skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Random weird opinions, amplified using crowd-coordinated social pressure techniques, are what’s driving them to stop doing gameplay demos in the first place. Attempting to minimize the minority’s opinion when that’s literally what led to this is a bit odd.
The PR is not merged yet. They better do it before July 31st!
Basic Question - What is the problem that they are trying to solve?
The only meaningful reduction is to near zero? Reducing human trafficking by 50% is not a meaningful reduction?
One of the main unsolved problems is the electromagnetic shielding, both front and back (as you need to turn to decelerate). Even at 0.08c every speck of interstellar dust has enormous impact energy, far worse than the radiation of your own bombs. AFAIK this is unsolved.
<rant> Kind of tough learning new things in blue collar software shops. Not impossible but really, really tough.
It seems to me that a brave decision would be to let gamers into the dev process openly - a regular vlog like approach by an optimistic old hand showing skin texture experiments or changes to explosion algorithms and so on - not lying, not cut scenes ... just openness

But then again, a couple of cut scenes every six months and secrecy otherwise is probably safer
Which market, and which 50 years? Looking at a global inflation map, one would have fared better with gold in a surprisingly large number of countries. I will concede that the US has had a great past 50 years - but I do not believe in infinite growth from finite resources, on the other hand I'm not going to hazard a guess as to when the growth will slow down.

> After 50 years it's still just a bar of gold.

Not rusting or otherwise degrading is a great thing. Gold is not just pretty to look at, it has great electrical properties that make it useful to industry
At this point, it might not matter what the trumpists think, or how many there are. I seriously wonder if trump and the party in general just wont leave, whether its thru gross electoral cheating or otherwise.

I expect most will claim I'm hyperbolic, and I understand why they would say that, but it doesnt dissuade me. Every society ends. Almost always abruptly, and with high levels of surprise.

If I had told you in 2010, about today, would you think I was nuts? I'm sure you would have.
I have had to tell shopkeepers on a few occaisions that if I was going to be forging money, it probably wouldn't be notes that almost nobody in England actually recognises.
OK - this kind of approach is what makes HN so cool. It's something I really appreciate as a reader. It's great that you have software that can do that.

fwiw the premise of asking any friends to support this was essentially, "hey I finally had the courage to post that thing we've been iMessaging about everyday and that you are a user of and finding value in on Hacker News."

I basically use my Mac to make things and visit this website.
It was merged "yesterday", some 28 hours ago, ref https://github.com/microsoft/calculator/pull/553.
He's one scientist pushing against the consensus scientific view, and the people most keen to promote him to the general public are those who want any excuse to deny climate-change. He himself may be honest, but it essentially doesn't matter, such is politics.
Facebook Token won't last. There is too much governmental interest in regulating/destroying it. Only a currency that works regardless of governments and regulations will survive. Something like Bitcoin, Ethereum, ect.
I would be more concerned about all the other vulnerabilities in FF56 then just this one.

https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list.php?vendor_id=...
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Last I tried it, if I had a million goroutines calling stat(), Go would attempt to spawn a million kernel threads. So I rolled my own rate limiter, bleh.

Is that still the case? (Happy if not)

If it is still the case, is there a standard solution or is it up to the app author?
One thing that has bugged me is why don't they use concrete construction in US, like we have in India and most of Europe? Concrete construction would definitely eliminate the noisy neighbor problem to a very high degree (unless they are drilling into the concrete wall, you cannot hear them).
The internet probably isn't much smarter than any other community, they just have the highly efficient communication on their side which allows any nobody to easily call out a company and immediately reach a sufficiently large audience.
Of course this also allows misinformation to spread more easily.
I'm not saying a carbon tax will alone solve the problem, but I also don't think we stand a chance without one.

We could have started solving this problem decades ago, and it would have cost a lot less. Time's running out.
I think this article has a stupid definition of meritocracy. If I work really hard digging a giant hole in my backyard and no one pays me for it, few would agree that "meritocracy is dead". The article argues that there are programmers "as good as" Bill Gates that didn't become billionaires, but don't acknowledge that Gates never let being a good programmer get in the way of being a great business man. In doing so, I think they make an equivalent argument to the "digging holes in backyard" guy. Being merely a good programmer is insufficient to become a billionaire.
Poor workers. For some reason. ISWYDT.
My company sends emails about online surveys.

The surveys are thankfully anonymous.

I know these useless surveys will never have any effect, and you never hear about any results or changes that have happened because of the surveys.

There are only checkboxes for "mildly agree", "agree", etc.

But there is usually a tiny "other comments" box. So I usually write long diatribes about all the company's failings in that tiny "other comments" box.

At least I'm getting paid while filling them out, but they must be wondering who the disgruntled truth-sayer is, since I'm sure not many in the company actually bother to do the surveys.

