skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep. This sentence in the first photo caption caught me off guard...

"The Milky Way system, called galaxis, resembles a gigantic spiral with an estimated 200 billion stars. One of them is our sun."

I've been an avid astronomy nerd since I was 5 (and I'm almost ten times that age now) and never heard the term "galaxis". The only reference I could find on Google was to the highly acclaimed movie of that name:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113140/

Now I realize they just didn't translate the word "galaxy" when they translated the text to English.
Where the ISP forces use of their modem (like mine does), you can still set it up as a gateway and make it a pure modem, using a second router for your local network.

It's what I've done for years and it works fine. I have a Pi-hole off my ISP modem, and the Pi-hole does DHCP, DNS, VPN, and more for our network at the same time as doing it's normal filtering job.

I'd love a better device where my Pi-hole is though, which I can configure easier, set up for my friends and family then they can manage it themselves, etc. There's definitely a market for this at least from me!
It's kind of neat that if the party starts at 6pm, you (the guests) could take that to mean that is the time you should start getting ready. In this way, you, the hosts, and the other guests will actually all be on the same schedule really.
I'm not really sure why there are any real reviews on sites like Amazon, Yelp etc. Why do people leave reviews; what's in it for them? Is it some strange form of altruism where they're helping their fellow anonymous shopper while also helping out one of the world's most successful megacorporations?

Writing this comment has made me re-think why I'm writing this comment.
> Does everyone state times an hour earlier than they want to correct for this rule?

Certainly seems like that to me. I've arrived at wedding functions at the exact time mentioned in the invite and even the hosts weren't present. I had to wait 30 min for them to show up.
For one anecdote, my extended family usually comes on the dot to things.
Amazon should also provide safe working conditions, instead of acting like a factory in a banana republic.

The fucked up working conditions in Amazon warehouses are well documented at this point. The only question is why they're not getting their asses sued off, especially in such a litigious society.

They probably have some arbitration clause in the contract, also making a mockery of the concept of justice, not only worker's safety.
So specifically on addressing fraud, this only helps the merchant. You could make an argument that decreased fraud decreases costs but human greed overtakes that assumption. So then what’s left from the consumer side? What if the merchant send you a bad product? They have no incentive to make it right. You could argue that eventually it will put them out of business from bad reviews however this doesn’t always work in practice and you’re still out of your money for the original bad product. With a centralized system we can just reach in their account and take it, refunding you your money and costing the merchant more in the long run, further making them want to do legit business. This permanent contract you speak of is a double edged sword that cuts the consumer more than the merchant.
World -> (World, Char) is one possible type for getChar. There was an approach called Fudgets [1], based on stream processing, and in this case the signature would be getChar :: SP Response Char.

Stream processing type used in Fudgets also admits monadic interface implementation.

[1] https://research.chalmers.se/en/publication/1015
Tech seems to be converging to the norms of other highly paid professions. I'd bet that at least 40% of Goldman Sachs' hires come from Harvard, Yale and Princeton.

How about the big law firms? I know they don't really hire much outside of the Top 14 law schools, and I wouldn't be surprised if the top few schools provide 40%-50% of their hires.

I think the discussion has to be broader than just tech ... America is looking an awful lot like an oligarchy with a caste system. Especially when you consider the recent articles about Ivy League admissions policies.

And this seems to have accelerated in the last 30-40 years. It seems to me that in the past it was much more common to see very successful and highly placed people from humble backgrounds, with degrees from schools I've never heard of, or good regional schools which aren't the Ivies. Now it is dreadfully monotonous, with a huge percentage of people in leadership roles from Yale, Princeton, Harvard or Stanford and whose parents have similar backgrounds.
A decent amount of the albums in the TLMC were ripped and uploaded to Japanese P2P programs, a large amount of these rips were ripped "losslessly" with EAC, but they had the "normalize" option turned on in the settings, which adjusts the volume of the rip if it's above or below a certain threshold, basically ruining all the work EAC put into getting a bit-exact copy. This is likely why the rip in the TLMC doesn't match OPs rip.

Edit: If anyone is more curious about this, a large amount of the rips in the TLMC were ripped by one uploader (or a group of people using a singular alias) on the Japanese P2P programs Share[0] and Perfect Dark[1].

He was so prolific in the scene that he has his own Baidu wiki page[2] (albeit, it's not as strict as Wikipedia with notability, I still find it impressive).

All of his rips, as far as I know, were affected by this "normalize" setting, so even though he ripped hundreds (thousands?) of albums, a large majority of them probably wouldn't be considered "archive quality".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Share_(P2P)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_Dark_(P2P)

[2] https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E5%8F%B0%E9%AD%94%E7%8E%8B
Lite sites are just the best. Hacker news, cnn, this, hell even Drudge Report. It’s user friendly. It’s classic. It’s fast. Even with limited ads it’s just a frustration free way to consume info
Twice in fact, in 63 and 67. His motivations, which he explained at length in a press conference that’s easy to find online were that the U.K. was only interested in a strictly limited free trade union, and wanted an extremely bespoke deal, excluding farming etc.

