skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a professional gopher, don't.

Just a few months ago I replaced an almost 100-line Go "script" with two lines in the Makefile. The fact that Go is great for big projects doesn't automatically make it good for everything. Go is for programs, not scripts.
Dwight Eisenhower's Best Productivity Tricks(2014)
The argument is that they should adopt existing widely used tools not create their own walled garden which is an inferior copy in order to lock people into their system.
I love Braid so much.

First, the soundtrack, songs by Jami Sieber and Shira Kamman, were phenomenal. The gorgeous cello and violin are so atmospheric, and they also sound good backwards and sped up -- necessary for a game like Braid, and chosen for that reason.

Secondly, the artwork - that naive 2D platformer style but combined with gorgeous and subtle shading and depth that really showed it was something special. We're used to games doing this now, maybe.

Thirdly, the structure of the game itself as a critique of the traditional Mario-style platformer with its jumps, princesses and castles. It was like playing a postmodern game.

Then there's the relationship between the level's gameplay theme and the lesson it's trying to teach. This was something I saw Elizabeth Sandifer point out. The first level is all about being able to undo the mistakes of the past. But then we learn some mistakes are too big to undo. We learn about how a ring can change things in a relationship...

And then there's the two levels of twist ending and how they relate to games and gaming, especially a decade ago when it was much more a male pursuit.

Honestly I could talk about Braid for hours.
There are plenty of people fixing Apple hardware and it's worth doing because the residual value is so high.
You have high taxes. You have lots of income from mining and your rich natural resources.

Then just build 3 Hong Kongs. What's the problem? Immigrants will be happy to build their new cities. Hong Kong didn't just suddenly show up. It grew over time on an island that had basically nothing on it. It's neighbour Shenzhen was a 10,000 people fishing village and is now a 10 Million metropolis.
>but the cost of this is the society around it a) can't afford to run meaningful not-for-profit space projects

How so? SpaceX spends money in the US, meaning they generate taxes which directly increase the government's ability to run more expensive not-for-profit space projects. The problem is that the government decides to spend only 0.5% of its funds on NASA.

The same argument goes for all your other points. SpaceX spending money means they employ people (both directly, and indirectly by buying stuff), which should always improve the overall situation for society (even if the jobs were bad, the fact that people choose to take the jobs means that having the job is better than the job not existing). It also means they generate lots of taxes, which improves the government's ability to do all the other stuff you list.

Megaproject like SpaceX seem like a good thing for society no matter how you look at it (unless you assume Elon Musk should donate all his money to a better cause, but that seems unreasonable in a capitalistic system).

Megacooperations like Apple might be another matter. Apple takes money in the US, uses it for production in China, and keeps the profits stashed in tax havens. You could argue that this activity is harmful.
Braid is a masterpiece.
Difference is that with Google and Facebook, these 'questionable decisions' are the core and essence of their business. With Apple, it is at worst someone's attempt to cut a few corners, and at best, just someone's negligence.
Well, if I was a cafe owner worried about non-customers going nefarious things I would not be happy until IBM deploy a decentralised blockchain solution that anyone with a HTC phone hardware wallet can seamlessly sign in to with the task only taking thirty minutes or so.

Or maybe make it as easy as possible, never changing the password and thereby getting repeat trade. I am sure a firewall can be opted into with the ISP to make sure nobody is downloading ISIS kiddie porn, Trump tweets etc.
Nice try, but this is HN. Go back to Facebook where they're more susceptible to this sort of thing.
And growing xenophobia that made legal skilled immigration harder and harder over time. I've tried moving to Australia several times. Gave up after spending months interviewing with companies who at the end never pick the foreigner. Most don't even bother talking to you if you're not a permanent resident. Very much like the US.
Australian Akshay Venkatesh wins Fields medal – the 'Nobel for maths'
But someone always controls that shared database. Distributed ledgers continue functioning regardless of private or governmental change and are resistant to rent seeking behavior making them unsustainably expensive or ungainly.
One Year Without AMP
Yes, its always funny, peak ressource, the butchering of citizens by another, the crimes done by youth with nothing to loose, its all funny. Then you turn around and point at the superficial motives - the racism, the desperation, the drugs needed and start yelling.

I want a adult as communication partner. It was funny enough while it blasted. Somebody who can take uncomfortable decisions and is able to go against his/ her instincts, when they are proven wrong.
Social mobility? No, it's about preventing people becoming that desperate.

By definition, social mobility just lets you mix up the set of which people who are desperate, no?
> Would I be correct in saying OCaml is pretty much Rust without the borrow checker?

Yeah, it's very much on those lines, though the syntax is a bit more ML-style (Rust pushes a bit towards a C-like syntax).

