skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Love the idea,but how do you handle support,customer-shopper arbitration(either side claiming the delivery did or did not happen for example),really bad customers/shoppers (basically quality) without central management?

Another solution would be to have a separate pickup location where shoppers drop it off at that location and customers would pick it up at a different date. This helps people that want the convenience but also it helps eliminate "food deserts". If say whole foods is 10miles away,the grocery is delivered 5 milea away, that means people that consider 10 miles too far can now pick it up at a closer location. I think this whole idea has potential at a larger scale, I would love to order stuff from amazon or ebay and have it delivered at someone else's house where I can pick it up later -- one more layer of privacy if I use gift cards and the like to shop they will never need to know my name,phone and address directly. Storage providers can charge by the hour/minute.
Interesting. What are some other languages that would be above 2.5 on your scale?
In programming language theory and formal systems in general, "types" mean what is often called "static types." In any event, that's what I'm referring to.
As always, the problem with antiquated arms is: you can't afford the ammunition.

What a cool machine, and a goofy concept by modern lights. I'd love to go look at how that's actually built.
I just bring cans of unsalted fish in water or their own juices and sacks of unsalted organic nuts when I go on trips.

Run into a grocery store or farm stand to grab fresh fruits and vegetables whenever you see one and eat the stuff raw.

You don't need to cook to eat healthily. Even when I'm not traveling most of my diet doesn't involve cooking at all. Just rinsing off dirty vegetables and slicing/peeling is the majority of preparation performed.
Growing up in Germany it was weird to think if these weapons or similar ones were ever used it would probably mean that Germany and probably parts of Europe would be destroyed. Pretty scary.
Did people stop producing music when Spotify hit the market? No, so why would Hollywood stop producing movies?

Music piracy was a huge problem in the 90s, and from what I can tell, that's essentially disappeared with iTunes and Spotify. It should be easy to buy exactly what you want for a reasonable price.

From what I can tell, movie and TV show piracy went way down in areas where Netflix was available, so what does Hollywood do? They lock down their content even more and reduce the content available at any given service.

That's backwards. They have a winning service, they should double down on it and make more content available. Maybe distribute new releases to Netflix customers that have a premium account or something, and have a payment tier with nearly complete access to old content with a single subscription. That's essentially what Spotify does, and it works.
Principles for C Programming
Again, I brought up rush hour as a reference point (benchmark, calibration method, etc), not as a threshold. Surely you’ve seen the “Is four a lot?” meme (“Dollars? No. Murders? Yes”). That applies here in spades.

And yes, I think the bar for some random record attempt would be a bit higher. Some of the comments in this thread seem to think the marathon is valueless. I disagree. The Boston marathon is a big deal locally—-even non-runners get excited about it, so it does contribute to civic pride or whatever, More tangibly, the marquee marathons (Boston, NYC, etc) bring in a fair bit of tourist money.

If these things are unexpectedly very dangerous, then sure, let’s reconsider. If not, do you also want to replace Central Park with rounded, rubberized surfaces?
I liked the UI of digg a lot better, it was cleaner and had thumbnails. I mainly went to reddit for programming stuff back in the day.

I think 2 codependent things ruined digg before the redesign though:

(1) Users started to game the rankings so that the content was less diverse.

(2) The admin's response to that gaming started to cripple the "newness" of posts such that the content on the front page was a lot older than on reddit.

These two factors are starting to ruin reddit too, only now instead of MrBabyMan or whoever doing it for fun/money, it seems like it's actual foreign interference or something just as nefarious.
There are two kinds of criticism, the kind that is a rejection of you and your ability, and the kind that implies you should be able to do better, that the person criticizing knows you can do better, which is implicitly a compliment.

