skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What do you propose instead?

What if the format codes were just a bit less cryptic? Short words, for each field, optionally qualified to select unusual variants

%{year}-%{month}-%{dayOfMonth} %{hour}-%{min}-%{sec} %{tz:name}

Year is four digits, unless you ask for %{year:2digit}. If you want the crazy week-year, that's %{year:byweek}. Where things could plausibly be textual or numeric, the default is numeric. So %{month} is the month number, and %{month:name} is the month name; %{tz} is the timezone offset, and %{tz:name} is its symbolic name (a can of worms, i know). %{dayOfMonth} and %{dayOfWeek} are both a bit verbose because neither one is more obviously %{day} (so that goes unused), but you can abbreviate them to %{dom} and %{dow}. %{hour} is 24-hour, but you can have %{hour:12h}.

> No. Learn the details of your programming language, libraries and frameworks. Even their gotchas.

Yes, but also, let's reduce gotchas in the design of our programming languages, libraries, and frameworks. It's pathetic that we're still using strftime as our default option in 2018.
It's Noir, redone with modern standards, and in a sci-fi setting, but it's completely Noir. And it's very good.

I also enjoy The Expanse.
Well, that's an appropriately non-responsive answer. Thanks!
Science is hard. I watched a few minutes of a Youtube video from a "professor" at a university that believes the earth is flat, and he "sounded" very scientific. But despite the fact that I know the earth is round, beyond the boat-over-the-horizon experiment I would have a hard time actually demonstrating this fact to someone.

On the other hand, I have quite a few disagreements with the established health industry. I cured a hole in my tooth in college in the late 90s on my own. I am still called a quack and a liar despite my wife knowing about this, and just this past year real scientific proof (and even medical products) coming out confirming it's true.

But in the mean time, until it's widely accepted, I will be called a liar and/or quack/delusional. And this is has nothing to do with trauma, but simply ignorance, and a lack of interest in testing. (conspiracy would say that dentists don't want people healing their own teeth)
As much as I appreciate this type of content/story, its really starting to get old to read multi-paragraph descriptions with the very occasional drawing trying to tell me what the chamber looks like, when in 30 seconds of text-on-video with cuts and arrows they could have given me twice the info and left me with a much clearer understanding.
..yes indeed the German people can decide not to go work at the campus..
Centre for Quantum Optical Technologies, University of Warsaw
That would be so awesome when you are reading some scientific paper for university and have to focus! "Hey, you are reading too much, get off! Phone locked for the next 5 minutes!"
If you kicked out every company that's done anything unethical or amoral, you'd have no companies left. If Berliners really want to shoot themselves in the foot like this then Google can take its operations elsewhere at no loss while the locals are out better paying tech jobs and a market signal that would invite more tech companies and startups to the area. I'm glad I don't live in Berlin right now.
Tcl's C API is very nice, and makes it easy to either integrate Tcl into a larger C app, or write bits and pieces of C as Tcl commands.

I helped work on the 2nd edition of this book, which I think is still fairly relevant: https://amzn.to/2IB9OyR
Just like people repeatedly breaking the windows of a coffee shop nearby because the owners are "bankers from London" (this was stated as the #1 selling point for boycot in a flyer) this entire movement exposes the worst Kreuzberg has to offer: an incredibly self-righteous xenophobia.

People think they are so incredibly open minded when they are pro refugees, but as soon as it's the "wrong kind of Ausländer" (the one where it's not possible to impose moral standards as easily as it's not possible to exploit their need for protection anymore) it's all evil all of a sudden.

People will need to realize that they will need to be welcoming to either everyone or noone, everything else is just bigotry. Let's be welcoming to everyone I would propose.
sounds like there could be an interesting story behind it
It's well known that Fox really pounded on Whedon to make the show lighter and funnier.

