skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> they definitely have the one-click-and-you-have-it-tomorrow game nailed.

There's no question about that.

But personally, this isn't a big deal for me. That's one of the reasons that I've really taken to "Amazon Day" for shipping -- I rarely need something the next day, and am entirely happy to wait up to a week for my Amazon order in exchange for only having one shipment per week.

My cutoff for "too long" tends to be a week or two, depending.
Thread needs a link to this great story about the sr71's slowest speed : https://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/the-sr-71-blackbirds-most-...
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>Well, totalitarian in this context means shackling developers with micro-management of basic functions of software development.

This might be an interesting philosophical/religious debate about computers to some, but it's also one we had in 2008 when the App Store launched. It's clear after 11 years that Apple was right and the rest of the world simply does not share that religion. Conversely they sure do like the practical benefits from Apple's micromanagement.

>You can have every single app run in a privacy jail by-default. Let the user opt-out on a per-app basis if they choose to. Apple could also simply just run a ad-blocker or a tracking scripts blocker as a system level feature.

Apps already run in a sandbox and are private by default. The user has to give consent before an app gets location or contacts data. An ad blocker for apps is silly because it's an unnecessary hack when they control the App Store policies.

The difference with giving permission to an app you downloaded is that you have a first party relationship with that app. You don't have a first party relationship with any of the SDKs that developers package into their app. They disclose it in their privacy policies that no one reads, but that's certainly not informed consent.
Neither data organization nor security is their role...

One belongs to the backend to decide, the other is for HTTP/S-level specs and Javascript, none of which are or should be W3C's concern.
I work at a company that distributes an Android SDK specifically for East/West/Southern Africa and South Asia. So far (and we are extremely early stage) we've seen 2,992 unique make/model combinations, and from there the OS ranges from v4.3 - 9.0 and everywhere in between. There's a huge backward compatibility problem in these markets -- we had to build our own dual sim API because of it. Device specific issues are extremely real, and as far as I can tell, Google does not have a great strategy for these markets that make up a not insignificant (and growing) portion of their market share. Android users who are sensitive to data usage/costs don't upgrade their OS often, and have secondhand or imported devices with some kind of customized OS.

https://medium.com/use-hover/hover-launches-v1-0-stable-and-...
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Nuclear propulsion manuals for the U.S. navy have similar wordings.

>By order of the commanding officer [actually a highranking person on carriers, compared to little ships where COs can be realtively junior and low ranking], this reactor limit may be ignored during tactical situations.

Legend has it that every CO (3, i think i heard) to invoke "when tactical" exceptions have been fired in the following review. The only thing worse than crashing a billion dollar boat is damaging the publics trust in naval nuclear power : )
This has been a settled issue for years. You'll find it in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html and there's more explanation here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20033431 and marked it off-topic.
"Middlebrow dismissals" like this are discouraged on HN.
According to https://youtu.be/SnB6iRDoJ90 (7:45 onwards) even before China started refusing recyclable waste only 9% of what went into blue bins in the USA was actually being recycled, the other 91% was being incinerated or landfilled. what the stats are now I don't know but they're almost certainly worse not better.
You get the abs date if you hover (it's set as the title attr)
Why should school exams mimic typical scenarios faced in work life.

In typical work scenarios you have more than 2 hours to tackle a problem, anyway.

This is computer science, and a data structures class to boot. Answering any of the questions required not only a deep understanding of the fundamental principles involved, but analytic skills (both in parsing the problem statement into a set of requirements and to identify problematic edge cases).

Any good class will teach more than they could possibly test on in two hours. So the alternative here is to keep students guessing about what will actually be on the exam? That's why, when I was a college instructor, I gave previous exams to my students (also: i thought not doing so would disadvantage less socially connected students; lots of old exams get passed around).
I think it's probably people who weren't expecting to achieve the impossible, but were willing to experiment in areas of science that aren't well understood to possibly learn something new. Maybe there is some previously unknown effect that was mistaken for fusion in the previous experiments? It could be an exciting find.

But at the same time they have to know that the most likely scenario is a big null result and no new science discovered. Unfortunate, but if you knew where the next discovery was going to be you wouldn't have to hunt for it.
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If I remember correctly, in the book Skunkworks they explain that it would increase the air pressure. The analogy made was that it was similar to putting a finger on a garden hose to partially block it, thus increasing the water pressure.

Obviously there must be some complex physics going on but that was the gist of it.