The former type can be expressed very politely, and still hurt infinitely worse than the latter expressed most harshly.
No one who speaks German can be an evil man.
There’s an entire wiki dedicated to nonsense:

https://en.uncyclopedia.co/wiki/Main_Page
Well, we have trespassing and copyright infringement. Neither of those have the emotional baggage as theft, so the movie industry uses the term for maximum effect.
paul sellers is great! such a gem. check out wood work web, johnathan katz moses, pask makes, izzy swan and jackmanworks... as well as some of the older videos from William Ng. they are all quality!
My understanding is that a key reason cheap electrolysis is important is that the hydrogen it produces can be substituted for fossil fuels in many industrial processes, thereby eliminating an important source of co2 emissions.
Thanks for the update. I'll keep my eye on it though -- maybe it will get there eventually.
> (which also covers cell phone calls)

No, you are absolutely wrong. CAN-SPAM law for email is under the FTC's regulation and does nothing to restrict the ability of marketers to send initial unsolicited mailings. This isn't a first amendment question of exemption, the FTC is not authorized by statute to regulate noncommercial activity like a political campaign.

TCPA regulations for cellphone marketing are under the auspices of the FCC. You cannot send unsolicited commercial SMS and calls legally (there are some exemptions for pollsters and nonprofits). TCPA law also applies to political campaigns: https://www.fcc.gov/political-campaign-robocalls-robotexts
That's like saying a well-written C program is a good reference for C++. In any case, writing POSIX-only shell scripts is much harder than writing Bash scripts, which can often be much faster (e.g., one can use {1..10}, which doesn't need an external call, instead of `seq 1 10` to iterate through a list of numbers). For POSIX-only shell scripts, the ones used in Git [1] are some of the best-written I've seen.

[1]: https://github.com/git/git/search?l=shell
This is one bad feature among many good decisions, but bad nonetheless. The language will have yet-another-way to do type-erasure/autoboxing that will have to be tracked down, in the interest of removing boilerplate when multiple types are desired to be coerced. Type safety is recognized as valuable by the PHP core voters on one hand, and waved away by the other.

Imagine the fun!

<?php

function callit(float $numI) {

$numB = $numI || ($numI/2);

echo gettype($numB)."\n";

$numF = ($numI/2);

echo gettype($numF)."\n";

return some($numB);

}

function someType(int|float $numX):int {

echo gettype($numX)."\n";

return $numX;

}

$ret = callit(2);

echo gettype($ret)."\n";
and positive
I’m pretty sure this is wrong. JS objects and arrays are different. The former will only yield elements from the array itself when iterated on, and has a consistent iteration order, while the later does not.
The jumps in expressivity are not very gradual, and the reason for that is the exact same one as computational expressivity growing "suddenly". PDA's are much more expressive than DFAs, and TM's are drastically more expressive than PDAs.

Liquid Haskell would be a big jump (say, to 20), and anything more than that would put you close to, or at, 100.

But note that type systems are far from the only way of expressing correctness properties. Eve is untyped, but its ability to express correctness properties is much higher than Haskell's. Also, even type systems that are designed for functional correctness do not necessarily do a good job at it compared to other approaches.
Which part do you see that is not performance in that benchmark which shown the average time? I have tried benchmark on my own and PHP took longer than RubyJIT.
The problem is that mean speech correlates with more damaging behavior downstream, like violence or libel. So it's a conservative act of self protection to ghost/avoid individuals who use mean speech. I for one tend to avoid them. And I question how much I could actually learn from them if they have yet to develop a basic sense of social decency.

This is the base case. I understand that there are more extreme cases where you "win" in some specific ways if you keep stomaching mean speech.
This kind of stuff usually is a sign that there is group involved.

Sometimes directly or indirectly (public repos/forums) working with each other. Even amateur groups produce stuff much more quickly these days. You can see it play out in college dorms when an enthusiastic group gets together.
At least you can easily pull out the battery and assume your text/call is being monitored. They give you more control and less complexity but you're right on how they don't add security.
Amazon’s $0 corporate income tax bill last year, explained
The surveyed aren’t, but the surveyors are.

