skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is insane. I've been looking at water quality over the past year. Look into EPA superfund sites. We only have so many permanent underground aquifers that are disconnected from each other. The industrial age of the 1950s with basically unchecked regulation really ruined our country's permanent aquifers.
What ever next? Food on the blockchain? Oh wait, they've done that already.
I generally think we are seeing the the sunset of a “representative” democracy in the United States.

Fake News and propaganda is unchecked and rampant. Public intelligence and understanding is at an all time low. Income inequality is at an all time high. Which leads to millions of Americans making their mind up based on emotions and not facts.

“Build a Wall” is not a logical decision.

“Abuse of power is not impeachable” is not a logical decision.

“Socialism is evil” as you collect your Social Security check and rely on Medicare is not a logical decision.

I fully expect another decade or more of racial unrest and outright politically sanctioned violence in the US as mass migrations pick up due to climate change and unrest caused by a resurgence of Nazism and “not one of us” movements.
eBay Search on K8s
Doesn't Proton ("Steam Play") work on Mac OS?
People said the same about Apple, and then it turned out to be bullshit.[0] And, big surprise, their customers did not seem to hold them accountable.

So in the end, paying for stuff just shows that you're a more valuable product to sell. And gives them a great primary key to track you by.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22106536
Absolutely! Other forms of voting systems have new and unique ways of failing.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/voting-methods/#VotiPara
To be fair, this issue was much debated at the creation of democratic rule in Greece. Their solution to the problem of ambition and resource guarding is “sortition”, which is a lottery in which a large fraction of the democratic body is chosen by chance rather than by popular election, skill or ambition. This was meant to be a check on the development of the type of permanent ruling oligarchy we see developing in the US.
FYI (since I couldn't find this information anywhere in the article itself) the Huffington Post piece was published August 27, 2015.
Maybe this is just what the top of bubbles feels like. I can’t explain the stock price either, other than human irrational exuberance.
Swift isn’t suitable?

Then why is it being used as a teaching language in many US schools?

https://www.apple.com/education/docs/everyone-can-code-curri...

A bit more relevant and marketable than Delphi. And with Swift playgrounds, students can even practice using an iPad.
All the people who had the balls to sell TSLA short have already gotten hurt in the come-up, and although everyone thinks this market as a whole is going to correct soon, nobody wants to take the risk of calling a top.

So yeah, expect the name with 14%+ short interest to keep rallying in this market, for the near term.

One thing I do wonder about is how the roll-off of tax credits will affect their US sales.
Desktop development with current generation of Visual Studio is leaps and bounds better than Delphi ever was.
I blame aging legislators and the obesity epidemic.
"A few days ago"? It only takes like 20 minutes to finish it.

https://youtu.be/VtI5HM7GVGY
False dichotomy. "better spent" relates two essentially unrelated things, claiming they are exclusive (have to do one or the other).
Bit late, for this, but

> I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
Tim Urban, the author of waitbutwhy, did a talk about that same topic (pretty much about the same article).

https://www.ted.com/talks/tim_urban_inside_the_mind_of_a_mas...
I would say in addition. Black Mesa has rather uneven difficulty which detracts from the experience.
Gnip definitely had it's share of problems; even with a real product and super-sharp people. The takeaway I have from this, and from decades of startup experience, is that building and growing a startup is beyond difficult and even with the right ingredients it's still going to drag you through hell.
It's also hard to reconcile this valuation with the practice of making it easy to fat-finger a $4,000 non-refundable purchase in their mobile application. Do they need to go back and hit up their existing customers for more money?

https://twitter.com/tedstein/status/1219406746868953088
So about the same as Ford, GM and FiatChrysler combined. Crazy times. Wow even Uber market cap is higher than each of those three. Feels like 1999.
Reminds of a particular Family Guy episode, as it is the only time I have heard the term:

Dennis Miller: Now I don't want to go on a rant here, but America's foreign policy makes about as much sense as Beowulf having sex with Robert Fulton at the first Battle of Antietam. I mean, when a neo-conservative defenestrates, it's like Raskalnikov filibuster deoxymonohydroxinate.

Peter: What the hell does "rant" mean?
Would that be a big part of the solution to the self driving car puzzle?
After years of working with PHP, my take away was similar to C++: There's a great language in there, somewhere. Limit yourself to a subset of the language which is sane, follow all of the PSR standards, and the result is quite nice.

After all of that, you look at your coworkers' code and realize they either (1) picked a different subset than you did, or (2) PHP is their first language and they have no idea what they're doing.

