skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are wrong on nearly every point.

- Most of us aren't living in tent cities.

- We are conversing in this thread in more than 140 characters per response

- Trump isn't our king.

- I a poor person have more really good music on my hard drive then the average person would have been privileged to hear in their lifetime. Most of everything has always been crap but digital copying and cheap gear makes it possible to filter more gems from the dross than you can probably listen to. It has always been fashionable to compare whatever some consider the best of the last several decades to the last several months, ignore the nature of the comparison and bemoan modern music.

- We struggle to build a great wall of America because its a stupid measure to appease racists who think the brown people are coming for their country.

- To create and distribute the written word has never been cheaper. Imagine if you and I had to write hundreds of letters to all of the readers who have chanced across this thread!? To compare your preferred edition of the Christian bible solely to crappy self help books and ignore all the really good works out there is either ignorant or deceptive.

- Academia has never been pure. It's never been free of ignorance, bias, pride, liars, asshats of all stripes, outright stupidity. Science is the merely a method to gradually build upon existing human knowledge despite human foibles.

You believe your religion and its wisdom eternal only because you lack perspective. If the human race lasts thousands of years it will likely little resemble we poorer cousins as ill equipped as a 3 year old is to predict adulthood.

Open your eyes!

I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
When Young Generations of Chinese Athletes Take Off Their Poker Faces
That is really impressive...though I don't quite understand why the illustration looks so different; even though there's likely a lot of bloom in the photo, the parts don't seem to match up with the illustration based on the general brightness values.
> Enough of them wind up over-extending and paying interest to make it lucrative.

Yes. I understand this. I'm asking, why do they keep the others' accounts open?

> I'm also not aware of any across-the-board 5% rewards cards

I'm not either, but many people just rotate to a different card instead of using the same card for less cash back. And who never miss a payment or rack up interest. Meaning they always use those cards at a loss for the company. I'm asking why do these peoples' accounts get kept open.
I think the solution is to have competition but everyone has given up on that because they like compatibility or something.
Doctors already are being rounded up. That's like going after the atreet dealer. Have to go for the head.
Nope, share code all the time. That is what requirements.txt (and alternatives) are for. Where they install them is up to them.
Not 100% true, the extended release version of Oxycontin was actually more addictive than other variants.
>would bother to wait in line for a physical voting booth ever again

As someone living in a state with mail-in ballots, it still boggles my mind waiting in line for physical voting is a thing. Mail-in ballots seem to be the best of all worlds. It's easy. I have time to do the research for who I want to choose. It's all backed by USPS so it's pretty damn secure- as secure as everything else we trust in the mail.
This one changes orbits. Multiple times per mission.
I love taking my own time just as much as the next engineer, but if there are extrinsic factors calling for short-term solutions, one can’t take several weeks or months to “research the system” before the crisis is solved.
Improving Query Performance in Distributed Database
> This way they'll make money after the limit takes effect. My assumption is that they are hoping the consumer will forget there's a hard limit to the amount they can save and always go with their "5% cash back card" when making purchases.

And that assumption is exactly what I'm saying isn't universally true. My entire point is there are customers who just rotate cards instead of still using it for lower cash back. Who do this for years. Without racking up any interest. Why do those customers' accounts get kept open?
Excerpt you have over a billion people with whom you can communicate vs. the 18 people that speak Esperanto. 6 months of Mandarin and you can order food and have a reasonably simply conversation with a Chinese person. 6 months of Esperanto and you can have a detailed conversation with someone that probably already speaks English, statistically speaking. Esperanto isn’t opening up any cultural doors. At least learning Klingon gets you some legit nerd points at Comic Con. Esperanto doesn’t really give you anything.
> These are solvable problems. ... Funding could be increased. ... School lunch expanded.

On the subject of school lunches, it's not really a matter of increased funding. It is deciding to tackle the problem.

Chicago Public Schools serves free breakfast and lunch [1] to all students (not just low-income) using the exact same funding sources that NYC and all other school districts use. They are completely open about how they did it [2]. They completely eliminated the practice of heating up frozen meals, renovated school kitchens and started cooking from scratch and buying directly from farmers.

If only they put this much effort into the rest of the school operations...

[1] https://cps.edu/About_CPS/Departments/Pages/MealRates.aspx
[2] https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I_IRmST0zFCtdok10VnSBMMJ6Rv...
I figured you were going in a similar direction as obfuscation-oriented security (eg randomizations) to effortlessly add effort for attackers. I knew you were going to say tested, proprietary applications as a potential target. The ideas were fun to read with clearly plenty of talent going into it. I'm with the naysayers, though, in that it's probably not a great idea or at best might be a good supplement to something else.

