skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the last several years I've programmed mainly in C++ and python. The differences couldn't be more clear. I find dynamic languages impose a lot of overhead in terms of tooling and additional test code to account for the dynamic type system. Often it seems like a poorly spec'd static type system that is specific to the problem domain is implemented in tests, for one.

The range of programming patters isn't really restricted in any meaningful way. It may require more up-front effort, but it pays off.

In fact I'm attempting to get my team off of python and onto something else with static typing. It's the ML space, so likely we'll consider C++ or Scala. Possibly go for some of the infrastructure code would be a consideration as well.
It depends an awful lot on the lag between demand and excess supply. It might use the noon sun to pump water that was used to meet morning demand.
That article is very low on actual electrochemical details. Here's one of the research papers on high performance salt water electrolyte batteries: http://sci-hub.tw/10.1126/science.aab1595
How about having too many tabs that you never get around to closing?

Articles on Instapaper and the like that you never get around to reading?

Side projects that you never finish?
I thought clicks and eyeballs were the only requirements for “web software”. Selling your users' data seems to be the only business model left out there.
Plus the lack of a pro level desktop machine (excepting the imac pro. all-in-one) isn't helping apple with power users that Autodesk users presumably are. They announced new ones are coming a year ago but still no details or a real release date.

Its a shame as the macos application packaging system makes makes for an easy way distribute and run applications.
As somebody selling on Amazon MWS, this might be entirely Amazon's item matching issue - when you are uploading your item feed to Amazon, items on your feed are mapped automatically to Amazon's ASINs (basically their own IDs), and that matching often ignores when you specified pack quantity. I.e. sometimes your 6-pack gets matched as a single item and sometimes a single item gets matched as a 6-pack. They have that issue ~8 years already; I guess to them it's more important to invest elsewhere than to better algorithms...
So you have discovered how we were using chroot for decades. Congratulations.
Many of the Fallout games are indeed set in the western half of the US :)
Another famous one is tic-tac listing 0g of sugar content... In their 98% sugar pills. Because they're small enough, they're legally allowed to do that. There's already a lot of lying happening now.
I wonder if some interested Japanese ever got together to simply find new sensible meanings and words to retroactively apply to these ghost kanji. As a sort of creative pass-time.
Apple: OpenGL is now discontinued on our OS.

ISV: We're not going to do a special port to $proprietaryAPI of $singlepercentmarketshareOS of our x-million LOC each applications.

Hackernews: Look how salty $ISV is.
>>It depends an awful lot on the lag between demand and excess supply. It might use the noon sun to pump water that was used to meet morning demand.

You could just shut off the dam at noon instead. Then run it full tilt in the morning.
That is a completely unrealistic model that would be inadmissible when talking about most other things. I am not even sure it worth responding on a technical level if you can't see that yourself. Just compare this to any sort of statistical model whether it is in manufacturing, engineering or 'plain' mathematics.

What is curious is that people who tend to view the US government as incompetent, which I think many people can agree
with whether their opinion on the governments role, suddenly when talking about poverty seems to think that it is a role model for efficiency. Not even the Nordic model takes this stance.
BigCommerce is really decent.
It's much easier to reproduce images / vector graphics on a computer than it is on a printing press. Reaction GIFs, custom pseudo-emoji, "stickers", and so on could be considered variations on characters. Also, handwriting is possible with a stylus, though tablets aren't popular enough for this to have become a big thing yet (it may someday). I wouldn't worry too much!
This is what most people feel when confronted with a new blank canvas.

If you retreat, embark on a different journey, and succeed, you will end up staring into the same abyss--just from a different angle.
There's plenty of room to build housing, high prices are a result of bad policy.

I agree that manufacturing capital will serve itself.

I also agree that credentialism is a problem but I don't think it is particularly impacted by immigration.
True for many places but not for all. I'm sure there are places in the world where cost of living is not that much cheaper, while income levels are significantly worse than in the US.

