skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its kinda weird living in the US where people can't afford to go to university and/or get saddled with huge loans. I do believe free university is a great goal, but free university is mostly to help people start their career or gain life skills, not for retirees to do something interesting.
So start having internet retailers and takeout restaurants say “we don’t serve your street because it has a bike lane” and see how the long the bike lane lasts.
If the syntax is recognize by the python repl .. maybe it's an ad-hoc compiler written in python. Which brings the question: what is a language..

Many low perf dynamic languages did all sorts of tricks to improve perf. It's even an engineering rule to rewrite things that need more perf.

Similarly you can twist the language if it has metalevel capabilities...

It's a thing that I liked in less common languages, they often enjoy generating low level code and consider the system as an object (cpu being consumer of instruction stream) and not a divinity.
> Ok I don't understand how that kind of inertia would help in this situation. If a turbine is running, and supply and demand are at equilibrium, if you then added another load, that inertia wouldn't help maintain equilibrium, it would slow down spinning up the turbine hampering that goal, wouldn't it?

If you add more load, you start dragging down the frequency. The more inertia you have in the turbines, the less the frequency is impacted. I'm not sure what you mean by "spinning up a turbine" in this situation. Do you mean to produce more power? You don't spin turbines faster to do that.

> To put it another way. Say if energy use jumps X%, inertia may make up Y% difference in the short term, you'd still have to put in more than X% in the slightly less short term, and it would take longer to make up the Y% shortfall. Is the Y% shortfall not big enough to be important here.

Yes, you have to make up the deficit. But the alternative means having a brownout. In a choice between "drain some inertia to cover the increased load, then overproduce by .1% to refill the inertia" and "don't cover the increased load, voltage freefalls until load drops", I prefer the former.
You could put callback back in the bag https://github.com/staltz/callbag-basics
I had economy 9 heating in the flat I rented in London. It would come on at night and heat up large concrete blocks which would slowly release the heat while I was out at work during the day.

Had the drafty Victorian building been properly insulated it might have worked quite well.
I'm definitely willing to buy a used car, and mentioned it. It's just a matter of finding one that I like that's available. I'd also like to reduce that additional risk as much as possible by buying certified pre-owned from a dealer.
Thank you for the suggestion. For us it's not a flap, it's a very cumbersome dial and, honestly, I gave up on moving it every day. We just sleep in lighter pyjamas :)
Absolutely agreed. While I was incredibly impressed by the design and quality of Nvidia shield tv packaging, it went into the trash and recycle bin pretty much immediately. It gave me a "oh wow" feeling of excitement, but really could have been sent in brown box and not made a difference that lasted more than 20 seconds.
A very moving story! Inspiring to see the rich emotional connections Mats made in his virtual life that was not possible in his real life due to his physical limitations.
A permit doesn’t change the level of inconvenience for other road users.
Lessons from learning to play the violin
There are also other scary health risks in that region:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-11711136
a curious bit, if you don't skip the world "online" in the next sentence, quoted from her dissertation:

<< 180 minutes of naturalistic observation, collection of 72 online artifacts >>

She talks about game artifacts. Collected in a game field trip, is a fun idea, I have to say.

Runescape, the online RPG lots of kids play have a complex Economy, if you analise, and interesting phenomenons occur.

(using "s" for latin plural, lets evolve English a bit)

idea for a game: The Charles Darwin of 2099, collect frozen shrimp on Europa, the moon.
> I already have a hard enough time teaching programmers about prototypical inheritance without the language actively lying to them.

One way to look at it is that you could consider not teaching the underlying prototypal inheritance model at all. If students will rarely run into code that relies on it, it may be vestigial semantics.

Think of it like how people used to teach patterns in C for doing object-oriented programming. For example, you could have a struct whose first field was a pointer to a table of functions for the operations you could perform on the object. In other words, how to implement your own vtables from scratch.

When C++ came along, it was still useful to understand vtables sometimes, but it wasn't something every programmer needed to fully internalize. C++ let them program at a higher level of abstraction.

> And it feels like an odd move in that class based OOP isn't the zeitgeist it once was.

Citation needed. :) Two of the newest, fastest growing languages are class-based: Kotlin and Swift. I'm not aware of any new prototype-based language that has noticeable growth.

Prototypes are a neat idea, but I think the market has pretty clearly shown that classes are a better practical approach to OOP.
I thought rather of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Four_accounting_firms
Chrome isn't a charity project, its their to help increase Google's revenue.

I think many Googler's disagree, the question is if it will change the opinions of stakeholders that look at this from a business point of view. Google's browser competition is diminished, the numbers they crunch probably show a noticible increase in revenue with blocking ad blockers.
I don't disagree. Commercial film stocks tend to be proprietary analogs to BLOB's. Though, for current film stocks, tooling (IDE analogs) for developing those film stocks are available (e.g. C41 and E6). Film stocks requiring proprietary development processes are gone from the market.

