skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's any of the reasons that you listed.
To a large extent, I blame management - they push sub-optimal solutions because it's generally the fastest way to resolve the immediate problem.
This generally results in poor solutions being piled up on top of each other that becomes progressively more impossible to maintain.

This despite the fact that if additional time were allocated to come up with a better solution, tomorrow's software would be easier to integrate on top of today's, and with a higher quality of code.

But the reason that managers behave like this is because they can - and this I think has more to do with the ethereal and timeless nature of software than anything else.

In the real world it simply is not possible to put together a physical artifact with the sort of compromised constructs that appears in software.

There are costs of material to consider; costs of production.
There's degradation over time.

All of these aspects of physical constructs provide a strong motivation to produce a quality product - not out of beneficence, but because (quality engineers aside) it's cheaper and it's really the only feasible option.
Or in places like the USA, not that long ago.

Y'know how, in old movies, single people would live in single-room apartments, often with a Murphy bed that played a part in some amount of slapstick humor? They weren't cooking in there - dinner was served downstairs.
And what would these numerous languages be - the ones that did mindlessly add stuff and drove themselves in a corner?
>>candidates are explicitly vetted for loyalty to the government before entrance?

In any country on earth, you be pretty much 'vetted for loyalty' before they let you close to their sensitive intelligence or tech related work.
"Ask HN: How do you keep track of your notes at work?" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16838093) has more pointers.
I too want a futuristic Tesla motorbike, but in addition to your requirements I'd add in FaceID.
Or they know their limits.

I, for one, have refused to purchase a sport bike on numerous occasions - including my "dream bike" - because I know its too much bike and that might get me into trouble. I've never felt that way about any of my cruisers or dirt bikes.
Legitimate question: what is keeping stock OpenJDK from being considered "production-ready" as it is?
"80's CB750 as when I was a kid they where the 'cool' bikes and I'd likely kill myself on anything more modern in short order."

Modern motorcycles are way, way safer than an early 80's CB750. ABS, traction control, brakes and tires that are light years ahead of 80's tech, lighter weight, more agile etc. The only reason to ride a CB750 is because they're cool, not safer!
Well I should've mentioned that I live in Paris. Obviously if where you are you can get groceries for cheap then I'm sure you can easily beat the restaurants. Buying fruit, vegetables and meat/fish in small shops in Paris can be ridiculously expensive. Restaurants generally buy in bulk from vendors outside of Paris with much more reasonable prices.

Cooking would probably still end up being cheaper in most cases but not by a huge margin. But then again Paris might not be very typical in that regard, food is notoriously expensive here.
Anecdote:
I once suggested a change to the java standard library to change a O(n) algo into a O(1) algo. Now, more than 10 years later, it's still the O(n) (I just checked the std lib's source code). Nobody cares.
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Wireframes are a waste of time and can hurt your project
> specifically says that data is not sold to third parties

Businesses are for profit. They'll find ways to monetise the data. Wording 'the data' can be bypassed by modifying it, like extracting location heat maps, and selling it instead of raw data. Or/and they may create a service that uses the data and sell it instead.
As someone who loves Japanese supersport bikes, I wonder if in 40 years I will be the dying breed of people who just want to cling to old glories on a 600cc petrol engine thats about 50x more bike than I'll ever be able to handle :,)

Ride on, old dudes.
> "their agreement for it's use specifically says that data is not sold to third parties, nor used in any purpose beyond specifically evaluating my driving"

Unlikely.

The master contract for your insurance company almost certainly allows for information that you provide for a variety of business purposes. Insurance companies pool risk data, and it seems unusual that any negative event would not be shared if captured via this mechanism. Another key thing is to look at the precise wording around "We do not sell your data". That is a weasel-wording that usually means "We will rent your data" or "We will provide your data at no cost to our business partners, for our business purposes".
Is it installing security updates? If not (you could even force it by disconnecting its Internet connection), then there's a good chance an exploit has already been discovered that you can use. This is probably easier than a cold boot attack.
∑Aⁿ/n! actually represents the multisets (aka bags) of elements from A. A multiset is a list, but we quotient out by permutations (hence n!)

