skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there is a flaw in that story. I’ve a few pairs of high quality shoes and yes they do last well and look good but they still need maintenance. I send them back to the manufacturer for a resole when needed, they come back refurbished but it’s cost about 1/3 the price of buying a new pair.

I also have a 30 year old Omega watch. Every five years that goes back to Omega, it’s away for about a month and costs £2-300 each time.
The two things I've been working on most, recently:

Giving credit where due, particular to more junior colleagues when they have made a good contribution to a team effort.

Speaking in a more straightforward way - I'm English, and it's common for us to speak indirectly and suggest stuff, rather than say it outright, but I'm working in a mostly non-native English environment, and it has lead to issues once or twice.
Interesting, I thought Firefox usage would be increasing based on all the hype/people converting on HN/other tech websites but the market share is actually falling. Guess it puts into perspective the size of that cohort compared to the rest of the world.
Are you essentially saying that because you are using libraries you need OOP?

If that is what you are saying, that is nonsense.
I disagree. If somebody asks you "would it be okay if you could do X?" it's easier to say that it's a bad idea, or if it's not a priority, or there could be alternatives, or if this needs to be talked about with the team...
It opens up more of a conversation than just saying "Do x".
Edsger W. Dijkstra: The notational conventions I adopted, and why (2000)
Jane Street is noted for its use of OCaml, so it's interesting to see that their researchers do indeed use Python (judging from the code in that post, at least).
Good points. I would also just point out that our institutions suck regarding timing mainly because it's against their interests. If you have some way to improve the planet that isn't against special interests, it might not be fast, but will probably be a lot less slow.
You need to recognize, that just like some people find wine, sports, their kids, or gardening to be an interesting topic of conversation, you find introspection, philosophy, history, and/or literature to be the things that interest you most in discussion.

Is there an objective ranking of those topics? Are some of them universally better or worse?

Some people think so. This causes them to feel disdain for the others who don't share their topics of interest.

Some people are truly awful conversationalists and it is difficult having a flowing conversation with them. I've found that the topic is not the issue. The person's conversation skills are. At times I feel that I am the bad conversationalist, not knowing anything about the finer details of this year's soccer lineup. If I did not try to be interested and engaged in such a conversation, the other person could plausibly find me dull. I get to decide how to proceed and what experience they get to base their judgement on. When I do so, I do sometimes find myself learning a lot about things I knew nothing about, and sometimes pleasantly engaged in a conversation about a topic I would generally consider to be not interesting to me.
I run integration tests in Ruby on Rails with Capybara using both the Chrome and Firefox drivers. That project was stopped for a while and when I went back to it the Firefox driver didn't work anymore. I didn't have the time to check what went wrong and fix it but I'm developing with Firefox anyway. I think it's important to test with the major browsers. My customer didn't ask about IE. I remember when I had a few VMs for that and its incompatible version tied to a specific version of Windows.
No mention of Redox https://www.redox-os.org/
Oh, indeed - it will take but a handful of people to manage, as the C&W dish currently does.

But therein lies the problem. It’s unclear what the economic uplift would be, and how it would pay for itself. If it’s simply a convenient waystation for the cable, great, but it doesn’t seem to be, so to me, the reasoning is unclear.
Good "off the beaten path" visit for mechanical enthusiast visitors to London: Crossness Pumping Station, which would once have been an essential part of the solution to the Great Stink but is now a museum. They have a complete restored (but be sure to check schedules to visit when it's actually running) steam pump plus exhibits about how this works and they've restored the highly decorated Victorian building the pump is installed into.

Far more rarely open to visitors, but worth it if the stars align and you're into infrastructure: Its sister Abbey Mills is still a working sewage pump site, now run off much more modern and thus in some sense "boring" electrical pumps but still really fascinating if you're an infrastructure nerd.
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Ah - my bad. Not trying to suggest anything, just sharing my experience.
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If you look at it in isolation, it's really bad. In the context of a sentence, though, I didn't notice it. OP must be a slow reader.
The airstrike one is brilliant.

