skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those who don't get the reference: Berkeley, CA smells like weed all the time because a lot of people smoke weed in the public. Even UC Berkeley campus (e.g. Memorial Glade) smells weed pretty often.
From the very first item:

> Idiomatic Go uses shorter names like u, but I stopped using one-letter variables 35 years ago when I left TRS-80 Basic behind.

Ignorant snobbery. Skip.
I've never understood how the F-35 pilot is supposed to command both their own plane and an army of drones at the same time.
C makes more sense if you read Ken Thompson's B manual.

https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/kbman.html
>The fact that soldiers love the A-10 is meaningless - sailors loved battleships too, even after they were turned into big metal deathtraps by airplanes. The troops just really like giant cannons, even when they're not actually useful anymore.

In the same vein, the US developed upgraded Sherman tanks with a bigger, higher velocity 76mm cannon and produced them in mass quantities, but they left them behind during the first weeks and months of the invasion. The men didn't want the new tanks because they hadn't yet experienced a situation where they were woefully inadequate, and the older 75mm guns performed better against soft targets like buildings. Don't fix what ain't broke, and so forth.

Which was a serious mistake. The situation had changed, and the 75mm guns were no longer sufficient to fight more heavily armored Tiger and Panther tanks from longer engagement ranges than they experienced in Italy. They would have fared better had they been forced into using the upgraded equipment that already existed.
And thus lasers, which will presumably have a far higher sustained fire rate / magazine depth than ASAT-capable missiles. (And 100kW-class lasers aren't science fiction anymore, since the US Navy is deploying them for testing)
I read the orginal Buzzfeed story (https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/tech-titans-wom...) linked in this article and to me it looks like a non-issue. Of course others may think this is a scandal of the century!

From Buzzfeed article:

A little more than four hours after the original Twitter discovery, a Cucinelli representative sent me a statement explaining what had happened.

“When we realized we didn't have a shot where all attendees were represented, we added in photos of two female CEOs taken during the weekend,” a spokesperson wrote to BuzzFeed News. “The photos were shared and approved with all the participants including the two women, Lynn Jurich and Ruzwana Bashir, before posting them on Instagram and they also shared the group photo on their own Instagram handles.”
> I’d say bleak and dystopian futures are overrepresented in sci-fi

When I was young, I read scifi because it was fun or adventurous and stimulated your imagination. (say for example, Rendezvous with Rama)

I've been wondering if the balance shifted to dystopian over the years, or did I just tap out all the good scifi?

(Or possibly was I unaware of the dystopian nature of things when younger?)
> Of course, this presupposes that lack of housing is the first incident problem.

Not at all. Even if a person's drug abuse is what led them to lose their job and housing, the drug abuse can't be the issue you fix first. The lack of housing makes solving any other "first incident problem" massively more difficult.

> I don't particularly care for drug use, so my personal preference is that we repeal the decriminalization rules and reverse some of the cultural acceptance that's taken hold here of this behavior.

The problem is that criminalization of drug use and homelessness has absolutely failed to have a positive impact on either issue and quite arguably has made both problems worse.
It’s hard not to be cynical when I see a link to vox.com, especially when my cynical assumptions end up being correct.

“Please don’t be about revolutionizing economics via identitarianism... <taps link> ... sigh...”
As a counterpoint, it drives me nuts when I see a graveyard of deleted comments on reddit. Do you want all your activity to vanish or do you just want to disown the username?

I think a fair compromise would be to simply delete the account name associated with comments.
Agreed, until word got out.
http://www.hungry.com/~jamie/hacker-test.html

From the Hacker Test:

0361 Have you memorized the HOSTS.TXT table?
0362 ... Are you up to date?
It maybe that philosophy behind "middle futurism" is applicable to rural areas but the author couldn't think up examples.

But I image rural areas would be particularly rich in modestly functional older technology that could be tweaked.

Technology to help people escape poverty would be extraordinarily nice. Difficult in our economic system but maybe there are some things around maintainability over disposability that could help.

