skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How true is the no cap part? Genuinely curious, because I can't imagine some cults where if you're at the bottom of the ladder, the cult will do everything it takes to retain you if you give the cult little money and unrelenting loyalty because the loyalty itself will take care of retaining oneself to the cult. Hence, willingness to subjugate oneself to the will of the superiors with no end. Hopefully that makes sense.
I often use QR codes to quickly transfer long URLs etc from my PC to my phone.

In the commandline you can run "qrencode --type UTF8 -o - <text>" and get a pure text-only QR code.
The original statement paints an entire region of people as though they all fit one stereotype. It’s just ironic to me that many people who otherwise laud tolerance, open-mindedness, multiculturalism etc. have no problem stereotyping an entire region of the country as “a basket of deplorables,” as if that region is not full of all different kinds of people, just like any place else.

That’s all I’m trying to point out.
So they wrote and published the book in Github? Is this a free service?
Weirdest one for me: in "The Roads Must Roll" (1940) Heinlein invented the Segway.

"A tumblebug does not give a man dignity, since it is about the size and shape of a kitchen stool, gyro-stabilized on a single wheel. But it is perfectly adapted to patrolling the maze of machinery 'down inside', since it can go through an opening the width of a man's shoulders, is easily controlled and will stand patiently upright, waiting, should its rider dismount."
> Is it that the consumers don't know they're illegal

Apparently it's a hard problem to solve. Prostitution is legal in Germany, but still far from "accepted" as regular work.

There are attempts at having the workers register themselves plus regular check ups (which they're not too keen on, because when the political landscape changes, being part of some database isn't a good thing. Plus, being in a database might expose their line of work that they normally don't point a spotlight on in their regular life), at requiring their customers to report suspect cases (but not all customers are interested in having their pastime exposed like that, and also how are they supposed to detect these?).

Every attempt at a solution (without guarantee of success) creates new problems because it's a volatile environment all around.

Illegal workers being immigrants, they are unfamiliar with the law, at risk of deportation (so the protections legal workers theoretically have don't apply to them in whole), and they're also not very keen on their families learning how they made the money that was sent back every month (no, it wasn't by waiting tables). Also, with mafia-like structures trafficking them, blowing the whistle might reduce life expectation for them and their families back home. There's little room for them to help themselves once in the situation.
With the rampant sexism in west coast tech companies, you'd think they'd feel right at home in the southern states then.
Couldn't an alternate config-spec work around that easily?
Patent: https://patents.google.com/patent/US2283184A/
Not only are right turns safe, but they are safer than left turns, because the A column can more easily block pedestrians crossing a street parallel to the cars motion before the turn. And so a single right turn is safer than a single left turn, and this proposed law is going to make people perhaps do 3x as many left turns as they would have right turns.
I wonder if it means no webcam access as that would require access to /dev?
I’d worry too, trying to read a blog post spread out across 100 tweets.
In the three decades Stalin was general secretary, the Soviet Union had enormous economic growth. Russia went from being a backward peasant country ruled by a czar, to being the first country to send a satellite to space. Its success and its example were what was feared. While unemployment was 25% in the US in 1933, the USSR was charging forward, and US and European firms and workers were going there to work.

On Stalin's death, Khrushchev announced economic growth was no longer a priority, and other such policies, and stagnation set in.

China also had enormous economic development under the communist party from 1949 to 1978, and from 1978 to now (although the party took a right turn under Deng Xiaoping in 1978, to where some question if China was socialist after then).

The average inflation-adjusted hourly wage in the US is below what it was 45 years ago, leading to anti free trade Trump and Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio Cortez. Also Corbyn, Syriza, Brexit, ping-pong from Lula to Bolsonaro, TARP bank bailouts plus the carbon externalities destroying the planet.

Of course, I don't think a traditional Marxist worldwide communist revolution of factory workers led by Leninist parties will happen.

