skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do not know too much about it, but cat is a statically typed functional stack-based programming language:

https://github.com/cdiggins/cat-language
Another one: "Games Prisoners Play: The Tragicomic Worlds of Polish Prison" by Marek Kamiński. Well worth reading – Kamiński is a sociologist who was imprisoned in Poland by the communist regime, and formulated many behaviours of inmates in terms of game theory.
> Belief in God is at odds with a scientific view of the world

No, it's not.

> it's hard to be patriotic when every country has so many skeletons in the closet you'd think it's perpetually Halloween

When did nations not have skeletons in their closets?
So true. So many people I know and myself included are tired of the "rat race".

We don't want to keep working for nothing, we don't want to keep hoping for that next raise, we don't want to pretend to be smarter or cooler or better than we are. What a horrible way to live in the age of plenty. Maybe, we like cold pizza.

Bougey is a dirty word. We want to chill. We want fairness. Simplicity is where Happiness lies. There's nothing bad about that.

What is "grand" anyway? Those 500 people currently living that the rest 7+ billion should aspire to be? Nah. I'd rather be like my grandfather. Smiling even when I'm old.

It's hearkening back to a simpler time, and this gives me hope that more people might be "getting it"

edit: typos
Why Is the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Roadmap Important?
Firefox addons are awesome! Highly-configurable about:config is awesome! Developer tools are bit behing Chrome, true... But Firefox is what saves us from Google monopoly and I am really glad it exists. Thanks to all FF devs! ️
Right, that's a horse that has been beaten to death by now.

The point is: if you are unable to do incoming QA on a device as important as an ejection seat on whose functioning your pilots lives will depend then you should not be building aircraft to begin with.
That's a matter of taste though - for some people, a smaller, lighter, weaker can is more "fun" than a car that is stupidly fast but only in a straight line. But then there are people who only care about that and that 0-60mph run is what does it for them, not tossing an MX-5 around on a twisty road.
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Check out who makes your rocket engines.
I use a Dell Latitude E7440

Intel Core i5-4300U

8 GB ram

1366 x 768 matte screen

Running Windows 10 pro. I bought it second hand for £200.

I like it. It's robust enough for my use. It has a trackpoint which I like. The battery life isn't great, especially compared to the new netbook-like machines which can have 10 hour battery lives.

The only demanding use it gets is WWW which feels weird to say but there you go. I mostly use it for torrenting films and tv shows.
Neither option is humane. In both cases, the capitalist illness has destroyed any sense of community.

Nobody in big cities knows their neighbors. And very few people organize against poverty, against their bosses, landlords, and police abuse. They could have a good life if they did, but don't underestimate the capacity of an oppressive system to isolate people (because it's the only way it can survive).
Would be interesting to learn more about the history of the prison system in Louisiana. It's the first time I hear that the Louisiana "justice" system is this harsh.

The idea of thousands of black men that are forced under threat of violence to pick cotton, fruits and vegetables and receive only a symbolic amount of money for it (in Louisiana!) does seem more than slightly suspicious given the state's history.
Hmm, I'm not a biker but I always assumed your legs determine statistics like acceleration on a bike. Learn something new everyday...
No fuel gauge, has dipstick in the tank. Tank is up front.

Manual window washer pump.

Wipers normal resting position is part the way up, obscuring view out the windscreen.

500 cc two stroke motor, later upgraded to 600cc

Indicators don't cancel when the steering wheel returns to centre.

Apparently there's still about 34,000 of them registered in Germany.

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It hadn't occurred to me that early cars might have used two stroke engines. That would have made for some fairly disgusting city air.
Is your clear faith in industry at large "leveraging powerful programming language features to massively increase developer productivity" substantiated or just taken as a given because it makes intuitive sense?
Bugattis aren't meant for motorsport enthusiasts anyway. They are too expensive and complicated to be track day cars and an enthusiast would buy something more driver oriented rather than stats oriented.

