skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve learned a lot by reading burntsushis code, so thank you for everything you’ve written.

Separately, ripgrep is a great advertisement of what Rust is capable of. First, it shows it’s possible to write highly performant and reliable applications without resorting to non readable code. Second, it shows how simple it is to separate applications into a library + binary thanks to Rust’s package management. Ripgrep is merely a command line interface to libripgrep, which is reused in other applications like VS Code. The regex and directory walking code that was once part of the main ripgrep code base are now crates that are reused to great effect throughout the ecosystem.
This is both good and bad news. Everyone benefits from greater transparency, and for once, a high ranking official being charged is refreshing.

But it also raises the question of whether a person acting on behalf of a company is chargeable, as typically, the company is the legal entity that the law targets. How can individuals be protected from legal failings of a corporation?
We can see that the dynamics of ratings are very complicated. It's not about the system's design, but also the load and bias on decisions from the buyer and the seller.
Seconding your comment. The presentation isn't ambiguous, it's just written in a detached, conservative style typical to scientific papers.
I don't know about the rest of the world, but in Southern Africa, VW's service is absolutely terrible.

The cars themselves are not bad, but the service centres are downright dishonest and very unhelpful. So, for me at least, the real reputation problem is their attitude towards the customer.
As a white male, the barber shop is one thing I always envied African-Americans. Seems nice to have a place where you can always drop by for some loose banter with the local guys.
Cryptocurrency users?

(Although they tend to be very bad at threat modelling)
Yes, I think we do have a deep, philosophical disagreement here. You seem to be taking a more "coherentist" approach (very roughly, if theories X, Y, and Z all explain observed phenomena P_1, P_2, ... P_n, then there's probably something to all of them.") OTOH, I would counter that if theories Y and Z offer no testable predictions beyond that which established theory X does, then they are of limited value. In this way, I would follow Lakatos and Kuhn most closely.

The irony here is that, although I am a professional software engineer, the entirety of my post-secondary education is in mathematics. I did some research in graph theory when I was in grad school, so I am actually quite familiar with this notion of "phase transition" that you're referring to. But, I also don't consider mathematics to be a science, because I define "science" in the same way as Wikipedia: "...a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe." There are many things mathematics can describe that are inherently unphysical, which, IMO, makes mathematics itself not a science, however excellent a tool for science it is. And, it's on this basis that I'd come at all of your points 1-4.

Regarding QG theories and their explanatory power, I would say that the fact that they have a handful of universally agreed upon predictions does not make any one of them correct in the least. The value in any one theory of QG is not in the areas where it agrees with other theories of QG; it's in where that theory disagrees with established theory in a way that we can see in a lab, a telescope, or an accelerator. What we're trusting here is the physical behavior of the universe, and we're hoping that it's correctly predicted by the mathematical construct that is the theory.
Roundabouts with arms priority lead to deadlocks, I never thought about this.

Interesting to see this in practice and to just give the rule "ring has priority" for granted.
I think the problem stems more from the nature of technology itself.

I run a marketing consultancy. I can't really offload my work to cheaper talent because my deliverables can be easily evaluated. Good writing and good design, after all, are universally accessible.

But unless you're a programmer, you can't really make out good code from bad code.
Yes, the content is on the course website: http://cs242.stanford.edu/f18/
I wanna throw in the soundplane by madrona labs:
https://madronalabs.com/soundplane
An artist would make less-readable cursive. To make readable cursive, you need to practice following rules precisely. You need to develop hand coordination, which is probably of general use for things like sewing and surgery and removing slivers.

I think a big trouble is bad instruction. Somebody with a clue needs to carefully study your writing, find the flaws, and insist that you get things correct. Some things about letter forms don't matter much, while other things matter a great deal. For example, the distinction between a rounded curve and a point is usually important. Many teachers won't know this. Also, individualized attention isn't easy to get in a large classroom.
Sweden is still in the EU, it has higher VAT than (say) Germany as well. Also iphone x is ~865 on amazon.de[0]. You can order with within the EU (see the 1st sense again), the delivery would be around ~10€, but the price is to be a bit higher due to VAT diff. Side benefit of amazon is that you will never need to deal with apple repair services as you can send the goods back to amazon.