And I imagine the questions were nuanced and sophisticated enough that they weren’t as basic “is your boss an asshole” and more like “on a scale of 1 being Spock to 10 being Trump, how does your boss handle conflict?”
Works if you have enough domain knowledge to prescribe the functions (priors). Not so good if it's a poorly understood or niche domain.
That is an option - the other thing you can do is get a Softphone app on your phone and log into the service with it. They work with text messages as well.

That is the one downside of this is now having two numbers to deal with. I was getting so many garbage calls though, the trade off has been worth it.
I probably would have left out that mechanical Turk data, if only for perception.

The rest seems quite solid.
Goldman faces probe after entrepreneur slams Apple Card algorithm in tweets
Sometimes I wish we had a “common knowledge base” with all those points, so that we could move beyond beating the same dead horse, as a community. Any post about JS or C is just dreadful. And I’m completely guilty, myself. :S
Well the repo description is "World's most dumbest Load Balancer", which might count for something
Thanks for your input. Often critical people mean the best despite coming off as mean. That said, I think it is best if you are close with these people first so you know they mean the best. I don't think it's natural for individuals to recognize when someone means well but is coming off as rude, particularly when rudeness is defined differently for everyone.

For the unversed, my family's dinners can come off as abrasive. The reality is we just enjoy talking to each other in an uncivilized manner.
I’m fairly sure that if these weapons are used then a lot more than Germany would be destroyed.
Losing battle against the bay (2010)
The Wikipedia page has a picture of the cannon with a nuclear explosion seven miles away. Isn't Germany larger than 7 miles wide, not to mention I thought it was part of Europe?
You're right, but I think they just meant to say 'the war against fat had been won'.

TFA is rife with errors, it's annoying because excess sugar consumption is a real issue but poorly researched and written articles like these are not helping.
Yes yes, but the supply/demand economics remains so even if you get rid of them they'll be replaced. Governments and laws not catching up with tech and being hostile to their own people is creating the demand.

Are exploit brokers like Zerodium exempt from this criticism because they off load the targeting and execution part to third parties and governments?
Disagree. That premise was explicitly spoken (that it would help the poor, that was a figleaf by the people pushing this), and it wasn't accepted by very many people, other than some rich people who thought they'd use it. At the time it was passed it was widely said to be likely to be a boondogle that would not make many real improvements.
If facts matter so much, it's important to be able to convince people of those facts. And in order to do that, facts about the best way to convince someone are relevant. And the fact is, believing that the best way to convince someone that they're just plain wrong is by saying that they're just plain wrong, is just plain wrong.

If someone really cares about the facts, and not just owning their interlocutor, they'll look for effective ways to communicate, instead of holding on as tightly as they can to a method of communication that has pretty conclusively been demonstrated to be ineffective.
I’ve considered writing up things I bring up frequently on my blog so I can just link people to that instead of taking the time to rewrite the same thing over and over…
So carriers are responsible for policing the content of calls?

I can think of no more blatant way to ruin net neutrality.
right, sorry, that was a typo, you are of course correct it was 4.4 minutes longer. doesn't change my thought, does it?
Still doesn't solve the first-request problem. When can we start using DNSSEC to help prevent DNS hijacking in the first place?
This doesn't seem like an easier target than a delivery truck or a warehouse. Why and how would people attack airships?
Why on earth would you have a heap in a zero-stage-burned-into-chip bootloader, not to mention a USB stack. It's just self-inflicted harm at this point.
How does not allowing spoofing caller ID help defeat robocallers.

People use twilio to robocall individuals from their same area code. No “spoofing” caller ID is needed. Twilio makes is stupid simple for robocallers and I can speak with authority on this matter hence why this is a throwaway account.
Which is a shame really. I understand why they're doing it, it's stressful as hell to configure, since if you do it really wrong you might as well just write off your domain name, but the extra assurance was nice.
Wow, it's really cool to read how things like this happen.

