skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it rare? That's not good to hear. It's certainly how I used to try to operate.
Lisp, Smalltalk, Dylan, JavaScript prove otherwise regarding performance of dynamic languages.

The problem is that projects like PyPy remain on the sidelines, instead of being fully embraced by the community.
Even into the early 2000s, when I used to visit Moscow more regularly, dollars were preferred for many transactions. Is this still the case? It's been a long time since my last trip there.
I get the feeling it was originally printed like that.

The issue was an APL special - this link has download links for every article from it - IBM Systems Journal volume 30, issue 4 1991. Includes Iverson's A personal view of APL.

http://gen.lib.rus.ec/scimag/?journal=8991&year=1991&volume=...
The bank is in debt, by $100,000 to your friend, the creditor. Your friend called in $1,000 of that debt to pay you.
- A vast majority of "cloud security breaches" are just a small setting/toggle that's misconfigured, sometimes intentionally for testing or otherwise, and never corrected until it hits the front page of a news site.

- Imposter syndrome can be incredibly crippling. It can affect just about anyone at any senior level. Also, some have no problem taking advantage of that in others.

- Appreciation of efficient code/design can be directly correlated with how much runway exists.

- I can't say I actually like programming. I like problem-solving, and programming is a neat medium for that, but programming also includes looking and maintaining legacy code. There's often a lack of documentation and things that you expect to take X time will more likely take rand(4) * X time. That rand() can itself be randomly inclusive/exclusive of 4. It can also be another number, you'll just find out when you do.
First, the "own money" in the bank is not technically his money in the bank, but money the bank has borrowed from your friend. So the bank is in debt to your friend.

Now, in order for the bank to be able to be able to pay its debt to your friend one day, bank has assets. I.e. someone has borrowed money from the bank (e.g. mortgage), and those assets can be used/solde to pay your friend if your friend really wants the bank to settle its debts to him.

It kind of is turtles all the way down. Someone needs to be in debt for there to exist any money. Money is a really weird kind of bearer note. It just means that if you have money, you are owed some valuable goods by other people. And you are pretty free to choose who pays that debt to you from them who is willing to take that bearer note from you as a payment.

Note that debt is also how money is born. Technically everything a bank does when it adds for whatever reason money to your bank account is that it increases your balance in the database and boom, we have new money. Of course, usually banks are not stupid, and in order for them to increase their debt to you, they want something from you in exchange. Typically a promise to pay back a bit more some later day.

(As a disclaimer, money is really tricky to think through. So I give no guarantees my thinking is correct, but so far thinking money as a debt has been most useful way for me to understand it.)
You get the popups until you accidentally block the app. Since the probability for blocking accidentally is greater than zero, over time all such apps get blocked.

This might hurt for example Tile. I think their “network effect” is somewhat depending on this kind of background location tracking.
In many places (I'm thinking Scandinavia as that's where I currently live) low rise housing developments are really nice. The balance of housing and community spaces & services is important.

The 1960s high rises were trying to build vertical communities but failed vertical separation seems to matter and it was just too dense. Ironically I think the reason why the new multi-million pound high rise apartments are popular today is because of their seperation from the community.
>making the MAX behave the same as a non MAX 737

The purpose of the MCAS is to make the aircraft certifiable - full stop. The MAX is dynamically unstable, in the sense that at high angles of attack it will tend to continue increasing AOA into a stall - a terrible airframe sin which they tried to fix in software. This is the real story, not this type rating stuff.

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19695757
While there certainly are a lot of companies that don't care about your degree, there are at least as many companies that won't even look at your resume without one. It literally gets auto-filtered. (Especially with less than 5 years of experience.) And as much as I'd like to say that you don't want to work for those kinds of people anyway, in my experience it is at best loosely connected to how your day to day work life actually looks like.
Yeah, I should have said "before it processes any other fields". The ASN.1 parse of course comes first.
It probably doesn't help that women find 80% of men as ugly.
This SO covers a lot of what you will need:

> What's the best manner of implementing a social activity stream?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/202198/whats-the-best-ma...

https://buffer.com/library/facebook-news-feed-algorithm

A simple SQL example would be this:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31030818/mysql-query-for...
How do you backup your photos to your home network? Been wanting to do this for ages!
In nature, everything is free.

