skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's intriguing to see that during the last 3 decades, China has made so much progress, and from a historical perspective, I think China will make its own plane, just like how they made their own cars and trains, I do think they have the ability to reverse engineer the plane related stuff,sooner or later, but innorvaton is another thing, it totally make sense to me that China wants to copycat all the high tech stuff, and also, the counter massure that US took is totally reasonable. From the human species' point of view, it is fascinating.
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Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge also has exactly the same gap in graphics capability vs arcade Outrun. I thought the same as you and was about to pull it out as a better example, and while it's a clearly better game on the Amiga more graphical detail is isn't really it - put some videos of them side by side.

> Not at all. Commodore was a very shitty company that has no business plan, was engineer-unfriendly and by 1992 they have managed to alienate all their top engineering talent.

And yet, those things were in large part because they spent less per unit sold than pretty much any other company at the time. Their R&D was chronically underfunded, they squeezed suppliers, they squeezed distributors. Commodore survived as long as they did because despite being dysfunctional the one are that dysfunction worked was that they were able to produce their hardware at prices most of the competition thought was impossible.

> In 1989, I am sure they would be able to develop something much better.

Outrun came out in 1986.

> Even at double the price or a normal Amiga, who wouldn't want to play 100% authentic coin-op conversions?

Far fewer than bought Amiga's. It might have done OK, but not well. Others have pointed out the X68000, which did not sell well at all.
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So everything is ok. Long live our leaders, death to enemies of the party!
> I would say it's not necessarily bad to compliment smart people for being smart.

Why? Why to do you think this? Could you provide your sources. Here's a source for the opposite: https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/06/the-s-...
I have lived in Norway for 16 years. I am a foreigner.

One thing to keep in mind, when it comes to Norwegians:

It is not only the food that is boring. It is a whole nation that is boring.

Also every time they get together the topic would naturally drift off to either work or food. And boy it gets strange when they talk about food. They can sit and talk about a salad recipe or a pizza they had eaten in town in quite the boring detail, yet one chance arises they keep eating boring food.

Yes if you look at Scandinavian societies in isolation, they are a happy and wealthy people. The type of happiness you can feel for every minute that you do not freeze to death.

If we look at Scandinavian societies in comparison to the rest of the world and taking in consideration things like food, family, social connections, friendships, and general person to person connections, then you end up with a sad sad story just like that most boring lunch.

Especially for an outsider living in Scandinavia. Norwegians have a completely different value system from the rest of the world. Having weak social and family relations does not help. No morals outside of what is legal and not is a recipe for disaster.
The worst of all is that they have the feeling that they are better than others. A lot can be told about these people by looking at their past and current habits.
> For example, the fact that force is not parallel to acceleration.

This is the first I’ve heard of this and I would like to learn more, partly because of my own harebrained not-quite-reactionless engine idea that I know can’t possibly work really, but I can’t see why yet.

Where should I look?
This isn't how IQ tests work. IQ test results are measured relative to a population. In particular 100 is the mean with a standard deviation of 15. So if you score 115 on an IQ test it doesn't mean anything in a vacuum. It means that relative to the population who took the test you scored better than ~84% of people. An IQ of 130 means you scored better than ~98% of people, and so on.

This is what led to the Flynn Effect [1]. It was the initially extremely surprising observation that raw IQ scores over time were increasing. In other words somebody who scored a 100 in 1970 was actually scoring substantially higher than somebody who scored a 100 just a few decades prior. Not so fun fact: starting sometime around the mid nineties, raw IQ scores started declining, at a substantial rate, in many and potentially all developed nations. In other words somebody who scored a 100 in 1995 is scoring worse than somebody who scored 100 in 1975. The reason for this is unknown and controversial (as all things even potentially genetic nowadays), but the effect persists even when controlling for things such as immigration.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect
Ruby to the rescue!
I genuinely don't. It's not clear that Bitcoin does anything better than what's out there today. Not one thing. And it's less efficient.
I suffered from this until I cut out simple carbs at lunch. Bread, pasta, potatoes, and rice all send me to sleep if I have them. Salads and meat I can pig out on without problems.
I played it a lot, but Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge, even the 3rd one, is nowhere near arcade Outrun. It lacks a lot of blitted objects next to the road, and e.g. you'll notice the background graphics does not get filled in with additional details when you're going downhill (that part is actually quite disappointing, as it's something they could have done a lot better with some copper tricks).
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It’s exhausting seeing these kinds of discussions. The only people who think PHP is dying is those who don’t use it. Besides the languages quirks, it’s incredibly productive and has a huge community of well engineered libraries for almost all mundane tasks. Theres great testing tools and general quality tool alike PHPStan. There’s an enormous pool of talent to hire from.

