skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sometimes I see articles with tables and decision trees regarding language choice. I find it funny, because if I was doing any old thing, I'd use $typical_lang, and if I was writing a script, I'd use bash-and-not-python-because-I-don't-know-python. If I craved novelty, I'd use $not_blub.

If I thought everyone was like me, I'd joke at this author, "Come on. You wanted to use CL and you needed justification." But I suppose there are people who are not like me, who decide how this author decides.

Ok I'll take my own bait: Why not Java? Depite not compiling to a native executable, It'll be faster than Ruby, Python, and Scheme. Deployment is a jar file. More than adequate GUI tools. As regards language stability, the language committee is conservative. To me, the answer is, "Because the author already knows Ruby, Python, Scheme, and Common Lisp, and already-knowing a language is huge." But of course: I'm baiting because I'm projecting : ).

Or why not Haskell?
It depends on the organization. We've had leaders move back to IC roles (and are going through one of these transitions now, actually), but I think it requires the organization to be explicitly supportive of such moves. We call it finding your "zone of genius". We'd much rather keep a good person then lose them because they're best suited for another role.
I think what people wanted was the pre-2013 Mac Pro. Where the base model cost half of this new one, and it was expandable enough that people are still using it.
Synopsis: Making the Perfect Crêpe
I give third parties my credit card number a half-dozen times per day. It’s not secret.
This study seems rather self limiting (but then again I'm no biologist)... what if there are non-carbon based life that does not care about carbon dioxide or carbon monoxide?
The "language can control thought" idea is called linguistic determinism, and has been considered bogus by linguists for a while now, at least the strong form of it.
What, again?

With so many going to, already at, or already been to Mars, it seems like they should be able spare a probe for Venus.

Mars will never be a place anyone sane would want to be. But Cloud City floating 50 miles above Venus! Who could resist?
Doctored video of sinister Mark Zuckerberg puts Facebook to the test
This was an interesting story from a few months ago about some of the drama around Gary Gygax's death, legacy, and memorials: https://kotaku.com/fantasys-widow-the-fight-over-the-legacy-...

The whole article is worth reading, but it ends on a description of the linked memorial.
Your original interlocutor argued that

> Unless everyone can spend money drawn from the corporate account, and everyone can fire anyone else, the structure isn't flat.

which I don't think you ever really addressed. That there is more than these powers doesn't change that these powers are basically what defines meaningful hierarchy. They are necessary, but not sufficient; other functions are contributory, but neither necessary nor sufficient in themselves.

You can't have a company without money and people. That's literally what a company is.
I bet some smart person here could write an algorithm to find the optimal location for a single 'device' that could do the most 'damage'.
Enter, Stage Center: The Early Drama of the Hyperbolic Functions [pdf]
Graphic, of the Moon:

https://www.nasa.gov/images/content/711375main_grail20121205...

Most of the circular impressions are impact craters.

Variance of the Moon's g field is vastly greater than Earth's. Enough so that long-lived lunar satellites are very difficult to plan as their orbits continuously devolve due to gravitational perturbations, and eventually intersect the Moon at perilune. Often in a matter of weeks or months.

Scott Manley here:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=EadClM4Y45A
I believe the orbits are elliptical. But at the scale of the map, the orbital eccentricity doesn't really show up.
This is off topic, but I am almost done with the book The Dark Forest, and the concept kind of terrifies me regarding extraterrestrial life.
Instead of approving this merger, is there another way the government could encourage competition? Perhaps break up the larger carriers or some how promote new upstart competition?

