skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
San Francisco towed my car and then lost it for 3 months. I called repeatedly and they insisted they didn't have it, and that I file a police report for it having been stolen. I got another car to replace it.

3 months later, Erin found it, while taking a walk past the impound lot on Harrison. They made her pay all 3 months of impound fees.
Natural gas stoves used to give me the willies. Then one day the big bottom square heating element in my electric stove started making a weird noise. I opened the oven and looked at it for a minute and the thing exploded! In a million years I wouldn’t have thought it was possible.

Fortunately I didn’t get hit by any shrapnel. And I got a new oven out of it, which was nice. But now I’m afraid of both cooking methods.
Well, the unfortunate aspect of HN's ranking system, is that downvotes aren't actually an expression of hate, or even reproach.

The reality is, that the motive for any given vote is that of a sort algorithm.

Which, you may recognize as:

Object.sort(function(a, b){
return (a - b);
});

So, what people are really doing is moving things around, strictly with respect to the contents of the thread, as applicable to the conversation at hand.

So, even if you are on topic, within some threshold, if you are not the most relevant response, but you're pinned to the top by default, people with the option to move you downward will do so. This is purely a function of rearrangement, in the minds of the downvoters, not unlike moving icons around on the desktop.

But of course, for you, the icon in question, to be brushed aside like this, is most certainly an emotional event.

Alas.
Write a DSL. This is really easy in languages like Ruby that don't need parentheses around function parameters. You can write a Ruby DSL in a few hours and expand on syntax, features as you like.

The next step is to actually parse code with an abstract syntax tree. The easy path here is actually javascript. There are many transpilers for JS so things like bluebird/harmony can work.

Next step is to do thing "the right way"(tm) with yak/bison and build a compilable language. For that, I suggest you read a few books on languages and understand concepts such as backus-naur form before continuing.
Really disorienting experience on an iPad.
The pollution of my back button history was a surprise.
A weird way of writing 3AM, I presume.
Driverless cars have advantages over humans too. Faster reaction speed, constant 360 degree surveillance, lack of distraction, (theoretically) better control of brakes and steering to handle skids.

Waymo has demonstrated solutions for many of the edge cases you mention. This video is from 3 years ago:
https://youtu.be/tiwVMrTLUWg?t=530

Regarding snow, it maybe a difficult problem, but if cars can't see road markings, neither can humans, so how do they do it? Sometimes by following a car in front. Though far from real autonomy, my Tesla doesn't need to see road markings for autopilot to work, it will fall back to following the car in front.

And.. Why does Waymo have to solve this inclement weather problem now? Surely it would be better to demonstrate safety in good weather, then light rain, then heavy rain, then light snow? They can just refuse to operate in bad weather unless they are confident about it.
Believe it or not there’s a world outside of LA.
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Doesn't matter. I don't live in Minneapolis so to contest it I would have had to take another day off of work and spend a significant amount of time and money driving there to get $200 back.
I'm very familiar with these arguments - I used to make them myself. But I've come to believe that reality is much more complex than the theory, and that that particular theory is not coincidentally self-serving to the wealthy and powerful. The foundation of Reagan's 'trickle-down economics' in the 1980s, to badly generalize, was to make the rich and powerful richer and more powerful, and then everyone else would benefit - it's probably not a coincidence that REagan's and the Republican's primary supporters were the primary beneficiaries. The result was predictable: The rich got richer. The secondary benefits never occurred; few others have benefited in the last 30 years.

I think (and I may be wrong) you are assuming that "captialism" == the rules of the last 30ish years, that they are somehow optimal for productivity, and that therefore any change to them must yield something suboptimal. But they are just some options among very many (including the options before Reagan) and much of the U.S. economy isn't technically 'capitalism' anyway.