The first episode has minimal camp, as does the film. The other episodes vary. You have to admit, compared to the camp of the 70s and 80s, Whedon's camp is quite nice.
I suspect most normal people in the area which uses the central European time zone recognise the abbreviations CET and CEST, but would be pretty nonplussed to see a time described as being '14:37 Europe/Paris'. Particularly if they were German, Italian, Spanish ...
As a person from post-Communist country where this argument ("offices of big corporations in your area will bring culture, resources, and set you free") is used all the time by everyone from media, politicians, to employees, I find this hilarious. Obey.
I edited my answer. Sorry for the lag time.
Could you elaborate on how you fixed your tooth?
I feel the same way: "These people must be joking", but I worry that I'm falling into a Colbert Study [1] trap where my underlying assumption that the earth is a sphere lets me make the easier rationalization that "these people must be joking" than the much harder realization that some significant chunk of humanity has deeply held beliefs (and a system for establishing those beliefs) that is alien to my own.

1 - http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1940161208330904
Amid his mind-boggling defense, the investor did admit that Theranos was now in the “loser column” of his investments list, a list that also includes Tesla and Bitcoin.

The Silk Road assets are likely up 10x or more:

https://www.coindesk.com/tim-draper-revealed-silk-road-bitco...

If Draper has lost on Bitcoin, it would mean he's done an abysmal job of investing in cryptocurrency since the government auction.
117 Great Cryptography and Bitcoin Quotes
Might something like http://www.culturalcognition.net/blog/ help? I remember reading there that a quite lot of common and obvious things demonstrably don't work in an experimental setting, like http://www.culturalcognition.net/blog/2017/10/30/more-eviden....
Well then you need to estimate the distribution of those results. If it's uniform between those numbers then it's an expected loss, and whether it's worth spending a significant amount of money on information depends on whether the company can afford it. If, say, the value of information was 200k in expectation, that doesn't imply that the company should spend anywhere near that amount on information, because they should be somewhat risk averse if they can't spread the risk over many such decisions.
Today's American values. The attitudes toward nudity are different even today.
> The thing I find most infuriating speaking to anyone who believes in a conspiracy theory is that no rational argument can win them round because their arguments are rarely rational or based on concrete evidence.

I've started asking for a commitment up front whenever a disagreement comes up. So for flat Earthers, before bringing up any other points or discussing anything, just ask what would convince them to revise their views.

I sometimes preface this with saying that I think it's important to be honest about how certain I am about some position, and to state upfront what would prove me wrong. So I would be convinced that the Earth was flat if I ran an experiment, like a high flying balloon, that then showed 0 curvature in the Earth at high altitude where we'd expect some curvature. Then ask them the same question.

Now you're both on the same page, and if you're committed to resolving this question, you have a way to move forward and see who's right and you can do each step together to ensure no tampering, etc. And as a bonus, they get to learn exactly how science is done.
"harvesting brains?"

What is this zombie apocalypse?
echo "Input file already sorted."
LibTomMath is based on Michael Fromberger's "MPI".

I chose MPI for TXR; LibTomMath, though providing some optimizations like Karatsuba multiplication, just brings in too much cruft.

Quite a few bugs in MPI, but I have a handle on it.

I extended it with bit operations, a faster square root, more conversion routines and such.

http://www.kylheku.com/cgit/txr/log/mpi

I'm familiar with LibTomMath. Tom St. Denis used to post to the comp.lang.c newsgroup years ago. Some 15 years ago I used it (or rather LibTomCrypt, which is based on it) in a commercial project to do some RSA-based authentication on some configuration packets sent to mobile devices.
Adam Langley did a couple round-ups of various security keys last year. Here's the links to each of their respect HN posts:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15042851

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15429831
The ARM ABI defines a lot of useful semantics for bitfields (particularly when combined with volatile), but GCC perennially regresses and breaks them so next to no one uses them.
I'd much prefer a spin off show based on the Investigator (not introduced in series yet, but I think about to be in E7) ;). But I would love a Miller series too.

Most of all though, I'd love an Avasarala spinoff.
After all, democracy is the idea that the people know what is best for them, and deserve to get it good and hard. I prefer Munich anyway.
> Google will bring culture and resources with it that could enhance Berlin.

