skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Big deal. HN mods likely exhibit harsher censorship than any Chinese party member.

Imagine saying anything "out of line" on HN. And what does it get you?
HAKMEM instilled in me a lifelong love affair with the architecture of the PDP-10.

This memo was quite influential on 14-year-old me, mainly because I could not understand a word of it. It caused me to look many things up (which was hard in the pre-web 70s) and served well to show me the depths of my lack of understanding of the size and shape of the world. I ran into Gosper on one of his vists east and though didn’t ask him about munching squares, I did receive an unsolicited and incredibly valuable lesson on using the lispm debugger and DDT. He’s still a friend today. RG was also highly influential, though in the opposite way (he assumed I understood far more than I did so would pass along crumbs in order not to waste my or his time). Nelson I’ve never met.

Are there still opportunities for random kids to be exposed to such things? It feels like despite there being several orders more information now at your fingertips that life has become more professionalized and constrained.
The Entropy section is great. I’ve been experimenting with ways of leveling down entropy in React by using this little helper to express decision trees in your render function. Not totally happy with it yet though. https://github.com/scottyantipa/photonic
Back in the 1980's Martin Seligman analysed the speaking styles of baseball team members to determine if their optimistic/pessimistic attitude correlated with success on the field. In his book "Learned Optimism" he claimed that this kind of analysis had some predictive power in who would win the game.
Would you make the claim that Syrian insurgents have the best weapons on Earth? Honestly it's all nonsense assumed at the exact audience that laps it up.

Anyone dumb enough to conclude a satellite phone is a piece based weapon isn't fit for official positions.
The 4-Step New Year’s Resolution Remix
University as a business is not the ideal model for education. It should be publicly owned and funded and all free, like it is in Germany.
Oh no, Kolmogorov is referred to as Komolgoroff in item 105.

This problem is in fact due to Kazimierz Kuratowski: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuratowski%27s_closure-complem...
I've always wanted to delve more into E-prime, general semantics after hearing about it in a lot of Robert Anton Wilson's lectures. Language definitely has an effect on the way we think and feel. I recently bought a book called 'The Tyranny of Words' by Stuart Chase that I need to find the time to read too.

Keep in mind that general semantics is mostly pseudoscience, or at least ont the fringe.
It was only recently the licensing laws changed to allow pubs open after 2300, so depending on when and what “certain time” meant it could be a fair enough complaint.
Is it? Even in other English speaking countries, often only a veneer survives. America is the proverbial elephant with a billion blind people touching and describing it.

Hell, even people in the US don’t understand what other people are up to.
There seems to be a fair amount of cognitive dissonance here.

The central complaint almost seems to be that it's getting exported, rather than getting used domestically.

And as a non American I'm struggling to understand the lack of environmental opposition. Is the article biased, or does environmentalism not exist in Texas?

Finally speaking as someone from the UK. This is scary. Theres been an ongoing battle over fracking, with the first well drilled this year. Hopefully we have better standards in place.
No, but everyone still lines up to watch Marvel movies and wants to drink Starbucks and wear Levi’s jeans.
Sorry, you're right. I was using the MacOS Pixel Tool to get colors, but apparently MacOS fiddles with the colors slightly when rendering to the screen.
There are clear guidelines about civility. This is not reddit. If you're being downvoted it's not because people disagree with you. It is though very likely that many people disagree with you.
From Skills of Victors:

How to be charismatic https://www.thesuccessmanual.in/chapter/how-to-be-charismati...
How to develop a presence https://www.thesuccessmanual.in/chapter/how-to-develop-prese...
I have read HAKMEM (I think I had first read it in the twenty-first century), and I like this. I don't know PDP-10 programming, but I hope that I can learn, so that I can understand some more of the stuff in the HAKMEM, some of which is difficult if you do not know PDP-10 programming. Is there emulation available?
Various circuit switched (ISDN) or non-IP packet switched technologies (SNA/X.25/Frame Relay) are apparently often used as backup links for various automotive EDI stuff for JIT ordering.
https://www.bollymeditube.com/2018/12/40-hottest-deepika-pad...
You mean, something like this: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0tCZKAh4H5cS01HWTcxSnFQV2c... ?
Here’s what you wrote

