skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Incorrect. If a parent commits murder, do we imprision the child with them? No."

I cannot take a single thing you say seriously now that you are comparing murder to people fleeing from danger and trying to give their children a better life. You are supporting a needlessly cruel policy, and what's worse, you are hiding that, trying to justify it by saying that its the law, when there is exactly no law whatsoever that forces this action.
Totally agree, thanks for writing :)

I think we should all tread carefully here. In reality, monetizing content is not particularly easy and usually isn't ethical or sustainable.
CDs, DVDs, and Blurays are still very much around.
Research? "The people of Nebraska..." quote is quite famous.
Don't minorities and females small business owners get tax breaks? Large reason why a lot of government subcontracting company owners will have their wife on the paperwork.
A routine to detect the exact circumstances of the government emissions test, including the amount of times the steering wheel was moved was needed to fine tune the engine?

Its just not credible.
Distillation, not Dilution: the power of a strong brand position
From the wiki link: "Protectionism, tariffs and quotas which give firms insulation from competitive forces"

This is indeed text-book protectionism
It seems like there oughta be an app that can make it easy to pick non-/emergency numbers for a given location, type of service and jurisdiction (highway/state,
unincorporated/county sheriff, incorporated/municipality, park ranger, tribal, military, etc.)
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> What's the "pattern I've always used"?

The pattern is to return a value and have some non-local return for errors. For example, having a return value in C++ but throw an exception for errors. By "always used", I'm just asserting that most people are familiar with this pattern and use it frequently.

> Anyway, the problem is one of call/return in general, whether expressed in an FP language or not. It really wants to return something. With a real dataflow approach, that just goes away. And nothing is simpler than something.

This is not true for languages like Haskell. When you are writing monadic functions, it doesn't "want" to return something, instead, you are free to create your own data flow primitives as the monad's interface. This lets you change how control flow works in these monads while providing enough common structure that the novel control flow doesn't doesn't surprise people using the monad. Common ways to do this are by composing monad transformers, returning special value types, or using continuations.

That said, you get more flexibility to define data flow in Haskell if you combine the ordinary monadic parts with data flow libraries like pipes/conduit/machines. But you're still free to not return anything from a function (or technically a monadic action) in Haskell, as long as you're in a monad where returning nothing is a possibility.
> This place is never the same from one generation to the next and that will never change.

This is not incongruous with the writers belief that NYC has lost its edge.

> We've lost some things, we've gained others.

What do you think you've gained, aside from safety and cleaner parks and better schools for the unaffordable, gentrified enclaves of Brooklyn?
Been looking forward to the launch, congrats to all involved on pulumi team!
According to some, YouTube's copyright filters / markers aren't good enough to satisfy the EU directive. It's insane. The DMCA is bad enough already. Copyright should be loosened, not tightened. Then maybe we'd see some competition in video hosting.
> I am not saying that they couldn't do better, but this article insinuates there is some kind of major problem where there isn't.

That's great that where you are it seems to work well, but it's a big country and Apple is in a much better position to know if meaningful improvements can be made nationwide (and it sounds like they're not going for "pretty good", but for "best possible"). Also, RapidSOS seems to be targeting urban areas where GPS is notoriously spotty.
I would wager you've never heard that because most people understand intuitively that good looks get you further than a good sense of humor, all else being equal.
Survey Result: 92 Percent of Tech Workers Say Their Workplace Is LGBTQ-Friendly
Turning one system off in favor of another is basically admitting that they have no faith in their software. Also isn't driving a car with sensors (without self-driving tech) basically a giant data collector? The mere act of driving a car (with a human brain) should help a SDV system understand a false-positive and a false negative simply by learning what a human does in contrast to what the machine thinks it is supposed to do.

I imagine this is what separates Waymo and the others. I feel like Waymo is using math/neural nets, etc.. whereas Tesla and Uber were probably giant hand-written if/else machines. I have nothing to back that up, except that that's kinda what this article is about.
Another interesting usecase is generating seamlessly tiling noise [1]. Admittedly this is usually done in advance where slower performance is fine, but fully or mostly procedural games could really benefit from it. Combining this with prime number-sized layered textures [2] gets you a very organic looking texture with only an upfront rendering cost, making it plausible to generate high resolution unique textures for everything in a game on the fly.

[1] https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/a/23639
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2419347
There should be no point of failure. By using the same hashing algorithm to produce 3 words worldwide, anyone with the same seed could produce coordinates for any words. Or the 3 words for any coordinates.
I always describe it as: Assembly is dead simple, it is only hard to write nontrivial programs in it. Manual register allocation, other micromanagement, and the necessary changes when you change the logic, that is hell.
Ouch. Sounds like a failed state scenario: anarchy by services disappearing and unconcern for community. When a government ceases to provide a fundamental function, such as protecting its citizens, it risks irrelevancy... and citizens better form their own government to replace the one not doing its job, or they’re inviting criminal thugs reminiscent of ISIS to fill the power-vacuum.
>Why do imagine Bumblefuck, Arkansas is looking at New York City's 911 costs instead of their own?