Perhaps particulars are left as an exercise for the reader and another article.
Standardising file extensions to lowercase and short forms might be a useful option;

JPG -> jpg
jpeg -> jpg

I'm not aware of file extensions conventionally presented as mixed case, though ePub might be a possible case.

Does this handle collisions in generated names?
This sure reads and looks like technical analysis indicators for time series data.

It's useful though - example: 5 day MA of disk errors rises over the 15 day == likely failure
Training Tomorrow’s Chip Designers
The F-14 and fighters of similar era have nothing on the F-16 and F-18 in terms of maneuverability.
Options :) But generics :(

I'm really hopping that Golang finds a way to either not add generics, or add them in contrained ways. Your example code for generics are very hard to read for example.

Rust somehow tackles that with associated types, but since generics are still allowed it's not great imo.
> a single line change (e.g. changing private to public) needs an IDE to refactor it

the language comes with a rewriting tool that rewrites arbitrary expressions.

gofmt -w -r 'thing -> Thing' *.go
And upon leaving the wool encasement the Scythians would begin a massive feast
Have you ever made a burger? There's a lot more in your average beef patty than just beef, here are the ingredients for one of the local burger chains:

> Beef Mince, Relish (Diced Tomato (50%), Sugar, Onions, Vinegar, Tomato Paste, Herbs And Spices, Salt, Thickener (1422), Food Acid (330), Firming Agent (509)), Salt, Parsley

And if you're avoiding starches why would you be getting a burger, the bun is a starch. And lets not even start on what's likely to be in the rest of the ingredients.
I went with a ryzen for my newest desktop and it’s been great so far, I love it.

Not only does it work well, but it fixed the issues I was having. I used to have shutdown took 5-10 minutes due to some systemd nonsense, mysteriously fixed with the new mobo and cpu. Definitely a plus to have it gone now.

Tested with Ubuntu and also windows, Keras and games.
Show HN: H4X – protecting your private parts
Thanks for trying out RankFight! We love bacon, more than oxygen and the internet apparently. And we hate jail, but not as much as the color brown.
If you're handing customer data to the developers, it's basically already leaked. Most companies limit who can examine things and get customer sign off first.
I've seen locked sheets used as data source for constants and formulas with variables, the cells reference those with lookups and variables.

I've come across a few spreadsheets that made me want to meet and learn something from the authors. Some have been very elaborate and surprisingly resilient.
> As an Indian in the US, I do not understand what is acceptable, and what is not.

Maybe just ask her.

I remember a conversation I had with an Indian coworker - he asked me, "Why do Americans get so upset when I honk my car horn at them in traffic?"

That led to an interesting conversation.
Some bugs are just really hard to find, diagnose, verify, fix and then verify the fix.

At a previous employer, I was responsible for a very long running service that usually had an uptime of about 9-10 months. At one point we noticed we had a memory leak that was directly related to the number of requests the service processed. The kicker: it leaked less than a single byte per request in an x64 C++ service. It took us about a year to find the cause. Turned out to be a bug in an in house logging lib that failed to create a rolled log file in case of a filesystem full or disk usage quota exceeded condition, which we rarely ever encountered in development because we wiped logs every week in dev, but on a more relaxed schedule in prod.
Maybe she was named for the same muse that the computer was named for?
I'm not saying that these languages have replaced their older versions, but that one would be crazy if given the choice to choose to do Java/C/C++ for work :)
K&R C didn't have ‘undefined behaviour’, and I've become convinced that the original ANSI committee didn't intend to create the monster they did.

The reason is that Dennis Ritchie wrote a submission to the committee¹ that described the ‘noalias’ proposal as “a license for the compiler to undertake aggressive optimizations that are completely legal by the committee's rules, but make hash of apparently safe programs”, and, that “[i]t negates every brave promise X3J11 ever made about codifying existing practices, preserving the existing body of code, and keeping (dare I say it?) ‘the spirit of C.’”

Those comments describe what ‘undefined behaviour’ turned in to. The only reason dmr and others didn't make the same objections to it is that nobody realized at the time what the committee wording implied.