> but often can reach 900 Mbps up. Typical is 500-600 Down, 900 Up; the highest I've seen down on e.g. fast.com is 900 Mbps
Some previous discussions: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=hakmem%20points%3E3&sort=byDat...
This suggests that the "wealth gap" (Endowment gap) of colleges in the US is increasing, probably at an accelerating rate. This is probably not a good thing.

I wonder how much of a difference the tax-exempt status is a factor in the growth of e.g. MIT's endowment.

Was this tax-exempt status ever in jeopardy? It's unclear from the article whether this status was part of the failed anti-trust suit, but the article does seem to suggest this is the underlying problem.
The quote is not about learning the bones, but their names.

TBF there is some regularity to the names e.g. the finger bones (phalanges) are named in a 2D grid of thumb..litte X inner..tip:

I..V x proximal,middle,distal - Imiddle

Toes are same named!
So when people are at work or inside they don’t hear as much noise so don’t complain. When they are in their garden having a peaceful barbecue they do.

People tend not to complain about life and death stuff. Not everyone worships the military, even in America

Helicopters only have to land if they’ve taken off.
YouTube rewind but for Twitter
You mean funding them? I sort of have done that, though probably not in ways you would recognize easily. Unfortunately it would be too private to expand on this here.
Hell, even in the US people can’t identify US values.
> What about all the nuclear waste that is already building up and has no where to go?

If only it could disappear into the atmosphere like coal waste does, right?

Storing the waste in solid form is a good thing
Why would you work on evenings? Interviews can and should happen during the day
It appear that people are not very good at carrying the psychology burden caused by not being able to return help. They need to find some way of unloading this debt and if they can't help you back, the best solution seems to be to turn it into hate.

The people who hate me the most in the world are not those that I have wronged, but those I really helped.

Make sure that if you help someone that you ask them for some help back - it doesn't need to be anything big, but the sooner you unload the debt the happier the person will be towards you. If there is nothing you need help with just make something up and then say thank you.
Unrelated, but why can’t HN fix blockquote rendering on iOS?
The final command for this part of the mission as no further communications would be possible until the flyby has been complete and the probe can reorient itself to call back home, it would take 18 months to get the data back from New Horizons as its current data rate is 1kbp/s or 2 with induced spin.

This isn’t the end of the mission for NH.
An effective way for iCloud Bypass
And then there's "doomsday prepping for less crazy folk": http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/prep/

It's a guide written by the author of american fuzzy lop (afl), and while it touches on end-of-civilization, guns-n-ammo prep, much of it is about practical preparedness for more likely disasters, such as a prolonged and widespread power outage; and how to reduce the risk of financial ruin or serious injury.
Confucius Institutes are a bit more than merely promoting Confucianism. This was an interesting video by a westerner who is in China (often) and thus has to walk a fine line, but was able to subtext exceptionally well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tsXtk7psUc
Good to know. I experienced the same when I set up algo on Scaleway recently. I considered Digital Ocean as an alternative, but ended up using Hetzner Cloud (which I now prefer, since it is cheaper and based in Germany). No access issues with appleid.apple.com anymore.
More popular apps are sending data to Facebook without asking
I don't think MEMS is required. For $60 you can get a 2 TB hard drive. It contains platters that are several inches in diameter, and there is a swinging arm that is a couple inches long. All these parts move with incredibly tight tolerances. DVD writers are $26, and Blu-Ray writers are $120. Those are an even better comparison, with moving optics.

Food inspection is silly unless that is your job. People who keep aquariums, particularly saltwater ones, are a more likely market.