Because I work in police software tech, and this is how they think, as nonsensical as it is.
It would be pretty unfortunate if suddenly my car was attracted to bright lights and bug zappers. /joke/
That sounds really cool! Terraria is an excellent game and I kind of liked that its monsters were in the same vein (i.e. scary, evil. Especially liked when I dug through the ground to find the underworld... ha). The loot system is insane.

Its a little hard to replicate the gore and fear of the original game though; and the fighting does seem a lot more involved in D2 than in Terraria.
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Appcues has hosted Drunk User Testing events with the slogan "Design Sober. Test Drunk." :)

https://www.drunkusertesting.com/
To tie up at a marina, you usually need to pay the marina for the slip.

To anchor, you just need an area where anchoring is okay, no need to pay anyone.
Why scooter startups are important and strategic to the future of transportation
It is a shame that sales pressures are stopping us forcing "AI" cars from being branded in an obvious way (bright orange and pale blue stripes?) - this would allow human drivers to treat the vehicle as a non-human, removing a lot of the dangers it would cause to lawbreakers who follow too closely.

Of course `AI hybrid` vehicles would still behave unpredictably unless they had some way to signal whether the human or the `AI` was in control of the vehicle.
These archive.org people are really awesome.
So it will be easy for journalists and naysayers. Pretty much the most powerful people against you...
What reason is there to think it would? There used to be a bunch of services YouTube competed with; now few of them are even worth mentioning, let alone serious competitors.
Unfortunately, VoIP doesn't allow reliable OFDM communication...
It's preferable to transmit and receive the audio as-is (without any compression).
It reminds me of Japanese prisons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJp9nKaO7c4

I feel like this level of systematic dehumanization should be banned as it inflicts unnecessary suffering with no real benefit to society.

but Japan has the lowest crime rates because the prosecution has a track record of 99% conviction rate. You might be thinking oh fuck thats fucked up but it actually deters Japanese citizens from deviating from the law. Because no matter what they are going to throw the book at you with only 1% chance of not going to jail. When it's that biased the return on criminal action at an individual level is negative.

And as a result Japan has a thriving organized criminal economy and it makes sense, when you have a lot of disposable soldiers, don't need to pay severance (they do with their fingers), unregulated labor workforce, suddenly you've created an enormously profitable criminal enterprise that reaches into every aspect of Japanese society-pornography, brothels, stock market, celebrities, media.
The old trailer was done in 2013, real proper development started in 2017. What are you actually disappointed about, that it's not dark and gritty all the time?
Marinas generally charge by the foot (and sometimes additionally by the hull, as in 2x for catamarans). A one month tie-up in a marina will run you several hundred to several thousand dollars depending on the above factors, the location and the season.

Anchoring is free, but then you need to come to shore in (and store) a dinghy

Basically yachting is very expensive. A Panama Canal crossing in your pleasurecraft these days will run about $2k. Those youtube channels are basically lifestyle advertising -- some of those cruisers are heavily (financially) supported.
>When the colonies, primarily the US, started doing better than the old European countries ... what happened?

Nothing much. There were 2 world wars that finished the old European countries, and the US took over the warmongering world leader game, and the colonialism (as neo-colonialism this time).

>And yes, immigrants in the US beat quite a few traditional industries at their own game, under rules set by people trying to sabotage them.

Not sure what you mean. Immigrants that succeeded in the US still played by US rules and laws. In fact most any immigrant that succeeded was totally Americanized - ending up like those "trying to sabotage them". Did you see any huge story where immigrants changed the underlying culture, ethics, etc?
It's expensive at least partially because publishers will sue the crap out of you if you don't invest heavily in content ID etc. It creates a huge barrier to entry, which is why copyright laws should be reformed to respect the idea of "common carrier" sites which don't discriminate on content.
From the paper:

"...the novelty of the approach does not lie simply in incremental model performance improvements. Rather, this predictive performance was achieved without hand-selection of variables deemed important by an expert, similar to other applications of deep learning to EHR data. Instead, our model had access to tens of thousands of predictors for each patient, including free-text notes, and identified which data were important for a particular prediction."

So it sounds like the advance here is actually in the following: "a generic data processing pipeline that can take raw EHR data as input, and produce FHIR outputs without manual feature harmonization".

