skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> you can do a heck of a lot with VS Code extensions, enough that I don’t want to install any I don’t trust —they can run programs and never prompt you for permissions

Doesn't Emacs have the same issue - you really really have to trust any package you install?
The article says they didn't have odor problems:

> The pilot plant in Carthage was temporarily shut down due to smell complaints. It was soon restarted when it was discovered that few of the odors were generated by the plant.[14] Furthermore, the plant agreed to install an enhanced thermal oxidizer and to upgrade its air scrubber system under a court order.[15]

> According to a company spokeswoman, the plant has received complaints even on days when it is not operating. She also contended that the odors may not have been produced by their facility, which is located near several other agricultural processing plants.[16]

> As of August 24, 2006, the last lawsuit connected with the odor issue has been dismissed, and the problem is acknowledged as fixed.[19] In late November, however, another complaint was filed over bad smells.[20] This complaint was closed on January 11 of 2007 with no fines assessed.[21]

To me that sounds like people complained speciously.

It also says,

> In April 2013, CWT was acquired by a Canadian firm, Ridgeline Energy Services, based in Calgary.

So who knows? In any event, that's why I used "scare quotes" around "solved": TPD needs work; MSO is used to dispose of munitions and stuff but there's no mass plastic recycling center in the world (yet) using it.
Pretty sure it would. After all there are multiple precedents: at least three "unlimited budget" attempts at changing the world worked fine: WW2, Manhattan Project, Apollo program. The first ended the British imperial ambitions and established the US as the undisputed world leader, the second did the same in the nuclear arms race, and the third repeated the feat in space. This doesn't have to be super complicated like ITER.
I was able to recognise familiar words like FORTUNA, LONGA VIA, MEMORIUM, SACCULUS (sack).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-width_non-joiner
Any language that grows big has that problem.

My favourite example is Python, I started using it with version 1.6 and even though I only use it for small scripting tasks, always followed each release since then.

It might appeal to beginners, but underneath lies a language as powerful as C++, where even the most savy will fail to remember what changed between minor releases.
Noam Chomsky: Life Expectancy in the US Is Declining for a Reason
Here you go: less than 3 minutes to type out!

"The TL;DR is that there's a new operator, <=>, that returns less than 0, 0, or greater than zero, just like, say, strcmp does, but for all sorts of C++ objects. You can define operator<=> and operator== and your compiler will take care of the various other comparators. Doing this speeds up some library functions, doesn't force you to write as much code, and makes comparisons more intuitive.

"There are also a bunch of corner case optimizations but if you don't care about them you don't need to know"

This was written by someone who cares about the corner cases and underlying theory. It's like FP: IEEE743 is full of weirdo cases that some really smart people spent a lot of time worrying about. All most users care about is that "they have a fractional representation and that == doesn't reliably work except against 0.0." Just because there's hundreds of pages in that spec doesn't make it dumb either.
Plastics leech estrogen mimicking materials into the food chain. All living creatures now have bits inside us, and there have been large hormonal effects such as early puberty, increase in intersex births, declining male fertility, and so on.

It's hard to say exactly which types of plastics do what, so maybe some are benign, but it's a large uncontrolled experiment at present.

For example this shows how plastics shed fibres that end up in sea creatures: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/nov/15/plastics...

Some info on plastic estrogen-mimicking leaching: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3222987/

Bisphenol A is only one type. Plastics likely have other hormonal effects from other components.

Increased intersex births from endocrine disrupting chemicals: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5017538/

Testicular cancer rates are rising in the developed world, and it's linked to endocrine disruption in the womb.

Waste is the focus, but I think it's misplaced. Our materials are everywhere in the environment.

Even synthetic clothing sheds fibers everytime it's washed, and the same for microfiber clothes.

(Note of course that plastics are not the only source of endocrine disruption)
> as a society we've probably invested a lot in that individual over the years for healthcare

In the USA? Good one! Hahahaha!
Just like all those SPAs used to display text.
Not all unix utilities use getopt.

Clearly the correct way to implement this is to run each command in a short-lived container and check the output matches what's expected. For things like the pager questions, it'll need to implement a full vte and vte comparison, so that should be fun.

For bonus points, one of the options to emulate linux in the browser could be used to do that more securely and without the need for a service... though the load time might increase by several minutes or hours.
First question didn't go great, would be nice if there was a way to report missing answers.

