skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For my part, I prefer things a little messy because not only are the solutions so often dependent on coercion but they also require that the ordinary citizen's faith and feelings are denied. Maximising utility seems a good thing but it is not the main reason why people do things like set up business, create charities, build village halls, paint, sing, create or innovate. Technocracy treats the world as an engineering problem when it's an unfolding story, explorers in a dense jungle not white-coated scientists in a laboratory.

There's a very famous fragment of Polish romantic ballad "Romantyczność" by Adam Mickiewicz:

Feeling and faith stronger speaks to me,
than the eye and the glass of a wise man.

It was written in 1821 in occupied Poland, and (together with other similar literature) was responsible for creating nationalist romantic movement that caused several failed uprisings, countless deaths, and whole generations of educated patriots being forced to migrate abroad escaping repressions.

When Poland got independent in 1918 (mostly thanks to a good luck and WW1, just like other countries in the region) - this attitude claimed the success ("if not for failed uprisings we wouldn't be here"), and people believed it. Failed uprisings are celebrated to this day, and a few rational generals who wanted to prevent the useless massacre and were hanged because of that - are still considered traitors.

Then it caused governments of interwar Poland to pursue unrealistic and opportunistic strategy that resulted in 1/6th of the population and 1/7th of the territory being lost in WW2 despite supposedly being on the winning side. But it sure felt nice to be brave and be the "first to fight". People are still boasting "Poland - first to fight" like it's a good thing to be stupid and die for no reason.

This national romanticism is still very much defining the public debate in Poland together with the only mainstream alternative - positivism and pragmatism. And romanticism is still winning - 200 years later. We've only got +-25 years of pragmatism after 1989, but it's over now.

It's why populists can win elections - because people want to ignore reality and stop analyzing it. "Just do what feels right, it will be OK for sure." "Winning trade wars is so easy". Everything is easy if you ignore reality because it's too complex.

It's a very harmful attitude. Don't let it take over your culture, it's very hard to get back to the enlightenment once you leave it behind.
Chinese headmaster fired over secret coin mining at school
Are you forgetting the API gateway charges? API gateway add’s $3.50 per million requests to the price.
PressTV-Netanyahu's lawyer should be indicted for bribery: Police
having a look at it, it seems like LINQ?
I've worked with people like that, not exactly on my team. Managers loved him because he was always "committed", working late hours to fix bugs his own botched code created.
UK supermarket TV advert on palm oil banned for being too political
I had no idea what Java Streams was (a long time since I wrote much Java) and it appears to be the Java version of LINQ:

https://www.foreach.be/blog/java-and-net-comparing-streams-l...
I don't see it. In that episode, people are rated by other people. That makes things a popularity contest. Seems more of a satire on the state of democracies and voting for the popular person.

In China, the proposal is that people will be given credit scores by the government based on a set of laws and criteria. In this case, it would not be subject to the whims of mob rule.
The Scientific Path Less Traveled
Most major car manufacturers in the US received hundreds of millions of government money to not go bankrupt in the aftermath of the 2008 crisis; Tesla was not one of them.
Surely this is more relevant to scientific theories, rather than a logical theory of interpretation of probability?
Popcorn Linux – Linux for Distributed Thread Execution
Tho it hasn't always been like that. Mid-90's Internet feels like utopia compared to our modern social reality dominated Internet.

When you met somebody online back then, you were just happy to have found somebody else. They didn't have profiles and pictures allowing you to put people into boxes before even talking with them.

People actually had to talk to each other to find out more about whom they were talking to, it required actual back and forth interaction and not just browsing a half-invented profile page to use that as "ammunition" to put somebody else down for their listed views/positions.
> Had to read your answer twice... "High latency???" But I see you consider 1-2us high latency. :P

Relative to accessing the hardware resources on a host, it very much is. Just as accessing the RAM is slow relative to accessing the L2 cache on a CPU
I'm loving it how Fb makes a campaign about open data, yet blocks indie search engines like findx.

