skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never thought I'd see a mention of Colobot on HN - but yes, you could play the entire game like a normal action-adventure 3D game, or program robots to do everything for you and just sit in one place the entire game. It was amazing.
IMO it was done to recapitalise banks which are getting drowned in NPAs. Not sure if it worked out or not in that sense.

People also say it was done to win some state elections. Modi says it was for the war against corruption/black money and to improve the tax base.
Let's encourage that belief. I'd like house prices to fall there
Encryption should be part of the MVP.
Interestingly generics seem to drive the addition of type inference in order to avoid having to write too complex types, losing the self documenting nature of the static type, but still not avoiding the problem entirely.

Consider the types of some template generated pointers, or just something like std::unique_ptr<std::vector<std::shared_ptr<Foo>>> (which isn’t a very far-fetched example).

This is ”the generics problem”, where it actually starts having an obscuring effect.

ObjC is immune to the problem since it lacks any need to do do the specialization. Unlike Java where you needed a lot of manually inserted casts without generics, ObjC doesn’t need them at all.

Like you say, dot notation, ARC, stricter resolution of dynamic messages etc were weakening the strong points of the language and would push the programmer towards a Java-like object model - which is very far away from how the language ideally should be used.
The poster child for me at the moment is Ghost of Tsushima: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSAvzeopPC8.
I recently heard a nice explanation of working out perks - if u have ateention deficit disorder, doctor prescribes ritalin, if u have depression, doctor prescribes prozac. Working out is much like taking a little bit of ritalin and prozac from mental state perspective!
The patent it from 2004, so the issue becomes moot in 2024. At least for the C++ standardization that might be a reasonable timeline.
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Talking about solar furnaces: if you are a house owner there is a lot of heating costs to be saved from building your own solar furnaces for air or water. Solar electricity is pretty ineffective (at most about 17% in commercially available solutions) whereas home built air heaters sometimes get up to 40% and water heaters almost 80%.

A friend built a solar air heater (2.55 M2) that gets almost 1kw of energy out in late February with -5c outside.
>>How do you explain the actual change that has occured in the real estate market then?

What change has happened in the Real estate market? The big builders are continuing to sell their inventories as they were doing before with cheques and RTGS transactions.

People still continue pay bribes to registration offices.

In fact plots around vicinity of Bangalore are still going like hot cakes.

If you are fed up about property rates, then there is going to be no relief there. People are coming to cities for jobs through flood gates, and demand is far higher than supply. Every year one crore babies are born in India, and all of them need homes to stay 20 years from now, this is year after year, every single year.

When the demand is this high, how do you expect prices to not go up?

>>Even if it dents the black economy for 5 years

It didn't anything even for 5 minutes.

Only thing it achieved is slowed economic growth.

>>We'll take more such actions when needed.

Again, who is this 'we'.

>>vast majority of middle class in india earns less than $4 per day.

That's the poor, and they were worse effected. The unorganized sector where these people are largely employed suffered and many jobs were lost.

>>Yup, they were forced to move it from there in 2016. Some moved it to bitcoin, as described in TFA.

Not even fools keep their money in cash, even in the past. People invest money.

Indian economy didn't exactly come magically into existence in 2016. So please...

>>Bullshit. Electrification and economic reforms can happen simultaneously in the world's seventh largest economy.

You call these 'economic reforms' :)

Great, carry on.
The Globus IMP mechanical navigation computer was used in every manned Russian space mission from 1961 to 2002.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voskhod_Spacecraft_%22Globus%2...
I don't think the existing pythonic way is not too verbose:

if node and node.child and node.child.attribute:
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How to Download All HD Movies in Just 100MB 2018 – Urdu/Hindi
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I thought I found a browser security bug
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I know what it was but that wasn’t ever in reality actually the case almost no one paid the exesses taxes during, heck forget almost no one paid that marginal rate.

