skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> adding/changing/removing code in a dynamically typed language always leaves me worried that I've missed something.

Looking from the other side, this seems like "static typing gives me illusion of safety, and I miss it in dynamic languages". Sure, it might be justified for large projects in the long run, but

> taking the convenience of an untyped language is usually a poor/lazy architectural decision.

sounds like not understanding (or unwilligness to use?) trade-offs involved, due to personal preference.

I don't like these (unintentional?) claims of superiority based purely on personal preference. Static typing is just a tool, with its pros&cons.
I don't think it is unreasonable at all. Also the code evaluates to 'nerd' that person was probably just being cheeky.
Treat them as runbooks and include them in your troubleshooting guide (or oncall guide).

Small snippets can be in a wiki or in the docs, bigger scripts preferably in a repo that everyone can run.

If they provide useful info that's not just for emergencies or troubleshooting, maybe let them run via cronjob and expose the results in a dashboard or a dedicated internal "status web page".
Static Site Generators
Haha! Sans Sharif indeed!
"specie" is money in the form of coins. Nothing badass about it!
Python has versions
Build a DApp on the Hyperledger blockchain the easy way
South Korea Will Officially Legalize Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Industries
Mendoza? Smaller but cheap, great wine, and gorgeous
I've used EnvKey for a few side projects that involved collaborators.
Avast HTTPS Scanning feature breaks Firefox TLS 1.3 connections
The wild ones, yes. But the ones used in research and kept as pets are essentially domesticated and breed readily.
That may have been true a few decades ago, but it's certainly becoming more democratic.. still not the best, though. Especially with the military curb circulations of a private national newspaper.
I can't see an email or button being any different than the telephone. I would prefer being able to cancel online. But I don't see forcing companies to offer that as being all consumer protectiony.
Thailand SEC Confirms Date for Passing ICO Licensing Rule
I'm still waiting for the point in history of this planet that people abandon the concepts of sexual orientation or identity or gender completely. The only interesting thing to know is whether a person is able to give birth, biological sex that is, and that's only interesting for medical reasons.
Don't forget about the lessons of "The Bio Dome". As I recall plants like trees deprived of environmental stress like wind tend to fall over. That is one example. What concerns me, is all of these plants would be deprived of many environmental stresses. How that would effect them over time is a big unknown. Trying to induce environmental stress should be something we try to do now in insulated environments.
Only motorways in the UK, and roads designated under special classification.

I've walked and cycled along multilane A-roads. It's not fun but it's legal.
If anyone is really interested in this hit me up on reddit via ryanmercer or hit contact over at http://www.ryanmercer.com this is a subject I'm really passionate about both for use on Earth and for investigation/use off-world.
YouTuber in row over copyright infringement of his own song
I've been wondering recently if there's some way we could "hijack" this sort of signaling mechanisms that plants seem to have... E.g. artificiall encourage the crops to ripen sooner (i.e. when we want them to).

The next step would be, to figure out how to grow just the parts of the plants that we need. I'm guessing internally, plants use some kind of hormone-like signalling mechanism that lets different parts of the plant know what to do. Why do we need a full tree (in particular, bark) when we could just grow apples directly along with a few leaves to "power" them?
> Ok, we have different definitions of maturity. To me, it means your system's core functionality works reliably in the use cases it is designed for. Nice-to-haves like speed smoothing are secondary.

I agree with this definition, but I see it more as a sliding scale than a checkbox. I think it comes down to whether you look at each system in isolation or whether you put them all on a single spectrum. I'm imagining human driving at one end of a spectrum and fully automated driving at the other, and looking at what percent of driving conditions each system provides a safety or utility improvement in (so you can see why features like speed smoothing and reacting to nearby cars quickly become relevant to my thinking). But I can see why, judging each system on its own, one would say that Autosteer is less mature at what it aims to do than simpler and more constrained systems are at what they aim to do.

