skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This looks very promising. I'm curious though, is there any authentication mechanism here? If I have Unison installed does it start a listener and execute whatever code is sent to it?
https://wordsandbuttons.online started as an experiment in unchitecture. Every page is a copy-paste of previous pages. On the plus side: no dependencies, every page is self-sufficient, and the code evolves freely from page to page.

On the downside, it's impossible to maintain it without automation. If I want to change something in several copies, I have to write a script to do this for me.
Yes, the electricity cost of cooling and lighting indoor farms is still too expensive. Another way of saying that they yield gains from farming indoors are not yet sufficient to offset the added costs. I am engineering varieties of tomatoes designed to be higher yielding indoors.

P.S. you may also find this article informative.
http://www.bbc.com/future/bespoke/follow-the-food/the-clean-...
You can arrest the dealers all you want, but to actually stop the problem you need to stop the suppliers/cartel.
Isn't that what Latin was for centuries?

And just like some people (Italians?) had certain advantages in learning their Latin, some people have advantages in learning Esperanto.
Now the superorganism is global. Who will be left to carry the torch?
I like the concept. It would be cool if you could choose the language you were interested in, and receive daily updates. It would also be cool if the lines were a little more complex rather than just function names or css selectors
> Note that a manufacturer warranty might be distinct and separate from statutory obligations the manufacturer also has.

In much of the West (including the US, even though it has generally weak consumer protections), there is a statutory restriction with regard to when the manufacturer can and can not void a warranty.
Because people are willing to pay more to live there. All of those places are distinctive because their environments are illegal to build now, so we haven't made more of them even while population grew and urbanized.
>Are there no alternatives to GA?

There is Matomo (formerly Piwik): https://matomo.org/
I used to do this in the UK brought my monthly season ticket using a 3% cashback used to make just under £20 a month.

Of course the badly implemented EU changes which in theory should have benefited the consumer did not - the merchants just took the reduction in interchange fees and didn't cut prices at all for the end consumers
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Swift was earlier 2015-04-08
- async IO
- fast and safe parsing
- JHipster style end to end code generation off a data model

My wish list. Been noodling at making a Python port of JHipster, swapping in Rust parsers.

All libraries need to make async IO a priority.
Religious copy paste
> It will be "anonymised" I imagine, enough to give Google all they want and still let Mozilla get paid

Do you have you any basis for this assertion?
The lazy uneducated poets would butcher the language first, followed closely by the lazy uneducated lawyers. The day might come when lazy uneducated CEO's pervert it even further, but I'm gonna have to circle back with you on that and touch base later.
Why Everything They Say About the Amazon Is Wrong
Is aphantasia is a recent discovery or something? I've only started hearing about it here and on reddit in the last year-ish.

It's super interesting since it seems so crazy that you can be incapable of picturing thing, and also because some people told me I might have it in a conversation when I mentioned that I don't tend to picture things like the bar people walk into in the man walks into a bar joke format and can't draw even slightly, but I know that I don't have it because I _can_ picture those things but just don't.
I was there in the PHP 4.x days too during the early 2000s, and you know, I really liked it. It just made things so simple to understand and work with. Look up a function, see a bunch of examples in the docs and use it right away without having to worry about imports and lugging around a ton of baggage.

I think the main reason PHP got such a bad rap for flat functions is because they implemented it poorly. So many things were extremely inconsistent when it came to naming conventions and argument orders that it became near impossible to remember them in a systematic way. But couldn't that problem be addressed today since we're aware that naming consistency is an important programming language feature?

> I can see it for core libraries, but outside of that I think namespaces are necessary for the greater language ecosystem.

Yeah I could get on board with that. Docker sort of does this now with Docker images. At the UI level (the tooling we use in our day to day like the CLI) we don't need to access "elixir" or "python" images with a namespace (Docker adds it for us automatically), but we are free to create our own brightball/elixir or nickjj/elixir images to avoid conflicts.