If you're an engineer here, you'll find something there, too.
I don't understand how the analysts could put a price tag of $300K+ on a prison rape, multiply by the number of rapes, and still conclude that it's not worth investing in prevention.
Or, you know, if their argument is that the cost of preventing a rape is less than the cost of compensating victims, why the law isn't compensating victims.
As it is, it's levying massive tax on victims of crimes.
Same for the car backup camera law. OIRA is economically incoherent, by optimizing for supposed total utilitarian benefit without any regard for who gets the benefit.
They block laws because they claim the cost to society is greater than the benefit to victims, and therefore rule that victims of catastrophes should get nothing. Under their own economic model, it's blatant theft from the poor to give to the rich.

Here's the NYT trying to be "fair and balanced", but at least linking to a critical report, and a much later Reuters article with more critical detail.

Naturally, since this malfeasance occured in the Democratic Obama administration, almost no one cared, and Twitter wasn't ablaze with complaints that Obama was killing children.

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/04/science/earth/cass-sunste...

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-regu...
Is web scraping considered reverse engineering? I have quite a few friends who do web scraping and parsing as part of their job.
> shrinking number of high-school seniors in the U.S.

What would be the reason behind this?
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This is a very common complaint, but the other side of the coin is that FDA needs resources to do its job and any time the number of submitted drugs changes the FDA would need less/more funding from congress if it was funded only by congress. Collecting fees means the size of FDA's funding is correlated with the amount of work it has to do. The proper way to determine whether FDA is unduly influenced by this is to look at the actual decisions it makes, which is something I remember reading medical researchers already tried to do.
This submission should be removed and resubmitted with a title and url.
> It's one of the socialist aspects of the UK.

Yes because building density regulations are one of the hallmarks of socialism.

Wat?
> I think that the reason why SaaS have problems all the time is that typically devs are changing stuff all the time and accidentally breaking things left and right, not that software is inherently unreliable.

While I'm sure that some developers go rogue, this feels like a business or management issue. Teams pushed to release fast and early. I wonder how often the developers in teams that release buggy software have asked for time to improve processes and legacy code, and been denied.

If developers really are going rogue and changing code on a whim without testing processes picking it up, this is still a management issue.
What would be better advice for, say, most of EU?
Direct download: http://www.academia.edu/download/36859613/Cipolla_-The_Basic...
I recently learned that Jason died in 2017 and it was incredibly sad, even though I stopped using 3dbuzz a long time ago, it was an incredible tool when I started in the VFX industry, it was affordable incredible good training.
How about something to do with race finish lines? RFID works fine if you can funnel the finishers through a small gateway but I know from my hobby of flat water kayaking that rivers and equipment can make this very difficult. Rowing and sailing will probably have the same issue. Your local running club may also struggle with identifying and ordering finishers...
If I remember correctly whales have been observed to “sing” as well. Given that sound is essentially vibration of a medium and given that noticing vibration in said medium will play a crucial role in the survival of most organisms moving in it, we can establish that some sort of “mediun-vibration-sensing” should develope anywhere in the universe given the organisms move in a medium that transmits sound waves.

This “hearing” will be connected with meaning by these organisms (e.g. loud and low frequency = big, strong and dangerous, scratchy noise + potential food). That means there is already (without music) a perceptual link between sound and emotion.

On top of that the natural harmonic series should be universal, which means that other intelligent life forms could derive joy from how sounds fit together harmonically. A certain level of intelligence will inevitably lead organisms to think a lot about the (potentially dangerous) sounds in their environment and given a certain level of organization they might decide to droen these unpleasant thoughts out with other louder sounds they make on purpose. And if these louder sounds serve a societal role they will inevitably use it to tell stories, emotions or make sense of their beeing in the world or just try to forget the things that happened in their lifes. Music.
When it comes to seminal papers about APL, see also "Notation as a tool of thought" by Iverson, http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~jzhu/csc326/readings/iverson.pd... or https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/tot.htm
Former Go champion beaten by DeepMind retires
The concept is tempting. However in most cases the implementation is only partial. As in Wine and Samba, etc do not implement the full extent of the API. Just the part that's practical for their purposes.

And that's essentially what Google did - made a partial implementation of the API. I don't see a good way to rule that Google use was protected but other not 100% complete implementations are.
Love the Eon. Use it almost every day. Does what it says it does. Keeps the car dead center on a lane.

Think about Eon as a device that turns the car into a train that follows rail tracks. In this instance, the rail tracks are the road lanes. Works amazing on highways.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22022010

Copying my comments from there:

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> In warning the site not to disclose the brochure, SSG’s attorney reportedly claimed the document is protected under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), though the notice did not point to any specific section of the law, which was enacted to regulate arms exports at the height of the Cold War.