¹ available here: https://www.lysator.liu.se/c/dmr-on-noalias.html
More efficient maybe, which isn't really top priority from a user perspective. Personally, I prefer my smoke without a touch of solvents.

Bubble Hash (mixing with ice and filtering frozen resin) is a natural alternative that comes close, but the processing still lowers the quality.
It's just game theory. You have to have follow through, or people will learn that they can ignore you.

Although the ethics are very different, think of a loan shark. What do they get out of breaking the kneecaps of a person who failed to pay their debt? It doesn't bring back the lost money.

But it does show you are committed to following through with consequences. And that changes the behavior of people who might face those consequences.
Arrays are for FORTRAN is I think the reason.
Are you a vegetarian? I am! And as a vegetarian, I can tell you that I love it when restaurants sell Impossible Burgers. First, I don't cook (unless you count making a bowl of cereal cooking), so it's not like I'm going to make it for myself. Second, restaurant dining is about more than just calorie intake - sometimes I want to go to a restaurant, and as a vegetarian I appreciate when they have tasty things for me to eat. Third, if I'm going to a restaurant as part of a larger social gathering, or as a company outing or whatever - in other words, if I'm at a restaurant when I would not have otherwise chosen to (which I'm sure doesn't happen to just me!), then I appreciate it when there are options for me.
going offline would be suspicious

randomly roaming around would not
Generally speaking your post is true, but as others have pointed out, the A-10 is rapidly becoming an unviable CAS platform due to MANPADS and other improvements in anti-air support.

What the others didn't really point out is that the F-35 is definitely capable of what the A-10 does and more. It is faster, brings a drone-like attack platform, and can engage from much higher altitudes.

And this is coming from someone (see my other comments) that doesn't particularly care for the JSF/F-35. The A-10 needs to go away, and the F-35 will be a more than capable replacement for it.

Now, the other F-35 roles...
I agree with you, but perhaps you are reading “tight” slightly differently than the way the original poster intended it?

To me, ANSI C is “tight” in the sense that it is made up of a small set of features, which can be used together to get a lot done. But the design of the features, as they relate to each other, can feel somewhat inelegant. Those different features aren’t unified by a Simple Big Idea in the way that they are in Lisp or Smalltalk.

Lisp and Smalltalk, then, have “tight” designs (everything is an s-expression/everything is an object) which result in minimal, consistent semantics. But they also have kitchen sink standard libraries that can be challenging to learn.

(Although to be fair, Smalltalk (and maybe Common Lisp to a lesser extent) was envisioned as effectively your whole OS, and arguably it is a “tighter” OS + dev environment than Unix + C...)

FWIW, I am learning Scheme because it seems to be “tight” in both senses.
and you don't get upset by cars? You probably dream in a lovely walkable city then!
If I read this right, Chetty's new EC course tries not only to put the focus on empirical data and its analysis, but also to disentangle ethical value judgments from economics.

This is sorely needed. I've often thought that economists (on either side of the political divide) love to make pompous pronouncements about what's mathematically right and wrong and somehow translate that into what's ethically right and wrong, and then say that their opponents are stupid and evil.
Okay, super high tech F-35 versus low tech A-10...

There's probably an envelope that the A-10 fills, where you just need the enemy meat bags to know that the sound of jet engines circling for more than 4 hours is absolutely backed by some really nasty heavy machine gun fire and some munitions dropped on your head.

Is that going to happen with the F-35? Is it going to show up and never go away, breaking a stalemate by testing the patience of pinned enemies that are hungry, tired and looking for a way to walk off the battlefield?

The idea seems to be that the only thing people need to do, in a fight anymore is call in for help on a radio, wait for some bombs to hit a spot on the ground, and expect that to perfectly solve everything troops encounter. One size fits all. Just use that same gambit over and over.

