skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Huh, so why do cars in Europe tend to be smaller, where I was under the impression that emission laws are stricter?
The original thread was about nurbs not being used anymore over polygons. Displacement doesn't change the equation between polygons and nurbs of course because they both go in as high level primitives. Hair is a its own thing of course. I know you know this, but I think a lot of people missed the original point.
A rainy day is best for negotiating a vehicle’s price.
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> if the app just gives you a ton of alerts, because maybe you encountered someone in the street with the virus

If I'm not mistaken, the protocol as currently defined by Apple and Google only flags an exposure if you have seen at least two different beacon payloads from the same issuer. The payload changes every 5 minutes, so you would usually not receive an exposure notification when an infected person just passes by you on the street. You might see one of their beacons, but probably not two, and most probably not two beacons with different payloads.
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Well, hell. I've done surgery on those files before. Not sure how I forgot that.
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Commit history has saved my ass more times than I can count. Especially useful on a codebase that has churned through a lot of developers that you've never met.
The clue is in the first sentence of the article:

"For my swan-song I’ll supply the faithful with a tall tale of the sort that induced Mark to invite me on to his blog. I’m sure he would have enjoyed the mixture of verifiable truths, multiple ironies, and fuel for nested conspiracy theories."

It's just a bit of fun.
Excited to use this when it supports Concourse CI with Authentication.
Your examples use * and $ and + before they are explained. Inductive learning goes smoother if new concepts have context.

You explain [^ ...] So the use of these examples without explanation is .. unexpected. If you use examples which don't depend on * or + or $ I agree it's 'boring' but for a class of learner these surprise moments interfere with learning.

You only casually mention capitalised \thing is inversion of \thing \d and \D I think you would want to repeat that \w and \W and \s and \S and after three.. it's established.

I see this a lot in e.g. Haskell tutorials: simple inductive constructive learning examples littered with 'oh I explain that later just ignore it for now' syntactic constructs.

\( and \) are dangerous in substitution. Their meaning shifts from regex to variable-marker. Surely this needs to be noted in passing?
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The other side of that is that there are certain kinds of recursive organic structures that are very hard to make with a modeling tool, but can procedurally generated with a little bit of code. Making realistic trees is hard, but I've made cartoonishly-plausible trees in POV-Ray without much effort. (Define a level-0 tree as a leaf attached to a twig; i.e. a flattened sphere stuck onto a tapered cylinder. Define a level N tree as two level N-1 trees transformed and rotated to project from the end of a branch.)

Making a plausible human face with just a text editor, on the other hand, I wouldn't know where to start.
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maybe they're Stingrays ;)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stingray_phone_tracker
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Per his request after watching to leave a comment - imho it Is a great work. Some might say it is a total waste of time but what is a waste to one, is a entertainment with great value to others. Bringing a small picture around and draw it for 10 years is really a waste one may say. But to one it is trying to re-create a beauty of a woman called Mona Lisa. Cheers!
This HN post is 10 years old (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=992023), and links to David Wurtz's website that is timing out.

Based on another article (https://bizshifts-trends.com/stupidity-in-business-a-fine-li...)

I don't know if the TV mount person is David Wurtz, or someone he met.
Being a city dweller, I don’t own a vehicle, however I wonder if this glut means there might be some good deals on vehicles later this year? I’d love to get my hands on a Toyota 4Runner for some off-road adventures.
If there's a better wording, we can change it.

Edit: I've changed it to the HTML doc title for now.
I meant it in the sense that it turned into binary blobs that became less accessible for humans to manage, and a place where both Apple and 3rd party vendors started hiding magic stuff stored who-knows-where in a format that isn’t easy to grep / find.
Make a list of email addresses of sellers you would purchase from. Email them with a price under what you’re willing to pay. See who responds with best offer. Repeat every month until prices stop going down. And depending on what brings you joy in life, don’t waste too much time saving a couple thousand dollars.
So do I buy now, or wait a few more months?
We are seeing this unravel in front of our eyes. Wonder how much time it will take for this to reflect on the consumer side, it at all.