The article doesn't explain this very clearly. Yay!
If the Apple app store isn't a monopoly I don't know what is. These kind of practices make Microsoft's anti trust practices from the 90's look like child's play. I hope the Supreme Court doesn't fall for their bullshit lies about security being the reason for this setup but I doubt any of the justices will even understand the case properly, let alone make intelligent decisions.
I eventually figured out that this is largely an issue with terminology.

In Central/South America, it's generally taught that everything from Nunavut to Cape Horn is a single continent, America. When the US calls itself "America," that's seen as a deliberate attempt to claim primacy over the whole continent.

In English-speaking North America, it's generally taught that "America" is the country and "North America/South America" are the continents, so we're befuddled by the irritation.

This is why Canada, actually, doesn't appear to have an issue with the "America" thing.
> How long until this information is available to law enforcement?

Well in this case that's entirely the point, people are calling law enforcement. But if you were concerned that someone could just pull up your location at any time, their system only gets your location data when you call 911:

https://info.rapidsos.com/blog/bringing-apple-device-locatio...

> When this feature is made available later this year in an iOS software update, Apple phones will send fast and accurate device location to the NG911 Clearinghouse when a user dials 9-1-1.

That said, law enforcement can already look up where your phone is based on tower triangulation. This is just about getting more detailed information to first responders more quickly.
Yes, the magic of being open to other hw/sw manufacturers. all over again...
"If Article 13, embedded within the proposal, becomes official policy, it will be impossible for developers to build off of one another's code"

I'm not happy about laws dictating content distribution, but can't we still host our own content if this passes? All this seems like it will only hurt content-hosting-as-a-service type businesses, which are typically not libre and tend to converge into a de facto monopoly. I feel like, if passed, it will encourage individuals to host their own content and share it via links to URLs they own. Isn't that something FSF encourages?
The Most Powerful Way to Grow Subscribers – Ebooks – How to Outsource
I think Jack Dorsey's interest in Bitcoin goes a little beyond the current hype cycle.

[1] https://www.ccn.com/i-hope-bitcoin-will-be-internets-native-...
As to why the Internet didn't "solve" this. Not all things are virtual. Your physical self isn't virtual. Nor are other people. Physical goods are not virtual. You need to invent and continue to nurture equivalent virtual places for formal and informal, accidental and deliberate interactions. Its hard to take a heart to heart walk with someone who isn't there with you.
I think that hypothetical is rare enough of an event that the overwhelming likelihood is more people turn it off without knowing the implications and then are unable to share their location when they are in an emergency.
"Donating" falls under the broader category of "community involvement". You pick a small thing that you can put a disproportionate amount of money toward and dominate it or you take lead on something that people will remember. Nobody remembers if you donate $100 to a bunch of things. People remember when you foot the entire bill for some thousand or two dollar expense that kids normally would hold bake sales for. You need to keep on top of it ("donate" to something every few years) but the point is that someone at whatever organization you have to deal with recognizes your last name and associates it with whatever good thing you did and you get favorable treatment similar to what you normally need to be extended family to get. The smaller the town/city the less you need to do to be known as "good"

For example, when some party gets shut down by the cops the kids of the grocery store owner who donates all the food for some annual police/fire/vfw bbq don't have to worry about getting misdemeanors. When it's time to determine who gets what contracts the company that generously sponsored the boy scout troop that the son of whoever is making the decision will get special consideration (all the blue collar small businesses don't sponsor local stuff because it has a negative ROI).
Tools and Craft: An Interview with Andy Hertzfeld
Not exhaustive but this has come in handy: https://www.braintreepayments.com/blog/safe-operations-for-h...
Show HN: AsyncResolver.js, resolve async subscribed decisions
To that point, cloud is probably the biggest disruption.

It may run on Intel now, but once "runs on AWS/GCP/Azure" becomes more important than running on an ISA, there's no reason compute couldn't transition much faster.
Unless you're in the comedy business, I guess. And even there, being good looking don't exactly hurt.
ICBMS, the Corps of Engineers, and submarines have well-defined roles in the American military. Spacecraft, as of yet, do not. If you want surveillance, we have the NRO.
Show HN: Super simple chat app
>> Is Bill Gates self-made? Or was it the fact that his father could cut a $25,000 check on a whim?

And his mother had good connections with the IBM board, leading IBM to give the operating system business to Bill .
NASA CubeSats Head to Mars
Also, the people still commenting that the Uber video is meaningful. That's not from the vehicle sensors. That's from a completely separate dashcam and recorder.
Can't wait for him to call it "Stargate Command".
Keyboard: Advantage2 QD from Kinesis. Nicely curved, very ergonomic keyboard with all the bells and whistles; it has both Qwerty and Dvorak layouts at the start, and every key can be remapped, including to macros.
Is there any industry that wasn't and isn't like this?
Your phrasing ("I refuse to see…") makes me very apprehensive of trying to explain, but I'll bite.

