skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
an assembly language used to be a major contributor, but now, not so sure.. choose a simple, high-level ASM to study.. perhaps the Motorola 68xxx type

When this text was written, Object-Oriented programming was exotic.. now, most large kits of any flavor use OO structures without mentioning it.. and a new coder may not know what is OO and what is not.. so something basic with Objects, to make the layout clear.. A very simplified Javascript might do this.

If your direction is math, then there are certain choices, but as we all know now, not all programming is actually related to classical math.. Functional programming got a new life with massive data graph traversal, but how many individuals do that ? I would say not "functional programming" but .. explicit graph traversal more .. like Sparql or something..

lastly, what used to be someone's "little language" is now just a set of expressions in a bigger, more stable language.. so the old lex-yacc skills are not so much critical IMHO, as something with patterns and patterned thinking.. the old pattern wiki is interesting if you can make yourself go through some kind of hands-on practice.. http://wiki.c2.com/
To elaborate, the solar energy hitting earth is about 1,000 W per square meter near the equator near noon. The total per capita energy consumption in the US is roughly 10,000W. That means that the energy hitting the Mediterranean Sea (or clouds above it) in a single hour in early afternoon is roughly equivalent to the total annual energy needs of about 250 billion people at US per capita energy usage. And The Mediterranean is only about half of one percent of the planet's surface area.
> Water is not a luxury, and we can’t easily make more of it, so I just don’t understand how we can knowingly transition into a more unfair world than ever

I'm not sure I understand what you mean here.

Water is logistically hard and expensive to transfer; sustaining a place like Las Vegas is quite possible, but it relies on massive infrastructure development and expenditure to move water around. Selfishness is certainly part of the problem, from allotment-preservation in Colorado to international politics in Turkey. But to a significant degree, the core problem is that people simply live and use water in different places than it falls.

As far as an argument for allowing immigration, water fairness makes sense. But if we're talking about sharing water, I'm not sure if a lack of will is the central problem?
MSDN Magazine to End in November After 19 Year Print-Run
I can't reproduce what you say, it doesn't prepends http:// in my case. Are you on Windows?
on a serious note. what are the chances of this whole debacle thing causing a full scale warfare ? given the animosity between the 2 neighboring countries India and China. then you factor in US backing India. Then add Russia + china in the mix. This whole sanction and tariff thing can't continue without one side completely asserting dominance over the other. & US will not leave it's position willingly.
If you went Java -> Python -> JS, then surely you saw how the lack of the strong typing you enjoy in Java affects Python and JS. You also saw how those languages allowed scripting that is for all intents impossible in Java, and so forth.
> Never thought about this approach to leveraging RAM for cameras.

This is normal for high refresh rate cameras. They store straight to ram then dump to the disk (SSD) after. Especially the higher end cameras, they literally can't store data fast enough to go anywhere else.
I have a 2016 13" MBP with touchbar. No idea what the keyboard mechanism is, but it's absolutely horrible - there is hardly any key travel, it frequently misses key presses, and there is one key in particular that I occasionally have to press 4-5 times before it registers.

It's been like this since I got it. I took it to an Apple Store not long after that, but they said it was OK, and all this was perfectly normal..

The touchbar is also just unbelievably bad - just give me my Escape and function keys back, dammit!

What am absolutely loathsome device!

I'm mainly a Windows user, and this was my first ever Mac. It's also the last, unless I need one for work, in which case I'll still do everything I can on Windows.
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>You're deliberately misconstruing what I'm saying.

I'm using the definition you gave. That's it. If you want to revise the definition, feel free.

>You're trying to put forth that I cannot both respect the rule of law of a civil society while still respecting human rights on a larger scale.

No, I'm not, and I don't think that. I'm saying you're intolerant of those people according to the definition you gave. That's it.

>At it's core your example is bad because there are tons of other variables involved in an immigration process that have nothing whatsoever to do with culture, speech, views, religion, etc. (and, taken further, a properly designed immigration policy in my mind wouldn't take any of those into account anyway.)

I'm sure it wouldn't, but that's irrelevant. Refusing to share social, political, or professional rights with someone because they were born in the wrong place and don't meet your reasonable requirements means you are intolerant of them, according to that definition you gave.

>"Genuinely held beliefs" are a terrible basis from which to derive law.

Telling people they can't express genuinely held beliefs is, I think, a pre-cursor to real world violence. Avoiding real world violence is a totally reasonable objective to have in mind when crafting law.

>If 2016 should teach you anything, it's that genuinely held beliefs by large amounts of people, no matter how large they are and no matter how much they believe them, do not constitute reality.