Similarly I am not seeing any impact on real estate. I am guessing that will take a few more months.
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I don't see the problem here. The regex itself is exactly the same, it's just that different languages have different string literal syntaxes (and some have dedicated regex syntax, thus solving the problem of double-escaping).

The only regex engine where this is a problem is Vim's, because there are characters that a special unless escaped, and characters that are normal but become special when escaped. And as if that wasn't enough, there are config options to determine which characters those are. My usual practice is to prefix all Vim regexes with \v so that all the special characters are at least consistent.
The SNES cartridge, briefly explained (2019)
Fair point, though I read it like this, which doesn't make the claim _so_ bold :)

> Twice as fast as other Javascript parsers (sic) written in JavaScript.
Interesting — I've never hit that, presumably because it always works the right way if you use tab-completion or are copying a command from the GitHub/GitLab UI. That's good to know about.
True, but then they closed it up and boarded it off. It gets less open as we go, which is the opposite of what I want.
it changes the nature of the question.

now they have to prove you extracted the specific copyrighted material from those random bits that where exchanged.

sure copyright would still exist, but proving one infringed on it becomes borderline impossible.
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar, even if another comment contains something provocative. It's tedious, and against the site rules because we're here for intellectual curiosity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It looks like it's fancier than average -- bread from a special bakery, "high quality beef" and so on.

I wouldn't care for a fancy takeaway döner, I think other meals benefit far more from better ingredients etc. Evidently, others do appreciate it.
On the other hand, in recessions a lot of demand can shift from new to used. That might partially counteract the fact that used supply is less flexible than new.
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Physicists identify unique signature to confirm quark-gluon plasma in universe
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Unfortunately the 32gb config only comes with Windows. I just bought it, and in case anyone else is interested, try chatting with the customer service. They got me a year of ProSupport and a storage upgrade (256gb -> 512gb) for only $3 more than the cheapest price I could find with coupons.
Because the CAFE standards are a US thing
Imagining that you know how Elon's mind works seems like hubris. Not sure even God knows.
Lyft cuts internship salaries by 50%
Lyft just updated all interns with an e-mail; they are cutting the internship to just 8 weeks, and slashing the hourly rate (variable amount depending on function). Not sure how to handle this...
Couple that with the dozen+ oil tankers just sitting there full of oil and nowhere to put it, with more on the way. https://www.businessinsider.com/13-photos-reveal-the-epic-oi...
They could get around that by simply buying AMD who has an old-but-still valid second source license from intel plus of course the true 64-bit x86 architecture.

They could also just license it from Intel. AMD has some hot designers (some who cycled through Apple!) but overall has little to add to Apple (in my ignorant-of-the-true-state-of-Hines opinion. And I admire both companies).

Apple’s never been afraid to license something rather than do a perfectly legal legal clean room but-almost-perfect clone.

I doubt they’d bother.
I think mariodiana is describing a hypothetical language where a and b would both be int-pointers in this case.
Why are clinical trials so complicated?
What a bullshit article.

Quote:

> "I brought him a deal three years ago for $100 million. All he had to do was, other than giving his name and likeness, make a one two-hour appearance to announce the deal and he turned it down," Falk said

They offered $100 million for Michael Jordan's name and likeness.

Air Jordan's brand is worth over $3 billion dollars, and they offered Jordan a fraction of that value for the core of that business.

Do they think Michael Jordan is an idiot?

Do the authors of this article think their readers are idiots?
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Sorry for the weird spelling, I had a character limit
100%. Apparently relatively few have experienced the power of `git bisect run`. More than once I've had to explain that no, this isn't just some idiosyncratic aesthetic preference, there's a reason your version control tooling is designed the way it is.
They control the architecture and in theory could put in some hardware support for emulation. I can’t speculate as to what that might look like.
> there is a lot of dirty money laundering happening through these small "boutique restaurants".

