skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Metrics are really meant as a social tool for humans.

For example a commonly repeated advice is that you need a "north star" metric. For facebook this was daily active users (for an arbitrary definition of active). For machine translation research this was the BLEU score (which is also fairly arbitrary and flawed).

Humans need these simplistic metrics because we can't agree on progress otherwise.

But it's also because every human has conflicting goals that we know that the guiding metric won't fail too horribly. At all points in time, people are also evaluating progress in terms of their personal values from their point of view. Gaming of the metrics won't go unnoticed by another human. Edge cases can be patched. Conflicting goals are surfaced, decided on and resolved. The guiding metric and real mission of the organization is evolved organically. All of this is done using biological intelligence.

I don't know if it's really possible to build an AI system with the same property. The course correcting of metrics might for a long time remain in the domain of vigilant humans, as we are the only ones who know what our values are.
How could you possibly ever accuse a website of being “used for ethnic cleansing”?
It is a bit weird to see this written as if it wasn't crystal clear that the linux kernel is the only alternative.

Why not just say it?

"Sadly the graphics support is still lacking on FreeBSD since all the driver development is very linux specific, we therefore decided to switch kernels because graphics is a major part of the user experience."
Very fair point. As long as that condition holds, then I guess it's a non-issue.

There are apparently trains bigger than that in some parts of the world (such as the US and Australia) but maybe conditions in Switzerland prevent that from happening? This is way beyond my level of knowledge though.
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (1996) [pdf]
Now, 50 years out, the influence of counterculture ideas is still strong. Stewart and the cadre of people who were around him were at the center of the counterculture. This excerpt from edge.org by Fred Turner of Stanford is worth a read.

In some ways The Whole Earth Catalog was a defining handbook of the Counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s. I read and reread it in all the various editions and versions. I went to and bought stuff mentioned in the Catalog at the Whole Earth Truck Store in Menlo Park, CA. I was a founder of the People's Computer Company, a cousin organization to the Whole Earth Catalog, which published books and magazines about personal computing as it birthed. In later years, when the focus of activity moved to the North Bay, I'd go up and visit the Whole Earth Review and Convolution Quarterly in Sausalito.

The Internet Archive (www.archive.org) just put up a whole bunch of material about Stewart Brand and the Whole Earth Catalog just one of his many seminal works.

The Whole Earth Catalog is part of my personal genome. The Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org) has done a great service making these historic publications available online.

Readers of Hacker News might want to consider supporting the Archive with a donation. https://archive.org/donate/ It's worth an in-person visit as well.
But wasn't that how OOP was supposed to be, according to Alan Kay? That objects should have resembled real life objects, as close as possible and exchange messages with each other?
The original issue people had involved money. Money always taints a project.

The complaints were that all the claims were WIPs, and none of them were implemented and working to a level that can be relied on and used. Yet the project had already gotten more donations than other similar projects that are way further into their development.

Then, a lot of language programmers with credentials behind them came out and basically tried to warn people that going from WIP to Production with all those claimed features is very hard and the chances of failure for V are high. That there was a reason no language currently existed that had all those claimed features together. Doing so is very challenging.

So at that point, the outrage was that some people are potentially being fooled into donating for something that will never meet its claims, a.k.a, Vaporware. Or that it's unfair to donate to V, where it could be similarly donated to other languages that's been at it for longer which could make it all happen sooner.

Now, here's my take. I think the criticism is fair. I think the odds of V being a better language than all the other existing ones once it's ready and done are slim. But, I also think that it having had better marketing, bold claims, and clear ambitions, might be the only chance it has at making it. The funding it's getting, the support from other contributors that showed up after all the marketing push, that could pay off. Look at the commit history pre/post all the marketing. I've never seen an open source project that's so early in development having so many contributors beyond the ones that are made by a company hiring a team.

