skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The story ended on a classic technique of feature writing: an anecdote that both sums up the theme of the article and leaves a memorable impression of the subject:

> “Does that sound about right?” I asked Mr. Workman. Pretty much, he responded. And then he started on a half-hour description of the latest “edge-case” mistake — the kind of flaw that only shows up in extreme circumstances — that he was trying to investigate and prove.

I think the gist of the ending paragraph is to show both how complicated the investigation is, and how Mr. Workman was so intellectually devoted to the underlying technical issues that he'd spend 30 minutes describing an extreme edge case.
"Brave New World " Aldous Leonard Huxley

This book is a wonderful book that anticipates the present future.

Not all of this book foretells, but I am reading it because I want to be able to have such foresight.
Owner-occupied, full-time rental and part-time rental can co-exist, but not if all sides "dig in."

Consider the urban reaction if (a) buildings got to tax AirBnB stays and use the proceeds for improvements and/or reduce owner HOA costs, (b) the profile/reputation/support system were shared between AirBnB and building staff/management, so guests weren't unaccountable strangers and building staff and AirBnB could coordinate during emergencies.

As travelers, owners have also benefitted from AirBnB, which has been life-changing for providing kitchens, affordability and traveling with friends and family. AirBnB also solved the problem of large events taking away housing stock needed for everyday travel.
Wynne Godley's Maastricht and All That[1] is a great explanation of why the Euro was, and in fact is, doomed to failure and the UK was correct to stay out. This essay was written less than a month after Black Wednesday, so I assume it was probably influenced by the event. Sadly the lesson was evidently not learned, as the word "fiscal" doesn't appear a single time in the article.

The key lesson here for states is only ever acquire financial obligations in your own sovereign currency. This is why the Swiss were able to put a ceiling on the value of the CHF during the European Debt Crisis. Their ability to spend CHF is unlimited, so they could just keep expanding their balance sheet indefinitely buying Euros, which devalued the CHF. A sovereign can always devalue, but not necessarily do the opposite.

[1] https://www.lrb.co.uk/v14/n19/wynne-godley/maastricht-and-al...
Gift cards are getting a lot less useful now that merchants can auto-reject them by setting the "this is a recurring payment" flag. All newly-issued gift cards (in the US at least) reject those transactions. Even if it is a payment that recurs zero times.
Norton Utilities were great! Not sure about the later products.
Java, Python. C++ if you are going to write high-performance code. C if embedded. Haskell for hobby programming. No other languages deserve much attention right now.
Having been with all the usual providers I feel T-mobile sucks the least, but on a wim I got a Ting SIM card for a spare phone and I ended up using it a lot. I love the transparency and have no complaints so far.
Revenue per subscriber, neither can get enough economy of scale alone to really expand to compete effectively with the other two.

The amount of spectrum that Tmo/Sprint will hold merged exceeds either Verizon or AT&T at last check.
This book is worth checking out if you don't know c++17:

https://www.bfilipek.com/2018/08/cpp17indetail.html?m=1

That guy has a great blog where he writes at length about each feature, and the book is a compilation of that.
Interesting bet. I like writing Bash functions, but have never wanted to put in energy to package and distribute them. I can see contributing to something like this where everything is set up and ready to go.

It will take some degree of critical mass before it really gets used, though. Here’s hoping people are patient.
They don't necessarily get in. They hang around the entrance. European honey bees try to attack them one by one and there isn't enough poison to take it down. The asiatic honey bee attacks all at once and actually smothers it. All the action happens outside the hive.
The name has me imagining a Honeymooners fantasy horror spin-off where a bearded Art Carney begins dabbling in the occult during the pilot, quickly learning to supernaturally send some unfortunate to a tragic, yet deserved, life fate for each episode.
But probably larger number of English speakers(including large countries in the Commonwealth like India, Pakistan, Nigeria, ) use the British spelling than American one.
There's a ton of esoteric forums and sites, libraries of rare and old ebooks and documents, etc. . There's also the dark part of the dark web e.g. drug markets, financial services (spoiler alert: most of the "bitcoin tumblers"/laundering services and escrow providers are fake and will rob you) and other seedy stuff, I would very strongly recommend staying away from that kind of thing entirely.

