skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> God this is depressing to read. Git (not "GitHub") is already a distributed VCS. This isn't hypothetical!

I feel like you're missing the context in this thread. My parent was giving federated protocols as as alternative to centralized platforms, and my question is what are the legal implications for me if I end up hosting illegal content because of a network sync of some federated git.

Maybe social media is a less distracting example for you. Currently, Facebook is liable if they host e.g. child porn to their site. If some federated social media platform takes off where every user's computer takes part in also hosting, what happens when a child porn photo ends up on the platform?

My point is that federated vs centralized is not a magic bullet for this issue. In either case, there is some platform which can be held liable for content. People seem to think "use open source distributed protocols" solves this legal issue, but it does not.

> Ifyou're a random individual hosting a git repo containing illegal content, you might get sued, but much much more likely, you'd just get an angry email demanding you take it down.

Is this true? I'm genuinely asking. Can I commit the same "crime" as GitHub or Facebook but be treated so differently by the legal system? What's the actual rules here that differentiates us?
I would like to try a dumbphone for a while but no one here uses phone calls and SMS anymore, they have all shifted to Whatsapp and sometimes Instagram, so that's a bummer.
Shameless monopolies are growing in plain sight
This is at best half true. There are professional lobbying organizations that have vastly more resources and know how than individuals. And when people complain about lobbyists everyone knows that a this is what is being referenced.
Well, every data helps if you're trying some targeted hacking. If the username is LebronJames and the shoe size is 9, it's not the right Lebron...
> Finally Kotlin/Native has special semantics for handling data structures, as it tries to be Swift like

If you mean Swift's issue with having to use weak references to prevent cycles, Kotlin/Native doesn't do that – they have a cycle collector, so it should behave the same as Kotlin/JVM.

It does have a different threading model though, where you can't share mutable structures between threads. Very recently they've introduced a "relaxed" mode that does allow it, but it's extremely experimental and sounds like it would be slow (since it can't defer updating reference counts).

(Also, what are you referring to with "extra debugging layers, tooling and their own wrappers" for Kotlin on the JVM? I can use IntelliJ + Maven + Spring with either Java or Kotlin. I don't see any extra layers.)
That stuff works unreasonably well. Mosquitos so much as landing on surfaces treated with it weeks prior die within minutes, yet its so safe for mammals, farmers spray it directly onto cattle.

The terrible downside is that it is ridiculously toxic to marine life. Use with care and forethought.
Reminds me of the theoretical concept of a "digester" of hydrocarbons which kept the carbon and other toxic wastes like say heavy metals bound into a "slag" instead of releasing it atmospherically.

Granted by the time we could manage something like that there would be far better options out there including using excess power generation to synthesize fuel from the air and water - let alone batteries which may use the energy more efficiently.
Don't know the particular tax law in question, but perhaps it would help you if you thought you of lawmaking as making software (in fact in French the word for law is 'code')

Everything you code has to be coherent, requirements change, and when they do it is hard to get everyone to agree on the details. You have 200 years of legacy code, have to be compatible with other states and countries, have to support all possible edge cases, and your code is interpreted not by a computer but by a human.

Are there broken laws? Sure. Is it easy to make good ones? Not so sure.
OP was mostly talking about cloud + docket containers. Your use-case is unrelated and seems to make sense.. But I still agree with OP and I believe overlays in the cloud is generally an anti-pattern of unnecessary complexity.
Cant someone challenge elsevier in court for this? Is it not possible that the judge finds elsevier's claims overreaching and create a precedent?
It seems like she's shifted to spending 60 hours a week posting comments on HN non-stop. There should really be some kind of broader rate limiting to prevent people like DoreenMichelle and tptacek from polluting so many comment sections on HN. We check comment sections hoping to see a wide variety of opinions, not two people's blogs.
Throw in + and I think this covers close to 100% of things I've ever had to grep. Very nice little tutorial/refresher.
Welcome to the wonderland of plasma physics where there is simple input processes but everything couples and becomes wildly non linear...

Here the building blocks are: 1.) moving charges and 2.) magnetic fields. As you correctly say moving charges produce magnetic fields(1). But magnetic field fields deflect charged particles via the Lorentz Force [2]. This results in what is known as the frozen-in-condition that says that magnetic flux and the (highly conductive) plasma can only move together. [3]

Now, if the two things can only move together, which one gets to decide where to go? That depends on a parameter known as "plasma beta" [4]. Basically it is the ratio between thermal pressure (of the particles) and magnetic pressure due to the field. In low beta plasma, the pressure of the magnetic field wins and the plasma is just along for the ride. This is the case in the solar corona and solar wind. In high beta plasma the plasma flows as it wishes (e.g. due to pressure gradients) and the magnetic field gets dragged along. This is the case e.g. inside the sun and the reason why the solar dynamo can work and produce magnetic fields.

