skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't that an obvious thing though?

Hell, I was reading the source code to moonscript (compiles to lua) the other day, and you'd be shocked how intelligent some of the components are! Even for such a simple little language.

I also think flexibility may not be the best word, but I know like what you're saying. But it's more like cooperation, I think. I once wrote an exploit (for work, legit, no funny stuff) for basically a cnc machine with a php cpanel ui built on to it. Me and two other guys at the time wrote this big kit for it, and the kicker is we had to do it remotely because we had one car between the three of us and we were perpetually broke at that time in our lives. I think the car even got like broken into or something once. Anyways, we were using a diagnostic computer that could read serial data from the machine, ssh-ing into that computer, and iirc there was a buffer overread that we were using to jump the memory out, and just sending each "batch" as a numbered tarball. Thank God that that little computer existed, because that was the ticket for making the whole thing worked. The place was out in the boonies of Charlotte, and public transit wasn't what it is now. The factory only ran two shifts, so this entire setup turns off every night, so we needed to make efficient use of the diagnostic time.

It was a mess, but we were all on the same page to reach the goal: hack that damn machine, get paid and get a better gig! We communicated, we helped one another. It was confusing, we had a spiral notebook that we passed around (too lazy to do data entry, too broke to go get a photocopier) with different opcodes and offsets for the cnc.

Talk about technical debt, that exploit was the rattiest, grimiest, duct-tapiest, ugliest code I've ever shipped in my life. We got patted on the backs for that job! I remember we set up some garden variety packet filter or something for the php they had and it was a breeze. Getting that exploit working to get them bought in... What a nightmare.

Ofc, teams are one of those things. Ymmv. It takes the right people at the right time to make those miracles happen. You just can't recruit that kind of providence, and you can't train (imo) that type of battle-buddy synergistic workmanship. Sometimes it has to be you and your friends to make it work.

I should play jak and daxter this weekend...
"Extremists on both sides" is literally always a coded way to complain about Antifa fighting back against Nazi street gangs. And that's what your original comment was getting at - the top comment responded perfectly to your dog-whistle. It's really not a mystery where that talking point came from - that's Trump blaming Antifa after they beat up a bunch of torch-wielding supremacists at the Charlottesville rally.

It's not like Antifa is going into people's houses and beating up 50% of the country. If you're marching under torches and hate symbols you don't get much sympathy from me when someone gives you a black eye for it.

Antifa doesn't make you march around with torches and swastikas, you chose to march under the symbols that have been used for centuries for symbolizing intent to murder, lynch, and exterminate "lesser" human beings. Hopefully at that point most people would have a think about "Hans... are we the baddies? We're marching around with torches..."

There are a lot of people who are susceptible to fascist/"alt-right" slogans and thought, even if they're not the ones currently going out in the streets and attacking people. Some of them can be convinced to go a bit farther. "Hey guys, bring tiki torches to the rally tonight!" and so on. It's an active phenomenon with the alt-right to radicalize and recruit additional members - they call it "red-pilling" (after the MRA thing, although many right-wing groups use the term).

It's not dissimilar to the radicalization tactics that Muslim extremists use, which shouldn't be surprising - providing a home and an ideology for the disaffected is a highly effective radicalization tactic.

http://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/red-pill/

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/nnk3bm/how-to-tell-if-you...

http://nymag.com/selectall/2017/05/the-online-radicalization...

Remember, the actual Nazis were a minority in Germany too, and that took decades to build up.
The latter is much harder. It has been done for e.g. Atari games.
Older, actually... NeXT 1.0 was released in 1989; first version of NT shipped in 1993.
IIRC it's almost entirely based on game APIs or memory hacking
To be clear: I like that about it too. But in the real world, we want tooling that does more stuff. In the mid-90's, "everyone" knew perl, because it was the best choice for problems in this space. And in a world where everyone knows perl, there is no place for awk.