Very informative post mortem; also includes the obligatory "incredible" phrase.

Edit: didn't know Github, too, only allows Google and Bing. That's quite the show stopper for gh IMHO. I guess we need a reciprocal data agreement of sort such as "we don't link to sites which don't allow crawling"
I don't have an account on either. At least with Google I can't get any data without an account.
Interestingly, China's President was also sent to a reeducation camp in the 70s for 6 years and now he is the most powerful person in China.
That is a natural outcome of the hyper capitalist world we currently live in. I have a mother who has been a journalist for over 40 years. I've heard for years about the pressure sell. Article titles often get changed against the will of journalists to be more click-bait like to sell more.

As people pay less for good journalism, and ad revenue is shrinking, the media is getting desperate to stay afloat.

Journalists today have significantly less independence than they had 15 years ago. Everything is far more controlled and geared towards sales.

I would like to see more alternative finance models for quality journalism.

Given how social media is actually starting to destroy democracy, it may be worth considering government grants to independent media organizations as a part of national defense. A democracy cannot function if the media is utterly broken. That means citizens are no longer capable of making informed decisions.
On an unfortunately very theoretical (but apparently already patend-encumbered, from what I can glean from Wikipedia) level there is also the concept of air-breathing electrical propulsion, an ion engine replenished from the the same trace atmosphere that causes the drag the engine is supposed to counter. Basically a solid state propeller that can still work in very thin air.

From my layman's understanding, because the effect of aerodynamic shaping breaks down at very low pressure, exhaust speed would have to be travel speed (TAS) x (total cross section / intake cross section) to keep orbit. Assessing whether that puts the concept in the realm of feasible technology or not is beyond my skills, but at least there seem to be projects working on that question. If it does work out, it would completely change the economics of LEO use.
"how am I personally benefitting from Elon Musk being a billionaire, taxpayer dollars shouldn't be reaching his pockets at that volume"

The whole point of subsidy is to encourage business in a specific area. It would sound like it's working as intended, encouraging business and all.

Would you be happier if the subsidies were completely wasted on a non-viable business?
As do fossil fuels and lots of other things. What's your point?
This is the same in most of Europe too. They don't explicitly charge different prices, but a lot of carriers offer something like free Instagram data or substantially discounted access to Spotify. Although they will just argue it's a marketing deal, it is in effect against net neutrality.
Hi, I work in airworthiness. You should educate yourself on the facts because you are way out of your lane here.
Why a group of hippos is called a bloat
People will fanboy about anything. It's our tribalistic nature.
Averages aren't the point. In EU wealth is distributed more equally (see Gini coefficient).
> But right now .Net Core feels like it's been developed by Microsoft, not like it's open source

This is my biggest reason for losing enthusiasm for .Net Core. Despite all the noise about open sourcing the development on GitHub, it still feels like Microsoft treats .Net like a Microsoft platform, not an open platform. And I'm not talking about Windows vs Linux. More that the design direction for .Net seems to be largely set by internal Microsoft politics. For example, the recent ASP.NET Core running on .Net Core vs .Net Standard decision seems to be driven by how tightly tied the .Net Core runtime is to its underlying OS.

Compare to Java with the JCP (because Java is often compared to C#). The JCP is far from perfect (e.g. all the drama with modules). But, regardless of my views of Oracle, when I'm using Java I don't worry as much that I'm tying the long-term stability of my tech stack to the whims of a single company (even with the new JDK licensing snafu).

On a side note, I'm really confused when I see people talk about how great the new tooling is. Sure, the dotnet CLI tool does more out of the box. But it still can get hairy very fast because of all the design baggage it inherited and shoved under the covers with the fancy new SDK abstraction. And Microsoft keeps cramming more and more complexity into NuGet which makes it a pain to integrate with third-party tooling.