Got a problem? Call in the 50 million dollar plane. It flies in at mach 1.2 in under thirty seconds and drops a bomb from 25,000 feet. Then leaves just as fast. Wait. That didn't work. Okay just have another one supercruise into the killzone. One more bomb. Oh you missed. Uh... Third time's a charm?

I have a suspicion that supersonic flight in the stratosphere with a strategy of "just try more bombs until it seems to fix things" isn't going to really work.

Maybe in another ten years it simply won't be possible for a meat bag to survive on the ground and the idea of close air support will seem silly because robotic killer death machines create stretches of no man's land so huge that the only means to fight is from supersonic jets miles above their electro laser incendiary ballistic chainsaws...
you live downtown? Don't you think cars and the smell of poop are more annoying than these practical and tiny scooters? The fact that you have to cross large streets because the main transportation system is cars?
It isn’t about minerals. You become food for the critters and microorganisms and your resources are placed back into the natural cycle.
I took that course, too! I loved it. Learned more about computers than any other of the many courses I took.
I totally agree with this. Perforce gets it right for what it is worth.
Is music piracy really 'rampant'?

My sense is that cheap legal streaming services have won the day. The original itunes model of $1+ per song is gone.$10-$20 CD's are gone.

Yes cheapskates can still torrent music and maintain their own digital archives. But for ease of use you cannot be spotify and equivalents.

Spotify beats piracy.

The same needs to happen for TV, movies, and live sport. (for a while there Netflix made pirate bay obsolete for me)

In the disruption alot of old school middle-men are going to lose big. But overall there should be confident streams of revenue, even more than you can get with outdated 1990s cable TV pay-per-view systems.
(a lot happened with the Panama and Paradise Papers, most of it was benign, some of it had consequences for people whether laws were or weren't broken for those people)
I'm no economist or game theorist but in my experience with signals/systems, the "steady state" (which is an equilibrium, I guess) is the least interesting and important to the analysis of how a system behaves. Response to dynamics is far more important to understand and design around.
They are decent scooters but I wish they had suspension + pneumatic tires. I still find the retail M365 to be much more pleasant to ride.

I actually fell pretty hard from a Skip scooter going slightly downhill in SF because their active breaking gave up on me while going downhill (maybe 20deg angle, not even too steep) I could have dealt with that but even worse it would keep turning itself on and off so the traction would keep changing, because the power connection must have been loose (or battery too low -- this was before they started warning you about a low battery on the app) or something.

They did at least add that battery warning, though. That was an important update.
F1TV has been horrible, in my experience.

We pay for it, but still use pirate streams if we want to watch an actual race live!
I understand, some things won't gain consensus today so its more productive to report what is happening and this article is much closer to that
If those are the worst drones flying around, that may be the brightest timeline.
Did we read the same article? The one I read is about changing how economics is taught by treating it more like a data-driven empirical science.
You mean adding fresh bugs and anti-usable features.

There are a few things you can do by adding expensive hardware, but they're generally limited to advanced media processing, like video editing and raytracing. Maybe a few medical tricks.

(Gaming does not count, it scales to generally available hardware.)
Still more and unnecessary effort compared to changing one word.
if people are interested in lessons of history

i would suggest the book “lessons of History” by will and ariel durant. two historians who—after a lifetime of studying history—wrote a book trying to synthesize any lessons from their studies.

small portions of the narration are a bit dated as it was written during the middle of the cold war, but almost all of it is valid today as you might expect.

https://www.amazon.com/Lessons-History-Will-Durant/dp/143914...
The course is called Economics 1152. The video lectures and course slides are available here:

https://opportunityinsights.org/course/
> It's horribly wasteful for sensor networks and IOT.

What's horribly wasteful for IoT isn't IPv6, it's streaming my baby monitor video to some server in China because my home internet is behind CGNAT. Of course, streaming it to some server is more profitable since now you can charge money for access/storage, so there's no incentive to optimize for efficiency.
GNU C has "downward funarg" closures, like Pascal. They have the same representation as function pointers, which requires the compiled code to generate trampolines (little pieces of machine code that find a PC-relative environment pointer) on the stack. Invoking them requires executable stacks (a linker-level executable option often now turned off by default in major GNU/Linux distros).
"I wonder if it has improved since."

