skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right. Most people simply are not in the habit of expressing themselves with enough precision, and might even be missing some essential training.

Whenever precision is required, we end up with methodologies like technical writing, or specialized language like legalese, to provide the necessary precision.

If we didn't have "programming languages", we'd end up with some sort of "computerese" analogous to legalese, and it would still take years to become proficient in using it, and there would still be either people or AI who would translate natural language into "computerese" (but we'd likely prefer human oversight over the AI anyway, given that a human that needs an AI to convert their language into something more precise is likely not capable of judging whether the output is precisely what they meant).
You might be interested in BikeshedDB [0].

[0] https://github.com/tbg/bikesheddb
The irony! A post on writing simple code having as its first suggestion the use of abstract factories. Am I on /r/nottheonion?
> Simply having an entity in Panama doesn't mean someone is evading American taxes.

Just like using a tumbler doesn’t mean the crime of money laundering is occurring, as that crime requires an illicit origin not the mere act of obfuscation
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Mmm?

No, there are a bunch of places where it doesn't matter as much because digitisation means searching is unnecessary, but when it matters, it still really matters.

In my music player under artists The Chemical Brothers sorts with Chvrches not with The KLF.

Human indexes are still really valuable in reference works, maybe we're getting close to AI making a useful stab at it, but pick up a copy of K&R and compare most auto-generated indices (if you can find a book that even bothers with an index) today, it's night and day.
Once I was told by my manager to close Slack and focus on my work, and only check what's new about twice a day.

A week later, the same manager got angry at me for not responding to client's urgent issue which was announced by Slack an hour ago.

So... yeah, closing Slack improves things, until it suddenly makes them worse.
There's no emphasis on lightweight batteries for passanger aircrafts, both batteries and biofuels are pursued and both are marginal compared to traditional fossil fuels.
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>I consider myself an enthusiast, and still consider engine noise to be undesirable.

Same here. That said, the flat 4 has a really nice note (engines with a flat plane crankshaft generally do) so I can understand why people want it to sing when they step on it.
Have you actually tried this?

The last time I saw that site, every single part down to the simplest screw said "Contact Tesla for pricing" and instead of adding to a cart, it too had a button "Contact Tesla for sales"...

... almost like they were trying to barely scrape by a state mandate on spare parts being available for sale.
Small fines seem like a great way to instill a sense of responsibility (while also acting as insurance style payments), especially if your parents already aren't engaged and ensuring you're responsible to duties.

As this the Good Will Hunting quote suggests, in many libraries these fees were small, $1.25 in late fees for a Harvard Education...
This kind of effort sounds great, but the issue is that Google has already spent their goodwill on improving the web in this area. Who can trust the company to implement this fairly? Will Gmail get a “badge of shame” (it surely deserves one)? Will websites that are fast but don’t use AMP or the new Google hotness be ranked as they should? There are a lot of questions that I’m sure many have already answered in their head based on Google’s past efforts.
I am confused. What's wrong with `wc -l < file | ... | ...`?

I know `< file wc -l | ... | ...` is identical because the redirection is done before the command is executed, but what does putting it in front help with?
Designing ICs is a very expensive treadmill. If you can buy fast enough hardware to do your job, it's really hard to justify spending a lot for something that may be nominally a little better on some metric.

There's commodity computing of comparable throughput that other automakers can incorporate without too much cost, but it doesn't fit into the existing TM3 vehicles because it has a larger footprint in power, space, and cooling than HW2.

Here, Tesla spends a bunch of money to develop HW3 and overcome this problem, but the advantage in a new car design between HW3's efficiency and commodity hardware is limited.
Even if someone has decided they have no interest in pursuing a gig at a YC startup (no complaints personally, great folks, great opportunities for those interested)? Just prominently advertise https://www.workatastartup.com/ on the HN homepage instead or give us an option to hide them in our HN profile.
Jeff Bezos was right around the corner in 2017 per this article: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/27/richest-man-alive-jeff-bezos...
Eh? It's obvious: this is a pilot project where PII is screened out.
Chunking can speed up processing even if the dataset fits into memory because you are interleaving disk reads and computation and the OS is likely to prefetch the next chunk into the read cache while you're still busy computing.

On other problems chunking doesn't work at all and just mmaping or dedicating giant amounts of swap are better strategies. It depends on the problem at hand
Thank you for sharing. It's always fun to see the ways BF can be used to make music.

I really like the way the editor visually shows where you are. It would be really neat to get it controlling some synths in an Ableton live session or something. You'll get the notation system AND the great sounds that way.

At one point, I wrote a little BF sequencer for Sporth [0]. The nice thing about it was it just output a signal which could be mapped to literally any sound parameter at audio-rate. If the project still builds [1], there's a single demo that I made of it.

