skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only thing it gets in my nerves is lack of comments and documentation. The fallacy that code can be remotely as easy to understand as natural language text. The rest I can endure and tolerate.
On reading the article I had the same thought... I've driven (as a tourist in a hire car) up the road that they were ultimately trying to get to if they had made it over the pass, heading round to the north of death valley and then down Badwater road on the eastern side of Death Valley.

It didn't seem to be a stupid thing to do, we had lots of water in the car, we stuck to paved roads and although we probably only met one other car on the way north, once in death valley there was occasional traffic.

There have been several times when I've set off down dirt tracks in unsuitable vehicles for a bit of an adventure, and so far haven't come unstuck, but it's always been in western europe and not somewhere like this.

So maybe I'm just like the germans in this situation...

But then I looked at the map and started scouting around at where they had decided to go...

It may have been a couple of small decisions that led to disaster once they were up there, but the larger decision to head off up a 40 mile sandy/rocky dirt track to get over the very imposing mountains in the desert in July was the one that it was obvious (from my point of view) not to take.
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> Two Month Contract

Totally agree with your points here. I think it's also great to start with a short-term contract before deciding if you want to become a full-time employee. Just like how people usually date for a while before getting married. Becoming an employee is a big commitment, especially at early-stage startups.

(I'm currently looking for a 1-2 month contract if anyone is looking for a full-stack web/mobile developer. Experience with Rails, React, React Native, TypeScript, AWS.)
Even if all 140 nuclear warheads of Pakistan are deployed their impact will barely destroy a district in India. Same applies for Indian warheads. It is dangerous but nowhere near what media exgaggerate. Try nukemap site once again and see coverage area.
What if he waits to collect your payments until they reach a point where fees aren't exceeding them anymore?
What would be really great if Alloy (or any spec language) allowed for code generation (even if inefficient code).
It isn’t, at least directly. I am actually really happy to see this alternative, as queue.h uses anonymous structs, which are C11 and not well supported.
OK, so the major issue that I see here is that the average person doesn't have the education to make an informed health benefit/risk decision. Would every member of the population who is uncertain about stuff be willing to go through a RN-level course to make an informed decision? Because only at an RN level in medicine is there an understanding level capable of independent decision making.
I would like to see free education for all, maybe we can work towards that.
As I understand it, a major reason for the F-35's existence in the first place was that the F-22 was considered too good to export; the F-35 is deliberately inferior. So I'm still not convinced about the intent.
> you can keep a cheaper knife very sharp.

As demonstrated perfectly by Kiwami Japan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P6klz6BTek
I read in a lot of articles that it is actually more terrible for a lot of tracks after privatisation in the UK.

What happens is that companies focus on the most profitable tracks, so the other ones are not well maintained.

An example: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/dec/05/the-gu...
Even if all 140 nuclear warheads of Pakistan are deployed their impact will barely destroy a district in India. Same applies for Indian warheads. It is dangerous but nowhere near what media exgaggerate. Try nukemap site and see coverage area.
It reminds me of writing SMS messages - using all the awful txt spk to use as few characters as possible and save money.
It doesn't, this is about this case:

CPU1:
lock()
write1
unlock()

CPU2, after CPU1:
lock()
write2
unlock()

Until now it was not guaranteed on all platforms that the writes arrive in the same order even if the CPU2 entered the critical section after CPU1.

This was because spinlocks only implied regular memory barriers, not mmiowb barriers.
UAE to Use Equipment from Huawei Despite American Pressure
It's funny that one of the problems listed is the homeless washing themselves and their clothes in public bathroom sinks. It seems to me that public washrooms and laundry facilities would be a good thing. I seldom have someone sit next to me on the bus and think: "I wish they hadn't washed today."
Nope, that's why no Windows nor Android for me. MacOS is not perfect either but it's the lesser evil.
"The truffle sample (15 grams; Psilocybe Hollandia) contained 1.9 mg of psilocybin and 10.5 mg of psilocin. Participants ingested an average (SD) 34.2 (8.9) grams of truffles throughout the day."
I thought it is not possible to take more than one portions at the time as you build up tolerance directly after taking it?
I have the same feeling.
With only 300 bucks we can make this guy lose 10K :D

( $10.000 / ( 0.3 + ( 0.029 * 0.01$ ) ) * 0.01 = $333,01

We would need a javascript script that would make 33301 payments of 1 cent.

