skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Full disclosure: I have a liberal arts degree.

When I was looking at colleges, I had absolutely no idea what I wanted to do with the rest of my life. In high school, I really hated science and math classes. Years later I realized that I actually didn't but the single math teacher I had for four years of high school (it was a small school, I just had bad luck with what teachers were assigned to the classes I took). If I had gone to college with the goal of a career that I thought I would have been suited for, I probably would be doing something much different.

I picked a school that offered me the opportunity to study a broad range of topics and had a curriculum based in seminars & discussion. Rather than learning technical subject or a trade, I learned how to accomplish tasks independently. What I feel I got were the skills to teach myself anything. Sure I'd need to learn harder career based skills, but I knew how to best teach myself something IMO, that's no different than a career paths that requires additional schooling to get a job. Looking back, I think it's ridiculous that we ask 16-18 year olds to make decisions about their careers.
Today, WarCraft 1 and 2 get their first-ever digital launch–and it’s on GOG
I deleted my edit not because I agree that it is offensive but because it goes into personal detail that I find unnecessary.

Also, I discern in your comment the start of a certain aggression in such conversations that I find, frankly, disturbing. There is absolutely nothing in my comment that is addressed to you, personally, yet yours is becoming personal. To protect myself from what this can lead to, I will not contribute to this discussion any longer.
Good. I loathe April Fools jokes online and whenever somewhere suggests them at Cloudflare they get shot down quickly. They are the awful, sophomoric, in jokes that make some small in crowd laugh and just make companies look like idiots.
Your question was about one of the big languages or frameworks, probably? SO can still be nice in its smaller corners, outside of the busiest mainstream topics.
No, the second sensor is on every plane. The option was just a light that wasn't hooked up to anything else. The light's a red herring here.
Hate to break it to you, buddy, but the liberal arts kids grew up to work in online advertising too. I know, I worked on a targeted ads team with loads of them.
An organization choosing not to publish someone is not censorship. People choosing not to listen is not censorship.

A government choosing what information you have access to IS censorship.

There are many organizations, anyone can start one. There is only one government and you can't escape it.
This discussion is about FB and, more broadly, speech on private platforms. Not the Chinese Communist Party or any governments.
You have to call Google for Analytics pricing when you outgrow the free tier. And no, we could not afford it.
Why “Moral Algebra” does more harm than good when it comes to decision-making
A GAU8 will destroy any armored vehicle today. Tanks aren't armored equally on all aspects, and the top of the tank (where the majority of the GAU's rounds will impact is usually the thinnest. Now the A10 won't survive long enough against a decent opponent to employ the GAU, but that doesn't matter since either a Maverick or a SDB would be the preferred weapon against a tank. The GAU is really intended for soft targets, not tanks.
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Not well enough to do reliably do missile tracking, just enough to get an idea that yes, there is an object out there in the atmosphere. "Dumb" methods like TDOA / FDOA have quite bad limitations on resolution.

Multistatic passive radar is quite hard to do at high performance. Radio astronomy observatories have been doing it for decades; it's expensive, requires high grade equipment to synchronize time and frequency, and reliable, real-time high-bandwidth data links.
I searched for a couple podcasts on desktop but didn't see anything. So I searched for a podcast on chrome on android and this seems to be what BBC is complaining about: https://imgur.com/3IYpAsX
Dell and Lenovo offer me choice. If my keyboard fails under warranty, I can return my machine for a repair, I can get an on-site repair if my warranty covers it, or I can just ask them to overnight me a new keyboard. My warranty will remain intact after I've fitted that replacement keyboard. They'll sell me spare parts for older machines and provide a full service manual. If I'm a corporate customer, I can buy a stock of parts to keep my fleet running.

Apple fundamentally do not care about professional users. They are either ignorant or indifferent to the ways that their service model fails to meet the needs of professional users.
Yes I have been very inspired by portions of React and when they announced Hooks suddenly it converged with what I was already doing. Since then I set out to bring feature parity even though I had to solve problems completely differently. Of course there are some pretty big key differences both in render cycle and how data is passed around.

I've done a number of benchmarks that are linked off the Github page. The most notable is the JS Framework benchmark. Chrome 73 had a bit of a regression that slowed down Solid a bit comparatively but it's still right up there. Here the latest results: https://krausest.github.io/js-framework-benchmark/current.ht.... You should see Solid in the 5th slot around a lot of reference (basic JS implementations). If you look right you will see ivi the fastest VDOM library, and if you keep scrolling you will the more popular libraries.