But in a programming world, I would like to type brightball_elixir at call time in my code instead of importing elixir from brightball, because with the latter I have no idea if elixir is coming from you, me, or the standard library unless I move away from the code and look at the import.
is the theme in GitHub? BTW your GitHub link is broken!
On the bottom-right corner, you can find the symbols and their distributions.
LA has a good rail system on top of a crappy city. You could put the Tube in LA and it wouldn't go where you needed to go because everything in LA is ten times further away than it should be. It's mostly asphalt.
Quoting the description from the Twitter meta tag on the site:

> Los Angeles has the space to solve it's housing and transportation problems, it just needs right priorities. LA County has more than 110,000 acres of parking, enough to pave over Manhattan 7.5 times. Turning 10% of these parking spaces into homes could easily satisfy the current 550,000 home deficit for low-income renters. More than $1 Billion is spent every year just building new parking in Los Angeles.
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Ask HN: Where to learn about driving engineering change in large organizations?
I’ve helped establish best practices and healthy engineering cultures in greenfield scenarios, when I was the first technical hire in an early stage environment. I’ve also come into a small company with significant technical debt and introduced changes to the engineering practice in ways that were embraced by the legacy team. But I’ve never had the chance to reform engineering practices and culture at a very large organization, I’m considering it as a path for professional growth, and I’m looking for ways to learn more about doing it before I dive into the deep end.

I’m talking about a software company with dozens or even hundreds of engineers, with large amounts of technical debt, that has a giant, monolithic codebase that’s highly-coupled and poorly tested, a release process that is slow and brittle. And in this scenario, I either lack the authority to dictate global change or I think that an authoritarian approach would be inappropriate and ineffective, or I have no authority at all and have to drive change locally, from the bottom up.

If I didn’t know a lot about what best practices were, I’d be reading things like Clean Code. If I didn’t know a lot about strategies for approaching technical debt, I’d be reading things like Working Effective with Legacy Code. If I didn’t know a lot about leading a small team in general, I’d be reading things like Radical Candor. But none of those quite capture the problem I’m describing.

Can HN recommend any books, blogs, videos, podcasts, personalities I should be looking at?
Because `?` is not an infix operator between two things of the same (or reasonably similar) type, which is what programmers expect from infix operator chains.
That's a gem in plain sight! All this time (months? years?) I've been copy-pasting the url into Google. After clearing site data and going incognito, I'm in. Thank you!
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I'm with you. Service dogs are fine. They are highly trained and don't cause any ruckus (and they are pretty rare). But there is a rise in "emotional support" animals. These dogs are usually not trained and you're starting to see lots of them. I don't dispute people get benefit from these animals but they can be annoying to others.
It's a very similar looking car, even down to the T E S L A matching the L O T U S. I wouldn't be surprised if the 'new' parts had conspicuously similar mounting points.
In the case of London an in important factor is because many people are using housing stock as an investment opportunity, rather than a place to live.
Instead, we have people piling up on the street because we don't build homes for people.
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Well, I am absolutely not interested in giving up my car. It is my private space and enabler of my freedom of movement, without relying on external services and timetables. It adds a lot of value to my life. If my city becomes too unfriendly for me and my car, I will have to move elsewhere.

I work from home, though, and I don’t use the car for daily commuting. Commuting is the main driver of most traffic problems in the cities, so there’s that.
I dont understand the confusion, its called a 'loss leader."

These companies have very, very smart people working for them, analyzing all the data they have to come up with a product and its limits. They know x% will not be profitable, and they include that in the profit calculations.

Why dont they simply cut off the non-profitable customers? Because people don't like this and they'll quickly tell their friends "Don't sign up for Discover, they cancel your account if you don't make them money." It wound be all over Slickdeals and blogs. No credit card is going to survive cancelling accounts for using their credit line in totally normal ways.

Just like a store could say "for every 10 sale priced items you buy you must buy a full priced item" - but then nobody would shop there.
I know about the past- I still tend to believe that the better product wins.

You're pointing at Internet Explorer in 2001 as to why Windows is the #1 desktop operating system today? It was a better product- with or without this shitty business practice 20 years ago.
This feels reminiscent of the current issue of long-term data storage.

Flash drives are volatile and can lose your data any minute. Solid State drives are slightly less volatile, and a hard disk has magnetic fields that will last decades, but nothing will keep our gigabytes of data alive and intact for future archaeologists. If the Library of Alexandria can burn, then so can any form of digital storage.

On a side note, I enjoy reading John Baez's answers to common physics questions: http://www.math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/
There's a typo in your post where some HTML has snuck into a code block:

> &amp;lt;

I'd recommend searching for more of them :)
It has been about a decade since I used Windows (XP) as a daily driver, and I am shocked, and seriously disgusted, when I see my friends or co-workers using it.

Can I ask why anyone is paying for this pile of crap?

There are literally no improvements from Windows 7 vs. Windows 10, that could convince me this level of built-in telemetry, and, God forbid, built-in advertising is worth an 'upgrade'.

For God's sake, they are in the freaking start menu, and slow down several of my friends older computers who were force-upgraded.

And before you tell me what I already know, that you can 'opt out' - we should not have to opt out of advertising on an operating system we pay for, especially one that did not have advertising before.

