skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Once upon a time I heard a quote from a PayPal CEO that was something along the lines of "we used to have a lot of competitors, but they all failed because they thought we were all in the business of transferring money. We're actually in the business of fraud prevention."
I went fishing today and had to drive some very sketchy, not-on-google-maps dirt roads to get to the first spot I tried. What happens to that sort of thing once we're all living in walkable condos and depending on driverless Uber for exceptions?
> The point is that these features (thinness/touchbar/whatever) are not an _option_ now.

Well, the iMac didn’t provide an option to install floppy disks as well!
If you believe they are crucial, then you should just buy another company’s computer.
Nobody is forcing anybody to buy the new MBPs.
You could try https://hn.algolia.com/
There is. It’s called a monopsony, a market where there is only one buyer.
I think you got pretty lucky, I have been screwed out of my options twice now by shitty founders. God help you if the startup is successful and profitable, that just means they will get the really good lawyers to claw back equity by any means.
I get that, but now that the mix of customer traffic has changed, the optimal usage of those spaces has changed.

People that want to fill their car with goods in one trip will continue to do so, but it won’t be in the city centre.

Perhaps all along they shouldn’t have, but it was possible/practical before.

Now they will go to the city outskirts to buy larger/bulkier/more good. The sellers thereof will suffer and/or be replaced by car-free friendly businesses (restaurants, cafes, light-weight goods).

That’s all fine long-term, but I’m shedding tears for the businesses that did exist and may not when the environment suddenly changes around them.
6 days ago, 296 points, over 300 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20569920
Apparently the option’s market is betting that AMD’s stock will be roughly $31 in 1 year. Last time I checked it was about $30 which is hardly a gain.
A week after, I passed a whiteboarding with one interviewer, the first of 4, at another large company (not FANG tier) writing pandas and SQL. The interviewer cared about design and the steps to perform a data loading task then querying it, and offered the choice of writing code or pseudocode (I did pseudo for python and wrote out the SQL explicitly).

That’s the proper way to whiteboard.
Applegate’s Aproximada (2017)
Yes, your surface finish is limited by your print quality - but smoothing surfaces post-print goes a long way. "a lot more difficult" doesn't mean impossible at all, but you will have to remove more material to flatten the surface before you can start polishing. Coldworking (cutting and polishing glass) is a field in of itself, and requires some non-trivial equipment to do efficiently, so I would recommend designing your initial pieces to avoid much coldworking. Don't expect an optically clear surface anywhere the glass touched the mold - the default for investment cast surfaces is matte, and clear surfaces either need to be polished with abrasives or HF+H2SO4, or were the top of an open-face casting.

Unfortunately, most kiln-casters prefer very high lead glass (40%+), because it flows very well and doesn't devitrify easily. This, however, makes coldworking an environmentally-dicy proposition, as it generates lots of micron-scale lead dust.

A microwave may suffice to fuse small glass jewelry (...kinda, the annealing will be pretty horrid...), but isn't going to cut it for casting. Stuff at the scale presented in the article would require firing times of at least 12 hours, with much better temperature control than a microwave can provide.
In the US, Starbucks seems to have stepped up and decided to be a publicly accessible restroom for anybody who wants to use them
Beats me. I literally just googled golden rice 10,000, found what you were looking for, and dropped in a link.
On the same topic: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/07/what-nuclear-semiotic...
What signal is sent when a process is out of memory? I thought malloc would either start returning NULL or you’d fault when trying to access overcommitted memory.
Command+? (Command+Shift+/)

Brings up the Help Viewer where you can search any menu items for the current app.

This IS pretty much the built-in command palette for all apps!
https://www.amazon.jobs/en/landing_pages/pto-overview-us

10 days of pto + 6 days of personal time
This is a non issue.

The first amendment says "Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech". It's a limit on government. CloudFlare has no duty to provide 8chan hosting, and their denial of services is very unlikely to be considered discrimination against a protected class.