I agree. So? Which ones are you willing to kill your fellow countrymen over?
Show HN: Elm inspired react hook for state and effect management (100 LoC)
I don’t understand your comment about faster payments. At least for sending money between people it appears to be free and basically instant to transfer money. Maybe the bank just swallows the fee or doesn’t have to pay it for some reason.
I dropped out of my MOOC course. Why MOOCs offer NO real time help to students?
HI HNs readers. I am Athan. I have tried to complete more than three MOOC course while working and..been a father. I had to drop out when things became demanding and I had no help when I need it most.

Pissed off - and frankly disappointing from having to wait for up to 24 hours to receive "cold" guidance from overworked teaching assistants and finding that "google it" gave me more material to read but not necessary what I need it, I decided to take action to solve my own problem!

I decided to find a cofounder and we started building a market place/tutoring platform for MOOCs. Yes you heard well tutoring for MOOCs.

We are just about to launch the beta version and we are basically terrified as we are missing tones of things we would like to see implemented but we thought people will be a better judge than us - so feel free to give us your one penny thought https://moocteas-stage-web.azurewebsites.net/

I am looking forward hearing your MOOC stories and receiving your feedback.

Athan
Building My Own JavaScript Stack Traces
As people have already listed a flavor of Lisp/Scheme would probably give you the biggest bang for your buck on changing how you think when programming. And that perspective will translate back to any language you use.

Since you're already familiar with Java, Clojure is likely the best bet for you as it builds on top if it. Otherwise the slightly easier to learn but a bit less real world practical is Racket Scheme.
No.

Not even close.

20 ish percent believe abortion should be legal under all circumstances.

IDK what the approval rate is for shooting up WalMarts, but probably a lot closer to 0 than 20...
How is Faster Payments that expensive? I can't imagine online banks like Monzo & Starling who offer free accounts, no fees whatsoever and thus very low profit margin per customer are paying that.
Yes, since the enaction of this:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/senate-bill/517
A soviet-era programming language with Cyrillic keywords
> so I just don’t understand how we can knowingly transition into a more unfair world than ever and not feel bad about it.

Some of us do, I'm also from a country that is small enough and wet enough (and likely to get wetter with climate change) that we can feasibly shift water from the wet north west to the drier south east.

Beyond what I'm already doing I don't know what else I can do - honestly on an individual level no one person can make a significant difference, it has to come on a governmental level and that requires good politicians with the electorate pushing them and frankly in my country I can't see that happening without massive voting reform that would require the turkeys to vote for Christmas.
Technically, it only affects operations in the US, but I highly doubt they'd pretend to serve US privacy concerns more than Europe or other jurisdictions, given how much the EU is looking at that same entity.
My comment on the USB part is more asking the increased bandwidth make it possible to store it on a disk/network.
Why MOOCs offer NO real time help to students?
Rainwater is a pretty terrible solution, if you needed to implement it at a large scale to deal with water supply issues then you'd easily be within a decade, and probably a few years, of absolute disaster. Rainwater collection reduces the amount of water going into the local aquifer and in sufficiently urban areas this can lead to ground instability while also depriving down-shed areas from having water access - though I'd mention that rainwater collection as a way to simplify the water infrastructure isn't a terrible idea especially in remote communities since it can remove the need to support local water extraction and some of the piping. Still, care needs to be taken to ensure water safety with rooftop collection.
and conversely, continued hydrocarbon dominance was the result of heavy government subsidy for the industry. It's truly impossible to know if renewables would have happened faster or slower in a free market.
Global government won't help with that. There are many countries with ongoing conflicts, that would continue between the people even if the governments were gone, and then planetary government would either have to send large number of troops into iraq/afganistan style conflicts, or let them fight and form their own governments.
Ask HN: Which tool do you use to monitor your system and application?
Hello

I used famous ELK stack to monitor syslog and trigger alarms. I would like to know about alternative tools maybe language specific or maybe not.
> Isn't it just rereleasing CO2 that was in the atmosphere earlier?

I don't know the facts here, but I'm pretty sure carbon can slowly be added from other sources. So sure, that CO2 might have been in the atmosphere before, but then we added more CO2 as well.

The point being, the CO2 we're digging up wasn't in our atmosphere before. The atmosphere that we and all the animal and plants have been adapted too. Sure, there's a time when the CO2 concentration (and even O2) was wildly different. But then there were other animals living on earth, that was adapted to those conditions. Slow change is fine, rapid change is disastrous.
Twitter, Facebook, and many other mainstream websites will remove accounts and threads of those with certain content (beyond what is strictly illegal), and 8chan will not. This is the reasoning why it's OK to shut down 8chan but not the other providers.

There is a difference between a real discussion of controversial subjects and emotional-driven posts that don't further a logical point but just provide fuel to get someone to do something (i.e. incite). So it's possible to draw an actual, objective line.