I code mostly in node nowadays, not through choice but due to the language snobbery I encountered during the last few years. It’s a shame. I find myself far more productive in the synchronous model than trying to bend my mind backwards with closures and async issues in the node world.
... and what prevents you from doing that? You mean you'd want to reassign them?
I would argue that, for two reasons. First, kids in those special programs often ends up with harmed bodies way too soon. There is a lot of pressure to perform, it is highly competitive and health is often the price. Only few get that prized career, others get nothing.

Second, non-athletic education and interests get lost in the process. And again, most kids wont end with that career as there are only few slots and many competing kids.
Is OS 9 single-app mode still an option on Mojave+? It used to work a few versions ago with a hidden setting, but doesn't seem to work like that anymore.
> A few months ago, when I looked at buying private health insurance via the exchange in California, I had never heard of any of the insurance companies

Blue Shield of CA has plans available in the full region for each of CA’s 19 pricing regions, and is the third largest insurer in the state.
I have a stepson who is bright like I sure many of us where.

I try never to reward results directly, only effort.

If the results are reward for effort then they are earns.

It too me a decade to undo the damage from always been told I was bright and never learning good habits for studying/persistence.

It’s just damn lucky that I enjoyed programming enough that I stuck with it and it became a career because otherwise I’d be earning a lot less.
Bitcoin doesn't solve that problem. 600kWh of electricity are consumed for each transaction. Venezuelans would be mad to trade 2 weeks wages for a single BTC transaction. And that's when transaction fees are socialized by block rewards. If they actually had to pay the electricity consumed for their transactions it would be 10X higher.

Their problems are societal and need to be solved by societal means. Pretending magic beans in your computer will solve the Venezuelan objective nightmare is just ignoring objective reality. But don't just listen to me -- they all have access to Bitcoin. They know what it is. If it could solve their problems they would have started using it already. Bitcoin has no extrinsic barriers to adoption -- only intrinsic. People just don't want it, and why on earth would they?

The Bank of Canada study by real economists showed a BTC economy would have as much drain on the economy as a 48% inflation rate haha.
The state of pumping technology has vastly improved.

Now they’re li-ion based, charge over USB and astutely let you put the valve on the inflate side or deflate side.

One of these or its clones are awesome: https://www.amazon.ca/FLEXTAILGEAR-Portable-Rechargeable-Lig...

Source: have one for a giant inflatable floating that holds 8 adults and weighs 70lbs dry. And had lots of juice left to make new friends pumping up their smaller floaties on a camping trip.

But yes, they never fold like they did from the factory.
Aah... the level of brazenness is stupendifying!

If he's an educator, then he doesn't need to publish a paper - he can educate with material that exists.. no - this is means to legitimize himself and unlock other opportunities.

And his justification is his 'punishing schedule'? Seriously?

I hope charlatans like these crash and burn simply because they bring a bad name to everyone else who do honest, non flashy work!
Good to shut down your startup
My understanding and interest for crypto came by reading "Singh Simon : The Code Book". This book tells the history of cryptography from Persians to quantum computing. Great and surprisingly easy read with great historical stories and presents every idea which leads to today's hashes and private/public key pairs.
Heh, I read SJW and it totally made sense.
Seoul has average temperature below 0 during January and February . Same with Beijing. These temperatures are in line with temperatures seen in countries like Netherlands, which also have a “basic” lunch culture.

Your climate hypothesis doesn’t quite hold unfortunately.
Yes loom seems very important. I would interested to know how it compares with similar tools like nidhugg[1][2] for the C and C++.

[1] https://github.com/nidhugg/nidhugg
[2] https://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1324003/FULLTEXT0...
This is just not true. The percentage of blacks in a population is a higher correlate for crime than income, poverty, or any other economic factors. This has been replicated many times.

edit:
Here are some studies. I would have put them in a reply but I'm being rate limited. Any one is sufficient on its own, but all are interesting.

http://www.unz.com/article/race-and-crime-in-america/

http://2kpcwh2r7phz1nq4jj237m22.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-c...

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10940-011-9134-...

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289611...

http://www.jstor.org/stable/591624?seq=1#page_scan_tab_conte...

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289609...

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12552-016-9164-y
>His entire ethos, hell his entire telos, is to maximally hurt and control those who are not white, straight, preferably-Christian men

Shapiro is Jewish.
Who would identify which submissions are the same story?
> Many Europeans won’t drink the milk here in the States because the quality tends to be much lower, due to feed/living conditions for livestock. Garbage in = garbage out.