Basically, I feel tech people underestimate the value of marketing and a good sales man. These things are needed to build a good product as well. You can't build anything without resources. Steve Jobs couldn't have built the iPhone from a technical angle, but the engineers couldn't have built the iPhone without Steve Jobs enabling its focused development.

All the luck to V, and all the other languages to be honest. I don't care how it happens, through overblown marketing, clickbait articles, or through academic rhetoric, or from pure passion, or through someone working in a cave somewhere disconnected and coming out of it all of a sudden, etc. I just would like for it to happen.
Wow. It’s not often you see making someone eat their own words executed so well. Professionally handled.
I didn’t see the article talking about landfill safety.

It’s fundamentally wasteful to dump millions of cubic meters of otherwise useful materials into holes in the ground. The long term costs are difficult to quantify, and ultimately becomes a public problem after landfills close.

Making waste plastic a commodity with actual value would address both the litter and intentional dumping issues through market forces.
Some of these eco-rules result in inconveniencing your life and increasing your costs with at most a zero change of the overall plastics use.
At first this didn’t land for me but i have a 35 hp compact tractor that i can work hard for hours on five gallons of diesel. Plus the pack weight would help with traction.
Standardized testing is a good predictor of someone's ability to do well in our STEM oriented society. I score high on these things, but I've also found I'm missing something important compared to people who don't score highly on these things. I think our society is optimized to favor a certain kind of intellectual talent, which certainly exists and is very useful, but does not seem to be the only or even most important personal characteristic.

That being said, these tests should not be abolished, but we should also look at other human characteristics that are beneficial.
I often wish that "Show HN" posts followed the same format as "Launch HN". I think it would be more beneficial for both the community seeing the product as well as the showcasing party.

Posts where there is detailed information about the project, who is behind it, how it started, etc., and maybe some contact info. Even the tiniest percentage of this information would be more helpful.

This is the second time in as many days I clicked a Show HN link and had no idea what I was looking at. The first was the nearest volcano site from yesterday; the page did nothing without location access.
Yep. They routinely run fairly long trains over the Lotschberg and Gotthard lines through the base tunnels that I’m pretty certain are approaching 256 axles, but I have yet to see any with more.

Most likely the main transalpine lines now allows >256 axles while other secondary lines have not been upgraded.
Well said.

And #3 is also an area where Functional Programming falls completely flat.

There is simply no easy way in any FP language that I know to capture such a simple mechanism as: "Reuse 90% of this piece of code but alter just this 10%".

Specialization is a very, very powerful aspect of OOP, one that's extremely easy to explain and which comes in handy to model a surprisingly wide variety of problems.
Except this is an article on the construction/seeding of live reefs. I'm not sure what your point is in that context.
Machine Translation on a Budget: OpenNMT-py on Google Colab and EC2 Spot
That's not even the right outrage, their CEO said (implicitly) that they're fine being the repo hoster for software being developed for ICE...
We had 40 times more data, which meant 40 times more
chance of flopping or succeeding.

If we've learned anything from David Cage, it's that moar polygons == moar EMOTIONS
I appreciate the advice. I may not have been clear in my rant but I am not in legal debt presently. If it were medical debt from a recoverable position and with support it would be a different story. I have skirted it by paying up front from savings or not seeking/getting care if it cost too much (a decision many have to make here) as I know in my condition and situation I would never recover once that happens. I will end things before that if faced with it. But conditions keep worsening making me fear that outcome. I was denied any governmental assistance even with lawyers and years of effort and my partial medical retirement pension has no medical insurance or benefits and isn't even enough for all needs itself, let alone extreme medical costs. I have been living with hyper-conservative family who have made things quite difficult for me, blaming me because my situation flies in the face of their beliefs, and that is coming to and end soon as I am blamed for their pre-existing 4th marriage issues being a convenient target.

