skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Life is suffering, this is ancient wisdom, and an absolute. Serfs suffer. Billionaires suffer. Ants suffer. We suffer in a variety of different ways, but nothing changes the fact that we suffer. Talking about our ancestors like their lives were exclusively miserable is like pitying kids in the 80s because their video games weren't as good, it's ridiculous. They just played different games. There's nothing meaningful here to measure quantitatively, it's all a matter of perception.
Shakira
Is striking not an option for Toptal's employees? I imagine, especially at the size the company is operating, it'd probably be a very effective way for employees to make their voice heard and have negotiating leverage.

Plus, this seems to apply to all employees. Not even the co-founder had shares— this guy seems to be alone at the top.
Tabs clearly indicate a specific level of indent.

Spaces may or may not be rendered to a specific width in different editors, and in fixed width editors are equivalent to 'pixel perfect' rendering; the difference between a dead tree rendering that is static and an electronic metadata included document.
Every single Apple device has a hidden agenda — to make Apple even more powerful than it is today, even more of a bully.

All concentrations of power are bad. As a society we must always seek to reduce power imbalances, not perpetuate them
Or one of Boeing's many subcontractors.
The "Transportation problem" can easily be overstated. If we assume AT is grown offshore to avoid the well-recognized conflicts of near-shore, then harvested material needs to get to shore for some form of processing and subsequent shipping to where the cows are. Given the super efficient nature of shipping goods over water (at least at low speed) at least the water portion of that route would be of little concern. Technologies are under development specifically for this purpose.

A bigger problem may be where AT can be farmed, since it is not native to US waters (except Hawaii) and permitting agencies are understandably strict about introductions.
That's an implementation detail. Serialized JSON can also be printed, but your systems shouldn't depend that JSON is always ink on paper.
I think the title is tongue-in-cheek. Clearly the future is Python and JavaScript.
Calling someone a "knob" is a bit softer than calling someone a "dick", but they both refer to the same body part.
Snow Crash came out about 8 years after Neuromancer and 17 years after Shockwave Rider so I don't think it was groundbreaking. Having said that, I did enjoy it and I do see modern weak knock-offs of Snow Crash that have gotten praise from the pundits in the last couple of years.

Cryptonomicon was awesome but too long. I wish it was cut down.

I loved Diamond Age. I still think about it.
Cars using ML will at times have to answer to philosophical questions such as trolley problem.
(It can be "hard" to do because it can be an uncomfortable or "boring" thing to do, that you don't really want to do. But if you just do it anyway, it's "easy", it doesn't take any skill, anybody can do it, you just have to do it. It is sort of a kind of exersize for your mind, like going to the gym for your mind. You are practicing: a) noticing what your mind is doing, self-reflection in the moment; and b) directing your attention).
My point was more to the OPs comment that his friends are comparing Tesla 3 to Audi/Mercedes/BMW. I was pointing out that they don't share vehicles in the same category so a bad comparison.
Desktop code can be expected to fail sometimes. Core system components that orchestrate everything, should not. Ever. This requires disciplined programming that doesn't assume the stack is a limitless resource free to abuse and fill with tainted data.
> If you don't care if people are offended, then you're effectively saying that you give zero weight to their arguments and opinions

That is only if their opinion is based on (or implied to be based on) their emotional state. Arguments based on emotion are basically zero weight for most philosophical issues (like what problems are more important than others). You have no right to know, what is more important to me, so I think the judgement is ignorant.

> That's not a particularly good argumentative tactic and is a great way to ensure your argument is shut down from the get-go.

My argument about what? My morality? I choose not to care about offending a specific group of people who have a specific interest. No apologies.

> Trying to talk about how to fix a large problem in a code base without understanding why code functions the way it does.

I'm not talking about the same project (or function) as you. One feeds into the other. Ultimately, there is a black-box assumption. I don't have to care about the later components doing their job, when looking at the function that is also complex. Someone should probably be looking at both, but it's not a moral imperative to look at all functions in the world.
> The above doesn't work if the creator of the code uses a different tab width than I do.

Tab proponents suggest alignment to be done with spaces, and indentation to be done with tabs.
Sorry, haven't yet read "The Elements of Style". On my list though, since I've heard great things about it. :)
In a professional environment, there need not be any kind of social element at all. Employees are there to get the job done, not hang-out and shoot the proverbial. There is nothing stopping people from going and grabbing lunch or a beer after work and discussing whatever they feel.
ExceptionNotification v4.4.0 Is Out
I wonder if this is related to acculturation. I would guess that people who are trained as computer scientists or work in tech are exposed to arguments over whitespace, and more self taught people are not. Not to say that spaces are a more sophisticated choice, but that the higher paying sectors are more polarized.
Totally agree. Get off social media, shake the hands of your neighbor, and read a book instead of news. Your life will be better and you'll realize that it is not the end of life when someone disagrees with you.
I encourage you to actually read the thread before commenting.