That never really changed, although Britain eventually gave up most of these conditions, when they finally joined.
In 2015, it was commonly thought that it would still be decades before a computer could beat a top human player at Go. Now, you are calling it “easy,” because it’s been done.

The first chess program was written by Alan Turing on paper between 1948 and 1950. He didn’t have a computer to run it, but he could still play a game with it by stepping through the algorithm by hand. In 1997, Deep Blue beat Kasparov, using traditional algorithms and not deep learning.

Clearly there are differences between these problems and dexterity. Chess, for example, can be described relatively simply using logic, and there is no dynamic or physical element; a rudimentary player can be written using pencil and paper; a winning player just needs enough compute power, apparently.

More importantly, there is a technology curve. You are asking about the ultimate limits of a technique moments after its first success puts it at the low end of the spectrum of human ability. Give it a decade or two.

I am just shocked the video was real-time and not sped up like so many of these videos are (eg watch a robot arm fold a shirt in thirty seconds when you play it at 5x speed).
In my experience CS grads to be far far stronger out the gate then boot camp grads. Boot camps tend to get you to intern level generally.
Why is Europe still waiting for large-scale, Amazon-style drone deliveries?
I rarely leave reviews, but there has been a case where I had to threaten to sue a company before they'd hold up their end of an agreement. And 'threatening' is not just mentioning "I'll sue you!" but actually researching applicable law, what prerequisites I needed to be able to sue (e.g. I needed to hire a debt collector first, which would have cost me money as well), applicable court, what the bailiff would cost, court fees, etc. Some fourty phone calls and a few emails and letters later, spread out over half a year, I finally got the money back on the day before I would have had grounds to sue them. That was more than half a year of stress and them having both the product and my money. To be honest it was kind of disappointing that they paid up in the end, as I was finally well-prepared and wanted them to have to pay the fees that debt collection etc. would have incurred.

You bet that after it was all over and done, I wrote that one-star review. While writing it, I noticed that other people had the same issue. One person also had to cite court fees before they paid up, and some others didn't know enough about applicable law or had amounts that were just too low to go to court over (like $50-$250). I usually don't put much stock in such reviews, but it turns out I should have read and considered them.

There are definitely legitimate cases for one-star reviews.
Yes, I have seen all GDC and Unite 2018 presentations about HPC# and what is currently available.

You should find some submissions done by myself.

HPC# job is only to replace those parts currently written in C++, everything else is written in plain C#, with GC, as Unity always was. In fact they have migrated to .NET 4.6 with 4.7 on the roadmap.

Just like Unreal uses C++ with GC, but naturally in performance critical paths they resort to other techniques.

Which isn't much different than on the old days, avoid malloc() and new on the performance critical paths.

Just because there is a GC available doesn't mean one has to use it for every single allocation.

Unity's ECS is implemented in a OOP language, C#, and anyone that has spent some time in the CS literature about component systems, knows that they are just another variation how to do OOP.

One of the best sources uses Component Pascal, Java and C++ (COM) to described them (1997), with the 2nd edition (2002) updated to include C# as well.

"Component Software: Beyond Object-Oriented Programming"

https://www.amazon.com/Component-Software-Object-Oriented-Pr...
Just shows that the leaders of war-time should retire after the peace treaty. Britain elected Labour right after the war and though rationing kept going for quite a while, the peace-time government created such brilliant things like the NHS.
Related: if anyone hasn't seen this before, you have to check out the infamous, utterly bizarre pitch for Pepsi's latest logo: https://www.goldennumber.net/wp-content/uploads/pepsi-arnell...

Don't forget to dimensionalize exponentially, kids!
Not limited to Brazilians, but company culture starts at the top. If the boss doesn't care about time, everyone else will get the message and be lax as well. Things become systematic due to people following these established intra company norms.
You have to get it linked on HN for some shameless self promotion. For instance, check out my project https://github.com/keredson/gnomecast, a linux native Chromecast broadcaster for local files, which supports MKV files, subtitles and 4K! I'm only a few stars shy of 1000! Help me out here guys! =P
> I'm sorry, but you really don't understand how working with the media works. You seem stuck on this idea that earned media has to be positive.

That is quite a misunderstanding of my position. What do you take me for?

They don't need to be all positive at all. My point just shouldn't be actively lying or misleading.

> If an outlet has a history of attacking you, consider why they are attacking you and if the attacks have merit.

Done. (And it is not about me, and I'm in a position where it would be useful for me to know if there was something.)

> It sounds like you have a rough time with media.

Personally? Not at all.

