skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never buy expensive stuff, since I assume that all I am paying is marketing.

I have no time to research better, except for things I understand well and I really care about, i.e. a laptop. And even then repairability is not on my list, since laptops have so many options that finding one which satisfies my needs is already a challenge.

The problem is compounded by the fact that my criteria (big horsepower per kg and lightweight) are contrary to repairability.
I'm bistellar. I love both Star Trek and Star Wars.
I'd be interested in hearing comparisons from anyone who's worked in remote locations, such as at sea or on an oil rig. I imagine it's similar, although you do have the option of quitting.
It's hard for me. Help me out.
This is not largely a “webdev” community. There’s all classes of tech workers here, webdevs are just easily excited by stuff like this and will vote it up quickly en masse.
> Bob at time t is still Bob at t+1 even if his state (like position) has changed.

Again, I don't think this is at all evident.

What if we remove a limb? Give him a dose of LSD? Give him a brain tumor? Replace most of his cells as happens to each of us every few years? What change is large enough that it's easier to represent with:

bob = getNext(bob);

...rather than:

bob.foo = bar;

? Is it even harder to represent change one way rather than the other?

Indeed, socially, the concept of identity is a leaky enough abstraction to cause problems; for example if we are criticized for actions that we took years ago, it's easy to get defensive even if we are a different enough person now that we would never take that action now.

Bringing this back to inheritance: if it would make sense to model Bob as an instance of Child one day and as an instance of Octogenarian another day, why not create a new instance of Bob?

You want to argue this from the standpoint of "this is how things are" but I think that there are multiple ways to model Bob and which is appropriate actually depends more on the needs of the system than the true nature of Bob.
So can you do the Asian squat?
React Native, 2 years later
How Political Candidates Know If You’re Neurotic (2016)
> racket and guile has expanding stacks and doesn't have a recursion limit other than the whole memory of the computer

I'm not familiar with how these two in particular work internally, but this may actually be more a side effect related to the implementation of call/cc than recursion. A popular technique is to truncate the stack when a continuation is captured. So you obviously need a stack that can expand.
Because the others among the Facebook leadership are not going around writing and promoting books?

Also, do you genuinely not find it disconcerting that Facebook leadership go to great lengths to avoid discussing the privacy implications of their service? And the only person in that group who puts herself "out there", so to speak, is instead writing "success literature"?
If you want this history straight from Sid Meier's mouth, Soren Johnson's excellent podcast "Designer Notes" has a 4 part interview with the man:
https://www.idlethumbs.net/designernotes/episodes/sid-meier-...
https://www.idlethumbs.net/designernotes/episodes/sid-meier-...
https://www.idlethumbs.net/designernotes/episodes/sid-meier-...
https://www.idlethumbs.net/designernotes/episodes/sid-meier-...
Ask HN: What is the biggest challenge you face as a developer?
Lemme second this comment. Everything you say is good.

One thing to keep in mind is that you need to understand when things can be dangerous. Like old tube-based equipment.

I still have a screwdriver that has divots scarred into it from discharging a couple of 500V can capacitors in an old (solid-state) stereo. Now, that's a great lesson... discharge caps if you're not sure about them, and I am glad I learned it.

I'm also quite glad that I did that on purpose with a screwdriver and not on accident with my finger.

I'm even more glad that I did some basic research to know that giant caps ougtta at least be thought about if you're gonna peek around in that kind of stuff.
From an older ShowHN: https://wallmine.com/google-finance-portfolio-alternative
At my high school - a private prep school - we are required to have iPads. All of us were required to install a monitoring program that has access to most of what we do on the iPads (internet searches, messages, etc.). To my knowledge, it hasn't been used to incriminate anyone but it still makes me wary.
I can't claim to be directly responsible for the actions of my countrymen fifty years ago, but not doing anything about their misdeeds today gives my tacit approval to those past actions and to their ongoing costs so unfairly burdening present-day Vietnamese. Plus, I think it would be a nice bit of diplomacy for the U.S. to fund mine clearing efforts in Vietnam.
This was a point made in The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Prisoners in Siberian labor camps took great pride in their brick laying. There was little else to give them any joy.
> The problem is that regular people no longer have a place to communicate.

Have email, chat, forums, physical letters, meetings, etc gone away for some reason?
Every company got its start at some point.
In the book Deliver from Distraction the authors (at least one of whom has ADHD and is a psychologist) describe everyone else as having "Attention Surplus Disorder". They go into some detail describing how odd it is for someone to be able to sit still for 8 hours a day doing something really boring. It was an interesting counterpoint to the idea that ADHD is even a disorder... but rather a set of traits that have always been useful in some areas. Similar point to this article. I recommend the book btw, it was helpful to me in embracing the unique gifts that come with the challenges of ADHD.
> The Goths were a major part of the Roman army for a century before the uprising discussed

Different Gothic tribes cannot be conflated. Also important to note is that the 'Romanized' Goths only became so because they devastated, conquered and kept Roman territory - they weren't friendly settlers, they were neighbors the Romans had to learn how to deal with and use against other enemies.

