skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can easily install newer kernels on Mint.

Open Upgrade Manager -> View (Third Menu) -> Linux Kernels

You can choose from the backported kernels from 18.10 and 19.04 ATM, guess the kernel from 19.10 will be availlable soon.

That way i got to undervolt my AMD GPU without a fuzz.
Is there a lot of homeless migration, or is there some other force bringing people to these cities where they then end up homeless?
Overt cleverness is jarring and irritating. I think that’s the sort of creativity they’re talking about.

When I was starting as a developer I got a lot of pushback on some of the creative things I did and ended up redirecting a lot of that energy to reliability concerns, including human factors issues (human errors cause bugs). At this point I take - and use - “clever” as an epithet.
We are, at best, making the same leap of faith but in opposite directions. The people who are there observably share a nationality but they also happen to be a pretty small group of ethnicities. You’re choosing to believe that’s not ultimately why they’ve been out there and that the state is trustworthy. I’m choosing to disbelieve the state.

In any case, if were gonna both accept the premise that there are concentration camps on the southern border for immigrants I’m really not that interested in splitting hairs about why.
This blew my mind, because baths around 45-50 C (113-122 F) aren't uncommon at all in Japan, and bathing for a long time (relaxing, sleeping, reading, watching tv) every day is also not uncommon here... I wonder if that's been a factor leading to reduced birth rates in Japan.

I don't have time to search a lot for this, but I did find one study that pointed at reduced sperm quality in young men: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3641477/
Ironically you are trying to censor hacking from hacker news.

If you follow the point logically then surely you feel the same about the entire scope of computer security - "If it can be abused, then it must be flagged and removed", no?

I feel that this is a dangerous attitude that promotes ignorance and forbidden knowledge.
While this code is awesomely mindbending, it does seem to be limited to a 20×20 grid, rather than being applicable to grids of any size. Also, and correct me if I'm wrong here, it looks like it would take more than 5 minutes to write.

The more interesting aspect, though, is that it seems to be organized in an almost totally different way from the APL code. I suggest that this is largely because the two languages foster very different approaches to problem-solving (though also I get that this is not the normal way to program Life in Haskell either).
Phonetic Algorithms
The most important thing is still missing:

* Device will receive security updates until <date>.

It always astounds me that the Android security update debacle has not made this a mandatory statement that all devices must contain. Of course this needs to be backed up with a consumer law to allow returns of all devices for a full refund which have a vulnerability which is unpatched 90 days after disclosure.
Satellite launch, climate protest and Alexei Leonov dies
>K&R

Could you be a little less terse here?
$35B face data lawsuit against Facebook will proceed
No, they have the RIAA, which is pretty much the exact same thing, but for the music industry.
I'm pro life as a whole but that's a crazy take on things. The average woman would need to get an abortion a year. That runs me the wrong way on a bunch of different levels. Abortion should be an "oh shit" plan, not a routine thing.

There are plenty of methods of birth control that don't affect moods. Condoms, IUDs, and pulling out (if you're in a very trusting relationship and the guy is "good" at it) all work.
Reawakening of Emotet: An Analysis of Its JavaScript Downloader
Reagent works with hooks. https://github.com/reagent-project/reagent/blob/363f2d4976ac...
I think something like Steam store would work better for movies, series, even live events. People will hoard.
I had a girlfriend get pretty severely depressed upon starting birth control (and it cleared up shortly after going off) and traveled with a girl in Bolivia who had to give herself shots a few times a day because she had gotten deep vein thrombosis on her flight, susceptibility to which is apparently a side effect of her birth control. It really is insane how much it affects the user's health.
I’m not sure why you assume not taking the pill equates to stop using condoms and other methods that have no effect on the brain like drugs.
I'm glad about SICP being promoted and accessible to people around the world.

Maybe 20 years ago, the authors put the full text for their textbook on the Web, as HTML. This made it more accessible to people, and set an early precedent for freely-available top textbooks on the Web (even though they presumably could've made more money by only selling print copies).

Then, since not all students' computers could run a Web browser, Lytha Ayth manually converted the HTML to Texinfo, with ASCII art of all the figures.