Nobody is talking about fizzbuzz. We are all talking about take home assignments that take hours, generally 5-10 hours and sometimes more.
Tesla's network is not open-access, there is authentication involved so that even if you implement the physical standard you can't use their chargers without their consent.
Supposedly Northern populists, the more hard working type of populism (again supposedly). The good witch of the South represents the more welfare-statists strain of populism of the era - or so said my econ history professor.
Thanks. I am sure it will be useful to have it in other languages. Will see what I can do :)
I don't agree with him, but it's refreshing. I'd take inartful honesty over bullshit artistry any day of the week.
My guess is that if it attacked someone once it might try again, at least that's the theory with dogs who attack people
I think this is really cool.

I always wondered though, the way we correlate numbers to driving ability seems sketchy. Some people take multiple large dabs of cannabis concentrate - and they're barely feeling it. This is because they basically do this all day every day.

Someone like that would fail this test, despite their motor skills remaining near baseline.

It's clearly different for alcohol, because it directly increases "network latency" (if you will) of motor control and sensory inputs.

So ultimately I would like a push to improve roadside driving ability testing, regardless of suspected substance use. This covers sleepiness, dehydration, etc.
It would make sense that it does, at some level of consumption, just as with anything else that messes with your brain, including alcohol, prescription drugs, lack of sleep and so on.
I'm a tabs for indentation, spaces for alignment person myself. A multi-line statement should have the same number of tabs on each line. Any line after the first should then have spaces as needed.

I'll work without complaint or changing it with any existing code whether spaces or tabs. Mix the two for indentation however and fixing it is the first commit I make before touching anything else.
We used to routinely do 55mph going down mountain passes in Washington State on $30 goodwill bicycles but I think that is well outside the scope of "about the fastest".
Why stop mining when there are so many countries that still using it? Why not sell them and make some money instead of some other country doing it? When people stop buying coal Australia naturally will stop producing it but it is just stupid to not produce it if there is a demand for it.
There is further discussion about this library on the rust subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/cr85pp/announcing_asy...
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Never trusted wireless keyboards always uses cable connected devices. Although those could still be tapped by a usb sniffer but it’s more safe than wireless.

The Bluetooth attack seems similar to car keyfob attacks. Block and replay.

A directional antenna could do the Bluetooth attack from distance.

Counter measures to key logging use one time passwords otp. A password strength also depends on password age.
> Python devs use spaces

Speak for yourself- I use tabs with every language
I sincerely mean no harm by this but:

Web developers are to the rest of developers what internet people in the us are to the rest of the world. That is, I think y'all forget that there are many other types of development that look nothing like web development.

I think I might come very close to losing my mind if I worked somewhere where someone arbitrarily sticks code to read mail in the firmware I was working on.
What is the fastest web server for Rails today? I've always wanted to run something serious with Rails, but the performance always puts me off.
No troll. I’m just pointing out that google only seems to promote one kind of politics, and it’s clearly causing polarization.
And such rich complex interplay isn’t exactly what makes things complex? Interplay plays as synonym for complex in that sentence. Any complex system could be broke down in simple axioms and some concepts and still be complex.

By the way I got severely downvoted for an opinion on what is complex and you were the only one open for speak. Thank you for making a better HN somehow.
> There is a strong need for this device

Show me. "Many people are saying" is not evidence, it's argumentum ad populum.

> doing more than their fair share

Your opinion, while noted, is disagreeable to me.
"electric cars" is not the only category a Tesla might fall in.
> At what levels of THC concentrations is driving empirically impaired and is this measurement consistent across everyone? What evidence do you have to support that THC impairs driving?

The Government of Canada has already legislated [0] that THC impairs driving and that the per-se limit is 2ng of THC per ml of blood. I'm certain this YC company had nothing to do with lobbying for that legislation and that it would have been passed with or without them.

Surely if there is someone to blame for setting nonsensical limits, you should blame the government and the hysterical voters who elect them.

[0] https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/cj-jp/sidl-rlcfa/qa2-qr2.html
Tesla has indeed offered to share the Supercharger network, with anyone who is also willing to split the cost.

You cannot just plug in and get charge with the right adaptor. You need to be authorized by the billing software to get juice. This happens automatically when you plug in a Tesla to the charger.
Huh? You simply capture the packets and crack offline.
You can read about the fact that there are NO data diodes on the FAA website

> The proposed architecture of the 787 allows connection to and access from external sources (the public Internet) and airline operator networks to the previously isolated Aircraft Control Domain and Airline Information Services Domain.

> Capability is proposed for providing electronic transmission of field-loadable software applications and databases to the aircraft. These would subsequently be loaded into systems within the Aircraft Control Domain and Airline Information Services Domain.

