skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This sounds like Cave Johnson from Portal 2.

"All these spheres are made of asbestos, by the way. Keeps out the rats. Let us know if you feel a shortness of breath, a persistent dry cough, or your heart stopping. Because that's not part of the test: that's asbestos. Good news is, the lab boys say the symptoms of asbestos poisoning show a median latency of 44.6 years, so if you're 30 or older, you're laughing. Worst case scenario, you miss out on a few rounds of canasta, plus you forwarded the cause of science by three centuries. I punch those numbers into a calculator, it makes a happy face."
I'll venture "The Third Policeman" for comic surrealism.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27208.The_Third_Policema...
_The Retreat to Commitment_ by WW Bartley III is a book I think about almost every day.
Anthony Trollope's "The Warden."

Trollope isn't as well known as Dickens or Austen. I think the emotional intelligence of this book makes up for the fact that nothing much happens.

There's a vicar who is old friends with the Bishop. He's made Warden of an Almshouse for old men in the community. The amount of money he's going to get to do basically nothing is embarrassingly large.

It's an extremely gentle book about controversy, conspiracy, and people taking a moral stand.

It got me hooked on Trollope. His other books are far more intricate, worldly, and entertaining. But I like this short novel very much.
That's...pretty close to how top executives currently get paid.
ICES was not a launch abort system. It was a way for the astronauts to bail out of the shuttle after re-entry if they weren’t going to be able to land the shuttle safely.

The only shuttle to ever was anything resembling a launch abort system were the first few flights of Columbia. It had ejection seats for the pilot and commander. However, later statements by NASA and the astronauts said that using them probably would’ve resulted in the death of the astronauts due to descending through the extremely hot exhaust of the launch.
I don't know about "life-changing", but I've really been enjoying The Anthropocene Reviewed, written and read by John Green. It "reviews" different parts of life. And example might be "Sunsets" or "Sports Rivalries".

John Green is an excellent writer, I really enjoy his style, and it's a very different, kind of mindful(?) point of view that I find refreshing.
Check out "From the Diaries of John Henry", a collection of essays on material like machine learning, quantum computing, and entrepreneurship.

https://www.turingsquared.com
The Diary of Opal Whiteley, written around 1910 by an observant child using unusual syntax. It's poetic, simple, brilliant. I first saw it in the Multnomah (Portland Oregon) library.

Available online: http://www.opalonline.org/

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opal_Whiteley
Does clicking on a link to a Google.com URL create a consensual relationship with whoever Google.com redirects to? That seems absurd.
That's a tragedy of priorities. Priorities of the local municipality or even the federal government. A dysfunction of misplaced deliberations.

All the road and infrastructure taxes being funneled by the politicians to, other areas as they see fit to placate their constituencies or finance their pet projects.

Same with out-of-control grossly over-budget projects that dont deliver the bang for the buck.

If we - as an electorate - insisted on superior paint or "marking technology" for surface roads, we shall have them in one form or the other.
Does this have any practical application?
The 5A22 is a custom 65C816 core, yes - I think the author just meant that the 65C816 itself is kind of like the familiar 6502 on steroids.
> The 777X will be looked at incredibly closely prior to certification

One would hope so...
Let me go edit that config file...
> I want to see the screen that will work for > 20 years in a constantly moving and vibrating environment, under massive temperature changes, without any additional care or repairs.

Bingo. The screen becomes less readable (and if a touch screen, difficult and/or dangerous to use) the longer it ages, the more chance it gets physical damage. Then there's the batteries which go bad, yet the devices are glued. And then there's the backlight. My Kobo reader does not use/need much backlight, it doesn't use/need much battery (esp w/o networking), and the screen can endure a lot. So perhaps e-readers are partly exempt from this. Airpods, for example, are not because of the battery alone. Smartwatches: screen (often touch as well)/battery/backlight. Monitors: backlight/screen. On top of that, some of these devices also require software updates. These devices are sold to be replaced in a few years; not to last. If they were part of a service contract (like a boiler) they wouldn't happen.