Lastly, for the record, this isn't an anti-Microsoft rant. I think they've done a lot of great work with .Net Core---the standard library updates, cross-platform runtime, Roslyn---and I still am very productive writing .Net for my day job. Like I said, I've just lost my enthusiasm.
My implementation re-uses the MAKELEVEL environment variable to track recursion, making it simpler in the cases where one has GNU make calling redo, or indeed redo calling GNU make. (BSD make unfortunately uses a different and undocumented variable.)
What does it take (and bring) to be in the top of the Mac App Store
I have AT&T fiber and experience the same thing with YouTube. If I jump on my VPN it fixes everything. It was really bad most of the year but has improved lately. Maybe it actually was a peering issue.
The Pyra handheld might be of interest to you: https://pyra-handheld.com/

Though it's not yet shipped, and software/drivers seems to be mostly a community effort.
Battery supply is going to explode in the next years. But either way, this is not like the eGolf situation of old. It's not an isolated experimental vehicle sold in small numbers. They built an entire platform for building many different models of electric cars.

People mistake VW trying to squeeze as much as they can out of combustion engines for VW ignoring the future. Tesla forced their hand and has a real headstart. But consider this. While Tesla was figuring out how to build a single car at scale, VW has spent the last ten years figuring out how to build dozens of models from SUV to city car from a joint technological platform [1]. And they have spent the last three years developing a version of that platform for electric vehicles [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Group_MQB_platform

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Group_MEB_platform
I have a 250w ebike and I have powered up slopes so steep I have to put my chin on the handlebars to keep the front wheel on the ground. Power isn't the issue. Its just piss weak motors.
I would say IEnumerable<T> interface.
> Is the cell really "more complicated" than the supercomputer?

Let us ask a different question that may suggest a possible answer.

How many different dynamic manufacturing processes occur inside a supercomputer as compared to the number of different manufacturing, transportation and communication processes that control those manufacturing and transportation processes occurring within any single living biological cell?
It might be a rounding error, but none the less, if they negotiate a reduced price, that would literally pay the cost of hiring a person whose only job is to do just that.
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Google Voice as a service is limited to the US and Canada, so if you're a North American it's a good alternative I guess. Otherwise, not so much.
In Germany, almost no one buys cars new except for really wealthy people, car aficionados, or corporations. Most people buy used cars. That is also a reason why the German car makers have such a high end portfolio that doesn't make sense just for the regular Joe...
UK Audi dealers seem to discourage even considering an electric version of an A3 - we tried to look at one but the salesman did nothing but talk about the negative points and the demo car was buried at the back of the showroom in a rather unfortunate position.
> more diversity made teams more productive, but the people on the teams were less happy/comfortable.

Maybe because nobody wanted to socialize with each other so they spent more time doing work?
But it's not the precision that's arbitrary it's the range. If your number format represents 0-100 and you want to represent 200 then your number format isn't imprecise, it's limited range.
Sure, but when does not paying for quality peering become throttling? To me it’s the same thing — just a stealthy workaround. A few months to a year? Poor peering, sure. Longer than that? Intentional.
If paper clips are the highest good, then ensuring that paper clips will be made in perpetuity is also of utmost importance. Only life is capable of knowing the goodness of paper clips, ergo we should ensure life's continuance so as to ensure the continued production of paper clips.

With the invention of machines we could replace life with more efficient automated systems that produce paper clips, but stupid machines cannot adapt to changing circumstances, like outside threats in the form of asteroids, climate change, earth quakes, and so on. Therefore the machines should be at least as intelligent as possible so as to adapt to any circumstances and ensure the continued production of paper clips.

Intelligent machines are simply another form of life. This obviously wouldn't happen overnight, but with the gradual introduction of more and more technology, the creators would more and more integrate with their machines.

