skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And the point is that random city, USA is statistically likely to compare favorably to random city, Nordic country you're probably referring to

I take it you've never been to "random Nordic city" then.

In stark contrast to "random town USA", not a single person is without healthcare without paying directly for it, everyone can have unemployment money if they need it, everyone has had (or can have) free university education, etc. etc.
Works fine for me in Chrome stable on Linux, Mac, Windows and Safari iOS, Mac.

I also tried scrolling a number of different ways - with autoscrolling, mousewheel, page up/down and arrow keys.

All of the machines I tried it on are 4-5 years old except for my iPhone which came out in 2017.
Helping mandarin learners practice the tones in their own time without the need for a private tutor to correct them. Record yourself speaking in-browser, and get instant feedback: pitch contour and what tone that sounded like.
Any feedback welcome!
If I recall that story correctly, this manual wasn't simply the result of working out math, like an artillery firing manual; it was the result of empirical experimentation with no known pattern to it. The resulting trips certainly took them well across the universe and IIRC they weren't even entirely sure they were in the "same" universe because they were so far away they'd never correlated two known locations before.
> I think that's a great set of choices. I wish more webware were organized like that

Agreed. This is the way forward for most software monetization (in case of web applications): Have a FOSS licensed application, where you can pay for a hosted version. I think this is a fair model where you pretty much outsource devops for the software to the company who builds it.

If you want to self-host it (maybe legal or security reasons), you can do that without cost or hire their consultants in helping you doing that.
I've listen to some of these
https://www.manning.com/liveaudio-landing
and there are some glitches like some code snippets not being read. The books were not designed for audio so sometimes it is try but you can learn something.

Some of these (maybe all?) are available on audible as well.
Well, as some other people pointed out, it's for a green card, not a visa. Posting an ad in the local paper is likely a legal requirement to go through the process. So, yeah, why would they spend any more on doing it than necessary?

But if you actually are old enough to have looked for jobs or anything else in a physical newspaper, that kind of writing is typical of want ads in the classifieds. It's not some special thing Apple is doing to prevent people from understanding the ad. Almost every ad that size is written like that.
Kind of an interesting thing to exhibit when the book never actually mentions the type of motorcycle he is riding.
I'm bistellar: I love both Star Wars and Star Trek!
If you don’t mind me asking, which parts feel like nonsense? I hear this from people trained in philosophy every so often, but haven’t really seen anyone lay it out yet. They often just kinda say what you said.
I looked through these, but it seems none of them makes use of Javascript.
I'm a jazz musician, but learned improvisation on the bandstand. It was certainly "learning the hard way," and I'm not sure I recommend it.

I think one reason for needing practice is that in either of those areas, you're going to suck for a long time before you get good at it. Maybe this is true of writing too. The academic environment is a place where you can get that kind of practice.
The missing piece seems to be some way to ensure the apprentice sticks around once they become valuable. If they are immediately poached with a high salary you can't afford to pay, you get nothing for your troubles of teaching them.
That's what makes PhD work a good example I think, because a low-paid job that can be quite abusive describes apprenticeship very well. It's Inherently reflective of the quality of the master. If the master is an abusive drunk, the apprentice is going to have a bad time. Also the apprentices historically had to do much grunt work like (in blacksmithing, to choose a profession) churning out nails. Produce or perish.

I think there are advantages to bringing back parts of apprenticeship, but it is not a system without flaws or weaknesses.
A year or so ago my sister took a dna test. Some other family members have also taken the test. The results showed an inconsistency in mitochondrial dna. My sister had a different kind than our cousins.

When she first found out she could only find 2 explanations. A super rare, basically impossible, random mutation or my sister and cousins had different female ancestors.

My sister hoped for number 2. She imagined our grandpa having an affair that resulted in our mom. To avoid shame our grandma raised the love-child as her own. my sister and I have always felt out of place so this would certainly explain everything.

Turns out the dna test is just not great at distinguishing mitochondrial dna.
It's probably okay with this thing but in general don't do this. "wget totallynotmalware.exe; totallynotmalware.exe".

Note to self: if I wanted to distribute Java malware to the HN crowd this is exactly how I would do it: write a minimalist, nerdy topic that requires an applet to run, knowing that my audience will happily find a work-around, like the above.
I took a copy with me to USAF Basic Training in 1975, where of course, I couldn't read it. Found it in the Lackland library. Kept me sane during those weeks. It still shapes my thinking today. My first bike was a 305 Scrambler, the off road version of Persig's Honda.
Every person has a very small set of books that may be deserving of our time for a second, third, or fourth read.

Without reference to the specific work: pick it up and see if it speaks to you still, if it doesn’t - life is short, move on.

