skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That depends entirely on the voltage.

AC won because transformers are relatively simple and can change AC voltage, but we can now build stuff to change AC voltage too.
What does the equivalent circuit schematic look like?
It is fascinating what people did predict and what they didn't predict. Smartphones, smartwatches, e-books, face-time calls was all predicted.
What people didn't predict: Clickbait, e-mail phishing, viral fake news and people preferring SMS to a voice or facetime call.
“This thread is both amazing and bizarre. Too many WTFs to fit in one tweet”
I've always been partial to "dirigible".
So happy to see this happening. Victims of delusion spreading cults, currently have no chance at suing for permanent psychological damage they suffer or suffered as a result of the negative variables instilled into a mind when on the topic of a deity. Specifically how victims are indoctrinated at an early age and where if they happen to be LGBT it’s an early life sentence of being in Hell. May even end in suicide for the victims like some individuals I’ve known. The charade built by charlatans need to have some deterrents to fear like the other monsters in society.
I don't think I've ever seen a good article from there.
Does anyone know where to find the median Software Developer salaries by State or region?

It would be interesting to see a median salary vs cost of living comparison for the top cities in each region.
Haskell was my first FP language, I used it for about a year, and worked with Scala briefly after. My experience is that you're really trading one set of problems for another in practice. Static typing can guarantee that you avoid a certain class of errors, but it often results in code that's longer and more difficult to understand opening opportunities for different kinds of errors. There is absolutely no empirical evidence to suggest that the trade off is strictly superior in practice.

Static typing can catch inconsistencies at the cost of structuring your code in a way that the type checker can understand. This is often at odds with making it readable for the human. A proof only has value as long as the human reader can understand it. Here's a concrete example of what I'm talking about: https://github.com/davidfstr/idris-insertion-sort/blob/maste...

An insertion sort written in Idris has over 250 lines of code that you have to understand to know that it's implemented correctly. A python version would have about 10 lines or less. I'd have much easier time guaranteeing that the 10 lines do exactly what was intended than the 250 lines of type specifications. Of course, you could relax the type guarantees in Idris as well, but at that point you accept that working around the static checker has benefit and it's just a matter of degrees of comfort.

In general, the more constraints you specify via types the more of your program logic moves into type specifications. What this really means is that you're writing a metaprogram that emits your logic. However, there's no automated checker for that metaprogram that you wrote using the types. You still have to understand it to be correct in order to know that it's doing what you want it to. At this point you're basically living in a programmer version of the Plato's Cave.

The real question is not whether you can do something using a static type system or not. The discussion has to center around how that compares to alternative approaches such as testing, gradual typing, and runtime contracts.
In the US you find both. More commonly CS came from electrical engineering, but you do find some departments that started as part of mathematics. In any case, as other commenters said, early "computer scientists" often came from physics, math, electrical engineering, etc. (Abelson & Sussman themselves had PhDs in mathematics.)
Good news; https://ircv3.net/irc/

Now if only we had millions in VC money to create nice new clients.
Which is strange, given that it's the place where WW2 could have been avoided.
its really slow tho
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"I believe in the horse. The automobile is a passing phenomenon." – Kaiser Wilhelm II.

"It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years." – John Von Neumann, circa 1949

(as a genius, he realized that how things appear is not necessarily how they are)
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> Insurance companies cannot prohibit you leaving the country.

Neither will developed-world single-payer systems, in virtually all cases. It sounds like you're referencing the Alfie Evans case, which a) was unusual enough to receive international headlines and b) involved a terminal, untreatable minor incapable of making their own decisions.

Hell, even in the UK, you can opt for private treatment - they've got a dual private/public system, as do many single-payer systems.
The USPTO is potentially affected. They are self funded, but rely on legislation to give them permission to use the funds. So if thenshitdown goes on for another 4-5 weeks, the PTO might have to shut down. Not because they don’t have the money, but they don’t have legal authority to use it.
That's because the Jewish community in Munich had concerns about people walking over the memorials, so they asked them not to be placed there.
> Why do you need root access to the hardware for it to be considered a general purpose computing device?

Unless you have root access someone else gets to define what “general purpose” is.

Someone else gets to tell you “no, that’s off limits”.

That’s doesn’t sound like being in control of your own device to me.
Apparently "not a true zeppelin because it lacks a completely rigid frame." A prior cnet article has better photos https://www.cnet.com/news/airlander-10-airship-interiors-inf...
Is your dream flying In a Zeppelin? You could do that In Germany
It seems you've been misinformed by the current generation of web designers. Accessibility is actually limited to people with disabilities, though a few people have started to use it interchangeably with usability. [0]

I agree with the spirit of your message though, but that's not what the grandparent post claimed.