> And the famine and pestilence were also becoming a major issue around the same time.

Not until later, and then in part because of Gothic devastation. If the Roman Empire had not been able to feed a few ten thousand armed people, it would have fallen nearly immediately, since that would have meant it would have been unable to field any significant armies.

> Modern historians realize a million people suddenly showing up would leave a massive archaeological record that isn't there.

It is.

Further, it's very hard to explain why it'd be hard to census only 90k people, an activity performed regularly.
It wasn't that long ago that ram cost closer to $100 a gigabyte.
Perhaps this is a viable model for vaporware (or perhaps extortion); not sure how much it matches the present case.
The fact that you’re asking shows me that it is a waste of your time for you. You can’t fake/brute force your way to a great blog. Unless you’re really into writing it, it’s not going to be enjoyable to write or read.

You can get some value out of it, but odds are you’ll be frustrated and hate doing it.
I've found link preload headers to be pretty effective at reducing the number of round-trips necessary to load my website.
You are using an bad example: First, there is nothing to repair. You either live with dead pixels or you replace the panel, which is essentially the TV. Also, if you spend 10 hours fixing a TV, you don't know what you are doing.

A common and reasonable example: a failed power supply circuit in a television. Could be a few dollars in parts and an hour to repair. The key skill is soldering the parts, which is easy for someone experienced. The value of time is relative, I could have repaired a TV instead of responding to comments on HN.

Now, also consider the carbon of shipping a TV across the ocean, then to the local retailer. The trip to the store is the same as the cafe, so I would consider it the same.
Bitcoin Miners Can Now Be Charged Extra for Electricity: NY Power Authorities
BountySource does this, with an approval step to confirm that the PR met the issue requirements. https://www.bountysource.com/

I’ve used it twice and it worked as expected, though the audience of people doing work is fairly small.
Interestingly enough, the first time I heard about herbivore men, it was in a news article (long before the Wikipedia article was written) that took the definition a little bit farther than that: according to that article, herbivore men are largely non-competitive in all aspects and have little to no interest in machismo or traditionally masculine pursuits. It specifically said that herbivore men aren't interested in chasing promotions at work or driving fast cars.

I wish I could find that article again.
6 Morning Rituals of Steve Jobs, Tony Robbins, Oprah, and Successful Leaders
Well, speaking just for my own businesses, we've always minimised how much personal data we use, and all the processing we do is for good reasons that are directly related to what we're offering as a service. This wasn't due to any legal obligations, just basic good practice in terms of security and what I consider an ethical stance regarding the privacy of our customers.

I suppose this is why I'm so frustrated by this whole issue. I have a lot of sympathy for your argument that some businesses exploit personal data in ways we might well agree are abusive, and that something needed to be done to curb that. But as someone who does try to do the right thing both ethically and legally, this is just another set of regulations that is going to cause compliance overheads for my own businesses while offering little if any real benefit to anyone in our case.

Meanwhile, if the risk of significant enforcement action against smaller businesses really is low, the door is open for competitors to take their chances and gain an advantage over us, particularly if they're not in the EU themselves. So it also seems to be a case of no good deed going unpunished.
Your links do not support the idea of “harvest[ing] user data”. They describe the usual Facebook ad platform, where you can set criteria to target users. But nowhere does it mention data on individual users flowing from Facebook to advertisers.
Don't we already have a system for mapping worldwide geographic coordinates?

Or is this essentially an easier to read/remember version of latitude/longitude?

I thought this would be about more clever pathfinding optimization in a part of the world where typical shortest-path optimizations are much harder.
Asexuality isn't a core tenant of feminism. Modern or otherwise.
Yes, agreed, using chained prototypes to accomplish nested state charts is not something I'd want to inherit as a maintainer.

It's cute, in a "look at how I can make the language do this"/novelty way, but I don't think it's JavaScript's fault per se, as this seems similar to Java architects solving problems with "just another factory", "just another annotation", "just another bytecode generator", etc.
Bob’s state might change, but he is still Bob. That would also go for the Ship of Theseus. However you represent it, change is still change, it is still mutability.

We can argue if identity is useful in real life, but most people cling to names and identity, it isn't a controversial subject.

Dynamic inheritance is extremely useful in a programming language, though only a few have it. It is a very OO concept, as are the languages that have explored the concept (e.g. Self, Cecil, among others, even Javascript has this aspect, though not focused enough to use very well).
No, I don't think fanzhang's point assumes infinite anything.

