skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"They are the result of the Python community's wish to have an easier way to write classes in the standard library that doesn't carry the problems of namedtuples."

What are the problems of namedtuples?
Whenever we go hiking the kids pick up tons of sticks (both boys and girls). Not just one or two, but so many that their pockets and hands are stuffed and they are trying to get me to carry some for them. They insist on taking them home, but fortunately quickly lose interest in them once we are home so we can quietly get rid of them.
The article show's several graphs of Lines of Code over Time. Isn't this an outdated way to measure anything in software?

"Measuring software productivity by lines of code is like measuring progress on an airplane by how much it weighs." - Bill Gates
All of this is unsurprising, given Gladwell's process:

1. Take research findings in psychology, sociology, etc., all fields which are having big replication problems.

2. Pick out findings that are surprising enough to write a pop-science book about. These are less likely to be true -- that's why they're surprising.

3. Oversimplify for popular consumption, sound very confident, and omit things that don't fit the story. (This makes for a much better read, as epistemically sinful as it may be.)

Each step makes good commercial sense, and I can't hate him for it, but the resulting books are unlikely to be Actually True.
What if I told you a 155 HP Miata that does 0 to 60 in over 6 seconds decimates a P85 around a track?

https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a23319884/lightning-la...

There's no need to tip any scales to destroy a portly luxury sedan with a lighter car.
$20 was actually a lot of money when I was a college student. that's 2-3 meals off campus or enough cheap booze for a small party. I was pretty lazy and I never even considered paying someone to do my homework.
No one's beating Tesla's range because no one is willing to use the NCA battery chemistry. All the other automakers stick to NMC (for very good reason). Tesla will have a ~20% range and cost advantage just by nature of using NCA over NMC.
On a tangent, I gotta say I love HackerNews for getting to hear from people working on such projects.
Go Karts are probably a slightly poor example given that they are probably the most direct driving you can get short of a cheap formula car
I suppose you can block the IP 1.1.1.1, but Google serves THEIR DNS at `google.com` on HTTPS port. One of the design choices of DoH to make it look like HTTPS traffic.

It's gonna be difficult to block DoH traffic.
It’s quite a decent way to show how much you use a language in an organisation.

With this much Python, Dropbox is in a position where integrating MyPy with Bazel is worth the trouble.
All of those things are true, but it’s easy to overcredit late Rome for their advantages. Remember a lot of the history, perceptions and analysis we get really grows out of 19th century work, where glorification of empire was something of a vested interest of gentlemen of the day.

The western Roman Empire had stagnated for years and lost a lot of ground.
Forward Motion (follow-up to “Mozilla is giving up on their IRC server”)
I don't believe any of the possible interpretations of QM have a clear path to being proven, so are they pseudoscience as well?

If Hawking Radiation can never be observed till the heat death of the universe, is that pseudoscience, or just really hard to test?

At this regime, all of physics is very hard to design an experiment for on ranges we have access to.
This seems a bit disrespectful considering how you don't like "spyware"
Followup to "Mozilla is giving up on their IRC server"

http://exple.tive.org/blarg/2019/04/26/synchronous-text/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19763276
I used to program COBOL and it is a bit of a pain on mainframes. There is Open COBOL for Windows, GNU/Linux and Mac. It is now known as GNU/COBOL https://sourceforge.net/projects/open-cobol/
But they aren't measuring software productivity by lines of code...
This article fails to live up to its premise of thinking through what the dissolution of the American empire would look like but does end up making an interesting case for local vitality and governance.
As the other reply said, it’s a numbers game. Making friends and building relationships are key. You can stack the odds with a friendly face.
Most of the time during the last ten years, I've lived in a suburb of a roughly 1 million population area, and generally my commute is 10 minutes or less. When I've lived in the middle of a city, my commute has been (in two different cases) about a 10 minute walk. Even when I was inside the DC beltway, not exactly in the city or in the suburbs, my commute was about 10 minutes. I simply wouldn't consider anything much worse than that.
As a thought exercise the only morally justifiable framework I can conceive of for this would be some kind of crypto or escrow based channel for anonymous donations that would be completely 'laundered' of the origin. For example, if a donor donates to this channel, there'd have to be some mechanism in place that even if they accurately stated publicly the amount and time they took the transaction, there would be no way to prove that claim. Then, if a blacklisted donor comes to you, decline their offer to donate in name but note the above channel exists

In a situation where people are communicating and facilitating the donation with such a blacklisted person they are a) able to confirm the donation and b) are in a position to participate in some kind of quid pro quo -- this seems extremely hard to justify given the difficulty of disproving that no such quid pro quo took place. In this specific instance, it sounds like Epstein did receive material attention and visitation so safely assuming that this was a neutral transaction flies out the window completely.
> finitely axiomatized formal system