[1] http://rgl.faa.gov/Regulatory_and_Guidance_Library%5CrgSC.ns...
Please don't do that. Just... please... don't.

I will have trouble controlling my frustration if I ever have to work on a codebase built with 3 spaces per indentation.
The JavaScript Promise API Is a Footgun
Which also opens up a nice new attack vector.
If that's the best argument Tridactyl can marshal, there isn't much controversy here: Tridactyl will lose, and be blocked by Firefox.
True. Counterintuitively to some, 10 times 5% improvement is 63% improvement overall, not 50%, and 8% improvement on top of 50% improvement is 62% total, not 58%.

That said, 50% reduction is only doable with nuclear energy. Environmentalists who refuse to even discuss it (which, anecdotally, is most of them) aren't really environmentalists at all. They're the PR wing of the "renewables" lobby.
There is some serious negativity in these comments that I don't understand. I for one think that there is a strong need for a weed breathalyzer, and I encourage you in your efforts.

This is a fundamental and necessary part of the legalization of weed. Some people here are worried about the efficacy of such a device and the motives of partied involved - and rightly so. But consider for a moment: the cops don't need to use any sort of test or device in order to arrest you if they suspect you of smoking today. They throw you in a jail cell and let the lab do your blood work in a couple months. And that process is very imprecise! You could have used cannabis weeks ago, then driven totally sober, but it would still show up in your blood tests.
You do have the C API in the form of source code. You just can't distribute your changes as a plug-in.
I've just yesterday discovered that there was this thing called ‘New Wave science fiction’, which corresponded closely to Lem's position on SF―though his is a mix of this New Wave's social topics and more technicky hard-SF.

The Wikipedia article is curiously full of original motivation and sentiments of the ‘New Wave’: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Wave_science_fiction

> With negligible exceptions (Wells, Stapledon and who?), nearly every science-fiction writer up to a very few years ago made one very hidden—and indefensible—assumption. They assumed that science changed; that the world changed; that everything you could imagine changed, except one thing. They assumed that the human race did not change at all.

— Frederik Pohl, 1965

Wells and Stapledon happen to be exactly the two whom Lem cited as his primary idols, and he lamented that later authors didn't live up to that impressive start of the genre.

(Personally I keep getting irked by the term ‘science fiction’ for writings that predominantly have nothing to do with science and everything to do with space cowboys and dramatic robotics―such that people had to invent the qualifier of ‘hard SF’. Russian, and possibly other Slavic languages, call it simply ‘fantastica’, which IMO describes the genre much more accurately.)
Alas it would bring more unsubstantive comments to Hacker News.
> your friends, those mututally selected for compatibility

I have those. I'm very conscious, though, that that's not true for everyone, and it's hard to maintain these things later in life as everyone moves around and becomes too busy with their own lives.
Millions of people get by just fine in the national parks without carrying any firearms every year. Maybe carrying a tiny gun could help, but with a large animal like a grizzly or a wolf it could just as easily escalate the situation.
>Cannabis is not like alcohol in regard to impairment of motor function and decision-making under the influence.

As someone has been high a few times before, I would most definitely not agree with this
> For fuck's sake, there are at least 3 and probably more.

The Met Police (among others) disagree. [1]

Again, Naomi Campbell's case is not about filming a public space.

It's also clear that there might be special cases, e.g. for national security.

Data protection does not forbid filming in public.

[1] https://www.met.police.uk/advice/advice-and-information/ph/p...
And warm weather.
I think you are confusing Ruby (the language) with Ruby on Rails (the framework).

Ruby - the language - is the one released usually on Christmas.
I loved Neal Stephenson at first, but then around the baroque cycle his books became less interesting (to me, personal opinion).
do the companies who currently make alcohol breathalyzers donate profits to charity? and do you question their motives as well?
Exciting! I've been a rails developer for the past 5 years, hoping to hold onto it for as long as possible!
The Psychologist’s Fallacy
Hydroponics greenhouses sound like a viable answer.
I don't think it's silly. I strongly dislike the ergonomics of contributing to a codebase that uses tabs.
Sorry, I meant PMI, not homeowner's insurance. The GP said "mortgage insurance" and that's what I was referring to. I absolutely have and was required to obtain homeowner's insurance to get a loan.
What appears intuitively true is not always so. Certainly, anything at "some level of consumption" would be an impairment, but I'm not sure it's established that marijuana impairs driving ability under typical usage scenarios.
Headspace is too bossy.
Doing more than their fair share of what? It looks like they recognized an issue facing society and chose to exploit the problem for money rather than actually help fix the it. The need for this device is coming from the police-industrial complex, not society at large.