The only reason I know not many actually bother to do the surveys is because they do release stats on that, and encourage people to do them - I imagine it's some kind of Executive KPI for worker engagement or some such bullshit.
One possibility would be that Array.prototype.prop incorrectly assumes `this` is an Array.
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Why is Macbook faster than other laptops?
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(and it is released!)
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Earth is a living organism and human activities are it's cancer.

We can repurpose ourselves in order to save ourselves and the host organism.

Or kill ourselves and the host, just like cancer.

It's a choice we have to make as a world together.
Clojure doesn't use the actor model...
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You can in android too. I have auto reconnect turned off for xfinity.
> such is politics.

Attempting to get people fired is just politics?
This is hilarious!

Some of you might recall how all Zune devices died on 12/31/08.

Windows_Globalization_Calendar_AddMonths_System_Int32 was the root of it all, apparently.

(For further reading on the Zune outage: https://techcrunch.com/2008/12/31/zune-bug-explained-in-deta...)
It looks like this is actually running the real Erlang/OTP, just with some amount of performance penalty from not being on the BEAM. This could be fantastic for fans of BEAM languages who now have a low-profile way to introduce, say, an Elixir proof of concept into a JVM-dominated infrastructure.
Which was part of the discussion at the linked article.
I guess another way to look at it is how much office space has Mountain View approved to be developed? If they're super happy to have a Googleplex expansion that will fit another 5,000 Googlers, but only approve 1,000 more units... how do you reconcile that?

I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you - every single place should want to build more housing! But when has MV said "You know what? take your fancy office complex and move it somewhere else."?

Quick Edit: My point is mainly that all of these Bay Area governments are more than happy to get more lucrative office space built that employs thousands of employees, but suddenly hem and haw about "neighborhood character" when it comes to housing that lucrative workforce.
I mean, at that point the only difference with Elixir is that you want whitespace delimited blocks over using DO/END.

Otherwise, none of the Python semantics make any sense on the BEAM, so I'm not sure that's that helpful, but who knows.
If one writes about free software, using only free tools and free documentation, I'm disappointed when I see that the end product is not free. Just saying.
This is my favorite line, at least so far:

There were microphones at each typewriter, and at the computer. When the on-air talent tossed to the newsroom for a live report, the journalism factory noises in the background were real.

This is a great story. It helps that it is told by a professional writer, but it's also a special time in the history of tech. I remember lusting after this gadget when I was a kid. I remember that there was a time when a local Radio Shack in Akron listed the price incorrectly very low and there was a run on the model 100 when people found out. When I showed up they were sold out.
You notably do not provide any better alternative. Show me some other technical question that can surface useful information about a candidate's knowledge in a typical 30-minute interview.

The question is good because it both involves something most everyone does on a daily basis while providing a wide range of possible areas to explore further: there isn't any single "correct" answer that's possible to cover in a short time, but what candidates do tell you probably indicates what they're most familiar with.

Candidates prepping for this question isn't much of an issue since (a) most simply don't and (b) there's always room to go further into a specific part of the transaction.
Did you need to request that accounts created via Tor be un-shadow-banned?
"They will remember everything you ever say for eternity.'

Maybe. But outrage that results in meaningful action lasts a few months at most. The first person shooter industry is fascinating to me. Somehow Call of Duty is still extremely popular and commercially successful series year after year despite continued management by the exact same studios that repeat the exact same algorithm:

1. Release re-skinned game each year with huge promises of new and original content to come

2. Underdeliver on said promises and lock remaining ones behind micro-transactions, loot boxes, and DLC

3. Abandon game 6-12 months in to begin preparation for the next iteration of the game after raking in millions on suckers

4. Repeat

You'll see thousands of people swearing they'll never pay another $60 + add-ons for a CoD game ever again and yet somehow the cycle continues year after year.

There are numerous other video game series (not just in the FPS genre) that follow the same pattern. Some eventually get run into the ground, but only after a very slow and profitable death. People have short attention spans. You might remember touching a flame, but the feeling of pain quickly fades.
You forgot about Apple coin on their credit card. Available at 999$ for the exchange rate.
I published dnscookie.com in late 2015. I google "dns cookies" and a few other things terms, was surprised that the terminology appeared unused, and it seemed suitable for the concept I was describing.

In May 2016, RFC 7873 was published which also uses the term "DNS cookies".

These two things share a name but have different meanings. The naming collision is an unfortunate coincidence.
10 + years of Cryptocurrency hype and no killer or even useful app gives people the idea that it's useless. A few people have gotten rich but there's no single useful use.