If you or anyone else is interested, the strongest approaches when I last looked at everything tried to create full memory safety or do properties like CFI with strong assurance. Softbound+CETS, SafeCODE, and Data-Flow Integrity focused on memory safety with less performance hit. Code-Pointer Integrity with segments had low overhead. Some people were talking about S+C combined with DFI but overhead was crazy. I encourage folks to look at that kind of work, look at whatever [fast] mechanisms are in modern hardware, look at any software improvements in literature, and try to reduce the overhead of techniques like that (esp in combination).

Similar to you, I proposed we use techniques like Softbound+CETS on proprietary, closed applications to increase their security at a performance loss that can be made up for with cheap hardware. And then sell them on that saying security personnel cost way more than a few more rack servers.
Spontaneous generation of hydrogen peroxide from aqueous microdroplets
Agreed. Pipenv only led to confusion and pain for me. Last time I tried to use it in a project led to not knowing what the heck to do once I wanted to in my dockerfile - do I install pipenv inside docker? what's the point of that? Is there a tool to convert this Pipfile to a requirements.txt file to use with plain 'ole pip or what?

Quickly noticing my mistake in being driven to play with shiny, new toys, I went back to my old tried-and-true pip + virtualenv for local development and plain old pip inside docker.

I think part of the drive around changes to Python packaging standards and tools has been inflated by a poor understanding and poor usage of existing tools.

Take setup.py for example - nearly everything you read in Python pushes using a requirements.txt file in your project. Why not define your project as an installable package with its own hard requirements - that are defined in your setup.py - and leave the Pip requirements.txt strictly for additional development/test dependencies? Or, maybe better, put test requirements in tests_require?

Nothing against Kenneth, but a big part of me wishes there were more anonymity in the open-source community. It's too easy for a single, well-known individual to come in and publicize <something> and everyone jumps on the <something> bandwagon without realizing that <other-thing> already exists, works well, and is an established standard.
Tens of thousands of US drug users (victims) get jailtime. Citizen traffickers (perps): serious jailtime. Corporate traffickers (perps) get fined for 'nuisance'.

The Arthur Anderson firm got deep-sixed for felony obstruction of justice. Enron's Ken Lay was convicted of 10 counts of wire and bank fraud. (Skilling just got out of jail.)

Tens of thousands of dead Americans: 'nuisance'? I can think of only a couple of 'justifications' for the disparity.
Show HN: Tool for WebSocket benchmarks with Millions of concurrent connections
English is actually useful, because it connects you to a huge culture. Many complain about the spelling, since it's not phonetic, but few recognize the value of that.

Latin in English is recognizable as Latin, Portuguese as Portuguese, etc. A Scot and a Midwesterner may pronounce the same words differently, understand eachother without much difficulty, and spell things the same.

Saw this convincing and entertaining video on the topic the other day:

https://youtu.be/GiVs05yq9-o
Sure, Fox new may be the highest rated cable channel. But it's pretty much the only mainstream conservative cable network. Also, categorizing the Wall Street Journal as conservative is rather dubious. They lean liberal on most social issues, people mostly just assume they're conservative because they have a centrist understanding of market principles (e.g. that rent control won't lower the cost of housing in the long run).

The percentage of journalists that identify as Republicans is in the single digits: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2014/05/06/ju...
> There might be a way to use this case as a basis for collateral estoppel, meaning that J&J would have a harder time disputing the liability (since they were decided to be liable in this case) but I'm not sure if that applies across state lines.

I've never heard of someone making this argument successfully.
The amount they need to pay can sometimes be deduced from the card itself. For MasterCard for example they will pay more if it is marked World Elite than if it is marked World. And for VISA, they pay more for Infinite than for Signature.
Quantifying entanglement in a 68B-dimensional quantum state space
Still Ubuntu, honestly. If you want something like Ubuntu with more continuous updates, there's Manjaro.
> why do they keep the others' accounts open?

It's a loss leader.
Celeste is free this week (or maybe next week) on the Epic Games Store. From the customer's perspective, his point stands -- I can choose to play nothing but award winning, excellent games for between $0 and $10/month. How does a game developer compete when their audience already has a glut of excellent content to consume?
This tool was successfully used to setup 5 Million connections benchmark for oat++ - https://oatpp.io/benchmark/websocket/5-million/
The illustration shows the payload bay doors open.

