skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. The rule about not using any library that doesn't ship with the compiler creates a heavy bias in favor of "batteries included" languages like Python. I understand not allowing parsing libraries, given the nature of the assignment, but if even widely used libraries like lens are off-limits the result is not going to resemble idiomatic Haskell. As a matter of basic fairness, if some library or built-in language feature is to be permitted for one implementation then analogous libraries should be permitted for all the other implementations regardless of whether they happen to ship with the compiler.

The eval function leveraged heavily by the Python version should probably also have been off-limits, for the same reason that parsing libraries were prohibited. Using eval amounts to embedding an existing fully-developed parser and runtime environment into the project as a library.
LaTeX3[1] is quite actively developed at GitHub[2] these days. So the release is not that far as many think.

[1] https://www.latex-project.org/latex3/

[2] https://github.com/latex3/latex3
This is silly. All of these systems should be have an Air Gap. Period.
I think it's usually more of a result of getting bored with the content than the skill of the players. Certain games never get boring for a big enough critical mass of players to keep going indefinitely (CS:GO, World of Warcraft, League of Legends, Fortnite, etc). Many of these games have matchmaking system that try to put players of similar skill together. These systems are sometimes flawed, but can generally work well enough to soften the experience of picking up the game for the first time.
I bet Kubernetes was somehow responsible for this outage.
But maybe there will be refinement and maybe more appropriate use of controls?

Touchscreens are great for selecting from a list (ok when driving),
or onscreen keyboard (typing in a nav search, not when driving)

on the other hand there are inappropriate uses - sliders suck, small targets suck, etc

I would also mention that most aftermarket audio systems suck (think 1-high DIN). They have no touchscreens, no knobs, stupid lighting and lots of too-tiny buttons.

knobs are actually great. there should be appropriate knobs. They are great for continuously adjustable controls like volume or display brightness. Warning - they suck for selecting from a long list or typing an address letter by letter.
Yea but what if your profile is private? Wouldn’t you think that there still would be a level of privacy expectations that should be retained because only people you explicitly choose to share information with can see it? Why do corporations/advertisement get to bypass these constraints?
Holy moly, thanks for the kudos and great suggestions, too. I'll work on the two-tone selected button tomorrow.

I have almost all of the Apollo 13 mission control audio as well. That's the next project (but I want to take a breather for at least a day!)
> Furthermore, a Word document can be edited by "anyone".

All of the people that I have met that could correctly insert an image in a word document were able to learn VBA at some point. I am yet to meet somebody that can maintain a document with multi-paragraph lists, I certainly can't.
We used it at work way back when. The version we used had a TCP/IP package that could be installed and removed as it was heavy on resources. Details are fuzzy.
I reserve the right to argue with people I don't know, on the internet.
If you know the right people, please send them the URL
Should you be able to sell human organs? Child pornography? If you agree to let someone pay your family and kill you, should they be chargeable with murder?

These are all voluntary business relationships. They're illegal because society has mostly agreed that there should be a limit to how much a transaction can extract from someone. That people, even at their most desperate, should still be protected.

And yes, the bounds here can be arbitrary. Selling organs is illegal while selling sperm and eggs is not. But ultimately, most everyone agrees that we should draw the line somewhere. The entire point of a society is a set of norms around how to interact with others.
Yes, it is still one way to workaround the problem. For those who don't know:

function workerFn() { ...Do worker stuff }

let worker = new Worker(URL.createObjectURL(new Blob(['('+workerFn.toString()+')()'])));

Though this hack works but it still have problems to be addressed:

1. It still does not resolve import/require(). This introduces another hack that dumping output of a bundler to workerFn.

