skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Odd little article - this has the feel of generic blog content that's there to promote a website.
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I'd say that at that point, it doesn't even matter that you're writing Rust code. Most of the slimming down comes from cutting out cruft that the linker puts in by default.
How well-defined is the angular velocity of a galaxy? Since it's not a solid disk, there's no reason for it to be the same for different regions. Is there any uniformity at all, e.g. do stars at the same distance from the center move at similar speeds?

Somebody else in the thread points out today our own son makes 4 revolutions around the galaxy center in a billion years, not 1.
Chicago and Baltimore are the most desired spots for all trauma surgery interns. Note that I went to McGill in Montreal, Canada.
Exactly. "A Chemistry is performed"... yeah, that's a phrase I'd expect out of a second grader, not a Stanford dropout...
Linux Kernel?
Money and happiness: rank of income, not income, affects life satisfaction
Walmart set to be largest shareholder in Flipkart
The (non-technical) CEO pushed for new products and an aggressive sales quota company culture.

This is a common recipe for disaster when the actual product quality/security is no longer a core value.

The CEOs in these environments honestly have no clue what an "outdated Struts patch" is... so it's difficult to hold them criminally responsible.

I'm not excusing this behavior. In fact, quite the opposite. More indictments and congressional pressure on Equifax will hopefully persuade future CEOs to make IT security, data privacy, and consumer trust foundation product values.
It spends ten minutes at the dock charging on each trip.
What if companies were required to tell customers what other firms paid?
How Leo and Gertrude Stein Revolutionized the Art World
It’s probably “fine” in the sense that nobody will sue you. But you’re basically arguing “it’s okay to lie to consumers about something that’s immaterial.” That’s true, but the standard for materiality under state consumer protection law is pretty low. E.g., under California’s Unfair Competition Law, statements that a lock was Made in America were found actionable under the UCL, even though the lock worked perfectly fine. People might care whether the service is automated or not, even if the end product is the same.

Of course, the benefit from the puffery might outweigh whatever legal risk exists. I’d call that a “calculated risk,” not “fine.”
Out of these, only “hunk” is a somewhat common term.

“refspec” and “tree-ish” are obscure and git-specific.
"idea was rejected by (offended partys') legal team" should never be the conclusion of something like this; but I can understand not wanting the trouble for a work of passion.

In fact, working on a mod for a game -- and then getting legally threatened by the owning company of that mod platform -- would entirely drain my enthusiasm or passion for the game/company/platform.

I hope the mod-makers feel similarly.
I recall an episode of Software Engineering Daily where the host, Jeff was interviewing some Microsoft guys and they suggested AWS was the result of Amazon selling it’s own infrastructure. Jeff interrupted him and said that was “not accurate.” Sorry I don’t have link to the episode here but it was not a very good one. The Microsoft guy responded by saying the truth of the story didn’t matter, which is pretty absurd but I think reflects how Amazon came to dominate the public consciousness. The truth just doesn’t matter in advertising or in reputation. We’ve learned how to undermine it with buzz and mediation.

For example, many were sick of Wal-Mart. Was it because of the way they treated their workers? No. If it were, they wouldn’t have ran to Target and Amazon instead. The actual shopping behaviors are guided by convenience but judtified by cultural associations. Target capitalized on the same image appeal without offering anything new at all. Amazon is, culturally, Target + Silicon Valley. Ad agencies all understand this very well. Amazon is neoliberalism in the flesh. There’s nothing a bit surprising about it.
Infinity Blade back in the day was essentially a UE3-on-iOS tech demo that had unexpectedly good gameplay. (there was a game mechanic that enticed you to examine and pan around the highly-detailed environment!)
Lawdy. Was Sarah Palin her speechwriter?
It is not mandatory, it merely requires courage to go forward knowing you could fail and things could go wrong.

If you choose to ignore it and fake your way up, you are not being brave, you are being delusional. I'm not sure if delusional people are good investments.
They don’t need a claim, they just need to convince the modders they do, or at least that they’d bankrupt the modders in court anyway.
I replied to the original email you sent me with some thoughts. I want to note here that I like the idea of Pathrise but was just a bit put off by the initial email.
There's also TEVES which is MOND with relativity, since MOND doesn't predict any of the relativistic effects we observe constantly.

The problem is, they still end up needing some dark matter before they work very well. I think every bright person assumes dark matter must be fake when they hear about it, but nobody has succeeded in getting rid of it. Dark matter plus the physics we know about is actually a really great fit to what astronomers see, and it has been hard to improve on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor%E2%80%93vector%E2%80%93...
Your logic... makes no sense, I'm sorry. WKWebview would be just as usable.

