skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That depends a bit on the kind of forest (some forests have way less ground cover than others) and on how you define “forest” (e.g. if a river that floods regularly flows through a forest, do you consider its shores to be in the forest?) and “running” (e.g. are the Barkley marathons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barkley_Marathons) a running race?)
Use of compile-time type checking to make changing interfaces easier is a great trick. A great trick may mislead many to see it as the only one in the book. Then you get dumbfounded looks and a troublesome question arises: how can these large systems written in not-so-static languages (indeed, no thought about "systems") possibly grow and evolve? And yet, they do.

Maybe it's time to reconcile with reality: there is more than one way to operate; there is value in more than one paradigm.
Yes I would be philosophically opposed to the government publishing CPI numbers that include durable investments of any kind. CPI should only be consumption. People can always choose to rent instead of buy.
Society is not a person, it doesn't have a definition. It's just an abstract excuse used by actual individuals. If you want to propose, as a person, a particular notion of privacy, do so.
Recommendation for checking out Digital: A Love Story, a free PC game set mainly on BBSs in 1988.

http://scoutshonour.com/digital/
I always think about the particular difficulty of translating authors who use language in ways that are very subtly strange to native speakers. How do you recreate that strangeness in a second language without completely reimagining the writing?
Reaching consensus is the definition of strong consistency. Eventual consistency would be something like: "Alice: I don't care when Bob attacks, as long as he attacks sometime in the future."
Ah, that makes sense. The next main difference in my mind is ergonomic, but relies on this regularity: functional syntax for composition, negation, quoted application. There are also other syntax additions and in my experience they're well-chosen and go a long way.
Okay, sure, but that's just the classic argument for static type systems, i.e., soundness.

I thought he was trying to allure to something more.
My brain just did something weird. Instead of instantly recognizing two concatenated words, it spent a while trying to work out the pronunciation of an apparently old English word, before Occam’s razor finally kicked in, hopefully before my vocabulary absorbed an errant entry.
can't seem to format - is the HN edit function just broken completely?
> This suggests that our sensory perceptions (and possibly, in the current research, our memories) lose fine detail in a way that can be analogized, if not explained directly, in terms of discarding or losing high-frequency information.

All practical analogue systems are band-limited. This applies to optical systems in the spatial domain, too.
As I've said before, the only way the internet rage mob culture will dissipate is if participation in a rage mob carries the risk of being subject to a retaliatory rage mob. That's why I love to read stories like this, and I wish they happened more often.
Posting this under a throwaway for obvious reasons.

Elon is a beneficiary of South Africa’s apartheid government. He has never apologized for this or acknowledged it in any form. When will we call him out on this?
> novel dependency resolution algorithm

I've heard/read this, but I can't tell what is necessarily novel about it...to me, it reads like old-school/boring Maven transitive dependency resolution.

(Not holding out maven as best practice, it's just what I know best in terms of pre-version ranges, pre-lock file dependency management, once those features become state of the art in ~2010.)

...that said, Maven does actually support version ranges; ~10 years ago when I last used it, either it didn't support them then, or we didn't use it, so perhaps that is why vgo seems so familiar. Or I just have a terrible memory.

Anyway, if anyone can correct me on my fuzzy assertion that "vgo is like maven w/fixed versions", I'd appreciate it!
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Synchronization can involve any data.

A sends "Attack at 5:00, send your plan"
B sends "Attack at 5:00, send your plan"
A sends "Attack at 5:00, send your plan"
B sends "Attack at 5:00, send your plan"
A sends "Attack at 5:00, send your plan"
B sends "Attack at 5:00, send your plan"

Repeat until you got 3-4 confirmations of same data being sent back to you and the plan will work.
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Yeah it's not like there's amazing diving in Thailand that expert British divers would want to explore... This is crazy.
It got a lot of criticism at launch but I really enjoyed the ticketing grind through early levels. It was a great way to unwind after I came home from work.
"A leader falls on his sword for his team if and when needed."

I like this. It also reminded me of a lesson I learned when reading Maj. Richard Winters' memoirs: a good leader leads from the front. First one in, last one out.
Someone pointed out that the 2 generals problem wasn't stated correctly on the post, the Wikipedia article invalidates my thinking entirely [0].

So, I agree re. strong consistency; as the problem was about that, and not eventual consistency.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Generals'_Problem
Not to mention all of the professional projects which failed and fell off the radar entirely. It's hard to say what has merits without giving it time.
I hope you didn't delay the rest of your life for a game. :)
This seems so totally out of character for Elon that I can only assume he is drugged or mentally ill. Maybe he's Ambien tweeting. If he's still in southeast asia, that would make sense (as he'd be tweeting around midnight local time).
Second that: game looks amazing! Maybe you should scratch the irony in the article because I'm sold :) I'm spending the next seven years on my project :)
He also doesn't say such things at all. I haven't decided whether the impossibility of his writing to be read and discussed charitably is primarily his fault or ours, if it even makes sense to think of it that way.

