skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's true, but I'm specifically addressing the compactness and readability concern.

With respect to efficiency and particularly timing, Go and C seems to be in the same boat here in that depending on your compiler and platform it may either compile to a constant time chain of add/adc equivalent instructions or something sub-optimal and branchy.
I am a US citizen. For many years I tried exercising this right while remaining silent.

I’ve been kicked out of a border control point in northern Vermont in February in a snowstorm after a four hour interrogation. (They sent the bus without me.)

I’ve been arrested and locked in a room for twelve hours with no food or water or medication.

I’ve been endlessly harassed and interrogated on other entries even when not exercising 5th amendment rights to silence.

In all cases they eventually let me go without charges.

They have to let you enter, but they don’t have to do it quickly or humanely.
Yea uh... can you guys fix that? Metro is a godsend and Seattle suffers greatly from the lack of it - it's super annoying to try and bus to interesting parts of the city because the traffic in those areas tends to be terrible.

(I'm in vancouver now but for a while I was regularly flying in from the US and I'd usually fly to seattle and then catch the train/amtrack bus up the last leg due to the stupidly large price difference)
Cut out the first two paragraphs of your comment, they are irrelevant and misguided. Although there are issues with online mobs and the kangaroo court that social media has become, that has nothing to do with this. Also, complaining about SJWs has become a dog whistle for bigots-- it's not even a useful term, anyways.

Regarding the third, some of Linus's rants were out and out vitriol. Like Linus, I don't hesitate to call BS when I smell BS (as is, perhaps, obvious), but I usually manage to do it in a civil manner.
That was my first thought too. And even if that’s not what GS intends to do, it will still be the end result, because their non-public automated trading will quickly become adversarial to this.
Part of the issue is that a Linux mailing list isn't just some private discussion group anymore. If Linux spits fire, it's going on reddit/r/linusrants, and being berated on potentially the front page of reddit (even if the criticism is accurate and/or deserved) definitely introduces a much higher reputation risk for the criticized person.
This zdnet piece doesn't add anything, besides ads, to the Linux Journal interview which was discussed here yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19559970
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A business transaction is mutual information - we both know it went down, and we both can share that information at will... ignoring legal and market incentives to stay quiet (eg medicine, sex toys).

My problem is unjustifiable aggregation of data that provides personal information. If a stalker gets some information from the vendor, the problem is the stalking behavior - deriving an intimate view of my personal life without justification. The line has been crossed, whatever they use the information for is just additional problems.

Commercialized stalking isn't OK on or offline. I have no problem with HN tracking that I visited this thread - mutual information - but services deriving personal information using this visit as one of many signals is crossing the line.
Ah, I did not know about try!. Thanks.
It’d be great to convert this into a mobile app that lets you take a photo and then loads it into a game analysis board. We would use this all the time at my local chess club. Sometimes we just want to know what the best move is and other times we want to save the game so we can continue it later.

I would pay $10 or $1.99 a month for this.

Food for thought!
Insects have ‘no place to hide’ from climate change, study warns
> She's gets called a stupid bitch and told girls can't code, and that she should go back to her dolls, or back into the kitchen. She decides to drop her idea of becoming an engineer.

This is a complete strawman. Linus has never said anything like this and neither has any other open source leader to the best of my knowledge. Not even close.
> I don't want to live or work in a world where I have to constantly guard my tongue for fear of "offending" someone

I don't understand this.

Essentially, your comment comes down to "I don't care how other people feel. I want to say what makes me happy, and to hell with anyone who doesn't like it."

And that's fine, I guess, if that's how you want to live your life. But offense is both taken and given — it's a two-way street. If you say something and someone says "Hey, that upset me", then you now have a choice of whether to say similar things in the future. If you choose to say those things that you have been told are offensive to this person, then you get to deal with the repercussions of that choice. After all: "If you cannot handle the heat, leave the kitchen."
This is pretty cool. Are there any similar tools out there already that don't produce garbage HTML?
Thanks. Maybe I'll take another look at them.
I'm not even sure how someone could support or oppose the second amendment. It really doesn't say much (anything?) about personal gun ownership. What people are arguing over is the interpretations through caselaw trying to figure out what this rather ambiguous segment of text was trying to say.
Uber app USED to be more convenient than the taxis that had to be called. However the companies have caught up, nearly every European taxi company has their own app. Additionally, not even Uber can beat the ease of just hailing a cab or walking into a cab on the street.
Going into the future, I think the assumption that one needs to hit exact parity with existing fossil fuels at their current price point will be re-examined. The economic comparison should be conventional extraction fossil fuels + externality costs vs cost of a scaled carbon neutral jet fuel production.