You could definitely enjoy one on a track if you had one. But you would probably spend more time just enjoying the thought that you own it, keeping it safe, then you would take your actual track car to the track.
Army of Women Earning $4 a Day Could Be Behind Your Next iPhone
Right on the money. The platform became too expensive for the home market and too cheap for the pro market, with ridiculously low (and expensive) expandability. There were distribution and manufacturing issues, and they treated their R&D in such a shocking way that inevitably pipeline and products suffered badly. Managers were old-world two-bit sharks who treated the company like a cash machine. It was tragic and completely avoidable, and had absolutely nothing to do with piracy. If anything, piracy kept alive an ecosystem that had no business existing, there and now.
The prisions are not state run but commercial entities. Thus there is a certain incentive to lobby for longer sentences in order to make more business. Occasionally they pay "commission" like in this scheme to jail youth for profit:
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2011/08/11/139536686...
forbes and its clickbait titles.... jfc
WSL1 also uses that functionality
No, that's not what free means. In this context, free means women are not getting economic retribution for domestic work (even nowadays).

https://www.workingnowandthen.com/scholarstudent/reviews/sil...
> Money is too risky to hold – making US prisons one of the few places on earth where the dollar is not accepted.

Yeah no. You can't buy in USD in tons of places around the world. Maybe the most part. You can find an exchange, but that does not qualify to make a whole country a place where the dollar is accepted.
Whistleblowing saboteur costs us $167m bellows Tesla’s accountant
nice stuff! Some of these acronyms are new for me (like rc), others I knew from before (like cat). Reading Life_with_Unix now.
They (B&K) always claimed that their end of the series was based on the notes by Frank Herbert that they found at some point. They however, have never disclosed those notes, to at least give us an opportunity to verify those claims. I have a hard time accepting their revelation about Marty and Daniel. I also believe that their interpretation of the Butlerian Jihad deviates substantial from the idea of Frank Herbert. And that it is just the other way around, that they had to deviate from the notes by Frank Herbert (which it seems they only found after having written the prequels) to make them fit with those prequels.
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Not sure how the author decides what is ordinary and what is transcendent. According to him, there is nothing special about folks creating podcasts, but there is something special about a singer-songwriter. He does not say why.

Take https://www.patreon.com/sonicether who earns $50k a month creating shaders for Minecraft. That sounds mundane until you realise that he's probably enabling tens of thousands of people to create transcendent art from the comfort of their homes.

He doesn't think much of the artists creating comics either. Maybe he thinks only artists that display their work in galleries are "real" artists. Personally I think artists like Bill Watterson and Randall Munroe have done more to push the cultural zeitgeist than any artist in the last 30 years.

If you want to appreciate your fine classical works in a museum while listening to an orchestra and sipping your Pinot Noir, that's fine. But I think it's incorrect to presume to know what "real" culture is and labeling everything else "ordinary".
Nice finds, and both quotes strike me as quite insightful and prescient.
Yes, of course, indexes work like that with where clauses. However here I was referring to covering indexes, where the columns in your _select_ are also present (after the ones in the where clause / join / predicate). This prevents having to do extra seeks into the clustered index to fetch that data, and can make very significant differences, especially if row counts are high.

Clearly, this type of index is both expensive to maintain, and the benefits are lessened if you include every column in a table in the covering index. So, to actually have real benefits, you need to have carefully crafted queries which only select what they need, and these being matched to carefully crafted covering indexes. Basically, you cannot have these - which are one of the better weapons you have for performance - if you always select everything.
To kick this off

Laptop model: Lenovo S20-30

CPU: Intel Celeron, dual core @ 2.16GHz

RAM: 2GB DDR3

Screen: 11.6" Matte black 1366x768

Personal comments:

Bought this laptop in my second year of university only to use for light browsing and text editing. It's held up quite well over the years and despite being very underpowered I ended up completing all my programming coursework on it. I guess it would be classified as a netbook type and it seems they don't make them anymore, which is a shame. Has been happily running the same install of Arch Linux since 2015.
Technically, you only need a very limited feature set to do whatever you want.

