skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You cant get riders until they know you have drivers, and vice versa. So, you basically have to pay drivers to wait around for potential riders, which gets expensive quickly.
Why not just burn them on the CD? This way they are safe from hacker's attacks, and still in the digital form. There are special types of CDs that will last decades. There even is such thing as "1000 years dvd" :)
> it shouldn't be hard to avoid typing in the same place [...] if it happens, the person editing will notice within two seconds and just wait a second for the other to finish

But if it does happen, it needs to result in a consistent state in both people's editors, right?

> In a more realistic example, it would be changing "its" to "it's" concurrently with changing the word to "that". There is no good solution (the server wouldn't know which person to ignore: the apostrophe inserter or the replacer)

Discarding the apostrophe seems like a good solution to me, what's wrong with it?

As long as, if the replacer hits Undo, "it's" is what is restored. (Not sure if any existing algorithms do so, but I believe it's possible and am intending for the collaborative editor I'm designing to do so. Haven't implemented it yet though, so who knows.)
Having read a lot, and listened to podcasts, about BER, the takeaway seems to be that quality control is of utmost importance. The amount of money you spend on quality control almost can't be high enough. 30% or more of the budget just for quality control now seems entirely reasonable to me. And it can't be just at the end, it has to be an ongoing thing where everything is sanity checked as it is being done by people who preferably know their shit better than the people actually doing the work. Starting with the fundamental assumptions of the architectural drawings and ending with the carpets. Because we see the alternative and it's just depressing how far over budget things can go.
Many Americans Will Need Long-Term Care. Most Won’t Be Able to Afford It
Apple made the fonts thicker in recent iOS releases.

I don’t understand the other complaints. Anecdotally, users are more proficient with iOS than Windows or macOS, for similar usage times.
Here's the original paper:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/l3atbc-public/pub_pdfs/JK_Hartshorn...
It's not a win.
It's quite an interesting accent, definitely not British, more Mid-atlantic but you still get the east European burr.
> For starters, in real life, there is visible light pollution in several directions around the forest and none of this is visible here on the horizon.

It seems like in many of the pictures, including the one above this quote, the horizon is much lighter than the sky above. Isn't that light pollution?

> You can perhaps recognize...the bright star Vega and Polaris, which would be located above the frame.

How do we recognize those? The arrow to "Polaris" is pointing out of the picture. And how was the bright dot in the picture identified as "Vega"?
Funnily, when this research was discussed before here on HN (with the "wrong" reporting TFA criticizes), many people commented to the tune of "but of course, it's only reasonable that adults can't never hope to learn a foreign language at a very high level".
For many people, integration is defined as "the area under the curve" and computed using sets of known rules. Infinite series are a tool we use to reason about calculus concepts more formally. It's a very arbitrary distinction; I was only making it because if you aren't studying calculus in depth you can avoid talking about Taylor polynomials and infinite series, but you can't really avoid talking about derivatives and integrals. If you want to define integrals formally, then you will definitely see infinite series.
A little randomness is what made StumbleUpon so enjoyable, too. But, like the link you've shared, it too is defunct.

I spent an afternoon writing a python script that picks a random word, searches sites where weird/creative folks gather (instructables? tumblr? hacker news? are.na? i need more ideas!), and opens a random link from the search results. The word list it draws from needs some pruning, but it was a decent way to return to the feeling that SU used to give me. I was thinking of turning it into a single serving site, but my dev skills really aren't up to par yet. I don't know where I'd even start to get a basic page up and running.

It's nifty to read about a collection of services from people who had similar feelings!
This is a point I very much like. One of the benefits of more abstraction is that "sufficiently smart" compilers/interpreters can do a lot of reordering/optimizations at a lower level that would otherwise need to be (unsafely) done by hand.

I really like the Rust approach, but (I believe) it is impossible so have heap compacting at run time in practice and similar things.

There was here an article about SQL that pointed out how Oracle would give you estimates of run time for a query, choose the estimated best data structures and algorithms, and also switch on the fly if it realizes the query was taking to long. As another example of the kind of techniques that are possible only from a higher abstraction.
As an actual architect, this article is pretty hilarious. There are a couple of egregious things, such as the entry portal panel misalignment - that should have been (or will be?) fixed. Too important of an area to let that slide. The other items like small panel gaps, overextended saw cuts in pavers, etc... come on. I challenge anyone to go to any building ever and not find imperfections. Maybe surprisingly, building buildings is complex, and i'd rather goofballs complain about non-walkable rock areas then a building collapsing on itself. or its facade falling off.

also:
per code, railings can be gapped by 4" - its pretty much one of the only things installers need to make sure of so i'd be pretty surprised if that rail gap is > 4"
last, one of the images has a piece of blue tape indicating a "fix this" marker. Looks like they (arch? owner? contractor?) said "nah".
> Current generation Apple designers clearly have amazing vision: part numbers on light grey on white in microscopic fonts.