But now we live in a world where no one knows perl, and languages like python and javascript are clumsy and weird in this space. And that makes awk look clever and elegant.

All I'm saying is that in perl-world (which was a real place!), awk wasn't clever and elegant, it was stale and primitive. And that to me is more surprising than awk's cleverness.
The Internet is a place for the people, like parks, libraries, museums, historic places.

If that's true, it needs to be legally designated as such. I believe the official story is that it was created for the military and extended for educational and commercial use. Regular people have always been to some degree hangers-on. We're in a precarious position of wanting to preserve the pre-1993 Internet community standards and values but without any real power to do so.
There are police departments all over the US illegally censoring critical sentiment on Facebook. The only way to stop them is to sue each one that does it. Makes me angry. Pasco PD gets away with murder. Literally and figuratively.
Yeah. The truth is that before, local and state governments could effectively carve out their tax revenues out of the federal government's tax revenues, with limited impact on what their constituents would pay in total tax.

That ended with this tax cut.

So now these states have a choice : either their constituents are actually made to pay for the budgets of these governments (much more so than before, at least), or they limit their spending to the value of the SALT deduction.

What spin you want to put on this, feel free to do it, but let me give you some ideas.

"Federal government no longer to pay for California/Illinois/... pensions !"

"States now responsible for the money they spend"

Or, how about:

"Federal government imposes massive budget cuts on democratic governments !"

"Costs of Trump tax cut unilaterally imposed on state governments !"

They're all true, sort of.
>> I think in general RSS readers could do a better job of fetching heads and checking whether or not there is a change worth fetching, that would save a tonne of bandwidth.

> Yah! Agreed.

You could also reduce the number of `<item>`s you keep in rotation to a more manageable number.

>> It should just be a short `<description>` and a link to the main article (which would still allow you to potentially monetize your content or gauge interest more accurately).

> No, I want people to be able to read it offline. I'm not trying to monetize anything.

It should still be much more lightweight than it's HTML counterpart. Should be almost nothing to it, next to no markup, no styling, no scripts and a highly compressible piece of data.

I don't understand how you're racking up massive bandwidth. Can you put some numbers to it:

* Bandwidth usage for RSS

* Bandwidth usage for webpage

* Hits to RSS

* Hits to webpage

* Links for both
> The buckets are automatically food-grade

This is not true of orange Home Depot 5-gallon buckets.

You must get the white ones made from virgin (unrecycled) plastic. They will have a sticker on them advertising they are safe for potable water use.
I'm a cowboy. Hence the hustle. Even if I passed a corporate sniff test, could I put away 60% or more of my income every year? And why would I want to live in Atlanta or someplace like it? I hate commuting. That's a major reason I work from home in a small city and take whatever remote gigs I can wrangle.
It's more like saying you can't buy anything with gold.

Credit and debit cards are just a way of shifting dollars around. Bitcoin is more a commodity than a currency. Yes, you can convert gold or oil to dollars and buy things, but you can't walk into a store and give them some gold flake or a quart of Texas crude in exchange for a candy bar.
Yeah me too. I consume 3 to 4 eggs a day as they are more filling and very handy. I am often puzzled with egg research and their conclusions.
Curious about the Yahoo Store debacle that was mentioned a few times.
Neither of those things "are money" and they're all highly reversible.

A major hack against Visa would absolutely tank the value of Visa the company however, and if people who believed they were paid weren't made whole somehow then it would also tank the acceptance of Visa.

And it would be an ongoing devaluation without Visa being able to show they'd fixed the underlying flaw - which you can't with a 51% attack.
The way to make immigration seem less risky is to have others who have done it before you. Minneapolis has a large population of Somalis because word got around that it was a good community for them. The same could happen for groups coming from a disadvantaged area of the US.
But the copy only has to move n items, but was constructed with m items, where n < m (and usually n << m). Where n is the max size of the queue and m is the total number of items that will ever be enqueued.

