skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> C# and Java are slower to compile

Not for any meaningful work in my experience. As a matter of fact, I found the change/compile/run loop in golang to be slower on projects I've been working on due to the fact that it doesn't support incremental compilation, so any change I make ends up recompiling the entire program and writing out a 100+MB binary anyway. Compared to a Scala project I worked on before (and Scala is notorious for slow compiles), after the first compilation, all modifications happen very quickly as only the respective classes are re-compiled.

> Here's Uncle Bob take on testing with Go

Again, this doesn't apply for any non-trivial/large project. On a project I'm working on, it literally takes 7-8 minutes to do a clean build + run all unit tests in golang.
I had the opposite experience, I needed a refund on a purchase. Revolut was immediately on the case and issued a refund (in BTC, moreover) in less than 48 hours including the time required to check what I was arguing about.
And with the support chat I never really had issues thus far, with neither Revolut or N26.

Similar situation with UniCredit (of the largest banks in Italy) and it took me ages, was really close to give up. On top of that, their email support is pretty trash...
> Similarly, the stealth fighter was in operation for 20 years before the public knew about it.

Wouldn't it look just like an unusual plane to a naked eye observer?
Gravity might have extra dimensions on a much larger scale than that, potentially up to the millimeter scale or so.
I’d love to hear more stories like this
Another system like this is BYOND [0] (which stands for "Build Your Own Net Dream".) I think it started in 2001.

It has a number of problems, but there are a few games with fairly active communities that are built on top of BYOND, like Space Station 13. [1]

[0]: http://www.byond.com/
[1]: https://spacestation13.com/
It's owned by booking holdings (formerly called Priceline group). Booking.com is owned by the same group. They're being operated as fairly independent companies just as Agoda, opentable and Priceline.com are.
That seems like false causality to me. If you or I made a really cool drone that could move that fast and be a major breakthrough in inertia, velocity and acceleration, would you bench it for 40years until you could make it invisible or would you test it out?
There is an implementation of Haskell for the JVM[1], although I don't know how much its implementation has in common with the techniques discussed in this thesis.

[1]: https://eta-lang.org/
>Does this work differently than calling the front desk? I tried that a few times over the years and never got a price improvement over the online brokers or the hotel website itself.

That depends (now) from a lot of factors and until not so long ago the contract with booking.com didn't allow to publicize lower prices than what was on the booking.com site.

But it depends also on the hotel (how it is organized, if it is a chain, etc.).

Think at the front desk employee as an unsupervised/lazy employee of a largish organization.

You book through booking.com, it means less work for him/her and no change in his/her pay (but less revenue for the hotel).

I have had more than once conversations on the telephone with the front desk of an hotel, where they just told me to "go book online".

If I have no time I simply choose another hotel, if I have some spare time I call again and talk to the director about the matter.

Now think at the front desk employee as someone that has an interest in the income of the hotel (directly or indirectly) , the amount of work is the same (as there is not any "web reservation center" or the like) whether your booking is made by means of booking.com or directly (at the telephone and possibly with a confirmation e-mail) and he/she has the possibility to increase - even if slightly - the income of the company.
It sounds like you might only need temporal tables and not the whole complication of _bi_temporal tables.

If you just need to get data at a point in time, you only need to store (so called) application-time. If you need to handle both a “created date” and “effective date” type scenario, then you’ll need bitemporality.
There are expensive outfits that deliver piles of shit too.

https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2016/09/post_183.html
The object was allegedly tracked by ground-based radar
> programmed in C++ with bits of C, Objective-C, Java and PHP

I am very curious how and why this happened
What was the feature? I'm a lifetime Feedly Pro user and haven't heard of it.
There's many measures of environmental impact, some good, some less so, some that try to be wide ranging others more focused. One of the oldest is Earth Overshoot Day which imperfectly marks the point each year, that we pass the earth's ability to recover what we have used that year. Or that we go into ecological debt each year if you prefer. We've been running a debt, and accelerating its growth since the seventies.

It gets earlier nearly every year. This year was July 29th. In 1987 it was October 23rd. So right now we need 1.7 earths to sustainably supply what we are taking.

This measure focuses on renewable resources. Our point of non-sustainability may worsen markedly if we include non-renewable resources and other forms of pollution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Overshoot_Day
Also worth noting it is pretty disturbing, especially if you love animals. But definitely worth watching.
Maybe they don't care if we see them?
Same here: I don't get what this is supposed to do after reading the page and I also disable resolvconf so it doesn't get constantly overwritten when I make manual changes. Would be nice if this is some sort of system that can find a middle way, but it doesn't seem to be explained.
> No.

Yes.

> You can't "not count" major version upgrades because that's how you make "pay once" actually work.

Pixelmator. Affinity. Again. Also Panic. Final Cut. Motion. Logic. SiteSucker. Unarchiver.