Question: Write the command which you use to move inside the directory which has the name 'my dir' (the name contains a space)

Your answer:
cd 'my dir'

Correct answer:
cd my\ dir
The submitted title was "Australia to make bitcoin payments above $10k illegal", but a moderator changed it to the article title, in accordance with the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
I find it amazing that if an alien civilization descended on us and taxed all fossil fuel usage by 100%, and took all that money out of planet Earth forever, both we and the aliens would be better off.
But his point on pipelining vs VLIW seems valid
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Do not hire people who do this. Most of them will say "over 200m downloads of npm packages". Go and take a look. If you see things like 'is-not-foo, checks if a given string is not equal to the string "foo"', and 0 meaningful contributions, either pay no attention to these claims or pass.
There are a slew of dev-only dependencies in JS-land. Packages that run local servers for hot-reloading during development. Test runners, linters, TypeScript compilers, SCSS compilers, and so on. None of those things need to be included with the bundled product.

Check out Electron or React starter apps for an example, their boilerplates should have dozens of examples.
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Hey, can you please stop breaking the site guidelines? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I don't want to ban you, but when accounts keep doing this, we kind of have to.
Project Wonderful is the only ad network I have ever fully whitelisted. I've whitelisted specific networks on specific sites before, but Project Wonderful was not only acceptable to me, I actually occasionally found it useful on the webcomics I saw ads on, as it generally showed off the art style. I (almost) never saw ads for unrelated products, there were no videos, few ads were even animated. To me, Project Wonderful fulfilled the promise of 'relevant advertising' far more than the tracking ads currently do. General location- and demographic-targeted advertising can certainly be annoying, but is not offensive in the manner of tracking my browser history.

I just hope ALPR/facial recognition/etc doesn't get combined with digital billboards to bring internet ads into physical locations.
Which, according to the the DK paper makes it more likely that he is in fact right. There is a positive correlation in their results between confidence and ability.
Ever bought a used car?
> I don't like the deal company X is offering me so the government should ban it.
Venezuela is buying Bitcoin with airport taxes to smuggle in US dollars
The human body is already close to thermal limits in many regions
See also [1][2] (bookmarked them sometime back, don't remember the details)

[1] https://www.shortcutfoo.com/app/dojos/command-line

[2] https://www.memrise.com/course/50252/shell-fu/
You’re right the first implementation in C was Gosling Emacs in 1981. Stallman based GNU Emacs on that in 1984.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs

So, would you just say around 38 years and agree that 43 or 38 is pretty much irrelevant to my point?
Work Doesn't Work Anymore
The service is very nice and I understand your reason for developing it. I see this service to be having more value in helping companies find all the web pages, rather than just the allowed ones.

I understand the unethical nature of the above method, however, I see it happening quite a lot in practice.
some people still see these problems are not damaging enough to be sad

- failing love relationship can also be pain, some love the peace of being single

- diabetic may be managed (maybe your case is harder though, I cannot assume it's easy)

- some can find support to fill debt and like to rise above it as a challenge

Much in life is interpretation, and accepting damaging emotions as truer than neutral or positive is not my favorite choice.

Best wishes
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> The only remaining representative of that era is the spreadsheet,

Well that and, Bash, Zsh, Ksh, Perl, Awk, Sed, ....

I sometimes wonder what the world would be like if command lines hadn't stopped evolving in the '90s.
It is. A Doctor suggested I lose some weight (only about 10kg or 10% of my weight, which I shouldn't have had) before proceeding with any other treatments. This was after a sleep study where I had some interruption but not quite to the point of diagnosing sleep apnea.
> Virtually every food item is packaged in plastic

Is it? Most of what I buy (vegetables, fruits, bread, eggs, milk, pasta, flour, sugar, salt, oil) is not.

Meat, fish, rice, and cheese are the things that require some plastic, afaict, but do not constitute the majority of food.
I wish there was a way to opt out of being tracked by these credit agencies, beyond just freezing credit.
An algorithm that evolved killer Starcraft bots is training self-driving cars
yeah curiosity pushes us to do foolish things, here it's just a morbid context
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Two ingredients in a good eye serum for eye wrinkles or crows feet, which some people refer to these lines as, are Eyeliss and Haloxyl. In your search you will find lots of good information concerning these revolutionary substances. Eyeliss is fairly new to the anti wrinkle eye cream scene so let me tell you a bit about it. Three peptides in this formula are where the help for our eyes come from.

https://lifetimewords.com/secrets-of-fresh-young-skin/
Or go solar and charge anywhere you have daylight:

- Experimental Toyota Prius: https://newatlas.com/toyota-prius-solar-roof/60461/

- Sono Sion: https://sonomotors.com/en/sion/

- Lightyear One: https://lightyear.one/

Even if you're only getting a small amount of range from solar in Winter, that's still less charging that has to come from the grid.
I've found that the older they are, the listen they're willing to listen and discuss rather than tell.
One of the most frustrating bugs I encountered in a previous job was an incorrect implementation of a “strict weak ordering” that would cause containers and algorithms to just plain misbehave. The evil part was that there was a whole range of misbehavior, including “generally working” for most data, while crashing in other cases!

