skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
what would you call odds-maximising behaviour when directed at a project that is known to be possible (given birds already flew)? At some point you have to credit the Wright brothers for their skill, ingenuity and perseverance as well as some element of luck. Even the luck aspect is limited (in my opinion) to being born in the right situation (era, country, etc), and having not had more difficult competition in the race to fly. Trying to dismiss it all as luck seems excessively nihilistic.
Another "fun" fact: Rainbow Warrior is a term used by the Rainbow Family of Living Light, which includes everyone who attends Rainbow Gathering. Rainbow Gathering is the largest "anarchist" gathering in the United States and goes back to 1972. [1]

Its influences can be traced into the Occupy movement and Burning Man. The national gathering is essentially an off-grid annual hippy gathering and celebration of peace over the 4th of July weekend.

A Rainbow Warrior is someone who takes values from Rainbow Gathering and brings them out into "babylon" also called "defaultia" by burners and spreads these ideas into mainstream society.

I've been to three national Rainbow Gatherings and five times to Burning Man. If you have an open mind, hippy flair and are interested in "weird" experiences you should def check out Rainbow it moves every year and this year may be near you.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_Gathering
North Korea Built an Alternative Financial System Using a Network of Traders
Tubes, cables now this. It seems more like religion or superstition than technology IMHO.

If you want to take it to the limit, hire someone to come into your home and perform live for you, then you can eliminate all the sources of distortion.

Not only would you be hearing the ultimate perfect sound, you would be providing employment for artists.

Seems like a win - win to me :)
One of my favourite hypotheticals to play out is what would be like if we somehow paid public school teachers and emergency services/law enforcement professionals an extreme of today, a million usd a year, and increased the difficulty to attain this work. I usually end up in a pretty good place but I'd be curious what others think/why this couldn't work?
I'd love to read more about the crossbar and switching systems, can you recommend a specific book?
Fully utilizing the resource means some benefit is obtained, certainly. But when the cost of the resource to the user is zero, that means the benefit only need be greater than zero.

Have you ever worked on a shared compute cluster? In general, disks fill to capacity & machines run at capacity, no matter what those capacities are. It's bloat; files that don't get deleted until you run out of disk, because deleting files takes ten seconds. Massive processes that are left always-running to save ten seconds of launch time. So on and so forth. Basically, the user is getting some value. But it's very small, and thus makes a poor reason to make expensive upgrades to the cluster.
In 2018, things are truly great for large copyright owners. But for small copyright owners, it sucks.
You think so, but good lawyer can always make any seemingly straight forward case to be not so straight forward.
Depends where. In Westchester/Nassau counties (bordering NYC) teachers get a pretty sweet deal.
huh, besides the BS, isn't the file loaded into RAM first anyway?
> It's not that simple. If you don't like them, you have no choice.

I already addressed that. If you don't like the contemporary front-end tools there are plenty of other programming domains to work in that use other languages and tools. There are also many huge legacy JS systems (especially in the corporate world) that need traditional JS skillsets.

> but the complexity is at a point where you need a back-end who understands data types and CS

I would argue that front-end developers should already be expected to understand "data types and CS" otherwise they should be earning a designer salary instead of an engineer salary (no disrespect to designers, what they do is also complex, but engineers are paid more on average).

> A "Full stack" dev.

I disagree. A full stack dev, in addition to front-end, would be expected to also understand how to wire-up back-end services and databases and create abstractions that make this data available for the front-end or other back-end consumers. There aren't really any positions with the exclusive front-end title that also expects any of that. Being able to configure webpack or babel is not "back end" or "full stack", webpack is just a pre-processing tool, not unlike any of the other myriad front-end tools that have existed for years (e.g. sass, less, haml, compass etc)
-kazakhstan-u20-vs-usa-u20-live
https://aminoapps.com/c/fnaf6ffps/page/blog/livestream-kazakhstan-u20-vs-usa-u20-live-2018/vLqa_Y0unuwNv7KD84qDQBYXlz7ZB12glK

https://aminoapps.com/c/fnaf6ffps/page/blog/watch-live-kazakhstan-vs-usa-ice-hockey-live-on-tsn/1ge6_7Rh6uzdYmEDK8WjldXYDpe4jE14qe

https://aminoapps.com/c/fnaf6ffps/page/blog/kazakhstan-vs-united-states-hockey-livestream-free/mmJz_dZfkup3m3GmXeN4m86Rb7XBDE6nY
https://authors.library.caltech.edu/21217/

"The paper shows that the 1903 Flyer was readily
controllable about all axes but was intrinsically unstable in pitch and roll, and it could barely be stabilized by a skilled pilot."
The cheapest chip-on-board USB DACs from China are the ones to avoid, they can't even do conversion well. Everything else that has proper surface mount chips (even if they are cmedia clones) and output capacitors for headphones is of decent quality.
If I have to endure another moment of these borderline abusive, "nasty voice", over estrogenic commentators on Bloomberg . . . somebody please point me to an app that shuts down these auto play videos
https://www.nhtsa.gov/vehicle/2009/FORD/CROWN%252520VICTORIA...

