skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Well, Go seems to have enabled a new wave of software renaissance - Kubernetes, Docker

Go turned out to be a pretty bad choice for container tech due to its awful multithreaded runtime. Things could have been different if it focused on a single threaded runtime or provided control over OS threads, but it did neither.

Also neither of those projects were enabled by Go. One is a pretty low quality but strategic push into the cloud and other one is a pivot from an attempt to solve real problems of building a PaaS hosting platform.
If Hy could resolve its problems with let being moved to contrib and attracted enough manpower to reach 1.0 I think it could attract significant mindshare. Hy fills in the missing piece for devs who want to go all-in with modern Lisp supported by an established ecosystem, ie. front-end/Clojurescript/NPM, scripting/Hy/PyPi and back-end/Clojure/JVM.
I'm not saying it can't be automated, just pointing out that the testing process is pretty different from what you seemed to be describing. And I left out some of the steps that aren't easy to automate: checking for fit, deciding what style of hearing aid would work best, visual inspection of the ear canal.
> the Christchurch one is illegal for me to read

Could you elaborate on this? It sounds awful to me - someone could tell you anything they want about the manifesto and the shooter's motivations, and it would be illegal for you to check if they are lying or not.
That is way too strong a claim to make given that we’re still utterly confused about the hard problem of consciousness.
Not to mention the absolute terror you are putting into kids’ (and teachers) minds.

No way will I subject my child to this. It seems far more damaging than helpful.
When a young woman has trouble with life she's given sympathy and resources. When a young man has trouble he's told to stop being such a wimp. Not surprisingly some of them snap.
> probably some other costs

Lawyers.
Yes I would be okay with trade sanctions based on GHG emissions. That's how you would implement a carbon tax, you need tariffs for countries that don't want to join the tax system.
Would you support a license requirement or a word limit for the First Amendment?
Cuddles the cuttlefish <3
I remember reading somewhere that Serbia used a similar tactic to fool the NATO aircraft in Kosovo.
Sure. So with ISO notes, you can create your notes two different ways. One RTF and the other is Markdowns. I have also provided the ability to export your notes. This helps you to keep your usage low...cheaper plans.

You can use Optical Character Recognition to extract text from images...that's the OCR feature.
Additionally, there are 3 editors for editing Excel, Word and HTML documentation.

You also have access to ISO drive...which is sort of like OneDrive/GDrive. This mostly for storing your documents.

I have also provided dashboards that you can use to monitor your usage.

Finally, once your export your RTF notes as a notebook, which is in the form of HTML, you will still be able to search through your notes. There is a page where you can also encrypt your notebooks, if you wish so.

You asked how...if you mean what technology...secret recipe... :)

It is hosted on the cloud. The data is sitting in encrypted data stores...but for more info, I might create a proper post for it later.
The real thing is even more different than an ocean.

In an aquifer you have something like wet sand or wet rocks, i.e. there is sand/rocks and the water is in the space between them.

In this case, the molecules of water are inside the crystal structure. It's almost like a chemical reaction instead of only some inert object getting wet.

An usual similar compound is Cooper Sulfate that is nice because it changes color. The anhydrous version is white and you can get it heating the normal version. The normal version is blue and it has 5 water molecules per each CuSO4. But it is not wet like wet sand/rocks, the water is trapped inside he crystals. I can't find a good link but there is more info in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper(II)_sulfate#Other_form_... there are some nice photos in https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=copper+sulfate+colo...
No. Software businesses have very high gross margins, because the cost of goods sold rounds to zero. They can be losing money because of high fixed costs, but there's an obvious way out where you grow sales to the point where the margin covers fixed costs, and then it's all gravy from there.

Uber does not have unit economics like this.
Every time I've tried to write some go, I've always started reaching for some things that aren't there (essentially generics). I'm looking forward to go 2.0 and hope the inclusion of generics will make it more pleasant to write.

Also, while it's said comically often in HN comments, Rust (and particularly the iterator api) is very pleasing to write. I'd say it sits in quite a sweet spot language-wise.

Context, I'm a C++ programmer who had been writing in dynamic languages for the last couple of years.
Thanks, I will check. I believe that is only for the site update timestamp at the bottom of the page. Once you login It should be fine.
>Look, if you reason like that you essentially say that you can never apply any pressure on others, because pressure might turn out to be too much, and might then lead to destabilization

The whole point to fight against climate change is to save future lives, but if this comes at a huge cost of present lives, then that outweighs the potential future problems.

If you put pressure on a country economically, especially one that's poor then you're creating enemies for yourself for generations. It destroys goodwill and cooperation. Look at Russia right now. They're clearly moving towards isolating themselves from the global economy, even though they brought this on themselves with hostile actions. Now imagine what would happen when other countries band together against a poor country to do the same.
To fail to big.
Sure, Go didn't turn out to be well suited for distributed systems either. But neither are JVM languages.
Since the levelized cost of new nuclear is 3-4x that of renewables, how could what you write there possibly be true?