(1) actually moving charges carry a current which causes a temporal change in electric field via Ampere's Law, the curl of which produces a magnetic field via Faraday's Law. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell%27s_equations#Formulation_in_SI_units_convention
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorentz_force
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfv%C3%A9n%27s_theorem
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_(plasma_physics)
It's content marketing. I have no clue if the advice is any good. But that's how the game gets played, basically.

I sometimes edit resumes for pay. They are typically very good resumes -- well written, few typos, etc. They still benefit from having a second set of eyes on them.

I'm also a freelance writer and blogger. I know all too well how hard it is to edit your own writing. It's extremely hard.

People tend to see what they intended to say instead of what they actually wrote, thereby glossing over all the typos. It's very hard to catch your own mistakes.

If you are in tech, you can probably afford to cough up a few bucks to have someone review your resume. If you can't, ask a friend or go to a Reddit sub that does this for free or similar.

But get some feedback somehow. Don't just do it all yourself.
My university (UC Riverside) does this. I haven't taken that course specifically as it's not required for my major, so I can't speak to any specifics.
Does it support syntax-rules or something similar?
Why would you post this to HN?
Are programmers doing 60 hrs of work a week? Yes, if you count planning, talking about work to be done, thinking about work to be done, commuting (s/buying groceries, shuttling kids), mentoring, dealing with other people’s complaints & personal issues, dealing with red tape (forms to be signed, reports to review & give feedback on), etc, etc, etc

You can say those analogues fall outside of “housework” ... sure, but then it’s like “hey programmer, you’ve got 60 hours in the week, why isn’t that feature done yet?”
Wouldn't mind seeing this happen... Also, showing ads or sending/setting tracking data before clicking on the "Accept" button.
Sandboxed network classloaders were a big win for Hadoop and Spark.
I refer you to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_energy
Wasn't there a complete town in UK who went to offshore all of their assets? A quick search delivered me this source [1].

[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crickhowell-welsh-town...
Did you try the search I gave you?
What is it that the government is buying and how can the government ever trust (for this sort of thing) a private company. And surely you can set up faster (performance per buck) more secure data centres for 10 billion bucks?

I just don’t get it, but I guess someone will say government can’t do anything and that’s enough.
Humans have never been particularly good at considering alternate viewpoints. What's changed is that people holding alternate viewpoints (and unwilling to consider yours) are now much more visible to you.

(Edit: This was meant to sound hopeful.)
Pipe: How the System Call That Ties Unix Together Came About
>time and effort might be key here for your mastery of this subject.

It doesn't have to be this way. If most programming languages were designed like regular expressions they would be unusable. I can spend a year w/o writing a single line of Pascal or C++ and then it would come back immediately. I occasionally found regular expressions useful in my work, but only a couple of times could justify spending time on learning a little bit of it only to forget the next day. In a few other cases I simply googled a solution and used w/o understanding it. Most often I just write code instead, it is verbose but at least it's clear what it does.
This all seems very reasonable but none of this is seems to be what is argued here.

This person hates islands and maybe a TV show featuring one because something about the idea of "being performative". It's just a bunch of trite crap.
You missed the point by two miles. I still use Hangouts, but they’ve introduced 12 other apps in the last 10 years that do the exact same thing. All while making Hangouts / google chat / gTalk (whatever it was originally called in Labs) worse.
I think people use SMS and regular phone calls if they can't find you on whatsapp. Fortunately all have the "Phone" and SMS app already installed.
One of my professors at uni was involved in the flight computers of the Eurofighter and tells the same thing: different teams were given identical specifications but contact between them was forbidden so they were forced to develop completely different implementations in order to avoid shared bugs that could affect all computers at once.
I would put in a caveat - when it comes to power it is best to assume they know exactly what they are doing if it serves their interests in any way.
One thing that bugs me, is you cannot promote groups directly... you have to create a Page for your group... even if the page is a useless placeholder.
I use a pok3r. It's a 60% keyboard that's programmable. Being thinking of building my own one day though.
I think Ned strikes the right balance, showing risks associated with mock objects without condemning them outright. There is no doubt that people sometimes go overboard with mocking and there is no doubt that there are situations where it is really helpful.
He gave a talk on it at an HN meetup in Seattle.

The true problem is that back when it was first invented, it wasn't practical. They are still improving it and trying to get it field tested.

Still though, lasers take a fair bit of power, and there is a distinct lack of power in places where mosquitoes are the thickest.

Also people get a bit touchy about "AI controlled lasers" in populated areas, even if the laser is low power.

