skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And it does seem willfully intellectually dishonest to do that, no matter how you frame it.

That's really interesting to me. Can you elaborate on what about that strikes you as dishonest?

To me, that kind of decision in the face of uncertainty is a normal occurrence. For example, in college I had to pick some major, and despite uncertainty regarding what would give me the happiest life, I went with computer science.

Or to use a more well-worn example, when my wife tells me that she loves me, I admit there's the possibility that she's wrong, but as far as making decisions in life, I'm willing to assume she's telling the truth.

Neither of those two examples strike me as dishonest in any way, and the seem to fit the definition I gave.
I agree that human understanding of software is one of the primary bottlenecks and difficulties of writing and maintaining software, but it's always a little suspect when someone claims to improve something about programming and then talks about hypothetical toy algorithms like making lunch.
The amount that you would make in SV and a position with a top company would more than allow you to have a top tier health plan. Couple that with the Bay Area being a prime research region, you’d be in an snacking position if anything catastrophic happened.
Holy hell I hard forgotten about astalavista. What a great site.
The more we value the individual the more we will shy away from violence (or, rather, leave it to the professionals like soldiers and cops and criminals)
Google changed the operators; now it's double quotes instead of plus (it was changed for google+ so that the plus searches g+ profiles and pages). You now have to search:

"noir" "film" -"pinot noir"

I wonder whether they'll revert back now that google+ is dead.
It's not without cost, though. Moving messages around causes CPU data cache pressure and CPU cycles you wouldn't otherwise have spent if you merely referenced shared memory that's mapped into your process.
I'm aware IPCC doesn't do science themselves and it is a study of studies like you said.

But meta studies are a gold standard (especially for complex systems) as they average out the errors.

Those studies are from scientists who do science, so I don't quite follow your comment.

If I understand your comment correctly ("test in a large scale system"), in order to be 100% sure what would happen if the global temperature rises above 1.5C we would somehow have to replicate planet Earth with all its complex systems and speed up time to see what will actually happen?

What about the models that scientists create? Are you saying that's not real science?

Keep in mind that Earth climate models were used to successfully predict Martian weather, so I think we can trust those models that warn us of a climate threat if we don't cut our CO2 emissions.

Are you basically saying there is nothing to worry about, because nothing has been proven yet?
My understanding is that real estate is not taxed in China, so it is used to park extra money or as investment.

There are places in drug lord countries like Central and South America where e.g. condominium prices are $300,000 USD minimum, while people living there are lucky to earn $20-30 USD per day.
Yes.

They don't. They guarantee they don't.

The spooky answer is they don't need it.
From this post, it is unclear whether the DNS given by DHCP should be 8.8.8.8, or the device only needs reachability to 8.8.8.8. I think if the latter is true, it seems acceptable, given the internet can be unpredictable, and Google network reachability would be correlated among services.
In addition to all the metrics and crunching of numbers, pride also comes into play. New Yorkers who opposed Amazon did so on another level of basis such as how it is their turf and their city, and not simply for the highest paying to walk in unwelcomed. Amazon attitude of not being willing to discuss with the locals demonstrates a sheer arrogance that derives from corporate capital Godzilla. Both sides had their ego held up high, except that Amazon had it for the wrong reason.
I was also wondering why simply opening curly braces after the => was not allowed. It would be consistent with lambda syntax generally.
> Many, many languages have an sprintf-style construct of one form or another, so I think it’s actually much more familiar to most people to have a placeholder with an optional formatter

Many languages also have format strings with interpolation: JavaScript, Python, Ruby, Swift, PHP, etc.
Because there was a demand from many people moving into the core cities and Chinese people value owning your own house as a status symbol and to marry (can't marry without a house). As well even up to now the previous homebuyer generation (people who should be 50 to 60 now) can still pay for the prices due to the sudden increase in normal people's wealth and deep savings.

However after a while many people caught on and it turned into speculation with people randomly buying housing and increasing the price sorely for property investing. As well the previous generation have more money and income and could pay, the current generation of homebuyers (25 to 35) are still either too young or not as wealthy as the previous which is hurting demand, moreover the excess speculation and the extreme prices for even the previous homebuyer generation have scared off many buyers.

As well, note that in reality only core city prices are insane such as Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing, Guangzhou area. Places with not a lot of people, the property prices there are just around inflation prices.

Note that I speak from personal experience from Chinese property investing. As well China is so big that any generalization is flawed so note that too.
I find the responses on the mailing list to be interesting. Nobody there seems terribly amused by this thread so far.

>Are you looking for https://support.google.com/chromecast/contactflow ?

>And [wasting our time] as well.

