skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wolfe was terrific for the brief span of a decade or so. It is no accident that the books for which he is so often acclaimed (The Fifth Head of Cerberus, Peace, BotNS) were all written in the 1970s. At that time he managed to combine intricately plotted, deceitful-narrator plots with excellent prose that was fully the equal of Proust or Nabokov. Beyond those three book-length works, his short stories of this period are also worth reading.

Once the 1980s arrived, Wolfe’s prose suddenly became plain and lackluster. His works continued to mine the same vein of deceitful narrators where the actual plot and events have to be riddled out by attentive readers, but these started to get dull and frustrating. All that was left to his writing was the book-as-puzzle, and literary value or even mere enjoyment went out the window. His editor kept accepting what Wolfe gave him and took it on faith that the work was competent, but even Wolfe fans have wondered if A Land Across, for example, can even be completely figured out.

Not to mention some cringeworthy stylistic choices and concerns of the late books, like putting the speech of characters on a distant planet into 20th-century ethnic stereotypes (The Book of the Short Sun) or old-man rants about modern society (Pirate Freedom). As someone who got into Wolfe through the early books and then voraciously read everything he wrote after that, the gradual disappointment was crushing.
HTTP is so much more convenient at this point, easy to consume by tools, routing, load balancing etc.
It's a pretty crappy video that is doing nothing but fearmongering.

Did you know that there is a knife in every kitchen? So why isn't there a knife murder epidemic? Because murder has to be "profitable" in some way. As long as there are better ways to obtain that "profit" violence will generally not happen on a large scale.

Nowadays the bigger problem is that countries like the USA are willing to kill journalists and other civilians in foreign countries Drone or rifle does not matter. They were innocent either way.
If that's your job, then you should, but not every programmer. At least make the title of your post "every web programmer" or "every programmer using AWS". It makes the post a lot less clickbaity.
There are plenty of relevant C and C++ compilers.

The computing world isn't constrained to Linux and BSD clones running on the server room or mobile phones.
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Yes, these companies would still exist because people are driven by achievements and competition, and would presumably still be able to become extremely rich.

If you have 50-100 million dollars, you've more than made it financially. So "no one should be a billionaire" should come with "where do you put the threshold?"

It would also seem very difficult to prevent people from being shareholders in their own companies. Most of the wealth of e.g. Bezos comes from his Amazon shares.
For sure they aren't one if they don't have the degree from an university acknowledged by the Engineers Order.

Which most likely will have a good class in algorithms and data structures.

So while I don't expect every engineer to actually be able to do it, I expect him/her to be able to explain how to attack the problem.
New startup perfectearns please show some love and share the world
If you look to Europe that does not hold. Sparse and mountainous countries like Sweden, Finland and Austria are the cheaper ones. It seems that it depends more on the population count of a country.
Yeah I always roll my eyes when people talk about "the West". Even the right wing political parties here would be considered center left in the US.
Find that incredibly hard to believe. I can pay money to an Iranian charity?
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>> Many knowledgeable eyes on the open parts can help

Well, that is the problem. No one (well, say very very few) do code reviews on their own -- they do not provide as much benefits as coding (learning and reputation wise). Its a bit like the problem in academic publishing: Replication trials are not prestigious enough, so they are done far to rarely, albeit they are very important.

There are companies out there, that will do it for money, and many great open source products have been reviewed that way. But I don't think this happens often enough.
I use the "JSON viewer awesome" extension on Chrome. It displays JSON in a collapsible verticle tree and has a copy path button.

This is a nice CLI based alternative
Well sure, some people have outlandishly large benefits to the world. But those people depend on a huge pyramid of farmers, factory workers, public service workers, teachers, mailman, etc to enable them to spend their lives in whatever specialty.

A billion $ is a pretty mind boggling amount of money, pretty foreign to the experience of most of us. Imagine buying a $75k luxury car every month... for 50 years.... on less than 5% of your money.

Or even a $650k house, in every state, every year, for 25 years.

Or both.
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SPOILER ALERT. I'm reading the first volume of The Book of The New Sun right now for the first time, so was surprised that Neil introduced a spoiler in the first paragraph of the linked article so I had to stop reading it...
And you personally have studied the curriculum of every single computer science/computer engineering degree and can say that every single one required writing a compiler or interpreter and that no person who hasn’t written one can call themselves an engineer?
The engineering Order has taken that job twice.