> We did it by making a pie so big that even if you only have a tiny slice

That's not especially accurate; income distribution inequality was much lower for most of U.S. history than it is today. Also, if you look at the actual history, the U.S. was much more highly regulated, had much higher tax rates, and provided more benefits to its citizens (such as better education) during the period of its highest growth, roughly the 50s and 60s. The U.S. constantly expanded services to its citizens throughout the 20th century.
I was a forest firefighter. We always thought structure peeps were nuts. No way am I going in to that thing that has gas and electricity. I’ll take my Pulaski and dig my line thanks much.
There's nothing strange about that. Read further and "Records of a Regularly Conducted Activity" is also excepted, and so is absense of records.

It's almost like a timestamp tool. "One year ago I suffered from XYZ" has little value. But a piece of paper, written by a doctor, that confirms one year ago you said you suffered from XYZ, is worth more. Doesn't mean XYZ is true, but it means you said that one year in advance.
That's called soft fraud.
It's closed due to UFOs. ;D
Or Julia if you want to prepare them for the future.
Malicious actors posing as police officers pose just as much risk to human-driven cars.
Can you know whether or not a particle is currently entangled? With observation of only 1 of the entangled particles?

Say you had millions of entangled particles, you ship their companions to the other end of the galaxy. You now have a million bit array to encode data into for 1 time use?

I’m guessing you can’t know whether a partical is currently in a state of entanglement...

EDIT: my question has already be asked & answered several times...one such example: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/207169/can-i-tel...
People are so quick to classify anything that can't be explained immediately as extraterrestrials. I would bet a lot of money that this has nothing to do with extraterrestrials only because after so many years there is no proof that such exist.

Come on everyone get back into reality and look for the true answer. A true scientist tries to disprove his/her theory until there can be no other answer as opposed to picking the first theory and going with it.
wow, looks really cool
23 guidelines for writing readable code
Gore Vidal had a great quote that sets the context for partisanship: "There is only one party, the Property party, with two wings... D and R."
Most self-driving efforts do not consider malicious actors and instead aim for sufficient caution to avoid danger. Malicious actors can never be entirely accounted for, as a driver on a narrow road can turn into your path in moments and you can't avoid the impact.
What do you mean "no one"? Press coverage of Waymo is full of references to engineers who are teaching cars and cars that are learning. The AI car is a big part of the hype.
SpaceX's Giant BFR Rocket Will Launch a Passenger Around the Moon
Honestly, COBOL is not that different from any other imperative programming language. A bit more verbose perhaps, but if you are a good COBOL programmer you could pick up another language without much trouble.
I've only lived in the city a couple years, very few of the people I've met own cars, and I still had heard of them and their notorious practices. There had to have been some corrupt connection for them to operate as long as they did.
Blog post by devs with readable diagram:

https://code.fb.com/developer-tools/finding-and-fixing-softw...
Finding and fixing software bugs automatically with SapFix and Sapienz
He’s not giving it away. He’s spending it on power, prestige, and legacy.
I think it's important to note the, "A person with a brain chip" part of the article.

Don't get me wrong, if I had a condition that required brain surgery I'd jump at the chance to get an electrode mat placed on my brain. But it's a very invasive procedure, similar to deep-brain stimulation; it sounds like we're still a ways from high-quality transcranial BCI despite the article's header image.
Helllll no.
The head tax was a poorly thought out law that would have inflicted a lot of collateral damage on Seattle-based businesses without trillion dollar market caps. It was broadly unpopular here for that and a number of reasons, in spite of widespread controversy about Amazon's effect on Seattle.
wow.. you're not browsing wikipedia pages. who cares about the browser history?
This does not belong on HN at all. 1) It is not novel or interesting and 2) it is made worse through being self-promotion. Do not make posts like this.

