skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mainly use light modes, but very rarely use white ones. Similarly, I often find that many dark modes, esp. those emulating old-style terminals and computers, liek to put bright green colors on bright (as it were) black, or similar schemes that to me are more garish than, say, Base16.
it's the presentation as much as anything else that makes it theatre. Protecting pedestrianised streets from unauthorised traffic with pop up bollards happens in towns and cities everywhere. Presenting it as a terrorism ring of steel does not.
Maybe take a dose of humility and realize that at one point the fastest processors and memory systems in the world weren't capable of holding more than a limited size routing table, while maintaining acceptable line speed?

And that in the interests of working within the physical hardware limitations of the day, very smart engineers made the best choices they could?

Jesus.
> Miles are Roman, not Medieval

English miles aren't.

Also, the conversion wasn't done correctly, there was no need to convert it al all, and SI units are the preferred unit of measurement in science.
Java generics is a syntax sugar. They don't add anything substantial. You can use Object (or another bound type) everywhere you're using generic type. You only need to add few explicit casts, which are added by compiler anyway.

You can do exactly the same thing in Golang. Just use interface{} everywhere and add few casts where needed. That is Java generics.
> If you had any cultural context around the history of violent football hooliganism in the UK you might understand why those measures were considered necessary

See also, The Troubles
What I Eat at Chipotle Following the Whole-Food, Plant-Based Diet
To the court. RTFA please.
> Some vintage techie posing with an Apple II computer.

Yeah, just some techie. LOL
Probably using the first Fibonacci approximation 2:1, but 5:3 is better.
Agreed. While I'm all for ending their undisputed free reign on collecting personal information, I also think their well should be poisoned to the point it becomes useless to them.
> I'm slightly surprised you found three different set implementations - `map[T]struct{}` is the idiomatic one i see everywhere.

Set storage is not really the concern here, it's the set-theoretic operations which make sets useful (generally speaking, there are cases where all you need is the set being a set e.g. deduplication).

So I wouldn't be surprised that GP found several different implementations of union, intersection, difference, symmetric difference, subset, superset, …
Having boutique practices is what reduces the availability of very specialized treatment, not the reverse. You're stuck because your understanding is completely backwards.
You are absolutely right. I work at GrantTtree and hiring for purpose is definitely a fundamental part of the equation. That and trusting your colleagues and keeping an honest feedback-friendly environment. It's certainly not as simple as one might think.
> to get facts straight

No, he did not. He tried to give the word "assault" a weird meaning, ignoring both the everyday English meaning of the word and the legal meaning of the word in a discussion about having sex with a coerced child arranged by a convicted sex offender.
Infosec duo cuffed after physically breaking into courthouse during pentest
Also, because we understand neutron degeneracy pressure, but don't yet know what (if any) quantum effect would prevent an actual singularity from being reached once the upper limit of a neutron star was breached. There is speculation that quark matter and quark stars may exist but no evidence of it yet.
Here you can select old mobile OS:
https://www.mobilephoneemulator.com/
but no Android 4 excactly there.

https://kobiton.com/
this one seems to have more options and wide choice OS.

Another option is to install Android x86 on VirtualBox (version 4 is supported) and test on VB emulator.
WeWork's new motto: "No, really, we do work!"
Do we know for sure that any of them is more habitable than Venus? (Can't quite watch a video now, if the answer is in it I'll definitely do.)
Hackers do this to traditional cars - you can turn a bog standard Audi A6 into almost a RS with some software mods an di think to be safe you beef up the suspension and brakes

There Is of course the fabled Ford FBI chip that was used on FBI pursuit vehicles, knackered the engine life of course. I was told this buy a guy who worked at a Ford dealership.
Why should it be my responsibility to monitor their services in the first place? Even if you do get free credit monitoring it's just yet another technique to shift blame on to the customer
I love how in the vastness of space where things are mind boggingly big neutron stars are mind boggingly small.
If child abusers is called out for another crime which he didn't do, is it really unethical, harmful and malignant to defend him against wrong claims?
FFS this is unrealistic, where does this stuff come from? Asking for mental health days might yield a day out and ire from the others on the team picking up the slack during crunch time but it'll end in a mental health discharge I mean at will employment termination. The other two suggestions are so vague as to be meaningless.
But, with a bigger and more recent population bottleneck
One major problem of automotive transport is society's denial of the risks involved. Mandating showing autonomous interventions while hundreds die every day un-viewed in traditional cars will make everyone less safe.
That's a very interesting question. I feel like there will always be people who feel peer pressure more than others, but it'a not just that. The puritan work ethics also have a strong impact on some people to a subconscious level. All I can say is thay the more people do it, the less problematic it becomes. But it does require a good level of self-awareness.
I have no idea but I bet even Walmart blows the doors off them in terms of commercial sq footage.
The problem with your analogy is that, in reality, "Joe" was presented with a beautiful woman over 50 years younger than him who supposedly wanted to have sex with him, while at a gathering on a billionaire's private island. If "Joe" were a reasonable, non-sketchy person, the absolute best interpretation there is that she was a prostitute of questionable age, which is still pretty bad. Going along with that without asking some very hard questions would seem to be not only morally questionable, but also personally risky.