The reality is that most programmers are not experts but they exist on C++ projects. People will try “simple” things like hacking up a less-than operator, and when it seems to “work”, they move on (leaving a code time bomb behind).

The C++ compiler needs to provide robust compile-time and run-time checks to tell programmers that things are wrong, like: “your operator does not meet the requirements of the sort algorithm”.

Contrast the latest 20-page description of std::whatever_the_heck to, say, Python sorting, which offers "key=..." because the overwhelmingly common case is to simply state a single field on which to base object ordering!!!
Personally I am a lot more productive during + after walking in nature. It saves me a lot of time if I walk through a forest before or during writing code. Better code, less mistakes, less refactoring etc etc. The effect (again personally) is far less if not nature but a city for instance.
Maybe a slight chance of cathartic fake realization. By enacting what they want to do in VR they'd be able to slightly live through their own emotions, express and realize some things and change their mind a bit.
NewTrackon is fantastic, and it has an API: https://newtrackon.com/list

I've written a Chrome extension which periodically grabs the list of active trackers from NewTrackon and automatically adds them to magnet links as you're browsing. It's made torrenting so much faster for me.
Actually, the RAV4 is on track to sell only 450k total this year, while plug in electrics are on track to sell 3.5M.
http://carsalesbase.com/us-car-sales-data/toyota/toyota-rav4...

Tesla alone (S, X, 3) will probably sell close to 350k (~85-90k/q), and they are not more than 10% of total EV.
I like your ad-hoc verbal experimentation. It reminds me of a study awhile back, something about how we use rhythm in our communication to keep things flowing. Along with the subtle power dynamics of short and long responses, there seems to be a human need to have some minimum amount of communication in an interaction to keep us from perceiving it as unpleasant.
Predicting incremental gains of promotional campaigns
The problem is "it's done properly" will be verified decades later, and by the time the damage is done, and there may not even be anyone to sue anymore.
There are countries where this type of restrictions to using cash for large payments have been in place for many years.
They help with:
- mitigating money-laundering risk
- more effective application of sales tax
- more effective enforcement (in combination with other tools) against income tax evasion.
I Am Unhireable
Since another user explained that point, I would also add that in the "move fast and break things" environment of the web, for better or for worse, responsive and automated library updates are often desirable or even required functionality which can be tied to substantial real-world profits if something suddenly goes wrong somewhere in the stack.
I had this weird and strong question the other day: how come evolution didn't manage to wipe out suicidal gestures. Why don't we just fall into a partial coma when our mind is overwhelmed by events. It's a bit odd.. alas evolution is no silver bullet (sic):
Then I recommend M-x report-emacs-bug

The emacs developers will be very interested to hear about it.
Thanks, hope you enjoyed the book!
You may be correct for javascript, whose ecosystem is notoriously unstable and the equivalent of "building on sand".

eg write some code in a JS framework, then go off and do something for 18 months. Come back and there's a very good chance the entire framework has been obsoleted and replaced, perhaps even several times.

In JS land that's "Doh, well of course!".

In sane ecosystems (eg not Ruby), not so much. ;)
As best I can tell, it adds risks which may or may not be a sufficient deterrent - depending on the business.

Once $10k+ cash transactions are banned, questions will be raised over any cash withdrawals that a business makes that are near, at, or over that limit - and possibly over any regular ones that are below the limit but couldn't be easily explained away on other expenses.

For a business to continue the practice you've mentioned, they would need to keep sufficient cash on hand for making such transactions as needed, at all times. So there are all the associated risks of having cash lying around, on top of the risks of being caught.

It can be worked around, but for some businesses I can imagine that the additional loopholes will be considered onerous enough to stop bothering.
This youtube channel[1] may be what you're looking for. It has presentations of popular ML papers followed by some Q&A. It seems to target a technical but non-academic audience.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfk3pS8cCPxOgoleriIufyg
mark zuckerberg stole something? call the Police! :3
I agree, not unimportantly the effect is much more pronounced in the bottom group.

When someone overestimates their abilities by 20% it is far less drastic than a whopping 500%
Interesting social aspect of the definition of work, you need your actions to be positively rewarded by others around you.
This is less true of more advanced static analysis tools.

I mean, ultimately we agree. Most people don't trust static analysis tools because they have had bad experiences with them. I just suspect most people should try them again. The state of the art is quite good in that space.
Very interesting! I get your point, making buying things illegal on the basis of the average of their pros and cons is a slippery slope.

We should probably allow people to buy and sell whatever they want. Who cares if hitmen murder people, the people demand more hitmen!!! Hitmen can kill people that want to kill me, which makes me feel safe!!! Who cares if my judgement is extremely arbitrary and the hitmen are 3x more likely to shoot me than the people I want killed. Awesome. You've really opened my eyes here.

