skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The pattern won't repeat forever, eventually the wealth transfer will become an unnoticed constant flow.

Regardless of the "it can't happen hear" attitude, the US is clearly following the identical trajectory of about a dozen other countries which have fallen into demagogue led neo-autocracies blaming easy targets for their woes.

The only real question is whether we're talking about the future or the present.
How much more does it cost for the bigger window and the innovative material seat?
There are public ICE/STUN servers that can facilitate NAT-punching, google even hosts one. But that's not the aspect that I thought the root comment was talking about, but more the aspect of "A is hosting a room called 'stuff', and B and C want to browse the list of rooms and connect to it".
> The title "docent" is not widely used outside the United States, with the terms "guide", "facilitator", or "educator" preferred.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_docent
"The difference is that PCs and PC-based servers really can do everything mainframes can do"

We were post-mainframe well before this was true.
I'm glad you're mostly happy, but I'm sorry it's only mostly. I hope that we'll improve this. Honestly, the lowest latency mechanism is to hit @AzureDevOps up on twitter (or me personally) and we'll make sure that your problems get routed to the right person.

For outages, you can subscribe at https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vsoservice (in the toolbar on the right hand side). We don't send out email notifications without you opting in, nor will we, but we do have some ideas to improve the way we notify people that we're working on.

And as for build agents, we're working on that, especially around the caching. Appreciate all the feedback.
If that highly dynamic team is disorganized, you do add by adding more organized people - despite there being some conflicts as a result.
Using it on mobile it's a nightmare
I kind of want the same thing with a smart watch. I want my watch to be the entire phone, and then I want to be able to link a handheld phone-like display that I can keep in my pocket.
Yeah, this was much more of an issue when excess reserves were getting 1% at the height of the crisis.
Oh, they can figure it out if they wanted to, definetly. And in about 10 years, they will. That's not my point.

My point is that today, when developers encounter this code while debugging something that needs to be done yesterday, will not spend the time educating themselves and will just ignore it or (even worse) assume they understand it, which is even worse. I don't think that I'm better than them - I just acknowledge my own stupidity. And in my stupidity, in the heat of working on a real project I want to encounter familiar technologies and abstractions that by themselves are almost boring, rather than research new things.

At least when it's out of scope of our technology focus, the core of the project that actually helps it be unique and earn a profit.
I broadly agree with your characterization of Quillette, but I'm curious (genuinely, not in a gotcha way) if you see publications like HuffPo or Vox as similarly having an axe to grind? The thing that makes Quillette stand out IMO is that among many venues with an axe to grind, they get called out for it a lot while publications with equal or worse histories of partisan priorities get a pass as "mainstream web media".
Everything is amazing right now and nobody’s happy. Like, in my lifetime the changes in the world have been incredible… Flying is the worst because people come back from flights and they tell you…a horror story…They’re like: “It was the worst day of my life. First of all, we didn’t board for twenty minutes, and then we get on the plane and they made us sit there on the runway…” Oh really, what happened next? Did you fly through the air incredibly, like a bird? Did you partake in the miracle of human flight you non-contributing zero?! You’re flying! It’s amazing! Everybody on every plane should just constantly be going: “Oh my God! Wow!” You’re flying! You’re sitting in a chair, in the sky!

-- Louis CK
The average HNer probably has, yes. The average American, quite possibly not.
Finished, mastered songs have been done on much less than the iOS version of GarageBand. By people you've probably heard of, too. Twenty, thirty years ago I might not have killed someone for a copy of iOS GarageBand, I would have been willing to seriously maim.
> Steve Jobs’ vaunted, much quoted ‘Post-PC Era’.

Actually this traces back to an aside by Steve Jobs, where speaking of the iPad he said "we think these are post-PC devices, we really do".

This was immediately taken to be a statement that he felt that PC was going away, rather than that the devices were not trying to be PCs in a new form factor, but something post-PC.

People should have gotten a clue when Apple did not stop selling laptops and desktops.
Why? Stabilisation, maneuvering, possibly shielding come to mind. Are those that significant? Do you have a source/ good explanation for this?
The site is served via AWS CloudFront. It is SPA app hosted on S3. The API is on Heroku. No mem-cache anywhere. To search we use ElasticSearch hosted on AWS. We bump up the specs to speed it up but that was not the core problem.

I suspect Heroku Postgres DB. We didn't used some Hobby version and I think it is the real bottle neck + some unnecessary middleware for the API that also requires DB.
There was also, I believe, a fairly effective lobbying campaign against Concorde by Boeing after it became clear that the 2707 wasn't happening. 2707 was cancelled round about the time Concorde prototypes had their first flights.
> unusual cultural features.

If culture affects the outcome, it waters down the premise of the variability difference theory.

