skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Racism is the wrong cause. The mall probably doesn't own the land between the mall and sidewalk, so it is someone else's problem. The city who most likely owns and controls the land doesn't report to the transit system and doesn't care about it - local voters might vote for transit but they are voting from the idea of getting "other people" (note a race thing) out of their car for either environmental or traffic reasons.

The mall developer didn't ask for them because the idea of useful transit doesn't even occur to them. Most places they build a mall can't have any useful connection to transit so they don't even think about how thing might be better with it.
JIT-Compiling SQL Queries in PostgreSQL Using LLVM (2017)
>> ... Gandi.net get a lot of love from HN.

not lately!
That comment is asking for data. At least from that text I don't see them arguing for a vote or not. So that's not a democracy issue, that's someone asking for information.
A small computer with 1 SSD will take at least 10-20 minutes to make a pass over 1TB of data, if everything is perfectly pipelined.
I work for IOHK who use Haskell for a blockchain system called Cardano.

You can see the backgrounds of the Haskell team here - https://iohk.io/team/#cardano

I've found the one general thing is a strong academic background. I joined the Haskell team as a test engineer coming from several years in software engineering (Python and C#) to learn more about Haskell and Formal Methods. Unfortunately there aren't any jobs up at the moment so I can't show the reqs, however there's a compiler engineer role that requires Haskell. https://iohk.io/en/careers/fk03jlb/functional-compiler-engin...
Wolves are hungry and livestock is easy pickings. Grazing requires tons of labs. They find out ways around. Hackers.
Don't forget https://github.com/sindresorhus/number-is-nan/blob/master/in...
Nowadays I find it more important to define what "high performance" means to me and enjoy it when it happen by itself instead of forcing myself into a scheme while destroying my health and happiness.

Sometimes for me the KPI is digging deeper than anybody else can and solve a real root cause issue. Sometimes it means simply not being in zombie mode in the evening (i.e. yes, actually working less). Sometimes it means finding something that may be less efficient but everybody can agree and do together.

In each of these cases having the right kind of tea and tea cup at hand is much more important than training the best scheduling techniques. ;-)
Steven Rinella and the MeatEater podcast[0] is an excellent source of information on Wolves (amongst other things).

They’ve had episode with industry experts on Wolf genetics, conservation, migration, reintroduction, hunting, habitat control and more. Recently they’ve had a running commentary on wolves and Isle Royale[1].

0: https://www.themeateater.com/listen/meateater
1: https://www.themeateater.com/conservation/natural-history/is...
idk...as far as complexity goes, plastics are not really all that bad. i'd argue that many machines are far more complex than a polymer when you consider what it's comprised of and how it functions.
> sort of adds a magic to the application.

I call that design masturbation. Where a designer goes into a room alone and "pleases themselves"
Louridas/Stv: An Implementation of Simple Transferable Vote
You can’t even really work on it as opening it breaks the whole phone. ifixit gave it a 1/10 score https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Essential+Phone+Teardown/967...
Not only the engineers are likely proud of their work and want to showcase it, they may also use this to promote themselves in their search for a new job.
What about this?

https://youtu.be/x4eImh13-ow?t=1072

It appears to be a Georgian documentary, and they describe a Caucasian sheepdog as being larger and stronger than the local wolves.

When I try to Google this topic, I'm mainly getting junk about some speech from American Sniper.
Same problem. I could have first hand knowledge of the issue but still vote contrary to it.
Or lower prices and expand the base??
>He could have taken either route and been safe at least from being canned.

I don't know? Unless I'm misunderstanding the story, I'm not sure the guy they fired could have escalated issues he was not informed of? I suppose we could assume that he was informed of the issues, just not via any documented method?

But based only on the information given in the article, I'm just not sure how someone not even in the loop on an issue, can reasonably be expected to escalate that issue?

Maybe I'm misapprehending the article?
I much prefer subtitles to dubbing. Which is annoying because a very large percentage of Netflix content now is foreign language with bad dubbing instead of subtitles. There are some shows that look interesting and I’d watch but I just can’t get past the dubbing. It would be great if they could add some kind of option to use the original track and subtitles.
I think of the big problems with Smalltalk is how bad the marketing is. There are few posts which get brought up over and over, and they claim the things that are clearly false ("It can be learned in its entirety within 15 minutes!") or misleading (the one productivity study which is by now decades old.. the claim that it has "simple syntax").

I'd like to encourage Smalltalk advocates to write more "from the trenches" posts. A Haskell is a great comparison: it looks like every few weeks there is a post on using Haskell in production, like [0].. Those posts work much than abstract claims of "tremendous benefits" and "magical language".