US price has no sale tax (which varies per state and county)

To sum up: if you find the goods at any retailer in the EU, buy them online and pay for the delivery - for light products (electronics), the shipment costs are low when not 'free'.

[0]:https://www.amazon.de/Apple-iPhone-X-64GB-Space-Grau/dp/B075...
Lawyers are first and foremost bureaucrats, and the primary duty of any bureaucrat is to justify their own pay. Six years or twenty, it doesn't matter. If NCsoft has a legal claim to the ip their lawyers will send a c&d. We need a digital consumer rights bill that includes the right to operate private servers for defunct games.
Or if it explodes in the air before reaching the pad. But it could prevent it from toppling over due to high seas, like in this case.
> I think it's a bit of poetic license to say that the PPT is at fault. But didn't help.

Poetic license in journalism doesn't help either. What we got here is pure clickbait, literally accusing something of killing people, when it was just one among many things that were suboptimal and just "didn't help".
Yeah, if the effect even matters, it wouldn't work well for short blocks.

Even for long blocks, you'd want to figure out that the light will be green for X seconds, which allows Y cars to get through, so only Y cars (and no more) would line up with the required spacing between them, and the ones behind that would pack in more tightly to save space. Then while the light is right, the next Y cars could get themselves into the correct configuration.
> Whilst I appreciate your views, for many/most the idea that no party can affect or take down the content is a negative.

Just b/c something is decentralized doesn't mean you can't take it down or hide it.
Capitalism dynamics indicates that they DO KNOW that some reviews are fake.
They've re-invented FCGI.
what's up with so much nationalism coming from India?

why would it matter where you're sending a portion of your so-called "wealth" when you're getting something in return?

considering the horrific state India is in (high corruption, high poverty, low healthcare, no infrastructure, you name it), the location of where an iPhone is produced should literally be the last thing the government cares about.

maybe the value of the potential taxes are too much for the government not to stick their hands in?
> The market can decide that.

How, since they were not allowing the market to decide that.

> THATs who we should be fighting for.

It's not binary. Both fights are important.
"That’s what Apple usually does: they keep roughly the same digits, and change the currency."

It makes no sense comparing US and EU prices directly, as the former are always shown without VAT (which varies state from state), and in the latter the VAT is included (which is specific to each country).

Also, price will fluctuate even across EU countries, on account of different VAT taxes in the individual member states, so that Apple "keeps the same digits" it is simply not true, as a rule:

iPhone X 64GB USA(no VAT): 999$
https://www.apple.com/us_kiosk_5000012/shop/buy-iphone/iphon...

iPhone X 64GB Italy (VAT 22%): 1189€
https://www.apple.com/it/shop/buy-iphone/iphone-xs

iPhone X 64GB Spain (VAT 21%): 1159€
https://www.apple.com/es/shop/buy-iphone/iphone-xs

The only way to compare them is to remove VAT, for example in the case of Italy:

1189/(1+0.22)= 974€ -->> 1100$ (current exchange rate).

So, there is about 10% difference, which could be (partly) accounted for due to the different warranty requirements in EU.

EDIT: Fixed math
>/reducing/ comf(ortable?) deceleration keeps things running smoother than higher values

This is basically what the dynamic speed limits do on motorways in the UK - if there's congestion, the speed limit is reduced on the section of road leading up to the congestion. It reduces the number of cars flowing into the traffic jam temporarily, which helps to smooth out the overall flow.
/Some/ of the fiber might be salvageable.
Yeah, I should have been clearer, it's not that it can't be done, it's just a bit messier than it seems at first blush.

The issue is that actions taken by stateful clients can't always be retried.

You can detect these kinds of errors, but it's klugey because these drivers generally assume that sockets dying is relatively uncommon, and it's painful to test this behavior when FaaS doesn't give you direct control over it.