Using exceptions is dealing with errors out-of-band. Using Result types is dealing with errors in-band. In-band is somewhat less flexible because you don't have the power to arbitrarily alter the execution flow of your program. Out-of-band is much easier to reason about by that very token.
Your very late to the game already but it's probably not too late to do something in that area.
Anchoring is free. Tying up at a marina is charged by the foot of boat length/night.

typical cost per one night: 35 feet * $4 = $140/night.
The location is also only sent during the 911 call, so if you don't dial 911 your location isn't in the database and the security of the database doesn't matter, your location is "safe".

https://info.rapidsos.com/blog/bringing-apple-device-locatio...

> When this feature is made available later this year in an iOS software update, Apple phones will send fast and accurate device location to the NG911 Clearinghouse when a user dials 9-1-1.
i would comment if i could read it @#$ing paywall
> The upside of self driving vehicles is so immense that I can't help but find in favor of giving leeway to companies developing this tech.

This is, frankly, how a lot of scams work. Sure, there are some rough patches and the prototype doesn't work, but imagine when it does ... !

If Theranos had been able to diagnose all diseases from a finger stick, the upside would have been crazy-huge.

If the EM drive could generate substantial reactionless thrust, the upside would have been Trekian.

If high-deductible health insurance plans discouraged primarily wasteful healthcare spending...

If vegetable smoothies...
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metzen created the diablo universe (with roper) and the starcraft universe (with phinney). he had a bit more involvement than some drawings in manuals.
16 GB of RAM for an Android tablet that is only running the square software is probably way too much. I suspect the writer meant that it has 16 GB of storage.
Some nations have home: their own country, so in these cases people == nation, and will of the people == will of the nation.
These days there are an absurd number of abstraction layers in any computing stack.

Fire up anything electron based, and you are looking at scripts being JITed inside a "VM", sitting on top of an OS that abstract away the hardware, sitting on top of hardware that is pretending to be something from the 80s/90s.
I mean the whole idea of heaven and hell fighting for power and that they are not supposed to have any physical influence, but the demons of hell sneak in anyways, not just by mental influence but physically as well. That's how the Diablo 1 story begins, with the corruption of the Archbishop (I remember way too much lol).
> Why does everyone have to be in New York?

I would turn that around and ask, why does everyone have to be kept out of New York?

If you live in New York, you should understand exactly why people want to live there -- how is it fair to deprive them of what you have?

If you don't live in New York, what business is it of yours if other people want to live there?
my employer made us use the microsoft curved keyboard, as it was the only option we had: https://www.microsoft.com/accessories/en-my/products/keyboar...

I hated it very much at the beginning. But now I'm so used to it, I'm the most productive when using it. I worry that one day this keyboard is discontinued, I can't find it anymore.
The program doesn't need to exit, it can simply allocate a larger space, and it knows exactly what slots are in use and can preserve those indices.
As I say I am a terrible programmer the best example I could think of was this for Python 3.

float_num = float(input("Enter float num: "))

The way I read it is: I need to enter a number, the number is input, it's a float, that number will be assigned to the variable float_num.

It's not the best example but for me at certain times it's far clearer. Most times it seems like I am reading the equivalent of a person writing backwards then it dawned on me to read it backwards.
I'm not trying to glorify Knuth or downgrade Linux kernel developers. I'm only saying that you can leanr a lot from a good programmer, and an apprentice type arrangement is probably the best way to learn programming and we need more of that than new languages
I really enjoyed the story, but it really scares me that I might end up the same way.

I am a CS student, but I have had a lot of student jobs related to my studies. At most workplaces, they appreciated my skills and abilities, but being able to only work 1 day a week, the tasks I get assigned are not of any real value to the company, and I suspect my managers never really cared if I finished them. Since nobody cared about what I did, I quickly got demotivated, and I usually ended up browsing Hot Questions on SO, IRC, and HN. These sites look somewhat relevant, and did not cause any suspicion, like Facebook or Twitter.

Now I am soon to finish my degree, and get a full-time job. However, I am really anxious whether I am actually able to work for 8 hours in succession every day, 5 days a week. University is a lot of work, but it is scattered throughout the day. I am not sure if I have ever programmed for more than 2 hours in succession. Programming 8 hours a day seems like an incredibly burden, and mentally unbearable...
Well, instead of companies paying employees money which goes to rent, the city could tax those companies to subsidize the housing instead. That would make similar amounts of money available but the city would have more control over who gets the rent money. Unforeseen consequences abound, I'm just pointing out that rent doesn't have to go up forever.