skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> being able to do that with 3 or 4 keystrokes.

I get that. My point is that I decide to move that chunk of code after looking at the screen for 4 minutes so it doesn't matter if it's 3 or 4 keystrokes or 5 or 6.

Once you know your editor well, you aren't thinking about the keystrokes anyway. It becomes entirely automatic. There are lots of editor operations that I couldn't tell you what the keystrokes actually are without sitting at a keyboard and doing it.
> There is nothing illegal about what is going on now, and nothing which should be illegal about what is going on. In this context, "regulating" simply means making a behavior we didn't see coming illegal.

When we don't like they way corporate-driven markets (so... all of them, really) are developing we should attempt to change things until they develop a way we like, where "we" is any interest group. If we're not harnessing the activity of companies to the collective good, why let our democratic states charter them in the first place?
Even blogs feel a little bit stilted to me. They encourage a certain way of organizing things that is useful for RSS syndication, but at the cost of placing some fairly tight editorial limits on the person running the site.

What I really miss is what came before the blogosphere really took off: Geocities-style loosely organized collections of static pages.
We need roads to get to farms. We need terraces and irrigation ditches to manage runoff. We have plenty of land that just isn't farmable.

There is plenty of space to put up wind turbines without reducing farm land.
Not long ago I watched a tv show from Spain that wanted to make some awareness about this topic. They bought some fish and prawns and more seafood that should contain "lots of microplastics".

They took all of it to a laboratory and the laboratory found nothing at all. The presenter told the audience that it was surprising for him, and that they thought that the results were a letdown for the purpose of the documentary but that it was "good news" that we can still enjoy food without microplastics...

I would say that the results will vary vastly depending on the place you obtain the samples, but anyway, we should change our relationship with plastic...
> Btw, conferences and events are dead.

The author lost me right there.
Different Acronyms, Same Disaster: Bond Ratings Are Once Again for Sale
Yes I’m sure those fire clouds are the work of environmentalists.
I don’t expect a CEO of a startup or corp to squash bugs or submit PRs, and similarly I don’t expect a PM to literally put fires out.

I do expect him to show leadership in times of crisis, bring unity, and just ‘be there’, especially when so many volunteers are fighting the fires and his countrymen are dying and losing their homes.
> Fact is SAS and Lufthansa used to do more than the mandatory pilot training

Citation needed?
I don't think it's reasonable to say that N=1 warrants a systemic change when the N in question was a human (as opposed to a mechanical failure which is as repeatable as the components and the failure conditions are).

I don't know but I suspect United did change their training after that. The fact that the pilot reacted the way he did is as much their fault as the pilots. IMO it is a training/human factors issue, not some fundamental issue with turbulence and current following distances.
I'm not super knowledgeable on this, but like the other commenter said, if you can't define the gap it's not great. My only concern is people are looking at your resume and saying "this guy spent (about) less than a year at his first two jobs, there must be something wrong with him". Perhaps you could look to get in front of that subtlely in your cover letters though. Going heavy emphasis on the acquired bit could help. People will understand this happens with acquisitions through no fault of your own.
If we're willing to extend the discussion to microcomputer Lisps targeting machine language, I'll repost an old comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20019592 :

> There were various Z80 and MOS 6502 microcomputer Lisp implementations written back in the '80s, some commercially released at the time, some readily accessible nowadays. https://www.wisdomandwonder.com/link/3787/how-small-can-a-sc.... https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.lang.scheme/Z_2....

> (There's one that I'm horribly, horribly overdue to get back to the authors about archiving on the Internet, actually. Anyone who's based in North America and happens to have the hardware and the expertise to recover data from both 5.25" and 8" floppies in some CP/M format?)
Yes, but that takes time, and it involves the company trusting their money to a third party that is trustworthy in inverse proportion to how much tax leniency they are willing to grant.

"You can't stop us from dodging taxes so don't even try" is what they want us to believe, because if we believe it then they can dodge taxes every year without inconvenience.
Each turbine consumes a minimum of one acre of farmland, and should be offset by at least a half mile from any homes. The problem there is that there are often homes every mile in rural Iowa.
Something like this?

https://ibb.co/1dmJ1xJ
Thank you!

For interest, we also just submitted our annual report to our regulator, if you'd like to read about the first year of our parent charity https://www.kale.charity/reports
The reason the Japanese government stuck its nose in Ghosn affairs is not particularly secret: it was to prevent the merger of Renault and Nissan, and was driven by Nissan employees who felt the merger was very one-sided (all power going to France). This is what was said in Japanese media shortly after Ghosn arrest.

But that's completely orthogonal as to whether Ghosn is guilty of anything. You don't get a free pass for fraud (embezzlement in this case) just because the context is political. I'm surprised that a lot of people are mixing these two things together. There is what Ghosn did, or is accused of doing (embezzlement), and there is why anyone went in to check (prevent the Renault Nissan merger).