You summarized my take on Autopilot as accurately as one can in a single sentence (thank you for that btw). Like you, I look forward to the day when data is available to resolve competing hypotheses like these. Elon pledged on the last earnings call to release quarterly Autopilot data reports; I'm hoping those will include Autopilot vs non-Autopilot driving usage and their respective highway accident rates, broken down by feature (TACC, Autosteer, TACC + Autosteer, etc). I think that'd be the best way to assess Autopilot safety, as it would control for all other factors. It'd be great to have apples-to-apples numbers from all manufacturers, but I think that will take longer and probably some coordination from NHTSA.
The first public beta was released on June 6, 2006.
First of all, notice that none of this contradicts my comment.

A prestigious school brand will help you to get into the hiring process. I did hear that for certain roles in certain companies, such prestigious brand is effectively a requirement to enter the process. This is rare in software engineering, because there's so much demand, that even the top tier employers can't limit themselves to top school graduates, not if they want to fill up all openings.

The other reason is that these top schools churn out a lot of legacy graduates - people who got in and graduated because their parents attended the school and/or donated money. That means there's a lot of top school graduates who aren't that bright, and many of the brightest people who went to less prestigious schools.
Military retirement after 20 years isn't all that generous, it's about $40K. It's nice but you're still probably getting a job if you've got a family.
Japanese cult leader Shoko Asahara executed for Tokyo sarin attack
I didn't really understand USA until I spent some time considering Pakistan.
Out of interest what does Windows 10 with WSL not give you?
Google’s Voice Assistant Could Talk Its Way Into Call Centers
Safety First with Nutanix AOS 5.8
Sure. I will try using the terminal too. thanks for the suggestion. :-)
Optimizing Lifted Bitcode with Dead Store Elimination
Stateless Network Functions (2017) [pdf]
Link for the curious:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-44737793
The language really doesn't have much to do with product design, but I thought Reddit was written in Python? https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit
Based on the cost trend for renewables. You know the way you can buy computer chips for 1¢ or even less now? The same is happening with solar. https://www.resilience.org/wp-content/uploads/articles/Gener...
Announcing the ACME Firmware Beta 3 Release – BayLibre
Infosys joins hands with Siemens to develop IoT applications
Not GP, but iOS development is the biggest reason I can't switch.
I get the same result (the calculator), but it consistently takes 5 seconds for the calculator to appear with the result. There's also no side card on the right side or search results underneath the calculator.
Can Social Media Have a Positive Impact on Global Healthcare?
> It was first presented in a 2004 beta of Windows Vista, then codenamed Longhorn

According to Wikipedia.

Hence my question. Even tho it wasn’t yet part of office could it have been selected if it was installed on the OS?
Point two is why I'm so disappointed in many of my friends from back when I studied physics who are really into this idea. Like, it's basic thermodynamics, guys! If we want to make agriculture sustainable we should try to break even energy wise, not waste even more with the physical equivalent to more layers of abstraction!
7 Things I Did and I Didn’t Get from University
A large part of that seems due to inertia; these kind of documents have always been typeset in a monospaced font, so there is bound to be a good reason for it — or so the mindset goes.

That reason usually boils down to 'because that's what it looked with typewriters before we switched to desktop publishing'.

In the US Courier stuck, in other countries it was Times New Roman with bad default choices for leading, font size, and line width. Legal and government typography for Latin alphabet based scripts seems to mostly be substandard everywhere.
An Android web application to send and receive SMS from your web browser
Investor in a previous startup is heavily invested in this. Knowing what i know i expect the market to explode once it hits is economic potential.
Pakistan acted on the Panama papers is a big news since a lot of countries with allegedly a hard stance against corruption did not.
Pretty much live coverage of that for the last hour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQu5n7Nh42Y

Given the channel is pro PTI, half of it is about Imran's people rawing hard on the streets.
Firejail could be a good fit.
GraalSqueak: A Fast Smalltalk Bytecode Interpreter [pdf]
So you're choosing a seat. What determines who from the party takes that seat?
There's ActionScript, which can only be interpreted.
> The fact that any large codebase will take a smart person 3-6 months to acclimate to and become productive.

