skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That 'few bucks per user' is a bit misleading.

Slack's cheapest business plan is usd $7 / month / seat.

Hosted mattermost is usd $3 / month / seat.
> having one person watch both sides of the ship might be marginally possible - if they were only doing that

I'm not sure even that is possible, at least not at night in a crowded shipping channel. A lookout under those circumstances should be focused on one field of view, not having to move around.

> teaching someone else while on watch might be marginally possible - if you only had one side of the ship to watch

As I understand it, the person doing the "teaching" was the Junior Officer of the Deck, not a lookout. The JOOD is supposed to be doing multiple things, not be focused on just watching. Her staying on the port side teaching too long was a contributing factor, yes, but only because of the prior decision to accept no lookout assigned to the starboard side to begin with.

As for the culture that contributed to that decision, I'm not sure it was what you suggest as much as a simple failure to understand the impact of not having lookouts on both sides under those conditions. The fact that neither the captain nor the XO were even on the bridge during the transit is another indicator of that, IMO. The article says the captain was tired because of all the training that had been done that day and wasn't on the bridge because of that, but that just means more failure to understand the impact of tradeoffs: if push comes to shove, having more experienced supervision on the bridge during a challenging transit is more important than getting in some more training that day.
As an (anonymous) programming language designer, a few bits of feedback.

First, nice concept, but without open code, it might as well not exist, and without open specification, it might as well be yours alone, like one of Tolkien's languages. Closed languages wither and die, and yours seems well onto that path.

Second, what makes V compelling to you appears to be completely uninteresting to me in terms of language design. It might as well compile from V to Go; I can't see why not!

Whenever a language designer appeals to simplicity, they are usually appealing to whatever makes it possible for them to be productive, and they are usually missing that the productivity is personal because the designer is the one who builds the language. The GL demo seems to be a great example of this sort of situation.

I hope that you publish your work so that we may properly critique it.

Edit: Here is another language designer who is not me saying "closed languages die" (https://blog.golang.org/open-source). I think that, until we actually have a compiler for V (or whatever it is hopefully renamed to before release) in our hands, we ought to be extremely careful about trusting that any of this exists. It is all too common in PLT/PLD for somebody to come in with bold claims, outrageous mockups, and zero toolchain. I addressed what I saw, which is yet another compiles-to-Go hobby language. To become more than that requires a committed community and a common repository of open code, and the author appears to have only the former.
Huh? I didn’t realize as a society we had “accepted natural gas explosions” as normal. The fact that this story even attracted national news tells me otherwise.
For no null is he saying that everything is just initialized to a default value (int=0, str=“”, etc)? I’m thrown off by, “everything is initialized to empty values” because I don’t see how empty and null are different.
I haven't down voted but I would imagine it's because it's just repeating the article and some what obvious
Pretty cool! Excited for the day GANs produce something more meaningful though. I hope that after enough misfires like this eventually someone will produce art that is compelling on its own, without being carried by the "ai" label.
I think GP means we aren't now all calling to ban natural gas.
Who obeys it? I honestly can't think of a single site that I know of that actually obeys that header.
Thanks. I'm a (fairly) heavy user of category tabs.
in case you hadn't seen them: have you tried container tabs instead of separate profiles?
I had been looking for this exact project, but I couldn't remember its name for the longest time. But I remember that home page exactly. Doing a bit of seraching it turns out volt.ws appears to be a rebranding of a previously posted [1] Eul (eul.im), posted by alex-e (whom I assume is its author). Either way, volt.ws and the associated V language sound quite interesting, I look forward to hearing more about this in the future.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14778263
I think there is more to that, as I've never met someone fat who also eats a lot of fruits. My intuition is that you either feel filled more quickly with fruits, or too much fruit gives you the shit so you avoid it, or it hypes you so you consumes more energy?
This sort of process where you shame a group of people into collective action just isn't realistic within the day to day lives of working class people in any society on this planet.

Corporate legislation and profit motives are the only real incentives in business, I don't care how much you try to isolate individuals taking part and shame them for complicity. It's not about people capable of making the right choice instead choosing the wrong choice. It's an inevitability of the incentive structures of capitalism and commerce. If someone chooses to take an action that sacrifices profit for ethics, they will be driven out of the market by people who take the "more profit" option. It is not the same players making good choices and bad choices. The only way to actually change the paradigm is if you can figure out a way to align incentives so that the person making the moral choice also makes the most money. This is the only way that the structures we've put in place will play out in the way you want. This has nothing to do with individual choice or free will, it is simply the output of a function.
Naming PG&E in the headline is sensationalistic. The article says, "Workers may have struck the distribution pipeline while installing fiber-optic equipment beneath the street". You can see the excavator from the aerial footage! And news reports directly discuss the construction workers. By contrast, there's absolutely zero evidence PG&E has anything to do with it except nominally owning the pipe.
Modern CFL drivers have frequencies in the tens of kilohertz.