The US government is also well known to use its judicial branch to exert political pressure on foreign actors (see the Alstom buyout by GE). That doesn't make the fraud perpetrated by individuals somehow acceptable. But it can justify governments getting involved to prevent these individual actions having larger consequences.
Thank you for the useful tips, I'll certainly try the last one and I hadn't thought about looking for bar shampoo.

However my main issue is that there are so many hoops to jump through, and most consumers won't even get to the point of considering things like this unless these are presented as equally valid alternatives to the plastic packaged goods on their local convenience store.
The same spirit was what kept slavery viable for so long. They said abolishing slavery wasn’t practical. Many had conflicting interests, as do many here.
I used plain Sublime, but switched to VSCode with code-d plugin / dcd completion daemon.

Usually works decently unless you tinker with std library / runtime where you are mostly on your own.
> heirarchy and democracy coexist rather than being mutually exclusive

Exactly, that is my point, in the army they are exclusive though. The people lower in the hierarchy have little say in whether they trust the people upper in the hierarchy.

> Heirarchy dominates state-level organization with or without democracy, just like it does virtually all other human enterprises.

That is true, but that's my point also. Why does it dominate, if we know from our (rather limited) experience with democracy that at least on the state level, it leads to better outcomes?
well, it does seem like some insects are not as susceptible to death by artificial lighting anymore.
Why isn't the conclusion to just use the mutex at least on Linux? It seems to have both consistently low latency and great throughput. What else can you get from the spinlock?
The range of selectors we can actually affect is extremely limited. There's a vast range of selectors we can't affect. In the grand scheme of things, we've hardly made a dent. That's my point.

To back this up, at least this paper claims that the idea that natural selection is being referred inoperative in modern human populations is widely rejected by evolutionary biologists.[1] Changes in human society have actually accelerated selection for certain types of traits that we know of. For example, genes that help people deal with our increasingly unhealthy diet may be strongly selected for.

1. https://www.pnas.org/content/107/suppl_1/1787
Birds are not a major concern for wind turbines, despite popular misconceptions [1]. Avian impacts depend a lot on siting, so some wind farms see no bird deaths while others see a few.

Generally, it's worse along migratory routes, but even then it pales in comparison to other human impacts on birds. As the linked Wikipedia article states, estimates for bird deaths due to plate glass collisions are in the hundreds of millions per year in the US. By comparison, a Canadian study found an average of less than ten bird deaths per turbine per year in that country.

So, it's not zero-impact, and it's definitely something we ought to keep an eye on, but it's not nearly as bad as some people would leave you to believe. To hear the anti-wind lobby explain it, you'd imagine that wind turbines are giant spinning fan blades of death that migratory birds get sucked into and shredded in a cloud of gore. The reality is they have a bit of an impact on birds, but it's not nearly as bad as stuff we do already (like having windows on our buildings).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_wind_p...
Not to sound negative but if a junior developer can create a profitable startup and hire several employees then why he/she would go to knock doors for a job? If I can have a profitable project then I can hire a senior dev full-time or part-time to mentor/teach me. Right?
https://www.fws.gov/birds/bird-enthusiasts/threats-to-birds....

Bird deaths from windmills are less than other causes.
It doesn’t get mentioned enough: this is with the exact same filesize.
Most collision mitigations (such as git’s) revolve around using hash combined with filesize as a collision is inevitable, but a collision with the same filesize is much harder.
> Another thing he told me was not to be a know it all. One example would be when people said something and I had learned before, instead of diminishing their statement by saying I knew that, I should say something like "wow that's cool" as it makes the person feel better.

Taking this a step further, if you know the topic well you can instead say something like "I know, it's very cool isn't it? Did you also know that <related factoid>".

Delivery is important of course, with the "I know" part needing to be energetic and supportive, but I've found this approach to be an effective way to build rapport and it has lead to some really interesting discussions.
It's often like this. As an example, Wikipedia links[0] get posted frequently and, to me, it seems completely random when they will get a lot of votes. The pages that get votes don't seem to be any less interesting than the ones that do.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=wikipedia.org
First, it didn't die, it attenuated. It's still there. Even Gopher is still there.

Second, when one says, "we did nothing", well, speak for yourself, eh? Lots of people did a lot of things and are still doing them.

But the normals do not care. It's that simple: apathy and complacency (the twins demons of our New Age) and a good stiff whollop of ignorance.

(Over a billion people don't know that Facebook isn't the Internet! Chew on that.)

Meanwhile, you know who didn't lose all their content? This guy. Because backups. (Another thing normals try not to think about.)

I've been saying for years now that the world is bifurcating into Eloi and Morlocks.

This is "victim" blaming, yeah, but in this case IMO the "victims" are to blame: no one's forcing people to be Eloi. If you care about your digital shit, back it the frak up already.