And to be fair, I would've expected a personal blog post rather than an IETF post. This is definitely quaint, though it gets the point across.
> If you can only give six hours, then I guess it would take eight years.

And with an hour a day it would have taken fifty years...
Interestingly, that was the idea I distinctly remember from the dinner party: someone suggested the only fix for Internet searches was to implement something like AOL Keywords globally. A central registry of keywords.
Sprintf is very error prone. Maybe people are used to it but string interpolation is clearly superior because it removes a lot of potential errors. With the trend towards safer languages sprintf and similar techniques need to go away.
“The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time.”

It appears that even in this case, 90% of the time is used up. They then go to make a statement about "the other 90% of the time" rather than saying something like "90% of the remaining time"

90 + 90 still = 180
Our US President has made us mostly numb to arrogance. It's just like the trees and breeze: open the door and habitually expect it to just be there. It's a feature of the landscape. It doesn't even have to be viewed as "bad": it's merely his style, his way of communicating ingrained into his being. A curious tic. Tics are only annoying if you allow your brain to judge them as annoying. They can instead be viewed as amusing, and life will "tic away" slightly better.
$5M a year seems like it would be very reasonable. The original 90-day price tag was $820M, and they've spent an additional ~$200M over the past decade and a half. Maybe it's really not worth it to spend $5M/year to extend the life further, but the scientific returns would have to be quite severely diminishing.
> ability to promote the product to masses efficiently.

What are you looking to build?

Relative to finding your Co-Founder-- three 3 elements come to mind. Is it personal, relevant, and/or local to the person you're looking for?

My hunch-- you'll run into this person at meet-ups/conferences/trade shows.
Interesting, I guess I assumed there would be some sort of internal Slack like application for work related communications.

The article (or atleast my reading of it) made it seem like these were straight up standard fb messenger chats.
It was also an order of magnitude faster (a fraction of a second for results vs. several seconds).
Depends on the city. In Beijing, you have to be a resident for 5 years (paying city taxes) before you are able to buy; a rule that enforced for both foreigners and Chinese without Beijing hukou.
Granted there isn't much to be gained by making your code look like an angry fruit salad. But I do find it useful in some cases, e.g. to make comments stand out from the rest of the code. Also, unterminated block comments or strings will immediately show up as well. And if you are not very familiar with a language, it might help to highlight keywords, so you don't accidentally use them as variable names.
All kids are different. Within a reason, there is no "failing" as each combination is unique and there is no way to compare or run A/B test to say that one particular way is "failure" and one is "success"
Some people misunderstood that the $3B was a credit, not real cash being gifted to Amazon. But even among people who understand the nature of a tax credit, we felt that NYC should not forego revenue that another company would have to pay. In other words, the city has enough bargaining power to collect all the taxes that it would be owed. Amazon can flounce and run off to Virginia or Nashville or wherever, but NYC will remain the heartbeat of the US economy without this deal. New York metro is consistently the top contributor to GDP by a factor of two over LA. The Bay Area is not even top three on that list, at about 1/8 the contribution of New York. Let the cities that are struggling cut sweetheart tax breaks to speculate on future break even. If you want to bring your business to NYC, you pay business class prices for the privilege. As a property owner and taxpayer in Manhattan, believe me—that’s the deal we’re all taking for access to this vibrant and exceptional globally-connected and hard-charging economy.
I've been to a few regional conferences so perhaps out of touch, but in those scenarios it's usually either yawn yawn buffet or in most cases a bag with some posh sandwich etc.. in with sponsor logos all over it. I get what you're saying but I can't help but start picturing a table cloth lunch with waiter service as you discuss the merits of the last talk over a fine wine on a table for two/three? perhaps this happens at build? strangeloop?aws:invent? How much of a ticket price is attributed to catering in either scenario?
If you go back in time but don't do anything at all in order to not change any event from occurring the way its meant to then I guess it could be like that. But if we assume there's only 1 timeline and we change the past then the current future changes, you wouldn't know that you changed the future because the timeline you came from is the timeline you altered. But if you altered the timeline preventing you from needing to travel back then you would never travel back to prevent the timeline from occurring.

The timeline would shift in such an odd way too, because the past and future co-exist with each other, if you changed the past to fix the future the moment you travel would alter the timeline instantly and possibly prevent the need to ever travel in which case everyone would be shifted all of time from the moment the change in the past occurred...

It becomes very confusing, think I need a migraine pill and some sleep now...
A comment below you mentions Verbatim Mode [0]. I haven't tried it yet, but it looks promising.