Your statement sounds correct but I don’t exactly like the reality.
That's what people said when AT&T tried to buy T-Mobile.
Interesting to read their FAQ, I suspect they could have made a fair bit of $$ just by placing some ads, but are not doing that..
What's the thinking here? Stopping the merger of the two insignificant players would only shield the major players from real competition.
link to actual study: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab1d52
Ask HN: Old guys, what do you miss about development in the 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s?
Sorry for calling you old.
It is from Cloudflare. They love reCaptcha. It’s ok to give free user data to Google if it means less work for them.
Time Machine refuses to back up to APFS volumes at present.
Able Health is hiring a junior engineer (1 yrs experience) in SF
And, I believe you could probably subclass Badge to make capabilities more granular.
Great Comment.
It's hard to interpret your one-word answer, but if you are saying that Europe can be held up as an example of success for this concept, then I ask you: which European city has successfully granted a legal monopoly to a single bike fleet?

I have done bike / scooter fleet apps in Paris, Berlin, Madrid, Malaga, Prague... I dunno, many other European cities - and I don't think I've ever come across one with such a policy.

Is this a normal European thing?
So, a lie you find useful?
That might have been an issue, but Lime switched to the e-scooter game and probably found out that the bikes costed more in maintenance. The scooters last months before they break and probably need relatively simple parts for repair, but bikes probably broke constantly and it may have been hard to get enough people to repair them.

You could be right, though, and I'm only guessing.
Data Confusion at the Edge
My 0.02c as a Citi Bike (NYC's bikeshare) subscriber: I wouldn't be surprised if there's a modest profit to be made in bike sharing, at least in NYC. I know quite a few people with a yearly subscription (either personally or via their employer), and I would consider paying for one personally now that I've experienced their convenience. I don't know how much money Citi Bike/Motivate actually makes here, although AFAIK they don't receive any public subsidies (other than free use of public space).

OTOH, I don't think that the e-bike/scooter companies will ever be profitable. I wouldn't be surprised if the people running those companies are equally cynical.
Time Machine style backup with rsync in 540 lines of code
You're getting downvoted because this is both a bad business idea, and a bad product idea.

Uber and Lyft have proven that drivers and riders don't want to think particularly hard. They want a magic button that either a) makes a car show up or b) feeds them customers.

As for the business side, there's no good reason to think that this would even cut costs on Uber's side -- they still need to maintain all of their lobbying costs, their server and engineer costs to maintain the bidding app, their marketing costs, etc.
Want to make the same thing for SoFi? They require the same within 60 days after opening and account: https://www.sofi.com/b/policy/arbitration
Manage the cell tower infrastructure and spectrum themselves through a non profit GSE (government sponsored entity) (think ISO grid operators for electric grids) and make every commercial provider an MVNO stakeholder. Similar to a municipality owning the last mile fiber to the house, and any provider can provide you service with a quick patch cable or VLAN change at the central office/colo facility.

Running a nationwide cellular network is expensive and complicated AF. You have to provide a level playing field if you want to enable competition without needing hundreds of millions of dollars to start up.
Hong Kong protests over China extradition bill
The wide range of extremophiles here on earth makes me think that this paper is parochial, at best. Carbon is versatile and oxygen is a great source of energy, but that doesn't preclude other biochemical systems.

Given the amount of real estate in the universe that is "out in the cold" (Oort cloud equivalents, way beyond the snow line) it may be that we are the oddballs, and there are scientists out there wondering how life would be possible with molten ice and burning things with something as hellishly reactive as atomic oxygen. Free-floating planets might be where the really good parties are in our galaxy.
So it saves the "hi, this is John Doe. I'm currently not available. Leave a message after the beep!", correct?
T-Mobile was going to crap before its failed merger to ATT. It would be stupid to think Sprint can't turn itself around either.
I'm not a "Pro User" but I really want a not too shabby Mac which is not Hackintosh at a reasonable price, for years. I have to switch to PC from Mac when I want to play video games, or working with Scala, etc. Even with high-end MBP.

I still like macOS most, although it freezes often because of the scheduler. Compare to Linux the rendering is far better and it's less time consuming to make everything work. Compare to Windows it's still a POSIX system. And the consistent behavior like Emacs/Bash style shortcut in Cocoa is really neat.

