skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cell phones are laughable single points of failure. Everyone brought this upon themselves from decades of bad engineering choices, if you consider resilience an objective. Once upon a time there was a terrestrial network of small autonomous telephone exchanges. Your phone numbers were tied to geographical locations. It seemed 'inconvenient'. Now you or your signal often have to travel hundreds of miles (as the crow flies) to find a central office that is required for call completion, even between two phones 10 feet apart. Even so-called 'land line phones' are tied into this network now because cell phone providers have remade the old Bell system in their own image and require, of all things, Internet connectivity and utility power to boxes on poles all over the neighborhood to work.

Expect it to fail all at once. You will not be disappointed. What this means in terms of the value of amateur radio is not hard to figure out.
> "How is this different/better than taking <random web browser> and hitting "print"

If you have to repeat this process 2000 times, it becomes time consuming. It doesn't scale for a single user needing 2000 pdfs to do the process manually.
Saw this project the other day when looking through go resources, sounds like it's at least part-way to what you describe: https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism
It is generally agreed that both types of stressors environmental and psycho-social, have the same effects. These effects can be measured in hormone levels in the blood.

Of course malnutrition and other physical insults might also cause permanent injuries.
I've read Beowulf for a university class and I thought it was boring and unrelatable. I know it's supposed to be some kind of cornerstone of English literature, but I personally feel like it has nothing worthwhile to say to a modern audience.

Maybe it sounds better in the Old English.
Yeah I do think there is definitely disillusionment in US politics that drives down turnout. If we did something like ranked choice voting that might help a lot, and if you think about compulsory voting without a robust set of political parties, it starts to feel a little corrupt.

But Denmark is a lot different than the US. I don't mean to come off like a "USA #1" asshole here but there's maybe 6 million people there. It's a lot harder to set up an election system for some 200 million voters spread across thousands of miles of wildly different environments.
How Walking to Work Changed My Life
>And if you are ecologically minded, thats interesting.

This doesn't follow.

If you were truly ecologically minded, you'd cheer on all the automakers in their move to EVs, not one in specific with a microscopic market share. BMW has more potential to shift the landscape than Tesla.
Currently, this comment is heavily downvoted, which I do not understand. If Julia warrants mentioning as having a lispy core, then it’s at least as valid to point out R’s deeply lisp-inspired (and technical implementation based) heritage.

I mean, scratch the surface on any of the FFI docs, and you’ll see that SEXPRs are right there lurking barely beneath the surface: http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/rcpp.html

EDIT: and you can, as the parent comment says, do much worse than Hadley’s functional programming guide as an introduction.
It's not easy to imagine what other people place value on. I like peace and quiet, so suburban living suits me. Others value nice restaurants, good weather, close skiing, professional sports, access to first class health care, good jobs, inexpensive housing, low crime, etc. How can we judge the desirability of different cities with such different styles?

It seems there is exactly one reliable way to make this assessment. Look at where people move to. The large cities with the most rapid growth are (from Forbes 2018 list[1]):

1) Boise, ID

2) Seatle-Bellevue-Everett, WA

3) Dallas-Plano-Irving, TX

4) Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL

5) Fort Worth-Arlington, TX

6) Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise, NV

7) Nashville-Davidson-Murfreesboro-Franklin, TN

8) Austin-Round Rock, TX

9) Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL

10) Tacoma-Lakewood, WA

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/samanthasharf/2018/02/28/full-l...
> How many of those more conservative/cheaper US cities actually take walking/biking/transit over driving as a serious issue?

Do you really think NYC is a good example of this? I found the car traffic horrific, cycling is variable at best and downright dangerous at worst. The subway is pretty amazing but massively under-invested.

Even most UK cities which have longer levels of history restricting what can be done for cyclists are better than NYC.
> Their sales have been growing for years.