Like what? Berlin has a vibrant and energetic tech scene, what is Google going to bring that Kreuzberg is lacking?
If you had the patience and the other person also had the patience, you could look at shadows (plural) all day and reasonnably conclude the earth must be spherical.

That's how it was done millenias ago.
> But it was also just as striking how many people whose journey into believing the Earth is flat included traumatic events or personal crises. This, perhaps, is why it is so important for us to listen to and talk to Flat Earthers

That is certainly plausible, but there was almost no real evidence presented here. It seems like the author is jumping to conclusions. As far as we know, two of the three speakers covered in this story happened to mention the existence of non-specific personal issues in passing. How many people don’t have any personal issues?

It could be that some people do need help. And it could also be incredibly insulting and patronizing to just assume that people with beliefs different than ours are in need of mental help, as opposed to simply having strange beliefs. After all, religion still exists despite a lack of evidence. Treating religious people as stuck in a dark “rabbit hole” is at best ostracizing.

> Landucci points out that if we take the Spanish initials for the United Nations, ‘ONU’, and read it backwards, we get ‘Uno’ – which is Spanish for ‘One’. This, he explains, is proof that the UN is a tool of the One World Order.

For the entire article, I couldn’t stop thinking of the Illuminati Confirmed videos on YouTube.
I agree that most people, on reading it, wouldn't understand exactly what it meant. But i think an adequately sharp person would think "i don't understand exactly what that means, so i'm going to find out before i use it".

A person whose response is "i don't understand exactly what that means, but it sounds close, so i'm going to use it" should probably not be doing detail work like programming.
Sorry I replied to the wrong parent - my comment is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17059310
Well I might have exaggerated. :)

I do make heavy use of my phone's productivity apps -- calendars, shopping lists, todo lists, and many others. What I do not use though is stuff like Facebook and the numerous mind-numbing "games" trying to strong-arm you into buying their diamond currency every 15 minutes.

I also make heavy use of Safari's ability to pull my MacBook's tabs to my iPhone or iPad, or between any of them. Really helps when you started reading something at home and then want to finish reading it while in the subway, for example.

Let's just say that I am a proponent of the idea to make my devices work for me, not me working for them. And sadly the latter is what we are nudged towards by many apps and services. It seems everybody is trying to addict us and we have to actively fight that back and make sure our devices help our lives and don't turn us into zombies. Would you concur on that point?
Sorry if this is a stupid question but how far down could you dive?
It's implied they generate gravity on the ships by burning the engines* and the engines seem to burn all the time, so you can assume for half of every trip they are accelerating towards destination and the other half they are decelerating again.

Orbital mechanics seems to only apply when convenient, e.g. an orbital mirror around a moon is damaged and "falls" straight down. I don't think that is accurate, even assuming the loss of atation-keeping thrust.

* Not real gravity, but you can't tell the difference between gravity and acceleration. And they also account for high-G manoveurs being difficult/deadly for humans.
Unobfuscated, direct URL: https://www.amazon.com/Tcl-Toolkit-2nd-John-Ousterhout/dp/03...
May 21st, already pre-ordered the audiobook too. I've never listened to an audiobook this long. 11 hr 36 minutes.
Sure, but this doesn't address the phenomenon of why actual (dictionary) nationalism has become synonymous with racism/Nazism. If anything, and I don't mean this disrespectfully, your difficulty in seeing how Western multicultural societies are different in this respect (the assumption that nothing but extreme malice can possibly be behind nationalism) demonstrates my point. Unless I've misinterpreted you, which is very easy (and common) to do in these types of conversations.
Ah, the old “hating rich people is the same as racism” defense.
Like having access to capital?
they want to get well-paid, high prestige jobs using machine learning.

whereas doing the exact same task with a regression in Excel turns it into low-prestige clerical work.

i think they’re acting pretty rationally once you consider their own incentives. (plus of course, the general cultural perception that machine learning is cool, smart, and cutting edge must rub off on them too and how they perceive themselves.)
They should build a wall.
Well, some programming languages encourage that kind of design by emphasizing message passing. You even get piping between functions in languages like Elixir.
...with great trepidation, I’ll bite.