> After a few years, it was normal to see trains with broken head signs, broken car numbers, and broken reservation systems.

True, seen this ample amount of time when I traveled with ICE Amsterdam - Berlin. I do have to admit I like it when I see the TeamViewer error in the EBS busses. All these otherwise show is useless, distracting commercials anyway.

> The result (at least in the towns I use public transportation) are regularly broken displays that even when they work, offer no advantage over LCD or LED or even mechanical display from a passenger perspective. They just look more modern.

Indeed, never mind the backlight dying, or the broken (stuck, dead, ...) pixels, or physical damage on the screen (due to vandals, accidents, ...).
I think the author is offering "you can’t process what you don’t know" as an example of something that dynamic proponents claim that statically-typed languages can't do, followed by a refutation of it.
> the syntax of python will remain a great inspiration for readability if they don't make the same mistakes... it always amazes me to see people from all levels read python the first time and get it.

I think python had already crossed that bridge, at least for webapps and ml (albeit not at the syntax level). Consider what you must bring in for a real webapps deployment: virtualenv, uwsgi, celery, nginx, at a minimum, probably rabbitmq for many apps. Deployment is a nightmare.

For ml, you'll need to pick your library, version it correctly (some ml models are even firmly stuck in python 2.7), probably manage it all in conda if you are testing different models, since your source is bound to different tensorflow/pytorch/python/cuda version dependencies, and deployment is a nightmare.

Maybe I'm missing some python best practices due to the places I've been (django/angular shops that don't write tests) but ultimately I think this is Not very beginner-friendly at all.
The parts about supplies completely ruin your simulator argument
Counter-counterpoint, Toyota consolidated several offices in CA/KY/NY to one HQ to Plano, TX and brought about 2800 out of 4000 employees. It was a big disrupter to local housing prices, with massive swaths of land experiencing the maximum-by-law 10%-yearly property tax increases.

(Source: https://www.dallasnews.com/business/local-companies/2018/07/...)

I don't know if there's any easy generalizations to suss out. Probably every case will be very specific to the work being done, the environment it's done in, and the people it's done by.
Over the long-term, Google's algorithm will connect the average person to the page most likely to benefit them, more than it won't.

There is no "best result."

Any page falling under "thrown-together comparison sites without actual substance but lots of affiliate links" are temporal inefficiencies that get removed after each major update.

Will more pop up? Yes, and they will take advantage of any ineffeciency or edge-cases in the algorithim to boost their rankings to #1.

Will they stay there for more than a few months? No. They will be squashed out, and legitimate players will over time win out.

This is the dichotomy between "churn and burn" businesses and "long term" businesses. You will make a very lucrative, and quick, buck going full blackhat, but your business won't last and you will be consistently need to adapt to each successive algo update. While long-standing "legit" businesses will only need to maintain market dominance -- something much easier to do than break into the market from ground zero, which churn and burners will have to do in perpetuity until they burn out themselves.

If you want to test this, go and find 10 websites you think are shady, but have top 5 rankings for a certain search phrase. Mark down the sites, keyword, and exact pages linked. Now, wait a few months. Search again using that exact phrase. More likely than not, i.e more than 5 out of 10, will no longer be in the top 5 for their respective phrases, and a couple domains will have been shuttered. I should note that "not deep info" is not "shady," because the results are for the average person. Ex. WebMD is not deep, but it's not shady either.

I implore people to try and get a site ranked with blackhat tricks and lots of starting capital, and see just how hard it is to keep ranked consistantly using said tricks. It's easy to speculate and make logical statements, but they don't hold much weight without first-hand experience and observation.
The idea of free market is that public companies have financial incentives to produce safe products. If they produce an unsafe product, their market capital should suffer. This hasn’t happened to the extent I expected with Boeing. Is the market working as intended?
Maybe it is time for s personal meta search aggregator with indexing proxy. One that delegates the query to reddit/SO/github-lab search and filters the results down to those that actually match your query.
The proxy indexes all the pages you surf over and includes those in the search.
The Structure and Confirmation of Evolutionary Theory by Elisabeth Lloyd has had an outsized effect on my thinking, even though I do not work in that field.

https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691000466/th...
Polish people have the right to be bigoted if they wish to. Whether they have the right to make bigoted legal ‘declarations’ is a matter for their own courts and the ECJ and ECHR. However, organisations absolutely have the right to take note of such laws and plan their conferences accordingly.

