skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
michrassena's comment has it right. 'orthochromatic' was a later term implying that the film represented the 'correct' version of the spectrum, because it was more sensitive to blue light. the term 'panchromatic' was adopted when black and white films eventually approximated visual sensitivity. the history of this spans decades, which is why it can be confusing.

by the late 20th century, 'ortho' meant a monochromatic film or printing paper that was not sensitive to red light, hence it could be handled in a darkroom with a red safe-lite. however, the spectral sensitivity of even standard photo paper today might be greater than the earliest emulsions.
Dr. Petit has said that his theories are based on his personal interactions with aliens and that the U.S. Army has tested antimatter bombs on Jupiter, so there's that.
Really. some dude posts a link hosted on a generic googlestorage page.
Without explaining what it does..
On Hackernews...
Be wary people. This is malware
unfortunately everyone has bills and bills don't care that you are on strike. most of american lower class has close to no savings to fall back on. a month without a pay means getting really close to becoming homeless.
Yeah. It was a very good read. I could never have thought that you could use xmpp protocol for microblogging! Movim's the only platform that does that as far as I can tell.
The movie Inside out taught me this lesson already
It's captchas from cloudflare because their country is routinely used for malicious activity.
There has to be an existing product right?
Can I read about how the time series nature of the data allows the storage engines to optimize different parts of the system compared to generic databases? Some links? Papers? Interested to know.
Concern in the sense that some people don't want to be using the same kit as other browsers do. (E.g. this guy https://reddit.com/r/qutebrowser/comments/a4uk9r/use_of_webk...)
Do you think if Uber suddenly was forced to make all of these drivers employees with benefits, that everyone would continue to have a job?
Ah, interesting. I was wondering why they looked so much older, like 10-30 years older, to my eyes.
https://tomato-timer.com/

My fix for back pain and a host of other problems.
It's a simple complaint that debuggers do not scale.

There is a very outspoken group that claims that if you are not using a debugger, you don't know how to write code. Appeals to authority is exactly what is required to undo the damage those people create.
That should also cut the price considerably. And the size of the vehicle.
If you are writing special cases because a 200+ page rulebook says you need them, then the special cases should be commented to indicate exactly what rule they are meant to address such that someone with the rulebook can quickly look it up.

Ideally, you would have all the rules encoded in a central place so this lookup becomes obvious from the structure of the code, but that is often not possible.

I am involved in a simmilar project now. We have a proprietary data format which has, over the years, evolved slightly different versions as different teams extended it in slightly different and incompatable ways. The code has all kinds of special cases, to the point where we developed internal style guidelines for how to comment them
Do this mod before you print anything on a Monoprice Select Mini V3 3D Printer
I don't think what you are doing is vastly different than what is described. "Thinking hard" is about trying to isolate the problem. RMS famously said that you should try to only debug the code that is broken rather than trying to debug the code that isn't broken (this is especially true in big systems). Where is the error happening? How are these things connected? Etc, etc. When you write very tight unit tests around the sections of the code, you have to do exactly the same thing (and I would argue that writing those tests is a good tool for "getting into" the code).

Next: running a debugger. I use print statements, but seriously, what's the difference? You use watch points in the debugger. Same thing. Once I have tests I find it easier to run them and look at the output of my prints as opposed to stepping through the code. Stepping through the code requires you to remember what you have done before and what the output was (granted debuggers that allow you to go backwards are helpful). If you can do that, then it's all good, but I find that it's easier for me to essentially create a log and read through it. It's just a bit more structured, but in the end it's exactly the same thing.

I think the biggest mistake that less experienced programmers do is that they don't try to reason about the code before they start. It's that isolation that's key, not how you are displaying the state of the program. Single stepping is fine when you've got 100 lines of code, but when you have thousands or millions of lines of code, it's not going to work. You need to be able to work your way backward from the error, reasoning using the source code as a map. You then use debugging tools (or printfs) to narrow down your options.
Conversations the Last Word on Instant Messaging
Will check it out! Sort of related in the no human contact sense is Asimov's The Naked Sun and (of course) E.M.Forster's The Machine Stops.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Naked_Sun
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops
This is really the secret to life as far as I'm concerned, the idea of getting to a decent steady living state which doesn't take too much of your time and energy to maintain. You can combine it with the principle of geoarbitrage and get there faster than most people realize. Once you reach that point you can optimize your time however you prefer, whether it's health, creative pursuits, further income growth or anything else. It's a powerful place to be.
Destroying your employer is a sure way to prosperity.