(E.g. Tarsnap, Amazon Glacier, a box of DVDs!?)
> when people said something and I had learned before, instead of diminishing their statement by saying I knew that, I should say something like "wow that's cool" as it makes the person feel better.

That's really great. I'll have to pick that up.

Sounds like your dad was/is a pretty smart guy.
https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/unders...
I don't know if he's guilty or not, but he has just, single handedly, made bale for high profile indictees very difficult indeed.

He's under indictment for corruption, and fled the country using what can only be described as corrupt means, hardly an endorsement.

Compare and contrast with the treatment of Julian Assange.
> The article is just simply mistaken about the intractability, the current existence of computation at a scale it claimed would take ten thousand years shows it nicely

Well yeah, the article might be wrong about how untractable it is, but that doesn't mean it is tractable. Even when taking the minimum annual electricity consumption of the Bitcoin network (41.31TWH/yr) and assuming the Bitcoin network did all those hashes in the last year and assuming that a 2^100 attack on AES-128 exists (which it doesn't), you'll still need an absurd amount of energy just to crack a single key.

> setting parameters conservatively

My argument is that for almost all applications key lengths of 128 bits are pretty conservative. AES-128 will not be the weak link in your application, bad usage of cryptography, memory leaks, use-after-free vulnerabilities, users just doing stupid things, 0-days in your operating system of choice are all easier to exploit than cracking a single AES-128 key.

That said, you probably shouldn't use AES-128 if your threat model includes a intelligence agency 50 years into the future. In that case AES-256 will not help you either.
> I am going to go out on a stretch and say that reason he fled is that he is guilty of what he is being suspected of and not because Japan has a "rigged" legal system.

Him fleeing doesn't give you any new information on wether he is guilty or not.

If I was innocent but accused of his crimes in Japan, I would also flee, because once you are accused in Japan their is basically no way to defend yourself, you are going to get convicted no matter what, so why would anyone, guilty or not, stay?
"This is "Live, Laugh, Love" levels of pseudo-enlightenment."

It's worse than that. What they are advocating is surrounding yourself with a comforting bubble that feeds you a steady dose of pablum that confirms your existing biases. Twitter has been an extraordinary source of ignorance bubbles and has been an extremely negative force on the conveyance of accurate information.

A couple of weeks ago the GP had the top post to a story about the oceans warming, which is remarkably telling given this post. In it they casually dismissed the report of the world's scientists, paraded an ignorant counter-conclusion, and called it a day. This is straight from the AGW-denier playbook and you can see in the GP exactly how such people are made -- "Ignore what your eyes and ears are telling you. Listen to what the tiny subsection of ignorant people are pitching".

Their philosophy is how the world got "pizzagate". Where people like Jordan Peterson have cults.
Exactly. The protocol era was hijacked for profit.

I believe that incentivized, decentralized protocols are the evolution of all of this and will bring the protocol era back AND properly incentivizes participants.
Not nano meter :)
Google and other big tech companies that were doing this shady accounting stuff are sitting on the money. If they had paid taxes on it, they would just be sitting on less money and we would have a little bit more money for public programs. Public programs that are run by people that stop at Starbucks some mornings.
More murder, less middle class, people clutching to what they've got, climate issues, more hypocrisy...
That's all fine and good as long as you only build things for yourself (even then you'll have more trouble routing niche protocols and defending against hacking attempts) - but the scenery becomes extremely important once you involve others.
This article, like many on “technical writing” conflates techincal writing and writing about technology. In my estimation, they’re two different things.

Technical Writing is a profession with a massive set of practices, relatively well-prescribed goals, and a long history. It’s a discipline that has almost nothing to do with Stephen King and Strunk and White—though of course these sources might be applied. Chances are, if you were to ask an professional technical writer about resources for technical writing, they’d point you to a few text books on technical communication or papers or blog posts from people in the industry. Technical writing also has serious consequences. If a manual for a missile has mistakes, it could cost thousands of dollars or thousands of lives. Stephen King’s advice isn’t quite as helpful in such perilous situations.

Writing about technology, I think, is closer to what the author is actually pursuing here—and most tech blogs better fit this classification than technical writing. Writing about technology is more free form, more whimsical, full of opinion, intimations of possible approaches or solutions but not hardened proceedural documentation.

It might seem a bit pedantic to make such a distinction, but I would really love it if more people honored it. For instance, this article was a bit of false advertising, since I thought it’d be about technical writing in the professional sense (i.e. writing documentation) and not about writing about technology in a more casual, opinionated way. It’s similar to the distinction between programming and software engineering—they’re quite distinct pusuits, even though the tools and techniques considered overlap.
Is the competition you're referring to Pendo?

Your site looks nice. What did you use to build it?
> game engines

Game engines are already written in GCed languages. Java in particular.