When they certify the university and then when they issue the professional titles exam.
I haven't found a multi-protocol IM that supports Slack without loading the Slack app entirely. E.g. Rambox just renders the Slack app.

https://rambox.pro/#home

I used to use Pidgin to connect to several communication networks via a common UI, even with the promise of having a single contact list:

https://pidgin.im/

I just realized that Pidgin may have a community-maintained Slack plugin!

https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/ThirdPartyPlugins

We need a federated communication protocol, similar to email, where we can have real-time communication with people and groups on various networks and using differing software.
OK, thanks, now I understand your view.

The problem with "desperate" reformulations is -- despair. That demotivates from taking any action those who don't have enough understanding and start to look at the problem as either "it's hopeless" or are just "blocking out" ("it's so bad that it can't be true").

The humanity just need to act it its best interests in the sense to recognize that looking only for the shortest-term benefits harms the most of humanity already middle-term.

The only who can/hope to profit are the kinds of "arm dealers" -- the much less stable world (that is surely going to be a result of a lot of lives exposed to the new climatic conditions) is their direct "profit maker."
> The fundamental question is: do journals have an ethical obligation to publish credible results which refute previously published results in the journal?

The answer is: yes, because that's how science works! And it's especially true if your journal is named "Science".
The Associate Editor of Science who rejected this paper when it was submitted happens to be my wife's friend. They have been having long discussions about this issue. My understanding is that although it's a valid study, it just doesn't bring anything new to the table that is worthy of publication. This paper refutes a 2008 paper that has already been refuted. So the Associate Editor decided there is no reason why this new refutation deserves to be published in Science. That's all.

I don't think there is any case of scientific malpractice here. Keep in mind a high-profile journal like Science is extremely competitive and receives many paper submissions. They have to filter what they choose to publish based on some reason. And it seems to me their reason is perfectly valid.

Now this is turning into a bigger dispute because the researchers started arguing with the Associate Editor on Twitter (I heard the verb "harass".) So he blocked them on Twitter. And this is making them more upset. Etc.
What's the modern peer review process for science? Is there an open forum filled with reputed researchers who are willing to write their reviews, ask questions or give suggestions to young researchers who are submitting their work for review in a well-formed format? And is there a role for other bystanders who are observers out of curiosity and may be inspired to become scientific researchers or reviewers themselves? In this age of Internet, isn't this kind of online collaborative open forum going to scale much better?

Why are these age old print journals still in charge of this process with print era processes??
One can argue if the US government is elected. Many people dont even bother to vote. And big states like California and New York are openly at war with the current administration.
this is something between a joke and a thought experiment.

function cason(x){
switch(x[0]){
case "movie": switch(x[1]) {
case "name" : return "Interstellar";
case "year" : return 2014;
case "is_released": return true;
case "director" : return "Christopher Nolan";
case "cast": switch(x[2]){
case 0: return "Matthew McConaughey";
case 1: return "Anne Hathaway";
case 2: return "Jessica Chastain";
case 3: return "Bill Irwin";
case 4: return "Ellen Burstyn";
case 5: return "Michael Caine";
}
}
}
}
brings the concerns that seem to have been forgotten about the strange CPU behavior with their preffered version with elliptical curve
That seems like it ought to be illegal. It's an obvious skirting of the law. I doubt this is true, and if it is I can't even begin to imagine the number of things this "loophole" would affect.
What design books should every software developer read?
Very cool project. Which algorithm do you use for indexing/retrieval?
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> in his spare time

I don't wanna be -that guy- but ... github lists 5 contributors on that repo. "his" is doing a lot of work in your claim there.
ShellCheck is right insofar as compatibility is concerned. You can only rely on the shebang supporting one argument. I'd personally just ignore that warning if I were writing for MacOS specifically, but you can configure ShellCheck to ignore certain errors that you don't care about[1].

[1] https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck/wiki/Ignore
Very true. But it's easy to crank testosterone, and see what happens.
The (crazy-ass, yes) definition is in the article: the period the house needs heating.
Dunno. People thought it was crazy to start an electric car company. Electric cars were horribly impractical, and nobody has started a new car company in the USA in many decades.

Now of course that Tesla has demonstrated that it can be done, there's many similar attempts (like Rivian). It's not clear to me that we could have a Tesla without having Elon much with a few billion in his pocket.
So they “certify universities” worldwide?
I've always been of the mind that aliases should be "whatever the user finds convenient." I don't think I've ever seen code that depends on them.
Eh... Microsoft Store? So no new terminal for LTSB?
When XML came out into popularity I think the first thing I wrote was a small Python program to flatten/unflatten XML into per-line entries quite similar to the example output in the article.

The text streams that are processed line-by-line by dozens or hundreds of line-based tools are immensely powerful and universal. It's all Unix heritage and often overlooked by fancy modern designs that more often follow a fashion rather than root themselves in substance.

