skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know how SLS's escape tower works and I expect your right with respect to it. However that's not true of all escape towers. The escape tower used for the Mercury-Redstone missions at least was meant to only work when the rocket below it was no longer accelerating.

This became a factor during the (unmanned) Mercury-Restone 1 incident, where the launch tower flew off when the rocket was still on the launchpad, leaving the capsule behind on the rocket because the capsule was only designed to detach when the rocket was in freefall (it wasn't in freefall, because it was still on the launchpad.)
It's not necessarily all that inscrutable either. We know that a lot of deaths are in places like nursing homes, and that measures which reduce spread amongst the general population aren't necessarily going to be as effective at preventing spread in nursing homes since those obviously have to be staffed, etc.
> In the OCaml world, at least, pretending OOP never happened seems to have worked out just fine.

... you know that the "O" in OCaml stands for object-oriented... right ?
What would stop people using a CNAME record to point ads.example.com to a third party ad server? I don't think there would be a way to use cookies to track people across different sites, but the ad servers could still use ip addresses and browser fingerprinting to check if its the same user.
google bought doubleclick. what other serious competitors did they have ?
Marissa Mayer's startup raises $20M
I think this would be a good idea in the long term, and I'd like to set something like this up. Ambitions like making sure driver maintainers have access to the hardware they need, paying for security audits, and so on, would be great. The biggest resource that is scarce is time, though - so for the time being this is the easier approach.
> According to the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, your universe branched into many universes the moment you decided to use a for-loop. In this universe you wrote a for-loop, but in another universe you wrote a while-loop.

Nonsense. If universes branch into many other universes, they do so when an event on the quantum level needs to be resolved. I presume that during any single decision-making operation, there are trillions of probabilistic quantum events took place in your brain, but your decision to use the for loop was almost certainly fully deterministic, because at this point in time you personally almost always pick for-loops.
I’m in your camp. Don’t use it much. But not a heavy take away user in general. I have a preference for fresh food even if it’s McDonald’s (10 minute old McDonald’s is worse to me). I don’t even like drive thru much and they proliferate in Texas.

That said, when I order delivery (usually pizza), I just call. I feel like any amount of web/app UI, doing the ordering and account creation/management is a huge hassle. The telephone is easy and fast. It’s like Alexa except with a real human. Y’all should try it out /s

But seriously, I’m a little older (that weird pre-millennial gen), but I find it crazy/funny how extreme the younger generations avoidance of voice calls has become. I don’t like talking on the phone, but sometimes it’s the best UI.
I can't help but think that fighting big tech with anti trust approaches is like fighting the T-1000 with a katana. You can win a few fights, but it just reassembles itself because they will outsmart the challenge adapt to the new situation.

If you want real change then you got to be more radical than just separating Google search from Gmail or Instagram from Facebook.

I have no idea how, but the goal should be to change their incentives.
Believe it or not Android was response to Microsoft's Windows Mobile(Windows Phone) and not to Apple's Iphone. Google was afraid at the time that Microsoft will release it's own "smartphone" and put Bing(Windows Live Search) as default search engine on it. But eventually Windows Phone killed itself and Google is good to go.
I've been working on a phone check-in system to help small businesses social/physical distance their customers by having them wait in their cars instead of sitting in waiting rooms or standing in lines.

https://lobbly.com
Those 127 SAN's have wildcards which are not the left most label, which as i interpret it would be a violation of rule 1.
Not specific to AG Barr. Every AG under Trump has had the same goal.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/09/25/inside-...
Hacker mindset to me is the predictable ability to swap between divergent and convergent thinking at will to discover optimal paths to desired outcomes regardless of means, context, biases, etc. — frequently just for the fun of it, to learn more, to be intentionally different, etc.
VR in rooms is pretty hard. VR with two people in the same room... you better not let them move from where they stand
Yes, I know. I meant the ongoing discussions about how it should look like when we do get it. A lot of M4A agitprop is built on that notion that it would be uniquely bad in comparison to other countries for US to go for anything other than single payer.

I get why this is, propaganda aside - the only developed country that borders US is Canada, so their health system is the one that Americans are most familiar with, and the one that's most often used as a prop in political debates here. And Canada is single payer...

But even that doesn't fully explain it. For example, all proponents of M4A in US want to implement it on the federal level. Canadian healthcare system was created bottom-up - started in one province due to popular demand, gradually adopted by others as it became obvious that the benefits vastly exceed any downsides, and eventually the feds stepped into the coordinating role, but provinces still retain the final say as they can always opt out of that federal system. So, why can't US do the same? For that matter, why shouldn't the states be able to decide for themselves whether they prefer the Canadian model, the German one, or the Swiss one - and then we can see which one works better here? I never got coherent answers to any of those questions.
This is also the thing keeping me from using my PinePhone, and my OnePlus One running Ubuntu Touch. I used the latter as a daily driver for a while, but after missing some messages that people sent me (some of which were fairly important)... no, they're not in a usable state for me yet.

