skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are only so many ways to make cheese and most of the process is going to remain the same. Being a different or unique culture doesn't fundamentally change how cheese is manufactured.

I fail to see your point. There are only so many ways to do set immigration policy and currently Japanese policy is different from ones used by Western countries. Much to the chagrin of the Western countries criticizing it as their own policies are breaking down and giving rise to nationalism and increasing social and racial tensions.
It's interesting how "NYT tracks Reddit conversations" sounds so much less malevolent when you know exactly what they are doing and why. Ie, posting slack links of public Reddit threads so the article authors can see and participate in the resulting discussion.
I used CF in my first job more than a decade ago. It's not a terrible language. I'm a bit sketchy on the details (having been more than a decade ago) but I recall creating a custom tag that "magically" created an editor for DB row (which in-turn used a custom tag for editing any column). It didn't run in the browser, but, apart from that, it felt a lot like using React/Angular/Vue/Svelte/what-have-you. I quickly built up a library of custom tags, which worked really well in, what was essentially, a shop that was mass-producing websites.

The awesome thing is that I bashed it out in one week, starting from knowing no CFML at all. It was essentially me and my employer building websites (a 3rd or 4th dealt with IT), and he was successful with my work within one day.

It's dumb, it's boring, it's uninteresting, and those are seemingly features. I love Vue and Svelte with a passion, but it takes more than a day to become successful with those (and far longer to become wildly productive).

All of that being said, I don't care to go back to it.
Sure they spent billions on new signals... But signals are really just lights in boxes. If I gave you a pile of raspberry pi's, some light bulbs, and a few months salary, I think you could do it.

The expense comes from the ancient methods they wanted to use. In the same way a handwritten book is much more expensive than using a printing press.
97-Year-Old Grandpa Saves Village by Painting Buildings with Colorful Art
While the use of the term "dimwits" is definitely unprofessional, there is considerable value in knowing a language that's used by a small but critical segment.

Case in point, the banking world's use of COBOL. Very few organizations use COBOL anymore, but those who do are using it in some absolutely critical pieces of infrastructure that can't easily be replaced. The combination of low popularity and critical usage means that people who know COBOL are in high demand and can command fantastic salaries due to rarity.
Hadoop was not an academic project although Spark was.
> becoming harder and harder to design a bad lens.

On the other hand it's not so much of a problem anymore to use a "bad lens" when cameras do signal processing to remove distortion and chromatic aberrations. On film this would have been impractical to correct, on digital medium it's almost done real time.
> a few projects on github are disproportionately large and influential

Since this is github though, this is probably more of a marketplace than a donation-market. There is definitely some supply-demand dynamics rather than just patronship
A high quality £300 prime lens is not a bad price. The 35mm f/2 essentially lives on my XT-2. For its size, weight, and price, it’s a terrific lens.
My plan is go web as much as possible and maybe Electron :-). Windows desktop is not much fun anymore.
“Made with Google Sites” to be removed from Google Site footers
FreeBSD jails have certainly not be a static concept since 2000, so the term "FreeBSD jail" does not denote a single, unchanged thing.
It has though. There have been several articles about reports filed by pilot's where uncommanded nose down occurred, that the root cause was not ascertained for. This is reported at a minimum here.

https://theatlantic.com/article/584791/

These are by definition "typical flights" until the anomaly occurs.

Also, keep in mind, AoA sensors have long been a luxury for pilots, since they tend to learn the envelope in terms of glide slope, and they are trained to be able to safely operate aircraft without it.

The MAX took a historically non-critical component, and added it to a safety critical process.

I understand that with the sheer number of different points in the timeline of the design, deployment, and operation of these craft, that trying to hold all the context in your head at the same time does make it feel like

"Damnit Jim, we've entered crackpot territory!"

Nevertheless, we have to remain vigilant and open to the fact that malfeasance does happen, and those that would commit it also go out of their way to make it as hard to bring into the open (if intentional), or frequently disincentivize any activity that could potentially make the issue easier to observe since the path of least resistance typically by definition involves minimizing points of inspection or other forms of scrutiny (if the malfeasance is merely the result unintentional misguidedness/incompetence).
Maybe so, but when did we suddenly start giving companies like Microsoft the benefit of the doubt on stuff like this?
I can’t tell if your attempt at oversimplifying was done in good faith, but if you paid attention to recent tax legislation you would see that the elimination of taxes is only permanent for corporations and not low income families. If the elimination of taxes isn’t happening fairly then the transfer of wealth is unsustainable. That is a problem.

Im surprised that people are so eager to protect their overlords when our friends and family finances are getting destroyed by the federal governments policy.