I actually don't need Xeon and ECC memory, but I do need i9 and GTX2080, with memory and SSD pluggable so I won't throw it away 2 yrs later.
I don’t see how. Most of the small carriers piggyback off the big 4 networks anyways.
> Pulling out my phone to tap out an SMS when I have a full keyboard in front of me seems silly at this point.

Responding to SMS encourages people to keep using it.
Cingular buying ATT Wireless? Sure no problem.
Also works on Windows via WSL. The repo is active, but urgently needs maintainers.
So basically we need to defrag our ram now. Here we go again.
I'd suggest both novels demonstrate the same basic concern: technology in extending our our ability to carry out our desires will actually invigorate our base passions for agression and pleasure, destroying our humanity in the process. In 1984, true power is a boot on another persons neck, and even the last shred of resistance is destroyed in the protagonist, who in the last scenes sheds tears of repentant joy for big brother before he turns himself in for his rightful execution. In Brave New World, the desire for sensual pleasure has completely eroded all capacity to enjoy love, truth, and beauty. Likewise, Huxley's Savage finds the world unlivable and takes his own life at the end of the novel.
Huawei’s New Laptop Becomes First Casualty of U.S. Sanctions
> The comment form of my blog is protected by what I refer to as “naive captcha”, where the captcha term is the same every single time. This has to be the most ineffective captcha of all time, and yet it stops 99.9% of comment spam.

This is what we did on one of our sites. 5 minutes to implement it using a few lines of code. Same result, couldn't be happier.
Interesting, I'd always assumed reinterpret_cast<> was YOLO-anything-goes. You learn something every day ;)
What if future humans check all the planets in the universe and find no other life
we just need to stay quiet
Uber party at Chicago Museum results in massive traffic jam and crowds
The ability to know a lot about a lot. And I'm not that old yet - I started my journey in the early 90s.
Last I checked reddit only shows your your last 1000 comments. So it's impossible to get your older comments. I don't know how they do this in light of GDPR's data portability requirements.

See

https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/6ynrth/why_does_reddi...

https://www.reddit.com/r/redditdev/comments/30a7ap/does_redd...

But what you can do is download every single comment on reddit, then search through that to find yours. See https://www.reddit.com/r/pushshift/
jMyles specifically is objecting to whether the city has the moral authority to sell that exclusivity. If I sell my neighbor's lawn chair to a passerby without my neighbor's permission, the passerby doesn't have a claim on the chair even though it's my ill behavior that was the cause. (This is true regardless of whether the passerby knew who the true owner was.)
UberPool involves sharing a car with one or more customers.
Death of the Country Club
Considered bogus by many but I don’t think it’s fair to say the door is shut on linguistic determinism.
That's because cars are way more useful. They have a much longer range than bikes or scooters, are fueled more easily, carry cargo, transport multiple people at once, can run on both gas and electric, have air conditioning, stereo systems, safety features, etc. Bicycles are obsolete in every way and aren't practical for most commuters. You bet cars take up 1000000x the space of bikes.
> Panels use screen space more efficiently and are a more elegant way to multitask than normal windows.

This is flat out false for me. I generally have 3-6 windows open on my main monitor that I am actively using. Some of them are only partially visible, but still very useful. One takes up 75% of my screen, but I still want to see information in the others while I'm using it.
Threadripper is expensive by consumer standards but you can still buy a 32 core 2990WX workstation with 64GB quad channel RAM, 1TB NVMe SSD, etc. for less money than a base model Mac Pro.

Presumably the next gen Threadripper platform with PCIe 4 will launch not too far off the time the new Mac Pro does.
Bowling went through a similar decline.

Societal forces, worth of underlying real estate, etc.

