skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) no, and these books clearly disprove that, 2) "The moderns" have the entire collected recorded wisdom of over 3,000 years of humanity in addition to highly evolved methods of scientific analysis and instant access to unlimited information, we're fucking superpowered geniuses now, and 3) to be foolish is to be human and we're just as human as we were a few millennia ago.
They were talking about their experience 15 years ago. Maybe that's what they meant and not Twitter replies in 2017.
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I love King of Dragon Pass! It was definitely an inspiration (although I found out about it only after I set out to build this whole thing) and at one point I wanted my game to be basically a king/lineage simulator with options to "zoom in".

Later I figured that what works better is to have a "Conan the Barbarian / Elric / Fafhrd+Mouser simulator" that can "zoom out" to higher levels. The problem with kingdoms is that spacial relations matter _a lot_, and so that's not something you want to base your gameplay on with a text game. That's why King of Dragon Pass has a map as one of the central pieces of UI.

But yeah. Huge fan of King of Dragon Pass here.
c'mon -- that's the easy way!
Well, that's certainly about interfering with and exploiting, but not what you'd traditionally call 'colonization' - that is, there aren't masses of US citizens moving in to displace Afghans or Iraqis.
That's, essentially, the algorithm for computing the representation of a number in a given base: divide by the base and write down the remainders.

To build up intuition on how this works, do it with base 10.

What are the digits of the number 8675309 ? Just remainders after repeatedly dividing by 10.

Now when it's almost obvious it works for base 10, you realize there's no reason it wouldn't work the same way for other bases. Hence the algorithm.
> The trolley problem is "there's something everywhere inside my stopping distance, we will inevitably hit something"

You assume humans make correct decisions when faced with that situation. Most of the time humans make incorrect decisions when faced with far less problematic issues.

"Swerve" is normally more reflex than thought. The number of times that drivers "swerve" to avoid something like an animal and then crash headfirst into oncoming traffic, thereby injuring humans, is non-trivial.
A tool for making justice swifter too often snares the innocent
Odd example; Butterknife greatly reduces boilerplate around accessing views in Android. Why wouldn't you use it?

Don't you use Retrofit for your network API code?
If you look at the graph from Stocks For The Long Run it's been about the most constant thing in value over a 200 year time frame http://www.pacificinvestmentadvisory.com/graphics/stoxGraph....

I daresay constant is not great. Goes up is better.
From Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gumption_trap
>Google Docs is an option - no documents more complicated than GDocs can handle should be allowed.

At least in my experience the GDocs is rapidly eating Office. Deployment is cheaper and easier. All you need to do is send a link and someone can edit your document. It works everywhere.
I've been trying to buy a Herman Miller desk for the past few months. It's a quagmire and I'm still table-less. You'd think a two thousand dollar table would come with some customer service.
It’s easy to create a false impression with selective releases of information.

I’ll note that Wikileaks has published absolutely nothing from the fsb.
If the technology is immature - it should have a backup driver to take over in an instant. Immature technology has no business running solo.
Blockchains can't commit acts of real world violence though.
Google is being weird
Is anyone else getting erratic behavior from mail and search?
> The rest of the desktop UI is ok in Linux

It’s OK on generic hardware. By “generic” I mean CPU & GPU that are more than 2 years old, USB mice/keyboards keyboard with standard set of keys/buttons, maybe a USB mass storage, no printers, no web cams, no custom hardware.

It’s technically possible to support desktop Linux, but it’s expensive and it’s hard: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/heres-the-one-major-pro...

Linux works great for servers and embedded, both are essentially single-app computers with very limited set of hardware configurations.
It uses Jedi under the hood, works ok for me. Sometimes it can't figure out the type, but that's when type annotations come handy.
here's shitty solution to your problem: https://github.com/gburca/rofs-filtered

basically, use FUSE to create an alternative view of your filesytem, but that fuse layer will also exclude certain files matching a regex. Only the FUSE view into your files should put in the Dropbox folder and synced. This particular fuse setup is read-only which was fine for my purposes, but you might need an alternative which allows write access for Dropbox.
Caliopen Privacy Index (PI)
https://github.com/CaliOpen/Caliopen
Another possibility is using Truffle & Graal.
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I disliked Common Core from the homework children brought to me. Looked nothing like the good example above GP showed.
>Limux will be replaced with Microsoft clients. It doesn't make sense, he said, because the city already had a strategy to move away from desktops to "bring your own device" and other desktop alternatives.

There are no desktop alternatives at work. You BYOD for checking email not doing work.

And phones and tablets are much more proprietary than desktops.
An if statement works exactly the same whether you pass it a boolean true or false, or any truthy or falsy expression.

