skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like I'm always a bit disappointed whenever I see discussion around topics like this. Whenever cases like this are brought up, I think they're usually presented in a very one sided manner that is intent or pushing a single perspective or agenda of sorts. So the subsequent discussion around the topic becomes equally distorted.

I am not saying the professor in this article wasnt wrongly fired, but I wish there was a bit more discretion in the comments because this article was a.) a multi party account written by one person and b.) written to push a perspective that puts him in a positive light. I think there may be more to the story here.
Neccesary words? Wonderful!
So those OS were great but nobody wanted to pay for the greatness? I am not that old so I do not know that history but in University we learned programming with C because the hardware and C are close.

Any idea why there was no popular safe array or safe string library for C? Maybe at that time there was no internet and everyone had to create his own abstractions?
I feel like C has to go in the bucket of 'bad languages' these days, because it doesn't have sensible unicode support built in.

But that doesn't mean you can't have fun with it, or write good computer programs.

It just means that user inputted text is always going to be a pain.
>The production ramp for the Y is expected to be much better than the model 3. There's two announced locations (Reno and China). Tesla also has substantial experience building the model 3, and the Y shared about 75% of the parts. Additionally the model Y is a very conservative design. Same motors, same batteries, same nav, same display, same steering wheel, same seats, same autonomous hardware, same sensors, etc. The announced differences I've heard of are low tech tings like the chassis and suspension. Nothing crazy like the model X gull wing doors to throw a schedule off.

So let's see if I have this right: they reveal the Model Y 1.5 months ago, and say it's available in ~1 month of purchasing. From what everyone says, they hacked up a Model 3 and people drove in a prototype. Now we hear Tesla don't even know if they're going to build it in China or California. But don't worry, they've ordered all the tooling and machinery, even though they don't know which factory it'll be built in.

I'm am constantly astonished that people still believe what is happening over there. What will it take for people to realize this is a desperate company?
Actually a comparatively recent version of the browser made all sorts of claims about "Help support this site by donating!", accompanied by pictures of the producer harvested from the site, looking very much like they had a relationship with the producer and were collecting on their behalf.

They only backed down when one of the content producers who had no relationship with them and did not want a relationship with them cried foul.
You're labouring under several grave misapprehensions.
This addresses one of them:

https://archive.org/details/muellerreport/page/n7
https://isitdownorjust.me/reddit.com/ there are plenty of these services, why ask on HN? o0
Never mind the decline in improvement, I think we're going to see a sudden sharp drop very soon. It may be hidden by the long-lived generation before, but the baby boomers have eaten, drunk, and medicated themselves into oblivion compared to their parents.

And who knows what's to come for the next generation, with an increasing wealth divide and heck knows what else.
I'm not sure. I think the caret is just a prefix to make it distinguishable from the normal letters.

It is the reason why Ctrl+i in a terminal is the same as Tab though. Likewise for Ctrl+m == Enter.
I'm beyond the point of wrapping my words in a cushion that's laser sculpted to fit your ears.

I'm just going to dump the words I want into yet another text field, and call it a day.

You know why? Because it isn't a violent crime and we're probably thousands of miles away from one another.
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Yet at the same time a lot of people invest in these very late stage startups. Why? Are they the fools of the stock market? Who usually buys at IPO time (besides the speculators that want to ride the early fluctuations)? There's an underwriter that does the whole IPO, sure, they are probably in the same bucket as those speculators, but to whom they unload all these new stocks? Individuals? A lot of big institutions that have some risk appetite? (But those are probably already limited partners in VCs, no?)
Precisely this. I find it appalling that an associate professor was not given tenure, because that is normally a tenured position, particularly since he'd been there 20 years
Notice that in HTML5 you do not need to close the li tags
this is why I donote to both the ACLU and EFF - thank you!
btw, the ironing is by far the worst aspect of dealing with laundry. Is folding even an issue?
Idea, ReSharper, SonarLint find same errors as PVS-Studio, so why do we need it?
Welcome to the Heckler's Veto becoming the norm of higher education if not corporate life. This is the method of choice in almost all instances of issues surrounding race, religion, and orientation, now.

Look at Intersectionality[1] for clues to why the situation has gotten out of hand. In essence there are so many levels of grievance. In effect, unless you are part of the class of people your right to discuss or raise an issue is called into question and by default denied.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersectionality
> • How often do you stare into the middle distance? Me neither.

All the time - probably a good 20% of my work days are spent starting into the middle distance thinking.
This idea is very interesting. It reminds me of how YouTube shares their ad revenue with content creators, and that in turn grows YouTube's network and business.