> when this "just build your own website/hosting company/payment processor/undersea cable" free market treadmill reaches its logical conclusion, if people somehow do manage to build their own banks and undersea cables and whatever, won't they all be accused of the same thing and face some fresh shutdown attempt

Probably.

> Let's just be honest, many of you don't like the content of their speech and want it gone.

Content that does nothing but encourage/get other people to kill innocent people is useful for a society to suppress and I support it. I happen to also not like this content, but it's a coincidence.

Hard absolutist points of views in respect to rights leads to them eventually being trampled or effectively useless for real people. An example for speech - advertising/marketing is speech, but too much of it makes a communication medium useless (part of why no one wants a landline phone anymore).
Teenage activists are leading the fight against climate change
Almost 2-3 times per week. Stuck in a rut because I stupidly spent all the available, waking hours of my youth on computers playing video games and figured I'd go into a career with computers, because.

Not too sure what I should do at this point - whether I should stick it out or just keep pushing and hopefully I'll find another "area" of IT interesting enough to keep my attention.
> Why are you trying to play the oppression olympics? We can care about multiple things at the same time.

Right I am no longer interested in talking to you. Pretending something is whataboutism when I am trying to bring some perspective is a nonsense.

As for your stats. I've seen stats that if Black couples get married and have a household they do just as well as White couples from a similar background (not I am not going to trawl the internet to cherry pick some proof).

>A lso, you did not provide an example of black racism (which you have referenced in at least two posts as being equal to white racism).

I never claim it was equal, I never claimed to know the proportions. TBH I am getting quite fed up of someone constantly putting words into my mouth.
C if you want more control over the hardware, any lisp if you want a higher level of abstraction and the ability to manipulate your progam itself as a data structure. Pure functional programming languages can also be mind-altering
Come on, we both know the answer... They’re serving shitty versions for iPad users to force them to download their app which has much more invasive tracking abilities.
International != global

GGP was arguing for global government, not international treaties.
Like I said, I'm against it for several reasons, but I replied to this:

>there seems to be a disconnect between the chrome devs and users
This is a wonderfully concise summary of the situation with concrete and helpful advice! This advice applies not only to research but equally to any longer-running project or task status update as well.

As someone who has felt frustrated in the past in both roles at play here, I expect I will find myself sharing this comment with others soon and often. Thank you!
Obviously this was a business decision.

Handling inquiries costs money, BitMitigate was generating lots of them. If BitMitigate had been paying enough, Voxility would be contractually obligated to keep them up.

I can’t imagine why the relationship between 8chan and its users would matter at all in this conversation.
This is super interesting, I'm about to undergo a small DIY smart mirror project and wanted touchscreen capabilities but all the hardware solutions seemed impractical and expensive. This might be a super easy way to make that work.
Usually resource competition in humans leads to organized conflict; insurrection or war.
I use his emacs racket-mode and it works great.
You seem to misremember what that scandal was about, or maybe you read a particularly hysterical article that misrepresented the situation.

Nokia had accidentally enabled an option intended for phones sold in China with a China Telecom contract. To verify that they were eligible for use with the contract, the phones would connect to China Telecom servers on first use. For the phones that had that option incorrectly enabled, the request failed (because they weren't in China Telecom's database) and was retried relatively frequently. Based on this behavior, the initial report assumed the worst, but in the end it was misconfigured telemetry.

You can call it spyware if you want, but no botnet was involved.
The migrants we have in Europe routinely claim they are underage. Most of them are easily 10 years older, if not with white beard. Both themselves and the immigration agents participate because they are so keen on helping them.
Isn't the controversy over second order effects though?

For example water vapor contributes far more to warming than CO2. The calculations are all about CO2 increasing temperatures, increasing water evaporation, which then increases heat trapping.

If all it was was a simple first order "how much warming does co2, and co2 alone" produce, then there wouldn't be the arguing there is now.
Nice to see improved HEVC 4:4:4 support in Linux.
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I might be wrong, but I cannot think of any prominent Swiss tech companies off the top of my head. They are way more famous for their neutral-good approach in finance, rather than in tech.

I agree with you that they are on the same level of neutral-good as Finland/Sweden when it comes to international relations in general, though.
But it's not just one tech company. Readers of HN are leaning to most, at least a lot the big ones, as forms of Satan. Facebook, Amazon, Google, PayPal, Uber, etc are all companies I go out of my way to not conduct business if I can help it. I'll also just add any too-big-to-fail bank to that list of forms of Satan as well. While not the tech companies people think of, they are nothing but tech on the inside. Why does it still take overnight for checks to be deposited vs an immediate transfer? (only slightly rhetorical)
War is a market solution.

Good Luck. Signed, The new Right
Nope. Entirely different. Left prior place just over a year ago. Eventually started a new company and closed our Seed funding a few months ago.