Hydrogen, in fact, if made by electrolysis from renewable energy, would be the final nail in the coffin for nuclear. That's because it would destroy the last, desperate argument the nuclear fans are making: that renewables cannot reach 100% due to occasional long windless/cloudy periods, and that batteries to tide over those periods would be too expensive. Batteries would be too expensive, but hydrogen burning turbines would not be.
I agree that the FDA is a huge problem, and that Something Needs To Be Done, much like the CPUC in California which is really just an arm of industry. I don't know how to approach implementing a complete overhaul of the FDA without some truly atrocious people taking advantage of any loopholes which inevitably appear.
Collusion of this type has a very minor impact on market rates. The example you cite is tech companies coming to an agreement to not cold call each other's employees to head hunt them. And wages in Silicon Valley have exploded over the last couple of decades so obviously there are much larger forces at play in setting wages than these collusions.

This sort of collusion can also be addressed in a much more targeted way than creating laws that give workers who unionize control over major hiring decisions of their employer.
It is possible to radicalise anyone.

It is not about politics at all. You can convince even the hippiest left-wing peaceniks into terrible activity.

All you have to do is fixate the subject on either side of a dialectic argument involving force, violence, duress .. injustice. Or even better, all of the above.

The root of all radicalisation is individual responsibility.
Indeed we did.

https://www.iol.co.za/mercury/world/yugoslav-decoys-fooled-n...
According to Wikipedia the Germans held back troops to repel a landing at Calais.

I think the Germans were particularly receptive to this kind of thing. Hitler was the perfect mark. A man who is utterly convinced that he is cleverer than his enemy. The allies just needed to confirm some things he already thought.

The Germans always had data about what was really going on. They just allowed bias to get in the way.
This is the main consideration I give to gun ownership.

When there is a tyrannical government in power who is violently oppressing the people, would any new laws eventually prevent me from walking up to an agent of the tyrannical state and shoot them in the head? i.e., would it be possible to have localized insurrections against government? Make no mistake, it is this fear that prevents most governments from overreaching.

If the answer is no, then the rule is not allowed. Licensing would be a slippery slope into complete gun control and consolidating power over the people.

If you want further proof, look at what is happening in the socialist countries in South America. The government is murdering their own people who are defenseless.

If you want further proof that an armed populace is a good check against (real or perceived) tyranny, look at Afghanistan, Iraq, and of course USA (hello UK!)
I wonder how much money he would have got if he was in the US ?

Edit: if he was american and built it in the US
Here is something: https://samchui.com/2019/07/18/easa-warns-of-airbus-a321neo-...
Massive (3x) quality increase + lossless jpeg recompression option.
Has that been verified as actually being his? Twitter reports were saying that it was a hoax and hasn't been attributed to the El Paso criminal.
In my opinion, simple answer why developers hate codking skills tests is: they have a huge opportunity cost ([1], see also [2] and [3] for a more humorous explanation) for the person to be tested. Or, put in more simple words: in the time that a coding skill test takes, you could earn money.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Opportunity_cost&...

[2] https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2012-12-29

[3] https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2014-04-20
> I suppose you could remap most of the vim keys to function keys

Then you just end up with emacs.

The modal editing is the defining characteristic of VIM for me, and why I use it everywhere. (directly or emulator plugins)

Rebinding ESC to CAPSLOCK is essential for me though.
That would literally make my year, as a Jasper.
This map seems to be more than lacking. For one it doesn’t seem to take into consideration wet bulb temperatures on the rise, as we have seen now in central and western Europe. It also doesn’t seem to take into account that what really creates issues for economies is high variability, rather than absolute average changes.
Correct, i seem to have quoted the wrong part of the GP comment... I meant to address this quote:

> adding a special flag to indicate all characters in the string are ASCII, so that we can still use O(1) indexing in this case

But I got confused and addressed the linear indexing part.

But yeah, ASCII is constant time, but you can’t assume even UTF-32 can be constant time due to variable length grapheme clusters.
Here's the study the impact map is based on:

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsta.2016.046...

The results are from "a new set of climate simulations."

A simulation can easily be wrong. These results say Ireland's GDP growth per capita will be unaffected by climate change and Britain's GDP growth per capita will increase if temperatures rise 2C, but I find it hard to believe these islands wouldn't be hurt.

Why should we trust these maps?
There is no KKK. There are several dozen. They generally aren't very organized and don't really Burn buildings and flip over cars like Antifa and BLM. You of course know that they aren't classified as a terrorist organization. Some call them that, yet these same people often won't say the same about left wing groups we see doing 95% of the violence and destruction.
Sure, for all the words that can be used to kill people.
Forgot to mention, you can export your Markdowns as *.md file. With markdowns you can insert graphs, math formulas and sequence diagrams too.
> I mean... if drivers aren’t in the picture it might work, no?

