skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fascinating. For those who click to read the comments before the actual article, this is Mr. Preston-Werner's introduction of Jekyll, the Ruby static site generator, to the world. He lays out his reasons for creating the tech:

>>>First, all my writing would be stored in a Git repository. This would ensure that I could try out different ideas and explore a variety of posts all from the comfort of my preferred editor and the command line. I’d be able to publish a post via a simple deploy script or post-commit hook. Complexity would be kept to an absolute minimum, so a static site would be preferable to a dynamic site that required ongoing maintenance. My blog would need to be easily customizable; coming from a graphic design background means I’ll always be tweaking the site’s appearance and layout.

Which are the exact same wishes I had with my own blog, and I assume many other "hacker" types have for theirs, as well. I don't remember why I settled on Pelican (Python) over Jekyll (Ruby), but either tool is a fantastic choice for blogs... and I now understand that's because Jekyll was literally created to support those goals!
The gender balance displayed in the video is admirable, but it is always interesting to see how "white" films were from this era.
This is terrible, but let's not forget that this is actionable. Last presidential election Lawrence Lessig got onto Democratic ballot only to bring up the issue of influence of big money on the democratic process. Which is at the root of the Comcast issue. The Democrats barred him from participating in debates. The issue is not debated even by Democrats and I'm not even talking about Republicans! Support the candidate who will bring up limiting campaign spending, campaign contributions and lobbying - only then things will change. Again, no party so far has done much meaningful on the issue.
I agree with all your points except the last;

> If everything looks like you authorized a transaction, they'll give you your money back because you said so? And you seriously believe that?

two times I've reported fraud to two different banks. I was sent a letter from them stating "you say you didn't make X transaction, please sign and date and return", and I got the money back, no further questions asked. I fully believe that a consumer bank will refund 99.99% of transactions without asking further questions if you tell them it's fraud. (Both my values we're under 300 pounds, for whatever it's worth, and I've found out since thatits a royal pain to spend > 1000 pounds on a debit card without being pre approved for the transaction)
Stop deliberately using “modulo” incorrectly like this. It’s cringey, doesn’t make sense, will never catch on, makes people pause for a full minute trying to understand what you really meant or if it’s an odd autocorrect, wastes people’s time, and ruins your entire comment. Just say “other than” like a normal person.
I think scientists need other material for managing quantum state to get some real progress.
I mean by that logic as long as 49 states allow you to register a truck sold in 2009 that still runs and drives and hasn't been modified that it's ok? Imagine if it were a 2009 prius? Would you be ok with it then?

edit I guess I've been shadow banned for wrong think in here, can't respond to comments.
It seems every time I read an article where some Agile consultant extols the evils of waterfall the author commits a Just In Case Fallacy or the lede is buried. This article is no different:

Teams only checked in – wait for it – every three months in a formal schedule review. I listened as Henrich mentioned that the teams complained about the volume of paperwork he makes them fill out for these quarterly reviews. And he was unhappy with the quality of the reports because he felt most teams wrote the reports the night before the review.

That's not a problem with AgileFall or ScrumFall, that's ineffective management irrespective of how the sausage is made. But nobody has to wear the Scarlet Letter of Project Failure if we assign blame to the process!

I've also never found that pure (like the wind-driven snow capital-A) Agile matches reality. After spending more than a decade wrestling with it - I still haven't figured out how quality assurance and test fits into the same iteration in Agile. Most teams I inherit have non-technical QA resources. Most projects I inherit have complex business logic and integration needs that aren't easily testable until some state of development "done" has been achieved. And time and time again I find myself staggering their effort slightly behind development so that test and development resources aren't taking turns sitting on their asses waiting for the other side.

I've written about this before as was even been publicly admonished by an Agile Manifesto signatory (hallowed be their names) that I was doing it WRONG WRONG WRONG! But I was never able to figure out how to contort reality to satisfy their criticism. Believing in iterations and backlogs and prioritization and shortened feedback loops wasn't enough. Thinking QA - any QA! - occurred AFTER any development was done was altogether impure. And despite asking repeatedly for concrete examples of how its done the "right" way, the only responses I received were vague platitudes and consultant sales blurbs that I guess I wasn't smart enough to understand.

In the end, I don't think there's any escaping that work has to be done in a sequence: identify a need, identify a solution, implement the solution, validate the solution. And so every software project has at least a little bit of waterfall mixed in.
> (goats)(shepherds) their kids

Intended or not, nice one for NLP disambiguation :)
By that logic, we should certainly get rid of .uk and .us. Even the extremely biased accounts of the USSR that you seem to believe don’t match the continuing brutality of Anglo imperialism.