Basically once you are removed from the ability to control and maintain independent life, to the normal degree most can, and there is no support network or safety net to rely on, you are faced with hits from every side which amplify each other and no matter how hard you try and what you do the exponential weight is crushing. There just wasn't enough help from family or systems when it would have enabled me to recover, and now I will never recover and there is even less help, meaning none, to survive when you are dependent. Likely since I have to move, I will just pack up and go abroad by end of year with whats left, rent a tiny flat for as long as I can, and hope a miracle takes place somehow before I am forced to flip the switch off. I don't have the funds, health, or support to survive anywhere legally or continuously alone...but I refuse for my last breaths to be here. Sorry for the anger...cathartic dumping as I have no real ear to bend regularly. It's been a rough few decades ;)
Have we so forgotten the lessons of the past that we think communications mediums cannot aid in genocide? Look up the role of Joseph Goebbels and the then-nascent radio on Nazi Germany and the Holocaust.
Researcher Warns That 5G Might Cause Cancer After All
The Hackers Diet
In my experience most compact cars in the US are japanese/korean/etc. They traditionally have way different standards for acceptable leg room for drivers, but its getting better with newer models. Every German car I’ve owned lets me back the seat to where i can’t touch the pedals (im 5’11”).
It’s almost like parts of the U.S. never made it to the 20th century...

www.nytimes.com/2018/05/22/opinion/alabama-poverty-sewers.amp.html
Bitcoin's original goal was "electronic cash". As was M-Pesa's. They solve the same main user problem: payment. It's true that they're implemented in completely different ways, and with different philosophies. But my point with M-Pesa is that there are no inherent barriers to digital money. If Bitcoin had been useful to a broad audience, it could have had adoption similar to M-Pesa's. It hasn't, and at the rate it's going, it never will.
> “best OS for this product is Android”

You mean the only OS you could pick? Lol, what a misleading statement. Also missing from the click-baity title "best operating system for /their/ mobile devices".
You have to grant permissions on Google to read the Terms of Use or Privacy Policy.

Hard no.
Oops I Forgot to Use Amazon Smile. Again
European countries move to block Facebook's Libra digital currency
I think you can just dive in personally. If you want some prep work, read through Why's Poignant Guide to Ruby to grasp the basics.
This is what-about-ism and it's dishonest. The US's incarceration rate has little to do with concentration camps where people are put because they're a ethnicity the government doesn't like. They can both be problems worth pointing out.
Actually, the longest regular Swiss trains seem to top out at 44 cars. This is because of passing siding lengths being much smaller than other countries such as the US. There are longer trains that are scheduled on routes with longer sidings however such as a the main north/south routes.

Most European trains rarely exceed 22 cars for the same reasons as they have to be able to be passed by express trains in stations.
Because we haven't learned to treat systemic diseases yet, where more than one factor needs to be shut down or modified to stop the progress.
Generally being the operative word. There are certainly cases where it's harmful.
The issue with lower horsepower motors is that regenerative braking is not as effective. For the most part, regenerative braking can only absorb as much torque as it can put out, and anything above this has to fall back to the traditional brake system (or some other system).

I've been pricing out how to perform EV conversions as cheaply as possible. Battery capacity is by far the most costly section, and having a smaller horsepower motor isn't going to change how much power it draws (assuming driving habits stay the same). I've been basing my calculations off a 40HP motor and here are some preliminary numbers you might find interesting

On a typical car, a 200 mile radius will require around 44.4kWh of capacity (at around 45MPH, no stops). This is the capacity of 3483 3.4Ah 18650 cells, costing around $13.6k (you can bring that price down if you have some connections and more supply, but that's the cheapest rate I could find for a non-business). 100 mile range is also pretty reasonable. The motor and all other components cost less than $1.5k, man hours required for conversion is another main question, but hopefully that becomes more streamlined over time.
Pretty sure he was just an asshole who lied, cheated, and stole his way into success; a true American hero!
> "The SAT and ACT are a fantastic detector to identify rich and motivated parents who are willing to drop off their kid for 2 years at cramming centers for weekly tutoring sessions and trial tests... and who are willing to pay thousands for it."