As a terrifying gay, Poland wouldn’t be high on my list of places to visit right now, and I doubt I’m the only one.
Thanks for the recommendations. Many look interesting but are not books I would organically bump into, which is an alternative description of what I was looking for.

As for a Sadai's book: it is an extremely thorough book about western harmony from first principles. It treats what is perceived - what we hear - as the anchor, and not what we see when we analyse the notes on paper. A good example of that is how we decide to give names to chords. We tend to name chords based on the notes in them, but this can sometime lead to misunderstandings because the context and how those notes are spread through the chord are also very important. Basics like which note is in the bass is taken into consideration, but otherwise these factors are often ignored. Sadai shows many examples for that throughout the book - as well as such "Mistakes" in other famous books. A quote from the book about the approach taken: "The conventional analytic approach as taught in academies is based primarily upon the depiction of the WRITTEN content of a composition by means of symbols and concepts inherent to the accepted analytic code. This analysis however, which describes mainly what is SEEN, does not always succeed in describing what is HEARD - the perceptual musical essence".
after spending all day coding and being deep in erlang, algorithms and bug reports, i like to read something that doesn't require much thought. parodies work great i find.

https://www.amazon.com/Maze-Bummer-Parody-Runner-ebook/dp/B0...

that's the kind of work i have in mind. simple and refreshing.
Right, but your explanation for those differences seemed to be (based on the context) related to whether or not the FTS was triggered.
The process from the first MAX crash to decertification of all MAX aircraft was a few months. Boeing made all the wrong decisions in that period of time. Other companies have handled crises much better. I think GP is referring to this.

It's one very bad thing to have allowed shoddy engineering and all the other failures on the way to the MAX, and quite another much worse thing to then also stick your head in the sand and pretend everything is ok when the shoddy engineering kills people.
Knowing how to build something is only half the battle, you have to know what to build also. Engineers don’t tend to perform this function well (at least, not while also being effective engineers), so PM roles are meant to bridge the gap. It can work pretty well, but like all roles it can be done poorly.
training sites(internal/external) will be using flash/java for a long long time
Could you expand on what you mean by this?

I don't know if this is a case you had in mind, but I'm increasingly frustrated with the inflexibility of table-based data in HTML.

With JS support, it's possible to create dynamic tables -- sortable, searchable, filterable, summarisable (sum, mean, count, etc.). But none of that is available in stock HTML + browser. It would be quite useful.

Similar features might be envisioned for ordered or unordered lists.

As would be the ability to simply extract content from HTML tables. There are some tools offered for this, but relatively few, and largely arcane, especially for nontechnical users.
Perhaps you subconsciously misread "programmable orgasm".
From a hardware overview perspective, the Amiga's sound chip was essentially 4 "dumb" 8 bit PCM channels, so audio effects and synth stuff was fundamentally CPU driven, and I'm guessing most of the CPU horsepower was going into the 3d rendering, without much left over for sound.

The SNES has a completely separate audio subsystem, with 8 16bit PCM channels, with its own CPU and RAM purely dedicated to sound generation.
The Daily lowered my opinion of the US
Granted.

I must have mentally parsed the “unknown” used by OP as “not widely known” (to the HN crowd), and if you look at a lot of the contributions, many of the authors are not exactly “unknown” either.
Thank you, I hadn't considered a spinning effect to achieve uniformity, nor that the presence of light could induce spin. Good food for thought.
Given the current safety record of the 737 Max (2 crashes out of ~half a million flights), if you flew on one every day for the next 50 years there's about a 7% chance that you'd be in a crash. This is ignoring any improvements that might be made--to the plane itself or to pilots' knowledge and training--before it's allowed back into service.

