skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Source? Because that's distilling a lot of complicated history down to a simple motivation.

Given that glorification of suicide was specifically taught to military recruits, and that various commanders promoted or dissuaded it to their subordinates, it would fair to say that many times Japanese suicide charges were ordered in-spite-of better ideas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banzai_charge#In_World_War_II

Better support for overly rigid, hierarchical structures would come from the performance of upper echelon commanders during the war, and an inability to adapt doctrine to rapidly improving technology (e.g. mixed air-ground-sea task forces, carrier tactics, and radar).
Since when is Win 10 free? The Microsoft store seems to indicate $139.
It is the stepchild of .NET.

There are still a few deployment scenarios where only C#, VB.NET, C++, JavaScript get to play and F# gets no entry.

A few F# features still don't work on .NET Core, like REPL and type providers.

Speaking of which, type providers is the king of F# demos, instead of discussing how and if ever .NET Native devs will care about F#.
He didn't really propose a publicly-funded alternative to Facebook though, at least not in the sense people seem to be inferring. He threw out some vague ideas to create a digitally focused sister organization to the BBC, which "could develop new technology for online decision making and audience-led commissioning of programmes and even a public social media platform".
Doesn't look like they're getting many applications from anywhere: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-11-30/japan-wan....
I think it is also that with a huge monopoly in an area, you can capture most of the benefits from basic research. With lots of competitors basic research gains go to all the competitors too and at some level you don't capture enough of the benefit to justify it.
Its important to note that when Corbyn talks about nationalisation he is talking about something more similar to this than top down state control.

There is a partial critique of the post-1945 wave of nationalisation in John McDonnell's speeches where he recognises that they were undemocratic and far too centralised and inefficient. There was a conference on this in London this year.
Does the BBC have all of my personal info and chat logs with my friends?
Not sure how big the app is on iOS, but the app works really well for me. I've been really surprised with how quickly they can add features without breaking things. (At least they don't break my normal usage.)
Mathworks hires SML programmers for their various products that detect runtime errors and proof assistants for C/C++ programs
> Nobody prevents anyone from creating competing CPU.

I'm pretty sure that Intel, AMD, ARM, IBM and a host of others would disagree if you actually tried.
I don't think this is necessarily true for big hardware companies.

If you're selling a subscription to a best-in-market service, there's not a lot of motive to innovate, agreed. Maybe you'd try a new product or a premium variant, but there's no reason to sink effort into advances that won't let you expand userbase or raise prices.

But for Intel? Before AMD got going, Intel's biggest competition was itself 9/18 months previously. Innovation wasn't just for new devices and new buyers, it was how they sold updated processors for machines that were already Intel Inside. They're not waiting on processors to die, they're actively pushing for them to be replaced for performance reasons.

That might create an incentive to release 'good enough' updates and dole out big improvements gradually, but in practice any of that which happened was already ending. Intel appears to be up against the wall regarding 10nm even with a competitor, and has been attempting major innovations to handle 7nm and below for years. With a revenue stream that relies on annual improvements to their product, they seem to have been learning hard into innovation and struggling, rather than waiting for a competitor.
Yes at a previous job and all of us were in one location so it was more common to sit in the same cubicle, the one person typer probably arose from that. I was not forced to do it, I imagine if I would have complained accommodations would have been made but I'm fully capable of working like that so I stuck it out. There were days where I was not the primary person typing and I would always try to steer the work towards larger sets of changes that could be completed by one person in a predictable amount of time, once found I would suggest they work on that while I step away and work on something else. It might be that the programming I have been involved with is so banal that I have not encountered a problem that could not be described in advance well enough to allow all engineers to work on a separate piece of the application. I also found that pairing sometimes led to excessive non work related conversation.

I would say your last statement is correct, each team needs to find working dynamics that make all members successful. I finished the project on that team and accepted a contract position in another city for a larger client.

We have a new project though, a graph backed transaction management platform, that will require more collaboration than our usual crud app but we will still not have a policy that involves "sit down and write the code together."
On your other point - would we have a chance to detect something that small? No, absolutely no way, even considering that there would be a continuous 'stream' of these things spread out like beads on a string.

Say each one weighs a gram, and is 1m across - that's just impossibly small. The Hubble ST's resolving power means that it can resolve a 1m object (ie, make one pixel = 1m²) at something like 4000km away. In space terms, that is practically touching. In interstellar terms, that might as well be inside the planet!

Any transmitting that it might be doing would necessarily be very low power, which means it would need to be highly directional and pointed back the way it had come, behind what must be a reflector more reflective by far than anything we know how to build. Unless you managed to get its transmission pointed directly at you by being behind it, there'd be no way to see it.

