skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Why do some many people hate Tesla and want them to fail? Do they also want SpaceX to fail?

For me personally the treatment of their workers, their anti-unionisation efforts, and their misleading advertisement of the autopilot, together with Musks extremely off-putting public behaviour. And no I don't want spaceX to fail.

>Why not save your hate for companies damaging democracy or workers rights, which seem like more serious charges?

I think many people, including myself at this point have similar opinions about Facebook et al. There are relatively few large tech companies left that I look at optimistically.
Is there such add-on for Inkscape?[0]

On GitHub found only few Inkscape add-ons for creating interactive mockups.[1,2,3]

[0] https://inkscape.org

[1] https://github.com/jonathanmann/inkscape_app_mockup

[2] https://github.com/garrett/magicmockup

[3] https://github.com/ajashton/Inkscape-Mockup-Toolkit
>everyone of your friends would be on it

No. Why are you talking in absolutes after spending so much time on the internet? There are always exceptions.

Muscular body requires a ton of energy and protein to maintain. Not trying to get on a soapbox here, but I am personally trying to minimize my impact on the environment. This includes eating the minimum amount of protein required to stay healthy. I definitely won't waste the additional energy to maintain useless muscles (which are absolutely useless for a desk job), which will not even be visible under the baggy shirts I prefer to wear.
On the other hand, I do my best thinking when going for a jog. It doesn't require extra time.
> Problem is one of discipline

Not discipline - priorities. I'm lean and fairly fit, and while I would like to be a little bit more muscular I'd rather spend the time at the piano or with my family
From time to time I have these "nostalgia attacks", usually late at night when it's only me and whisky. I go down the rabbit hole chasing old commercials, fragments of news shows, live concerts, music videos and so on from the 80s. It's a magical feeling, for a brief moment my mind goes back in time, a true time machine. I just hope that the old obscure stuff won't disappear from YouTube, sometimes I get the itch to start downloading and preserving it, but part of the charm is discovering "new" stuff, watching over and over the same videos wouldn't be as much fun.
Show HN: Project Launch Spreadsheet
Thank you for VLC. It has literally been the only software that I've ever donated towards.
Buying tea with WeChat Pay in a dystopian future
I'm completely average, not above, nor below (at least in my own personal assessment - others may differ).

The difference is the front line personnel can sense if you're agitated and they need to escalate your case quickly. I've heard saying "operator" repeatedly down the line may help in this particular case. A human operator will normally react. AI/ML/Expert Systems etc don't care.

Plenty of "average" people have complained to me about this use of their time, and that it is not good value for money, especially given the extravagant fees or taxes they may be paying these particular organizations.
I was looking this up just now. It seems 29 million died in India alone under British rule due to famine. [1] However there was widespread crop failure in the late 19th century. [2] I don't know how much control they had over what and how every set of deaths occurred, so it's not yet clear to me you can just directly compare number of deaths between empires without taking into account the surrounding context.

[1] https://www.quora.com/How-many-people-did-the-British-empire...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Empire#East_India_Comp...
This is a good start:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/worst-atroci...
Interesting, I hadn't known remnants survived in the lake.

It draws 2 of 3 wrong reasons why it didn't go ahead though.

Not at all Iceland, that was long before, but leasing the Azores airbases in 43 made the biggest difference to the Atlantic Gap (U boat alley as this article calls it). The Atlantic Gap was massive[1]. Iceland offered its use to the US in 41 after the British invasion in 1940 following the German occupation of Denmark (Iceland was then Danish). Operation Fork if you want that rabbit hole[2]. :)

Centimetric radar made a big difference - thanks to the well known cavity magnetron story, but Bomber Command was pushing for priority, and there were modifications needed for it to work on the flying boats (ASV IIIC). So for Coastal Command initially on Wellington and Liberator only, with Coastal not coming on stream as soon as Bomber Command. Don't think it took too long to get to the boats though.