If you have the time and money, I found the opposite to be true.

The average quality of products like bread and meat is much lower in the US than in Europe, but in the US I have the option of going to some high end shop or bakery and get stuff that is much better than I can get here in Europe. In Europe things are extremely uniform. (Yes, I realize that Europe is a big place and I am generalizing somewhat.)

Good cheese is very hard to find in the US though. Speciality shops are rare and even there you have much less options.

When I go to the US, on the first day I am very saddened by the "bread" and milk I can find, it's just awful, but quickly I go to the good shops and get the good stuff.

When I come back to Europe I am saddened again because now I can't get the good stuff anymore, no matter how much time and effort I put into it. That's why now I bake my own bread here in Europe.

I spend a large proportion of my time in the US, and I found that this phenomenon generalizes to many products. For many products the US average is worse than the European equivalent, but in the US there's a much broader distribution of quality, and the high end tail of the quality spectrum is usually in the US. Of course this quality comes at a cost.
> Insists how? Was there a public statement? A phone call? With whom? An email? From whom?

Before bitching, actually read the article.

"In a statement emailed to The Register (!), an Apple spokesperson said:"
Unfortunately you can't get raw milk in most states.
> Why is a magazine like New Scientist pushing magic?

New Scientist is not a high brow journal despite it's name. It's sold in supermarkets and newsagents (corner shops).

I used to subscribe to it for a very long time, until they started dumbing-down the articles and also pre-selling the main story to other online news sites who published them online, BEFORE my subscriber issue hit my doormat.
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So class profiling then ? This does not sound any better.
I'm still migrating from 2.7...to 3.5
> Bitcoin ... 600kWh of electricity are consumed for each transaction

That’s jaw dropping.

Where can I read more about this?

Found this:

https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption

Which appears to support your claim.
Was not aware, thanks for the clarification.
P is shaped like a question mark, though I think it was retronymed to stand for "Predicate"
Recently I was asked to help out with a PHP project for work, I made the switch to rails almost a decade ago & haven’t looked back since so I was excited to see how PHP felt.

I was fairly impressed with how easy it was to jump back to PHP, the documentation is full of examples, there is composer for package management and it has a strong community who meets up regularly.
By now people are well read and well travelled enough not to be surprised or baffled by other cultures, particularly between countries that aren't completely alien to one other. I think surprise or disgust at another culture's lunch is just performative at this point.
I think there are a lot of use-cases for some kind of dedicated "if-with-outputs" syntax, where you have some extra variables available inside the if-block if the condition matched. Such a syntax could cover a lot of the problems of double execution but also prevent hard to understand code like the walrus operator.

... I've got no idea how the syntax could look though.
The areas of Haskell they show haven't really changed in the time since. If you enjoy reading it, I say it's a useful tutorial.
Even the Redditor commenters are not falling for this.

Not sure why HN is getting hit so hard by the anti-big-tech FUD over the last few days, or why we keep taking the bait. Maybe just because HN has start up culture at its core.
Python3 was a bad idea. Guido himself acknowledged it. There was no point in breaking everything.

The split was initiated by core developers, not by the community.
I have a few people donating money to me on Patreon so I'm not arguing against that. I'm just saying that the majority does not actually want to pay for things, but that doesn't mean people can't make a living out of the minority that does. That's not the topic of this conversation though (see the line you replied to).
You misspelled happy...
> the quality of information is maybe inversely proportional to the levels it has to go through

I think that each level distorts the message to bring it more in line with company culture (e.g. make it look better, or highlight blocking points, or focus on financial topics, etc.). It follows that the quality of the information doesn’t necessarily have to decrease - in theory, the right company culture will ensure that only the most relevant information is kept (and I’m pretty sure you can tie this to successful company traits)

More generally, I think that in this context you can’t treat information quality as a purely objective measure. Here quality is (at least partly) in the eye of the beholder, so you could argue that making the reporting more in line with the expectations of you higher-ups actually increase quality.
I've worked in Italy a few times and i just can't get my head around it.

One sleepy little town basically shut down between 12:30 and 14:30 every day. Everyone went home for lunch but also the majority of the local shops shut too.

How do you get anything done??
people who cannot spare the time are not the same group as people who choose recreation instead.

Some jobs are meant for people at a certain point in their career.

That should be determined by their employability, not the state of their personal life.

People like you would argue

No they wouldn’t; strawpeople don’t argue anything, they just fall over.
> If I find the need for a pronoun, I will use “they” and not be bothered by it.

