skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Correct! The numbers are clear not enough people use rail to make it viable and the are numerous examples of the same experiment: dump a few billion into public transport because “if you build it, riders will come”. They don’t. It’s the opposite of green or progressive, it takes tax funds from poor people and gives it to engineering firms to build vanity projects that nobody uses.
Yes, LOGO already has all the list evaluating like the real Lisp.

? run `[print ,[sum 2 3]]

5

But also a very sophisticated way to define functions with many default and within even optional parameters without the need of parentheses. From UCBLogo info:

This version of Logo allows variable numbers of inputs to a procedure.
After the procedure name come four kinds of things, in this order:

1. 0 or more REQUIRED inputs :FOO :FROBOZZ

2. 0 or more OPTIONAL inputs [:BAZ 87] [:THINGO 5+9]

3. 0 or 1 REST input [:GARPLY]

4. 0 or 1 DEFAULT number 5
So many of these folks were forced by their communities of users to move to Github from their old, bespoke infrastructures. I can understand the bitterness.
Show HN: Researchers identify molecule that can kill cancer cells
This is going to create a public internet free for everyone to use. But will hate speech be banned from this public-option internet? Sanders is going to spend 150b on this...I don't want Russian hackers and Neo Nazis benefit from the public's money
You're right that I shouldn't have used the 40 hours in my first most as it isn't an apples to apples comparison. The fact remains though that in comparison people in first world countries today have much more time that doesn't have to be spent on productive tasks then people in most of history. Cooking food list in your example took much more time in the past, and cars require much less maintenance then a car.
I too have had my water or power shut off for my opinions.
Remember that the journalist who exposed the panama papers was killed in a car bomb.
I think where "estuary" was used the correct term might have been "mouth", i.e. a river gets to the sea through a delta or estuary mouth.

I am not confident enough with English to be sure though.
Upvote for the solderless breadboard.

Was a time when people actually had boards for bread, and kids swiped them to pound nails into, the which to solder wires from tube sockets and coils onto. No tubes, no coils, no bread, but still the same thing.

The holes to poke wires into are weirdly reminiscent of the tube sockets.
edited my reply between you posting the comment.
Yes, we should try to learn from our failures, but this article overlooks the very real emotional and economic damage that can happen to early-stage founders and employees (and their families/friends). Even when trying to view failures as learning opportunities.

Source: I've been a part of many early stage startups, am working on one right now, and have many close friends who have done the same.
Labor costs have changed dramatically since then. We couldn’t build the New York Subway at today’s prices, for example.
Indeed, huge amounts of JavaScript that’s already out there does not come with a free software license. The FSF has been complaining about this for years.

As for debugging, this is not a particularly hard or fundamental problem. It’s basically solved already.

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2019/12/webassembl...
WebAssembly 1.0 Becomes a W3C Recommendation
Image recognition needs no storage or retrieval of data: it's a single pass thru a series of matrix multiplications. Yet, image recognition is the very definition of data processing.
A couple counterpoints: first, sustainable profit in general happens when you serve your customers well. If you don't satisfy your customers, you don't make money — at least for long. The perverse incentive structures you mention are largely the result of unwise legislation and regulation.

Second, there's a real moral difference between the voluntary association among people in business and the coercive foundation of government. One is built on people wanting to trade value for value, and the other is built on armed military, police, and jailers. I would rather promote the former, even if it sometimes would be more efficient on the surface to force people to cooperate.
only if you think that europe is eu, which it is not
Ken Kocienda's book "Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs" has more details about the Safari team's evaluation of Mozilla code and KHTML. Ken was engineer #2 on the Safari team.
BuildZoom (YC W13), a better way to remodel, is hiring salespeople in Scottsdale
> Flanery was careful not to give Kashi hints with her body language, so Kashi’s imitation abilities seemed credible.

I dont wish to question someone's expertise in their field, but as a reader this is a dramatic jump without explanation or demonstration. Trusting this assumption seems like a major need for the primary point of the article.
What do you think the market is aside from the cumulative actions of all of the individuals in the economy such as workers (voters) and businesses?

Why do you believe workers/voters were able to demand a higher minimum wage 50 years ago? I explained what I think changed, I'm curious to know your thoughts.
I’d add a latency maximum too, which would be low enough to disqualify wireless connections. A fiber circuit to each home is the minimum I would accept.
The website is working under heavy load but holy cow is it not optimal. A 32mb webpage with 17mb of just javascript? Is this the power of a mature wordpress site?

Im not a no script person, but this page murdered my 4 year old mobile phone.
Even if we don't lose the HTML-centered model, we are probably going to lose control of our browsers. Eventually somebody is going to ship a product that's nothing more than a browser implemented in WASM that runs inside your browser. The "inner browser" won't have content filtering, privacy controls, DOM inspector, or a Javascript debugger (for the Javascript engine running on the "inner browser") that you can interact with. You'll have to agree to let them run arbitrary code on your machine to even view the "website". There will be no "browse w/o Javascript" option in that future.

