skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. But I don't think we'll get there without some people being willing to do the extra work to get the trail blazed.

My city cut down on plastic bag usage considerably by introducing a $0.07 excise tax on every disposable grocery bag, but I don't think that would have been politically tenable if there weren't already a lot of people using reusable bags.

Plastic packaged goods, I don't know. . . I almost wish that some organization would launch a big campaign against Trader Joe's to get them to reduce their packaging use. It's going to be really hard to convince a bodega to stop selling packaged goods, for all sorts of reasons. But Trader Joes has enough control over their supply chain to do it. Their clientele is bobo enough to maybe be a bit easier to get on a bandwagon. They individually shrink wrap the broccoli, so they're a pretty easy target. And they're popular enough that a successful campaign could have a big cultural impact.
I guess nothing it's illegal if you are not prosecuted/convicted for the said activities. Not even if you are a war criminal (see the recent Trump saga).
The tax rules are confusing and complex enough so that only the wealthy can benefit(i.e. use loopholes).
That's astonishing, then, that you weren't aware that wind farms share land with productive farms just fine.

I live on a planet and consume food. My family has rural acreage in Wisconsin, too, but that's irrelevant. Privilege doesn't have to stop the ability to think critically.

That you're lobbying to make wind harder to deploy doesn't give you better moral or intellectual clarity, here...
Property tax is supposed to capture public good usage.
It took me a while, but I think I have it: choose a month of the year in the blue table and read only the column pertaining to that month. The column has seven days within it and the first day in the column matches the first day of that month; then, increment each day and date until reaching the maximum for the month and proceed to the next month in its matching column. Never move right to left in the blue month table as if moving through a standard calendar's format; only loop through the column for the current month from top to bottom.
Companies are creations of the state. We should do with them what we think most valuable and likely to create the best environment. This may, and probably does, include permitting them a wide variety of liberties and privileges.

> > democratic states

> Speak for yourself buddy. I live in a Constitutional Republic, not a democracy.

FYI the colloquial usage of "democratic" or "democracy" is also the way actual political scientists use it when dealing in generalities of this sort, so splitting this straw is not some I'm-better-educated-on-this-than-you "gotcha", and signals the opposite of what you're intending.
Affordable housing and homeless shelters are two different things.

I doubt homeless shelters produce this effect on existing home prices.

And yes, telling a hard working middle class family with kids to just declare bankruptcy and move on is a big deal and worth examining the impact before you create policies that make that a real possibility.
Right now we are back in medieval times, might makes right. If you have the power, you can create charges, evidence and flay some culprit like in the olden days.

The whole lawsaying is by now the equivalent of some medieval peasant justifying witch burnings by stating that "In a world ruled by god, god would intervene against evil, thus she was evil. This the law.."

Its just talking, to lower the mental load of the dis-sonance of thought and reality. This whole set of affairs lately, this is what civilisational downfall looks like.

Im sure, all those cooperate warlords have done no wrong, to have such powers.
That’s like one of their senior engineer / manager compensation. That’s literally nothing to them.
Does 'RUN'ning a program keep global variables and the like around (like CHAIN)? If not, then those pieces of code are self-contained and could be replaced gradually by something saner.
I have the same issue on openSUSE Leap 15 - it's not Windows specific. I've found that the number of tabs doesn't matter too much - if I copy the URL of the non-loading tab, close the tab, open a new one and paste the URL there, it will load around 9/10 times (if it doesn't, third time is always the charm).

Drove me nuts enough that I switched to Brave for a bit as my main driver, but I've been experiencing some crashing from it recently and I miss my bookmark keywords, so I might go back.
You might check out the ClassicCmp (http://www.classiccmp.org/) or Vintage Computer Foundation (http://vcfed.org/wp/) mailing lists. There are folks on there with extensive expertise and equipment for recovering and archiving data.
IMO part of this is that nuanced processing is actually a very expensive operation and people would be unable to function without some level of abstraction- language as in all things. That's why, for example, Jeff Vandermeer writes in his Wonderbook that each author has a "thorn", something that bugs them and compels them to write and explore infinite nuances of the topic of their focus.
Don't read anything into the six month review time: it's perfectly normal.

In fact, we've waited longer than that for a single set of reviews (ugh) and it's rare for anything to be accepted straightaway. Most papers go through the review-revise cycle at least once, even at the journal where they're ultimately accepted. This also doesn't indicate much about the quality of the research. Reviewers can flag serious problems, but they may also just want improvements to the writing (more details/discussion) or complementary experiments.