Driver wages are a cost to Uber, but the drivers supply the cars, so they're also a source of working capital. A driverless taxi company would save on the wages, but would have to put up all the capital for the cars itself. This is not a slam dunk.

And yes, Uber is a bit more complicated because they often finance drivers' purchases of cars. But since they make money doing that, you can't make Uber more profitable by taking that out of the equation!

But on the gripping hand, we are not going to get replacement-level self-driving cars within the next decade, so whether Uber could make money with such cars just doesn't matter.
This video was (someone else?) flying a moon landing in a simulator with an FPGA emulated Apollo Guidance Computer.

CuriousMarc's series is about restoring a real AGC.
As depicted in this classic Far Side cartoon:

http://i.imgur.com/hAjOWmV.jpg
Leasing land in 30 year increments or so instead of selling it would be pretty smart. Then the government can just not renew leases if it needs land for, say, infrastructure.
>and even per capita it's similar to the EU members bulgaria and romania

Bulgaria is a poor country. Bringing them up as an example is a bad idea, because life there isn't great.

>But nowadays even the poorest of countries has better options available, and likely can get some help in exploring those options too.

Yeah, and that "help" will come after we've sanctioned them into irrelevance, right?

How would you feel if people discussed openly like this that China should buy a large chunk of the US and force the US to submit through sanctions from the world? Sanctions that would likely severely impact the quality of life of the people in the US? (Even then Americans would still be richer than Brazilians are right now.)
Climate migration causes population growth which causes GDP growth.
While our analysis was initially inspired by the hypothesis that mass media attention given to sensational violent events may promote ideation in vulnerable individuals, in practice what our analysis tests is whether or not temporal patterns in the data indicate evidence for contagion, by whatever means.

In truth, and especially because so many perpetrators of these acts commit suicide, we likely may never know on a case-by-case basis who was inspired by similar prior acts, particularly since the ideation may have been subconscious.

But they do tend to leave behind a manifesto or social media history that can point to their thinking and influencing factors.
Is it really?

If that were the case, then you'd see people debating the relative merits of SDLC approaches and organizational blinders to letting bugs slip through.

In reality, that's only about 20% of any Boeing discussion.

80% is outrage about how Boeing could have released such an "obviously flawed" airplane that required flight computer adjustments. And misunderstanding that Boeing pivoted from a clean sheet design to instead build exactly what the carriers asked them to.

Generally, HN comments are pretty good, but the amount of kneejerking in Boeing threads in lieu of informed discussion is terrible.

Edit: Although reading through new replies this morning, it's nice to see voting mostly sorted the technical wheat from the chaff.
What's the best (cheapest) investor visa one can get to the post-warming winning countries?

I'm probably going to see people die from heat exhaustion in front of my eyes if I stay here ~50 years.
Do you provide VISA/relocation for interns? Been using this product and really interested.
This is tin foil hat crazy
Why would you equate "young men" to "mass shooters"? You literally took the quoted sentence out of context.
Of course, but let others do the same.
I'm French, I travel, I know that feeling.
All societies drift towards inequality. We can't avoid that because our rules and laws are imperfect, and people will take advantage to control a bigger slice of the pie. That's fine, so long as we have corrections from time to time to redistribute wealth and power (such as the wealth giveaways that primitive societies practiced, or debt jubilees in more complex societies).

Historically, when inequality goes on for too long, social unrest takes root and gradually grows worse, divisive factions and subgroups grow, "little battles" take place, and, if untreated for too long, revolution breaks out.
I'm seeing there's some niche cases where it's worse (especially with some extreme quotation-mark-heavy searches) but I've switched a few months ago and never looked back.

The thing is: Most searches aren't even that complicated. Whatever "magic" (read: extra processing power) Google uses is mostly helping for extreme niche cases. The rest they seem to do, nowadays, is "editorializing" results, pushing popular websites before more relevant ones, displaying results from some internal database, etc.
I love seeing more Ruby implementations! Looking forward to seeing how it will progress. Are there any details on how it’s implemented? How does it execute Ruby? Does it have its own bytecode? Does it compile to machine code on the fly? What will make it faster than MRI?
Treating firearms like every other object in our world is a false equivalency. They are created to kill, period.

I grew up target shooting weapons of all sizes and shapes. It is a lot of fun, no doubt.

But their capabilities to inflict massive damage in seconds should make it clear that they require special consideration.

In addition, the objects we are talking about today are orders of magnitude more deadly than those originally considered by the Bill of Rights.
>I hope you understand that when you suggest intentional pressure to divide a country you're essentially asking for war.