I paid literally once for them years ago and they're still getting substantial updates and I'm still getting the latest version on every machine, without having to do anything except sign into my App Store account.

Panic even let you receive updates for Coda after they took it off the App Store!

The majority of apps I use are pay-once. The majority of games I play are pay-once. The next most common model is yearly-upgrade (Parallels, CrossOver, Path Finder) or sequel/expansion, but even they do not prevent me from using their older versions if I choose to (system compatibility notwithstanding.)

> That's a hack, which I mentioned in an other comment: the appstore has no support for this model

Yet they are all there on the App Store. I have been using Acorn for years and I was able to choose when to upgrade and I always did. I can still access the older versions; the App Store itself shows them to me in my history. They can still publish the older versions if they wanted to.

> loss of history, reviews, links

New reviews for a new version is how it has always worked for all apps on the App Store, and how it should be, considering how updates sometimes piss users off. Keeping the same history/ratings/reviews across all versions is vulnerable to baits-and-switches.

As for links, again taking Acorn as an example, whenever a new version was available, the older versions mentioned it in an alert and on their product pages.
OK, could we please ask - did you access the website before we made the changes? If so - have you tried clearing your browser cache?
Used to find the superclass of a type, surely?
all that's left is to hook in audio files so we can review code in arnold's voice
Indeed, I'm annoyed by the tactics but in Europe it just has the widest selection and best prices. I always cross check with hotels.com, but that is more expensive almost without fail.
That post (mine) was either posted in a very confused state or the opening line is simply misstated, since, as others have noted, even the quoted text implies the opposite!
Cross Site Scripting in 2020? PART(1)
You would need to estimate mass before you could estimate energy. Any idea how you'd do that?
All good points, but there are other reasons to store images in the DB.

One is making it much easier to copy graphs of data, e.g copying an account with a bunch of attached users, widgets and their images.

When everything's in the DB this is just "insert into ... Select from".
When images are held in e.g s3 this gets an order of magnitude harder.
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Joe Rogan did a great Podcast with one of the pilots in this incident:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eco2s3-0zsQ

Here's a short clip from it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnIG-i2WCfg

He's really knowledgeable, has a ton of flight experience and carefully details everything his and the other pilots see from their aircraft.
I find this inspiring. As I am looking to start my own community driven project, I can only hope that I can find enough people that share my vision.
Well, you don’t get what you don’t pay for, in any case.
Exactly. Hence the suggestion. Just watch the Taiwanese stuff.

I've found close to nothing culturally worthwhile from the mainland.

Edit: actually, now that I think about it... I could never find anything when I was outside the mainland but I went there for a 3 month business trip one time and I signed up to various local services (Spotify / Netflix equivalents) and there f;r the first time I felt I had access to a decent amount of content I enjoyed.
Neither of those assumptions were implicit in the statement. The keto diet is simply evidence that glucose elimination is possible for some people without an inpatient treatment. The context of this discussion is glucose elimination for cancer, not weight loss.
If you want to try working on unfashionable problems, one of the best places to look is fields that people think have already been fully explored: essays, Lisp, venture funding – you may notice a pattern here.

Do people really think the fields of essays, LISP or venture funding are fully explored?
Here is a stock agreement template to get you started. It has some language which attempts to provide limitation of liability, but your particular state may have specific language or case law which you'd be better speaking to a lawyer about.

https://www.docracy.com/6285/independent-developer-or-contra...

As for finding good contractors, that is arguably the real challenge. You can do this yourself, or work with a recruitment agency. In either case, you tend to get what you pay for -- especially with contractors, where you are not necessarily going to be providing training, as in the case of an employee.

If you choose to forgo using a recruitment agency, there are many places you can look for developers, LinkedIn being a good place to start. You can either post a job opening there, or actively search for and contact potential candidates (this is the typical domain of a recruiter -- a dog eat dog world.)

PS. This may sound obvious, but please don't expect to treat a contractor like an employee. In general, a contractor gets to decide when, where, and how the job gets done. If you expect to micromanage your project, then you should consider hiring an employee. The exception to this would be if you contract through an agency, in which case your "contractor" is really "someone else's employee."
Yep. We send drone deep into the ocean. To an Orca this is magical technology that isn't trying to cloak it's self.
The latter isn't free speech solely because there is no financial sale. It's free speech also because there's no entity that can really regulate the speech. And for politics, I think it's also fair for a party to come out with whatever views it wants. People should not be restricted in what kind of politics they are allowed to choose to run the country.

As far as political ads go, if something is a 'strategic lie'^, it's down to other campaigns to expose it as a lie. This comes down to point (1) of what I mentioned in my previous response; if we want to ban campaigns from spreading 'lies' there has to be a regulatory to decide what speech is and is not allowed on the basis of truth.