So you want 91% tax from what amount?
It's sad at a sentimental level but at the same time, the aviation industry provides plenty of statistical material on safety.

The general trend of getting humans out of the way through automation is a good one. Checklists are critical to make sure humans don't fail to do something. Anything they don't have to do is an item less on the checklist and one less thing that can go wrong. With many modern planes the startup check list is "push the start button". Of course you still have the pre-flight checklists and other checklists but engine management is typically fully automated. That means no more complex failure modes because of cowl flap management, wrong mixture or prop settings, over torquing the engine, etc.
I find alternating the type of exercise to be helpful too. If I had to go to the gym 7 days a week, I'd get really bored. So instead, some days I hit the gym, other days I practice my drums (playing fast metal / punk so I'm tired and sweaty when I'm finished).
Nigerian FinTech startup, Mines, set to expand across Afrika
If there's a 2 degree (or a 2 kilos) increase in my body over my entire life (which is similar to these 100 years) I wouldn't care.
Learn directly from the creators of React PWA and PawJS #Meetup
for nested loop you can do

for child in node.children or []:
for attrib in child.attributes or []:
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Overeating is damaging to health. You will find all kind of extreme and outlier diets around the world. The populations eating them are still healthy.
Altogether such kind of searches are probably more about calming people's mind than actually finding something. Especially in this case where the human AND THE DOG went missing without traces. It's super unlikely that they both had an accident and not one of them was still alive enough to at least try to get help. Dogs and humans, due to different physics, should likely have different patterns of dangerous accidents.
Or course sun'rays are damaging, and it is why sunglasses exist. But if you are in front of a computer screen for 7/8 hours a day, you are exposed to blue LEDs which, unlike green and red LEDs are also damging for the eyes.
Not HN style either, but lots of content: Library Genesis.
About 2 thirds of large mammal species were wiped out in the Americas, Australia and New Zealand within a few millennia of humans stepping foot there.
Prominent Fortnite player explaining choice not to stream with female players
It looks like it's the other way around:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street#Legal_issues

>In Alexandria Drafting Co. v. Andrew H. Amsterdam dba Franklin Maps, the court ruled that "fictitious names may not be copyrighted" and "the existence, or non-existence, of a road is a non-copyrightable fact".

Maps are copyrightable (I think?), but the trap streets themselves aren't. They're only there to detect when someone is copying the map.
Because betterofchuck is not with us anymore, I have copied his comment, which I think is important for a myriad of reasons. Predominantly because _this is how america works_, we punish, we do not fix.

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Poverty is the Lord's way of anointing the sinners for the righteous to cull.

Ephesians 1:11 “In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will.”

The parts of US culture I am familiar with blur the lines between godliness and wealth pretty far. It is a common belief that the poor are being justly punished for their sins, and that only good things happen to good people.
For some Facebook employees, Free Food is Coming to an End
A lot of mom and pop investors made incredibly poor decisions in Australia's mining boom, buying up properties in mining towns to rent for $800k+ and after the bottom fell out of the market only being able to sell at sub $200k. Often using equity in existing loans after appreciation to pick up three, four properties.

It seems insane to me to buy even one property in a mining town, let alone multiple.
I do not really understand your comment. The South Korean shipyards are pretty much all about making very large and complex ships. Most of the ships of companies like Maersk are made in there.
I'd like to filter out certain domains, for instance there is no point in me visiting latimes.com because they block the EU.
Have you ever been in a situation where ...

How many times has this happened?

Tell me about the first time ...

Tell me about the other times ...

How did you solve it each time?

How could you have improved that resolution, and how would you solve it again?

How big a problem do you think this is ...

If someone could solve it, what would that be worth to you?

Email is better than twitter as it's nominally private, people tend to open up more that way (less angst about third party impressions).
There was a time where relativists realized that instead of solving the Einstein equations subject to initial conditions coupled to some matter stress energy terms, they could instead fully specify what spacetime looks like, ram it through the Einstein equations and get a stress energy tensor on the right hand side.