18 channels sounds great for most school labs. It's enough for a crude graph of chlorophyll's absorption and/or florescence. It might even be enough to distinctly identify the four main sources of color in spinach leaves. Repeated sampling at about 10 Hz would be plenty for all the labs involving reaction rates; most could be done with 0.1 Hz. For example, a popular lab involves measuring the changing rate at which Crystal Violet is destroyed by lye. Some less-demanding popular labs involve measuring the amount of copper in brass (as copper nitrate via nitric acid) or the molarity of blue food coloring in drinks.
Yeah, I totally agree; at the end of the day end-to-end authenticated encryption is the way to go. But not everything is end-to-end encrypted, so it's worth mentioning as a caveat. It sounds like I may be mistaken anyways and some GPON networks negotiate an AES key for downstream traffic, but I have no way to confirm that this design or implementation is secure, or that in practice CenturyLink even uses it on my local fiber.
I've also had this idea -- I wonder if it's chance or if this is something that geneticists have thought of as well and attempted. Sampling cells from a few different reproductive cell lines should theoretically provide a strong average, perhaps with some adjustments for more common mutations across all lines/things that are more likely to be repaired. Then regenerate the telomeres and replace the DNA in the germ layers of a blastocyst and you have the foundation to replace 50+ years worth of cells, plus provide a digital copy of the DNA for the next treatment round. Keep supplying a person with "undamaged 25 year old version of their self" cells (based on telomere length) and they can stay young indefinitely without negative side effects such as continuing to grow taller, cancer from damaged DNA, etc. Still issues with arteries clogging over time, figuring out a good way to regenerate the brain, bones and joints wearing down, etc., but I feel like those are easier problems (with the exception of the brain), perhaps to which the young stem cell therapy could also be applied.
>"Optical control plane generally hasn't benefited from the hardening that's happened in the IP world"

OK, but I imagine we can probably both agree that proper network design is orthogonal to the pace of development in optical transmission gear ;)
>(I know, hypocrite)

I'm guessing you added this to avoid inevitable flames.

I don't think its hypocritical though. We all live in a world where fossil fuels are dominant. Its reasonable to fight to lower emissions while still emitting yourself (within reason).

If you make it so that only the whitest of the white says anything, no one will.
It seems like you were stepping into being personally abrasive here. Please don't do that on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yes, I wrote that as well. What comment are you making?

Typical observed speeds down, which is what everyone cares about for residentical internet, are 500-600 Mbps — far below 1Gbps. I mentioned the outliers for color but they're either not useful to me (I don't need 900 Mbps upload) or not representative of real service delivered (I've only observed 900 Mbps once; as I said, 500-600 is much more typical). Off-peak is typically around 700 Mbps down.

So I still don't know what comment or point you were trying to make by claiming GigE TCP can only reach 940 Mbps. It clearly isn't a counterargument to my claim that Centurylink's $80/mo, residential "gigabit" fiber offering does not deliver 1Gbps internet service (nor would I expect it to).
Well, I mean, yes, those are all mistakes people are going to make, no doubt about that. But somehow the solution is missing?

The core mistake here is using string manipulation at all. The only correct way to handle string data is to parse it, and then either operate on the parsed data structure, or re-serialize into a canonical format and use that for comparisons and stuff.

And in the best case, you don't try to build your own parser, but use a well-tested one that's already there. For the particular use case of parsing IP addresses, it's probably best to use getaddrinfo() with AI_NUMERICHOST, and for re-serialization getnameinfo() with the same flag. If those don't understand the address, you most likely won't be able to connect anyway. And they will handle stuff like link-local addresses correctly, at least as long as you are on the host that actually has the respective interface.

For databases, you use column types intended for storing IP addresses, so the database will do the parsing and canonicalization for you.

And when you actually have to build a parser yourself, read the damn spec for the format instead of going by what you think the format is, because most likely it's not that.