There are also well documented photo-chemical substrates that are relatively easy for a radically open source photographer to hack on, e.g. wet plate collodian and the more film like dry plate silver gelatin processes. Not all that practical adapt to a 35mm film camera. But analogously open source jumps through hoops to run on an iPhone.

Make dry plate: http://www.alternativephotography.com/silver-gelatin-dry-pla...
I was scrolling through this and I was like, where is optional chaining? Then when he gets to it, he's a bit against it because it's easy to write bad code. What? People still do nested checks like this all the time! It's not changing anything beyond making them more readable and I think more obvious when you think something might not exist (e.g. `some.very?.nested?.property` vs `some.very.nested?.property`). Sometimes it's not so much the nesting that makes it unreadable either, but that you're checking multiple objects, imagine writing `some.nested?.property && other.nested?.property`.

It's like saying promises shouldn't have been added because you can still write bad code with them and create nested promise hells ( I sure did when I first learned them). Isn't it better to say, no, best practice is to add ? only where you actually need them. The solutions he cites are not really solutions, they're just abstracting the problem away which most of as already do, but then the abstraction becomes hard to read because those checks have to be somewhere.

Worse I think is the comparing objects by value idea. I think it would be way too easy for beginners to reach for that solution. There are often better work arounds, it's quite rare imo to need to do a deep nested check of two objects that could be very different (i.e. contain different properties). Plus it's not like using a helper function is that verbose and a custom one can be really fast (if both objects contain the same properties, creating a function that "manually" checks for them all is blazing fast), same thing with deep clones.

Things I would really like, from most to least: optional chaining obviously, realms, pipeline operator, optional type checking, and enums (you can sort of fake them though, hence why they're last)
That abstraction is trivial. The real problems are the unintelligible ManagerConfigContextInjectorProtoFactory style classes that seem to proliferate in big corporate projects.
There is a button on the form that says "Just give me the book", which grants you access without giving away any details.
Jeff Bezos is stingy when it comes to charity
There are two proven ways to do this.

One is to pick a very frothy market. For instance, about 10 years ago I acquired a preorder for four Butterfly Labs Bitcoin miners shortly before they were to ship (months behind schedule but with the queue starting to ship). About a month later, received them. Sold them. Made a nice tidy profit. This was definitely speculation, but market timing worked in my favor. It could as easily have not.

Second is one of my side projects I call "grains of rice". Everyone's pretty familiar with the cost of a sack of rice, but consider if your customer wanted just one grain. One grain total. Not interested in extras, no room for 'em. Just want the one. That grain of rice suddenly gets pretty expensive, as in hundreds, thousands, even tens of thousands, of dollars per pound shipped.

There's additional packaging involved, and the frictional cost of shipping, and additional handling and listing costs involved, but it's pretty easy to buy things for $5 a dozen and sell them for $0.99 a pop. You can get an additional leg up by warehousing and shipping closer and faster than your source, meaning your customers paying your premium only wait the 3 days instead of the 3 weeks it took you to get it.

That's not pure arbitrage, as you are adding value by wholesaling, splitting things up, and repackaging, but it's not uncommon to have eBay on one or both ends of a successful corresponding transaction.
Save navigation and equals/hashCode (as protocol, not using that ValueType thingy) are fine and definitely useful, but otherwise we should avoid adding even more syntax elements to JS.
It seems to me the major downside here is that you have to disperse the guano yourself.

A roost on wheels, akin to a chicken tractor [1] would work better wouldn't it?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tractor
This is not really an issue. Usually you have 4-5 seconds to react for the "hot reserve". Also for the known peaks you can preventively switch off the loads (it is amazing what happens at 7:02am when everybody switches on their kettle at the same time, even worse with water supply and flushing peaks).

In addition such systems sometimes measure frequency deviation and switch off/on the load when it goes out of bounds.

The result is that this works really well for fast balancing as soon as you have few hundred installed spots in one grid. And there is real money in it with ROI 1..3 years for the service provider.

Disclaimer: my electronics engineering company has worked with research, design and engineering of such load balancing hardware
I’ve said this before, but I expect Netflix to continue to flex their muscle until they have an average subscription cost of $35-40/month.