As I said above, the modifications made to the police version were done to increase officer safety in a crash, not decrease it.
Juniors-kazakhstan-vs-usa-livestream
https://events.drupal.org/seattle2019/sessions/iihf-world-juniors-2019-united-states-vs-kazakhstan-livestream

https://aminoapps.com/c/fnaf6ffps/page/blog/2019-iihf-world-juniors-usa-vs-kazakhstan-livestream/MB5p_7nukuY5QaWPdpzEJ2rL3LGDGR2e5

https://events.drupal.org/seattle2019/sessions/2019-iihf-world-juniors-kazakhstan-vs-usa-livestream
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Try shooting an arrow with the feathers in the front :-)

Or make a paper airplane and toss it backwards.

Or buy a toy glider and launch it backwards.

They are unstable.
Not a developer, but a low level IT manager in a top 50 Fortune 500 company: for my area I chose to use almost plain PHP and jQuery and a few tools for our internal use apps, not the latest, shiniest tech available for 3 days.

Finding developers with real expertise, being able to support the applications 5 or more years, having stuff that simply works is much more important than using the obscure or temporary in fashion technology of the day. Yes, there are so many options and there are so few that meet the criteria...
My teacher friends mention parents are a pain because the administration doesn't have teachers backs.
To the best of my understanding, they aren’t providing the 911 call center here.
I see so many people against nuclear but I wonder if they read books such as Sustainable Energy Without The Hot Air. As I understand it, either we kill ourselves fast, or we use this as a stop-gap until we can figure it out for real. With newer reactors being much better, maybe another generation (helped by more implementations) will even be good enough not to have to be a stop-gap solution.
Technically, GM went out of business back in 2011. What is now known as GM today was a company formed in 2009, which then purchased the assets, brand, etc. from the "old GM" that went through Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motors_Liquidation_Company
Net wind energy percentage in Germany in 2017 was 18.9%. And that's a fact. Which clearly voids your argument. Yes, there are limitations how high it can go and I don't expect it to be anywhere near 100%. But it's clearly a huge source of energy already and it will increase even more in the coming years.

The reason why it totals 1.5% is because it costs money to replace existing power sources and the lobby power of the coal industry is still huge. It has nothing to do with solar energy itself.
Here's the product page in question: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Orlco-Paintings-Decoration-Collecti...

You can clearly see the artist's signature cut-off in the bottom left of the image. Here it is on the artist's website as well:

https://tsevis.com/editorial-illustration-2016-2017?fbclid=I...
> Teaching may also be less pleasant in the social media and smartphone age, for reasons enumerated in The Coddling of the American Mind (a highly recommended book)

Can you expand on these reasons?
Well personally, the overwhelming majority of my driving km are longer distances. I work from home, and mostly use my car to carpool to ski hills in the winter, and crags and trailheads in the summer.
It should be noted that adding a PPA is equally unsupported, so in both cases you're trusting a third party.

Despite all the disclaimers (or perhaps because of them), the AUR is IMHO one of the more safe and well-thought-out ways of including third-party stuff. It's relatively simple to verify that the package is installing what it says it is, because you can check the PKGBUILD file, which is short and simple to read. I would have no idea how to go about verifying that a .deb file was what it said it was.
Lack of sleep might not stop you from succeeding, but it can make you think slower, have poorer memory, get sick easier, eat more than you should, look older, and be more prone to depression and anxiety.

Please read "Why We Sleep" by neuroscientist Matthew Walker. Sleep is essential. Don't give it up lightly.
It’s a sign that the benefits of transportation outweighs the costs of transportation

Which, given the way roads are funded, is something of a broken equation. The costs of transportation are not fully borne by the user proportionally to consumption.

You pay fuel taxes & buy tires, yes, but they by no means cover the full per-mile cost of your trip.
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Where do you usually end up with that hypothesis? Walk us through it and we might be able to explain why it couldn't work.
And it gives Tesla fans a scapegoat if the company does anything stupid in the future.
AFAIK the UK has optional supplemental health care, and Canada has optional supplemental plans for things not covered by the public plan.
A few of my teachers were wealthy enough from past jobs not to need to work for the rest of their lives, but then switched to teaching as a second career because they loved engaging with the next generation.

Most others were career teachers who had known they wanted to teach since they themselves were young and took it up as a profession from the start despite having the talent and work ethic for some much higher paying alternative career.

