skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Real World Developer's Problems: API Versioning
I'm imagining a dumpster diving industry arising where people find hair scraps and sell them to insurance companies
There's also the classic one-liner:

unique_array = list(set(non_unique_array))
Please Don't Say Just Hello In Chat (2013)
Nice! It's been the best constant in my life for the past 6 years (well configs, plugins, and emacs evolved, but very smooth and usually with my pace).

I would, however, love to hear a bit more on how you felt about the future of Emacs in those 30 years. I dunno much history, but is there any contrast to the present where Atom/VSCode is kinda shipping shiny (and useful) stuff way faster meanwhile being very configurable.
Lots of patents are complete bullshit.
A quick and dirty implementation of a stochastic version of Conway's Game of Life. Uses Poison distribution to update cell state.
Do those deals have expirations, or are they "for life"?

I feel like once a musician is established, the label should have to justify their ongoing role in that musician's career, and certainly in the past lots of musicians have switched labels or started their own small labels later on in their career.
No, distributed responsibility is qualitatively different from a single responsible party.
"I almost get hit" – so, you don't get hit? Once or twice a year you get... startled?

In NYC in 2017, cars injured 10561 pedestrians and 4397 cyclists, and killed 106 pedestrians and 24 cyclists. Cyclists injured 315 pedestrians and killed one. http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/bicycle-crash-data...

In NYC in 2016, cars injured 10775 pedestrians and 4592 cyclists, and killed 148 pedestrians and 18 cyclists. Cyclists injured 311 pedestrians and killed none at all. http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/bicycle-crash-data...

So the "different" thing that bicyclists see about cycling is that it's much less hazardous to pedestrians.
You know, I never understood why people consider JSON better than XML. Yes, any particular use of XML can be overengineered (namespaces, I'm looking at you), but as long as you control the format or scheme or however you want to call it, it's exactly the same thing as JSON, but encoded differently. In the end, it's all just keys and values or lists of values, arranged in a tree-like hierarchy.

And frankly, I would rather be looking at a well-designed XML format than at a well designed JSON format, with its braces and brackets and commas.
A coroutine-ish solution is ultimately how Kmett did it too. What makes it tricky is when you do it over Sum types. You actually don't know how long either side of the sum will take to compute, so you need to execute them speculatively. You actually have to be able to yield for one of several coroutines.
`casefold` is for caseless comparisons, `lower` is for display.
He's saying: this is why Uber city-ridership as a Zipf law with alpha = X: the economy has a Zipf law with alpha = X.

You're saying: this value of alpha presents a concentration of risk for Uber. Yes, you're both saying things that aren't false.
Is the net cost of these "side projects" greater than the $1.8B Uber is losing? I'm missing that in the S-1 if so.
There's absolutely no entertainment there whatsoever. No movie theater, no play-centers for your kids to play, no public seating... and you need a ticket to walk around the structures. What drunk architect designed this place?
You do make a good point, but the made up answer option is basically just opting out of the system for both good and bad. In my experience, the mother's maiden name thing is rarely the primary identifier. It is usually used if the primary identifier like a password or passcode isn't known. So the question becomes in what instances would a person have a record/memory of the fake name but no record/memory of their password? The only situation I can imagine that happening is if the person reuses their fake name which defeats the whole point of doing this for the added security. The end result is that the secondary identification system has almost no value.
Sure, censoring racists on YouTube means less racists on YouTube. But it does NOT mean less racists in the world.
>> My fuel not burning in my wings wouldn't change anything, as I'm constrained by takeoff weight not by landing weight

I realize every pilot's job is different...but it's routine where I've worked(not as a pilot, but as a LIDAR operator), to skimp on fuel so we could still make weight & balance with our equipment on board. I've never heard(same as you) of anyone counting on that decrease in weight from fuel consumption though.
Company uses AI to flag racist and sexist comments from potential hires
Well then, the real need is to determine if Uber's competitors suffer a similar issue or not.
Speaking about age and contributions. I turned 36 today and this emacs version is the first one that has some code of mine.