(Of course, there's also reasonable debate as to whether or not Minsky actually had sex with her. One person who was present at the gathering claims Minsky didn't.)
That tweet is about the newer learningmusic.ableton.com. Apparently a different project, different stack.
Thank you - the response from participants has been amazing.
Assuming your field is web development, what is not a niche skill? It seems the choice of backend frameworks is somewhat fragmented with no clear default winner.
I'm so relieved to find that at least on hacker news people can still evaluate this situation with reason. Out there it's a witch hunt and Stallman is now a witch.

RMS is a great man but sadly has difficulties communicating with the wider world. This has been true of many great minds throughout history. It's sad to see it happen to one of my own heroes but I believe history will do him justice if we continue to fight for free software.

I wish somebody would have simply advised him not to speak on such matters because nothing good could become of it. Maybe he needed a PR manager. That sounds awful, but apparently this is what the world wants: carefully filtered speech that doesn't stray far from what people already agree with.
The Tower of London which houses the Crown Jewels [0] has a conveyor belt / moving walkway that you have to stand on to see some of the exhibits. It thus controls access and limits the time you can spend in one of the rooms (I can't remember if it possible to get back to its start to go round again)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_Jewels_of_the_United_Kin...
I seem to remember some story of a dinner party with Gates where he was bragging his intelligence would have allowed him to rise to the top in whatever culture he was born into. Can't find a link to the anecdote however so maybe my memory is playing tricks on me.
The cornerstone of modern justice system is that people can get fixed. Shall we cancel that and roll it back to slip-once-criminal-forever mob justice?
No no, I'm not talking about damaged.

I'm talking about "ugly". The strawberries and tomatoes at the store are perfect shaped. The breeds that pump out these typically lack the same intensity of flavor as heirloom varieties, that if you are not use to them, would barely recognize them.

Watch some homesteading harvest videos on youtube. Especially if they do carrots. They wont look like store bought ones.
The best example of this is the Ruby lang thread wrt the proposed code of conduct [0]. A "social justice warrior" who never contributed showed up, Coraline Emkhe, popped up and demanded Ruby adopt it. She has been ding this for years, going around to projects with which she is not involved and pressuring them to adopt a "contributor covenant" written by her which reflects her values first and foremost, and not necessarily those of the project.
True, but if you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted.
I meant in the sense that most newspapers and media outlets are pro EU. Yes, the few that aren't have higher circulation. You can't easily disentangle cause and effect there though: do people read these papers because they feel they're presenting a more realistic view of the EU/the world, or do they decide what a realistic view is based on the papers they read?

It's also worth remembering that broadcast media is largely pro EU, even though it's theoretically meant to be neutral. I don't know many who really believe it is though.

At any rate, it's very easy to get news very slanted towards the EU in the UK if you want it. The fact that there's alternatives is different to in most of Europe, I've noticed, where the media is near universally pro EU and anti-member state. At most in Germany the ECB gets criticised.
I am surprised that M&S did not make it work in the USA - M&S food stores would seem a natural fit for Cities like NYC.
> I've spent a lot of time working with [RMS] to help him understand why various positions he holds are harmful. I've reached the conclusion that it's not that he's unable to understand, he's just unwilling to change his mind.

— Matthew Garrett (https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/52587.html)
Paypal could do the trick if it's active and legal in your country. If you need to accept local online payments, you could google for your local payments aggregator, which should work the best with your local online currencies.
Astronomical calculations never cease to amaze me.

I am the biggest astronomy nerd and watch loads of TV shows about it (the only thing apart from dinosaur stuff that I watch on TV actually!) and when scientists talk about the numbers involved in stellar objects it still blows my mind every time.

"Just a single sugar-cube worth of neutron-star material would weigh 100 million tons here on Earth, or about the same as the entire human population"

I struggle to visualize that...

On a side note, "'Neutron stars are as mysterious as they are fascinating', said Thankful Cromartie..." - Possibly the coolest name I've ever heard :)
Until you live on a farm and realize the ugly ones taste better by far measure and the pretty ones should just be fed to the chickens.

Most people these days never get that experience. So they think what they're looking at is a pretty strawberry. In reality, it's only real use is compost.
An excellent book about this is Cuisine and Empire by Rachel Laudan.