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22308771
We're not there yet, but they've gotten closer in Bruges...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/08/bruges-pipe-dr...
Same goes with SiMa Yi and ZhuGe Liang, at least from the TV show "JunShiLianMeng"(Alliance of Strategists). The famous SanGuo Yanyi story - KongChengJi (Ruse of the Empty City). SiMa Yi did not enter the city even though he know ZhuGe Liang was bluffing, and ZhuGe Liang knew that he knew. Strategically, if SiMa Yi kills ZhuGe Liang, he would won the war against Han, and CaoCao would have no use for a powerful strategist who has won people's heart - SiMa Yi would surely be killed. It's a great modern TV show.
I was recently looking into CRDTs for text-editing, and was surprised to see that Github devs were working on an experimental text editor (Xray) [1] along with a finer-grained version control system for real-time collaborative editing (Memo) [2]. That project, however, seems to have been lost (and archived) in the Microsoft reshuffling of things.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16525735

[2] https://github.com/atom-archive/xray/tree/master/memo_core
I'm not convinced someone raising livestock "knows how it works" beyond their personal interests either.
It sure can, but the odds are against it overlooking all of them.

Of course, maybe the genes leading to blindness and schizophrenia together also lead to some other defect that results in miscarriage or some other kind of early death.
> My question is rather about why HN would find this interesting.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8844083

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7094402

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8107588

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8246255

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4639271

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5903868

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2358111

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=387789
I wonder how Abe Vigoda is doing...
You might think so but you would be wrong. For example, try making a link to add a calendar event from Safari vs. Chrome vs. Facebook in-app browser, etc.
If people have to mouse over things to see what to click, you already failed. We call that "mystery meat"

And the constant flashing of colors and backgrounds all over the page as you move the mouse is extremely distracting.
> I’m not sure this is totally a rip from Hollywood or a kind of modern Potemkin city.

There's certainly an interesting amount of cross-pollination from Hollywood. The ur-examples of districts built this way remain the idealistic Seaside, FL [1] and Celebration, FL [2], both of which have different bits both directly and indirectly of DNA/influence from Walt Disney's original super-idealist EPCOT city [3] ideas/ideals (not to be confused with the park that later inherited that name).

Seaside and Celebration are interesting too because they themselves have been used as movie sets influencing things the other direction. Most notably and effectively, Seaside, FL is the main set of the movie The Truman Show, lending a lot of the meta-weirdness to that movie "naturally" just in how Seaside, FL very much is.

(Fun anecdote: A neighborhood in my own city has some connections to the same developers/planners of Seaside, FL, some of the same meta-movie set feel, and it was a "requirement" by my parents when I went condo shopping to not even look at condos in that neighborhood because they knew I would never stop with Truman Show jokes/gags if I lived there.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seaside,_Florida

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebration,_Florida

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPCOT_(concept)
To add to your point: I ran some experiments a while back with curved coins. The coins have to be absurdly shaped before the shape affects the outcomes:

https://izbicki.me/blog/how-to-create-an-unfair-coin-and-pro...
Hear hear! Beer beer!
Separate types for literals, characters and strings? That's already more complex than Python, not to mention TCL.
Thanks for the feedback!

We do indeed have custom auth and pricing in the works :). Can’t give an outline on delivery because we have so much other stuff to take care of, but the API registry is already built to handle these use cases.
Fine print: But it might cost you $300K CapEx or $800K/yr OpEx. Hope you have a budget!
Neat, but for everyone writing kernel modules: can this be a BPF program?

Looking at what LKRG does, it sounds like it can.

At my employer, asking us to add a kernel module to our BaseAMI (since this needs to run on every instance) is a very hard sell. Asking us to add a BPF program, which comes with security by design, is much much easier. Or put it this way: we add zero kernel modules to our BaseAMI, but last I counted we were at 15 BPF programs (and Facebook has over 40.)
Wow, I learned my really depressing fact for the day. My knee jerk reaction is that usury should be outlawed entirely, though I suspect that would be harmful in other deep ways. Writing good laws is like writing bug free code I guess.
Anything similar to this for gitlab?
This could be good for Colorado.

I had to watch this video [1] for my biology class. It's interesting how the wolves changed the entire ecosystem by just changing the behavior of deer (they avoided grazing near the river because that's where the wolves wanted to be). The ripple effects are fairly significant.

1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysa5OBhXz-Q
I disagree. In no way does it add to the communication or understanding of the numbers. It just makes it take longer for them to appear.
A thread from 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17673922
Start making a list of production incidents caused by bugs that aren't possible in Haskell. Even better if you can attach a monetary cost to any of them.

Find a small, relatively independent project and make the case to try it out.
normal iCloud backup I don't think so, but it does ask you to turn on 'messages in icloud' once you upgrade to iOS 13 and/or get a new phone, albeing one time only.
That's a heck of a bright side
They had to add settings to turn that stuff off because it makes people woozy. "cute" design with no user goal has collateral damage.
Keeping classified information secret in a world of quantum computing
BB10 was a delightful OS to use. And QNX under it was the most rock-solid OS I ever used (I learned C on it, in the late 1980s).
CG CP - Center of Gravity, Center of Pressure.
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We should probably be using the absolute value of lines of code, so abs(LOC) as the metric, or something like a least squares mean for estimating the moving average of LOC per day.