It's strange, but I feel extremely excited about this coincidence. :D
Which is fine. I'm fairly sure that's n log n, although sometimes those end up being n^2 if they're biased towards memory friendliness.
The tragedy of slack is that it was supposed to save us from email. The irony is that email itself was never the problem, as always it was people & culture.
Yeah, a children's book in every Uber.
"Versioning support" is the wording from the release notes. I don't know why cargo's version resolution logic can't be applied to git dependencies, treating a tag like "v4.2" or "4.2" as a version 4.2 doesn't seem very contentious. I also don't know what you mean by local git dep.
Prequels, with all their flaws, still tell a much more cohesive, continuous story than the Sequels do. Very sad that George Lucas sold his baby.
But it's not for a "dev team" at all, the way I understood it, it's:

"Learn how you can earn paid grants improving Pengwin."

"Your proposal will be promptly evaluated" ... "Your work sample and GitHub history will be evaluated to determine if you have the technical competancy to implement the proposed change and deliver timely." "If approved, you will recieve a simple agreement covering the scope of the work you will be doing which you must acknowledge and return and then you may commence work."
I imagine the electric "bonus" at higher altitudes would be similar to a turbo prop's bonus. You can get more efficiency at higher altitudes, but it all goes away if you climb further.
Apple actually does a really good job of making it hard for developers to track a specific device (if they want to get approved for the App Store, that is).
excuse me one's body and its DNA is most definitely one's property
Spotify isn’t exactly rolling in money. They aren’t even making a profit.
to me the biggest surprise is the fact it took 3 hours.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-11/team-link...
Based on limited testing, I think IO is slower on Windows even when there's no filesystem involved at all. The block layer is just slower, despite having so few features that it's hardly worthy of being called a layer compared to what's possible on Linux.
I have worked at small firms all the time but I rarely feel like I've done much impact. If I did I would ostensibly have more people vouching for my work and getting more interviews via referrals.

But I don't have this reputation, so it seems like I'm a major outlier. A person who has only worked for small companies but nevertheless feeling disposable or mundane in the grand scheme of things. I did not learn the importance of creating value.

Maybe it's due to my perpetual contractor status? As never working legally as an employee, I'm not expected to have much stake in the business, or its decision-making. I didn't intend to always be a contractor. I took a contract-to-hire job right out of school, but the "hire" part never came. The company moved the goalposts.

> Work on interview prep should be as much about social skills as technical.

This is exactly what I mean about having trouble finding good reliable resources for reading one's interview approach. There is no structured interviewing platform that focuses on soft skills, that I know of. No "cracking the soft skills interview" book.
Perhaps you're thinking of this story?

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2009/jun/11/smith-family-p...

When the Smiths of Missouri – an all-American family with the regulation two blond children – posed for their Christmas photo, little did they know they would end up on a billboard thousands of miles away in the Czech Republic.

Just under a fortnight ago, a family friend of Jeff and Danielle Smith was travelling in Prague when he spotted some familiar faces beaming out of a poster advertising a grocery store's home delivery service.
Although 'hacker' is often used as a positive term on HN, breaking into a company's production server is clearly illegal activity and should not be condoned. If Github deleted the account, they are simply acting in accordance to published TOS & policy.
Motors came be 99% efficient, compared to ICE at 20%. Cooling isn't that huge of a deal. If a wing can operate at a given altitude you can design electric propulsion that will also work there. The U2 operated on a turbine at 70,000ft. A turbine is just a very complicated prop at the end of the day so in theory a large cord/diameter prop or a high speed ducted fan would also work. The actual altitudes were're talking about for GA are far lower though. Most GA aircraft top out below 18,000. Electrics will likely prefer operating at 20,000+.
My concern with the net sales comparison is that I think for eBay that only includes their fee, not the actual retail price of the goods, whereas for Amazon it is the entire price of goods sold. That to me seemed a much more apples-to-oranges comparison which is why I didn't cite it. I have no idea what's actually true. I would be interested if someone wanted to sort out the truth there but I hit my limit for how much more research I want to do.
A 3-step plan to achieve regulatory capture:

1. Fail to moderate and engineer your platform, it turns into a complete cesspool

2. Government is forced to step in

3. Easily comply with government regulations because you're massive, now it is impossible for anyone to compete with you
Most lenders require a personal guarantee even if it is a business loan.
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It's still relatively common for people in IT in general and security specifically to have no formal background in it, so citing what someone did ages ago in university isn't all that convincing to establish lack of "clue about tech".
I’ve seen this pop up a lot lately—someone who’s been using Emacs or Vim for years and then sees the “new cool” editor and says they’ll be switching to it.

I have the same question, since someone who’s used Emacs for that long would surely have “seen the light” already. Maybe they’re yak shaving with the config instead of getting work done? That’s one of the few valid complaints I can think of.
You think you’re entitled to a trained developer for the price of an inexperienced developer. That’s not going to happen. No wonder they leave.
I'm of two minds as to whether it's better to be wholly unique like my First Name/Last Name pairing is or to have a name like John Smith.

The worst is doubtless to share an uncommon but not unique name with someone who could plausibly be you who is controversial/a criminal/etc. Pre-Web I went to school with someone who shared a name with a very unpopular figure in the same city. My schoolmate got literal death threats left on his answering machine.
AWS is now pushing Alexa for Business, which I assume is a corporate wide AI product along similar lines as IBM's Watson.
Interesting thought, thanks for sharing
I thought they mostly exited by now. I know Sony and Universal sold significant amounts of their stakes.
USA will n-e-v-e-r get something like GDPR.

Lobbying has corrupted US democracy, freedom, privacy, and legislation to the point that these may never recover. The moment something GDPR-like will be drafted, those snakes (large corporations & lobbies) will do their best (aka bribe $$$$$$$$$$$$) to stop this. (for those who don't like the word bribe, feel free to replace with 'donate' - but imho paying someone elected to change their mind and go against the people's interests, is pure bribery-fraud)

Once a USA-GDPR moves in (which will never happen), people will start to wake up and smell the coffee, and realize that the threat is real. That awakening will lead to another issue.

The 3-leter-agencies (whether in the Light or in the Dark) will also fight this tooth and nail. Now they have a sweet deal. They spy on everyone, people are stupid/naive/careless enough to publicise every-thing they do/eat/say. In a USA-GDPR scenario where civilians will start 'thinking' again, agencies will have to try harder (aka increased budget/spending) to hoard the same amount of information.
Games really aren't a good benchmark for overall system performance as they are generally optimized for Windows and non-Windows ports often receive a lot less attention. Also, most games are primarily stressing one thing - the graphics stack - and not I/O, scheduling, memory management etc.
THANK YOU! (I upvoted.)

I was going to post how I can't wait to NuttX all over my embedded devices if no one had commented on this yet. Consequences to my fake internet points be damned.
I assume you are limiting your definition of "system-taxing" to playing games specifically?

As other people have noted, filesystem performance is often better under Linux.

I also will point out that at least some rendering tasks can be faster under Linux as well:

http://blog.thepixelary.com/post/167616662857/improving-perf...

Just like with the filesystem performance discrepancy, this article seems to point out WDDM (Windows drivers) as the reason for this rendering discrepancy.

And while we are on gaming (since I am a gamer as well!) when comparing games that run natively on Linux as well as Windows, Linux often has a performance edge over Windows:

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Win10-Li...

Of course most games do not support Linux natively so in order to game on Linux you have to use WINE, Proton, or full virtualization to get a non-native game to run and this extra middleware layer adds overhead. But this doesn't mean gaming performance on Linux is worse than Windows; as comparing native-to-native performance shows.
A free timed ticket is way better than a long line.