If one has the means to buy the printed book, doing so would seem like a nice gesture, in response to the authors' and publisher's generous sharing and example-setting.
American shows have global audiences, as the rights are sold worldwide. For example, I stayed in Austria last night and watched Game of Thrones in German on something other than HBO.
Yeah, you need to find out what works for you. Twinkies, stroopwafels, gels, donuts, chocolate scotheroos, rice cakes (great ideas in "Feed Zone Portables") all make it into my longer rides in different combinations. I do save the gels for last, though. Especially in the heat. I don't get tired of eating but I'm not hungry at all at the end of a ride.
Microsoft to Reward Hackers for Finding Bugs in Open Source Election Software
The answer to the first question is yes. I’d like my court cases to be decided by someone with legal training just like I’d like my surgery to be done by someone with training.
A similar story happened to Courier, which, afaik, was digitized from the designs meant for printing and thus accounting for print ink gain. On its own the the font's forms look too thin too.
Eliud Kipchoge Pulled Off His Epic, Sub-2-Hour Marathon
If you like Cucumber https://github.com/cucumber/aruba
This is an extremely misleading statement. The Earth-Sun-Moon is a 3 body system and quite stable. Obviously moons and multi-planet systems are quite common. As are 3-star systems. Our nearest neighbor is one: Proxima/Alpha Centauri. And Proxima Centauri has a planet too.

What is difficult to find stable solutions for is 3 body movements where the three objects are of similar mass. But that is an improbable circumstance to start with.

Also that citation seems to be totally disregarding the fact that multi-body systems never start in stable systems but instead naturally align into them.
> The extra money will come from people not wanting to watch ads.

Having both an ad-supported and paid ad-free versions of the same product is likely an unstable equilibrium— Customers with disposable income will gravitate towards the ad-free product, and those are the people that advertisers are really paying for access to.
Batteries, exoplanets, cosmology and cell biology win Nobel laurels
No one smart uses Medicare, instead they use Medicare advantage, which is private health insurance funded by the government.

This is the part people don't understand when they promote Medicare for all - it's a really really bad plan, that people don't use unless they have no choice.

This should be the death nail in these proposals, except the people proposing it typically don't even realize the difference.

Medicare for all is a horrible idea.

Government funded private health insurance for all is a good idea.
and gofmt existed before go really had a large community. It's also a very different problem because you can change formatting decisions from one version to another (and they do!), but API's are difficult to change.
I wrote this query for Dercuano the other day; it computes the Collatz sequence starting from each of the first 100 integers, running a second Collatz computation twice as fast in parallel to detect any cycles (and of course there are none):

with recursive collatz as
(select 1 as x, 1 as n, 1 as m, 0 as p, 0=1 as exit union
select case when nextx then x + 1 else x end as x,
case when nextx then x + 1
else (case n % 2 when 1 then 3*n + 1
else n / 2 end)
end as n,
case when nextx then x + 1
else (case newm % 2 when 1 then 3*newm + 1
else newm / 2 end)
end as m,
case when nextx then 0 else p+1 end as p,
case when nextx then 0 = 1 else n = newm end as exit
from (select (m = 1 or newm = 1) as nextx, x, n, m, p, newm
from (select x, n, m, p,
case m % 2 when 1 then 3*m + 1 else m / 2 end as newm
from collatz where not exit) a) b
where x < 100)
select * from collatz;

It works in Postgres 9.5.14; I'm interested to hear if it works or doesn't in other SQL implementations.

I think this definitely qualifies as a loop.
Yes I mean since Jimmy the mechanic does all the surgeries I don’t see why one of the miners can’t be judge. /s
Such a detailed answer. Thank you. Unlike you, I registered for an MRes. (Masters in Research) degree at a UK but found that due to lack of taught courses I couldn’t plug the holes in my mathematical foundations. For the very few courses that were taught, quality of teaching was also an issue which presumably wouldn’t be the case at a university like Cambridge. Even though I finished with honours, I am still left with the nagging feeling that I didn’t get what I wanted out of my effort.
> Terseness is an anti-feature. K&R got it wrong.

I disagree. You spend very little time learning a language, compared to the amount of time you spend using it. It pays to take the up-front cost of learning the language in exchange for increased productivity later.

EDIT: consistency, discoverability, and user-friendliness are all important. But those are all as part of productivity, where productivity is optimized for people who have already spent a decent amount of time learning the shared language; that is to say that terseness, consistency, and discoverability all work together. This is why sed syntax is not so terse as machine language, because sed is still designed to be used by humans.
When my partner was on pills, she had way more mood swings than after she stopped taking them. I would say our life changed quite drastically to better after she stopped taking birth control pills.
It keeps striking me. Really have no idea how this crap could be happening. Is that a consequence of democracy? But none of the other rich and democratic countries has any of that shit. Here is Cyprus we have same life expectancy as in the U.S. (ok 3 months shorter) and the healthcare is paid for by a tax of 2.65% of income (but it is charged on any and all income including those kinds of it exempt from any other taxes, except there is a cap of taxable income of 180,000 EUR per person per year). On top of that there are purely symbolical charges (say a doctor visit is usually 1 euro) probably only to keep track of these visits. Seems to be enough. And no it's not Soviet-style healthcare, and doctors are not poor - they all drive new BMWs, have good houses and stuff, and appear to be doing just as well as their American colleagues. What's going on there in the U.S. people?!
Python, Java and .NET, pretty much.