The Einstein equations became a recipe generator: if you want this spacetime, then you need this matter/energy.

Unfortunately, all the interesting spacetimes (such as the Alcubierre drive) require exotic matter, matter unlike anything we have ever seen. Other spacetimes people were interested in generating were stable wormholes. If we could ever produce such matter then we could start some spacetime engineerinng. Meanwhile, we are left with these oddities.

I heard that Alcubierre somewhat regrets having his name on this spacetime as he gets contacted by all kinds of Star Trek fans and other people who believe they can produce the drive. He has done all kinds of other quality research in General Relativity, but this is what he will be famous for.
> Not according to the brain scans.

Which brain scans? Isn't it common knowledge now that most of those stories of "we put someone in fMRI and had them do X" are nonsense? Also, fMRI is hard and until recently, 25-40% of studies got it wrong. See [0].

> It's the act of reading that strengthens the brain.

Good to know I'm strengthening my brain every day, spending 10 hours reading code and/or HN comments. :).

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[0] - https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/scicurious-brain/ignobe...
One of advantages of greenhouses and vertical indoor farming is removing pest/weed/animal access.
Yes! if in a temperate climate solar water heating is a much quicker economic payback than solar electric. Especially, if your house has central heating as is common in the Netherlands and Switzerland.
Yep, and there's so much salt in mass manufactured biscuits and the like I can no longer bear to eat them. Add more butter instead!

Cutting back on refined sugar really makes things taste better, lots of subtle flavour makes previously bland stuff like oats taste really nice. But the downside is being unable to stomach the excessive amounts of salt and sugar in a lot of stuff. The upside is I save a fortune on buying junk food since most of it now tastes awful.
> I'm wondering about an importer for the Frink ones... but https://frinklang.org/frinkdata/units.txt doesn't seem to have a license?)

That data is almost all taken from GNU Units, including the descriptions, which means it might be under the GPL. Frink itself doesn't seem to be open source at all?

I wrote a parser and interpreter [1] for the GNU units descriptions a while ago, you can see the parsed json here [2] (kg! are base unit definitions, "micro_" are prefixes)

[1] https://github.com/phiresky/qalc-react

[2] https://github.com/phiresky/qalc-react/blob/master/data/gnu-...
"You tell me whar a man gits his corn pone, en I'll tell you what his 'pinions is."
I have a hard time understanding what the social aspects of a photo sharing site can be. Until now Instagram also had zero appeal for me, especially with such ideas like that you can only upload pictures from phones.
Yeah, the Chinese Africa is going to be an interesting war zone.
Not first hit then: https://www.google.com/search?q=solar+panels+in+sun&client=f...:
Go every day
Code is also a UI, for your coworker or future self who has to read and understand it. You also need to empathize with your future self and work to prevent confusion.
You might enjoy articles from BetterExplained. For example: https://betterexplained.com/articles/q-why-is-e-special-2-71...

There might be an article about this specific technique.
No systems with TB have any of these restrictions as VT-d was supported by all platforms that support TB since DMA and Interrupt remapping is required for TB to operate.
Hi there! Thanks for the support. We were very surprised to see ourselves on HN tonight!

We've been working towards a big launch in a few weeks, which is why we don't have the benchmarks ready just yet. But we are comparable to most of the big guys (IBM, Google, etc.) out of the box. And if you customize the API for your specific use case, you can get a lot better accuracy.

We do have a real-time endpoint but it's not production ready yet. Our primary use case to date has been async transcription for phone call recordings and podcast recordings, but we are definitely working on making the real-time endpoint production ready.

