skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I strongly agree with you. We had a lot of crap in the past, but there were some gems like Chrono Trigger.

However, I seem to be the only Baldur’s Gate fan that didn’t like Pillars :)
In Praise of Public Libraries - Review of 3 pieces
gitstatusd calls ListDir in parallel from multiple threads. At least with a fast SSD it's CPU bound. I don't have an HDD to test on.
>You also realize that over time these things degrade, right?
Yes, with a half-time of 30 years.

>Not just by radioactive decay, but because organisms and chemical reactions break down the radioactive materials.
We are talking about radioactive isotopes. Nothing short of a nuclear reaction is going to "break them down", certainly not organisms or chemical reactions

>You seem to be implying that over the many years it is getting worse. Which is just untrue (and frankly should not pass a smell test).
No, I did no such thing. I said that wild boar is contaminated worse as they keep eating mushrooms for years while each mushroom only has a couple of days to aggregate radioactive isotopes.

>tldr: Trust the domain expert over some article you read on the internet.
It wasn't "some article" I quoted, but the official information of the federal office for nuclear safety.
Aren't you afraid that you focus too much on avoiding the bad ones, and not on trying to hire the top ones?

You cannot do a postmortem for failing to hire top talent, because you will never know.

What I want to say is that a bad hire is probably less important than missing out on a top candidate. Because you can always fire as soon as you find out. The other error cannot be corrected.
Comment threads collapsed by default, so that initially only the top-level comments are visible. Then I could drill down into threads only if I am interested in continuing.

However, one of the best "features" of HN is its relative lack of features.
Almost (over) a decade too
Also apparently SQL is #good now. But only because all the people who just spent the last 6 years doing Node said so.
I can't disagree with that.

As a whole, I think that Americans are woefully unprepared for end of life care. I encourage people to have an advance directive on file.
This exists, though it's a free third-party service.

http://www.hnreplies.com
Your comment seems to be a result of ignorance of what TypeScript is and how it works.

The main point you're missing is that TypeScript is gradual. It's a superset of JavaScript, meaning that you can use TypeScript when you want it or ignore it when you don't want it.

Any valid JavaScript file is also a valid TypeScript file.

> Dynamically typed languages are DANGEROUS!!!

See above. TypeScript is dynamically typed by default. It just also has a static type checker that you can opt into.

A good practice in both JavaScript and TypeScript is to use "const" instead of "var" or "let" anyway.

> I believe static type checking should ideally be done by the IDE

JavaScript doesn't have enough explicit information for this to be possible. The IDE can do a lot, but it can't do nearly as much if the developer's intentions are implicit. In TypeScript, the developer has the option (again, not the requirement) to make her intentions explicit.

> we shouldn't need an entire new language for that with all its shortcomings

Again, see above. TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript, not an entirely new language.

> At least heaps of Typescript code bases that need to be rewritten.

No, they won't. TypeScript compilers will still be available, even if they're not actively developed. They produce JavaScript, so worst-case scenario, you'll just have a JavaScript code base.
I'm not sure about you, but yes, I'm def outraged by analytics gathered without user's consent, sometimes complete with fingerprinting, as well.

I tolerate WebRTC blocker, Canvas Blocker, DecentralEyes, FPI, PrivacyBadger, HttpsEverywhere, uMatrix, and NoScript on Firefox and painfully deal with all the broken websites, despite the costs. It is worth it ten times over.
A lot of the premium thermal paste products are non-conductive (electrically) and still way better than the stuff they put on at the factory and will improve you situation.

I don’t think that thermal grizzly products are a bad place to start looking. I haven’t tried them myself, but GamersNexus are advertising/recommending them and I do trust them.
$400 screwdrivers? The screwdrivers pictured were 349 rupees ~ $5.
That makes things worse, usually you want to less weight on the trailer. Right now I've got a 7.5k towing capacity, if a pack weighs 2-3k that cuts my towing capacity in half.
What is Prisma actually? Is it an ORM or a client for a db that exposes a GraphQL API for the data stored?
And which we might not win by smarts either.

Several billion years of evolution can trump some experts trying to come with a clever solution in a short time. Same way we haven't eradicated the common flu, cancer and tons of other things that still get billions in research every year either after a century of trying...

A "spanish flu" like situation can lead to hundreds of millions dead in this much more interconnected era (cheap flights etc) compared to 1910s...
There is a "hide" button. Not sure if that's what you mean by "kill file."
Not all peace is welcome, mind you.
Good question, and in fact your logic totally makes sense. But my personal experience differs. I used to use both AdGuard Pro and Weblock and they both used up to 10-15% of battery life (as indicated in the Settings app). I’m not sure why this was happening. One possible explanation is that the VPN binary running in the background prevents the phone from entering some battery saving configurations it normally enters when there is no network activity, perhaps. I don’t know how VPN clients are handled behind the scenes, so if someone could chime in that would be great.
That's true, if we are all dirt poor and struggling just to survive we would be more equal. If that's what you want. Is equality the ultimate good?
What are “poor people’s problems”? Do such problems go away simply by not having poor people? In that case, do you solve the first order problems, or try to solve not having the poor?