As far as I'm concerned, for all the talk about Apple's 'walled garden,' folks are so addicted to Windows x86 and x64 apps, and so locked into that walled garden, they are now willing to accept being tracked, and to literally have a slower OS due to the baked in advertising.

The failure, and massive financial deficit, that occurred from Windows RT should be more than enough evidence of this. Without its history of apps, Windows isn't Windows.

Knowing that, Microsoft can pack whatever bullshit it wants, including, but not limited to, tracking and advertising, and we still buy.

The only inherently worse-for-the-user OS out there is Android. I will no longer use Google services, even by request. I'm literally trying to ween myself off YouTube, reporting a post on HN yesterday that was merely a YouTube link to a guy talking about how his wife left him that had somehow snuck it's way onto the front page.

I pray one year, we will have that 'year of Linux,' and Microsoft can go back to creating a quality product, instead of focusing on new ways to get information out of users.

Edit: I also pray for, and would even contribute code to, a meaningful third party mobile OS solution. I'm worried Apple will realize they are the last company to respect user privacy to even a reasonable degree, and get greedy.

However, there are so, so many issues with a new mobile OS, between devices, carriers, a bootloader compatible with said devices, licensing, and such, that at the moment, I am not seeing any of the projects in the works as feasible. To be honest - the world of commercial operating systems has never looked so grim.
Maybe a silly question but how well connected was the world during Greek and Persian civilisations? Shouldn't their ideas and works survive on neighbours empires that we have a good track record?

I wonder if it's possible that some of the inventions attributed to China and India today could be tracked to works lost on one of these civilisations collapses.
Thanks for making your Logo books available!
I know it's an out there theory but I believe the problem is much more fundamental. It's switching from an analog operator, to a digital one.

Pervious analog to digital transitions have been easier because we could afford to lose information. (IE Audio, from records to CDs.) It was just a matter of getting the digital sample small enough. Information was still lost, but not enough to matter.

But with driving, it matters. We can't digitize the world to a point where a computer can drive better than an alert trained human.
Yup. There's a lot of factors at play. We're a very ahistorical field; lots of folks are self-taught and therefore reinventing everything is normal to them; the dev universe is heavily siloed into "Web+UNIX" versus "Microsoft" versus some now moribund siloes (Websphere! Solaris! Alpha!); Microsoft have almost no community compared to the FLOSS world (although .net is changing this a bit); and finally the simple fact that COM and you and I are very, very old.

I'm not even sure that reinventing COM would be a bad idea - you can definitely do some great things with it, and the specific implementation details of COM are crufty. But doing so deliberately rather than accidentally would be better, with a review of benefits and problems of COM approaches.
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>parts from shady eBay sellers that worked perfectly in the end.

So not shady then...
> I don't really want to compete on price

If that is the case, can I ask why you are not mirroring the pricing of your competitors more? If you're not competing on price, what are you competing on?
Why is pipenv soo slow?
I like unions and so do my parents, but keep on keeping on with those blanket generalizations.
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My Strix X99 just kicked the bucket a week ago...is this possibly why? Shit, I've had it on XMP since I built it 3 years ago.

I've already gone through one CPU, about 4 months after I built it. Now the whole machine is just dead with no signs of life. I bought a new board assuming the board was bad but maybe I need to test the CPU now...

Agreed though, one of the worst boards I've ever bought and seriously rethinking all Asus purchases in the future.
> How often do you need a whole collection of string manipulation functions? Never! It would just add to the size of dist folders everywhere, with no gain whatsoever.

I mean that's where proper tree shaking would void this argument. When you include lodash (or lodash-es more precisely) for instance only the used functions are in the final bundle with a modern bundler.
Discussion last night on the same post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20804998
There was a really interesting link on a related subject a while back where they were using solar concentration to generate heat, power and desalination for use by the attached greenhouse. To me that's a much more impressive use of technology.

Edit: I think this was it
http://www.sundropfarms.com/sundrop-system/
Patrick's channel is pretty awesome and he has an amazing deadpan sense of humor.
For those who don't really know him, I suggest his "What do programmers actually do?" video [0] which is pretty hilarious.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQY5udXquOk
Based on other countries it looks like they are truncating the unit price before dividing $50 by it.
Now imagine strong wind brought down a tree branch on the road.
A strong rain crated a big puddle. Etc.
There is a lot more to driving than just following the rules.
And I do no see how self driving car reduce the need for roads. Or parking. And the time spend waiting for them to arrive can be significant.
Would those properties also relate to how well / fast the food can be cooked in a microwave oven?
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The numbers are in the article I linked.