The fact that they are still trying to improve it despite the lack of a huge economic incentive is a good thing IMHO.
Can't speak for Sublime but 101 has inline highlighting and explanations per regex feature/flag/pattern. It really is awesome.
Probably you talk about America but quite a lot of cities in Europe are doing it.

Instead of dropping your bike randomly, the city is covered with connection points where you leave the machine. Like docks, where it locks and charges. Since you can't let every company build their own hubs everywhere randomly, it's city ran business.

Where I currently live it's covered if you have a monthly card for public transportation but you can buy or pay separately too, just more expensive.
The FBI, or law enforcement agency in general, and malice? What could you ever mean? Our professionals are the most noble automatons of integrity and never twisted by perverse incentives. Just give them the ring and you don't even need to go to Mt. Doom

:^)
You also started to have the national networks assert more control over the local stations which led to some successful attempts at shows with both series- and episode-long plot structures, like Babylon 5 & the West Wing.

That’s not what happened.

There are two reasons why serialized shows were not popular on network TV until recently.

Syndication - the networks always had control over what got sued during prime time. But they also made most of their money via syndication outside of prime time and with the cable channels. It’s really hard to syndicate serialized shows for the second reason...

If you miss either the first few episodes of a serialized show or miss an episode in between, you probably wouldn’t even bother about watching it. Now with video on demand via streaming the TV networks can tell the audience to catch up by going to the website/going to their cable providers VOD offerings, etc.

Netflix - serialized shows are very popular on Netflix where binge watching is a thing. Even the cable channels that buy syndication rights can also offer catchup/and video on demand.
> democratic states are consistently better than non-democratic ones

This statement is so vague that it is not worth debating. What does "better" mean?
Nice resource. You do start off making it a bit daunting:

>For most people without a formal CS education, regular expressions (regex) can come off as something that only the most hardcore unix programmers would dare to touch.

my experience wasn't as daunting as this at all.

this is my story: basically every regex I ever wrote always worked the first time and I found it super easy. my intro was the Perl 5 "camel" book, i.e. Programming Perl. never heard of regexes before that.

If you find this current tutorial we're discussing tricky or daunting, maybe give the resource I just mentioned ("Programming Perl" for Perl 5) a go because for whatever reason the explanation was super simple and writing a regex was one of the easiest things I ever did no matter what I wanted to do. I didn't know about the concept itself before I read that book. I've used it to parse loads and loads of things, use it in my editors, etc. It's always so easy.

I don't know if you can find the "Programming Perl" book, I tried to look and found something like that here: https://www.cs.ait.ac.th/~on/O/oreilly/perl/prog/ch01_07.htm

you can maybe ignore the stuff about Perl and still sort of follow the tutorial.

just an alternative in case someone had their curiosity piqued by this illustrated guide, but it doesn't quite "click" for them,, and wanted to see the same thing written out in another teaching way. And a note that for me it was always not daunting at all!
I found the benchmark mentioned in the article - here's the part comparing map:

https://funkia.github.io/list/benchmarks#map

Apparently, List is ~3x faster than native array.map, with the difference increasing with the number of elements.

I see that random access and iterator are two operations where native array is fastest.
Word of caution: Regex is hard to maintain. They are harder to (re)read than C-Style languages.
So basically: if you totally redefine the definition of the word work than it's true.

I'm going to second that I'm incredulous.

If only I could bill for thinking about work.

Also if raising your own family is "work" what isn't work? Yeah and me going snowboarding is just emotional labor to prepare for the work week so let's call that work.
Do you have a minute? About to launch and need advice
Noah here nice to meet you

I'm embarking on an exciting new journey and wanted to share...

I've officially let's call it graduated from Paddle.com after 4.5 years, joining at under 10 people, I'm now leaving and they're at 150 amazing Paddler's and I've learned a lot.

I've always been around creators and haven't found that right idea but after a realization, it hit me ... to do what I know best

I'm now working on KOAH Digital of which I've co-founded, a new digital agency built exclusively for startups.

I've done this by utilizing everything I've learned at Paddle like executing their social strategy and giving them a brand identity that reflected their rapid growth.

I'd love to work with exciting new startups and help them at a larger scale! At KOAH Digital the idea is that I'm going to help startups accelerate their social media strategy through executing on their brand identity to tell their story to the world effectively, once they've raised their seed round and are looking to accelerate their growth.

------------------------

How can I get press/traction/ exposure for my launch?

Does anyone know any startups who's raised a seed round?

I'd love to speak about their current efforts around social media, strategy and their brand identity.
I agree; if you do not want cookies then you can just disable it in the client, and if you do not want it to load third-party scripts or images, then you should disable that, and so on; the cookie warnings and all of that stuff is not helpful.