Surely text streams have their share of limitations like everything else but in practise you can retrofit nearly anything into line-based text streams and get an immediate productivity multiplier by being able to apply a whole array of established tools to process that data. Proof of that power is that it has been worthwhile to write converters to and from text and other formats. Not only you can find translators to turn various hierarchical or object-oriented formats into text but you can even convert a PNG into text and back (with SNG).

Text streams are like roads with lanes. They're ages old, they're pretty good at separating and guiding traffic, and they're somehow suboptimal in several senses yet rarely can anyone point out a single, clear practical improvement on laned roads, not to mention a system for containing traffic flows that is superior to them.
In my experience, learning better how to learn was far more valuable than the knowledge itself.
Reading this I realise that the idea of "Health and Safety" is a good one. Make a plan for the bad things that could happen and you just follow the plan - "Action On" it is called in the mklitary I believe

The bit where someone asks "did you turn off the HVAC in the building once the radioactive particles went airborne?" is a classic example.
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Thanks a lot for this, it slipped my radar for years and it is quite good to know for a couple of projects in particular!
Yikes! So HN is the cause of my Friday evening being so busy...

Smiles all around,
-Cliff
I’m funded by my employer and my parents are assigned to and owned by them. Why isn’t this analogous?
Right but Google owns the encryption, which means I have to assume they are reading the messages. They changed their policy once, they can change it again.
I should also have mentioned the notebook format is A5, not A4/letter. It is small enough to carry everywhere. If I have a few A4 printouts, I normally fold them in half and tuck them inside the front cover. Inside the back cover I always have a few sheets of blank paper, for sketching ideas on with colleagues.

This is the specific notebook I use: https://www.viking-direct.co.uk/en/office-depot-wirebound-no.... I tried Moleskin etc but they aren't as convenient for carrying my pen, aren't as expandable for carrying extra papers, and are 3 times more expensive.

I've been doing this since my first full-time job, so around 26 years. If you carry it with you everywhere at work, and open it at the start of every meeting, it quickly becomes automatic.

The key I think is only having one place where you write stuff down. That makes it automatically an append-only log :) The rest is optional. I have occasionally tried keeping notes electronically, but was never able to maintain it consistently for more than a few days, and found myself wanting to write different types of notes in different places.
Most of time it isn't about lying, its about small print hidden in the document.

Legal text is often opaque to laymen because it has specific legal meaning, plain commonly understood language doesn't have specific meanings so you get into situations where even the lawyers aren't sure how it should be interpreted.

To use a tech analogy, the lawyerese is the source code, if you want the ultimate truth, go there, you should be pairing it with adequate documentation though.
Can't say I disagree. Wizard Knight through to Borrowed Man all left me pretty cold. Personally "A Land Across" felt comparatively accessible (if random) as compared to "An Evil Guest" (which felt unreadable), Home Fires or Borrowed Man.

As an F/SF enthusiast, I'd say "crushing gradual disappointment" is more or less our lot. I think it's very easy to read way more sophistication and significance into people's earlier work based on enjoyment and sheer energy - then they slide into their ickier or more annoying obsessions, or redo their earlier work, or what have you.

See also: Iain Banks, J.G. Ballard, Frank Herbert, Jack Vance, Roger Zelazny, Fritz Leiber... whether it's an appetite for gore, bad sex, bad (or just tedious) politics and social commentary, gadget-too-far driven plots - all of my favourite F/SF authors tend to drift over the years.
I am from India and I love big Hollywood movies, but I never got the impression that American military and state are presented in a negative, or even a dim light.

There is nuance, that may be more apparent to Americans themselves. In these movies, Americans are never all bad. Because even if there are American villains, the answer is always the presence of American heroes.

Even though the films are great, they come pretty close to state propaganda. Only the quality is much better, because unlike other authoritarian projects from other countries, Americans actually believe their propaganda.

It's so effective that so many countries across the world are trying to copy it, my own country included. But we have a long long way to go in terms of quality.
I am not sure it is true that mathematical intelligence peaks early, people like to say it though and I'd be interested if there is evidence on it.

Here are a lot of examples of good contributions by older mathematicians.

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1059235/great-contr...

I think one factor is that young people tend to be hungry to achieve something and also aren't burdened with family or admin which means they can work harder.
You better avoid the Linux kernel then as the NSA have contributed a lot more than 3 lines.
Imagine if refuting a famous study is guaranteed to get you a publication into a prestigious journal - it's impossible to disentangle the conflict of interest.
It is the job of journalists to ask these controversial questions about NSA's role as a saboteur vs contributing in good faith to really improve the security of systems. So, nothing wrong with that. Healthy skepticism and all that.