While we're here, is there anything I can use to remove the alphanumeric passcode from an iPad 4 (A6X chipset, no Secure Enclave) that I've forgotten the password to?
Not the content. The caller ID.
the coroutines are run sequentially by an "event loop"/"coroutine runner" that wakes them up and lets them run for a bit when appropriate, kind of like an OS's scheduler (on a single core machine). if the runner is the OS, `await foo(..)` is kind of like a syscall, where the coroutine is suspended and control is handed back to the runner to do whatever is requested.

i guess the difference from normal threads (preemptive multitasking) is that you explicitly mark your "yield points" – places where your code gives control back to the runner – with `await` (cooperative multitasking). some believe that this makes async stuff easier to reason about, since in theory you can see the points where stuff might happen concurrently

honestly i'm out of my depth re: async IO, haven't used it all that much :/ but if you're comfortable with python and want to dig into the mechanism of async/await, i really recommend this article: https://snarky.ca/how-the-heck-does-async-await-work-in-pyth...

it's long, but i found it very helpful – it actually explains how it all works without handwaviness. at the end the author implements a toy "event loop" that can run a few timers concurrently, which really made it click for me!
Seems like that really depends more on calling conventions than an ABI overall?
What are you talking about? I put Swiss, cheddar, havarti, etc on my burgers all the time without any issues. Just put it on when you flip the burger and cover it so the cheese melts. I've been to several restaurants that put decent cheeses on their burgers and it's fantastic.
I might be mistaken but are not mobile numbers in the UK in their special area code/exchange so calling them costs extra? Calling landlines does not seem to be profitable anymore (my home landline gets almost 0 calls now, my work phone gets maybe 3-4 calls a week) so the scammers only want to call mobile numbers and in the US it's not different from calling a landline while it might cost extra in the UK.
If things had ever gotten to the point where atomic cannons were being fired in anger, there would have been a lot of nuclear weapons flying around.
So does Fahrenheit 451: The government isn't the real threat, it's society. We are already living in a world where online mobs rule a person's career, livelihood and just publicly disagreeing with the current political narrative can ruin your life.

The scary part is even when you are found innocent, the damage is already done and many people will continue to believe it anyway.

Jealous and spiteful people see this as an opportunity to strike down the people they don't like. It truly is a modern day witch trial.
Nuclear lives or dies by Project Management and some countries just suck at it. When you need a reactor, it's a controversial big-ticket item/government project. Countries with strong central planning can handle that (France and China).

In UK our government can't build a train line without fucking it up[1]. If we had open-source Fusion reactors tomorrow, they would commission it, then cancel it, then privatise it, then find out it was built upside-down. There would be a chain of 15 contractors involved and they would all be suing each-other. Then the taxpayer would cover the cost anyway.

We really need SMRs [small modular reactors]. Those would be ~100 ton devices built at a factory, and all quality controls would be done there. They are subject to normal market mechanisms. Nuclear would become more like solar and wind. When you need them, you just buy them, get them delivered and follow instructions to install them.

You don't need to create a 20-year old political football for party politics.

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/27ab2f5c-a976-11e9-984c-fac8325aa...
Is there a reason the FCC can't fine the telecoms for allowing the illegal calls? My guess is they'd fix the problem pretty quick.
I don't think the issue that anyone has is being identified with a demographic, be they "Boomer", "Gen-X", "Gen-y" like myself or "Millennial". The heart of why it is offensive is exactly what gets tacked on implicitly or explicitly like your "PC baby" comment.

Some members of group "A" using a slight against the members of group "B" does not give some members of group "B" a free pass to reciprocate. Both slights are wrong.

This is no different than the systemic waves of racism that have plagued US immigration for a half-dozen generations.

What I find most depressing is that a generation so often connected with "woke-ness", "post-racial", and "post-gender" ideas in the end is no different than any other generation. Once their "other" is found they will apparently delight in poking at it with feigned ignorance of the offence they cause.
I don't know about you, but I've certainly had mold grow on ground beef I've forgotten in the fridge.
OTOH must be a good incentive to fix a system when a programmer gets told that the minister can't use it.
That is a really neat page. You see "funding: $250k" right next to "market cap: $1.1T". It's almost surreal.
"France completed construction on 76% of its current 58 reactors at an inflation-adjusted cost of $330 billion (€290 billion). The complete buildout of the 58 reactors was less €400 billion."