There is a general correlation between a wide range of malignancies, including lower educational attainment (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1080/014119295021...) and lower life expectancy (https://jech.bmj.com/content/59/2/115.short). While it's plausible that these problems could be addressed by radically revising the structure of society (for example, if parents could not influence the educational institutions attended by their offspring, educational outcomes might be much more equal), the necessary revisions don't seem plausible in most Western societies as currently constituted. Thus, simply reducing gross inequality seems like a reasonable suggestion.

Would you try to differentiate the under-moneyed from the under-inspired? Are their problems the same?

No. Who cares, anyway?

If you want to use “markets”, how do you avoid Idiocracy?

The existence of the film Idiocracy is not an argument for believing that such a society is a plausible or likely outcome of massive redistribution.
You may need... I cannot guarantee it will work 100% of time, but it works very well. Try the extension on Medium for example, you should be able to save the whole page without needing to scroll.
No, but somewhat related, I was at a company that mandated a switch from Java to .net and fired the entire java staff and left only a skeleton crew of java devs. The skeleton crew left and the newly hired .net folks were left holding the bag.
>The money was all appropriated for the top in the hopes that it would trickle down to the needy. Mr. Hoover was an engineer. He knew that water trickles down. Put it uphill and let it go and it will reach the driest little spot. But he didn’t know that money trickled up. Give it to the people at the bottom and the people at the top will have it before night, anyhow. But it will at least have passed through the poor fellows hands. They saved the big banks, but the little ones went up the flue.

- Will Rogers
5 Years On, an AWS Heartbleed Story
I would be perfectly comfortable flying on the 737 Max right now even without the software fixes.
I've got no such issues, so those questions seem rhetorical to me.
I am specifically talking about business owners' ability to get health coverage for themselves and their families, not requirements around getting coverage for their employees. This class of people includes lawyers, consultants, Uber/Lyft/Taxi drivers, plumbers, roofers, and landscapers. People like me benefit from the ACA. People that make less money now have to spend more on insurance for their family.
I have the same and it's easily the best interface I've ever used on any microwave. I am always baffled by the ones with two dozen buttons. Who on earth uses all those modes? Even more infuriating is when they actually make it harder to enter the time you want by doing something insane like only having a 'one minute' and a 'ten seconds' button that you have to press repeatedly.

If someone could make washing machines, dryers, dishwashers and TV remotes with similarly decluttered interfaces I would be very happy. I even find fridges hard to use! Most of them seem to have a scale (e.g. 1-5) of buttons for the fridge temperature. Who can tell me (without looking in the manual) which end of that scale is 'cold' and which is 'warm'? They never label whether it represents power or temperature.
That was supposed to be the "great engine" of capitalism dogma.

That self-interest, and doing things for one's local gains, ends up to the benefit of everybody.

It started with Adam Smith: ""It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity, but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages"."

and ended up in ever increased praises of self-interest (Ayn Rand, etc) over communal values and morality.
Certainly, I concur- the tofu is definitely better. :)

Sadly, we live in a world where everyone knows how to skillfully prepare beef, but no one knows how to do the same thing with tofu. I think that accounts for the difference. (Useful experiment: try a piece of raw beef, and then a piece of raw tofu. They’re both equally bad!)
> Good point, but who will define "acceptable" and how?

The people who decide whether the outcome of the present system is or is not sufficiently worse than they would expect in a revolution in which they dispossess those visibly advantaged by the present system by force to justify engaging in such a revolution, ultimately, decide; at least, that is clearly the author’s point, and as a billionaire he has a vested interest in that decision not coming up in favor of revolution.

> And what happens when it is "not acceptable"?

Blood in the streets is what happens, or at least the inmediate, direct, personal threat of it.
Fiat to pool with Tesla to avoid EU fines
Post author called out the warranty multiple times. If you're in the USA, at least, bear in mind that doing what's described in the post does not void the warranty. The Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act explicitly requires the manufacturer to prove that your action caused the negative impact the warranty claim is made against, otherwise they legally can't void your warranty.
> I'd also point out that the Postman book was written in 1985, and TV/Movies then vs now with the choices and streaming and the improvement in the medium, I mean, it's not even close to the same thing.

Very true. And that is part of what makes the book so impressive. It is the most prescient piece of writing that I have ever read, in how well it predicts our current politics, and to a lesser degreee, society.