2. It will make it much harder to debug since you create worker out of data, not source code.
Something must be done. This is something. We must do this!
If so, then Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea have been at war with the US for years.
The --mask is probably a CSS variable.
Cellebrite says it can now pull data from any iOS device ever made
And you still don’t have to drink at events that serve alcohol, anyhow.
Should have included Nim and D.
That's all nice and well, as long as you are in cell tower range. I drove mine cross-country through places where you get 0 cell coverage. Having a navigation system that actually works is pretty nice.
> Word documents can be edited by people who have access to an appropriate version of Word ... LaTeX ones are greppable, searcheable, etc. They also 'age' much better. I can still LaTeX most documents from 20 years ago

I really value the fact that LaTeX is free software, but as a matter of practical reality, are old LaTeX documents really more accessible than Word documents? There is plenty of free software with (imperfect) support for Word these days. I recently opened a bunch of Word documents that were more than 20 years old, and I'm sure I didn't get a pixel-perfect reproduction of the original document, but as someone without a strong grasp of the LaTeX package ecosystem, I imagine compiling old LaTeX documents would have been more difficult than just installing LibreOffice or uploading the document to Google Docs.
I would have liked to see what a team using C would have come up with in the author's set.
It's a bit of a messy bedroom. Ideally, I'd get some real software devs involved to rewrite it using a modern framework. This is just a pile of JS and some JQuery.

One thing of note is that there's no server-side services in this architecture. The browser does all of the work itself. Kind of remarkable when you think about it.
I found it obvious and intuitive, despite the multiple ways of navigating, and the attention to detail is extraordinary. Now I want that three layer seek on other video sites! I love that each photo - most of which I've never seen or knew existed - appears at the precise moment it was taken and you can click through to a full size.

You managed a work of art. I am deeply impressed. The web needs more sites like this. This is what the web should be. I hope you have the bandwidth for when the BBC or similar inevitably find it. :)

My very hazy memories of watching the launch and landing in 69 (honestly probably of Apollo 17 in 72 - they've mostly all merged together in the memory now), here in the UK, are recreated wonderfully!

Bloody well done!
Typing with LaTeX within Vim can be as fast (or even faster) than in the Word processors. You can use the power of Vim plugins, concealments, and customized snippets. Most probably the same can be done inside Emacs as well. See the excellent article[1] on how to set up your Vim to follow the mathematics lectures in real time.

[1] https://castel.dev/post/lecture-notes-1/
Given what I have seen in some large corporations, I honestly believe that eBay has the data on which companies use very old computers in mission critical processes. The amount of "vintage" parts that were bought off sellers on eBay by a couple of corporations I was at was rather large. It amazes me what has to happen for some companies to realize that your logistic system needing parts from eBay is a bad thing.
"We hid this from the president because we were afraid he might issue a perfectly legal and constitutional order to stop doing it."

Yes, way to bury the lede.
I doubt many people who use facebook don’t understand that they can see in the Newsfeed posts that weren’t addressed directly to them by their friends. That is the entire point of the Newsfeed.

It was a big change when Facebook introduced the newsfeed back in 2006 or 2007 and I do remember people calling it the ‘stalker feed’ and there being a big facebook group with a million members asking for it to be removed. But people got over it, liked it, and instead of moving to myspace or one of the many alternative social networks stuck with facebook and facebook just got bigger and bigger thanks to users loving it.
It’s not that they can’t imagine it, it’s that they can’t imagine the illegality.

Like I can imagine romance without candlelit dinners, but if you told be that couples dining together was now illegal without a chaperone, then I would act shocked.
If you really want to know the price of such a device, it is likely that someone in the US federal government has bought it before. If you know the name or even better have a part number, search for it in combination with GSA or DLA. I have managed to get pricing for all sorts of instruments that way.
Yeah I was a little confused about how to go back to Master, too.

Agreed this site is mindblowing - thanks for all the hard work!
What software do you want to run?

Windows is fantastically supported: Microsoft Office, Adobe suite, AAA games, Active Directory, databases, browser and browser plugins, and a thousand others.
Tesla fanboys can be quite annoying, true, but I don't think actively killing them is a "right thing".
Yeah, knock off $1000 or more if it's a tower.
I've sped up a simulation 100 fold by porting a 20 line function to rust (which had a terrible access pattern for numpy), and could probably sped it up another 10 (which was closer to reasonable for numpy).