> Accessibility is the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities.[1] The concept of accessible design and practice of accessible development ensures both "direct access" (i.e. unassisted) and "indirect access" meaning compatibility with a person's assistive technology[2] (for example, computer screen readers).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility
If I could buy a new 128GB SE, I’d do it. I waited too long and now they’re only available used or in the 32GB size. I’d still be using my 5S (it still has the latest OS and works well), but I wanted to try the Apple Watch and it required an upgrade.
How to nuked by terrified geopolitical rivals: Build insectoid killbots and parade them across the global stage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanks_in_the_Cold_War#The_deve...
The industry presumably isn't spending a billion dollars a year on speaker fees and meals out of a charitable desire to improve doctors' personal lives.
You said abso-fucking-lutely nothing, douchebag.

Is what I would have said.
The theory doesn't "break" - it describes trends and effects which tend to occur. Examples like yours are not the norm, and the theory allows for instances where buyers have legitimate reasons for quickly offloading valuable goods.
I can already hear Hell March[1] playing. Kirov Reporting!

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBOD8qeCBuc
> In the corporate space many of the younger people I have worked with feel, to me, extraordinarily fragile.

This reminds me of a piece I've read on Habr, a Russian platform in a format similar to HN. An older dev was talking about how the younger-gen devs he's working with act as if they feel personally attacked (perhaps they do) after their mistake was pointed out to them. He mentioned the not-being-able-to-work-with-favorite-framework bit, but the focus was elsewhere.

The older dev was mostly talking about bearing one's responsibility and being able to take it – as in, withstand stress and suck it up when necessary – which the younger devs have a problem with.
How would you get around the wall?
52-wk high	233.47

52-wk low	142.00

I don't think "struggling" is hyperbole. They are still making lots of money, sure. But the market smells something significant.
> also think apple has one of the most compelling digital movie purchase systems

People don't decide which platform to purchase a movie from based on how compelling the streaming technology is. It needs to be a platform that's accessible on their device firstly.
I hate inaccurate journalists as much as the next guy, but I think you're being a bit hyperbolic on a single adjective while also misreading it. I think they mean it's the sluggish sales they are struggling with, not a struggling company.
> I'm still using the desktop I built in 2013 w i7-3770 & 32GB RAM for $600

Did you steal half the hardware? I'm trying to do the math in my head and I'm pretty sure the RAM alone cost at least $600. I know I paid significantly more for my i7-2600k w/ 16GB in 2012.
We don't know. I bet you could win some math price money if you proved PI had some sort of statistical structure.
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A single line unix command run on KiwiFarm's servers could replace every instance of "archive.is" with "archive.today" in posts. Nobody is going to attempt a high profile take over like this for something that can be circumvented in minutes by a half-asleep sysadmin.

Also, for anyone not aware KiwiFarms is a notoriously shitty forum that publically stalk, dox, slander and harass people online.

If you need evidence, just go read the forum post and kf wiki page about her. They repeatedly make unsourced claims, insults, editorial opinions about her motives, wild speculations and just outright lies. At one point the wiki diagnoses her with BPD without evidence. The title on the forum post about her calls her a "Cunt". She's constantly called a con artist without evidence, and is repeatedly accused of somehow forcing bored white teenage boys to harass her for years by "baiting her own harassment"

At best, it's unjournalistic garbage and at worst it's actual gang stalking.

I don't know you personally, bitwize, but I know you're better than this trash.
I suspect that this trend might be slowing down. Starting with the Pixel 2, Google started really pushing the idea that image processing in your camera can make up for a lack of better hardware, using it as an excuse not to improve the camera that much from the original Pixel. Anecdotally, I even think my friend's original Pixel takes much better photos than my Pixel 2. (but maybe he's just a better photographer!)
I think it is more likely that Apple's strategy is Embrace, Extend , and Extinguish. Does anyone else remember when iTunes could sync with a Motorola phone?
I think at this point the only real reason to upgrade is the camera. I have a iPhone 6S and couldn't see any reason to upgrade especially given that I prefer smaller phones. My wife's Nexus broke and we bought her the iPhone XR Max shortly before a trip to Iceland. I frequently going myself borrowing her phone whenever I had a shot I really wanted to take because it looked so much better with her camera(s). And that was before I discovered the phones incredible portrait mode.
That said, how much longer can they do big leaps on the camera without the price going completely bonkers? The iPhone XR Max with Apple Care already clocked in at $1500!