Edited to add: But to scratch the stupid itch I tried hard not to scratch and respond to the other people here, I do this with my own personal blog and it's totally fine. All of my self-hosted software is containerized behind an HTTP reverse proxy. I can do it any number of ways but "Rely on <external third-party service>" seems like a terrible idea to me. And there is no reason whatsoever for all the posts in this thread naysaying this particular way of doing it, any more than there's any particular reason to naysay the suggested alternatives. Do whatever you want. Learn something. Improve your skillset.
Same reason some kids want to be hall monitors. Some people just want to feel that they can project their will on other people. My guess is some deep seeded jealousy problems.
Somebody presented the idea here on HN the other day about $1 fines - both for individuals and for the music copyright abusers.

The nice thing about this IMO is 1$ is a small amount for me and you, but for a big corporation like sony this will cost them thousands every time it gets invoked (because legal will probably get involved).

Of course it needs to be slightly more advanced I guess but it would be a good start.
The last 10 years of "recovery" have themselves been on the back of more and more credit and leverage. Pointing to them as some sort of proof that the system is not fragile is an error. The system has much more debt than it did in 2007 and is more fragile than ever. The stock market recovery that comforts you was partially due to central banks such as the BOJ and SNB actually buying stocks. That is not normal. What happens if they need to unwind those positions?

Sometimes people discuss things at a systemic level, rather than a personal level. The person you are lecturing to deleverage may be debt free, with $5M in Gold in a vault, but still be wistful of a less fragile world economic system.
Since we are allowed to step outside the realm of current known physics I imagined what if we could produce a yet discovered energy that could travel faster then light and could also pass through matter. And lets for the sake of this hypothetical discussion say that we could prove there is no possible way to produce this energy without doing it intentionally, ie intelligent life producing it. I also picture this energy interacting only with itself in a way we can detect(it flashes or something). We could build an emitter and watch for the flash. Since it only interacts with itself and only is produced intentionally and not all over the universe occuring naturally we would know we have detected someone else sending the signal.
> and if there was an emergency, Ground Control would solve the problem.

False. If there was an emergency, it could take several minutes for communication. Multiple responses could take an hour or more. They were highly trained to deal with issues because of this
Hah. I hope not. If more people stood up to these things they wouldn’t happen so often.
I’ve got a big problem with this item:

—
Helps low-income students cover living expenses and covers fees in addition to tuition: "[Students] have to eat. They have to have shelter. They have to buy books," says Tiffany Jones, director of higher education policy at The Education Trust. "If a politician is selling a program saying, 'I'm making college free,' and they're not dealing with any of that stuff except for tuition, that can be really problematic."
—

Plenty of people work their way through college, and with the burden reduced to room and board, waiting tables a few nights a week often does the trick.
>That is because we could "see" it. Imagine if we were not able to see. Could we have known the existence of EM?

Probably, it has a number of physical effects, like heating up the areas that it hits, there is probably quite a lot we could have deduced about light with no eyesight, as long as we lived somewhere EM existed had a noticeable effect, which is just about everywhere.

> Or think if we were not able to hear. Could we have imagined the sensation of sound, or the concept of music?

Of course not, but that wouldn't prevent us from understanding the concept of pressure waves.

> Human beings are so pathetically stupid that they think that their intelligence and sensory capability are at the limits of what is possible.

What? We know our sensory understanding has sever limits, no one that graduated the third grade thinks our sensory capability are at the limit's of what's possible. Everyone that has ever seen an x-ray knows this. To quote Brother Cavil:

I don't want to be human! I want to see gamma rays! I want to hear X-rays! And I want to - I want to smell dark matter! Do you see the absurdity of what I am? I can't even express these things properly because I have to - I have to conceptualize complex ideas in this stupid limiting spoken language! But I know I want to reach out with something other than these prehensile paws! And feel the wind of a supernova flowing over me!
Exercise Videos for Carpal Tunnel, Gamer’s Thumb and Other RSIs
File a lawsuit in small claims court for your time and the fee. Not only do you get paid, you discourage this type of behavior. Disclaimer: IANAL, but I've successfully sued towing companies.