(I may have been a B52 pilot in the past, indiscriminately bombing left and right)
Any one else prefer writing with an extremely fine felt tip? My preference is the artline series. Gives the benefits of fountain – no pressure required, but also gives control and speed
This is what first order logic is for
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Probably mostly speaks to the grade of the YKK zippers used in the clothes worn by the person, there are many different grades available.
It's good to know where you're going, especially when you're lost
Nah, Chinese are developing "their own" designs, like http://www.unisoc.com/unisoc-launches-5g-technology-platform...

oh wait, Unisoc is the company Intel shared 5G modem secrets with https://www.scmp.com/tech/science-research/article/2187895/i... ...
Someone should fix en.wikipedia that redirects Data Race to Race Condition.
Based on everything I've read, your comment is a complete distortion of what actually happened.

Apple really wanted Intel to provide their chips, to the point of shipping a phone with dual Intel-Qualcomm modems, with the Qualcomm one throttled because Intel couldn't match its speed. Intel just wasn't able to make their modem business work, after years of work and at least four (!) acquisitions of modem makers.

Apple had no choice but to go back to Qualcomm if it wanted to sell phones.

https://semiaccurate.com/2019/04/18/why-did-intel-kill-of-th...

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/05/how-qualcomm-sho...
Indeed, its the only reason any regime survives.
Here is the original paper: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1903856116

They use multinomial regression analysis with several county-level socioeconomic factors. It looks like a solid study that shows no statisticly valid correlation between victim and shooter ethnicity can be established.
It's possible, but the "natural" explanation (capitalism driving costs down/race to the bottom) is just as plausible and much simpler
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You're right, it was Feyman. Somehow I got the two mixed in my head- apologies.

Also, sorry HN, for the controversial comment (judging by the rollercoaster vote activity). I hope it adds something to the discussion despite the tone and I'll remember to keep the tone down in the future (but I keep saying that and I always end up giving in to the temptation to use more colourful language. I suck and I'm sorry).
The blog post does not include the original analysis. You can find the full study here: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1903856116

PNAS is a highly regarded and high impact journal with stringent peer review. Scepticism is always a must in sociology. However, it is poor form to outright dismiss the findings as "poor statistics" without argument or reference to the source.
Can you tell me how much diversity juice I need to add to my team to make it perfect? Do I need to hire 1 black person for every white person? Please, provide me the ratio required to avoid marginal returns.

I would need to undergo DNA testing for each person to avoid hiring anyone that is too much of one race.
Do I get better returns if I hire someone that has 25% of 4 different races?

Please elaborate on your very empirically verifiable and obviously logically cohesive argument.
If you don't understand where my skepticism originates from, please turn your attention to the results of Black Economic Empowerment in South Africa (where racial quotas are enforced to ensure the blackest candidate is hired, not the best candidate).

Look at the performance of the South African sports teams that have been forced to recruit players not based on merit, but on the colour of their skin.
It should be noted the book called it the "theory of socioeconomic unfairness", not "injustice".
The founder of Primark died just a couple of weeks ago.
His life was touched by a family tragedy in recent years also

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Ryan
Internet has brought tons of new slang, acronyms and abreviations including a huge amount of ortography problems thanks to the higher volume of communication and the speed we can communicate right now.
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This is only true up to a certain degree. A Phd will almost certainly not help you with your health or your social development. It is true that there is a minimum of basic education needed to find these things worthy of your time, but it's definitly not needed and you are talking about people who never experienced that basic education.

I also think the second part of your comment incredibly dismissive, because it asserts that those people will never "be smart enough" to care about this things. You mix up education and intelligence which are not the same thing.
Some people use anger as a way to manipulate others and get what they want. This means that if you're never annoying _anybody_ you're probably a chump.

(Now, if it's more than a rare occurrence that's a problem, but sometimes, some people will be angry at you. And that's OK).
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Mostly historical reasons.
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> then I don't think you should act in this way.