On the other hand, an array of arrays (no recursion) doesn’t change the big-O complexity cost, just the constant multiplier. That should definitely improve performance of the uncommon operation (the copy), but hypothetically might slow down the actual queuing operations (and drastically reduce throughout)

But maybe you meant the array of arrays to be recursive? That seems like it would alter the big-O (from n+m to log(n)+m). But typically m>>n, so the net result is the same.
I do like the name smoosh
GP meant (I think) that there is only one country brazen enough to do that in another country. I think that would be right.

I'm willing to believe the same operators pulled off these two attacks (well, they look like attacks; let us assume for a moment that they were). In that case it was either China or Russia -- I seriously doubt the Cubans would do this in China, so that leaves either China or Russia. Of course, it could also be North Korea, or who knows who else (Iran?).

I doubt anything will come of the local investigations, so until there is a third attempt, we may not find out what's up.
A museum on Mars!
Both iOS and Android have a "do not disturb" mode where, when enabled, only phone numbers in your contact book will ring your phone. I just leave it on all the time.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204321

https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/6111295 (see "Option 3: Priority notifications only", and pick Contacts Only.)
Can you please post something relevant to the topic under discussion? There’s enough noise on this thread as it is.
These articles are not targeted at you indeed but to the thousands of companies trying to setup a massive architecture to process 3GB of data per year.
All these big data solutions are still necessary of course, it's just not for everyone.
I think some of the examples in popular documentation use awk -f to read a program from a file, so I don't feel like that's regarded as an unreasonable way to run awk code.

It's true that many programs might well just have a single action (or a single action plus a BEGIN and END), but I'm not sure that resorting to awk -f will give great offense.
Quite fair--my apologies.
I think people underestimate the importance of medium-powered tools. Perl is great, but awks limitations make it easier to write in a way that the next person can maintain.
Idea: Can you volunteer for a local non-profit to build up a resume?
play stupid games (like listing shitcoins) win stupid prizes
I couldn't agree more. It's also quite insulting then they think their opinions are of some universal truth even when presented with evidence. I have seen Americans with superiority complex when faced with an unfamiliar surrounding. They seems to go around talking about how everyone is doing everything wrong and their own culture is without fault. The majority of Europeans I have met seem a lot more willing to accept other cultures. Europeans often have to learn a second language that isn't English and frequently travel to neighboring countries. I think the simple understanding that there is a world outside theirs from a young age makes a world of difference is separating their perceived negative emotions and facts.

I am going to get serverely down-voted for this, but look at seanmcdirmid as an example. He almost exclusively posts on Chinese articles on Hacker News. His past comments always paints an entire country as negative. He likes to state his opinions are facts and when saying something mildly racist, he ends is posts with "my wife is chinese". Like that makes any difference, its the equivalent of those saying they aren't racist cause their neighbors are black. I have no doubt his experience in China has largely been negative, but with his attitude I am not surprised.
Python was never intended to replace Perl. Perl was designed to extract stuff from text files. Python was designed as a scripting language for system programming. IM(Seldom Humble)O Python beat Perl for two reasons (a) batteries included (CPAN became a clusterfuck) (b) C API lead to stuff like SciPy, NumPy and Pandas.

FWIW I've used both Perl and Python professionally and Python rules.
That being said, the couple times I’ve paired with a perl wizard were revelatory.
I usually visit Hacker News, Ars Technica, TED Talks, and Pocket to fill up my reading list for long flights with no Wi-Fi.

Then I'll usually check Reddit for any interesting conversations I can contribute to in either /r/flightattendants or other topics.
Tesla seriously jumped the gun in marketing their partial autonomy as "Autopilot" when it's still level 3 autonomy at best (requires a human driver to intervene when necessary). Until we leap over the 'uncanny valley' of partial automation and have level 4 autonomy available it would be disingenuous to call such a feature "autopilot".
> I think the argument is that by doing a 51% attack you undermine the market value so you never get the rewards.