Glad everything is hunky dory wherever it is you live but my culture and nation is heading towards revolution.
I prefer taxes because there's a reliable "shadow of the future". Market prices may go up and down depending on how many certificates are issued, how professional traders behave, and how technology progresses.

So, I'd suggest the following for any nation or country:

1. Create an independent institution (like the European Central Bank) with the goal to get to carbon neutrality until, say, 2040 or 2045.

2. Give it the right to tax carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases. This should include tariffs for imported goods, and reimbursements for exported goods, and other means to make some special industries pay (airplanes and ships, mostly).

3. Give it the right to perform auctions for negative carbon emissions.

If the world wants a chance to fix the problem, it'll need negative emissions, as far as I know. This is missing in your suggestion. It may also be faster to create new industries than change existing ones.

My suggestion would also follow a well-known, although maybe no uncontroversial principle of "polluter pays". In the end, the price is determined by the goal, not by political considerations.

If I'm not mistaken, such a carbon tax would rise until (positive) carbon emissions equal negative carbon emissions. At this point, carbon neutrality should be reached. Whatever else needs to be done is then up to future generations.
I genuinely don't know what the author is refering to.

I'm amazed at how many comments resolve around "But wait, of course systems research has evolved, see XX and YYY", followed by responses along the lines of "Nah, he was not talking about XX and YYY, rather ZZZ, etc..."

I hate being the "please define xxx" guy, but is there a consensual definition of what "Systems software" is ?
When it comes to funding retirement on a societal level, the only two numbers that matter are dependency ratios (the number of working people per non-working person) and productivity (the amount of useful work able to be done by one laborer). If either of those falls, living standards necessarily have to fall - you have fewer people doing the work of supporting everyone, potentially less efficiently. If you can get productivity to go up faster than the dependency ratio is falling, you have a chance of offsetting the fall.

Every government policy or financial product is just redistributing the pain of falling living standards. You can dictate that retirees receive transfer payments from working people, as per social security - but it means that they have less money to spend on themselves and their kids. You can transfer earnings within a corporation from current workers and shareholders to retirees, as per pensions - but it means the company will be a less attractive place for new hires, and risks the financial solvency of the whole company. 401(k)s have their own problems - the price of stocks, at any given instance, is set by the ratio of dollars entering the market to dollars leaving the market, so if all retirees try to pull their money out to fund retirement at once, they'll find the stock prices they were counting on crash.
Even if it were made up, that bit of lore has been around much longer than the show.
I don't really know what this means, but I would like to because it sounds cool.
Note: is anyone interested in using something like this? If so, let me know! I'm curious as to how I can make it useful for people in the field.
Um... can't C jump pretty much anywhere (at least within the same function)? Including insane things like into loops? Is that enough to break Dijkstra's model? (Or are you excluding C from "high level languages"?)
The author also says that planning to receive 50% of your stated social security benefits is crazy, and then mentions that absent any legal changes there'll be a 20% cut in 15 years. Am I supposed to believe that that cut won't go up with time?
The rich world is enjoying an unprecedented jobs boom
I don't get how you could think "interpreted XML" was a good idea. Great, you don't need context switching the way PHP does it, but instead of properly splitting templates and code, ColdFusion still mixes both while managing to be less readable.

Added to that I feel unable to imagine a piece of indented 80 column wide XML that doesn't somehow curl up on the right edge. It's certainly not for me, but I won't tell you not to use anything.

Paraphrasing a thing I heard on the internet: XML is like violence, if it doesn't solve your problem, maybe you need to use ColdFusion?
Beaming cheap internet from space has bankrupted other companies
Well, see below. Dag wants to just move on; the "real" dstat program is now defunct even if it wasn't before. So, we'll just keep things as they are for now.
Clip OS – Open-Source Secured Operating System
Here's a sample picture at full resolution (100M pixels):

https://1.img-dpreview.com/files/p/sample_galleries/60445538...

The amount of details is impressive.
I like your haiku.

But stay away from TCL...

It is such a mess.
Super curious to learn more about the lucrative furry art niche and how you came across it.

Surprised no one else has mentioned this part of the comment.
Democrats generally want to raise taxes to match spending. Democrats are “tax and spend,” Republicans are just “spend.”
I promise I am not trying to be an asshole here - is there some joke I'm missing about both of your spelling of cicadas?
I’m one of them
The iPhone 6 was a dog, unfortunately.
> Or did they just extracted the residual value from their employees?

It's really hard to know the alternate history w/o Zuck, but the theory goes that these employees would have been employed in less valuable ways w/o him. Thus there is some marginal value add he brought to the table of which he captures a portion of... Of course all of this is up for debate...