It's hard to check the numbers from the press release stuff. I swear I saw at <5mm somewhere too. I would bet the underlying studies are a morass of different definitions and methods, and I'd expect that a major contribution of the paper is to find some clever way to combine them.
This is a terrible article and tries to make something out of nothing.

we’re supposed to shed a tear because AOL died? Is that really a version of the internet that we wanted anyway?
Business BASIC was all the rage in the 1970s, especially for small to medium-sized businesses, and for good reason. It provided business functions like forms and database access in a manner that was much, much easier to work with than the dominant business language of the time, COBOL. It also had sophisticated programming constructs. For example, while it didn't have structured exception handling like Java, it did have Go-style mandatory error handling; every command that performed I/O had to be passed, as required parameters, the line numbers of where to branch under various error conditions.

Both BASIS and ProvideX are based on Java and provide rather thorough JVM integration. The languages themselves also haven't remained stagnant; they have approximate feature parity with Visual Basic. Both are derived from the MAI Basic Four dialect that was popular in the 1970s.

And yes, some large complicated business software, including the MAS 90 and MAS 200 accounting systems, was built using Basic Four. Porting such a complicated code base would be cost-prohibitive compared to porting the Basic Four dialect of Business BASIC to new environments and just running it as is -- so Business BASIC is COBOL-like in that regard also.
Mike Bloomberg pledges to make the White House an open office
Nothing, nothing! OP is not from the future if that's what you're implying.
Very nicely packaged to not sound to negative about google.

Google saying: we have done nothing illegal

Yeah, that's not the point. The point is that normal people can't afford to dodge taxes like google (and others) so they are not happy about it.
The UX on the old Internet was terrible, and I remember a solid generation of veteran users telling newbies to RTFM instead of either putting the hard work in to educate or improve the UX of the toolchain so education was less necessary (work that is hard because it is less about understanding the code and more about understanding how users think and why they don't think like the developer of the protocol or application).

Average users who don't have the time to understand IPs, sockets, or authentication schemas have been served by companies willing to shoulder the burden of relieving them of those special-knowledge requirements.
LOL, you guys have a really sensitive "climate denial sensor". I am about as critical of ignorant consumerism as it gets. For example I do not think millions of people need to travel >200 miles a day. But I am also aware that reducing consumerism is associated with a risk of mass unemployment and social unrest. Nonetheless I desire context. It's just my need as a nerd to get the full picture rather than "look at this scary context-less number".
I wish you good luck. I was in your place couple of years ago. The only way out of this situation is to apply. As from the other post that you have had somebody has already mentioned, you probably did not have many opportunities due to holiday window. I suggest you double down and start applying and interviewing from Jan 2020. Trust me, this is just a number game. And as others have said, nobody is not 100% sure how to properly interview a candidate or find a great developer.
Why can't we build them nearer to the population centers with high energy demands, then? Why not build them on vacant land near big cities?

There is a lot of prime wind farms land on the hills east and southwest and northwest of the Bay Area. There is a lot of vacant land in the hills above Los Angeles. The Olympic peninsula and western slopes of the Cascades have plenty of room for wind farms to serve Seattle. Same on the east coast: Cape Cod actually had a proposed wind farm that was stopped by the moneyed interests that live there, but that could supply Boston with all the power they need.

What is the answer for not pursuing those areas?
Honest Government Ad nailed it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sitPeRlTdNs
How would you compare Database Internals to Designing Data Intensive Applications?

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Data-Intensive-Applications...
It's fires there too, actually. It is the middle of dry season right now for central Africa.

Windy also has an "Active fires" layer: https://www.windy.com/-Show---add-more-layers/overlays?fires...

(but the pollution layers are often more fun, and more revealing)

which I think is data from Copernicus, but I'm not sure what the data is exactly.
I watched his Master Class and at no point does he even mention getting it right as a goal. His writing tips are only about making it interesting, memorable and shareable.

IMO, he's breaking the Spiderman rule of morality, "With great power comes great responsibility."

He's putting out intellectual versions of fraudulent ear worms without any sense of responsibility.
I use VS Code or Sublime Text 3 (just syntax highlighting and command line compilation) but wish there was either a D based official editor (a la DrRacket for Racket or IDLE for Python, which are simple but good enough) and that somebody at JetBrains would adopt and maintain one of the Dlang plugins. I would even be okay with Walter Bright (or anyone in the D community) taking one of his Emacs implementations in D and giving it a GUI with menu options for people who don't know Emacs keybindings and letting the community take over, an officially supported editor would be healthy.

I almost exclusively code with JetBrains IDEs for almost every other language, especially Go. The way GoLand feels handcrafted for Go is phenomenal for me.

I've also used Spacemacs for D but Emacs is always hit or miss for me to setup Spacemacs so I gave up on Emacs, too much overhead, if I have to go beyond the install steps given by Spacemacs to make it work, it's not worth my time period.
I pass six on my way to work (10 miles) and mostly just think they are helpful for knowing the wind conditions.
> I think Knuth was referring specifically...

We don't have to speculate, the paper is online[1] and he is very explicit about what he meant.

