skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With Python instead of Fortran :
"One thing that those of us in programming have certainly become aware of over the years is that people don’t mind programming with a bad language or an incomplete language. As long as they get some useful work from it and some pleasure, they will find any kind of rationalization to support their continuance of that language — even in the presence of much better linguistic vehicles, as witness the fact that FORTRAN thrives. [...] What’s happened, of course, with FORTRAN is that it has become the lingua franca of the computing world. It is the one language that everybody understands to some level of detail — it is on every computer, in every country, made by every manufacturer — and one could learn to use FORTRAN reading books at every level of complexity [...] And one of the reasons it’s not going to be displaced, and perhaps should not be displaced, is that there are always new groups of programmers coming into existence for whom FORTRAN is mother’s milk."

And Go instead of Algol/Pascal :
"the people in structured programming tell me if you put enough structure in programs, everybody in the room here will write the same ALGOL program or PASCAL program. Thus, it’s going to be easier to read — but also dull."

It is obviously a very biased comparison but the parallels with our current situation are interesting.
Thanks for the share. It's good to hear about successful user adoption strategies like this. Have you tried Mastodon for this topic as well? I'm curious if the same niche topic adoption works on any other alternative social media platforms? What's the name of your startup? Can you provide a link to the Tumblr page?
I can understand why one would not want such "features" in their phone. But I can't understand why someone would be glad something failed unless one is a competitor of the failing company.
I read a similar book a few years back. I think it was called "Game programming bible" or something. While the techniques were interesting, more interesting was the way developers solved critical problems (like large scale collision detection).

However, in this day and age, almost all low level problems have been extracted away by game engines such as Unity / Unreal, etc. The relevancy of the book as a manual to learn seem limited, looks more of an interesting read than a helpful resource.
Eventually, cognitive decline will win the day and I will be confused by simple use of conditional operators. Until then, I'm with you pal.
Why do you think there are no office politics for remote positions? Conversely, why do you think that on site must have more politics?

Maybe I’m an outlier, but at the company I built there is VERY little office politics. Most of us work onsite most of the time, but most of us also work remote sometimes. Some of my colleagues are about 50/50 in the office. We try to coordinate similar remote schedules to maximize in person communication when people are in the office.

We seem to be doing well with most engineers staying at least 5 years and many staying over 15.
Statistically failure rate is high and where the very real outcome of brain damage is possible. Wouldn’t want to be stuck in a state causing more resources spent and unable to attempt the act again. I am seeking it medically for the record and I assume most people are just irrational against letting people die which is why this world is in jeopardy anyway.
> Ethereum [...] apps [...] are fully trusted

Haha you're funny.

On a more serious note, I don't think the current generation of blockchains is "The Future". They offer basically nothing more than what you can achieve with a publicly hosted git repository with post-commit hooks that enforce signatures. Actually, Ethereum is far worse, because all computations are repeated by every node (as far as I know), which is a huge waste of energy. If you want reliable distributed computation, you need to make sure there's some way of smart distribution of work... e.g. offer exponentially diminishing returns for each "duplicated" evaluation of the same piece of code beyond the 2nd.
>Ethereum is providing a base layer protocol for apps that never go down, never fail, and are fully trusted.

Are you suggesting that Ethereum apps can have 100% uptime (never go down, never fail), and are completely secure (fully trusted)?

Because if so I've got some shares of a bridge to sell you.
Nobody expects the Spanish inquisition!
Can I bet his memory is always quite good ? even though he was numbed at the time.
Exactly. The very first block in the very first blockchain directly referenced classic economic systems' instability.
>I don't understand this reasoning: is "X is bad but Y is worse" supposed to convince people that X is actually good?

Maybe don't read things that are not written or said? My point is that you think cryptocurrencies have a negative impact on global warming so I think you probably feel the same way about mineral extraction.

Most people will fight any new information that contradicts their held beliefs so I won't suggest you look at the use of renewable energy in cryptocurrency mining or try to convince you that most miners optimise their costs by using solar and hydro power.
And yet, transferring files between my windows 10 computers feels like I need a network engineering degree. Half the time I need to fire up a Win7 VM and transfer from one to the other that way.

Mac isn't better in that department, though (when talking to Windows, at least).
Simply Laundry – Don't waste time doing your laundry
Hmm, your link has an author_access_token in it. Are you sure it's not linked to your or someone else's (author's?) account?
Depends, for example if you have a valid Canadian/American visa and Indian passport, you don't need a visa to travel to Mexico.
I am curious as to why it needs any circuitry on the ground line - would a direct connection not work? (I guess I am assuming that L, R and ground are the only connections made to the headphones.) Do the amplifiers put a DC bias on the L and R outputs that needs to be matched on the ground, and if so, would a capacitor in series with the L and R outputs not be enough to isolate it?
O2 'to seek millions' in damages over data outage
John Toland et al, in contrast, see the Russian invasion of Manchuria as the final straw that forced Japan to surrender; Japan continued fighting after the bombs were dropped, but the U.S. did not immediately have more bombs to drop.
> Spend it at Amazon? My grocery store? My corner deli? Pay my rent? Pay my employees?