(I actually mostly use Scala myself these days, but I know the JVM is a dealbreaker for some people, and the design compromises for the sake of Java compatibility mean Scala is probably not the best choice for a first ML)
Scientists present concept for the elimination of traffic jams
They're not paying "just" 2% in their entire structure. Those profits flow back through various entities, to the US (where they will pay additional tax), to the shareholders (either ultimately through dividends or buybacks, which is subject to tax again).
AT&T's gigabyte service is $70 a month.
Hopefully this discovery will help GE turn around its business
> to be quite frank: This problem is mostly with immigrants.

Please take this stuff to Facebook.
That you can abuse something only because other people don't is pretty weak justification.
It's just simple function calls, minimal boilerplate and simple API.

You can write shaders (not mandatory since it supports 3D without them) but loading them is simple as using ShaderToy.

https://processing.org/tutorials/pshader/
> I have been tempted by a more fancy IDE, but I'm so used to vim, I'm reluctant/scared to change.

I'm happy to report that JetBrains' VIM plugin is almost flawless (Block-based editing, window splitting, save/close, it's all where it's supposed to be).

I used to be in the same camp. But if you add a linter and parser and full blown backend to make lookups for code completion to your VIM configuration you might as well use an IDE. I've switched to IntelliJ for Java.
Another book I really liked that talks about infinity is "A Certain Ambiguity", by Gaurav Suri and Hartosh Singh Bal.
How Oil Exploration Cut a Grid of Scars into Alaska’s Wilderness
It's a pretty stupid meme, even Mike Godwin said so.
Regarding multiprocessing and serializing between processes in python, and linux specifically, have you tried SharredArray?

It dumps numpy arrays in /dev/shm which can loaded by other processes by the filepath, muuuuuch nicer than passing things around
It does not exits, it is only a mathematical abstraction, based on abstract notion of a Number, which also does not exist outside your head.
No, but it does right? Just the effect of the Google font I chose. Kind of weird
This can only be a good thing in the long run. Exporting recyclable waste is like exporting bales of dollar bills, and paying for it.
>monocrystaline blades grown in situ within (!) a ceramic fibre reinforcing mesh.

Holy hell. How in the world do they pull that off while still keeping the crystal growth boundary continuous?? That sounds amazing, do you have any more information on the subject?
There seem to be a hierarchy of genres.

Serious stories happening in a real historical setting are on top. And it goes down as we deviate from this archetype. Fantasy and sci-fi are a step lower, and comedy is rock bottom. Horror is often not serious or realistic, it is meant to entertain, in its own way, so it is right down there with comedy.

Of course, that hierarchy is purely artificial. People enjoy "low tier" movies a lot, and a lot of talent goes into them (to varying degrees of course). But for some reason, you don't want to say it publicly.

I think it dates back to ancient Greece or maybe even earlier. So that's a thing we have to live with I think.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_buildings#By_ag...

Europe's building are just a little older.
+1 I agree with you. I want to reward Apple for making beautiful products and making a fairly good effort to respect and look after customers’ privacy.

I also like Google’s products like Play Movies, Play Music + advertisement free YouTube, Google Assistant, and GCP. I feel like I am ‘leaking’ too much of my private data with Google Assistant but it is such a good product that not using it is a little painful.
SharePoint intranet in a box
>multiple identities apparently enabled him to claim large amounts in welfare benefits.

Pretty sure you don't have to be a migrant to do that. Plenty of people doing it in my country are locals.
There's a large step between buying a product and reverse engineering it and getting hired at a company in order to exfiltrate its internal files. One of those is called industrial espionage.
Have you tried pyflakes?
It does create some problems, in particular when wealth buys politicians and laws to feather its own nest.

There is also some evidence that more equal societies tend to be healthier, even for the wealthiest.
Facebook loses its chief security officer Alex Stamos
Apple's stock price is based on its ability to make money, it has very little to do with the quality of its products.
This simply isn’t true, you can use iCloud, the windows photos app, or even just windows explorer to move photos from your iPhone to your PC.
three -- I was working full time as a software engineer for the year before that. I also had two internships before that which I don't list.
You plug in your phone to your PC and it shows up as a drive and you copy the photos. You don't need iTunes at all.
An Optimist’s Guide to Solving Climate Change and Saving the World
I like where this is going. But I'm still a bit skeptical at the use of neural networks in this use case

How big is the problem space? There's a limited set of roots and morphologies...

Would a more rules based approach work (more accurately)?
Fertility trackers and the data risks
> Note that while compulsory licensing of patents is rare in the US, it is common worldwide, and it one of the reasons that US drug firms get proportionally less of their revenue from outside the US

Wow. I was totally unaware of this. Short term exclusivity is common but I didn't realise that in the US it was commonly for the duration of the patent!
So what exactly are Apple doing to advance humanity? Their charitable giving, especially in the Jobs era, was nonexistent.
OK, interesting point and taken on board, I've updated my comment to be more sensitive to the point you've raised, thank you for your feedback.
What an awful way to explain infinity to kids and adults. How about something simpler? like 'infinity is when something never ends'?
Sounds right; maybe it's a side-effect of something else.
Jonathon is an active HN member, though I am sure he is tired of discussing Braid in depth.