It was great for me, as a poor minority who was highly dedicated to education and self-learning. Felt pretty good to do as well or better than the wealthier kids despite not having access to a tenth of resources they did.

> "It’s all bullshit."

Sure, if you're wealthy, you can find a bullshit way to get your kids into a better school that they deserve. But this changes nothing; the wealthy will find some new way to leverage their wealth to do the same and it will be back to business as usual. Meanwhile, it shafts the poor but hard-working students (including minorities!) who had a (semi-)objective way to show that they had talent and dedication, all in the name of pretend "diversity".

That's the real bullshit here.
Somewhat ironic that Zuck mentions free expression about a hundred times and yet:

1. took no questions from reporters

2. Facebook Live chat was scrubbed of any critical comments by algorithmic filters

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/ma...
We need more width too? Obesity stats:

https://twitter.com/theturkishlife/status/977462790020567040

"Comfort fit" clothes and cars
I'm doing something similar https://github.com/cztomsik/graffiti/
The article completely misses the point because it sets up a large amount of straw men that are completely unrelated to the point

The fact that "Car extends Vehicle" is sometimes a subpar modelization has nothing to do with OOP or inheritance and everything to do with the fact that the English language is not specific enough to describe what a Vehicle is well.

Same goes with "Duck extends Bird". Yes, there are a few birds that don't fly. This problem has nothing to do with programming languages, inheritance, or OOP.

I still find these two examples, "Duck extends Bird" and "Car extends Vehicle" as extremely powerful to teach beginners what OOP is about.

Like all metaphors, they tend to leak if you push them too far, but they do a splendid job at introducing beginners to the concept of OOP, which is going to serve them well for probably most of their professional life.
... and since Vermont doesn’t have these selection criteria for its residents, the comparison makes no sense.
For what it's worth, the login pop-up served by Google or Facebook describes what kind of data will be shared with the app, so you can make a conscious decision.
Peter Thiel Is Doubling Down on Bitcoin
One thing to bear in mind when that converting ice vehicles to electric is that they are constructed with a vertical firewall between engine and driver with lots of protection around location of fuel tanks and fuel lines.
EV's are typically designed with a horizontal fire wall to protect the occupants from the batteries beneath them, which become unstable in a violent impact and often burn repeatedly. The centre of gravity in an ICE vehicle is very different to an EV. It is therefore arguably better to build some sort of EV kit car with a crate motor than to attempt to convert an ICE monocoque imo
Data Scientist vs. Data Researcher vs. Machine Learning Engineer
I was sued and the order to appear never arrived. I spoke to the judge and she said it doesn't matter. If it was sent out with USPS, it's considered delivered. They don't have to prove it was even delivered.
Haiku? :)
Germany Averted an Opioid Crisis
In my country you need to login into your bank account to approve payment with credit card. Technology is here but why not all banks are using it is different question.
Because it’s cheaper for credit card companies to eat this cost than it is to prevent these costs. Don’t tell me you all haven’t taken shortcuts and papered over low-impact bugs etc., it’s the way of the world.
I thought a vodka producer got listed somewhere for money laundering... ("Iceland Grey" sounds like a drink brand name)
>device sends statistical information (aggregate) to the company

Is there any device/service that does that ? In my (limited) experience working on consumer product, the device sends detailed info that is then aggregated.
Haiku is a UNIX, though. :)
If Russia was really able to have significant influence with $100k vs $81M the techniques they used could be studied and duplicated. Every startup would love to have marketing that effective.

The truth is it had no measurable effect exactly as you’d expect.
I heard an interview the other day with the president/CEO of a major northeastern ski hill. He said they have had to re-adjust their charlifts over time because of the increasing weight of North Americans. Average weight going up meant having to remove chairs etc. in order to balance them and keep them to safety spec.

