skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The rabid cats herding was a bit glib in my part, consensus is hard to come by, but valuable. With so many different points of contention though it’s almost to get agreement across the board; a statespace explosion.

Several hundred years ago the main question was which crop to grow.
The source code for Doom 3 (circa 2004) was released on Github - it was a Visual Studio solution.

http://fabiensanglard.net/doom3/
Mine is paid as well, but still hangs in Chrome on Ubuntu. i should look into bug reporting with Google ...
The significance between top-down vs. bottom-up has been compiled and showcased by Matt Ridley, in his book, "The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge." It says most of human beings are incapable of comprehending evolutionary design like free market. It's true. OP labeled markets as an example of top-down phenomenon.
I wonder if using front trousers or shirt sides would be sanitary enough to be solution 1.5
To be fair, they only got fax machines because of the protests. So protests do actually work!

Sorry for undermining your story btw.
Another big reason is money.

I've done some Salesforce work n the past, on a booking system that needed to read/write with their Salesforce instance. Their Salesforce dev spent a lot of times in our office during the build, and after a few drinks we were chatting about prospects as a Salesforce dev.

He pretty much echoed what you said - it's a different world to standard dev, and you can go quite deep into their ecosystem, but the work is always there, and a good Salesforce dev is worth his weight in gold so companies will bend over backwards to accommodate you - including paying your named price. It's depressing to write, but he probably earned 3-4x my salary for doing work that seemed pretty easy to him, and a quick glance on LinkedIn shows that he's still doing Salesforce work now.
Yeah people compare solar pricing to subsidized baseload prices. Which is unfavorable. Instead of the more lucrative peeking plant pricing which is higher. Often a lot higher.
OK, under most circumstances that is a fair point, and I personally hate astroturfers, but in this case I feel the comment was equally valid as an answer to two threads that were physically separate - and could have ended up in vastly different places. If there is a way to link to an existing comment then let me know and I'll use that method in future :-)
These two titles in one sentence, make me wonder how a 3d shooter version of Commander Keen would be with current day graphics.....
That is an xkcd-worthy tragicomedy.
How Is the Google PageSpeed Score Calculated?
> Of course espionage will continue and international rivals will resort to dirty tactics, this is a given.

Those dirty foreigners and their dirty tactics. If only they could keep it all clean and above board like our good old fashioned home grown espionage.
HTML is the Web
I remember this! I was 12 when this happened, and I remember talking about it in history class, including all the stuff about Nixon and Krushchev.
My daughter is deaf in one ear, so cannot localize sound nor can she sense distance. There are two things that absolutely terrorize her: fireworks and air dryers.
See Ted Nelson's Xanadu Project - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu#Original_17_rul...

Point 4 allows a user to search and retrieve documents on the network.
I hate that thing. It's so loud. I refuse to dry my hands with it.
some utopian idea of 'the market' resembles bottom-up processes yes. But the modern market (and given that the author chose to use chips as an example) does not.

The modern economy is to a very high degree planned, mind you not only by the state, but by corporations. The corporation itself is a top-down designed entity, internally displacing markets.

Everything that enables modern productivity gains occured in the context of streamlining, designing, and ordering production. The shift-worker at the conveyor belt at a 400k population company isn't exactly comparable to the medieval merchant on the local bazaar.

And I suspect that the author is implicitly critizing this, but there's a reason why this development took place. Even if the rigidly designed chair doesn't appear to be innovative, top-down design actually is. Even ardent capitalists like Schumpeter recognised that there is more inherent dynamism in large monopolies than there is in some natural, unordered market. You can't go to the moon by climing up trees as the saying goes, and that's why nature without design never made it there. The nation state, the modern company and all those institutions won because the incrementalism found in bottom-up design is inherently limited.
Most of the world, I think, went to war against the axis powers because they were attacked by axis powers, so the question is "what did Germany and Japan think they could get out of starting this war?" and the best answer I can come up with is Norman Ohler's book on it;