System working as intended.
Readahead is still useful for large files read sequentially once, and that needs to be buffered. Such programs should use posix_fadvise().
This seems like a good move, and the opposite of a slippery, "government restricted our free speech" slope. It's more like, "companies and individuals are under no obligation to offer their services to people they perceive to be assholes." The reason governments shouldn't do this is because there is no alternative. Companies and individuals are the right place to make an individual choice about what they wish to endorse, host, and support.

People (i.e. the Cloudflare CEO saying "no one should have this power") wishing the government would let them off the moral hook for hosting literal Nazis is pretty absurd.
> My uncharitable take is that a lot of people in power don't care, have no heart and can't be arsed to pretend to care.

Well, as someone who disagrees, but also likes to think I have a heart, I'll give my 2c. Why don't we consider locks on your doors "hostile architecture"? Social problems are complex and difficult to solve, and just because we haven't solved them doesn't mean, for example, that people should be discouraged from trying to prevent people from urinating on their property. I mean, take one of the examples from the wikipedia article: Just because some people have a drug problem doesn't mean blue lights in a public bathroom to prevent IV drug use there is a bad thing.

Take homelessness. It is no coincidence that the cities that actually provide the most support and resources for the homeless actually have the worst homeless problems. With the lack of a national policy to deal with homelessness, providing better services does make your city a magnet for the homeless population (this is NOT an argument against providing those services, just a simple observation of cause and effect).[1] The fact that it would be good to be able to sit at a city bus stop I think is a good thing even if there are still homeless people in your city.

[1] https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/homeless-buy-one-way-bus-ti...
I would still take Uber (well, Lyft) almost always. There's a lot of added value to me just in the app even if there were no price advantage.
That is an absolutely ridiculous claim - I don’t know if any cases where people abandoned using cars because other methods were better. In all cases it’s because the government made cars or fuel prohibitively expensive or inconvenient.

It’s not post-car, it’s post-freedom.
I can’t get behind this google hate. I can think of many companies that aren’t providing any sort of public good.
Not sure if it's completely comprehensive, but the clearest tutorial/reference of regex's that I've used is in the book "The AWK Programming Language" by Aho, Kernighan, Weinberger.

https://ia902309.us.archive.org/25/items/pdfy-MgN0H1joIoDVoI...
You provide limited information but it is not clear the scenario you explain is a bug. If too much memory is locked into resident memory with mlock then this sounds like the expected and correct behavior.
No one won. The squatters lost money, the guy lost time.
Wax is a very good material for modifying/smoothing prints pre-casting, and doesn't mess with the casting process. UV-cure resin is also a good choice, as you can set it fully, sand it down, and apply a gel-coat for a shiny finish.

ABS is a very bad material for casting if you're planning on burning it out, but vapor smoothed parts do make very nice plaster molds if you can remove them. Chloroform works very well for PLA, but it is much much nastier.
There is no way to convince someone about the morality or immorality of a stance since morality is subjective... But in places like San Francisco and LA the lack of bathrooms are creating disease vectors. I get both sides of the issue: the general public will totally trash private restrooms. But also as a member of the general public I'd like to live in a city with public health policy that's designed with 21st century norms like not having fecal matter in the street.
I haven't ever written any OCaml, but I thought it has separate operators for ints and floats. I've written some SML and it has some special hacks to allow overloading on built-in operators. While I do understand that ML style modules are theoretically more powerful than Haskell's typeclasses, they always struck me as much clunkier for everyday use (that's why I personally consider ML family and Haskell family as separate - the approach to ad-hoc polymorphism is an important difference in my opinion)
Having to carry my bags a short distance vs having to transfer then from one vehicle to another is kind of a wash for me in terms of hassle.
Thank Cloudflare
Unless Walmart Canada,No Frills,Sobeys or any other retailer compete with Amazon,we will still read these news.Amazon prime is great if you don't find enough time to go shopping for minor things.Amazon is great for non-perishable item shopping if you compare its prices with other retailers.