What is your rationale? Netflix suspends your account for non-payment, the same should apply to web infrastructure.
I'm also curious about this, haven't heard anything about them in a while
yeah I was blown away by the amount of features packed into 600kB. I didn't realize as a kid that I was compiling native code .. now I understand the feat.
not quite.

http://modegap.eu/?publication=space-division-multiplexing&w... (PDF)

Its a way of making QAM16 less crosstalky (well thats my reasoning. )
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I once had to describe left and right to my kids as they grew up, and the best [ * ] way to do that in my opinion is with this sentence:

"Left is on this side of the sentence, and at the end of it is right."

[ * - as in: they didn't 'get' it until I formulated it this way]
Your Earthly remains will be disposed of, that's your funeral, the form of yours may differ to others.

May I ask why you'll "never go to one", and perhaps how old you are?
Hi Jack and Paul - love what you're doing! This solution is so needed.

I wondered whether you could explain what makes your hashing different from the hashing used by Facebook for their custom audiences tool which was deemed unsuitable for anonymisation as per https://www.spiritlegal.com/en/news/details/e-commerce-retai...
Nothing in that sounds easy.

If there are N governments in the world, and they all agree to not regulate to not create general AI, then it's strongly in all of their interests to betray the others, create general AI, and capture the economic growth.

Even if general AI is impossible, it's in their interests to develop huge computing capacity, because that's demonstrably economically useful.

You are hypothesizing that's it's easy to get 7 billion people to all agree to co-operate in a game of prisoner's dilemma, when if a small fraction of them choose to betray, they have the potential to capture massive value.

And you want to do this under the premise that AGI might be a problem.
With the risk of sounding like those /r/programming replies: why would an application be worried about journaling/logs on a file system level? As an application developer all I’m usually told is that the only atomic operations are creates, deletes, and renames. So to update a file you always write a second file and then rename it to the destination.

So

Copy file.txt to file.txt.new
Update file.txt.new
Rename file.txt to file.txt.old
Rename file.txt.new to file.txt.old

This is ”safe” in the sense that in case of a terminated process, the point where it failed can be determined and the application itself can resume or roll back the update on its next run.

What it doesn’t guarantee us that the OS/filesystem provides this rollback independently of the application.

My question is: does Dropbox have any reason to want to work on a lower level than the “normal” high level where you only manually rollback or resume transactions? Do other applications also do this? I always felt that trying to pierce the abstraction of high level FS APIs was unnecessary unless you are writing drivers or file systems.

Some low level programs (antvirus, backups) I can see why they would need to peek under the hood, but to me Dropbox is a pretty dumb file sync program that shouldn’t need complex fs operations like say a backup program. Is it more complex than I give it credit for?
ext4 is by far the most popular filesystem so supporting it is a necessity for that reason alone. Nothing to do with it being superior or special.

The argument this article is making is that supporting additional filesystems is hard. The is meant to refute the allegation that it's trivial to add whatever other filesystems the OS supports.
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I feel like it would be better just to read a random sample of 100 comments. Or just use something like uservoice, or Github issues that allow voting on things. Seems silly to reduce every comment to a bag of words. It is better than just ignoring them I suppose.
> They've become somewhat unfashionable over the last decade not really sure why.

Much, much larger memory consumption than LR/LALR or even GLR. They're called packrat parsers for a reason.

Although the time complexity is asymptotically the same, LR-family parsers have such a tiny memory footprint that they usually run entirely in cache. Packrat tables never fit for nontrivial grammars+inputs. In practice this makes a big difference in performance.
>Yeah, right. If you get "smeared" digital signals beyond the sampling threshold, you'll get so many data errors that nothing will work.

I don't want to feed the audiophile nonsense but you do get high frequency attenuation with shitty cables and human hearing is pretty dang sensitive. Even just slight attenuation can and will incur jitter in the signal.

It's just that one can mitigate the damage it with some clever circuitry and using anything other than coathangers or wet string...

Also come on, our sense of hearing is likely much more capable than our sight. If you introduce things like delta-sigma modulation, the jitter requirements become pretty ridiculous too. Something on the order of two digit picoseconds RMS.