Looks like they just posted a solid ~5% YoY growth for the last quarter, while TSLA posted ~125%. It's clearly an interesting difference. Valuation is the metric that summarizes all of the other metrics.

https://www.zacks.com/stock/chart/bamxf/fundamental/revenue-...

https://www.zacks.com/stock/chart/TSLA/fundamental/revenue-q...
humans. some are smart, taste great, and on top of that, you are getting rid of the competition. /jk
Your styling is a bit off, and you don't seem to allow custom pages like FAQ or Contact. But, it's a cool start.
That's a good distinction -- perhaps I'll start calling them wheel-runners. It might catch on.

And to be fair to wheel-runners, it could be that what I'm reading as haughty disregard is actually the same kind of abstraction one sees in foot runners, a kind of meditative absorbtion in the experience of exercise. This might also explain why they appear unable to see stop signs.
> But, thankfully, they didn't destroy all of their pre-war housing and infrastructure and so most of them have at least a couple interesting, walkable neighborhoods.

Sure, but how useful is that, really? Huntsville has a New Urbanist neighborhood that looks nice and cute, but the rest of Huntsville (which I have lived in before) fucking sucks for anything that's not a car. As soon as you need to go anywhere else, you gotta go back into driving, and only driving.

> If you're moving to St. Louis or Cincinnati, then you'll need to do some research. The dart is a bad strategy.

I don't dispute that you can mitigate the effects somewhat via careful selection. But:

* That only works for those particular neighborhoods. You're probably not gonna always stay in those, so you're still going to need to at least own a car, and probably make at least somewhat frequent use of it if you want to go to other places in the area.

* You're probably also looking at other things you want in a neighborhood: crime rate, school quality, restaurants, other points of interest, etc. Having to only look at a few neighborhoods as viable urbanist-friendly locations greatly constrains your options when it comes time to look at the other dimensions.

> I think people underestimate the extent to which that's going on

Maybe other people do, but I'm a dorky-ass urbanism nerd who reads blogs on this shit all the time, so I don't. I'm well aware of what's going on. But I also travel enough to know that these cities are so woefully behind most of the rest of the developed world, it would take literal CENTURIES to catch up at the current snail's pace of improvement. Changes that happen after I'm dead are of no use to me.
Who is being taken advantage of in this scenario? The blood donors get money, and they only have to donate a little bit of blood each, so they aren't jeopardizing their own health. The billionaire potentially gets to live longer. The terms of the transaction are very transparent to both parties.

Blood donation is an easy way to make some money. People do it all the time when donating to blood banks. It's not just people lacking money who do it.
> Deutsche Bank

As a German I have to ask what is wrong with this sick piece of a company. They seem to have their ugly fingers sticking in every pile of dirt potentially hiding gold nuggets. Disgusting.
I don't think it is much of a stretch to suggest that Electrek is part of Tesla's marketing team. In a similar way to The Verge being part of Apple's.
JW, do you use a lot of other public trans? It's easy to be impacted by an issue and think that SEPTA is incompetent, forgetting that public transit is hard and not realizing how bad other people are doing. After all, Septa isn't famous for catching on fire all the time[0][1].

0 - https://twitter.com/ismetroonfire?lang
1 - https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/washington-d-c-s-metro-...
Show HN: Vorta – A Boring Open Source GUI for BorgBackup (Attic)
Borg[1] is a very capable backup tool, I use on all my servers. It does the advanced stuff that's needed for backups today. Like encryption, deduplication, compression and validation.

There was no complete GUI[2] for it, so I made one. It's intentionally built on a boring stack to keep it simple and basic. It should just sit there, do backups and let you know when something breaks.