I, for one, think that Crypto is still in its development stage so I still think that eventually there will be a use for it but it needs to evolve and stop being a drain on the world's energy resources too.
Well, there's your name then - a "fuckdelta".
It's fun when you check the front page of HN and see your work :).
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A simple solution would be: remote work. Work from anywhere in the world, the housing problem will not be anymore a problem due to it.
He did a great job of speaking.
'Climate change denial' is a pretty broad basket of opinions that ranges from directly ignoring clear evidence through to claiming that no attempt to predict the future at that scale has ever worked. Even if all the direct evidence deniers disappeared for some reason, I personally suspect that would still not necessarily be enough to get green policies implemented. The debate would just be a bit cleaner if people where honest about their motives.

The prediction people do have a point. The older predictions we have about peak oil [0] suggest our problems are about to be solved by virtue of running out of oil to burn. Quite hard to sustain our hydrocarbon emissions if we run out of hydrocarbons by 2050. A lack of hydrocarbons could easily cause more problem then continuing to emit them.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_oil
It's difficult to predict considering that Pak has vowed to use tactical nukes on any invading Indian force. But yes, that's the agreed upon conclusion[1].

Maintaing the equilibrium is obviously good for peace. But there are reports of India and Pakistan beefing up nukes.

1. https://wap.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/fewer-...
Also reminds me of the old "Printer won't print on Tuesdays" bug

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cupsys/+bug/255161...
Genera, the software implementation, can be run in a VM from linux.

https://static.loomcom.com/genera/genera-install.html
So, as far as we can tell, voidnull's identity has still not been unmasked.
Call of Duty is like Coca Cola or McDonald’s. When you buy it you know exactly what you’re gonna get. It’s the shooter version of a FIFA game. EA isn’t promising a drastically new game every time.
The behavior held common with the other 737 variants is a tendency to pitch up with the application of power. All aircraft with underslung engines share this characteristic.

MAX, however, has additional problems where its flyability is adversely impacted when flying at high Angles of Attack when the engine nacelles (positioned higher and in front of the wing) creates extra lift in front of the center of mass of the aircraft. This creates divergences from the normal "control feel" of the older aircraft.

When at low power, and high AoA, (such as might be experienced on descent), sudden applications of power can cause pitch up, which can put the plane at an AoA that experiences this handling divergence. MCAS, in it's second form, was intended to induce a controlled mistrim to compensate for both it's original purpose (high speed, high AoA divergence from 737 NG handling), and a low speed, high AoA handling divergence.

It was being modified to handle the low speed case that removed an extra G-Load based cross check, and greatly increased the authority the MCAS system commanded, due to the larger deflections required to induce attitude changes in the low speed portions of the flight envelope.

The fundamental flaw I mention, is several fold.

Requirementswise:

A)The MAX had to be developed yesterday to allow Boeing to maintain dominance/market share in narrow body civil transport against the A320neo. (They needed it fast)

B) It had to be cheap. They needed minimum overhead cost to appease airlines, and comparable fuel efficiency to the A320neo. This meant no blank slate redesign. This locked them into the 737 type cert.

This meant (to an engineer):

C) It had to fly exactly like a 737... Without being one (They need it to be right).

In engineering, there is a common saying:

You can get it done cheap
You can get it done fast.
You can get [everything you want] done right).

Pick two.

For success, they needed all three, and delivering the third was not allowed the flexibility to intrude on either of the other points of the triad areas of process.

The only way this project could have ended was with a breakdown somewhere in the process. That breakdown was in communication and propagation of the significance of the aerodynamics change. That failure in communication was bundled in the "fast and cheap" directive. The "right" directive required the aerodynamics divergence, and the software control system reconfiguration to compensate for it. The cheap and fast also required that the software solution not be driven by a dual sensor system, as that wouldn't have been allowed through without simulator training by the FAA, as testified to by a whistleblower as reported in the Australian 60 minutes expose.

The whole thing is just a Greek tragedy in an engineering project's clothing. Hubris, greed, equivocation, catastrophe... It's all there.
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> 2 day shipping is cost effective to amazon when most goods are near the customer.

This is true.

However, Amazon wants "2 day shipping" to be 2 day shipping, not probably 2 day shipping, which means they need to deal with the long tail of orders.

And for that, you need airplanes.
Difficult to search for, so I'll ask on the chance that you know: I see .vel files in that repository. Do you know anything about what language or format that is?
define "all the other stuff"
Who gets to do public-facing science writing is political yes. Whether it's good or not, I don't know.
MongoDB is not well suited for OLAP-style workloads - have you considered Yandex ClickHouse?
Vervious I invite you to read the paper, we actually do plan to go full permissionless.

BTW I'm a huge fan of Algorand as well. You guys are doing really good work.
I know. Lame.
Lots of people agreeing, so I just want to say this: if people don't want neighbors, then they should buy the land surrounding them for the FMV. Abusing various laws to get the benefits of purchasing the property/land without having done so is a complete jerk move. And there's no debating that.