Debugging is a different beast because the rendering isn't top down and the library produces native DOM instructions. As some one familiar with the imperative DOM the lack of abstraction for debugging I feel welcome. I can literally drop in on el.textContent = state.name or in an effect and see when updates happen. The compiler writes the updates in such a way that it shows on the surface in your implementation code rather than deep in the library for simple updates (reconciliation is buried). This makes most things easy to access for debugging.

Thank you for the comments I definitely going to spend some time investigating what debugging experience makes sense for a library like this but still has familiarity for the VDOM crowd.
You mean like buying IBM was a safe choice in the 80s?
> It was supossed to be the swiss-pocket knife of airplanes.

This is the main reason this program was massively over budget and didn't meet expectations.

By trying to create one airframe for three very different sets of requirements, they significantly compromised the performance of all three variants. In particularly, the STOVL requirement for the USMC meant that the Air Force and Navy would end up with an airframe with worse aerodynamic performance and worse radar cross section than if it didn't have to accommodate the lift fan for the F-35B.

The whole idea of the JSF was to save money by featuring 80% parts commonality between the versions. Instead, it only has 25% parts commonality. This resulted in much, much higher cost than anticipated.

With further development and time to work on tactics, the F-35 will probably be fine on the battlefield. But the military could've ended up with far more capable platforms had they heeded the lessons of past procurement failures like the F-111, rather than doubling down on them.
looks great, I heard about it a lot and it look's like that Flutter is growing rapidly.
I do think sandboxing the file system makes sense. I recall on early Androids just seeing an arbitrary dumpster of files on the SD card for different apps and uses, and tons of apps had access to all of them. That's concerning.

But ideally, the user should be able to create an arbitrary storage location (say, a folder), and then permit specific apps to access it, without granting the app "file system access" as a whole.

Capability-based systems with a powerbox/picker UI are designed this way, so my guess is Fuchsia will work a bit more like this.
I'm not sure that even the weak case is true: while it could be that language colors thought, it could as easily be the reverse. We may pick our languages to reflect the thoughts we have.

Those thoughts are heavily influenced by culture, and language is a strong tool for communicating culture, but it's not the only one. Apes communicate culture by watching rather than speaking, and my cat learns that she's not supposed to go on the table even though she doesn't understand when I tell her.

So while language and thought patterns may be correlated, the arrow of causation isn't necessarily one way. Experiments that show people thinking in certain grooves divided by language, but concluding that the latter causes the former may be putting the cart before the horse.
they did ben so dirty :(
No, I wasn't.

Sorry, I just don't get the point. Implementing a bunch of proprietary location-encoding schemes is just insane. I do see the profit motive, obviously. But I can only hope that people will avoid using stuff like this.

Maybe if it were totally open-source. And if it were implemented by some recognized international entity. Maybe some part of the UN.
The constant API changes has been a huge PITA for me both as a developer and as a user.

As a developer, I am forced to take time out of developing my new app to update my older apps. This year, I spent 3 months updating my 2 older apps to the newest API. My app/game that will be released soon is targeting an API that will be banned from further updates later this year. The problem is that the game framework that I use does not support the newer API yet, and development has slowed considerably on it, so I may be stuck with the (possibly monumental) task of updating the game framework myself.

My two older apps should be left alone. My users tend to stick with them because they want to use a familiar interface, and most other competitors change interfaces on a regular basis. But I have had to occasionally remove features because of API changes.

And that brings me to my gripes as an Android user - most of my favorite old apps from just a few years back with either no longer work, or have completely changed so that they aren't really the same app that I used to love.

I am really rooting for a Linux-based phone to eek out some type of commercial viability. I am willing to pay much more for a device with much lower specs and polish, so that I can have a device that respects me as a user.
Is it far fetched to think that plastic is one of the most damaging inventions of the 20th century? I imagine it will be affecting us for hundreds of years. Banning single use plastics seems like a no brainer to me at this point.
The New CQL Optimization Dashboard in Scylla Monitoring Stack 2.2
None of which is actually alleged. The allegation is that FB allowed ad targeting, not that they allowed ads that "indicated a preference... or an intention to make any such preference". It's classic regulatory overreach over the course of 50 years, from disallowing ads that explicitly forbid blacks, to forbidding advertising in venues that haven't paid their diversity tax.
Currently an employee and since we are talking about ageism, it’s a small company where the founders, management and all of the devs and QA are between 35-55.

In two or three years, I will probably work for a consulting company or just as a W2 contractor for recruiting agency.

I’ll take the lower pay for the peace of mind from not having to chase clients and payments.
I once had to implement a giant ip address blacklist for an api in the fastest and cheapest way possible. Openresty and redis saved me that day. That has been my favorite project that I've ever worked on. Two amazing pieces of software. Kong is great, too. We were just unable to use it because its blacklist feature wasn't easy to implement.
> You can get five with (1/3 + 1/3 + 1/3 + 1/3 - 1/3).