In other words, these are 100% equivalent:

if( anything ) { ... }

if( !!( anything ) ) { ... }

The !! is redundant here, unless there's something relevant that isn't shown in the if statement excerpt in legohead's comment.
I have just arrived in a new company where they use BK.

I have always been doubtful of its benefits but after giving it a fair chance, that's still the case :/

It removes a tiny bit of code, that does not seem that helpful to me. I still have to add the id in the java code, and I would have to count to know how many characters I save that way. Not many. And now I need to worry about how the bk magic happens to be sure to do not leak that way.

I am used to databinding, where I initially had the same reaction .. but after some use it allows you to gain a lot of time with two ways binding and binding adapters while staying at a sane level of abstraction IMO (it just writes the boilerplate code for you) .
1000x the current mining power is 10% of global energy consumption. So they'd be spending 10% of global energy consumption for a year. This is infeasible unless done by a consortium of world governments, and to what end?
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Just as small improvement, for the first step an interpreter is a better approach, just to ease the bootstraping process by not having to write a compiler backend twice.
In fairness, that's not a tech company, that's an SV tech company. (I didn't downvote.)
off topic question: When do you find time do such interesting things as these? I'd really like to dive deeper in this topic. As a CS student, who also got to work as a dev at the same time for a living, I'm even happy to get to sleep 8 hours.
Don't worry - the poster's just being a bit closed-minded
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The bottle lasts approx 2 weeks with 'correct dosage'. And that price is the higher end product. I am familiar with the mid-range product which I used for 1.5 months (due to pain) and discontinued it because I honestly couldn't really tell the difference.
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Well, If the thing you're proposing isn't better than the thing you're replacing, then such products should not succeed.

A driverless car should be on par with the _BEST_ human driver, not the average driver, who as we know, gets into 6 million auto accidents per year.
One coca leaf extract is indeed cocaine:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocaine#History

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_a_New_Organic_Base_in_the_C...

So I believe my comment above is still correct.
What's the point? Given that I prefer the aesthetics of the render prop as well?
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Not at all- if you want to find them, they're there to be found. You're rejecting them before you've read them apparently. Oh and the IPPC report has plenty of error bars if you want them.
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Tinder is a "hookup" app isn't it, ie a way to find someone to have sex with; whilst OKcupid is aimed at "dating" ie people to have a longer term relationship [I know it has options for use in several scenarios, spouse seeking, dating, hookups, etc.].
Another alternative to jcdavis answer, is to just output bytecode in text format and use jasmin to compile it.

http://jasmin.sourceforge.net/

Or have a lookt at Kawa.

https://www.gnu.org/software/kawa/
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Maybe FSB has less technologies to leak or less people willing to do so.
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I don't think it is an instance of "No True Scotsman" to say that there are situations that self-driving cars may never be as good as humans at, but that those situations only occur because of the unpredictability of human drivers.

Self-driving cars don't have to be better than humans at everything in order to be objectively better drivers than humans. In 2010, 32,999 people died in car crashes in the US [0]. If self-driving cars are on-balance 1% better than human beings at driving, then 329 lives are saved.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_i...
It has been my experience that if you order with a credit card and the item is not delivered you will not be charged. I usually let the credit card company handle it to avoid the hassle.
Examples of Lisp-2 compiler using Java and ASM:

Shen to JVM bytecode compiler in Java 6 https://github.com/otabat/shen-jvm

Shen to JVM bytecode compiler in Java 8 with indy https://github.com/hraberg/Shen.java
>...My first problem is this: why exactly can't we treat companies the same way? I would be all for a 20% corporate tax rate if it meant a tax on worldwide income with credits for any taxes paid to foreign governments... exactly like individuals are treated. Why isn't this on the table? Is it that hard?

Would you then also force Samsung to pay US taxes on all profits it made in Korea and elsewhere? The same for Huawei and the profits it makes in China? There are some obvious reasons why no other developed country in the world has a corporate tax system like the US. We should try to reform it, not actually make it worse.
The modern Internet is structured for the transmission and retransmission of constantly novel content. Even a site like HN which isn't necessarily optimized for content throughput is subordinate to this structure. It's just a content aggregator with a particular community huddled around the firehose.

The old Internet was connected so that people could move between content; now it's for content to move between people-- or from industrial-scale content generation to people.

I certainly wander far less on the web than I did in my childhood. Everything is bigger, faster, more impersonal, and constantly changing. It's different; not necessarily better or worse. Maybe the old Internet still exists and I've just forgotten how to get to it?

That's my hot take anyway.
People don't like things they don't understand. It's funny you chose version control as your example; I work at a company currently trying to modernize and getting version control is like pulling teeth.