Any value system that denies the value of life is simply inconsistent.
In all fairness, you should consider Entity Framework, not Linq, when speaking about ORMs.
And the first versions of EF sucked compared to the others frameworks that were available at the time.
Rawact: babel plugin compiles React components into native DOM instructions
> look at housing costs in Germany vs. California.

We're not as extreme, but already we see the same symptoms: low-wage employees are getting priced out of the cities. Munich, Frankfurt and Berlin are hellholes.
wait, how are the satellites orbiting in planes that don't pass thru the center of the earth?
Totally agree. From the angle of UX and usability, the more closely the interface reflects the internal model of the system, the more accurate the users mental model of the software will be.
> Visual Studio is littered with SQL server and Azure tools which doesn't even make sense. Either offer equal tools for all major tech or none.

It makes sense for them to offer tooling for their own services but that doesn’t mean they don't support other software / services as well as their own.

I can still use MariaDB with Entity Framework and push changes to the schema with update-database.

Visual Studio has extension support so 3rd party devs can add to it because MS might not be the best people to build the tool for a 3rd party, the 3rd party might just well be.

AWS provide an extension for managing AWS though Visual Studio called [0]AWS Toolkit which makes pushing code to lambda a breeze.

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/visualstudio/
Just Devs – Techies boffins and geeks
Of course it is. As for everybody on HN. That's the survivalship bias.
In south Australia its legal to ride a bike on the sidewalk and every time I have seen someone do it they have done it safely and respectfully. There are some streets that are just too dangerous to ride on and hardly anyone ever walks on the sidewalk.
There's also an animated Ninja Turtle gif in the fixed sidenav. I can't image how someone could think that this was a good idea (especially on a website where all the main content is text).
"4GB RAM is required in your device for downloading a Linux image". This remind me the requirements when I was student: 4MB RAM were required for Linux kernel compilation from command line, 8MB if X server was running. My PC had 120MB of hard disk. Other times ...
In my case, the first time I fully booted the Windows 10 disk was in the VM. I wonder if this counted as a 'change' or does it think that the VM is the original hardware now?
The live demo is a really neat detail, but it can be overwhelming for an uninitiated user.

I first didn't even notice it was a live demo until my mouse was over it and I wanted to scroll down and instead the graph in the demo zoomed out.

Some feedback:

- Just today on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18410628

- I would not do a live demo but instead illustrate using pictures and perhaps a little intro video.

- It's not made clear enough what the core differentiators of the product are vs. existing process tools, such as Trello or Asana. In fact I currently don't see the benefits of a graph-based approach over other tools. Doesn't mean that there aren't any, just that they aren't made clear.

- In the live demo: the box being displayed when I hover over a tree node is almost always (partly) off screen.
Emphatically, no, it's not.

Putting something in the public domain allows other people with knowledge in the field to use the information. It doesn't mean that the lay-person should be able to digest it.

The public domain isn't some lowest common denominator clearing house of information, it's just public.
> Tesla has done an amazing thing by showing that electric cars can match ICE ones and even be better than them in several regards.

What? I've been following the market and Tesla has not brought no new innovation in any aspect of the car (engine, battery technology etc). They've just hired some great designers and invested a lot in marketing. You can't even say that their cars are competitively priced. I've seen way more innovation from Chinese electric car builders.

Also, wrt to software, Teslas are basically hacked together, according to multiple reports and analyses, teardowns.
New Letter Shows Einstein Knew Germany Was in Trouble, Long Before Nazis' Rise
I mean we can come up with designs that we know will have battery capacities 10x or 1000x even of current battery capacities.

But we can't build those designs.
If your end game is working professionally just check what is more in demand in your geographic location.

Personal opinion

C# is a lot better than Java. You have less boilerplate code (getter and setter in 2018, really?) and lambdas are great.

But really both are similar so you can pretty much just start with one and still find your way in the other.
Thank you.