With reference to ZAMM: if you haven’t already, you may get more out of reading the Phaedrus, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, and The Birth of Tragedy (trans. Kauffman) than a re-read of ZAMM
My dad was an IT manager back in the 1980s, for a Fortune 500 company. He said it was a common end-run around certain compliance requirements. Like, if they had a candidate that they knew they wanted to hire for a position, but that required a public posting to ensure that hiring, in general, was fair to everyone, they would post the opening in the classified section of the Wall Street Journal, knowing that no one in their right mind would look there for job postings.
I'm not cstross, but you could check out Greg Egan. He's got a number of stories set in universes that don't even have the same number of dimensions as ours (4 spatial dimensions, zero time dimensions, or 2 spatial dimensions, 2 time dimensions), where this deeply matters and directly impacts the plots, and all the mathematics is deeply worked out for these sorts of universes and also impacts the plot. See, for instance, https://www.gregegan.net/DICHRONAUTS/DICHRONAUTS.html , and all the pages it links to. And that's just an example, there are some "lighter weight" ones that under normal circumstances would still be considered fairly "heavy", just not as heavy as literally working out how General Relativity works in different numbers of dimensions for the story.

His politics I would estimate as reasonably similar to the HN gestalt.
Fakespot weeds out fake reviews
The marketing is very impressive indeed, I won't argue against that. I can only think of Angular 1.0 as an equally impressive feat of advertising (I totally bought into that - for a while).

But logically, what you suggest implies that either generics aren't absolutely needed, and shouldn't be in Go, or it's absolutely needed, and Go has been lacking them for a long time.
What You Need to Know About New Zealand
Software Engineering Daily

Manager Tools

Selfish plug: Launching in 2020 one about working with big data & the challenges that come with it.
https://techatscale.com
Going 100% Green Will Pay for Itself in Seven Years, Study Finds
Oh what a nice concept, "malicious compliance". It's nice that it takes into account the intent as well.

I'd say the way google et al manage taxes is also malicious compliance. Technically everything is fine, but this level of taxation is clearly not the intention.
Of course, it's the law. Then they can say there's nobody to fill those positions and get more H1B slaves that just do the needful. In government it's how they steal taxpayer dollars. Ask Pelosi and Maxine.
You don't see what's changed since 1970s?
Funny Dog Compilation
Show HN: I built a newsletter that sends you cheap weekend trips from your city
Recipes can't be copyrighted and are basically undifferentiated. I suspect the resulting strategy is to try to hook you with the commentary, so that you like or relate to the author, making future visits more likely.

The relevant metrics would be things like returning visitors, not necessarily time on site or clicks on "mute".
Yeah too much liberalism. I tune it all out.
The original Jeep was designed in 14 hours.

> The war was under way in Europe, so the Army's need was urgent and demanding. Bids were to be received by July 22, a span of just eleven days. Manufacturers were given 49 days to submit their first prototype and 75 days for completion of 70 test vehicles.

> Probst turned down Bantam initially, but agreed to work without pay after an Army request and began work on July 17, 1940.[39]

> Probst laid out full design drawings for the Bantam prototype, known as the Bantam Reconnaissance Car, or BRC, in just two days, and worked up a cost estimate the next day. Bantam's bid was submitted, complete with blueprints, on July 22.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willys_MB
I'm not. In fact, I posit the opposite, that one enabler of individuality is through community support, as it means that "the individual is stronger against the state, market forces, etc."

That said, some self-sufficiency is required too. Someone that has to yield to all kinds of powers to survive because they're not self-sufficient, can't ascertain their individuality either.
It also helps with higher contrast and larger text
> Hasn't been my experience at all - in fact I haven't noticed a relationship between quality and price of textbooks in either direction.

Maybe gp was referring to cheaper “international editions” available for certain popular texts. I heard they intentionally add errors to the cheaper editions (or at least shuffle exercises to make students’ lives miserable if their instructors assign textbook problems).
>industrialization can be off-putting to those who would pursue a life of aesthetic and artistic beauty. He advocates for balance, suggesting that one can both explore the metaphysical qualities of life and stay connected to the more grounded functions of the machines we build. The book explores the concept of “quality” as a measure of a good life.

AFAIK most people are just after money, instant gratification and egoism(1).

1 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happiness_economics
Most research on happiness suggests it's linked to socioeconomic status relative to your peers, not absolute socioeconomic status.
What's particularly nice is if you can plug in a classifier for things like esthetics based on human ratings, along the lines of 'learning from human preferences' https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.08593 but better - why spend the enormous effort running PPO to brute force the classifier to obtain desired text or image output, when you can just backprop through it and let the classifier itself tell you how exactly to improve the inputs?