Without technical leadership from upper management you each individual line of business standing up their own infrastructure (there's currently a war between github and gitlab for the new step forward; the resolution of which is blocking the purchase of any additional github licenses). Perhaps a domain expertise isn't strictly necessary but it helps a lot; especially in older environments trying to change.
""Aggregate market demands" are capitalism, where wine is a status symbol and "good" wine generally refers to price"

No - what I meant by 'aggregate market demand' was really just 'average price / perception of value' - and 'good' does not refer to 'price' - good wine literally is better.

I am not equating value and profit. I am equating value and price.

Some goods are generally better than others (i.e. most people will think one is better than the other) and require the same labour - this is my point - and it's unrelated to scarcity.
I'd say the life form that dominates this planet are single cellular organisms, i.e., mostly bacteria. They have run this place for billions of years, deciding who gets to stay in symbiosis with them or not and most likely will continue to do so for a few billion more, long after mammals and similar life forms will have disappeared again. They inhabit the entire biosphere, at least 1km below and up to 50km above earth, filling every cubic meter with millions and often billions of them. They can "communicate" (evolve their latest genetic modifications) across the whole planet in a matter of weeks for particularly mission-critical mutations. Every other life-form just passes by.
> Take package managers: they only exist to manage complicated dependency relationships.

Most dependency relationships are very simple. The package manager isn't there as a bandaid over complexity, it's there so I don't have to do repetitive simple downloading by hand. A system could also come with everything installed, or all packages could include their dependencies, but both of those are huge wastes of space without being much simpler.
Just what I love, a scientific and pedagogic CS article, in well formulated English.

I would appreciate some introductory notes or links to prerequisites though. That would perhaps entice an audience who has no previous experience in writing compilers.
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does anyone have some recommendation on how to debug typescript compiler, it seems like console does not work there, I am trying to just step through tsc.ts, but gulp local always complains that console is not defined. Is there any alternative in stepping through the compiler?
Cannabis enhances my emotions. I'm normally pretty flat emotionally and cannabis is one of the only things that changes that. I'm not sure what you mean by sedation here.
For one thing Clojure comes to mind: https://github.com/clojure/clojure
Current model is all about building a giant company that would IPO for a bazillion, making investors wealthy, and founders/early employees well off. But indeed, why not build a company that can revenue-share with employees, stay small(ish) and nimble, and make everyone well off, without expecting some 1-in-million event to occur. Isn't this how companies were built, at some point in the near past?
Ford, Motorola, Western Electric and General Electric.
The main issue with a wiki is that its hard to give one to a customer for long term use. A PDF works much better for this, so when the customer wants to review the hundreds of thousands they spent on consulting a decade ago they can.
I bought a car, when I turn the steering wheel left, the wheels turn right. Damn marketing!!!
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Looking at the timeline, I'd be surprised if Lisp referred to 'Common Lisp' and not something earlier in the family.
customer service, sure. but delivery.... eh. A few weeks ago my brother ordered a tripod and got a toilet instead. Someone I follow on Twitter ordered an Xbox and got.... Capri Suns[1].

https://twitter.com/StefMichalak/status/928174251395469317
Yeah this is quite disheartening to hear. 300$ a month for something that some people can't even tell the difference with. I don't want to spend 150$ for 30ml of snake oil haha.
Why not? Mistakes are unsolicited.
My laptop has win7 on it, and it crawls compared to my linux installation. It's a really unpleasant experience.

I'm not sure why this is so surprising to you. People run debian raspberry pi.
> There is no good reason to pay 200k a year to a guy who can make 200k a year in Sunnyvale - in Michigan, he'll have as much disposable income at, 120-140k a year as he did at 200k a year in California.

This ignores two facts of wealth in the bay area.

The value of land has risen considerably, so an engineer can grow wealthy just by owning (as opposed to renting) even without any "disposable" income (although I recognize that owning/renting can involve dipping into "disposable" income).

The promise of equity growth is compelling in a small-ish company. The likelihood that Ford employee equity might appreciate is _very_ tiny, is dependent upon so many factors out of the control of the tech employees (industry competition, regulations, supply of low-interest financing, labor unions, etc) that may not affect other unions.
I mentioned this in another thread, but I think part of people's problem with diseases like malaria is that they don't connect it with any kind of visceral fear. The mechanism of death is a little vague -- you get fatigued, you get a fever, and then... you die? OK, I guess.

Rabies is terrifying; you devolve into madness and convulse to death. Botulism is terrifying; you become paralyzed and asphyxiate. Ebola makes you hemorrhage. Tuberculosis can literally destroy your lungs. Smallpox produces horrible painful lesions. Screwworm infestations are just kinda horrifying.