If this were true nobody would hire contractors on a short time (less than a year) basis.
Does it count interpreters?
It’s astonishing to me that how little functionality can be achieved in 10M+ / 550K lines of code.

https://www.openhub.net/p/docker (10M+)

https://www.openhub.net/p/systemd (550K+)
Show HN: Drop any PNG or JPG image to drastically reduce file size
>why can’t we do it with tractors???

Trains run in straight lines, farm equipment has various widths and it's not just 'tractors' and you're going up and down rows of farmland that might be tens or hundreds of acres wide and that aren't always in the shape of a square or rectangle (it's often far easier to work around large glacial boulders or trees for example, as well as ditches/running water/property lines etc). You'd have to string millions and millions, if not billions and billions, of miles of electrical cable across fields.

There's 915 million acres of active farmland in the U.S., that's 1.4 million square miles/3.7 million square kilometers. The larger combines can be about 40ft wide so if every scrap of farmland was in literally-square acre parcels you're going to need 5.2 power lines minimum to cover the width of a literally-square acre so you're easily talking 5 million miles of power lines.
> > Python uses `TRUE-CASE if COND else FALSE-CASE`.

> And this is wrong -- this is not how Python if statements work.

Huh? Didn't you yourself say I was not talking about if statements:

> What you are talking about is a different kind of expression, similar to a ternary operator. It is not the same as if...else

In any case, I'm talking about the case that goes `TRUE-CASE if COND else FALSE-CASE`, as can be deduced from my typing `TRUE-CASE if COND else FALSE-CASE`.
It makes a lot more sense when you see Javascript as "machine code" for browsers.
I don't really care even if he's doing this partly for pro-Tesla/Boring PR, it is nice to see such a prominent CEO take a public interest in this and other humanitarian problems (e.g. Puerto Rico disaster relief). Given his general tendency to speak out (for better or worse) about things having nothing to do with his work or business, I'm inclined to think his interest is personally genuine.

Off-topic: I really like the BBC's illustrated map of the cave. For a static image, really gives a lot of info about the scale and severity of the situation: https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/146FC/production...
Biogen reports positive results with Alzheimer’s drug
More coverage of today's court proceedings:

https://www.dawn.com/news/1418326/guilty-nawaz-10-years-in-j...

https://www.geo.tv/latest/201862-avenfield-reference-verdict...
What should you know about cryptocurrency and ICO?
Where is Smalltalk ?
> Anecdotally, I've tried to learn Nix for several years.

Out of interest, what did you find difficult? I ask because I spent last weekend setting up NixOS, and the only things I found difficult were discoverability and documentation (I spent a lot of time just reading through the source code).

Edit: Thinking about it it's very possible that this is just a case of me not knowing what I don't know, since I'm not currently trying to do anything particularly complex.
Blog author here. Thanks for reading and responding. I understand that modifications can be made within a single MongoDB document atomically. I was thinking more of transactions that would include multiple documents, say "store" and "customer", and doing a transaction across them. That could be done in single shard. But if it was sharded across a few data centers for data locality, that would have to wait for V4.2, right?
Birds and Frogs, Freeman Dyson [pdf]
You could, but it would be cost prohibitive in a real economic sense.

You run overhead wires where you know you will repeatedly have a large demand for power, and you pay for it once in the capital outlay to put up the wires and other scaffolding.

In other words, you want to do this where (average demand / (fixed capital cost (which correlates to peak demand)) is relatively high. The middle of the farm field is the exact opposite of that: power demand is bursty and very infrequent, so utilization will be a few orders of magnitude lower.
Trying to treat people who does not agree with the broken software and systems engineering practices like a child is obviously won't help. Systemd and docker has legitimately bad engineering practices.
So if you could produce a device to create the electricity field that could work at a larger scale, and such device could be carried by the field itself, then could it be possible to create a hovering or flying vehicle.
i3 should be good enough for anyone.
>It is possible that the resolution gained more votes because of the trade war.

or probably just general dissatisfaction with the U.S.
The top percentage of votes on the highest relevant regional area.

