skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is also the book "Exercises in Programming Style" that uses the term frequency problem to illustrate 33 different programming paradigms (including a shell solution).

https://www.amazon.com/Exercises-Programming-Style-Cristina-...
Honestly, if a project is so blinded by zealotry that even a non-copyleft license like Apache 2.0 isn't free enough, then I don't see any reason to engage with them in any form.
A notable reason to use UIWebView is that it allows for changing network requests (for example, to add special headers). WKWebView does not because it runs out-of-process. So some of the web views you're seeing might actually be UIWebViews, depending on the context you're seeing them in.
Sad day for the Chinese people who will now still be censored, but also have fewer choices.
A History of Cyborg Sex
SICP themselves stated that they were not consulted nor informed about this, so yes, it does seem that they never once reached out and asked.
Building a Happiness Prediction Model Based on 5 Years of Data
Show HN: MyChatBot – now with multiple answers
I may be missing something here, but your example seems to be a textbook case for big-O analysis. Writing in a vector is O(1), while linked list is O(n), isn’t it?
Humble Book Bundle: Hacking for the Holidays
Ask HN: Do you have a Patreon?
If you do, tell us about it. (or an equivalent non-patreon service)

Disclosure, I don't have one, but I have space to support a few.
This is, honestly, better than the article that started this discussion!
Microsoft open sources Trill to deliver insights on a trillion events a day
A lot of disparaging comments express real things. Coward, racist, flip floper, unprincipled. These exists and are also disparaging.

I think that if you start with assumption of two sides and your question forces the person to be in one, then you already stopped being nuanced. Because the other side are those whose views are as far from mine as possible by definition.
Who needs 20% YoY growth? Plenty of big companies get big enough and don't keel over, and Google is already very profitable.
That is a beautiful site with really excellent photography. You could achieve a similar effect with a plugin like this: https://wordpress.org/plugins/unlimited-background-slider/
I would recommend careful selection of photos if you are going to make them large background images so their colors work against the text that it is behind, and that they look good at all resolutions otherwise it is more distracting than its worth.
Measuring Program Comprehension: A Large-Scale Field Study with Professionals
The reason why it's hard to become a bank in the US is because there are regulations in place to keep companies from screwing over customers for their own gain or in their own stupidity. In this case, Robinhood didn't look into what they needed to do to follow those regulations. If they DID follow the regulations, then they could provide their banking service.
Like I mentioned, SFSafariViewController and WKWebView serve fundamentally different purposes; the former is for when you are trying to open a link and don't particularly care how it would be shown, and this would replace your own custom in-app browser implementation or opening links in Safari. The latter is used when you want to display a webpage and have full control over the content and the surrounding chrome, which makes it useful as both a general-purpose embedding view as well as the centerpiece of your browser app.
So poor people need not apply to the stock market? I just love the amount of class separation that is considered a normal and moral standard of most of the HN crowd.
Semi-OT: I haven't seen an explanation for Chrome's "Waiting for cache." Anyone have a link to one?
What you'll be getting is no fees and even worse execution quality. Choose your poison.
Reminds me of the Smoke Filled Room study.
https://www.dowellwebtools.com/tools/lp/Bo/psyched/16/Smoke-...

Basically, a person won't panic if other people aren't panicking.

We are frogs in a slowly warming pot and the people who make money selling the fuel have convinced us that everything will be just fine.
Somebody actually changed the title of the post, so now it only says Yoda and doesn't reference Knuth at all. Seems backwards to me.
Who needs 20% YoY growth?

Google does. If not 20%, around that number....

Trailing P/E	38.67

Forward P/E 1	21.87

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/GOOGL/key-statistics?p=GOOGL
> Note: not casting aspersions on people with serious issues. But when 20% of the US population is supposed to have anxiety disorders, something doesn’t make sense.

That's what happens when a culture undermines the virtues of independence, competence, stolidity, and maturity while venerating childishness. It's what happens when a culture overvalues safety and the avoidance of suffering and undervalues character. Coddled children turn into adults who lack the skills and experience to deal with hardship.

Exposure therapy is hard work. It requires calmly distancing yourself from your fears and anxieties, believing that they can be overcome in the first place, strategizing about how to overcome them, and carrying out actions that are genuinely terrifying to you. It requires valuing freedom from your own emotional limitations over freedom from discomfort. It requires preferring being capable over being comfortable. And that's a hard mindset to cultivate if you were raised in a society where parents sometimes get into legal trouble for letting their kids walk to school or sit outside in the car while they're grocery shopping.