Where is this assumption coming from that I am suggesting international pressure to divide a country? To stop deforestation of Amazon Rainforest? Sure. However, there's a vast berth between that and dividing a country and the former doesn't automatically equate to the latter, yeah?
Careful it's a trap, it's the victim mentality trap.

When everything is the fault of others, for sure you cannot do anything about it. There is even a sentence about old white men !

He seem to forget about all the good that came of western society. Electricity, cars, Internet, vaccine, solar cells, wind turbine, the list go on, even the computer he use to type that article.

From wikipedia: "Corruption remains a problem in Sri Lanka, and there is currently very little protection for those who stand up against corruption."

"over 12,000 named individuals who have undergone disappearance after detention by security forces in Sri Lanka, the second highest figure in the world"

"26-year civil war, which ended in 2009"

Look, you have much biggers problem in your own country, that are not the responsibility of others, that your people could do something about.

Maybe some of the flood would have been averted if the government had build damn instead of fighting a civil war for 26 years.

The problem is that victim mentality make you feel good. It's not your fault, it's not in your hand, you don't have to do anything, just blame other people.

I am not saying climate change isn't real, but it's a too much convenient scapegoat because it's out of your control.
Fellow Brit. I won’t say a single word against your post. You’re absolutely correct. We also held the development of countries like India back by insisting that to get an education they would have to travel to the UK. No major colleges, or heaven forbid Universities, for the colonies.

Nevertheless, the idea that colonialism is responsible for these countries current woes is misleading. My wife is Chinese and she used to tell me that China was poor because British people took away all their wealth in the 1800s. She can see now that’s not the case. China is a superpower now not because they threw off the yoke of imperialism in the 1980s. They did that in the 1940s. The trouble is they wasted decades on Communism.

Japan got with the modernisation program early and went from medieval backwater to superpower able to go toe to toe with the USA in a couple of generations. South Korea, Taiwan and then China did the same. In my lifetime China has gone from being a backward joke in Russia’s shadow to a globally dominant economy.

Britain narrowly avoided serious economic paralysis with our experiments with nationalisation in the 60s. Fortunately we shook it off in the 80s and got our mojo back.

The point is, it’s incredibly easy to get your economy stuck in a rut for generations, and let the rest of the world pass you by. Alternatively, it’s possible to modernise and get right back up to speed in a few decades, if you have the commitment. Plenty of countries in all sorts of different circumstances have done both.
You just killed...
That's how laws relating to unions and collective bargaining and striking work. You cannot negotiate with other parties once the majority of your employees in a work unit vote to collectively bargain. That means the union gets a monopoly over who you can negotiate with.

Similarly, you cannot fire and replace unionized workers who strike, which again means the union is controlling your company and determining who you can employ.
You had a really nice, informative comment about the history of vi and the weird keyboard of the ADM-3A terminal and then you had to take a cheap shot at vi users. Why?

I've been using vi/vim/nvim for nearly two decades now and I only press escape (actually C-[, since I mapped caps to control) once each time I need to get out of insert mode. I don't have "wrong mode paranoia" because I can see at a glance what mode I'm in by the appearance of the cursor. When I finish inserting, the cursor moves one place to the left and highlights the last character I inserted. In vim it's even easier because the cursor changes appearance in insert mode.
Fly-by-wire is not about airframe stability. High-performance jets are fly-by-wire because high-performance generally means you need to build an unstable airframe, and computer control is the only way to compensate for it.

But that's not commerical aviation - that's combat aviation. That's "you fly faster or the missile catches you and you die anyway" aviation.

Building intentionally unstable airframes for civilian aviation is a very different proposition. And unrelated to the use of fly-by-wire.
The actual searching is performed at MS and Yahoo, though.
Not that much.

And food delivery in cities has been around long before the Web. Not sure having brochures from the local pizza places and chinese restaurants and making a phone call is all that different from doing it at a computer.
Can you argue that the bill of rights is just wrong and should be ammended?
When Worse Is Better (2011)
This is a sad effect of national media attention (Click bait and headline bait). I watch the news sometimes and wonder if we'd all be better off if it didn't exist...

Obligatory mention that There were more murders in Chicago this week and it gets no media headlines.
> Photons are basically packets of momentum that atoms exchange.

Is the quantized nature of these packets caused by a limitation in the atoms and their ability to form photons, or is it a fundamental limitation of the photons themselves?
Labor protection laws restrict contract liberty. They mandate minimum benefits and standards. On the surface that sounds nice, but in reality you don't improve working conditions and wages by making poor working conditions and poor wages illegal.

Every single benefit comes at a cost. Companies do not have an infinite amount of resources to spend on benefits. The optimal mix of benefits should be determined through bottom up organic processes, not by state fiat based on simplistic assumptions.

The process by which the market develops and quality of life improves is much more complex than these cookie cutter rules assume.