There’s so much room in the entertainment market for them to save customers $50/mo, offer them more, and increase their revenue.
Nice ad. Now, if the idea is of any worth, we should replicate it as open source.
Since the author appears to iterate one million times a calculation of constant a and b, I would expect a perfect compiler to compute x only once at compile time and then also compute sum_x so that there is not much else to do.
I can't help but think of the bullet ball guy. Spent 26 years developing this silly game and devoted his whole life to it and it went nowhere.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leHwNiXgnh0
Do the financials agree?
Opps, edit screwup. My mother.
There is also Map and Set.
Presumably you’re making the case that they grew quickly enough that by the time any competitors were aware of the potential of product they did have the money to fight infringement.

Even still, in the early days of their marketing campaign it would have been so easy for a foreign competitor to swoop in and make the same thing. I didn’t get the vibe that they grew that quickly, and I do get the vibe that there are foreign manufacturers on the hunt for ideas to copy.
> That's common sense. If something is both economically useful and necessary, it finances itself. You don't need subsidies at all, at most you need loans.

That's an illusion, especially in the energy sector. It has been for decades.

> France has the cheapest electricity in all of Europe.

Because the costs are hidden and paid by the tax payer. The energy industry is mostly state owned and the price is political. That makes it not possible to charge the consumer with the real costs (like finding billions for the aging and expensive nuclear reactor fleet or for replacing them with newer reactors) - any president trying to do so would and does face mass protests. Additionally, the industry would be dead in a second if the government wouldn't finance the costs and hide it from the consumer.

One can see how this works in the UK with EDF's reactor:

"If Hinkley really comes on stream by 2025 as planned, it will sell electricity at a guaranteed price that is double the current market level, with the excess cost passed to every UK consumer"

https://www.spectator.co.uk/2019/01/an-energy-crisis-is-loom...

That's the future of France...

> The rest of the (developing) world isn't going to follow suit with that kind of pretentious nonsense.

Actually quite a lot of countries are.
But however, there is evidence that activists can help dementia and Alzimers.
https://alz.org/help-support/i-have-alz/live-well
"Netflix is so confident in its position it is effectively stating that if customers choose to watch TV, they will choose Netflix."

That is, until they stop choosing Netflixt.

I cancelled my Netflix account a week ago after finally realizing what a huge time suck it has become in my life. I know I'm just one data point but I'm pretty sure others will come to that conclusion eventually.
By the time I got home from work in the early evening heat from my storage heater had long since dissipated. If you were at home during the day or had better insulation maybe it would have been more useful.
> There are actually many states where using the turn signals to change lanes isn't even legally required though, so things are more mixed when it comes to changing lanes vs. making turns.

Arizona is one state where it is required judging by a warning I got from a friendly highway patrol officer who chased me ~5 miles while I was having fun on the old ninja during morning rush hour.
In my opinion, your criticism is unwarranted here. Asking about the job market for a language on HN is completely valid and doesn’t signal an inability for OP to answer the question on their own.
Sometimes I wish that the basics of copyright law, (in the US: softare patent law as well) and open source lienses were a mandatory part of formal education in field related to computing. This has clearly become essential, but knowledge still seems to be here and there and everywhere.
Ya most of us tend to prefer one side or the other but this system tends to be a good way to get create would be EEs with a decent bit of exposure to CS and vice versa.

It doesn't create perfect mixed skills but give a working experience with both sides. For example I hate semiconductor work, dislike circuit analysis, and much prefer software but I enjoy working with VHDLs and embedded software. I'll take Rust or Haskell over Verilog any day but I have no problem working with VHDLs given the need.
I suspect it just moves the waste, and perhaps more, to the home.

If you now have to buy a kilo bag, instead of the few you think you'll need for the next week or two, you'll probably be throwing some deteriorated produce along with the plastic bags.

For onions and spuds plastic is a poor choice anyway as they should be able to breathe. Better still, unwashed, as with carrots. Why, oh why, do supermarkets insist on washing off natural protection?
ReadConsoleInput
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/console/readconsole...

INPUT_RECORD
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/console/input-recor...

KEY_EVENT_RECORD
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/console/key-event-r...

bKeyDown
If the key is pressed, this member is TRUE. Otherwise, this member is FALSE (the key is released).

Also, please note that INPUT_RECORD contains union of key, mouse, window buffer size, menu and focus event records.
I do not want to say interface is more well thought per se, but it is definitely more rich.
I'm surprised for 2 reasons: 1/ CS folks are still talking about Fortran. 2/ The word Modern and Fortran in the same sentence.

Up to a few years ago, I found often myself in discussions with colleagues on the benefits of Fortran vs. less horrible languages such as C. And I always thought that we are so backwards in academia (physics) compared to CS people who have buried Fortran a long time ago. There are even colleagues who use Fortran 77.