However I think you're missing one of the points of teaching history in schools, which is to instill some sort of shared sense of national identity (which is mostly made up).

I'm Italian, and we are taught that there is some kind of common thread between Caesar, Dante, Machiavelli, and modern Italy. What if we were taught that the durum wheat we use for pasta came from North Africa, that the same idea of making pasta is probably Chinese (by way of the Mongols)? Most of what we consider staples nowadays are either very recent inventions or come from immigration and interaction with our neighbors. How could we justify closing our borders to the refugees coming from the other side of the Mediterranean if we didn't believe the nationalist propaganda?

Another great example of the political use of cuisine is the adaptation of Greek moussaka from its Ottoman ancestor, which involved adding Béchamel to make it more French...
Even so, people are allowed to grow and change their ideas.
It appears that the higher you go up the corporate ladder, the more it is about connections rather than actual knowledge, to the point that knowledge carries almost zero weight and connections are everything. A lot of companies are like this, and most of them (including Equifax) are still going strong. Meritocracy at the bottom and nepotism at the top seems to be the deal.

Anyway, the last line of the article sums it up well: "Everything about this fiasco just gets more and more surreal."
Ask HN: Splitting your time between reading, writing, and programming
I've been looking to write a series of posts for some time now on a specific subject and I realise I've been seduced by that all-to-alluring siren call of reading widely under the guise/excuse of "doing my research".

Yes, to write well you need to read widely, but there comes a point when you have to do the writing. Indeed, some might say that reading widely simply pollutes your thoughts, so you add less and regurgitate more. (You might catch a sense of "Unaccompanied Sonata" by Orson Scott Card).

So I'm setting aside my reading for a while and getting down to writing. When I come back, though, I'd love to see people's experiences in how they split their time between reading (for research or otherwise), writing (documentation, fiction, blog posts), and programming (for themselves and for others).

I can't remember who is was, but some time ago a read an article in which someone said that it's impossible to say what proportion of time they spend on each, because they have so much to do that they only now engage in activities that count in more that one category. If you know of that, I'd appreciate a link.

So - what do you do?
Back when I was an undergrad in astrophysics one of my professors claimed that neutron stars are the most difficult objects to model in the universe. I believe him. In order to have a good model of a neutron star you need to use pretty much every branch of physics: general relativity, quantum field theory (both QED and QCD), fluid dynamics, and statistical mechanics. And these fields have important open questions in exactly the domains that you need to apply them. So you end up needing to solve not just one open problem, but a whole bundle of them, and they all conspire to work together to make each one harder than it would be on its own.

Consequently, not very much is actually known about neutron stars. One of the most important open problems in modeling neutron stars is just coming up with the most basic relationship you can, namely the "equation of state." This is simply a relationship between the density and the pressure within the neutron star. The equation of state of normal stars was effectively developed in the 19th century with the development of statistical mechanics. The equation of state of white dwarfs was developed by Chandrasekhar in the 1930s, not long after the development of quantum mechanics (and while Chandrasekhar was on a boat traveling from India to England!). But the equation of state for neutron stars is still unknown.

A major consequence of the equation of state is that it predicts the maximum mass of the object. In the case of a white dwarf, Chandrasekhar showed that the equation of state implied that the maximum mass had to be about 1.44 times the mass of the Sun (this is now appropriately known as the Chandrasekhar limit). But because the equation of state of neutron stars is not known, it is not known what the maximum mass of a neutron star is. Therefore, discovering more massive neutron stars is very important because it can possibly rule out certain equations of state. This, in turn, tells us a little bit more about what physical processes are going on in the neutron star.

Since the problem is so theoretically intractable astrophysicists usually have to neglect or simplify certain aspects of the physics considerably. If the equation of state that comes out of these assumptions can be ruled out, this means that one of these assumptions must be faulty, and some of the underlying physics that was neglected turns out to be important after all.
For sure. He is pretty reasonable guy. Just over a decade ago I have CS friends who make fun of him for his appearances. Now at least I think what he talked regarding Free/ Or at the very least Open Source software is prophetic for that time.
Nothing standing in the way of energy storage's 'explosive growth'
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I think this is all missing the point. RMS may have been technically correct about what happened, but he chose to speak up at the wrong time, about the wrong topic, and derailed the conversation into a diversion that didn't add any value.

And to make matters worse, he tried to quibble about the definitions of "sexual assault" and "statutory rape", which is pretty insulting and hurtful to people who have been victims of those situations.