The present economic system might be eradicated though. It has not been all that long since European kings were having their heads chopped off or were being bayoneted to death in basements.
He also explains that he wrote that 5am from an hospital. From my point of view, he was just venting his frustrations making a point of how old the error origin was.

It was not "storytelling", he was not writing it with the main goal of "getting to the point" so you could benefit. Calling it "crappy" sounds unfair and mean to me.
The way I see it, the problem is that people think women need skills to qualify for jobs in the first place.

As a man, many of my first jobs I got simply because the boss thought I was a promising PFY and was convinced I'd learn everything I needed within the first few days. It's a double standard.
This is the people’s republic of California. If they can find a way to use government to create a fine for people who have money they will do it.

If you are a homeless drug addict they want to pretend you don’t exist even if you commit a crime.
I use neomutt for email. It has a tagging feature, which support regex, pretty efficient for moving or deleting many similar emails all at once.
As a person who had the same obsession, I’d suggest FIRE https://qz.com/work/1274905/understanding-fire-financial-ind... - save enough and retire. It’s great to have time for yourself, your family, friends and just take a rest from a competition and stress at work. Dropping a job it’s a difficult, especially if you’re like I was workaholic. The first 2 weeks are the most hard time when you don’t know what to do, you feel yourself lost and broken. I’d suggest to plan this time ahead with 0lanty of things you wanted to try or to do but you never had t8me for those stuff. I hope it will help.
Ghm. Mathematics and sciences are rather successful in reality. Natural language can be used in a rather rigid and formal manner - and mathematical language can be used carelessly and in error. (In fact, using natural language carefully may be preferable to playing with formal symbols - as it makes gaffes and logical gaps more visible to the readers.)
Why one of America’s richest states is also its poorest
Yes, using Safari on ios with adblocking software. Can’t get it to show even with a refresh.
Music downloads – stream songs free, discover artists/bands – Folk-Rock
It is crappy in the sense that it is yet another person repeating the same tired trope of highlighting just how supposedly egregious some issue is in context of arbitrary events that happen to share the timeline. I am sick of this sort of temporally-oriented futurism as it betrays the writer's inexperience in actually shipping code and I am sick of amateurs being taken seriously in this field.

Yeah, its an old issue, obviously nobody cared enough to fix it until now, STFU...

edit- and finally, its twitter. stick to the character limit, or put it in a blog post.

(and maybe this should be my last beer :)
Fun fact: A not entirely equivalent, but comparable starter was used on the Titan II ICBMs and Gemini launchers, specifically the LR87-5 and LR87-7 rocket engines (which used a hypergolic fuel&oxidizer combination)

A simple (read: I don't understand it better yet) explanation is this: A starter cartridge was placed in the turbopumps of the engine, that ignited and spun up the turbopumps (technically, the turbine of the TPA which then turns the pumps), which then fed fuel and oxidizer into a) the gas generator to sustain operation, and b) into the combustion chambers. The cartridges burned for about a second, and you can hear the screeching sound they made in this launch video [1]

[1] https://youtu.be/E87deQMLHoQ?t=185
At what rate do you think women are driven into prostitution because they hit a glass ceiling in their previous line of work?

Versus, you know, never getting off the ground floor?
Easier to read: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1058676834940776450.html
> If you have a smartphone, people invariably have one or two messaging apps in my experience. If it is not Whatsapp then it is something else

Yes, it's called iMessage.
To be fair, it almost entirely transfers wealth to the extremely well off by any standards first world upper class, everything else is a rounding error. Outsourcing is colonialism by another name.
Demo: Neural Style Transfer on a Raspberry Pi
"Calling for the extermination of other races would make him a white supremacist."

It seems to me like you're ignoring the plain definitions of simple words in constructing this statement. Wanting to preserve a dominant position in society (which is what it sounds like Jones' concern is) makes one a supremacist. Wanting to eliminate other groups makes one something else, perhaps an "eliminationist" or "exterminationist". They are distinct. You can be both, but you can also be the former without being the latter. Assuming Jones is not an exterminationist, that is entirely consistent with him being a supremacist who either has scruples or doesn't feel the situation is desperate enough yet.