If you are voting for the mayor of a city, just count every single vote of the citizens. Why do you first need to split up the people into arbitrary groups, and then count the group outcomes?
Interpreted only
As someone more knowledgeable, do you have any insight in what would be necessary to grow food in space (with or without gravity), and how we could "prepare" for that (i.e. develop and test the technology)? That's my main interest in "indoors" technology - how does the viability, and the economics, change when "land" and power become cheap (plenty of solar in space) but transport (delta-v) is crazy expensive...
Your "3" is a Bayesian view. Specifically, from the Jaynesian school, which views probability as ignorance.
When we can't calculate which of those world's we're in, we express our remaining uncertainty with probability. The connection to subjective "beliefs" is recognizing that these probabilities are all in our own heads. Believing otherwise is the "mind projection fallacy"; in reality -- as you noted -- these things are certain from the god's eye view, and we fall somewhere in between that and total ignorance/entropy.
(I'm not a physicist, but I know some use the Many Worlds interpretation to apply this determinism even to quantum physics.)

E.T. Jaynes fleshes out his worldview in "Probability Theory: The Logic of Science", which was published posthumously in 2003.
How's Voat doing these days?
Hm. I thought Flash has bytecode rather than ActionScript being plain interpreted.
Income mobility has been rising fastest in Britain
Almost all compilers producing machine code can instead also produce assembly. In fact, many compilers internally produce assembly and then run an assembler to produce machine code. So the Assembly node is missing many in arrows.
More than that, the UK was kind of detached from continental issues, anyway. And it will still go through a potentially painful transition.

For most other members of the EU, leaving it would be extremely painful, due to much higher levels of integration. Issue a new currency, which will probably rated worse than the Euro, see bond rates spike, have to close borders again, for both people and capital. For most EU members leaving the EU would send their GDP tumbling double digit figures.
That is not fair.

Because I have explicitly mentioned this in the bug. Quote unquote

Docker is only making things even worse - the recommended way of using Docker is shifting gradually to be using poorly-suited PID 1 processes like supervisord.

Additionally, there are other places where I mention Docker as a use case. Granted that English is not my first language, but I do not think there was confusion on this being around Docker. In addition the bug title is "
Standalone version of systemd to act as a process control system" ...Which was as generic as I could make it.

Running an arbitrary job-runner on older system is an implicit use case....But by explicit clarification, I brought in the Docker use case as well. I also explicitly mentioned that we are prepared to use newer kernels within Docker if that is important.
P.S. Already, a lot of us work with upgraded kernels because of Docker and this is already acceptable.

I WANT to use systemd - but I stand by my claim that this bug is sufficient illustration that there is no intent to support the docker ecosystem. I do not wish to start a flamewar, but I categorically reject your claims of me spreading FUD as deliberately malicious.
CHAMPCASTS Celebrate This Fourth of July with a Lifetime Discount
This is an important question, but it's also been debated to death in the scientific community.

I have a friend who raises mice and then has to break their necks to euthanize them before experimenting on them. Another of my friends has to give mice cancer.

The former friend's lab has come up with life-changing treatments for muscular diseases, and the latter friend is helping to develop immunotherapy methods.

While it's awful to think about the price, it's important to think about why the price is paid and how much suffering can be prevented.

Another note: there are strict codes of ethics for how animals are treated in labs, so in most reputable organizations, the suffering is as minimal as possible (sometimes no suffering at all).
It was mostly due to the efforts of one man, Imran Khan.
I work at a nuclear equipment supplier.

The focus on paperwork as opposed to real engineering work is something to be in awe at. Process drains competence, but even under ideal scenarios, these are large, complicated machines, and the base incentives for all layers of management are to underestimate the time and cost to complete a project. For many nuclear projects, cost overruns do not hurt the people who made the initial estimates, and the estimates are impossible to do correctly anyway due to the vast complexity.