The flicker is a thing from the past (or should be).
Before I delve into my argument, you would actually be wrong. Names can be tricky, payday loans are typically just short term loans. You don't necessarily have to show current employment. Now, let me give you a hypothetical:

Let's say for example you have someone asking for a payday loan of $100. You are not 'required' to determine if someone can afford to pay that back or not. You offer them the loan, they take it. Turns out they can't afford to pay it back, so you sue them for over 36 times the amount. Now imagine that's not actually a hypothetical [1].

That's one real-world example of how payday loans are predatory. The incentive is to loan to people who can't pay it back, because you earn more in garnishing their wages than you do from the initial loan. A second example is imagine you offer them a loan for $100. Then you offer them a deal: I'll give you $200 for half the (initial) interest rate. They take it because you've convinced them it was a good deal, but they could only actually afford $100 and not $200. Now we're back to garnishing their wages and getting rich off of it.

This is why those regulations exist. This is an actual problem, not a hypothetical. The incentive for payday lenders is to scam people out of money because that's their entire business model.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/09/us-payday-lo...
The number of people who enable DNT is relatively small, so having it enabled is worth a lot more than 1 bit.
Hey! I just wanted to see keep it up and that this looks really cool
Could be good for competitive intelligence - discover your competitors ad targeting strategy
>It's insane how we just accept regular natural gas explosions as a thing

If it were considered normal or commonplace major news outlets wouldn't be covering it.

>but we over-react at even the hint of non-lethal nuclear contamination.

I'll agree with that.
I have an old college classmate who does this with a twist: he has a number, and when he hits that number he stops for the rest of the year. Last time I spoke with him that was about six months.
Although, potentially interesting: Self reported mental well being is correlated with self reported belief of eating more fruits and vegetables. Though a much weaker claim than the headline, I think this is still useful information. Without looking at the study, you can't rule out that there was something about the surveys that caused this correlation, but if there wasn't, it certainly would be interesting to try to find out why this correlation exists.
Is there a formal grammar? You could probably plug that into a SAT solver and not have to guess.
Sounds like a Ponzi-scheme.
A two/three years ago I noticed that inspectlet (similar tech for the web) was happily sending the passwords in clear text to their servers, even though on their website they mentioned that passwords are never sent. I sent them an email and they eventually fixed it, but I wonder how many passwords and credit card CVC data did they collect before that?
In my experience (in Sweden), most of those results are "false positives". Companies/recruiters like to look for passionate programmers, so they put smaller languages like Clojure in their ads, even though the job itself has nothing to do with it.
What for? You can write code C# 2.0 style if you want to.
Well, PG&E is declaring bankruptcy, so I guess all the creditors should just... stand in line? Not very many assets compared to the liabilities.

Of course, bankruptcy is probably the best way to resolve this, so every creditor can be paid his fair share (and by fair share I mean maybe 1% of what they are owed). But at least everyone is going to get paid something versus a majority being paid nothing.
x265 never removed film grain; you need to enable it via --tune grain option (or -tune when using it via ffmpeg).

There's a new --tune animation option in 3.0 if you're encoding anime/cartoon.
A mess in what way?
Complain though whatever feedback mechanism the app gives you. Same thing you’d do if the food didn’t show up at all.

On the other hand, what does the driver do if they go above and beyond to give you great service, but then you don’t tip?
People do tend to dislike features that don't work.
Hi,

Developer here. I was going to post this here in a couple of weeks after launching the product and creating a separate site for the language with much better information about it.

I'd also like to hear your opinion about not allowing to modify function arguments except for receivers. This is an idea I got that isn't really implemented in any language I know of.

For example:
mut a := [1, 2, 3]

So instead of
multiply_by_2(&a)

we have to return a new array (and this will later be optimized by the compiler of course)

a = multiply_by_2(a)

I think this will make programming in this language much safer, and the code will be easier to understand, since you can always be sure that values you pass can never be modified.

For some reason all new languages like Go, Rust, Nim, Swift use a lot of mutable args in their stdlibs.

You can still have methods that modify fields, this is not a pure functional language, because it has to be compatible with C/C++:

fn (f mut Foo) inc() {
f.bar++
}
Sure, today. But he had greater returns before he set up the float. (He's said they were greater because it's easier to find small overlooked bargains than big overlooked bargains - and when you're BH size, only huge investments will move the needle).