I mean, I can see why the allied countries decided they needed to throw all they had into the fight... I just don't see how Germany could have actually done the math sober and thought they could win a war against... almost the rest of the world.
I recommend a read of https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/apr/25/hand-dryers-... which I found really interesting before committing to the anti hand dryer syndicate.
The problem with pthread cancellation is that it is fundamentally broken when used on a thread that can ever acquire resources (opening an fd, taking a mutex, mallocing a buffer, etc.). If it were just "call pthread_testcancel to figure out if you were cancelled", that would be fine, but no, you either get blown up immediately, or you get blown up at arbitrary function call boundaries (that don't really make any sense; e.g. why is strerror_r allowed to be a cancellation point?)

It's easy to correctly implement the parts that aren't just adding a call to pthread_testcancel to every single syscall wrapper, just reserve an RT signal and do your thread teardown when you receive it, using pthread_sigmask to implement enable/disable. It's just that it's just a terrible idea.
I think "search engines" is misleading. These are relevance engines. And relevance sells - the higher the relevance, the better.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/19/opinion/facebook-google-p...
I had the banhammer wielded on me for a similar reason, and now understand HN is an irony free zone moderated by snowflakes. I expected so much better after being here for years.
>> 1) The Perl 5 community itself was dwindling before Perl 6.

https://metacpan.org/recent

More people are writing Perl everyday than may be even Java, Let's put this Perl is dwindling argument to rest. Perl's niche, more like empire is glue language for anything Unix. That is a huge empire to govern on. Unless Unix is going away, Perl is here to stay.

>> 5) Perl in general doesn't have a good "name" with todays devs
>> Node got the web/services niche

Most dynamic languages are in the same bucket. Today everybody is hesitant to start any serious big project in a dynamic programming language. Even in case of JavaScript most things will move to TypeScript eventually. And that too is more or less a totally new language.

>>Go got the backend niche

Go got nothing. Heck, merely shell scripting exceeds Go usage by several multiplicative factors.

>> 7) Python got the data/science niche

Most of the use case for Python's 'Data science' library is basically spread sheet automation. Perl has been used to that kind of work since early 90s.

>>what's left for Perl 6?

Firstly, and entire universe exists outside of web development. And most that universe is far more exciting than majority of api and json plumbing work in web dev work.

Secondly, Not sure, but no one can rebut an argument that says there is no scope for any new software to be ever written anymore.
That was what the early internet was like (I was there). People built indexes by hand, lists of pages on certain topics. There was the Gopher protocol that was supposed to help with finding things. But this was all top-down stuff, the first indexing/crawling search engines were bottom-up and it worked so much better. And for a while we had an ecosystem of different search engines until Google came along, was genuinely miles better than everything else, and wiped everything else out. Really, search isn't the problem, its the way that search has become tied to advertising and tracking thats the problem. But then DuckDuckGo is there if you want to avoid all that.
Could We Go Back to the Times of Non-Creepy Advertising?
> A structured web ... has been found to be not scalable or flexible enough to accomodate for unanticipated needs - and not for a lack of trying!

Linked Open Data (the latest evolution of Semantic Web technologies) is actually working quite well at present - Wikidata now gets more edits per unit of time than Wikipedia does, and its data are commonly used by "personal assistant" AIs such as Amazon's Alexa. Of course, these can only cover parts of the web where commercial incentives, and the bad actors that sometimes pursue them, are not relevant.
"In the end, the study group consisted of 291 patients (330 knees). Younger surgeon age was correlated with fewer complications"

There is a danger in such statistics in that for example older surgeons may have been assigned the more difficult cases.
Aren't lasers a standard method for cutting 2d work?

Perhaps they are using the same technique, but in a 3d setup.

Edit: found an interesting link:
https://www.twi-global.com/technical-knowledge/faqs/faq-what...