0: http://paulbatchelor.github.io/proj/spigot/

1: https://github.com/paulbatchelor/spigot
> same level of seriousness as combating other types of pollution.

So not very seriously at all?
Yes, because you're using the site for free it's not up to you.
Using natural language for stuff like that would be just like writing legalese, except being even more specific about everything.
Should they also give their cloud services a badge of shame? Love how google thinks they are the judge and jury of the internet yet they can’t go 6 months without a major disruption.
Browser extension it is then (you can detect the job posts, as they have no discuss ability), although I would love a way to donate to mods so they can go get a fancy lunch or something like that. I love HN, I think the mods' work is super valuable, but I block ads in general (while donating cash to non-profits and paying for news sources I consume), so of course I would want to filter what I want.

EDIT: I'm apparently entitled because I don't want to see job postings that I'm not interested in in my news feed. Ce la vie.
"He also noted that many doctors will use YouTube when looking for guidance on surgeries."

How common is it for doctors these days to Google various health conditions? Are there any preferred online resources?
NC headphones will though.
Humphreys County, Mississipp is one of the poorest and the most audited county in the US - https://www.marketplace.org/2019/04/15/study-where-irs-audit...
On short routes, passenger loading time dominates. Electric could work for going between islands for Hawaii, Isle of Mann, New Zealand, and Japan. It could connect Martha's Vineyard or Long Island with various nearby places.

It's a ferry replacement.
If you really want to hide it, you could write a CSS rule with the :has selector. Probably won't be too long 'till that's standardised and implemented. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/:has

But, as the only thing really funding Hacker News, I think unobtrusive, easy-to-identify job ads are a worthy price to pay.
Not sure why YC would build a feature to limit the audience of their job postings on a platform they own and operate
Anyone who thinks otherwise should be sentenced to death!
Storing the number n takes log n bits, if we're being super pedantic :)
In 1987 Apple Predicted the Internet, Siri, iPad, FaceTime, & Apple Eyes [video]
I'd be happy to tell you what it was, but I'm on holidays away from my laptop/steam account.
When you talk to effective people, you quickly learn they get most of their work-work done before 10am or after 5pm.
Google Analytics dashboard currently scores zero (0) in the web perf section. It's probably their biggest asset.
This only works during a “Cold War” one of the goals of intelligence is to prevent war by either maintaining your balance or superiority over your enemies and once a war breaks out provide intelligence that would grant you an advantage on the battle field.

However if a full scale war ever breaks down it will definitely regress back to leveling whole cities fairly quickly because in the end of the day it’s the only way to beat an enemy.

If the enemy could not sustain low levels of attrition even if key individuals they likely wouldn’t engage in a war in the first place.

However people over estimate how much intelligence should be credited to stopping all out war vs the economics of the connected world even during the Cold War.

Trade stops wars, hence why all recent wars have been civil in nature or ones against isolated actors of little to no economic importance on a global scale.

While a war with China might break out under extreme circumstances it’s highly unlikely when the US public relies on it for anything from their tooth brushes to their iPhones.

War with Russia is also extremely unlikely since half of Europe would freeze to death, they don’t need to nuke Berlin, as shutting off the gas supply would be nearly as devastating.

Russia’s reliance on natural gas to fuel not only their economy but also their geopolitical capita is also why it reacts so aggressively against European incursion eastward that could threaten their monopoly on LPG.

What Russia fears more than 500,000 NATO troops on its border is a Royal Dutch Shell pipeline going form the Caspian Sea through the Black Sea into Europe.

So while space death rays might seem to be effective they aren’t really not are they necessary today to actually prevent conflict between the big players.

With all the death rays in the world unless you’ll be willing to kill off the entire population of your enemies as long as they have enough peasants and rifles they can wage an effective war.

For China to effectively conquer a country they only need enough guns as nukes aside even the US might not have enough conventional weapons to deal with China if they’ll go bat shit crazy and issue a gun, an inflatable raft and a parka to every able man and woman of military age and tell them to march north west till the reach Alaska then start marching south.
like manifest V3
I've seen the graph there and I find one thing troubling:

Lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions for conventional and electric vehicles (by country) in grammes CO2-equivalent per kilometre, assuming 150,000 kilometres driven over the vehicle lifetime.

That's less than 100,000 miles - rarely do cars travel less than that during their lifetime.

Specifically in my country that would mean using the car for ~10 years, meanwhile the average passenger vehicle age is 14 years!