Why would I pay $4.99,at Sobeys, for a jar of nescafe if I can get it from Amazon for $3.97?
ctrl + command + 4
Saves screenshot in clipboard, saving your Desktop folder from screenshot clutter
People on the other side of the world that solve captchas for $1 an hour. Sadly, I’m not kidding.
I prefer "vintage"
Any experiences with intentionally hostile software architecture?

Curious how for example code project structure or inter-process messaging constraints can prohibit mixing concerns or breaking the domain model. Also curious how such a forceful environment is experienced and whether it has the intended effect.
I’m personally not a huge fan of driving everywhere. But I wonder whether HN’s view on this isn’t out of touch with the average middle class American’s. The average American commute is 48 minutes round trip, significantly shorter than France (71 minutes), Italy (65 minutes), or Spain (61 minutes): https://www.oecd.org/els/family/LMF2_6_Time_spent_travelling...

That’s mainly because Europe has higher public transit use, and public transit is slow. Parisians who work and commute by public transit spend an average of 116 minutes a day on public transit: https://www.thelocal.fr/20160418/parisians-spend-23-days-a-y....

Viewed from a different perspective, a country where most people can spend 48 minutes a day commuting, because it’s rich enough for everyone to afford a car,[1] might be considered better than one where many people have to endure two-hour public transit commutes. Maybe utopia isn’t Paris, with rich people living in beautiful walkable downtowns, but rather Houston, where middle class people can afford big houses with a pool and a short, direct commute.

[1] The median disposable income per US household is a staggering 50% higher than for a French household.
I'll check out the last one. Currently I am teaching myself real analysis.
The wheel is 5,000 years old. How did you spend 7 years walking to the grocery store without realizing you could buy a cart instead of carrying your groceries by hand?

Also I live in a dense city and have a 10 minute subway commute. A regular city lifestyle does not involve a 2 hour commute, you just lived too far from work for your own good.
What you have described is an oligopoly. Think airlines, or gasoline, or soda. All airline tickets from point A to point B in coach are basically interchangeable, so if one airline has a fare sale, everyone else has to follow or risk flying empty planes. Same, if one gas station on the corner is $.05 cheaper than the other one, they’ll get all the business.

Airlines and gas stations are most, most definitely not monopolies.
The page talks about launching for a fraction of prior costs.

Does anyone know what a traditional cost would be vs the $2.25M quoted?
> for 22 years until eventually undone by gun lobbyists

There have been no significant changes to Australia's gun laws that were implemented in 1996.
Roblox games are 95% garbage in my experience. Apparently there are a few good ones, because somehow they are allowed to sell merch in toy stores — but those are certainly not the ones my kids encounter. All I ever see them play is some variation on running around jumping on buttons, while half the screen is covered in ads trying to get them to do IAPs.
By that definition (esp. with urinal example), I'd include: locks, steps and fences. All have the effect of stopping some people doing what they wanted.
Show HN: Build a sales funnel and sale digital products without using SaaS
Probably the best solution to this is something like memlockd where you explicitly tell the kernel what memory must always be in resident set.
Hey, would you mind explaining how customer service has been atrocious for you? We place a lot of importance on the customer experience, and feedback will help us improve our services.
> ATMs will often try to scare a person into converting, but the rate and fee is almost always much worse than a person's bank.