It's cool to hate on ridiculous 1000 dollar HDMI cables and monster sized mains power cables but legit audio engineering can be pretty challenging, since our sense of hearing is actually way more sensitive than most other things we encounter.
SDL having an interface with handles has nothing to do with OOP and is simply the concept of opaque handles.
This is often seen in data-oriented code bases where a system behind the scenes is dealing with transforming data in a hardware-oriented and cache optimized manner.

Sure the article isn't super well-written, but it raises a fair point and shouldn't just be thrown away.
Just because something is the most used or standard does not mean it is the best solution. Eating junk food is very common, but you would hardly argue that it is the best way for a human to get nutrients.

You can use OOP all you want, and it's fair to say that the article should have been less biased (though he has a disclaimer that says he is biased), but there is nothing suggesting that OOP is practically the best paradigm to program most software other than the fact that it is the most used.
I particularly love the suggestion to just document what you're doing as the first step to proper automation. It's not that much work or cognitive effort. Sometimes a decent description of your procedure is all you will need and it tends to prove very valuable later. It can be also gradually improved. I was doing it often already, and this will remind me to persist.
if the business I'm at right now doesn't want you using a site they stop it at the network level. This is why I can't get into my Google Drive
Elixir has the pipe notation, which is somewhat similar
I know some people sweat excessively, but, in general, isn't preventing sweating like putting a blanket on your computer to stop it blowing out hot air?
You can't book "any scooter" from a single app or website. You have to download the app. It's insanely expensive to build that install base.
Huh. That's great news. Time to add Firefox support to Lorca lib, I guess.
I mean, you can file that one under "looks cool". Absolutely doesn't improve anything else though.
I thought that sociopaths and psychopaths behave identically. The difference is that one was born that way while bad life experiences made the other that way.
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I've spent multiple years working with an iMac 21 inch, a Macbook Pro 15 inch retina, and a 27" LG Ultrafine 5k (I understand this is the same or similar panel as the iMac 5k 27").

I think if you are optimising for productivity you would want the 27", certainly from my experience.

My own opinion, for what it is worth: if you lack focus I think you are better off trying to build good habits or to work on things that interest you.

You can just as easily switch to reading HN or reddit on a smaller screen as you can a larger. You can just as easily go fullscreen on a larger display to block out distractions, but you also have more space so you can, if working on UI for example, have the UI in one half and an editor/IDE in the other, which can speed you up.

If it is difficult to make yourself do work, you can try to build good habits using apps like Focus to remind you if you tend to go off on reading sprees when working. Good luck!
>Greater availability of data and code makes for better science.

Lack of availability of data and code should be an immediate disqualifier from publication for research. In any field. There is no substantial difference between withholding source code or data and withholding experimental procedures or list of materials tested. I can only think that the people who withhold such things are either actively malicious or are completely ignorant of the stupendous danger of cutting corners in science. Given the history we have to work with, it's pretty clear that the distance from cutting a corner in a way that seems harmless to the deaths of millions of people is very short. This is not something people should trifle with.
Such a weird list, Plan9 isn't on it but TempleOS is, seriously, wtf.
Not-actual sentiment analysis is already useful (to some) and used in real world applications (though I'm not a fan of those applications), unless perhaps you're referring to the "actual real world" that lives somewhere beyond the horizon as well.
I can't find any mention of Docker CE in this announcement. Am I missing something?
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This is the introduction page, follow the links at the bottom for more, there is a lot of interesting detail including things like writing a kernel driver to interface with the HDMI receiver.
For automated testing, why Puppeteer instead of Selenium?
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Incidentally the copy/rename process can run into issues on Windows due to Windows Defender holding a lock on the file which can prevent it being renamed. This is an issue for the Rust updater utility:

https://github.com/rust-lang/rustup.rs/issues/1436
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One of those words is not a word in British English.

(Why do I mention that? Firstly, perhaps it's a fun puzzle for non-native speakers of American English to identify the word. Secondly, it's surprising that a difference between British and US English is apparent in such a short list of such basic words, considering that sometimes it's possible to write whole paragraphs of English without it being apparent which variety of English is being used.)