Don't get me wrong, I'm really excited about both projects! But in my area (east coast US), people tend to just assume that you can receive MMS/group texts, they'll send them to you without a second thought, and the idea that you might not receive them won't even be on their minds.
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> Google's dominant market position was achieved through market competition not through impairing the ability of smaller companies to enter markets.

Have you been living under a rock?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_vs._Google#Goog...
Real depends on the content. If there is no structure to a podcast I think you can speed it up.
It would be really cool if we could confirm some of these estimates. Like maybe if we used tests? The government could run a program to test people. Then they’d know. And they wouldn't need to keep guessing. It wouldn't even need to be everyone, just an appropriate sample.

Nah, fuck it, let's just keep testing MPs and guessing about what to do next.
Whoa, I'm so out of my depth. This is really cool. Thanks for sharing. I didn't know about the multiverse levels!
Or because they had to do a test launch and launching a block of concert would be boring. Why not do something that gets some more media attention and thus exposes far more people and kids to Spaceflight.

But its defiantly just because of his ego, not thought went into it beyond then that.
Governments Shouldn’t Use “Centralized” Proximity Tracking Technology
This is seen even in very technical fields, such as physics. As the saying goes in poker, if you are in academia and can't spot this person, then it's probably you. It's also a slightly cynical take on imposter's syndrome, in a way.
I don't think it's meant to be an insult. The way I interpret it, "intellectual tourism" means looking at / listening to "intellectual" topics, but only in a cursory manner with little deep conversation.
I think the point he’s trying to make is people are reading, but reading blurbs and tweets, rather than long form content like a book or an essay piece. Similar to eating fast food as it’s readily available, accessible, quick instead of choosing a more wholesome meal with good benefits.
You're correct, this doesn't work on stable or beta releases.
The article only mentions tests of GS-441524 on animals, but not humans, whereas remdesivir empirically seems to be reasonably safe in humans. Switching from the one thing that actually possesses efficacy in humans to something that has mainly been tested on cats seems like an unnecessary gamble at this point.
You can use the Ungoogled Chromium builds, which also remove the remaining creepy misfeatures that Chromium has: https://ungoogled-software.github.io/ungoogled-chromium-bina...

The builds themselves may potentially be insecure, but they're rather popular among the security-conscious target audience, so I hope someone would notice if they go bad.
> I imagine a serious lisper would be offended by the suggestion (because, well, ergonomics matter)

Curiously, it did come up in the context of ergonomics in another discussion thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23178953
Is CoffeeScript all but dead? I use Ruby and Python a lot so the syntax of CoffeeScript looks great to me!
And having done a fair bit of procedural programming back in the day F77 and PL1/G only the most trivial of programs have every thing as global state.
So greed and our patent system are getting in the way of saving lives.
I think at some point you "forget" what some emoji really mean. I've kept my circle of friends quite small in the last couple decades, and we're all using this emoji for sarcasm. It's akin to private jokes, that crack you and your friends up every time, and then when you try one of those with other people, you're the only one laughing.

My other colleagues were not confused by my usage of the emoji, although they've known me for some time now, and they know that I'm not the type of person to actually roll my eyes while talking to someone, or even look down on them.

At least it was a nice reminder that our ways, customs and habits, no matter how normal they seem to ourselves, can still look crazy from the outside.

But I agree with you, it may have been one of the best sentence to use this emoji with. :)
Is there something fundamentally wrong with creating the Airline oligopoly though? Maintaining domestic ability for commercial airline traffic seems like a smart idea. Having a singular search and ad network company doesn't.
OnePlus 8 has infrared X-ray vision filter that sees through plastic and clothes
It's fine and good to sell a fast and cheap but unreliable database and market it as such. It's another thing to sell a fast and cheap but unreliable database and misleadingly claim it has “among the strongest data consistency, correctness, and safety guarantees of any database available today”, with “full ACID transactions”.
Try using bang syntax for more specific results. Ie: append `!so` to search Stack Overflow, etc. It's similar to Google's `site:stackoverflow.com` but much nicer.
You're saying that both "adding search engine choice" and "removing search engine choice" are monopolistic tools for Google?
> You are right, the capital cost of millions of servers worldwide, with security guards, and buildings, and cooling is zero.

Not even close to the capital costs and margins of an airline.

Compare AWS margins and capital costs with Amazons retail margins and capital costs for example.
Because we are not all using the same brain. Many people have many opinions, and some people even sometimes act counter to their preferences based on the context! Wild stuff.
> the biggest problem is that OOP focuses on state changes (of objects). State change means complexity, so formally, you need to understand the set of all possible states to reason that the program is correct.