This would be a very cost efficient attack between business rivals.
Italy has had an open-access competitor on high speed service for years: ItaloTreno. The policy of forcing national state railways to separate track management from train operations is essential in opening up high speed rail to competition and preventing cross subsidization of service operation (since it requires subsidized services to be done so in a transparent manner and not out of other profits from railway operations)
How KaiOS claimed the third-place mobile crown
Jaywalking is rampant in Germany, tho a bit more "polite" (if you can call it that) from what I am observing every day. People will jaywalk when they think it is safe and when there are no small children around (to avoid being a bad role model), and that is my MO as well; as opposed to the mentality I have seen in other countries where it seemed to me a lot of people will just cross the street no matter whether it's safe or not and let the motorists deal with not hitting anybody.
*iPhones

They seem to have the highest computing power to battery size ratio among mobile devices in general.

One one hand it's great because they're powerful, on the other this here happens.

Around Christmas there was this sand game which was really neat, but sucked my SO's battery dry in moments going a stable 40fps.

My Galaxy S8 ran it slower and choppier, but considerably longer.
I'm not the op so I'll pass on addressing the question directly. An earlier comment gave a robust criticism of protectionist policies. In general I'm inclined to agree. But I'd like to draw attention to potentially negative impact to society if things are not managed properly. And really a lot of it comes to trade offs. It might be more efficient to manufacture certain goods elsewhere but it is undesirable to see local industries collapse without alternative employment for the people concerned. I think that in some ways it is better to have a local relatively inefficient sector that keeps people employed. As an example I'm told that of late the French economy has been operating significantly more efficiently than the UK. But conversely unemployment in the UK is at record lows. The suggestion being that it takes more people to produce a unit of work as compared to France. I'd rather have it this way. The thing is that being a steel worker, a builder, machine operator in a car factory is about more than earning a living. As a result when a local industry is dismantled people lose a lot more than their paychecks. This is not to say that local industries should be protected at all costs but that perhaps thee could be a way to gradually re-train the workforce ahead of time.
What I don't quite understand is: heat will be a byproduct of using electricity anyway, since it is always the waste product in the end. So why not generate electricity that can be put to good use first?
should have used Lightning Network
Not even that. Compilers had and have bugs.
And when franchises change the outgoing franchisee just milks it for the last two years or so - which lead to the complete fracking disaster of the thames link.
...yes? people can talk about their situation without being living advertisement.
> Why 'dubious'?

Because patents are often criticized, both specific ones as the whole concept of patents?
Fun with the Spiral of Death – A Cautionary Tale of SemaphoreSlim
We still have Charlie Hebdo putting drawings of Mahomet on the cover so there is a still a lot of margin.

But it's good to stay vigilent.
Ms. Krishna's is a remarkable story of preserving yogurt cultures across generations. May the yogurt-at-home-makers persevere in their efforts and put to shame the industrial giants of yogurt production.
When the Bully Is the Boss
Thing is, if it becomes more popular it becomes more spammed by ads and thus decrease in popularity, resulting it becoming less desirable to advertise on. Definitely an interesting social experiment, as well as a great cash grab. I'd love to see some data on the relationship between advertisement frequency and user-ship.
I recently wrote a tool called SharpFuzz that enables fuzzing .NET programs with AFL (https://github.com/metalnem/sharpfuzz#trophies). It has found over 70 issues so far in various libraries (including the .NET standard library). The most common ones are unexpected exceptions (for example, method that should not throw anything throws IndexOutOfRangeException or NullReferenceException), but there are also many serious ones, such as temporary/permanent hangs, stack overflows, and process crashes.
Intrusive lists. A trick probably as old as C itself. Multiple libraries provide an equivalent in C++. The claim that you can only do that unsafely or need C "magic" is completely wrong. The safe implementations are not even slower, as the main gain is node cache locality.
The page is still up :-) http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/