OMG, this has to be the worse fashion decision they've made. Let's use this thin, tiny, light-grey font to write over the shiny white plastic. Fuck you Apple.
Not sure I understand this rant. There is so much water, and no specific examples. Nor does it explain why did she have to work overtime.

I used to work for Microsoft too, and you have to be really narrow-minded to think, that your experience can be extrapolated to a company of 100,000+
My suggestion is considering the negative externalizes from gasoline powered cars it would be better to make up the revenue with an excise tax on new ICE cars.

IE, don't tax fossil fuels, tax products that commit us to consuming fossil fuels.
That is because DDG is not a real search engine, since they do not index the web (at least by the 2019 meaning of the word). Unless you are search in Russian, DDG is basically Bing search results.
BTW, whoever wants a really concise "zero-to-hero" level PHYS 101 book read "No bullshit guide to math and physics" by Ivan Savov.
Why apologize for admitting the woman was gorgeous, as if it was improper? :)
If anything, not acknowledging someone is gorgeous - when one actually is - should be improper. Beauty matters - always did, always will. Instead of pretending it doesn't, let's celebrate it!
TFS/VSTS/DevOps (Microsoft)
Boeing declined to detail the specific functionality of the two switches

It seems like that's really the crux of the problem. They made changes that they didn't feel it was necessary to tell their customers about. Just another step along the "I know you bought this product from us, but it's still our product at the end of the day" timeline that we're stuck on.

Further, I'll bet that it transpires that no one entity inside Boeing is really to blame for this mess. The engineers in charge of the AOA indicator subsystem didn't know that someone else in the company was going to drive a safety-critical component from it. And that engineering group may not have realized that the AOA data they were getting came from only one of the two sensors. My guess is that Boeing not only hid this information from their customers, they hid it from themselves.

The problem will have to be addressed at the top, but I don't agree with those who say that blaming, firing, or jailing the CEO is going to be helpful. The culture that allowed this to happen will have grown organically over time.
Since lack of seating is forcing people to sit on the floor, they can try some other anti-seating technologies that have been deployed in London and New York.
The bus had stopped under an archway, sheltered from onlookers. Tina and the others asked the driver to open the back door for fresh air. One of them chatted to the driver, while the others let Bernd in through the back. The teenagers stood in the aisle to block the view. Bernd folded his almost 2m frame into the hidden space, and the girls piled their coats on top.

This is astonishingly brilliant.

Some 20 minutes later, one of their friends picked up the onboard mic and announced: “Our guest today, live in our show: Bernd Bergmann from the GDR!”

This is where they went wrong. They should have kept quiet about it after pulling it off, not announced it like they expected everyone to approve of what they had done.

They should have tried to sneak him off the bus. At most, they should have talked to their teacher or another adult to find out what they need to do now. They may not have known to take him to a police station so he could formally and officially "enter" the system/country.

All their lives they had been told to be brave in the face of injustice. Now they were being treated like criminals.

Well, duh. That's why it requires bravery to begin with. If everyone was going to pat you on the head for it, the problem wouldn't exist to begin with.
Farnsworth fusors are primarily interesting nightlights not a source of Helium. Otherwise they would quickly kill everyone in the room when you turn them on.

Even if the entire world was 100% running on fusion power we would still be short orders of magnitude from our current demand. MRI machines can switch to designs that don’t use helium, parties are simply going to have to go without long term.
> I understand the desire for revenge, but prisons should be safe, secure and inmates should come out of there as people you'd be happy to have as a neighbor.

All else being equal, I’d always prefer a non-ex-con over an ex-con as a neighbor. I doubt I’m alone in this.
This is no tip, this is something I guess everyone has ended doing out of necessity. I take a picture and max the contrast and zoom, but I shouldn't need to do that just because legible print is not fashionable.
Atheists, what do you admire about religion and vice versa?
Not everyone learns the same way, so the entire tone of this article would be better if presented as, "Here are why books and lectures don't work for me."
Gotta love deregulation.

Remind me, when's the last time we had a major fatality incident in the US domestic passenger airline business?

And how does that compare with the prevailing state of affairs before "deregulation?"

Difficulty: answer with numbers, please, rather than insults, downvotes, or political attacks.
Your sarcasm kind of proves the point: I don’t actually have any difficulty in my day-to-day life with misusing or misunderstanding definite or indefinite articles. So I don’t think I’m likely to be alone in finding the quiz question obscure.

There are all kind of things that you might infer from a speaker choosing to use the indefinite rather than the definite in a particular circumstance. But I don’t think that non-uniqueness inferences are all that strongly indicated in the absence of any knowledge of the speaker’s intentions. Here are a couple of other examples:

Every student in the class sat an exam.
Every child in the school has joined a club.