You always get the best strategic advice on the internet!
ISPs in several countries I've been to do this to blacklist "objectionable" sites (which apparently includes reddit now) at the DNS level. Turning on DNS-over-HTTPS solves that.
Good to see Mozilla thinking out of the box and getting a fix out as quick as possible. It would take a lot of time to get an emergency build out of standard channels, because there are so many of them.
He also has made real contributions to magnetohydrodynamics, apparently. Talk about a mixed bag.
Yeah something doesn't add up.

I'll believe Heroku is easier, but can it be that much easier? For people spending piles of cash on their webscale?
There will still be driver liability or did you mean to say the car drives the customer to the desired location?
I have not seen the Guardian pull anything like that in my time of reading it.

That said, again, what would be an example of a charitable news outlet that does not pull tricks you claim the Guardian is doing?
The anti-debugger argument always seems to set up this strawman debugger user who blindly starts the debugger in response to any problem, applies no thought to what's going on, doesn't dig deeper, etc.

Sure, maybe that guy exists. Maybe you've seen "that guy" or been "that guy". Does that mean that it has no value to be able to stop a program and look at all the values?
> Fully autonomous vehicles

There’s no such thing.

I wonder how long it will be until people realize that “fully autonomous vehicles” in the context of an unmanned taxi service means complete human level brain-replacing AI.

It has literally nothing to do whatsoever with Uber or Lyft’s current business environment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argyria perhaps?

And expense. Of course.
I personally don't buy into the standing desk trend; I often feel that my back gets sore more if I stand for any extended periods of time.

I'm entering my late 30s this year and I've never really had any back pain/problems. I don't know what my secrets are, but I have a gut feeling it might be because I never sit still. Even when I'm coding, I just naturally tend to move my body every couple of minutes. You could say I have a problem staying still since I was a child, but it may be what helped me to never have any muscle stiffness issue.
I would settle for people not coughing an sneezing into their hands and then immediately touching everything in their vicinity. I see everyone around me doing this and it disgusts me.

(For the record, a better way to handle it is to sneeze into the inside of your elbow or immediately wash your hands after.)
It’s already wonderful seeing touch screens and self checkout kiosks replacing retail workers who hated being there.

The only issue is that the highest paid blue collar jobs left are in transportation and construction. Those are on the chopping block.

Then what?

What new system will we use to ensure those people have a life they find agreeable.
That doesn't seem at all true. Across millennia some basic tenets have remained - sense of proportion, symmetries etc. Even in the post industrial revolution, Victorian and Edwardian eras there was a retention of much of that. Even as they were discovering new construction methods and materials.

Victorians went with fussy and gothic, but even bleeding edge suspension bridges or curtain walled mills kept much of those classic curves, proportions and symmetries in the components, and in the styling. They seem easy on the human eye somehow, and manage to remain so. Even dirt cheap mass housing nods to what's around. Upto the war, as they were exploring minimalism and modernism, they still retained most of those tenets. We can look back, and whether victorian brick and steel bridge, brick 30s public building, or modernist it somehow looks right, while 99.99% of brutalist and other post war schools remain ugly as sin, and "just wrong" to nearly everyone. As they mostly did even when new. A tiny few manage to retain a little something and become the iconic examples.

Every era upto the war managed to nod to what surrounded too - to leave the street or cityscape looking "right" . Not the same, not a pastiche, but with some sympathy. Even the pre-war modernists managed to usually sit well in their surroundings, whereas currently they just take a dump on the carpet. What surrounds isn't looked at, or cared about. "look at my shit, you can't miss it", shit's everywhere. That was formerly an approach reserved for the odd mausoleum, palace or monument.
The effect of microdosing shrooms is kind of incredible in my limited experience (just a few consecutive days).

It definitely stimulated my creative side and caused me to spontaneously work on tasks I'd been putting off and some I'd forgotten completely long ago.

I didn't even realize those effects until after the fact, when reflecting on the past few days and realizing I'd done all sorts of unlikely tasks, and it was all desirable stuff I'd intended to get done at eventually.