After decades or more in the interstellar void, it would be about as equal to the ambient temperature as it's possible to be, and in any case, it's not made of very much 'stuff', so it would have no heat signature to detect.

Lastly, at 20% light speed, they would cover the average distance from Pluto to Earth in something like 36 hours. That's not a lot of time to search!

The only possible method I can think of would be to detect the results of these things crashing into dust within the solar system. How much of a 'puff' a gram of diffuse something travelling at 0.2c hitting a speck of rock makes I don't know. Still way too small to spot, I'm sure.
That 6 months is also a great opportunity to establish a test suite. It's dangerous to tell management that the code is bad. It's not dangerous to say that it needs tests, since that's an industry best practice and there are objectively no tests, and that you believe that a certain amount of your time needs to be devoted to paying back some of that testing debt. Then, when 6 months rolls around, you either have the confidence to do a major refactor/rewrite or leave and give the person who comes after you the test suite necessary to do the next step.

Plus, to my mind, there's no better way to start understanding a new codebase than to start with tests, either writing them or reading the existing suite.
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Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12423352
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There's really no upside to regularly working over 40 unless you have some sort of equity stake or other upside (like a being on a promotion track). The company is not going to pay you extra and you're just decreasing your hourly rate
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Has Win95's copyright expired?
It’s a pretty big netblock he names too. 184.20/16 is an entire Class B and potentially comprises 65,536 public IP addresses.
aside from the fact that for a variety of reasons, the BBC is not truly independent, if it's possible to build such an independent media company "funded via tax" then why isn't it possible to do the same for a social media company?
The idea would be to launch somewhere other than the bad weather. Airplanes can move around to avoid weather. Another advantage would be more flexibility in launch window; the airplane can launch and get high up, then linger into a specific launch timeframe at a specific place, rather than being fixed in place and only changing launch time.
I'm running an RX 580 4GB for the GPU on my gaming rig, and it handles anything I throw at it really well. They do, however, tend to run hotter than the NVidia chips.
At first I was hoping this guy was going to try and DDOS an ad network.
It doesn't just work for me, no detailed error message I'm 3 or 4 levels down (vscode->plugin->homebrew->opam->jbuilder-> doesn't work).

https://gist.github.com/nraynaud/deeacbb67c88646fd6754edba6e...

Sorry, I'm a bit abrasive, but I spend a lot of time with crappy tooling of all kind, sometimes I'm envious of monoproject people (and then I remember that actually I don't do well in monotony).
> A helthy person could eat a diet of same energy content and, and end up more or less fat, dependent of what the food was.

Could you point me in the direction of more information about this? It is contrary to everything that I've read on the topic so far (which, to be fair, hasn't been that much).
That’s great theory... what is the chance that Apple will split into a gazillian 25 person companies just to skimp on minor licensing costs?
As a person who has wasted a lot of time trying to convince Google that a vulnerability is worth fixing, I have no sympathy for them finding out about a vulnerability via a public disclosure like this. They probably would have spent weeks/months failing to understand the implications of the vulnerability only to have the report closed with an auto generated response about phishing not being considered a vulnerability. Keep thinking like an attacker and sharing your findings. It is the best way we can make software more secure.
Is all of my traffic encrypted? Can they shut off my access if I do something they don't like? How much will they charge? How frequent are the black outs? Are they a monopoly?

Would you accept wages paid to you in Venezuela's cryptocurrency?
No. Even the word for Japanese in Japanese is 日本語 (Nihongo), all Kanji.
That is true, but there has to be a balance between public and commercial, and "balance" is a lacking feature with most (if not all) political parties, and in particular with Labour at the moment (this idea beggars belief and is an example of that).
Come to think of it, Balance is a lacking feature in the world right now in general.
Maybe the first 1/2 stage.
FYI the FoundationDB community is doing its first community event in December: https://www.foundationdb.org/blog/announcing-foundationdb-su...
I'm sure that a big part of OpenModelica compiler is in SML.
It's actually 3 devices behind one plug - Xerox Phaser 6600 printer, Brother MFC 7840 multifunctional and a ScanSnap ix500 scanner. I don't quite remember, I think they used 20w in standby (combined)? I remember being shocked at the time, but I don't think I really dug any deeper.
I love this. I think the proper way at this point to combat these ridiculous anti-benchmarking clauses is through civil disobedience.
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Google keyword planner - great way to ensure there's decent search traffic, which is a reasonable proxy for customer interest.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/donated-hair/
I worked with Home Assistant for some time, but ended up falling back to OpenHab2. While I don't like the "enterprisey" java-ish feel of OpenHab2, the documentation is much better that Home Assistant, and the support for components is much broader. It's been nearly flawless in production for me for over a year. ymmv
That'd be EPYC, their server offering.