These sentences simply don't carry any strong implication that it wasn't the same exam/club for each student/child. The specific indefinite reading is readily available.
The aviation industry does that all the time. If the pilots have any fault, the NTSB will say so. We should not shy away from that conclusion, either, the point of the investigation is not to find blame, it is to prevent future accidents.
I guess that implies they are no longer missing then?
font-size: 12px

He should lose his designer license for that.
If there is no sharing then you just need a box, reference counting is for when there is not a clear owner and many references all still want to share.

I am not sure how the thread situation is for GCs and Java, but Arc is indeed reference counting and I believe it is used quite often in rust.
As of the completion of the sendgrid acquisition, there is no email verb for twiml. Your only options are to host code on a third-party and call it from Twilio (sendgrid could be that Third party) or write a Twilio function.

But the easiest way to do this, by far, would be a simple email verb in Twiml. No dice so far…
Neither old or new Edge is being distributed on Store. Old one gets bugfixes from Windows update and new features come with the big biannual Windows updates. New one uses it's own updater. They also removed ability to install Office from store.
Here's a house built to survive a hurricane that did survive a hurricane.[1] It's a steel and concrete structure clad in wood.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLjsDQyW5Y8
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You could say that, but you don't have to phrase it that way. A regular indefinite article is fine too.

(The technical term for what you're talking about is a "specific indefinite", by the way.)
This doesn't surprise me. I spent a bit of time at one of the companies that do loyalty programs on behalf of retailers (I would say that most if not 90% of loyalty programs are outsourced). This one had some big-ticket clients including a well-known coffee shop chain. Some things to note:

* In terms of culture, it was primarily a marketing company, not a technology company. Marketroids made up much of upper management. During new-employee orientation, one of these marketroids would attempt to sell you on the company's mission by redefining the word "loyalty" in such a way that it doesn't involve trust, faithfulness, or any other human virtue.

* The office was aggressively open-plan. Engineers sat shoulder-to-shoulder at long benches, with about enough room for their MacBook and one or two monitors, and that's it. There were no "focus rooms" or other quiet places to get work done, only a few conference rooms (and of course offices for upper management). Engineering shared the same office space with sales, marketing, and the other divisions and the place was constantly loud. Even the receptionist's area was out in the open like this. It was like some of the worst boiler-room recruitment firms I'd seen, but scaled up, and you were supposed to get technical work done there.

* The pace was also aggressive. There was an expectation that new features would be implemented and go into production quickly, and this is also the sort of company where you "commit" to work for the next sprint, you do not "forecast". If what you pledged to do by end of sprint isn't done, you will be given the turd-burgling stink eye at best.

With rewards programs being implemented in that kind of environment, is it any surprise that proper care for things like security is not being done?
That's because this is HN. Playing the blame game is what we get to do. The NTSB will analyze all factors and if the pilots had any contribution to the crashes that will be noted. This is why aviation has become so safe. If the investigators just looked for blame like we do, planes wouldn't be nearly as safe as they are today.
This makes me wonder what the legacy effects of the Stasi today and one gauge of that would be a measure of age demographic uptake of social media for people who grew up under the Stasi and compare that to west german's of the same age demographic.

A quick dig into this and: https://www.internetworldstats.com/europa.htm
proved a bit insightful, whilst this only has the data for Germany (as a whole as it is again with no East/West) it does show in contrast to other EU members a lower uptake of social media when you factor in internet access. Whilst Poland does show lower, if you scale in internet access you see that Germany per population is a lower uptake. You could also see some impact in previous communist countries, though for many, internet penitration is lower and that plays a factor. Bulgaria shows low usage but in relation to those with internet access - it is pretty high. So hard to see any true correlation. A better set of statistics would enable some true analysis. But on a quick glance, it would seem to of had a legacy impact upon people who grew up in that time who may well have a predisposition towards - not sharing personal information.
Using an index for access path and ranking for selection
It's not anticompetitive. It's a web standard that anyone can roll on their own domain (like amp.reddit.com), or host on a certified CDN (like Cloudflare) to get the icon in search results. Bing, Yandex, etc. can add icons or carousels in their results too if they wanted to.
Brainfuck Optimizing JIT – Something I made as a learning exercise
Show HN: Person Identification by Keyboard Typing
That's the hidden beauty of JavaScript.
> it needs to result in a consistent state in both people's editors

Ah, that makes sense :). Stupid question indeed.