I mostly stay away from web development now, but if I were to do a new web project, I might still choose PHP if I knew I'd be working with a small, experienced team. It's a highly productive language.
Key answer is margin , their margin is high , traditional Automakers - low . With things like cyber truck , the gap is getting bigger.
Because you can do more with a desktop app than a browser app. Not everything is or should be in the goddamned cloud.
The other replies to this comment are a lot funnier if you read them in alternating gumby and pepper pot voices.
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Off topic, but from your site at https://github.com/instabotai/instabotai/:

> Try our remote solution:

> http://www.instabotai.com

The contents of this page is just:

> http://www.NOTMAKINGTHISCLICKABLErankbabes.com

I added 'NOTMAKINGTHISCLICKABLE'.
Try advanced searching on google:

substance abuse and mental illness in homeless population "doi" after:2015-01-01

the "doi" ensures it has an identifier you can search on http://sci-hub.tw/ to read the full article for free, and the after: gives you articles within 5 years
Saudi Prince Taunted Jeff Bezos over Secret Affair Before Enquirer Exposé
Sources like the book “Tiny Habits” say that feeling successful often builds momentum and gets you to perform better.

I’d guess that the opposite is also true. Feeling unsuccessful too much would erode and destroy whatever it is you’re bringing to the table.
Is their really any other CEO who is as entertaining as Elon Musk?

Tesla definitely has a monopoly on "entertaining CEO" and people don't really know how to value that.
They aren't looking for the best though. They are looking for diverse.

GPA's are meaningless now. Grade inflation, etc.
Just like the adversity score that will be added to the SAT... making it meaningless...
IQ tests are going to replace GPAs for hiring in general.
So no real example or specific reason it is worse than maven, cpan, or any other.
I was wondering if/when Amazon would get mentioned in this thread, lol.

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Cop-out rationalization: conventional wisdom holds that IT/CS folks should jump every 2-3 years or they're leaving money on the table -- and turnover rates reflect that. They're going in 2 years anyway, so get what you want out of them before they go. Most of them can't write fizzbuzz anyway, and it's easy to poach better talent by throwing money at them.

> Interestingly, and in my observation, the managers got more leeway than individual contributors in terms of evolving slowly

Managers run the system, so the system evolves to support them and their needs, like a more reasonable pace. Another way to look at it is if you've made it through the burnout phase then you're going to hang around longer, so it makes sense to hold on to proven performers who have much longer employment horizons.
> What we did not expect was political parties

The founding fathers did. They saw how political factions brought about the bloody English civil wars, and many feared they'd tear the new nation apart. But some people like Jefferson saw them as a part of human nature, a necessary evil.

As of our second president (1797) we had a two-party system. But by 1812, the Democratic-Republican party gained control of both Congress and the presidency, and effectively destroyed the Federalist party, giving us effectively one party control of government (the "Era of Good Feelings" in which nationalism flourished in the afterglow of the war of 1812). But in 1830 the new Democratic Party gained control, and we've had two since then.
I have added packages to Homebrew, and they install man pages when available. Homebrew provides a pretty simple mechanism for doing so. The problem is that many projects just prefer web documents to man pages, likely because the man page tooling is not great.
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Good point. Pascal isn't, but Delphi code is not exactly Pascal.
Indeed, and with a bit of tuning (e.g., using mawk for most things), one can get quite good performance. [1]
The project also provides a translator from Datalog to bash scripts [2].

Disclaimer: I was one of the authors

[1] https://www.thomasrebele.org/publications/2018_report_bashlo...
[2] https://www.thomasrebele.org/projects/bashlog/datalog
What do you mean with "grab Proton"? By default Steam only uses Proton for games where it was tested to work but there's a setting to enable it for all that aren't available natively.

You can also force it to use Proton when a native version does exist which is useful for bad ports.
Democracy is more alive today than it ever has been in history. What you are seeing is democracy. I think in the west we've been taught that 'democracy' is by definition good, and therefore anything bad is 'not democracy'. But the reality is that people are voting for this.
The outcome of this case can change the landscape of political debate for the next few decades, given how common accusations of Russian (and other foreign) stoogery has become.
It's good to see a company openly sharing concrete numbers on diversity even when it doesn't necessarily paint them in a flattering light. This speaks better (to me, at least) than companies which make fluffy noises on diversity but refuse to share actual figures.
It's also their ahead-of-market technology and long term visions for infrastructure and sustainable energy generation
My understanding it is very linked to 1) Profitability. Search terms around things like lawyers and credit cards. You'll almost always see 4 ads. 2) Genuine relevance. Google know for certain searches your not likely looking to buy something and to keep credibility don't show ads.

Occasionally you can find pockets of less competitive search's that 1) allow ads
2) relate to your product via the algorithm even if they don't to a human brain 3) Align to your desired audience and these can give great return.
Did not read through, but from a quick look, I suspect anyone can grab the code, and fill in your AWS with terabytes of garbage data which will end up in an enromous amount of dollars in AWS billing.