Fortunately, things are changing fast now with more and more people using Python. I learned it myself about a month ago and urged my students to stop using Fortran and/or C. I see 0 reasons to torture a new student with Fortran. I am using Jupyter notebooks with my students now and things are so much better: easier/faster debugging, appealing code and interface, higher level features, visualization tools, etc.
The single most important feature I'd like to see in JS are types. Typescript seems nice but I don't want to need a transpiler, especially since I'm doing a lot of live-coding in JS and compilation/transpilation times >50ms are already too much.

Other than that, JS could benefit tremendously from a more complete standard library, and a build system, including a file watcher, that doesn't rely on 200 nonsensical dependencies.
Yes, that is what should happen.

More likely than getting rid of the bike lane, the laws surrounding it will be amended to allow deliveries.
Any plans for a web frontend? Letting my mobile remind me of things based on location is something I wanted to have for a long time, but typing stuff and organizing things is much more comfortable with a real screen + keyboard.
we’re judged by human brains every day, which are even more opaque.

In modern society, the decisive things determining life-direction are determined by human ostensibly using objective criteria. Educators have conditions for grades, bosses write progress reports, courts use etc. This situation is term bureaucratic society and the rule of law.

Authoritarianism is one kind of interaction that we all know - when an individual can issue orders without recourse. There's everything from abusive bosses to dictators here. It's a common part of human relations too, just a less desirable side.
Maximum switching resolution is about 10ms in Europe (50Hz) and 8ms in the states (60Hz). As you usually switch at the zero crossing. In real life it is usually two-three orders of magnitude longer due to calculation and communicaton overhead.
Peer pressure, pure and simple. Yes, there are tons of people who talk loudly and rudely about topics they don't really understand at all. There's plenty of stalking and brigading that people get away with. But there are also just enough people who are informed and articulate to make it worthwhile anyway. The karma/vote/flag system is, similarly, just good enough to make their comments more visible most of the time.

It's sort of the worst possible tech news/discussion site, except for all the others. It's also a bit fragile. If a key hundred or so of the top commenters (not highest karma because karma grossly overweights submissions vs. comments) stopped participating here, I and probably many others would no longer find it "just good enough" to bother. It's really only a matter of time before that happens.
I knew these as Powerizers and my friend and I used to play around on them. They were a lot of fun. Indeed, this is what's missing from this article. My guess is that Seymour was trying to do it with extensional springs, and Powerizers replaced those with fiberglass compressional springs and they were simply way better.
What would you like to have in such a system?

1) More content related to what you read/open
2) Removal of posts similar to a given post (e.g. please no more js rant)
3) Something more?

Thanks!
Mark Zuckerberg, Let Me Fix That Op-Ed You Wrote
> Hence , I will never get why tech industry believes so much it must be so « inclusive ».

Perhaps, if many people in a community complain, you should assume that they have a reason to do so? And you might listen, in order to learn the source of the upset and what can be done to fix it?

Do you take the same attitude with your customers, clients, and users? It's an example of "It works on my computer:" "I don't see why they think the software is slow. So I'm not going to investigate to learn why they say the application isn't working, and I certainly am not going to try to improve its performance."
Been there, but with Mercurial. We chose it because it has sane CLI interface (as opposed to git), but eventually had to switch because we wanted to use GitLab. Not much difference all in all, except with git I still need to search the net to find a proper command, while with hg I could usually guess it and just checked help for confirmation. It saddens me that git won... Awful UX. But they had GitHub and now GitLab.
I remember "moon boots" advertised in Boys' Life when I was a kid, that promised something like this. So I googled a bit and found https://www.bounceshoestore.com/ , is that sort of like what you had in mind?
What is suboptimal about SOLID? I’m about to buy into it so I’d like to know.
I would never pay more than the 10€ I pay now if the content quality and quantity they have at the moment persist, especially for us non US subscribers.

Also I doubt they can keep it up, soon they and Amazon will go through all the culture written down and then what?
Including VHS and DVD rental pricacy.

http://mroche.umwblogs.org/history-of-the-vhs/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Privacy_Protection_Act
The market is on its way to fragmentation as more content producers move to have their own apps instead of going through an intermediary. And they all want $10-$15 a month. It won’t be long before people refuse to pay for more apps, as the total cost of both the Internet connection and all app subscriptions surpasses the price they used to pay for cable. That is what limits the price any one app can charge.
Bird droppings & phosphate were in such high demand that entire islands like Naru were strip mined for it up into the early 1900's. Haber/Bosch did not kick off until 1909 leading to manufactured fertilizer.

Also death from starvation is a pretty serious health risk.
For me Netflix isn’t competing against cable (its been 15 years since I subscribed) but against YouTube and small mobile games that I can play a few minutes here and there.

In that light they are already a little too expensive for the value to me for a yearlong subscription. Instead I’ll subscribe for a few months and then cancel when I realize I’ve been paying without watching anything for weeks.