I agree with the cherry-picking, though. A glaring omission in his writing is adaptation (or hormesis), which is surprising for someone who draws such inspiration from Selye.
My read on it is that it was to avoid anything taking damage, especially the screw (and screw head, other than, perhaps, the slots themselves, insofar as they could be used for future driving purposes).
I disagree, but I think it is a matter of perspective, if by "successful" you mean "do not end up in a bankrupcy sale".

But then by your metric, there are businesses that are "more than successful": they are not acquired, but acquire others instead
I linked to a write-up of peer-reviewed research which focused on the "if" and demonstrated that the odds are daunting. That ... is an answer. I linked to a second article showing that renewables are reducing emissions from natural gas today. "If the environment was prioritized enough" then either would work. Renewables are making headway given the current political economy of energy, nuclear is not. And to repeat: I wish it were!
There may be a technical solution on Twitter's end — adjust their feed algorithm. I feel like their shift towards algorithmically ranking the Twitter feed (versus chronologically) has dramatically increased the reach of viral moments like this.

They're trying to maximize user engagement/addiction and it's working. But what cost is their algorithm imposing on society? We're seeing more outrage in politics, more clickbait in journalism, and more privacy violations like this. Engagement-obsessed algorithms have created massive externalities which we all pay for.
Why do you feel that it is "likely"?
The bit about side projects generating more press than anything you do commercially...

There's no need to personally attack me like that.
We’re looking seriously at using this at work. Is anyone aware of any OSS implementations?
APL in Common Lisp: Core syntax described in a particularly beautiful macro
They're callable as functions, i.e. they implement clojure.lang.IFn. So unless you want to shave hairs on what it means to say they're not "functions", they _are_ functions. Sets, vecs, maps, keywords, and IIRC symbols are all IFn

Oh and (#{1 2} 3) is equivalent to (get #{1 2} 3) not (contains? #{1 2} 3)
Do not agree. We now have Google homes in several rooms and they get used often. One difference is you do not put smart speakers in drawers. They are out in the open and you see them.
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I have no idea who he is or what he's trying to say, but his "about" page reeks of quackery.

>The key idea was that energy and structure are interdependent, at every level.

> It seems that all of the problems of development and degeneration can be alleviated by the appropriate use of the energy-protective materials. When we realize that our human nature is problematic, we can begin to explore our best potentials.
How did Ballmer drag down MS?
> People who aggressively court public attention should expect to receive public attention

I would only add that in some cases (some of them notable today) people have nothing to contribute besides a desire for public attention. Public attention is not a right or a tap that can be turned on at will, and I don't care to give it to dull, uninteresting and shallow people.
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I get that it's trendy to shit on India especially by Indians itself but I absolutely can't wrap my head around your argument.

India has its problems but asking a company to do something to remedy the problem a little is too much? Lynchings happened before and they will probably continue to happen but now they are happening much more frequently and the common messaging medium is WhatsApp but somehow your argument is that the culture and government should get its shit together? In other news, water is wet.

It hasn't gotten its shit together for the past 70 years but please don't save the lives of a couple dozen or hundred people because instantaneous group chats are super precious. Let's not build a bicycle because we are busy getting to the moon! Let's pursue the utopia and not pluck the low hanging fruit!
Twitter deletes Guccifer 2.0 account after alleged Russian operators indicted
Netflix is making money on the back of comedians
I’m sure I’m being daft, but how would that arrangement function as a self cleaning filter?
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Thanks for reading the list. You're an outlier! For the majority of people, and so for a coffee shop owner, heavy coffee cups are better.

I plan on having a some more obvious evidence to back this up, But I have yet to find a study that's specific about coffee cups.
I think it was just an example, but now there's this lively discussion about us: https://chat.meta.stackexchange.com/transcript/89/2018/7/15/...
Well it seems Moon Quest is single player-only, which might or might not help narrow things down. It does look pretty cool though despite that limitation. I might try it out.
Beauty is truth, truth is beauty, and other lies of physics
JC Bose is a hero of mine. He was a polymath - Contributions in physics (linked article) are well know. But he is also the person who proved what is universally taken as granted: Plants are alive.

The was also a great detractor of the idea of intellectual property -- he made all of his discoveries deliberately available to the public domain.