Read some history, perhaps.
> Chatting on the phone provides the bliss of unreviewable, unforwardable, unsearchable speech. There’s no record of it.

A benefit that many people don't seem to recognize as if total continuous surveillance and a permanent record is always preferable.

ADDED (from the same article):

> "There’s no record of it (unless your conversation partner is secretly recording it, in which case you have deeper problems)."
in communist china, television watches you -- hmmmm this is well outside of Orwell territory by now because it would've been unheard of for the governments of his super-states to spy on each others' citizens!
>This means I oftentimes find myself looking at the raw numbers of, say, gun deaths or immigration numbers, etc.

Data is meaningless without context and context is inevitably political and subject to bias.
Let me turn it around: who are you trying to hide it from?

Anyone with a tiny bit of Internet knowledge is going to know how big a site Reddit is (#6 on Alexa for the US).
It looks like the 10K API call offer is limited to people who sign up for the developer plan ($149/mo), but your post implies it's free. Did I misread the offer in your post?
Hit q and e
Radio Voices: listen to recent US radio clips on any topic
> It sounds very much like California overstepping the government's authority to regulate interstate trade.

No, it's companies being pragmatic. If you want to sell in California you have to comply with certain standards. If you then want to create a separate, inefficient, polluting car to sell to the rest of the US where they don't care about those things, have at it. If you don't think that makes economic sense, then don't.

This is about as pro-states-rights as you can get.

> But look no further than the countless items that now print "Known to California to cause cancer" for another impact.

Nobody here cares about that.
The airline charge won't tell them where you are going... My banks have an online tool to inform them of travel plans.
You're right I do fail to consider this, as it's not really an alternative to Shor, because annealing is horse shit that nobody can decide the computational complexity of. Not even D-wave thinks it might be. [1]

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-36058-z
> There's a 1 terabyte/month data cap

In other words, you're allowed to use your service for about three hours per month.

I worked for an ISP and I completely understand the idea behind overprovisioning, because you build your network for average traffic and not the maximum theoretical capacity needed to serve 100% of customers using 100% of their connection 100% of the time. But here Comcast is overprovisioning by a factor of 240:1 -- that is, you can only use your connection at 1/240th of your theoretical capability. That's insane, and demonstrably unnecessary.

I use Sonic.net which is a relatively much tinier ISP, but who offers uncapped gigabit for much less than Comcast's capped joke offering. Therefore, people who really want to use their connection heavily are much more likely to go to Sonic.net than Comcast, meaning that Sonic.net probably has a much higher average per-customer usage than Comcast does. And yet, they're still cheaper, still uncapped, and still growing. If Sonic.net can do it, Comcast is just being greedy.
(I don't have a dog in this fight) From TFA: "The result is Trump and Brexit!" and generally the lack of anything disparaging toward the left. The article and the Internet Archive plainly isn't "focused on conservatives", but it sort of undermines its purported mission (commitment to preserving the truth) in the implication that conservatives are unique in espousing misinformation, even if the implication is unintentional.
Yes they do. I am a Netflix DVD-by-mail customer.
Because California knows that if it forces any car maker to make a car only for California emissions the cost of making any car will go way up. California would roll it back in an instant and start suing if all the manufacturers said ok, fine, none of our cars work for california, no cars for you.
Yup. Digital communication is fine to set up real communication, but it's like fast food-- cheap, fast, convenient, but not very nourishing. Even us introverts need real conversations. Was talking to a bunch of people a year or two ago, and we were all complaining about this problem, so much that I started The Reconnection Challenge.

It's been great just talking to people. At first it seems slower, but there's actually so much more information transfer by voice (or in person). Who knew? ;)

(https://www.mimiran.com/the-reconnection-challenge)
One of the defining aspects of both the Brexit campaign and Trumpism is blatant disregard for facts and the delibirate spread of misinformation that is heavy on one side, and an order or two of magnitude less on the other side. That just is the way of it, however sad that is.

It is not the first time that states use misinformation as effective attacks on other states, but that doesn’t mean it should be left unchallenged.

This is coming from a citizen of neither the US nor UK and as such a bit of an outsiders perspective, mostly free from domestic politics.
The dictionary has one definition of "man" being "a human being of either sex; a person". It's perfectly valid.
So you're criticising the article for making an argument that you realise is happening entirely in your head?
Or, had an interest in building video games.
> I think it makes sense to limit how much impact one large state can have on the whole country.