Threadripper is their workstation CPU.
For those not familiar with reading papers, just read the conclusion and see figure 12 on the same page. It's a fair summary of both the obtained results, required hardware and possible mitigation.

They mention "sub-$1000 hardware" as required, but for 1GHz and 40MHz, a HackRF One knock-off of $150-$200 should do just fine. Heck, you might be able to run with some DVB-T sticks at $20 depending on the chip in your particular model and production batch (the one for $15 I had went from 20-800MHz, just short of a gigahertz).
A nice hack but one which I doubt will affect anything. Like those "click wrap" license hacks that people put in their email to companies that say "by responding to this email you grant me a non-exclusive right to use any of your products in perpetuity." which they send to a customer support portal or some such.
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Those are great ideas. Would love to see those implemented in Chrome.
In Seattle at least, you'd be legally in the right to do so.
They have increased board support quite a bit since the last time I checked it out, very cool.
Unfortunately it’s the opposite. You generally have to pay people to take your junk. Raise your hand if you have that drawer (or closet) full of old RAM, hard drives and video cards that you’re going to one day sell on Craigslist for $5 each? Spoiler: you won’t. Nobody will buy any of that. You might as well just recycle or trash it.

I once took a picture of my computer parts/cables closet and put the entire contents for sale on Craigslist for $10. I got zero replies.
In fairness, they painted themselves into a corner with intracate APIs designed to skip the normal hardware abstraction layers. It probably takes a ton of effort just to keep old DirectX APIs working through architectural changes.

Also, supporting 16 bit software in long mode requires emulation, and they chose not to.
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dx87 gave a good explanation.

"Feed" is a term in Dota when players (aka Heroes) die without any benefit to your team--such as destroying an enemy spawn (racks/Barracks), killing another team Hero (hopefully more one). It's "feeding" as the other team members nearby will get gold and experience for each kill. As there is a respawn timer, the character who is dead will not get Exp nor Gold during that count-down resulting in a character that is disadvantaged as it will be under leveled compared to the rest of the heroes.

In the early and mid games of Dota, not gaining experience and gold is a major setback. Dying has a huge penalty.

The term "feed" is used with players who are learning the game, or those who are low skilled, and are haven't yet mastered some of the main aspects of playing. They're dying with no benefit, boosting the other team.

"Mid" simply means 'middle lane.' DOTA has 3 lanes, top, middle, and bottom, and short hand refers to them as top, mid, bot, respectively.

If your team is losing, boosting the other team to get the game over with is poor sportsmanship. A single team battle could easily shift the game into the losing teams favor.

In sports like Football, you may see teams pull their starters to 1. prevent injury and 2. give other teammates experience, but you'd never see someone purposefully help the opposing team win.
Wasn't there a country that ran an XMPP chat server or similar for it's citizens? I'm trying to find the details but failing. I'm sure I read about it in the last couple of years.
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yeah.... OpenGL is so far from Dx in terms of performance that it is laughable.
The richest company in the world, with the largest cash reserves in the world, is not being fully compensated for their efforts?
I think the joke is that NIST is a standards body, but does not have a standard for naming their projects.
Also the Lazarus Pascal IDE is still around and is keeping the old-school VB flame alive. Just looking at the screenshots will make you nostalgic.

https://www.lazarus-ide.org/
Are you comfortable delegating?
I've worked at a company that did 100% pairing as well, you'd be surprised at the productivity gains that you experience with it, depending on your work habits.

Not everyone can sit down for 8 hours a day and write code. Some number of people get distracted by Facebook, Hacker News, whatever it might be. Having a baby-sitter of sorts sitting next to you certainly keeps this kind of person on track - and I know, I'm one of them.

Of course this is not every engineer out there. Sure, some people are able to stay focused for 8 hours a day, but I'm certainly not one of them.
> Can the OpenAI team learn to do this sort of behavior?

This is the core of what I want from open ai and feel like I'm not seeing. I want the AI to _reason_ that blocking the creepwave brings the equilibrium back to your tower and results in an easier lane. Not just to say "this thing works so I'll do it a lot" - but to say "if I do this then it will have this impact on the game state".

What we got was the devs specifically training models for goals like creep blocking. Which, you know, just seems a bit meh
>Work product outside of office hours is a sign of a good candidate.

You mean good candidate for burnout.
I've tried both Z-Wave and Insteon, and have settled on Insteon. It forms a mesh network over both powerline and RF and it's been extremely reliable so far. With Z-Wave, I had quite a few range problems.
I wish they would fix up one of the existing ones rather than keep shoving out new half finished ones. I poked around in a few of them from a web client and phone perspective for a while and still don't feel like they beat Slack.
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So: 5 mod 2 would be 1 because 5 divided by 2 is 4 with one left over.