There are still stuff missing, but not basic low level stuff that everyone uses daily.
> [recurrence] is not very intuitive and frankly is a programming anti-pattern in my view.
[...]
Reusing the previous step ... should only be done when absolutely necessary

Thanks, that's my main concern (fp was just an example). Would you agree the reason it is bad is becase there is more to track mentally in the execution model? (i.e. the intermediate results).

I think a complex execution model is problematic in general (it sounds obvious when I say it that way).

> which mathematicians love to use so much,

hmm... I was thinking "induction", and believed that fp is the same.
..
> But I disagree with you that recursion is the essence of fp

This is BTW now, but that statement surprises me. Can you elaborate? What is the essencd of fp (has it one)?

Is your py version "more functional"? I'm so wedded to the idea that fp=recursion that that's the reason it doesn't seem functional to me. What makes it functional? Just that it's a nested expression (i.e. fn calls)?
Check out this guy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx-aak2zK_Y
I think people not on board with “no one at or to the right of 2008-era Obama is allowed here” purgers need to stand their ground. If you agree then I hope you’ll avoid absolute declarations of the form you used. It concedes too much and lets too many (whatever their beliefs) off the hook. We can’t all hive off into our own left, right, and other forks of every project and do more with fewer people. We need unity behind common goods such as those that Mozilla originally pursued, which I am still working on with many at Brave.
Feds Shut Down Largest Dark Web Child Abuse Site; South Korean Admin Arrested
It’s the same thing really, manufacturers would pass on the cost but as there are less of them it’s easier to administer.
What happens if your mind lives for ever on the internet?
Great job!

For people not very into BJ - there are rules available with pretty binary decisions trees (depending on rules). Quick google search brought https://www.blackjackapprenticeship.com/blackjack-strategy-c... but there are plenty of other resources. Essentially, I believe there is always a perfect strategy available that should guarantee profit (given unlimited cash available to play unlimited game)
> the conclusion was extremely clear, children raised with hyper focused protective parents succeeded

By what metrics? An Ivy League student who requires their parents to intercede with their teachers versus a well adjusted state school student who takes care of themselves.
And exactly such a function exists in CPython, the main implementation of Python :) It's about 2000 lines of code, as far as I remember.
All content everywhere is hit or miss. With Disney, I didn't care for Solo or Star Wars Resistance. I enjoyed Star Wars Rebels and Rogue One. The Last Jedi had mixed reviews at best. I haven't been interested in a Pixar movie in several vears. It's not like Disney content is amazing all the time. It has winners and losers like everyone else.

Netflix has some of the best shows I've seen in a long time. It also has some is the worst. Just like Disney.
Pioneering is nearly always harder, and takes more time than later developments.
I guess I was lucky in the the computer I started with, the ZX Spectrum, had a pretty decent manual. Which also managed to cover assembly language.

So my route to coding was first of all BASIC, then assembly language. At the time I was 11-12 years old and it didn't seem like a huge jump, though I guess I can see it was now!

I think my learning went BASIC -> Assembly, on the z80. Then later QBASIC on the PC to assembly, edited with debug.com, and after that I started doing "real" programming with C, Perl and all the other languages that followed.

I'm still sad that most people don't have any built-in programming environment to their computers that is so easy to start with these days. I guess javascript is close, since everybody has a browser. But it's not quite the same.
No. No US health insurance sold via the ACA marketplace can deny coverage for pre-existing conditions. There are new "short term" insurance policies which are not ACA compliant, and do not cover pre-existing conditions.

[1] https://www.commonwealthfund.org/blog/2019/short-term-plans-...
Not a statistical analysis, but my intuition is homelessness in general correlates with how easy it is to go someplace better. From Orlando, $100 gas money provides a lot of options. From Vegas, not so many. From San Francisco, $100 of gas might not even get you to the state line. Even if it does, there's not anything better there and not anything better on the way.

