skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't read much. But movies and TV shows (and Anime) have tons of mysterious libraries.

* Terry Pratchet's Discworld -- `nuff said.

* The Pagemaster (90s film about kid getting trapped inside of adventure books)

* Beauty and the Beast -- The library was the only non-magical part of the enchanted castle, ironically.

* "National Treasure" movie has a few important library scenes

* A Certain Magical Index -- Anime / Light Novel: the female lead "Index" is literally a character who had a library implanted inside of her.

* The Mystic Archives of Dantalian -- Anime / Light Novel: Another one where the female lead is a library of sorts. She's more bookwormish than Index, and actually hangs out at a normal Library most of the time.

* Read or Die -- Another anime with library / paper themed superpowers

* Harry Potter -- So many shenanigans happen in the Hogwarts library, I don't even know where to start.

* Full Metal Alchemist -- The librarian was instrumental to the plot. Its mostly an action show, but there was a period where they had to research some stuff at the Alchemist's library.

* The Ancient Magus' Bride -- I wasn't too fond of the show in general, so I haven't seen it all yet. But there was a very memorable magical library episode. Effectively, the magic library was a trap which can only be escaped if the human receives something from inside. The lead character kept returning to the library (her personal life sucked, so she needed an escape), while the Librarian would continuously give her something so that she could escape each time. When the Librarian ran out of things to give her, he rips up the magical library card (hoping she never returns again). Unfortunately, the lead character is adept in magic and finds her way back even without the library card, to a disastrous consequence.

* The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- A classic, is it not? I guess its a single book that they're working with, but the singular book is magic-space tech that has all the information you could ever need. So its basically a library.

* Ender's Game -- Honorable Mention. Ender's video game with the giant that he plays by himself effectively functions as a library. Its where Ender has self-reflection, and where the malevolent forces push Ender towards one direction of his psyche. Its as much of a "Library" as the "Pagemaster" was IMO.

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EDIT: Apparently 'The Pagemaster' is a book in of itself, and is listed in the article. I didn't know that. Harry Potter was also on their list.
Tools keep using it even where it's the wrong tool for the job, so someone must like it, surely?

I'm sure it will be just like XML where it's the trendy thing for a while in the early days, then everyone stops and hates it for a while. Except XML at least has a handful of applications where it's the right tool for the job (it has a nice streaming mode), YAML doesn't even have that.
For the individual maybe I get that.

But even from an individual perspective, I gotta think there are folks who would be fine working at a more ... not world changing business too. But these companies sometimes get shutdown or torn apart because they're not something else.
I agree about parental involvement. My brother and I both went to a good (public) high school, but I attribute much of our intellectual curiosity to parents who 1) read a ton 2) read to us a ton 3) had books/newspapers/magazines around all the time. That was nurtured in us during high school and college, but was created well before then.
It’s the same thing as function expressions and anonymous functions, but with classes instead of functions.
Most professional money managers aren't trying to beat the market. Distribution is way more important than performance. Trying to outperform the market is risky. Even if you have a good fund manager, they will eventually go elsewhere (if you look at most of big managers, but not all, their business model is turning a 0x employee into a 1x employee...10x employees get paid their marginal product).

The key to running an asset management business is marketing, and building assets with unsophisticated clients that won't sell (mainly retail investors/advisers). This doesn't work as well anymore but it is very weird to argue that mutual funds are meant to beat the market. That was never the pitch.

It is also fairly straightforward to outperform the market if you are a retail investor, you have a huge edge: size. You have just to look at the stuff that no-one else is looking at. I am not sure why but people have extreme amounts of difficulty with this concept.

People become investors because they want people to think they are big time, they want respect...they don't really care about performance. I remember a few years ago, when I worked in the industry, I came across a one-month 15% arb. My job at the time was to pitch ideas, and no-one was interested..."it isn't what we/I do". I cleaned out my account, sold everything, borrowed a substantial amount...99% of people won't do that. It is crazy to them...but investing is simple: look at what everyone else is doing, and don't do that because it is fucking dumb.

Also, most HFs don't have non-public information...sorry, they just don't. Some people are just genuinely better at making decisions than other people - 95% of people make the same mistake over and over, regardless of intelligence...ppl who are too smart usually do worse imo - and the most successful get around the problem of scale (a good example is Baupost: they invest in complex stuff that no-one else is trading).
Again, stress is different. In the contract example the all-caps is the stress. The other part, which we resort to accents to indicate, is what in Chinese is called tone.
Same here. And it was on BBC of all places, so had to post it here.

For some reason the submission was flagged, not sure why.
A misplaced comma is also not a problem in an editor with syntax highlighting, but between the two, indentation could take longer to fix.
It wouldn't be terrible if they charged per unit of data transferred _at a sane level_, we're just all aware that if they switched to this model (which exists in some places like South Africa) then they'd gouge us over prices... it'd also introduce an interesting social dynamic since sites that push megs of ads on you would literally be taking money from your pocket, instead of just wasting your time.

