skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the Indian way of segmenting large numbers. Interestingly enough I only found out about it myself last night.
Until very recently it was standard to just not have a water meter at all. My grandma used to have an actual swimming pool in her garden(built all by herself, of course), and during the summer she would just refill it every few days, it was cheaper than buying some chlorine tablets since water was "free". Just trying to guess the dimensions of that pool now, that must have easily been 30 cubic metres of water, every few days.
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I don’t know if you played CS at the time, but there wasn’t a single soul who didn’t enjoy bunny hopping or had mastering it as a goal

Besides the standard bomb maps, and the fun game dynamics created by this “bug”, there were hundreds of servers running surf_ maps and others that relied on hopping mechanics. The update threw a massive community in a tar pit.
If company X moved 17% how much % do you think you potentially left on the table?
I'm a MechE in aerospace, and work from home once a week. Many people in my company's design office do it.
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(K)ubuntu, mint, manjaro, and a few others I don't remember. I went through a whole slew of them and didn't find one that was stable, not even mint. One of the issues is that problems are intermittent and start without any obvious cause. One day the external monitor works, the next day it doesn't. Etc. This is a huge issue when the problem hits six months after purchase and the only solution is to reinstall. I do remember kubuntu used to be stable back around 2007 or so but that was a different era. In 2010, it made it to about six months before the x wouldn't boot anymore after I changed the title bar color or something like that. On my current iteration on the mbpro, I've gotten about 4 months of use out of it after it failed within the first week. Often just changing something minor like the display manager's wallpaper will kill the entire desktop environment. In no case was there an actual kernel crash. It's always the gui. And it doesn't seem to matter what desktop environment runs. None that I've tried have been stable.
> the first in my mind to make the action movie tropes of kicking and punching things, coupled with cheesy banter, genuinely pleasing.

thanks to 3d realms we reached the stage were duke nukem 3d was dethroned from the cheesy shooter ladder :(
I've also read that hydrogen is some kind of way for the petro-industry to maintain its infrastructure and business, since it's a pseudo-green energy which can be advertised as an alternative to batteries.

Steam reforming is not green. Electrolysis is great but it's less efficient, although it would work with nuclear energy since nuclear can give energy in abundance.

There are 2 sides to reduce the carbon footprint: nuclear energy and energy sobriety.
So far their compensation is a lot higher than mechanical engineers though, especially in the US. And US software engineers are paid a lot higher than in other countries, so that effect is unseen for now.
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It was a long time ago, probably ~ 6 months part time - bringing up the kernel at the same time as a compiler is never easy - it ran in supervisor/user modes in place of VMS's shell.

Porting V6 was harder, it was very pdp-11ish, lots of stuff (especially context switch) depended a lot on knowledge of the structure pdp11 stack frames
> You also have to consider that infrastructure is far less developed in Mumbai

That is not true atleast in Mumbai, the traffic signals work but lot of drivers dont follow the signal because no one is going to catch them, if they dont obey the lights, if they see a traffic cop most drivers will obey the lights.
Is this the google equivalent of “I went to a school outside of Boston”?
> Growing up in communist Poland I remember having to bring to the store empty milk glass bottles to swap them for filed ones

It was common practice in Italy bas well, until the 80s. [Including schools everywhere and inexpensive public transport]

It changed when economy of scale kicked in, I blame our politicians that let companies implement the "American way"
I know these situations can be painful, (and there may be concerns re: confidentiality), but I really wish more founders would share a bit more detail describing what went wrong.

This kind of candor would be hugely valuable to other founders who are still in the trenches.
I thought it was bad in France but now I live in Belgium and it's much worse. That's in Flanders, no idea about the rest of Belgium although I imagine Brussels should be worse on this regard.

People will honk just because they are stuck in traffic, and once one car starts honking, at least a few others will join them.

In my street in particular, this happens at least weekly at 7am and in front of a hospital, and if I walk up to them to tell them to stop because it's useless and disturbs everyone, they get even more angry obviously.
GitHub is archiving all the repositories by etching them onto quartz glass with a femtosecond laser. It should last 10,000 years.

https://archiveprogram.github.com/
Modern JS is a total shit show of competing build tools, APIs that only work in certain ways in certain places, NIH reinventing the wheel. Thankfully there's some standardisation now, mostly due to the heft of Facebook, but it's still some much more work than it needs to be, espeically on the server compared to other web stacks like Elixir Phoenix, Rails, Flask, even Laravel (despite it's frustrating APIs).
I've lost my backup twice. OS says I have to redo the full backup because there's something wrong with it. I have a Time Capsule.
An Inquiry into the Foundations of Mathematics
I can see a company like github or dropbox developing visual versioning and promoting it to make users dependent upon it. It would be an extremely sticky feature that made it hard for users to like competing products.