We have some self-driving car customers, but that's just because they're gluing together really complicated systems from lots and lots of diverse components, so they're great use cases.

Our goal is much broader scoped beyond AV and is more akin to creating new classes of CAE tools for SISoS & CPS designers/engineers.
I've had pretty excellent support from Comcast via chat on the 3 occasions I've needed to use them in the last 5 years or so. It doesn't seem like it's going to be as fast as a phone call, but it seems like I can easily express what I want/need and the chat agent seems to respond intelligently and effectively.
Partially. Without overcommit the system needs to guarantee you have enough backing memory to allow you changing the whole file before the drive writes back anything.
Same. Basically anyone with a newer Veriphone system (which everyone seemed to roll out back when we switched to chip) seems to support it. I use Google Pay, so it's not Apple-specific anyhow. But it's so much faster to process than the chip cards, even if I already had both my phone and card in my hand.
Complexity probably has something to do with it. Every surgery is slightly different. So a reasonable size checklist would be missing enough items to kill the patient, and a complete one, the patient dies before you are 1% through it.
Good question, we let you provide as much context to the translators as you want (description, tone, and screenshots). If you still don't like the translation, you can comment and it will be redone taking your comment into account. Additionally, if you have employees who want to review the translations, they can do that on the platform.

We currently handle plan to handle localization of text (regular, dates, currency, time, gender, plurals, etc.). Handling images is interesting though, I would love to explore that more if it was a pain point for you. Ping me at abhi@langapi.co--I'd love to talk!
I think downvotes are fundamentally broken.

If upvotes are agree/approval and downvotes are disagree/disapproval then why are downvotes used for automatic moderation too? It is a problem in this site and other sites that double-use downvote to mean two different, contradictory, things.

The strange thing about HK in particular is that they already offer a "flag" button. If the flag was dedicated to moderation and the downvote dedicated to discussion, the site would be fine, but downvote will auto-hide comments, grey them, shadowban people in certain cases (like green accounts), and is weighed during flagging/dead-ing (e.g. one flag for a grey comment Vs. multiple flags for others).

I think it has a chilling effect. People are hesitant to post controversial opinions no matter how well written because the consequences (via simple downvotes) can be problematic to even accounts in otherwise good standing.

In an ideal world a site should have an upvote/downvote and flag button. The first two should be dedicated to discussion only, and having a controversial viewpoint should be noteable but not punishable. The latter (flag) should be for comments thats that violate the site's guidelines or community standards (e.g. -isms, trolling, insulting, etc).

PS - Part of the problem right now is that for comments the flag button is hidden below the fold. Many new users may never see it.
A lot of farmers in the US pay heavily subsidized prices for water, this market inefficiency is just going to lead to sadness down the line - either farmers are getting a really good deal or residential customers are being heavily exploited (or, most likely, both).
All the official hooks for pre-commit https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks
Do they have the equivalent of Ericsson (SE) or Nokia (FI)? I think these mobile phone tech companies was what was referred to.
How old was she when she made these mistakes? Is conflating two different maids she hired 80 years ago a reasonable mistake for her to make? I would say definitely.
I'll be honest, I interpreted it the same way.

>a post that ponders whether striving to perform your very best every inch of your life really is the utopia.

I can't read it that way because it's not how I operate. I don't identify as a member of the "front row"[0] even though I am middle to upper middle class. All of the things identified as "mediocre" and implicitly compared against are normal to me.

There's an entire caste of Americans that went to HYPSM+ and got 2300's on their SATs and feel stifled by Bay culture. I think they are supremely out of touch.

[0] https://www.firstthings.com/article/2019/06/back-row-america
> At some point these community efforts must grow back into a company again, right?

(a) Not necessarily, it might turn into a non-profit organisation, a cooperative, or something “akin”.

(b) Nothing wrong with companies either. Although I (and many others) would prefer option (a), a fairer company that respects its customers’ needs and rights is very welcome!
Peter F. Hamilton had a sci-fi scenario where that was a real problem. In the Greg Mandel books I believe. We invented cheap fusion, and build so many fusion reactors that the added heat creates insane hurricanes all over the planet (if I remember correctly)

But yeah, I think it'd take an unbelievable amount of heat production to change the atmosphere directly. But the thing is the sun does bombard us with a mind-blowing amount of heat energy every day, so that's why changing the amount that's trapped by the atmosphere by a very tiny amount can have devastating consequences.
I would think you'd want something more like an Android or Apple tablet using a format (maybe PDF) that let you annotate/make notes using a pen or keyboard. (As well as the usual bookmarks etc.)

Also, looking back at my notes and other materials from school I usually ended up with a few hundred pages of paper from a given class. Whether or not that all transitioned to digital for initial creation, you probably would ideally like to archive all the materials from a class together in one place.