To me the real innovation in looking for with phones is that they can connect to an external screen and keyboard and in that case just give me something very close to regular macOS. To me that will lock off another wave of valuable phone upgrades for a few years because we again need more computation power to drive that setup. Maybe we could do something where the screen includes the GPU...?
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Here is the first paper (from 2007) reporting a fast radio burst of extragalactic origin: https://arxiv.org/pdf/0709.4301

See page 12.

Since then there have been many papers about FRBs. Typically you can find them on arxiv.
Update: wow, the libsodium docs got a lot better since last time I looked at it. Eg [0] is clearly written for normal developers and not for crypto people. Cool!

I'd still love a library at a higher level of abstraction like I described above, but nevertheless I think this is cool.

[0] https://download.libsodium.org/doc/secret-key_cryptography/a...
Ask HN: Is it worth learning SmallTalk?
I've looked at this article titled [Design Principles Behind Smalltalk](http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/smalltalk.html), and I can't see anything in Smalltalk that's not available in Java or Kotlin as well. I understand that Smalltalk is where the OOP ideas originated, but is it worth learning Smalltalk in 2019, even if just as a side project, for an amateur programmer reasonably familiar with OOP principles and techniques?

The idea that Smalltalk is a fully featured system which provides you with everything you might want to do with a computer reminds me of Emacs and Temple OS.
Also, the blog I mentioned above seems to present Smalltalk as the perfect programming language.
It's different from a zeppelin in a couple ways. First, its not totally rigid (it relies on pressure to keep it's shape), and it is negatively buoyant in the atmosphere (it relies partially on lift generated by the shape of the aircraft to stay up).
Even so, they're missing expectations — still selling millions of devices. If that's struggling, I'd love to struggle.
I'm not talking about the Americans, I'm talking about the Chinese saying things are going well, which is what the first part of the comment I'm replying to was referring to. Then they shoehorned Americans into the argument for some reason. I'm saying that I doubt this is just a matter of the Chinese being blind to the issues in China. It's a matter of them bring unwilling to risk speaking out.
That is the Apple stock price, not iPhone sales. These are related, though separate issues. A stock price can go or down for a number of reasons.
I've long held an unsupported belief that life anywhere in any form would "converge" upon only a few interesting things left to do after having mastered rearranging atoms and forces in any configuration they desire.

Not only is there likely an ideal, optimized way of sending information long distances, I suspect there also a very limited number of things a matrioshka brain would care to broadcast or receive, like the values of some fundamental constant.

Saying "hi" for fun to other civilizations isn't even something we do on our own planet with our own people. We only talk to people for specific reasons, even if we're unaware of those reasons. We'll go out of our way to avoid a homeless person's greeting rather than risk learning something about/from him.
Docker and kvm containers (from scratch) – redo: a recursive build system
Apple's strategy has largely avoided "embrace". Their couple of attempts at it - letting third parties make Mac clones, and the Motorola ROKR - flopped spectacularly.

The ROKR was largely a way to build relationships with cell carriers. If you watch Jobs introducing it, his disgust for it is palpable, and they launched the iPod Nano alongside it as an additional "fuck this thing".
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tldr;

> Quick decisions are more likely to lead to a blunder, but after about 10 seconds or so the likelihood of a blunder flattens out

> More difficult positions are more likely to lead to a blunder. And skill levels have a big impact in reducing the likelihood of a blunder. In general, better players make better decisions.

> The bottom line is that the difficulty of the decision is the most important factor in determining whether a player makes a mistake. In other words, examining the complexity of the board position is a much better predictor of whether a player is likely to blunder than his or her skill level or the amount of time left in the game.
Check out the "Object Types" section of http://www.numberworld.org/ymp/v1.0/documentation/objects.ht...

The program has it's own types for arbitrary precision ints and floats.
Helium Mix Optimal!

The original Red Alert was such a phenomenal video game.
And here's Isaac Asimov predicting a few things about the (best part of the) Internet of today in years when most people in the world had not even heard of it yet.

https://www.wimp.com/isaac-asimov-predicted-the-internet-of-...

(the interview is from 1988, so it's now dated over 30 years)

I believe there are much older references to a worldwide library accessible by anyone from home in his writings, but I can't recall where. I admit having been a huge fan of his teaching about science (I was reading a book by him when the muted TV showed the news about his death) and I also loved his short stories, even those not related to scientific information or science fiction, but never liked his bigger novels, the Foundation that I quit after not even finishing one book etc. so my knowledge is very limited in that context.
> you have to be a chump to pay for a Slack IRC bridge

Or part of a network that doesn't want to issue generic API tokens to random users. Since this irccloud is implemented as a specific app integration, if I understand correctly this would be more appealing to administrators and moderators.
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> The famous Apple walled garden may not be crumbling, but the cracks are starting to show.