Real-time is just a little bit trickier, because it's more expensive to run since we deploy our models onto GPUs.
DEFCON has always been in Las Vegas. That would be a difficult change.
even at google.com you can't be sure whether to get the real google, or just your personalized bubble.
Those shipyards used to be in my country until South Korea and other Asian countries took over in the 70s. Succesful countries adapt and survive.I hope the Korean government isn't stupid enough to try to save them. That simply won't work.
I wonder if you could use turmeric powder for yellow dye. I don't know how it will taste with the cocoa bread. I like it, not many do.
Don't underestimate the enormous amount of perpetually sleep deprived people who tell themselves that they have that "gift" but don't.
If it's for broad consumption, it's best to consider people with poor colour vision.
I brushed it off as a mere novelty when Snapchat came with the idea of ephemeral posts. I was wrong. It really changes our relationship with the posts, which means we share things that we wouldn't share in other way. That's pretty neat, but can be abused easily.

The stories are basically turning people into vloggers. Depending on how often you post, you'll be in constantly thinking "should I be recording this?" or "what's the next shot?". This can be really draining for the person and their friends. There are few things that annoy me more than someone recording a video in a bar or a club. Even worse when they use flash.

Casey Neistat, of YouTube fame, is a great example of a "serial vlogger", someone that has been vlogging his life for decades. For example, on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfIc944bSJ8 he talks about his girlfriend (now wife). He has footage from 2005 on their first date, hard conversations when they broke up, and (it seems) every highlight of their history. It makes an amazing video, I'd love to be able to rewatch those moments in my life. However, can you imagine living with a friend that's constantly recording their lives (including you)?

That's where we are headed...
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Issac arthur has a fascinating video on the topic, that I recommend to anyone who's interested in the idea:
https://youtu.be/yCCsmxGjEV0
Sure, which is why I used a ratio to describe the difference. There are indeed a lot of managers who make a lot more than their direct reports. It is not always true. Base salaries would most likely have a higher cap than IC’s, stock grants are based on how replaceable you are within the organisation, then annual bonuses are usually based on the company annual results, your business impact (and a percentage of your base salary) which is why managers usually get higher bonuses. I agree it varies a lot since not all companies offer RSU’s, annual bonuses, etc.
By this logic people shouldn't move to the Bay Area since it's dominated by tech.
RIP economics
What tech companies come to mind for this?

Myspace.

Hewlett-Packard.

Symantec.
> he gets contacted by all kinds of Star Trek fans and other people who believe they can produce the drive.

I would genuinely love to read some of the exchanges between Alcubierre and these people.
Same thing has happened in Sweden. There's a cohort of elderly people who arrived to the country as children during WW2, e.g., from Finland. Many were under 10 when they arrived, and now that they have gotten old, some of them have lost most of their ability to speak Swedish, and are only able to speak in their native language from early childhood.
> the US that has in just the last 20 years (a) attacked several countries and murdered hundreds of thousands of innocent people

Where do you get your anti-US propaganda from?

I think the combined civilian death toll by US forces in Afghanistan and Iraq is ~40,000.

That’s not a good number - but it’s a long way away from hundreds of thousands.
That sounds like comparing Sex Pistols to Porcupine Tree.
The entire process of working out and going to the gym is war against depression. It's just not lifting heavy weights, it's also about being able to tolerate boredom, fear, pain and social judgement.
How is Reddit not HN style except for how it looks? (You also can make it look like 2004, i do that, its just a setting, not even an extension or some BS)

I mean the Sub system maybe, thats it. I think theyre pretty similiar
Definitely Turing complete, I've implemented SKI calculus in both Frink and my implementation Farnsworth.
Yeah, I would agree that the academic datasets are not representative, especially for STT. Our models do around 8.7% on LibrisSpeech Clean. But on our internal dataset PaddlePaddle's WER is 29% whereas we do around 15%. And we regularly see higher WER's in production, especially for accented and noisy files. Hopefully continuous re-training will help improve the generalization. Here's the output from our model the 6063 file.

0:00:00.7 S1: I'd say there's a such thing as eating too much, but I just have a massively fast the table of them and so, I constantly eating so.

