skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, should have said "commuter rail" instead of light rail. For some reason I have those terms jumbled in my head.
I really can't tell if it's satire or not, it's so bizarre. Everyone talking about the lengths to which they go to get a good passenger rating. How friendly, and social, and polite they are to the drivers they're hiring? I'm not saying be an ass, but when I hire a driver I want them to drive, I'm not really interested in chatting with them. Nothing against them, I'm just not interested in that.
For the comment about not being able to use JS libs that don’t have typedefs, this is why I wish Facebook’s Flow was more popular. You can use as much or as little of typing as you want and don’t need to to write typedefs for every JavaScript lib you wish to use. It also had static code analysis that could infer types.
Is it against navy regulation to fly between the windmills and use them as an obstacle course? I'm not suggesting it would be a good idea, just curious.
Haha, I am a TA actually for several classes. It's true that most of my students are dumb as fuck and incapable of basic tasks. You'd assume that a computer science student would be able to install a development environment on their own, but apparently not.

But at the end of the day many of them still get a degree and (somehow) get hired and there are plenty of universities here that are far easier than mine. You don't need to be smart to get a college degree, all you need is discipline to torture yourself through these mostly pointless exercises.

Whether or not they learn anything at college or just waste time is not the point. The fact of the matter is that a college degree helps you to get a job that is usually more comfortable and pays better. I'd argue that those people who can excel as a tradesman and actually rake in the money would also do the same had they gone the college-route instead and for those that don't, an office job with college degree is clearly the better option.
If you want a redux implementation you can either use NgRx (http://ngrx.io) or use the real thing with Angular Redux (https://github.com/angular-redux/platform).
Disks, both spinning and SSD, lie about data durability more often then you would think. This is particularly a problem with consumer disks and write-back caches. Postgres has a good state of play writeup on reliably writing data to storage in their "Reliability and the Write-Ahead Log" documentation [1].

My rule of thumb is that if I want serious reliability I make sure my data winds up on three different pieces of hardware and includes CRC codes. So, basically ZFS or some cloud/cluster equivalent like S3.

On the other hand, for day to day work on your dev machine, the drives are so crazy reliable that you just don't worry about it. Which, of course, can bite you if you translate your day to day experience to production at scale. Everything breaks at scale.

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/wal-reliability.html
I thought so, but then I read all the other comments. I'm not so sure. I don't think it's all satire.
Thank you for this reference!
Understood, it's an interesting take on it. Thanks for the link.
I don't know, the first third of the list contained about ten things I don't think any programmer believes about search, so I gave up at that point.
It's not a replacement, it's a backup. You don't do these after a headcrash either but start doing them as soon as possible.
Poste Italiane (the Italian national post service... don’t ask)

Still to this day the single bank that never incurred any fees for using their ATMs as a foreigner - at least that's my experience.
You would replace the interest ratio by resupply ratio (feeding expenditure taxes and income taxes for income exceeding UBI back into supply) in an UBI-backed monetary system. You could easily target zero inflation per capita in such a system.
I've got a 5 star rating as well. I pretty much only take it from to and from the airport, I'm always on time at the spot I'm supposed to be and always tip. I just thought this was normal.
And he is iterating a lot. His designs usually are not finished, when they get used for the first time. The first F9 wasn't reusable and had much less power than the current block 5. But it was flying, good enough to sustain business and giving opportunity to learn and experiment. All the crashes while getting the landing right were of no consequence for the launching business. All the tests happened with rockets which had delivered their cargo.

I see a similar development with the Boring company. They have dug their first demonstration tunnel. So they have a basic handle on tunnel digging. Doing so they made valuable experiences and claim to have improved their digging machine already significantly. Digging the Las Vegas tunnel is going to add much more experience to it and means, the company is a working business. They might not have a good idea yet, what to drive through the tunnel, but I am sure, they will come up with something. At the first presentation, they drove a Model X with guiding wheels attached at like 40mph. That was nice, but not great. Now they made a new video - they have redone the tunnel floor and now a Tesla reaches 127 mph just driving on autopilot through the tunnel. If everything else is worked out, I am sure there will be a custom vehicle driving through these tunnels, which optimizes throughput.
>Two complained about my taking work calls in the car. I started requesting permission, at the beginning of the ride, to take a phone call.(It’s their car, after all.)

Seriously? It's their car that you've contracted to take you from Point A to Point B. It would never occur to me to ask permission before making (or taking) a phone call.
"How often does the train go by?"

"So often you won't even notice."

https://youtube.com/watch?v=JRRksyGCjoE
> Sure maybe homeschooled kids are slightly better off, but that comes at a huge cost for all the kids who have a single parent who works three jobs that will never be able to afford to homeschool them.