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
most people. having to press back several times to go back to the previous site is a frustrating user experience. ideally this would use replaceState instead of pushState

Which doesn't take away from how
impressive and smooth the effect is, kudos to the author
That blog is great...it sheds a lot of light on how Americans are /really/ living these days. Thanks for sharing.
Google activated battery saving mode on multiple phones, then rolled it back
they said the price was the same
The tow is managed by your insurer. You get a fixed price or reduced price depending on your insurance. You get a toll free number and usually instructions not to trust random towers you didn’t call for.
I agree, this doesn't make sense. Python especially strikes the perfect balance between learning programming concepts and being productive almost immediately in real-life. It seems like most of the problems the students experienced were lower-level CS details like types and pointers that didn't directly translate with the kinds of data analysis problems that they were likely be able to apply to their studies.

If they were CS majors I would entertain them learning the lower-level stuff first but not for what they are trying to accomplish.
Also known as the capitalist party.
Using machine learning to anaylze mystery signals reminds me of Stanisław Lem's novel His Master's Voice (1968). It's a fictional memoir of a mathematician working on a Manhattan Project-like project to analyze a signal from space. The book is like a cross between Contact and Catch-22.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His_Master's_Voice_(novel)
It’s hilarious to play with friends, you’ll frequently mix up keys and drop a boulder on yourself or party members.

If you want something similar with a Starship Troopers vibe, also check out Helldivers!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/394510/HELLDIVERS/
Thank you for this video. The anecdotes about Obama and the German finance minister are excellent!
Can they not file a civil suit to recover damages?
Given the state of computing, no. I'd be more worried about my brain chip having poorly implemented crypto with legally mandated backdoors from 7 different countries and security updates requiring surgery.

A simple radio transceiver will probably hold it's own for the near future.

Weaponised drones wielded by violent individuals scares the shit out of me.
.. subject to sample bias, due to including only countries where they operate.

Also, "the most demands" is, at best, misleading. To be meaningful, number of demands would be a numerator, requiring a denominator, such as total number of users, or, better yet, users multiplied by data.
Me. Having to back through several odd transitions was fairly disorienting and not the experience I was expecting.

Despite that - very cool website, can't complain about the overall experience.
They neglect to mention that when Mailer decked Vidal (I think calling it a fight is an exaggeration), Vidal, still on the floor, is reported to have retorted: “Words fail Norman Mailer yet again.”.

They do manage to keep his commentary on Capote's death ("A good career move").
I can see real problems with those things. Mini fridges can be noisy (for real, I've often unplugged them for the night at hotels). Food can be messy. Fans can be noisy, and one person's white noise can be another person's irritating noise.

These often aren't just arbitrary rules.

Alcohol is another thing.
Strikingly (YC W13) Closed 10M Series A+
To give some context, rstring rep is like an expanded Pascal rep with more metadata. rstrings allow
nearly free substrings if string data is immutable. IIRC this is similar to what Java uses for string-table constants (CONSTANT_Utf8_info).

For historical context, a string rep besides ASCIIZ / charZ (NUL-terminated) was dollar-terminated used by DOS.

Pascal would store a byte length at the head of a string to indicate it's length.
There are only a few people in a company that really care about profit/loss and have influence on it. Most just try to survive in the political environment and some of them get a power trip on the way.
The Mozilla Hacks blog post about Firefox Focus and GeckoView is now live:

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/09/focus-with-geckoview/
According to the national debt's Wikipedia page 5.7 trillion is owned by the government. That ends up being about a forth of it.
One book is too restrictive to decide. People change, surroundings change, situations change...so would it be with books that have changed us or influenced us.

I'll leave you here not with a book, but with one tiny piece of one tiny book:

The first chapter of "Illusions" by Richard Bach. As with other fantastic works that others have listed here, a distinguishing factor about these impactful or "life changing" works is that you can re-read them countless times and benefit from them anew on every read. This first chapter is one such work for me.