His handling of racial discrimination at the colonial British was also pretty bad-ass!

His wiki page is a good start.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagadish_Chandra_Bose
Wow, reminds me of Douglas Hoftstadter's analogy based congition theories.
The idea is that if there's 99 shots on goal, one's gonna be a lucky shot and score. Nevermind the problem being the ball is a cube, unfit for the game...
Python originated as a scripting language for a niche OS.

Postgresql came from adding SQL to postgres (mostly? a research project), while postgres itself was mainly a research project.
I don't think "more expensive" is a valid criterion. When you replace a big chunk of metal with 20 carefully-designed parts that come out to be a third of the price, you have not made things simpler.

Even if it comes out as equally difficult to maintain.
Yes, that's a problem. It's a question of scale, nowadays you can broadcast whatever you like to an audience of millions. Not that you should.

The law addresses questions of scale, though. If you call your ex you are a sad case. If you call her 100s of times a day you are a stalker and different rules apply.
Where is the money for mobile app developers, period?

About four years past. That ship has sailed. The top apps are now all from the big players.
Btw these Google go and YouTube go are terrible to use in the cheap devices. So stuttery
Blue Wave was amazing. I vividly remember many of the discussions I had with folks at the time - particularly on assembly, demoscene, and electronics. Learned a ton, and it helped shape my entire career.
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> The key idea was that energy and structure are interdependent, at every level.

This doesn't strike me as so far out there. The concepts of entropy and enthalpy are often used at the molecular and cellular levels, along with statistical mechanics, which definitely interconnect the concepts of energy and structure.

> It seems that all of the problems of development and degeneration can be alleviated by the appropriate use of the energy-protective materials. When we realize that our human nature is problematic, we can begin to explore our best potentials.

This is a strong claim, for sure. But it becomes less quacky if interpreted more plainly: our nature is to degrade under the force of entropy, which can be countered (to a limited extent) by energy.
You "knowing a guy" means nothing. The point is that the signal to noise ratio is extremely low. Not in useful apps, mind you, but profitable apps. Why? Competition.
Men’s ties may reduce blood flow to the brain and limit work performance
I think you are talking about optimistic concurrency, but optimistic concurrency does not perform well in cases of high contended keys.
I got curious about the role of Whatsapp in this whole incident and googled the actual incident:

https://in.news.yahoo.com/google-engineer-beaten-death-over-...

From this story it looks like Whatsapp was only used as a communication medium and not really the rumor mongering one. While I can understand some of the examples given the linked dw.com article, I don't see what could Whatsapp do in such cases? Should they block every offensive message?

So, for me this story sounds more like a low quality effort on part of the media. Once upon a time there used to be similar stories about how SMSes were being used for rumor mongering and spreading propaganda. And the major issue has always been ignored - education.
I mean, the point of modules is to get rid of vendor. And if you were building outside of GOPATH previously, you were likely broken (or using a specialized build tool that handled this for you). The second one is because it's a cache. Storing them there isn't a breaking change, it's just a bit odd
Good gas mileage is one of the many design goals. Another important one is reliability.
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But Ballmer didn't fall on his sword; he just apologised, to people who had no ability to punish him for the mistake which he claimed as his.

If you receive an apology from someone several levels above where the mistake was made, I don't think it means much. You end up with no reassurance that anything is being done to stop it happening again.
I wish real cables behaved like that but that's not what actually happens. The worst is their tendency to coil which happens when different layers of the cable are twisted and exerting twisting force with regards to each other.
It's a great documentary; worth watching.

I have a friend and former co-worker who had relevant role in the movie (and, funny enough, I only discovered years later, when I re-watched it).
If the airline was identified by the tweets, they should have stepped in, call the pilots/flight attendants to stop this madness.

It seems it would be easy for the victims to sue either the airline or the two perpetrators. Suing the airline might be safer to prevent doxxing by the 1M followers who somehow find this entertaining.
For learning purposes I created quic[0]. I wanted to strip it down to the bare minimum for running something in a "container". I got as far as having it use a preexisting network namespace. The networking part felt like a major piece of work (setting up the network in bash was tedious) so I figured I'd call it a day and leave it as is. Lots of fun and learned a lot about containers/namespaces in the process.

[0] - https://github.com/archevel/quic
> Just looking at the first problem, a four lane highway is a four lane highway, regardless of how vehicles comport themselves.

Lanes are as wide as they are and following distances are as long as they are because people are terrible at driving. A mostly-driverless 4-lane highway could more than double capacity just by reducing following distances when computers rather than human beings are making the decision when to brake and how hard to brake.