Bashing Apple never seems to go out of fashion. Companies change strategies for various reasons, including slowing, stagnating or negative growth, revenues, profits, etc. Apple is doing what any capitalistic company would do.

There are many things Apple is yet to open up and/or bring to other platforms (and in all likelihood it will never become the Microsoft of recent times). Apple didn’t just wake up last month and say, “Oh, by the way, our services side doesn’t have a defined growth strategy, and now we need all hands on deck to figure it out.” It already had a strategy for at least a couple of years, if not longer, to make services a bigger piece of the pie and growing it was a key focus area.

Any arrangements, in relation to other platforms and devices, that we have seen announced in the last few weeks or months have likely been in the works for several months or years.

One can argue how well the services side is picking up...or not. But calling it as “the walled garden is cracking” is just a negative spin to catch eyeballs.
> They are on the front lines, in terms of contact with the weakest, poorest and most troubled members of society.

Indeed, and in many cases, exploiting them for their own benefits.
Does it mean the more complex a problem the more likely an error? (while skill and the time available to make a decision matter less)
Now that you mention it, it's kind of thought-provoking. These same streets where people now live their lives, walk the dog, party get drunk and puke on the streets, just "yesterday" there were horryfing things happening there. It's easy to forget, and we do forget, that those living nightmares can and did happen, when we today live so free and safe.
Don't forget that three phase allows for three conductors to carry the power of three pairs of single phase conductors.
3% faster is just going to be 3% faster, and nowhere near bringing me actual joy.

Having to pay $100 a month for a difference barely measurable in real world performance however... That will cause me real-world dissatisfaction.
> This job pays six figures and has low levels of stress

Unfortunately, I don't know many developers that have low levels of stress. The fate of a project or a company is often in their hands.
My point is that if GoDaddy modifies the HTTP body, they could as well modify the CSP you send in the HTTP header. It is yet another stop-gap, but the real solution is to get a hoster you can trust.
I have very little difficulty with English, but this word is hard to pronounce in English for me. The funny thing is that it's very easy for me to pronounce in other languages, including my native language.
I've seen this before. The changes look rather modest as far as the gap between IRC and things like Discord and Slack go.
Your writing reminds me a lot of a certain veteran of online conversations, kleinbl00. Have you heard of him?

He's not much of a "hacker", but his various comments on Reddit and Hubski are on a similar wavelength to yours.
You can configure that machine to automatically update itself, which is what I do.

And I don't think GoDaddy or other managed hosting providers are doing a better job than this.

Also FYI static websites have a much smaller surface of attack when compared to forever-vulnerable shit like WordPress.
As others have already said seat61.com is a rare gem on the internet. It’s an invaluable resource when traveling by train in any country. The site has helped me prepare for countless trips. Once I traveled more than 10,000 miles through 8 countries from Saigon to Amsterdam and it would have been much more difficult if it weren’t for the man in seat 61.
Thanks for linking to my work! In the next week or two I should be able to publish the results I had when compressing over 8000 Fortnite animations with it, stay tuned and check my blog: http://nfrechette.github.io/
Yeah. The iPhone 4 sold like hotcakes, but the antennagate media circus made the stock go up and down like mad.
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I've had my Nexus 6p for close to 3.5 years. The battery has started dying early recently, so I considered replacing the phone. But it's still plenty fast for me, and there's nothing I'd possibly get from an upgrade besides a better camera, so I just replaced the battery for $20. Works like new again, and hopefully lasts a couple more years.
Stack Overflow has a Salary Calculator[1] that allows for searching by role and region. The raw data used for that calculator and for past years can be found here[2].

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/jobs/salary

[2]: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey
They are struggling with something, not themselves struggling (I shouldn't have said adjective earlier, that is used as a verb it's different). Either way, with the really bad journalism these days about tech companies, this specific pedantry is hardly notable.
What is an "ad" really? There are companies who will pay money for a bit of attention, and companies who get some attention willing to sell it.

There will always be a market for selling attention. Always. It's never going away. Attention is a valuable commodity and companies are willing to pay for some.

CPMs, CPCs, CPAs... don't matter. There's a budget for ads, and that budget will get spent. Who it goes to and how much attention it buys them will change.

When I left the web dev game last year, the big exciting trend was dynamic bidding systems, where many different ad networks would bid to show you an ad in real time. [1]

Advertisers are adapting. Publishers are adapting. RTB comes and increases profits and in the end, publishers who adapt do fine.

While CPMs for traditional banner ads continue to fall, that just means the market for selling attention has moved on to something else.

[1] https://clearcode.cc/blog/real-time-bidding/