We need something similar, else we risk further erosion of social fabric.
Everything was shittier than it is now, but also much simpler.
There's more to it than that though. Balances carried, utilization ratios, etc., all manner of metrics that are about how good a credit _consumer_ you are (i.e. profitability), not just credit risk.
> Having a giant floating city in the ocean six-thousand persons simply isn't necessary anymore. Yes, we need certain types of ships for guarding ports and trade routes by aircraft carriers are gross overkill and largely the money-giving beast of lobbyists, politicians and defense contractors.

The same could be said about traditional universities, especially now that, as you point out, they're so expensive that the cost is ruinous on a per-capita basis. I see no reason that this would change if the cost was borne by the federal government any more than the cost of the Navy would change.
To be clear, the more unusual case is the author knowing none of the languages he evaluated. In that case I think the case for Java (and even Haskell) is very strong.
It's an interesting concept, but anything that would be effective has to be believable and appeal to a wide audience. I think people can tell this is fake, so it doesn't really work.
yea trump has no idea how a computer works...
Open Source, what is next?
Yep it’s called brain drain. Many people come to the US to pursue school with intentions to go back home and make things better there, but just fall into life and work and never look back.
> some bikes experiencing too strong a braking force on the front wheel

Was that actually confirmed or just alleged?
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At Tesla shareholder meeting, Musk assures “there is not a demand problem”
Parents have a duty to protect their children, including from themselves. That said they also have a duty to allow their older children enough freedom to learn independence. It’s a hard problem and there’s no algorithm.
I think bikeshare programs have been very successful in cities where they are monopolies and partially run by cities. My experiences with bikeshares in NYC, London, Hamburg, Berlin, and DC have all been great.

The places where they have become nuisances are largely those that have been flooded with multiple competing (usually dockless) systems, because it turns out that you don't need a large capital investment to create a lot of junk sitting idle that gets in people's way.

I think bikeshare systems should be municipally owned (or at least municipally regulated). For me, the real killer app would be one that lets me get a bikeshare in any city.
At least at many big companies, there’s a dual career ladder for ICs and managers, with equal pay across equivalent levels (e.g. Manager ~ Senior engineer, Director ~ Principal Engineer)
Agree, views, but not main organizing principle.

For example, my music collection is big and diverse, and both "year sort" and "album sort" are kinda useless now, because there are actually multiple disjoint subsets. There is no point ever in showing me audiobooks for year 2010 and regular music for year 2010. I always only want a subset of it.

This is what I meant "strictly in addition to main hierarchy" -- let me keep my folders, and maybe when I want to go deep enough, I want to browse by tag. But even then it would not be a hashtag-like tags that the original page refers to.
I fought an interesting implementation of customized spam on a web app registration form a few months back. Suddenly, every 2-3 seconds, we would get a sign up from a random email address @qq.com (it really clogged our sign up Slack channel). I didn’t want to go full CAPTCHA so I dropped in a simple honeypot and the spam stopped for a good 4-5 hours. Then it picked right back up like normal. I then implemented a randomized honeypot, e.g. <input name=“lastname478482”> and again, it ceased immediately and picked up a few hours later. Finally I just blocked all submissions with emails @qq.com and it stopped completely and hasn’t returned months later.

Sometimes I wonder if there was a real person on the other end writing code to combat the code I was writing at the same time, and finally gave up on the 3rd iteration.
Norman Borlaug – The Man Who Helped Feed the World
Like, because there are so many more unknowable levels of abstraction now? Hyper-specialization?
T-mobile “turned itself around” partially because of the $6 billion that AT&T had to pay

https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/12/20/att-and-t-mobile-wha...

Also, T-mobile was hurting because it was the last major carrier that didn’t have the iPhone.
What about ESUS (which is SUSE backwards) - it would preserve the SUSE brand in a fun way that will likely catch on. Plus, it's the name of a Celtic god.
Wow, just kind of crazy how virtually all the top 20 Internet companies are US and China. The only other country represented is Japan with Recruit Holdings, and a huge part of that (maybe majority?) is due to them owning Indeed, which was founded in Austin.
> Swift: Apple lock-in.