One possible solution is to have an incredibly independent branch of Congress do it, and any decision to reject an ad should be in public record with reasoning. But if this decision to reject was 'incorrect', exposure to the political content has been lost (the record of this branch won't nearly be as popular in access). There's too much subjectivity in the process by nature.

^: It's easier to censor blatant lies vs strategic lies. e.g. if you pull a figure out of thin air it's easier for any regulator to get away with saying it's a blatant lie and dishonest (eg: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49701027). But many political ads are not such 'blatant lies', they're 'strategic lies'. They bend a fact (eg Vote Leave's bending of UK financial contributions to EU), or have a 'strategic' interpretation of something (deliberate misinterpretation to your advantage of a possibly vague statement of another politician), and they're usually worded 'strategically' to stay in a gray area. To regulate stuff like this is incredibly controversial because you're in a gray area of free speech.

The idea is that any person should be able to say anything and get their idea across to people, then it's up for people to determine whether they agree, disagree, or if they find it true or false.

If politics worked perfectly this would work without regulation. Other parties would expose it as a lie (or better yet, people do their research themselves) and people should care that a party is lying and hence it would count against the lying party. But since politics today sucks and people would stick with party through lies and deceit it doesn't seem to be working as well in practice.
Thanks for sharing, that’s very interesting! Are Lisp and/or Prolog used in a lot of projects in the public sector in Österreich? From what I’ve heard, many (most?) projects at BRZ use Java or C# stacks.
One thing you have to figure out is if you want to contract freelancers directly (or through a recruiter), or work with a software development agency who can provide you with a full team and also offer other services like project management or hosting. See e.g. https://www.quora.com/Is-a-software-agency-or-an-individual-...
Kyle Vogt (Cruise) Keynote – MIT AI Conference 2019
I thought maybe the poster was talking about the SR-71, but it too didn't stay classified for very long.
Gov.uk content should be published in HTML and not PDF (2018)
“If you logged into our network through social media we also have access to portions of your public social profile, such as your name, email address, and photo.“

Obvious in hindsight, but the profile picture is probably a goldmine for targeted advertising. Not sure if anybody does that but using that for age estimation would probably be way more accurate than the guesses I’ve seen implicitly (lots of ads like “people in <age group> love this product”) and explicitly.
I use Brave and OpenVPN on a cloud server. I tested my privacy with this https://privacy.net/analyzer/ ... Strangely, it said I was logged in to twitter, facebook and reddit when I'm not logged in to any of them. I don't even have a twitter account.
Agree. It is also a good reason for having multidisciplinary interests so we might have different ideas for looking for very different solutions to problems.
My guess would have been accenture. Oracle's practices arent far off.
Assuming you are a techie:

Find a few you like and hire each to work with you on a small task. Perhaps a screen share session.

Working with someone for a few hours will give you a lot of insight into who they are and what they can do.
Technology is the application of scientific knowledge, so you've got a tautology there. That said: Capacitance Electronic Disc.
After I get paid I split my money into two accounts - the first account is a discretionary account that I will use to live off for two weeks. I can spend this money on whatever and it is meant to be exhausted. The second account I keep a buffer (for me that means $2000) and I pay any bills I have. Any excess over $2000 goes into index funds.
> Unfortunatelly there is still no way to run CI file locally which is major turn down.

You can run CI files locally. Just install a GitLab runner and run it through the command line.
> The real challenge is that those employees tend to fly under the radar. The people quietly doing the important work and shipping things that Just Work can be overshadowed by bombastic, highly opinionated “rockstar” engineers. Founders need to be willing to let those rockstars go when they no longer benefit the company, no matter how good their coding skills might be in isolation. A coordinated team of mediocre but diligent engineers will run circles around a chaotic team of rockstars competing against each other.

So much this. The bombastic Rockstars not only create unnecessary ego driven political fights that are distractions to a business delivering value, but on the occasions they do deliver, it’s often not what was promised. But their social skills (or privilege) allow them to cruise through failures.

Whereas a team of devs that work well together that are hungry to learn, willing to have an open minded conversation about systems, that deliver consistently: they are what really keep the business from falling apart.
I'd say a major factor is the removal of the human factor when conducting business. Automation makes it possible to push a large part of the responsibility to the customer. Just imagine standing in front of a person in a travel agency saying the same things to you as the booking.com website says; "I can offer you a discount because you're such a valuable customer to us, but you need to book within 2 minutes or I'll remove the discount!".
I wasn’t sure what to expect from that link, but it’s actually a really cool bit of educated speculation.

> A device based upon this principle would make a really exquisite radar spoofing tool. The ionized plasma would give a good radar return, giving targeting radars something else to lock on to, instead of incoming aircraft. The ability to project an object of apparent solidity to enemy radar, instantly manipulatable, would be a most valuable little toy to have in your bag of tricks.
somewhat buried in the helpfile is context (pasted below). Seems to be based on Tim Sweeney’s first attempt at gamedev, a text editor in Pascal that he turned into a game called ZZT[1]. Users could create their own games with the scripting language. MegaZeux is an offshoot.