I do not like this explanation and just don't understand what the author is getting at with this example. The answer of 1 is correct, but the explanation is just plain wrong and that makes it tough to agree with the author's thought process through the rest of the article.
And as you can see by the downvotes, people are even ignorant of the fact that e.g. the bill of rights doesn't apply to people outside of the US. Which means no one in the US will even fight for you, which is even worse. This is exactly what you see happening today with the large tech companies where people working there are ignorant of effect of their own actions. The US already wire tapped much of the EUs financial transactions. Which they could do because it simply wasn't illegal by US law.

"It's also worth noting that as long as the agencies are focusing their activities on the actions of foreigners then there's not even anything illegal happening by our domestic laws."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/09/15/how-exce...
Why are you not using emacs? Or why did you accept the job if you don't want to use emacs?
Why shouldn’t those who travel without checked luggage should get some kind of discount?

They don’t tie up the check-in line, requiring the presence of the agents and bag handlers, they do not require the labor of the baggage handler on the other end of the trip and anywhere in the interim. Fuel cost savings are likely minimal, but labor costs at the airports can add up fast.
Is that right? I assumed a railgun's acceleration would be about as high as we can go. Huh! In any case, anything that we accelerate like that is highly durable and rigid - you can imagine what happens if you accelerate one part of a 'soft projectile' at 60,000g and another part at 59995g.
He probably meant Europe.
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Many good points, and not paying the legally set minimum wage seems like it's breaking the law (or at least skirting it). But I don't see how "Goodwill has actively fought against legislative proposals to raise the minimum wage" is inherently "Dark" - it might be self serving, but it's possible that it could also lead to layoffs and store closures. Whether or not that's actually the case seems like something that people of, ahem, good will can reasonably debate without labeling each other "dark" or "evil."
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Previously at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13914004.
> "Which can and always does a better job than central planning."

Does it though? At what? Resource allocation? It is hugely inefficient and wasteful. Is that the same free market bootstrapped into existence by the state and bailed out by the state periodically? (and I am no fan of the state)
If in the US, a black man is 2X more likely to have committed a murder than a white man, is it not worth associating with them?

This is absolutely the root of racism. Acting out of fear and self-preservation in a self-sustaining loop.

The most insidious kind of racism to me isn't the mindless hatred that you sometimes see. It's the thoughtful, logical-sounding explanations that justify the behavior.
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Right, duly noted.

I'm actually speaking completely generally though; I'm falling apart at this universally speaking. Perhaps I just need to learn how to debate?

When I'm presented with a context in which I need to prepare any sort of defense, 51% of my brain will sometimes go silly, and I'll get really anxious and irrationally fearful and tense up. Things rapidly go south from there; the biggest side-effect is that my memory completely shuts down, meaning that I cannot remember a) any of the things the other person said (so I cannot form an effective defense), b) any of the things I said (so if I say something incorrect[ly] I won't remember) and c) the way I say what I say, which means that my tone of voice might be off and I'll basically be too spaced-out to notice. The resulting arguments are almost comical in their narrow-focusedness, with the resulting back-and-forth many many degrees away from whatever the original point was (which typically gets lost within the first few seconds of conversation).

This is probably due to autism and some related undiagnosed anxiety disorder, but labels aside I've never really known where to start tackling something like this. I've given up on mental health support, which only has its own agenda (I don't want the brain-fog of drugs, so all the departments could care less), I just want to brain-hack my thinking onto the right track and I've no idea how.

FWIW, this is one of the reasons I'm actually reluctant to get a job, so I'm yet to get practical experience dealing with real-world issues.
Can you really call "fast but wrong/insecure" optimized?
Can I add #11? If you have large bulky items like furniture that you want to get rid of, everyone tells you to call Goodwill. When you call, they ask you your location and they says they don't have pickup there, but they give you another number to call. That number then refers you to a third company which will then charge you to haul away your "trash." Turns out the middle-man is a broker that is kicking money back to Goodwill for the referrals.
It's odd to me how the president from 1969 to 1977 and 1981 to 1993 was a republican, but the argument is that 'hippies' took over?
I was replying to a narrow point that the BBC is a state broadcaster. If these things go uncorrected, misinformation can spread, especially given the global perspective.

I've not read the proposal. But some things, like telephone common carriers, ISPs should be regulated to the gills. Do I trust British Telecom Open Reach now they've been privatised? No, not really, but that's the way natural monopolies work. I don't trust them any more or less than I would have done pre privatisation.