Unison is very interesting and it is, indeed, very special in that it solves the very specific use-case of my parent post.

However, my own opinion, and that of just about everyone who cares about backup tools is that 'borg' is the "one true way":

https://www.stavros.io/posts/holy-grail-backups/
The Truth About Waze Advertising
That's the same with languages that have first class functions. The code part is still passed by reference, not by copying around the machine code.
While I do hold opinions about criminal justice, you can't possibly know what they are.
I was pointing out that introducing "free will" into the debate only introduces a layer of indirection. A perpetrator felt as if he wanted to commit a crime, and a judge felt as if he decided that three years of prison was a commensurate sentence. Now, let's just redefine all verbs of volition to imply "feels as if", and nothing has changed.
The judge may feel as if he thinks the perpetrator "deserved" the sentence. You want him to want to not feel that way, or rather, you feel as if you wanted him to feel that he should feel as if he wanted not to feel that way, by pointing out that one can't choose what to want.
So you just decided you were gonna find something to criticize before you even clicked the link, eh?
William Tecumseh Sherman on Whether the South Could Win the Civil War (1860)
The F-111 is the right comparison class. It was supposed to do everything; got relegated to the role every failed airframe does: attack aircraft. Basically a shitty expensive bomber. Just as the F35 is. Dipshit Generals who are bribed with Lockheed jobs afterwords will try to convince you that's really what they wanted; it ain't. It is an egregiously failed weapons system, though an excellent piece of modern political corruption. Yay we have a plane that costs $300 a troy ounce which can be used to blow up cavemen in Afghanistan.

Something a cloth winged Sopwith Camel biplane from WW-1 would probably actually be better at; certainly more cost effective.

Nerds who are touting this turkey because "woo woo cool half million dollar vidya game helmet" ... y'awl make me want to renounce my citizenship. This turd can be defeated by a Russian tractor mechanic detuning his radar slightly.
Was it the MLP fanfiction 'The Writing on the Wall'?[0]
I'm not a brony, but it's actually a really good read. It would be better if the finders are real far future preindustrial civilization though, since the ponies have access to magic and should've found out about the danger of radiation BEFORE going in, but eh.

Here's a summary from Tvtropes:
>The Writing on the Wall is a My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanfic by Horse Voice. Daring Do is asked to help in the excavation of the most ancient tomb known to ponykind - thousands of years older than the oldest known masonry, with incredible craft and skill going into the construction of the impressive edifice. Ancient text in a number of languages, all of them long since lost, is carved into every surface in one of the rooms of the structure nearest to the surface, likely some kind of curse meant to warn away would-be looters. Workers work to breach the walls below, to find the secrets of this ancient place, but perhaps they should have heeded the writing on the wall.

[0] http://www.fimfiction.net/story/42409/the-writing-on-the-wal...
Why not downtown?

In my experience, because people got shit to do, whoch is why they're downtown.

Re: your new friend, the hustler.

You're a special person, because the standard reaction to that kind of person is to walk around them without making eye contact. I commuted through downtown daily, and I got to recognizing the hustlers pulling out the same rehearsed stories over and over again.

Of course, you definitely don't want to become as much of a cynic as me :)
> That doesn't mean they're wrong.

Perhaps not, but it does make it substantially more difficult to be right.
It's the wrong number of letters, though. Here in Washington, DC, we currently have six licensed scooter companies: Bird, Jump, Lime, Lyft, Skip, and Spin. Through advanced statistical analysis, I've therefore determined that four letters is the correct number of letters in a scooter company name. "Scoot" needs to lose one somehow!
Microsoft fired their testers in 2018 [1]. Since then we've seen a surge of pretty serious bugs, some of which had to be pulled [2]. Not saying this is related, as this is a vulnerability and not a bug in an update, but 100 days to release a patch is telling.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17830381

[2] https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/13/18090982/microsoft-windo...