I'm not implying that the rest of "Illusions" is worse than this first chapter (on the contrary, it's great), but this chapter is short, yet so powerful, and best of all, it stands by itself.

Bonus, if you like to read brief but powerful pieces, pick up "The Prophet" by Kahlil Gibran and read the chapters that interest you. I'd suggest the "On Giving" chapter as a great start.
You're right that writing a complete language like Java or Python is not a small task, but that's because these languages have redundant ways of doing the same thing. If you simplify them be eliminating redundancy while retaining power, you'll have a much simpler implementation task. Here's a language I designed for this: https://kartick-log.blogspot.com/2016/04/why-arent-there-sim... If you want to learn language implementation rather than design, you can implement this language as is.

Another option is to build a VM, that accepts as input byte in a text (not binary) form. Less efficient, but easier to implement, and you can write your bytecode by hand instead of also building a compiler to do so. Like object-oriented assembly language, if you will. If you're interested, I'll scan and share my dissertation report with you.

You can also implement a domain-specific language. Did you, in the past, feel that a task you were doing would be simpler if there was a custom language for it? If so, maybe you can try building that DSL and then using that to make your main task easier.
I bet you could do a decent job regulating it if they required photo documentation of the parking job and any posted signage to be submitted to the police with each tow. Somebody get on an app for that.
It’s cool, but it’s HTTP/HTTPS only, I believe.
Possibly for a micro, campus-based local community that has something in common and temporarily are located in proximity to each other.

No necessarily "dating" or "by interest" groups - but it could be a great idea for someone who just admitted to "learn secrets" and ask questions to someone who been there for 2 weeks or so.
Same on New York thruways. Each section is leased to a single tow company that will "cut you a deal" on the tow if you go to their shop for repairs.
The complexity of the forwarded message problem is wrong. Any algorithm solving this can be used to answer whether a graph of order n is Hamiltonian by simply asking if the longest forwarding path is of length n-1. Thus, either the complexity is nonpolynomial or the interviewee has just won the million dollar prize for solving an NP-complete problem in polynomial time.
"Dinner" might imply that the restaurant is open earlier?
And honestly the jump from php 5.6 -> 7 is pretty painless.
Its probably the lack of tests for a lot of old 5.6 software that gives people fear of upgrading. php development has gotten a lot better.

I think support for 7.0 is ending soon too.
I spent 3 years writing como-lang https://github.com/analang/ana I didn’t have a compilers course at my college. I think the first thing you should understand is how a language works. The first part is the syntax and grammar. It would also be very useful to know how assembly works, as than you’re probably keen on stack machines, which are very simple, yet powerful machines capable of representing expressions in a linear way. Feel free to email me if you have any questions! I’d love to help you get on the right track.

When I was learning, my only resources were books, google, and PHP-src and CPython.
There's a great movie called "Best of Enemies" about their rivalry and the impact of their televised debates. It's on Netflix. It's a 94% on Rotten Tomatoes. Definitely worth watching.
Yup, we have toxic workplace values in the US. Shitty vacation, that you have "earn" through decades of "service", and don't dare too take too much all at once. People outside of the corporate office workplace have it way worse. That said, this is a massive exaggeration. Seven days is shit, even in the US, for an engineer or programmer. They might ask you to stay late from time to time or come in on the weekend, and I'm not saying it's okay, but most Americans don't do that every week. Sorry, if you've had shitty jobs.
Sounds like you just have a beef with Chicago...
I honestly don't know anyone in my (australian) high-school cohort who even thought about the varying costs of under-grad degrees. It's such a small difference, and it's all covered under HECS anyway.
That's so frustrating!! Sorry you had to go through that :( There should be an easy way to dispute that sort of thing that doesn't require you to take a day off work. There seems to be a lack of checks and balances in US that leads to all sorts of bs scenarios. It's one of the reasons I don't miss the country.