Overview of MegaZeux

...

As you may already know, MegaZeux is a game system which
allows you to play almost limitless worlds with
dated-yet-charming graphics and with excellent digitized music
and sound. Not only are there several MZX worlds out there
already, but new worlds are being uploaded to large websites
like DigitalMZX. However, the best feature of MegaZeux is the
World Editor.

Using the World Editor, ANYONE can create the world of their
dreams. Make it as simple or complex (well, almost), as easy
or difficult, as long or short as you please. We aren't just
talking about worlds made up of petty, pre-programmed enemies
and objects; MegaZeux has its own, easy-to-use PROGRAMMING
LANGUAGE called Robotic that allows you to create objects,
engines and worlds that do almost anything you desire. Not only
can you make your own game with the editor, but every world
MegaZeux can play can be opened in the editor. Take a look at
how other games tick!

For the newest user, it's recommended that you play Caverns,
the first ever MegaZeux game, to get the feel of simple yet
well-designed games in MegaZeux. You may wish to read the help
section entitled "Controls" to learn how to play MegaZeux.

If you're more adventurous, start with a more complex game like
Demon Earth or Bernard the Bard, or a prettier game like & or
Fritz Blitz to see what kind of graphics functions, bells and
whistles MZX can offer.

Once you have the feel for the game, feel free to dive into the
World Editor and get messy! You should probably read the help
section entitled "The World Editor" first.

To go to one of these sections now, hit Enter after aligning
the arrows with one of these choices. Press ESC now to exit to
the game.

[1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZZT
Facebook tells users Islamophobic posts meet its community standards
Bit of a tangent, but you can pipe email newsletters into an RSS feed.
Your liberty ends where it impacts others, which is where extreme libertarianism has to stop and we start creating laws. Your freedom to pollute ends when it poisons someone else, etc.

As to your point about third world countries, as we saw from reporting of the COP25 the other week, it is the poor (third world) countries complaining not enough is being done. It is the wealthier nations who are being difficult.
Is this the first PG essay that was composed on Twitter?

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1183686114844069888
That is daydreaming.
I know I'm late to the party, but I can highly recommend the Bogleheads philosophy [1] and community/forum. They have a wonderful set of videos that explain how to build an emergency fund, and how to invest in a tax efficient manner.

I've been following their philosophy for a while and it's been nothing but positive and very hands off:

- Emergency fund in a BofA account

- Schwab account with a lazy 4 fund portfolio [2]

- 401k with company match

- I am also working towards financial independence (FIRE), see [3]

[1] https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Getting_started

[2] https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Lazy_portfolios

[3] https://reddit.com/r/financialindependence
Yep, I was going to mention that podcast. They have a camera pod that can literally just track fast moving objects visually (probably uses computer vision stuff internally). He also mentions how the camera pods can switch between standard, IR and a few other modes. The IR didn't show any heat large heat sources, which you'd see on a commercial jet liner or fighter jet.
At any rate don't pay for what you didn't get.
How to scale training on multiple GPUs
Isn't datomic 'just' a temporal DB? Through their transactor design there's always a total order on events which removes the need for the whole "what did you see when you created this" vs. "what would you have seen if you would have had access to the entire distributed state of the system" shenanigans.
Yeah I loved that episode! I would love to see somebody who could lean against him intellectually interview him though.
The main thread is overworked & underpaid

https://developer.chrome.com/devsummit/sessions/the-main-thr...
> At least in a brick and mortar store you can be confident in the supply chain and know you're not getting some sketchy reseller from China.

Isn't this exactly what makes them so cheap?
The Perl Cookbook was great for most basic questions and Perlmonks for anything beyond that. I still miss the discussions in Perlmonks, something that Stack Overflow is missing.
I think so? They’re all expanding, of course... but none have really changed that much over the past few decades. There’s a ton more VCs than there were a decade ago, but has it really changed as a field? People tweak the formula a bit, but we haven’t seen a shift in the same way YC shifted things. To a lesser extent, pg was one of the first “tech essayists” (now it’s a genre, http://waitwho.is).

I don’t think pg is saying they’re being ignored, but rather that there’s a sense of “yup we figured it out, let’s just iterate slowly on it”.

(I will say I can think of much better examples, but I don’t blame pg for picking the three examples that sum up his entire career. He picked those three things when nobody else cared.)
No idea at all!

Maybe calculating for a range of different masses would then give a range of possible energies involved.

Your point is pretty much why I'd like to see a bunch of experts dissect this phenomena. I want to see scientific rigor applied to this, and to see what conclusions can be drawn from the data available.