Imagine how github could push for MS Office integration and become a versioning powerhouse for non-code-stuff.

But I can't see it standing as a stand-alone product that people would really pay for. It has to be part of something else.
I guess the only thing is it risks giving the panopticon micromanagement brigade an unfair point when some of these arrangements do go awry.
Twitter Improves Resource Usage with a Deterministic Load Balancing Algorithm
I've seen two mildly differing explanations for this particular version of rendering visuals being called 2.5D, one that it's 2.5D because the geometry looks 3D, but the actors are all sprites, the other is that the geometry looks 3D but it's actually a 2D floorplan with tricks to simulate different heights.

There's also at least one another unrelated "2.5D" use, when the world is 3D, but the player moves on a strictly 2D plane.
I guess one could also use a lightweight compiler like TCC and write a python module with it. That's a good idea for a side project.
How about another approach...

Design a "pointer predictor", which for a given pointer predicts where it will lead to. I would guess there are many arrays of identical structures, so predicting any given pointer value ought to be doable. The predictor could be as simple as "This object has patterns of pointers very similar to this other object, so use those instead"

Then replace each pointer with a single bit saying "the predictor is right" or "the predictor is wrong, use an alternative pointer stored in an external table".
Maybe the later ones, but the first SimCity doesn't even look 3D.
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Absolutely, the two-terms limit held up and anyway Katrina had broken the wave for good.

There is an alternative timeline where Katrina doesn't happen and GWB forces a reform of two-terms "to get the job done in Iraq, we need to stay the course", or something else to that effect (like Putin swapping jobs to get around term limits). That would have been very scary.
Maybe. Kinda. Not really.

You can have an awful implementation of a connection pooler, sure, but opening an authenticated socket is more expensive by far than just referencing one.

Less so for a unix socket/named pipe- but still much slower than a memory lookup.

Of course you probably don’t care until you hit a certain scale or number of backend system accesses.
I use an editor that has the php help built in to not get confusing errors. You type the beginning of the command and it directly tells you what part is the needle and what is the haystack.
I suspect that they might be addressed in time for the next epidemic
And you think it's bad I guess...

But people don't need cars, they mostly need a way to commute, possibly for cheap

Would you say that the policies that San Francisco is implementing now, banning cars from the city centre, are a consequence of the city being dirty poor?
So externalising office costs onto the workers - lovely

You might want to think about how this effects the housing market if this take off long term.
Not true at all. In 2017, only 7.7% of contributions were unpaid [1], and it's been dropping for many years: "from 14.6 percent of contributions in 2012 to just 11.8 percent" in 2015 [2]

[1] https://thenewstack.io/contributes-linux-kernel/

[2] https://www.cio.com/article/2909736/who-s-behind-linux-now-a...
I run https://improvmx.com, a service to forward incoming emails to a personal inbox (like @gmail's). Is this what you are looking for?
”But I can't see it standing as a stand-alone product that people would really pay for”

IMHO, if it could be smoothly integrated to e.g. Git then there would probably quite a few companies that would pay good money for it.
That doesn't make the assertion wrong, though, even if a bit ghoulish.
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I’m surprised that nobody here is talking about this... Federighi and co had an internal mea culpa and announced some big changes to the way their internal development works. All signs point to this years releases being “snow” versions.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-21/apple-ios...
Yes, it's like a movie series. It's Die Hard 2. That's one name, not two, "2" and "Die Hard", but one: "Die Hard 2".
> It's really just arithmetic.

Understanding these concepts is not the problem. The problem is that even people who understand them very well regularly make mistakes when programming with them, and in C these mistakes have disastrous consequences.

> There's already a few comments about how "safer" languages don't really solve anything. They just push the problems up higher in the stack of abstractions...

The problems that exist higher in the stack of abstractions are present in C programs too. C just creates a lot of additional ways to subvert your program.
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I've been a user at Mailgun for a few years now. Easily sending more than 625 emails per month.

When they launched the new pricing, they said that only the new users will be affected. Maybe they'll change that in the future, but for now, I don't worry.
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The correct merge, in my opinion would be D:

add z w = z + w

My justification is that if you put each identifier on a separate line like this:

fn add(
x: i32,
y: i32,
) -> i32 {
x
+
y
}

then as far as I know, Git would happily merge B and C into D.
I don't know the solution to this - discovery/exploitation is a hard balance to get right.