Get on to the hidden wiki, it acts as a reasonable index of common stuff and has links to Tor search engines if you want to get specific. I would also recommend checking out the security section and learning to make sure you're using Tor in a safe and secure manner.

Get a liveboot Tails linux instance running (they provide the operating system on live DVDs you can run from disk, although you can also run it in a virtual machine if you want - but that is considered less safe) and make sure the Tor browser is set to Safest security level (click the little shield next to the address bar), which disables javascript and other things which can leak your identity. It degrades the user experience on some sites, but is much safer in terms of anonymity.
Did a bit more research on SVP. They have 55 miles of transmission lines. Here's a map: https://cecgis-caenergy.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/califor...

Saying they rely on some PG&E transmission lines is a massive understatement. Also, how cool is it that you can deep link to a map showing a minor utility's transmission lines?
Yeah, because no US citizens and customers of that website would ever travel to Europe.
Not so much 'copied', considering it was the TS team that has gotten them added to JS. They just didn't want to commit to anything in the TS codebase that wasn't at least stage 3 in JS.
C++ has many audiences with disparate needs; ranging from firmware, to scientific computing, to application development.

Most of the industries using the language optimize their code for a target platform. And general non-optimized portable binaries are simply not cost effective, so standardizing installation has not been simple.

If you do care about portability, you functionally need to.
- ensure you're not linking to anything but LIBC and the VDSO

- compile with no assembly language

- disable most optimizations, and select a sufficiently generic hardware target. For the most part, they succeed in features.

- directly compile all 3rd party source in your binary.

Then, your binary should last a long time.

That all said, I believe your needs are in the minority in the C++ community, and other languages likely better suit your needs.
Passivhaus Detailing and Design
Just playing with a few prompts in the format:

It was [setting] in the [location]. The [creature] [action], and [intent] said "

And here's some of the results of the first complete sentence for a few iterations of each prompt (the intention being the prompts can be generated at runtime)

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It was night in the dark dungeon. The Orc came out of nowhere, and threateningly said "Who are you? Where are you coming from?"

It was night in the dark dungeon. The Orc came out of nowhere, and threateningly said "We are not going to allow the Dark Lord to rule this world. We are going to rule this world from the top. You should go back to the shadows, or you can just go to my dungeon."

It was night in the dark dungeon. The Orc came out of nowhere, and threateningly said "What are you doing?"

---

It was twilight in the enchanted forest. The white elf suddenly appeared, and invitingly said "Good evening, we are ready for our banquet."

It was twilight in the enchanted forest. The white elf suddenly appeared, and invitingly said "Hey! I've been waiting for you! This is the first time I've seen you."

It was twilight in the enchanted forest. The white elf suddenly appeared, and invitingly said "Welcome, My Lady! I am here to serve you!"

It was twilight in the enchanted forest. The white elf suddenly appeared, and invitingly said "I am Tui-Yuan. Come down and meet my parents."

---

It was damp in the filthy sewer. The mutated rat crept up, and cunningly said "I will tell you everything."

It was damp in the filthy sewer. The mutated rat crept up, and cunningly said "I have an idea" in a voice so high that all the other rats in the sewer turned pale

It was damp in the filthy sewer. The mutated rat crept up, and cunningly said "I am the rat."

It was damp in the filthy sewer. The mutated rat crept up, and cunningly said "You'll die soon".

---

It was humid in the abandoned brothel. The policeman barged in, and brusquely said "I'm a policeman".

It was humid in the abandoned brothel. The policeman barged in, and brusquely said "go to hell".

---

It was frigid in the abandoned space station. The xenomorph burst in, and acerbically said "It's warm on the other side."