You are proposing to offset economic inequality by degrading the education of the privileged. Your goal should be improve the education of the disadvantaged instead. Raise all boats, don't drain the lake. It's obvious that the United States could spend much more on education and do a much better job with the schools they have. Pinning any significant portion of the "huge cost" of the current system on middle class homeschoolers seems like sophistry intended to avoid the abuses of the hyper-capitalist, atomized system and ignores the actual problem.

> Every day hundreds of thousands of parents "break down" and government takes over for them. Government breaking down is a much rarer event.

This doesn't address the issue at hand. If a parent breaks down and the government steps in, that isn't incompatible with permitting homeschooling in non-abusive contexts.

> If you don't like the distinction between secular and religious, you can take any other strong belief. What if my parents are flat earthers? What if they are holocaust deniers? What if they hold some very strong political opinion? Or even what if they are some staunch atheists? They will just create a bubble around their kids.

If your parents are extremists of any sort, you're not going to mitigate their toxic influence or prevent them from harming a child by eliminating homeschooling. Most bad parents still send their kids to public school. Public school is not a remedy for abuse.
These a petty name change like this feels like corporate driven re-branding, or worse like stuff I would associate with a banana republic.

I mean if you want to name your new bill something silly or absurd that is one thing, renaming actual things is kinda weird.
where have you moved to?
To be clear, the option type in rust does not heap allocate at all; no need for the compiler to optimize things away.
I intentionally refuse to do business with Walmart. That I may be unintentionally helping them to make money bothers me.
But did it break its storage guarantees? Sounds to me like freezing the storage if the redundancy can no longer be guaranteed due to a bad battery may be the only way to keep the promise.
For me its to get away from religion.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20044085
I don't know, some of the best ones are technical, there's apparently a Github Repo on "falsehoods" articles. With a section on software engineering even:

- https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood#software-engi...
Freedom Fries anyone? Anyone?
Integrating slack notification with firebase cloud functions
Is it still April 1st?
If you think visiting a webpage in Chrome, or any other browser, even inside a VM, is totally safe, especially against a nation-state level actor, I have some bad news for you.
Forget that (for known, right or wrong, reasons)....unless I'm reading it wrong, 3 million are OUT of work, and 2.8 Million work. No doubt 4 years olds and pensioners can't work, but I'm sure quite a few are milking the system.
> 84% of apps are free, and developers pay nothing to Apple.

Wait, what? I thought you had to pay 100$ a year for the privilege to publish anything on the app store, even if it's free.
Thank you! I will surely post an update if anything changes. I'm sure that no matter how this turns out, my family and I will all be fine.
Here are browsers that aren't just 'not Chrome,' they are better.

Brave: https://brave.com/

Firefox: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/
That would be great. Subway costs are absolutely ridiculous, so it would be fantastic if the boring company decides to build exactly the same thing for much less.
> Now obviously Uber is a private company

No, they are not. Uber went public this month.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1543151/000119312519...
“Increasing export capacity from the Freeport LNG project is critical to spreading freedom gas throughout the world by giving America’s allies a diverse and affordable source of clean energy."

The Trump administration needs to be removed for the sake of our planet and all our descendants. These governmental departments are turning into official arms of the pro-pollution lobbyists who throw money at the GOP.

LNG is not a clean energy source. It may be less dirty than coal, it's still far dirtier than what we need to be using to have any hope of avoiding catastrophe.
If you're willing to trust the entity holding your assets, then a database will suffice. The non-custodial features of 0x enable exchange without reliance on third parties.
The fart jokes just write themselves.
A subway where you can snap a segment off a train and take it out on the highway sounds awesome.
I just bought your app – looks fantastic! I'm sorry this is how I discovered your app, and hope the issue gets resolved.
It cuts both ways -

It's illegal to harbor rapists, murderers, drug smugglers and sex traffickers.

If you think that's legal, you're on the side of rapists, murderers, drug smugglers and sex traffickers.
Methodology: type "autism incidence" into google scholar, filter by articles since 2015 and read some on the first page.

Conclusion: It's still pretty-well ambiguous as far as I can tell. You're right that it's not conclusively increasing.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10803-018-3834-0 -- Says true autism rates increased between '85 and '98, but since then only diagnosis of autism has been increasing til '04.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bjpsych-open/article...

I note that I think it's also pretty well-agreed upon that rates don't match up between countries.
i really really want to work on porting HugSQL to Elixir. debating starting on that for my next side project.

i remember when learning clojure, HugSQL was one my of favorite things ever. it was just...clean, simple, and awesome.
FWIW I’ve heard that a rating of 3 or less for the driver ensures that you are never matched with them ever again.
This "article" is absolutely ridiculous. There is clear repudiation by the "source" and instead of modifying or deleting the article, the author put it in an addendum at the bottom. Lowest of the low behaviours, aiming to cause shock, alarm and attract gullible internet readers.
Amusing that you were causing them physical pain when parting with their money at the store, like negative conditioning.
> In terms of Latin, sol is just as generic as stella is. (With the caveat that there is only one sun.)