People who feel threatened may reasonably speculate he (or others who are sympathetic to supremacist views) might become an exterminationist if the situation appeared more desperate. That's neither a "true" nor "false" narrative, but a plausible yet uncertain prediction.
lol @ assuming we're all american

classic
I imagine popular ones like NUL and CON are still in use; I have machines running daily batch files containing those.

Using long UNC paths or writing to the FAT/NTFS filesystem through mechanisms other than Win32 allows you to bypass the restriction.

If you really want to be nasty to someone: echo hello > \\.\C:\Con.fess.I.know.what.you.did
Of course, the Stalinist "economic growth" was built on the bones of millions forced into slavery. Do you really consider this kind of growth desirable or sustainable?
I hope nobody feels the urge to look at this issue through a nationalistic lens. Don't get me wrong, the Chinese government has a LOT to be ashamed about. But I don't think this is one of them.

I don't doubt that Chinese authorities want to solve this problem. The problem isn't a lack of will on the part of their Government; the problem is a lack of established infrastructure to deal with relatively nuanced issues like industrial chemicals. You're asking a country that is rapidly transitioning to modernity—perhaps faster than any other large country ever in history—to get all these things right faster than anyone else ever did.

We shouldn't stop pressuring China to do better, but the best thing we can do is good science, good measurements and helping them to solve the problem for themselves.

(Disclaimer: this post was written with an eye to Cunningham's Law. I'm a total layperson and I would be interested to hear observations from someone with expertise in this field.)
"too much optimization at the expense of robustness"

That is not unique to central planned economies. Consider how the 2011 Thailand floods lead to a global shortage of hard disk drives, or the saline solution shortage in the US when the plants in Puerto Rico were damaged by Hurricane Maria.

I think the author expressed it clearly that the planning algorithms depend on linear programming, and that non-linear effects - and I believe 'robustness' counts as such - are beyond what can even hope to achieve. The author also points out:

> If it’s any consolation, allowing non-convexity messes up the markets-are-always-optimal theorems of neo-classical/bourgeois economics, too. (This illustrates Stiglitz’s contention that if the neo-classicals were right about how capitalism works, Kantorovich-style socialism would have been perfectly viable.)

Hence why capitalist systems may also have robustness problems.

"You can have an efficient system but it's robustness (ability to withstand a failure or adapt to change) will be very low."

I think that's an observation in how centralized systems are implemented. I don't see why robustness can't, at least in theory, be included as part of the optimization process.

Beyond the factors highlighted in the essay, of course, like the inability to decide how to weight those factors, and the non-convexity.
Gambling using housing as gaming pieces was fun in monopoly. Then late-night TV started encouraging people to do that in real life.

Until there is an affordable HOME for all US citizens who need one, we in the US need to stop thinking of them as HOUSES and stop them being used as gambling chips.

As for public-housing, it needs to be permanently off-limits to speculative investing. Otherwise why should the well-intentioned public agree to investing their tax dollars in public housing? Ownership of these HOMES should only be available to people eligible for public-housing.
Previous discussion from 4 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18338927 (100 comments)
Yes and no. In Linux you can use an Unicode that looks like slash. Candidates are U+2044, U+2215, U+29F8, U+FF0F, and U+2571.

However similar trick probably would work in Windows as well. Does anybody care to try? :)
30 miles outside Atlanta things were not so rosy for brown people right after 9/11 when I lived there. And now, 17 years after 9/11, Georgia is doing everything it possibly can to suppress and purge voters who might shift the state away from staunch conservatism [1]. Please don't pretend there aren't massive issues in the south preventing it from being appealing to west coasters.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/03/us/politics/georgia-gover...
I get the feeling they were talking about something comparable to what their parents had at their age, in location, size, etc. In my experience, this isn't new construction--especially if the location is similar. In the desirable areas (I can't speak specifically to Vancouver, but I imagine it is) they're the same houses; now a generation older.