Furthermore, running an entire extra instance of Chrome for a menubar app when you could simply use the built-in Webkit instance is really not cool.
>This will wipe her out

Will it though? Surely Holmes still has a few million stashed away somewhere that she can live comfortably off of? This settlement isn't going to leave her destitute.

Either that or I'm sure she set up some clever offshore accounting structure that has $10M stashed in the cook islands or some shit. As soon as you get some cash, I think "rich person 101" is you set up some complicated structure to hide rainy day money for this very reason. I would venture to guess she took home at least $50MM in all those rounds of investment (maybe more? i have no idea how that works.), I doubt she blew it all or was stupid enough to leave it in plain sight.
How Ken Layne Created a Publishing Oasis in a Desert Town of 8,000 People
Rust has a complete #nostd mode where most of it's ergonomics are still usable without any runtime. It also supports pluggable allocators, as well as replacing most of the builtin functionality of other language components (lang items).

It's story around panic and debug handling is also improving, including cutting out formatting code for things like println! and debug! when targetting embedded platforms.
Agreed. Even a small amount of lead cross-contamination can cause your product to get rejected in RoHS regions. This has happened to my company.

Getting a palette of product shipped back to you is not a fun event.
That's kind neat.
That's one way to get funding, but it's certainly not the only way, there are lots of counterexamples. As one obvious counterexample, one of the founding principles of YC is providing an open application process to provide people who don't have any personal connections access to the SV network. Larry and Sergey weren't well connected when they started, either, afaik, as most PhD students aren't. If you're doing something interesting that seems likely to succeed, and you're motivated, it's not all that hard to become connected to wealthy people who are very interested in turning their money into more money.

This is an incredibly defeatist/self pitying line of thinking that I'm seeing more of (the world is stacked against me, you have to be born into it, etc) and is related to a lot of other self-defeating thought patterns. It's not going to help you or anyone else who subscribes to it. Maybe it's just that bad news is much easier to see, thanks to the web, so people think bad behavior is more common now, and it's turning people cynical.
We've added Lua scripting into the Ceph distributed object storage system that lets you remotely compute on objects, or create I/O interfaces with new semantics [0]. I've been excited about WebAssembly as a replacement since I learned about it simply because LuaJIT can be a bit of a pain, and because the cross-compiling toolchains already exist that let me get a lot more existing code into a form that can be shipped off to run remotely.

[0]: https://nwat.xyz/blog/2018/03/13/video-of-my-talk-at-lua-wor...
> if you aim for compiler independence then you don't use [undefined behavior].

I think the point was that UB occurs in a lot of relatively common cases and programmers don't realize that they're depending on it/experiencing it.

> If [somehow] you decide [to] target a compiler then you read the compiler's docs.

Which is why the post you're responding to made the point about undefined behavior. "Read the compiler's docs" is in counterpoint to that post's parent, which praises C for being a small language, and thus one in which reading the language's docs is seldom required.
Right now the best examples are Venezuela and Zimbabwe.
Wow, i think the story hear is:

Psychopaths can be easily diagnosed thorough a brain scan.

Or a more likely narrative: A person compared pictures and interpreted them wrong.
But why? Passenger transport is already well catered for and extremely low margin. Also, passengers are annoying and generally not cardboard wrapped. They require seats and toilets and cabin attendants and pretzels and infant flotation devices. Cardboard boxes also don't videotape you when you offload them last minute to make room for something more valuable.

And that's before accounting for scheduling. Freight flights are often late nights, because cardboard boxes don't have eyes that can go red.
Looks like it isn’t random per day but rather works well on some faces and terribly on others.
The Foreign office claims to have expelled “undisclosed spies” and not regular diplomats.
The reason the US is a single country is because the Union fought a war to bring the South back into line. It has already split, and it could split again.

California could quit if a dictator arises, a threat that was unthinkable a decade ago but is now unnervingly probable. Other states like Vermont would likely cut loose as well, they don't have time for that.

> During the Civil War there was still a strong notion of states' rights, today there is not and the country is a lot more similar than different.

I'd argue that people more strongly identify with their home state than with some vague concept of "America", especially when it comes to states like California, Texas and Florida that have their own identity. The more these states differentiate, the more likely they are to disagree, and from there, eventually split.

Europe's had a long time to end up in its current state, and it's still shifting wildly. Belgium might split in half. Spain might rip apart. England might lose Scotland. Ireland might get unified. Nothing stays static for long.