It was frigid in the abandoned space station. The xenomorph burst in, and acerbically said "Hello" while it slowly closed in.

It was frigid in the abandoned space station. The xenomorph burst in, and acerbically said "I hate this cold."

---

I think there's a lot of merit to this idea hey. Some of the responses are left field but could be woven into the charm. I guess the algorithm is pretty processor intensive though - is it worth it for "flavour"? It could work for a low fidelity or text based game I think.

Edit: I think it would work better if the prompt is not displayed, you just see the bit following the quote.
Not at all - thank you.

I have created an updated version of the game available for download which includes the following features:

* Automatically restart the level on death

* Updated bullets opacity and speed

* Enter key can be used to progress textboxes

* Scale down window size using the F12 key (unfortunately this somewhat messes up the fonts, but it's the best I can do at the moment)

Also a reminder that you if you press 'R' 5 times in the main menu, a new hidden menu will appear where you can select a specific stage of the game to play.

Thanks again for your feedback!
Regarding SICM, Sussman et al. point out that the traditional notation for differential calculus contains "type errors". In particular they point this out regarding the Euler-Lagrange equations. And they then make the point that their "functional" notation (based on Spivak Calculus on Manifolds) is free of these type errors.

Obviously Sussman has a special relationship to Scheme, but I am curious whether it would have been beneficial for the code implementation (scmutils) to have used a statically typed language.

Do you (formalsystem or anyone else) know whether the Julia implementation makes much use of typing? I don't know Julia but from a few seconds googling it sounds like it's also not statically typed. I do wonder whether something like Haskell wouldn't make most sense for reimplementing scmutils -- you'd be able to make a lot of the pedagogical issues clear at compile time, in the type language alone (disregarding the actual implementation of the functions in the term language).
OVH and DO are not cloud providers. They’re more like VPS providers. And vps providers tend to have ipv6.

But Azure, AWS and even Oracle cloud do not have support for ipv6 on instances.
Facebook holds line on political ads, but microtargeting could change
Schwab, Fidelity… Many of the more established brokerages just have slightly old-fashioned UX while being perfectly usable.
I was wrong about some of them being drawing frame related. See https://www.cocoawithlove.com/2008/12/drawing-custom-window-.... Apparently customizing the window frame. The CA prefixed ones are correct. Apparently, at least on a Mac, it was more about battery than performance (at least for what Mozilla did) but it was still about the amount of work they were doing per frame (for Mozilla).
It’s not really relevant what we think the safety’s job is, but what he thinks Uber thinks his job is. I suspect he suspects Uber wouldn’t keep him employed long if he kept interrupting the car if there might be an accident. And, of course, he’s screwed if there is an accident, too. It’s a shit job they gave to a felon because they needed a warm body in a seat that they could blame or things went south.

Re: second driver, I agree, but that costs twice as much.

Seems pretty obvious who to blame to me.
I used AirBnB when it first launched and was absolutely floored that people would actually want to spend the night(s) in a random strangers house with them present. This was after me experiencing it first hand. It was quite terrible.

Fast forward to AirBnB becoming what it is today where the majority of users select “entire house” and it makes more sense.

The problem now is that they are essentially the same price as a cheap hotel, which for my money is the far superior option (the hotel), so we’re back to AirBnB making no sense to me again.

Perhaps I’m an outlier and the whole couch surfing market is that big, but it seems like AirBnB is balancing being a hotel (entire house) without really being a hotel. That’s a tricky spot to be in when regulators come knocking.
Its not hard to get any of those things - heck, for about 150k you can build a site greenfield with nothing there - but consider that Crown Castle, American Tower and a couple other much smaller ones, own 95% of tower sites out there - its not as if T-Mobile is renting from Verizon, most of the big carriers dont own their own sites anymore, and have not owned them for decades.