It's also open source because I wouldn't trust a backup tool that isn't. Development is still early, but it should be stable enough for regular use. Bugreports, feature ideas and PRs welcome. Link:

https://github.com/borgbase/vorta

You can back up to any SSH account that has Borg installed, or try my hosted Borg repo service, which also does neat stuff like alerting of stale backups, as well as isolated- and append-only repos.[3]

1: https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

2: https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/issues/2960

3: https://www.borgbase.com
If you have experienced west coast/Rocky mountain outdoors, the east coast likely won't satisfy you anymore.
Excellent question. Several years ago RocksDB didn't support ACID transactions. This test turns on transaction support in RocksDB.
I think it still takes court approval for such a hacking operation, its meant to avoid notifying the targets.
See also the palindrome "Bob bob bob bob bob".

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=shs1DQAAQBAJ&pg=PA79&lpg...
Make may be simple, but most real world uses of Make I've seen are NOT simple. The primary benefit of CMake is it imposes a modicum more consistency on the build system. I'll admit CMake still has this problem, though, due to how flexible it is.
BMW reported profits of €8.7bn for the year 2017. [1]

Tesla stockholders must be very, very optimistic about its future performance when they value Tesla more than an already established, immensely profitable player.

[1] https://phys.org/news/2018-03-bmw-net-profit-bn-euros.html
Not OP, but I'd say a willingness and proven ability to learn far outweigh any particular tools. Proving ability to learn does require past experience, of course.

I think it helps a lot more to show that you understand styling principles (reusability, selector precedence) than it does to be able to make pixel-perfect implementations based only on knowledge off the top of your head. [0]

That being said, in order to have that understanding, you probably need to have some experience with CSS or similar.

Basically, hands-on CSS experience is the means not the ends.

[0]: Perhaps all of this is what you meant by having a "firm grasp of CSS".
it's not standard at all. what parts of make are the GNU extensions? What parts are you building with bash that aren't portable to windows, or even other nix machines that only have posix sh?
Very interesting ...

Two bullet points jumped out at me straightway:

- Single monolithic code tree with mixed language code

- Development on head; all releases from source

Just one other concern I have now.

Something like Make, or most other build-systems run pretty much straight out of the box.

Something like Bazel lets say is apparently an order of magnitude more complicated. There's a few more moving parts.

My only remaining qualm relates to the additional cognitive load of this stuff. At scale, as in Google this isn't so much a problem because these costs would diminish at the point where you can actually assign people to look after it.

I really like the idea though! Would be nice to work in a place like Google some day ...
How tumour development is driven by p53 gene mutations
How do you figure? The iPhone was unveiled as a 3-in-1 device during its first keynote.
We'll have test results on Optane DIMMs posted "soon" - as soon as the NDA expires...
YouScience CEO Discusses Talent Development at U.S. Chamber of Commerce
We say the same thing about Goldman Sachs. I guess every country has their own villans.
I was drawing a comparison between the Kdb runtime and the Erlang runtime, because the OP seems to be conflating the ability to emulate relational features at the application level with first-class support for relational semantics as in a relational database. Support for relational semantics can be emulated via programming languages with sophisticated runtimes like Erlang, but I wouldn't classify any database supporting a Turing complete language with a sophisticated runtime as a relational database.
I wondered the same thing and assumed it was a joke. Then I wondered why they didn't say "halved." Oh well. I probably thought about this too much already.
The Verge are Google/Android fanboys at heart. Unclear to me how they got the iVerge moniker besides giving good scores to Apple’s objectively good devices.
Tesla is shifting the landscape, BMW could be.

Comparing the indicative with the indicative mood isn't fair. Vapourware always/never beats what's shipping.
I'm far from my field of expertise, but isn't your point similar to saying that English is in our DNA because the tools to learn and speak it are?

I think if you disqualify the changes DNA _enables_ (rather than directly encodes) then you've moved the goalposts a little.
It depends on where that developer was slotted in.

We currently have ~3 dedicated front end developers who have limited skills beyond HTML, CSS, and Javascript who maintain our large forward facing public presence.

The remainder of our developer pool are full stack developers who maintain a myriad of internal systems and apps used to run the business. A few of these apps are publicly accessible but they're niche and don't require strict adherence to brand or accessibility standards. The remainder are simply internal applications.