Anymore, my daily average LOC is probably negative since I tend to rescue floundering projects. I usually avoid object-oriented (OO) programming whenever possible, as I've found that functional one-shot code taking inputs and returning outputs, with no side effects, using mostly higher order functions, is 1 to 2 orders of magnitude smaller/simpler than OO code.

Also I have a theory that OO itself is what limits most programs to around 1 million lines of code. It's because the human mind can't simulate the state of classes with mutable variables beyond that size. Shoot, I have trouble simulating even a handful of classes now, even with full tracing and a debugger.

I'd like to see us move past LOC to something like a complexity measurement of the intermediate code or tree form.

And on that note, my gut feeling is that none of this even matters. The world's moving towards results-oriented programming, where all that matters is maximizing user satisfaction over cost of development. So acceptance test-driven development (ATDD) should probably be highest priority, then behavior-driven tests (BDD), then unit tests (TDD). On that note, these take at least as long to write as the code itself. I'd even argue that they express the true abstractions of a program, while the code itself is just implementation details. Maybe we should be using user stories implemented per day as the metric.
This sh*t has to stop.
When will customers of these core computing platforms (primarily most of us) finally come to grips and demand a minimal feature set (similar to libreboot), and refuse to accept these inherently insecure products- or at least demand recompensation for damage done to them?
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Audience First Products
Why are we so bad at software engineering? Because most software comes without any liability.
Classic apple- hiding useful features behind very unintuitive gestures / controls. I never would've discovered this on my own.
It's incredibly shallow and also those numbers are easy to balance without having a diverse organization, just hire a non-white-male-identifying-employee as an admin assistant for every white-male-identifying-employee.

If the company actually wants a diverse workforce then they need diversity at all levels of the company. Is the board diverse? How about the C-Suite and managers?

If the levels with higher authority in the organization are diverse then it is much easier to justify the composition of different groups as being due to local market conditions.
I've made a similar loss and maintained it for about 15 years (so far). Although I'm still marginally obese, a number of symptoms I was having have greatly reduced or left entirely.

You could say I failed, in that I'm still fat. Or, you could say that I succeeded, since I lost more weight than most people ever will, and have kept it off, probably forever. Life's like that.

(How? No idea. Did eliminate most pop and quite a lot of fried/sugary/floury food from my regular diet. But who knows.)
People want it all: 100 acres in the middle of downtown, with great suburban schools nearby. Don't forget about various shopping, parks, lakes, or whatever else your preferred lifestyle wants. Depending on your situation in life you will choose from the different available compromises.

Note I said available compromises. Legal zoning rules often prohibit some of the choices. In most suburbs you cannot buy a house within walking distance of shopping - so if great schools are important you may be forced to do without great shopping.
Nicely done! It kind of reminds me of this old video: How Differential Steering Works (1937)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYAw79386WI&t=209
I would be surprised if it didn't work that way. That's the way PRs work on their website too.
Run vs Code on a Remote Server
I think you’re vastly underestimating the B2B API tooling space. Large enterprises and SMBs run tons of things atop SaaS APIs, often held together with staples and duct tape.

We have businesses that run on top of us today that are only just beginning to automate huge chunks of their operations with us, Airtable, Slack and other tools. Previously these things were hacked together in an unmaintainable fashion. It’s a big space.
Name and shame since you're on a throwaway.
Tether's Stablecoin on Algorand's Next Generation Blockchain Platform
The hybrid (5 local, 2 remote) scenario happens often on our team. We’ve been trying team.video since they have built-in features for those interjection techniques you talked about.
And be ready to catch that wave of productivity when it hits. Personally I can't work 8 hours straight. I try to make work a part of life, and it's not bad since it's a creative job. Have some structure to fall back on but take advantage of the flexibility when it is useful. Get Excersise in during the day, your mind a body will have more energy. Go to a coffee shop/library and get around other people. Get in your 8 hours in the most comfortable way possible.
Your 'approximation' is doing a lot of the work here.. Since you have a binomial distribution why not just use it directly?

(1 - 2e-6)^(3e6) ≈ 0.002

So about 0.2%. Still highly unlikely but orders of magnitude more likely than what your normal distribution-detour gave.
I always wondered if Apple deliberately tried to kill wacky ringtones by having every default ringtone suck except for the standard simulated landline phone ring so that everyone would just choose that one.