Source: from the Midwest in a very rural area. Someone moved in right next to my parents. They aren't happy, but nothing they could do about it (while remaining a responsible human, a productive member of society, and not a worthless mooch) - they didn't have the money to buy the lot, so it is what it is.

Before people start talking about strip clubs next to schools or factories dumping waste into the aquifers. These neighbors are well within their by-right zoning regulations. They just have a house, and they just happened to buy the lot right next to my parents'. In California, it would have been perfectly acceptable for my parents to tie that development up for 20+ years with all sorts of ridiculousness. But in by-right zoning states, you just get housing built and move on because that's how the real world works.
How are blockchain/cryptocurrencies affected by a possible breakthrough in quantum computing? It is my understanding that quantum computing makes it trivial to break todays crypto. So a single actor with a quantum computer could break any crypto currency?
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> A cryptocurrency can be a very useful solution here: it skips decenies of progress

The fact that it is a _cryto_ currency is merely anecdotal. Its an implementation detail. It makes people think this currency is actually distributed as most other crypto currencies, while in fact it's just a consortium of companies having total control over all aspects (issuance, destruction, etc.) of the currency.

> set up an interoperable network for banks and custodians to use

This is just plain wrong. It's not banks or custodians that use this currency, it's just end users and the consortium. Banks are heavily controlled and regulated. I _mainly_ trust governments and legal systems to take fair decisions or litigate properly monetary issues. There is nothing like that here. The consortium of companies owning the currency decide the amount they want to create, they decide who gets refund and why, etc. I have much more trust in a country and a judiciary system than a bunch of worldwide companies to handle my currency.
If there are fewer parking spots relative to demand compared to living spaces relative to demand, then parking may very well be more expensive. I don’t see why parking “should” inherently be cheaper, it’s always supply and demand determining price.
I agree that is bad, but what about a bureaucracy where everything is so convoluted that you can never get any idea off the ground?
OMG why does this get repeated constantly. Microsoft released the source code to Windows Calculator, a Windows Store App. They did not release the source code to the venerable calc.exe
The Machine That Fails (Richard Holbrooke, 1970)
Intel Core I7-1065G7, 10nm Ice Lake CPU Surpasses AMD 3rd Gen Ryzen
It's the magnetic field that flips, the ferrite cores remain in place
your comment here implies wrongthinking on your part.
You don't need either of those things to be a bank. Check out "narrow banking" for the history, theory, and current attempts at it.

From one survey:

"Prior to the early-twentieth century, US banks tended to be much narrower than they are today. Common modern banking practices, such as maturity transformation and explicit loan commitments, arose only after the creation of the Federal Reserve and the FDIC"
I think the software referenced in the article is the only calculator you get on Windows 10, and the binary is named calc.exe so you're technically correct and incorrect at the same time
The prediction guys indeed have a point, but it's a really scary one. There are good reasons to believe that our models are wrong, but there are no good reasons to believe that they're wrong in the direction of less climate change. For example right now permafrost is melting at a rate predicted for the end of the century, threatening to release amounts of carbon that dwarf human emissions. Even mundane things like earthworms moving north can lead to dramatically more heating that we predict in our models: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/20/science/earthworms-soil-c...
eh, it still gives a wrong result, except one is visibly wrong and the other subtly wrong.
I expect front end people to be able to fire up developer tools and tell me where to troubleshoot slow network responses definitively as DNS related before filing a support ticket saying “my queries are slow because of DNS.” I wound up training network engineers how to use Chrome dev tools at a really large company because so many frontend developers knew absolutely nothing about troubleshooting network issues that they were disproportionately filing network support tickets.

I usually try to focus on what the interviewer wants me to demonstrate knowledge on when I answer the question in an interview. As an interviewer I normally avoid the question and make it more job specific. I might ask about troubleshooting slow servers based upon an incident and try to determine the candidate’s thinking pattern and methodology. For developers it’s easier to ask “this block of code is not doing what I expected, what did I do wrong?” where the mistake is a very common one. I actually had a very practical HackerRank problem that asked me to troubleshoot a program and an accompanying docker compose file. If you had prior experience this would take you 2 minutes while you wonder if that’s really the whole problem.
NOAA Solar Calculator (see where the sun will rise/set)
US lawmakers are demanding scrutiny and a freeze of Facebook cryptocurrency
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I believe this could be building on a previous project from 2012: https://phys.org/news/2012-11-major-advance-sunlight-steam.h...

They state 24% effiency there, so the new result implies 36% overall efficiency? I find articles which only state '50% improvement' without stating the end result, frustrating.