And what is unusual about Czech Republic, where VR
and gender gap were near unity and zero?
Obviously a typo. Thanks for being an ass though.

I was responding to the parent comment. The value of tools are diminished as they try and do too many things for too many people. Single purpose applications, that are compose-able and interchangeable are better, then big software suites that try to provide for everything under the sun. The issue with SASS over open source, is cloud companies are constantly trying to attract new investors, and justify new funding but building out new feature sets. It is antithetical to the premise of singular purpose, simple applications.
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I don't think this applies to quantum phenomena in that sense, light can have the so called spin but the concept is different. You can read about the interaction of such light with chiral molecules here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5247477/
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It is, though I'm not sure that scales appropriately into larger organizations.
So do I, but my income doesn't come with direct traffic congestion and road wear externalities.
Buy yourself some 'knee savers'. My 6' frame is such that if Im behind you, you're already not going to be moving your chair back much, if at all, before my knees are in your way. For $20 now some jack hole is slamming his chair into some plastic clips instead of my knees.

The end result is the same either way for the person in front me, so I feel no guilt in using them. I also make a point to never recline my own chair.
Well, you enforce the laws against sexual harassment, for one. We already have cameras on the busses and at the stations for safety; use that footage to prosecute people who do commit sexual harassment. As it becomes known that sexual harassment is enforced, people will be willing to do it less.
DHT is a fantastic system, but it's not easy by any means, and it still needs some "important" nodes to help bootstrap the system.
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Apple’s block extensions added a closure syntax to C.

The runtime’s public API is very small:
https://github.com/mackyle/blocksruntime/blob/master/BlocksR...

Behind the scenes it implements reference counting though.
> We rent commodity dedicated servers.

So not even a VPS like Linode, Discord rent physical servers across the board? Or is there a mix of AWS or some other vendor in there?
Not necessarily. People also spend lots of time driving around looking for an empty free on-street parking spot. In some congested cities this can be a sizable proportion of overall traffic.

If the Uber is getting back-to-back trips, they're probably driving more efficiently on average.
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The number of Americans who have any significant investments that aren't part of a retirement account is small.
I think the idea that Kurzweil and others have put forth is that your device state will be stored in the cloud and the devices themselves will be so unimportant as to just be laying around or available wherever you go. You could just walk up to any terminal or grab a phone from a bin at the grocery store and your biometrics would instantly identify you and you would pick up where you left off.
>Could apps pushing car services increase the number of people who don't have cars?

Anecdotally, yes.

In the time that I drove for Uber, I met a number of people who gave up their cars because Ubering was cheaper than having a car.

To me, that makes sense because every time I move from a small city to a large city, the first thing I do is sell my cars. Then when I move from a big city to a small town, I end up buying new cars again.

Though I haven't lived in a large city since Uber became widespread, my family managed just fine with public transit, Zipcars, and taxis.
Eliot renounced his American passport and became a British subject. Orwell respected that decision.
Hell, if an interviewee understands enough to be able to convincingly fake working things out, they're already way ahead of a lot of other candidates. I've seen people faking such things badly. In general, they can spout off about the "happy path," but they can't tell you how the implementation can go wrong and what to do about it.

When I was a grad student TA, I told people not to cheat. If you don't know enough to answer the questions, you don't have enough knowledge to cheat. That turned out to be quite true.
Fair enough; it does appear that the entire family can be referred to as squirrels.
Yes that would explain them being rich. But I'm sure you have heard the phrase "Past performance is no guarantee of future results."

What I am talking about here is debt. Owe money on your house? Inflation makes you owe less. Lend money to someone buying a house? Inflation means you get paid back less.
The hypothesis is they should see CMB distortion between galaxies, which is hidden by the distortion caused by the galaxies themselves. The solution was to assume they were removing the distortion caused by the galaxy halo, and what was left was the original distortion they were looking for.

sounds like the work to rule out false-positives would be huge. This is putting a lot of weight on a technique that is not fully described in the paper (i might have missed, just glanced at them for now, and i am an amateur that just like to fiddle with similar data).
EDIT: You were agreeing with me. Sorry for the misunderstanding. I don't delete my goofups, so I'll let the below remain and take the karma hit.

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Nonsense. Open Source does not mean, and has never meant, that you get everything for free.

For example, a company wishing to use Postgres in some project has a choice: Setup and manage it themselves, or pay someone to do it for them. That someone may be Amazon in the form of an RDS instance. Or maybe they hire me to setup and manage a traditional VM for them on Amazon's infrastructure. Or maybe they host it themselves, but contract with me to do all of the setup and maintenance so they don't have to. (Please note that despite having the skills for this, I don't do this for anyone but my own company.)

By your logic, any of those options turns Postgres into commercial software that ceases to be free.

