skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reading your blog post brought back memories. The first Hacker News article that got me to make an account was How To Become A Hacker[1]. That led me down a rabbit hole as a high schooler that got me into software and later hardware. There's definitely a direct line from me reading that article to me becoming a hardware engineer.

I hope your article helps create the same effect on an unknowing high schooler. Thanks for putting it out there!

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html#nerd_connect...
I'm open to the argument that my imperative / scripting background in some way primes me to learn rails but makes it hard for me to navigate a haskell codebase, and that this is human difference rather than one language being inherently more navigable than the other
Consider the following pseudo-code:

list2 = bubble_sort(list1)
render(list2)

Now suppose the user deletes one item in list1.

The question is now:

Will the update trigger a new bubble sort?

Will the update do something smarter, like just delete the DOM element?
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I mean, there's also the option to directly bribe the representatives, who could view their selection as an opportunity to cash in, if they lack scruples and/or are in need.

Probably a lot easier to regulate than election spending, but still game-able.
What do you think will drive the market towards that? In my city our bookstores are closing. Many individuals use tablet electronic-readers. Will it be the electronic books, or the demise of bookstores that drives a publishing industry revolution?
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For a 1-bed that's actually $500-700 cheaper than it is in my area (Kendall Sq. in Cambridge).
The difference is that publishers have professional editors that ensure a minimum level of quality.

Kickstarter is more about how good your pitch is.

In fact quality control is, I think, where publishers bring the most value today. Both in science and in the general case. Maybe the only one in the digital era.
Except that [i] ignorance, apathy or severe illness is a bizarre characteristic to select for in government, and [ii] it probably makes it highly irrational for most interested and knowledgeable people vote (tiny chance of actually wielding significant power and influence vs not-much-bigger chance of making a difference to which elected representative gets to wield it). Unless, say, the opposition party is really, really threatening to them to the point they're prepared to surrender their chance of representation to vote against the threat....
Ah now. Dick comparisons between old men. WTF?
Libraries would be only illegal in the US though, because all these copyright issues are US specific.

Archive.org might as well rebase itself somewhere else.
and that mathematical proof is much more sound than an economist's Efficient Market Theory. QED.
I'm confused about that part. There's cases of people living without food for many months, given enough stored body fat. I'm assuming there's a reason for the surgical approach (you still need water and supplements), but I think the article isn't clear on what it is.
Spending a dollar to save 21 cents isn't very wise. The only case for not showing a profit is to invest in R&D, expansion, etc for the long term.

In addition, if they were merely inflating expenses, then they'd be able to adjust and have plenty cash. This doesn't seem to be the case.
So this generates cartoon character or something?
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maybe have a cronjob keep an eye on https://www.thiswebsitewillselfdestruct.com/api/get_ttl and ping you if it gets low.

Maybe run something like this hourly, which would give about 2 hours notice:

curl https://www.thiswebsitewillselfdestruct.com/api/get_ttl -s | wc -c | grep -v 26

(Though don't run it right on the hour as too many people doing that might temporarily take down the website.)
IA's lending is not unlimited, even with the National Emergency Library. The books are still restricted by DRM, they do keep track of how many copies are out for each book, and they do monitor the system to prevent abuse. It's a real library lending system, nothing like what they do with actual public domain works.
This seems more in the realm of poorly managed expectations and less intentional and malicious copying. After reading his original blog post[0] I felt like they were originally interested in acquiring his software, but decided to go in a different direction with it and just weren't transparent about that decision at the time. It's not like they had to talk to him, the code is literally open sourced.

There's definitely things to gain from talking to the author of the project, but seems a bit reaching to suggest they wouldn't have been able to do what they did without talking to him. And it seems like a particularly pessimistic read to assume they were just lying to him outright to pull from his experience. Very little to gain from being a shark in this scenario, tons to (potentially) gain from acquiring an existing package manager. Gotta follow the incentives.

It's also worth mentioning that he mentioned the name similarity in his post in this way:

> When I showed it to my wife, the first thing she said was, “They Called it WinGet? are you serious!?” I didn’t even have to explain to her how the core mechanics, terminology, the manifest format and structure, even the package repository’s folder structure, are very inspired by AppGet.