(I was writing up this idea as a proposal for improving preference learning at https://www.gwern.net/GPT-2-preference-learning#optimization... based on my experiences idly waiting for PPO to run and being annoyed by the divergences, and then Uber just... blogs it out. Like a madman.)
New Study by Mark Z. Jacobson: Global Green Grid Pays for Itself in 7 Years
Lots of boilerplate and error-prone code can also be avoided by implementing `drop` on relevant types, this can yield to pretty interesting APIs in the web space.
RaptorJIT seems doesn't care about compatibility.
Yes!

1. Masters of Doom
2. Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
We use perl to power some web services that have been running a long time. It’s a work horse.

I’m ok with it but it is hard to read, I think because there are so many ways to do everything. it takes a bit to get used to some of the syntax ($@~). I was told my perl was very c like during a review.

It’s great for text manipulation though.

I just remember Rasmus (of php) talking about how he always expected any language to take over php but perl made some design decisions that made it unpalatable to hosting providers.

It’s still my go to for processing large text files.
Incorrect: https://biblehub.com/matthew/5-17.htm
Figure out all the things I need to read and summarise it for me... tab switching, reading, skimming take up a lot of my time

Many channels on slack + email threads + conversations on DMs
Pirsig figured it out. He didn't have a perfect way to pass on the ideas, but he made a definite advance in metaphysics and ethics, and we're still chewing on his insights today.

Pirsig wrote only two books, and this, the first book, is the more important of the two to the typical layperson.
I believe GitHub will show a changes since last review view after you review code, new changes are added, and then you return. What software are you using?
Musk and SpaceX Starlink Plans Creating an Astronomical Emergency
Why is it incredible simply to do something fast? China is not a model to emulate. They throw a massive number of people on projects, pays them next to nothing (neither when they are maimed, nor to their families in case of death), and allow them hardly any time off. Wherever they're employed, it's not uncommon for Chinese men, and women, to only see their family 1-2 times a year.
Another title could be something like: "...and the art (quality and values) of human experience with technology"
I’m fortunate to have a great screened in porch to work from in summer. (I live in the northern US so much to cold from late fall to late spring to work out there).

My favorite thing is when I’m on a call and someone asks if they are hearing birds! It’s just wonderful being in the fresh air.
... and go to jail for stealing patient data and break HIPAA laws. Nice thought experiment, though.
Good point, a reduction in cost of typesetting, and transferring of information during production of books should mean the costs have gone down
It‘s not about acceptance, but about the law. German law mandates every business to accept the legal tender which is Euro notes and coins.
In addition to what james_s_taylar said, another one is that you have to watch how the tables are structured internally, because for some databases having a table that writes a lot of rows and deletes them all very quickly is pessimal usage. You can get a table that fills up with tombstones internally. I've seen cases where it literally takes seconds to pull a single message off the queue from an otherwise unloaded server, because the act of "SELECT * FROM messages LIMIT 1" requires a huge table scan across a whole bunch of tombstones, which can be very frustrating to diagnose since it looks like the table is nearly empty.

I have an application at work I have to use (not something I wrote) based on an old version of Postgres that was experiencing this until quite recently when they upgraded, and I'm still not 100% sure that it's fixed because it hasn't been enough time. (I do expect it to be fixed, though.)

The aforementioned Cassandra is pretty much catastrophic in this use case, from what I've seen; I didn't try to use it as a message queue, all I did was write some unit testing that involved adding some test records during the test and removing them, then running a whole bunch of other tests that would add records to the same primary key and remove them, simply to clean up for the subsequent tests, a very similar pattern as using a table as an event queue from the database's point of view even though we humans see that as quite different, and I very quickly noticed my tests were running noticeably slower every execution, on scales that compared to what Cassandra can nominally handle were very, very tiny. For the testing, I found I could use TRUNCATE, which tells Cassandra "Hey, I'm not just happening to delete every row in this table, I'm actively nuking it, so please clear it out", resulting in Cassandra completely wiping the table tombstones and all, which was fine for this unit test case where they run synchronously relative to each other and I have clear points where I can say "just throw the table away now, tombstones and all", but that's completely unsuitable for an event queue use.

Somewhat ironically, you sometimes want the more "primitive" table types for this use care. IIRC there was a time when if you were using MySQL, you'd want to use a MyISAM-type table for the queue table, because it pretty much works as you expect and deleted rows are actually deleted and gone, but InnoDB used the "higher performance" tombstone-based approach, which is must faster, as long as deletes are relatively rare, but much slower if they aren't. Know your DBs!
I agree. I want something like this that:

(1) is a native mobile/desktop app instead of web-first, because there’s no reason my most personal stuff should be available globally

(2) stores data in a REALLY open format like JSON or YAML, because I want maximum interoperability and minimum but rot

(3) synchronizes across devices using generic file sync tools like Dropbox, google drive, or One Drive, because all my other stuff is in there and they’re as secure as anything gets