I could barely afford a house built as a hunting bungalow in 1918, expanded multiple times, in the 60s-70s a lot of unpermitted work was done. Trying to get work done was a nightmare because nothing was to code (some reputable contractors refused to do work). Sure, the appliances were fairly new, the pipes and some of the electrical had been updated, but all of those were relatively minor expenses and most of the upgrades were aesthetic.

Your insurance splits out the cost of the land and "improvements" (the structures) because you're only insuring the house because a flood/fire won't destroy the land. In my case, the cost of rebuilding the house dwarfed the cost of the property itself.
Yeah I don’t think this author has any idea what he’s talking about. His argument basically is that real-time animation and motion capture will, what, replace what Disney and Pixar are doing?

What people like this don’t realize is the degree to which every iota of detail in a Disney (Pixar, Dreamworks, Sony, etc) production is art directed and stylized. Every shot is cheated to camera (meaning the poses don’t necessarily read well in 3D, but look spectacular/have clear posing to the locked camera), at least to some degree. That’s why these movies are so fun to watch. Even something like Rick and Morty has stylized animation and it’s own particular motion language. To think you could replicate this with generic asset libraries and motion capture is beyond ignorant.

It’s particularly frustrating as somebody who once was a professional animator to hear this guy talking about how this technology will revolutionize the field, casually mention that he was “considering becoming a professional animator” - and then you look at his work and he has such limited knowledge of the craft. It belittles those who have devoted their lives into mastering this deep skill.
A lot of the problems I'm describing revolve around text input / editing / display rather than straight string manipulation.

Let's say I want to type 'My name is Matt.' in Farsi which is right to left. Transliterated that is 'esme (name) man (my) Matt ast (is)' and you might think I'd type that by typing the words in that order.

اسم من Matt است

The above is what I get if I type the words in that order while switching between Persian / English keyboards but it's not really what I'd expect as a user. In terms of right to left word order the above says 'ast Matt esme man' which is not the order I typed and is not correct. Now I'm not an expert in Farsi, Unicode or multi-lingual text entry and I don't know if the problem here is user error, browser implementation, Windows, or what. I know there's something about directional override characters in Unicode and a complex algorithm for dealing with text with mixed directions. I discovered while trying to write this post that it's been exploited in file names as a malware vector. I just know that this stuff is more complicated than I have time to deal with as a programmer on most projects I've worked on, so if Unicode is supported I don't even know if it's working correctly or how to test it in many cases.

Try to select, copy and paste the above text into a text editor and then move the cursor around with the cursor keys in it. Is the behavior what you'd expect? Is it correct? I don't know enough to be able to tell honestly.
Same for Amsterdam only when the oil crisis hit in the 70s did the city change (also thanks to "think of the children": they were killed by motorists and had nowhere to play)
Sure you will. Maybe not as much, but it will still be there. There are still illegal marijuana dealers in legalized states.

Women will continue to be 'streetwalkers', because they can't access the regulated place of business - maybe because of previous bad behavior such as stealing or assaulting clients - maybe because they have a STD and the regulated place won't let them work for health reasons - maybe because they are being forced to do 'overtime' after their regulated job by a pimp.

Men will likewise continue to use streetwalkers - maybe because they just like them better, maybe because they think their partners have less of a chance of finding out if they pick someone up in the street vs paying with a credit card on an app - maybe because they have been abusive in the past with regulated prostitutes and have been banned - maybe because they want to save 10% on the price.
Types aren’t documentation, no matter how many Haskell users delude themselves thinking it is.