We can argue over whether the idea of a generic label for a class that by definition has exactly one member is coherent, but I don't think that's necessary: stars that aren't the sun are stella and aren't sol, whether you take the latter to mean “Aren't the single particular entity named ‘Sol'” or “Aren’t one of the members (of which there are exactly one) of the class whose members are designated ‘sol’”.

There's a reason they are “extra-solar planets” and not “other-solar planets”.
Re: if it's a few users hitting 1 webserver with 1 DB, performance gains will be marginal

Let's say it's 4 web servers hitting 4 DB's, but otherwise most of the app logic code will not be parallelitized?
Indeed there is an extra confirmation step, and it freezes some processes (specifically, those that alter the screen, like red shifters)
This is not entirely surprising. There is a reason why mobile Chrome, unlike mobile Firefox, never allowed extensions in the first place.
Flagged for the misleading title submission by OP.

No, they aren't renaming anything. It was a simple neologism to drive home the point that using our own energy vs OPEC imports move us towards energy independence.
this is 1984?
Little Elon had a dream that he will one day walk on Mars. He thought to himself, well why can’t I? All I need is billions of dollars, and rockets (lots of rockets), and space ships, and renewable energy, and tunnels, and,...

And then Little Elon started a little company during the dot com boom called Zip2 and sold it to Compaq for $300 million. Then X.com which led to PayPal. Then SpaceX, Tesla, and all the rest.

It’s anything but “silly”. It’s incredible, it’s aspirational, it’s undeniably impressive. I love that his goal is so audacious as to be entirely implausible, and he keeps taking step by tiny step toward to realization of his mission.

And even though the goal may be entirely pointless to 99.999% of humanity, the steps taken along the way are reaping tremendous benefits to our lives and those of future generations.

Back to TFA, again I think they are missing the significance of what Boring will be doing here. An underground autonomous system which otherwise would have cost hundreds of millions for $50 million risk free is a perfect win-win for Boring and Vegas. Boring gets a beautiful test bed for a whole array of new tech, and a marketing demonstration of what they can accomplish if all goes well. Vegas saved a boat load of money, and gets a tourist attraction to boot.

It’s sad hearing/reading all the comments that this is stupid, just build a train, etc. Because that misses entirely the point that while this deployment could be served by a train the bigger vision is not one that could be served by trains, and the whole point, like everything Elon does, is to take a step on the path toward the Big Vision in a way that provides incremental value that can be monetized in order to fund and drive future R&D.
If you do that with curl it will redirect to the login page. Github obviously wants me to use their API.

I assume this wasn't always the case as the use case I'm referencing is a build script I'm debugging.
"No relevant experience" is a highly pessimistic outlook. This man has demonstrated an ability to hold down a steady job for decades. That alone puts him ahead of many people that simply lack the ability to hold down a job. Working at an auto plant results in skills with with operating industrial machinery. After 25 years he's probably been put in a leadership position, or at least a mentorship position to train new hires. This demonstrates good communication and teamwork ability. He may have much better prospects if he expands his skills by learning a trade. Someone who worked in an auto plant for 25 years is probably a good candidate to become a construction worker, plumber, escalator repairman, etc.

Another big elephant in the room is location. It looks like he still lives in Lordstown Ohio. Employment prospects will be drastically better if he moves. It's harder to move with families but not impossible. I moved 3 times (each of them across national borders, no less) when I was a kid and while its hard to settle down in a new place it expanded my worldview and likely made a better person in the long run. The sort of static mentality I talk about earlier also applies to moving. People put their self-worth in their location and hamper their employment opportunities by refusing to move.

The subtext of one of the images reads: "Mr. Marsh with his wife, Lindsay, and their daughter, Abigail. The Marshes have spent years fighting to get Abigail services in Ohio. Moving would be wrenching." It doesn't actually say that their daughter's cerebral palsy is preventing them from moving. I doubt it would be harder to get services in an economically vibrant location with more tax funds for services, as compared to Lordstown Ohio. The fact that they "spent years fighting to get Abigail services in Ohio" seems to drive this home.

Overall I would be much more sympathetic if the author spent their words explaining how Rick has tried to find employment in other fields, has tried to find apprenticeships or trade school education, and is willing to move across the country but still can't find a job then I would be drastically more sympathetic. As it stands, the piece can be summed up as, "laid off auto worker who doesn't search for jobs in different fields and isn't willing to move has trouble finding employment and blames NAFTA and Democrats for his situation". It's clear the author wants to paint a sympathetic picture, but it reads like a pardoy.
Come on. Not being talkative does not give you a bad rating. I've never heard of such a low rating tbh.
So you're asking if they'll comply with legal court orders? They've already said they will.
I can't downvote you but I want to point out that the only thing you accomplish with such a comment is coming off as ignorant and bitter.