The division here can be seen as an action of the permutation group (which has n! element).
Thank you! Emoji is a free and a well-known franchise that we actually love. Our first submission to the App Store was without any graphics, just emoji symbols. However, we found ourselves in the Emoji Crackdown (Apple rejecting everything with Apple emoji) so we had to create our own set.
I have not used Java in many years now, but I'm curious if anyone has anecdotal experience using OpenJDK in production? Performance vs Oracle Java, bugs/ idiosyncrasies due to internal API differences, etc?
I completely agree! I think you need to differentiate monday evening family cooking with a nice relaxing recipe on a saturday afternoon for friends
>trashing the livelihoods of the developers and later investors

If you don't like it then go write software for bigco and shove your money in an index fund. Nobody is forcing developers to work for trendy startups or forcing investors to invest in freshly IPO'd startups.
I never ride with a large group. I don't care what kind of motorcycles you are talking about when you put 10 of them together they annoy everyone. A group of crotch rockets sounds just as awful as a group of cruisers.
>if you live in a reasonably sized city then you will have a huge range of takeaway/delivery food options.

Delivery food and meal kit services aren't really competing for the same customers. Meal kits require prior planning, time and storage space, while delivery food isn't something a lot of people necessarily plan for (or at the very least, don't need to plan for).
Nothing, the big thing here is the long-term support. Multi-platform and production-ready are practically a given for any OpenJDK distro.
"The power of a notation is not in what it lets you think about, but in what it lets you not think about." A.N. Whitehead.
The article doesn't seem to have any substance, it's just an article about one person's opinionated tweet.

The team is joining DeepMind/Alphabet, and it appears DeepMind promised that health data would never be joined to your Google account.

And there's zero evidence that they are joined or that they would be joined. As far as I can tell, fearmongering like this would suggest that Alphabet couldn't ever deal with health care info, which feels silly... There are plenty of very strong laws enforcing health care privacy (e.g. HIPAA in the US), so this really just feels like FUD.
I wouldn't say it's hard. But it does have certain requirements that just aren't universally appealing.
Wait until they issue you speeding tickets based on that data. It has happened before (2001)

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/01/06/19/187210/rental-car--...
I'd like to point out that a lot of "defense" research ends up used primarily or even exclusively for things other than military applications. The military is used as a feeder for R&D because calling it defense is how you sell useful spending (and Keynesian stimulus) to conservatives. The US defense budget is full of only nominally defense R&D. This is probably as true in China as it is in the USA.

The US did this quite a bit, especially during the height of the Cold War. In fact you go could so far as to say that America's elite schools operate (or did at least then) as intellectual feeders for the defense industry.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089886/

(Ninja edited to add the top paragraph...)
Lack of LTS and commercial support most probably.
Why several centuries? We're already on track for +4°C by the end of this century.

No need to speculate about killer AI bots when you've got plain old famine, drought and resource wars.
The repo is on Github:

https://github.com/corretto
>I don't understand they there are no rules on sound emissions.

There are, in some localities. When I lived in Arizona, there was a big flap because the Harley bikers liked to cruise through a town called Carefree on the way to some biker bar in Cave Creek, and Carefree got tired of it an enacted a noise ordinance, and started pulling over and ticketing motorcycle riders who were too noisy. The Harley riders all screamed "discrimination". As far as I know, Carefree never let up on its ordinance, and the bikers just had to go around the town.
I ride stock and everyone is always surprised. They always comment on how my Harley isn't loud. So a group has spoiled the perception for the rest of us. They may be the majority but they are not "all"
Not everything in life is about efficiency. While we’re at it everyone could sleep in barracks like spaces. Very efficient.
> To clarify though, that requires an external attacker-controlled process to monitor the GPU, yes?

Yes, they do it with high-speed probing of the amount allocated GPU memory. This requires access to native APIs (specific OpenGL extensions in this case). Like you said there seems there would be simpler ways to achieve this, but the demonstration of this side-channel is still very interesting.

Varying the size of the textboxes might not help because the rendering engine of browsers can have a memory allocation per letter for example.
Lack of long-time support commitment. A lot of java users want to hear someone say "we'll push updates for any and all CVEs for the next forty-two years, and that's a promise".

They may not actually install those updates, but they want to hear someone say that they will exist.
Also, on an iPhone 6S using the Chrome browser app I've had three occasions where the page has crashed and reloaded. I don't see a way to precisely repeat it but I've had it happen twice on the main list and once in a detail page (the detail page crash happened as I hit the bottom of a long app detail page, but that may been a coincidence as I don't think I was hitting bottom of the main page crashes)
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Rights are not conferred by authorities, they exist a priori. Governments can only take them away.
The Chinese are more efficient? Take an 18 year old, toss him or her into a college that does the challenge, get a job at one of the defense contractors later. The Chinese employee is able to do the same thing about 4 years earlier.
Maybe if we're lucky, we'll get flash as a WASM module at some point. I believe adobe entrusted the flash player codebase to google, so it's not impossible. And it'd be great for security...
As of JDK 11, there is feature parity between OpenJDK and Oracle JDK, which is the JDK that most people used until now. In JDK 8, the Oracle version had several closed source additional features (such as Java Flight Recorder and the Z garbage collector). Also, implementations of things like graphics rendering used to be different in Oracle JDK 8 and earlier. That's no longer the case. Oracle JDK and OpenJDK should be drop-in replacements for each other as of JDK 11.
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See this link for context: https://jaxenter.com/end-life-comes-early-jdk-8-140824.html

Tl;Dr: with Oracle changing the release versioning of Java, LTS releases are now essentially a paid product. If you run a large business with a lot of Java that is now a significant new burden to deal with.
> Another idea is that the third party is your lawyer.

