point, the legal and time costs aren't worth it.

But, this stuck out as something worthy of more study:

>The average incorporated self-employed person is highly able – they did well on aptitude tests like the SAT, they have high self-esteem, and were successful in salaried employment, earning more than other workers with similar characteristics.

There could be a subset of the self-employed that is basically "soon to be incorporated", which is the group I believe myself to be in. In my case, my salaried peer group are graduates of one of the top Canadian law schools. My default non-business option would have been a high salary; I only did business because I thought I could get something comparable, but with more freedom.

You might be able to use the common traits among the incorporated to do further analysis within the self-employed group.
And more recently, heat pump dryers, which can dry basically as fast as standard electric dryers, while not requiring a vent, and using much less energy. You get double benefit form the heat pump, as the hot side heats the air in the dryer more efficiently than a (resistance-based) electric heater, and the cold side chills the moist air, extracting the water to be drained.
There are encryption schemes which allow you to choose the key to produce any arbitrary decryption from a given ciphertext. For a trivial example, consider the one-time pad scheme that's simply "plaintext XOR key" and "ciphertext XOR key"; by choosing a key that's equal to "plaintext XOR ciphertext" you can construct a key for any ciphertext from a plaintext or any plaintext from a ciphertext. Mr. Xi uses this to produce the just-released lottery numbers from the ciphertext regardless of the numbers or the ciphertext.
It is possible, though, as LLVM assembly shows us.
Show HN: BigQuery dataset: 22M FCC comments on net neutrality
That would be ideal, but a little more money than I'm willing to spend for such a thing.
There still needs to be a description of the underlying hardware behavior somehow. The hardware engineers often give you a somewhat correct Excel sheet or force you to look at the HDL to figure it out.
I was going to use GCP, but ended up using AWS after discovering GCP doesn't [currently] support MSSQL as a service.

Couldn't be happier with AWS.
> Bcachefs is developed by a single person (however brilliant he may be) on a part time basis (I see only 4 commits since May this year).

I'm not sure how true this is of filesystems, but a lot of the best software I know is (or at least, was) developed by a single person. For example, Redis, Sqlite, Lmdb, most malloc implementations, varnishcache, h2o, (nginx?), chipmunk-2d, most of dragonflybsd (including HAMMER).

Many projects get more contributors after the code is working well enough to see popular production use. But programmers working alone can accomplish some pretty impressive stuff.
Often is very much not the same as always. Moreover, when these optimizations are useful (i.e. Not underwhelming) the payoff is significant (like multiple orders of magnitude significant). Additionally crypto is special due to side channel issues of course. Anyway most compilers are generally shit at vectorization generally.
Can nature offer a valuable lesson about the realities of life?
You heat the surrounding humid air instead of sending the heat into space.
In my experience a large percentage of people that are fat are in a scooter and most of the older people are either on a scooter or in a wheelchair. It definitely makes one deja vu to WALL-E. If everyone was in a scooter they would have to limit admissions even more, it's built to accommodate scooters but not for everyone to be in a scooter, yet. The fireworks show would be a total traffic jam without the mobility of walking. I used a fitness tracker last time I went and a full day at Disneyland/California was about 16 miles of walking.
And it is forbidden to ask more than if the individual has a disability and what task the dog is trained to perform. There can be nothing more discussed and denial of service to a disabled individual who is accompanied by a service dog (not the same as an ESA) comes with a huge fine but terrible public relations when it hits social media.
And by "apologized", you mean "having a top Sony executive insult their customers' intelligence":

> "Most people don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?"

Source: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/11/sonys_drm_roo...

I'm pretty happy to have not bought a single Sony product since 2005. I think that people should boycott brands that spit in their soup, but Doctorow makes a better point: these companies should be killed.
It's quite likely that just asking that one question would be enough to screen out most fake service dogs. An ESA has not been trained to do any task and an answer along the lines of "It's been trained to comfort me." does not meet the ADA definition.
I'd be curious if we could build a floating patch of these in the ocean and put them in front of hurricanes to rob them of the hot water they need to grow?

Anyone able to do the math? Keep in mind all the billions we spend on hurricane damage.
Holy shit, you're right. It's so bad on mobile. It's broken in so many ways. It scrolls horizontally and vertically. At one point I somehow scrolled the header instead of the body. I want to debug the page just so I avoid the same issues on my own sites.
From my experience (and what this looks like) is that there isn't a ton of novel IP to open source here. A lot of the times ML "platforms" are composed of a number of open source components glued together in an elegant way (which I'm not implying is easy, because it's very difficult).

From looking at this from the outside the only things in this platform that may be open-sourceable would be the job scheduling and visualizations - and there are already variants of open source tooling which could be repurposed for those tasks (or may even be powering those components).

The main purpose of this post seems to be Uber's way of standardizing their workflows + a little extra glue (which they're calling their platform). It still provides a lot of value. Also, Uber does have a few cool open source projects: https://uber.github.io/ (but could admittedly have more).
> even a tiny weekend project will take near infinite time to handle all of these cases.