For what it's worth, I find that if I focus on either making things or doing things with others, I'm happier than when I just consume. But I'm not a life coach - just a guy who spent waaaaayy too much time in my 20's playing videogames, staying in a college program I hated and should've dropped out of, and doing rather little to change it, until somehow the fact that I am, indeed, going to die one day and it's sooner than I think and there's stuff I want to do before then, really clicked in my head (and never went away).
>Lua doesn’t need a special case here, since it uses an iterator protocol that produces values rather than mutating a visible state variable, so there’s no problem with having the loop variable be truly distinct on each run through the loop.

Lua works the same way, every iteration has different ‘i’ in iterative version of for loop:

local fs = { }
for i = 1, 5 do
table.insert(fs,
function () print(i) end)
end
for i,f in ipairs(fs) do
f()
end
-- 1 2 3 4 5

What Lua lacks is a will of its authors to add real-life features like (de)structuring, __[gs]et, multi-spread, quick lambda syntax, generic classlib, generic byte buffers, etc. Read FRs in mailing list before any release for details. It is a DIY in C kit, but how long do you DIY until it’s annoying?

As a long-time Lua 5.1/2 user who likes it, I must admit that with all js quirks and lacks js is simply more practical and that’s what matters.
Can you achieve 100% AI automation?
My maths tell me, an increase of (absolute) 3.3b from 4.3b to 7.6b is a (relative) change of 76%.
You're right in that he didn't say "Trust me" but he did say a trust-seeking analogous of:

"I can assure you that that is not true and that if it was true, I’d tell you it was true."

The definition of assure is: "tell someone something positively or confidently to dispel any doubts they may have."

Note the definition of trust: "firm belief in the reliability, truth, ability, or strength of someone or something."

"I can assure you" presented without any assurances or facts otherwise in this context is simply another form of "Trust me".

In any event, without mincing words, the WSJ article presenting some very concrete evidence that his business is both a mess internally and by the numbers isn't delivering compared to a simple index fund. Why didn't he address this in his post if it was untrue? The WSJ even presented a graph with data to back up their claims on rate of returns. I verified the last years numbers (admittedly with a quick Google search, but two other sources seem to have similar conclusions).
...also, it seems weird to me that workers representatives knew, before the project even started, that it was in their best interest to ask for this data to be anonymized. It was as if workers, collectively, knew the whole time that this sort of thing was systematically happening, and were actively working towards preventing management from finding out. That's what I mean by "not pulling on the same string".
That's another issue entirely and has nothing to do with communism

> It’s almost 2020, and 2 million Americans still don’t have running water, according to new report

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/its-almost-2020-and-...
Cant you get some one to have that gear sent to you
Not only China and not only Hacker News.

I live in Russia and it's impossible to not notice that Russia is portrayed only in negative light in Western media. If there's some news from Russia on BBC, CNN, HN or any other western media, it's always negative. Often without any proof. Often wrong (as I can see by living here).

It's just a neverending media war: pour as much dirt on competitors as you can. People reading news rarely do fact checking. And it is also complicated by the fact that most westerners know only one language (hence they can't find/read any alternative opinion) and trust their media as "democratic and fact-checked by default" (which is absolutely wrong).
This! If anyone thinks that it’s trivial to diff Microsoft’s XML formats then I urge you to please try this:

• Create a simple Excel document.

• Clone the document and change the text value of one cell.

• Unzip both .xlsx files into two different directories.

• Now launch Meld/WinMerge or similar and diff the directories.

Now tell me if you still think diffing this format is trivial.
They could priority mail you the stuff you need. They can add a laptop into someones hand or just make someone hold the phone for you to join the standup via Skype or something. The only argument I understand is the emotional one
> Being aligned with teammates on what you're building is more important than building the right thing.

So, let's cave in to peer pressure or management dictates and continue down the wrong path (technically/socially)?

Strongly disagree with that.

> Peak productivity for most software engineers happens closer to 2 hours a day of work than 8 hours.

Here I mostly agree. The thing is, that you don't know in advance when these hours are going to happen. Also, sometimes it's 2, sometimes 0 and sometimes 8.

> The amount of sleep that you get has a larger impact on your effectiveness than the programming language you use.

(Yawn) Indeed...
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Saigon was my idea of the worst possible honking habits, I can hardly imagine how it is in Mumbai if it's even worse.

But apart from honking, although I wouldn't call the roads "safe" for pedestrians, cars indeed don't really compete with pedestrians, everyone just tries to get along however they can.
Does the threat of coronavirus really justify all this media coverage and fear?
Sorry, I just updated the comment with a direct link to the site which is a freemium SaaS. The other site link is an animated gif that shows how to toggle between the redline and blackline views.
Here[0] is an interesting article of someone who got the x62 and then upgraded to the x210.

He bought it from 51NB (China) and exactly describes how the buying process including returns and repairs could be improved upon by locating stores/branches in other regions of the world as well.