So you typically wind up either with a proxy, or you decorate any handlers to refresh the connection ahead of time to make sure you have a fresh object.
For sure they are not "idiots", but these are people who usually have done well in school/academia where saying "stop, don't do it!" is never the right answer; these are people who were never promoted to where they are now for saying "stop, don't do it!".

Recently I've seen a product owner trying to push us on a two week sprint where we needed to complete 100 story points worth of tasks while on the previous two sprints we only completed ~30 story points.
To my protest, the SCRUM master sided with the product owner in saying we should go ahead and commit to the goal.

These are not stupid people, they were under pressure to deliver; unfortunately the incentives are not to listed to reasonable people, but to pushers; when the shit hits the fan, they make a big fuss and obtain even more resources to push even harder and they usually deliver -- whit 3X the costs.

Very rarely have I seen reasonable and smooth-sailing managers get to the top, usually it's the die-hard/hard-pushers/busy-appearing types that get to the top.

I think it's curse of modern society with its unlimited resources; this shit would never fly in the times of Sun Tzu or Caesar precisely because limited resources would prevent such smart "idiots" -- they'd succumb to the elements or their subordinates would do them in their sleep for being so detached from reality.
Well, it was the USSR.

'Gorbachev states, “The nuclear meltdown at Chernobyl 20 years ago this month, even more than my launch of perestroika, was perhaps the real cause of the collapse of the Soviet Union five years later”'

http://www.historyisnowmagazine.com/blog/2017/8/21/the-reaso...
451: Unavailable due to legal reasons

We recognize you are attempting to access this website from a country belonging to the European Economic Area (EEA) including the EU which enforces the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and therefore access cannot be granted at this time. For any issues, contact digitalteam@wdrb.com or call 502-585-0811.
Node.js Frameworks: What to Choose and How to Use
Germany’s first criminal indictment in VW emissions scandal is ex-CEO Winterkorn
Scania, and probably others, are working on platooning trucks. From what I know it is not trivial, for example most of communication methods we have have too long round trip delays and are not 100% reliable so a backup is needed maybe in the form of autonomous breaking system.

https://www.scania.com/group/en/platooning-automated-driving...

https://platooningensemble.eu/news/using-its-g5-for-efficien...
..damage to the inhabitants of earth. These are crimes against humanity, done with the purpose of gaining wealth.
The fact that Germany goes after the guys on top is reassuring, and somehow restores my faith in society. Go EU!
Maybe 5G is behind the fire /s
Btw, the new "fix" for the MCAS has just been announced and discussed by a 40-year experienced pilot [1]. Turns out that while we shouldn't be doing armchair analysis and assuming the worst of the engineering, management and executive team; the software fix released appears to be rather elementary and MCAS should have been designed with these safety checks in the first place. Why it wasn't is a huge concern and we wonder what other systems are at risk.

In summary, the software fix does the following:

1. Use inputs from both AOA sensors, if they disagree by 5.5 degrees, disable MCAS. Original MCAS system used only 1 AOA sensor and switched back and forth between the two after every flight.

2. Triple redundant filters, A) Average value reasonability filter B) Catastrophic failure low-to-high transition filter C) Left vs. Right AOA deviation filter

3. Limiting MCAS stab trim so that the elevator always can provide 1.2g of nose-up pitch authority for recovery. Furthermore, electric trim with the yoke switch will override MCAS.

Turns out that armchair analysis was sort of on point and goes along with the incompetency at Boeing affirmed in this reddit post - sometimes, I wonder how we, humans, collectively build extraordinary monuments while we individually rest on stilts.

[1] https://youtu.be/zGM0V7zEKEQ?t=370
Oops, sorry about that!
I tend to mark down the obvious spam / shit reviews like that
I like that because it increases my own chances of getting a job at FANG.
Sounds fair but is rent control really a subsidy? The state is not paying anything, while public sector housing would be an expense.
Lisp Machine Hacking (2018)
Yeah this is my conclusion. Theres probably only a few teams of engineers at every bank that make this.
The same could be argued about Mozilla. They've gone out of their way to oppose Google at the W3C, at the expense of developers and users of the web.

