skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why don’t people fight back through review website (tripadvisor, booking, hotels.com, etc.) by giving only 1* to hotel using this kind of scam? Online reputation is critical in the hospitality business (when not completely rigged)
What's the best alternative to Kubernetes if I really need to achieve multitenancy, perhaps at some cost of something else.that Kubernetes got right?
Using drugs to treat a physical addiction is first and foremost a "coping mechanism" for treating the physical addiction.

When a serious alcoholic is puking themselves nearly to death as they try and get sober, they aren't trying to escape some childhood trauma or "stress". They are trying to escape a physical addiction that has already dramatically altered their mind and body and may possibly kill them.

You may be confusing the cause of drug use with the consequences of repeatedly using addictive drugs. Eventually, the drug addiction replaces all other problems. It's not a representation of other problems.
When K&R invented C, and when ISO/ANSI standardised C, I don't think this is at all what they had in mind for UB. Whenever discussions like this come up, I like to quote the C standard itself on its definition:

"NOTE: Possible undefined behavior ranges from [...] to behaving during translation or program execution in a documented manner characteristic of the environment"

The whole point of C as K&R and ISO is to let you do "what the hardware does". They left parts of the standard purposefully undefined, so it could remain applicable to a wide variety of implementations. The intention was definitely NOT "screw the programmer" as a lot of the compiler writers seem to have interpreted it, but to allow
them to do something that makes sense for the environment.

Now we have, mostly academics from what I've noticed, that are taking the language farther and farther away from reality; focusing only on something uselessly abstract, completely ignoring the practical consequences of what they're doing. Compilers are becoming increasingly hostile to programmers. A programming language that had humble and very practical uses, with straightforward and easily understood behaviour, has been perverted into theoretical quagmire of uselessness.

Something very very odd is going on, and I don't like it one bit. It's very WTF-inducing.

(I don't know much about Rust, hence why I didn't say anything about it. But I've been using C since the late 80s.)
FOOF reference:

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2010/02/23/th...
Alan Perlis's own page listing the epigrams, in HTML for ease of readability, copying, and accessibility:

http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html

Herbert Klaeren's list, which includes some meta-epigrams:

http://pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de/users/klaeren/epigrams.html
Ask HN: What kind of daily online service you would probably pay for?
Taking guns away from mentally healthy people who like them under the justification that you'll also be taking them away from suicidal people will never fly. If you don't like guns then the issue is whether you'd rather have one group of people who aren't you enjoying guns, or another group of people who aren't you being saved from themselves. If you do like guns, then you'd be guaranteed to not vote for any politician who was going to take away something you liked under the assumption that you might be a loony.

It's interesting how this falls in to the typically conservative "legislate the vice away" approach to social ills. Conservatives often want to take something that is causing harm to some people, and ban everyone from having it (drugs, alcohol prohibition, free love), under the argument that the light enjoyment of the many is not worth a few people having their lives ruined through lack of self-control. However because by a pure accident of history it's the rural voting block that is conservative and likes guns, it's typically-liberal people who want to legislate the vice away, arguing that the fun that a subculture is having is not worth the suicide deaths.

I think this is because people only apply the utility calculation to other people, but treat themselves like they have free will. Everyone thinks that they should be treated as if they can be responsible, but nobody wants to treat other people like they can be responsible.
Yes, I have heard stories from a friend who had needle biopsies, he likened it to being machine gunner by a Japanese Zero in WW2. I am over 80, so I have chosen the finger for years, and when I became enlarged I took the prostate shrinking pills, since I was a widower, and I could probably only have sex with desire with a hooker, as I would not be attracted to an older woman for the same reason no young woman would be attracted to me, yes the shrink meds also made me not in the least bit horny, I do not miss it at all.
How the dotnet Apache Spark driver calls scala spark code from dotnet
Agoda used to have this feature: you could display "quoted" price or "total" actual price per day. One reason I switched to Agoda; this behaviour of booking.com or Expedia, where you're told one price, and then when you want to reserve it it suddenly goes up, is really annoying.
India's second moon mission called off due to technical glitch
Obviously laptops count as desktops for the purpose of this discussion, since we are talking about desktop operating systems, which is what laptops run.
AFAICS, neither Blockstack or dpage.io are "decentralized". Note the login page. Ask what happens if dpage.io site goes down. This is just a website. The fact that this site uses Blockstack's centralized servers doesn't make it "decentalized" any more than using AWS would.
It needs to find some method of diversification and it will never do that if it kills off products that aren’t immediately profitable instead of finding a business model.