I figured the server is just the authority and whatever order it arrives there is the truth. But we only send deltas (we must, because how else will the client still know where to put the cursor after applying a new version) and so we can't use that. Makes sense.
Love the initiative! There has been really awesome work by OpenAI and Deepmind recently in OpenAI/AlphaStar, but I find it all pretty impractical until people figure out how to train those models without thousands of GPU's over weeks. IMO, it's either huge breakthroughs in simulations, or sample-efficient RL.
There are actually a number of different ways to define integrals - see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral#Formal_definitions
At a different level it's funny all pics in Nat Geo are fake.

Everywhere in world I've been I've seen rubbish.

Can't say I've ever seen it in Nat Geo. But it's an integral part of nature.

Along with at times hundreds of people, also missing in a lot of Nat Geo.

And star pics are always fake. 10 or a 100 times more than the human eye can see. Unless it's a star map it's fake.

It's a fine line I guess. I are entertained by the magazine. And it inspires to what perhaps we can be in a fantasy future even if it's not actually possible.

https://blogs.mprnews.org/newscut/2019/05/national-geographi...
I'm not sure what the takeaways are from this article, if anything concrete. It sounds sad and frustrating that some supposed friends inside the company didn't say goodbye when she was let go, but I guess I don't see that as surprising or noteworthy at a large company. Maybe there's a warning sign to not go all-in on a company, but she doesn't sound remorseful for having done it? I hope she finds satisfying and balancing work in the future.
there was an article a few month ago here describing how refcounts and liveness reachability were the two dual basic GC and most simple GC are a combination of the two techniques.
While publishing to Maven Central may be onerous, there are good reasons for it, e.g. https://twitter.com/JakeWharton/status/1073102730443526144
It would not be invalid to observe that the first Lion Air crew dealt successfully with the malfunction, and ask why the second crew did not. Every aspect of these accidents should be investigated.
I asked about this in the Github thread, and it at least seems that Gitlab has minor issues but not the complete downtime that Github tends to have.
That’s very kind; thank you.
It strikes me how a seemingly insignificant decision at the time - to position fuselage slightly higher above the ground - gave Airbus a strategic advantage 50 years later. It forced the competitor into a services of unexplainable and reckless decisions that break basic principles of reliable engineering. Which in turn led to a very visible disastrous business consequences: Boeing had to silently reduce 737 MAX production despite having secured orders for over 5000 planes. A case to be studied in business schools.
Does this really apply to, say, tonal languages? I'm trying to learn Vietnamese and I feel like there is a sensitivity to the tones that really needs to be there early on. Another factor, I'm sure, is that my ears just aren't as good as they were when I was young.
Well (strokes grey beard), before we talk about offline support, we should consider that there are two kinds of "online editing."

The first kind of "online editing" is where you make a request to a server, and nothing happens until the server acknowledges it and sends you an approval. That's synchronous.

The second type of "online editing" is where you have an independent process in your browser or client, and it communicates asynchronously with a server, while simultaneously allowing you to edit a local model of the data.

In the first case, we really need an editor to send every keypress to the server and wait for a response.

In the second case, we really are talking about the browser or local app or whatever being offline, it just synchronizes very frequently with the server.

I think that the moment you want to support typing faster than the round trip to the server, you are already talking about offline editing.

And in most cases, yes you do want to support typing faster than teh round trip to the server, because what works in an urban area with high-speed internet becomes comically unusable in low-bandwidth and low-latency environments.

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So... I suggest that we almost always want to design for "offline editing," it's just that we don't always imagine someone writing an essay on a weekend camping trip, then synchronizing when they get back to the office on Monday.
In the US you can send a FOIA request for your FBI file:

https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2013/jun/21/foia-how-...
Honest question: why do so many design/HCI/typography experts have unreadable/unusable websites of their own? I don't doubt what you're saying, but damn.
There is not really much division to speak of.
GDB 8.3
But at least one aircrew in the real world actually succeeded.
In our company, we work with a small team on each pentest, and we do have concurrent edits in the same file quite regularly. One example is going through the network scan results at the beginning of a test: one person works from the top, the other from the bottom, and frequently, we will be editing the file at the same time because we are just getting an overview of the infrastructure and picking interesting targets. Locking the whole file would actually be cumbersome for us.

But I agree that locking sounds like a fairly low-tech solution to reliably solve the issue, though I would do it on row level (or perhaps the current row plus one above and below). The way I see this work is that your client will automatically fetch a lock on the row where your cursor is placed, and you can type at will. If you are inactive, your client could automatically release the lock. Most of the time you're not working on the exact same line as someone else anyway (two persons one sentence, feels a little like trying to type with two persons on one keyboard).

Edit: In a sibling thread, u/espadrine raised a good point:

> what if concurrently someone inserts Enter on line 3? Executing "line 9 […] insert <Enter>" must not be done on line 9.

I guess my idea of line locking may not work after all. Or at least, we would have to change "line number" to some identifier that can not be modified by an edit.