EDIT: One thing I will also add is that as time goes on, the corpus of knowledge you need to know in order to effectively engineer the parts we supply only grows, as the nuclear fleet ages, documentation rots, and more code editions are released. This means that young engineers face a steeper learning while the graybeards (70 year old engineers, not 35 years old, aka graybeard in software years) face retirement.
The issue with curl|bash is not just the security (you can run curl|bash as an unprivileged user).

It's also the fact that it generally doesn't do anything to integrate well with your system, and just pull all its dependencies in a folder and never update it afterward.
The graph doesn't show LLVM IR compiles to WASM. It does show LLVM IR to JS via Emscripten though.
As a hiring manager, the number of resumes that cross my desk that have 4 months here, 9 months here, 6 months here is absolutely astounding. These are full-time positions. It's especially true of front-end developers, but it applies across the board.

I talked to one guy recently who said, "The first four months at my current job were really interesting and I learned a lot, but these last two months I've been kind of bored. That's why I'm looking."

I don't hire them.

If it's one or two jobs on a resume full of longer tenures, that's one thing. But if it's every job you've had since you graduated from coding bootcamp two years ago (three jobs later, now looking for the fourth), why invest in that person? Why bother?

It's a vicious circle. In the short term you might earn more money from giant corporations who can absorb the churn and need a body on a project, but managers will calculate the ROI of investing in you as negative.
yes

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
The CCC have colaborated with extremists for some time.
The vast majority don't job hop though, it's cheaper to address it one off as you observe, rather run up salary on the majority who're "eating the crumby cheese till it's all gone"[1]. In my personal network I'm astonished at how many stay at one job for years, making far less than they could.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Moved_My_Cheese%3F
How to Build a Horse with Programming [Comic]
IMHO modern industrial agriculture isn't using the soil (
in the strict definition of soil) anymore. It is basically just using the ground as a growing medium and then providing the nutrients that the soil would provide through applications of nitrogen/phosphorous/potassium.

Every year I watch the sand from the farm next door runoff in spring rains into the ditch, which ends up in the creek across the road, which then runs down into Lake Ontario. There's no soil left. On almost all the farms here. But they can still grow things through 'artificial' means.
Heard of the story that BeOS nearly became the OS X for Mac?

https://9to5mac.com/2011/11/11/gassee-thank-god-apple-chose-...
I think it's clear there is a relationship between the two. Perhaps incidental, but they're still bound together.

According to the article, the only implementation on the US side was by presidential policy directive. So our faith in the US implementation of the 'privacy shield' is only as good as our faith in the integrity of said Directive.

Even starting from a low point where it's quite clear Trump is interested in tearing up anything Obama put his name to; his increasingly reckless approach to international relations lowers our faith in any presidential directive by the day. At this point 'privacy shield' either needs to make it into law proper, or we should just assume its days are numbered.
This. Pakistan is a Republican wet dream, if Republicans were Muslim.
This criticism would be valid if the transgressions were all historical, and we all agreed they happened.

Unfortunately, they're still happening on a daily basis and many people are trying to deny that they ever happened at all.
Trains are linear. Tractors and harvesters are areal.

You square the delivery line requirement.

A 1,000 km electric traction rail line needs 1,000 km of cable. (Or 2,000 km for a two-tracked system.)

A 1,000 km * 1,000 km area of farmland with power gridded every 100m has 10k * 10k or 100,000,000 km of delivery cable.
Well none of those issues were resolved sadly, IMO it's as bad as it ever was.
tl;dr: Forged document claims to be from 2006, uses a font (Calibri) that was introduced 2007. Newsletters headline: "Sans Sharif".
Sure, the point was about direct generation, without those intermediate steps.
This is not a binding vote; however, it does indicate an avenue for more hardball action (specifically, giving a deadline by which it will consider the Commission non-compliant with GDPR unless it takes action).