Whoever managed to build plants in the past must have retired. "Flamanville is just one of three projects being built in Europe using the next-generation EPR technology. The other two are the Olkiluoto project in Finland, which is more than a decade late, and the UK’s Hinkley Point, which is also delayed and mired in controversy over its high costs."
https://www.ft.com/content/877eedae-f987-11e9-a354-36acbbb0d...

Yes, in theory new nuclear plants could be small, modular and safe.

In practice, the biggest challenge is political rather than technical. How do you set up institutions that can deliver these projects on time and on budget?

In the time these plants have been delayed, solar prices have dropped more than 80%. By the time they're scheduled to be finished, solar should cost 50% less than today.

Germany overpaid by a lot, which is the price for building a local industry and being pioneers in a new technology. I hope it works out for them. Either way, humanity will owe them a debt for this.
OO is definitely not based on anything like set theory or finite state machines. OO has no formal backing, but it's often integrated with basic type theory in languages like Java and C#.
I remember Virgin employees at the terminal counter in Heathrow aiport letting me play around with their reservation/booking system to find a flight back for an unscheduled business emergency. The query format is interesting and terse, so I can see how simple record encoding formats that can lack field separators can introduce ambiguities in lexing/parsing. It's a shame they don't migrate all-at-once over to an industry-wide, EDI-like format that has definite Unicode support for nearly all customer-provided fields.
> I've been more flexible, going by "A Aaron"

I'm sorry, but if I found that name IRL I'd have a hard time not laughing. Have you seen the Substitute Teacher sketch by Key and Peele?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd7FixvoKBw
“People whose names break my system are weird outliers. They should have had solid, acceptable names, like 田中太郎.”

— #39, Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...
GDP to make sure you got
Having worked for 3 years designing 757 flight controls, it's a special plane for me, too. I always enjoy finding the bird I'm booked on is a 757. Some of the guys I worked with on it were an engineer's engineer. I lost my fear of flying through working on the 757.
Stop infantilizing people. People don't become proper adults until they've had a few years making decisions and handling the consequences. If you just keep giving people easy outs and rationalizing it as them being young and stupid they will never become smart. Yeah, some people are gonna have to go to jail for their screw ups but on a societal level that's preferable to everybody still acting like idiots at 25.
That makes a lot of sense. I bet it holds true for most things. Though now I'm curious how well it holds up for video editing howto videos
We had an orange tree growing up. Fresh squeezed orange juice was a daily thing when it was in season. It was incredibly flavorful, much more flavorful than store bought OJ. If anything it was sweeter than the stuff you get in stores.

My guess is the machine was adding water.
I work with people from India who don't have a Western first-name last-name structure and have gotten very used to seeing their full multipart names written in both the first and last field. It seems a common workaround for these folks with names that break the system - just write their full name in all name fields.
The mask is a metaphor. I'm talking about real things.

If you're addicted to a feeling then that is a pathology. You're right that love and disgust can both be good or bad, but nobody said otherwise.
One massive differentiator that is often ignored is scalability - as in can it be scaled DOWN?

Nuclear has to be done in massive scale, which causes all sorts of problems: project complexity and cost; security; security of supply; transmission costs. Renewables are very attractive in that light.
https://jameskennedymonash.wordpress.com/2013/12/12/ingredie...
What about raw sugar cane?
6502 Assembly Language Programming on Atari 8 Bit
I'm not sure how them possibly being a 'SJW' has any relevance to this argument, as that's essentially a dismissive personal attack and a rather shitty one at that.

Given my experience with ML algorithms having bias against minorities, I think it's fair to assume the worst when it's a black box algorithm. You feed it bad data, and you get bad results out.