Google’s ad business can easily be disrupted by ad blockers.
Well the obvious difference is public vs private spending. People do complain about public funding for stadiums.
People working on machine traslation need to figure out what is it that https://www.deepl.com/translator is doing, and then do the same thing. All sorts of papers get presented claiming "state of the art" results on translation, and meanwhile Deepl is sitting there in the corner, smiling, and offering translation which is so much better than the purported "state of the art" (and rather obviously so) it's not even funny.
Is There a Attempt of Human Speech to Animal Languages?
I ve seen the very impressive translators of google and asked myself, if there has been some attempts to translate back forth to other intelligent specieses languages (ravens e.g.)

Links very much appreciated
Middle-aged, and have been typing for several decades.
Then it's not a deposit.
At this point is seems more likely we'll get an iPadOS laptop aimed at the non-pro market and macOS will become a pro-only system.
It just got called off. See here: https://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/is...
Brad,

Country-size tire fire. That's funny.

But your statement is 100% true. Every dependency in the node ecosystem and on NPM seems to have a hundred and one sub-dependencies, which each in turn have a hundred and one more. It would be most efficient to write a CLI application in something like C, Rust, Go, Nim, or something similar.

This starter project is less about the "best and optimal way of building CLI applications" and more about "building CLI applications with TypeScript".

Many developers feel at home with TypeScript and this just puts everything in one place to enable them to build CLI applications with the language they love, and the rich NPM package ecosystem they depend on.

Thanks for your comment!
Or a “generic cloud” set
Interesting that the Yale website omits the last 10
This sounds great in theory but I would be interested to see if anyone has successfully abstracted the provider out if their architecture.

In my experience the only way to do this is to limit your service to leveraging the lowest common features of services that are common to each privider.
Removing the 2’s from Trinary Notation Is a Terrible Idea
Maybe they meant non-destructive
The issue is probably all the contaminants in human poo, especially medical: anti-bacterials, hormones, radioactive tracers. Maybe it isn't so much purifying the phosphate that matters, but removing components that would be bad to recirculate into our food chain.
In that exercise Rust is compared with C from zero cost C ABI point of view. Rust could replace C for shared libraries. Other languages could work with Rust cdylibs as if those libs were written in C. But as the language, Rust features such as safety are good. I did not intend to compare the languages, but the use case of shared libs with C ABI. Also the title has "as", not "is", and that word choice is very intentional and not accidental.
If you're writing a compiler for a functional language, lambda calculus is quite useful, and even necessary is some cases (understanding typed lambda calculus is pretty fundamental to statically typed functional languages from an implementation point of view).
The spectrum guys are good for deep dives and best operating practice based implementation, not so much on branching code and creativity.
The free Resolve version is ridicolously powerful for it being freeware. BMD has been adding features and improving the package at a pace that is imho truly unprecedented in the industry.

The full version (notable features are a proprietary GPU-based h.264 codec and support for framerates beyond 60 Hz and resolutions beyond 4K (the free version does 4K) is still only 300 bucks or so.
> It's worse than that, as I understand it a professional airline pilot can only remain type-certified in a single type rating at one time.

That's not my understanding: I think you can simultaneously be certified for multiple planes, however companies will only make you fly for one at a time, currently. My guess is that if the Max needs a new certification, it will create a whole new model given it is still really close to the NG (and basic 737, if they still fly), so it might be more convenient than risky (and costly) to allow pilots to be certified and fly on both, if really needed. Maybe this will not even be needed, because tons of companies use multiple types of aircraft already.
The only major flop that I can think that Apple has had in the last decade is the trash can Mac Pro and that market is so small for Apple it didn’t really affect revenue that much. I think the HomePod may be a flop.

But the difference is that the products that flopped aren’t platforms that people came to depend on.
Stick force doesn't refer to how effective any stick movement is.

Roughly speaking, stick force is the amount of force the pilot has to to apply to the stick to achieve a given movement of the control surfaces.

As the airplane gets closer to a stall, you want to make it harder for the pilot to pull it fully into the stall, by increasing the required stick force.

If the stick force decreased as the airplane approached a stall, then the pilot would have to actively push the stick back into more stable flight.
I place vaccines in the "absolutely necessary" category where the known benefit far outweighs the known risk. In the case of aspirin and Tylenol, I think they are most often used in unnecessary ways such as lowering fever and addressing minor aches and pains. Fever is actually a physiological defense against pathogens, which should almost never be countered. Minor aches and pains are typically useful for encouraging us to follow beneficial behavior (e.g. rest, sleep, don't move in certain ways).
I don't like this formulation much. I would rather say that the program does indeed run on your hardware, but the program that runs is not the program you wrote. It's the program into which program you wrote has transformed by the compiler - better yet, it could be any one of the programs into which the compiler is allowed to transform the program you wrote.