If you flew, say, 10 times a year rather than 365.25, all on the 737 Max, it's a fraction of a percent chance.

Boeing's behavior was very poor and they have been rightfully taken to task for it. Aviation safety standards are incredibly high and the 737 Max didn't live up to those standards. The focus on cost cutting, selling critical redundant sensors as an upgrade to milk a little more cash out of buyers, mocking customers who wanted simulator training for their pilots, and more are all indicative of a bad corporate culture.

But the 737 Max is still a very safe plane. I have no qualms about flying on it.
We’re all deserving of respect as humans. But some people really are better at things than other people. It’s not unbecoming to acknowledge that.
C++ coroutines are stackless
So you have specifics? Because aircraft simulators are complex machines not just software.

Ex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7iSlqpIHpw
History is in the past the present will be history in the future.
You can cause horrible traffic jams now by throwing a few mattresses or a bunch of caltrops onto the highway at the right time of day.
When a Promotion Leads to Divorce
I think the meta-answer is to pick the CRUD framework for the language that you already know well; e.g. if you know Python, use Django. But if you know PHP already, just use Laravel or whatever, rather than learning Python to get access to Django.

While there are features in some of these frameworks that will give you a productivity boost in certain use cases, none of them are worth taking the productivity hit of learning a new language.
Below the Line has really changed my perspective on many things, such as assisted suicide, starting companies as a whole, microdosiing and much more.

A few much required new perspectives on life.

https://twitter.com/gobelowtheline
They do have Sails but it's nowhere as good as as RoR. At least prefer something fast like Fastify or Koa if using Node.js.
The Thatcher government used essentially the same argument, though they were a little more subtle about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_28

They bring children into it because it makes the argument to discriminate more convincing to stupid people.
Great app. That makes me want to use minecraft as notetaking.
Quite frankly, I think Epic Systems realizes it can't compete with Facebook. But the value is much better in comparison to many non-FAANG Bay Area companies.

I was actually in a similar situation, where Capital One offered 90K for Richmond, VA and it seemed better than ~120k offer in the Bay Area. But then I got a Google offer and stopped considering both of the others.

The high-CoL companies really only make sense financially if you're in the upper tiers of pay (and/or on the path to reaching that level of pay).
Who is the author? Nothing came up in my podcast app
I will concede, Fedora has as good a reputation and it's what I run on my desktop at home! Good point.
Why for kreisch sake is anyone still using telnet for anything?
That is not a limitation on jailbroken devices. E.G. I use ssh to run a SOCKS proxy; I just run it in the terminal and it runs forever.
Yes, I wish I could PM you.

I spent lots of time in front of therapists as well. What I got for it was an education in how I got to be who I am today. My recommendation is to save your money, watch School of Life videos (https://www.theschooloflife.com/) and you can figure out why you are you. The short answer is; your upbringing, because it's very hard to change that internal original programming.

The goal of therapy is 'know yourself'. So when you do eventually do 'know yourself' therapy is not going to be much help; you have achieved the goal of therapy.

(Side note: If you have had recent or unresolved trauma then 'yourself' has changed, go back to therapy to locate the new you.)

Although I do not like the term AT ALL, it sounds like you know who you are; you are a person with 'low self esteem'. I too, had "Low self esteem" as the therapists put it. What they didn't say is "Ok here's what you do with that".

Here is what I heard: "Go volunteer. Give back. Help others.".

Bullshit. That is misguided advice. You end up acting charitable and feeling used.

Or I hear "Go out, meet people."

Also, bad advice. I'm struggling and you are asking me to put social interactions on top of that too? No.

A Zen Buddhist monk once told me something that I think is applicable to you. "You can not directly control your emotions, they are too powerful, all you can control is your behavior. Control your behavior long enough your emotions will change."