This is just not true. In fact that's the whole point - you encapsulate state. It becomes easier to reason about.

When I write a webserver, do I need to know or care about the internal state of the classes dealing with the TLS protocol? Or do I encapsulate consistency and correct behavioir at that level and then use the interface elsewhere?

I don't need to know everything at all layers.
this is totally fair, but these days you are far more likely to find engineers to hire who know JavaScript or Typescript, than Coffeescript. This certainly matters more to larger projects and larger companies.
Parks and Houses for the People
I wonder how things would be if Stage6 came out on top instead of YouTube.
Yeah, interesting the things people want to punish for. The inverse isn’t quite a grace.
How Not to Store Passwords
> you can't reasonably desire herd immunity if you can avoid it.

And that is the crux of it. Can you avoid it? If you can avoid it, by all means do it. If you can't you might as well make sure you reach herd immunity by infecting the least susceptible age groups.

The ability of the population to stay indoors is limited, _especially_ if they don't see the effects of the disease (because they are indoors, right?) so you can't be able to keep up the pace for 2 years.

This is basically a bet on whether the resolution will be reached through herd immunity or some other means, some drug or quick vaccine.

If you do get the resolution by herd immunity anyway, you want to infect the least susceptible population and sustain the highest economic activity and standard of life for the population. If this bet pays off, you're least affected. If it doesn't and some magic solution shows up, you will have already bore the brunt of your approach and more people will have died than they should have.

If you get some sort of technical, quicker solution to the problem, the you will have the least overall number of deaths and will have paid a comparatively small cost by doing a lock down for a couple of months only. If this doesn't pan out and you get my herd immunity anyway, your overall number of victims will be higher than the herd immunity folks because statistically the spread will be uniform through age groups and your economy will be in worse shape because more people had to stay at home for a longer time.

It's all in what you think is the most likely resolution to the crisis and how well you follow through with your plan. I am though of the opinion that if you're to commit to a strategy, commit to it fully.
What language are you writing it in? There are some common tools that can detect race conditions dynamically (i.e. at runtime). Especially easy in a language with a GC where you can lean on the reference counter.

Go for example has a race condition detector built in to the tool chain (go run/test/build --race). They won’t tell you how to fix it, but they’ll tell you which lines are in the critical region that the programmer missed.
Google has many competitors in the data gathering business. If you combine the few big tech companies data gathering it is a significant portion thereof, but the fact that you have to combine them means any one is not a monopoly by itself.
The first Website to use hand tracking from user camera for navigation
Andela has laid off approximately 10% of its total staff complement
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/gkda0i/how_not...
How large a team I have certainly worked on large scale projects using procedural languages and I don't recall any problems with the required discipline
> America is increasingly becoming a land of large companies controlling industries where the consumer almost always loses

Increasingly? When wasn't that true? You have to go back to pre Civil War, where the economy was heavily geographically split due to movement/transport limitations, which mostly voids the discussion (it was very much a local and regional, agriculture-heavy economy, with limited manufacturing and a very limited consumer goods market as we know it today; not very comparable to anything that exists now). Once you get near to or beyond the Civil War and firmly into the industrial era, the combinations begin essentially immediately and they dominate their segments rapidly. Vanderbilt got so rich by aggressively creating monopolies in his day, in transport. It was far more brutal than anything you can imagine today, in all respects including the options/alternatives that consumers had. From US Steel in 1901 to the few giant railroads to Standard Oil to American Tobacco to the couple remaining giant auto companies (eg GM, Ford, Chrysler) that survived that industry's shakeout in the following decades. Further, you had a small group of industrialists and financiers that cross-controlled everything regardless (and they had few laws limiting their behavior), as with eg Rockefeller heavily dictating terms with the railroads to crush his competition.

Leap forward in time: Sears, PAN-AM, IBM, General Electric, General Motors, Ford, AT&T, US Steel, US Rubber, Bethlehem Steel, Armour & Co., Kodak, Polaroid, a very small number of giant media companies like CBS, and so on.

Yesterday was dominated entirely by massive corporations. It doesn't matter what decade you select. Whether it's 1910, 1950, 1980, or 2020. It wasn't better in the past.

Markets always do this consolidating naturally. Your only option to prevent that is to use the government to prevent or interrupt it.
Regarding the problem of repetitive Slack onboarding messages, I recently created an email filter rule that I think should solve it for me. In Gmail filter syntax:

Matches: from:(notification@slack.com) "you have a new direct message" "from your conversation with Slackbot"

Do this: Skip Inbox

This rule might be harmful if Slack ever sends both Slackbot DMs and real-user DMs in the same email, but my guess based on emails I’ve received in the past is that Slack doesn’t do that. Before activating this rule, you can search your own email history to see if any useful emails you received in the past would have been hidden by this rule.
Does it work in the feline at all? FIP is a deadly disease, if the compound was any good word of mouth would spread amongst veterinarians. Unfortunately, the outcomes are not encouraging.
J.K. Rowling doesn’t understand Bitcoin, Twitter tries to explain
I guess you could make sure each signed tweet starts with a YYYY-mm-dd HH::MM::SS (TZ) line by itself. At least then a reused old message would look weird because the time would be wrong, and easily visible (but also easily ignored in the common case, which is probably what is wanted).
> > > Are any of those companies (except Amazon) even in the same league in terms of negative impact as big tech?