> And frankly, publications will always write things that are technically true without adding any context. Never assume that this is because of malice because truth is, they likely don't care enough to be malicious. The sooner you get over this idea of a big, bad malicious media, the sooner you will learn how to work with them.

My question is rather: how long should we accept this (i.e. baseless smear campaigns agains companies and/or individuals)?

Mostly media does a great job and I respect and actively (i.e. by donating or keeping subscriptions I don't need) support great journalism even if I don't agree with everything they write.

But sometimes some journalists are really destructive. It is those cases I'm talking about. If the pen is mightier than the sword, then at some point, shouldn't the abuse of a weaponized pen be punishable? That bar should be high, yes, but at some point (inciting hatred against nations or ethnicities using made up allegations should be a good example) I think most people would agree that society should have some way to correct it. The question is just exactly where that bar should be.

And again no, this isn't about me. Personally I never had problems with media going after me, this just happens to have bothered me over years as I've seen certain journalists go after other people for what turns out to be no good reason. I'm luckily not aware of many cases though, but what I've seen has made me hesitant to talk to media (and Gell Mann amnesia also isn't as strong as it used to be anymore either).
Due to multiple QEs and low interest rates in developed economies across the globe, a Trillion won't be what it used to be by the time these companies reach that milestone.

(Just like a Million ain't what it was anymore at family level[1]).

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/300451/us-millionaire-ho...
repetitio est mater studiorum

“Repetition is the mother of all learning”
The main page doesn't do a great job of showing what's interesting about Grain vs. JavaScript. The only hint is this: "No runtime exceptions, ever. Every bit of Grain you write is thoroughly sifted for type errors, with no need for any type annotations."

Maybe show some examples of errors Grain would catch that JavaScript wouldn't, like Elm does: http://elm-lang.org/
Summarizes and code for 2nd place solution in the Mars Express Power Challenge
Similarly, I read Pachinko a novel about Koreans in Japan in the period 1910-1940 (mostly). Koreans were all lazy, unintelligent, untrustworthy thieves. A stereotype that few would still hold today.....
The thing is solvency ratios should move like icebergs. Demographics, life expectancy and salaries don't change that quickly. Ok so stock markets move but reviews should be annual to allow for course corrections. So seeing it get so bad in such a short amount of time is a bigger story
And strings are now strings, surprisingly, and not bytes...
That's probably true, but I don't think we have much experience with electric motors operating in high altitude at the power levels required by planes. It'll be some time before we have as good an understanding as we have with jet engines, turboprops and piston engines. Remember these engines will cycle through extreme temperature changes every day of their active lives.
> security ... Rails

One bad default setting and [0]BOOM!
[0]https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/b83965785db1eec019edf1...
We have exhausted enough of the easily-accessible resources close to the Earth's surface that all it takes is a sufficient dip in technology, and we enter a rut which we can never get back out of.
Condescending perhaps, but there was no personal attacks and certainly none any worse nor less substantive than your terse reply (which, it's worth mentioning, was also after the discussion had already reached its natural conclusion).
You might be right.

With the "&limit" parameter he can change how many items he receives per HTTP request. This has nothing to do with a limit on how many HTTP requests he can make per TCP connection (pipelining). Maybe that is the "100" he is complaining about, i.e., 100 items per HTTP request.

However you failed to answer my question: Is he making 100 TCP connections to make 100 HTTP requests?

Does the Reddit server set a limit on how many HTTP requests he can make per connection? (100 is a common limit for web servers)

Sometimes the server admins may set a limit of 1 HTTP request per TCP connection. This prevents users from pipelining outside the browser, e.g., with libcurl or some other method.
> It's a reference to a belief commonly held by people who nominally agree with Ayn Rand's view as they understand it to be.

I asked a question specifically about that above, see: (b)

Is asking for substantiation of a claim, an insulting claim at that, now considered improper etiquette around these parts?

Ask yourself this: how do you know this to be true? Can you share where you've encountered Randians in sufficient numbers to form an opinion with high certainty? And, can you no longer find any trace of these people and their words?
After Belluzzo and Elop, I'd think twice before picking an ex-Microsoft exec for a top job at a competitor. Some people may leave Microsoft, but it feels like Microsoft never completely leaves them.
What is this? I can’t tell from the url, other than it being a lot of music?
1% seems way way too conservative, every product I click has a lot of them. Even if you count all the products people don't buy much, it has to be at least 5 or 10% fake reviews minimum.
Catfished. I thought this was going to be about cars.
Potential Policy Proposals for Regulation of Social Media and Technology Firms [pdf]
We've been using serverless with AWS lambdas for a few months.

Testing is hard, the more AWS shit you tie yourself to the harder local testing and development becomes. I picked up a lambda project another developer started and asked them how they were testing and developing locally. Answer: They deployed a new update for every change (!?)

Debugging: Look at log files...