History: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Million_Dollar_Homepage
Seeing as patreon, paypal, visa refuse clients because of their beliefs (alt-right) or their sexuality (which would be illegal in Europe), the US do not have free speech either
If the money was donated this would just make this an alternative way to donate money to charity, the creator pocketing the money is necessary for this to be a social experiment.
The math kind of backs it up the efficiency of solar power backed electrical heating over wind.

Sunlight has a power of ~2kw/m^2 in visible spectrum (solar panels cannot capture all of this). At a strong breeze (10m/s) wind has a power of ~1kw/m^2 (windmills cannot capture all of this). So the mechanical heat generation would have to be more than twice as efficient to electrical generation to be worthwhile. But the "complications" mentioned are really what kill wind.

You want to capture sunlight: solar panels on the roof. No real obstruction.

You want to capture wind: massive windmills on your roof, need to disable the fan blade if the wind exceeds a certain value. Moving parts wear out.

I am not going to install a 2m radius windmill on my roof. Two 1m radius windmills have 1/2 of the area and are still an eye sore. Four 1/2m radius windmills, 1/4 of the area of the 2m radius blade.
Leases that short must make getting a mortgage hard.
> In that situation, you'll pay the $20000/week or whatever oaiey quotes you.

I looked into this recently, because I wanted to see if it would be worth learning COBOL to help maintain old banking systems. Unfortunately the pay is nowhere near $20000 / week, and experienced COBOL programmers typically make around $100 per hour, or $70k per year at a full-time job. Right now you can make much more money with modern web and mobile development.

Here's some previous discussion about COBOL rates: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14083214

I was surprised to hear it was only $100/hr, but some people say it might go up to $1000/hr, and one person was making "high six figures". So I don't know. Maybe it's worth getting into if you have some good connections.
Or C++ and Java.
It's common. My lecturer in the first lecture gave a motivation why we learn about this saying:imagine your boss proposes you compute <whatever>, then you - informed by this lecture - will recognize it belongs to an infeasible complexity class and can tell your boss it won't be possible.

We did learn the definitions but "worst case" was never highlighted as such, it was naturally assumed. The closest we got was the discussion that constant factors may matter for small problems and O analysis masks those differences.
Now you get a $30 fee on your 1c transaction
Ok try http://emh.lart.no/publish/csb/csb3d/vWreckingBall/ it's a quick hack to give you at least a wrecking ball to mess with the racers :)
Since you say “commercial” software I’m confused. Would that exclude medical software, aerospace software?

If what you are getting at is that it is not widely used/not used in anything “successful” and thus just a pipe dream, then I understand your concern. But that doesn’t mean it can’t be a useful strategy for some fields nor that it couldn’t produce more reliable systems.
This is more worrying, how many medications did we miss because they don't work in mice ? Do we humans only get medications that work in both humans and at least one other species ?
Sender pays them for the most part. You can get the receiver to pay, but its unusual and dependable on the receiver actively choosing to pay, so they can simply set a threshold
None of those types can be compared directly in C, so that's not making the feature "generic", it's making it magically super-powered. Associating comparison intelligence with arbitrary types is not very obvious how to do in C, but I guess the new super-switch could accept a function pointer in addition to the data, or something. Like:

const char * s const = "bar";

switch (s, strcmp)
{
case "foo":
printf("I got foo\n");
break;
case "bar":
printf("nopes, I got bar\n");
break;
default:
printf("neither foo nor bar :/\n");
}

Which would be fine/acceptable, but not exactly how C tends to roll.
You shouldn't raise a 'friends and family' round for your startup
Now you can try http://emh.lart.no/publish/csb/csb3d/vWreckingBall/ it's a slightly interactive version with a wrecking ball you can move with the mouse to mess with the racers :)
Took me 1 month to be productive.