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jblow
Trizbort.io: Map and design adventure games in your browser
I agree. I would have liked to see photos also, but the drawings are nicely done!
I wouldn't trust the windows calculator anyways for anything beyond trivial arithmetic. Use an environment where you have actual control over how the calculations are performed.
> If money is held and invested, its owner is merely acting as a small independent wing of the central bank.

While I can agree with the basic premise that the rich being richer doesn't necessarily make the poor poorer, I think the issue boils down to where that money is invested and whether that is to the detriment of other people. While money itself is essentially amoral, it can be used in ways that certainly aren't.
Australia measures GDP in AUD not USD, you’re talking about PPP
No. The US Government is 18%-20% of all R&D spending in the US. A lot of that is in the military budget of course.

Which makes perfect sense when you consider the size of the private economy versus the share of government spending that could reasonably go to R&D (versus entitlements, military, infrastructure, etc).

Private corporations are around ~$400 billion of the ~$550 billion per year spent in the US on R&D.

The government R&D figure as a share is higher in the EU than in the US, but not dramatically so. The private sector is simply too large by comparison and can focus its resources more narrowly on things like R&D than what a government could be expected to.
Personal files - install iCloud Drive on your computer and copy the files. You don't even have to do that. You can log on to iCloud.com and download your files.

Emails, Calendars - they use standard protocols. You can use any email client to get the data off

Photos - you just plug your phone into your computer and copy the files.

Disposable electronics - seeing that Apple is releasing iOS 12 for the iPhone 5s released in 2012, how do you figure? How many Android phones from 2015 let alone 2012 are still getting updates? Sure the phone is easy to repair - I just take it to the Apple Store.
In Germany, there was a case of a german native man getting multiple refugee identities by claiming he was from Syria, without speaking a single word of arabic. To make things even more absurd, he was an active member of the german military.

Just one example, i could bring up hundreds.
For starters, just adding Cython and/or Numba to the code should introduce great improvements. https://rushter.com/blog/numba-cython-python-optimization/
Brogrammer’s Story
So exactly how do they make money? Unlike Google and Facebook thier business model is very simple, they make stuff people want and people give them money.
I have thought about the same thing: if a company like Samsung came out with an even more beautiful phone and did not install crapware and didn’t allow phone companies to load crapware - and halved the cost of a similar iPhone, that could really scoop out Apple’s profits.

But, loading crapware will go on, and nice phones will always be expensive so I think Apple is in great shape long term.
How to use Augmented Reality in museums: examples and use cases
> Addendum: "Okay, so far the pretty consistent answer I’ve heard is that it is very hard to take software written for internal use and make it available for outside use. Even if you insist outsiders do things your way."

Yes, largely these days process software is the business - it defines the structure, employee roles, how business units interact, how internal accountability works, and so on.

That's why modern startups can contract out in a pure Coase style both employees (Uber etc) and capital assets (AirBnB); only the software is the irreducible core of the business.
THE DEEP BETRAYAL OF NKRUMAH BY GHANA AND THE AMERICAN CIA
I think it's still not exactly easy to call up basically admitting you've stolen the pieces, and end up with the money and not in jail.

Even though I suppose there's more anonymous preserving ways to transfer money now than ever, so it should help.
Or any other reason why Apple might delay dividend payments. Other companies could have hit a trillion sooner if they hoarded cash like a dragon or only did buybacks.
It would make sense that any information is stored as a key-value pair in the brain. In this case, the key is the sensory input, and the value is the type of surface that is being touched.

Could the simplistic key-value pair work in creating more complex systems? perhaps it does, if keys are complex input structures which be divided into more keys in a tree-like fashion.
See I believe Apple makes down right unethical decisions as well, like when they sue refreshers and repair shops...

When they threaten to sue Youtubers who are educating people on how to repair their devices

When they lobby aka payoff governments to prevent right to repair laws

When they refuse to release tools and information that allow owners access to their hardware

When they refuse to acknowledge hardware design flaws or stand behind their products...

I could go on but the point is the idea that Facebook makes unethical decisions but Apple does not depends on what one considered ethical. Walled gardens to me are unethical so i do not buy products in walled gardens.

Like wise I do not accept having my data sold as a commodity so I never joined facebook. They likely have a shadow profile on me, which I do find unethical, but most people are complaining about them selling data they themselves gave to facebook in exchange for a free service, I do not find that to be unethical. People that created an account with Facebook, for free, should have suspected this.
The Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act: Friend or Foe?
The comment in question only talks about theoretical top speeds and he doesn't actually do any benchmarking. I'd like to see some actual tests before they write it off.
> I've read about old books for programming a BBC Micro with BASIC

Few have managed to make me feel as old with as few words.