20% of the US population does have anxiety disorders, because the US is suffering from a psychiatric epidemic.
Would Human Extinction Be a Tragedy?
I wonder if this will include the MIPS 16e extension (the thumb-like instruction set for MIPS). It would be interesting to me if MIPS can compete with ARM in microcontrollers. As far as I know, only the PIC32 is MIPS.

I used IDT's MIPS IDTR3041 in an embedded system in the mid 90s... I remember compiling gcc for "decstation" to support it.

https://stuff.mit.edu/afs/sipb/contrib/doc/specs/ic/cpu/mips...

Will Sparc follow? I used the LEON4 SPARC processor in Intel / Movidius Myriad recently, was surprised to see Sparc...
> For example, they recently added a hidden empty div over YouTube videos that causes our hardware acceleration fast-path to bail (should now be fixed in Win10 Oct update). Prior to that, our fairly state-of-the-art video acceleration put us well ahead of Chrome on video playback time on battery, but almost the instant they broke things on YouTube, they started advertising Chrome's dominance over Edge on video-watching battery life.

Huh?

First, I can find nowhere that Chrome claimed to have better video-watching battery life (in fact, popular tech sites mention improving but still worse[1]).

Second, the only dip I can find in the public Edge battery life tests[2] was

April 2017 - 12.5 hours

Dec 2017 - 16 hours

May 2018 - 14.3 hours

vs Chrome's 9.3, 13.5, and 12.5 hours. Which means whatever happened last spring, Chrome also dipped.

And third, how about we talk about the kind of web browser battery benchmark based on playing fullscreen video and is defeated by adding a single hidden div? It's not testing battery life of a representative sample of what a web browser is actually used for (especially over 12+ hours), and obviously wasn't very resilient in the face of what a web browser has to actually handle.

Honestly it sounds like they added a div for unrelated reasons (accessibility, "security", ads, who knows), thought it was worth the performance tradeoff (or never measured), and it indirectly ended up making Edge better for real web content (as of the Win10 Oct update).

[1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/05/edge-still-boasts-be...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWs4_NfqMtoxOT8E8d5KP...
While it's currently closer, "The Goblin" has an aphelion of 1955 AU: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_TG387. That's still only .03 ly, but we already know about objects whose orbits go much further.
I get the impression people want to place blame on something, anything, except themselves. Everything from specific foods, diets and genetics, but it ultimately comes down to consuming too much energy over time, longer term. It's accepted as fact and they can't do anything about it because of genetics or because they can't or won't eat specific foods or can't get to the gym (go outside?).

We are surrounded by food. It's everywhere, but we really don't need that much of it (you can get a days worth of your energy in a single meal or drink with how processed and condensed our food has become). Yet, people act and suggest it as if it's the only thing to do. Go to almost any subreddit about a city or state. You'll see dozens upon dozens of posts asking what there is to do when moving or visiting.

Almost all the replies are go eat here, go eat there, try eating this while your here. Then way down at the bottom, lower voted replies, will be often actual activities that don't involve eating, it's no wonder we are all so fat with constant and consistent advice like this. Not to mention how much lazier we keep getting.

Hunger is very psychological too. People are just used to eating a certain amount at certain times every day. Change that pattern and you'll feel different, mentally and physically. Most people of health can go a day or few without eating and it won't have any negative affects. It will suck, yes, but no you won't starve or die. Missing lunch at work and waiting a few hours until you get home will not have detrimental affects. Skipping breakfast and waiting to eat until your noon/lunch/whatever break won't hurt. It might even help if it allows you to get extra sleep.

On another note, diet, health, and nutrition related posts to Hacker News seem to always be N=1 replies or bring out toxic debate. People, especially the Hacker News types, seem to have a very passionate opinion on the topic(s).
I think the hypothesized inner boundary of the Oort cloud is 2,000 AU[0] making it 20x the distance as this new object, not double.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oort_cloud
It's cool to see such an old and well-used arch still be used in new applications, not just old legacy stuff.