A firm grasp of CSS would seem to be essential to the front end devs, though I might be inclined to say it's not given some of the code I've seen. I am however willing to give them the benefit of doubt because I know they're a newer team that inherited an unfathomably large site running on an ancient CMS (Stellent) and the new products they're working on are integrated with some pretty heinous 3rd party platforms.

For the remainder of our Devs usability and appearance take a back seat to functionality. So CSS chops are more of a nice to have.
Love to see the XPrize teams pushing on; also Astrobotic [1] and Moon Express [2].

[1] https://www.astrobotic.com/

[2] http://www.moonexpress.com/
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Retroreflectors are immediately useful for improving our understanding of gravity:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Point_Observatory_Lunar...
South Australia Police to compel passwords and biometrics from suspects
I absolutely do feel like I'd appreciate help, but I've read significantly more helpful and less abrasive books for my situation, maybe the difference is that while I want help, I don't feel disaffected by modern society, and that stripped down Christian conservatism isn't an appealing philosophy as someone who had to leave the religion.

If it's any consolation, I did like the chapter titles, each one was generally a good piece of advice, it was the content and justifications that were the issue.
China Rolls Out New Gait Recognition Surveillance Software
[does double take] Denholm? #ITCrowd
That's why this time it should be tied to the power of the biggest IT firms. If Apple, Google, Facebook and Microsoft were willing to let their servers break the middle boxes even the most fucked up, stupid, slow IT department would have to kill their broken middle boxes.

I'd argue it would take less than 48h hours to kill all middle boxes worldwide and probably all broken browser versions too. Just imagine what it would mean for a Big Corp not to be able to access Google, Bing, Facebook and iCloud from their networks. It's either move or go bankrupt within days.

In a way that's kind of the nuclear option, but hell nukes do work.
Research their relations with the US.
I dunno if I'd call it dogma. For the most part, most working mathematicians I've run into basically don't care either way and adaptively adopt whichever philosophy happens to match best with their intuition for a particular problem. This can change on a problem by problem basis. I wouldn't be surprised if a working mathematician hadn't heard of intuitionism or formalism.

Interestingly, your latter point is exactly formalism (the "formal" part is referring to the formalized language), i.e. Hilbert's position. Formalism basically asserts that mathematics is a fancy string manipulation game.
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> The only thing that we've had consistently over hundreds (or even thousand) of years in Europe is warfare and royal inbreeding

While I used to say exactly that for most of my life, trust me this is a gross oversimplification. With an emphasis on gross. Law traditions date back to the Romans, Celts, Germanics and others at least. And of course no sovereign country on the onset of the EU would have accepted the new EU norms if they were to contradict with their own. That the EU nowadays tries to impose rules that contradict those norms is reason for the ever rising resentment of Brussels around Europe.

> If we could avoid having to invade Ireland

You say it yourself: How can we declare moral superiority if we are openly discussing invading Ireland because we've abandoned pillar principles like national sovereignty?

How can you lament "over hundreds (or even thousand) of years in Europe [of] warfare" while simultaneously abandon the core lesson of those wars (sovereignty)?
"regulating immigration and encouraging eMigration". Really? So let's the brilliant people go to other countries bringing their knowledge somewhere else?
Brilliant.

> "I'd quite like to see daily labor auctions. Where the employer "bids" for how much they're willing to pay today, and employees select where they'll go to work (or stay home) based on today's bids. Christmas day would suddenly get very expensive."

Sure, just wait until all employers bid the same for the same level jobs, at that point emploees don't have other choice than to accept anything.

what does surpless mean? At first I though it was a mispelling of "surplus" but you wrote it twice...
Well thats true, I do want other automakers to follow. That's Tesla's stated mission actually - to accelerate the transition to sustainable transport. So perhaps this market valuation will give BMW a kick up the arse. BMW and all the other major carmakers are continually announcing how they're going to start producing loads of EVs blah blah, but its always still 'a few years away'. And seems to have been like that for a decade now. I think there is some sort of deadlock at the senior management level.