The lack of public seating makes the place weird/uncomfortable to visit though.
And streams of refugees? Surely they're not feeling from their war-torn home nations. This post is sensationalism and part of the reason why people don't take climate alarmists seriously.
Sometimes their value to you is less than their value to someone else. You may need them, but the value they bring to the business has to pay off. That puts a hard limit on what you can pay for that skill.

It can suck to run a business - sometimes there's no good solution. I'd suggest more contracting for necessary-but-non-critical skills, but contracting's a jungle too.
I was disappointed the only example they gave for misusing data was that celebrity dead beat dads might be exposed.

>> As DNA databases grow, so too does the potential for abuse. “Misuse of surreptitious DNA is potentially a big problem,” says Debbie Kennett, genealogist and author. “You can imagine celebrities and politicians being stalked to get illicit DNA samples for paternity testing without consent.” <<

Certainly, there must be worse outcomes than some powerful men running the risk of being shown to be someone’s dad?
> So the question becomes in what instances would a person have a record/memory of the fake name but no record/memory of their password?

I have both recorded in password vault and both are random.

The benefit is it they've reset my password for some reason or it was hijacked. I've been able to recover accounts. Not because I forgot a password but because it was essentially a harder to change 2nd "secret"
It had nothing to do with the subgroups availability to pirate. By that I’m assuming you mean the “urban youth”.

Sale of rap and even “gangsta rap” has been dominated by White people for two decades.

https://atlantablackstar.com/2014/11/06/really-listening/
A simple hierarchy: when there is deadline work to do that work takes precedence, fair work gets the rest of the time. This is effective because deadline work has bounded execution time, whereas fair work is elastic and can adjust to use the available bandwidth.
that’s because for those cases the power draw is hard to predict. in case of your phone, the BMS might be lying and also the state of health of the cell might not be accounted for, but it’s more likely that some apps are juat power hungry.
as for the EV, it’s doing the same thing as an ICE car, it predicts the range based on your last x kilometers, if you step on the throttle your range will deteriorate as you reach higher speeds and drag increases. a traditional car will start reducing the estimated range as well.
I imagine that the aviation industry is much better at predicting and controlling the power draw, therefore the range won’t be so unpredictable.
it’s not the cells that are unpredictable, it’s their end user.
Yeah, well... using CIA and SOF to abduct people is just US M.O. With or without permission from the "host" country.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mullah_Krekar#CIA,_Pentagon,_a...
> Make mentoring/growth a central strategy at every level so people will see a path to grow.

I have been following hackernews for 15 years. 20 years since I saw an stallman interview in local pc magazine, blown away by the intensity of the man. I am an artist. I love to read plt stuff and haskell lisp code, I cried over sussman lectures.. It expands my mind, finding ways to express my thoughts so that common people in my world can understand me better, for their sake. I dont write programs, a lot of the code feels unmusical, not ergonomic, my musical background made me aware of how unmusical a keyboard feels like. Learning functional programming has made me aware how most people use imperative chain rule sequences to generate their thought patterns. I would love to work with inspired people just building new ways to express thoughts. But I quietly read and try to translate visions and feelings into code. Writting linear sentences is becoming a drag. It feels as if the time is ripe to raise our conversations to a more constructive functional level. It is happening. It is a slow progress. I can't see myself working in IT because of business deadline material oriented approach. So I continue to quietly read plt stuff. I do not want to understand anything because the other is usually limited to a smaller temporal frame. I read code and apply different real life variables to it and see how the interactions develop within my interaction space. How would you mentor me? /rant
I wonder what the makers of Zero Dark Thirty did to keep it compelling. I haven't seen the movie myself. The real-life mission resulted in only one light injury among the Americans and involved zero fist fights. Osama bin Laden himself was killed before he could fire a single shot or throw a punch.
Here you go! If you visit the site on mobile it links directly. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fitness-ai-weight-lifting-pl...
What's interesting to me about that when I've visited Voat it is such an obviously disgusting and terrible place that it actually makes me way less sympathetic toward those were banned from Reddit than I might have been when it happened. I don't mean to imply I support many of the banned communities. Just that was somewhat open to the complaints about censorship.
That’s by design. We live in a culture that treats everyone like children because adults are too difficult to manage and manipulate.
Kind of. If you need to scale compute across multiple nodes, starting out as some kind of service abstraction over a method call will help. But most people don't need that scale.
Why is “much more optimization” a limitation? What is preventing devs from optimizing the linux version? If the OS is more performant that should require less effort, no?
There's no seating because you're not meant to sit. A lot of public space these days is designed to be hostile for that use, so that undesirables like the homeless don't linger, but in the process it becomes hostile to everybody.