Only if you make it public. A 51% attack works at a poker table too, but only if the marks don't know the game is rigged.

A successful double spend makes it public, as well as announcing your intentions to get to 51%. If you're quiet and can pull off a successful 51%, you can create the double spend before anyone knows.
Longest Poem in the World: A continuous stream of rhyming tweets
Theoretically impeachment, and then following that, jail.
More likely Google/FB's surveillance model gets incrementally banned.
the verge attack was different
I second that. had me confused for a while. I think more than the English, its the way scientific and academic papers are written.
I doubt that. The few million a year going into Yellow are a drop in the bucket compared to the billions in infrastructure costs.
Agreed. I usually keep Windows Defender as the default antimalware app on my computer and others' because, IMO, it has the best ratio of Good Enough and Unintrusive Enough compared to others. I've never run into an issue on machines I personally use all the time.
> if the mentor gives bad advice (or worse, actively undermines you), then it's a bad idea.

We’re talking about expectation here, not clairvoyance or hindsight.

> I don't see any evidence that a positive outcome is any more likely than a negative one

You don’t see any evidence for seeking mentorship to accomplish your goals? Is this what you’re saying?
> it is a "no-risk" to "little-risk" proposition provided you make it to the USA. (I am talking about the legal routes.)

That's just absurd. People who were born in the U.S. face many risks.

> get out of the way already and let immigrants take your place

Nobody is taking anybody's place. Economics is not zero sum; the better your neighbor does, the better you do. Your successful neighbors are your employers, customers, taxpayers, etc.

> if you aren't being 100% economically productive RIGHT THIS MINUTE, just get out of the way already ...

That's not a problem with immigration; it's a problem with U.S. government policy that doesn't educate, provide health care for, feed, or house its citizens, and concentrates economic opportunity in the hands of a very few. Those things are clearly doable, because almost every other wealthy country does them much better. And the political leaders who oppose such things, and continually try to 'shrink' government, try to distract attention from their responsibility (and the responsibility of their wealthy constituents who try to avoid paying taxes) by blaming immigrants.
Oh, it was also less code.
There’s a War on Middle Management and Tesla Just Joined It
How can incorporate the gift card option on my Prestashop store?
Any Suggestions?
But that's a very similar mode of thinking, don't you agree?

I mean, I think so anyways. Idk anything hardly when it comes to hardware but I can use my imagination.

Do you think like barbers or chefs or fisherman have the same drive to push forward?

But that begs the question that this whole thing is just an emotional response.

MLKJ: “No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.”

If a person is passionate enough about their work, maybe they have these same feelings and senses.
I am extremely curious what they were actually trying to build, because as described it sounds like the sort of thing I'd expect to take at most a few months as a side project.
A nicer take: there should be mandatory class mixing. Rich kids should have to spend a few months being poor as part of their education. I'm not sure the other way around really helps anything but it'd be a nice break for the poor kid.
Awk makes it easy to write one liners, but it is also very easy to save your script to a file and run it with the -f option.
> Erlang is a language that doesn't have strings, for fucks sake.

It has binaries can those can be used as strings. Most json parsers turns json string into binaries.

> But a person who says erlang is suitable for modern web development is not living in the real world.

Says person on the internet who is swearing and doesn't seem to know what they are talking about.

Those silly Erlang and Elixir users, should be glad they finally found a new HN account telling them the truth.

> web demands a different model of problem solving than let-it-crash 90s telecom hackery provides

Ok, I'll bite. What is the new rockstar model of problem solving we should all be using?
C5/C6 herniation about 10 years ago. Did the standard range of NSAIDS and PT. Useless and wound up needing prescription pain meds to get+stay asleep. Declined steriod injection because I wanted to debug.

What fixed it (on first treatment though I did 8 sessions) was the DRX9000 traction machine. The VAX-D probably would have worked too. Had to go to a physiatrist who insisted on doing homeopathy/BS saline injections so he could bill insurance. Though I had a cervical issue, these machines at their core are designed for spinal and the cervical treatment is an extension, I believe. What they do is slowly stretch you for 20-30 mins as you watch TV.

