skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
BTW, the 1991 WNET film "The Last Train Across Canada"[0] featured a journalist taking one of the last transcontinental Via Rail (Canada's national railway system) trips, including a side trip up to Churchill (on Hudson Bay), before the system was broken up and segments privatized.

[0] https://www.worldcat.org/title/last-train-across-canada/oclc...
I feel like what you’re touching at is kind of the core of why C++ can be so difficult to parse through sometimes. It really is trying to make a general purpose abstraction while also having a low overhead. This results in a need for detail and complexity that you can simply not need to worry about in languages like Python or Clojure.

When my university peers and I were learning C++, a lot of us strongly preferred using C99 since it didn’t seem as awful in terms of complexity and verbosity.
This kind of exercise might be entertaining and maybe even useful for you as an individual, but I find it harmful for society as a whole.

There are plenty of arguments against creating ad hoc rationalization for this kind of stuff, but I truly hate that religion is treated like some academic or philosophical exercise where you could say "no, people didn't believed that Jesus performed miracles, it was just some kind of metaphor to teach [insert idea palatable to modern audiences]" ignoring the fact that even in this day, where we tried to have some basic universal education, there's still people who believe evolution is a sham, people who commit suicide based on some religious explanation or who believe in all kinds of ridiculous things that go against what we do know about the world.

Why should we assume that religion is an early form of "software engineering" to instill morals on society since we have evidence of a lot of developments, even in these earlier societies, in the area of ethics and philosophy outside religion?
This trend of outrage journalism is disturbing. Where the goal seems to be about finding the worst possible interpretation for clicks and prestige points. The headline is all that seems to matter, with few digging into the actual context. Which both fuels more uninformed outrage and erodes trust in journalism overall.

It seems like a new form of witch hunting?
No I'm in the US, and I paid with a regular credit card.

The worst is they tell you not to place another order (using paypal for example) while investigating.
That might be fair but that's a chicken-egg problem.

We don't have any such lanes because only the self-driving car companies have dual mode vehicles.

Nobody's going to market vehicles designed to drive in lanes that don't exist. And building out the lanes and the infrastructure to enter and exit them, probably will boost congestion in the short term.
GTA involves a completely different kind of game play experience. Look one direction, then look behind you, then look back and what you see may be completely different and regenerated. Star Citizen uses various methods to implement a virtual generated world so that what you see is what is there and you can carry around, drop, pick up, and trade items. The Star Citizen simulated world is far more detailed and consistent than anything in GTA.
> we can’t afford downtime

Indeed. We joke in our emergency department that patient’s die during Epic downtime. We aren’t really joking.
In addition to stripping the output, I will advertise a Jupyter trick that has helped me many times: When I'm ready to walk away from a project for a while, or even if I just need a coffee break, I will do "restart and run all cells." This ensures that there is no hidden state that I've forgotten about, and that someone else could run the same notebook without mishap.
Learn better listening and conversation skills
I'll say it-

The US Military

And not because its particularly useful, but as a method to funnel money from taxpayers into a few glitter companies. They play along and everyone makes money.

This passes the- "Why is it a Secret", "Why it can be a secret", and "Why they buy so much".
Extraterrestrial skies
But what if this was his sole vision for Quora in the first place? It doesn't require a genius to know that everybody who worked in the new era of social media (mid to late 2000s) understood that you could create an empire from your users' free labor while doing literally nothing. Quora was built as such, Quora was made so that one website contains questions and answers about everything and exploit search engines and SEO to become one of the most popular websites for a long time.
Does this this suffice https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/ops/struct.Range.html ?
In industry, we often also face an incredible amount of uncertainty in the form of unknown future functionality, UX, requirements, etc. As long as a business continues to adapt to changing market conditions, it's rare for its software to reach completeness. Some components' rate of change certainly slows down over time but newer components might rapidly grow in complexity or face major refactors. Successfully scaling to meet increased demand may also demand a pretty fundamental architectural shift. While not entirely the same, your evolving understanding of a problem and its effect on software requirements isn't too different from what we see regularly in industry.

It's very difficult to foresee what changes will be required 1-year's time, let alone 3. To that end, devs try to be extra thoughtful during the planning phase so that the end product is made up of well-behaved components. The extra time taken to come up with a sensible architecture goes a long way when business requirements eventually call for new or enhanced functionality and someone needs to understand the codebase in a reasonable amount of time. To be clear, this doesn't guarantee clean code -- bad architectural decisions happen, planning can occur without a clear requirements, no one held the quality bar during implementation, etc. -- but the outcome is always better than a laissez-faire design "strategy".