I have no idea why on Earth you think the type system is broken. Objectively, it simply isn't, obviously, but I'd love to see you trip over your own feet trying to argue that it is.

Moreover, it's honestly remarkable how they've managed to retrofit such an amazing type system on top of an already existing language and have it feel so natural. It's truly an impressive feat of engineering.
But if the kids have a doctor in the family...they're being examined by a medical doctor. The idiots that don't take their kids to the doctor...are idiots.

Let's NOT institute forced doctor visitations (with all the cost, overhead, bureaucracy, potential for fraud, etc) for all parents, EVEN THE EXEMPLARY ONES, to deal with that problem.

Instead, let's figure out if there are better ways to ensure that parents have the ability/means/understanding necessary to get their kids to checkups.
Since there is a quote calling it "natural gas" later on, I'm guessing this is a typo on the city "Freemont", since that's where the gas is coming from.

I've since been corrected... Seems I didn't read closely enough.
What Is Blue Origin?
I nearly fell for a real fishing link once recently, due to changes that have been made by our IT department.

Firstly all external senders have the mail reformatted with a red bar at the top and some text, and secondly all hyperlinks are forced through a proxy, which makes it effectively impossible to know what the URL is from the email.

I'd received a (rare to my work account) fishing email and I was about to click on a link in there just before I started thinking. I'd been trained to trust emails with the red bar, as most external mail I get is trustworthy, and I reflexively check links before I click them but this was just another going through the proxy.

I'm not sure how much these changes help less technical users, but it made me less secure.
USA, MI, peri-urban
Is that all one question? Then it’s even worse, because then “use” also includes purely aspirational users. Nice.

Also I don’t think anyone that participates on this website has any moral superiority over tech hipster webshit. But it’s good to realize this is a skewed demographic.
The text of the report is still pretty star-spangled ridiculous though. I was entertained.
No worries. Just don't forget to get your free annual "Drink Establishment Behavior Report" free from Experian/Equifax/TransUnion if you live in New York or California.

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Don't forget Liberty Cabbage, from a hundred years before! https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/liberty_cabbage
Why guess? We know brave’s business model is equally bad. There’s a company which its main objective is user privacy and safety, and that’s Mozilla. Current versions are exceptionally polished and speedy and you know what you’re getting.
Do you consider learning a tool you won't use a waste of time?

IMHO knowing what kinds of tools exist and how they are used for different tasks is enormously useful. Most software projects require me to create a set of tools to solve problems in a certain space efficiently. In any long-living non-trivial project there will be feature requests you couldn't have anticipated in the beginning. They tend to be painful if your program is just a bunch of features hacked together. But if you take a tools-first approach, the unexpected features can often be solved with what you have.

Of course, time is limited and you can't learn everything. But learning one of every different kind of tool is a very good use of time.

EDIT: Note that I'm not claiming you'll build a web app with awk. I'm saying you might write code that can be used similarly to awk in some abstract sense, and that might be a core part of a web app.
“an efficient regulatory system that allows for molecules of U.S. freedom to be exported to the world”. Sometimes it’s hard to tell truth from satire
If you have confidence in your skill, can stay in the field you like and get double the average, why not?
This is great. If you are a shitty human being, and you are toxic to the workforce, then you get banned.

Unfortunately people are shitty and this is a very much needed feature to avoid abuse of drivers.
Counting opening a mail as failing is ridiculous. A a phising test should only count captured logins.
Funny thing is, if you look at projects like AngularMaterial, they don't follow to the Angular styleguide by a country mile.

The nice thing is that the automation tools are being made progressively easier to customize. That means that it is easier to define your own standard and support it with standard tooling.
Yeah, I'm the same. If I get into a taxi I'll make sure I'm ready when they turn up, say 'hey' and then sit there.

Maybe they think I'm rude, but I've paid them and thanked them, and I've not caused them any trouble.

I'm not from America, so maybe it's slightly more acceptable to do that but I could just be using stereotypes of Americans to explain the taxi scoring behavior.
There are languages,tools etc that can do cross compilation. Ex you can export Linux and Mac Unity games from Windows. For iOS even if you use different tools to generate the application you are still forced to use the Apple dev tools to publish them AFAIK and pay the Apple tax
Very specifically, 3.4 had a few perf regressions for some type signatures [1]. More generally, TS can be a bit slow (~seconds) especially for large webapp development if you need hot-reloading and such. There are tricks to emit without checking and doing async checking during the dev process which speeds things up quite a bit.

[1] https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/30663
Tradeoff Btween Utility and Risk of Location Data & Implications for Public Good