The rationale is that the entrepreneur/organization bringing the greatest value to market is able to subsequently pay employees the most as well and employees will naturally migrate to their greatest opportunity. Whether it's starting their own business, staying at their current job or changing employers/careers it is up to individuals to decide their own best path.
Well, when the global food chain collapses with the environment, I think 'working people' will be overshadowed by 'starving' people.
It may have been at one point, but I created a new Google account the other day and haven't touched this box, and it's off.
I couldn't stand the repetitive way she was presenting the information. Sure it was like a monologue or conversation, but the info could've been given in a paragraph or two.
Same. I tried it a few months ago. Navigating Phaser2 vs Phaser3 alone was so bad that it radicalized me to believe that you should just rename a project after a full rewrite.

Everything I googled would give me results in the Phaser forums and the exercise was on me to figure out which version they were using, which was 100% Phaser 2.

And the API definitely wasn't written for Typescript support. For example, just changing the physics string completely changes the API available which felt like an exercise in obfuscation.

Also found the API so unintuitive that I was trying to repurpose examples to get what I wanted which is always a bad sign to me, like hoping your question appears in an FAQ because the code is too hard to read.

Ended up using https://excaliburjs.com/ which is written in Typescript thus much less guesswork. I really didn't like my experience with Phaser.
> third party ids are not yours. Treat them as strings, the other party can change them to string any day (happened to me more than once over the years) or they could use a different integer size than what you support (this case, or an unlimited integer value type - some languages have that too)
Yep, although other commercial databases have already had it, definitely useful.
Oh, no doubt it would be expensive, but medium format digital cameras already tend to be prohibitively expensive for anyone who doesn't have an urgent professional use for one.
His comments about iOS not having virtual memory are incorrect, but I rarely if ever have the issues he’s talking about, but maybe it’s because I have only used iPad Pro’s or iPhone Plus/Max devices in recent years which have more memory.

I regularly have dozens of tabs open and only reopening a tab that hasn’t been visited in some time results in a refresh.
At this point, I'm far more concerned about the long-term state of the environment than the long-term (or even short-term) state of our economy.
NOAA versus FCC and CTIA on 5G's Impact on Weather Data (WaPo)
https://m.laserpointerpro.com/attribute/power_3000mw-lasers_...

You can find them all over eBay and Alibaba in even higher wattages. I've seen 15w
Rob defined systems software in the first part of his post as "Operating systems, networking, languages; the things that connect programs together.".
Let me rephrase it, you don't need capital.

Otherwise, yes, money is crucial to building a startup. As well as the oxygen you will be breathing while building it.
"arithmetic has existed for quite a while...what's the novelty Of Mr. Newton's integral? Mathematics research is irrelevant."
> did create their own gateways

> Many companies, prior to Stripe, did create their own gateways or custom systems on top of gateways.

Ah. There it is.

By your logic, because I've written shell code, I've written a shell interpreter, because I wrote something custom on top of it.

Nice ad hominem though.
Image Classification on Android Using NumPy and Kivy
I'm planning that Social Security will either not exist or be so paltry as to be useless, and doing my retirement planning accordingly. It certainly wouldn't hurt my feelings any to be proved wrong, but I'm not depending on ever seeing a single red cent out of it.
This technology could give us the opportunity to verify a ton of our physical and chemical models with direct observation. The demo may not be exciting but if they can scale it down you can expect a lot of exciting discoveries. I can't wait to see what we're wrong about.
Excellent, well if you get around it to I would love to scope it out. Autodidact after being fedup with shared servers like, GoDaddy/HostGator/Inmotion, they were easy to use since I had no idea what I was doing, I moved to Digital Ocean and its been a fun learning experience. I love using command line and solving problems. Would love to be as tight on security as you are! Cheers
Namecheap has great intro prices on domains and ssl but it goes up a lot when you get to the 2ND and 3ed year. 1at year was about 4$ now 2ND year is 26$

Just FYI
KSP is a whole different beast if you use the Real Solar System mod (which you should, once you learn the basics).
I find this interesting but as a non-tech/science person, can't discern the truth on this subject. Help anyone?
Mixed reality video about rotating in 4 dimensions
The torrent being "trusted" has absolutely nothing to do with whether your ISP is spying on your traffic. Paying for and enabling a VPN service is step 0 of torrent client use because it eliminates this issue.
Kerbin is designed as smaller than Earth and with a thinner atmosphere. The end result is that it's much easier to make a rocket there.
It's a good endgame for an engineer. If you've got experience with X language and you're planning your exit from the industry.