I'm thinking of Moscow in particular (where rent prices are also quite high). 2017 median income was, reportedly, about 63k RUB/month (~$1k/mo) after the taxes: https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou...
That makes (very roughly) 2.5x cheaper cost of living difference to the US, while income difference is, very roughly, about 4x less ($12k vs $50k after taxes)
I would definitely add Steam games that are never played.
>Calling WWI "step back" is understatement too.

Really? It had such little impact, they were ready to do it again in twenty years. All your examples are similar in that regard. They were certainly horrible for the people involved, but not a catastrophe that was impossible to recover from.

You're using a less extreme use of the word "catastrophe" than what Pinker is describing. No one doubts that there are problems now that could get worse. More that we shouldn't romanticise some past age, and we shouldn't abandon the enlightenment values that got us here.
What I’m getting from the responses to this post is that everyone is getting checked and everyone resents it, nobody knows why they’re checked and every decent innocent individual can only conclude it’s due to prejudice.

Sounds like the TSA are nailing it.
Also, our evolved environment had more random pathogens floating around in it than the modern world does. It looks like many auto-immune diseases are caused by the immune system getting restless with lack of exercise. Throwing more vaccinations at the immune system looks like it should do at least a little bit to reduce the problem.
German just saw the addition of the capital "ß" (U+1E9E) last year.
Eye catching corporate website redesign – Behance
The only problem with this strategy is that competing vendors will start leaving 1 star reviews on reviews of rival products.
That said, I haven't bought much either and switched to vendors that somewhat vouch for their products like Best Buy, Walmart, Monoprice, etc
Is magnesium dissolved in water bioavailable? There are some sparkling mineral waters with Mg ions and it would be nice to be able to just sip on those
What about the conservative pro-Reagan youth in the '80s, the Yuppies?
Somewhat ironic that apparently a lot of Apple products have been designed using Alias, at least the original iMac, according to a biography of Jony Ive.

https://books.google.com/books?id=CRZuAAAAQBAJ&pg=PT106&lpg=...
I don't think a facile analysis of the economics is interesting.

For instance, if you shut the dam off, then it is generating $0 revenue for that period. Is that a better use of capital than adding seemingly redundant pumps to recapture some of the (time shifted) flow?
Was a user of "Adblock plus". They partnered with ad agencies and started to whitelist ads. That defeted the whole purpose and also it became clear the for profit organizations can not fight against the ad agencies as they have to partner if they want to make profit.

Ublock origin is so much awesome.Its free software and also very easy to use and its actually much more than adblocker.
42. Ground and tower comms related to pursuing private pilots license.
It is hardly ever the boards themselves that fail but the connections between them and that is the reason for further integration.
I bought a magnesium spray but in reading up about absorption through the skin the evidence doesnt seem certain. Unless its getting absorbed through the rectum in a bath?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5579607/
Whether implemented by a corporation or government agency, services in the USA (health care, education, transportation etc) have all had stunning successes and stunning failures.

Thus, both sides argue over which is worse. Typically, those who have vested interests will support the side that pays them.
I was thinking about this yesterday. You can't really "see through" someone lying to you. It's already basically impossible to know if one person is lying to you if they're consistent about it, so how could you know if there were a coordinated campaign of misinformation? What critical thinking skills let you tap into an extra-sensory source of truth beyond any information you actually have access to?
> But if the Radiolaria and Diatoms are thus rained upon the bottom of the sea, from the superficial layer of its waters in which they pass their lives, it is obviously possible that the Globigerinae may be similarly derived; and if they were so, it would be much more easy to understand how they obtain their supply of food than it is at present. Nevertheless, the positive and negative evidence all points the other way. The skeletons of the full-grown, deep-sea Globigerinae are so remarkably solid and heavy in proportion to their surface as to seem little fitted for floating; and, as a matter of fact, they are not to be found along with the Diatoms and Radiolaria, in the uppermost stratum of the open ocean.