To give a more concrete example than GP's repair of an LCD, let's think about repainting a car. Doing this in your back yard like your grandfather might have done it certainly has much higher environmental costs than the original paint job. You'll spill paint-stripper on the grass. You'll buy two tins of paint and throw the leftovers away when you move house. You won't have the factory's precisely monitored spraying, and air filtration.

Of course the point of repairing is that it saves all the other parts (like the engine!) so the balance may well be positive. But we should not assume that any options are zero-cost.
That little cog might be more like a fuse -- a part of the system that's relatively easily replaced and designed to fail first.
The plastic component could also be acting as a mechanical fuse in case of overload. Like a shear pin.
>I'd also recommend Steve Baker's heroic speech in UK parliament.

What's astonishing is that 85% of MPs do not know how money is created. 70% believe that only the government can create money!

That's like the CEO of GM not knowing what powers a car...
They have it, but not enough, probably because they would need a lot more.
From the comments of the article:

"Korean media has coverage of this.

Battery powered emergency power did kick in. However, some areas had to be shut down because of the amount of power that battery power can cover.
Stuff that cannot be shut down were kept operational.

Not all the wafers will be thrown away. They are checking which are safe to use.
Maximum damage is estimated at about $50 million."
The article doesn't talk about navigation, but referencing start or end point (geocoding, geohashing). The plus codes are also called open location codes and the pros and cons were recently on the frontpage https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16594188
> you still have to write secure code, patch your servers, set up HTTPS, etc. Why is this different?

It's very different. Here you're requested to answer fairly detailed and potentially tripping questions with potential legal implications on your business. This has little with how you secure things technically. It's all about jumping through some bureaucratic hoops, and wasting your time doing it. Answering those questions won't in any way, shape or form improve the security of your business. It's pure distraction.
The "best" design in stateful parts of systems has yet to come to my eyes. IMO FP gives you better foundations to start stateless then see where you can group things into private mutable memory. Not that I know how to do it but at least I can reason instead of invoking innate black art or long experience.
What would it take for SoftBank to invest in SpaceX?
>Your use of the term “soapboxing” to describe what was reasonable argument

You conspicuously failed to substantiate his "misconception".

>It has been shown time and time again black Americans are disproportionately arrested and sentenced.

I could not in all charitability/good faith (all your efforts to troll noted btw) extract a relevant point here. If they are disproportionately arrested having committed a crime, that has nothing to do with allthenew's whole post. If one charitably adds the context that in america you can also be arrested for committing no crime at all, then you've switched a basic premise of his post in 'arguing' it.
Ask HN: Which sensors detect broadcast egg distribution?
Some butterflies broadcast their eggs, is there any sensor or strategy through which I can detect where these butterflies broadcast their eggs?
It's called engineered obsolescence.
> You essentially admit to following the law when you feel like it.

Are we playing "holier than thou"? You've never jaywalked? Double-parked?

I tell you what; I'll stop going through red lights on my bike when I literally don't see another car anywhere on the road; in exchange, can you come to the funeral parlor that's across the street from me, and kindly ask their customers to stop triple-parking and forcing other cars, buses, and bicycles into oncoming traffic in order to pass?
We have an environmental levy on electronics that supposedly covers the cost of recycling the product. However, I have never seen any reports on whether it truly covers the recycling cost or if it has improved landfill diversion.
I looked at air table, I just wasn't sure it would give me (or my clients) what I wanted. Having looked around I opted for Zoho Creator, one of its tag lines used to be MS Access for the Web :-), and back then it pretty much was but its moved on leaps and bounds now, unlimited records, customer portal, mobile, its own script style programming language. Integration isn't bad either with its own API, and a number of Inbuilt integrations to Apps like Onedrive, GDrive, Quick Books etc.
I don't think I could remember 8GC2 CMXR+X6 (from the plus codes homepage) any better than latitude and longitude. Or spell that over the phone without using the NATO alphabet.
To add onto the point about expanding stacks: What's especially nice about this feature is that it means that you don't need to tune your algorithms to be tail recursive when they could be expressed more clearly as non-tail recursion. Functions like map would actually be less efficient on average if it was tail recursive because you would need to re-iterate the list to reverse it.
It's not a "how to" like I thought it was going to be. It's a "do it" with some tips.

Where "do it" is go ahead and hack & submit a patch on that open source project you rely on instead of working around it, get past that fear.
> One of the few valid use cases of "goto" today.

Manually rewriting recursive algorithms is one of the least valid use case of GOTO. You need GOTO for low-level concurrency, IO multiplexing, and transpiling:

https://github.com/vsedach/Eager-Future2/blob/master/future....

https://github.com/vsedach/Vacietis/blob/master/compiler/imp...
I guess if P&G uses the data to push me to buy some soap, it's less sinister than using that to influence an election. Commercial vs Political.
Agreed, but if we're accepting an abstraction instead of reality, than arguing for mutability because you think it's reality doesn't make much sense now does it? You're saying it's okay to abstract things away from molecules, but it's not okay to abstract things away from mutation. Why?