While as others have pointed out the specific BASIC programs are likely to diverge in various ways. That said, they're likely to have enough similarities that there are decent chances you can type in quite a few things and mentally translate "as you go".
There are a lot of BASIC languages these days, all subtly different (or radically, if you count VB.Net). BASIC variations were often quite married to their purpose, whether that was programming for a specific model of 8-bit micro, or being embedded in WYSIWYG GUI design tool.

As mentioned by someone else, QBasic is still around, and there's also Gambas (which is as close to old-school VB as one can get on Linux) if you're looking to play with something.
> What I meant by "not engineering excellence" was in relation to the original post, comparing how to manage production servers with the SR-71. Nobody should regularly operate their servers like an SR-71 or top fuel dragster. It's great to fly really really fast, but most people should probably not be doing that, because it requires making exceptions like leaking fuel. You actually want to run your server like a big slow complicated comfortable redundant jumbo jet on autopilot.

Engineer here. It appears you've mixed up some pretty basic but unrelated concepts. Engineering projects are based on use case scenarios and design requirements. You've presented your personal and very specific usecases and design requirements and somehow assumed that they were shared by another project or that they even made sense. If your main requirement is performance and all other requirements are minor in comparison then the optimal design wont be a workhorse, but a race horse.
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It would be interesting to have data about the global movement of raw materials in finished products and the restulting waste, net import and export by country, to see where waste is accumulating and where the consumption actually takes place.
Well, like the saying goes "In America they think 100 years is a long time. In Europe they think a hundred kilometers is a long distance"
Yes it's easy enough to get unprotected cells, but the hoverboard batteries usually have short circuit and undervoltage protection, both of which are very nice to have as a beginner. If you know what you are doing you can also get RC hobby batteries for not too much money.
Sometimes the resason that you don't get redirected to the wifi network's captive portal is that your browser is trying to access a page using HTTPS. Trying to connect to a HTTP-only site (like http://neverssl.com/) can solve this.
Not using encryption to hide your public service is perfectly acceptable. If you come to my house, you can access my wifi network. No password needed. It's my gift to you.

This information is not public. It is a set of shared secrets. And now it has been shared to everyone in the world, rather than those who the owners wanted it to be shared with.
> I would find something like this to be helpful

I would find a scheme where I am simply allowed to help myself to any goods or services I wish to consume, for free and without permission, helpful, too.
Apple Is Worth $1Tn. Two Decades Ago, It Was Almost Bankrupt
> the quality hasn't gone to shit yet imo.

> I remember when opera used to have an IMAP client built in and you could open up an IRC chat tab, it had so much cool stuff!

Don't really understand those two comments. You're saying it hasn't gone to shit yet but then you're describing the features from Opera 12, before Opera switched to the new Chrome-based browser they ship now without any of those features.

I was a long time Opera user back when it had all those cool features, and dropped it when it dropped them. Many of its long term users did the same and many of their internal devs left too. I'd say Opera very much went to shit in 2013.

> Mozilla is the single most toxic thing in software culture in the past fifteen years, imo.

Curious about this view; I've been a bit lost since the Opera exodus, looking for a decent alternative. Mozilla's got some problems, but they're the best I've found sofar. What's toxic about them?
The series of Input magazines always had their listing for all major 8 bit platforms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Input_(magazine)

They did not do things subtly differently, rather completely different, depending on the model.
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No, you're right and I'd got my frequency bands wrong, was thinking of 698-806 MHz. 61.5MHz is the broadcast RF band for channel 3, not the baseband.

(I've probably spent too much time around modern radio systems and just casually assumed that 61MHz was too low to be useful, oops)
My understanding is that the parent's comment was in the context of instantiating a class, rather than in the context of underlying definitions. Because Python constructors are nothing like regular functions; there is a lot more "magic" happening underneath when instantiating a Python class than in the case of Javascript.
Command-Line Image Processing with ImageMagick
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We had one a few weeks ago in the UK, Rolls Royce:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44489797
lemme write an urban.

don't
mention concentration camps that would be uncouth let's
all give a hand to the fucking Hitler Youth
carefully formed and finely selected ex-
pressions like Eichmann marks on the forehead in
soul-view-only ink that don't show in mirrors
that'll be your Nazistern in the Bear Jew era
you built that shit all of it on sand and bones
that's the watershed that separates our final homes

no one's so small that if you sweep them 'neath the rug it
won't come back to bite you you cowardly fuck
upload your brain extend the age of your ass
won't change a thing what you sow comes to pass
there is no escaping the person you become they were
locked up and killed you went out and had fun
every bite you swallowed smoothly cuz you got no conscience
will be at the trial to indict you and your friends