You mean, much like Europe has had an impact on the whole world by introducing GDPR? Borders are no more when the issues are global. Privacy, health, wellbeing, …

When a group of people decides that something has an impact on their lives (health in this case, or anything else for that matter), and introduce regulation because the industry doesn't give enough fucks, what's so bad about it?
TL DR: C-section babies pick up more hospital bacteria than those born vaginally, research shows. The findings could explain the higher prevalence of asthma, allergies and other immune conditions in babies born by caesarean. By six to nine months, the differences between the two groups had levelled out.
But scientists think that the initial exposure to bacteria at the moment of birth could be a “thermostat” moment for the immune system, defining its sensitivity and which strains of bacteria trigger a response.
YANAL. It certainly could be illegal, depending on the law. For instance, it is illegal for American companies to pay bribes in foreign countries (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Corrupt_Practices_Act)
For high-profile places, you're not wrong. And it isn't just tech (though I think tech has its own special set of eccentricities), finance, Hollywood, fashion, media, transportation, the restaurant industry, food and beverage -- the places that become high-profile (which is not the same thing as successful), are usually helmed early on or during that success by someone eccentric.

Most of the time, the person isn't even a millionaire or billionaire when the company starts/grows -- but even at the very early stages, there is something different and slightly batshit about them.

And speaking from personal experience as someone who has also worked at high-profile startups (some very early stage), that's kind of part of the appeal. An audacious leader can be charismatic and compelling. And then once you're "in it" you start to normalize the increasingly batshit stuff you see, writing it off as "that's just X being X" -- which can often be unhealthy because with no accountability, things can go from "eccentric/audacious but ultimately helpful" to "this is insanity and is harming more than it is helping."
The use of "excuse" was referencing the fact that these trains didn't just up from no where, that training on new trains isn't an unexpected thing for a train company to need to do.

It's like saying a product in a supermarket is delayed "because it needs to be put on the shelf"
So, it sounds like the candidate was interviewing for a senior engineering position and was given a problem to reverse a linked list in place. This is an entirely reasonable constraint and something that you would expect someone in a senior position to be able to do.

Space constraints do come up frequently and being able to reason about them is important.
I've taken to calling my friends on the phone over the past few months, after years of texting. I've let them know I'm going to try to do more of this and everyone I've mentioned it to has responded positively. We've decided that even if we just have a moment and want to share something funny or interesting, we're going to try to have a quick phone conversation.

This has helped me feel more connected to the people who I don't see in person frequently in a way that feels more "real" than texts or emails.
Would probably break that up similar to how you did in that case as well. Though may use multiple server request (chunks) and/or use a websocket for the data feed.

What was the memory overhead for the application?
The more advanced ones that use 2fa are really only 1fa (at least the two I have accounts with). Both allow you to reset your 2fa using the username+password on an install of their mobile device.
By EGR, you mean the technology that keeps California's air breathable. Yeah, it's more expensive to do business here, because we want to be able to, you know, not die from air pollution.
I've been looking quite a bit into this recently, and even though they might not be screaming it from the rooftops, Gitlab offers quite a few security-related features. There are code scanning, dependency tracking, etc. features at various levels of readiness.

https://about.gitlab.com/devops-tools/
https://about.gitlab.com/stages-devops-lifecycle/secure/
The First Design of Varnish
I just downloaded this last weekend! I’m trying to find a good simulator where I can import models generated with photogrammetry. I’ve been using a cell phone camera and OpenSfM + OpenMVS to make 3D models of real world environments, and I want to be able to run them in sim. I see this is built on Unity. In the past I tried UnrealEngine but it was such a big mess of software for simple RL tasks. I’ll have to see if Unity is cleaner.

I’m building a mostly 3D printed four wheel drive Rover vehicle I designed, and I’m using an Nvidia Jetson Xavier to try to make it autonomous using only cameras for sensors. Currently I’ve got some stereo cameras but I’m considering a synchronized 4 X 4K camera rig. Hopefully I can release some scans once I get something good.

The rover is public domain open source so please check it out if you’re curious! It can support a 10-20lb payload with the right springs:

https://youtu.be/ToGT3KokPZA
Yes, because in theory, to borrow a Republican talking point, the federal governments authority is explicitly limited to interstate commerce, defense and piracy on the high seas. This has nothing to do with any of those things, so each state is free to decide what they permit or deny within their borders, so long as it's, you know, constitutional.

Some states criminalize possession of substances others don't. Some criminalize certain behaviors and practices that others don't. Why should that stop at the freeways?
Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington.

These are the states that mirror California's emissions standards.

We're not talking about one state. We're talking about the entire west coast of the US and the lion's share of the eastern seaboard.
Cool stuff!

Typo in first paragraph of https://gustedt.wordpress.com/category/c/ (mayor instead of major)
I'd be happy if it had a copy of IBM Support Console Application 1.6.1 or 1.6.2 for OS/2 from 1999 or so, but alas.
There will always be other manufactures willing to build and sell cars that are legal in California.

> … the cost of making any car will go way up.