And, gotta love: "Wave, which styles itself as a tech startup poised to bring “AI and deep learning from the datacenter to the edge,” sees MIPS as a key to advancing Wave’s AI into a host of uses and applications.". Hello, fellow kids!
Hey, never said I didn't approve of China's shite privacy & labor laws. That's why I always thought any minimum wage or labor law needs an accompanying tariff, to prevent manufacturers from just making the situation worse by externalizing their shit overseas
That basically comes down to whether RISC-V's current partners decide to jump ship for something more well-known.
They didn't think to reach out to the SIPC , the SIPC themselves confirmed that the announcement was the first time they were hearing about the new account. Was all over HN and other sites a day after the announcement.
Eh, Microsoft and Boeing?
This is also a regularly used method by psychotherapists. At least in Germany (and I guess all over Europe at least).
If I understand correctly, GPS receivers are also (loosely) constrained by the Missile Technology Control Regime, a voluntary agreement between several countries not to export certain technologies applicable to missiles or UAVs.

http://mtcr.info/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile_Technology_Control_Reg...
>If that happens, there seems very little chance that society could survive

This statement here, while it seems correct I don't think is backed up by the article. Does anyone know of any good work examining the impact climate change will have on human society? I know there are going to be some serious problems but would like see an expert break it down.
...Or a retrofit from that period?
I'm curious to hear the answer for this as well. Given the MIPS and RISC-V are similar in nature, I'm not sure what the impact of making an already widely used and quite mature RISC ISA open source when this was basically the entire premise behind RISC-V.
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It might be climate change. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/may/07/climate-... details how high CO2 levels lead to food crops with more sugar and less nutrients. As a result, animals fed the same diet aren't getting the same calories as they used to.
People regain weight because of the hunger hormone Grehlin, which gets high and stays high after losing weight.
>Sun Microsystems was formed in 1982 - their boxes ran Unix, and Sun was a startup spun off from Stanford.

Right. Even their name was derived from Stanford University Network:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems#History
or minecraft: https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Mushroom_Fields
This one? https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/117-the-worlds-most-ex...
For some reason on this particular article I found it amusing to realize several times that a given concept they were talking about was something I'm familiar with, but it had been translated first from "nerd language" into "layman." Pretty common practice for a general audience, so I'm not sure why it stood out this time. Examples: bytecode, assembly language, frameworks, machine learning. Counterexample: Libraries, where they used the actual word, denying me the silly little pleasure of going "Oh you mean libraries."
Why did you chose to go with a 401k instead of a SEP-IRA?
2018 Credit Union Year in Review
what does open source mean in this context?
It's great you can make it work, but astura's response was specifically that two (at least one, anyway) of the requirements are specifically designed to make you jump through hoops in order to get the highest interest rate.

What possible benefit could LMCU receive if you log in four times a month instead of just the one time to pay off your credit card? There is none, it's a dark pattern.
Back to the land: are young farmers the new starving artists?
Well, my point is getting the higher interest rate for those "high interest checking accounts" is a major pain in the ass and rarely "worth it" for many (most?) people. On top of that the limits are so low they have limited usefulness. Robinhood was promising all the interest (and more) with none of the pain in the ass/effort.

>IM(potentially uninformed)O, if your family is keeping more than $30K in a checking account, then you should probably be investing in stocks or bonds or mutual funds at that point anyways. It's not like you can't sell off investments to pay for emergency costs.

Emergency fund should not be invested! It needs to be in a liquid account that has zero (or near zero) risk to the principal. How big your emergency fund should be is dependent on your life situation. You're most likely to need your emergency fund at the same time the market tanked. I'm not selling securities (maybe at a loss) when I have an emergency, I'm going to use the money I've already set aside for such an occasion.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/emergency_fund.asp

>Financial advisers view an investment strategy as a pyramid. A strong base is fundamentally important to support the levels of risk an investor bears as securities with varying levels of volatility layer over the foundation. Before an individual ventures into intermediate- or long-term investment vehicles, the establishment of an emergency fund is recommended as the first step toward creating stability and minimizing risk. Stashing three or even six months’ income in a highly liquid account, such as a money market, should preclude the purchase of any instrument that holds risk to principal or requires lock-in periods during which penalties are assessed for early withdrawal. As more volatile securities sit atop above the base of savings accounts or Treasury bills, overall portfolio volatility is minimized and necessary access to risk-free capital is optimized.
Hmm interesting; I remember checking this for the time when TeX was written (1977, because of questions about building on top of troff) -- what I remember finding is that Unix wasn't widely available at colleges then. Perhaps things changed in the next 9 years. As far as I know, Knuth's access to computers at the time was still through Stanford's AI Lab (that's why the first version of TeX in 1977-1978 was written in SAIL; see also the comment for 14 Mar 1978 in http://texdoc.net/texmf-dist/doc/generic/knuth/errata/errorl...). Do you know if Unix was installed on Stanford lab computers by 1986? What was the distribution of these 100k Unix installations (academia/industry)?
> Consumers suffer... how?