It'd actually be kind of neat if bloatware were discouraged this way, since currently there is no cost to bloatware as long as whatever it is remains within the acceptably performant range.
Swift 5 launches with exclusivity enforcement to improve memory safety
Oh no, how will we track user engagement now? I need those engagement numbers for my promotion case by May, thanks Apple! >:(

On a more serious note: it’s nice to see that Apple is finally cracking down on these shady analytics SDKs. I’m this close to forgiving the headphone jack thing...
I work at a place that just had a near 24 hour outage due to a frozen water pipe. Water!
Not the Cryptopal writeups -- I mean every explanation of the Mersenne Twister I found, how the values were scattered all over the place and it was difficult to get the expected result. Wikipedia's, example, is a mess to sort through:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mersenne_Twister#Pseudocode

(I use the plural because I'm lumping that in with the difficulty of getting openssl to yield the expected results for AES encryption.)
> Is there any reason to use LSP, rather than simple JSON messages passed between the front-end and back-end

Yes, there's a reason to use a documented open standard supported by multiple servers and clients that passes JSON back and forth rather than an ad hoc, client specific mechanism that also passes JSON back and forth.

In fact, the reason is exactly the problem LSP addresses, labeled as “The Matrix” at https://langserver.org

In short, a problem with N+M cost is better than N×M when both N and M are >2.
At least half of the websites you visit would probably benefit in performance/size/usability/etc if they eschewed JavaScript.
The article mentions that Apple forced a developer by threatening to take away app store distribution:

> Apple gave the developer less than a day to remove the code and resubmit their app or the app would be removed from the app store, the email said.
It can't be worse than the cost to expand to a new city

Google Fiber isn't expanding to new cities.
I'm all for good editor support, but you shouldn't need it to write a simple document. Complicated editors should be supporting tools at best, because you won't always be in a position to use one. The things we write should be simple enough to be written and understood by hand with minimal mistakes (then we can make it even easier in some cases using nice editors and tooling).
On point 4: four engines have some disadvantages, but in terms of fuel consumption the difference is within 1% or 2% of two engines. The issue has more to do with maintenance, and reliability: with two extra engines, you are that much more likely to have one going tech and be grounded.

EDIT: interesting link, that contradicts some of what I say above: https://leehamnews.com/2015/12/11/bjorns-corner-twins-or-qua...
Environmental Catastrophe Is Coming. The Rich Will Be Just Fine
You didn't pay attention to the key part "to a third party". Most of the larger companies don't use third party logging software, AFAIK.
I would guess that the congestion advantage goes to more smaller planes. Those from NC no longer go to NYC as a stop over when they can take a direct flight, that means the plane from NC to NYC doesn't need to be scheduled to arrive and unload in time for everyone to get the the large plane, and reload as soon as everyone from the large plane gets to the small one. Instead the only people on that plane from NC want to be in NYC and so the plane can arrive anytime so you can schedule them to arrive at different times.

That is the hub and spoke model requires the airport to have bursts of busy times as everyone tries to reach their plane at once. With smaller planes you can spread thing out more.
Because they have a high street store?

I'm being flippant, but I think the point is important. What Raspberry Pi really brought to the table was making hardware hacking feel accessible. The sorts of people they're appealing to aren't looking for the fastest or best system, they're looking for something that feels easy and straightforward. They're cheap enough that I doubt price is a major consideration, and openness is almost a non-consideration among the populace at large.
It's a bit messy, but everything related to zsh should be in here [1]. Apparently the vim command editor thing comes at least partly from prezto [2]

[1]: https://github.com/Infinisil/system/blob/master/config/new-m...

[2]: https://github.com/sorin-ionescu/prezto
This is mostly true in Los Angeles as well, you won't make any lasting friends in public. There are ways around it though, e.g. going to meetups of various sorts, taking a dance class, etc. Still have to work hard to get over the hump though.
There is no more debate. The platforms have chosen to take responsibility for what they host. Every major platform now actively polices their networks and removes content for flimsy political reasons. If Apple has the resources to remove an educational app about the American civil war from their store because it contains a picture of confederate flag, then they can certainly remove stuff like this.

Platforms don't just get to be neutral carriers only when it is convenient for them. They don't get to be neutral about ISIS recruitment videos and child porn, but take a principled stand against political incorrectness and impolite speech.

Even companies like Cloudflare have abdicated their neutrality, they now remove content for non technical and non legal reasons.