Then that isn't your lawyer; rather your co-conspirator.

I'm pretty sure that if you're in a conspiracy with your "lawyer", you'll be charged together and you'll need another actual lawyer to represent you.
Try to master walking and you'll spend most of your time on the ground.
This is an idiotic stance from maintainers. Linux already has a lot of things that most currently used libc implementations don't support, like getrandom.
Very valid points, and also people are making better decisions by deciding not to be organ donors. With cell phones, more drivers on the road are very distracted, this is a very dangerous time to be riding, perhaps when most of the cars on the road become self driving then that will become a safer time. It seems 1 out of every 10 drivers on the road is on their phone, it's already scary driving in a big car.
Apple publishes detailed whitepapers on how they implement security. I'd suggest to Mozilla, get iCloud paper and copy the implementation. Way more reliable.
Something I'd love to see as we move towards higher density urban living (in more US cities) is communal kitchens in apartments. On par with a gym.

It's ridiculous to have kitchen hardware * apartments, with abysmal utilization rates.

Throw some long benches and tables in there for people to eat if they want to. Good floorplan. Have bring your own wine Wednesdays or whatever.

The biggest misalignment in home cooking is scaling. It's trivial to make 6+ portions instead of 1-2. And often cheaper per portion.

Yes, there are challenges (dishes, cleaning), but nothing reasonable adults shouldn't be able to surmout (or lose kitchen rights).
Thanks for the kind words and for your interest in steam heating. There's a delicious amount of history wrapped up in this stuff.

I gave that talk at The General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the city of New York, not at The Arsenal. I did talk about the Arsenal, though. That's a wonderful place. GSMT is at 20 W. 44th Street in Manhattan. It's a landmarked building, across the street from the Harvard Club. Visiting there is like watching Night at the Museum. I'm currently V.P of the Society.

I founded HeatingHelp.com in 1997. I retired in 2016 and our daughter, Erin Holohan Haskell, now owns the site. It's a terrific resource for heating system, both old and new.

Dan
Motorcycles have also not kept up with the times on engine technology. They only began switching away from carburetors around 2005. Drag your feet on technological advancement, and your year-to-year product consequently changes less.

Suspension design has also remained really simple to my eyes compared to cars. Maybe it can't be improved, but the last major innovation/change in suspension was in the mid 70's with single shock design.
I think this is awesome! Its Dutch counterpart brought me great insights on a wide range of topics.

Related:

https://boingboing.net/2018/11/14/jay-rosens-letter-to-my-ne...
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stop attaching your self worth to a job and get a life instead? idk just saying u know. like... yeah?
Ah awesome. Thanks for the clarification.
It's interesting to watch these scenarios unfold, I bet there isn't a manager within the company that doesn't recognise the hurdles they face yet they are completely unable to rise to the challenge.

In some ways they may be better off by just doubling down on what they are good at. It's similar to the situation Kodak faced, should they embrace the new technologies knowing they probably won't be very competitive or just soldier on and make the most of a declining market.

I read recently that the chairman of Fiat said they aren't working on electric cars at the moment because they would rather be late than wrong.
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Most companies I talk to do this: we talk, they ask questions, I tell about a couple of projects, I ask questions, they tell about their company.

Some want me to do an assessment, which is fine. But it's at home on my own dev machine, and not on some whiteboard.

I generally like these take-home assessments. The best had me write a game board in React on which you could place obstacles, and an adapted A* algorithm to find the shortest path through it. That was really fun. I'd never done something like that.
This completely ignores one of the purposes of the Fifth Amendment, which is to remove the incentive for law enforcement to torture suspects for information. The fact that you know they have the password has no bearing on that.
Was going to say GS (RIP my G 650 GS) but you beat me to it. If I get another bike it'll be a bigger GS, V-Strom, etc. They're fantastic machines.
> Then docs started getting together and adding patients from multiple hospitals into larger and larger studies.