Can you please elaborate on how you “cured” a hole in your tooth?

I’m genuinely curious if your wording is misleading on what transpired or I’m feeding a troll.
I cured a hole in my tooth in college in the late 90s on my own. I am still called a quack and a liar despite my wife knowing about this, and just this past year real scientific proof (and even medical products) coming out confirming it's true.

My teeth have always been terrible, would you mind sharing a link or two to the research?
For most "why does Windows xxx?", the answer is Enterprise. I bet there are many IE-only Intranet websites in the Enterprise world.
I was a Commercial Diver moving into Life Support Technician/ Superviser work. Then got a lot of free time (the mentioned boredom) so started getting into Linux, Scripting, C, ... then wrote a program that would implement the Oceaneering Manual in code (how much gas do you need for a 30 day job with 6 divers in a chamber, how much soda for the CO2 scrubbers, if they work on 500 ft and live at 470 ft and you do X number of bell-runs) then spent more time and had more fun implementing this than doing the actual LST work. I also worked a lot together with the ROV operators (who aren't just operating them but the good ones are building them from scratch), and these guys were a real inspiration. I could have chosen ROV's but it what I wanted to get away from was my future life at sea. nuff said I ended up finding a job back on land as a software engineer and now had time to take evening courses and get deeper into CompSci
Where your crystals come from?
> So if all my friends and family are on facebook, I am ~forced~ to use facebook ?

"The classic example is the telephone, where a greater number of users increases the value to each. A positive externality is created when a telephone is purchased without its owner intending to create value for other users, but does so regardless. Online social networks work similarly, with sites like Twitter and Facebook increasing in value to each member as more users join." [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect
I don't have a dog in this race, so I'm not interested in the premise, but that favicon is great. Also, it's refreshing to see that standard startup site template used for 'why fuck google'.
And all of these changes didn't have to happen at all, since Reddit worked perfectly already. It wasn't fancy, but it worked, fit lots of information onto the screen and didn't annoy you with modal related crap.

Which makes me wonder... why even change it? Why do all large websites seem to change their designs at seemingly random? Is there a hatred of a website's design just staying the same for the foreseeable future? It's like this is done just to give their engineers something to do...

Ah well, I guess it at least works a bit better than YouTube, whose every design change seems to exist purely to break some piece of the UI that everyone depends on and to make things less usable than they were before.
IE, Messenger, Hotmail, Windows, Skype are all examples of products in the #1 position that Microsoft mismanaged and lost. Microsoft’s success in coming from behind is even worse: Windows Phone, Zune, Spaces (!)

There are minor exceptions. Xbox was incubated in a different group and only survived because they kept Microsoft’s crazy ideas out. Even there Xbox is falling behind PS under Satya.

In Enterprise, Microsoft is incredible. Azure is serious competition for AWS. Teams will take share in the slack category. Office is a monster business.
I think you are overestimating the IT market's talent abundance right now.

There are many people trying to get good programming wages and that doesn't make them good programmers.

IMO Google -- and any other corp -- has a lot to lose if they close an office. Real talent doesn't just exist everywhere you go.

I am not supporting or attacking the website, just clarifying the above point.
> Jonathan Rosenberg is the former Senior Vice President of Products at Google and current advisor to Alphabet Inc. CEO Larry Page.

> Eric Emerson Schmidt is an American businessman and software engineer. He is known for being the Executive Chairman of Google from 2001 to 2017 and Alphabet Inc. from 2015 to 2017.

That book surely will paint a fair and objective view.
This exact feature trap killed Twitter Android severla years ago: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/dec/29/twitter-2...
Frogurt
A better question would be how much simpler does k8s make thing compared to all the rube goldberg scripts admins have written over the years? A lot.
Writing Tcl extensions was one of the few times I actually enjoyed using C.