(Perhaps a better requirement would be to require the browser distributors to include warning labels about such features if they are done automatically.)
Yeah, in the startup world companies would inflate user count, active users, and so on and so forth to fool the
"enemy".
10-4, thank you!
You keep bringing up this point, but the idea isn't to sell the oxygen on this market, but to utilize it at the source to upcycle carbonaceous matter into usable fuel (Hydrogen, methane and carbon monoxide...i.e. syngas) for use alongside the hydrogen gas that is produced via electrolysis.

This is useful in remote locations (cell towers, villages, etc.) where a liquid oxygen tank would not be viable.

Just to clarify, when I say, "not cheap" I'm more or less referring to the energy costs and not the actual monetary costs. It's energy intensive to bring air down below −183 °C to liquify the oxygen out. When contemplating future energy sources, it's these round trip energy expenditures that are most important. Not to mention the infrastructure costs (liquid oxygen tanks, roads that can safely handle shipping, etc. aren't cheap either).
You're talking about mocking database calls though. In my line of work (insurance brokerage), we use lots of insurance APIs and they are sometimes very slow (+20 seconds / call) or completely down at random hours. There is simply no way around mocking those API calls if you want a fast and reliable testsuite.
It does at least act like it has closures. Try starting the REPL with $ hy --spy and you can see how examples get compiled.
Extended stay hotels usually don’t have locked down HDMI ports. We stayed in one for months when we were in between our lease being up and waiting for our house to be built.
I had the same reaction at the exact same point in the article.

Are couples out there really not sharing chore responsibilities? Maybe my wife just got lucky. Whatever.

In any case I don't see what the kitchen island could possibly have to do with it. I initially clicked on the article because I, a male, am excited about getting an island so that I can use it to cook for my family!
Terraform needs an extensible DSL, so Python or Groovy or Kotlin would have been much better.
Absolutely. The more functional we can make the code, typically the easier it is to test it based only on inputs and outputs.

Much of what I do is try to come up with architectures that model the logic in this way, and are still legible to my co workers.
I have a £20 Nokia, the only bit of poor UX that I can think of is that it is slow to navigate through MP3 files on the SDcard.

Call quality is really good.
In this case it is probably both. The show is about people with seemingly perfect lives which (spoiler!) has dark secrets which threaten to disrupt their lives. That kind of story just works better with beautiful perfect homes etc. since that makes the contrast and threat stronger.
Interesting thought about ejector seats, though those currently use solid fueled rockets iirc, as much safer.

Though it does as you say, offer some form of assisted powered control decent option. Not sure on the altitude and I know that becomes a factor for jets. Big difference operating around sea level and a few thousand feet up.

For me, something like this that would give firefighters the ability to reach and rescue people trapped up high in a building, even if one at a time. That truely opens up progress.

Alas the fire services have never ever had the same RnD budgets of military services, which is a thought that opens up a whole raft of debate as an indictment upon how we view protecting lives and assets - given fire in the modern world kills more people. For example in the UK in you get around 300 deaths a year due to fire. Compared with an average of 50 lives a year military wise. Though it is a bit like comparing apples with pears, it does make you think how some priorities are more grounded in history than others.

Now what this might open up as a viable alternative to parachute would be helicopters that tend to operate at altitudes that preclude any parachute. Sure you would need to eject the rotor and seen that upon military helicopters, that eject the cockpit. But this might open up safety upon more commercial offering.
Really it is just demagoguery and should be treated as such - they don't want a solution they want somebody to blame. That it is impossible to fufill is a feature and not a bug.

The only rational thing to do is to treat them with as much violence to them you can get away with to weaken their toxic influence. Mock them as illiterates, accuse their true motives as wanting to look at everyone's sexts (already proven), vote anyone who supports them out and more.
The cynicist in me says these videos are not going to change anyone's minds. Either you think highly of unions, in which case this will make it even more clear to you that Amazon workers need to unionize. Or you don't like what unions do, in which case the video provides you with arguments.
David Fahrenthold at the Post won the Pulitzer for his investigative journalism in to Trump

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/washington-po...
I'm not sure they expect to actually get a technological solution. The prospect that scares me most about this isn't that officials are demanding the impossible right now, it's whatever their next "counter-offer" is. I feel like there's a real risk of politicians settling on a licensing regime where a bank, payment processor, cloud platform, telco, etc. gets to use strong encryption iff it files the right paperwork and maintains a backdoor in its system (i.e. not in the encryption itself).
> Surprised nobody writes about this while gasping at Facebook’s profits.

Those who understand what you wrote are busy making money via Facebook ads, milking the gravy train while it lasts.