No relapse in the last 10 years though I've been careful about posture, use 4 wheel roll-along luggage, and sleep with fewer pillows - generally try to keep my head more aligned.

I was about a month away from doing ablation to have the goo sucked out of the offending disc. That probably would have worked, but I am related to a number of doctors, all of whom recommended staying away from surgery except as very last resort, especially near the spine.

Interestingly, internationally they have silicon and other disc replacement techniques as well whereas in the US generally treatment still tends to be NSAIDs+PT, then steroid shot, then fusion despite the collateral stress that can ensue from that on adjacent vertebrae.

Post 'fix' MRI looks almost the same as 'pre', which is interesting and gets to the micro tolerances involved.

2 non-standard treatment notes:

Tried Chiropractic as 1st treatment on common friend recommendation but never again. The practitioner started yanking before xray even though it was pretty clear (I now know) from my specific pain sites what was going on. An interesting question to ask a potential Chiro is "what diseases can and can't be cured with Chiropractic?"

Interestingly, along the way, I went once to an accupuncturist recommended by my Tae Kwon Do master and with 4 pins all symptoms went away instantly - for a few hours. Successive treatments had much less effect so I only went twice.

Good luck with your recovery!

In the grand scheme of things it was minor vs. other medical stuff, but I was unhappy about pain meds (and fingers starting to get numb after many months) so it seemed a huge deal at the time.

Big lesson for me was - with the human body, even more than the internet (but true for both), the amazing thing is not that they break but that they ever work well in the first place.

Happy to discuss my course if anyone is caught up in this, but I have no formal medical background and my case probably differs from everyone else's. Email avi at freedman dot net
Very cliché, but your happiness and sense of fulfillment doesn't always come from work

Feel free to email niftylettuce@gmail.com
Sure. My argument is that unless you're interested in retrocomputing (which is a cool field, but not the field VirtualBox is in) you shouldn't be writing non-trivial 16-bit programs at all any more - VirtualBox doesn't even support emulating any 16-bit-only CPUs. You should be writing 32-bit programs with a tiny bit of 16-bit code on each end (either in assembly or in trivial C) to switch from 16-bit to 32-bit mode and back. Since you only need the BIOS for a very small amount of time to support a bootloader loading itself, the slowness of switching modes at each interrupt will hardly be your limiting factor (especially given that you're in a VM).

This has the advantage that you don't need any new compiler to build your program, neither OpenWatcom or Digital Mars. (Nothing against the Digital Mars compiler! I just think that it isn't the right engineering direction for VirtualBox to depend on retrocomputing.)
> In this case I think it's the limitations of the NES itself that led to the mappers doing so much more externally

Agreed. The Game Boy's ability to generate interrupts at various times in the scanline, and access to the current scanline number, make timing things with vanilla hardware much easier on the Game Boy than the NES.
Alternatively, this could be an argument for teaming up with the much-derided "business guy." If you think your product-making skills are good enough, then it might be worth specializing into early development while your partner handles the management/sales/marketing side. Just be careful to work out a fair deal - the partner is the one that specializes in arranging to get the long end of the stick after all! (That's why you want one.)
I usually close the tab if a YouTube ad starts. I rarely care about a video enough to sit through an ad for it.
Debian 10 + KDE, 46MB RSS + 10 MB shared memory consumed while playing some FLACs with lyrics tab opened.
Great. I wish you every success but if I might offer some suggestions you need to figure out what expensive problem you are solving and sell that solution. Persuade people you can save them a lot of money or make them a lot of money and sell based on the value you can provide for them. Not a coder for hire. Sell based on value, not capacities.
> A colleague once tried to put a flatworm in his mouth, Justine recounted. The man still describes it as “one of the worst experiences of his life.”

You just gotta love scientists.