For example - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_instruction_set_computer.
Honest question to tab hoarders, why not use bookmarks? It saves bandwidth, system resources, makes you less prone to tracking and cross-site scripting, at the cost of some elevated organizational/management work and slightly less convenience?
> Belief in God is at odds with a scientific view of the world

I'd say both are orthogonal to each other. The religious view of the world explain the "why do we exist?" and the scientific view the "how do we exist?".
It isn't a dumb question. I believe the reason is the following:

Leading up to any Windows release, Microsoft has a whole bunch of teams working on different features. Some of those features make it into the release, other features don't make it and get cut. What sometimes happens, is that a feature makes it in, but then problems are discovered in testing, and it gets pulled out again at the last minute. When a feature is removed late in the game like that, it is desired to take the lowest risk removal mechanism as possible–one way of doing that is to actually leave the feature in the code, but leave it undocumented, and hope nobody discovers it and uses it (an approach avoided nowadays due to the risk of exploitable security bugs in the buggy API, but in the past it was more common). Another way is to leave its APIs in-place, and either stub out their implementations (to always return an error), or even hide the actual implementation behind a #define that is turned off in the shipping copy. That way, you avoid making any changes to DLL export tables, the system call table, etc., which you worry (even just out of an abundance of caution) might have some downstream negative effect, but also don't have to worry about anyone discovering the broken feature and trying to use it. Then, in the next release, you have a choice – sometimes they will fix the issues with the feature and put it back in, other times priorities have changed and the remnants of the feature (such as API stubs) get removed altogether. That is why sometimes Windows DLLs export undocumented APIs that don't do anything.

(I've never worked for Microsoft, so this is not based on any internal info, just an inference from observing how Microsoft and other vendors do things.)
Rwanda has started introducing electric motorcycles
Yeah, News Explorer is breaking new grounds here. News Explorer's price point is somewhat high but it makes up for it avoiding subscription costs.

And technically it does it really well. The FAQs in News Explorer support page try to explain some issues that can arise but I've never found them (my Mac Mini always running News Explorer at home and use it from my iPad, iPhone, and two laptops).
Not only are there Islamic/Arabic and Jewish themes, there are also Persian themes. Padishah in "The Padishah Emperor" comes from Persian and means king.
I love engineering feats.
Activists release code to generate free public transportation tickets in U.K
It seems the author believes that American as an identity bares great significance that Americans were and should be destined to greatness, or at least in favor of such ambitious ideals.

But let's be honest. The idea of human has mission to achieve greatness by itself is, just a belief. Human life can be any form it needs to be, if the owner him/herself desires so. And the in the age of internet, it is easy to at least observe afar what your desired life would be like by watching others do it. I'd argue people are much aware and resourceful to decide what he/she wants to be, and being ordinary yet full-filling is perfectly fine goal to pursue, and it is arguably not easy still.
For me, I am stick with terminal-like interface.

Since I am using Emacs, elfeed (https://github.com/skeeto/elfeed) is my best choice for RSS reader.
It does 99.9% of the time, with the 0.1% exception coming from people that are being pedantic. The Wikipedia page you linked to is part of a series on Christianity, and it's pretty clear in Herbert's writing that the Orange Catholics do have Christian influences (alongside the previously mentioned Islam, Judaism, and Buddhism).
I thought he meant that the design work was fun. The challenge. What is the point/justification of Olympic sports?
Uniqlo and The Guardian among thousands of sites loading malicious code from S3
True. I'm guessing there's some unknown circumstance that makes the ease-of-access benefit outweigh any security risks.

It wouldn't surprise me if the number was leaked on purpose. To get people calling the station, to obfuscate the message's actual recipients.
Low-tech scientists are using their eyes, ears, and intuition
Anyone who can't recognise the genius of Nick Mullen and Cum Town deserves to find disappointment.
In case anyone else gets stuck on 'bougey', it is apparently an abbreviation of bourgeoisie.