So people see malaria as something bad, but not something scary. Screwworm is scary to even consider, so people jump to agree that, yes, it should be eliminated, nature be damned. Malaria is scary too, but I suspect that it doesn't engender the same physical fear response in most people. Hence the debate about mosquitoes.
It's also the title of a book by John McPhee collecting three journalistic accounts of different attempts to protect human settlements against particular environmental threats ("with varying success", as Wikipedia puts it). Highly recommended!
Maybe the times just panned forth the algorithm that fit?
This is the same NYU professor that valued Uber at $6B because his comparables were taxi companies: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/uber-isnt-worth-17-bill...
Seconded, I'm also very interested.
This reminds me of a segment on Top Gear (the BBC TV show for those unaware) in which Jeremy Clarkson is lamenting that having a pickup truck in the UK would result in your belongings in the bed being stolen when stopped.

For what it's worth, I have ordered many online items (100+) over the last several years, and every one has been left on my doorstep by USPS or UPS. The only time I have had a package stolen was during a summer I spent in a notably dangerous area. The rest of the orders were safely delivered, in my case to a college-town apartment or a suburban family home.
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Making software (as primary differentiator) is going to require a very different mindset than producing an incremental release on a truck you’ve been making since 1948.

I know a Ford product manager. I talked with her about this extensively and came away with the conclusion that they will be able to deliver the software required to keep up (barely) but not at the speed and quality required to become the industry front runner. Right now my eye is on GM (through cruise) and Tesla but only time will tell.
I'd be curious to read a similar story about how GendBuntu [1] is doing. They migrated 70,000 workstations, compared with 15,000 for LiMux.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GendBuntu
“Respond” is an understatement. 10mg THC, with no CBD, represents a typical edible from a dispensary, but as a small person with low tolerance and a fast metabolism, I’ve found that amount of THC by itself ends with me fearfully holding onto the Earth for dear life for a couple hours.

On the bright side, at dispensaries you can know precisely what you’re getting, so at least I can say “this weed will pleasantly reduce my anxiety and pain, that weed will blast me unwillingly into space” which is an option I never had before.
Several Hacker News items regarding massive overall insect decline in general, and as far as I can tell, the general consensus has been that this is not a good thing. [1] [2] I think this is sort of where the concern is coming from.

The mosquito is a special case considering how it carries lethal diseases, of course. So to me, control is certainly acceptable (mass extinction, I'm not so sure either).

My guess is at any rate that this won't be a mass solution even if it 100% works -- applied at too much scale and a likely result is mosquitoes will develop resistance to Wolbachia (just as they have with chemicals when we tried massive control with pesticides). As a localized solution, this is intriguing.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14323533
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15502074
1) It's not just children's brains.

2) That said, when parents use technology as a pacifier, baby sitter, etc. why is that acceptable?

3) Let's say Parker is correct. What are the long term implications? Is The Matrix closer than we hope?
> taking a designer's mockup screenshot and building a fully functional Vue app clean HTML/CSS and a Google Sheets API integration– $185

* Screenshot to CSS: 30 minutes

* Google Sheets API to clean JSON structure: 30 minutes

* Vue app: 30 minutes

-----------------------------

Total time: 1.5h

Effective hourly rate: 123.33

Let's same I'm a 10x programmer, but you're a 1x programmer and it takes you 15 hours. Then your effective hourly rate would be 12.33. I think the flat fee rewards programmers who are more efficient than others.

I've been part of organizations where slow developers make just as much as the so-called rockstars. In what world is that fair? I'm not ranting about "slow and methodical" engineers who do everything super-correctly; I'm referring to "Wally", the character from Dilbert.

I have a bit of a moral agenda with this project, as well.
There's no reason that slow programmers should be denied work, but they should not be compensated at the same clip as fast programmers. Great developers often go into management if they want to make more money. This dynamic punishes developers for getting "good" and drains the programming market of its best talent.
I think you're right. It looks like an oversight.
As on expat UK-> USA said if you have a pint for lunch people start leaving AA leaflets on your desk.

A while back I was talking to a course tutor who in the UK gave the "dealing with staff with serious addiction problems" course - he commented its when you find 3 or 4 stashes of vodka hidden in the office that you know you have a problem
> Can't we discuss these things freely on the internet as long as we don't hurt anyone?

In most countries, sadly the answer is still no.
Link is provided in the article. Am also surprised that the actor allowed his photo to appear. In fact, the website, which is in Japanese, has many photos. I wonder if they are of employees who work there. That would seem counterproductive.
Agreed compatibility with MS Office is always "the stumbling block" for the average user. When the Munich transition was made LibreOffice (OpenOffice) didn't handle Office compatibility too well. These days compatibility is much better. But that is not the issue, too many people sling .docx files around, not really understanding what they are doing. Document collaboration is more typically emailing and at best using the review functionality.

In my experience even reasonably computer literate people need to be asked, repeatedly, to send me documents as .PDF not .DOCX. Hate to think how hard that would be when we are dealing with hundreds of disinterested public servants.
It means (British) Indian Ocean (Territory).

If it were part of Mauritius, it would fall under the existing MU.