And mind you that most of those problems are not really IPv6-specific. There are also many ways to write an IPv4 address that your average parser will understand. Most of those are generally frowned upon, so they don't occur often, but if you want to reliably compare IPv4 addresses, you actually need to do the same as for IPv6.
You would probably use the buttons as part of a campaign to prevent the expansion of an airport further, to prove that aircraft noise is already louder than the authorities say it is. I doubt the current measurement of aircraft noise at ground level over wide areas and long periods is that great, and airport operators have a heavy incentive to understate the levels of noise pollution.
Texas is one of the worst polluters in the entire US. Why anyone would still move there is beyond me.

[1] https://media.treehugger.com/assets/images/2011/10/mercury-e...

[2] http://scorecard.goodguide.com/env-releases/state.tcl?fips_s...
Yeah, it's a complex issue with many interlocking parts.

Which is why it's a shame when we get hung up on "privatized" vs. not - on that kind of topic people have often already made up their mind, and you're just not going to get anywhere anymore.
Scott Meyers overlooks one problem with his quest to kill backwards compatibility: upgrading compilers is a no-go for many safety critical codebases. The re-certification of the code for released products would have to be repeated in its entirety - a sneaky bug or behavior change in the new compiler might introduce any number of issues. That isn't going to fly for cost reasons. This effectively freezes shared code between products at these ancient language standard levels.
There’s also an active fork of LuaJIT called RaptorJIT that’s oriented towards building whole applications rather than embedding.
Discussed at the time:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13482107

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13462865
Seems acceptable to me. No need to search for hypocrisy, comparisons, etc as it's clear there are different values. So long as the actions are transparent (and I wish the reasons were too to avoid guessing), at least reasonable people can make up their mind about what approach is right or wrong. The constant search for moral equivalence is fruitless. That's where the propagandists find niches. Instead, just search for accuracy and make up your own mind about the rest.
They're trying to avoid introducing new keywords or funky punctuation, both worthy goals.
AWS S3 Java
Yowzer.

My Dad was a high school principal and I got to play around with chemical kits as a young 'un.

Never poisoned myself but must have come close.
The Case for Blind Key Rotation
Why it pays to be grumpy and bad-tempered
[Research] Meta Learning for Few-Shot Keyword Spotting
> I also worked with an incredible communication coach in SF

reference?
While I agree with your sentiment I believe that body builders and strength trainers do experience this as they reach semi(pro) levels. It is extremely hard to do and is often an incorrect self-diagnosis. Please let me know if there has been some research on occurrence rates.
if i am looking for a different job, i'll not just interview with one company, but several. even more so if i still have a job and i really need to weigh the options to decide if the new offer is really better.

there is only so many days i can take off. with two weeks holidays, i might spend all of my holiday budget for this year.
Thank you for reading the book. Let me know if you have comments
Things to Consider Before Starting Your Blog - The Essentials
It was off topic and trollish, so correctly flagged. Posting like that will get you banned on HN, so please don't do it again. Instead, if you'd review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and take the spirit of the site to heart, we'd appreciate it.
Beer-brewing Trappist monks put faith in plants to reduce water waste
This is an interesting assertion, because there is certainly pro's and con's.

I am working in Germany now (in a "good" university) and I often visit top tier US universities.

Due having money, US universities at a similar relative rank have vastly bigger faculties, vastly better supply of researchers and usually better admin. And it is not even close. Network effects among researchers are much, much stronger.

Combine this with the fact that the German system has unecessary deficiencies. The appointment system is f'ed beyond repair and it is virtually impossible to offer positions to good prospective researchers. The "Mittlebau" lacks any and all good career track and is made up of disillusioned and hopeless people on 2-year successive contracts (and nowadays, it is missing entirely). And of course, there is no real tenure track, which means a lot of Profs are really bad and would have never gotten tenure in a meriocratic process.

Since we have a couple of privately funded places that do the US system here in Germany, we can see that it just simply works much better.