> The 'aluminium cutting system' which most modern equipment uses is actually a way of protecting the laser rather than an innovative technique for cutting.
No. pthread_cancel implemented completely correctly is inherently a giant minefield. (Details in a reply to a sibling post)
There's nothing fuzzy going on.
If I said f(x) = 2, you could quickly work backwards from that and state:
2 is an Int.
x isn't used so it could be any type, let's say a.
That means f has type (a -> Int).
Your problem was in environment which didn't embrace the ways you like, not that language was multi-paradigm. "I love Python cooked functionally, but my colleagues do only OO" is equivalent to "I love Clojure, but my colleagues do only Java".
His views on nuclear power are interesting. He thinks that nuclear is the only real solution to climate change.

http://www.jameslovelock.org/nuclear-power-is-the-only-green...
I thought the point of the story was the front-and-center statistics, 30 million pounds in additional sales outweighed by 50 million pounds in expenditures on airline tickets.

But that sounds like a 20 million pound loss most of which was wealth transfer (from Hoover to you!) rather than wealth destruction. In fact, because of the sideshow in ordering unwanted vacuum cleaners, the loss was apparently much larger and mostly wealth destruction rather than wealth transfer.
So, basically Facebook?
Open-Source Mobile E-Commerce App
Also Philips
I’ve always thought it was disgusting that I’m raising / lowering my hands into a narrow slot where I’m bound to touch the sides - sides where others (who might’ve washed their hands less well) have also been depositing a germ factory.
I’d love to read this article, but it’s so covered with ads and shit I can’t. Reader mode is usually my saviour in this situation, but it’s not working in this site.
https://twitter.com/adamrackis/status/931195056479965185

If you think your software is valuable enough to cost money (instead of offering it for free) then do so.
Apple buys self-driving car startup Drive.ai
Nixon vs. Khrushchev – The Kitchen Debate (1959)
In addition to open-sourcing it, last I heard FoundationDB is what powers iCloud.
It's clear to me that whatever costs savings there are in using these electric dryers is not worth it considering A) they aren't even sanitary which defeats their entire purpose and B) they are dangerous to childrens ears.

We really should just mandate that public restrooms use Cloth Roll Towel Systems for hand drying. It's economical in the long run, not a giant waste of resources, and it is proven to be more sanitary than paper hand towels!
What is behind the phrase “Programmed by Nasir?”
I mean, that's what really counts in our hearts, right? :D
Predicting the Bitcoin price using the futures market
I've never been to Australia, on some level the existence of Australia is an article of faith. Nevertheless I have evaluated the evidence, and claim with a clear conscience that Australia does indeed exist.

I'm not a religious person, but I have no problem believing that others believe he exists. It isn't lying if they truly believe what they are saying.
Ask HN: Amazon Delivery/Driver Setup
I have wondered how Amazon handles their logistics, in terms of enabling a lot of drivers and trucks, to be at the forefront of actual deliverance.

Do the driver have an app where they get notified about new shipments ? Are drivers being tracked ? How is the actual goods being tracked for deliverance ? How are drivers being paid ?

Can someone elaborate ? Thank you
Hyperconverged infrastructure market grew by 46.7 percent YOY during Q1
There is no need for cursing on HN. Yes, the older models of Dyson Airblade were noisy, but they have addressed this in the latest model Dyson Airblade V HU02 which is significantly quieter.

Also, why are germs on your hands after washing them? Surely you used soap which killed 99.9% of germs and given that the Dyson Airblade V blows air downward, you would need to contort yourself to put your face below your hands ...
You know you are currently subsidizing student loans, right?
Dyson equipment (I have an Animal vacuum cleaner too (it was a gift)) falls into the category of "surely this breaks some kind of regulation". The sound levels are way above my pain threshold. My only explanation is (seriously) that everyone invovled in designing, building, testing and marketing must have hearing problems.