Probably someone with more knowledge can confirm or correct me :)
Feels roughly right. My only other observation on seattle buses is that some of the more ridiculous routes have stops every two blocks on an Ave (north-south), which works out to one every 200m or so, if you use the rule of thumb that the most uniform parts of the city have 16 blocks per mile.
> and risk getting paged "Why did you change it? It suddenly stopped working for us!"

So, the alternative is that it suddenly stops working, but caused by the update being available instead of by any explicit action on your part. You'll have more time to react to the problem in this scenario than the other?
This is the crucial difference. Library developers at Google know all their reverse dependencies, and can easily build, test, notify, or fix all of them.

You can't do that with external FOSS libraries. The closest thing we have is deprecation log messages and blog posts with migration guides.
In the header or in the payload? The second is not typical and a clue something fishy might be going on.
OK well I can agree with that! I have never converted an antinuke with that fact. I have converted dozens (at least from absolute rejection to cautious optimism) with 10-15 minute in-person discussions. I have not found out how to scale that.

Indeed, this is a sales problem.
Budding bloggers can just stay outside the pay wall, which applies only to articles that the author chooses to monetize.
> If Google were serious about fusion, they would invest in this kind of mainstream research.

They do.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/29/18201220/nuclear-fusion-e...

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/green-tech/news/a27...

Just because they also look into other alternatives doesn't mean they are ignoring the more mainstream research. They are approaching it from every angle, because as pointed out, any discovery here can help in other places too.

> Frankly, behavior which is only one step removed from straight-up patent trolling

Google, for as big as it is and as many patents as it owns, has never once used its patent portfolio offensively, so assuming that they want to patent-troll is extremely unfair.
They’d also need to support you for a work visa, which is not needed for any of the 400 million people inside the Schengen zone.
Dunning Kruger
It's frustrating when Internet articles don't include publication dates. It's not like it's paper where someone didn't think to record the date. The date certainly exists in the database, filesystem, etc, the author just chooses not to show it, forcing forensics to figure out when it's from.

(I was reading another article from his site yesterday after it was linked on lobste.rs and was also trying to figure out how old it was.)
Except, even if my steering does go out, I can typically hit the brakes and come to a stop. Airplanes do not have that as on option.
Looks like 4 days ago, if I'm reading the Instagram dates correctly.
Limits only matter when we at least start getting close to reaching those. There is enough land, labor and resources for lots of solar panels while most of us in the western world already have a smartphone and seem to replace them less often due to a seemingly slower tech cycle.
Is it worth protecting ground based astronomy here though? Obviously the science is immensely important, but so is the internet, I dont buy this idea about the lack of consensus being an issue. Certainly the scientists should have had their say, and perhaps this should have been put up for a more public debate before the project was initiated, but I don't think that the go ahead to the project should be contingent on consensus from the scientific community. It should be contingent on approval from a regulatory body that is appointed/controlled in some democratic way and reflects the will of the population, and if the benefits to society outweigh the risks, then it should get the go ahead regardless of consensus by astronomers.
In healthy forests the lower branches may be cleared by animals like deer.

"Limbing up" trees not only changes the fire ladder dynamic but also helps control some pest vectors, such as fungal spores that have to find their way from the forest floor to the lower leaves of the trees. I think it's safe to assume that periodic fires also reduce a bunch of pests.
Wikipedia has a great explanation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_block
Checking-Driven Development (For Data Analysis)
Thanks. We've changed the URL to that from https://www.care2.com/causes/impossible-foods-responds-to-gl... (which is a banned site on HN incidentally).
I also wonder whether the choice of sensor technology they already (pre-)SOLD informs Tesla's opinion of what sensor technology is NEEDED for Full Self Driving (Their view that LIDAR is not necessary seems to be an outlier in the industry; are we sure that view is not influenced by the sizable outlay they'd face for upgrading their previously sold FSD option cars if they changed their mind?)
> The issue is probably availability

I imagine every undersea cable would be cut in the first week of a US-China conflict, regardless of who built it.
You say it'd be a shame to lost most of the cultural foods that use meat, but you want food pills?

I think meat substitutes like the Impossible Burger are more likely to preserve cultural heritage in food than a meal replacement, personally.
> My apologies if I appeared to make light of the Rust community’s contributions.

Not at all!

> My definition of religious war is butting heads about problems that don’t have a clear right answer (tabs/spaces).

So this is where we get into the meat of it. I personally do believe that a lot of the discussion was around things that don't have a clear right answer. But (and the post mentions this a bit), that doesn't mean that it's inherently religious, it means that different people value different aspects of the solution differently. The big difference between this discussion and the tabs/spaces discussion is that each person can make their own call with tabs and spaces, but this syntax affects every user of Rust. That means we can't just say "well this is a religious debate, do whatever" because then the feature does not exist.