The book does not argue that tv is dumb, and watching it makes you dumb. The argument is more that the structure of tv tends to favor the types of content that aren’t good for society. Even though social media wasn’t around when the book was written, the analysis can easily be extended to provide a lot of insight into its effects on society.

I’m not saying not to watch tv - I watch plenty of it myself. I’m just (poorly) trying to answer your question about why a documentary would be any worse than a podcast.
Of course, he gets the job done no matter what.
For Robinhood crypto, there's form8949.com which is generally fantastic. It can import from a number of crypto exchanges in addition to the traditional brokers.
Very cool project! Thank you for taking the time to prepare this reveal so well. Examples and roadmap and all. Good job!

It looks like you started with writing an interpreter in C#, then wrote the compiler in the language itself. Which is a cool concept, I must say. I can't fully wrap my head around the practicalities, though. Do you compile the compiler with an older version of itself during development? Do you plan to update the interpreter as the language evolves?

Builtin serialization of any type Couldn't this be implemented with compile time evaluation in the standard library?

Variable redeclarations Why?

What about a build tool? Is an interface with the compiler going to be part of the compile time evaluation?

How long have you been working on this? Is this your first language project?
Its syntax and design was very appealing to Ruby developers. I was more surprised when Fog Creek chose it for Trello in '12, but yeah back then the raw Javascript experience was fairly poor, and Typescript would still take a couple of years to be ready for production.
As consumers we don't need it. If it was up to us we would never agree to invest so much into this tech for so little gain.

But all those giant corporations always want to sell you more devices, more expensive services, show you ads faster, track you and spy on you better, make more excuses to raise prices, harm competition, etc.
That is what I was referring to earlier in the thread. I think that case had far reaching effects, even to this day.
Verizon picks up that the IMEI of the device on the line is different than the one that is on file for your line, attempts to update it, and in the process of doing so breaks service on your line. You can swap over to a working Verizon supported device and swap back, but it could be hours to weeks later when you get this issue occurring again.
I'm guessing this comment is tongue in cheek.

I've heard it before from folks who were putting themselves in the #1 category, and also, it appeared, exhibiting Dunning–Kruger effects.
But it's the last sentence that correctly identified the root cause.

The previous diagnosis he makes is one level up from the root.
The problem is how the disease emerged, not the hospitals...
I did not know that PL/1 was used in Multics but I did know that Prime did develop from it.

At one point I did have Level 6 (root) on all of BT's primes and level 7 on the billing systems.
Perhaps that's true in some parts of California. The parts I'm acquainted with seem to be overflowing with homeless.
I don't think they would be dragged into it. Just don't use any of the patents in the portfolio that has this clause. You had no right to use them before the clause.
Sure, assuming it's just MCAS. The B737 program has had previous problems most notably uncommanded rudder movement that caused two US crashes in the 1990s with loss of all on board. [1]

From what's visible so far in the investigations Boeing (a) botched the MCAS implementation and (b) failed to train pilots on differences between the Max and previous models. Cure those two and the problem seems to be solved.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_rudder_issues
Also check out Ambassador, which uses Envoy too. Friendly team and easy to grok API.
Any ideas why Apple doesn't do this themselves?

I understand that it doesn't make the system look better to a low-information buyer. So Lenovo aren't doing it. But Apply seem motivated to add small costs in exchange for moderate (if invisible) benefits.
Agreed, incentivizing productive sectors at the expense of non productive (including rent seeking) is the ideal. But it can be tricky to objectively and systematically spot the productive sectors.

But note: if the poor had more spending power there would be more incentive to satisfy their needs without guessing. This would not only lift their productivity[1] but directly reduce misery and political instability. Further more it directly, bluntly and unambiguously addresses the inequality problem.

We would, in essence, allow them to choose the industries that need backing and so avoid too many direct government decisions. And, necessarily, those are the industries that will relive the problem most quickly.

[1]With the additional choices that additional prosperity brings, individuals tend to choose higher productivity activities.
Neither is the Lockheed Electra (one would guess that the author means that airplane instead of the Constellation). Airlines cancelled their orders and Lockheed had to end production of the model early, leading to very substantial losses for the company.
What you described is the waterfall approach, which brings so many problems in most real world software development scenarios.
Hopefully this sends a clear message to the european manufacturers. Unless they invest into their own electric cars, they will invest into Tesla and sign their own death.
How to increase your chances of finding a hidden camera
There are 3 generations of 4 fermions, each has a mass. One sets the scale of the theory, meaning we should express all the dimensionful quantities in terms of that mass. So, that gives 11 parameters.