We really need an overhaul of all these old laws that were enacted for a completely different era, which are now being misused. Another example is 200 year old laws being used to get companies to break encryption.

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I don't know how I feel about hidden surveillance cameras in public. I know I shouldn't have any expectation of privacy in public and all that, but CCTV cameras in plain view are a different matter.

Are we going to live in a world where we're constantly being recorded and analysed by hidden cameras? This makes me very uneasy. Whatever happened to the idea that democratic governments should be for the people?

I'm sure there's no way that this can ever possibly be misused /s.

If agencies are using these for surveillance on specific targets then that's maybe okay, but as far as I'm aware, there is not much regulation regarding hidden cameras in public - at least, not in many parts of the world.
With iOS 13, Apple removed the "Always Allow" option from that prompt. If you really want to always allow location access, you'll have to go to the system settings and enable it. You'll also get the "App XYZ has used your location in the background 123 times in the last three days, do you want to continue allowing this?" prompt along with a map of where the app requested your location.

According to the article, that really works.
Non-commercial is so ambiguous that no one knows what is and isn't commercial.
I stopped reading at this phrase too.

If someone uses sentence like "We all agree that *", it would be good to define "we".

Otherwise it's just manipulative and breaks personal boundaries of the reader.
People have very limited notions of what a business is. At its core, a business is just a project or activity that's capable of sustaining itself financially. That's it. There are no other requirements.

There are some super creative businesses out there, with an unimaginable number of possibilities still unexplored. The Internet has made this even more extreme. By connecting everyone on Earth to everyone else, it's made extremely specific niche businesses quite viable. If only 3 in 100,000 people are Japanese candy aficionados, then most cities aren't big enough to start a business around that. But on the Internet that business can exist, because 3 out of every 100k in a pool of billions is a LOT of people.

TL;DR - Most people are perfectly capable of creating a business that suits them.
Not true. VLC had to change its license to be allowed on the app store https://www.openlogic.com/blog/vlc-license-change-lesson-per...
I think everything will be better if they implement their guidelines in actual input forms to force users to provide more information and more context - not only in questions but also in answers. It's so easy right now to comment and pollute the thread and that's what they have to tackle as well. Besides that, more moderators and people reviewing what is posted can also help. Comments like "thanks" or "can you provide more context" should be on 1 to 1 basis, more like a messages.

SO is a very helpful website and companies are not even aware enough how much it helps them and how much money it saves globally.
I had no idea about microg. That's very useful.
> I don't quite understand your example. `b'%s/%s' % (b'abc', b'def')` works in both 2 and 3. So does `u'%s/%s' % (b'abc'.decode('utf8'), b'def'.decode('utf8'))`, if you wanted to get a unicode string out of it.

We're discussing the linked article, so I'm talking in the context of the linked article. I know it works now, but Python 3 initially removed %-formatting for bytes. I guess I should have used past in my comment, "you were" screwed instead of "you are". From the article:

> Another feature was % formatting of strings. Python 2 allowed use of the % formatting operator on both its string types. But Python 3 initially removed the implementation of % from bytes. Why, I have no clue. It is perfectly reasonable to splice byte sequences into a buffer via use of a formatting string. But the Python language maintainers insisted otherwise. And it wasn't until the community complained about its absence loudly enough that this feature was restored in Python 3.5, which was released in September 2015.
from OP:

> I frustrate when I clicked to a title or entry and when I go to the tab I see that I need to pay for a subscription to see the content. I think this creates a great struggle in an open community like HN.
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Nope. Saying you're likely to have a more difficult time getting to prestigious places than someone who graduated from Stanford/(insert top school).
Marcus Aurelius and Seneca would like to have a word with you.
> More than half of all work in our society is unnecessary and inefficient busywork.

Source? Data? That sounds completely made up and does not match the reality I live in, at all.
It works after Python 3.5. From the article:

> Another feature was % formatting of strings. Python 2 allowed use of the % formatting operator on both its string types. But Python 3 initially removed the implementation of % from bytes. Why, I have no clue. It is perfectly reasonable to splice byte sequences into a buffer via use of a formatting string. But the Python language maintainers insisted otherwise. And it wasn't until the community complained about its absence loudly enough that this feature was restored in Python 3.5, which was released in September 2015.
An under-appreciated aspect is how land law interacts with building preferences. In the UK if you own a house, broadly speaking you have complete control over its configuration and its costs.