That will possibly get you a warning and, if you keep doing it, a ban. If you're using any pronouns and the person has written their preferred pronouns on their profile, you must use those.

I believe that the whole issue is virtue signalling. It has none to very little actual practical value but is highly contentious (especially with draconian punishments for minor infractions), it's great as a signal and useless as a policy.
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Network Function Virtualization Is Dead
There's a hypothesis I have about the guys who win: at critical moments, they don't fuck around. I've noticed this about all the winners I know. Just that slight voice inside that says, "Let me ease off the throttle a bit here. It's not going to be critical." They ignore it or don't have it.

I do, so I started ignoring it. Up for a corner kick and the ball is headed clear for the opposing forward to only have to clear our one defender held back and 1 on 1 the keeper? I sprint the whole way. Almost every time, I get there from across the pitch in time to help.

It's the same with emails or projects or objectives. There are critical periods and when it's critical you've got to push through. I've realized I've always known when it's critical. I've just not committed in that moment. Now I know.

Interestingly, this means you can spend lots of time off the throttle. I'm pretty sure intelligence is common. There are lots of smart people. I think the combination of that plus this is killer.

Btw if you want to see what this feels like at work, try Adderall.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativistic_mechanics#Force

This includes the relativistic version of Newton's second law, which shows that F is generally not parallel to a.
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These sandwiches are really tasty. Simple things made well can be really good.
>>> Two years of development had been done that hadn’t made it to market

That seems fairly hard to do ... it sounds more like abandoning one product to pivot to another that never made it?
If you read the comments in the Reddit thread, this is clickbait fear-mongering. It's a sad state of affairs when Reddit users are savvier than HN users.
Had this on Chrome for a while, just ported to Firefox.
What a load of over-generalising bullshit.
I feel like the entire tech world is overthinking this. First, the Great Firewall already blocks the known "dangerous" sites. If you manage to access them via VPN, then chances are Tencent is getting your VPN's IP, and it's not your problem.

If it's a hot new URL that hasn't been firewalled yet, then it's also not going to be in the safe browsing database, which means that your browser won't make that second request (with the full hash) to verify it.

You can think of various other what-if scenarios. But the other thing is that all internet providers within China are in bed with the government and can cough up your network history on demand. Why bother going through Tencent?

People are pillorying Apple over a vague theoretical risk that is only really practical in the free world.
> it is a decent heuristic to not speak ill of the dead

I take somewhat the opposite view: once someone is dead they can no longer be hurt by anything bad said about them. Defamation law also follows the same principle.

Not that I want to speak ill of Harold Bloom. I only knew him through reading The Western Canon, which I found a very rewarding read, and for his disdain for the Harry Potter mania, where I felt the same way.
So it should not be possible to ride a swing?
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It's not at all in the name of productivity for my employer, I take a 30 min lunch so that I can go home earlier. I want to get the working day over so that I start doing the things I like to do in my spare time
If you can say that people you disagree with have a phobia (a psychiatric disorder), I can say that trans people are mentally ill.
> IKEA

Also, gooseberry jam.
Limit Concurrent of Promises
When I run the numbers that's what I get. Also I think the Passive House nutters are starting to freak out because solar panels + heat pumps cost less than the extra insulation required by passive house regulations. Especially true because insulation quickly runs into diminishing returns.
Same kind of customization could be done with Windows CE and PocketPC devices, yet there were updates available.
False.

There have been dozens of working C++ competitors over the years, each one technically as good as C++.

They all failed because their authors are good at writing languages, but very bad at knowing how languages are used in the real world.

The C++ committee really knows what it's doing, you're not going to do anything useful in this space without actually understanding the problem domain.

TL;DR - yes, C++ is complex, but that is because programming is complex. Your attitude of "programming is hard, let's go (language) shopping" will not displace C++.
Yes - agree. If you build a bridge (in many places) you have to sign off on the design - warranting that it is your professional opinion that it will do the job. To do this you normally need to be a chartered or certified engineer and you need professional insurance.

If the bridge collapses you get sued and your insurance pays out. You probably don't get more insurance.

This is not a perfect system, but we need several elements of it for algorithms. We need the ideas of tolerances, confidence intervals and analysis - certification of fitness for purpose must be limited and constrained to have value. We need professional certification that enables employers and the public to recognize experience and capability. People have confidence in pilots because of their uniforms, qualifications and the checks that they undertake (training, retraining, blood testing, medicals) on a regular basis. As we have seen with the 737 max, when these things breakdown there's trouble.