He did not go on to mention that his own name was (nearly certainly) inspired by apt-get (stylized as AptGet on Ubuntu[1]). Implying he was the originator of the name [X]Get for a package manager seems aggressively dishonest, to the point that it throws his entire side of the argument into question for me.

I haven't looked thoroughly into the code, but this feels like someone who was expecting something to come out of his hard work and is (understandably) bummed it will now likely amount to nothing. I have trouble putting much blame on Microsoft for that.

[0]https://keivan.io/the-day-appget-died/

[1]https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AptGet
>The press can only talk about your accomplishments if you actually have some.

Why is it that Elon Musk fans claim to be about these overarching, prohumanity missions ("Accelerating the transition to renewable energy! Enabling people to live on other planets!"), but then spend half their time hating on competitors with common goals?
According to one coverage report the project sizes are 7 million lines for Qt vs. 1.2 million for GTK. If true, they are indeed much closer in size than I imagined -- I was sure it's at least one magnitude of difference in size if not even much more.

https://scan.coverity.com/projects/qt-project
https://scan.coverity.com/projects/gtk
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Context:

Current MVP stack
- Java ingestion ETL
- Python analytics ETL

Constraint:

You are a 1-pizza team with vastly different skills sets.

Question:

If you were looking to build out a scalable web platform / product around the current MVP (to expose insights from the analytics), how would you decide between integrating a Java or JavaScript microservice framework?
e-books are very tricky when it comes to copyright. Even the retailers who sell the ebooks on Amazon (or elsewhere) are not really the "owners". It's always the publisher who is considered to be the owner. So technically you do not own the ebook you bought, you just license it for yourself on your device(s). [0]

Isn't there an ongoing lawsuit against Amazon on this issue where someone is suing them for misguiding people about ownership when you "buy" an ebook from them?

[0] https://goodereader.com/blog/e-book-news/this-is-the-big-rea...
Your link was broken by HN, which tends to get confused by links that end in ".". Here it is with the trailing dot encoded so HN will not mess it up:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Records,_LLC_v._ReDigi...
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I finished an associates degree at 38 from a community college, one of the credits I used was 20 years old. I would agree some of the classes were box checking and pointless.

The degree itself isn't useful but it did make me take a few classes I wouldn't have otherwise. I took physics 101 in person and absolutely loved it, I took art history online and didn't expect to like it but it turned out interesting.

Assuming you can go somewhere where the credits don't expire I suggest taking one class a time when you have time available. Read the rate my professor reviews and look for the good teachers. Most of the time online is fine but don't be afraid to take a class in person, lots of older students at night classes.
I agree with you that Docker should not be there, but the reality is that people us it to replace some other tools (like venv).

I wonder why you prefer the former approach.
My original post makes it sound like the accenture engineers dropped the ball. That was not my intention. I wasn't personally involved, had already gone on to other things. My impression, in talking to hertz people over the subsequent years, were that the engineers were fine; it was an issue of sales overpromising and resource allocation, as well as incongruities between stakeholders, but that's second and third-hand information, so take that for what it's worth.
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Might also be that people are preferring to not move in the coming months (thanks to COVID-19) and so the units that _are_ on the market simply aren't finding many buyers.

I'm actually looking for a new place in the Bay Area next month -- some units have their sticker price uncharacteristically low for sure; many have some kind of specials running too, like first month rent free. I asked a few leasing reps if this is due to the current situation and they invariably say these specials have always been in place off-and-on throughout the years, but perhaps that is just a convenient statement to convince prospective tenants that their "desirability" is quite inert to general market conditions?
> they're a net positive for the environment, since they're sequestering carbon into books.

You mean like 'clean coal?' Got it.

And no thank you, that's not how environment math or nature works. I hope better sense will prevail eventually and you'll come around to accepting the evils under all that jargon.