Leasehold, which is the dominant model for apartments, gives that control to the owner of the whole building. This is basically a recipe for nasty surprises.

The average English person isn’t a law expert. But they know someone with a flat, and that they’re constantly complaining about their landlord.
Why built before 1960? Were there regulations restricting the build of new coal heated houses in London after this?
12 years in IT here too - now working for an AgriTech

After spending a few days bolting heavy steel pipes into place in the scorching sun I realised I quite like the comfort of the office ;-)

Though it is fun to go onto the absolute front lines and get your hands dirty and the feeling of satisfaction on completing a physical job can be very high.
This is a great book, thanks for sharing!
Another possible failure mode I have registered is that there are sometimes effective therapies that require strong compliance from the patient over a long time. Doctors cannot rely on the patients so much and they don't prescribe those therapies - but there are patients who would prefer to take them and have all the will power to do it. I presume people reading material like this comment thread often do have that will power.

It would be helpful to catalogue all the possible failure modes of the mainstream (and not mainstream) medicine.

By the way https://medium.com/@zby/rational-patient-community-6d3617dff... are my musings about this.
Anything specific about the 3rd ed of “Peopleware” as opposed to the 2nd? Thanks
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I think the email list is already up for sale, they just don't mention it. See how the email column says "Yes" for most entries, as in: "yes, we have their email". Though you'll have to follow the clues and use the contact information from the header to get a quote.

The way all of this is presented, along with saving the doc being disabled, is pretty sneaky.
In other words, you are saying he's a non-person. How very nice of you.
UCLA and UCB do not have those agreements. I don't know if UT Austin has the agreement anymore (they had some agreement about being in the top 10% of your high school or something). UW has no such agreement either.

Most of the high ranked public schools afaik have gotten rid of such things because they are impacted heavily on all their programs.
There's a ton of high density high quality flats being built in high rises in London right now. As you take the train in from the south you can see literally dozens of mid & high rise apartment buildings going up along the river. The only problem is that they're still astonishingly expensive, no provision is made to increase green spaces due to the increase in density and even if you were able to afford to buy one of these properties (you can't) you're still left with enormous maintenance fees to make the builder a nice tidy profit by selling off the maintenance contracts.
Who knows what they've tried. I would like to believe that no one is without the capacity to change. To believe that people can be born destined to squander, destroy, and consume without providing is a worldview that I cannot conceive. I believe we are all products of our environments with varying levels of ability. When one of us fails it is a reflection of us all. When one of us succeeds it is likewise a reflection. To deny our interconnectedness and interdependence is to ignorantly absolve ourselves of responsibility to treat each other fairly, and kindly. Anything less is textbook antisocial behavior. [1] Yet, such behavior is celebrated across all demographics. No wonder vulnerable and poor people are despairing. antisocial behavior is rampant in our world. These behaviors effect everyone, though the weight of these assaults increases as someone's resources and support network decreases.

If the definition of antisocial behavior sounds familiar its because the evidence of these mentally ill people are everywhere. Virtually every company wantonly engages in these behaviors. As companies are a sum of their resources and employees (assuming resources like cars and buildings aren't sentient) it must be the employees choosing to engage in these behaviors. Whether someone overtly chooses to engage in antisocial behavior, allows antisocial behaviors to occur without protest, or protests and fails these actions have a waterfall of consequences that we all bare. Should we continue to deny our collective responsibility we shall obviously continue to suffer the consequences of our failures to treat those around us kindly and fairly.

[1] https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/antisocial-pe...

..."Disregard for right and wrong
Persistent lying or deceit to exploit others.

Being callous, cynical and disrespectful of others.

Using charm or wit to manipulate others for personal gain or personal pleasure.

Arrogance, a sense of superiority and being extremely opinionated.

Recurring problems with the law, including criminal behavior.

Repeatedly violating the rights of others through intimidation and dishonesty.

Impulsiveness or failure to plan ahead.

Hostility, significant irritability, agitation, aggression or violence.

Lack of empathy for others and lack of remorse about harming others
Unnecessary risk-taking or dangerous behavior with no regard for the safety of self or others.

Poor or abusive relationships.

Failure to consider the negative consequences of behavior or learn from them.

Being consistently irresponsible and repeatedly failing to fulfill work or financial obligations."