Then there are the mixing angles in the CKM matrix. For three generations, that matrix is a 3x3 unitary matrix = 9 parameters. But, we can absorb arbitrary phases into each quark field, but should add one back for the global U(1) phase for 9-6+1 = 4 parameters, 3 mixing angles and 1 CP-violating phase. We're up to 15.

We have 3 forces in the Standard Model, each has a gauge coupling. 18.

There's the Higgs vev and mass, 20.

QCD admits a marginal topological quantity, θ_QCD. As far as anyone knows it's zero to many digits of precision. Still, it's in principle a free parameter of the Standard Model, so 21.

Then there's the Planck mass (or equivalently, G), 22, which is the number I remember.

I suppose now that we are certain neutrinos have mass I should include the parameters of the PMNS mixing matrix, if you're willing to count them in the Standard Model (they're not in the Glashow-Weinberg-Salaam work, for example). How many free parameters it contains depends on whether neutrinos are Majorana. If they're Dirac, it's 4 parameters (like the CKM matrix), if they're Majorana there are 2 additional CP-violating phases.

So, 26 or 28 continuous parameters in the Cosmic Control Booth according to the Standard Model. There's of course discrete kinds of questions you can ask, like "Why is the gauge group SU(3) x SU(2) x U(1)"; I'm not sure how to count such a choice. I think it's fair to ask, "Here's the physical theory with the matter content set, what are the free parameters?".
Though you have a point, writing down type annotations can seriously slow you down when you are doing exploratory (prototyping) programming. It can also make your code less readable as the annotations can get in the way of the logic you really care about (easily fixed in an IDE, but people want to still use notepad to edit/read code). Then there is figuring out what the annotation should be in the first place, again easily enough automated in an IDE but the notepad problem remains.
If you make something open source and free for anyone to use, don’t complain when anyone uses it. That’s kind of the point.
>Nothing holding back the working class is caused by plutocrats.

Rich opaque individual families, particularly since Citizens United, have played an important political role in enabling the redistribution towards the upper middle class and the politics responsible for it.

So yes, while in material terms the bigger squeeze for the working class and the poor is the "petite bourgeoisie" rather than Jeff Bezos, the political corruption to a significant degree can be traced back to donors and shouldn't be neglected.

This is especially relevant in the context of Dalio's criticism because he is not just identifying problems, but also demanding that there is a quick, top-down solution to those problems. That requires us to ask why institutions allow bad policy in the first place. You can have the best, most wonkish proposals for how to solve every problem, and there's no shortage of people who propose to have found them. What is lacking is clearly the ability to execute them.
It's also quite common to be right and the doctors to just dismiss it (only to be proved by another doctors, sometimes year later).
Eh, I just bought a new set of HST and hydraulic filters for our L4760 and they're anything but small.

I'm sure their tinier on the B/BX line but those also have a lower flow and capacity.
Does this tool take multiple tax years into account for cost basis?
If Apple decides to flagrantly break that law, what options does an individual consumer have? Is there a government agency that will fight on behalf of that consumer, or does the consumer have to hire their own lawyer?
or find 65,536 words and use them to encode 16-bit numbers, then you could leverage your existing word associations to memorize
Wealth confers political power, and potentially, the power to act above the law. Of course there is a balancing act, because "equally poor" is hardly a preferable alternative, but the imbalance of power can be offset to some extent by a certain amount of redistribution.
Ah, good question. Rust could definitely be in that list as well! It's a more mature language (so that's why I didn't mention it in the list), but conceptually it very much fits.
Yeah, I've always been curious if running a diesel motor at optimum RPM offsets the conversions loss.
I think your maths is sound but the question is what are the odds that multiple sensors fail on the same flight (and I don't know the answer)?

Because as soon as one sensor fails that aircraft will go in for maintenance.
This is the same physics I was taught in school as for two cars crashing into each other at 70mph I presume? Neither has a 140mph impact, although a 140mph impact would involve more than double the energy anyway AIUI.
How is that? Even if its nose goes down after take off? That's something for sure.
The point is that the compiler does not have enough information to do this automatically.
This is a good reference. I love that you guys mentioned Metheny and Tom Jenkinson, these are two of my biggest influences and favorite musicians.
Have you seen what Lars Dietrich does with 'Lucy'? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzW6IbggtY8
> Yet he argues capitalism needs reform because it could lead to real conflict between people in a country and not because it is unfair.

Which is likely a more effective argument to the ruling elite than fairness: To quote Heinlein’s Lazarus Long: Never appeal to a man’s “better nature.” He may not have one. Invoking self-interest gives you more leverage.

> He wants to be safe, so do I, but I'm not a hedge fund billionaire

An economic revolution may target the wealthy, but revolutions are rarely conducted without substantial collateral damage (and harm to the revolutionaries themselves, which is why it takes more than a little transitory pain to provoke them.)