They made their bed. I hope they get sued.
Google and Waze Must Stop Sharing Drunken-Driving Checkpoints, NYPD Demands
If anything, that is a call for better immigration, not better utilisation of those born in a country. Reasoning:

1. The US will not be able to compete w/ India or China when it comes to population

2. Most people with high ability are born outside of the US or any country statistically.

3. Importing the best and brightest is the surest way to continue growth.

The argument for immigration is that most 1st world countries do a great job of filling the middle 80% - most jobs in other words. We struggle at the top - as the top is hard to fulfill by definition - and the bottom, as most 1st world born don't want to, say, pick fruit.

To make sure 1st world economies continue to grow maximally, we need more of the very best, and more of those willing to do the sort of menial tasks we collectively simply don't want to.

Everyone wins from that. Those born in a 1st world country get to work at better run companies, and have their menial tasks fulfilled at a rate that keeps fruit cheap, and wait times low for things like fixing a broken door / getting a house painted.
Real talk...they own my mortgage, i cant just 'forget about it' if they forget about it. I want to refinance it. Of they lose all data on my debt like that ending to Fight Club... is the debt just...gone?
I'd assume ISPs are taking infrastructure into their cost calculations, even in a case where the initial build out was government subsidized... things break, there are ongoing costs.

And my totally uninformed understanding is that the ongoing maintenance costs, and the costs of expanded service are both pretty minimal.
Static Site Generators basically compile the entire site and serve it as static files to a S3 equivalent bucket with the API component which could connect anywhere. There are faster compilers than others (i.e. Hugo, written with Go) that can compile 1000s of pages in a handful of seconds while others are slower comparatively (i.e. Jekyll); I personally like Gatsby[1] since it's Javascript based making it easy for me to understand and debug. There are setups where those builds can be more modular, so in the case of your News Industry example, you can split it up by section or have custom builds with web hooks based on the section that needs to be updated.

Comments normally would probably be something like Disqus but I've also seen a demo of a Netlify dev doing a hacky hijack of their forms function which allowed you to approve a comment then re-render based on approved comments.

You can also setup a CD system that builds every X seconds/minutes/hours/days/etc.

It's just a different way to build websites. I think it's useful for marketing websites but not as helpful when you need a true app.

[1] https://www.gatsbyjs.org, also checkout: https://www.gatsbyjs.org/showcase/
Actually you might be in trouble and the longer you keep it secret the more trouble you will be in.

In Sweden you have a duty to be loyal to your employer, which means you are not allowed to plan and/or start a competing business during your employment. Your employer can sue you for violating your loyalty to your employer.

However this also means that you have to be able to define what your employers area of business is. Either you don't know it or they don't have one. Get their area of business defined.
Apart from pricing and the potential to overcommit resources on EC2-ECS, there are a couple of other differences.

One is your options for doing forensics on Fargate. AWS manage the underlying host so you give up the option of Doing host level investigations. It’s not necessarily worse as you can fill this gap in other ways.

Logging is currently only via CloudWatch logs so if you want to get logs into something like Splunk you’ll have to run something that can pick up these logs. You’ll have that issue to solve if you want logs from some other AWS services like Lambda to go to the same place. The bigger issue for us is that you can’t add additional metadata to log events without building that into your application or getting tricky with log group names. On EC2 we’ve been using fluentd to add additional context to each log event like the instance it came from, the AZ, etc. Support for additional log drivers on Fargate is on the public roadmap[1][2] so there will hopefully be some more options soon.

[1] Fargate Log driver support v1 https://github.com/aws/containers-roadmap/issues/9
[2] Fargate log driver support v2 https://github.com/aws/containers-roadmap/issues/10
> Back to the Future Part II - Film - 1989 - Year set 2015

> Blade Runner - Film - 1982 - Year set 2019

We are living in the future that seemed to be so far away when I was a teenager ...
Why doesnt the Apple app review team catch this prior to deployment?

I thought that was the big thing about having to use the app store was Apple kept it locked down tight to prevent this from happening?
Yes, based on their own detailed analysis and extensive technical blogs on the subject. Ruby was doing a lot of processing of the tweets contents etc. etc, and at the time Ruby was even worse for performance than it is today. (Ruby may be many things, but until the more recent JIT work, fast was not one of them).
for those who haven't taken the plunge, now is a good time to move to a credit union, regional bank, or online bank:

- for instance, in cali: https://www.golden1.com/

- high interest accounts: https://www.bankrate.com/banking/checking/best-checking-acco...

- good rate online bank: https://empower.me/

get better service, lower/no fees, and good convenience without all the economy-damaging selfishness and hubris.
A Tiny Reef Fish Can Recognize Itself in a Mirror
I'm starting to think that you can't achieve anything these days unless you're riding some kind of well capitalized trend.
> "Now, when I showed up, I thought this was the stupidest rule ever, because there's no book about evil except maybe, you know, the Bible or something." In the end, though, he believes it has worked, by giving employees a way to point out things they find unethical.