What do you think of SanDisk SSD ?
How did you do that ? I mean steps by steps, what tool did you use ?
linq, kind of, but it has more run time overhead and is more flexible.
I think it just looks that way from the way it's rendered: the continuous line at the northern limit isn't an orbit, but formed from the northernmost segment of many.
Isn't it pretty much impossible to make weapons from Thorium (and byproducts)?
I also agree. There needs to be a unique and specific selling proposition. For example in real estate: "your home sold in 120 days or I'll buy it". That give me a reason and beneficial out come to contact them. Generic "make it better" without any specific stats, features, or a guarantee etc is a wasted opportunity. There are a lot of ways to do it but it generally needs to be enticing and specific.
Ahem. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_emissions_scandal
You also claimed it's dog slow, and earlier you claimed it requires a big num lib. All of these are wrong. Many compiler/architecture combinations can reduce the divmod to one asm instruction, that on some architectures is very quick. If it is slower than shift/mult trick, that compiler can choose to do that.

Go look at some decent implementations and the assembly they generate. Don't spread unfounded or unchecked claims.
It's not you, it's Intercom and Sentry that they don't trust.
Even accounting for that the fact is cars are massively more unsafe than scooters. Are you trying to say that being hit by a scooter at 20km/h is just as dangerous as being hit by a monstrous block of metal moving at 60km/h
I'd recommend considering alternative options to PHP, in other projects I have found it hard to maintain over a longer period and things got messy very fast, even when using frameworks.

Also, in my opinion, it's not a very nice language at all.
JetBrains have brought out a x-plat C# IDE also, called Rider. It's very nice.
>they understand that we live in a capitalist world where you don't eat if you don't profit.

... I disagree.

>Only the investors (or gamblers) are in it for money.

I think you're severely downplaying the incentives that material wealth and ambition and wanting to rise above others, have on people's behaviour. It doesn't matter whether the person is a startup founder raised in a rich, upper-class household, a gang member from the 'hood', or an 'economic' immigrant (i.e. not a refugee) resettling in an another country, this same base incentive drives all them. In all three cases, the individuals have their basic necessities provided for, but they choose to struggle because they want more.

>What do you really think Anarchism simply means chaos?

That's the colloquial understanding but that wasn't why I made my pont. The utopian Anarchism (as described by the 'Anarchist FAQ'[1] which was my introduction to Anarchism) isn't actually that far from the colloquial understanding. In practice there is no mechanism under Anarchism to prevent violence, and there is all the incentive to engage in gang and tribal warfare (why farm, when you and your friends can go beat-up the hippy farming commune for their supplies). The typical Anarchist answer to this is that under their utopia people would simply not do that because they only do that today because they are brainwashed by capitalism. OK. SURE. Good luck with that. You may think I'm strawmanning that position, but think again, this theme that every single vice of humanity is only there because of Capitalism comes up in Anarchist writings all the time. And you're doing the same thing! You attribute common attributes of humanity, that cross cultures and history, to a socio-political system that was only in existence for 200 years. This is just utopian thinking, not reasonable thinking, and this is why your view isn't taken seriously outside of internet forums populated by like-minded people.

>His credentials doesn't matter. What matters is what he said.

Right. And what he says is pretty dumb.

[1]https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/the-anarchist-faq-ed...
.NET Core now has a ton of memory/data layout control with ref, ref returns, span<t> and also has support for hardware intrinsics as well.

Even without the intrinsics C# is beating the JVM on the benchmark game already. Though I think those benchmarks may not all alllow hotspot to do its thing.
UAC Bypass by Mocking Trusted Directories
See, I used to make jokes about the Fun Police in this country. But it seems a lot less funny, these days.
How to Stay Focused with a Distractions List
But you can't tell that without allowing the cookie - you just get a login prompt and 'not allowed to view this resource'.
Ok so what you are suggesting is to :

- create a time machine copy on an external HDD

- put the new SSD in the computer, restart it

- get the copy of time machine on the new disk

Will it be possible to reboot with the brand-new SSD inside the mac ?