If the thing could have been written in rust in the first place, tons of time would have been saved on trying to optimize python, waiting for simulations to complete before (and to a lesser extent after) I ported a portion of it to rust. Dealing with language interop and build systems.

The main reason I can't suggest that for future similar problems to the person who I did this for is because of the lack of libraries like plotting (plotting is by far the most important one, numpy is second but rust comes a lot closer in that regard).
Becoming Italian
Head Wounds and Steel Helmets
We will just have to agree to disagree here, I suppose.

The way I see it, it's Facebook's platform, and it's up to them to build features as they see fit. The news feed works how the news feed works. There's nothing to "fix," and there's nothing rude about it. It's just an optional feature on a website on the Internet, and of course you don't have to use it if you don't like it.
The problem is not so much whether it's the government's job to regulate it, but that it is primarily treated as a criminal issue, and thus is 'solved' through police enforcement.
In other countries people see it more as a health issue, this leads to completely different approaches and policies.
What would happen if we treated e.g. education primarily as a criminal issue?
I used to work for a bank with a large number of OS/2 based ATMs.

It's out there, in a lot of places.
Thanks Kyle. I do appreciate your response! And the tip about drag-and-drop, I may make use of that :)
The truth is that if you make a law for the betterment of general society, it’s poor people who you want to target simply because there are more of them.

Trying to coral rich people with far greater resources to circumvent laws just leads to laws that are more oppressive and far reaching to yield the same effects.
A lot of the Body Worlds ripoff versions take "bodies of people who could not be identified" from China... the plastination process must begin within 24 hours of death... you can reason out the rest of the horror. It's just another holocaust you can see in real time but do little about as an individual. These tour the United States. I tried to protest one and could find no one else who cared. There's a persistent myth that there is some sort of "scientific" or "educational" value in seeing sleazy American business people and CCP police profit off of the cadavers of people who had illegal religions. Seems this article reveals they were only pretending to steal the bodies from China and they were stealing them from the U.S. instead. Still, not enough people care.
Navigation on a phone doesn't require cell coverage -- it works the same as your car, just download the map you need.
I'd like those features too, but unfortunately for reference material I find annotation and pagination more important. Annotation is broken in HTML/EPUB because there's no way to make my annotations portable across devices without vendor lock-in. Pagination is broken because HTML documents rarely contain paragraph numbers or other useful pinpoints, and browsers aren't as good as PDF readers at keeping track of your position in a long document. These are solvable problems, but until they are solved I find HTML unusable for anything that takes more than 15 minutes to read. I suspect that most people who consider PDF obsolete rarely spend that much time on a single document.
Two counterexamples does not disprove “a norm”. There are always exceptions!
Congratulations! I feel privileged to have witnessed this moment.
What about just asking people to submit their favorite blogs, collecting the thousand or so links and then release them in a directory ranked by submissions, or in a weekly newsletter with like 5 links?

Oh hey I made that: https://forms.gle/QKdHTMJEXroyYj386
I've watched all of the "Alt Right Playbook" videos and don't remember 'research' that went beyond "I've noticed people doing this thing and here is why I think they're doing it".