Similarly, the act of web browsing is content creation. It's data creation. Very valuable data.

If users are currently blocking ads in their power, why not entice them back by allowing them to make an appropriate amount of money from the data that only they have the power to give to others? 'Sell your data.'

The more one browsed or shared of their data, the more one would get paid. It's simple business.

It sounds like a model that would bring diversity to the economy.
Revolut is at risk of losing its European banking licenses
>I'm still trying to figure out the root cause. Is it because, production is not keeping up to demand? Or is it because demand is dying? So far it seems former, not later.

That's what you conclude after seeing them produce more cars than they delivered last quarter, with inventory build-ups all over the country, and quarter-over-quarter decrease in revenues, even though they slashed prices? That they still can't keep up with demand?
If your requirements are only high performance and improved type checking, then you are all set. The only language you need is C++. But the criteria above does not define all programming problems.

C++ is too complicated. "Nobody" writes C++, but a subset of it. Select your subset.

Dynamic typing in Lisp (and the like) is really nice for quick prototyping where program correctness is not key. You are exploring what you want to achieve with the program, be it algorithm level or architecture. C++ is not well suited for that, since type checking and memory worries are slowing you down, too many details to drag along. Hence no "silver bullet".
FO stands for "Formatting Objects" and FOP is "FO Processor", e.g. Apache FOP. The format is not meant to be user-editable, of course, it's an intermediate step, but as a page description language it's very good. I myself use it when converting reStructuredText sources to PDF.
Sorry, what does `FSD` refer to?
CRUD+Operation+using+ASP.NET+CORE+2.2+and+React+Redux+with+EntityFramework+Core
This makes some sense in theory but in actuality people frequently avoid making decisions that would very easily allow them to live years longer.

On a deeper level, the notion that humans put “the will to live” above everything else is itself problematic. See Schopenhauer’s concept of the will to live and Nietzsche’s commentary on it.
To be fair it doesn't really have strings 'built in' particularly well either. It directly manipulates memory patches, and the string support that is there is mostly a very simple abstraction on that.

If you want support for unicode etc, there are libraries.
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Internet is a tool to communicate freely and regardless of the message.
Internet isn't "people". If someone harass you with your phone, you don't blame the phone, you blame the harasser. The phone is fine.
Markdown does have a spec created and posted by the person that invented it, John Gruber[1]. The problem is that people keep adding features to it and no one follows the actual markdown spec.

[1] - https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/
I don't agree that those are unnecessary - you lose the idea of an idea, and coming back to a work later can help you identify what is unnecessary.
Although not exactly aesthetically pleasing, I actually prefer the 1. 1. 1. layout. Why? Because when you write something it's common to revise and re-order things. A lot. Having 1. 2. 3. means I'd have to go and fix the rest of the list.

I see 1. 1. 1. like appending commas to every field in a struct declaration or an object constructor. It allows me to go back and arbitrarily move things around.
>Seems like they should add another 0 to the fine after the recent hat trick

You're under the impression that regulators are in the business of bankrupting companies.

All the instances you cited of Facebook's wrongdoing are not worth a $50billion(!!) fine. They just aren't.
If Elon called me up and asked how to improve the model 3 (or future model Y), I'd definitely mention a few more buttons, or maybe a dial. Sure I want buttons, knobs, AND a big screen... but not enough to pay $80k and up for a model S. So given the choice between a model 3 and the competitors (ICE or electric) I have a hard time finding something better.

I'm hoping there's a model Y killer out before the model Y ships, but if not I think I'll be really happy in a Y.

As for the acceleration. I'm married and have a kid. I drive pretty conservatively. I haven't had an accident of any kind or even a speeding ticket in 20 years. I did however find numerous occasions to floor the model S I was renting and every time it resulted in a huge grin. I'd wouldn't trade that acceleration for say a Hyundai electric that has a 0-60 in 7.6 seconds just for some extra knobs/buttons. Nor is the Hyundai cheap, starts around $38k. In a traditional ICE car the acceleration has significant down sides, cost, MPG, noise, weight, size, packaging efficiency, etc. On a Tesla the acceleration there's not nearly as much of a downside.
Dark Matter detector directly observes rare decay of Xe-124
Maybe not the right place but I don't get the right answers or proper details from customer service. Please bring AWS Amplify and S3 hosted websites to mainland China (BJ) operations! I know how nearly impossible it is to get the full suite of services approved there. I need the technology to launch new services quickly. I have a fully registered company and an ICP and still I can't get access to basic services due to rules made to restrict foreign competitors' market share.
See also https://www.json-generator.com for random data from a JSON schema
> I'd like to point out that profitability is not a black-and-white consideration. A company has many financial dials and switches, and ours specifically could have easily been profitable if they had chosen to do so. It was a very intentional decision to funnel money towards further growth, which frankly I had/have no issues with.