One could already see maybe small scale operations capturing niches - maybe if a corporation that operates a private jet wants to further a reduction in their carbon footprint.
FWIW, that's exactly what Apple tells us:

> If a Customs agent asks you to power up the laptop and access content with your passwords, please comply with this request. [...] Travelers should notify their supervisor and corporate security at their first opportunity.
Search for "channel factories" - it allows multiple channels to be opened with a single on-chain tx.

And looking at how many people use a custodial Bitcoin wallet today (e.g. Coinbase), many will probably use custodial LN wallets as well, with only the wallet service requiring a channel. Not recommending this of course.

Also, my use case was regarding micropayments (e.g. for reading a news article) and nanopayments (e.g. for an API call). That's below $0.30. If you're now going to say that you could top up some balance (like $20) and just deduct a cent from that for every payment, that was exactly the other point of my use case: No accounts required, neither in the DB of the news or API service, nor in the DB of some payment processor that must keep your credit card data.

So it's not just about fees, it's also about privacy.
I am going to go out on a limb here and guess that you have never been bullied, or that any bullying you received was strictly as part of a process of initiation into the club of bullies (i.e., hazing).

It turns out that people who have only been on the receiving end of bullying do not, in fact, like being bullied.
They can still take it, illegally, and then you have to spend thousands and weeks (and have to stay in the US for those weeks) suing them to get it back.
Electric heating, even with heat pumps, is still a massive inefficient power sink in terms of overall power required when compared to direct heat conversion. As nuclear energy is one of the few renewable heat sources that work independent of weather, it will be required if we want to make district heating carbon free (that being said I believe getting electrics/transportation carbon neutral will be good enough since burning NG purely for heat is efficient enough that we can justify penciling it in under the earth's natural carbon recovery budget)
Wind can put electricity on the market even without subsidies. They have every incentive to do so, since it costs them absolutely nothing to put energy into the grid while forcing fossil fuels to pay a premium.

If the government didn't subsidize renewables when the grid is oversupplied, then other resources would pay them anyway. Prices would even go negative as transients would still exist. Since the subsidies are far less than the premium made by fossil peaker plants, renewable resources are still the first to turn off and the time difference is negligible.

Not to mention that in most countries the subsidies are by FAR the least distorting legislation. Most often (eg the US) renewables get first bid on contracts. That means they are guaranteed to sell their electricity even if the price goes negative; the onus is on fossil plants to turn off. This is a dumb, possibly unnecessary bit of rule. It ensures renewables are used, but it means they aren't well utilized as peaker resources. Renewables are orders of magnitude better for the grid than any other type of generation, but if they wanted they would never be used for anything but baseload.
> @1, @2 are names, and they're no better than fst, snd.

They are better than fst and snd in a new iteration of Ruby, because giving a special meaning to existing legal identifiers in certain contexts risks breaking existing code; @1 and @2 (despite the similarity to instance variable notation) are not legal identifiers in existing Ruby so their special role has no effect on existing code.
I don't have any knowledge one way or another, but is this true? I guess it seems like we can afford healthcare just fine, but allocating money to healthcare/education/etc is a different problem.
> Customs can temporarily detain you, but they cannot refuse entry

Legal / Official Source please.
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If you have no specific case to point to then what the hell are you talking about? You can’t just make up hypothetical scenarios and then blame someone for something that never happened.

Also, while we are at it, how ridiculously simplistic and unempowering it is to pretend that a woman’s entire career choice can be determined by whether some guys are mean to her. While obviously it’s not her fault, and such behavior is unacceptable, shouldn’t the scenario end with “and then she told those assholes to get lost, because she was stronger than that superficial bullshit, got her commit accepted anyway, and went on to a lifelong career in engineering?”
It nauseates me to read this planted puffery about a company that's so evil to their employees, especially senior ones. No one who isn't utterly desperate should be applying to IBM and those there should be looking to leave before being forced into "early retirement" or being RAed (the IBMese for laid off/fired).
>Why is deciding what speech / UGC should be allowed in social media a 'corporate responsibility' such that letting the government or some 'impartial' NGO arbitrate this a bad thing?