I prefer this because it is more open about the fact that all the weird and counterintuitive behaviour happens because the language specifiers and compiler implementers decided to make it that way (usually, with good reason!). It's not some unavoidable property of the universe, or the machine.

The idea of an abstract machine is still really useful, because it lets you reason directly about the code you are writing, rather than having to express and reason about what the compiler might do with it. But i think we should be clear that it's a tool for thinking, not a truth.

The idea that you can ignore the real hardware is particularly unhelpful in Rust, because it's a great fit to low-level problems where the real hardware is a big deal. For example, at work, we have a Rust program where we routinely need to think about NUMA placement and cache coherency protocols. Those don't exist in the Rust abstract machine at all!
Ah, so what you’re saying is, when people are complaining about products and/or features being removed, it’s because they actually used them. So in the vein of this article... did you use Blog Compass?

I never said people should just stop complaining. I said they should complain about what is actually bothering them instead of projecting it onto everything that happens. It muddies the water at best and is dishonest at worst.
Thank you for the links. I always did well with math classes in school, but my retention was always so so after passing the final. Will give this a try for a more lasting understanding of the subject!
England Wins the 2019 Cricket World Cup
I mostly agree with you that using current tooling seems like patching holes constantly but it's getting much better with sandboxing and automation is key and of course, it's not for everyone but can provide lots of benefits with "low" effort.

There is a Kubernetes Working Group where the definition and implementation of soft multi-tenancy and any feedback is welcome.
I can't really imagine how you'd do video editing with scripts, unless you are emulating a linear editing workflow. But then I can't imagine how it would be time-efficient.
Personally for myself, I found the best option to be MS Natural 4000's backward tilt (down at the back)—I'd like it to tilt even more at low desk heights but oh well. That way, the wrists stay straight while the fingers drop downwards a bit, in a feeble emulation of Kinesis Advantage's pits. I even use a wrist brace sometimes, which pads the wrist on the palm's side giving even more of a raise—feels really great for the fingers, but alas can't be reproduced in a stock wrist support because of the thumb getting in the way.
Also a bit at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19984430
Yeah, where would we be without LASIK? I'll also note that that article notably elides things like ICBMs and the other myriad military applications, since it is clearly intended as a puff piece to make us view space technologies as benevolent and positive.

As for my tone, perhaps you are right that I don't need to employ ridicule; but I wish to, because I feel contempt for this position so strongly I want to make it known. Space fetishism is a diversion that exists to bilk engineers into careers and positions that are in aid of the military.
Didn't you read the other front page article on HN today? Modern medicine is useless anyway.
What is so scary with open carry? We have policemen that open carry in every country, are they not scary? We are talking about humans with guns, not about Batmans and Jokers.
It's strangely mainstream in American libertarian circles (and therefore places like HN), but even they seem to spend most of their time railing against the sheep-like masses who have been hoodwinked so I guess even that is a tacit admission that it's not mainstream.

The article likewise cites a whole bunch of libertarian sources that unsurprisingly conclude that government interference is bad.

On the other hand, here's a document comparing recycling to landfill (and incineration to generate power and a couple of other things). It summarises all the expert research from the actual field, rather than right wing economists.

Generally the experts suggest landfill is the worst option on several scales for basically all materials:

http://www.wrap.org.uk/content/environmental-benefits-recycl...

People who think recycling isn't good for the environment seem to fall into the same group as those who really worry about all the birds affected by wind turbines, or the impact of lithium mining or how carbon taxes will hurt the poor i.e. baseless propaganda aimed at people who care about the environment coming from people who clearly don't give a hoot.
You didn’t read about the fiasco of “micro trenching” in Louisville?

That was definitely technical.

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Google-Fiber-Microtrenchi...
Rob Pike has a great blog post in which he addresses this: https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2012/06/less-is-exponenti...

"I was asked a few weeks ago, "What was the biggest surprise you encountered rolling out Go?" I knew the answer instantly: Although we expected C++ programmers to see Go as an alternative, instead most Go programmers come from languages like Python and Ruby. Very few come from C++."

He later writes:

"Python and Ruby programmers come to Go because they don't have to surrender much expressiveness, but gain performance and get to play with concurrency.

C++ programmers don't come to Go because they have fought hard to gain exquisite control of their programming domain, and don't want to surrender any of it. To them, software isn't just about getting the job done, it's about doing it a certain way.