List of good Web tech killed in W3C by Mozilla:

1. NaCl/PNacl

2. WebSql (in favor of the far worse and cumbersome indexed db)

3. HTML5 storage / filesystem api

...

The grudge seems equally bad on Mozilla's side
"Made money off it"? How?
Was it also Google who decided that Mozilla had to spend a majority of their money on things other than Firefox development?
Why Google detects low quality sites in its search algo's.
Australian GPS tracking watch marketed for children trivially compromised
I've yet to use a truly reliable voice assistant. Google Assistant often listens intently and then just decides it isn't going to do anything, and offers no sort of feedback to assist in troubleshooting. Alexa has by far the most reliable voice recognition and response, but suffers bizarre outages where it sees every wifi network except the one it was connected to. It also has a truly horrific android app that loads all its controls from the web, so troubleshooting an Echo's network connectivity requires connecting your phone alternately to the house wifi and then to the Echo and back and forth, dozens of times if you can't easily find the problem. You can't load the Echo settings page unless you're online and you can't use them unless you're offline and connected to the Echo.
How to Train Your OpenAI Five
CuPy – NumPy-compatible matrix library accelerated by CUDA
I don't think he's that far off the mark. Take the seals. This wasn't a one-off decision. This was a problem that was known for years and repeatedly ignored at lower and lower temperatures (thus lowering the allowed limits far below the original specifications) until the disaster. The reasoning being "well, you warned us last time, but everything went fine, so let's just keep going, it'll keep being fine".
2019_alibaba_campus_recruitment C/C++/Golang
Sounds similar to what Robinhood does.
Show HN: Google Search no longer functions
They very much could. In terms of language, the whole slide deck in question is essentially a scientific paper in PPT form, and scientific papers tend to be typically written in LaTeX.
Yes, this is a thesis I've brought up quite some times in relation to sprint planning. The odd misjudgment having a strong influence on the total estimate biases upwards, not downwards.
Yes the Major brand situation is really bad thee doesn't seem to be any protection.

I am surprised that they are not more aggressive.
That's the best option if you want to be able to rebuild confidence in the chain of command. The people who have been ignored before will never trust her again anyway. In such situations, you either rebuild the chain of command or the whole troop if you want to have a functioning group.
USA giving love as always! I hope US citizens can discriminate between their politicians so all these genocides and concentration camps systems don't perpetuate anymore. Just look at central/south-america and the damage your politicians and militaries have done. Maybe USA is the most hated country in the world, and you can make something to stop that.
What the parent means is science doesn't always know it has implicit axioms.

And that Euclidean geometry itself is only one possible geometry, but took us several millennia (until e.g. Lobachevsky) to find out -- it was taken as a kind of axiom itself, like absolute time etc.
Bosque Programming Language
Hey they changed some exit codes ;)
I haven't tried it yet, but it would depend on what sort of features you need

Python wouldn't be a good choice for cli usage

Perl is awesome to use from cli, and it is not just simple search and replace, see my tutorial[1] if you want to see examples

sed and awk are awesome on their own for cli usage, sed is meant for line oriented tasks and awk for field oriented ones (there is overlap too) - one main difference compared to perl is that their regex is BRE/ERE which is generally faster but lacks in many features like lookarounds, non-greedy, named capture groups, etc

you could check out sd[2] for a Rust implementation of sed like search and replacement (small subset of sed features)

[1] https://github.com/learnbyexample/Command-line-text-processi...

[2] https://github.com/chmln/sd
2Miners to launch new æternity Mining Pool
are you referring to:
https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Ne...

Apple Push Notification service (APNs) is the centerpiece of the remote notifications feature. It is a robust, secure, and highly efficient service for app developers to propagate information to iOS (and, indirectly, watchOS), tvOS, and macOS devices.

You may not be using FaceTime or Notifications, but someone you know will be using them.
It’s not Gmail’s usage but FF’s usage.