Am I missing something?
Generally the starting price for their lineup has gone down faster than the tax credits. That will only continue (Model Y and Cybertruck are even more price competitive in their segments than S, X, and 3)

And there’s not much credit left, so I doubt it matters much.
Why should use GetFlutter open-source UI Library
Not just the French! I'm from the US and recall using it as early as 2006...
Over the long term it's possible that maximizing shareholder value requires monetization of additional resources.

The approach of 'today, company X is known to make money via Y, so we can trust them with private data' only works until that data becomes valuable enough for the company to invest in extracting.
https://youtu.be/0Bj6W7qrOOI
Take three fractions, the first being the "heads" or "tops" from the first condensed volume up to 5% of the original volume, the next being the "mains" from the next 90%, and the last being the "tails" or "bottoms" from the final 5%.

Wash the packed column and boiling vessel with the heads and then discard them. Discard the tails. Repeat the process with the mains.

Your twice-distilled mains are now pure water, discounting contamination from inferior distillation apparatus.

Get some food-grade calcium chloride (E509, de-icing salt), magnesium sulfate (Epsom salt), sodium bicarbonate (baking soda), and potassium chloride (NoSalt brand table salt substitute) and add some (known) minerals back into the result for your drinking water, because pure distilled water has a very poor taste profile.

The only types of chemical that cannot be easily removed by this distillation process are those that form azeotropes with water, such as ethanol, and those chemicals are unlikely to be present in quantities significant enough to be a problem.
See? That's why it's dangerous to rely on some random third party for your search shortcuts.
that map in the gif looks like the first level of r-type
My county water board does not have PFAS as one of their routine tests. Is this a standard in other counties?
Luckily there is an automatic system for accurately distributing resources based on scarcity, and it has worked for millennia: markets and prices.
> Building amazing products that power thousands of fintech apps requires us on the Plaid engineering team to empathize with the developers and end users who build and use these apps. To do that well, we need to have a team whose diversity reflects the millions of people Plaid supports.

This is the notion that apparently justifies the entire diversity and inclusion industrial complex - that your ability to empathize with somebody is dependant on sharing certain immutable characteristics, such as your sex or skin color. If the soft bigotry and regressivism of that stance isn't glaringly obvious to people I despair. Almost 60 years since MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech we've managed to invert its message, and calcify it into a lucrative and discriminatory corporate culture.
Questionable. After all, it's often the elites whipping said masses up to fury, a trend which continues today in more systematic fashion.
Both were by Gearbox, IIRC, probably best known recently for the Borderlands series.
Copper was available so long as firewood was available. Copper ore without firewood is of no use.
Can a teacher impact student height? A cautionary tale on value-added models
https://outline.com/EfEz3V (Non-Archive.org link)
>Do people really use a debugger ?

Absolutely; everything from libraries, language development, even in REPL languages like J and R, I use debuggers all the damn time, native J/R/whatever, GDB, the whole lot. If you deal with hairy issues, there's no way of solving the problem with print statements, and if you're used to them, they're a lot more productive. You just have to pay the toll of learning the debugger.

I haven't uncorked any golang in a long time (~5 years), but I do remember thinking WTF regarding the debugger. I think the idea is to write enough unit tests you don't need the debugger so much. Seems questionable, but what do I know; Google would never hire me. Otherwise I liked golang a lot as a very pragmatic language and ecosystem. I had wished the GC was optional somehow to replace C/C++ tier "systems" stuff, but whatever; it's a fine successor to Java type things.
Except it is because this is a comment chain...

None of our comments exist in a vacuum.

-

Person A says: I never used a debugger

Person B replies: You're in company with Rob Pike on that

I reply to Person A and B: Yeah but even Rob Pike uses debuggers

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The fact I have to spell this out is appalling.
With each car they get a lifetime of service revenue, mostly without competition. They expand their network effect, their supercharger footprint, and their technology lead as they maintain momentum. Cybertruck is poised to be a giant success, reaching into new markets outside of traditional EV buyers and into rural and suburban light trucks, the highest margin section of auto sales. Finally, its prominence attracts unsophisticated, long position investors. Perhaps it’s still overvalued beyond all of those factors. If you feel strongly about that, why not take out a short position?
Have you tried that yourself on a variety of people? (I have)
Leace: "Not only that but Delphi has tremendous educational potential due to fast feedback loops."

Agreed completely!

Not only that, but an argument could be made that the TIME that a given body of source code takes to compile -- can have a huge impact (positive or negative) on programmer productivity...

Case in point: The Linux Kernel (written in C)...

You make a change, even a small one, and you're probably going to wait for HOURS for it to compile...

HOURS...

Before you can run it, to know what your change accomplished (or didn't accomplish!)...