In the photo perhaps they are either closed, or open with something hanging out of the payload bay, or some other configuration, making the brightness the way it is???
I run Windows 10 "Pro" (not LTSB). It's fine. Really. The fact that there are a couple of bundled games is no big deal.
You can buy win10 pro for 12 bux on many sites, office 2019 professional for 40. Those keys sites do ads on linus techtips.
How about a complete abolition of capital?
While the number seems small (still much bigger than what Purdue and others ended up paying by settling early instead of dragging it), it's worth noting that it's only in one state. They could potentially all go through the same process in all states, as this was a widespread issue. But even then I agree that it still doesn't come close to the amount of pain and suffering they caused.
mmmm lead
Duckling: a Clojure library that parses text into structured data
Good guess: I was just discussing it with Brian Harvey, Ken Kahn, Andrea diSessa, and Leigh Klotz, who said he has a copy, which I've asked him to please share! Then I saw this LOGO discussion. Plate of shrimp!

I love the great work Brian Harvey and Jens Mönig have done with Snap! It's like a non-watered-down version of Scratch, with the full power of Scheme (first class functions, lexical closures, special forms, continuations, build your own blocks, user definable control structures, extensible in JavaScript).

https://snap.berkeley.edu

Snap! 5 is here!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20309162

Here's the elegant Snap! visual Y Combinator:

https://imgur.com/cOq8tvR

Visual Lambda: Note how the gray block after the "report", shrink-wrapped around the "call (fn) with inputs (fn) []", is a visual "lambda". It looks like a "gasket" or "baggie" that insulates the code inside from being immediately evaluated, returning a closure instead.

Here's an excellent mind-blowing example by Ken Kahn of what's possible: teaching kids AI programming by integrating Snap! with existing JavaScript libraries and cloud services like AI, machine learning, speech synthesis and recognition, Arduino programming, etc:

AI extensions of Snap! for the eCraft2Learn project

https://ecraft2learn.github.io/ai/

>The eCraft2Learn project is developing a set of extensions to the Snap! programming language to enable children (and non-expert programmers) to build AI programs. You can use all the AI blocks after importing this file into Snap! or Snap4Arduino. Or you can see examples of using these blocks inside this Snap! project.

https://github.com/ecraft2learn/ai

http://lntrg.education.ox.ac.uk/presentation-of-ai-cloud-ser...

What's the difference between Snap! and Scratch?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20311457

LLOGO MACLISP sources with robotic turtle drivers:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12207532

>Here is the source code to LLogo in MACLISP, which I stashed from the MIT-AI ITS system. It's a fascinating historical document, 12,480 lines of beautiful practical lisp code, defining where the rubber meets the road, with drivers for hardware like pots, plotters, robotic turtles, TV turtles, graphical displays, XGP laser printers, music devices, and lots of other interesting code and comments.

https://donhopkins.com/home/archive/lisp/llogo.lisp
> Your time spent learning Esperanto may have actually created a solid foundation to learning Mandarin, if that's what you desire to learn!

As a native Mandarin speaker who also knows Esperanto I can tell you this is almost 100% (if not exactly 100%) not the case. If learning Esperanto gives you motivation to learn more, maybe; but the two languages are way too different that it wouldn't help much.
If Musk ends up in jail I don't think history will remember him well.
Look at the fat, salt and sugar content of what you're eating from McDonald's

It's no closer to food than Doritos or Coke are.
How would you feel if I gave detailed instructions on how to rob _you_?
This does not answer my question.

The identifying characteristic of capital cost is: does not change over small time intervals, it is fixed up front and amortized over the lifetime of the asset.

This article and OP are talking about price spikes which are a symptom of short term (days, hours, minutes) market dynamics.

The reason that prices spike has nothing to do with capital cost and everything to do with short term demand/supply fluctuations.
> you probably had to create a floppy boot disk by dd'ing it off the cdrom, as your BIOS was 50/50 able to support the El Torito extensions that allowed a CDROM to boot the computer.

I've got mine framed beside my desk[1]. For some reason I printed a label for the disk - it's dated 11/12/1999, what blows my mind is that at that time I'd only just turned 13 years old!

While I was a very smart kid I think whoever wrote the documentation back then to guide me through the process must have been quite incredible, or maybe it was just a better culture of documentation than we have today. I spent so much time reading TLDP that when I forget Bash's if syntax I remember the table from this page[2] before I even think of Google.

I would have been dual booting when I made that disk but after the Windows XP announcement my 14 year old self decided if I don't take the plunge now "I'll be seduced by Micro$oft's shiny new toys and assimilated by Bill Gateus of Borg" so sometime in spring 2001 I switched entirely to Linux and never looked back. At that time switching entirely was stupid and, frankly, masochistic but I'm VERY glad I did it.

[1] https://imgur.com/VHv8mzI

[2] http://tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html/sect_07_01.htm...
They are the largest company by Market Cap. They're hardly out of touch with their users' needs. I use Windows 10 as my primary development system and it works great. Maybe you're out of touch?
Thats like saying a social credit score is the same thing as your social media postings.
Even for people who have years of history showing they have no intention of taking the bait?
Because for every person who signs up and causes them a loss, there’s dozens of others enticed by the same rewards programs who make them a profit. Credit card companies aren’t having any problems being profitable.