On the other hand, in terms of long term stability and the average quality of education, I agree that the US system has issues. Relying on inflated undergrad fees, especially from international student, seems dangerous in the long term.
That is true if you play within the tragedy of the commons scenario instead of trying to break out of it.
A Massive Amount of Iconic Works Will Enter the Public Domain on New Year’s Eve
I don't know. I believe the Markua specification is still in progress and while it is open Leanpub is the company that pushes it the most obviously. I haven't found any Markua compiler, but for this book a Markdown compiler should cover 90% of the formatting.
These risks get a lot of coverage in Risk-First:

- https://github.com/risk-first/website/wiki/Communication-Ris...
- https://github.com/risk-first/website/wiki/Complexity-Risk#c...
- https://github.com/risk-first/website/wiki/Coordination-Risk
JavaScript 2019: Are we at the beginning of a new era? – FrontNet
My personal theory is that an absolutist vocabulary of thinking ("always", "never", "very/extremely") diminishes the possibilities / opportunities perceived by the person. This leads to a feeling of helplessness, which leads to a lack of motivation, which in turn becomes a self-fulfilling vicious cycle.

It's amazing what people go and achieve when they don't know it's impossible...
Related: The Surprisingly Solid Mathematical Case of the Tin Foil Hat Gun Prepper

https://medium.com/s/story/the-surprisingly-solid-mathematic...
One example of hard problem in UI Engineering: Accessibility.
In github markdown editor, we can format code by wrapping with ``` . But after that, what happens if we press Tab ? Should the code indent, or the focus move outside of the editor ?
It's confusing and annoying currently to move the focus outside of editor.
You know what? I wasn't aware AT ALL of the "Show HN:" thing. Sorry. Next time I'll do, I believe now it's late, isn't it?
> I've done quite a lot of survival training with the US Government and have been in places where people lived by those skills daily. I have to say that the majority of what these guys are doing, and what most "rich guy" survivalists do, as indicated by this story, is mostly worthless. Especially long term.

Exactly. Because eventually the diesel gas for the generators runs out so that your water filters don't work anymore. What do you do? Can these people dig a fountain without being buried alive during the process of digging? Can they tell where to dig? Do they know how to make a chariot/waggon for when their truck won't work anymore? (remember, you're out of gas). Do they know how to raise horses/cows?
Yes indeed this is the reason why I prefer to leave it on that platform. I haven't published the book to make money, but support is appreciated and covers the publication cost and other things like the blog. Thanks!
This explains an oddity from my mother who said she’d never seen a written hokien but found written Cantonese unremarkable.

In parallel to the colonization of Taiwan by the RoC, in her case the language of government was English, but hardly anyone could speak or read it. She spoke none of the above at home, though could read and writer her mother tongue.

But by her 70s only English was left.
It could be coupled with following question: "why in some places they make manhole covers square and which advantages and disadvantages over round ones they have?"
I think a lot of the time people don't really think about what racism looks like when the shoe is on the other foot.

All bets are off when you're not on home turf. Understanding and opinions of how to interact with and treat people of different races/ethnicities are at remarkably different stages of development around the world because not everywhere has the same levels of immigration and immigrants and so they just haven't spent time thinking about there things and in some cases consider them completely non-existant issues.

I find it helpful to perform the thought experiment of taking any person of any nationality and dropping them into any other nation randomly and have them try to assimilate into society and imagine the challenges they might face and the treatment they might receive. Some situations fare better than others when I try to imagine this but suffice to say, the more homogenous the population and the less of your specific kind are visible in society the harder a time you have.

The tribalism is real.
As far as I can tell, this was the first posting of the news to HN. Surprising that it took 4 days to appear.
It depends on where you were, because before the breakup there were still regional operating companies with their own management. In the 70s and 80s we had service from C&P Telephone, and did not have any of the problems that customers of Pacific Bell or New York Telephone were so familiar with. The good times lasted until the dawn of local competition (Bell Atlantic wouldn't install a line the next day because they weren't allowed to do it faster than a clec.) Then when Bell Atlantic bought NYNEX we started seeing all the terrible service problems that New Yorkers held so dear.