And yet, they're seen as a medium-high-prestige item.
Corporate Memphis: Tracking the illustration style of our tech dystopia
You're right; it's probably a bell-shaped curve.
I have always wondered where the excess water/moisture goes to anyway. Most of them look absolutely disgusting.
I hate air dryers perhaps slightly too vehemently. I think it would be a net positive even if they were simply removed from everywhere without replacement.

I'm not sure why they're so common given that they seem to only make things worse.
> people of nations aligned with the US are critical of the US defending itself

As an european, I properly couldn't care less about US defending itself, there is no higher moral ground compared to say China (Russia is a special case). We know about all the dirty unlawful watching, how we are considered less than american citizens in many ways etc.

I mean we all get why you guys do it, it just has the same moral ground as Chinese doing it
Really?! Where exactly should we post write-ups about complicated concepts like the y-combinator?
Contrary to how it is often painted, finance rarely goes above undergraduate level stats. If you have a reasonable handle on that, you are already well set on becoming a quantitative researcher. If not, doing a couple of courses will give you a good grasp on most of what you are likely to encounter. If you like math, that's 50% of the battle won, because learning about the various methodologies will be an exciting discovery and not a slog.

The well kept secret of the industry is that complicated stuff rarely works, and if it does, people often don't exactly know why. Put differently, a good algorithm has obvious and intuitive failure cases. That is, it is (relatively) easy to reason under which market conditions will it work well and when it will not. Extremely complex blackboxes are tricky because it's not obvious when and why they stop working. They are also very easy to overfit. Every single additional parameter you add to a model is an additional degree that you are likely to overfit just because of survivorship bias.

It is for this reason that the absolute vast majority of systematic trading relies more on intimate market knowledge than very secret sauce and super complex ML strategies. Sure, many funds run some token ML crap (which is often quite vanilla, like gaussian processes or decision trees) with very minor impact on PNL, but this is purely for marketing reasons.

There is a small handful of companies who have the manpower, expertise and infrastructure to run more complicated models, but even there, the fundamental ideas tend to be relatively simple, and the complexity arises from the amount of data and market idiosyncrasies.
Is there any actual evidence that says that Huawei is selling nefarious (in terms of providing a hidden backdoor to a third-party which the buyer is unaware of) devices? Is there a continued pattern of them doing so?
I would say one of these providers:

* https://www.privacytools.io/providers/email/

* https://web.archive.org/web/20190619003906/https://www.priva...

Ultimately free without encouragement to pay is not good as it will involve the platform monetizing by selling your data in some way.

Should also note at the moment, not all providers are equal, for example posteo.de doesn't allow you to use your own domain whereas some of the others do. Protonmail doesn't currently have calendars although that's coming soon https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/wiki/dev-status Tutanota does not allow for IMAP/SMTP (you must use a browser or their client).

There's also this issue where privacytools.io plan to expand the information about each provider. https://github.com/privacytoolsIO/privacytools.io/issues/603...
FWIW, I don't recall any aviation disasters (certainly in recent years) that were attributed to turbulence.
Idris does this with a REPL-like interface:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOtKD7ml0NU
If you‘re Apple and only want to buy businesses that make „a lot of money“, you‘re pretty limited. Most oh so successful and profitable companies are only making nickel and dime in regards to Apple. Why pay top dollars for that?
When I was a junior dev I used to lie and say the work was going fine, the stories were well estimated and that it would be done on time.

Now as a senior I just say it how it is, maybe occasionally embelish a piece of work if its not well described or estimated.
You seem a little too upset because someone used a bad word.
> No vigilante justice required. Just make the companies liable for the damage they cause when their products turn into a botnet.

No airplanes required. Just make flying cars.
Range is only a solved problem if you spend a lot of money.