Is this US slang?
It is rather convenient the author defines "mundane" as things he doesn't like and "grand" as things he does like. It sounds like he's merely upset that a majority of patrons on patreon don't share his tastes.
Exactly, the post is absolutely fine. Also, Duane is acting in good spirit.
Stars aren't powered by gravitational energy - that would only give a lifetime 20 million years for the sun (Kelvin Helmholtz timescale). Fusion is what powers the sun.
I suspect that bike was short for motorbike - not too many humans can do 0-60 in 3 seconds. ;)
That's ~483 km/h in non-freedom units.
OT: I remember reading Verlinde's paper when he posted it to Arxiv (I was a student where he taught, and the fact he posted it went around like a wildfire). I was surprised how absolutely straightforward and simple that paper was, it was easy for me to grasp as a physics undergrad. I can recommend grabbing it now if you're interested, it's not much more complicated than some hard scifi books.
I also assumed the intentional leak at first. But the update says the number was then discontinued. Having lots of people calling from other places than the one your spy is in doesn't help.
Excessive CPU usage with Windows 10 Build 18362.329 and possible solution
For the Veyron they had to work a lot on aerodynamics. The aerodynamic lift at 400km/h would usually make any car go airborne, so they had to find ways to prevent this without increasing drag too much.
Similar to this, can anyone recommend a good book on linking/loading? I'm mostly looking for something about the process in Linux, but a general reference to common techniques would also be an interesting read. Bonus points if it was published this century.
Document title is less vague and clickbaity than the h1: Apple iPhone, Amazon Echo Production Moving From China to India.
I run my AC almost 24x7. Air conditioning can be perfectly fine. Don't misconstrue a dumpy building with your dislike of cold air.
> As today’s young become wealthier and more philanthropic

Is this correct? My understanding was today's youth in the U.S are taking on more debt than ever.
If you like diagrams, I've found that @darutk on Medium has some really good explanations of Oauth2 and OpenID. Example: https://medium.com/@darutk/diagrams-of-all-the-openid-connec...
What is Physics SE? I really liked knzhou's explanation and would like to know where else answers like these are posted
Thanks for the heads up. The only time I came in contact with actual web dev was indeed jQuery, and the couple other times I looked at the dev tools might have been pages using it as well.
OK if their economy is doomed then it would be no problem to drop the sanctions, would it? Haha post a few more pages of arcane wikipedia ramblings. It's just so unfortunate that your great orange hope isn't going to give you that war you wanted in Venezuela. And right on the heels of not giving you a war in Syria either! You're going to have to start the drumbeat for sanctions etc. on some other poor nation... but also you might need to install a USA president who will follow orders better. Or maybe you could just distract him with something shiny while staging another "Iranian attack". Yeah, that's probably more likely to work.

The idea of Americans complaining about deficit spending, that's rich.
Perhaps but to me this still implies the idea that the arab and muslim worlds are somehow mysterious in the West.

I don't know how true that was in the USA but certainly Europe has had more than a thousand years of intimate contacts with the arab world, which is not mysterious at all.
You can still buy cars with two stroke engines today. In Europe they're these mini cars sold to teenagers and old people because they don't require a full driving license.
Sometimes, things don't have to really make sense for people to love it.
props to you for being honest with the candidate about what they should expect and letting them know that your team wanted to hire someone that would succeed in the role, knowing it's particular challenges.
Jabel – use Javac 12 syntax when targeting Java 8
It was a terrible car in some (many) respects, but it definitely is not "the worst car ever built". The Trabi has a lot of things going on for it.

1. It is very light. The motor is tiny, the whole thing is like 600 kilos (not absolutely sure, but I know for a fact that 4 normal men can pick it up to move it to the side a bit).