As for biofuels: land and water usage are major hindrances. For example you need ~1800 liters of water to grow 1kg of soybean. Sure, you can use waste products for fuels, but they need to be waste from something.
>If not on newsgroups or mailing lists or webrings or forums, then on a hypothetical, less malicious social media platform.

this is the dream, of course. I totally agree. I suppose what I was trying to express was that I think the specific boring ubiquity of FB is what caused these groups to grow and flourish. I can imagine an urbanism group growing on a phpbb board or community of blogs and eventually getting high-traffic and powerful, with its own set of memes etc, but the hyperniche-ing of groups (the lomgboi example) seems to be a feature of FB groups because it isn't something most people would bother to take part in if it weren't already there, in the mall. FWIW i consider reddit part of the mall too, because apart from the weirdo small subreddits I find it alienating in a community sense, since I literally grew up on phpbb boards with avatars and threads, where you were able to recognise and come to know certain regular posters within a week or two.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinc%E2%80%93air_battery
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I presume it indicates an "eco-friendly" power mode.
Eco mode?
Yes, but that's still orders of magnitude easier than parsing emails or html...
Tell the other employees that they aren't privy to their coworker's personal situation and that you are at liberty to allow any employee to not show up a few days a week, if you believe doing so is essential to their physical or mental health, if it's not hurting the bottom line, and if it's not a quid-pro-quo situation.

If the other employees want more time off, the correct solution is not to ask them to pull all nighters but just ask why. Usually extra time off can be accomodated with occasional work from home or allowing shifted start times. Or, possibly, your employees didn't even want the two days off a week -- maybe they were just feeling left behind and unappreciated that you just loved that coworker so much, and they came to perceive his odd working hours as a status symbol and reward.
Because they hope that it will drive the badged web pages to AMP?
Tell that to the HFT people.
Kind of a dick move to be honest.

You're entitled because you expect to have a free service provided to you AND expect to dictate the terms of how it's provided. Whether or not you want to pay is irrelevant, you're trying to dictate the terms and it's not your right to do so.

If you don't like the terms don't use the service. It's very simple.
They could start right off with the Android Developer documentation website.
Please don’t use the Bay Area as a proxy for US housing. It’s an extreme outlier.

Million dollars houses would be regarded as unliveable in other parts of the US.
Microsoft and Qualcomm together supposedly just invested tons of money in making sure that x86 emulates well on ARM64, but apparently had little success emulating x64 on ARM64. If the speculation and rumors about an ARM transition have merit, it seems backwards to sunset x86 and not x64.

Which it seems unlikely that Apple could do in secrecy what Microsoft + Qualcomm could not do (very publicly), but I guess all things are possible.
I'm flabbergasted as to why someone would ever think they need to do this.

Especially since the page loads just fine. It's not like it's relying on accessing some 3rd party resource that's only accessible via HTTP.
I can relate, I love the sound of a flat crank V8. Yet I'd be just as happy experiencing that as a convincing sound effect in the cabin of my EV, or well silenced ICE as actually bothering people in the real world with actually open exhausts.

Given some places are requiring EVs to actually emit a little more sound for the benefit of blind and partially sighted people, I'm surprised we're not moving towards choosing vehicle sound packs along with paint colours...
aaaaand the trainer: https://gist.github.com/romualdr/92f78c79bfa0d3c2f537953f3e7... ( fun game btw, i just love cheating in those kind of games )
+1 on this.

the author also wrote an interactive tutorial here:

https://audiomasher.org/learn

this is based on the sporth cookbook, found here:

http://paulbatchelor.github.io/proj/cook/
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I remember the natural language interface in Q&A by Symantec worked pretty well. I was using it in the very early 1990s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q%26A_(Symantec)
He is certainly well positioned, but Amazon is already 23 years old, industrial cycles tend to shorten and he himself anticipated the death of his own company.
I agree you'd want a better circuit. In Europe, people will simply use three-phase outlets to get 12kW. We are talking about average power consumption overnight though. About whether huge infrastructure changes are immediately necessary/insurmountable, or if we'll get by just fine. Trickle charging to replenish the energy used on an average day clearly does not need a lot of power. Even 50 miles can be recharged in 5 hours overnight.
No, it's lower, speed of sound is 38.94 * sqrt(temperature) with the speed in knots and the temperature in Kelvin.

Every airliner notices this when climbing, you get closer to the Mmo speed (maximum Mach number for operating) while at the same time the IAS decreases and you get closer to a stall due to decreasing airdensity. At some point you cannot go faster due to maximum Mach while you also cannot go slower due to minimum IAS to avoid a stall. At that point you cannot climb higher even if your engines have the power.
Ya, but a single mammoth could provide exponentially more meat for the same efforts of hunting multiple smaller animals.
O(log n) is not constant
If nobody is far-left unless they're Karl Marx and nobody is far-right unless they're Adolf Hitler then in practice nobody is going to be either of those things unless they're ignorant or mentally ill, because they've both been attempted with results so stark that no sane person could want to repeat them.