It is probably one of the best languages to extend. Sadly it is also one of the slowest.
> Some of the people who believe these things are not stupid at all

I don't think it's productive to label anyone stupid, but a complete inability to properly weigh probability is damning to claims of intelligence. For instance, the scope of the conspiracy needed to fake the moon landings is completely implausible. And when you consider the incentive the USSR would have had in exposing it as a hoax, it goes from implausible to literally impossible. Similar arguments apply to the safety of vaccines, flat Earth, and other absurd hoaxes.

This is considerably different to the repetition of "common knowledge" which ultimately turns out to be some kind of urban legend.
Typical leftist/anarchist nonsense, although Google should probably choose a better location anyway. In these areas of Berlin, their engineers will more likely be mugged, their cars burned, their offices vandalized. Munich would be a more sensible choice, or even Vienna.
>Modern nations are dependent on oil for sure. That's what ww1 and ww2 was fought over.

This is simply, objectively, not true.

>Certain nations, like the US, don't have to work with anyone. We are one of the few nations who have enough resources ( including oil ) to keep our civilization running.

Doesn't the US import almost double what it exports (https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=727&t=6)? Also, why has the US worked so hard in the past 70 years to maintain influence across the world, warring and pillaging and murdering, and trading and bribing as well? Doesn't their standard of living rest on the global state of affairs they strive to maintain (or further exploit)?

>The post ww2 era is an anomaly in human history where one nation ruled the world.

In terms of technology, the last 100 years have been more transformative than the 10,000 before. It's silly to compare this to the mongol empire.
Thanks. A little off-topic, but for someone in my situation whose already watched seasons 1 and 2, would you recommend still reading the books?
The kind of culture that comes with being a place where young, highly educated, liberal, high earning people come to work and live. It seems like that final bit is the problem for these campaigners, they seem pretty enamoured with the idea of their city staying poor (but sexy).
That guy is using the flat earthers to raise funds from them. He conveniently tied his desire to build a rocket for himself to prove some flat theory, but his motivation seems to be completely a few one.
I'm surprised no one (including the OP) has mentioned "American Tune," which I thought was lifted from a Bach piece but which it turns out Bach himself lifted:

> The tune is based on a melody line from a chorale from Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion, itself a reworking of an earlier secular song, "Mein G'müt ist mir verwirret," composed by Hans Leo Hassler.[3] The melody used for "American Tune" can be heard quite distinctly in part 1, number 21 and number 23 and in part 2, number 54. The melody to "American Tune" is practically identical to that of "Mein G'müt ist mir verwirret" and "O Sacred Head, Now Wounded," although Simon expanded on the tune. [0]

Knowing that, the wit of the title starts to rival the mastery of the song.

On the other side, I remember a drum video in which Carter Beauford of Dave Matthews Band shows how the drum groove from "#41" (or some early song of theirs) was taken directly from "50 ways to leave your lover." IIRC the segment where he shows how to play it is captioned "50 ways groove," not "#41 groove." Of course, that probably came from one of Simon's session drummers (not himself), but who cares. Art can much much more ruthless than that, and rightly so.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Tune
It just wasn't for me.

Space Sci-fi TV:

I think the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica was great.

Non sci-fi:

I think Babylon Berlin is good.

I only watched the first series of The Expanse.

It's very subjective - if you enjoyed it then I'm glad. I'm certainly not in the majority among my friends in disliking The Expanse, but also not alone.
And allow it to be installed on Server for purposes of RDS.
> it could also be incredibly insulting and patronizing to just assume that people with beliefs different than ours are in need of mental help

I agree with this in principle, but at what point do we have no other choice? Witches? Lizard people? Alien abductions?
So we’ve reached the point where hagiography of corporations is now the same thing as culture? In that case, I hope Google doesn’t bring its “culture” of colluding with competitors to fix wages to Berlin.
I love comments like this. Probably not intended as a critique of capitalism but this guy is clearly very close to seeing how exploitation is at the very heart of our system.