Not just worse, additive haha. You pay both fees stacked on top. But it's a small price to pay for the peace of mind knowing exactly what your exchange rate is going to be in the moment, if the ATMs are to be believed haha.
That's not a matter of building public restrooms (which, as you say, will just get trashed), it's a matter of not having so many homeless people on the streets that you end up with urine and feces everywhere.
Ive lived in Chicago for 20 years now. Between the L and Metra systems, Chicago's public works pretty great if you want to get from the suburbs into the Loop. I dont have much experience using rhe CTA or PACE bus systems. The transit system is pretty awful if you need to make an orbital commute, say from west suburbs to north, which I did for 2 years. Morning commute wasn't too bad, typically 40 minutes for 25 miles. Evening commute was typically 60 mins, maybe 90 or 120 depending on the number of accidents for the same 25 miles, on rare occasions 180 mins for bad weather. Conversely, the quickest scheduled public transit for my commute was at 180 mins each way. Had to go all the way into the Loop, then back out again. Faced with a normal 2 hour round driving trip vs 6 hour round public trans trip, yeah, I'm going to drive. New job, pays better, and spend 40 minutes in the car. Yeah, theres public trans options, but itd mean spending 3-4 hours commuting and a shit ton of walking that frankling I'm not up for 9 months of the year (either way too hot or way too cold).
I'm the biggest proponent of Gen IV nuclear. But believe me that the level of partitioning and transmutation required to get to 300 year waste requires reprocessing processes of a sophistication that are contrary to the concept of "free" anything. In fact, there's SO much nuclear fuel on Earth and in the seawater, and seawater uranium extraction is getting cheap enough that it's now reasonable to envision world-scale nuclear fission without heavy reprocessing. Deep burn/modified once-through cycles or limited recycling can get you really far with this kind of resource.
NDA? The article is about a non-compete, not an NDA.
The notes opponent could always do a fragmentation of the public. Given enough time such a binary search over people + your search providers knowledge over your searches would tighten the net.
I remember the Moller Sky Car ads that were in every Popular Science magazine of my youth 35-40 years ago. That beautiful, deep red, futuristic machine with the rotating engine pods was something little me was sure I'd be flying around in some day. Life disappoints.
Good find, I was looking at https://github.com/itsonecube/jtk/blob/3d28ed3/LICENSE
That is not "an objective reality", it's an opinion.
yes but no. this was about pto. personal time accumulates in a funny manner and it’s use it or lose it.
It's fine as long as you don't store Go pointers in non-Go memory.

If the local variable is the last reference to the thing, https://golang.org/pkg/runtime/#KeepAlive makes sure the Go side doesn't drop it before the call is complete.
sounds like your boss got at least one thing right :)
There was an article on this on WIPP's own website -- great read. It appears to have been taken down, but here's a snapshot:

http://web.archive.org/web/20090402185739/https://www.wipp.e...
There _NEEDS_ to be a setting where program pages don't get pushed out for disk cache, peroid, unless approaching a low ram situation, but BEFORE it causes long periods of total crushing unresponsiveness.

Here's the thing: a mapped program page is just another page in the page cache. Now, you could maybe say that "any page cache page that is mapped into at least one process will be pinned", but the problem there is that means that any unprivileged process can then pin an unlimited amount of memory, which is an obvious non-starter.

A workable alternative might be to add an extended file attribute like 'privileged.pinned_mapping', which if set indicates that any pages of the file that have active shared mappings are pinned. That means the superuser can go along and mark all the normal executables in this way, and the worst-case memory consumption a user can cause is limited by the total size of all the executables marked in this way that the user has access to.
Great counter-points here. I completely agree as a professional resume editor who creates a few a week and has done so for years. Kudos!
Linux use cases tend to be servers where user interaction is unexpected at 3AM? No one around to make a choice, so automate a choice.

IMO despite the standout behavior, I prefer my software to deal with itself.

Systems designed to wait for user input end up having design choices intent on keeping a user using them.

Software is just a tool. Not a lifestyle. Set and forget this shit as much as possible
True, but only after a PR debacle in which two black men were arrested for waiting at a Starbucks in Philadelphia to meet someone. One of them asked to use the bathroom while waiting and an employee called the cops, who hauled them off to jail in spite of the white guy they were meeting showing up and talking to the cops to say "No, they really were waiting for me. That's the truth."

To save face, Starbucks apologized and made it company-wide policy that anyone can use their bathrooms, an announcement that got posted to r/homeless as a little good news for the homeless community.

https://search.yahoo.com/search?ei=UTF-8&fr=crmas&p=starbuck...
Finnair Flight 915
Mathematica and Maxima are much more functional, for what is worth. Mathematica is pretty much a redressed Lisp (much lispier than Julia), and Maxima is not even redressed (it uses s-expressions).