That goes directly inline with the advice I'm about to give you, which is simply this:

Be competent.

Focus your energy on directing your behavior on being absolutely competent in one single area of your life and get mastery over it; absolute competence.

Once you feel like you have changed and have gained sufficient competency, move to the next thing. Build yourself up brick by brick by your actions and behavior.

It is much, much harder than just sitting talking to a therapist, but an order of magnitude more effective.
In the introduction of the space-x launch broadcast, they mention that in real aborts, military will be involved.
With helicopters, rescue personnel will be dropped of.

Also there, it still takes a while for boats to arrive.
Chapo Trap House changed my life
> This is why I opted out of Ruby.

That was probably ~80% of why I opted out as well (the rest ~20% are mutability and bad parallelism story).

> Feels too much like macros and C++ templates. I just don't want to be that smart.

I don't even view it as being smart. It's more like a specialised area of expertise that you need to grind through in order to be productive, and even when you're an expert it's still error-prone. Turns out though, a lot of other tech doesn't require that so, like you, I moved there.

> I keep going back to Bill Joy's goal of enabling working both in the big and in the small at the same time.

Admirable goal. I try to do the same but it's not an easy thing to achieve. What language would you recommend in this area?

> I could focus more on design and less on wrestling the compiler.

Depends what you mean. I am very okay to fight with Rust's compiler because that way I know I won't have dangling pointers or references and will not inadvertently try to modify the same piece of data from multiple threads. I am also very okay with fighting with OCaml's compiler because I often found myself not thinking properly about the types of my code.

But in C and C++, yeah, there the fight is kind of just "please compile and leave me alone" and it's not that much of "it's compiled, therefore you get guarantees X and Y".

> But I wish language (and stack) designers also removed features. Cull deprecated stuff. More generalizations. Fewer primitives. Fewer classes. Etc.

Absolutely! I wish more language designers/maintainers had the courage to do this. They also don't have to do it in a breaking way; they can just extract the deprecated (and removed) functionality into an optional dependency that people can use if they are so hell-bent on not using the officially sanctioned way from version X.Y and on.

But I guess even that would catch many people by surprise and provoke negative reactions so it's probably a very strong reason on why it isn't being done.

So what's left? A linter that's invoked like this: `idiomatic-rust --check --strict`?

I guess that's the only way out for now.
Just read the man page and make an alias? That's just lazy on your part
most of the Austrian countryside is rich, they have a well working social safety net and great public health. many farmers have branched out decades ago into tourism and sustainable techniques (realizing they can't compete across EU with countries like Holland where everything is flat). Those who want to work mostly find work.

The Austria I'm talking about doesn't see any tourists. It's more about of disposable income and people with very rigid skills losing their jobs to automation. It is not a rural/urban issue!

Money doesn't make people happy but it makes dealing with misery a lot less stressful. A farmer might change their worldview because s/he suddenly has to serve and cater to tourists/guests with wildly different views. The mining worker in Eisenerz who hasn't gotten a pay rise in 2 decades might not be so open in their worldview. Both the farmer, and the mining worker live on the countryside. Then there are the Eastern European workers from Hungary and Czech serving tourists and being employed by the Hotels, restaurants and cafes. There is no "ghetto" or a "outsiders" vs insiders feeling anywhere. The bosses are happy, everyone earns.
I disagree. You can't slap on features on a bad language and make it good language. You can only make it more palatable.

Good languages start good because the people who designed and built them had good idea of what they wanted to achieve and did not have existing users to compromise with.
* touchscreen. All US cars still need a screen because of the government required backup camera.
I've seen hugely varying IPFS latency. `time curl -o- https://teetotality.blog/posts/how-this-blog-was-made/` took > 20 seconds, for example, yet https://ipfs.io/ipns/teetotality.blog/ returned in under a second.

I'd be really interested in a "what to do and what not do" wrt IPFS to avoid those 20s (or completely non-functioning) URLs.