> It has been observed, again, that the abundance of Globigerinae, in proportion to other organisms, of like kind, increases with the depth of the sea; and that deep-water Globigerinae are larger than those which live in shallower parts of the sea; and such facts negative the supposition that these organisms have been swept by currents from the shallows into the deeps of the Atlantic.

> It therefore seems to be hardly doubtful that these wonderful creatures live and die at the depths in which they are found.

> However, the important points for us are, that the living Globigerinae are exclusively marine animals, the skeletons of which abound at the bottom of deep seas; and that there is not a shadow of reason for believing that the habits of the Globigerinae of the chalk differed from those of the existing species. But if this be true, there is no escaping the conclusion that the chalk itself is the dried mud of an ancient deep sea.
This one it seems => https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16972672

Judging by the number of stripped shared bikes I see around town it'll certainly be interesting...
When there is a dam already producing electricity, you just reduce the flow through the dam rather than pumping the water back uphill. That is by far the most efficient way to handle excess generation from other sources in this case. This is a politically driven proposal whose implementation will be a boon to private producers at the expense of taxpayers.
It's Global Tiger Day. How Is the Effort to Save Them Going?
It sounds devestatingly insane to coastal areas and the ecosystem as a whole.

But insane ideas are some of the best ones to explore further. In it might be something practical.
The Earth’s magnetic field is reversing more than ever. Here’s why
Any suggestions for solving or improving on this?

I used to have a humble bundle subscription and every month I got like 5 games on Steam, and played around 2 per year. My solution for this one was to unsubscribe. Yes, I still see it every now and then and think "Oh would be cool to play this" but then I remind myself that I would have no time for it.

Another case is started projects or just ideas that never get realized. But no solution for this. I know I should "just start" and finish small increments etc, but it doesn't seem to be enough to motivate me, even though I think my ideas would make for some great useful apps/scripts.

What suggestions does HN have?
Sorry I may have missed it but can you source "They do it in Israel. Separate entrances for pilot and passengers. Only way to get from the passenger compartment into the pilots cabin is by exiting the airplane and entering a separate door from the outside."?

That seems unlikely for many reasons (washroom and rest area access among others).
It’s time to confront Amazon’s secret monopolies
I'm going to live a little dangerously here, partly because I have a job in mining, partly because of who I am.

I don't have the foggiest idea why it is important to protect endangered species in and of itself, and I don't think there is a good reasons to.

Famously, pretty much every species that has ever existed has gone extinct. Every organisation, formation, species or what have you will, statistically, some day no longer be. The nature of time is to bring change. We can't preserve everything anyway, and there is nothing to be proud of in keeping a dying species in the world.

I can understand requiring extractive companies to restore land after they use it to something that isn't hostile to life, but I don't understand why the fact that the near-extinct colour-crested-hopping-possum is endangered should impede human progress. We need to face up to the fact that human endeavor is more important than animals and that being rare does not make a species somehow important. It certainly shouldn't be a cover for NIMBY types to shut down mining activity.
I have always manually done the few sysadmin tasks I do, but recently had reason to learn automation tools. At my current job, I use Ansible because that's what the rest of the team does. However, in my spare time, I discovered CFEngine 3.

I would have assumed, given my background of manually performing these tasks, that I would immediately be attracted to Ansible over CFEngine. As it turns out, not at all. Now that I have played around with CFEngine, I keep bumping into issues where it feels like Ansible is in my way, or forces me to do things the complicated way.

I know a lot of people disliked the earlier versions of CFEngine, and I do realise the documentation is kind of so-so even for the current versions. But despite these things, what makes people prefer something like Ansible over CFEngine?
Yeah. I looked into that book. His sample size was 345 people on a 'self reported' survey the authors randomly sent to rich neighborhoods.