The paper is, in fact, an ode to optimisation and the necessity of optimisation, including, very specifically, micro-optimisation. The "root of all evil..." part is a "yes, but". You actually have to leave out much of the actual sentence in order to strip it of its meaning:

"We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time, premature optimization is the root of all evil."

If that wasn't clear, the very next sentence is as follows:

"Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%"

A little later in the paper:

"The conventional wisdom [..] calls for ignoring efficiency in the small; but I believe this is simply an overreaction [..] In established engineering disciplines a 12% improvement, easily obtained, is never considered marginal; and I believe the same viewpoint should prevail in software engineering."

[1] https://www.cs.sjsu.edu/~mak/CS185C/KnuthStructuredProgrammi...
>We probably don't want (and Boeing doesn't want) to make 737 Max certification have a "Physical strength check"

Actually, I think they absolutely should. And then it should be made illegal to have a plane that has any such requirements, so these planes should be deemed unairworthy, and Boeing should be forced to scrap them. Either that, or female pilots should be able to claim discrimination, and every female or otherwise not-strong-enough pilot should get a free lifelong chief pilot salary as part of the settlement.

Basically, this plane should never have been built. It's a 1960s design, and because of crappy regulations that allowed this, Boeing kept making this 1960s tech because it was "grandfathered". Newly-built planes should not be allowed just because they were OK 50 years ago, when they aren't good enough according to modern standards.
Playlistor(https://playlistor.io) -- A simple Apple Music to Spotify playlist converter.
A term for "hacking finance" (because it is more about setting up the infrastructure to support a found exploit) is actually financial engineering.
(I see what you're doing.)

This was about a decade ago. Not sure if it's still being used, but I think it may be, at least in one country.

Obviously, what I worried about was: The same technical solution could then be sold by less scrupulous sales people to less democratic countries and then misused badly.

I made sure there were a number of undocumented steps involved in setting up LI that couldn't be done without involving me or one trusted developer directly.

It was also purposefully architected to handle a scale of wiretapping of about 1 in 10000 people nationwide.

That 1:10000 ratio was the the ratio I got "off-the-record" from someone in the first western customer country. I was okay with that ratio, given that the country was democratic.

To clarify: I took pains to make sure that the mechanism could only be used to extract a fraction of the traffic flowing through our hardware, and that the selectors had to be preselected in a pretty meticulous way.

Basically I spent a bunch of time to make sure to deliver the exact minimum of that what the country's government requested. There was never any pushback. I think our counterpart in this case was legimitely just trying to solve crime, as opposed to performing passive mass surveillance/recording.

My main point here is that LI can make sense, if it is done done at small scale. Manual work needs to be involved. It needs to be a little cumbersome.
New Year Greetings from Vernadsky Station Team [video]
Younger generations have indeed been brainwashed into believing in climate change.
Java Cloud Development
I've been really itching to move my Java development environment to the cloud. I'm super tired of having multiple computers/laptops with multiple local envs, and carrying a laptop to and from work.

What I'd like is to just have this all on a cloud host. I've been experimenting with running on an aws ec2 instance (with VNC) but its not going well (super slow). I've also seen cool setups for javascript, but nothing for java..

Do any of you do this? Any thoughts or ideas?

Thanx!
They are sharply on the rise.
I get that you are being intentionally condescending and obtuse here, but you were talking about 'the end of Moore's' law, which only talks about transistor density increases in addition to cost, and both of those are still increasing. Clock speeds, instructions per clock, cache, latency, prefetching, out of order execution and many other aspects of CPU performance were not the trend Gordon Moore outlined. You are conflating things that stem from transistor density with Moore's Law.
Is this some kind of trickle-down taxes meme? The employees and customers did not pay those taxes. They pay taxes, but not those taxes.
September 1993 Internet use shows the silliness of the idea of the death of the old Internet. In 1993, "...the World Wide Web, has seen the number of daily queries explode from almost 100,000 requests in June to almost 400,000 in October"

https://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/03/business/business-technol...

There are now over 4.5 billion Internet users. If even 0.002% of them make just one daily query on the web of the "old Internet," then it's still larger than the web before the Eternal September. Protocols like IRC and Gopher are more active today than late 1993.

It's true that data moving through centralized services is larger today, but that doesn't invalidate the continued life of the "old Internet" any more than the relative domination of analog communications over copper wires in 1993 meant the Internet was dead back then.
There are public bathrooms downtown. If you ever have to use the ones at pike place market...

Whenever I go downtown, even the semi-public restrooms in the store are constantly used by the homeless (making it difficult for other people to use, another reason not to go downtown), so they have that also.

But they still poop in the parks because it is closer to their tents, what can you do?