Truly a gluttinous civilization. Growing up I never heard anybody complain about the size of their sedans (which were always bigger than the European median anyways.) But trucks and SUVs have taken over the market here. I'm sure most of it is marketing (you _deserve_ all this power and space, and why would you want to be _below_ all the other deserving people on the road?) but I guess some of it is comfort for larger framed bodies these days.

Personally I've never enjoyed driving a truck, and don't own one despite growing up rural and now living on a hobby farm.
And this somehow isn’t evidence of the effectiveness of undisclosed campaigns based around lies presented as truth? All Clinton did wrong was not involve foreign governments to operate guerrilla smear campaigns.

Oh wait. That isn’t wrong. What are you arguing in favor of again?
Yes, any suit must be brought on behalf of someone who was damaged. “Defamation” is the word for someone being damaged by false ideas.
IMO a migration path between kernels would be expecting too much out of an OSS project, but maybe I just have lower expectations for these things.
The Climate of the British Isles
Gasoline has a whole host of issues, but as far as I know there have been zero recorded cases of a modern gasoline tank spontaneously exploding while the car is sitting undisturbed in a parking lot. The advantages gasoline has here is that it ultimately requires tons of oxygen with a consistent fuel-air mixture in order to combust reliably. Burning gasoline in the open is not nearly as energetic as the process which occurs in a gasoline engine under ideal operating conditions (which are controlled meticulously by a computer for most cars), so even in an accident which results in a fuel leak+fire, you usually have a bit of time to get away from the car before it turns into a complete inferno. Obviously, there are exceptions to this, but it seems to be in a majority of cases the driver/passengers can get out in time.

Battery packs do not have the same 'problem'. They have all aspects of their chemical energy available nearly immediately, and can go from zero to 'you are dead' in just a matter of seconds.
Functional programmers will reply that you can use partial evaluation and higher-order functions to do that.

The sad reality is that since so many people are only familiar with the strawman version of OOP rather than the real thing intelligently discussing the advantages and disadvantages of these paradigms is very hard.
Cannot do that because those patents are used by products they sell to each other.

Not recognising other countries' patents is really a possibility is you don't sell them anything similarly patented in return.

For example, the US could get away with not recognising foreign copyright at one point because they had no copyrighted material of their own to sell abroad.
It's now been cracked - and now we know why it took so long:

https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2019-October/019124.h...
Hang on a minute.

From the article,

'Mark Forkner, the chief technical pilot for the 737 Max...'

then later, 'Forkner told Gustavsson that MCAS was “running rampant in the sim on me,” referring to simulator tests of the aircraft. “Granted, I suck at flying, but even this was egregious.”'

So Boeing's chief technical pilot admits he sucks at flying????

then later,'Forkner is now a pilot at Southwest Airlines Co., the carrier said in a statement.'

Am I missing something? Is this a joke?
Pascal Compiler for the C64: Introducing Turbo Rascal SE
What does it actually mean to “be in denial of death” though? How does our mind divert accepting this reality? I’ve never experienced that; it sounds somewhat dramatic.
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Price of motor, controller, and inverter is not the majority of the cost of an EV conversion.

Battery modules are. Hence why so many people use salvage Teslas, Volts, etc.
Dijkstra: On a somewhat disappointing correspondance (1987) [pdf]
Shell plans to replace forecourt with EV-only charging hub
Clinton not winning the election isn’t proof of Russian interference.
https://www.reddit.com/r/restofthefuckingowl/
... for the shareholders.
I am an employer. Why the fuck would I ever want that type of employee?
I find this a largely unsubstantiated claim, much like the "Once you learn BASIC, your brain is damaged beyond repair" from Dijkstra that is so depressingly repeated over and over, and which is complete nonsense.

These are introductory metaphors that help people get up to speed with a complex concept. You refine your understanding of these as you become more expert on the subject.