He made clever investments like buying American Express when others sold. (Other investors believed they'd lost trust due to fraud involving salad oil; but Warren verified that consumers still trusted their CCs).

He had a head-start: although he protrays himself as folksy, his father was a US Representative.
Incandescents used to be 5% visible light at best, with 95% of energy turned into non-visible radiation.
Honestly its usually prepared (snow tires, good alignment) vs unprepared ('all-season' or worse, eco tires, unsure of dynamics). The unprepared people need to just stay home or call an uber for the sake of everyone else.
That's a red herring.

This thread is about the use of Chinese state resources to advance the interests of Chinese companies.
I’ve been a software engineer and a backend engineer but I’ve bever been a “clojure engineer”. Why needlessly require the language in the title? Any reference to it anywhere in the body is unambiguously referring to the same programming language.

Anyway, using LinkedIn, roughly 70 results in Boston, 30 in Denver, 130 in San Francisco. 867 across the US. I worked for three years with clojure and just chose between two new job offers after a short search, also in clojure. I’m seeing the language get use in microservices in larger, more established orgs that may already have a jvm docker image that their devops supports.
Only in the very narrow context of their specific organization and affiliates.

That's not even close to true. There's a small niche group of people who don't acknowledge / accept that the OSD is, in every meaningful sense, the definition of Open Source.
Python elects a steering council
No Architecture
"Veg" seems used more in British English. As an American, it never really sounds right to me, and I usually see/hear it from UK or Australian sources. Just an idiomatic difference, I think.
How many drunk drivers are responsible enough to even use an app to evade checkpoints? Is this really an issue?
I definitely don't blame my gr.11 teacher, he was an awesome, abet very strange dude. I don't know when you graded, but the curriculum that I had was bad. At least they could have gone into what the BNA acts meant.
Is it in this case. I presume that at one time there were actual bulbs which said 100,000 hours on the physical box. What specifically happened here? Do we have the same bulbs today and the marketing was wrong, or are bulbs today de-engineered?
> On the night of the accident, there was only one person qualified to be a lookout,

That ship was therefore not fit for duty. Not that that would take a ship out of service, these days. They're probably all more or less unfit for duty, based on this and other articles about the same incidents.

Former enlisted Navy, decades ago, made three Western Pacific deployments in and around the area of the article's concern. Not a subject matter expert, and probably never was.
The real headline on Bloomberg's site at the moment is "PG&E Contains Gas Leak That Caused San Francisco Explosion," which gives a very different impression.
Facebook bug bounty program
Does Facebook bugbounty program still exist? Can someone provide working link to create test account and link to submit bug?
> Yes, I’m assuming poor people aren’t irrational. Silly me.

Quite silly; that people in general are well modelled by the assumption of rationality is one of the most thoroughly disproven offer in the social sciences, and that the people who end up at the bottom end of the economic distribution disproportionately includes those who are particularly poorly modelled by the assumption of perfect utility maximization as if with full knowledge of the costs and utilities of all available should be fairly obvious.
STEM is getting pushed as early as Kindergarten. Even before STEM, grade schools were cutting recess, art, music and history. STEM legitimized this behavior and it is starting way before college.

The high school education is so worthless, that college is mandatory. This is a scam. A high school education should be the equivalent of a 2 year degree from a community college. STEM is a votec scam and an excuse to excise the humanities from all levels of education.
Both sides have an incentive to over-engineer. The arms manufacturer wants to add as many systems as possible because more complexity = more money.

The navy as a whole might want to save money, but the parts that make it up want to spend as much money as possible; if they don't, their budget will get cut since they don't "need" the resources allocated to them.

What people sometimes forget about crude Russian engineering is that bubblegum and toothpicks are enough to get the thing operational.

Simplicity was always the Russian priority because even in the Soviet days they were broke, and even if they had the money to buy parts getting them to a frozen or muddy air(literal)field in the middle of the middle of nowhere was a feat in itself.

The US military-industrial complex has functionally unlimited resources, so the things they build require unlimited resources to operate and function.
Can you explain your rationale here further?
When this is brought up in other conversations, the servers usually prefer tips because they don't trust the employer to not screw them over on pay. Secondly they can get a lot higher effective pay with tips than with straight pay. In the end the kitchen staff gets screwed but that is not the servers problem.

Employers prefer tipping because they can advertise a lower price. Secondly tips are effectively a per customer payment vs a wage being hourly. So in times of few customers, the labor costs are lower on the employer.
Film grain synthesis of AV1 is apparently worth it: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8416572
> Usually, the justification is 'family-friendliness' or for the benefit of the child. In that case, there is no justification for a phase out

Family-friendliness absolutely is a policy goal that encourages people to have children, but any such policy has a target population and also has limits. The objective of these policies is usually to assist median income and median sized families, not outliers.