Edit: 'Carbon zero' is probably the best spot to be on, but isn't an achievable goal no matter what path you take. However, the net carbon impact with a digital circulation is less than 0.0003% of what a dead tree circulation would achieve nationwide in all US with a bestseller.
There's an ongoing lawsuit involving a non-profit offering free live TV using what appears to be a loophole in the copyright laws. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locast

That particular loophole probably doesn't apply there, but similar ones might.
When was news factual and unbiased?
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The trouble of distributing Qt in binary format is the C++ non standard ABI problem. Qt has to be compiled for every possible compiler and many different versions of the same compiler, in order to avoid linking error. On Unices, most compilers, specially GCC and Clang, are using the Itanium ABI, but on Windows, compilers still have different ABIs, so linking against Qt shared libraries built with older versions of MSVC compiler may result in linking error. On Linux, there still the problem of implicit dependency on GlibC (GNU C Library), most applications built using newer versions of GlibC will not work on distributions using older versions of GlibC. It would be nice for Linux Desktop, if GlibC did not break the binary compatibility.

That said, the most suitable way to get Qt binaries for development may be using a C++ package manager such as Conan or Vcpkg which can cache the library compilation output and reuse it on many different projects without recompilation, unless the current compiler has an incompatible ABI.

Conan C++ package manager recipes can also provide pre-compiled binaries which reduces the compile time pain. Another interesting tool is the conan server which allow fetching conan recipes and pre-compiled binaries on the local network or across the internet.
Was wondering the same thing, and downloaded the source to experiment. I’m on Mac.

What do you think it would take?
Classic "garbage in, garbage out"
It best suits my needs and taste. I wrote a bit more why here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23323927
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It's yet another dog whistle to his white supremacist followers, though more of a blasting trumpet than a dog whistle
sorry, but I'm certain she would prefer I didn't.
Supply increased significantly due to condo and SFH owners opting to wait it out until 2021 rather than test the sales market (listed as rental and willing to offer competitive prices since they’re sensitive to vacancies). This is driving the General strength in sales pricing for Bay Area housing. Demand for buying has come back strong in May while supply’s return is slow. I do see listings picking up in the last 2 weeks. Summer will be interesting.
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Apple's Sales Distortion Field. offer a must-have device without something it clearly should have, only to unveil that feature later as a new Apple perfection. It goes all the way back to copy and paste on the iPhone.
The common example for the "would this even work as a parliament" is the EU parliament.
It has 705 seats, and is filled with people coming from ±150 different parties: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_political_parties_in_...

It has a very performant track record. It is not organised as your typical parliament, and has a lot of structure to make this work, such as organising in groups which mostly bridge elections.

Of course, these are mostly seasoned politicians. But I reckon a similar structure would work for a sortition based parliament.
>A lot of art seems about being in the "in group", so you can show your sophistication by appreciating things that others don't get.

His art is highly accessible though, you don't even have to go to a gallery to experience it because it's right there in the world. There's nothing to get, it's just beautiful, has a huge sense of scale and having so much bright color of the same shades entering your eyes is something you'll likely only experience that one moment if your life.

>The goal seems to be to get people to think about the question "what is art?"

Couldn't be further from the truth, I think you'd really benefit from visiting a gallery and seeing some work in person. You don't really experience art from the pictures and looking at is so cynically as to having a take of "admiring how they swindled money".

Really to me art is more like a theme park for adults but you're closer to it, it can be designed to give you good sensations as well as bad and the thing in front of you has no reason to exist outside of being a piece of art but I'll remember those experiences for the rest of my life.
That's how they used to do it, but is that still the case after they introduced the emergency library? I thought they now lend unlimited copies of the book unless the authors opt-out, and imo it's a little bit legally shaky for them to simply go against the law unless you ask them not to?
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The world would be a much better place if it was possible to raise the average education level that high without negative side-effects.

The last time that was possible was something like 100-200 years ago, before specialisation became so important.

I don’t know anything of note about pharmaceuticals or civil engineering, rhetoric or national security, trade or industry. But I think it’s a safe bet that 90% of the people on Hacker News knows far more about computers than the average UK politician.

If everyone in a nation has to learn politics well enough to govern, nobody would have time to learn anything else. The only measure by which I can even judge politicians is their character, their honesty, their morals — and I do recognise the problems with even those as my measure.
Agreed. I'm doing some amateur proofreading for a hobby, and it's a lot of work to properly proofread large bodies of text.