Better yet, be the guy who can upgrade a system like that from X language to the newer one that can be maintained by the your new wave of engineers.
The sad thing is that XAML could be great if they just had put a little more work into it.
Legal avenues have already replaced illegal downloading of music for nearly all of us.

I grew up torrenting and was a proud member of what.cd when that tracker was still alive.

These days I listen to nearly all of my music on paid Spotify subscriptions. The number of people who have access to either Spotify, Amazon Prime, or Apple Music subscriptions must be huge. Those who don’t have paid subscriptions probably aren’t that interested in music in the first place.

Video is a different beast, but I do like Netflix. Torrents live on for new releases and less available content, though.
Artificial Photosynthesis Breakthrough Uses Gold to Turn CO2 into Liquid Fuel
So everyone now is surveilled en masse and patrolled by agents of the state, great solution. Is that really what we want?
Miserable millennials: A bleak view of the future
Your source for that article is a man named Alex Epstein, who is paid by coal industry figures to advocate for a "new industrial revolution".

> In a September 11, 2018 piece at the CIP website, Epstein disclosed “proudly” that one of his industry clients was Tyler White, president of the Kentucky Coal Association. [22]

Also interesting:

> Alexander Epstein planned to release his “Energy Liberation Plan” for consideration by 2016 political candidates. According to an article by Epstein in Forbes, the Energy Liberation Plan seeks to combat “backwards energy and environmental policies that are anti-development, not anti-pollution.” He contends that we are “squandering the opportunity of a generation, through blind opposition to our three most potent sources of power: hydrocarbon energy (coal, oil, and gas), nuclear energy, and hydroelectric energy.” [15]

I am reading, and I am neither weeping nor laughing, because this is exactly what I expected to see.

If this is someone you expect to accurately represent climate science, I think you are mistaken in holding them in that regard.

As a counterpoint, here's another take on the "97%" figure, a review of the several meta-studies that have been done on climate science:

http://skepticalscience.com/global-warming-scientific-consen...

Their conclusion is that between 90 and 100% of climate science papers agree that 1) climate change is occurring and 2) it is caused by human industrial sources.

Of course, the man paid by the Kentucky Coal Association would disagree, but in this case I would defer to Upton Sinclair, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."

Sources:

* https://www.desmogblog.com/center-industrial-progress

* https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Alex_Epstein
You might have a point if we were just taking temperature readings and guessing about the cause. However, the greenhouse gas effect is known, and can be easily demonstrated. Likewise, we can measure the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere and see it rapidly rising[1]. We also know all the many human activities that release CO2 into the atmosphere. So there's a pretty clear causal chain here.

[1] https://climate.nasa.gov/climate_resources/24/graphic-the-re...
Early Customer Feedback Fallacies
"Rule of law" is the one where the letter of the law is a clear and unambiguous true statement of the intent of the legislature.

"Rule of lawyers" is what happens when it isn't and then you need a rhetorician to have an ex post facto political debate about "the spirit of the law" in a courtroom rather than in the statehouse where it belongs to begin with.
What type of data is important for customer journey analysis?
I've started to use WP FootPrint plugin from https://x10sn.com on my newly started eCommerce site. But I'm overwhelmed by the information, what should I start looking at first?
LOL! I think you might be a tad overstating the significance of this.
I've done a small amount of model rocketry. My interest in the hobby basically ended once the various old-timers I had access to convinced me that any sort of guidance beyond extremely basic horizon tracking would indeed amount to ITAR controlled missile tech.
The article seems to contradict it's own title:

> making the USC Rocket Lab only the second amateur group to ever send a rocket to space
The poster is shocked because people's (self-estimated) ability to afford kids has gone down, leading to a larger number of people who want kids to stay childless. They are not saying that people wanting kids is a bad thing.

Many people assume that people have less kids because preferences and lifestyles have changed, leading to headlines like, "Millennials don't want kids" (And maybe in the same vein, "Millennials are killing cars", "Millennials want smaller homes", etc.)
The ISP sent a notice in an email or what? I’ve never heard of this happening.
Extremely long life span (10 years), support if you want it, great community, great package manager, and in rhel 8 really great new features like appstream.
Rogue emissions of ozone-depleting chemical pinned to China
Show HN: Ruby and JavaScript Mini App Hosted on URL!
And it was facile and therefore incorrect.
JSBI[1] is a polyfill for the BigInt semantics, without the syntax. Then there's a Babel transform[2] to compile to the native syntax if all your targets support it.

[1]: https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/jsbi

[2]: https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/babel-plugin-transform-j...