You're quoting a number from the Vestager ruling as if it were generally accepted but it has been contested and currently up to the European Court of Justice to decide whether she was correct in her interpretation.

France tried something similar against Google and it was thrown out twice by French courts - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-google-tax/google-... - because the attempt to tax Google for value generated in the US does not comply with international transfer pricing rules.
They really do value it, though, at the price of the highest bidder.
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Nice list. Powershell doesn't accept & though, works great otherwise.
>>Can I ask why anyone is paying for this pile of crap?

Because for certain areas of programming, Visual Studio is still king and if you want to develop for Playstation/Xbox then Windows is the only choice.

And of course playing video games in general requires Windows - it's less true than it was few years ago, but there's still plenty of games which give you very poor experience on anything but Windows.
It does look similar, but the article says every body panel is different.
Opioids are ineffective and dangerous? Not according to the government body called the FDA.
there currently is one single civilization earth. All the cultural diffences between countries are far less than it would take to define different civilizations
In one sense, yes, but in another no. The main problem is that one can get real long names.
Psychologists recommend against this because ‘talking to yourself’ is connected to a lot of positive mental health.

Notice young children talking to themselves in their own little world as they start to grasp and build their ego.
>if anything breaks, I can get a replacement shipped to me in advanced the next day for ~3-5 years (component depending)

40% speed reduction does not really count as "anything breaks", does it? Some previously working workloads stopped working.
Do exercises. Do really difficult exercises. Don't cry that there's no solution manual. It will take you many thousands of hours, there is no way around this.
Generic opioids are doses at 4 h. Even if they dropped OxyContin to 8 hrs, they have double the duration. More than enough to compete and win.
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I imagine ride reviews are considerably less confidential than training data.
Wow... That is a blowout.
Soviets didn't have megacorps, they (that is soviet government) were just forcing Eastern Block countries to provide food, clothes and whatever they could produce paying for that with fake currency called "transfer ruble" that could have been exchanged for Soviet tanks or guns.

That's why Eastern Block suffered from food and other daily usage products shortage. In fact Russians suffered the same due to massive waste, economy inefficiencies, continuous arm race with the West and madman project like White Sea-Baltic channel (Belomorkanal), agriculture "inventions" by Lysenko and thousands of similarly idiotic ideas.
Doctors in the US generally won't prescribe medications they deem unnecessary, but there's a few issue that reduce the effectiveness of that. Two big ones are:

1. If an individual sees drug advertisements with particular symptoms they might think that they have them, which would make their concerns sound more probable to doctors when they complain about it.

2. In the US medical malpractice suits are a big issue, so that fear often causes things that might be considered on the edges of unnecessary in most countries to be converted to "maybe, I don't want to get sued if something does happen". This is magnified by point 1.

Take more people thinking they are sick, multiplied by multiple conditions, multiplied by doctors effectively excessively afraid of false negatives in diagnosing, and you have one big public health concern and some big marketing bonuses.
I enjoyed the Coding Math series a lot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm9bqSSiIdo

Here's the trigonometry playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAHl_kpqr-k&list=PL7wAPgl1JV...
The essence:

> That means that writes through uint8_t pointers are treated as potentially updating any memory of unknown provenance. So the compiler assumes that every increment v[i]++ potentially modifies size() and hence must recalculate size() every iteration.

However, I think that a smart compiler would still be able to sort out that size() is not affected by such writes.
The problem is that courts are restricted by the country they reside in, while corporations can be multinational. After a certain point (say, 1 billion valuation), companies can pick and choose what countries to do business in.

If a corporate "death penalty" becomes a thing in the USA, large, profitable companies will shift their main business overseas to other, less risky countries. They may still sell their products to US consumers, but it becomes very difficult for the US courts to shut down a company that isn't officially in the US. The best they can do is forbid that company from doing business in the US.
Civilizations don't die, they fragment and reform. The analogy of an organism is being stretched too far.
A lot of modern resource extraction relies on easily available energy. The days of oil coming out of the ground or being able to dig for coal on the surface have long gone. My guess is you are right, once lost it won't be coming back.
What effect does this have on anything?

From what I'm seeing, the struggle of Paglia-Peterson vs the dastardly postmodernists has about as much effect on the real world as royal weddings. Tabloid shit for pseudointellectuals.
Depends on where you live. In NYC, rich people don't need a car: they can afford an apartment on Manhattan next to to a subway station and will take a cab or Uber if they want to go where subways don't go. Poorer people live out in the Bronx, Brooklyn, or Queens in a neighborhood with inconvenient public transportation, and get to drive those cabs and Ubers.