I am unsure what you mean exactly but if the company is making a choice between being profitable and growth it is a black-and-white (or a binary) consideration.

> A company has many financial dials and switches

What are these financial dial and switches?

It is one thing to opine whether a company might be profitable if they chose to and other to look at practical implications of this choice. An example, Uber might be chose to be profitable by raising ride prices or charging higher commissions to drivers or other means but it might lead to many drivers jumping ship or users booking less rides etc.
>People have been predicting failure for Tesla since the beginning.

This is such a bizarre argument. Things don't fall apart overnight, until they do.

Are you a software engineer? "People have been predicting our app will collapse under the burden of technical debt since the beginning. Hasn't happened yet!"
The best thing about C (apart from speed) is that for every issue with the language there is a tool that fixes the problem. It can do everything everywhere even if it's sometimes not the best choice.
You might be interested in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contra_proferentem

If they drafted the contract and they are ambiguous, legal questions raised later that fall into the ambiguity will generally be resolved in your favor. As long as, for example, you use a generally accepted standard for "encryption-at-rest", you should be fine, legally speaking.

(I am not a lawyer)
Unlike the U.S., prisoners in Australia are allowed to vote, which seems like a meaningful - if symbolic - check on government tyranny.

But prisoners, like everyone else, can still lodge a blank ballot paper, or one with any kind of message on it, including a drawing of genitalia. So, no, silent protest is not criminalized.

It only leads to logical absurdity if you insist on taking it there for rhetorical purposes.

All laws ultimately come down to a level of reasonableness in their application, and this one is no different.

In practice, in Australia, it’s a moderate and balanced approach that helps to bring about what is one of the more well-functioning and harmonious democratic systems in the world. It’s no big deal.

Besides, people who hate the system enough to want to overthrow it should probably come up with a more robust course of action than merely staying home on polling day.
What's a character? UTF-8 makes that a bit difficult to answer. If you want arrays of ASCII bytes, you can have those in most programming languages.
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Have had multiple Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon models and consider them to be the near perfect blend of weight, performance, and durability with Ubuntu 14.04 thru 19.04.
Free as in speech. What are permitted and what not. How much of the net is banned or blocked in which regions of the world.

DRM isn't a problem as long as non-DRM isn't forcefully eliminated by it.
Do you have a source? This sounds useful
> Don't use acronyms for short names or phrases. "Department of Motor Vehicles" is a mouthful, but not much more of an eyeful than "DMV" after seeing it twice.

I find this much harder to scan than the acronym, especially when the acronym is common.
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Will change your life man.
Open source and enterprise aren't incompatible e.g. Red Hat.
The Southern States were fighting to keep slavery and they would agree to a ceasefire and to join the union if the north alllowed a constitutional amendment making this clear.

However, people like Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Jackson famously said northern aggression towards the south wasn't about slavery.

So the issue seems to be obviously oversimplified in these internet and media debates.
Citing shadowstats is not really a good sign in any argument. Even if they might have a point, the whole site is not about that point.

The changes in CPI calculation (continuous consumer basket adjustment, etc.) are well documented, well known in econometrics, and is considered a sane thing. (After all you can't really equivocate a TV from the 50s and a TV now.)

And while it's always possible to make better adjustments, shadowstats does not argue for this, it just argues against a strawman conspiracy.

https://moneymaven.io/economonitor/emerging-markets/deconstr...

"For example, a can of tomato sauce that cost $.25 at Piggly Wiggly in 1982 cost $.79 at my local market in early 2015. Starting from the 1982 price, the CPI predicts that it should cost $.61 in 2015 while ShadowStats predicts that it should cost $2.64. Starting from the 2015 price and working backwards, the CPI predicts that it should have cost $.32 in 1982 while ShadowStats predicts that is should have cost $.08. Based on these calculations, we see that the CPI underestimates inflation, as measured by the Tomato Sauce Index: The ratio of the 2015 predicted price of $.61 to the 2015 actual price, $.79, is .77, an underestimate of 23 percent. The ratio of the ShadowStats prediction to the actual price is 3.32, an overstatement of 223 percent. For tuna, both indexes overestimate inflation, the CPI by 34 percent and ShadowStats by 478 percent, and so on."

also: http://blog.jparsons.net/2011/03/shadow-stats-debunked-part-...