Also, Tesla's market share is no longer microscopic and the likelihood is its going to continue to grow. Thats the whole point of the market valuation that this conversation we're having is about.
Different strokes for different folks, I suppose. Once we had our kid, I couldn't wait to get out of our 850 sq ft. house. (which also had an 850 sq ft basement for laundry and storage)

I occassionally work from home, and I need a seperate office with a door to do that. Also, I just like having some space to get away from the rest of the family for a while.

Like you, it's what I'm used to from when I grew up, so that probably plays a big part in my preference.
Stockholders just believe the no one else will ever be able to make an electric car.
I relocated from the UK to California and then Zurich to work at Google. I wouldn't have taken the offer if they said - "you can only work at Google if you agree to work in Alabama". Once you're in Google, it's pretty easy to move around between offices, and yet people aren't tripping over themselves to move to small offices in small cities with a small range of projects to work in.

Don't underestimate the power of network effects and critical mass. The people good enough to get into FAANG also have the abundance of options to specify where they'd like to live and work.
>The question is whether we will end up using their efforts or whether we keep on going back to the same monolith kernels we have been using for the last thirty years or so. Whether it is NT, Linux, or any of the BSD kernels, they each have decades of history behind them.

Please just... stop. You are using terms that you clearly don't understand the meaning of. What is a "monolith" from your point of view? Because I can tell you that Windows NT is most certainly not a monolithic kernel. Its architecture is very much that of an impure hybrid kernel. You're using the term "monolith" as some sort of buzzword in a realm where that exact term already has a highly specific meaning.

>At the same time, we are seeing Rust pop up in a lot of places that used to be the exclusive domain of C. People are already re-implementing libraries, popular command line tools,

Yes, but some (e.g. ripgrep) don't actually do the same thing as the programs they are supposed to "re-implement". Most Rust "re-implementations" don't actually re-implement programs, they are new programs doing a similar-but-not-quite-the-same thing to the older C implementations. For example, ripgrep is neither GNU or POSIX compliant, and therefore it is not a re-implementation.

>I could see linux evolve to a point where integrating drivers like that is both possible and common. Once that happens, it will be a hybrid kernel effectively.

Hybrid kernels have absolutely nothing to do with the language they are written in beyond the fact that they're written in it. Monolithic, hybrid, microkernels and exokernels are all terms to describe the architecture of a kernel.

>So one outcome would be a lot of Rust code running in a wasm sandbox on top of legacy kernels.

So then Rust and wasm isn't a part of the kernel is what you're saying.
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Fuschia seem more like an experiment in object-capabilities design rather than "performance-critical development" to me.
Hilarious example of why English is a terrible language: I meant for the the pronoun to refer to Joyent, not [necessarily] the CTO.
Can't speak to it specifically - yet - but I've been in NL for a few years now and haven't converted my licence as it requires some paperwork hoops on the non-NL side that I haven't bothered to figure out all of yet. Probably easier than doing the exam in a tweede taal though.

But I was at SHA2017 where we had a temporary repeater hoisted up on a cherry-picker, and someone who had boated in was doing APRS (I brought my HackRF so could dabble on the edges of legality :)

But one of these days, soon I'm sure, I'll get my HAREC thing sorted and convert it over.
"Now you might think it's all more or less a wash, because someone is gonna have the other side of that derivative, but that's not the case. The banks tend to have the same sides of the trades against their customers, because the customers are mostly all after certain payoff schemes."

Thanks for clarifying. That was really confusing me because it did sound like it ought to be a wash.

The other thing is: is this illegal? I am assuming there are no insider trading laws that apply to FX because there is no fiduciary duty to a currency.