But these days everyone just keeps their phone on silent anyway...
Analyzing the individual strokes works flawlessly with Chinese and Japanese, where the stroke order is fixed (occasionally with a few variants). If you have the stroke information and the user writes correctly you can recognize characters that even humans would fail to read from the finished glyphs.
Yeah, I turned on my PH-1 yesterday after using the Pixel 4xl for some time. The PH-1 is still by far my favorite, both the form factor and fingerprint unlock. RIP
Please don't shame users for creating new accounts. I appreciate that you're trying to protect HN, but we definitely don't want to attack people for joining the site. The damage that does in the case of a genuine new user is much worse than the benefit it provides in the fake user case. If you suspect abuse, please follow the site guidelines and email hn@ycombinator.com instead so we can look at the data.

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It's true. Democracy is the worst form of government...besides all the others. Dictatorships and monarchies typically don't place a priority on educated governance either (even if they claim to).
Is there any chance that tesla is lying with statistics?

A fun example, someone was selling some meat, he said it is 50% rabbit and 50% horse because he used 1 rabbit and 1 horse. The conclusion is when you read some statistics you want to find the actual data and find if statistics are used correctly, most of the time as in this case the people doing the statistics are manipulating you.

There was an article about a city in Norway with 0 deaths in 2019, if I would limit my statistics to that city only, to that year only I will get the number of 0 people killed by human drivers.
Are you American? If so, that is a false statement. DODI 5240.1-R says "[DoD components] Will not participate in or request any person or entity to undertake any activities that are forbidden by E.O. 12333 or this issuance." [1] The NSA, which has the SIGINT authority from EO 12333 [2], is a component of the DoD. A non-DoD entity, such as FBI, Treasury, etc, would (a) not have a foreign intelligence mission and would therefore go through normal court procedures to obtain warrants to collect your communications or (b) would need to coordinate through the executive agency (NSA in the case of SIGINT) to request support for foreign communications, which brings us back to the referenced DOD instruction requiring FISA approval.

1: https://dodsioo.defense.gov/Portals/46/DoDM%20%205240.01.pdf...

2: https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/codification/execu...
Or you paid way too much in AT&T equipment fees for decades before the breakup of Ma Bell and very much were going to get your money's worth for that $1000+ phone. My grandfather obstinately didn't want to replace a kitchen rotary simply for fun sunk cost economic reasons.
Apple’s malware problem is getting worse
Can’t play this video now, but would be neat. No idea. Just seems unlikely. Wolves are master collaborative hunters. Dogs are... dogs. But I’m no dog vs wolf expert.
It is not difficult to understand, though? Out of the EU, every party is going to lose in the short term. As a EU citizen, stay away for a while and let the UK drift until their role coalesces into something smooth and clear enough.
Making $$$ with ML
So, in one instance Intel recommends to disable the use of the Renasys USB 3 driver software. I don’t know offhand if Microsoft has a driver that replaces the Intel provided one. It may even be the case that the driver included with Windows is also affected. That’s pretty bad.
I had heard things along these lines that that video has been debunked:

https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/scientists-debun...
> But that totally defeats the purpose of autopilot...

Of a true autopilot, sure, but for now they all are pretty far from being one. For now it's only purpose is to have to make less effort while driving.
https://archive.md/hk4Cd
Unsupervised Approach for GAN Interpretability via Semantic Direction Discovery
You know what else costs? Humongous amount of servers to run silly stuff to orchestrate other silly stuff to autoscale yet else silly stuff to do stuff on your stuff that could fit into memory and be processed on a single server (+ backup, of course).

Add to that small army of people, because, you know, you need specialists of variety of professions just to debug all integration issues between all those components that WOULD NOT BE NEEDED if you just decided to put your stuff in memory.

Frankly, the proportion of projects that really need to work on data that could not fit in memory of a single machine is very low. I work for one of the largest banks in the world processing most of its trades from all over the world and guess what, all of it fits in RAM.
>However, the paywall busting site I use — http://archive.is/ — doesn't have https

This seems to have changed as the following works for me: https://archive.is/hk4Cd
That's a shame. I've been using the KeyOne and now the Key2 for the last several years, and I've really liked them. Typing on glass has always been an exercise in frustration; turning off all the helpful autocorrect features and simply typing out exactly what I mean on the keyboard is a relief that allows me to actually enjoy using a phone.
For real, it can't even work with regular expressions decently.
Not sure what you mean. I’m talking about raising cattle. They know how to raise cattle. It’s in the stores, they produced it. You know how to produce whatever you produce. They don’t know how to produce what they produce?
There's not really any data to retrieve. Newton Mail is an email client rather than an email service. Oddly they had announced a shutdown about a year and a half ago but Essential bought them out right before the shutdown and kept it going until now.
And keep waiting/hoping for modules.

Where unity builds and pre-compiled headers cause more declarations to become visible in a source file, modules allow stronger separation.
This should be a win for the SW architecture, whereas pre-compiled headers tend to muddy up the includes.