A lot of public-facing plazas are meant to be ornamental or monumental and nothing more, which is quite sad.
My memory is a bit vague, but I do seem to recall that there are some older GA twins where the maximum takeoff weight can exceed the maximum landing weight. Therefore, if you have an engine out immediately after takeoff with full load, you need to circle around for a bit to burn fuel.

I'd have to dig around to find out exactly which aircraft this refers to, but I'm going to take a guess that it's something like a Piper Apache or Aztec.
I think the point is that combustion engines require the thicker atmosphere to oxidize the fuel in combustion. The electric planes just need inertial reaction, they don't need oxygen.
Propellers are generally limited by torque, which is something that electric motors excel at.
For many years Mongo would not allow you to use only Unix Domain sockets. It would always create a TCP socket as well, making it harder to secure, and nearly impossible to secure against other processes running on the server.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21421410/how-to-disable-...
If you could package it up nicely, maybe one of the Emacs distributions would consider upstreaming your solution. I doubt that the pure-GNU Emacs maintainers would be too happy about it considering RMS’s choice to remove Mac- and Windows- specific API usages since they gave the nonfree OSs an “advantage”.
What about the hair you leave behind on the subway? Or when you spit on the field during an ultimate frisbee game?

I can’t take your hair off your head, but I can take it off the ground.
I love Emacs! I just wish it had a decent text editor…
Warren Buffett’s Rule: Simplify Your Life, Maximize Results
RT tasks get prioritized over normal ones but only up to a configurable fraction of CPU time slices.

If you need even more guarantees than that another option is to pin tasks to a set of CPU cores to isolate workloads from each other. The kernel can also be told to not use certain cores for interrupt handling or kernel-internal tasks. So with some effort it's possible to almost entirely dedicate a core to a single thread.
Almost certainly. The "point" is that vim has the better controls and emacs has better everything else.
IANAL but you should be careful about sharing private information about a large publicly traded company
Remember when techies argued that torrent files or bare content hashes are not the data they are derived from, and all the talk about “illegal numbers”?

Yeah, me neither.

So even the hearsay about the links to the page that may include magnet links lowers your Chinese-style social credit score if nameless hard-working censor of some “respectable” corporation is triggered by that.
Interesting product. All the discussion about training airline pilots makes me wonder if their value add is they can tune their fly by wire system to have the flight characteristics of a larger jet for familiarity with takeoffs and landings. That might make up for the relatively limited air time the plane can achieve (you don't need a lot of time for training flights per say). Turn around time would become an issue though in terms of how many you would need to sustain a full training day for a given number of students.
Its not about performance. innerHTML is actually fast. Its about security and maintainability. InnerHTML makes it easy not only for the developer but also an hacker to inject code into a web page/app. innerHTML is like a global missile satellite network that can fire anywhere at any time. Instead you want to design like a plumber, where data flows via a pipe to the database, then back again in another pipe which change the state of the view. You should not have a single HTML tag in your single page application!