I would imagine the number of people who only purchase things that are in the 5% category on their card is extremely small.
His real talent is finding government funds and creating losses.
They do bring value, the same value a lottery winner brings to the lottery; that it's possible and people do win (or can always avoid interest paying off balance) keeps everyone else trying thinking they'll be the lucky one (they'll always pay off their balance). If you refused these people, then there's less incentive to play their game. People don't like games that can't be won, but they appear to like games with terrible odds in favor of the house that can be won.
That they won't service them or supply parts shows the future for all Tesla owners.

We need legislative reform that requires any companies selling products in US jurisdiction put enough parts and cash in escrow to guarantee for a reasonable time period the ability to service anything that costs more than $500.
I still think he should just allow custom assets to be used. He has a dedicated fanbase. Dedicated fanbases will go out of their way to create and improve content if given the chance. Just look at games like dwarf fortress and minecraft. I don't know much about his games, but it seems like, especially with a kickstarter backed project, allowing custom assets would be the best of both worlds. He could release his game with its 'cheap bastard art' and fans would step in to make their own art. Which might help actually get him some new fans without any extra cost. Some people just like to customize things because they can.
> You are not representative of his customer base.

Sure I am. I buy and play a lot of indie games. My steam and PS4 libraries have hundreds of Indie games in them. The vast majority are pixel art or other low budget graphics. I commented in the previous thread saying that I don’t require fancy or expensive art. Hell, I’m perfectly cool with programmer art, but it needs consistency in style, colour and lighting. His art isn’t terrible, but its also not great and I actually did pass over some of his games in the past because the look just felt a little off.
With bicycles and pedestrians sharing the common roads, a 100% self driving environment anywhere but the freeway is never going to happen though. They need to be able to handle the chaos.
As a comparison, an acquaintance of mine lives in Moscow, Russia, and their old apartment building is going to be demolished as a part of a large development program.

They are offered two options. One is getting an apartment somewhere on the outskirts of the (vast) city, but the size and number of rooms will be the same or better as in the old apartment. The other is getting an apartment nearby in a newly built house, but likely smaller, with an option to upgrade it to a better apartment by paying the difference at a discount rate.

While this is not ideally fair, I like that a choice is offered.
I'm not sure who this is at all relevant. Millions of people still died, and there's a very direct correlation between how much opioids were dumped in a state and the increase in death rates in that state. You can try to blur the lines by throwing statistics about addiction, but you can't deny the actual end results. It doesn't matter if you think it's addictive or not, millions of people died from opioid overdose, and communications show that the execs at these companies very explicitly pushed it heavily knowing full well the impact it had.
Steve Jobs: Apple and Pixar. And those were actually successful.
How do you nationalize a multinational company?
I've discovered this problem by finding out that you can sign up for additional cash back on apps like Yelp and Dosh. When you make a purchase these companies will automatically determine whether this purchase is eligible for cash back. I'm guessing they must be buying the data for all my transactions for the purpose of figuring out whether they would give me cash back. It immediately made me suspicious since I'm getting cash back from a third party instead of from a bank.
And you've got at least a few single-quotes in your comment through language use of contractions.

In code, I prefer whichever style tends to produce the fewest escape-sequence situations.

If the code contains hard-coded strings, that's usually double-quotes, though not always.

Otherwise I guess it makes less sense to want to push +shift+ everytime you enter a quote on a Python dict key, for example, versus using the single quote.
That's a serious mischaracterization, the author is clearly a fan of science fiction, but he prefers (from what I gather from the review, at least) the literary and metaphysical forms to the Campbell school. And it's a perfectly valid take. I consider myself well read in science fiction and of the writers of the 50s and 60s, I would rather read PK Dick or Jack Vance than Asimov's akward prose or Heinlein's sexual hangups. Not that Heinlein doesn't have great moments, for example one of the best time travel stories ever, but he's hardly infallible or immune to criticism.
Association of plasma GFAP&abnormal MRIs in CT-negative traumatic brain injury
> Because for every person who signs up and causes them a loss, there’s dozens of others enticed by the same rewards programs who make them a profit.

That's the answer to the question "why are these cards offered at all", which was not my question.

My question was, "why are even the accounts of people who consistently cause them a loss still kept open?", which this doesn't answer.
You can try https://www.getoutline.com/.
>Apparently enough people enjoy Jeff's technique and craftsmanship to continue buying his games. And that's all that matters.

I think we're just talking past each other. I'm explicitly saying that from a developer's perspective that's precisely not all that matters. From your perspective as a non-game developer you're right, but if you're going to address game developers and say that they're wrong you should consider their perspectives as well.