I don't believe that -- why bother with a boutique restaurant when you can just run a crappy kiosk / convenience shop instead -- but forced closures cause an interesting predicament to anyone with a business like this: if their illegal income is continuing, how can they continue to report it when the front-business is supposed to be closed?
> but I am honestly tired of how methodically wrong the criticism are toward that person

The criticisms are described as "methodically wrong", but I disagree. In fact, while the US P frequently dabbles in ad-hominem, most criticisms of him seem valid and well presented. I don't feel he is being unfairly targeted by falsehoods, since much of the critique is a direct result of what comes out of his mouth, rather than hearsay.

I do agree with you on click-bait journalism. I think the current US P has given the media an unbelievable boost, and they must be (secretly!) hoping he stays in office forever. I mean, they have probably never had such a sensational political soap-opera to report on! Yet only part of the sensationalism can be blamed on the media - much of the story is sensational in its own right, thanks to the person involved!
But this subscription business died so doesn't it demonstrate the opposite of what you're saying?

In the good old days, businesses thrived perfectly well off of one-time purchases of products.
Agreed. It's like comparing Hz among dissimilar CPUs.
On the one hand I like this idea because I'm tired of Intel's lousy security and lousy energy budget. On the other hand I dread it because Apple will not fully document the ISA of their new CPU (just like with their current mobile lineup) which means it will become impossible to develop one's own programs for the Mac, write code in whatever language you wish, or distribute programs for the Mac outside the Apple-controlled walled garden. You'll use Swift and Xcode and you'll distribute your programs via the App Store with Apple's approval, and you'll like it. Or you won't develop for the Mac.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23039560

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> Dealers are the human face of the company. Someone to talk to in your town if things go wrong. Assurance that there is a mechanic that can fix it if something breaks (not just the engine, there are many other parts that can breaks. Assurance someone will be able to get the parts you need.

Basically all of those things died with the rise of the internet, because you then have direct access to the manufacturer via their website and could order parts and have them shipped to you. It would also be a lot easier to find a local mechanic if the manufacturers would publish the service documentation for their vehicles on their websites, which they don't do primarily to placate the dealerships who don't want the competition.

It's almost surprising that you can't buy cars on Amazon yet. You can buy cars on eBay, although presumably not direct from the manufacturer as a result of the nonsense dealership laws.
That’s great to know! The company I work for is considering a print campaign in Physics Today. We make some instrumentation - it’s good to know people actually look at the ads!
A little more personal, but it may help with ones cash flow.

Also in times of high inflation, delaying payments is beneficial.
So is the bar unrealistic or have we created a toxic economy?
you can do this with a synthetic control. i did this at https://www.alexpghayes.com/blog/elon-musk-send-tweet/
Can you please stop breaking the site guidelines? You've been doing it a lot, and we ban accounts that do that. I don't want to ban you, because you've also posted some very good comments. But if you keep vandalizing the site—which is what comments like this one, "your selfish rant is horseshit", and others you've posted amount to—then we won't have a choice.

HN is fragile to begin with, and gets more so as comments like this evoke worse from others, including from the (far more numerous) cohort of users who like to post this way and don't also post some very good comments. A forum like HN is perennially teetering on the edge of a downward spiral and can easily burn itself to a crisp. The founding idea of the site was to try to stave that fate off, at least for a while:

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This project makes my heart so full. Thanks for your team‘s hard work, meaningful and necessary work.

Y’all need to apply for YC’s non profit program (edit: I see you’re already in Mozilla’s accelerator, equally good!). I hope you can scale up to audio and videoconferencing with more resources and backing (donated compute, open source tooling like Jitsi Meet or similar) and chip away at the for profits in the space taking advantage of the families and loved ones of the incarcerated.
While I agree with the message about essential complexity, I disagree that all complexity is essential. In fact, I think it let's us off the hook far too easily to just claim all complexity is essential. It's easy to invent complexity, in fact it's the default. I'd go as far as to say that about 50% of the complexity in software is non-essential. And in terms of what to address, it's a bit like paying off debt - just like you should always pay your credit card first, always start by eliminating the non-essential complexity.
Logitech had keyboard covers in the start of 2013 for the iPad (including for the iPad Mini).

It was not technological limitations preventing Apple from making one themselves.