If FF don’t like it they can fix that supposed security bug
Given that there's more distance to traverse if you leave gaps, it might turn out that it takes the same amount of time.

I haven't done the maths, but it wouldn't surprise me if they're about the same.
That is a fine recommendation for people in the UK. It will be readable there. Americans aren't usually used to it.

Americans normally use D'Nealian. It is similar to the older Palmer Method, which in turn is similar to the older Spencerian script.
This is great! We're working on code generation from class definitions right now.

Any good resources worth looking at?
It's not that there aren't scientists that are Popperian.

It's that science itself as a process is not Popperian (and of course modern epistemology has moved from the times of Popper).
Nice analysis. If you factor in local sales taxes in the US, that 10% difference shrinks or even disappears pretty fast.

I'm afraid 'Apple charges more abroad' is largely a fallacy. Where there is a difference, it's almost always pretty clearly due to local taxes or costs of doing business. This used to really piss off Steve J[1] because he saw it as terribly unfair.

[1] https://www.imore.com/steve-jobs-international-ipad-pricing-...
Computer is not a black box
That’s simply not true. Most people don’t even drive 160kph to begin with.
Interview with Verizon on 5G
I don’t think OP meant “proprietary, closed” as “centralized”. If it’s about the code: https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki
Close.io purchased close.com and rebranded as Close
Oracle's (+) syntax does not allow for full outer joins.

The conclusion would be the same with Oracle's syntax. It's just more obscure, as it would turn into a "fa.film_id < 10" vs "fa.film_id(+) < 10" discussion.
There were terrorists in 1985. In fact, there was more terrorism in the 1970s and 1980s than in recent decades. It's just that today the fear of terrorism is more exploited for political gain than it was back then.
>This is a straw man, and I think you know that. It's more like saying Atlantis doesn't exist, and, well, to the best of our knowledge - it doesn't. I'd be happy to re-evaluate upon receiving evidence that Atlantis may have existed

I don't see much difference. If you're "happy to re-evaluate" (e.g. open to the possibility) then the answer (even re: Atlantis") is "I don't know if it exists", not "doesn't exist".
> I have noticed that many authors of SQL articles don't seem to be aware of Oracles quirks

I've spent much more time with Oracle than with other RDBMS. So, what made you think so?

> The author didn't specify any particular database, but wrote as if what he was saying applied to all relational databases

Yes, in this article's case, the article and conclusion applies to all relational databases.

> But Oracle treats empty strings and NULLs as the same thing, which I don't think the article's author was aware of.

I am aware of this, but how is it related to the article?
One take away is for sprint planning - if there is a reasonable amount of uncertainty on a task, take it out, either break it down or do some investigation, and bring it back next time.
You don't want a σ=2 task messing up your sprint!
I believe this is the reason why scrum uses story points instead of time estimate. By putting uncertainty on the same level as effort, you give it more weight. And using a fibonacci sequence rather than a continuous amount with the rule you should round up if unsure tend to correct those defects.
It’s because where the money goes is where it circulates, which ultimately affects the GDP.

Every dollar that leaves India, Nigeria or any other developing country is one less dollar that can pay for jobs (plumbers, electricians, doctors etc) in the local market.

South Africa used to have very restrictive currency export controls partly due to apartheid-era sanctions, and one consequence is that it stimulated domestic production and innovation, perhaps far more than any other African country. They’ve now relaxed those controls but it is arguable that they were necessary at that stage of their economic development.
Nice to see, that the main stream media takes note of services like https://reviewmeta.com/ . There is also https://www.fakespot.com/ . Both services show, how bad Amazons filter for fake reviews really are. I still believe Amazon is basically doing nothing to prevent fake reviews.
Snowden was a pawn, taken in by savior complex.

Stallman made zero impact.

Assange had no effect on war policy. He was also a pawn entrapped by savior complex.
And the domain is predictable. There were (and still are) a two-part email form around the web, where the domain part is a drop-down list.
https://www.noction.com/news/new-free-tier1-carriers-perform...
My rule of thumb: take your estimate, double it, then add 20%. I'm not joking.