By your logic, you are literally telling anyone who wishes to use Postgres: That's great. Just don't you dare to pay someone to do this for you.

How about comparing the cost difference for paying for SQL Server RDS vs. Postgres RDS. For an m4.large instance, the former is $0.977/hr. and the latter is $0.189/hr. Why do you suppose that is?
The Abstract Calculus
Closures have known size at compile-time, so they can be stored anywhere at all, although their types can't be named yet, so I don't think they can be stored in static memory.
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would ip guessing work? 192.168.. … ?
Same, completely broken in both android Firefox and brave. Worked in brave desktop mode, unusable entirely in Firefox. Plus, it didn't seem to offer much utility over a Google search for the name under consideration.
With Lyft, you can pay a few bucks less to possibly ride with others that are somewhat along the way.
Maybe some people, especially urban-based, just like the anti-car narrative, so they link to it as to something that confirms their favorite POV.

I bet city officials in most places don't like ride-hailing companies, too, so they would gladly link to something like this, for the same reason.

Maybe every other reader would look at it and say: "Hey, this has no data, and the author's position produces an obvious conflict of interests". But the headlines, without this notice, would already be in many places, and look like a more or less established fact. All publicity is good publicity, you know.
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Should be able to do it without refcounting if you wanted to go even more minimal, too. Make a call to copy the storage, and another one to destroy it. Then the user can use whatever lifetime management they already use for other things.
Am I the only one that doesnt really care about quality? I want cheaper flights and thats it.
Primarily, they run the software built in the 1960s-1990s.

They are highly secure/trustworthy from an isolation POV. It's a much more baked platform that what you see in x86.
I find naming anything where:

- lastletter of first word

- firstletter of last word

are the same thing gets confusing.

nameengine.com

Maybe this is just me, but I went as far as selecting my first phone number so that it's easy to remember as well
The difference is that the Y combinator has a deep meaning in theoretical CS, making recursion essentially out of thin air in the untyped lambda calculus which had far reaching consequences. In contrast an AbstractFactoryFactory is pretty mundane.
I'm pretty sure there isn't a ton of background fetching asides from marking servers as unread, it can take a bit to actually load the messages when you click an inactive server, and it won't have any new messages if you don't have a connection (even if it had a connection when it was sent)
Great list. I would add:

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I think the biggest benefit is business logic written in the 70s, that the company has been relying on since.
As you can see, the swipey bit at the beginning of your comment ended up derailing the discussion. That's too bad, because the point you went on to make was a solid one, and it got lost. This is why we ask people to edit such bits out of their comments here. If you'd review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and do that in the future, we'd appreciate it.
I feel like duskwuff was violently agreeing with you about the Commons Clause, not arguing against you.
>but then got stuck in the narrow $100-150k

Is it really stuck if you're making more than 70% of America? I'm sorry you can't afford a summer house in the Keys, but you have to accept different careers have maximum limits, and ours tops out a bit above rocket scientist.
I've given up complaining about legroom, all I hear back is the same tired "just pay quadruple for business class!" But realistically it would cost significantly less for the airline to increase seat pitch to comfortable levels. For example:

Airbus's A321: 141 Economy Seats in sets of 3x, or 23 rows on each side of the aircraft. 31" pitch.

If we take out one row of 3x seats, that's 1.34 inches of additional pitch, if we take out two, that basically turns it into Delta's Economy Comfort (34" pitch). So how much is six seats going to cost?

I grabbed a random Atlanta -> New Orleans on an A321, total one way ticket cost for 6x tickets is $561. If we split that between all the remaining 21 rows/63 seats on one side of the aircraft, that is $9/seat.

For $9/seat we could all be sitting in economy comfort. Based on $93.5 one way, that is less than 9% surcharge.

Heck, sell one side of the aircraft at 34" pitch and $9 more, and the other at 31" pitch and $9 cheaper. Everyone wins.

I'd pay $9 more. I cannot afford to pay $405 which is the cost of business class by the way.

PS - These are back of napkin figures, not an academic study. Take with a pinch of salt.
The use of the Y Combinator to enable true memoization of a recursive function has been discussed on the 'net a number of times.

I used the mockingbird version for a very specific purpose in production a while back, although that was more like corecursion than recursion.
There's a simple solution to this -- buses!

Yes, and no.

The less dense an area is, the less effective buses are.

If everyone lived in a dense, urban environment, buses would be great. But they're not useful for large portions of the population, in America at least.