Also, at some point serverless added some autocomplete crap to my .bashrc file without asking which I will never forgive them for.
Can Twitter beat Facebook?
This is exactly how we test our lambda code that call AWS media encoders
PUSH is known as "weakening", one of the structural rules of logic.
I've found that EAC works really well in Wine, and it's still my favorite ripper, even on Linux. Similarly, Foobar2000 in Wine is the best Replaygain scanner/tagger.
Haskell does not constrain the order of evaluation when dealing with real world. It constrains order of effects.

The code "putStrLn this >> putStrLn that" is allowed to evaluate this and that in any order, basically. "that" may depend on "this" and vice versa. The very expressions "putStrLn a" is also not an action, but expression, being evaluated into actions.

And the constrainment of effects is what makes Haskell special.
To be honest, it's probably for the best, it's just that this is one of those edge cases where it was used for a legitimate purpose.
The idea that Plato was "impressive for his time," but with the inference that he is not now, is something certainly held by some modern-day philosophers. But it is not a generally accepted view. The reason is that philosophy is (for the most part) not a subject that sheds its skin — whereby the "old sources" are discarded in favour of the new, generally speaking.

I say "generally speaking," because there are parts of philosophy like this; in particular logic, where the development of formalization in predicate logic, in the nineteenth and twentieth century eclipsed the categorical formalizations of Aristotle and the propositional formalizations of the Stoics. But Plato's argument against instantiated universals in the 5th century crops up when anyone wants to do serious work on universals—and this holds up to the present day. Or, for example, anyone serious about the notion of knowledge would do well to carefully examine many of the arguments in the Theaetetus to discover where the blind allies are when it comes to giving a rigorous definition of knowledge.

Of course, knowing Plato will help you with historical context. But that historical context reaches across the centuries and informs present day conversations in philosophy. The reason is that philosophy is a particular practice and way of approaching the world, rather than a body of doctrine. In turns out that the way Plato approaches a particular problem will shed light and spur new ideas about how to approach that problem—such that we can juxtapose, say, Plato's conception of universals with D. M. Armstrong's conception of the same. Or Plato's conception of knowledge with that of Bacon or Karl Popper.

So, I take issue with the claim that there are "far better things to be reading now." There are many great things to be reading now; but that does mean that Plato's work has been eclipsed, or that we have nothing to learn from reading his work beyond satisfying historical curiosity.
It's in the sense that the current implementation of idea ownership is mostly a ham-fisted exercise in rent-seeking. Ideas work best when left to spread, mix, and be freely used.

It's a complex topic, really - on the one hand, you have the boneheaded stupidity of software patents, or of music and movie licensing (that have little to do with compensating original authors and performers, and is instead about middlemen getting rent); but on the other hand, you have drug research and $manybillion silicon fabs, which kind of require IP protection even exist.
Home Solar Resiliency
How we spent 30k USD in Firebase in less than 72 hours
HackerNews also seems to be designed to be less addicting and immediately rewarding, don't you think? It's more geared towards technical deep reads than BBC or something similar.
"I doubt that would have appealed to Hitler or Stalin."

Probably not. But it could appeal to many popes, and it didn't prevent many of them to be scheming manipulating power-hungry a------s. (The "may not own stuff" is not really different from "I am a CEO with no salary and a company plane.")

I just don't see a smart and reasonable person wanting to rule over other people. And even if you wanted to, I don't think there is a good strategy on how to do it.

For any benevolent enlightened dictator, I see an analogue of the classical Epicurus quote about God:

Is the ruler going against the will of the people by manipulation? Then he cannot claim to be enlightened.

Is the ruler going against the will of the people by force? Then he cannot claim to be benevolent.

Is the ruler not going against the will of the people? Then he cannot claim to be a dictator!

What Plato is describing is simply a fantasy that glosses over many real-world complications of ruling. Such as, even if you were a genius ruler, how do you select your associates and underlings? You need a system anyway, there is no way around it.

(It is also kinda similar to fallacy of Cartesian theater - if only we had a perfect component where all the decisions are made, we wouldn't have to deal with all the complicated details of how that component actually arises from more elementary things.)
It really depends on the industry, I guess.

My observation, being born and having lived in Brazil for my whole life, is that there's a power/authority/seniority dynamic involved, too: If you have a meeting with a customer, you should be on time, but it's okay for them to be late. When meeting with your boss, they'll probably be late, but you probably shouldn't be. Internal meetings within the company usually start later than meetings with other companies. Once you know people professionally for a longer time, you'll also be more comfortable arriving later.
I can answer questions, and provide specific references to back any assertions I make.

Can you?

You've made several accusations above, can you substantiate them, without changing the subject?
You say "Ruby developer" as if you were born like that and stuck with it. There's an entire world out there!
Though to be fair that site was simply carrying on the tradition of long-dead Oink’s Palace!