I said “description.” You’re adding additional constraints that may or may not be warranted.
I Killed My Partner. It Saved My Life
The Kindle ads are worse. I don't mind at all opening up my Kindle and seeing a book recommendation ... if its at LEAST in the genres I read. You would think Amazon would be on top of it.
Why this is downvoted ?
Automated Let's Play Commentary
they established a lock and were sending data at 11kW to the lander.. maybe trying to do some kind of recovery...but no communication back from the lander
How to bootstrap if you feel that broken
This article seems to frame the shared cooling system as a flaw. For a different perspective: [1] “Sean Mitchell, Detroit veteran Sandy Munro of Munro and Associates mentioned that among the Model 3’s unique components, its “Superbottle” is one of the most innovative. Combining two pumps, one heat exchanger, and one coolant valve in one cleverly-designed bottle, the Model 3’s cooling system is arguably the most unique in the auto industry.“

[1] https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-model-3-superbottle-disrupti...
I would love if the title said "Newark Airport" instead of EWR which I had no idea what it meant.
Most of what you say I agree with. But it is actually very easy to construct a __init__ that handles a very flexible parameter list. That style is well represented in the standard library. And I find that writing a beefy constructor simplifies parameter validation in methods.

But certainly, it doesn’t remove the need for good test coverage. Now, if you want to argue for less testing, that is a different pitch.
> But once police arrived within a minute and started scanning the crowd, Xue said he felt compelled to come forward and identify himself. "I'm like, So, 90% chance I have something to do with this and it's escalated way too fast," said Xue.

This story makes no sense. Why the hell would he volunteer to the police he was involved? Who “racially profiles” Chinese people at an airport?
get off the internet, and go discover the real world..
> Who “racially profiles” Chinese people at an airport?

Alaska Airlines employees, apparently.
Well, the Booker Prize is kinda hit and miss. In film, the Oscars are generally 'miss', (though the aged Academy members taking their grandkids to the mall multiplex is hardly what I would call "highly skilled and respected experts", then months later voting, under duress, maybe for a film they've seen)

> I... personally don't understand why people even try to automate making better recommendation engines

It's because

* our detailed like-history contains a lot of specific information about our tastes

* highly rated books, highly reviewed books, in our favourite genres can be very poor

* (many) others' book histories, if they overlap partially with ours, contain associated information that can be utilized.
"he's just unhappy that most physicists don't share his view about QM" - Can you prove that? Are you just unhappy that Carroll doesn't share your view about QM?
Compact space is also closed, so there's no need to say your space is both closed and compact. Just "compact" is enough.
People write stuff like this a million times a day. The reason it has no effect on me, for one, is that at the end of the day, I think if living in a suburb was as relatively wasteful as people claim, it would as a consequence be correspondingly relatively expensive.

Usually people say something about externalities to explain why they deplore certain activity, but it seems to me that when you spend an incremental dollar (such as to live downtown), it rapidly diffuses into the economy and represents the average amount of carbon-intensity. So I think how much you spend is the key to focus on, rather than the "niceness" of what you spend on.
Just to clarify, CSRF is when a website you visit makes requests on your behalf to a third party (which you have visited/logged into). The third party is also a "victim" of the attack.

> I never invited some third party to run their code on my computer

This can be achieved by disabling JavaScript (e.g. NoScript extension).

As far as I know, there's no extension that can entirely prevent a website from loading resources from other another domain name. If there is, I imagine it would cause a lot of websites to lack styling, images/videos not loading, etc.
Pretty strange. Why would she be racially profiling Asians as terrorist suspects? Have we had a rash of Chinese guys blowing up planes that I somehow missed?
Free COBOL on the web:
https://www.thefreecountry.com/compilers/cobol.shtml

COBOL has been ported to many different platforms.

Like COBOL for GCC:
http://cobolforgcc.sourceforge.net/
I did interpret incorrectly. Thanks for the clarification.
Solar heat concentration and power generation could maybe come close in some scenarios.

The main problem is stability.
Such a strong wording lead me to check this library doc but I couldn't find anything in there unexpected or that looked particularly original, but only classical message queues, semaphores, futures and locks.
Could it be that I looked at the wrong thing?