The extremes also expose the flaws of that spectrum to begin with, because your average anarcho-capitalist would no sooner want to live under Hitler than Stalin. But we've somehow managed to categorize as "far right" both the proposition that no one, including the government, should ever use force to coerce anyone to do anything, and simultaneously the proposition that the government should use lethal force to stamp out homosexuality and racial impurity and wrongthink. And on the other side, that far-left at the same time means both granting equal access to power and resources to everyone and granting total economic authority to an all-powerful central government. And that the government should use lethal force to stamp out wrongthink. In that sense far-anything is just a useless general-purpose pejorative, so if it's going to mean anything then it isn't very useful for it to mean that.

So I tend to think a more useful meaning is something like the category exemplified by AOC as compared to the category exemplified by Bill Clinton.
>There probably is also an evolutionary reason for rape to exist, does that mean rape is fine?

My question is not in regard to whether anything is or isn't "fine". The point of my question was to suggest there might be a reason that people form such identities beyond some kind of collective insanity as you suggest.

>Why is the present not also part of evolution, why does something that "evolved in the past" have to be protected from criticism in this way?

You're not just criticizing it, you're calling it insanity. If there is a very good evolutionary reason for that sort of behavior, it's not insanity.

>First of, what if it isn't true?

Then it may be in contention for the longest running collective mania that has afflicted this species.

>Do you have any evidence that it's true?

Sure, humans seem to be predisposed toward forming such identities. That is evidence, though it's not conclusive.

>Right now the jury is still out on the survival of organized human life, and such "identities" play no small part in that.

OK, but that has nothing to do with this discussion.

> For example, some humans went crazy and started murdering others who weren't crazy in the same fashion. "evolution proved we're stronk, so let's just gang up on this person and vote them into the ground".

Whether it's due to genetics or culture or some combination, formulating these identities seems to have been a successful strategy in terms of populating future generations, which is what is important when it comes to wondering why we are like we are today. And if it turns out to have been helpful in the past, it is certainly worth examining to see what it can do for us today.
Reddit is going to earn this so fast lol
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Power-saving mode. I know Acer used this in their notebooks. (I had one.) You could manually switch to a reduced power mode. Because it used less battery power it was advertised as eco-friendly since I guess the marketing assumed conservation always means the same thing.

Nowadays every CPU and peripheral does automatic power throttling all the time and no one pretends it has anything to do with being environmentally conscious.
Some things are genetic, so even if it is the data of your parents, it will still influence you.

Only way is to completly anonymize data, which is way harder than it sounds.
Or perhaps they are leveraging Apple's known sensitivity to this kind of publicity to highlight a serious issue with equity of credit access and opaque algorithms running our lives.
I'm not sure where you are from but in my reality you don't really bounce back when you are dying in fire.
A sizable subset of America's past, present, and future adversaries in war have never ratified any portion the Geneva Convention.
> The cost of immutability can be high

If you analyze expenses for software projects of 1960-80ies and compare them with recent years, you probably see that the most expensive item now is at the bottom. The most costly thing used to be hardware. The not so expensive - developer's time. Now it's the opposite - the equipment is cheap, and the software developer's salary is the most expensive thing. Of course, that does not apply to every single case, but for the majority of projects, that is true.

Immutability by default (baked into the language), offers enormous benefits, and increases programmer's productivity, it simplifies many things, especially concurrency and parallelism. Languages like Erlang and Clojure are good examples. The price you are talking about does matter. But very often, the benefits outweigh the small cost.
It's like classic school. My kids complain that they are forced to slow down to keep pace with the rest of the class. Same idea here.
How can I opt out of this???
Meditation and chronic pain have a bad history due to some unhelpful dogma that pervades the meditation community. Many teachers insist on seated meditation in a position that requires flexibility and only works for people without circulatory issues (heart problems, diabetes) or back problems.

For instance in Seattle, I believe the Rinzai school may be the only one that volunteers multiple affordances rather than forcing the student to ask for them, or rejecting them out of hand. It's not just bullshit, it's cruelty.

I didn't make it anywhere with meditation until I encountered https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhan_zhuang and figured out it's standing meditation. (If the arms up hurts, put them on your thighs). You can also just practice laying in bed, which is also good for insomnia.
I often wonder how much of the computational universe in “high tech” is indeed blinded by what we can stick in a laptop.

That, and the idea of a polyphasic merge sort isn’t taught in ye olde boot camps, I guess.
Just because you don’t understand a specific scientific term doesn’t make it “jargon”. Plenty of perfectly valid technical docs would be considered invalid jargon if you held them to the same standard.