The real thing we're short of is spectrum, not cell sites. I'm skeptical that satellite will fix any of this, they have the same spectrum shortage issues too, with infrastructure that costs gobs more.
Photocopy and Copy & Paste finally become one.
Right now: "Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction" (Judith Grisel)

Recommend. Addict turned neuroscientist who doesn't hold back, so a good mix of gritty details—

> After I got sober, it took me a little over a year to go a single day without wishing for a drink, but it was more than nine years before my craving to get high abated.

—and science.

Before that: "Educated: A Memoir" (Tara Westover)

Recommend. A good break from typical non-fiction books: easy to read, sometimes thrilling, and emotional.

Before that: "The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America" (Margaret Pugh O'Mara)

Don't recommend. I really wanted to like this book, and I believe some of the themes are important and aren't often discussed. E.g., the support the Valley received from politicians, the lobby groups, the size of military spending back in the day…

It's possible my expectations were in the wrong place—I wanted to be inspired like with "The Idea Factory" (Jon Gertner), "The Soul of a New Machine" (Tracy Kidder), "Dealers of Lightning" (Michael A Hiltzik), etc.
I served 25 years ago in a unit with civil engineers (I’m not one). At this time, it was already a project in one of the yearly training courses, which infrastructure should be disarmed because a destruction would have impact on other infrastructure (e.g. tape water supply).
You are talking about effective rates (affected by deductions); parent (and I below) are talking about marginal rates (the rate isn't generally affected by deductions - only the income theshold)
We have a Universe to explore.
I worked with a convicted first-degree murderer and strangely she was capable of answering phones and filing papers (and she didn’t kill any of us).
NASA rejects Blue Origin’s offer of a cheaper upper stage for the SLS rocket
Like https://openbazaar.org/ ?
its on the order of 375m to build out a market with 500 cell sites, assuming you have no greenfield sites. Thats not a huge number, not for google.
I don't think anyone who is traveling the world to see interesting places will miss staying in Jersey City one bit.
Good old Go-style
Wow - more serious story than I first imagined.

> Mr Barnett, a former quality control engineer, worked for Boeing for 32 years, until his retirement on health grounds in March 2017. From 2010 he was employed as a quality manager at Boeing's factory in North Charleston, South Carolina. This plant is one of two that are involved in building the 787 Dreamliner.

In terms of credibility lent by a career, you can't do much better in terms of being positioned to blow this particular whistle.

> According to Mr Barnett, 57, the rush to get new aircraft off the production line meant that the assembly process was rushed and safety was compromised. The company denies this and insists that "safety, quality and integrity are at the core of Boeing's values".

Surely Boeing must realize how tone-deaf this sounds given the current skepticism being (rightly) cast its way.

> Mr Barnett says his attempts to have the matter looked at further were stonewalled by Boeing managers. In 2017, he complained to the US regulator, the FAA, that no action had been taken to address the problem. The FAA, however, said it could not substantiate that claim, because Boeing had indicated it was working on the issue at the time.

I tend to lean libertarian on a lot of "regulatory" matters, but no matter your normal view of things, I hope we can all agree that this is an embarrassingly obvious fox guarding this particular hen-house.

> John Barnett says tests suggest up to a quarter of the oxygen systems could be faulty and might not work when needed. He also claimed faulty parts were deliberately fitted to planes on the production line at one Boeing factory.

Even if the bag does not inflate, breathe normally as oxygen is flowing. Or not.
> Maybe four or five green vegetables. It was like a grocery store in some third-world countries I have visited

I'm curious which third world countries? The only one's I've visited have been Melanesian, some with people literally living in shacks about the size of a queen bed, they didn't exactly have the number of products we do in the west but always had a cornucopia of fruits and vegetables. I always found it aggravating that I didn't have access to a kitchen when I visited.