Swift runs on Linux and has done since it was made open source in 2015, a year after its initial announcement. Windows support is being worked on but, for the time being, it runs fine in WSL. No lock in.
This still sounds like an overly pessimistic crowd of suppositions. I was hoping for inferences into planetary atmospheres. It’s probably mostly impossible, but I think I’ve seen estimates on some of these planets atmospheres. Until, if we can ever, measure what’s in the atmospheres of these planets we’re really stretching it.
And AT&T paid T-mobile $6 billion in cash and spectrum afterwards because of the failed merger.
If you look at how far a regular user could get in the 90s with Applescript, Hypercard, and the Classic Mac OS, today's systems are quite underwhelming by comparison.

I have no doubt that all the Unix based systems of today are more stable and faster than the older (and more diverse) crop of personal computing operating systems, but these systems lack the kind of true computing power that older systems provided to regular users.

Smalltalk systems are another kind of vision for what a personal computing operating system could be like: no "applications" or "files," just a sea of computing structures called objects and levels of metaphor and abstraction that give regular users powerful ways to interact with them.

Today if users want to go just a step beyond what their shrnkwrapped programs can do -- and trust me, that happens all the time -- they have two options: either buy some plugin or other program that hopefully does the job, or learn a full-fledged general programming language from the ground up and then apply it to the problem. That's pretty sad -- doubly sad, considering the core metaphor of most operating systems today is a teletype!
While control of language is not in the public's attention, it has been used quite knowingly for decades.[1]

More recently though, rather than too much propaganda on a savvier public, the more modern addition is to convince a public that ultimate truth is unknowable. Often just by validating conspiracy theories just enough to the rival of real news.

For example: the Russian news for the MH17 shoot down was not a consistent particular story but a wide variety of extremely wild stories on different outlets.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy#Evolution_(1...
Breaking up the carriers would be worse for consumers. Every carrier now has some semblance of “nationwide” coverage.
It's really easy to get a 100 score on page speed with tools like Gatsby (and similar). People would implement faster pages if they could get in the carousel from it. For custom display in the SERPs, a neutral schema could be used.

Publishers don't want to be forced into using "instant loading web pages" if it fundamentally breaks the nature of the WWW and takes control away from them and gives it to a few large companies (AMP caches).
Yes, VMWare is a league above GitHub. I doubt many in this thread think otherwise. But a VP is a league below a COO. And Bitnami is a league below GitHub. And a VP of VMWare doesn’t work with all $9B of rev VMWare is doing.
That you could buy a book, read it, and then know literally everything about a particular system. And often that book came with the system.
You mention there’s always only one scalar multiplication unit. Can you elaborate why that is the case? What’s keeping AMD and Intel from adding more?
The head of Xbox shares his plan to make Microsoft’s games inescapable
The study doesn't dispute that. Any planet with any conditions could host complex life that's beyond our understanding. That's not helpful in a search. If we're going to go looking for extraterrestrials then we need to narrow the search to parameters we can recognise, and looking for "life as we know it" seems a reasonable starting point.

Essentially the point is to be self-limiting. No one is saying "Planets outside of these parameters can't have complex life." but instead "Planets outside of these parameters could not give rise to what we know as complex life."
Large companies tend towards politics because it’s hard to build empathy and trust across thousands of people. Academic departments tend towards politics because nominal leaders either have no training or no power
The description sounds like this mirrors a lot of the functionality found in rsnapshot (https://rsnapshot.org/).

What are the advantages here vs. what rsnapshot already provides?
I miss developing in the 00s when I wasn’t considered old yet.
Tesla completing ‘small acquisition’ to launch its insurance product
Just the sense that we were on the cusp of some magical, new, civilization changing thing.

I don't get the same sense that stringing lines of code together can change the world, largely because, where it could, it mostly already has (I am not a believer in the latest wave of AI hype).

What we did used to be magic and was met with gasps and now, it's mostly just expected and complained about if it breaks :/