The kind of jerks who liked adding Javascript to block right-clicking, blocking "Paste" into password fields, etc, are going to absolutely love using the browser-in-a-browser product to deliver their "website".

For the inevitable replies: Yes-- you can already do this with minified Javascript. WASM, being targeted for performance, is just going to make this kind of asshattery faster.
I wasn't aware that DoH was currently being touted for authoritative servers as well. So, comparing the best possible adoptions of each protocol to each other on their unique strengths:

1. DNSSEC (with clients doing full recursive lookups, ofc) is able to have zones signed off of the authoritative server, meaning a compromise of the authoritative server isn't an attack point.

2. With the client performing full recursive lookups themselves, DoH provides partial query privacy.

3. With the client delegating to a trusted third party (eg Mozilla), DoH provides full query privacy modulo that trusted third party (the TTP can break both privacy and integrity)

Comparing (2) to (1) I do see your argument much better now.

However, DNSSEC still has the property of E2E validation that can be used for more than what current software does. One could write a resolver that shipped records laterally between peers to extend its privacy properties beyond either DoH setup. Adopting this wouldn't require all the authoritative servers to get on board, just a community of end-users. This is where my argument is coming from, especially with DoH meaning (3) to most users and the general course of what happens to trusted third parties.
> Meanwhile here I am running around with js off by default. Most of the internet still works.

Just wait 5 more years that 80% of the web switch to React / Vue / TheNewHypeSPAFramework and with or without WASM, you will be unable to browse "js off".

The blame here is not on WASM but on the abuse of client side rendering and "everything as an App" when most page are just barely interactive documents.

The Web succeeded where Flash / ActiveX / JavaApplet / Sliverlight failed because:

- it was open

- it was document oriented.

And that we tend to forget a bit too easily about it.
Browsers really have to be a lot more skeptical about the code they run. Running code should not be able to randomly attack any IP address on the internet. Code from non-TLS pages should not be able to run at all. Perhaps that should also apply to code loaded from 3rd party sites.

Connecting to a web page should not be consent to allow the operators of that web page to make my computer/phone do whatever they want on the net. It certainly should not be consent to delegate that power to others, either via a embedded link or a MITM attack.
Except that's not what's happening here, unless your claim is they compromised baidu and Qihoo 360 and both don't care to fix it.

baidu and Qihoo 360 are massive companies. Serving the stuff either means they are doing it deliberately (on behalf of the government), or an active MITM is doing it, which given the scale can only mean ISP and ergo (since this is China) government level. The active MITM seems plausible since a) only unencrypted http traffic gets injected (so far), and b) the Chinese government wouldn't want to put the onus on two of their most important internet companies alone.
GM, LG to Spend $2.3B on Venture to Make Electric-Car Batteries
I'm not trying to argue whether or not an RV or a cheap house is going to be less expensive, a question I am not interested in. It's in disputing the assertion that you can't afford a home and transportation for less than $25k and the idea that your only choice is an expensive inner city apartment, a mcmansion, or a van.
GitHub is a near monopolist. Several large projects like Python have been moved to GitHub under eager participation of Microsoft employees.

Open source is no longer free, so we do not have a choice.
There's a nice video "WebAssembly In Action" here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKHuEkmsx3M
Why ISOC sold .ORG to VCs
To me this seems like a special case of the Vieta formulas (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vieta%27s_formulas) which in my case I learned in highschool
to some extent, such a map would almost have to have fractal complexity. I can identify neighborhoods in my midatlantic city that fit into several different "nations".
That whole thing reads like the "we buy ugly houses" ads I see all over town.
Privacy is half the point of an ad blocker. I don’t think it’s ridiculous to enforce privacy constraints on something that ostensibly protects your privacy.
I feel like a lot of drivers I've encountered (in NYC) are relatively aggressive towards pedestrians & cyclists.

Cyclists shouldn't be on the sidewalk (unless they're kids <8 years old I believe).

As to bicyclists being ticketed... unfortunately, yes. I've been ticketed and a number of friends have been ticketed. There have been a number of anti-cycling initiatives recently (follow @bikesnobnyc to see the level of it, with some snark)
> It also means code executing in WASM cannot interact with the surrounding page, which means it isn't a JavaScript replacement.