You may be right that a 10ms pause is unacceptable for HFT. However, for a FPS, 10ms is more than acceptable. It translates to 1 or 2 missed frames in the worst case.

A bigger issue with using Java in particular for games is it's lack of value types. Writing high performance code for java is just that much harder because the language gets in the way.
Ask HN: How do IoT devices sync in real time with the cloud?
The piles of dead Bald Eagles lying around are off putting
Carbon monoxide from the fires very visible right now on Windy: https://www.windy.com/-CO-concentration-cosc?cosc,-16.636,13...

(with China looking like its usual, humdrum Mordor self)
You forgot another vector of how companies monetize user data: using it to train ML models.

You don't need to keep the data long-term (though it would be more profitable if you could). You can still get a lot of value using the data to train an ML model, then use that model to build valuable decision-making systems, which few other companies could produce.
Time for buzzfeed to experience ego-death and realize they're not immortal and nothing they do will be either.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ego_death
I don't find that similar at all, it feels more like torture than meditation. The bit about walking I fully agree with. I live in the mountains and love being able to walk cool trails with nothing but my thoughts
Unless we are talking about speed I think that "premature optimization" refers to readability issues with code.

I work in web development and we never had to run a profiler even once to find performance issues. "Premature optimization" was in my experience always the discussion about readability. In the JavaScript world there is always this one guy who can do things in 3 lines of code instead of using 5 methods to understand the code in 5 month again.

We called it "Perl coding" vs "standard code".
>Going to the Netherlands to buy it seems a bit of unnecessary effort.

That's because you're Canadian, an ocean away and with legal pot (from what you say). Canada is not a major source of tourism for the Netherlands.

To put it in perspective, in a year Germany had 5 million tourists to The Netherlands, UK 2.2 million, the US 1.4 million, and Canada a mere 180,000. Or compare to 17 million tourists a year from Europe alone.
All of that is practically a rounding error compared to the actual area used for crops. Seriously, look at any satellite image of a wind farm in Iowa. Swamped by 2 or 3 years of annual crop yield growth: https://ourworldindata.org/exports/average-corn-yields-in-th...
I'm starting to think the least realistic part of every disaster movie plot is when the government recognises the crisis and acts. We've literally got people sitting in boats in lakes or the sea while their towns burn around them; this in a country with well developed fire-fighting infrastructure and well trained personnel. Action now won't kick in for a decade or two, best case, but that doesn't make it any less urgent.
What's your argument against adding it then?
You're completely correct!

The absolutist position I object to is the idea that any condition on particular ways of using software, even a copyleft condition, makes the rule harmful. That's clearly not the case for rules attached to the freedom to make and share changes, to build applications from libraries or frameworks, and so on.

Share-alike rules about those kinds of uses can and have been prosocial in practice. They can be prosocial for dev tools, too. We see that every time developers make code open in order to get free code hosting, CI, coverage, and so on from SaaS companies.
Ask HN: Most convincing evidence that a US economic recession is coming in 2020?
Uh, incorrect. Resting o2 sat is 99% in most young healthy people - like aviators. In older people, or the unhealthy, you may see it start to drop due to diffusion or ventilation defects - but barring serious lung disease, neuromuscular defects, severe, severe obesity, etc. that still gives you a resting sat in the mid 90s.

There is also oxygen dissolved directly in blood rather than saturating hemoglobin, but that constitutes a tiny fraction of o2 in comparison.

Please don’t make shit up.
You could always try not using shampoo. A shampoo is good occasionally, but you really don't need to strip your hair of oils every single day.
Won't be piles unless you're collecting them from all across the country.

https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/may...

> Smallwood says about 100 eagles die each year due to impacts with the spinning blades on windmills.

> "Mr. Trump could not have arrived at his number (hundreds and hundreds) from any reliable source, unless he is referring to all eagles killed by industrial-scale wind turbines since they were installed in the early 1980s," Smallwood said. "Cumulatively over time, there have been hundreds of eagles killed, probably about 2,000."

The article goes on to say that larger, more modern turbines are more carefully sited to avoid eagle deaths, and that it's working.
A new account looking for other places with geo political discussion? I am becoming more cautious about how freely I share some knowledge.
I live in the Des Moines metro and most of the turbines are in rural areas, so I can't really speak to living around them.

As for the few turbines in the urban areas, they're completely unnoticable. They're silent and just blend into the background.

The only thing I could maybe see as annoying is the red flashing lights they use to help aircraft see them at night. The flashing is at least synchronized so there isn't a constant twinkling effect.
Starbucks also used similar (the same?) tax loopholes... https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-starbucks-tax/spe...
I think that's an extreme position. Instead of that, why not delay all news articles by few days or a week. Anything mostly noise will be gone and any important issue will still be broadcasted few days or weeks later.
This is correct. And it is alcohol’s direct action in the brain that causes impairment.