I always assumed this was typical but I guess other places don't have the climate for it.
Just curious - what are the repercussions for an untruthful whistleblower? Say someone is disgruntled, fired or laid off and wants to cause the company some level of public harm?
Azure Database for MariaDB support for intelligent performance is now available
I'd broadly agree with you, they're for sure stronger together than apart
I mean, maybe? But how many buildings want to take the additional technological burden of coordinating this sort of thing
You seem to be using a non-standard definition of moral hazard? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_hazard)

"[A]mount of CO2 spared compared to the average" seems to be hard to define: if I burn lots of natural gas to create electricity, I release less natural gas than if I burn coal. But I release more than if I had managed to make do without that electricity.

But yes, a carbon tax is exactly that: if you pay your tax, releasing CO2 is legally and morally fine.

There's a certain amount that we can safely release. (That amount is smaller than what we release today.) The climate doesn't care about who's releasing CO2. So we use willingness to pay taxes to ration out that limited supply of allowable CO2 emissions.

Eg your fear seems to be that rich people can just buy indulgences and keep sinning, instead of having to repent? I say compared to giving every person an equal share of allowable emissions directly, I'm happy to personally emit a bit less, and have some ultra rich person indulge in return for them paying crazy amounts of taxes. I don't care about their moral fibre as long as they pay up.

If too many people decide to just pay the tax instead of cut their emissions, we'd need to adjust the tax rate. Because of inflation, population growth, advances of science etc, we would want to revise the tax rate every once in a while anyway.

(A cap-and-trade system would do that adjustment of the price automatically, but it seems that in practice it's hard for politicians to refrain from handing out permits for free and handing out too many. Eg the EU system would have worked better, if all permits would have been auctioned off by the government instead of being handed out to previous polluters for free.)
Azure Database for MySQL support for intelligent performance is now available
Coming from another highly regulated industry: Medical Devices, I think it is not uncommon that Bosses ignore processes and for the sake of numbers (cash & career) would just override them. As long as they are protegee of any higher up on the ladder people generally don’t care and as long no serious lawsuit would put people into jail I am wondering if this is ever going to change.

Anyone has made other experiences?
C++14’s compelling improvement is initialization in capture lists, so you don’t have to copy into them. I haven’t seen anything compelling beyond that.
I am waiting for the "BTW I use Arch" remark...
Certainly they can be held civilly liable if defamation can be proved. If actual spite and malice can be shown, or if the suspect intends to profit from the action, it's possible that there may be criminal laws that apply, depending on the state.
Thanks for sharing. That one hit me hard.
Gates Notes – Buildings are bad for the climate
The plan for West Germany was to use nuclear land mines in the Fulda Gap to both destroy whole divisions en route and to create massive geological barriers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_demolition_munition
Interesting idea. Wonder how much extra work would be involved to get them to network boot instead of messing with sd cards.
The article does not seem to end in support of its title. He seems to want to define Cyberpunk specifically but then goes about highlighting that it is a concept subjectively bound by the context of the authors' environment.
This sounds great, but since AirBnB is still private we don't know enough about their financials to know how viable this is for them. How much of a tax could they pay while still operating profitably (I do not mean they have to maintain their valuation or to continue to grow - I mean for them to be a self-sustaining company)?

Investors holds up AirBnB on a pedestal, but I've always been suspicious their numbers are not nearly good enough to justify their latest valuation. Apart from their continuing damage to their brand in an increasingly crowded space, I am just amazed that they only just barely made a profit in 2017. I fully understand it takes a ton of money, time, effort, and luck to grow a company to that size - but AirBnB was already 9 years old then, had been operating in a space by illegally skirting regulations, not only did they not play by the rules but they didn't pay competitive taxes, and all the while they own no expensive infrastructure! People have been suspicious their reviews are unreliable going back years, so they had already started to erode trust in their users. They are experimenting with creating their own hotels now, which is just utterly bizarre since their entire purpose was to offer an alternative to hotels (I mean it's okay to experiment when you're that big, but this is not one I can understand).

I really, really look forward to AirBnB's IPO.