> If there are new things considered by the community that make the discussion worthwhile then it’s absolutely worth having; but if it causes people to burn out on the community down the line then maybe more moderation would be helpful.

Yes, it is a fine line. There's a lot to it, but it is something that people are thinking about, for sure.

> I’m not sure whether the debate was taking all that into account

I can assure you that the overall development of the feature took every possible thing into account. Part of the reason that this was so synatx focused is that the team spent multiple years working on the semantics. The syntax was all that was left.

I am not 100% sure what you mean with the blog post link, as I'm not really a Python person, so I can't quite grok what you're talking about, exactly. If you can elaborate a bit I can too!
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We've since changed the URL.
Ah, got it, I wasn't aware of this distinction.
I should revise that: "programmers aren't very good at deciding whether a function should be a subroutine or coroutine."

Specifically, the problem is that making the decision happen requires refactoring and that can make a small change into a big one. My contention is that for some languages (probably not Rust) it would be beneficial if this didn't impact the code structure heavily.

I've seen smart people simply avoid trying to use asynchronous code in Javascript because it "poisons" the whole stack. Part of this was because it was based on promises, and it meant going through a bunch of logic and refactoring. Arguing against my case, that did result in a slightly nicer structure overall.

Hopefully having proper async / await notation avoids 99% of that mess in Rust by making it a matter of decorating code with the appropriate keywords and being a bit more thoughtful about structure.

And you're obviously right that Rust needs to have sane performance characteristics, let alone being able to export C compatible bindings.
I repeatedly google this stuff en mass and thought a community-managed website would be a really great so thank you for saving me loads of effort! I'll be PR-ing a bunch of stuff to help out ;)

It may be worth adding a per-version EOL cell, and potential caveats. Windows operating systems, for example, can receive paid support if you happen to have a billion dollars laying around.

Edit: By per-version EOL cell, I mean to allow URL references on a per-version basis for websites that don't list them all on one page, or at all. While there a date-released may also be super useful in some situations when you're trying to figure out how long since it's been patched.
It's an understood, but uncommon word choice. "Fuel tank" and "gas tank" are the most common in American English.
Docker can't escape all the blame here - its layer caching mechanism is IMHO flawed. It's fine to say that a packaging system should offer reproducibility but Docker's layer caching design assumes that every RUN command produces reproducible results.

You could of course blame users for not making sure that all the commands they use in their Dockerfiles are actually reproducible but many/most examples even in the official documention are clearly not reproducible.

Therefore you end up with what is in my opinion a semi-broken system - building images seems to be reproducible (and fast) until you lose your layer cache or you spin up a new CI build agent or a new dev joins the team and tries to build the same image.

Not that I can think of an clean and performant solution to this problem.
A reason XHTML 2.0 got so bogged down in committee and never actually finished a standard was that the attempt was made to define semantically what an ARTICLE would be, how SECTIONS work, what things a browser or semantic web crawler could infer/summarize build from such things. For instance, one group of the committee argued you couldn't have SECTIONs outside of an ARTICLE; that an ARTICLE consisted of zero or more SECTIONs (and maybe SECTIONs could be nested inside of each other). Folks argued for SECTIONs to have concepts of names that could be listed in auto-generated Tables of Contents.

HTML5 mostly just defines ARTICLE and SECTION as optional block-level content elements, with no other real importance. This leaves them as merely fancier synonyms for DIV. Semantics is almost entirely left to ARIA, and while HTML5 has come back around to ARTICLE tag should imply, for instance, ARIA role="article", there's still a bunch of interesting reasons that people concerned with ARIA semantics continue to write "redundant" things like <ARTICLE aria-role="article"...
> It's pretty easy to measure how many projects your library is tied to and scale the service up.

You are being downvoted because the author pointed at random services not under his control. So if a mobile app with million of users deployed this, an innocent third party that has nothing to do with the author would be hit with millions of requests they didn't ask for.
I find this hard to believe because a desktop of 1999 would only have around 256 MiB of RAM.
If you are talking about the New Safe Containment structure, then the plan is to disassemble the original sarcophagus and remove as much as can be done safely. Its not merely a static entombment structure (though that is its failsafe function).
This is, pardon the french, puritan bullshit.

Without the kindness and support of the people around us, we all fall apart, sooner or later. Humans evolved as a social species, and if that social component is removed, it has grave effects.

There's a reason solitary confinement is chosen as a particularly brutal punishment[1]. There's a reason people with less social contacts have, in general, a shorter life span[2].