Went in to a large rails codebase as a backend developer in the middle of a v1 to v2 rewrite and it had custom folders with their own conventions on where to put stuff.

All that with no documentation except for the setup.

What I did was just ask how the app works + specific workflows in front-end side of things and just connect the dots on the backend part.

Most of my troubles where on where to put modules because of their existing conventions.

Tips:
1. Ask a lot
2. Read the code
3. A debugger helps
4. Make sure you add tests for areas you touch.
Agreed. Autocomplete feels important.
The same number we missed because, as it turns out, killing people with unknown medications is a bad thing.
It was a joke.

But you can use cryptocurrencies/blockchains to send messages, and you would use the proof of work to make sure the price is paid.
I'll take this one step further and say if you truly think trash fires are acceptable and there exists no developer who can replace a trash fire with something warm and inviting then _youre_ the amateur.

I get what you mean though. I've seen dreadful results of some people who tried to replace a WinForms app with a WPF app and the people who did the WPF version totally half-baked their underlying framework. It was very amateurish. In contrast the existing framework built on WinForms was 90% baked. It simply had a lifecycle the developer had to understand (very difficult, nobody got it right) and was essentially only missing a final inversion of control layer to tie it all together. I added the missing layer and time to implement a new screen and number of bugs plummeted.

I thought it was crazy in 10 years of that code existing and hundreds of people having worked on it that _I_ was the one to spot that and go "hmm, you missed a spot" and have such a dramatic impact with a single week of work.

It still fucks with me to this day that _nobody_ was either capable or willing. That just blows my mind. It stuck out like a sore thumb to me. It seems to be the pattern thats emerging in my career though. I've come to understand it's a rare thing. So, fundamentally I agree with you're advice as it applies to most people. I just know first hand there are some people out there that understand exactly how to breathe new life into old systems and how to prevent new systems from decaying.
This could make for an interesting idea for 'Quora for mentors', whereby someone pays money (maybe more than 1c) to ask a specific question to a 'business leader'.
Nice :) We were just talking about something like this several days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19253464
Great idea, and I had fun exploring some local dishes.
CTRL+F search for a word then hit ALT+Enter to select all with a multi-cursor.
>It's a sharp contrast to the free washroom experience in most North American gas stations, which is a single stall that you need to request a key for, usually horrifyingly dirty.

I have road tripped around much of the western US and can think of only one time encountering a bathroom like this. In fact, clean bathrooms seem like a major point of competition between gas stations.
• No running water inside: "Some people, if they’re homeless,
use a sink to wash their laundry," says DiBenedetto.
So there’s no sink

I find that a very strange feature. What is wrong with homeless people washing clothes in a public sink?
Usually it does not matter as you keep items of the same type or know the type and exact compiler.

Unless you want to write them somewhere or put it as part of API and ABI. Which you probably shouldn't.
The Lab Rat Is Full of Scientific Triumphs and Ethical Quandaries
Sadly, innovation in teaching is neither a priority in academia (since it is not research) nor in the industry (since it is this kind of activity that ).

I wouldn't say there is no innovation though. There are science-based games (https://github.com/stared/science-based-games-list; it was here some time ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14661813). I started collecting interactive machine learning, stats and maths: http://p.migdal.pl/interactive-machine-learning-list/ (a lot of things; of course, Immersive Linear Algebra is there). Most of these projects are side projects, though.

Also - I had a plan to extend the quantum game (it is nice to hear you enjoyed it!) to more particles... and then, a full course, with experimental widgets (e.g. showing interference, then explaining it, then giving space to play with it). With some framework (maybe $, but I care even more for collaborators and deadlines), I would love to continue that.