YES on all accounts.
What's the vesting schedule of these shares?
I only ever stream things now, I'm not interested in the hassle of owning, storing and backing up a load of films and music.
If you require public transit, there are only a handful of places you can live, each with unique and volatile conditions that make owning especially attractive. It’s suburban sprawl which is almost perfectly fungible nationwide.
Okcupid did some analyses on this. The big losers in the US sexual market are black females, black males, and asian males.

https://theblog.okcupid.com/race-and-attraction-2009-2014-10...
Electronic communication services have a linear path of development any idiot can see: more bits per second, more information, more possibilities.

Blockchains don’t have that simple path of development. They fundamentally don’t make practical sense compared to centralized services. There’s a reason that everyone gets their power from a small number of centralized power plants instead of everyone throwing a few solar panels on their roof and trading their power on the marketplace to create a decentralized power grid. It sounds really cool but it’s just wildly illogical in the real world. That’s blockchain.
They’re so cute.
I’ve typically ignored crypto related posts, just like you said HN does. Thus I don’t know anything about ethereum other than it involves contracts and blockchains. However I somehow ended up in this thread and your comment about ethereum as an app host is interesting. So know that you made at least one person google ethereum and read about it.
China is the 9 day shipping component. I use JLCPCB most and SeedStudio because depending on the features each has their own pricing benefit. If you are comfortable with a paste syringe and the component count is small you can skip the stencil and order multiple projects at the same time to seriously save on shipping. Youtube has great videos on stencil pasting and reflow soldering with a heat gun. If you aren't familiar with EDA software you can start at Fritzing or EasyEda and move on to Kicad. Altium is the standard at big businesses.

Here is an example of an MCU based tilt sensor I made earlier this year. I have about 12 hours total into it including inception/design/layout/soldering. It would have taken me 12 hours to breadboard it with components I couldn't use in production. I do this a lot so my process is rather streamlined. I made about 25 boards this year, mostly small test circuits. https://imgur.com/a/XJxp0tO
Szilard was not an elected political leader or a military leader, so why would it be assumed he could impose such a profound policy?
Hi Ryan,

I too am a parent who has recently come to terms with the severity and urgency of the climate crisis and is looking for a way to direct my skills toward meaningful action. For the past year and a half, I've been advocating in the sustainable transportation realm in Santa Cruz, CA.

Bernie's Climate Town Hall last week was inspiring. I'd like to find ways to localize Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal and start a mass grassroots movement to stop subsidizing the fossil fuel industry and start shedding light on realistic options that already exist in the renewable sector if we can get the fossil fuel industry out of the driver's seat.

One outreach thought I had was trying to "green" the 2019 Super Bowl ads by getting Bloomberg and/or other wealthy individuals who are speaking out on climate change to buy up ad time and then invite renewable companies to produce inspiring messages about how we can make dramatic changes in time to make a difference. The hope would be to reach a broad segment of the American population who may not be following the New York Times, etc.

I'd love to have a conversation with you if you have time to talk.

Gail McNulty
gail.mcnulty@gmail.com
This is to one side of the point - many historians hold that the U.S. was keen to demonstrate the power of these bombs in order to cow the U.S.S.R., (and prove they were practical) even if it meant delaying the end of the war.

Firebombing was even more effective (but not economical) in killing Japanese civilians, as you note. However, firebombing would not have been as effective vs the Soviets (far less flimsy, compact wood construction) nor have the same effect vs ground forces: making a live demonstration of atomic bombs still useful intimidation, according to this view.
It's inefficient for capital to be spent in useless projects. I'd rather that kind of money go to startups actually building useful things or at least trying to build something that people actually want
Are there enough lithium mines?

No need to - there are 230 billion tonnes of the stuff in seawater.

Just one percent of that is enough to create 25,000TWh worth of li-ion batteries - that's roughly the amount of electricity produced by the world annually.

Also other chemistries like zinc-air are gaining traction and serve as a good, cheaper alternative.
Limits of programming by interface
> I agree with what appears to be your premise -- that we could invent public transport devices that mitigate and perhaps mostly erase the advantage of the car.

That's not quite my premise.

Rather, it is that shared self-driving automobiles (cars through vans through buses) with centralized automated dispatch are the missing element of the mix of public transport devices that, alongside existing options, does that.