A few had the ambition of working as teachers for a decade and then moving up into school administration.

A few of my teachers weren’t especially effective, but that’s true of workers in every other field and every other institution.

I don’t think I had any teachers (in an above average public school system in a diverse, generally comfortable, but not outrageously wealthy suburb) who had washed out of other careers and turned to teaching as a fallback. Or if there were some like that, it wasn’t apparent to students. Maybe some of the high school sports coaches / PE teachers were like that.
this might sound silly (and it probably is), but I don't understand why we don't build a hulking great cannon and shoot our nuclear waste into space.
I'm not sure that's a complaint, rather than a fact. A complaint would be something like:

X does not have a Wikipedia page -> X is not a good fit.

It's more of a factoid, you see :-)

Curious why you bring up language anyway, are you not a native speaker hence your tone misapprehension?
Looks like the person violating the copyright just reuploaded under a new ID after the original takedown, which is why the artist is still seeing his work up there.
Doesn't nuclear power have subsized costs as well? I'm thinking of the Price-Anderson Act.
This is a very valid point. While I don't have all the answers, but it seems like if a person is pulling an honest 40 hour week they should afford at the very least a real minimum standard of living, regardless of what that person does. I know this sounds hairy and anti-capitalist and "who is going to pay for this", etc. But this is what real value is in my opinion.
And a book written by two of the Skylab 4 astronauts flat out denies that a strike happened at all:

http://this-space-available.blogspot.com/2016/01/space-myths...
The link takes you to an exchange of comments on a Facebook page that provides context for the title of this post on HN. Were you unable to view it?
> Especially now that she has to post everyone's grades online, instantly emails roll in when a student didn't perform as well as the parent expected.

Not to take away from your point, which I think has merit, from the other side of the spectrum as a parent that has a child that struggled mightily to not fail for the first couple years of high school, the amount that teachers screw up the online grading is incredible. As teachers, if you're getting regular requests from parents worried about assignments showing online with zero/empty values for them that cause the grades to show F and it's just because you haven't finished entering all the work in, maybe find a workflow process that eliminates or reduces the amount of time the system shows that?

Seeing multiple F's show online for days at a time leads to tense discussions and arguments with kids, and if it's all resolved with the teacher saying "I haven't finished entering grades yet" you start to really resent the system from the other side too.
I always wondered how people selling some of these audiophile gadgets can justify to themselves over long run what might appear as a scam to many outsiders. But then I was explained that this is little different than my|your|their wife spending $$$ on some ridiculously expensive Bottega|Hermes|Burberry|... handbag. Which after all is functionally about the same as $1 handbag.

Some people choose handbags, or cars, and I guess them audiophiles choose thick cables, and concrete poles. Each to their own.
How Facebook Keeps Messenger from Crashing on New Year's Eve
He doesn't seem to grasp reality, it's astonishing.

I can't let it go that someone is ... Well, like that. He's lucky that he hasn't got any life experience in this situations.
It is extraordinarily difficult to move from a relatively low paying teaching job (such as in the NYC DOE) to a high paying job in Westchester. There is far, far more labor supply than there is demand. If you don't get in when you're young (and therefore cheap), it's most likely not going to happen.

When I was growing up my father worked in an "elite" Westchester private school and my mother worked in the NYC DOE. The job fulfillment, administrative support and overall ease of working was like night and day between them.
Your windshield perspective is showing. The reason people in cars don't notice bike traffic is because a bike is small and unobtrusive and silent. Fifty cars in the same place is an epic disaster but fifty bikes in the same place is not a problem.

Take for example this data in London, which was produced in response to a question from a member of the public having essentially the same bias as your statement "nobody uses this bike lane." In London some bike lanes have slightly increased travel times by car but cycling has increased more than 50%. The bike lane is five times more efficient at moving people than is the carriageway.

http://foi.tfl.gov.uk/FOI-1235-1718/20170317%20STB%20CSEW%20...
> And it was never guaranteed that NULL (which is a macro) expands to just plain 0.

True, but is was guaranteed that NULL expands to “an implementation-defined C++ null pointer constant” (C++98 §18.1), where a ‘null pointer constant’ is “an integral constant expression (5.19) rvalue of integer type that evaluates to zero" (C++98 §4.10). So while it didn't have to be just plain (literal) 0, it did have to be a compile-time constant integer 0, which is otherwise just as good unless you're doing macro magic.

(This differed from C (ANSI era), in which a null pointer constant can alternatively have type (void*), and often does.)

The fact that a pure declaration requires a literal single character ‘0’ (rather than 0) is just one sad example of C++'s ad-hoc irregular overloading of things to mean different things.
I think we should treat teachers better and pay them more. I agree we should value other professions too. That being said, I’m not following how attitudes in software engineering are related to the topic of this post.