It also makes me far more extroverted, which is a mixed bag. I'll casually and confidently strike up conversations with total strangers in public as if we're long-time friends, something I don't typically do at all.
Corrupt politics in New Jersey?!
More likely you were going to an undesirable location, were asking to be picked up in an inconvenient place, or didn't come out within 5 minutes.
So now you have the rule book and the comments and if there is a bug in any of the code, an I suppose to remember what all the code does and think through it? Am I suppose to be able to just think through why the one set of hundreds of records that came from one of 200+ repair yards is giving back erroneous results or should I just use a debugger and set a conditional breakpoint?
Social media fails traditional news outlets' approach to portrait rights
I used to work in SSD firmware development. Thing is the newer generations of NAND are quite fragile so the ECC protection is essential and it is a lot easier to trigger read disturb since you can issue millions of reads with ease. Of course various caches in the controller and system can mitigate the trivial access patterns. With read disturb detection algorithms the difficulty is you would need lots of fine grain access statistics to make it optimal.
This is a cool project! I always wonder how to measure latency of sound-related programs. Is there any tools to benchmark latencies?
Perhaps, but measuring productivity by lines of code is a problem only if there are incentives tied to the metric: if you have a system with other incentives and have two people working in the same language, lines of code is a perfectly reasonable way to judge the productivity of a programmer.
Talking trash: The sport of collecting as much waste as possible
People frame it as an issue of recreation, but it's actually a mental health crisis that these are not more accessible.
Heh. Didn't mean to condescend. I do think many powerful Excel users don't think they are programming, so I stand by my statement.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19747123
From my pov one's playing by the market rules: get a license even if it's not a great deal, the other is just providing a similar service without the license shorting the established process completely.
Did create a package for it? Is it available?
Can you cite any source on this?
It's a somewhat well-known quote that gets interpreted all sorts of ways.

https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2011/04/the-plural-of-a...
Ok, I tried fixing it anyway.
There was an attempt on Reddit but it didn't turn out well, likely because there wasn't enough input data: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/bgvzdu/d_j...

(I have an idea for a more proper approach)
> Everyone likes talking to VCs and telling them what the hot tech trends are.

Which, like every other human, means VCs need to develop "who's full of shit" skills in a big hurry.
My expectation is that something like this doesn’t happen in the first place.

Given that it has happened, I expect them to provision a new certificate and push a fixed version within an hour or two to all release channels.

What I would emphatically ‘not’ expect, is a hack that might take up to 6 hours to be applied.
Go uses tri-color mark-and-sweep gc that runs concurrently and its latency is extremely short compared to .net and java (probably still not short enough to be put in the critical path of hft order processor tho).

Edit: I'm also confident you can ensure Go’s gc doesn’t run when you don’t want it to so there’s that.
Yes. The Java ecosystem is far larger than Oracle. Java can absolutely thrive if Oracle were to cease to exist tomorrow, or if everyone else[1] decides to move to a fork.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19827875
What would you need mono for? If you’re using .net core...
Eradication is absolutely possible. High enough vaccination rates would help prevent further evolution of viruses, eventually containing them and then removing them provided there aren't alternative vectors like animals or pets.

Unfortunately, certain other efforts are compromising this.
Principles of Lighting and Rendering with John Carmack at QuakeCon 2013
Why Are Snowflakes Flat?
I'm one of the two developers, thanks for the mention. :-)

We're working on YouTube support now for the extension.

Something else I've been working on:
https://forum.language-learners.org/viewtopic.php?t=8699
There is nothing marvelous about the VS debugger (it even had bugs on basic functionality up to very recently). It just presents an simpler interface because you are launching it from an IDE, get a C++ IDE on Linux and it will be as easy to launch.

But if you are looking for marvelous debuggers, I do recommend you look at the Python ecosystem.
There were literal mail-order brides before the internet
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There is an userspace implementations of filesystems ZboxFS: https://github.com/zboxfs/zbox.
When the Linux Kernel hardcodes an "acceptable DNS resolver" list into net/, then that argument might be valid, but for now, it isn't.

Archive.is operators are throwing a temper tantrum. It isn't in Cloud Flare or anyone else's best interest to appease them.
We both lost cafeteria breakfast/lunch when we got new jobs after moving.

Making dinner used to be really easy, just grab some fresh ingredients on the way home and throw together something small and healthy.

Now it's a whole performance. We're constantly trying to make bulk meals, and store the rest for breakfast/lunch. We've gone from preparing 2 servings of food per day to 6 or more. We needed to buy larger kitchen appliances and equipment just to cook/store it all. There are 3x more groceries (We shop on foot and bought one of those little carts) and 3x more dishes. It doesn't seem like much but I've lost at least 30 mins a day, but probably a lot more on average. The food I am eating is, on average, less healthy, less diverse, and less tasty (I am no professional chef).

This article just seemed to resolve to a point that free lunch was a corporate tool to discourage "family formation", and I ultimately disagree. I think a lot of working parents would love to not have to worry about preparing their own lunch meal on top of their families.

I just don't see the connection of "free food == single life", and the article doesn't really establish one. At worst I'd still end up with the same amount of time, and at best it has given me more free time to spend with my family.
We may be talking past one another here with the word "format". I read and responded to what seemed yet another round of irrelevant (or at least low-signal), "This site looks terrible on mobile" style noise, which HN discussions are sometimes entirely too full of. Now, however, I think you (and possibly the grandparent comment) may have been talking about addressing the content to a general audience, instead of peer review.