What are your projects?
When the lease is about to run out, it means you need to reserve money for that, meaning the price of the house will be lower. I think you can still use the mortgage to pay for that lease. So overall it doesn't make much difference, it's just an extra thing to pay attention to, or you'll end up with unexpected costs.
Are you in Silicon Valley by any chance?
In ff v0.1.4, the results are dramatically improved.

> ff '.*.js' ~/projects > /dev/null
7.59s user
24.21s system
337% cpu
9.413 total
I did not find the author's points very compelling wrt the "we need chrome no more" link-baity title. Clearly, many users -- mostly devs -- do need Chrome.

But more importantly I think that articles such as this deflect from the real abuse-of-power that Google wields and that's in advertising. Google can and has shut down whole businesses by withholding access to its ad platforms. I'm not sure that Google has ever hurt anybody by denying access to Chrome.
OpenSSL Security Advisory: 0-byte record padding oracle
Well, even the internals have issues.

Take Openshift as the most extreme example - it's a fork of K8s, with a lot of custom functionality like scc and routes, and also a lot of custom behavior like its admission controllers that manage pod security contexts.

It's almost like a different version of k8s - things that will run on GKE or vanilla k8s won't work on Openshift. Yet, it is CNCF compliant.
The founder of that, Alex Tew, is still around and doing things.

Last I saw, he was running the 'Calm' app.
I think we should stop counting profit as “how much tickets you sold” minus “how much money you spent”, but look at the effects of a public train system on the whole economy.

I grew up in the Alps and I can guarantee that certain very profitable touristic locations wouldn’t even remotely work if there was no affordable and reliable train network that connected them to a airport, unless you want to turn some alpine area into a huge parking lot. On the same line that connects that spot to the cities there might be ten completely uninteresting villages whose population kinda relies on these trains to e.g. go to school, go shopping in the city etc. Some lines might not have any touristic benefit, but they raise the value of the whole network because it increases the destinations you can reach via train.

In nations that have high petrol prices and where train networks already exist, train networks can be unprofitable and still boost economy as a whole.

The question is: should everybody finance everybody elses mobility to a certain degree when it benefits economy as a whole?

For me the answer is quite clear. I grew up in small village in some valley in the alps. Without affordable public transport I would have been devastated as a teenager. A profitable train network usually takes that profit from somewhere and that somewhere is typically public.

I’d rather have an unprofitable train network that works, paid by my taxes than a profitable that doesn’t work even if I were prepared to pay for it. Same goes for Internet, Mobile networks, Water, Electricity.
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If container tabs break your website, I suspect you're doing something shady with tracking. It does literally nothing but isolate cookies/storage/scripts.
son, i have to explain you a couple of things about capitalism... ;)
I almost regret invariably suggesting chrome in every conversation back when IE was leading, such is hindsight.

Perhaps instead of telling people what to use we should be telling them how to use, or more accurately how to change. Once people are invested in a platform or service it's hard to get them to change their mindset, especially over issues taken for granted like privacy.

There's a lot more attention to social media on the same issue of privacy, this would be the ideal time to bring chrome into this discussion to work on the 'detachment', self-imposed roadblocks, logging out, deleting apps, disabling notifications.
Visual Studio anti-productivity feature: if you want to turn "convert warnings to errors" on, or change .NET framework level, in a large C# solution, you have to do it in each individual project. By hand or by writing a program to rewrite the XML.

The whole "project" paradigm seems to have always been a little bit broken, rather than just having a clearer "sources" and "targets" definition.
Ugh, those aren’t rights though. There are also already protections for rivers enforced by governments (who have the rights to do so).
DNSSEC Should Matter to Activists
Are you a business rival to Expensive Chat?
Whoops! I'll stand by it :D
France’s New Offensive Cyber Doctrine
In our Stripe integration, you're unable to process a payment that is less than the transaction fee. The minimum is around 33 cents.