>Procedural languages that are inherently distanced from math are used for math for whatever reason.

I think that historically it wasn't easy to make an efficient functional language. Numerical languages all trace back to Fortran after all (which is still alive and well). Nowadays, I think it's mostly because of inertia, and researchers having better things to do than learning a completely different programming language.
Post WWIII may certainly be regressed considering the multiple orders of magnitude more destructive firepower we built up in the Cold War. As Albert Einstein (allegedly) said: "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
They made and sold the cases though before it became a workaround.
I think the idea is that it is very common to transact in amounts >$1000. Rent, car payment, direct deposit, etc.
You rent a car that you can drive yourself to wherever you want. Over the long term in a walkable city, that is definitely cheaper than owning a car.
you can readahead as far as you like with unbuffered io
Just shows the level of idiocy among those governing Iran. Why would you create this much bad publicity for yourself globally to torture some random guy you did not like for whatever stupid reason.

> creating software that was used to post pornographic photos.

Oh noes the horror... While Iranians are have group sex parties in the country... as well as a significant drug problem due to economic woes.
Turns out their ISP dropped out too. I'll go ahead and eat my words now :)
Book was so much better than accelerando
Fun fact: during the Battle of the Bulge, some of the Manhattan Project scientists discussed dropping the radioactive Hanford waste just produced (as a byproduct to plutonium production) in the path of the Nazi tanks.
Hong Kong is China's Crimea, nobody outside of China is going to go to war over it.
Video games can have a very similar reaction on the brain as drugs in the release of dopamine. This is my biggest fear raising my kids in this technology driven age.
Much of TikTok is content sucked in from other networks—-often without creator license. Then remixed to a meme or “trend” inside the app. It is actually amazing because it somehow has gotten around the walls of fb, ig, snap and YouTube.
I said it was a reasonable position, not that it was my preference. I'm capable of admitting that something that isn't my first choice is reasonable. But it's not reasonable if it's enforced unfairly.

And the policy here at Hacker News is to consider the strongest version of an argument. You did the opposite, cherry-picking the weakest examples.

> you linked a list of 15 bad examples

No, a list (that I didn't make) with some examples that were stronger than others, and you tried to ignore the strong ones. Even you admitted that Kathy Griffin's actions led to deplatforming from some platforms. And you've again ignored the cartoonist who also depicted Trump's severed head. And you're dismissing talk about beating someone up because you disagree with them as an "off-color joke".

You also misrepresented my position.

> your position was that the left didn't deplatform her

This is a discussion about YouTube's policy, it's natural to assume I meant YouTube, which I did. Again, respond to the strongest version of my argument, not a different argument that's easier to attack.
Maybe that average Parisian commute is slower, but more pleasant. Walking and taking in the environment is certainly more positive for the body and mood (on average). You also encounter tons of other people, building social value, even without any direct interactions. Reading or daydreaming also become options when not focused on the road. Time isn't the only measurement.

You are probably correct that the average American, however, doesn't see it from that perspective.
I tend to agree, but I think it's worth considering that public transit commutes might be longer because people find time on public transit more pleasant, and are willing to do more of it.

To look at two extremes, 45 minutes of bumper-to-bumper stop-and-go driving is a lot less compelling than 45 minutes of reading on a commuter train with a comfortable seat.
Does anyone remember Blockland (http://blockland.us/)? It was arguably the precursor to Roblox and in some ways the building portion of Minecraft... the creator Badspot just never embraced it and it fizzled out around 2007.

Arguably he could be a billionaire these days if he had kept at it. He had the right idea... but did not execute.
> you need access to a gender neutral restroom

If you don't want to use the mens or womens, then just use the restroom with the wheelchair picture on the door. There's your gender neutral facility right there.
Solved.