The actual tangible impact of such behaviors, as far as I'm aware, has not been properly studied.
But where is the telemetry data? Oh it got all erased. Every single tape. Whoops.
Yeah thermal paper is pretty terrible. Also make sure you don't forget one on the dashboard of your car on a hot sunny day... At least where I live scans of receipts are accepted so I just scan everything
Taiwan remains world's fifth biggest creditor at end of 2018
Neither capacitive nor resistive touch screens have an acceptable use in a moving car. Drivers should use the rotary knob and voice controls instead.
It's the "whatever keeps it moving" mindset rather than the "take a hit now for a better return later" mindset. I used to work as a Colgate factory making liquid soap and it blew my mind how poor of a condition their machinery was in and how it was run. Machines help together literally with ductape, zipties, and miscellaneous objects that we could find around the plant to repurpose or materials we could find at Walmart (it's the only place around open 24hrs). Many times machines would be down and instead of fixing them we would just "throw people" at the issue and keep the lines running with manual labor, creating an insane amount of inefficiency and waste so that there's no "downtime".
Have you looked into SageMath? (Technically it's "Python-based" rather than "just" Python.) I'm also curious if you're specifically looking for something in Python, or if doing symbolic computation/computer algebra in other languages would work for you, barring license costs.
I don't know where you get the idea there's a significant difference between these groups with respect to their attention to accessibility.
One of the most important parts of diet we fail to educate the public on is glycemic index vs glycemic load. Index is essentially the raw score for how drastically a particular food will raise blood sugar. Glycemic load looks at the totality of what one eats then predicts what the effect of one's blood sugar will be. For example eating sugar with fat will spike blood sugar less than simply eating sugar.

Further reading: https://www.health.harvard.edu/diseases-and-conditions/the-l...
HTC plans to launch 5G smartphones next year
I don't see how that example is relevant, because:

(1) It shows Python expresses the concept fairly compactly in the core language without even resorting to stdlib,

(2) It ignores an option (also in the core language) using a ternary and the truthiness of lists:
my_list[0] if my_list else None
If I recall correctly, the 2001 ICFP contest was won by someone who happened to have done their thesis on the contest problem. :-)
I may or may not agree… I'm not sure exactly what situation you're referring to.

In the original article linked above, the situation was that users expected their social information to remain private to the ~100 friends they shared it with, and sued Facebook because it ended up in the hands of Cambridge Analytica. Facebook's attorney's counterpoint is that when you share information with friends, you give up any expectation of privacy as it pertains to these friends. And in this particular case, it was the friends who shared that information with some Facebook app by Kogan(sp?), who then shared it with Cambrige Analytica.

I find the argument pretty convincing, actually. If you tell your friend a secret, and they tell someone else, even if it's a corporation, then that's that. If you share your Spotify playlist with a friend, and in turn they give up all their friends' playlists data (including yours) to some app, then imo that's kind of on you for sharing.

The situation I disagree with is if you tell your friend a secret, and then the communication platform that you used to share that secret (your phone company, the hotel you're staying in, Gmail, Facebook, whatever) decides to share it with third parties.
Firefox reader mode shows more text. It was a "walk out in response to how the company handles allegations of sexual assault."

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=google%20walkout&sort=byPopula... shows previous stories on the topic, including "Google Walkout Organizer Claire Stapleton Resigns" with HN comments at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20125371 . (That article is from The Guardian.)

Stapleton is the ex-Google worker in this linked-to piece.
I'm unsure how this matters? The physical universe does not prove itself and does not need to. Godel's theorems just say that certain types of mathematical systems can't prove themselves, which seems quite irrelevant to simulating the universe. Please explain if I'm missing something.
What industry are you talking about? Email doesn't scale to the size of a detailed report; I've been criticised for sending 'wall of text' emails that were barely over 1,000 words. I'm sure you weren't entirely serious, but if 'nobody ever reads' documents longer than this, that is concerning.
Be careful, this may have changed. I bought a 2018 A3 specifically for this reason. I loved that the display could retract away on longer trips when not needed. However, there was a small change in production mid-year where the screen could no longer retract into the dash on demand. As soon as you turn on the car, the screen rises up and stays up until the car turns off. It was billed as a safety issue to be able to switch to the backup camera faster.

I ended up getting a slightly older version that had more test-drive miles on it.
> For example eating sugar with fat will spike blood sugar less than simply eating sugar.