A "tiny weekend project" assumes, by definition, a tiny userbase. The point is to assume nothing about a dataset, because even dozens of seemingly reasonable expectations about names are wrong.

The point of the article is not to tell you to immediately write perfect code, but to make you aware of your code's limitations.
There is so much "Stallman was right" in all of these examples... non-free software always manages to eventually sneak in malicious anti-user features, where the user has no recourse. At least with free software there's always the fundamental freedom to fork. You think systemd is a Red Hat plot to destroy Linux, then go use Devuan. You don't trust what Google could be doing with Chrome, take your pick of alternatives:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_(web_browser)#Communi...

Plus, people tend to act more morally when they think they might be watched, whether they actually are watched or not.

Whenever someone refuses to show source code I always think, "what are you hiding in there?" There's usually something.
The idea is that the cert must be signed by my own CA. But may also be signed by another CA.
Meaning that after the first visit, a user is protected from a rogue CA issuing a cert for my site.
I haven't learned rust because of how annoying the rust evangelism is everywhere I read about it.
Fist bumps > handshakes https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/fist-bump-better-handsha...
Dijkstra was right – recursion should not be difficult
>Owning a pet is a privilege.

nope. It is a service to humankind. We evolved in close communication and collaboration with dogs, cats, horses. Keeping pets is keeping open that window into communication and collaboration with other species. Without dogs and cats around (and we pretty much already lost horses) humankind have all the chances to lose such capability completely. To illustrate just one, most obvious and straightforward, part of the picture - one can just google about pets effect on children development (and one can see that making owning a pet hard/impossible is basically equivalent to depriving children of such a benefit).

At the personal level - pets enhance our lives, our perception and understanding of the world, our emotional well being, our sense of empathy to others. Does it sound like a privilege or a fundamental right?
Is the 'light' reflecting off the asteroid emitted from the sun? I had never seen or even knew radar could distinguish value like what is shown here.

I suppose terrestrial radar looks at much smaller objects and what it sees is emitted from the tower and bounced back in a straight line so that sort of makes sense.

More info on the observatory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldstone_Solar_System_Radar
This is a good time to mention:

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20161104-00/?p=...

(I never knew about it before Raymond blogged it, even though it dates back to Win8 and was patented)
So your work email doesn't have a spam filter?
http://spidr.today/ Is a great News aggregator
One word: Sub-contract.

Network with small to mid-size consulting companies. If they can trust you, it's a win-win. You 1099 with them, they make $20-$30+/hr off the top of your rate w/ no burdens of having you as an employee.

This also removes the complications of the sales side of things.
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No other language solves this perfectly either, certainly not in a way that interoperates _across_ languages and environments.[1] Which is pretty much the whole point of the article. But what C excels at is the ability to write code which can examine and work with the representation of most string-like objects exported from any environment. The difficulty of doing so is a function of how opaque and complex the alien implementation.

I gave up on trying to solve strings in C applications a long time ago, too, much as you have. I did so not because I found C too inexpressive, but because I realized that I was trying to shoe-horn too many concepts into a "string". A string is almost by definition the wrong data structure--either too abstract or not abstract enough--for almost everything. Not coincidentally, that was about the same time I stopped abusing regular expressions for parsing data.

[1] Even C++ didn't solve this. We're still in the midst of a std::string ABI compatibility break in the C++ ecosystem. Granted, it's been about 12 years since the last one, but these last fairly long because systems software (i.e. infrastructure software) has a really long tail.
You still have limited bandwidth and latency. Just because you break the distance up into smaller hops, the total distance to travel remains the same. Maybe scientists should focus on increasing the speed of light. LEOs also have short orbital lifetimes meaning the constellation needs to constantly be refreshed which isn't cheap.
If it's a low baseline, a 65% increase might not be all that bad!:-p
what is exactly wrong with sourceforge?

apart from the obvious superiority of github and social git services, i think sf is a decent project hosting service
Equality in modern colloquial context (esp. regarding social strata) means equal "especially in status, rights, and opportunities". It really means fair treatment, not equal treatment. Another side effect of people using the wrong language and sticking with it.
Because I don't trust Mozilla to put the user first and not give in to Google's demands anymore. Between the Australis UI ("Looks like Chrome") and now WebExtensions ("Works like Chrome"), the fiercely independent and unique Firefox (and by extension all of Mozilla) from days/years past is forever gone. Losing Thunderbird & SeaMonkey as fully developed projects was really the first warning of many; but many people were willing to let it go. I don't trust any of their new projects to actually remain stable and different from Google's desires, and really I don't have any reason to believe that they give a tinker's damn about their long-time users or their original ideals when they split from Netscape. They are no different from Opera who capitulated completely (and we see that Vivaldi, while calling them out, isn't announcing that they're creating their own engine, or switching to raw KHTML), and I'm just waiting until the day I have to start laughing because Mozilla announces that, in order to develop for the mobile space of Android & iOS, they're switching the desktop browser from Gecko to WebKit/Blink. Because I'm sure, given the track they're on, that day will come. I can no longer summon the appropriate dread. I can only laugh.
And that's why your pension was set at 60 or 65, and why developed countries are having a hard time paying for them. In the past physical work meant that by the time people were old enough to collect their pension they were worn out.
There's wisdom in what my grandma always says: Don't talk about politics, it's rude.