> Why are we supposed to hate cars?

Recognizing that public transport has social benefits does not require hating privately owned cars, much less cars more generally.

> It's okay to like scooters and bikes, but nothing larger until we get to a bus?

Size has nothing to do with anything (well, it has to do.with efficiency for long-distance transport.)
The problem with your argument is that blockchain isn’t comparable to the internet. It’s an energy inefficient immutable public ledger. There just aren’t many, if any, applications that require an immutable public ledger, or that derive any benefit from using one.

Some blockchains allow smart contracts. Smart contracts sound like a nice idea, but when you think about potential use cases, you quickly realise they actually have no utility. Any application for a smart contract requires information from outside the blockchain which must be supplied by a trusted authority. This being the case, why bother with blockchain at all?
Dreamhost Shared Unlimited has no user limits for $7.95/month (paid annually) and I think that includes one free domain name registration.

https://www.dreamhost.com/hosting/
I'm not saying I agree, but I'd be interested in hearing your argument
Most of it is painted, that's why its not yellowing.

Unfortunately the paintwork is a little worse for wear in a few places. I did dig up the paint codes that IBM used, but what would be difficult to factor in is the slight discolouring over time.
There are zero problems with building mostly high-end homes. Then the rich can live there and the less rich can live where the rich previously lived -- win for everybody.

One of the best things the government can do in those cases is ensure that large housing developments are still zoned to allow them to be subdivided. Nothing wrong with four families living in one big mansion.
Great job. If you can keep it uptodate, this would be the first stop before travel. One thing that it can be improved is showing transit Visa requirements. Multiple stop flights are cheaper , but transit visa information is hard to gather.
> I think there might be a serious problem lurking

Yes, the chronic pain perhaps?
I don't understand the point of buying an eBook with DRM. I'm going to run into an issue trying to get it to work on one of my devices at one point or another. The lack of a DRM-free option is what would tempt me to piracy.

And can you point to a single piece of media which has never been pirated, DRM or no?
Hi, author here, I can't send you a sample because of copyright but get "scare force one" by Lordi on CD and rip it into any format.
The energy use / ecological impact of crypto makes it nothing short of unethical.
> That's because operations that violate a (safe) dynamically typed language's chosen set of abstractions (built using bits, church encoding, whatever) are syntactically inaccessible.

They are semantically inaccessible, not syntactically inaccessible. These languages enforce abstractions by attaching meaning to the tags implicit to all values, and these meanings combined with the operation are what drive the next evaluation step, ie. success or raise error value. This is not what happens in typed languages.

Lexical scoping is an example of a syntactic method commonly employed by dynamically typed languages. It's possibly the only one.

Edit: I have both of Pierce's "Types and Programming Languages", and "Advanced Topics in Types and Programming Languages". "Dynamic typing" is mentioned exactly once, on page 2 of the first text where Pierce says:

> The word "static" is sometimes added explicitly [...] to distinguish the sorts of compile-time analysis we are considering here from the dynamic or latent typing found in languages such as Scheme, where runtime type tags are used to distinguish different kinds of structures on the heap. Terms like "dynamically typed" are arguably misnomers and should probably be replaced by "dynamically checked".
Immutable webapps + blockchain backend = immortal applications.

It's great for evergreen software. Imagine a backpage that can't be shut down, for instance.
Elements of AI – A Free Course to Understand AI
A lot of countries grant visa free access to holders of e.g: us visit visa or schengen residency, they call it a substitute visa
This is a great attitude. You do what you can. In my younger days I felt I was indestructible. Other than a torn ACL from wake boarding, I never got hurt doing all sorts of sports from the mundane to the extreme. Even my ACL healed 100%.

Then, I herniated a disc in my lower back. I think it was from playing basketball (not really extreme heh). The pain was literally the worst thing I have ever felt. My back didn't hurt, but my leg from the hip to the foot felt like it was on fire or the skin was being pealed off. I couldn't sleep, walk, get in/out of a car, stand upright, lay flat, etc... Luckily a back injection got the inflammation and pain under control. But, my life going forward has forever changed. No more basketball. No more heavy deadlifts (I was deadlifting in the 500#s, now I stay 225# or less). No more heavy squatting. No more running (afraid of the impact). I do what I can and work from there, happy that modern medicine gave me a chance.
wrong, fatman2 was already at Tinian when Japan surrendered
Do you have any references to support the claim that bitcoin is legal tender?

Legal tender must be accepted to extinguish a debt, by any party.

Just because bitcoin is not illegal doesn't make it legal tender. It may be used if all parties agree.

I understand the first link you gave says that Germany accepts Bitcoin as legal tender, but that is from a misunderstanding of what legal tender is. German vendors are within their rights to refuse it and insist upon real legal tender.
I'm glad its useful.
Definetly part of my plan. US, UK, Canada, Schegen and Australia Visas have exemptions.
Be more productive, work over time, be first in and last out. Be helpful and happy when you get extra work.
This is shocking in so many ways. Sad !!!

Also, from the article, TIL a new word: Obdurate ...
Yes, there are some visas which are useful. Will add it soon.
So many people struggling just to get a head these days
"To live and let die" comes to mind
What You Need for Web Development on a Chromebook
Hahahahhaha no way
Jiang and Wallace interview (2000)
Depending on the type of transit, owning near the stop is only attractive until the transit operator eliminates your stop or your route.
> Cryptocurrencies on the other hand are a new solution to a new problem (digital native representation of value)

I'll bite. "Digital native representation of value" isn't a problem, it's a solution. Cryptocurrencies are a medium of facilitating that solution. No one would think to themselves, "I have a problem: I need a digital-first store of value or currency, now how can I do this?"

Instead they might think to themselves, "I have a problem: I need to do <thing>; this can probably be accomplished if I use a digital-first store of value." I don't see why you would care about how your money or asset is being represented unless you have another problem that forces you think about it.

With that out of the way, this leads me to my actual point - what is an actual problem you see being solved by a "digital native representation of value"? For example, a common one I see a lot is distrust of governments due to control or censorship.
You really need me to argue that achieving 100% uptime and trust (not 99.99%! 100% was the claim) just by virtue of building on top of Ethereum is implausible?
I think they don't mean people in Mediterranean, but people following Mediterranean diet - frequently advised for heart health
Wonderful feedback. I'm just trying to validate the idea. once there is traction, then i will add more visas. I want to make visalist one stop shop for all visa requirement needs
I'm not sure that's quite true. All the ones I'm familiar with had bank accounts to pay wages, rent etc. And they also seem to have been able to change crypto to fiat. I opened some fiat-crypto accounts and it wasn't that hard - you have to scan your passport etc.
Crypto+AI is how we switch from a world of finance and law, as Peter Thiel puts it, and towards an age of science and technology. As technologists you should be supportive of this disruption. I'm not saying buy(unless you want to), but stop being crabs laughing at people, a subset of which WILL kill themselves over this.
> I know it's not the greatest marketing pitch, but it's the truth.

It's about the worst marketing pitch I can think of.

Tell us reasons to choose Firefox over Chrome. If there are no reasons to prefer Firefox, it doesn't matter whether we lose the ability to choose it.
Missing some of the more complex edge cases. Holding permanent residency in Canada allows access to more countries. Cuba for example:

"However, they are eligible to travel to Cuba with a tourist card if they also hold a valid visa or permanent residence permit issued by Canada, the United States or an EU member state."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_policy_of_Cuba#Visa_requi...
back to torrenting we go...
>Do you have any references to support the claim that bitcoin is legal tender?

Yes I have linked to it.

edit: In German: https://www.scribd.com/document/372651554/2018-02-27-Umsatzs...
Minerals have a use though. What exactly is Bitcoin's use?
Sadly, shadow dom in FF is unpleasantly broken for any serious use of web components, up to the latest nighty edition.

Focus is broken so you can't tab between inputs. For example, if you compose forms using web components, you'll lose keyboard control over focus movement in your app.
We had a similar model with the name of FX-80. A photo I just found:

[1] http://i2.wp.com/www.applerescueofdenver.com/wp-content/uplo...

Not sure how it compared to the MX-80, but it was definitely a great printer for its time. I remember finally replacing it was a 24-pin (oh the luxury) dot matrix printer after years of service by the FX-80.
Definitely not the one made by some shitty startup with no track record.
Go with OSH park instead of China. Their support is gnebuinky amazing, and the service in general. Is 5 days for a 2 layer board with 5 dollars per square inch of design for 3 boards, and free shipping.

The company is active on Twitter and its founder is awesome based on interviews he gives with various electronic podcasts.
Yes,precisely. I found Vienna and Tokyo’s subway pretty immaculate. But London, Paris, Bilbao, Amsterdam all had some experiences similar to my other post. Much smaller sample so hard to say how frequently it occurs in any useful way.
Nice. A more period-accurate name, I think, would have been “BatAss” lmao
"Choose your home country" doesn't work on Firefox 63.
There is no need to physically detain and deport someone over what amounts to "illegally" selling routers to Iranians.

Do you know how many weapons the US has sold to Taiwan, and no CFOs have been arrested by China?
"I am sure if that happened a year ago, that wouldn’t be a problem at all, a year ago there was a lot of free money in the market. But in a bear market there’s a change."

Ends up it's hard to run a business when you no longer have 'free money'.