You mean chocolate bar or any dessert.
Also I don't believe the UV rays from the sun are good for it. I think it weakens it as it does with PVC.
Not only that, but when you also have the Audi virtual cockpit, you still have an always-on display, which covers many of the functions available from the center screen. I like being able to retract the screen on demand, particularly on longer trips.
Why not to hire a reverse engineering company and restore the source code for them?
What Is Computer Programming?
I have original copies of these from back around 1982. Wonderful books and Brodie's a natural born teacher.
When Trump's base says that "the deep state" is trying to start a war between the US and Russia, it's quotes like these that will be used to bolster their claims.
Raw talent and prior experience no doubt had something to do with it, but there's also the fact that the Python programmer was working alone and not particularly concerned about code quality or maintainability.
Wouldn't it be nice if Word actually provided some kind of UI for working with the underlying XML, like the old WordPerfect 'show codes' feature?
Strange, I find the compressed width of two columns perfect for mobile phones.
Yeah this is pretty basic information security terminology. An "attack" is any attempted intrusion, successful or not, damaging or not. If the threat actor managed to breach your defenses and gain unauthorized access, that's called an attack.

For some definitions:

https://www.beyondtrust.com/blog/entry/difference-between-a-...
It's not so much learning speed, but it being a level playing field. Old gamers who have been fpsing since Doom / Quake / TF2 / whatever might be capable of learning Fortnite, but they won't dominate it without spending thousands of hours on it. Kids will spend time getting good, because they have more free time and they enjoy it because for once they don't get destroyed by the fps crowd.
Nope, it's just "color centers" in pure NaCl. From the paper:

> a strong F-center absorption near 460 nm due to individual electrons trapped within single Cl− vacancies

> a weaker M-center (or F2-center) absorption near 720 nm due to binary aggregates [that is, pairs] of F-centers.

I gather that something knocks Cl- ions out of NaCl crystals, leaving electrons stuck in the holes. Relativistic solar wind, maybe?

The full quote:

> Although spectrally bland in the infrared, alkali chlorides develop distinct spectral features at visible wavelengths under particle irradiation. The bombarding particles lead to the growth of “color centers” by creating anion vacancies in the crystal structures, which trap free electrons and cause compositionally diagnostic absorptions [e.g., (20–22)]. Laboratory experiments have demonstrated that color centers can form in sodium chloride (NaCl) and NaCl brine evaporites under Europa-like surface conditions (23, 24), producing colors in laboratory samples that appear visually similar to those captured in Galileo images of Europa’s surface [e.g., (25)]. Spectrally, these colors largely result from two distinct absorptions caused by two types of color centers—a strong F-center absorption near 460 nm due to individual electrons trapped within single Cl− vacancies, and a weaker M-center (or F2-center) absorption near 720 nm due to binary aggregates of F-centers. To investigate the hypothesis that Europa’s endogenous units contain chloride salts, we used the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) to search for signatures of these color centers on the surface.
I, too, would like to see the OmniSci Community team make a Call Me Maybe lip sync. I’ll post the suggestion in their Slack channel (disclosure: I’m an engineer at OmniSci).

A challenge for us with a “YouTube of Data” is that our backend requires GPU instances for the dataviz that we focus on. Scaling that to YouTube heights would take a really well concerted effort, more than a fun side project. We’ve talked about the idea a lot though. Our backend (OmniSciDB) is open sourced so anyone else could do it with their own resources and a custom dataviz client.

I know I’m sounding like a commercial, but I thought you might actually like an answer. That’s basically how we play with the app internally. I like using our Pokémon data set for debugging whenever possible :-)

Our paying customers are big enterprises right now who are well supported by the kind of sales team you’d expect. Our Community team is totally separate from sales and they genuinely likes helping people use our open source offering, hence the demo. We’re pretty happy for Sean that his post made HN.

But yeah, we’re still a business. But we’re kind of a family too. And data junkies.
Bus that automatically stops vehicle after detecting health problems with driver