Documentation is more than a function definition. Types don’t explain rationales and how to use functions and programs. Types don’t give proper examples.
At ~25-30 min they talk about "content club" as a business. The Wired guys propose this could be a +4$ billion biz. Gates laughs them off. Now, today we have the numbers:

- As of May 2018, Apple Music had 50 million paying subscribers worldwide.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/604959/number-of-apple-m...

- Apple Hits $10B in Revenue From Services Like iTunes
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/apple-hits-10-billion...
Chase seems to be allowing "cardless" withdrawals through Apple Pay. Perhaps MasterCard can do the same?
How Facebook Failed to Build a Better Alexa (Or Siri)
Please do educate us.
For me, the principal problem of central planning is that you cannot plan for innovation. Innovation works best in competitive capitalistic environments, where there is a significant prize awaiting innovators.
It can’t be revisited for String because the method is there, in stable, now.
A turing complete macro system is seen as a positive thing but if someone dares to mention Java’s annotation based code generation and DI everyone is complaining about “too much magic”
There was someone who wrote a blog or tweet about it awhile back but I couldn’t find it.

Found it - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLtLz4wQtOg
Show HN: Build a REST DC Metro Proxy Web Service with Loopback v4
And there is more. A lot more. I've read all his books available in Hungarian and I've learnt that:

- The world is over hyped due to cold war. From this grandiosity we should step back to earth.

- Asymmetry is the new world order

- The overall presence of information overflow, the logorrhea of information introduces anarchy

- In arts the next paradigm is reincarnational postmodernims: I’ll reborn to destroy more.

- Emotional over rational.

- Universe is just an illusion: an illegal loan with no cover. The Cosmos exists on an unlimited credit.

- Evolution is non-linear but random.

- The border between natural and artificial will disappear. There will be an electronic brain and soul not distinguishable from the original.

- Information becomes genital, fully sexualised: Everything that would serve humanity turned to be a strangehold of restrictions.

- It is more difficult to distinct truth from fake. Information leads to paranoia.

- Internet has a Marxist / Communist aspect: information & knowledge as individual property goes to service providers, corporations.

- The American Dream is replaced by Virtual Reality.

- Homo sapiens is the latest specie of the natural evolution. We are the latest reliquiae of the uncivilised nature.

... and more: http://metamn.io/gust/whats-next/
Remembering Grim Fandango: this week in tech, 20 years ago
To add to the other great replies, I should have also mentioned that String is a standard library type like any other; just because we didn’t implement it for String doesn’t mean that a package can’t implement a string with SSO if it’s important for the use-case. That’s also a factor.
So, the question would be, why would Windows not remove this limitation from the main OS and only keep it on backward compatibility mechanisms (like the DOS prompt which runs - or used to - in virtual 8086 mode?)
Essential Dos and Don’ts for Tor Network ( Detailed Guide)
A person on a scooter is barely bigger than just a person. They stand maybe 4 inches higher. They are like like a person running. A bit annoying and going too fast, but not that big a deal. A bike going the same speed is a much bigger object.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-Samsung-Galaxy-S9-SM-G960U1-64G...
that's probably nothing to discuss in public...
Surely that ratio is much higher than 1:1. The amount of camgirls having "fun" and independently successful escorts has to be relatively small compared to the amount of average sex workers, many of whom didn't exactly choose that life and don't find it to be very "empowering".
Neither. The recruiter is in it for self, for that commission.

I wonder if anyone can come up with a long lasting score card of recruiters. How do the new hires do after 2 years?

Or maybe even the managers should be graded in how the new hires are hired.
Apparently they did think of namespacing these devices files way back in the day. According to Wikipedia:

"Versions 2.x of MS-DOS provide the AVAILDEV CONFIG.SYS parameter that, if set to FALSE, makes these special names only active if prefixed with \DEV\, thus allowing ordinary files to be created with these names."
Not capital burned, because it's reimbursed by the network via fees.
MIC 2025, the next great leap forward howaboutit
> This idea was brought into CP/M by Gary Kiddal in 1974.

> Gary Kiddal

....I just died a little inside