I wish park-and-rides were more common. I'd use that, if it was an option. But for now, I'm not going to walk four miles to take a bus the remaining 15 miles to work.
But Apple has reduced their R&D investment in laptops and desktops, at least on a relative basis. They haven't updated their "pro" desktop line in years. I suspect they will eventually offer a more powerful line of iOS devices to address content creation use cases, and gradually phase out the legacy MacOS product line. Unifying their product lines around a single OS would eventually deliver a lot of savings.
I love Visual Studio, but the product currently known as Azure DevOps (formerly known as VSTS) really has nothing to do with Visual Studio.

The name made a lot more sense back in the day when the premier client was actually the Visual Studio IDE. But today, most people interact with Azure DevOps with their browser and too many people think "Visual Studio Team Services" is a web-based IDE.

The name change is bittersweet. We've been "Visual Studio <something>" since the first release of our on-premises product, well over a decade ago. But I'm confident about this next phase of Azure DevOps.
On HN, please don't use quotation marks to make it look like you're quoting someone when you're not. That's a flamewar trope, and usually a marker of unsubstantiveness.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think there's a pretty clear cut distinction between hate speech as defined and practicted e.g. in Germany and the regime in Saudi or China. There's no slippery slope that goes from "the government should be changed" and "religious authorities are wrong" to "jews/homos/immigrants should be killed".

Also, I'm not sure that I see how your links support your claims. The first and third were ruled against the far-left activist, and the second was overturned but on the 14th amendment (not 1st).
The danger isn't to any single satellite or mission, the danger is to future human space flight [1]. We have existing systems for handling liability and financial compensation for accidents in space but we don't realistically have a way to clean up our trash in orbit, especially in a cascading scenario. We have little data on how big the debris is from colliding satellites and how it spreads so for all we know, when any disaster happens, it could be seeding LEO with small particles capable of shredding other satellites and we just haven't launched enough to run into them yet. If Kessler was right and there is a point of no return, a single such accident could shut humanity out from spaceflight for decades or centuries.

Not that I think we're anywhere near that point, but it's important to realize why these regulations are important and why they must never be ignored. Down the line, someone's decision to rush a mission due to market/shareholder pressure could rob many generations of their final frontier.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome
Very cool, I want to dig a little deeper into that when I'm not on mobile. That was spitting out some of the best generated names I've seen, they weren't all good but they were all pronouncable for an English speaker.
To complicate matters, the satellite was inside a cluster launcher from NanoRacks and not a direct payload.
Update: the Director of Engineering for Azure DevOps has posted this. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vsoservice/?p=17485
> nice and funny as a story.

You'll enjoy this one too: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3017682/Entire-town...
Congratulation @justin, we don't know each other (unfortunately), but damn, you're like a machine: justintv, twitch, and now atrium

How do you do it?
" PCs are used for more prolonged deeper interactions including virtually anything creative"

Sure, but that's far from the primary use for PC's. There's still much more consumption & non-creative business usage on them. If creative pursuits were the primary usage then their usage would be low single digits and we'd be well into the post-PC era.
Flying has become a lot less comfortable. It has become a lot cheaper at the same time. It's not clear whether it had to become less comfortable to get that cost saving.
We've put a lot of work into our clients and our backend to make sure the impact of being on 1 vs 100 guilds is negligible. It helps that most of the folks building Discord are power users in a bunch of servers (so we feel the pain of poorly optimized paths early). Generally if you don't look at a server often it shouldn't effect the performance of the app / bandwidth usage. I think we have some more blog posts in the works regarding some of these topics so look forward to those!
There's more confidence in the result because two teams using very different methods have arrived at the same conclusion.
> The lack of space or separating lines between the panels makes it quite difficult to follow the chronological order of the story.

I agree on the need for lines to delineate between panels. As for the order of the story, it is written in English, and like most comics or visual presentation materials is organized in a left to right, top to bottom layout.

The font used is not great, but it is a sans serif font, and while not designed specifically to be accessible to dyslexic folks, I find it easier to read than many other sans serif fonts, in part owing to the distinctive shape of each of the glyphs. I would prefer more spacing between the letters, but to be fair, I only made that observation after I turned off my letter-spacing:2px user-style

You say harsh colors on white background, I say high contrast is very valuable to me as someone who is dyslexic - I find high contrast content easier to consume.
> Because the moment you add closures (in the way most languages implement them, not Rust's implementation), you're adding automatic boxing, which implies garbage collection and a runtime.

Isn't it possible to avoid the whole slippery slope by capturing objects by value?
What's missing are the little screens that tell people when the bus is going to arrive.

Chicago has these. And it's available as an app, too. I assume other cities have this, as well. It just needs to be more widespread.

And somehow you have to let people who don't take the bus know that it exists.
Shocked that more people aren't bringing this up. I frequently see blocks turn into complete traffic jams because a couple of Ubers/Lyfts double park, sometimes on opposite sides of a one-way street.
But then you couldn't sell economy comfort anymore. You have to take that into account in your calculation as well.