San Francisco is a local minima/maxima. Vegas has more diversity of options within 600 miles. Orlando is just another place in the east. Consistent with my intuition/hypothesis, the report says Hawaii has a much higher than predicted unhoused homeless population. Objectively you can't get anywhere better/different with $100.
When I implemented Soundex, an extension I did was to also return alternative hashes, for skipping of common surname prefixes. I didn't end up using it in production, so I can't say whether it would've helped, in practice.

https://www.neilvandyke.org/racket/soundex/#%28def._%28%28li...
Completely agree. the main problem is not insurance, but healthcare cost. regulatory capture and lobbying lead to ballooning administrative costs and corruption on all levels. The Surgery Center of Oklahoma cannot be mentioned enough as a shining example how things should be done.
Haha, you're not alone. I remember when I first learned programming, loops me a while to get. Can't remember why, just remember the confusion :P Now if I'm teaching someone, I like to explain loops like going through a stack of books. You have a stack of books, and you go through each one and do something with it.
By April Next Year, Your Black Market Phone Won't Work in Indonesia
There’s a library called hx that embraces hooks and the native React way. You still write hiccup, but you get a React functional component.
I'd recommend to get some confidence with Ruby before moving to Rails. It's better to spend 2-3 months learning Ruby and then focus on learning Rails, than struggle with both right from the start.

When people say that you can learn only basics of Ruby in few days and then move to Rails, they are right, you can, but this way you will learn two things in parallel, and it's pretty exhausting. So this doubtfully will save you any time.
If you are interested in one or two shows from a service - subscribe for a month (or we) and unsubscribe when done.
Fuel cell that will take drivers 1,500 miles without charge
Show HN: Go – Verifier, embeddable mobile/email verification
The problem with avoiding market solutions to your problem is that many other areas of life could also make that argument "cell phones are needed to call the police, it's a matter of life and death, they should be free". "Houses keep people warm, they should not cost anything" etc. Reign in the cost of healthcare by allowing actual (cross state) competition and eliminate laws that give incumbents a free check. They should have to fight for your business as transparently and as hard as your tech company.
There is a CS concept with a similar name, but completely different meaning:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loopless_algorithm
Probably means Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie. Authors of Unix/C and the book "The C Programming Language".

I believe it is also used to refer to the format/syntax of C before ANSI C was standardized.
I don't think you have to squint very hard to see that as an implementation of inheritance.
V produces .c files, which are then compiled to .o files, like C.

Interfacing v code into a C++ app, is like interfacing with any other C library, with the addition, that you may have to write the C headers yourself (or you can cut/paste them from the produced C file).

If you want to call a C++ function from V, you have to export it from the C++ side, like you would do for a C app:
extern "C" {
int your_function(int x)
}
... and then call it from the V side like any other C function.
(https://vlang.io/docs#calling_c)
Hope VI eliminated a significant fraction of the US's public housing stock. You could shave the last twenty five years of the housing market with Occam's Razor and a supply demand curve.
I searched around for observablehq. I hadn't see it before. Checkout https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/five-minute-introduct... and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20184181.
I think that's opposite, whenever I see studies of ad-free and ad-supported it seems like most customers went for ad-supported solutions. Maybe though other forms of online content are different than video.

Also I'm not sure if disposable income is the only factor that advertisers aim for, I mean a lot of advertisers aim for the youth market which sure have some disposable income but more importantly have disposable time.
...indeed. that's why healthcare itself needs to be as inexpensive as possible. we need entrepreneurs working on making the care a commodity. And if necessary policymakers to defend that position.
Emergency is one thing. For others you could have time to shop.
If working alone, I suggest going off the deep end and implementing the metasyntactic evaluator in any language one likes. You need to figure out how to implement lexing and parsing if this is not familiar to you, but it's not that hard.
This simply isn’t true. Climate science has an incredibly long history of failed predictions, with the less specific predictions being obviously more resilient to falsification. If you care about the existence of climate change deniers, then you should know who Competitive Enterprise Institute are, most writing on climate change denial can be traced back to their publications. The reason being that they have an essentially limitless supply of alarmist predictions that have been falsified.

https://cei.org/blog/wrong-again-50-years-failed-eco-pocalyp...

https://cei.org/blog/manufacturing-alarm-dana-nuccitellis-cr...

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/10/30/some-failed-climate-p...

Just look at all the other child comments, most of them immediately jumped to the defence of supposedly irrefutable climate models. The reason climate deniers have so much support is that climate scientists, their communicators and their advocates have little credibility outside the true believers. If you don’t want to take my word on it, here’s a Stanford study on this exact topic:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/10/191018112145.h...
That's the first time I've seen your website. I didn't read the entire pwnagotchi article yet but it looks great! Keep up the good work, projects like these really motivate me to get into IT
What is it with Desktop oriented Linux and the disgusting default brown/grey UI?
Dear Ubuntu, you're not doing anyone a favour by having such a gross color as the default. I can guarantee a lot of Mac + Windows users looking to switch see that gross color and discard Linux as a whole because of it. Remember, when regular users ask what Linux to pick, or google it, the first one to show up is usually Ubuntu. (These aren't technical people I'm talking about, they probably don't know or don't care that you can change the colors).

How about a clean white, like OSX? or sleek, neat Black?
you can work with an oculus go or quest and voice control if you keep your head above the water