Any self respecting scientist would blow their brains out with a shotgun if they were forced to use these results to draw enough conclusions to write a 200 page book with....

This scumbag presents ratios the entire book instead of actual numbers,then at the very end tells you his sample size.

That book is the biggest money grab crock of shit on earth and is as conclusive as a two year olds explanation on why the sky is blue.

If you ever reference that book as a talking point you should be absolutely ashamed of your self because you're a garbage person who is using fake science to fit their bullshit narrative of the poverty being an individuals fault instead of a systemic issue.
Anybody who cares enough to ask the question. Everything else can be abstracted over.

And then the simulation only has to be detailed enough to provide you with a reasonably-plausible answer. As soon as you stop looking, the algorithm can just strip out the detail.

This trick isn't even that hard, graphics processors do it all the time.
A character that existed for a while, just not in digital typefaces.
It really depends on the article. Throw enough specialist jargon in the article and it will take hours to really understand 2 paragraphs. And fact checking may not be enough anyway. You can selectively report facts which seem to tell any story you want - everything will be correct, but could miss the bigger context, so what you learn is opposite to what you should learn from reality.
I think this is one of the fundamental problems: we often cast people into the roles of antagonist and protagonist. Someone has to be "wrong", someone the villain.

Why?

Why can't it be two people who simply have a misunderstanding?

Not everything is an adversarial relationship.

I could easily say "Unfortunately, some children are just egomaniacs" and it would fit just as well.

I'm always wary of someone who wants to put the entire burden on one side. Expecting everything to cater to one's expectations just sounds selfish. At some point, you have to compromise as well.
There are 2 million people on domestic flights daily, if I checked correctly. If 30 get followed, it is a few orders of magnitude lower than in East Germany.
> But in the current environment where even basic truth and sources are under attack by yelling 'fake news' where is the foundational truth on which to even arrive at critical thinking?

> This is the authoritarian's great trick.

Is it an undeniable fact that the current environment is significantly different in people’s attitude towards foundational truths than the previous environments?

In truly authoritarian (or totalitarian) countries, there are very few outlets broadcasting what goes there for the foundational truths. People are supposed to believe what is being told them via these outlets, yet many (especially the intellectuals) develop defensive mechanisms and learn to ignore what is presented to them as foundational truths. Take the Soviet Union as an example. There were several state-run newspapers and TV channels translating what went for foundational truths, yet with time many learned to disbelieve what they saw on TV or read in newspapers.
Yes, everyone likes to talk about 働 and 峠. These characters are rare and the set is not expanding.

Anyway, sure the simplification could happen. You just take the code point for 國 and start rendering 国. The principle that the font affects the rendering is already set with Han unification (probably not a good decision but we are stuck with it now). At worst you end up with redundancies (even in the Chinese case automated transition from simplified to traditional characters is mostly right; if you're going the other way it is always right).
Which mine that didn't get opened is really, actually impeding human progress?
If you by "a few" mean "9".
> Either they are using an engine that doesn't allow for other low level rendering options

According to Wikipedia, the first version of Alias is from the 80s, and it initially ran only on IRIX. From that, I'd guess that it was initially written using IRIS GL, the predecessor of OpenGL. It probably doesn't have a separate "rendering engine"; IRIS GL and later OpenGL concepts and calls are probably strewn all over the code. Porting to anything else would probably be a significant effort.
As far as I know, karma doesn't help submissions.
That sounds like the most reasonable explanation to me. Being an air marshal and being an air marshal's boss are coveted jobs.
Why does it frustrate you? If it had stayed at zero comments and few points, it would have dropped from the front page quickly, probably within minutes.
[tangent]

Speaking of Steve Reich, if you haven't yet listened to his glorious Music for 18 Musicians ensemble piece (duration: 55 minutes), do give it[1] a try.

An explanation of the composition and its structure:

http://www.18musicians.com/genreunique.html

http://www.boosey.com/pages/cr/catalogue/cat_detail?musicid=...