Could you be more specific about what triggered such an enthusiastic description?
As I've always been told when I raced Autocross and straight drag: "The best car mod is the driver."
My quick research says that the only downside of NCA is cost. Is this correct?
The article still doesn't explain the 166 mile difference in range despite only 5kwh difference in battery capacity. Walling off 12% doesn't cover the difference nor does the 4% difference in weight. Is there an efficiency difference?
That doesn’t seem to explain why other cars are getting less range from batteries with similar capacity.
This is, at best, "sponsored content" from Audi, and at worst, an Audi advertisement directly written by a PR firm. Why is this on the front page of HN?
But the sales tax savings over VAT pay for your flight from Oslo to nyc. Then you just don’t declare the laptop as a purchase made in USA.
I believe traditional manufacturers probably know more about building cars that can last (thought not in all cases certainly). But yeah, this does come off as a bit hype-ish over details that probably matter a lot less to buyers.
Yeah, this seems like a headline just made to get more clicks. It's just kinda weird honestly. Nothing about the questions she asked implies anything racial.
“...the woman has bipolar disorder and had missed her medication.”
Could you dig up some Bill Clinton quotes for us? Didn’t he frequently fly on Epstein’s jet?
If the person involved is suffering from mental illness, trying to ascribe any kind of rational (or even an irrational, but directional, motive like racism) seems folly. Is there any evidence to show this persons actions were based upon racial profiling and not some form of temporary insanity? IANAP but it seems as likely as not to me that the employee bumping into the person on line was the triggering event.
People risk death to come here because they risk death at home if they don’t. It’s aboit safety, not freedom. Approximately nobody is risking death to come to the US because they want to enjoy our freedom.
Some manufacturers are beating Tesla on price and range. The Hyundai Kona can be bought for a bit less than a similarly priced Model 3 and the Kona has more range at that price point. The Volkswagen ID.3 will come with three battery sizes for 330km, 420km, and 550km WLTP range and they will be cheaper than the equivalent range Model 3s.
The Riforma Fondiaria in Postwar Italy
Gates denial on that looks pretty strong, but regardless the timeline is critical.

Accepting millions from him in 2002 would be unremarkable.
A native app would have this issue and wouldn’t be b locked.
Native apps would call some web api to transact, which isn’t reviewable by apple.

As for the heat you describe I think you may be influenced by tv/movies usually a company like apple has a law enforcement contact. Police or prosecutors would contact apple and that’s it. I assure you law enforcement and apple have a regular open channel. Apple doesn’t bend over backwards but do comply as you have to in any country
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20904549

Recommendations seem good for what I checked. One bit of weirdness though, searching for Gödel, Escher, Bach [1] gets me a book by "Agnes F. Vandome", that on googling is some sort of fake book of compiled wikipedia articles, and I need to click on the alternatives to find Hofstadter's book. So it looks like the search system can be successfully spammed with fake titles for reasonably notable books.

[1]: https://nowwhatdoiread.com/?q=gödel%2C+escher%2C+bach
I wanted to hate it but it's a reasonable and thought provoking article. It's true that when we go to these museums the dinosaur skeletons we see are not the original bones but reproductions and these bones are never complete but heavily reconstructed and the specific details of how much is speculation are never made clear in the display (such as by making the fake parts bright fuchsia).
Dropbox's implementation of python was pyston: https://github.com/dropbox/pyston

But I think it's dead now: https://blog.pyston.org/
Anyone else remember CD Now? Human-curated lists based on "if you like this you might like". Because they were actual people who loved and knew music they worked. Amazon wrecked that too.
Well yeah. Chest compressions produce enough air exchange even without rescue breath to keep the person alive for 5-10 minutes. If you have to do CPR longer than that outcomes are better with rescue breath. I hope you do have a mask or at least a face shield when you have to do that for a stranger...
So you're saying that people go to the US for economic freedom, and freedom from violence?
> He noted that East Asians aren't usually profiled in shooting or terror situations, but said he feared that "maybe there is a shift in Trump's America and all this [Chinese] trade war situation."
Of course "tiny apartments" are not all that exists in the US. Many apartments are 1000 square feet or larger where I live, especially ones with more than 1 bedroom. Travis Kalanick just bought an apartment in NYC that is around 6700 square feet.

Americans also have parks, buses, shops, and cafes. All the suburbs I have lived in are about 10 minutes from a "city center".
> Is it morally wrong to judge people who decide to associate with criminals after they have served their sentence?

No. Judge away.

> What it sounds like is that criminals are not absolved by serving their sentence. Or maybe some are but it depends on the crime? And sometimes it's okay to ostracize those that believe that criminals are absolved by serving their sentence, depending on the crime?

Correct.
We don't live in a surveillance state! We have all these rights and everything to prove it!
Vote bank politics version of academia.
> He only won thanks to a) a quirk of the American electoral system

What quirk is that? It has a lot of quirks, and I think you mean one in particular but not sure which one.
I mean, I guess it is the "right" thing to do. Though probably not the wisest.
There was a reply to your question that was phrased poorly and thus downvoted, but largely held some truth: Eventually, one gets tired of being called a racist bigot when one’s ideas of beneficial government policy are not in line with the progressive way of thinking. I grew up in a very conservative state and I have surmised that this served the basis of why so many people voted for Trump. I did not, and it bewildered me when he won, but I get it now: when all you hear are ad hominem attacks leveled at you, AND you’re economically in a tight spot, then why not pick the angry orange man that fights back, even if he’s a buffoon sometimes; at least he fights back.
> The us is still one of the most free countries in the world and people literally risk death to come here.