And to address the "they miss it part". Well, probably most people don't buy stocks, and most people don't buy private equity limited partnership chunks, so ... CPI-U does not measure "asset bubbles".
3 - C brags about performance and is probably the slowest language to compute string length

I have a feeling that of all axes of performace C cares the most about memory overhead. Then the obvious idea is to have it at exatly one byte per "simple" string, and you get to pick the class of programs that can't get away with that default string type:

• One-byte terminator: complicated text-handling application with a lot of (longer than a couple of pointers on average) string slices.

• One-byte length: anything that needs strings longer than 255 chars.

And then of these two solutions you pick the obviously more general one. What could possibly go wrong?
Show HN: Sybil attack protection for digital identity
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Ask HN: What are your experiences of working with Open Banking platforms?
I'm working on a project that relies on users granting us access to their (UK) bank transaction history. There are many platforms that claim to solve this problem by providing a single API to access user bank data, mostly using the new Open Banking standard. E.g. Yapily, Tink, Salt Edge, LendingMetrics, TrueLayer, MoneyHub, Strands.

The ones we've tried so far have been very 'move fast and break stuff'-y: Often offline, incomplete documentation. We've also heard from other developers that they've experienced similar issues with the platforms they've tried.

Is it just the case that Open Banking is so new and support from banks themselves is so patchy that there are no perfect solutions? Or has anyone had actual positive experiences working with any of these companies?
Im pretty sure this is for type 2 diabetes. To reverse, you have to loose significant weight which is at least -20%, sleep well, exercise regularly, and eliminate stress
Folding arbitrary pile of laundry completely unsupervised is super hard problem. I actually have more faith in solving self-driving before that :). It seems company was Japanese, used loan model (as opposed to VC funding) and went bankrupt probably because creditors went after them. Their machine cost $16,000. The article describes scenario at CES where someone tried giving it black t-shirt but apparently machine couldn't see it and got jammed! It also occurs to me that many people hang their cloth with hangers in closet instead of folding. Business proposition seems to be bit limited.
It actually comes from plaintext emails. If you read emails like that a lot in a terminal you might agree a blank line between paragraphs will ease the reading.
Who is raising these kids to believe that hearing something they disagree is equivalent to "harm"? It must be my filter bubble, but I only ever hear about people decrying this practice and never anyone supporting it. Where is it coming from?
Croudcube experience bad gateway due to Freetrade's open round
Anyone experiencing bad gateway or gateway time-outs when investing in Freetrade's round?
Mesotheraphy: Procedure,Side Effect and More
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The size of the needles are tiny and are injected in serval places which are affected. The time taken for this process is about an hour and you do not need recovery time afterwards that is why is the most popular choice.

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You have to call in to get the actual base model - they removed the option to order it from the website.
Do you think it's possible to build an immediate UI wrapper on top of Win32 and Cocoa?
https://www.carolinajournal.com/opinion-article/meanwhile-fr...
I think this can go both ways. If it's a constant stream of references, it can be obnoxious and feel like showing off. On the other hand, an occasional reference can give life to character without going out of your way to do it.
It's not just HN, it's everywhere.

Anything that comes out of the mouth of Elon is an instant fact, and is repeated as fact until it's proven false. Then it was merely a prediction or plan.

He just went on stage and told investors that their non-existent, full self-driving robot taxi fleet will cut the cost of personal transport by 90% over Uber, and will make the car owners $10-$30k+ ("in some cases more!") in annual income. It's a pipe dream, but now it's talked about like it's already happening.

Remember Solar City and the solar shingles? Their solar deployment is 25% of what it was the quarter he made that announcement. "Synergies!". Meanwhile, they are winding down the company. In a year people will forget it was ever a thing.
That's an amazing video Thanks for sharing. How do you suggest to show them the impact of their work - any suggestions?
I think this is a difference of degree but not kind. Duke still has tenured faculty. He is clearly not afforded the rights of tenured faculty. For this matter functionally he's an adjunct because that's how they ruled on him.
None of these details really matter for an insurance company. As long as they can accurately keep their total premiums above their total payouts, they'll make a profit.

1. Paying out more is not a problem as long as the premiums are covering it.

2. As payouts start to get expensive, insurers can either raise premiums, or, should the market not tolerate that, they can restrict policy coverage instead.

3. Properly assessing the risk of their _individual_ clients (as opposed to their entire portfolio) will allow them to offer more competitive policies against other insurers. They only need to be as good at that as their competitors, no more.