2. Given its size, there is quite a bit of space inside

3. Since it is so small and light, it is very easy to drive. You literally don't need the clutch: there is a clutch pedal, but you don't need it -- you can switch gears as long as you are not pressing the gas pedal. (The gears, btw, are very light, and the "stick" is not a stick, it is on the wheel -- you can operate it with one finger without taking your hands off the wheel.)

4. With electronic ignition (it can be installed easily on top of the stock model) the motor behaves quite well.

5. It is cheap, not only because it is bad, but also because it is just cheap. Not many moving parts, nothing fancy in it, you get the point. I don't know how accessible spare parts are nowadays of course (this was the problem back in the day as well; finding spare parts was a bitch).

It isn't a "good" car, given what we expect from cars these days, but for a city car it is quite OK. Still not as dirty as a diesel ;-)

PS: there is an old Trabant joke that goes like this: a car collector from the US hears about it and wants to have one. He orders it and has it shipped over. On arrival, he looks at it in confusion, then writes back to the sender: "I wanted the car, not the toy model!"
All the titans of physics, including Albert Einstein, believed in a zero energy universe. Electromagnetism represents positive energy while gravitation represents negative energy.

Energy is related to change of state, which brings us to action. Action is measured in J⋅s. The famous Planck's constant, h, is 6.62607015×10−34 J⋅s.

Energy = Action / Time = (Energy x Time) / Time = Energy

Essentially, a given amount of energy causes a certain amount of state changes per second.

Since the total energy of the universe is 0, once the universe reaches equilibrium, it should be back at the Big Bang, with no change to its initial state.

If one believes entropy is actually only increasing, probably largely informed by the electromagnetic field, then we should end in the so-called Heat Death instead of the aforementioned Cyclic Universe.

A lot of the eventual informing will come from knowing more about the magnitude of expansion of spacetime - its history of values through the past, present, and future.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-energy_universe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_(physics)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_constant
Laptop model: HP ZBook 15 (2014)

CPU: i7 4800MQ

RAM: 32 GB

Screen: 1920 x 1080 matte

Storage: 2x1 TB SSD

Personal comments: Very upgradeable and serviceable.
Good keyboard but it seems to last two years for me. Heavy power brick. Unfortunately with a numberpad. Ubuntu 16.04 runs well on it.
Very few work correctly with zoom. One of them is http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/

And text has nothing to do with pixels, it's not raster.
The HN jobs section attracts candidates (visitors of HN mostly are devs) for startup funded by Y combinator, I guess this is a win-win
None. I dislike the form factor enough that I'll stick with an old-school desktop machine at my usual place of work and my phone/tablet anywhere else. If I need to do serious typing-type work somewhere else, the destination (client) will no-doubt provide. I've never noticed the lack, and it makes getting through airports a bit easier.
Just give them a couple of decades. Chances are your quartz watches will no longer work, whereas your mechanical watch will happily tick along, and can still be repaired if it ever breaks down.

But 42 seconds a day is quite a lot. You could try to have it regulated (or do it yourself if you're feeling adventurous).
Not like you'd get anywhere any faster when there's traffic around. Punctuality is a sign of planning, and that's a desirable trait, so I don't know about no one.
Physics stack exchange: https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/83398/knzhou
Yes, and as far as I can tell, relatively new. I learned it from my middle school child last year.
Do we expect to observe it in specific places and we do not, or is it just "not illuminated" or "not radiating" in the same way that other matter is?
I assume you're talking about electric bikes or motorcycles? This confused me a lot for a while because I don't usually see those referred to as "bikes".

> This means there are quite a few that will do sub 3 seconds to 60, and sub 5 seconds is practically the norm.

This was the give-away - pretty sure very few humans can do 60 mph on a bicycle, unless they're drafting.
I guess. I think it depends a lot on what you buy.

I pretty much have fresh stuff that would go stale within weeks, and stable stuff that has effectively infinite lifespan. I don't find it hard to track the fresh stuff.

It's quite possible that my shelf stable items build up forever and so will eventually get wasted in 10 years or something though :P
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThrustSSC