skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another alternative is Perl's "POD" format, even if you're doing something not at all Perl related.

It's a fairly established common format that can be translated into text, HTML, markdown, man pages, etc.
No need for a Dyson sphere.

Theoretically, you could place a relatively small, dense object fairly close to Betelgeuse and protect your entire stellar neighborhood. I haven't done the math, but I suspect it would have to be so small and dense that it would be a black hole.

You'd probably be better off just trying to shield your planet from whatever lesser energies eventually arrive.
... only if you're willing to cool something else ;)
The business folks can be too clever too.

Dealing with that at work right now. We got super clever, changed a couple times, tried to be even more clever, and engineering gets to pick up the mess and try to make it all work.
Thx, that is so much better a link than the Wikipedia entry!
"Nearly there - just complete this captcha to see our advert!"
Are you sure there is no authentication?

https://www.seroundtable.com/google-adsense-verify-sites-265...
The asymmetry you are seeing could be a convection zone (the bright spot being the convection zone). There are also theories that the dimming is from expelled matter, and I believe there are telescopes taking measurements to confirm or deny this idea.
Ask HN: LLVM’s Noalias
I know it’s not normal to ask such a broad question on HN, but I’d rather try in a community I know than some random r/

Why does LLVM’s noalias seem to enable optimizations when compiling Fortran, but C and Rust do not appear to be able to do the same?
Looking at very low mileage 2019 Teslas for sale on Autotrader, in the $40-50K range is about right. The cheapest used 2019 model 3 in the whole US is more than $33K. And the only 2020 examples are much more expensive.

You can argue forever about technicalities, but $33K is not an apples-to-apples comparison. In fact, I would say if you are comparing brand new 2020 cars, $50K+ for the model 3 is more realistic, and you should take into account the discounts other cars have.
Unfortunately there is an entire generation or two now of mainstream developers who never had the opportunity to experience things like Hypercard firsthand. It is always difficult to describe the full extent of the power of systems like it without being immersed in it, and we don't really have contemporary equivalents to make the case.
well it would become noteworthy that their failures make news simply because they had taken the concept of recovering the first stage to the point of people just assuming it was how rocket launches are meant to be.

I remember the first video of one successfully landing after launching and being wowed but when two landed together then it truly felt like science fiction had become reality
> you need to give YNAB your bank username/password

I am constantly amazed by the people that are willing to do this for various value-added finance sites; people that I would normally consider sane. Unless your bank provides (and you used) a read-only account authentication, if something goes wrong and your money disappears from the bank, the bank is going to tell you to take a hike. I can't imagine taking this kind of risk with my money.
SpaceX has made landing so routine that now failed landings are news.
The irony of this comment is palpable.
People have different strengths and weaknesses, and should try to find jobs that fit theirs. It seems doubtful that someone for whom the conversation starter suggestion "How’s it going?" is useful has the strengths needed to make management a good choice.
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I mean on the page content. Using something like Google's Recaptcha would reduce friction for legit users.
They're not going to want to piss people off because it's viewed as an inherently destructive act. Instead they'd look for more positive resolutions. I can only speak for one Big Japanese Car Company having worked in their corporate office in the decision-making department.

- They'll use Microsoft Sharepoint and Microsoft OneDrive for file and document management, not because they're better products but because Microsoft wishes that they don't use a competitor's products and Big Japanese Car Co respects the desires of their partners.

- After a demo between a new company with superior in-car tech and an old partner with inferior in-car tech, BJCC chooses the old in-car tech because once you're a partner with BJCC, BJCC takes care of you through the good and the bad.

- If you direct a meeting, whether small or large and you say something incorrect, the one person in the crowd that noticed your mistake won't say anything and will actually nod their head in agreement and respect. This is due to the saving-face aspect of the culture.

- Bringing others on board with a decision when you don't have access to the primary data or analytics is much easier when it involves copying a competitor. It also diffuses responsibility if things go south. Saying we did secret teardowns of a Tesla model 3s and are basing our design decisions off these teardowns means you can say it was Tesla's decision, not "my" decision.

On the other hand, BJCC has historically cared a lot more about not pissing off car owners by making more reliable vehicles at fair prices that are less likely to break down. For that reason, at the end of the day, I buy a BJCC car.

It's the old argument of individualism vs. collectivism. The right balance is probably some amount of both.
Well, disregarding radiation resistant space whales (which would be able to migrated to another star anyway), I think it's pretty clear the radiation and onslaught of solar winds from Betelgeuse will sterilise everything in the vicinity.

But you are right, nothing can be ruled out ;)
In Defense of the Galaxy Fold
I wonder, has anyone contacted Google and somehow avoided getting banned?

Google seems to show no outward no interest in actually unbanning anyone once they're banned, do they care if you tell them beforehand that you're concerned someone is messing with your ads?

And if they do care, does that even help / wouldn't the "ban this guy" script just run anyway?
This has already happened at least once, I wouldn't expect revolutionary change from a repetition.
Yeah it is a lot for this market. VW makes around €500 per car, on average.

But even that kind of a margin benefit may not justify the current valuation...
Related video of Last Week Tonight on different kinds of junk science: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScmJvmzDcG0

There does seem to be some issues with how the court system has failed to keep up with the modern day. Issues with scalability, accessibility and science literacy are leading to a general distrust of the system.
> There is a gap in tooling

Understatement of the century.

Professional software engineers often struggle to get their development environment up and running quickly. My wife is a historian and does a lot of work with R. The process of getting the development environment working and keeping it working was a nightmare. "What the fuck does that error message mean? When I Google it nothing comes up. What do you mean I have the wrong version of python? What the fuck is a PATH variable?"

With cooking there are entire stores dedicated to selling you things that you can use. Almost every home comes with a working "cooking environment". Even just making it so you could recompile some software if you wanted to is way way way way beyond the expected capabilities for a typical person, especially since a tremendous amount of OSS code is not portable and built for linux while most people have windows boxes.
That's what Detroit car companies said when Japanese car quality started taking off.

The worst fit and finish I ever saw was my sister's 1980 Dodge Aspen.
I believe they do a little horizontal kick just before landing when they validate things are look good. Potentially something wasn’t right and it just crashed into the ocean like 100 yards from the drone ship.. the good thing is that spaceX seems to learn from all of these issues and compensates, so will be interesting to here what happened.
Writing code that can be debugged is a skill that can’t be taught, only learned from experience. Sometimes painful experience.
"why are you redesigning the world from the ground up here? Are you going to rewrite entire embedded operating systems in ternary when you have this chip? How on earth is that going to help adoption by developers?"

I believe it's a variant on the popular cryptocurrency business plan of "if I throw up enough smoke, I can tell you that behind the smoke there's a beautiful shining city that just as soon as the smoke clears, you can go live in forever and ever, so you'd better buy in now before it becomes overcrowded!"

For this plan to work, you want the quality smoke, you know, thick, luscious, oleaginous, billowing and colorful and perhaps even interesting in its own right. On that front, this "ternary-computation" smoke is pretty brilliant stuff.
How would it "reduce friction for legit users"
You seem to think that disposing cars like iPhones is a problem. Sure, it's an environmental problem, and not what people who drive a Corolla for 20 years would prefer, but is it a practical problem for Tesla, or a huge opportunity? You know, look at Apple. They don't have to have everyone be a customer as long as it seems like the best people are and they make ungodly profits from each of them.
Dijkstra is supposed to have said something like this though the origin is disputed.

"Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."
I think parent comment meant putting up a captcha on the website for suspicious traffic, the way Cloudflare does.

I don't think anyone is silly enough to suggest putting captchas on ads.
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TLDR: We built out an API for sending handwritten letters at https://www.handwrite.io/handwritten-notes-api

Quick backstory: I was helping a small moving company build out some marketing automation as a side gig.

We were ingesting housing data and as soon as a house went up for sale, we'd use lob.com to send a direct mail postcard letting the home owner know we'd love their business.

But the postcards didn't convert well, and were super cliche so I went searching for something that might feel a little more personal.

That's when I met my cofounder, Dan, here on Hacker News! (Here's the comment actually: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19780024)

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Yeah if one scam doesn't work... now you've got a known good weapon.

Google's willingness to shut down a lot of things on what seem like a very surface level fingerprinting means it's pretty rock solid to predict what will happen.
Hooefully this willnget Google to take appeals from suspensions more seriously
That shows that Nikkei did not do their research. $33k is Tesla's deceptive advertising of "Price after Est. Savings". The cheapest car actually costs $40,000 plus tax.
I am not really a front end dev, but recently I begun to toy around with some front end work and after a few hours of research I decided to go with Vue. My reasoning was that it seemed "lightweight" enough that you could use as much or as little as you needed.

From those who know more, is this a correct appraisal? Do the other frameworks also allow you to pick and choose and only use small parts as needed?
I find that I don't get very many "bad" hires. It's pretty easy to tell if someone is a good developer or not. In the rare case that someone bad slips through, it's easy enough to fire them. That's only happened to me a couple of times though. It's not something I'd optimize for.
That has nothing to do with the discussion at hand, and would do nothing to prevent a malicious ad clickbot
It's easier to write code than to read. This isn't a fact but it is generally accepted by many. It doesn't seem obvious at first why but "reading code" isn't like "reading".

https://jonathanfries.net/code-is-still-harder-to-read-than-...
As fingerprints and “lie detectors” are still generally accepted it seems the answer is “no”
I don't think you can be much more efficient than learning over a period of 8 years if you maintain so-called work-life balance, or being an autodidact. Remember that they have 4-year degrees for this.
In a somewhat similar vein to the OP, some of the details associated with publishing a new podcast can be rather manual and error-prone. This is especially annoying in the context of simple interview/discussion podcasts that don't really take all that much time to edit/post.

A fairly simple Python script can automate the fiddly things like creating XML for a new podcast and uploading things to wherever you're hosting. (I used to use a script to add intro and outro audio too but I now do that as part of the audio leveling process with Auphonic.)
I could have sworn there was a renderer for gviz+dotty that did the left half (text ascii plots) but can't seem to DDG it for the life of me. Did I imagine it?
Mark Zuckerberg: Big Tech needs more regulation
Max and Pd are interesting languages. Quoting the original designer, Miller Puckette [0]:

"The design of Max breaks many of the rules of computer science orthodoxy, sometimes for reasons of practicality and sometimes of style."

Audio and control signals are both represented in the same canvas, but with substantially different semantics. Audio signals are roughly what you might expect if you are familiar with analog audio processing: plug one box into the next, and data is constantly flowing. The control signals are actually messages (think MIDI), and can have some counterintuitive semantics. For example: if a single message is sent to two different objects, then those two objects send a message to a third (diamond shape), the third object will be executed twice, despite all of this happening in the same logical time-step. Execution order also depends on the position of the objects in the canvas, IIRC.

The semantics are at least partially historical, because when Max was originally developed, real-time DSP wasn't available.

[0]: http://msp.ucsd.edu/Publications/dartmouth-reprint.dir/
Pretty sure the Roadster and the Model S were the luxury cars, and the Model 3 was supposed to be the affordable, non-luxury one.
"The Architecture of Symbolic Computers" by Kogge comes close.
Giant stars are quite short-lived, with Betelgeuse estimated to have at most a 15 million (not billion!) year life before becoming a red supergiant . If simple life did evolve in time, it was wiped out about 100,000 years ago as Betelgeuse became a supergiant.

One last fun fact: Betelgeuse is about 125,000 times brighter than the Sun in absolute luminosity.
Reminds me of the awesome looking Optimus Maximus Keyboard from 2007: https://www.artlebedev.com/optimus/maximus/

I always thought that’d be the future of keyboards, but instead we got the touchbar.
Could you use Google Data Studio for it instead?
Agreed for very specific applications. General purpose stuff, C is more than sufficient imo
If this doesn't lead to a change in googles fraud policies, I'd bet this will be the next viral scam. It's a classic protection racket, and requires far less technical ability than ransomware. Renting out botnets is big business.
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It's definitely one of the most identifiable constellations and has several bright stars in the sky: Betelgeuse, Rigel (one of the brightest from Earth) and Bellatrix. The Orion nebula is resolvable with binoculars and easily captured in a DSLR (although it'll be blurry if you don't have tracking).

A newer favorite of mine is Scorpius (visible now at my latitude ~fivein the morning when I walk my dogs); mostly because of Antares, one of the visibly reddest stars in the sky. (And for similar reason, I'm a fan of Aldebaran/Taurus.)
"I believe CVS has carried homeopathic OTC products for years."

Read the labels of some of them. In some sort of bizarre double-fraud twist, there's actually some "homeopathic" products that contain meaningful levels of the active ingredients, and are basically labeled "homeopathic" the same way the words "organic" or "gluten free" get tossed about with wild abandon on products that it should be absolutely irrelevant for. (I have a picture somewhere in my family photo pile of water being labeled as "gluten-free".) It's like homeopathy, stripped of the idea that the more you dilute the better, or, homeopathy without the homeopathy.
QUIQ and OpenSSL
As others have pointed out, while it's easy at a quintessential level, it's not easy if you're dealing with actually complex (and clever) structures.

I don't know if you've ever had that experience in your OllyDbg-using days, but did you ever try to analyse software that was using some form of hashing function, or cryptography (ECDSA, for instance) with OllyDbg, without knowing what it was? The idea is kind of like that. While it's easy to get a concrete idea of what that block of code is doing (feed it an ASCII string and some memory structures, it spits gobledygook out), it's not so easy to look at it and conclude "Ha! This implements AES-CBC!" without some strong intuition or experience.
I agree. I’ve been burned by the reference management and reactivity. Vue 2 doesn’t let you manage your data separate from Vue it’s self, the data tree needs to be inside Vue.
Kombucha, which I know is a flavor rather than a smell, but every time I've tried it, I have the sensation of smelling a rotting public waste bin on the side of the road on a hot day--and it's in my mouth.
Tesla isn't just an auto manufacturer. It is also a distribution network, a direct dealer network, service network, and fueling station system. They aren't displacing the market opportunity of just Toyota / VAG / etc. They are displacing the market opportunity of much more of the value chain.

The Toyota engineer worried about jobs in the supply chain is just the tip of the ice berg. ICE cars are substantially more complex and require much more regular maintenance (all the way down to increased tire and brake wear).

Incumbent auto makers not only have to worry about resistance to change upstream, they need to worry about downstream too.

[I hold no equity short or long position on Tesla now, have not over the past few years, and do not plan to going forward. My personal investing is outside of public markets in general.]
What prevents you from using DDD on a PC or Mac though? You may need to install an X server, but you should still be able to run it.
I haven't listened to that many, but I can recall liking these:

1. https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/137-taylor-otwell-of-la...

2. https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/131-tyler-tringas-of-ea...

3. https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/086-lynne-tye-of-key-va...
John von Neumann is someone that often comes up in this context - there are numerous anecdotes on how he was perceived as frightingly clever; also his body of work is beyond impressive.
"But they’re still predominantly internal combustion engine era designs"

This is implicitly saying that what matters is not even the specific car you are buying, but the image of the company and their entire lineup being electric.

This cuts in the opposite direction for me - it is a significant reason why I wouldn't buy a Tesla (other than the price). The company is so tied to Elon that if some sort of scandal happened to him, it would instantly taint owners of the cars.
> Tesla isn't sharing their chemistry

Isn't it Panasonic that manufactures the batteries and sells them to Tesla? Can't they sell the same batteries to everyone else too?
> debugger helps save time by not having to constantly set up that state to see how things have occurred

Absolutely. I found out very quickly in my career that I can either stare into the code for hours to see the tiny mistake, or spend 10 minutes stepping through the code to let it tell me what's wrong.

But, it is of course more difficult if you have to debug a complex code base that you don't know. It might take you hours to even know where to place debuggers. So, it can be time consuming, but of course it's still orders of magnitude faster than staring into the code, trying to see where the issue is.
There's some reasoning in this thread: https://old.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/7p2rik/redream_h...

Notably, this comment by the developer (with followups): https://old.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/7p2rik/redream_h...
French here. If you travel to a French-speaking country, don't hesitate to speak french, even if it's not perfect. Priority is to be understood. For an english-native, the temptation is probably to speak english because « everyone speak english in the world » (wrong), but generally people prefer listen a foreigner speaking their language with errors than perfect english.
Resistance is futile. Just give in.
Good question, and I don't know that easy/hard is the correct dimension here.

They do seem to be been caught off guard by some combination of how quickly the electric car market has taken off, and what is possible to build.

There seems to have been a reliance on the argument that people need a range of X and because that isn't achievable the market will be small.

I think that complacency and/or conservatism may be the real issues here.

It's not entirely dissimilar to the slow response of the American car industry to the rise in quality of Japanese cars. But that also provides a model for how they might (albeit slowly) rise to the challenge
SQLAlchemy has too this for hybrid attributes/expressions.

https://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/13/orm/mapped_sql_expr.html
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Sweet project.. Is there any thought or plan to open source this project to contribute?
If you want to be pedantic, let's get pedantic.

Turing-completeness isn't a property of computational models, it's a property of problems. A problem is Turing-complete when it cannot be solved by any computational model less powerful than a Turing Machine, or other Turing-equivalent computational system, such as the Lambda Calculus.

Moreover, a Turing machine does not have an infinite tape. It has an unbounded tape. Its tape is not limitless, it is extensible, such that a computation cannot fail due to running out of tape. Hey, you wanted to get pedantic.

Finally, in practical land, the distinction between Turing-equivalent and non-Turing-equivalent is very relevant to real programming languages: Epigram is pointedly not Turing-equivalent, and therefore it's possible to prove programs in that language will halt. Moving away from Turing-equivalence frees you from the tyranny of the Halting Problem.

https://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2007/01/05/turing-equivale...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigram_(programming_language)