Because there is far more freedom to reject a corporation than the government (the NGO would depend upon how it interacts with the government). NGOs and governments are susceptible to bias, and while they may be less susceptible than a private corporation, they have far stronger enforcement of what ever bias they do have (once again assuming the NGOs are somehow working with government, if not then this only applies to government).

Take for example someone determining what is allowed to be printed in a book. Let's go back about two or three decades, so during the timeframe when most of us were alive even if not at all aware of politics, when social norms and even laws enforced views that we would find objectionable today.

Now, consider two possibilities. One, corporations decides what isn't allowed and thus chooses to ban any pro-LGBT content. Two, government decides what isn't allowed and thus chooses to ban any pro-LGBT content. Which is better?

In my mind, the corporate ban is far better because it is much easier for other smaller corporations to be started that will publish pro-LGBT content. As social norms change, corporate enforcement of morals give rise to more freedom.

Perhaps an even better example that is still relevant today instead of a few decades ago: according to the federal government marijuana has no medical benefits.

I'd rather lawmakers not be making any more laws that further restrict my freedoms.
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This isn't necessarily a new idea. Tony Hoare discussed the idea for a while with his creation of Hoare triples; we are learning about the application right now in my Software Foundations course. It has a lot of interesting application within Coq for the analysis of the validity of programs, though. A good place to learn more about the application is here: https://softwarefoundations.cis.upenn.edu/current/plf-curren...
Does Apple Ship iPhones by Land or Sea?
>My understanding is that electric heating is not cost effective compared to carbon based fuels

Pretty much everyone is heating electrically here in Norway.
I learned some cool new features coming in Ruby 2.7 and I am very much looking forward to them now.

The rest of this post is drivel, complaints, and ends with begging questions answered in his opening bullets. How does this optimize ruby for happiness? Flexibility and choice.

Backwards compatibility is maintained. You can write the same old ruby you wrote before if you want to avoid change. I'm very happy to have some new syntax tools in the toolbox.
Don't read the comments... don't read the comments...
Nice article! As a web developer though, I did a quick "View Page Source" on my browser and I saw a complete mess... I'm sorry Quanta Magazine, this is not good for your business.

They really need to rethink their website. Very low Pagespeed Insights score, very slow website and HTML/CSS is just a mess.

I understand that Cloudflare or their Minimize/Cache system is doing a lot of this mess, but this will definitely effect your Google results. For example:

Inside the Source code, search for the phrase "Programmers are human, but mathematics is immortal". Do you see that it appears two times? JS is doing some crazy things and this affects their actual HTML script.

The blog seems to be build with React. I don't understand why they need to reinvent the wheel and build Blogs from scratch. Just use WordPress.

Please developers. You can do better.
Maybe Facebook should convert into a Benefit Corporation. There's a petition for this here: https://www.change.org/p/mark-zuckerberg-convert-facebook-in...
Picking up where Google Inbox left off
> Sorry Linus, you can't both be BDFL of the world's most popular OS and be able to "stupid crap".

Yes you can. He has been BDFL for the "most popular" OS for the vast majority of its lifetime while occasionally saying "stupid crap". Who is to say it hurt Linux in any significant way?

Frankly, if you're one of these tone-policing developers (not gonna name names) then I don't want you on the Linux project. Linux is too important to be engulfed in this anglo-centric culture war that is going on right now.
> Walt Disney World will still be there in 2021

Border policy won't change by 2021 either, at least not for the better.
I don't believe you're correct. DDG doesn't use Google Search, and Google wouldn't be ok with them doing that - it only has an option to redirect to Google Search using !g. I have numerous cases where Google Search lately just doesn't cut it, and DDG's results are actually better and more up-to-date. Whereas with Startpage.com, you at least get actual results, rather than useless "108912398 matches retrieved in 0.000001 ms" type crap results for shovelling ads in your face.

For important recherche-type searches, I always perform an additional Google Search, but then again, the links Google gives you are personalized results which gets in the way of neutral recherche.
This is pretty cool! I worked for a summer at Chalk River in Canada, and it was crazy that a few suppliers could produce so much of the world's medical isotopes. I remember reading about fears of a Technetium-99 shortage when it does shut down [1].

People are very hesitant about nuclear power, but medical isotope manufacturing requires little enough nuclear fuel that it should be very safe. You sound like the right person to tackle this, and the market is definitely there. Good luck!

1. https://www.nature.com/news/reactor-shutdown-threatens-world...
The window of what's considered offensive has widened to the point that nearly everything is offensive, up to and including staying silent on an issue. There are real people in the real world that will get offended if you say "hey guys" after all.