It can do so via JavaScript glue for now, but there was spec proposals to allow direct access to the DOM.
Starlink or TMobile ISP is a prerequiste for building a house where we want to build. Hopefully nobody buys the lot before we do!
It's a Wordpress site so it should scale fine assuming they clicked on the right payment plan.
Europeans tend to credit the EU/EEC for the peace, but as an American, I find that totally implausible. The peace was because Europe was divided into two vassal regions and the actual superpowers decided not to go to war because of MAD. Now that the Cold War is over, we've already had a series of wars in the Balkans and various wars in the Russian periphery. True, France and Germany have taken a break from fighting each other for a long-ish stretch, but I think that trend would continue even with a Frexit because it's mostly built on memories of how bad the last two wars were.
Shameless self-promotion: I was learning about Neural Networks and found the diagrams lacking, so I made a project of visualizing one. Posted a teaser-clip of the project to instagram here:

https://www.instagram.com/p/B4EchudFiTe/?igshid=cuf9ozx0cpc7

Description in the caption, but the gist is that I created a 3D representation of the canonical handwriting recognizer, using Swift and Apple’s Metal framework for rendering.
What ended up happening with Verizon in NY?
Man what I wouldn't give to read a blog post on what Prashanth is doing differently.
* crylaughs in Russian, Chinese, Venezuelan Spanish, Cuban Spanish, North Korean, and Cambodian
What would happen if we black hole all of china's IP range from all over the USA?

I suspect that a lot of businesses would flex muscle on both sides to get that to stop really quickly.

It would be a hard policy to implement on our side, but likely very effective. Its almost like we need someone in power smart enough to ASK telco's and carriers to DO such a thing.
Signing a petition is legal too?
As a side note to the letter, it's interesting to watch how pull requests are used to add signatures in alphabetical order. That's actually a really interesting exercise to watch.
I've never installed chrome unless I had to to test and fix a bug in it. I always use ff except on my android phone. By the second out third click ff crashed on my android phone. It makes me so sad that I can't use it on my phone.

It makes me so happy that people are finally realizing how evil Google is and pushing to end them.

They are so bad.
You can make generalizations about Europe. Most of the EU population lives in just five countries: the UK, France, Germany, Spain, and Italy. The US has faster internet than all of them, although Spain is pulling ahead in a couple of recent surveys.
it's totally off-topic to the discussion of this thread, but that 'cheap food' is cheap very much in part to government subsidies, already.

if subsidies weren't already being used by those supplying the food, entire businesses and families would fail. 'feeding the nation' isn't all that profitable without subsidies, from most angles.

so, I guess my point is that 'we'll stop supplying you with cheap food' is a hollow threat, given that the cheap food is over-produced and under-valued for the sake of an artificial economy that's largely enforced and legislated by 'citydwellers'. Most of the motivation to supply food is drawn from the incentives provided by the few in legislative power, not from profit nor moral imperative from 'rural-livers'.
Consider drone autopilot. Probably too heavy to run AI onboard. But latency needs probably single digit ms. So pop in a 5G card and this would solve that problem. (Though what to do when connection blacks out is a completely different problem).
That's correct. They do show the Ubuntu build on the "About" section.
«Honestly, who gives a shit?» -> Good question, I think you'll find list of people who give a shit in the link.
> Are we really so incapable of cooperation that we need tax men, followed by armed police, to ensure that businesses serve the customers who pay them?

Empirically, the answer seems to "yes", at least in the USA.

Hospitals and insurance companies, higher education, private prisons, private companies operating water systems, drug companies, local internet monopolies, all seem to have a business model of stepping right up to the line of outright defrauding their customers, occasionally crossing that line, and constantly finding ways to avoid competing with each other and extracting more money from their customers for worse quality and service.

We have given the "free market" plenty of opportunities to provide improving quality at lower prices (the mantra of capitalist ideology), but in many of the most important markets, it has completely failed.
Surely you can't be equating boycotting a company with "subverting the US legal system". What am I missing here?
That is awful. Hope that FB steps up and fixes this.
When I read "living wage" I parse it very literally. It sounds like something close to "capable of purchasing just enough food calories for one person to live." It certainly would not afford you luxuries like having children.

I'm sure that's not what most people are intending to communicate, but I think that's a good starting point to demonstrate how meaningless the phrase "living wage" really is.
I think you're being overly cynical, and thereby missing the point, which is that we conflate all 'kinds' of failures together. When you decide to spend your time and money on something like a company you learn very quickly to disambiguate "I failed to do X, but I learned Y, and I can keep going" from "I have failed to do the things I set out to do, fundamentally, and I am defeated".

And you might imagine the latter is "Your company failed" but it probably isn't. My goal isn't to start a company, it's to do good work and gain experience in this world, work with new people, etc, and if the company goes under that is a very different kind of failure. Really, the only failure scenario, for me personally, would be to give up.
The constitution does not give the government the power to appropriate funds for infrastructure. But hey, that never stopped power hungry megalonmaniacs from wasting tax payer dollars.
Amazon’s inexpensive Eero mesh Wi-Fi kit is shockingly good
Those spots are not prone to frostbite, since the "coldness" gets distributed through the rest of the body very quickly (apologies for playing a little fast and loose with thermodynamics there). This is why they're used in the first place to cool the person quickly.
> If you don't satisfy your customers, you don't make money — at least for long.