If you would scale this endeavor all kinds of mods can be thought of and I see no problem to choose the one's you want to have. Think of a configuration app that let's you choose a model/chassis and then configure the TP the way you want.

I am sure it will be a great success and also more people will want some of these when they see how lousy their HP, Acer,... (up to and including new Lenovo) laptops are built in comparison. Climate debate will also lead to more people trying to get used electronics because it is more sustainable.

[0]: https://geoff.greer.fm/2019/03/04/thinkpad-x210/
Silicon Valley has consistently failed to disrupt legal markets, not just because lawyers are a protectionist guild, but also because clients seem to want to overpay. It’s a pathology that has something to do with the idea that the higher cost is worthwhile. As a lawyer who has been both a BigLaw attorney and in-house counsel, I find the premise that name brand law firms are worth their fees to be totally wrong. The incentives for any lawyer who is on the clock are contrary to your own best interests, and even more so when they have to pay for a pyramid scheme of senior partners, expensive offices, first-class airfares, etc.

Try going through a funding round with well-known VCs. I bet they all still use Gunderson and Wilson Sonsini instead of the “disruptors“ in their own portfolios.
Diffing the contents of an Office document is not trivial. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22222667
Splatoon also has some of the cutest style and fashion aesthetic in any media ever.

We could really use more bright and colorful future-fi, as opposed to the usual bleak and dark dystopian “cyberpunk” aesthetic.
Thank you for this suggestion, this definitely looks like something I'd enjoy.

"...the myst caught in the treetop. I've never seen or felt anything like it!" " I felt as if I've been released from my body" "sense of knowledge more than human"

Return to _silence_. Without the distraction of others and the world, ie isolation. And in there, after the mind-chatter waned, he found _himself_

I've very recently had similar amazing experiences in the wilderness of mountains where it felt like I was beginning to melt away into it all. Very peculiar! Something I want to go back to...
--

Just did a quick search for philosophy around this movie, the theme of existentialism comes up among others.
http://www.philfilms.utm.edu/1/razors.htm

I'll have to spend some more time here :-D
--

Renunciation. Yes, that's a tough one.
"renunciation of material desires and prejudices, represented by a state of disinterest and detachment from material life, and has the purpose of spending one's life in peaceful, love-inspired, simple spiritual life"

In my own struggles with existentialism, I find the deeper I go into spirituality, the more I naturally experience "disinterest and detachment from material life". It just happens.
What's most interesting to me, is as this happens, also the world seems to fight back, like it wants to pull me in again, not just the struggle with worldly desires, but things like these out-of-the-blue amazing "opportunities" arrive, that when looked at, is just a very polished way to try and pull me back into the world!

Life is amazing indeed.
This is highly suspicious.

Your Android app requires Location and Contacts privileges. Why?!
No generics yet?
Tridactyl for Firefox can launch external editor (vim) by typing Ctrl-I in textboxes and text inputs.
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Phosphatidylserine is an amino acid spinoff determined in high-amount in our mind. It’s terrific for memory, cognition, and attention. however, you need to soak up to three hundred mg consistent with day, which once more, it's far impossible to get with younger brain.
After checking just 2 nootropic compounds, we already understand that younger mind in severely underdosed system and a possible scam.
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> Both of those solve 90% of these sorts of problems.

A lot less than 90% in the graphs at https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-70-percent-of-all-se.... Use-after-free and type-confusion bugs definitely aren't addressed by bounds-checking or split-stack approaches; many heap corruption bugs aren't either.
With Tridactyl for Firefox it is still possible to launch external editor by typing Ctrl-I in textboxes and text inputs.
“Surely headspace around track changes is less ‘PhD’ than git.”

Have you tried track changes? :)
You do get some odd hangovers in these former civil service companies - I could see the GPO having some carve outs via "crown immunity"

Also I believe a few decades ago the Mexican state oil company had a big spill and relied on sovereign immunity to avoid the consequences
On portuguese keyboards, ~ is a dead key. You have to type ~<space>.<enter>
I'm not sure whether that's superior.
Right. When I relocated to a home with FTTH, I switched to self-hosting.
She did when it was in public ownership
If you need help on how handling images larger than your allocatable memory, I seriously recommend to take a look to GDAL lib drivers interface, it's designed to enable best perf from either memory or disk read/writes, possibly on compressed format for the few that allows partial read/writes.
Every home of the future would/should have an office, with the kitchen evolving into a general in-house factory with 3D printers etc. :)

This would have the added benefit of reclaiming the space currently taken up by many office towers, reducing traffic and the associated stress from daily commutes, improving overall health, increasing leisure time, which in turn improves the economy, and so on.