For all the other laws we can evaluate them based uhhhh, not on their pros and cons.
And also more fun, better for the planet, far less expensive...
Standardizing Jsoin into Web UI
Lets make it a standard to convert json containing real world object into web UI, we can start from the one link shown below:

http://shujutech.mywire.org/corporation?goto=json2web
Those packages provide pretty much every software capability computing has to offer. It's a pretty vast set of capabilities, though npm/javascript itself has gotten way out of hand over the last few years too. ;)
> Tesla still doesn't have a rival in charging network

Depends where you are I suppose. In addition to Tesla's network, Europe has:

- Ionity: https://ionity.eu/

- FastNed: https://fastnedcharging.com/en/

- Allego: https://www.allego.eu/

- GIREVE: https://www.gireve.com/en/

And more. All standardized on CCS type 2 plugs which is another plus.
Back when I used it, it was more surprising to get an Uber Eats order that included everything I ordered than for items to be missing.
> “dumb people always think they’re smarter than they actually are”

But that makes it sound like only people at the bottom overestimate themselves, when in reality 80% of people overestimate themselves. How about this rewrite: "People who aren't experts think they're smarter than they actually are." And get rid of the word "always", we're talking about averages, not about certainty in every case.
System optimization. We are idealistic geeks, aren’t we.
Wow, well done! Will pick this up once Rust in Action is finished.

"It took twice as long to write half of what I proposed. I began writing a projects-based C++ book with a short introduction to the language." Well done for pushing through. It's really easy to become totally discouraged.
Energy levels are difficult with a smart dog that is less than 3 years old. My border collie has calmed down in the last year, but the first few years she needed 3-5 hours of both mental and physical stimulation daily.
No sympathy for this guy at all. Think just because you’re an “MIT fellow” your claims to an idea carry more weight than people from other institutions or organizations? Get out of here with this entitlement, tons of people come up with exactly the same ideas all the time.
The best part of Sturgeon's Law for me was realizing that it's tautological. It's just defining "crud" to be the bottom 90%, which is drawing an arbitrary line between the top and the bottom. It's a fun one in the same way that D/K is in that it just feels true, like it's validating a working theory you already had about the world.

But Sturgeon's law can't be false, whereas D/K really is commonly misunderstood and might not even be generally reproducible; it might not even be broadly true at all. D/K is certainly over-generalized and in popular culture applied to situations that are very unlike the experiments in the paper, which were only pretty trivial tasks. The D/K Effect "actually goes away, and even reverses, when the ability tests given to participants are very difficult." https://www.talyarkoni.org/blog/2010/07/07/what-the-dunning-...
> But he will have the last laugh: People already don't want to work at Facebook.

This is one of the most HN-bubbled statements I’ve ever seen
And magnet links so you don't even need to download a .torrent anymore either.
The free market solves this easily, if given the correct incentives.

It's up to the political system to to produce those, and it's proven incapable.

For example, we've known for a long time what will solve global warming most effectively: Carbon taxes. Preferably global ones, but local ones are the correct regional step.

And our political systems have spent decades doing everything except this simple thing that will actually work.
Where I live, there is a waste tax and guess what, it goes into the general fund and is not used for reducing waste.
nothing surprising here. this is the same reason you don't see people studying while working out at the gym. when the brain is (either low on O2, or just under high pulmonary load) it's no good for doing cerebral-type tasks.
The Encryption Debate Is Over – on device filtering in the Hands of Facebook
> People care about having more packages much more than abstract fears of security or quality of those packages.

You're partially right. Some people haven't yet learned (eg the hard way, or whatever) that quality does matter.

Hopefully most of those people will learn to appreciate and demand quality over time, instead of the current anything-goes-approach.

In the meantime, things like this npm package example will continue to give npm/javascript black eyes (repeatedly) and help make that happen. :)
Your criticism basically nailed it and is why I hate cruises. The organised fun isn't just your destinations but your daily activities to an extent as well, have to be up by 9AM to get breakfast, earlier if you want to depart the ship, pools close as soon as the sun goes down, adults only bar closes as soon as the sun goes down, only one bar open past 10PM so you basically end up there with everyone else. If it sounds like I'm focusing on the bar it's because there's little else to do. On day trips you're right about being surrounding by locals, my nephew nearly caused a fight between rival groups on a remote PNG island over a $5 wooden trinket. You're generally visiting ports too, which tend not to be the nicest destination and the golden beaches from the brochure will be an additional 2 hour, using up 4 of your 8 hour stop, assuming you're in the first group off.

The food and drink prices are quite reasonable in a package (or even cash), it's the casino and shops where they try and get you. Personally when I'm on holidays is when I like to cook anyway because I've got the time, going through a tropical market with fresh produce when you don't have a kitchen is just teasing.