The freebies, on call outrage, etc is inherent to the tech industry with venture capitalist money or otherwise insane net profits... the longer term sustainability is questionable, but fresh college grads or others early in their careers having unreasonable expectations of reality are not so different than your average political science or psychology major taking on egregious levels of debt only to struggle with making student loan payments.

Again, I agree with valuing other disciplines. I think there’s also something to be said about supply and demand. The Googles and Amazons of the world typically hire people at least somewhat competent in CS. Sure you could pick up pick up Ruby on Rails or whatever framework to join the gig economy, but your chances won’t be great at becoming a engineer at a Google caliber company.

The issue with teacher pay isn’t just about what society values but is more nuanced. My conservative friends don’t see the value in public education and insist on sending their kids to private schools. I don’t know how those teachers are paid, but for the public school system that I participated in, the argument becomes well my kid doesn’t attend so why should I pay for it?

In my opinion, it’s very short sighted and destructive for the country in the long term. It’s not only teachers we are devaluing but an entire generation of children whose parents are not able to absorb the exorbant costs of private schools.
Concerning D.Trump:

being swiss, if he gets little or no sleep (because or routine work or anything which he triggered himself) I would judge that as mismanagement :)
The Senate unanimously passed a budget bill to extend current funding levels into February. It had a good chance of veto-proof supermajority support in the House, but the outgoing Speaker of the House refused to bring it to a vote.
Okay, I get that's more work, and sounds like a hassle. So this isn't a criticism of your mom.

But on the A- and extra credit issue, I never understood the point of rigid grading schemes. I've taught at a college level, and I always give students the chance to improve their grades if they want to put in additional work. To do otherwise seems like saying "nope, even if you learn more and improve to the point of A-level knowledge, you're still getting a lower grade".
>She told me of an email she received that said "X is trying to get into Princeton - an A- isn't going to get her in. What extra credit can she do to make this an A?".

Get off your kids ass, for starters, lady
It will get you downvoted, but not for the reasons to believe (psa: starting a post with "poor me, I the martyr know I will get downvoted for this" is frowned upon).

It's not a very good argument, to defend a reduction of welfare payments to discourage immigrants from coming. Immigrants are much more attracted to high salaries (which implies obviously that they want to work) than by high welfare payments.

Secondly, the example you give is typical of news coverage about terrorism. Flooding the news with stories about the attack and the perpetrator, with which you can gain exactly 0 useful information since it's essentially an anecdote. You're much more wise to look at large-scale data than single events, examined to exhaustion.

Even beside all that, you're clearly trying desperately to shoehorn your anti-immigration opinions into a discussion about an unrelated topic. That, also, is frowned upon.
This was tried in NYC by The Equity Project - a charter school (125K base salary, very demanding qualifications). I'm sure that it works well in niche markets and test scores aren't everything, but results (test scores) were not that stellar as you might imagine when compared with similar Charter schools to suggest it could scale.
because a misfire would result in a fine mist of nuclear fallout spread over the entire planet
Sorry, I was not trying to start a flame war. My point that there are now a bunch of languages (insert your favorite here) that used to be "OK for prototyping but not much more" because they were slow, promising but buggy or lacked some key features that now matured to offer a solid production choice.
Because we already know how to store it for thousands of years with minimal leakage without creating a contraption that could lead to nuclear waste raining down on our heads.
> There is no magical equilibrium

Your understanding is exactly backwards. Market makers provide the "magical equilibrium" by bridging supply and demand across time.

> and if there was, there would be no profit.

Wrong again. Even with infinite shares on the bid/ask, there's still a spread for market makers to collect.

More generally, what exactly do you think your comment proves? If a retail investor buys the sole 100 shares at top-of-book, the price (mid) moves up, but there's one buyer and one seller. Where's the "delta"? And if a big hedge fund buys 100,000 shares from 10 market makers... 100,000 shares demanded and 100,000 shares supplied. Magic!

You're arguing against an accounting identity. I know what you're trying to say: what moves prices is relative eagerness of buyers and sellers. You're just too inexperienced to be able to explain it.
An AWK to C++ Translator (1991) [pdf]
Enough people use it that it would make sense to have it in the official packages. However, having to download and build at least one AUR package (yay itself) manually is an important part of being familiar with the process so that you are more likely to take precautions with third party stuff you later install from the AUR.

Installing an AUR package without a helper (which you have to do to install a helper in the first place) basically amounts to:

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git
cd yay
makepkg -si

But then you would have to manually check for updates etc, so the helpers are pretty useful.
I mean, we can go back and forth with datapoints forever. The London Underground uses subterranean pedestrian tunnels, though personally I've only walked the one at Heathrow, at night. As it's the main way between terminals I expect it sees lots of foot traffic during the day.