Consider the United States in its current form only really came about in 1912. That's basically yesterday in terms of history. To think that will remain static for another hundred years is ridiculous.
Brain back-up startup 'will be the death of users'
I think this statement is slightly misleading, because nobody uses SQLite in its minimum configuration. See the line below:

> In a more complete build, SQLite also uses library routines like malloc() and free() and operating system interfaces for opening, reading, writing, and closing files.
I don't know which "they" you think changed from calling it "global warming" to "climate change", but the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has been pretty consistent in its name for the past 30 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergovernmental_Panel_on_Cli...
Neither part admit or deny accusations. What the heck?? So why does DOJ even exist in the first place when such dipsy doodle can occur?
I actually really like that idea.
Can you link to threads/places where people ripping on Holmes (post-WSJ investigation) were under heavy fire? Investor Tim Draper continued to call critics sexist/malicious but I wouldn't call him status quo by any stretch of the imagination:

https://www.axios.com/tim-draper-keeps-defending-theranos-15...
It's Official Beyoncé and Jay-Z Officially Announce the “On the Run II” Tour
'Useful' toward what end? Beware that thinking related to "personal opportunities to climb the ladder" is going to be shaped, probably a little too much, in this forum by the technologies and economic forces now producing what passes for wealth and happiness. The current thinking is that the world and the future belong to the young, that young thinkers, leaders and workers have the greatest impact, and that any misstep causing a loss of speed coming out of the chute will predictably lower the path of life's trajectory, which inevitably peaks around age 35. Within that world view, one must learn as much as one can as fast and as early as one can, and personalized full-time education face-to-face with skilled teachers is a great advantage as long as it does not last too long.

Another perspective to consider accepts that one has a time to be young, and with some probability our paths traverse times to be mature, middle-aged, old, older, and superannuated. With this in mind, the argument for optimizing the entire path is strong. Find a way to do that, and you will be called wise.

Your question does not mention age and does not say that you are young. I should not assume that. Lack of lifelong learning is an alleged driver of the hideously extensive withdrawal from productive work now seen in persons who have reached age 40 or more. Unfortunately, widely available and affordable full-time education face-to-face with skilled teachers for persons of any age is not a feature of the current educational landscape that I know, so lifelong learning cannot proliferate unless it contains a considerable dose of self-education.

Consider that much of education, regardless of context, is self-education. Almost everyone learns almost everything best by doing it, and sadly, learns it fastest from their own mistakes. The greatest value of skilled teachers may be that they illuminate the learners' blind spots, but skilled peers can also do the same. Of course, learning styles, psychology, background, culture and personality determine who can learn what from whom, but a mixture of teacher-led and self-driven education may be best.

If education is a process sustained by society so that its citizens know what the good life is and are capable of making good lives possible with the goal that the citizens will actually live good lives, the proper time to evaluate our educations is when those lives reach completion. This means that now we should be considering the lives of those educated back in the 1940's and 1950's and evaluating the benefits and deficiencies of those educations accordingly. Similarly, a young person choosing a course of education today should at least spend a little time trying to think ahead to 2080 and project what they will then be glad they learned in 2018 and what they will wish they had learned in 2018.

The practical wisdom used to be, "To play billiards competently is a sign of a good education. To play billiards too well is a sign of a squandered education." Good luck.
Why users write Steam reviews
I respectfully agree and disagree.

Spam was and still is a nassive headache. However Bayesian filters were really starting up. But Spam was annoying at best.

What caused Usenet servers to be quit was that ISP's were seeing them as a pirate haven and a lawsuit magnet. There was all the impetus to stop supporting piracy, and lose the costs incurred with that bandwidth to a Usenet server.

Sure, it was a great draw to use it to pirate... but it is also why it fell. Now these days, time to move to IPFS. That place is ripe for piracy, and super simple to share.
Virtual DOM springs to mind. React/Vue.js/Ember all implement a lightweight fascimile of the DOM used to do support DOM diffing, which that could be ported to WASM. Here's an example of someone who has written one already: https://github.com/mbasso/asm-dom
Ask HN: What does the black banner at the top of hacker news represent?
If you log in to Hacker news, you'll notice the top bar has a black stripe going across the top. Does anyone know what it represents?
I was just saying this the other day. I have been a steep learning curve about retirement accounts, mortgages, etc. There should really be a financial curriculum in high school, possibly all four years. This is basic information that everyone should be aware of.
You can't just redefine words to try and connect unrelated concepts.
MLAT is slower, but in combination with ECPA, requires a U.S. judge to sign off on an order to obtain data within the U.S., and other countries get the chance to run U.S. requests through their domestic judicial process too.

The CLOUD Act would bypass that to allow the entire request process to run through the executive of each country, removing judicial review.

What the CLOUD Act has is a set of promises, and no oversight. What we have right now is oversight, which is slow because it's insufficiently funded. You can speed up the MLAT process, an internationally agreed standard that protects local processes. You can't see inside the CLOUD Act to see whether its processes are working.