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXJWO2FQ16c

[/tangent]
But can somebody ELI5 how the remote spectre exploit works?

I understand the original spectre exploit. But have no idea how it can be done without code being involved.
The Salton Sea.

Death Valley or Crater Lake also would be good, but likely would face opposition from almost every American.
There's a pumped-water electricity storage facility near where I live, called Northfield Mountain. It entered service in 1972 and has been in use since then.

When electricity demand is low, the grid operator uses the excess to pump water uphill. When electrity use is high, the water flows back down into the Connecticut River. Horthfield Mountain can deliver just over a gigawatt of energy for eight hours with the generators running at full bore.

It was originally built as a complement to the (now-decomissioned) Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant. That plant generated 0.6 gigawatts continuously, and functioned most efficienty if it wasn't ramped up and down to meet instantaneous demand. So, the storage facility provided a way to vary the power output from the grid.

The Times piece contained these words:

...utility-scale lithium-ion batteries cost 26 cents a kilowatt-hour, compared with 15 cents for a pumped-storage hydroelectric project. The typical household pays about 12.5 cents a kilowatt-hour for electricity.

It's a little misleading. The 26 cents and 15 cents figures are for capital expenditure to build storage capacity, which can then be used over and over (for 45 years in Northfield Mountain's case). The 12.5 cents is for a kilowatt hour consumed.

Also, I fear the 12.5 number represents lazy journalism. The current residential rate in Los Angeles is 17.8 cents/kWh, and in New York City (home of the Times) it's 21.0 cents/kWh. Rates vary a LOT geographically.

I hope journalists can learn to understand energy economics better, because they are a way for the rest of us to learn about them. And learn about them we must when fossil fuel use diminishes.
To add on to your point, we have no idea what unjust laws will be passed in the future. Building the infrastructure for opression, even if not being currently used for that, is dangerous considering the uncertainty of how it will be used in the future
There's a lot of awkward assumptions towards the reader in this article - or I'm way out of the loop. Is it that hard to realize not everyone is working with a Mac and how is the transition to using ZSH a given!?
Is there really anybody who used a gulp command without installing it beforehand?

All of this seems way too specific to give an unexperienced user a good overall understanding, I don't think this is an introduction I would've wanted.
From http://hnrankings.info/ it looks like the #2 submission was "Detecting the use of "curl | bash" server-side" (324 points, 10 hours ago, 105 comments)

Now your comments has 35 minutes and the OP has 56 minutes. So with some approximations, lets say that at the time you wrote this the OP has an age of 0.5 hour and the #2 post has 9.5 hours.

Roughly the order of the HN post is: upvotes/age^1.5 * lot-of-penalites

[There are many post that discuss the details of the order in HN that are more accurate, I don't remember if the gravity factor is 1.5 or 1.6 or whatever, and it may change from time to time. It's part of the secret sauce, but let's use this version as an approximation.]

The weight of the articles half a hour ago was:

This post -> 9/(.5)^1.5 = 25

Curl/bash post -> 324/(9.5)^1.5 = 11

So it's expected that this post was in front of the curl/bash post. Not surprising.

As far as I know, the post don't get a better position because they have comments. [It's part of the secret sauce, ...] I personally prefer post with few comments.

There are many penalties, some are automatic, some are added by the mods and some are caused by the flags of the users. [It's part of the secret sauce, ...] One penalty that is surprising for many users is the "flamewar" detector, that applies a penalty when an article has too much comments (something like "comments > upvotes + 40"???) So too many comments is usually bad for the article.

In this case, I think that neither of the articles has activated the "flamewar" detector or other penalty. I think the problem is that if you don't have a rough idea of the order algorithm it is sometimes surprising.
This is interesting, but it should not be called the "Logic" of cities. Maybe "Orientation" of cities.
Yup, website and docs are ready to get started. Just working on the latest details.