"The willpower to get up and go to work" comes, at least partially, from being embedded in a community.

[1] https://www.nmlegis.gov/handouts/CCJ%20102716%20Item%203%20D...

[2] https://www.nature.com/news/social-isolation-shortens-lifesp...
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Doubling of advertising expidenture (Which is a massive, sea change) would apparently make people 3% less happy. So basically it has a negligible impact on happiness even if this analysis is true.

I highly doubt it is true though. It's a purely correlational study, that says from 1980-2011, advertising increased and people in general got 3% less happy. They say they accounted for GDP when doing their regression, but so many other things affect advertising spend as a whole that wouldn't show there. More globalization coming to a country (as markets open up and global firms find advertising worth their while), changes in industry make-up, political election cycles becoming more heated, internet connectivity (which would be huge in the time period they studied, and would greatly impact ad spend numbers with it), etc.

It is really, really hard to actually change people's opinions with advertising. The closest you can do is convert their existing opinions into actions. There is a ton of good academic literature on this - here's a good primer: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https:/...
Isn't this what you would expect? Advertising fundamentally is trying to convince you that you need something. If you're perfectly happy with your current situation then what else would you need? So the advertising has to convince you that you're not happy but that there is a product that you can buy that will increase your happiness.

You're basically being negged by advertisers.
Fair enough, though interactions with other processes and network conditions are not relevant for unit tests. Timings maybe, but then you still need a strategy to turn a failing test into information you can use to fix a bug.
Physical and situational inequality on airplanes predicts air rage (2016)
I wrote a blog post describing the tensor product in terms of functional programming techniques in python https://jwkennington.com/blog/tensor-product-for-programmers...

I would also be interested in a "math for programmers" approach to deciphering formalism. I've studied a fair amount of linear algebra / differential geometry and could see how Python-definitions might help. I'm less familiar with other areas of mathematics
One of the reasons for this feeling is that the author only sees herself. For example,

> Because the really intractable problems — like the social expectations placed on mothers, the gendered division of labor in homes, the invisibility of all sorts of care work — are not going to magically disappear.

All three problems she mentions are on her "side." As the reader you are left wondering…

But still a worth read, her overall point is IMHO solid.
.ICS files. That is what I was going for.
so does "fos" instead of foxes. This is kind of silly.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22fos%22+site%3Awww.gq.com&kp=1&i...
its an ad:
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Keep people offline by getting them smartphones? What?
It'd still be nice to not have this tied to hover, relative dates are more useful to get a gist of how long you've got - those absolute dates are usually what you need to sell it to management.
Given the use of EDN, I take it Clojure(Script) is part of your tech stack?
I can't help but imagine there are worse companies than others for this.

Between Apple and Samsung, these are companies that advertise Average products but charge luxury pricing.

I find this incredibly unethical. But my non Engineering counterparts believe that Sales are necessary.
This made me wonder if something like this could be done for Remote companies. All online of course
That would mean evolution was smart enough to use those mechanisms in quantum computers, using human brains as a transient intermediary to that end.
my kids only watch netflix and shows/movies we buy on iTunes

so basically they see virtually no ads, SO unlike my experience growing up watching network TV where every 12 minutes there was a series of 5 or 6 30-second ads
I think this was the original purpose of standardized testing in the US

it's impossible to fairly grade students even in one class, so I don't see any way a multi school entity could fairly grade
Your first point is incorrect. That was true of v1 docker images, but layers have been content-addressable for a while now.

Your second point is absolutely correct - we strip timestamps from everything which tends to confuse folks :)
Did you get permission from OpenDNS and Icanhazip? If not, you are effectively launching a distributed attack against them with worthless traffic.

If you don't understand what I mean - just pull the project and do some more research before you release something like this.
Google translate: "Don't shoot, I give up."
In fact they have not. Yes, the end result was the same in all but one case. But some electors chose to do whatever they thought was right instead of what they were supposed to do on multiple occasions. See other comment in this thread.
Convincing 12 random jurors of something isn't necessarily the same thing as convincing scientific experts.
Is this information manually maintained? It might honestly be nicer to see if you can locate the primary source for these projects and just iframe in that authoritative document to avoid running the risk of being out of date.
Thanks. I'm terrible with apostrophes in grammar. Pretty sure it's just a muscle memory thing, haha.
If it's a method you should be able to create a vector of futures and `.map(Future::await)` or even `.map(Future::await as FnMut(_) -> _)`. Clearly this would never work, since `await` is implement by transforming the containing function into a state machine, your suggestion would make this impossible.