HOURS...

If the Linux Kernel was written in Delphi, compilation would take no more than a few MINUTES, even on a modest machine, and possibly a lot less, possibly seconds, depending on the dependencies of the code that was modified...

That's the technological beauty of a single-pass compiler that caches precompiled source and its associated symbol tables (and only recompiles what's needed, only when it's needed)...

Which change-compile-test-feedback loop do you think would make a programmer more productive?

?

Hint: Even a non-programmer could easily know the difference...

Yes, there are languages which are more popular, more attuned to web development, more Lambda-esque in nature, and these things are virtuous, to be sure -- but in terms of raw compilation/run/test/change/iterate speed (aka productivity), Delphi smokes all of them...

For a programming job in the U.S., with many employers using differing technologies, it may be a loss, but for education, for the ability to learn how to think (as a programmer) and subsequently grow into other tools/technologies, it's a big WIN.
The idea that just because you're paying for something it means they're not sharing your data or won't sell your data in the future send a but naive. If you don't control the server you have no idea what they are doing. You're just hoping they don't sell your data.
Common security wasn't respected at Vkontakte as well.
The social network was serving plain http login form and internal communication unencrypted until 2013[0].

I reminisce that when Durov was questioned about the abscence of secure connection to the servers, he told it's a too much of overhead and may impact QoS badly.

Some time they rolled out an `always use https` option and buried it deep in the user preferences. Meaning most of non-tech savvy audience kept using the service unaware they are not secure.

The obvious pattern here is they tend to use plain http as a default transport unerminig established security practices.

[0] https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...
Not interested in people's custom projects, nor having my bookmarks coupled to a browser. Currently I have bookmarks with my chrome profiles, but I'm planning to move them all to a simple, personal archive.

* At the very least, I just need a text file with a dump of links
* More interesting would be something more useful like a database with titles, comments, maybe even saved copies of pages
* Most awesome would be my own, simple, html home network website where I can navigate my bookmarks visually, have search, etc.

Any suggestions for making this process easier would be very welcome
My speculation (and this is all speculation at the end of the day to some degree) is I also think the success of other companies impact each other, such as the recent successful SpaceX abort test. For homework one night I will run an analysis showing the rise and fall of Tesla and SpaceX stock over each other mapped to positive news. I am hypothesizing there is a correlation.
This is a fantastic article and I love rereading it every time it comes up. The whole series is definitely worth a read if you got the time too. It really does change the way you look at how organizations work. It's pretty Machiavellian, but great food for thought if you got it in you to try and manipulate it as such.
I found this: https://www.patreon.com/shut_up

The article mentions it's invite-only so you're not going to find a public link to join.
Monetizing data stored in AWS would destroy their credibility with corporations, who are much more proactive in protecting themselves (both legally and with their wallets) than consumers are.
Some ecosystems even eschew manpages. For example, I wouldn't know how to ship manpages as part of a Ruby gem, it's discouraged iirc
Since they want to be their own insurance company it seems like it could be a valuable thing to have when pricing out a policy.
not with leftists
The entire special report is well worth a read: https://www.economist.com/special-report/2020/01/16/housing-...

There's a lot of information, history and a broad perspective on how things work in various countries.

Housing politics is key to so many things:

* The economy - allowing people to live in productive places is a benefit to them, and all of us, because they put their talents to more productive use. California, where the housing crisis is worst, also has the highest poverty levels of the US when cost of living (which is mostly housing) is factored in.

* The environment - cities are more environmentally friendly than sprawling suburbs.

* Equality and "social justice": the history of how people of color have been frozen out of the housing 'ladder' in the US is not as well known as more blatant and vicious examples of racism, but it is a huge reason why certain disparities have persisted.
It seems like the maintainers of man pages just refuse to bother with something so obvious. It's been decades, and man pages are still archaic and not user friendly.
I got started with QBasic IDE. FreeBASIC was a nice replacement on the language/compiler side of things. I don't know if there's comparable IDE's. I found but haven't tried FBIDE.

https://www.freebasic.net/

http://www.fbide.freebasic.net/
Actually the small Java gui app (tick tack toe, or something like it, I think) ran fine. And I think the startup problems with javac might have been solved too (use less ram) - but I never did get around to it. I think I tried IBMs "jikes" compiler, which I think was (at least partially) implemented in c++.

But mostly I was just shocked anyone could think running a wm could reasonablyrrequire a gig of ram...
Warren Buffett's a pretty fun guy if you're into making money. Views differ.
Is your taxi driver or your hairdresser talking about buying TSLA themselves? That’s how you know.
In our early days of Zulip-use, I had to regularly edit people's messages to force them into using a topic. A handful of people still don't get it and treat topics as special/long-lived channels, but most of us devs love it.