Do you do diarisation and punctuations as well?
The problem is that the cities with thriving job markets tend to also have high housing costs.
Write mail to eriklistserve [at] gmail dot com and I might have a job paying 20k more a year.
I find that walks (ideally, around 2 hours) in the nature also help a lot. They should not be too slow though, as you won't get physically tired enough. Also, I recommend against music/podcasts, so that during that time it's only you and your thoughts. You can hash out a lot of the daily mind noise this way. Add physical exertion, and it's enough to get me to be relaxed and to sleep like a baby.
Slightly off topic: Does an 11 people settlement fit the definition of a "town"?
Fellow Sydney person!

I can't see a pricing page.
YAGNI is no excuse to design shitty systems, however. Make your systems as modular and componentized as is sensible. It'll pay off immediately as well as down the road when you inevitably need to make modifications. However, it is wise to avoid adding in too many features that you merely think are a good idea but don't actually have proof are useful in practice.

One thing to be aware of is that YAGNI can often be the cry of someone who doesn't want to admit they are accumulating mountains of technical debt. And it's very possible to go effectively "technically bankrupt". Rewrites are expensive and take a long time, in order to do them properly it usually requires launching projects in parallel so that the rewrite can get done while the old stuff is still keeping the lights on, and so that the rewrite can attain the same level of operational maturity. You see this even at multi-billion dollar companies, changing architectures is a difficult process. But what happens if you are stuck with a mess of bad code and a business that is only sufficiently profitable to continue supporting the old code but couldn't afford doing a parallel rewrite? Well, then you could very easily find your company stuck riding that bad code forever. Given the dynamic nature of tech businesses, being unable to respond to market changes because you are mired in technical debt is a huge competitive disadvantage and likely to lead to a much shorter lifespan for your company.

So be careful making too many short-term decisions. YAGNIs add up and up and up, you don't want to get to a point where when you do "need it" it's now effectively impossible (due to requiring an exorbitant budget to implement it).
That's 100 bucks Interesting protest from Bursa to USA
Per tower or in total? I don’t understand how a spinning turbine is safer than a tower, so if you’re talking about it in total then how many extra bird lives will be lost when the number of wind turbines increase drastically?
Wikipedia perhaps?

"Credible estimates of Iraq War casualties range from 151,000 violent deaths as of June 2006 to 461,000 total deaths as of June 2011"
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He has/had a prototyping company. The plane didn't take him 5 months, it took him his whole life thinking and only 5 months execution.
New York City has hit Uber with a cap on new cars
I don't consider "tech" to be a single industry, and also it's not exactly a mono-company area like a mining town.
Is everyone staying at the same hotel or is this coordinated between hotels?
I grew up in a single-company town; 30 years after the factory closed it hasn’t really recovered. Whole families used to work there, occasionally even 3 generations simultaneously! Loads of cases too of a father who worked on the factory floor and their kid was the first graduate in the family and in the graduate programme.
I think there are mainly two aspects: sharing an artistic side, and sharing what's happening in your life. Stories are focused on what's going on with your life.

I find it valuable to connect with friends, especially those I don't see often. If I know you've been traveling or got a new job, I can ask you about it. Instead of a generic "Hey, how are you doing?", I can go "How's the new job?". That makes it easier for me to have a small talk, so I connect more with friends, which is a good thing.

The problem is overdoing it. And everything is set for us to overdo it. It then stops being "cool, Jane seems to be having a great time, I'm happy for her!" to "everybody is having a blast while I'm stuck in 9-5, my life sucks".
Yup. In NYC these things are handled by license (for cafes, restaurants) and consent (for rides), and both come with strict planning guidance to protect the right of way for pedestrians.

https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/dsny/site/resources/streets-and-...

The UK is almost identical except you need permission from the local council (for planning) and highways consent from national government.

Either which way, I think it's pretty naïe of somebody to think they're not going to need permission of some sort to [semi-]permanently occupy a public highway.