Worth pointing out rules are made, usually on two premises: should we and could we. Should we: is it morally sound? Could we: good intentions and morality notwithstanding, can it be enacted workably, to achieve intended effects and create little or no unintended effects?
https://www.lrb.co.uk/v03/n17/salman-rushdie/calvino

"I have quoted this line in full because it is the last example on record of a bad sentence by Italo Calvino."

If you haven't yet, check out the audiobooks of the Abhorsen books. Tim Curry makes an excellent snarky cat with mysterious powers...
Why so many Super Bowl ads were about robots
Topical is The Book of Sand by Jorge Luis Borges. After all, the distinction between a whole library and a single book is rendered meaningless once infinity gets involved!
A Visit to the Site of Plato's Academy
Is it possible that they're actually smarter than you think they are and vote in their own interests which you don't happen to agree with?

Do you really think it's well-funded actors and the media making conservatives vote against the party that supports abortion? Nope, they're voting in their own interests to see policies that are meaningful to them get enacted. It doesn't matter if you or I disagree with them, they're not brainwashed by the media, they're just living by their own code of ethics.
I was hoping for a few more pictures of what the store looks like.
You say “no it doesn’t” and then immediately agree with me. The fact that it’s unlikely they’ll pack up and leave is what I’m talking about here.

And I’m not talking about POTS service. I don’t have it.
People downvoted this but apparently the local news provider is throwing HTTP 451s for Europeans, so don't.
What index did you invest in?
What's worse, defer's function-scoped nature means that the only way to compile it is to dynamically push closures onto a stack at runtime and then pop them off one-by-one before returning. The compiler may be able to optimize this in specific cases, but in the general case the semantics are extremely dynamic for no real benefit. Designing defer in this way is an especially strange decision for a language that in many ways is architected to make life easy for the compiler writer.
The chances of this data being accurate is close to zero. I have seen data looking at factors for major markets outside the US, and it is wildly inaccurate even as recent as the 1970s. Mainly trading costs and liquidity but delistings too.

In addition, I know someone who looked through the paid data offerings for a similar purpose. He ended up employing ten to twenty people year round to build out a proprietary dataset because it was just not accurate.
Next, inheritance for JSON! Look how well it worked for CSS.
Watch https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Swedish_Theory_of_Love

Ok, it’s not precisely the same country but they’re very close
Spotify's acquisition spree in this space is not surprising and Gimlet is just the beginning. In case people missed it they also recently announced that they are setting aside another 500 million for this year for more acquisitions.

It is my opinion that Audio is going to be a huge opportunity for lots of Startups, I feel it is underserved. I really do feel that the AirPods have been game changing in making audio consumption far easier. In some ways they are the new iPod for Apple, they cost about the same as the iPod used to and I’m almost certain at some point Apple will add storage to them and we will be able to take them with us without our phone. I believe they are expected to sell 75 million units through this year, those are no small numbers and presents a huge opportunity for audio startups.

The other thing about Audio is that there is so much more potential than just music or podcast. Since Audio is obviously one of those things you can consume on the go, while doing other things, like exercising or commuting and you can consume it for so much more than just entertainment but to stay informed or to learn. In some ways audio is far superior to video in our modern fast paced world.

As a little self promotion, this is exactly why I decided to create an app that uses some open machine learning models to read articles to you, I believe folks on the go will benefit immensely by staying informed and learning new things. You can check it out at https://articulu.com
businesses may not move to the location for the google fiber themselves, but it certainly makes Louisville a more attractive place to move for developers, and a good population of developers is certainly enough to get companies moving to an area.
Australia. I'm sure someone is about to point out the name of an elite university here but even if one exists, they are mostly unheard of and no one I know has put any effort in to applying or moved state to go to one.
Discworld definitely, though none of the books focus really specifically on the library, the whole concept of L-Space and the related plots are wonderful.
> only targetting larger buildings where a 10% uptake rate gets them in the green

That's not really an acceptable way to operate what is essentially a public utility at this point. We clearly need better regulation of these companies.
The author JP Aumasson (known for inventing the BLAKE hash, SHA3 finalist) recently audited grin's underlying crypto library. Report here https://grin-tech.org/audits/jpa-audit-report.html
You failed to sanitize the form inputs. The site is xss vulnerable.
Zero rating: Another way of poisoning net neutrality
I don't want to disparage that team as I'm sure they work very hard and do an excellent job. But my overall opinion of that process having it gone through it multiple times is that it's (a) security theater and (b) only exists to create the illusion of excellent curation. I hear all the time about different rules being applied to apps retroactively.
I've heard the Rock Pi4[0] is very good.

[0] https://shop.allnetchina.cn/
Syntax highlighting doesn't count commas. The problem is JSON doesn't allow trailing commas, so adding or reordering frequently results in a difficult to diagnose error.
How criminals use Uber and Airbnb to launder money