What people want is for the grievance hunters to go away and/or toughen up.
Oh, and for non-citizens: I entered the US with a partner that was canadian, we both refused to unlock our phones. She was denied entry, but they strip searched and physically groped both of our genitals before being released. Simply not wanting to enter the US was insufficient; the only way we could leave the building was by letting the cops handle our genitals.

They will use every option available to them to punish you for disobeying their commands to unlock, even if you are not legally obligated to do so.
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The thing I dislike about your argument is that the women in your hypothetical is not a powerless victim who doesn't stand a chance. Imagine if every athlete, musician, entrepreneur, stopped and quit the first time they failed or were told they weren't good enough.

Should anyone be treated in the way you describe? No. But even if this DID happen you give far to much power to the aggressor when this women seems every bit capable to say "No fuck you, I'm forking this project and its going to have a better outcome".
So, the subtitle of this article is "The gender wage gap is really a child care penalty." But why is it seemed a "penalty"? People choose to do different things, and it seems quite normal to me that people who choose to take focus off of their work to focus on their family would end up in lower positions than people who stayed focused on their careers.
Or more likely, the success rate of threats. I suspect it's high.
I was having a hard time finding the statement that SpatialOS can't run apart from Google Cloud

Search with keywords "improbable google deal". First result [1]: "Improbable is also announcing a strategic partnership with Google, the first part of which will see Google providing its Google Cloud Platform as the backend powering the service."

https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/13/improbable-teams-with-goog...
> We are agreeing on the terms and policies of all information services we use and generate data from.

If only that were true.
Don’t forget steel and concrete! Every pound of concrete releases 1 pound of CO2
Nope, the company has < 300 employees in total and < 100 working in technology.
This specific scenario didn't happen. But still, Linus has been downright abusive towards contributors in the past. It might have influenced some peoples decision to stop or to never start contributing to Linux.
Oh, and they are losing money because of platform competition, nothing else. That she only reason a market is making a loss for Uber, because of price/driver bonus war. I can go more in-depth into this if you want.
Could you pitch an example where Javascript's `arguments` improves the code? Especially wrt the positional arg syntax at hand?

The only use-case I've seen for `arguments` is to create confusing function signatures with no formal arguments.

Your linter could prohibit its usage and your code would be better off.

Btw, `(...args) => args[0] + args[1]` works. No special `arguments` variable needed. Not sure why you'd do that over `(x, y) => x + y` though.
and how do you prove some method scale up without either already being on the million dollar scale or disclosing your secret sauce?
And because of it, entire television writing styles have changed, morphing into strong season-long narratives instead of loosely related miniplots. Before, writers always had to take into account the fact that a viewer may not have seen the previous episode, or even any episodes at all.

I much prefer what TV has become, to the point where I now prefer the medium over feature length films...something I never would have expected 20 years ago.
Read the comment again. It wasn't about Linus. It was just a thing that happens and deters people from contributing code. That's why any project, and especially one as important and big as the Linux kernel should not be "my project my rules". You need safeguards against this sort of behavior.
I prefer increased crime over dealing with shit like this.
To your point, micropayments aren't a limitation of the existing financial system. People just don't want them. The issue is that people have a limited capacity to make decisions [1], and having to decide if every single site they visit or article they want to read is "worth" the $0.005 just sucks. It's the reason that Netflix and Apple Music is so successful while buying individual songs and videos via the iTunes store is cheaper in the long run, and probably even in the short run. The real value is being able to roll up the content into a monthly pass model and handling the payouts not as micropayments but what they are -- accounting. Has there ever been a successful micropayments system?

The reason we don't have micropayments isn't an accounting issue, fee-related or a technical issue -- or even a privacy issue -- it's a human biology issue. IMO hooking it up directly to a wallet without topping off isn't going to change that, especially since you still have to top off the BTC wallet regularly as you get paid in real currency. Boat-anchoring two things that are complex and people don't really want (crypto + micropayments) isn't going to make the two work all of a sudden.

The only way to really solve the news business model with something other than ads is a Netflix-for-news. I hope that Apple News becomes that because newspapers deserve to exist.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_fatigue
A lot of companies are working on electric planes for short haul flights:

https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/08/the-electric-aircraft-is-t...
Your post has an extremely pretentious tone, use the words everyone else uses if you want to be clear. You don’t sound smart using words like salient or diatribe when the simple words can do the trick.
How is it not true?