I worked in downtown in the 90s at palace where the homeless would hang out at night (3rd and pine McDonalds), and it wasn’t so bad back then that people would avoid going downtown. Now its just depressing and stores are moving out (eg the iconic Macy’s is going to become an amazon office building probably).
I always wonder this about other subjects and wish there were better guides listing the topics one needs to know — and how to learn them. Since I know a bit of CS, I’ll try to do my part here.

In college, I found this lecture series to be an excellent supplement to my autonama and formal languages course. I haven’t watched the whole thing, but it should check your “theory of computation” box. The lecturer is fantastic and thorough.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL601FC994BDD963E4

The prerequisites for this should be discrete math, but to be honest, depending on how comfortable you are with math in general, you could probably skip it and look things up as needed.

Another person to look into is Scott Young who taught himself the MIT CS curriculum in a year. His book Ultralearning is excellent and contains many tips that would help with self-studying CS. Unless you just want to dive into the content, Ultralearning would actually be my first recommendation before learning CS fundamentals.
Which is more likely to end the suburban madness: land war / security breakdown or carbon tax?
Cryptocurrency is freedom from intermediary interference. That's not a big deal in the US, but in some countries people can't even have bank accounts.
I would argue that Knuth is particularly bad for _learning_ CS.

(Based on my experience as CS undergrad and grad student later)
>It's sad to say, but "we" as people who enjoyed the old internet or felt compelled to build and contribute to it are a tiny minority of internet users today. We are a niche

That's not sad, actually, it's great. Being upset about that is like being upset that too many people use telephones who've never operated a switchboard or know morse code.

The internet (or at least the web) was never meant to be a niche redoubt only for nerds and programmers, it's supposed to be for everyone. The old hacker ethos was about liberating humanity from censorship and centralized control of access to information and communication, but now that that vision is actually coming to pass (kind of) people are complaining about how the normies ruined.

Fie. Fie, I say.

Also, almost everyone from the 'old internet' is watching Youtube and using social media as well. Your implication that everyone using social media is only doing so for entertainment or a dopamine rush is inaccurate. There are more hardcore, old school nerds on the modern web than there ever were on the old web.

>People who are just looking for entertainment or social dopamine think the old internet is "boring" or "looks dumb".

Nobody says that. Your can stuff your sorries into a sack, sir or madam.
No list, it's at your doctor's discretion. There are also online/remote doctors that you "visit" via facetime/skype/whatever that will just write you a prescription.
Sounds just like the popular book Atomic habits, is it different?
The dates in a row correspond to the days beneath a month in the same row.

EG the 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th of January, April, and July all fall on Wednesday.

Or, May 18th is a Tuesday.
I think the idea is this:

1. On the left under "Dates" are the consecutive days of the month if you read column by column (of course not every month has 31 days).

2. The rows represent intervals of a week (hence each square is previous + 7).

3. Look first at the top left cell with June and Monday. That lines up with the days of the month 1, 8, 15, 22, 29. That's because those are all the Mondays of June.

4. Next row (same column) shows similar: The Tuesdays of June are 2, 9, 16, etc.

So you can start with any month (the columns) and look at the first row underneath to see which day of the week the month starts on and then follow the dates from there using the above logic.
I think the ones in the middle of Australia are large scale mining operations. There are no cities there and no forests either.

The African ones probably are probably mines too.
Most bald eagles in Iowa apparently nest near the Mississippi, not out in the middle of the state.
Those low emission zones popping up all over the place in Europe are reminiscent of tolls people had to pay to enter cities.
When you do the research, you discover that wind is not the panacea it has been portrayed to be. Building and placing turbines is not carbon neutral, the cleanup costs of decommissioned turbines are completely ignored because they are 40 years out, and they are not very profitable without subsidies. There are better alternatives that are less destructive to the environment.

This also ignores the other part of my original comment, which was to build turbines nearer to population centers. Why aren't the hills east of Oakland and southwest of SV filled with wind turbines?
This is the sort of thing where video would probably work better. For the most part, you probably need to be at a certain level of skill before you could easily pick up a new cooking skill be just reading about it and trying it. (That's probably generally true of most things that have a strong physical component.)
Carbonate-rich lake solution to phosphate problem of the origin of life
You are literally advocating for at-will employment here, which says noone cares if you're genuinely or politically incompetent and will be fired all the same.
Pretty good article about the bird problem:
https://www.audubon.org/news/will-wind-turbines-ever-be-safe...
If you tax a corporation the employees suffer, but not the billions of profits? Hm, sounds far fetched.
I don't understand this in the slightest (compared to other joke languages like brainfk) - can anyone explain?
It's kind of ironic that code used for proprietary purposes is open-sourced.

Thank you for open-sourcing it.

However, I hope I will never use this (or any such similar) piece of code.
I can read and understand the words you are wrote but I cannot discern a purpose behind writing them. Is it just random trivia?