(To give an example of this: we still don't know the other half of the CLOUD Act, which is the UK/US draft agreement on data-sharing. A lot of the promises of privacy and security rely on what this says. Why can't Congress, Parliament, and the British and American public see this before making a decision to switch? Maybe we can see that proposal, and then wait to see what the SCOTUS actually decides in the Microsoft Ireland case, before throwing out the entire current system?
I had to do a double take for that reason. They're 100% correct, but I assumed what I'd learned from math.

Whenever I otherwise work with logarithms in programming I choose to work explicitly to at least save myself confusion. By default I assumed log()/Math.log() referred to common logarithms.

I usually end up re-implementing the log function with 2 values, as with ln/logE above, but substituting the constant.

long double logn( long double n, long double x )
{
return log(x) / log (n);
}

But, yes, all my above code could be shorter.

I haven't worked with any explicitly scientific languages like Mathlab— do any languages take a more traditionally mathematical approach? Or any libraries that have taken that torch up?
I think that's a feature rather than a bug -- or, rather, a requirement for preventing buffer overflows. A hard wall at the limits of the addressable memory would be too obviously artificial, so that was a no-go. But time-dilation allows them to push faster particles into lower and lower priority threads. A lot of handy optimisations there.

No, where I think they really screwed up was in level of detail -- you know, where you get to smaller scales and start generating details procedurally rather than pulling geometry out of memory. I mean, I understand why it's necessary to do that -- who wants to store the position and momentum of every particle in the observable universe? -- but they could have at least faked some kind of continuity between observations, rather than calling Math.random() every time!
The world's longest gum wrapper chain is 19.142 miles long – and growing
And what if the moon were made of green cheese?

Thing is, other countries do have public salary information and have somehow resisted the urge to mandate that all company books be public.

As this HBR article points out, there is an information asymmetry. "Employers, on the other hand, often have ready access to fulsome data on compensation." while "a recent survey revealed that 41% of workers are discouraged from talking about pay and a shocking 25% of workers fear retribution over pay discussions."

(It is, by the way, illegal for a company to punish someone for making their salary information public, under the National Labor Relations Act. There is no reason your HR department is going to train you in anything more than the bare minimum of what your legal rights are.)

While company-to-company interactions are on a more equal footing, so there is less of a reason for government oversight or intervention.

As for company-to-customer relations, well, sometimes there is a requirement, like when taxis have signs posted saying what the standard rates are supposed to be. This is a case where there can be a very high asymmetry.

In any case, publishing one's own employee rates requires trivial effort. In fact, the government knows those numbers so there's no reason the IRS couldn't just publish them.

While what you mention requires extra work to determine who the other companies are, with similar products, and their prices.
Where does the funding come from for something like this?
>Noone talks about people who created stuff that works and doesn't scam people. And there's a lot of such stuff.

No, there isn't. It's always been nebulous talk of "potential" without any concrete uses beyond scams and criminal activity. There have just been iterations of tools for those areas. Then you have the near-religious libertarian True Believers who promote as a matter of faith, regardless of what the reality is.

This article remains ever-so-relevant:

>Ten years in, nobody has come up with a use for blockchain

https://hackernoon.com/ten-years-in-nobody-has-come-up-with-...
I think the intent was to say that few people have accomplished as much as he has, and they have overcome little compared to him.
Right, but your revenues are also dependent on the cost or time it takes you to do. Let’s say it costs you $1000 of time to get someone a $100K job and $1500 of time to get them a $120K job. You are going to encourage them to take the $100K job to maximize your company’s revenues.
Don't Be a Junior Developer
Your assertions are inconsistent. In another comment, you admit that you know that sociopath is not a defined clinical term. Now you assert that there are "defining symptoms."

So, I think you need to back up a step and figure out what your point is.

When I use the term sociopath, I generally am talking about people who:

1. Lack empathy

2. Are narcissistic

3. Are manipulative

4. Do not have some innate sense of morality

5. Are very intelligent.

This fits with traits listed in the article under discussion. It fits with what I learned in a college class, Intro to Psychology, about traits typical of serial killers. It fits with what I have heard in true crime shows profiling serial killers.

So you and I are not on the same page, which is okay because it isn't a clinically defined term. But you and you are also not on the same page, and that makes it really hard to meaningfully engage you in discussion.
The question is whether or not it has to be this way. Short of politics there is no reason that the LIRR and Metro-North could not also work for intra-city or intra-regional travel; in fact, many umbrella organizations contain merged separate railroads for exactly this purpose (STIF operates the Paris RER, Berlin's BVG operates the S-Bahn, TfL operates the Overground and TfL Rail, etc.)

Without the regional integration, we would probably never get things like the Freedom Ticket; utilizing commuter rail lines as de facto subways, even premium ones, is much preferable to the much more expensive option of duplicating existing corridors.