And guess what, 25 years of being related to her and she hasn't once hit me with a bit of wood over a difference of opinion.
> it seems likely that career professionals have higher chances of being effective and unbiased than elected officials

This sounds nice in theory. In practice the unelected bureaucrats will not be "career professionals" with the proper professional ethics and willingness to be unbiased. Look up "regulatory capture".
Just Fear, or fear of risks materializing?

The risk materialized for victims of terrorism.

The risk materialized for victims of drug gangs.

The risk materialized for victims of illegal aliens committing crimes including identity theft.

The risk materialized for victims of outsourcing. The risk materialized of well paying manufacturing jobs disappearing.

It's wasn't fear, it was the materialized risk. Many voted for Obama overcoming fear, choosing hope. But they realized you can't just choose hope, you have to go and bend reality to be what you want it to be. And they put a bend in flow of reality, choosing Trump.

The elite fail to sympathize with their own countrymen in peril, because having compassion for your fellow countryman means you were being a 'xenophobe'. That label is not very vogue in elite circles.

I, for one, am glad that the risk of Trump being elected materialized.
What does the lease say?
Troposcatter words for longer range communications - its better than LOS.
Tips mosyly priviledge prettiness over usability. E.g. advice like "mix background hue into grey text" is why we have so much unreadable, non-contrasting text.
My assumption is based on the demographics and salaries of the average HN user from the numerous polls that always pop up. It tends to be 20-35 year old white males residing on the west coast of the US where salaries begin at $100k+ for bootcamp grads with zero experience [1], and staff engineers at Facebook/Apple/Amazon/Netflix/Google can easily bring home $500k+ in total compensation.

Developers overwhelmingly choose [2] "Vacation Time" and "Expected Work hours" as their primary attraction when choosing employers. HN users constantly [3] talk about achieving a "work/life balance" and sharply criticize any job which they requires work beyond ~40 hours/week.

So you have one of the most well-compensated career paths combined with the lowest barrier to entry and the primary things people are concerned with is minimizing their time spent working. You're damn right I'm going to call that entitled.

[1] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JR4KrVH1dygniLiLFAMT...

[2] https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2017#work-what-dev...

[3] https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+...
Fine :) The fact remains: given you knew what was meant, you could at least have answered the question as intended, in addition to nitpicking. (I would never tell someone to stop nitpicking. Well, almost never.) See also https://xkcd.com/1576/
favoring or enforcing strict obedience to authority, especially that of the government, at the expense of personal freedom.

Maybe you didn't understand what he meant, because authoritarian makes perfect sense in the context he was using it.
> Owning a pet is a privilege

What entity bestows the privilege of pet ownership? It seems like people who claim that something is a privilege usually want to deny it from others.

Something doesn't have to be a fundamental right in order to expect a lack of discrimination or the bare minimum of accommodation. If you accommodate the lives and desires of others only because you're legally required I can't say I would want to visit your business.
TLC anyone ?
> If you can stay there, then you don't pay. It makes no sense to demand rent for a service you can't provide.

That's 100% incorrect. It depends on the terms of the lease and the applicable laws.
The robot will properly buy futures contracts so that the borrower will be insulated from any food price fluctuations. If the numbers don't add up the lender will not make the loan. There will not be any "overproduction". The robots will instead recommend another line of business where the robots production will be profitable given the price of market futures for those products.

I have an American friend who lives in Argentina who works online. The cost of living is such that he can work two months and pay his living expenses for two years. Those horribly low prices in Argentina are totally killing him. Not!

So what you are saying is the disaster is there will be so much food that people won't be able to eat it all and the prices will crash? Imagine if everybody had unlimited amounts of everything they wanted! How would we support prices?

This kind of thinking reminds me of the great depression where they would destroy food to keep up prices even as people were starving.

BTW, The novella "Manna" by Marshall Brain is kind of a good take on the future with robots and everything, though I don't really like his "happy" future.

BTW, thanks for giving me a hard time on this. I am getting to the point where this is going to be a bit of a manifesto and you're helping me flesh things out.
People use what works for them. Besides it's a great framework and it's stable, great for boring businesses.
Doesn't pet damage fall under your renter's insurance liability + damage deposit? How is it relevant for the owner's property insurance?
I guess I have an axe to grind because, as a colorblind person, I often feel like "designers" just wish I didn't exist, like user needs are an inconvenience and not _the whole point_. /Rant
Canada is well connected internally with Fiber
Or Bottle, CherryPy, and others? I'm sure there's room for another framework, but it would be good to elaborate what Ice's raison d'être is, and what it's strengths and weaknesses are.