The war on drugs has been incredibly damaging in the U.S., and I absolutely do not want the police to have even more tools to wage it.
Note that the lockup for the recent spate of IPOs hasn't expired yet. It's possible that there will be a small recovery/bounce in the coming winter and spring. We'll see.
I have no idea how many facilities this is, but coal plants can also be retooled for gas: https://www.transalta.com/about-us/coal-to-gas/
Yes, the civil war was a good thing. The destruction was a necessary component of avoiding those things which you acknowledge would be worse. That’s how the world works. Sometimes you need to avoid the bad thing through a lot of destruction.
To this day I still receive emails for another person with my name through cap one 360. Some were regarding overdue bills, and with others some personal information was given. I called repeatedly... and nothing was ever done about it. I think they poorly merged account data at one point - perhaps it’s a broader reflection of their IT work.
I disagree. I personally get cheesed off with psychologists and counselors who I don't feel a connect with. Imho best one's are those that know what is involved in creating an empathetic connection. Sport psychologists are much more interesting to me in that sense cause they can't pretend not to be invested in the person or the team winning.
The actual sales numbers of BMW and Audi vs. the Model 3 tell a different story.

In the US the BMW 3-series sales fell of a cliff since the Model 3 was announced, and Model 3 Q2 sales in the US are 3,000 shy from beating the BMW 3-Series, Lexus ES, BMW 5-Series, and Mercedes C-Class (those are the #2-#5 in that segment)... combined.

[1] - https://cleantechnica.com/2019/08/10/tesla-model-3-outsold-b...
I initially wanted to argue the "Strong need for this device" premise that you layed out, because last I checked the dose-response research re: thc and driving impairment hadn't really been done.

However when I did the research on PubMed, there are some systematic reviews which indicate things like the following [1]:

"Nearly two thirds of US trauma center admissions are due to motor vehicle accidents (MVAs), with almost 60% of such patients testing positive for drugs or alcohol."

They conclude with:

"Consuming cannabis before driving, with or without alcohol, is a common occurrence that produces substantial morbidity and mortality on the roadway. Research is needed to further define cannabis’ effects on driving performance and to provide the scientific basis for laws to improve road safety."

[1] - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3836260/
In case anyone else was curious how you create nonblocking file I/O, it appears to use threads.

I am curious if the number of threads is unbounded, or if they have a bounded set but accept deadlocks, or if there is a third option other than those two that I am unaware of.
Just look at the companies who provide maintance...they're leaving the business.
> So ultimately I would like a push to improve roadside driving ability testing, regardless of suspected substance use. This covers sleepiness, dehydration, etc.

I definitely agree with you there. The difficulty is making it sufficiently objective.

A cop has every incentive to arrest you, so we need to have a degree of empiricism to the test so that cops can't use it to arrest anyone they want.
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Excellent point. The best solution to impaired driving would be a 100% accurate impairment test. The problem comes with designing and implementing such a test.

Let's start with what they have today, the standard field sobriety test. It is a pretty good test of impairment (with accuracy range between %75 to 90% depending on the study). However, there are several problems with the SFST. First of all, it requires police officers to be well trained and exercise their judgement roadside. This introduces the possibility for bias and the costs of training can sometimes be prohibitive. Secondly, the SFST cannot be administered in all conditions. A snowy day is a really bad time to be impaired, but also really difficult conditions for running a SFST.

The alternative is some kind of device that could detect the same (or different) markers of impairment as the SFST. The problem is making a device that is as accurate as the SFST, is portable, and easy to use is very difficult. If you look at attempts to date (like the Ocular DAX), these device tend to be really unwieldy and not even as accurate as the SFST. It seems like a technology that needs a little more time (maybe a decade?).

Overall though, definitely an avenue to explore.
Gas flaring ensures that its methane content is burned and not leaked into the atmosphere. Raw methane natural gas is 30x more potent of a greenhouse gas than the CO2 and water vapor products of its burning.

Banning gas flaring would be extremely short sighted and counter productive.
Unless they are desperate, any wait until summer to sell, so winters can be supplied constrained.
Well the problem is that as I understand it you need to get the FSD package right now to get the current advanced cruise control, which is kind of the party trick of a Tesla and a reason why I'd want one(that and the whole electric drive thing I guess).
sasumata

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sasumata
Given how dangerous automobiles are even for non-impaired people, I'd rather err on the side of caution, especially given that consuming is not something people need to do.
I also use this approach and I love how little leverage equity brings them to the negotiation table. You want to give me equity, nice, but I'm still working for my preferred salary under my preferred conditions.
I haven't read the article, but there's no special significant to the `to` here. It is just looking up the value of a key named `to` in an object called `fields`, using [dot notation](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...):

const fields = {
to: "foo@bar.com"
};

fields.to // "foo@bar.com
Great library, well done. In case anyone was wondering this is not a [no_std] crate even though it can be used as a replacement for std library calls. I guess it (obviously) can't be since it interfaces with the operating system so much.