I'm sorry; although you very clearly referred to winding up with a whole number, I somehow read it as winding up with 0.
To be honest, the last freedom of small portable devices are the Pi and the NVidia cards and a build your own solution. While I understand this isn't a true replacement for a mobile, as it doesn't have access to the web everywhere, I can't seem to think of an independent alternative that hasn't been hobbled quite a bit.... plus they're pretty fun to build. You can build pretty neat ones the size of a DS that do what you want, but again, it's not a true replacement for what you're looking for. It is a hacked solution in the truest sense. =[
> Another user actually did go through my code and the solution was trivial.

The solution may have been trivial - maybe even a single character fix, but this smells like you posted a wall of code and wanted someone to go through it with a comb for you. You likely got downvoted because you didn't provide a minimal verifiable example and instead posted way more code than was necessary to produce the bug.

If you post anything more than a few lines of code, you are probably providing TMI and need to spend more effort distilling down the problem. 9 out of 10 times, you'll find the root of the problem yourself during this distillation process, especially if the problem is trivial.

Then again, this is wild speculation, but I see this a lot when I am helping newbies.
It always saddens me a bit when I see companies looking to hire outside executives rather than promoting from within. You promote someone to CEO and that opens up a slot for someone to replace that person, and then the next person and so on. As an employee, since I often don't see this, it makes me feel like I ought to move to a different company if I want to move up.

Now there are cases where hiring an outsider makes sense. Perhaps you are bringing in someone with experience to run a fast-growing company and no one internally has that experience. Or you are hiring a new CFO for a tech startup and there just isn't a large pool of people to promote internally to that specific position. But given that stack overflow is a tool made by developers and aimed large at developers--and a mature company--it would be nice to see someone rise through the ranks from a developer position at the company to replace the CEO.
>You could probably do this with other systems, but the goal is to allow everyday people to be able to pack a short string in a tweet and have everybody else know exactly where they mean.

89c25855b9b

That's the S2 string for a section of Times Square, NY.

Usefully "89c25855b" is a well-defined, less precise location comprising a larger area. You can go up or down in levels of precision easily and everything can be stored as a single 64-bit integer with lots of extremely useful properties, (e.g. the use of the Hillbert Curve with all of it's benefits, like localization in address space and real space - see http://blog.christianperone.com/2015/08/googles-s2-geometry-...)

If your system adds more benefits than this, I'd love to hear more about it!
The "Z" dimension is something I've been planning on having as part of the system as well.

Since people appreciate height from street level differently than raw altitude, both will be accommodated in my system.
Yes it's physically possible to somehow retrieve and remove the container and phones. It would also likely be absurdly expensive to do so for the gain.

It's likely cheaper, easier, and safer to simply keep picking them up off the beach as they wash ashore.
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Speaking of the new CQL Optimization Dashboard, this is a deep dive into the gauges and graphs:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19513171
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While certainly age discrimination does exist, I'm 41 and I haven't experienced it yet. If anything, I've found that what I do is more in demand than ever, partially because there's been so much growth in the industry that there are proportionately very few people that have been around as long as I have. A big part of the reason you see so few gray hairs is that there just aren't that many of them to hire.
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> The jokes are fun for employees and can be enjoyable to outsiders as well.

99% are just weak, lame and embarrassing. I don’t find them fun on either side.
> Note many/most of these excess PhDs are not “researchers” in the pure sciences.

People studying mediaeval literature can also be researchers.

> Such invented pursuits have minimal societal benefit.

I'm sure this is true of some fields, but even fields which produce obvious societal benefits, and even fields which actually do produce PhD candidates who go on to have well-paying jobs in industry often have difficulty growing their departments.
Everyone hates April Fools’ Day

Err, no?

What kind of corporate HR propaganda speak is this?

Do they mean some/many people hate the pranks, but especially the bean-counters?
if late capitalism ruins stack overflow I swear to god I will throw a fit online

more seriously, this is a real concern, a super useful communal website with really high traffic is ripe for commodification.
Here in Norway the sentiment been largely positive, including feedback from the pilots. Perhaps it helps we border Russia.

And face it the NATO was formed to confront a nuclear armed superpower, don't act surprised as if you just learned this today.
We have been contributing back to the community with open-source projects and improvements to the other open-source projects we utilize, and using respectfully “other people’s work” in agreement to their licenses. Kong itself is open-source, and we have a long history of contributing back.
> No doubt they’ll long serve as a source of sartorial inspiration.

Is this use of “sartorial” considered a pun? Did I read that correctly?
Assuming there would have been the same rate of adoption. I don't know, is it as easy to learn SmallTalk and do small tasks with it?