> > Boeing's 737 Max debacle killed two plane-fuls of people. It's pretty hard to argue that either Amazon or Google has had negative effects on that magnitude.

> I don't think it's particularly useful to compare across industries like this, especially when invoking an "appeal to worse problems" to justify ignoring a problem under discussion.

Interesting sequence of comments. Perhaps you placed yours at the wrong level but it certainly doesn't look like good faith at the moment.
Imagine believing that American jurisprudence will survive Trump.
This is the video that inspired this project, but I don't think that I'm knowledgeable enough to answer your question with 100% certainty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpEvv349Pyk
US Senate blocks attempt to stop FBI accessing browsing history without warrant
It’s a pity that all the best text to speech and speech to text systems are cloud based with heavy vendor lock in.
AIUI, copyright holds for a specific fixed expression. So if an artist drew a face that looks incredibly like yours, the artist would hold the copyright over that drawing, but have no claim over your face.
> I eat a Reese's Cup and my agonizing, incapacitating pain drops dramatically to bearable levels.

That’s strange. Pain from low blood sugar?
> where the typings aren't matching up with reality.

There are also libraries which provide runtime type validation, such as zod or io-ts. Can only recommend; they allow that in combination with typescript's strict mode your types become completely reliable.
I hadn't realized the number displayed through GrubHub is different from the one displayed on e.g. Google Maps.
Ideally we could work on both. Remdisivir is apparently nightmareish to produce - it's unlikely that that Gilead can fully capture all the value on the market with it alone, especially if another another therapeutic becomes available.

That said, it makes plenty of sense why you would begin with your drug that has already passed clinical trials. I'm a bit disappointed that the article didn't emphasis this point. I'm certain the authors know about it, and even if they aren't out writing a hachet job, it can make this piece seem like one.
VRChat more active but also more insular during pandemic, says embedded reporter
You can absolutely load unpacked extensions on Chrome, it's just not as convenient.
I’m not sure that’s inherently disqualifying. When it comes to questions of law and justice, it seems entirely reasonable to ask about similar cases, simply to investigate the equal and fair application of law, no?

“Whatsboutism”, as I understand it, is a technique where one brings up ill-proven allegations that are unrelated to the matter at hand merely to distract.

Here, the claim seems much more on point: it’s that this is a political case, as shown by the failure to pursue similar cases against other companies.

(Is it? I don’t personally know. But it seems like a fair point to make.)
Very difficult to understand what's going here, through the snark, personal abuse, name calling, and political bias. Everyone's trying to communicate through increasingly scathing Tweets and declaring each time that the previous Tweet is yet another new low point. Not a useful way for anyone to get a point across. Everyone should be embarrassed.
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I wrote a CSV-reading library 16 years ago that I'm pleasantly surprised handled most of the points of trickiness the article mentions.

https://www.neilvandyke.org/racket/csv-reading/

The documentation section "Reader Specs" gives a good idea of the different variations it intends to handle. I was working from a sense of variations I'd seen myself, and extrapolating.

One thing I also did, which I didn't see in the article, was to support comments.

Unfortunately, at the time I wrote it, there was no standard Unicode support for Scheme, so I didn't get into that, but just used the character abstraction (which might or might not involve parsing of a particular non-ASCII encoding).

Fortunately, AFAIK, it's worked for people, since fixing/extending it at this point would mean relearning the code. :)
As one example, Chrome might act differently if it were separate from Google the advertising/search giant.
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I read their point as “information hiding is not a concept exclusive to OO.”

Whether or not the original quote meant to imply that I’m not sure, but do see how it could be read that way.
I don't get this thread. The link is marked as an ad. How is it even remotely surprising that an ad spoke that is misleading? Yes, they're doing something wrong here, but the thing they're doing wrong is also standard industry practice--take out ads on every remotely related keyword for your own site that may or may not sell the specific product listed in the ad.
really nice, my 2 year-old is going to love it
Is it -all- work sample based? Or does leetcode come into the picture somewhere?

(BTW, does that mean homework? Just want to clarify. Something like "build this feature or write a function that does this" kind of thing?)

How about the on-site? What do they make you do there?
For a failed paradigm, there sure is a lot of perfectly successful software written using it.