In my experience, when closed source research teams start to contribute to well-run open-source projects there can be valuable contributions.

But it highly depends on having independent and technically competent maintainers with strong personalities who are not easily manipulated into accepting patches that they don't understand or violate their technical principles.
Babysitting Autopilot that can unpredictably steer me into a concrete barrier would be more demanding than driving a car that is more predictable.
This paper refutes a 2008 paper that has already been refuted.

Could you cite?
Really, if you're talking about new cities/neighborhoods, it should be done in parallel.

If you wait until things are very dense to actually start planning good transit, that means you'll have many years where it's too dense for just cars and so things are borked, plus by then building tunnels or acquiring right of way will be much more expensive.
Hot tip: Cliff only charges for the prime numbered bottles in each order (or at least he did, many years ago). I made a group order with friends and ordered 16.
Dock does a lot more than just the part you can see at the bottom of the screen, so you're not going to be able to truly get rid of it without breaking pretty much everything to do with Spaces and Launchpad along with it. Perhaps you could set it to auto-hide and only show after an extremely long delay?
They usually say you need 40 degrees of difference. So, probably not.
Could you give some recommendations on culture/art books worth reading?
Or Robert Heinlein, Larry Niven, or Poul Anderson...
I don't know, sorry. I'm just repeating what I heard from my wife. I will ask her.
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Both of those missions are at odds with improving security. Try harder.
Which brings me to the ask the following:

Would electric towplanes be doable for passenger aircraft? (Long or short haul, electric or otherwise).

If one of the downside of electric planes is the range, while fuel is cheap, making them cheaper to operate, and take-off uses a significant portion of the total energy, I could see very powerful electric towplanes as a way to reduce the amount of fuel needed for takeoff. This would:

* Allow to travel longer distances with the same amount of fuel (enabling electric airplanes to fly longer distances). Alternatively, allow planes to fill up with less fuel for the same distance.

* Improve fuel efficiency of big airliners, and their carbon footprint if you consider regular ones.

One last question: aircraft that fly shorter routes typically embark less fuel, but would that be doable with electric planes?
The thing I find most interesting about this is that I think people's responses here are being driven in significant part by what was refuted. In particular the bad science was, as is frequently the case, on a political topic and one that I think affirmed the biases of many. In this very thread you can already see people literally arguing that the study that refuted it "was just a data point" which is a direct attempt to try to ignore the far more substantial data provided by the replication effort in showing that the original study was unsupported.

Imagine if the paper that was refuted was one that claimed to show that e.g. humans were not playing as significant a role in global warming as thought. And then Science refused to publish a study that seemed to show conclusively that the original study was, at best, deeply flawed. Would people be responding in the same way?
Also, he's Canadian.
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I was able to compile this with no issues using "Apple clang version 11.0.0 (clang-1100.0.20.17)". If you're staying within the standard I don't see why you really need to do a whole lot of testing to make sure your project works with other compilers?
Yes, I can call C from Lisp.

Or just not bother with the Lisp at all.

It's an easy choice.
I've used terminus and it is quite good, but like most Electron-based terminals, it is too resource-heavy for some people's tastes. Edit: Also, Windows Terminal is open-source too, surprisingly. Or maybe that's just my dated impression of Microsoft.
Thats uh, a very significant number.
About half of this machine's radioactive material leaked into the immediate vicinity after the radioactive source was removed from a larger machine as part of routine decommissioning.
Please tell them about Sweden, Romania, Finland - all sparsely populated by faster and cheaper data rates.
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Easy? How?
I used to have this problem and I remember it being DNS related. It was a while ago and I don't quite remember what I did to resolve it, but it had something to do with disabling IPv6 dns resolution while not using IPv6 in about:config and possibly something else as well.
Off when a technology promise too much but cannot deliver without constantly monitoring. You feel like forming an autistic taxi driver.
About the lakes you are probably right, both seas are quite far away from each other and it is more feasible Urartu to refer to a smaller region.

Having looked at the words in the article, the link between both languages seems to be quite thin. Some of the words may make sense, especially if you take the root Ur. When it comes to Ar-Aram and other words the connection IMO weakens. But that's my point of view as a native speaker without formal studies in philology, take it with a grain of salt.
A decommissioning process that involves bringing cutting tools very near to the capsule of very dangerous stuff sounds like a bit of a design flaw?
Patents shouldn't impact an L-1A but help with L1B. But they RFE every petition now anyways. They are good for green cards as you saw.
> When the CEO sends out that confidential mail to the company

...they make it available to Google first, and then to the employees.
> It's inorganic, has simple structure and contains only non-toxic compounds, so there is no reason to be worried.

So is asbestos...