[0] https://searchenginewatch.com/sew/news/2126346/google-introd...
A case of Baader-Meinhof today: I was reading about AltaVista an hour or so before this was posted. (Hyperlink trail: DARPA's Memex -> Memex -> Paul Flaherty)
So, like some sort of shared library that my programs dynamically communicate with? How is this functionally different from a shared object?
How hard would it be to listen to certain trigger words in bolo conversations and auto-report them to the feds- for example for drug usage?
Visa, Mastercard mull increasing fees for processing transactions: WSJ
Why is it awful? It would certainly benefit many people if the fantastically wealthy were prevented from engaging in so much wasteful conspicuous consumption, since then they'd at least have to find marginally more productive things to do with their money.
Well, let's take the TIOBE index as a rough indicator of popularity: https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

Java, C/C++/Objective-C/Go (I'm lumping them up because they're basically C + C NextGens), Matlab, SQL, ASM don't have them.

Everything else, has them.

On the list of languages that don't have it, Java is planning to add it, I don't see the C family to change because it's very conservative, and the others are domain specific and don't care that much about string operations.
You're thinking of "application" as a single binary, which is unnecessary. You wrap up all of core-utils into a single environment and launch the shell.
First thing it made me think of is when the YouTube offices were shot up by a gunwoman who was apparently upset about their changes in monetization policies.

Of all the companies to 'hate', I'd expect FB to be a much larger target than YT.
At some point you're going to realize that this kind of argument applies to everything else as well, not just time. When that happens, I do hope you'll give us back the word "exists". It's a useful word.
Because the United States is a very, very large country, and Amazon has lots of options as to where it takes its headquarters?

Put another way--why should Amazon go to NYC? Do New Yorkers have a god-given right to the benefits of large tech companies?
Thanks for the link, that clarifies the point enough to nullify my comment. For those playing at home, there's some point-making stuff around 4:18.
In a world of mobile devices and public WiFi spots set up by random businesses, you're saying we should trust the network operator? That's a rather odd argument.
I don't think it's Lisp envy. They're porting stuff from F#, which as far as I know is from the ML family.
Should New York get rid of all business tax incentives? A majority of that $3bn was from existing programs available to any qualifying business.
Speculation is also a problem in Wenzhou (no surprise there), Hangzhou, Kunming, Xi’an, Changsha, Chengdu, ... basically any big city has some property bubble going on at various stages of inflation or deflation.
so in which case, is it safe to say some languages( in this case Ruby) are not cut out for high performance at their root. And in which case we should not opt for such languages when we know we have to scale at some point. Is this right way to think about this ? moving to another language at the point when you have to scale is a costly affair to rewrite , isn't it ?
Do we not have ample research by now as to the inefficacy and harms of corporal punishment? What serious evidence is there on the other side?

It also strikes me as something of a bad joke to suggest that we might have become uncritically prejudiced against violence given America's domestic gun violence and foreign policy. Tolerance of violence is alive and well as far as I can tell.
Yeah, now Rust is the Haskell
NYT: Tech Is Splitting the U.S. Work Force in Two
I have and use a Chromecast Ultra and redirect all traffic outward to port 53 to an internal DNS server which blocks ads and utilizes DNSSEC. I don't block 8.8.8.8 specifically though but it cannot be used by normal means as it would get redirected
Why is this not being pushed to become part of the web spec first? That seems more reasonable than pushing a feature with the possibility of breaking pages that are spec compliant.
The alternative is no regulation, which I can't see ending up as anything other than a chaotic profit and power-seeking free-for all that does no favours for the average citizen that isn't part of the capitalist class.
sadly enough the answer here is also google.
flights.google.com
hotels.google.com
Huh, it took me a while to switch to Google because every time I tried it it took longer. I only switched when it became reliably faster.
It isn't really. The actual big problem with shared libraries is that developers cannot be trusted not to change their interfaces or behavior and break things. That's true regardless of what mechanism you use to share code.
I wonder, is space debris not valuable? After all - it allready is up there? So why not glue it together- web it in and sell it later to a factory, who goes up there?

One kilogram of space debris should be worth some x < 14.240$ - this might be the one instance where recycling is of interest.. - just before somebody tows a asteroid in and glues a refinery to it.
I guess we'll have to block protocols where DPI doesn't work.
I too have written code that asks 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4, because the DNS server I get from DHCP frequently is so brain-damaged. (SRV records, what's that?) I asked both in parallel.

On one hand it feels wrong to not ask in parallel.