Availability is an issue, most EVs in the UK are on 12 month lead times. Volkswagen have actually withdrawn some cars from sale.
In my experience purchasing teams are more likely to say "why did you get this for free when you could have gotten an officially supported version?" (Ignoring the fact they probably wouldn't have approved if I had)
Our local fast food restaurant has one of those. Coincidentally it's also a Dyson brand. They don't work very well. Water and crap gets everywhere!
Called it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20279125
There are also many example of Google doing just that to various degrees when it comes to open source projects, security research, their own products, dealing with vendors, customers or employment among other things. This of course isn't something unique to Google. What is unique however is their position.

They are probably the most powerful company when it comes computers, software and the Internet. They have the culture, means and goodwill to do a lot more damage than almost anyone else. I am sure that is at part of why people want to work for Google. Not to do damage of course, but because you can make a difference. Unfortunately making a difference for Google frequently isn't the best for rest of us.
> our emotional response to seeing two wolves is probably about twice that of seeing one wolf.

I think it's closer to equal. One wolf is a danger, two wolves is a danger.

Especially when one wolf causes maximal fear, two wolves can't appear any more dangerous.
PyCharm has two licenses, one called Personal and one Corporate. The corporate one costs more, and the only difference between them is the corporate one lets you use it in a corporate setting.

The open source project could do the same thing -- free for personal use (including code!) and $X for corporate use (including code!).
Agreed. That's how you would like the world to be, not how the world is.
Is comma.ai's driving system at all realistic in terms of actual capability? I don't own a compatiable car (nor have the knowledge or courage) otherwise I would love to install and try to use it.
It ruined them financially and as a brand in the UK, hence the eventual sale. In part because they couldn't buy all the flights claimed, but they also couldn't afford to. The vast majority got no tickets, and had to go to court to seek compensation as they initially tried delaying and avoiding tactics. The £50m was for the small minority who did get tickets.

As a brand they were constantly appearing on the news, and consumer affairs programmes for weeks, months eventually years. Hoover people were flying in from the US, etc.

All because they expected a similarly low takeup rate as their earlier European offer.
When it comes to the standard air blade, I don't think your concerns about hygiene are valid. You have, after all, just washed your hands. Any "germs" have already been killed and washed away by soap and water. If anything is blowing on to your face (not the case in my experience), it's just water vapour from your own hands.

There is, however, another Dyson design where the hand dryer is integrated into the sink/tap. This one actually blows particles/droplets from the sink up towards your face, which does give me some hygiene concerns:

https://www.dyson.co.uk/hand-dryers/dyson-airblade-wash-dry-...

You can find these in some of the washrooms at Heathrow airport.
Would you have links to share?
I suppose what I'm saying is that when an individual human, in a social capacity, tells you they saw X at the bar yesterday (when actually they didn't at all), that's lying, there's an intention to deceive, it's an abnormal interaction; out of the ordinary.

What salesmen do is not really lying in the same sense. It's more of an eternal waffle, the words required of them fall out of their mouth in smoothly flowing paragraphs, a distortion field where truth and falsehood blend together.

They'll say what you want to hear, which can be both better or worse than lying, but it's quite a different thing.

People talk about this in the context of politicians quite a lot. It's quite rare for them to outright lie, it's more about the waffle.
Facebook’s request to quash data breach lawsuit dismissed
I’m sure mold grows in there because of the constant dampness. You can’t avoid touching the sides because the airflow is so strong and kind of forces it.
Nope, I actually do refer to fonts as you know them. Long story short, prior to linux kernel 4.19 and brltty 6.0, only those characters that are mapped to a glyph in the currently loaded console font can be backtranslated to the actual codepoint. So to be able to read unicode braille (0x2800-0x28FF) I needed to load a braille font in addition to the standard latin glyph.

This dependency on the loaded font has been removed with linux 4.19 and brltty 6.0. Now, there is a new device (/dev/vcsu) which can be used to read the unicode codepoints of characters on the console, without having to go through the loaded font.
From Observability to Significance in Distributed Information Systems
Biggest take away for me was writefreely. Looks like a viable simpler alternative to WordPress, I will definitely give it a try.