Looked at bank fees recently?

Why should it cost $50 to change some values in a database?
I lived in Seattle for a few years, as Amazon expanded. Traffic and housing exploded during that time. Boeing and Microsoft had their large facilities outside of Seattle proper, which I think minimized their effects on the city itself compared to Amazon.
"In many areas of fintech, though, companies are racing to do things that were done in the 1920s, before modern financial regulation came into effect, only this time with an app. The regulators know how to handle that."
OpsMop – new SSH push mode
Jeff Bezos isn't necessarily more important than other people that also invest in impactful things, but he is the wealthiest person in the world and invests in speculative things that impact how the world works, which is kind of a big deal.

Also, the parent comment did say that the projects are important, not Jeff Bezos. I was just talking about the interaction of wealthy investors and their side projects, which is what this thread is about.
Can something like this be done for Medium?
Google has reportedly ended China search project
New malware pulls its instructions from code hidden in memes posted to Twitter
> slowed down innovation

When it comes to money and ensuring people manage mine correctly and honestly, I’ll take safety over innovation thank you very much. Feel free to continue “disrupting” low stakes stuff like juicers and scooters. Call me old fashioned.
France to introduce digital tax in new year
Yes, though most of the purchase is usually paid in stock.

They didn't just write a check for $19B.
Until recently most of the plastic recycling from the US was shipped to China. So it's possible that the plastic flowing down the rivers in Asia was actually American plastic.
Cool. Will check that out.
yeah, that definitely makes sense. I'll have to start doing that when I connect screens or sensors: much cleaner, thanks for the inspiration!
Hey Hacker News,
this is a fun side project that I built while learning vue.js and Progressive Web Apps (PWAs).

No two emoji bombs are alike: there are factorial 15 combinations for Happy Birthday - that’s 1,307,674,368,000 - and factorial 31 combinations for Christmas, etc.

I personally use it to wish team mates a happy birthday, or send the a "get well" note when they call in sick.

It’s a fun project that I wanted to share - I appreciate any and all feedback!
Humble Bundle: great set of No Starch books
I'm also curious if there is any effect from trace amounts of insecticides, herbicides and fungicides in our water and food supply. Agriculture has experimented with many novel compounds in the past century, and I don't trust that each of these compounds was diligently studied by researchers without a conflict of interest.
"More stable labor force": you are thinking of faculty, who make up a small percentage of research labor at universities.

Graduate students & postdocs—who make up the majority of research labor—come and go, on the order of months-to-years, making open plans actually somewhat reasonable.
Also great for the opposite purpose: completely contradicting someone while keeping them on board
That's some affordable luxury right there.
The rise of videogame bread
These read like talking point cards a politician would use. E.g. "Follow the money" is rebutted with "I could make more money working in the oil industry". That type of political style posturing does the global warming supporters no good at all.
Money markets are not covered by the FDIC or NCUA. [1] During the financial crisis, the Reserve Primary Fund "broke the buck" and lost principal for investors. [2]

[1] https://www.consumerfinance.gov/ask-cfpb/what-is-a-money-mar...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserve_Primary_Fund
Please, why do you think I needed to lose 40 pounds in the first place? Not because I was the paragon of willpower I can tell you. I still go off the rails and eat an entire package of Oreos in a single sitting sometimes. It’s a constant struggle for me, but I don’t make excuses and I keep persevering. Other people can do that too.
failed pretty bad on a group picture (15 people)
Show HN: PewDiePie Fans seem to have taken down wsj.com
3-D Fractals Offer Clues to Complex Systems (2017)
Apple employees need their jobs. Walking out would be risky. Google employees don't care because they can get another job by virtue of having Google on their resume. A bit of a hyperbole but there is some truth in it.
Soil depletion and optimizing for size has also caused a drop in vitamin and mineral content

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/soil-depletion-an...
I think VR can be used for this also. Emotional and social intelligence training is the best use of this tech.
How do you know? Have you audited the source code of the software?
As long as we continue to put our blind faith in job titles we are lost. Science is repeatable experimentation with similiar results that can be repeated by all. Religion, or politics puts faith in job title above facts.

We need to be clear on this.