More people risk their lives to go to Turkey. That's not a valid metric.

> Our government is not even close to the imperialist Roman empire.

That's correct. We need to stop comparisons like that, the Roman empire or republic is nowhere near any of the current countries or organizations in 2019.

> A closer comparison would be the EU and the fall of it (Brexit).

EU is not even close to the imperialist Roman Empire either. I mean, the main comparison point between Rome and US is the amount of military forces it keeps abroad (which is not enough for the comparison to make sense IMO). EU doesn't really even have an army. It is pointless to compare both.

And Brexit has strengthen Europe for a generation at least: people proposing exiting from the EU have basically gone silent almost everywhere where they used to be audible. It used to be a policy that could be defended by moderate right or far left wings, no it is seen as a purely populist far-right strategy.
In re: effective therapy I can recommend what's called Neurolinguistic Programming. It's pretty much an OS for the mind. Specifically, I can recommend two books on hypnosis: "TRANCE-Formations" by Bandler and Grinder, and "Monsters and Magical Sticks" by Steven Heller.

For "higher" states of consciousness there is actually a simple and effective algorithm called "Core Transformation Process" It's taught by these folks: https://www.coretransformation.org/

For the deeper spiritual aspects of psychological healing I can recommend the works of Sir David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D., who was a very successful therapist who underwent enlightenment and has been able to describe it in terms accessible to the modern mind. https://veritaspub.com/dr-hawkins/#Biography%20Summary
Nope there's no doctor shortage. There is hospital administration greed and crappy working conditions where patient throughput is valued above all else leading to doctor burnout. I am angry at whomever wrote this for fueling the wrong argument and possibly trying to detract from the real issue.
I did a quick search for the app named in the article when it was first posted and didn't see it listed on F-Droid. I was actually surprised the protesters were using something closed-source.
You should also ask what percentage of their net worth he has taken? He is getting richer every day.
For the record, not even the DoD can get their CA credentials approved as of right now because some existing certs where still using SHA1 signatures
Simple solution, add an apartment to your property and rent it out to someone how had never lived in your house in order to maintain your Prop 13 tax exemption. Virtually overnight the problem would be solved.
The only thing racial was that the employee assumed the two Chinese guys knew each other. She pre-judged that fact based on their race. As for thinking they were terrorists that probably had more to do with her psychological state...
IMO a job post is the employer's equivalent to a resume. A bad or lazy job post indicates a low quality company. It's not always a direct indicator but good signal.

Job posts indicate what the company values. Some might be minimalist. Some overdo the requirements, this might suggest that they look at weaknesses not strengths. Some emphasize money a lot. Some get excited about technology, culture, product. Fund something that fits what you want.
That the limited hypothesis is a scientific hypothesis because it is falsifiable and testable while the broad hypothesis is a philosophic question because it is not falsifiable.

This is relevant as it is sort of ambiguous as to which hypothesis jshaqaw was asking about.
I jokingly say that Amazon should have a couple of sessions at re:Invent where they talk about the things they fixed in Console. I generally find that I no longer mind most AWS UI quirks, but some things are really annoying like the broken Parameter Store search which has been broken for years or CloudWatch search which flat out doesn't work at times.

I really believe there is a business opportunity here. I think you could pick a general use-case for AWS, like serverless, and build an intuitive UI around AWS offerings typically utilized by the serverless stack.
View into Network Function Virtualisation from the back door, as it’s happening
An airline employee acts bizarre, told him she'd call the police. What would you do if suddenly the police came and shit hit the fan from the bizarre behavior?

He was "volunteering" in that he had information about who caused the incident, which was actually the lady.
There is a tremendous amount of image filtering and computer vision research that has come from there and get the last two decades. Don't get carried away with an internet pile on and try to make everything black and white.
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This story makes no sense. Why the hell would he volunteer to the police he was involved? Who “racially profiles” Chinese people at an airport?

The story makes perfect sense. he was directly involved, and realized if he didn't self identify, the consequences would probably be prolonged, and less pleasant for everyone.

He took one for the team in the wider public interest.
Do you really believe that any police officer anywhere in the US actually cares enough about littering to do a full-on forensic investigation?
It stands to reason that being able to provide for themselves is the thing they're missing the most.
Perhaps he felt it was the right thing to do. Maybe it's hard to understand because his cultural context is so very different. Being that he's from Canada.
Seems like English language isn’t supported?
I just read it fine on iOS using AdGuard as my blocker.
Surprise! Large groups of people have bad apples!