For the British side of the Atlantic, VLR (Very long range) Liberators were already available, and had been some time, but in limited numbers. They were distributed between the three Commands that wanted them (Bomber, Coastal and Transport). VLR Liberators were compromised from a fighting point of view (removed some or all turrets, armour and bomb bay space for the extra fuel tanks). Catalinas, Wellingtons and especially Sunderlands did more action against subs, despite more limited range. Sunderlands managed to increase range by about 40% with additional and temporary tanks - albeit pushing the III to its absolute limit. I think they managed to get about 2,600m from a III in the end, including the unofficial drop tanks, but that was brutal on engines. The V solved that with heavily uprated engines. Catalinas had very little space for extra fuel without compromising already limited armament.

Don't know much about anti sub operations the US side. Obviously they'd be far more Liberator, and probably Catalina heavy. :)

Back to Habbakuk. The scale made it faintly absurd, even though technically viable. The amount of steel and engineering needed was equivalent to a couple, perhaps more, conventional carriers.

See Wikipedia's list of how it ended: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Habakkuk#End_of_projec...

[1] 1941 Atlantic Gap: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_gap#/media/File:T...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Iceland
Isn't this about giving bamboo a reasonable lifespan before it rots rather than how to hold it together?
I'm a developer who has been living for 4+ years in Germany. Does that mean that it is a good idea to perhaps change to private insurance?

I thought that when I get old here, as I pay all those fucking taxes, I would get a good treatment for whatever diseases I may have until it's my last day.

That sucks. I feel ripped off.
There's Kdenlive, Olive, OpenShot...
Opinion: Are OwnCloud Servers a Democracy or Just a Platform?
Tamgu offers something very similar to that. I borrowed a lot of elements from Haskell, including data management but also declarations. In Tamgu functional elements are enclosed in <..>

In this example, I implement a join that takes a vector and transforms it into a string.

//type declaration

<joining:: vector -> string>

//The function itself

<joining(v) = x | x <- v>

println(joining(['a'..'z']));
It’s the least expensive per serving food you can get delivered.
As an Australian, this came to mind.

100 years of massacring Indigenous Australians.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_of_Indigenou...
> You do not have to make everything the fastest you can. If a page takes 10 secs to load, what is the advantage for the user if you make it 10x faster?

The point is not to make it 10x or 100x or 1000x faster, it's to make it so that it is never slower than a monitor frame (e.g. less than 7-8 ms nowadays)
I wonder how these pages change in content and tone across languages..
I think I have read somewhere that inflation in the end of the 17th - first half of 18th century was almost zero or there was even a deflation. I may be wrong. Maybe someone has a good source?
Visual C++ is part of those few.

Rust is still far from Delphi, Eiffel, .NET Native experience though.

Although it is great that it keeps improving.
ProtEnc – Typestate Library in C++
Assuming, at a minimum, health care and other social social safety net services. But, yes, Mr. Darcy was very wealthy by the standards of the time and would be today. (Although, as others have pointed out, comparing wealth across such a long time period is difficult in many ways.)
That's Sublime Text. I've tried VS Code a few times but it feels like working underwater it's so slow.
So the old "computer time is cheap, human time is not" is not true anymore?
By the way, you can easily enforce whatever interpretation you want with a cast:

println(vector("i" in s));
Interesting to see that Facebook, being big tech+data driven company, needs a year to gather such statistics.

I would imagine it to be almost real time there...
Maybe FB propaganda was simply more effective in motivating Rep voting. (Fearmongering about vile brown migrants raping our beautiful white women works better than fearmongering about climate change and the lack of structural health care reform, who knew!?)

Anyway, you are completely right about how overused the Russia line is without data on its interference effectiveness.
Domain knowledge can only be leverage if your domain knowledge is rare. The examples you cited (React and Go) and not rare.
Totally agree. I just read Earth [1] for the first time and it was really fascinating.
Don't forget to click on 'Level 1' in the top bar as well, to see the top 10 most important articles.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth
Do you mean to imply that "conservative" western ideology would be more truthful about British empire?
Often, yes. Because the statistics themselves can be distorted. For example, consider any of the openly racist police forces in the Jim Crow south. Any naive system based on their data would mirror the racism of their practices.

And that's ignoring more complicated feedback loops. Since colonial times, American whites have often used their dominance to keep black people impoverished. [1] Poverty and crime are correlated. Wealth is correlated with getting away with crime. So if a system looks at crime statistics without considering at the history, it would be easy to perpetuate the ugly parts of that history.

[1] See Kendi's "Stamped from the Beginning" for the colonial-era laws and practices, and Loewen's "Sundown Towns" for the Nadir up through suburbanization.
The unnatural aspect is that we have replaced their natural predators. Perhaps our careful management is sufficient, but there might be unforeseen functions of those predators which we are not fulfilling.
Important for all fellow Europeans today
Run Jupyter Notebook Cells on AWS Lambda in Parallel
Really? I seem to recall lld being comparable to cp in speed, with the caveat that compacting debug strings can take a long time (if you enable that option).

Reference: https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/llvm_lld/
That requires support for token binding which google killed.
>YouTube's algorithm shows people more of the stuff they like to watch.

More of the stuff that will increase a user’s watch time; subtle difference. I’d be surprised if they haven’t also experimented with adjusting for overall ad revenue; some specific ads pay more than others.
Finding people who are willing to police some of the areas in US(it really is only certain places) without resorting to what they do now is VERY hard.

Being a cop in an area like Japan, where you mostly drink tea and stand watch outside of the police box trying to fight boredom’s is one thing. Responding to a call in Baltimore is another.

Cops are cops they are not Seal team, they collect paycheck and want to come back home alive and undamaged, expecting anything else from them is unrealistic.
It seems like you're proving his point.
I understand that back-testing is a foolish way to work out whether a bot works, but it'd be interesting to see how this performs on arbitrary lengths of past history.
Like, is this enough to beat a lazy index fund calculated over the same time, with interest reinvested?
There are several related to diet including obesity and xenoestrogens.
You might be interested to know that (some of) the people behind suckless.org appear to be literally Nazis, with things like Fackelmärsche (https://suckless.org/conferences/2017/, see also the comments in this threa: https://lobste.rs/s/nf3xgg/i_am_leaving_llvm#c_yoghmo) and hostnames like "Wolfsschanze" (https://twitter.com/pid_eins/status/1113738766471057408).
Javascript got BigInt:

> 9007199254740991n * 9007199254740991n
> 81129638414606663681390495662081n
Earth had a near-miss with 'city-killer' asteroid this morning
> This is a classic long tail problem — no mutation is common enough, but collectively there are tons. The existing Pharma approach to treat these is broken — they look for common typos and fix them with long drawn out trials. This barely makes a dent. Worse, they have put each in its own bucket and labeled them as rare, so the majority of the world feels they‘re not important to fix.

Shouldn't this be viewed more at the pathway level than at the base-pair level? Pathways have redundancies, and medicine can address a pathway. Focusing on base-pairs seems like a race you can't win, unless we have the technology that can reliably fix single nucleotide mutations.
This fantasy is almost more intellectually insulting than straight up climate denial.

What kind of dream world do you inhabit where you think it’s easier to travel to other stars or terraform planets than simply not “shit where you eat” on this planet? Slow down our economic growth? Stop dumping trash? Nah, that’s too hard. Let’s build fucking rockets to other solar systems instead and invent entirely new life support systems to survive in places without any food, water, or air at all. Sure, that’s way easier than planting a garden.

Even if this were possible, the technology almost certainly wouldn’t be ready by the time civilization fully collapsed at the end of the century.
Well yeah, those are bigints, but JSON does not support bigints, so the point still stands.
Berkeley Smorgasbord – Part II
is this sarcasm? belittling someone because of their sex. really short-sighted
Reading this reminded me that I'm only here because I was waiting for a compilation & flashing to finish.
I will not tell you how many minutes ago.
Inject code into running Python processes (2017)
We don't know what would have happened without sending in the CIA.

Maybe the USSR becomes the global superpolice...

It doesn't matter how bad its economy is if it controls all the militaries and secret polices!

/s
Exactly. If you provide a collection, the system will deduce that you want all solutions to be extracted, while if you provide a non collection variable then it will stop once one solution has been found.
Actually, I have a very specific type, which is "predicatevar", if you want to get your unification once.

?X is actually a true Prolog variable that can be unified over and over again. Furtheremore, you can call Tamgu functions from your predicate description, in which these variables can be used if they are unified.

grandparent(?X,?Y) :- parent(?X,?Z), println(?Z), parent(?Z,?Y).

In the case above, the "println", which is not a predicate, will try to display the content of ?Z, if ?Z has been unified.

println could be replaced with a call to an actual function, as long as this function returns true. If the function returns false, then it will be considered as a fail.
I knew this, which may be handy when developing (assigning variables is superior IMO though)

But in final output like this? I don't like it.
Thursday: Proverbs – Mercy on the Needy
Not so simple; it persists the collapses somehow (I think server side attached to your account rather than your session.) That’s a lot more complexity than the equivalent Reddit feature, for a change.
I found these two articles on idempotency very well written:

https://brandur.org/http-transactions
https://brandur.org/idempotency-keys
It's the headline, and "secret research" sounds sexier than "internal research," at least to me.
Wordpress and Really Simple Syndication
You're at least attacking the weakest point of my argument, admitted in my comment you're replying to. Yes, the actual throughput is lower than the max, but the comparison still seems to favour rail.

Rayiner had tossed out the example of DC's Silver Line, though without bothering to state just what his argument was. I pulled Boston's BD project and ran with what numbers I could find (surprisigly scarce) to try to come up with some kind of metric for comparing total ridership capacity provided. Utility in daily trips served matters far more than cost-per-mile. And I hazily recollect that short-headway rail (DC Metro manages ... 6 minutes, by one statement, 26 trains/hr, or 2 minute headways (possibly bidirectional?) by another) does far better than a controlled-access highway.

My interest in doing unpaid, unreciprocated consulting for rayiner, esq., is rapidly diminishing, so I left off with some hazy numbers, but at least signalled that they are in fact hazy.

A USDoT source gives a maximum capacity of 2300 vph for a highway in good weather at 65mph.

https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/fhwahop13042/appd.htm

And another sorce provided a 1.55 passengers/car loading factor, US average.

The WMATA source given earlier gives 26 trains/hr, 6 cars/train (actual in service, 8 cars possible), and 120 passengers/car (162% of seated load) as maximum capacity.

Multiplication gives 18,720 passengers/hr peak throughput, a bit over 12,000 passenger vehicles, or 5.25 lanes of highway capacity. I'd counted mileage to account for the difference in project lengths: Silver == 30 miles, Big Dig less than two. Point being that the spend of the two projects delivers very different total travel utility.

WMATA's Estimated average daily ridership, all lines, 2020: 1 million. Better than the Big Dig total.

As for rail and efficiency: unlike highways, rail (through traffic coordination and limiteds) can achieve both higher throughput and shorter trip times (balanced by less frequent service to a given destination) than highways. Trip times are overall more predictable. Safety and other factors, to both users and pedestrians, tends to be better than highways also.

Further factor are that rail service (which may or may not be bundled in project costs) includes rolling stock and maintenance facilities, as well as fuel/power, and maintenance, all provided by users of highways. Rolling stock lifetimes are generally measured in decades vs. years for autos.
Valid criticism of the source. And exactly the reason why I personally find Tesla, and SpaceX, so annoying. You just can't seem to get reliable unbiased data beyond Tesla's SEC fillings. It is either pro-Musk or anti-Musk to a degree where all neutral analysis are just drowned out. And that sucks, especially since Musk and Tesla ans SpaceX are intentionally fueling that cycle. Which in itself is somewhat worrying.
For the site generally then.
Relevant xkcd:
https://xkcd.com/895/
Honestly I always see it brought up and always assume it is the work of shills.
If any wants to try their hand at quant trading, Quantopian is a great place to get started. Great data sources and you can get allocated capital and make a little bit of money. Also the competitions are fun and you get paid $50/day for having (essentially) the best Sharpe ratio.

If you want to trade your own money, Alpaca is really awesome. Pretty easy to import an algorithm from Quantopian and use it on Alpaca.

I’ve been managing about 15% of my portfolio through Alpaca and it’s been great. On my account, I can get 4x intraday leverage, which has been absolutely awesome. Also there’s no trading costs, so I don’t have any problem with daily rebalancing (I actually rebalance to 4x leverage in the morning and deleverage at the end of the day).

Highly recommended! There’s a lot of alpha in the market for retail investors (with leverage, no transaction costs, and the ability to short).
Nothing in this article applies if you are looking for quality staff (developers or not). I can get "bums on seats" in record time, and feel good about having negotiated all of them down significantly. Quality staff is a different ballgame.
...for now
Depends on the platform and the build type.

For example, on macOS in debug builds, the compiler and linker are reasonably fast, but then 2/3rds of the compilation time is spent in "dsymutil", presumably chewing through megabytes of the debug info.
I’m glad YouTube didn’t develop a lot. Right now it does the job, supports everything I want as a user and mostly stays out of my way.

Sites that constantly evolve and try to reinvent themselves annoy me way more.
Just cut your losses, donate HK to itself, like Singapore.

Of course, since Beijing is not really the backing down type, it'll be a little bit of a bloodshed and the unification will be completed ahead of schedule.
The real benefit will come once everyone’s phone number is tagged with a dollar value, so if you’re a low value person, you get sent to the back of the line, perhaps even being dropped as a customer because the system can calculate how much you cost to support versus how much revenue you bring, and if it’s negative, then there’s a reason to not do business with you.

This always did happen before, people who knew people or were much higher net worth obviously got better service, but when it can be automated and subjected to everyone in a granular fashion, it really brings home where you are in the hierarchy and removes any veneer of being equal in society. This is also already implemented at various types of businesses via their “rewards” programs where you’re tiered into different support based on how much you spend or can spend, and get routed to different support agents accordingly.
I think it's not.

If the scoring system detects some suspicious activity, it's the current operation which should be halted (in this context, the video should have been retired), but not the user account.

If after a human review, the account present evident violation of TOS, then, yes, ban the user.

edit: bad grammar.
There's probably a TONNE of cleaning/reconciling/deduping that needs to go on if they are trying to connect cross-platform users (like WhatsApp and Facebook) - especially over historical data. Sure, maybe going forward refreshing these reports might be quick but don't underestimate the inertia of having to go through that pain of integrating the data for the first time.

Any analysis worth its salt will also need to go through rounds of sense-checking + checks for statistical robustness: this all takes time
Google settles for 13$M for theft of passwords and data over WiFi
OODA Loop
How does this paper account for the increase in life expectancy? Many types of cancer appear in people of older age and reaching that age was not nearly as common in ancient societies.
That's not what GP means by "liberal"; "liberal" in this sense refers to the belief and support of the current "democratic" establishment, the right to private property, the idea of human rights, and freedoms defined as matters of separation between people (i.e. the assumption of the person or people attempting to take them away rather than a positive conception in human community). In this view, both US 'liberals' and US 'conservatives' are both liberal. Thus, what GP means by 'non-liberal' includes the critics of liberalism, most notably ones on the left.

You can read more about the philosophical notion of liberalism and its critics at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/liberalism/