The issue, then, is that Go's success would contradict their world view.

And we should have realized that from the beginning. People who are excited about C++11's new features are not going to care about a language that has so much less. Even if, in the end, it offers so much more."
I don't know if they originated in Las Vegas but Vegas heartily adopted resort fees a decade ago and now the maximums are nearing $40/night. Frommer's travel guide aggregates the information [1] so tourists can make an informed decision about total cost.

Although a clearly critical article [2] suggests the fees are to blame for lower attendance in Vegas, the Review Journal article they cite [3] has a much more balanced view and suggests other contributing factors such as unfavorable exchange rates and twelve states recently legalizing gambling. Regardless, the RJ article still mentions "MGM Resorts CEO Jim Murren told Wall Street analysts during the company’s earnings call on Aug. 2 that his company was forced to cut Las Vegas hotel room prices during the second and third quarters to draw leisure travelers because conventions didn’t fill enough rooms."

I can only speak for myself but I stopped going to Vegas a decade ago as I'm not really the target audience; except for poker I don't gamble. From my perspective you can only see so many Cirque Du Soleil shows and I've done all the touristy stuff around like hiking the canyons, visiting their museums and seeing the Grand Canyon. Vegas has some great food and I wouldn't mind dropping in to Lotus of Siam to see if they're still good or even Baby Stacks for some adobe rice but otherwise I don't miss the place. These days it's cheaper and more convenient to spend a weekend in New Orleans. Those resort fees will easily pay for or at least heavily subsidize a nice meal in New Orleans.

[1] https://www.frommers.com/tips/hotel-news/all-the-las-vegas-h...

[2] https://viewfromthewing.boardingarea.com/2019/04/03/las-vega...

[3] https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/casinos-gaming/some-l...
When US was spending billions on Minuteman and Apollo missions, there were many problems in America, including poverty. Not sure? ask the African Americans in the south from that time. However, very little energy was spent on questioning whether spending in space was right thing to do.

If developing countries spend a miniscule of their budget ( ISRO budget less than 2%), there is cynicism. I think what India is doing is great and is great for improving India's technical abilities and India doesn't need to answer what it chooses to do with its money.
I wonder how much of that is your land gaining dirt, building up from the wind erosion around you.
Go and Rust mostly compete as the "which of these newish languages should I learn next".
People keep saying Efail had "very little to do with PGP or GPG". That's not true, and is a little like saying a Win32 RCE has little to do with the OS and everything to do with the CALC.EXE it pops in its POC. The underlying vulnerability in Efail is PGP's malleability, and GnuPG's willingness to release unauthenticated plaintext to callers. All the active content email stuff is exploit details --- the ROP gadgets to Efail's underlying memory corruption bug, to extend the analogy.

I get the feeling, in all these discussions, that people with strong negative feelings about Efail never read the paper (accepted at Usenix Security, one of the top academic venues for vulnerability research, and Black Hat USA, the top industry venue), but instead just took the GnuPG team's word about it. That's a mistake.
Haha, sounds like the process was: "A: do you think it will pass - what if people start going away because of the fees? B: Don't worry, let's try it and we can ask them if it's because of fees if they cancel. If people start churning, we turn it off for a bit, then back on in a couple of weeks - half of the chums won't even notice it!"
Arguably Resolve is picking up quite a bit of momentum in the editing space as well, e.g. DR16's "cut" page.
This may be true for software used when working alone, but for software used by groups, you are not going to figure out group effects without testing with different group sizes. Consider the differences testing a game with 1, 2, 5, 100, or 1000 users.
The poor are not paying taxes. Their opinions don't mean jack shit.
From your [0]:

> Whereas between 1978 and 1981 only nine product-liability suits were filed against DTP manufactur-ers, by the mid-1980’s the suits numbered more than 200 each year.6 This destabilized the DTP vaccine market, causing two of the three domestic manufacturers to with-draw; and the remaining manufacturer, Lederle Laborato-ries, estimated that its potential tort liability exceeded itsannual sales by a factor of 200.

So did vaccines suddenly become dangerous after 1980? Or did people develop irrational fear?

If you read further it plainly says that the "National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program" was started to mollify these anti-vaxxers to try to get them to vaccinate:

> significant number of parents were already declining vaccination for their children,10 and concerns about compensation threatened to depress vaccination rates even further.11 This was a source of concern to public health officials, since vaccines are effective in preventing out-breaks of disease only if a large percentage of the population is vaccinated.12

> To stabilize the vaccine market and facilitate compensa-tion, Congress enacted the NCVIA in 1986.