On the other, $%#@%#$%!$@# the %$#%#$%^$#@%#$! packet filters that block DNS packets to everyone except the local brain-damaged resolver. Or even redirect. If Google will fight that fight I'll happily enjoy the benefits.
Cool, thanks for the clarification. My source was my brother-in-law in Beijing, who I was only half-listening to at the time, leaving me fuzzy on the details.
Facebook may face multibillion-dollar US fine over privacy lapses – report
If there's only now - that's zero dimensional time, but it's still existing time, it's just not an extended dimension.
Even buildings that are not ignored often look dipolated in China. The apartment I was last living in was a 2010ish, considered a nice place, but you could already see some concrete crumbling and of course, Beijing is a dingy place because of the sand and dirt.

I think most residential construction in China has a shelf life of around 30 years before they have to tear it down and do it again. This is because they favor labor intensive but skills light concrete techniques that require a bit of overbuilding. That way, they can keep uneducated migrant workers employed.
Trump declares national emergency to build border wall
I don't think it's terrifying, personally, but it strikes me as a little tone-deaf of Google to use the example of giving a website access to your heart rate monitor [1] which is an demo also linked in this thread. A lot of people assume that any new feature in the javascript API will get used in ad-tech and they aren't often proven wrong with that assumption. I find it unsettling to think about advertisers gaining access to biometric data through the web.

On the other hand it's also something that lowers the barrier-of-entry to BLE hacking to something that people like me can do.

[1] https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/6362090?co=GENIE.Pl...
> And... which jobs exactly have they have killed?
Unfortunately, I can't answer that question, because that's not that the people from the other company would discuss openly.

I had a couple of chats with the CEO about this, and he mentioned briefly that this affected jobs with a high level of repetitive tasks (E.g., invoice processing and stuff).

There was one process we kind of discussed at length enough as to answer this:
In my country, it's normal for supermarkets to have 3rd party employees to take care of certain aisles that have only products from the 3rd party.

The thing is, putting products in order there is a time consuming process, and obviously prone to error.

The change would be, the employee would take a picture of the aisle once finished, send the picture to a service that would process it automatically and alert the employee before she left the supermarket if there was a problem or anything (Like, a product needing replacement or similar).

> All you have documented here is some company doubling the number of programmers since May

Yep, that's right. the downside of this, is that there are a lot of companies looking to automate processes that are time consuming, and that affects jobs directly.

hat the company decides to do in the end regarding the people in those jobs is up to the complany obviously.
Sorry about the late reply, thought.
I could be misunderstanding, but if subsequent requests are to be made with the DNS provided by DHCP, reachability to 8.8.8.8 would only be helpful to disambgiuate what kind of network error is causing a failure to make network calls regularly. Otherwise, reachability would be best tested with, for example, a Google domain using the provided DNS.
Its fair to call it the first substantive attempt to integrate a mainstream OO language with traditionally FP ideas.

That's a big part of the story here.
When you get brain damage that changes your behavior, it's for all intents and purposes 100% environment.
All I can think of is the courtesy of a 404. No can be a powerful, yet welcome signal. The reticence to say No causes more harm that good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2vkiLHiTcY
If you hustle someone who's poor, maybe they won't be able to make rent on their primary residence next month.

If you hustle someone who's rich, they're probably still going to be rich next month.
Given that part of your motivation is to help others in a similar situation from being trolled in the future, were you disappointed that the CAFC issued a non-precidental summary ruling? Is there a way to petition the court to issue a full opinion that would be binding on lower courts? If so, did you consider doing so?
> Just being Turing-complete doesn't get you to the ability to run something like Word.

In fact it does. That's the whole point of turing-completeness. It is actually possible to create output with sed that results in executable bytecode similar to C. You would need a sed to bytecode compiler. You could even write this compiler in sed (once you have something else that can compile sed). Why? Because sed is turing complete. Yes, it's very unpractical to do so, but you could do it even on current hardware.

> I'd also note that because physical computers have finite storage, you could by the same logic implement Word in a finite-state machine.

actually you can't. Word itself is turing complete, i.e. you can theoretically program with Word. So no you can't implement word with a finite-state machine, because it can't reflect the theoretically infinite states an arbitrary input program can create. You need a turing machine for that.

> So you can write Word in ls in the same way you can write it in sed.

No. That's missing the point of sed being turing complete.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-border-emerge...
I agree with your conclusion, but let's keep the conversation civil.
To carry out your analogy, you order from Amazon because they’ll deliver for you. In this case, New Yorkers suspected that the jobs would go to outsiders, the property values would skyrocket and push locals out, and Amazon’s nasty history of vertical integration would be a threat to existing business owners. This deal was scuttled by the people who represent regular, working class Queens residents—not the people who saw dollar signs and dreamed of overflowing NYC tax coffers. Cuomo and DiBlasio had probably already promised those tax revenues to their buddies for all kinds of sure-to-fail projects.
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Farewell to fsync(): 10× faster database tests with Docker