Citation needed.
I downvoted you for making a non sequitur joke... but then I actually read the article! (I've removed my downvote.)
Different things. Github has features that scan repos for "known-vulnerable" dependencies. They do not have features that scan for new vulnerabilities.
I don't think that follows. I'm technically savvy and am fully capable of torrenting files, but the amount of effort I have to exert to get it done problem free (and the amount I have in the past) means it is not easy or simple. Just because you have the ability to perform an action, even if you find it easy to do, does not mean it is intrinsically easy or simple.

And it definitely is never easier than opening an app on your smart tv/console/etc and clicking play.
> Just as light can be bent and magnified when it passes through the gravitational fields of galaxies and other massive objects, gravitational waves should be warped in the same way, too.

I'm gonna need a refresher course on that.
We gotta stop blaming `China` -- The China brand has been tarnished unfairly in my view as we use it to be synonymous with the so-called `Communist Party of China`
Another interesting job board would be for people who are trying to switch fields. For example, how do you transition into web-dev with 5 years of experience in embedded (or vice-versa)? I find it funny that in the era of standard tests for interviews (i.e. Leetcode style), employers still ask for relevant experience in their tech stack, too. Somehow the industry helped them have their cake and eat it too.
If the JSON itself contains strings with markup included, and you're injecting directly into a script tag in the HTML document.

Though, if you're dealing with a typed object server-side and/or loading into a .js file request, it's less of an issue, if you aren't supporting html markup in the object to begin with. In my own use case, both are true.
I agree with everything you said, except that I'm not sure that JSON.parse all over the place is going to add any significant unreadability. I think most likely it would always look the same and be just as readable as object literals once the initial getting used to it period would be over with. Hell, I think it's a lot more readable than the use of !! which I consider an abomination, but everyone keeps doing that for developer speed = productivity purposes.
> are they just focusing on conservatives?

If history is any guide, then they are or will be. As a thought experiment, can you think of anything left-wing-supporting that you even _can_ call misinformation? I can’t. I mean - I can think of a lot of things that I dare not name as misinformation, so I am physically capable, but I know better than to risk putting my name to it.
It's funny.

I don't know about that guy, but many of the voice actors that made cringeworthy performances that I bitterly complained about in the 1990s are now doing very good work, particularly in games. Experience counts for something.

For instance Erin Fitzgerald did Noire in the Nep games about as well as Asami Imai did.
Can the NFL Turn a 360-Pound Rugby Player into a Football Star?
Citation needed. [1] It's always cheaper to build two of the same thing than two different things.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economies_of_scale
This harkens back further to when Descartes wrote "Cogito, ergo sum", the first recorded instance of a Lisp program. Amazing.
Not sure - I never thought of how TOS might apply the second time around. Thank you.
Ambient black carbon particles reach the fetal side of human placenta
"intended meaning"

Stallman gave the wrong definition of "sexual assault".

He chastised people for using the wrong phrase.

Legally speaking, it's the right phrase.

If the argument is really about "objective morality" and "absolutes" then those cannot be decided, so your interpretation of Stallman's text would also have Stallman object to calling Epstein a pedophile - something he rejects. Therefore your interpretation must be wrong.

Are you paying any attention to any of the cited claims in the last few days? It's not like these deep dark secrets. Searching HN for "Stallman creep", for example, finds:

"There are many valid criticisms of Richard Stallman: ... he has creeped out some women by making passes at them (or so they tell me). - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2327849 (2011)

I also know a woman who worked down the hall from Stallman, and she found him to be a creep this way.

Then there's all the people on Twitter saying the same thing, and not just recently. Here's are a few from 2018, https://twitter.com/suzanne_hillman/status/99459683376166092... :

> He flirts with anyone who is female, even if they are underage. He is creepy in person, in a way that I cannot adequately describe. I have absolutely no doubt in my mind that he kept women out of open source and free software, and many of his ideas stayed even after he left.

and https://twitter.com/starsandrobots/status/994267277460619265 :

> I remember being walked around campus by an upperclassman getting advice during my freshman year at MIT. "Look at all the plants in her office," referring to a professor. "All the women CSAIL professors keep massive amounts of foliage" s/he said. "Stallman really hates plants."

Or elsewhere, like https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2019/09/17/rms-resig... :

> rms was in the whisper network as a creep when I was in undergrad late last millennium, and I wasn’t even at MIT.
Sounds good. It does make sense to check to see if your selectors work with raw HTML on publish to verify if you require JS or not.
This is probably the biggest news for Inkscape for a while. I can't count the number of times I've not been able to recommend it to mac-using colleagues who don't have an adobe license.
To the right of what it applies to? Like French: Moulin Rouge. :)