(4) runs anywhere without administrator privileges or special run times, because I want to be able to use it at work

(5) federated the data store so I can have a single view into personal, professional and proprietary information, while storing and sharing them appropriately to the sensitivity of the data.
this is one of my favorite (bc it is pretty harmless) cases of regulations failing spectacularly: the reason the companies do this is that it is a legal requirement for H1B visas. the idea, IIUC, is that before giving the job to an immigrant, the company should do a proper search to fill the position with an american candidate. what happens instead is that the companies make no additional effort to find american candidates after they've decided to sponsor the H1B (largely because that's just not how the hiring pipelines work), and instead everyone wastes time and effort "complying" with the requirements that law has for a proper search.
It feels like this article is trying to create a narrative based on the authors agenda. As if to say, if we can’t get Facebook to change let’s attack the reputations of the executives.
>in developed societies, markets have replaced the social dependency on each other because people want to be more individualistic

In developed societies markets have replaced the social dependency on each other through legislation, gunpower, and policies that closed down communal ways of living and forced people to seek (much worse) work in towns and factories -- often against much protest from the people subjected to that. Further laws made small scale production impossible or near, and mass production mandatory. And much later (around the '30s or so) followed advertising and other means to expand this even more through constant low-intensity brainwashing.

In the process people became less individualistic -- often confined for hours on end to the same cubicle, to come back home exhausted from some meaningless commute, in a meaningless job.

This confuses individualistic with isolated.
>But these are the exceptions that confirm the rule

I don't think this expression makes any sense. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exception_that_proves_the_rule...
This is true. Virtualbox is a pig pretty much everywhere.

Veertu used to ship Veertu Desktop (using Hypervisor.framework, and able to ship via the App Store) and claimed to be supporting vagrant at some point, but then they changed approach completely and focus purely on virtualising macOS for CI build environments now.

Personally I always use either VMware Fusion or Parallels with vagrant anyway (well unless I'm debugging some weird vagrant/vbox issue for someone else).

It'd be nice to have an actively maintained provider that's backed by the built-in framework, but the only one I'm aware of stopped development 3+ years ago.
Filing a lawsuit can be quite profitable for the lawyers involved.

What's preventing someone from trying to extract $3M in settlement money from a rich company that doesn't want its reputation tarnished in a long running discrimination lawsuit?

And $3M is a lot of money that lawyers would eagerly represent someone that has an evidence of discrimination.
Kernigan didn't! The number of little languages he made is astounding.
Most of the route is through extremely rugged mountainous terrain, not tundra, and developing a roadbed that can survive -70 F winters is a lot more involved than "piling dirt into a shape"

I traveled it before was paved, and it was, and is, a true engineering marvel.
Who pays the lowest taxes in the US?
How often is Jira up to date for you? I've often seen that standup can be a chance for folks to realize they didn't update a task. We'd have Jira open and just do live updates to sync it.
Ideally there should be a full-feaured free version which would only ask for money if you use it actively for a prolonged period of time. Perhaps I could like it but having to invest (whatever a sum of money) immediately before I try it and find it useful I am hardly going to bother trying. Simple time-limited trials like sign-up and have one month free also don't work - I usually sign-up/install and forget and when I actually fell like let's try it it's already expired.
As opposed to ads and BAT, which are facilitated whether or not an article turns out to be click bait?

"Coins" would be a manual process. If something is clickbaity, then you don't have to insert a coin.
Tests such as this or genetic testing should be allowed to be taken anonymously. Otherwise you run the risk of paying increased insurance premiums for the rest of your life.
I clicked on the story precisely to find out what it was! 1966 Honda Super Hawk if anyone's curious.
In my opinion Akira got nothing "wrong", because it is clearly more a supernatural dystopia than a science-fiction world.

First, the manga and the anime were both based on the immediate destruction of Tokyo — 1982 for the manga, 1988 for the anime. A new megalopolis called Neo-Tokyo is built over, and the story starts, in 2019.

Then the main theme, the psychic powers induced by drugs, are more akin to the genres of horror, fantastic and superheroes than to the science-fiction genre.
I played back the teacher's recording as a test but it said I was wrong
This line of reasoning never made sense to me because there's plenty of stuff in the language that isn't absolutely needed, such as the various special syntax for certain concurrency constructs.
The value of my university was the interdisciplinary parts, forcing me to get exposed to things I would have ignored.

I think the application of computer science aficionados to ethics, biology, sound production or many other electives increases the mindshare and cross drift

Most of this is irrelevant to the private sector at static point in time. So the sheet of paper saying I went there and the brand is all icing on the cake.

No, it isn't a necessary credential to contribute to companies needing to build things with code. That was not always clear and may not be clear in the future.
Finding files seems like we'd have found a good solution by now. What software do you use?