Unless you have a monopoly or a cartel or capture government regulation of your industry.
Every business or municipality which has tried to go against the corrupt titans and their legion of lobbyists and bought-and-paid for congresspeople have failed at this.

Musk may have the technical ability here, but he does not possess the political ability.

Inversely, Bernie wants to get the political ability, but will not have the technical ability.

Just because Musk has starlink doesn't mean Congress won't pass a law that cleverly neuters his project in the United States to ensure that established monopolies and duopolies aren't hurt. It doesn't mean that former employees of broadband companies who fully control the regulators won't intervene on behalf of their former (and future) employer.

It's not as simple as flick a switch and turn it on, these services are heavily regulated and as we see with the current american government, it's very easy for corporations like Comcast to get former high level employees like Ajit Pai put into charge of the entire regulatory scheme, with vast power to protect established corporate interests and destroy all competition be it business or local government.

I would go so far as to say that if Donald Trump is re-elected and the regulatory capture of the FCC continues, Musk is doomed to failure. Comcast, Verizon et al has pwned the FCC, and currently the federal broadband regulators exist as a tool to protect corporate interests.
That's a good point. I was more thinking in response to the conventional idea that there is a 'race to the bottom' when it comes to corporate taxes - which rests on the idea that a corporation operating in a given country is inherently good, no matter whether they pay taxes or not.

In general, though, I would argue simply that regardless of the specific tax revenue figures, if a company doesn't pay taxes, they get free access to a lot of services other people have to pay for. That is in essence a subsidy. There's no compelling reason why the public should subsidize a private concern.

This goes double for a competitive marketplace, where companies that aren't subsidized in this way will suffer (and have suffered - try competing with amazon on price while paying taxes!)
You can use prepared statements: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-prepare.html
You are recommending voting reform for Hong Kong local district elections based on having studied the issue for, what, thirty seconds?
It's a binary format originally based on minified JS, with a standard textual form, and which can be viewed and debugged with exactly the same tools (and ease) as minified JS.
> In the US, patients should go to urgent care for minor health issues that are unlikely to require a fully outfitted trauma and surgical unit

Just looked up the one near to my hotel. Closes 6PM. Not much use at 2330.
When people with wealth and power talk about "liberty," they pretty much always mean their liberty to control others without the oversight of a central government. When the senate assassinated Caesar, they weren't trying to preserve freedom for the plebs—they were trying to preserve the republic that gave them, the privileged few, power over everyone else. Most of the Magna Carta was about protecting the barons from a king who might try to take away too much power. Present-day conservatives and right-libertarians will use the word "liberty" to mean "private property."
Super evil Corp is evil but this one feature is overrides all that so I choose them.

Really? That's not true. That's not why. That is not worth it. That math does not work out.
Sure, but if somebody made > terminate URIs properly in one of the forks, it might osmose into HN. One can dream. You can tell that they're still using the same broken code that is in the old ARC distribution.
Indeed, and it's entire spaghetti/duck-taped eco system including: babel, react, vue, angular, typescript, name it. Can't wait for that day..
In Nepal, you are taught around the sixth grade that you can solve ax^2 + bx + c = 0 by splitting b into m and n such that mn = ac and m + n = b ( or m -n = b, if a and c have opposing signs). This "discovery" the author claims and some other corollaries were quite commonly known.

I find it absurd and, frankly, laughable that this is being heralded as something new!
Thank you for posting here, and I'm sorry your first outing had to be a battle with people making silly accusations.
I'd like to point out that the industries you enumerate as serving the customers the worst are the most highly regulated. Is it possible that government intervention contributes to their poor quality and high prices?
As long as it works in all weather, I agree Starink is superior to digging trenches. But if Internet goes out during storms, especially multi-day winter storms, then rural/distant areas would be better off with DSL or Fiber, even ignoring the bandwith or latency differences.

Also, Starlink is run by a single, private company. If anything happens to the company, do we really want a vast chunk of the country offline? At least with GPS we know they don’t need to be profitable. What if the shareholders don’t find Starlink worth it?

That being said, I can’t wait for Starlink myself!
She is trying to shoot herself in the foot by supporting minimum wage limit increase.

If minimum wage will go up to $15/hour -- her prospective employers will fire her, because it would be better to either automate her service away or just hire a more skillful worker.
I hope starlink succeeds too. That said, it is still important to fight back politically. I should help in the longer term and it also makes it clear to other industries with large monopolies that they may be next on the chopping block. They have had it easy for too long.