Humans also cause traffic jams by causing accidents or rubbernecking at accidents - that'll get better too.
>For better or worse society’s definition of privacy is definitely changing.

That's a matter of perception. You perceive it to be changing.

I don't know anyone who would willingly be on the receiving end of what this woman suffered. I do not see societies definition of privacy changing. I see a small group of needy people using using loopholes in the law to harm others in order to re-enforce their own ego.

The law is slowly catching up with the digital age. We'll outlaw all this stuff eventually. Unfortunately, most of this is falling to case law and case law is very reactive, so in general someone has to be badly harmed for each loophole to be closed. Still, we'll make it. In the mean time, it's important to enact community punishment on the trespassers.

The woman who did this did it because she is looking for employment. On the off chance that she comes asking to anyone on hacker news: If you care about privacy, do not hire her, and tell her it is because she treats others badly.
I'm looking for apps that don't try too much and work in a good way in low powered devices. The next billion users are not getting a decent usable application. That's the point.
The ratio is rather different, and that makes a difference.

In many companies, merely a handful of entities can make up most of the power, or nearly most of it. Shareholders that matter can usually fit in a room, and have a conversation.

With 300 000 to 1 as we see in politics ... it's a little different.
The new OS from Google, Fuchsia, should be able to run on much less memory. The kernel, zircon, is tiny compared to Linux. Plus with drivers in user space you will only use what you really need and only when needed.

The big question is Android support with the needed run time will take memory. But the sooner more app are written using Flutter that would help with the issue.
Buses suck. Their fixed routes suck. Their infrequent schedules suck. Stopping at every stop sucks. Having to put up with what other people do on them sucks. Not being able to sleep because you're not by yourself sucks.

There really is no way buses win.
> So how can you take 7 years to make your game? [...] Simply open up your code editor, download a basic windowing layer like SFML (we aren’t savages and this isn’t handmade hero), and then start writing your resource manager, event system, animation system, physics system (which you’ll ultimately throw out and replace with Box2D), scene manager, GUI code, serialisation framework, build tool-chain, entity-component system, and texture manager, to name but a few.

That's the meta game, where the author of the game enjoys building the game as its own game. Not productive if you're trying to ship a game, but definitely sounds fun.
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In my experience, it's a real pain to get golang projects to build in Jenkins, and it's probably the same for any CI/CD setup, simply because of the gopath. Jenkins agents expect to set up its build directories a very particular way, and so does go with its GOPATH. Juggling it just right to get it to work is frustratingly difficult.

In fact, the one main reason I'm looking forward to this release is because of the elimination of GOPATH. It'll make my day-to-day operations at work FAR easier.
are you using mapbox by chance? im asking because i was under the impression that they were exactly this, a non google maps api.
Strange comparison. If you look at the leaders in WWII (Churchill, Eisenhower, Hitler, Stalin, etc), none of them were at the front. Generals generally aren't either. Its direct leaders such as corporals and sergeants who are leading from the front; not officers. As comparison: the direct leaders would be CTO, division leaders, or direct managers.
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No, you don't get it. The OS that is outselling android is Kai OS. It's a simple smartphone OS with basic stuff. The next billion users are already half way in and the market is open for capture. Waiting for a couple of years is not wise
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Doesn't that apply to pretty much everything? Be it JS frameworks, games, fridges, toothpaste etc there always seems far too much choice. It is the nature of our system.

For games, frameworks and such like there's so much choice that it's unlikely you'll come across all in a niche - so you're choosing from the few little islands you happened to come across. One or two of those discoveries will have a wrinkle or two that appeal and there'll be the occasional surprising diamond.

Only much later when the SaaS or game closure is on the front page of HN do dozens of others get to hear of the thing and make posts along the lines of "wish I'd heard of this earlier..."

I far prefer the world of Indie games to the tedious repetition of AAA titles.
How is this out of character? He's constantly insulting people on Twitter.

Honestly, I'm surprised this one blew up more than the time he called a guy from South Africa a 'chimp'.
> if interpreted

But that's the point. He doesn't claim that, he makes a vague claim with ambiguous terms that could be interpreted in any way, even if he's qualified enough to know the precise terms.

That's the health equivalent of post-modern literature.
one interesting thing is that the BBS would have been impossible if the government hadn't forced AT&T to allow people to hook their own chosen devices into the telephone network.

In other words, in the old days, phones did not have a jack in the wall - AT&T came to your house and wired their network directly into your telephone. They did not want the RJ-45 jack which made consumer Modems possible. The government forced them to open up their network to other device makers, to competitors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carterfone

I really wonder if the modern techno giants would be able to be regulated by the government if they became stagnant monopolies.
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