Now, I don't necessarily see that this should definitively add up to RMS being forced out of MIT and the FSF, but this, combined with decades of awful behavior around women and some pretty messed up attitudes around what he called "voluntary pedophilia", is an understandable camel's-back-breaking straw.
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Imagine a far future game where bored teenagers grab the family spaceship, find a neutron star just below the blackhole limit, and throw things into it until it makes the switch. How fun would that be?!
Oracle cloud gets 'always' free tier (2x 20gb database and 2 compute instances)
Oh shoot, good catch! Yeah, 2:1 is just an octave, of course.
Richard Stallman Resigns from MIT over Epstein Comments
IIRC - it's from the yellow pages "let your fingers do the walking", although I could have made up that association.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SYpJ1IgGoc0
Here's something that just popped into my head: If we could instanly beam a sugar-cube of Neutron Star material to earth (using the same measurements as in the article) what would happen to it?

Would it just fall right through whatever it's sat on or would it instantly expand into something less dense?
Again blurring the lines between 'robot' and 'not robot', but this one (despite arguably being just an optically triggered actuator) is very interesting and hella creepy.
Do not use patterns that require you to write code like that.
Yup! I am still lost with the approach to treating opioid addiction.

For example, benzodiazepine class drugs have a very defined dosage reduction schedule and it's never discontinued right away just because of drug seeking behavior. Same with anti-depressants(the Wellbutrin kind) where dependance Is very real and expected.
Yes, but they're outside the atmosphere and therefore don't have a Mach number.
Troubleshooting seems to be an especially popular reason to want this, but I understand some traffic management strategies want to measure RTT also under normal use.
> If it is wasn't that way, they would be acting illegally.

Common misconception.

> Corporate directors are not required to maximize shareholder value.

https://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/academics/clarke_business_...
You nailed it, it's absolute parody.

The graffiti in the Broad St. NYC location is cringe inducing.

On more than one occasion I've witnessed people omit that their office is based out of a we work location. Just too embarrassing to be associated with them.
I'm curious as well. My guess is it would expand because there's not enough mass left to overcome the strong nuclear force.
They also all agree that their country once comprised all of the Balkans and possibly was the cradle of western civilization.
Did Donkey Kong actually come out on the 2600? I would have imagined Nintendo would have shut it down, like they did id software's Mario Bros PC port.
Just like you might learn to play the guitar in 4 months.

Depending on your goal, in 4 months you can become a novice programmer who could be hired by a company to grow into a junior position.*

You could spend the same amount of time to solve a problem that is meaningful to you and in doing so try to learn all the programming you need to know. It would be helpful to have a mentor of sorts, though. This approach is often taken by domain experts who have a problem, but are unable to get a solution due to bureaucracy, lack of funds, or there just is no suitable solution yet. The resulting programs might not be the best, from a programming point of view, but the value added is often very high.

* It is actually not quite clear what a junior programmer is or should be able to do. This depends on the expectations of the organization as well as their willingness to train good people. Usually organizations are looking for people who know enough to be productive fast without too much supervision, whereas novice programmers often need more one-on-one attention than organizations are willing to invest. As a result, novices are thrown in the deep end of the pool and those who can swim to the other end of the pool during their probation period are kept, the others are left to drown.
Just to elaborate: The comment is basically saying they are lying without any proof of such. Is it OK to blatantly and unfoundedly accuse companies of fraud like that?
What was your procedure for confirming they did anything but roll their eyes and go about their normal routine?
Of course. The American justice system is horrendously evil.
No one's saying he's brave or contrarian here. He said something incredibly stupid, but (a) not the horrifying thing that news outlets are accusing him of, and (b) certainly not something worth trying to ruin his life over. This kind of misrepresentation and witch-hunting shouldn't even be done in rare circumstances, do you honestly believe that everyone should be treated like this?
Yeah, instead of getting my lender to give me a better interest rate or a discount on fees, I'm going to instead use my negotiating leverage to make sure Equifax makes $20 less revenue.
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The longer you live the more likely something will go wrong. That is true but at the same time not all that interesting.

Similar problems come up with very young people. Not only can dementia itself exhibit itself in the young, but people can become tuned out to anything outside their interests and expertise and lose interest in learning through play and experimentation. When this happens people become locked in their modes and may not move forward.

To add some anecdata I know people who were prolific programmers with perl CGI scripts but were never able to make the jump to modern application programming, not even the relatively easy transition to "modern perl". At the same time I know some older programmers who have contributed to modern apps while working on both embedded devices and machine learning and love being at the forward edge of everything.

There are many aspects to work in technology and age is a minor factor especially compared to attitude and interest. This reminds me of how Victor Frankl describes in Man's Search for Meaning that people expected the strong and healthy to endure life in concentration camps and yet many died within days while some who were weak and sick endured because they had something that kept them going through the greatest challenges. Age and experience are factors, but it is how they are framed and leveraged that actually matters.