Perhaps scientific code churn is much more frequent than commercial code churn. In which case you would want to balance that by perhaps spending less time coming up with a good architecture -- and in the case of throwaway code, perhaps none at all. That being said, I would be surprised if new scientific knowledge always results in you having to discard every line and restart completely from scratch. I imagine that spending more time upfront architecting your software would instead allow you to more quickly react to new research results -- paying dividends on your time, in the long run.
People excited about X submit articles about X, is this surprising?

> Articles like these bring nothing to the table and look out of place for HN.

This is a reasonable technical article on how one framework implements rendering and manages to achieve a pretty high bar for performance, not at all out-of-scope for HN.
I wonder whether Article 13(2b) of the infamous EU copyright directive will change anything.

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=TA&langua...

It requires "effective and expeditious complaints and redress mechanisms" for users affected by unjustified removals, and complaints shall "be processed without undue delay and be subject to human review", and that "users shall have access to an independent body for the resolution of disputes as well as to a court or another relevant judicial authority to assert the use of an exception or limitation to copyright rules".

It might, or maybe YouTube's current mechanism already satisfies the above, don't know.
It's worth noting that 24 percent of Americans are under 18 and 15 percent are over 65. :)
Part of my day is a 20 minute train ride. I tend to enjoy it (except, of course, when it's late).
I made use of ANTLR4 for parsing C to write a "worksheet" (like Swift's Playgrounds) tool:
https://github.com/rgoulter/c-worksheet-instrumentor

It's an example of what you can do with "specific to a language", although it'd suffer the same limitation of "slower after a big computation".
> What's interesting is if you did this for just about any other country, there would be a wall of star spangled banners.

So the US has the most headlines for about any other country? I highly doubt it. All your following points actually contradict that assumption.
In keeping with the analogy, what you're saying is that the build system and deployment system are extremely complex and have a lot of parameters.
20 years ago when the internet was just hitting its stride, it would be unthinkable for any individual or organization to systematically attack anyone on the internet for the content they created.

The fact that so many have devolved into a religious fervor over silencing any views they don't like is anathema to the fundamental purpose of the internet itself.

Edit: and entirely predictably, I am being attacked for saying this. HN is part of the problem.
That's a good point, but I think the point the author was going for is that the U.S is comparable and much smaller countries in physical size are far surpassing them in absolute numbers.
>only remains true for as long as it has existed?

You are woefully misinformed if you think wealth inequality has only been around for 100-150 years.

>statement isn't that 99% of people are in the bottom 99%, it is that it is the same people staying there.

That’s not true though. A non-negligible portion of the richest people are first generation. And again, of course most of the 99% will stay in the 99% because math. Even with a complete turnover in one year, 98% didn’t move.

>deliberately misleading corporate propaganda piece about income would be productive?

It’s not propaganda when it comes mostly from the people on the left using it to argue for higher income taxes. Higher income taxes are an attack on income inequality, not wealth inequality. You might think it’s propaganda, but it would behoove you to listen to people on the left to hear what they are proposing.
> It's role in the world is greater than Holywood or the government.

Right, of course, how could we forget the petrodollar.
Sounds like you've never read about "witch hunting". These journalists are just taking what he's done, putting it into context, and writing about it.

The man has suffered nothing this entire time. He makes millions.
It seems to me like the viewers are finally starting to give a shit. Otherwise, YouTube Rewind wouldn't be the most disliked video ever in a matter of days.
I'm currently reading Zealot by Reza Aslan, which doesn't really debate whether or not there was a historical Jesus, but discusses the differences in fact vs the bible.

I highly recommend it.
https://twitter.com/prettybadlefty/status/107234761673268428... is my favorite take on this
>The tax law limits or eliminates dozens of itemized deductions, including for SALT, mortgage interest, home office expenses and fund management fees.

Wait, they got rid of mortgage interest?

Since the internet told me to see a CPA, I did. And I was not happy at how limited his knowledge base was. I corrected him a few times during our meeting. We had a conversation about Mortgage Interest and this never came up.

Isnt the point of the certification to be the expert? I'm just a math guy that can read.
Two comments:

1) Why wouldn’t the people answering the questions get that money? Aren’t they the ones adding value to the site?

2) I’ve noticed a ton of spam answers recently where the answer is just a link to another site, didn’t used to happen like 2 years ago
If not done right it can end up being a huge resource sink that never lives up to the promise
Commercial air travel is more efficient in fuel usage than driving, per passenger mile.
Is the other demarcation the dateline then?
You just described the plot of Prometheus too.
Can you work in them without getting sick?
> I thought C++ was basically in maintenance mode

You are terribly mistaken.

> given that greenfield software tends to be written in Rust...

You are terribly mistaken again.
I always wonder what is considered NSFW in those offices.

But it's interesting what types of specific UX is created for adult tube sites. For example, on pornhub, it shows which times of the video are viewed by more people using a flame graph type visual above the video timeline. Example of getting the user to value as quick as possible (skip the 'boring' parts).
What is yours? The point of the comment you're replying to is obvious. They provided some specific criticism of the material.
> putting it into context

It seems like it's quite the opposite most of the time, which is the reason for the backlash against the articles.
The problem is it is not females as such they are watching but young teens and children. Japanese men seem to have a fear of adult women who are their psychological equals.

Something else I have read is that traditional Japanese marriage is very oppressive for women, and as new work opportunities have opened up in recent decades a large proportion of women have just decided to stay single.
In addition in recent decades there are few jobs for young men that would give them enough income to support a family.
At least 20 killed, 165 wounded after tsunami hits Indonesia
How is that number calculated?
A key part of the article seems to be that PewDiePie's channel is largely satire, which is inherently under attack and worth protecting. Maybe I am getting old, but I find satire a lot less valuable than I once did.

The article mentions South Park too. I once loved the show, and still remember many moments in a strangely fond way. But the problem of Poe's law and the like means satire is sometimes taken seriously, and the cumulative effects of that have serious and real repercussions.

The creators of South Park, for example, recently "apologized" to Al Gore[1], who they ridiculed mercilessly. Many people believe that ridicule seriously hurt the climate change movement. I can't imagine what a real world solution would look like, but I would gladly live in a world where those episodes disappeared and we were in a little better spot regarding climate change.

We probably don't yet know what the lasting legacy of PewDiePie will be, but personally I'm doubting the positive aspects of it will outweigh the effects of many of his viewers taking some of his satire seriously.

[1] https://www.salon.com/2018/11/08/south-park-apologizes-to-al...
Inside the government sh#tdown (2013)
I've added Zoho Vault to the comparison grid.
> The top earning partner has earned $26,897 and asked over 8,000 questions, averaging about 45 questions per day

> The top 10 earning partners earned an average of $9,189 and asked 11,256 questions each, averaging 61 questions per day

This explains quite a bit about the quality of the content on that site....
I just got invited to the partner program. I opted in but didn’t pay much attention.

What is the best way to maximize the revenue / opportunity here?
I agree that not enough benchmarking (comparision between different codes to check that they get compatible results), verification (checking that the code produces results consistent with the underlying model) and validation (checking that the code reproduces nature to a sufficient degree to be useful) it done.

I have actually written papers that try do to a bit of that and it was annoyingly hard to publish them. But unlike you and a lot of other posters here on HN I don't think the reason for insufficient validation is that we scientists are too stupid or too lazy. On the contrary, we would love to do more of it. But there is next to no funding to do it.
what would these alternative architectures be?

A traditional von Newmann computer reads instructions and data from memory, into something that does arithmetic, logic and control (call it a CPU).

But consider that the "memory" nowadays is composed of multiple instances of 8 Gib DRAM. That's a lot of bits to be sitting there, read out perhaps 64 at a time by the CPU.

Instead, can some logic be embedded within each memory chip? Some way to bypass the "von Neumann bottleneck"?[1]

Ideas like that are the essence of "alternative architecture". Can a system composed of these, let's call them "non-von Neumann" elements, be faster or cheaper than the computer architecture we've been using since Johnny's 1945 seminal paper.[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_architecture#Von_N...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Draft_of_a_Report_on_the...
Amigos (Ep. 3) – Lele Pons, Rudy Mancuso,
That's all-in cost, including depreciation and fuel and insurance and maintenance. This is why UberX sort of works for some drivers.

The rate for a new car is much closer to the federal reimbursement rate ($0.545/mi), mostly depreciation. Obviously driving a new lambo at 100mph will be more like $4/mi.
You should watch the whole thing.
$1M --> $500k mortgage principal for the deduction was the change.

Also, get a personal referral for a CPA.
“PewDiePie’s ties to white supremacy spell serious trouble for the future of YouTube”

Titles like the above are likely the reason that news outlets like Vox and Vice have fallen on hard times.

It’s a shame really - both outlets have done some seriously groundbreaking work, but this...this is just cheap outrage-bait for clicks.
There also seem to keep being accidents from SPLC, Vox, etc. where they label people as extremists on the flimsiest of evidence, and have to walk back their words.

SPLC, for example, made a name for themselves by winning lawsuits against the KKK and Aryan Nations. Now they are losing lawsuits and having to apologize for falsely calling people "extremists": https://www.newsweek.com/splc-nawaz-million-apologizes-98187...

In the article about PewDiePie, Vox tries to call Laci Green "alt-right". I'm sorry, if Laci Green is alt-right, then the word has lost all meaning. They updated their story, but the update was pretty inadequate: https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1074762800109637633
So, write the program correctly. Show me.

You just want to fight someone because you're angry, and I don't do that. No matter what someone writes you'll find a way to argue into it being wrong and then prance around declaring "victory".

(I'd also bet that you probably couldn't do it if I were the one who got to set the evaluation criteria, and you also couldn't pass other "challenges" like writing proper HTTP handling -- the person who gets to grade the challenge always "wins", which is why you want to be the person who grades the challenge)

PEP 383 turned the Python 3 str type into a bag of bytes

PEP 383 provided a way to read certain things -- primarily filesystem paths which can be basically anything -- using an escape mechanism to replace non-decodable bytes with surrogates when decoding to string, which in turn allow losslessly transforming back to the original bag of bytes.

Which is necessary, because there are real filesystems out there that really have paths and names that can never validly decode from any known text encoding. It doesn't turn strings into "bags of bytes"; the resulting str still is an iterable of actual valid Unicode code points.

Python tries to sweep encodings under the rug.

As the saying goes, you can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason their way into, so I won't try here.

Python 3 encourages developers to write broken string handling code.

Python 3 no longer tries to cover for the random gibberish that's legal to put in filesystem paths, and makes the developer handle it. Are there lots of developers out there who don't realize that filesystem paths can legally contain undecodable garbage? Sure. That's not Python's problem to solve, though; it gives you the surrogateescape handler, and the fsencode helper, and keeps working on things like PEP 538 and PEP 540 to try to give you tools to work around it. But Python can't magically fix the mess that is UNIX locales and bag-of-bytes paths (nothing can, short of burning UNIX down and starting over), and doesn't try to do it for you.
Have you tried https://atom.io/packages/ide-python for autocompletion/inline documentation? It uses https://github.com/davidhalter/jedi. Also I'd be surprised if those things aren't done properly in VSCode with Python extension(s).

edit: Atom IDE (that this package links to) has been deprecated last week or so by Facebook, I'm not sure what dependencies packages like the above have on the atom-ide-ui.
Yep, my kid had a video of himself singing a popular song removed on copyright grounds. He was like 8 years old.
The article is comparing the % that each group benefits by, not the actual dollar amounts. Did you read the article?
By this argument, chemists should never wash glassware. Keep re-using it until it's too dirty, then through it out and make new beakers.

Your tools affect the quality of your work. Work with shitty tools, get shitty results.

I'll start believing your argument when scientists actually start publishing the code to go with their papers and make it reproducible.
> We might have bit the bullet and done it with highways back in the day for whatever reason, today the reasoning for doing the same thing may not apply and the cost unjustified.

So the rational, cost-effective solution would have been not to have any connection at all?
New 8K OLED Displays for Tablets and Laptops: 8.3 and 13.3 Inches
> We completely screwed up the industrial revolution.

Wait, WHAT?!

The thing that allowed millions of people to ascend from what would now be seen as abject poverty and subsistence farming?

The thing that enabled mass tool manufacture that eventually led to the Green Revolution and boosted agricultural yields enough to increase the planet's carrying capacity a few orders of magnitude?

THAT screw up?!

Say what you want about the environmental consequences and our failure to manage carbon and toxic byproducts.

But there's objectively no way you can say the Industrial Revolution didn't vault the entire world's population technologically, medically, and materially forward.
If someone can choose negative things one says, it means that they said negative things that outweigh the good ones. It doesn't take many negative things sometimes (often just 1) to be enough to outrage people. No one is going to ignore the negative things because he also happened to say good things (subjectively of course).

You seem to be saying that they're cherry picking the negative things which means they can't be 'unfounded claims' like you say later.
I wonder what possess people to want to own dog breeds that are physically deformed by design.

What kind of brain injury do you have to have to go out of your way to want to breed these dogs?

And why the hell don’t / haven’t animal rights activists, and society in general, vigorously pursue regulation to ban these absurd breeds.
The issue is not that journalism has developed a new trend of ginning up outrage, that’s a constant in the history of journalism. The issue is that it’s rapidly becoming all that’s left, all that most people consume, and it’s unleavened with anything like responsibility, or balance from respectable journalists and politicians with at least some limits.

It’s the degradation of all media rather than just a large portion of it, which is new and worrying.
Another brilliant YouTube stupidity case has just shown up. This guy [1] reviewed a channel that is very likely inappropriate.

HE gets a strike on his channel, the one he reviewed is still ticking along, no consequences!

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM4OwGhchUA
He looked like a mushroom, obviously. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sacred_Mushroom_and_the_Cr...

But an actual mushroom, not a human shaped mushroom like Lenin became. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenin_was_a_mushroom
The Stalin's Soviet Union, after the collapse of Russian Empire, did resemble the Hitler's Germany (or vice versa) and not too remotely.
I just upgraded my GCE instance. Let's see if it can withstand this withering assault. <makes popcorn>