(Note that I'm not even persuaded yet that mutation is reality. I'm just saying that even if mutation were reality, it doesn't follow that mutation is the best abstraction with which to model reality.)
Is it possible to conduct some kind of denial of service legal attack against an unprepared business through the use of GDPR letters?
Coordinates are hard to get across without messing them up - any number corresponds to something in the vicinity and there's no checksum. This is supposed to be an alternative.
One difference from a caste system- foreigners are assigned the same racial categories as locals, whereas if I visited a society with a caste system, I simply wouldn't have a caste, at least not by default. Black Africans in America are considered the same race as black Americans, regardless of sharing absolutely no recent ancestry whatsoever, and white Africans are the same race as white Americans, again without sharing any meaningful recent ancestry. A white Hispanic person will be treated as white (see: Ted Cruz) but a black one will be treated as black, even if they're literally siblings.

Racial categories mean that a white American can feel more common ground with a white Russian than his black American neighbor. American white nationalist fellow-feeling toward Russian nationalists suggests to me that it's not really about suspicion of outsiders. Racial categories cut across borders, ancestry, language, and culture.

Feeling confident that one can judge what category someone is in on sight without seeing their clothes, hearing them speak, learning their name, or knowing their ancestry is maybe not quite unique to modern racial ideas, but it certainly makes it stand out.
Dyslexic and ADD. I used to agree with the kind of theories that the article presents, but I started to seriously wonder whether it is these coping mechanisms that are the advantage. We are forced to overcompensate with perfect strategies.
There are billions spent on marketing efforts to bias consumers against buying used goods. It's no wonder that selling refurbished items is difficult.
Recognizing the meaning of individual Latin words does not allow you in general to understand the meaning of a phrase! None of the languages you mentioned have explicit case markings, and mostly rely on word order and prepositions to signal whether nouns are subjects/objects/indirect/etc objects. Latin is starkly not like that, don't you agree? Even if people are coming from a language background with explicit case markings (i.e. German) they're still going to have to know what the endings actually mean, and get used to a different case system.

Anyway it sounds like you're recognizing that you benefit from having a parallel translation into a language in which you are fluent in order to make sense of the meaning... Which is 100% the point of having a translation, of course.
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned org-mode yet.

It's an extremely good tool for this.
If there is value ready to be captured, then u can just build a solution to capture it. iCracked lives off of this for example.

But it doesnt apply easily to the rest of devices.
the "buy it for life" subreddit helps a lot here, for at least narrowing down the search space.
Once I was interested in obscure code base because my motivation was to discover smth which a few people would know about. But these days, I see github repo with large number of contributors, who are smarter than me (often), it's an instant motivation killer. I rarely checkout other's code unless it's related to the problem I am solving.
Ask HN: What are some of your favorite tech talks over the years?
With so many conferences, it's easy to forget how good some "old" talks were. That's not to say that recent talks are less valuable, though!

Thanks in advance for sharing!
Now we can uderstand why alien civilization might need to build a dyson sphere.
That would make sense, instead of breaking the cog-setup, the little plastic part breaks off and saves the motor. Thank you for the explanation, one conspiracy theory less!
Personally, I don't find it all that bad. The digitizer on our tablet our tablet crapped out a few months back. I found a YouTube video on how to replace it. The tools cost like $7 off of Amazon and the digitizer was about $20. A few minutes of fooling around and viola working touchscreen again. Overtime basic electronics tools are very cheap.
The Lawfare Podcast: A Real, Live Framer of the Constitution
Like what would you spend it on that doesn't ultimately end up in one of those buckets? Because if you spend it on salaries that's where it will go in the long run...
Is there some specific evilness to writing books? Because I don’t see how her writing books is reason to single her out for criticism.

> Also, do you genuinely not find it disconcerting that Facebook leadership go to great lengths to avoid discussing the privacy implications of their service? And the only person in that group who puts herself "out there", so to speak, is instead writing "success literature"?

So you’re angry because they don’t talk about privacy. And you’re especially angry at her because ...she doesn’t talk about privacy?

That argument also doesn’t make much sense when comparing her to Zuckerberg explicitly, who’s at least as “out there” as she is. Didn’t he go on a “50 states listening tour” last year?
I'm sympathetic if your practices are already good, but the balance of power between an individual and a corporation is too far on the side of corporations as things stand. This levels things out for individuals who otherwise have to depend entirely on the goodwill of corporations.

That includes you, the individual as well, and I hope it works out for you the corporation.
What's the relationship between carefully separated states and legal transition and linear types ?
I don’t think the terrorist threat is likely. It would have to be on the scale of 30 simultaneous 9/11 attacks. Anything less would just be a temporary inconvenience, 3.5% for a month is only 0.3% of annual production.