An example of this today is the Child and Dependent Care Assistance Plan (DCAP) [1] which parents in the US use to pay for childcare with pre-tax dollars.

This benefit is restricted to around $5,000 a year, regardless of how many children you have. It also cannot be claimed unless all parents are either employed or are full-time students.

[1] https://www.irs.gov/publications/p503
(Firstinitial)lastname@ Gmail checking in.

So much misdirected email. Try to sign up for something? Reset password change info to not theirs.

It's amazing what people send rather blindly.
>And yet it's not uncommon to see job postings here on HN from time to time at pretty well-positioned places where it's basically stated in the ad that they won't consider you unless you're from an Ivy League institution or someplace equivalent like MIT.

Interesting - I never browse job postings here. Do you have a reference?

What's posted on HN is not at all representative of the rest of the country, though. I've certainly worked in places where they tend to prefer "top schools", but once again, that was for graduate degrees, where as I said, being from a wealthy background doesn't help all that much. And for engineering schools (Princeton would not be viewed favorably, for example).

>Tech isn't the only place this happens either.

In my experience, tech is probably where it happens less. In most of my peer companies, after something like 4-5 years experience, no one cares where you went to school. It's much more common for things like MBA and Law (one lawyer told me that many of his firm's clients stipulate that the lawyers working on their case must be from a top school, and graduated in the top N of the class).

>I've become convinced that part of the source of our inequality in the US is hypercredentialing. That is, your abilities and skillset are equated with your degree. You're not that competent if you didn't go to an elite college, you can't do task X unless you have this very specific degree in Y, etc. and so forth and so on. It's rampant and affects all sorts of realms, from unemployment to licensing laws.

I'd be interested in seeing studies supporting this. In my anecdotal experience, I've seen it much more acutely in other countries. But then again, those countries also tend to have much more inequality.
You can do both though - limit the amount of information you do send _and_ ask those that do respect it not to track the information you _must_ send.
I agree, it does seem to be unnecessary to mention the utility that owned the pipe in this case since they didn’t cause the accident. It’s fair to mention them in the body of the article, though, since it was only PG&E customers served by that particular pipe who were affected by the outages.

Edit: now that I reread the original article title, I think it sounds much better than the current HN title.
This article feels like an opinion piece. I say feels like because there were a few studies referenced light heartedly which had me hoping we'd see more.

If this article could gain that higher source of truth I'd argue it's a heck of a bombshell to the conversation...otherwise my experience and many others in comments below seem to differ.
I have a catch-all domain. Just imagine all the fraud possibilities!
> I hope that you publish your work so that we may properly critique it.

I don't know about this author, but for me, this would emphatically not be a motivating reason to publish my work. I might publish work so that someone could get some use out of it, or to show off my brilliance. But if all you're going to do is critique it (no doubt with all the familiarity born of five minutes of looking at the tutorial), then I'd just as soon you never see it.

>Here is another language designer who is not me saying "closed languages die" (https://blog.golang.org/open-source).

I don't think the person you're quoting would advocate that languages must start out as open source. Go sure didn't. It was developed closed source within Google for two years before it was even announced.
What's a rule without enforcement but a burden to those who follow the rules? And in return the user trades some actual privacy for hopes of moral compliance.
You’d probably have to go up the chain the other direction too.

Small companies that can’t afford to take payment +60 or +90 probably won’t have the liquidity to do +30 either, so if they have to pay people daily instead of every two weeks will probably struggle.
Isn't it spelled with two R's? "Guerrilla"? I didn't even notice at first, and was going to say that it's a hard to spell word for something you have to manually type in. Now I notice even the service itself is misspelled! Or is it just this announcement of it that's misspelled?
Next time, a good resource is https://ledstrain.org/. I found it here in HN and is quite informative for makign decisions on what to buy.
These news pop up almost weekly now.

I wonder what it will take for nations to start imposing a firewall on them – just like the one they impose on the rest of the world.
Hi, thanks for replying.

May I ask how did you pull out August 1991 entries?

Did you run a query or something on their search bar?
So by protection, you mean the bill as it was, that would 'remove pay day lending'. Maybe we'll copy what we did with drugs.

Hmm... what guarantees mob option will stop existing? That's what's happened with drugs. Drugs are easily available.

Or are you suggesting creating another lender of last resort?

I'm sorry, I'm not sure your offering a solution. It seems what is offered is a blind restriction to satiate your own feelings of 'protecting others'. Like we've done with drugs. It doesn't work because it doesn't address the problem, just the symptom. It's arrogant and short sighted.