It's important to note that these studies are subject to pretty rigorous review by IRBs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_review_board).
Last I checked self-hosting a sync server was pretty much not feasible. Happy to see that's changing.
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Great, then we'll have to listen to inverter whine all summer when the next generation hits their midlife crisis.
No, people are free to enjoy their journey or not as they please. I just don't share the idea that being trapped in a metal box equals freedom just because I don't need to participate in thinking about where I'm going.
But you need to charge your iPod anyway, and iPod batteries were small enough they could be reasonably charged via a computer rather than a power brick.
A license for Windows 10 costs 100 bucks on Newegg. Who are these people building custom desktop computers who cannot afford $100? Custom PCs tend to be the domain of people building expensive gaming machines.

Disclosure: Microsoft employee
I don't qualify to answer this... But most enterprises want someone to hold accountable in case of any catastrophic failures.
Freedom is not sitting in a metal box waiting to arrive at my destination.
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As someone else mentioned downthread, you need to maintain a rather high temperature (around 25C/77F) in order to reduce the relative humidity enough.

This might or might not have been feasible given OP's budget, heating arrangements, and general preference. I for one would not want to live in such a hot room for a whole season even if I could afford to. I keep my room cooler than that even in the summer!
It will have to happen - the vocal leavers would create an absolute shitstorm if the government even considered reneging on article 50. Even if we weren't in a situation where the leadership of both relevant parties is committed to Brexit it'd be political suicide.

As of today it's looking more and more likely that the separation will be in name more than in function though.
US military advantage has eroded, study says
The health+ML space is in a real ethical quandary right now, because at some level it's in all of our interests to have machine learning algos run against large patient data sets. I'm guessing that 100 years from now people will look down on us for not solving this coordination problem faster, and using all of the medical data we've collected to accelerate progress on disease research...

...but how do we do it without also transforming into a distopia of "radical transparency"?
I think "difficult" is the wrong word. I think "challenging" is a better one.

In many cases, books (and other forms of expression/art) are acclaimed for being difficult -- but they're difficult for the sake of being difficult. There's difficulty but no reward. After having read some of these books (or attempted to), I think they're pointless.

However, we do need challenging books/art. Challenges are how we grow, develop, improve, etc. Something can be challenging without being difficult/impenetrable.

Also, challenges come in various forms: they can be stylistic (difficult prose) as well as moral or intellectual or political. (One common complaint I hear about fiction is: "I don't like the characters." Well, yeah, that's sort of the point: you probably wouldn't like a lot of people if you knew them.)

Some concrete examples:

Novels:

Joyce's Ulysses: I actually really like Ulysses. As a whole, it's a slog. But there are wonderful passages throughout. It's also very funny.

Wallace's Infinite Jest: same as above, often even funnier as the humor is more contemporary.

Films:

Malick's The Tree of Life: a wonderful, slow, all-encompassing film that doesn't rely on the conventional approach to narrative
As with everything else Brexit related, technically the UK won’t be bound but practically it will have to choose between following one of the three major economic blocks — EU, USA, China — or struggling economically because they refuse to believe the Commonwealth is not on that list.
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(non-delivery) Food is a really tough space to compete in. Acquisition costs are relatively high and usually require you to give some amount of product away. Because you're trying to get people to switch from a known quantity (whatever someone buys to prepare themselves) or to make more time for cooking (over prepared food or food delivery), you need to make sure that first experience is excellent and hope that you're going to get a very good number of people to actually pay for the service when it isn't free.

From my experience (work for an investor in and did product/acquisition/marketing for a food startup), there are very few people who will say no to a free meal, but converting those people is hard and there are a ton of variables that are hard to control for. The biggest thing that is tough to plan for is each person's taste. For example, if you pick a free meal and you don't like it will you really buy another one?
It sounds like you're not interested in film as a medium; to each their own. But regardless, "good" is definitely not the word I would use to describe these films.

For example, after watching It Comes At Night I felt strung out and miserable, but it's a very competent, well shot movie with a vision, and I'm glad I watched it, even though I don't want to watch it again. That's an example of what challenging means to me.
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Hmm, the Licensing of the Press Act to me is not copyright, it doesn't prevent copying, it prevents the use of printing presses IIRC. It also addresses sedition.

The Statute of Anne includes the deal of provision of copies on deposit to named libraries, and of entry to the public domain; education and availability of publications are specific aims.

It provides a reward period of up to 14 years (the cost of printing being considerable), and then entry to the public domain making for easy and open competition.

It would be like saying today that a monopoly period of 14 months on a book was inhibiting competition - such a period allows recovery of costs, and so aids the dissemination of literary and artistic works by make it cost-effective. Yes, it inhibits competition, but key to the other aims is that this inhibition is limited in order to provide a genuine, timely benefit to the public.
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Those are generally after market pipes that are that loud.
I agree, but at some point compromises are going to have to be made. Our current way of living is just not sustainable