If that's the case, I apologize for my own noise.

EDIT: Even so, that The Fine Article is (potentially) directed at an inappropriate audience doesn't tell me much about its "crackpottery", except in a mildly Bayesian kind of way.

I like to pay attention to the discussions on physics articles that cross the HN front page because I more often than not learn something by reading the conversations between the people who understand the material better than I do. That remains the kind of discussion I want to see.
no the customer will be driving the car to their destination and since the self driving function will be off, the crash will drivers responsibility just like it is with rental cars
I agree an unpatched vuneribility is probably more risky. However this feature can change settings the user explicitly sets. The bigger issue is it does not give me any indication the settings have been changed.
aka the Jocko gene
TLDR; it’s a jabber client for Android.
Instrument Ruby on Rails with Prometheus
As far as I can tell, the phrase "fuck you money" comes from James Clavell's 1966 novel "Tai Pan."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tai-Pan_(novel)
claiming to be able to shoot down a satellite with a catapult is not the craziest argument a russian may have made.
Mushroom burial suit turns dead bodies into clean compost (2016)
Any time people say things about HN, it's good to ask whether the same would be true of any sufficiently large group of humans in general. HN consists of millions of people; of course we're going to get all kinds of ideas here, good, bad, nuts, whatever. Making that into a generalization about "this forum" adds no information.
I think this is pedantic, but whatever. If you include previously popular authors then your article is not look at these new authors who are seventy, its look how old these authors are.

Or at least, that would be my takeaway if number one on the list were Steven King. It’s not interesting that he is still a good author. It is noteworthy that he is older than I expect. He is ~72 btw.
It could be the alien equivalent of anthropology or zoological grad students trying to study indigenous life on our planet. Encounters could be explained as them pulling drunk pranks on the natives.
Some of the opinions on debuggers are more nuanced than the author is letting on. Take Bob Martin, for example:

> I consider debuggers to be a drug -- an addiction. Programmers can get into the horrible habbit of depending on the debugger instead of on their brain. IMHO a debugger is a tool of last resort. Once you have exhausted every other avenue of diagnosis, and have given very careful thought to just rewriting the offending code, then you may need a debugger.

https://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=23476

I'm still baffled by people like the author who "do not use a debugger.' A print statement is a kind of debugger, but one with the distinct disadvantage of only reporting the state you assume to be important.

This part was a little surprising:

> For what I do, I feel that debuggers do not scale. There is only so much time in life. You either write code, or you do something else, like running line-by-line through your code.

I could easily add something else you might spend the valuable time of your life doing: playing guessing games with print statements rather than using a powerful debugger to systematically test all of your assumptions about how the code is running.
This right here. Except for me arts would be entertainment art. Indie gamedev without the worry of commercial success, making films, fun art projects for the sake of it
If full autonomous driving is achieved that I believe the Tesla approach seems it would be more successful. Car owners would send their cars out to drive customers around for money. Tesla would handle transactions and take a cut of the profit. Uber and Lyft don't need to be in this picture.
Just dropping this in for anyone that comes here afterward, but the author is a prize winning historian who's mentioned maybe a third of the way through the piece. His other work, such as Empires Workshop, are outstanding.
Isn't Google CDN a public beta or did it just exit a public beta into a GA? If so, it is a non-entity for at least a year long contracts that the other CDNs have with its customers. Probably a non-entity for years to come.
> Article misses an important point. Free food is a benefit, and ERISA requires all employees get the same benefits. If you have a company with lots of low paid workers, it doesn’t work financially. Silicon Valley firms mostly contract out low wage jobs (janitorial, security) partially for this reason.

ERISA seems narrowly focused on retirement plans and insurance, can you point me to more information on the lunch aspect, or some language that would suggest a broader applicability.
> They need fully autonomous driving in order to achieve profitability.

Why is this inherently true? Taxi services were profitable and Uber/Lyft are better than they ever were. I don't see why Uber/Lyft raising fares a bit would lead to an entire market collapse.
I don't like the fact that I can't run an extension that wasn't signed by Mozilla. This behaviour lacks freedom.
Outsource a project to a contracting agency and you’ve hired technical debt.
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It's especially annoying for tech related topics, since apparently the average subscriber to a programming subreddit is a 16 year old gamer who has never coded before and spends his free time installing linux distros
“Design by committee” is always a bland, sterile and soulless experience.
It isn't against the rules to link to one's own work in contexts where it's relevant. It is against the rules to use HN exclusively for promotion. This falls somewhere in between, but https://hn.algolia.com/?query=getpolarized.io%20by:burtonato... is probably a bit excessive.
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