The existing ecosystem may have been pretty good, all things considered. Fast ramp-up, with eventual shift into supporting bytecode efficiently so any language can run.

Would you rather be coding around the inconsistencies in the SmallTalk implementations of Microsoft, Google and Mozilla, or just delivering a bytecode package of your code in whatever your favorite SmallTalk implementation (or any other language) is?
How do you know it wasn't fixed by the offshore maintenance team with an offshore manager controlled by a VP wanting a quick promotion for doing things fast? That would be where I work the likely scenario.
If you found the CQL optimization dashboard handy, here's more best practices to get the most out of your database, from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19501959
Don’t disappear... great advice. My freelancer niche amounts to taking over when the last devs disappeared. I always answer emails and calls right away, huge customer retention advantage right there.
That's just bad process that many best practices make a point of correcting. Lean Manufacturing, famously, pushes for people to give feedback.
This thread has really brought some sticks in the mud. Why are you all against others having fun even if you personally don’t get it?
> There's a good reason to believe evolution would use something close to the most information theoretic efficient implementation

Do you have a citation? I would be very interested to see it.

I hate to make analogies between computing and biological systems, but I immediately think of denormalization in databases, error correcting codes, and database replication as examples of optimizations that take you farther from information theoretic efficiency.

Information applies very straightforwardly to the study of a spike train of a synapse (source, channel, and receiver). I remain unconvinced that it systems like memory make sense as information channels.
That's why I shelled out for an SSD :)
Could you please link to the question? I don't mean to be adversarial but in the past when I checked the questions people complained were downvoted for no reason there were indeed reasons. Perhaps the guidelines have subtly changed since your last experience and we can give you feedback on it.
That life support stuff has to be replaced by automation, so "much simpler" is probably stretching it. Plus you're talking about adding in a bunch of sensors and software which is even more complexity (IE things that will break or go wrong). The exploding complexity problem is a pernicious one.
>Nobody is after hardware store because a hammer bought there was used to kill someone.

s/hammer/gun/ and you'll find some who are. Not agreeing or disagreeing, only raising the point that some people do seem to judge different tools by different standards based on some criteria that is not immediately visible/available to me.
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I'd consider a few things:

What is the product/service that will generate revenue?
- The "start up" is bringing that to the market
- So they're developing, or working to get that product or product pipeline to the market
- That can come in various stages, the company survives this developing stage through various funding (like that series A $)
- I'd consider, are they generating revenue? margins are looking like? P&L / forecasting future sales revenue measuring with margins and profitability
- Size really depends on what is going on, 50 people can mean several things...

So really, I'd consider it out of start up mode once there is a viable product that can be taken/sold in the market and bring in revenue.

I think once it's out there, once $ starts coming in, the company may still grow and hire more or expand and all that, but that's generally a good sign

My answer seems more vague now that I've read it, but its all about the $$$, healthy P&L, and forecasted revenue!
Gun capacity on an A10 isn't that hot either. The sex appeal of the GAU is great, but it only has a shade over 1k rounds, and those go by pretty quickly.

What's really interesting is looking at the data; the majority of CAS missions in Afghanistan were performed by the B-1, hardly what comes to mind when you picture that aircraft. But it has high speed, packs a ton of munitions, and has the ability to persist for a long time over the battlespace.
> “If a poor person acts in a self destructive manner, it is not societies fault, it is their own”

It looks like we just disagree. I do believe that is often society’s fault, and that it’s usually just a lazy way to absolve one’s self of blame or moral duty to act, or to justify that it’s OK to take political action that tacitly increases harm to the poor because it’s “their fault” they experience the circumstances they do.

We often want to read narratives into our daily observations that paint ourselves as either self-sufficient heroes who worked for everything we got, or as victims of unfair circumstance. But when it comes to other people, we try to read narratives into their circumstances that absolve us of having to worry about it, or justify preconceived judgments we want to make.

Bad decision making on the part of people systematically harmed by institutions, governments and policies is a classic example. Such people were often given no realistic opportunity to be capable of making good choices, but we steady ready to rush in and blame them the minute they make bad choices, which were the only kind of choice we gave them any realistic option to make.
Pilots and first officers tend to switch who has flight control on each leg of their flights (which is the Pilot Flying vs Pilot Assisting), and the MCAS system uses the AoA vane associated with the side of the cockpit that currently has flight control.

There is no good reason for only listening to one sensor.

There is a sort of good reason for having a split between pilot/copilot side: the instruments are redundant (both physically and electrically), so in the event of malfunction you can failover to the other side.
Ask HN: Which other VC/incubators have a similar culture to YC?