skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love the Internet Archive and donate about once a year. That said, they should not be loaning out copyright material, even during the civil-19 problems.

As an aside, I enjoy writing a lot and have released all of my later books under a Creative Commons license, so I hope my books do show up in IA. People who happen on my books may end up buying a copy sometime. One thing that bothers me though is when I find out of date versions of my books on the web. I have found my stuff in the web that is two or three editions old.
[2019]
Launching Milligram v1.4.0
I hate capitalism. I'm fully an anti-capitalist.

But I'm also a realist. We live in a capitalist society and free content has come out of advertising since before the web. It's an annoying part of the present world but not the most annoying part imo. I don't know how people denouncing just advertising expect the publication of free information to work.

This society has created a vast plenty. I don't see why advertisers, the public and publishers couldn't reach a truce where a moderate amount of semi-relevant text ads get shown the reader in excahnge. But everyone wants to total control, wants to club to death all competitors and that seems to be the way this world of plenty is ending.
Korean translation of "mouse" was "squirrel", although ultimately it lost to a loan. I can't imagine why anyone thought that long-winded translation in Polish would stick.

Squirrel was chosen because it is considered cute, but mouse is considered dirty. I think that kind of consideration of association is important in translation.
Just downvotes and no retort?

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/george-floyd-cup-foods-police...

It was all over a shop owner losing $20.

Fortunately, creative WFA solutions will allow individual freedoms to blossom again.

Time is still the most valuable Commodity in the 1st world.
The MLK quote the article leads with isn’t always out of context when invoked to talk about the rioting, but it is here. The gist of MLK’s point was that riots are, even if understandable, still unjustifiable and counter-productive. Whereas the view expressed in the rest of the article is something along the ones of: “why are you talking about property damage when someone lost his life?” Whatever this view has going for it, it’s inconsistent with what MLK said (and more largely, what he stood for). But MLK said that the police brutality needs to be condemned equally to the rioting. He didn’t say to ignore the rioting.

I come from a country that exists because we were able to violently overthrow our oppressors. Our problem of being second class citizens in our own country was decisively solved with guns. But MLK keenly recognized that this course of action was not on the table for African Americans in the United States, regardless of how justified or not it may be. Attempts to justify the violence ignore this sobering lesson.
I have given up educating people I met in daily life who misunderstand "hacker" and "cracker", but now I feel sad even on HN and with ESR's article [1] that people here still misunderstand these two.

Hope most HN readers are not coming here looking for new system breaches or vulnerabilities.

[1]: http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html#what_is
This demonstrates the superiority GM's Super Cruise approach. They have interior cameras that make sure the driver is looking forward (you're allowed to look away for brief periods). Tesla only forces you to keep one hand applying some pressure to the wheel - you could easily be on your phone with your other hand. GM's approach is much more relaxing and prevents accidents like this. That being said, there's no reason Tesla can't easily adopt this approach in the future.
I did misread your post, but I will also say that generics are a double edged sword when it comes to readability. Needing to declare genetic types in function signatures can add irrelevant detail and heavy syntax. For example, look at the interpreter interface in this typescript file:

https://github.com/gcanti/io-ts/blob/master/src/Schema.ts#L2...

Granted, genetics don't need to be done that way, but it is among the more common and popular approaches. The type information is tangled up in the implementation, making focusing on either more challenging. Perhaps we need modes for syntax highlighting- one for types, one for implementation?
Ask HN: What Is Tech For?
What is tech for?
The more I learn I’ve started to think more and more there is not a separate skill of hacking except maybe to learn a few tools- the best engineers to reverse engineer a system are generally the ones capable of forward engineering it.
Tell HN: Until recently, `npm i -g serverless` modified your shell's RC
Quick PSA: if you globally installed the Serverless npm package in the last 2 years you may want to check your shell's RC. I was shocked to discover it modifies your shell's startup to source its own scripts without any chance for audit.

This was finally resolved in October but an open issue for years. https://github.com/serverless/serverless/issues/4069

Here's what serverless adds to `.config/fish` for example:

# tabtab source for serverless package
# uninstall by removing these lines or running `tabtab uninstall serverless`
[ -f /usr/local/lib/node_modules/serverless/node_modules/tabtab/.completions/serverless.fish ]; and . /usr/local/lib/node_modules/serverless/node_modules/tabtab/.completions/serverless.fish
# tabtab source for sls package
# uninstall by removing these lines or running `tabtab uninstall sls`
[ -f /usr/local/lib/node_modules/serverless/node_modules/tabtab/.completions/sls.fish ]; and . /usr/local/lib/node_modules/serverless/node_modules/tabtab/.completions/sls.fish
# tabtab source for slss package
# uninstall by removing these lines or running `tabtab uninstall slss`
[ -f /usr/local/lib/node_modules/serverless/node_modules/tabtab/.completions/slss.fish ]; and . /usr/local/lib/node_modules/serverless/node_modules/tabtab/.completions/slss.fish
If your boss terminates you, the lawsuit wouldn't be against the boss, but the company, wouldn't it? Is it common to sue individuals that act for private entities?
How do the numbers shake out if we consider only homicides, where selective enforcement should be less of a factor?
I welcome more data that has less sampling bias, but without some attempt to quantify the amount of sampling bias here we don’t know if it has a big impact on this data.
For sure. I forget who said it, but there's some quote about the intelligent person having strong opinions weakly held. I'm willing to reevaluate my beliefs on things, but unless I've seen evidence to the contrary, I hold them strongly.
How does one do that when browsers have the search and address bars merged?

You content yourself with the users that type https:// before your site name and never make a typo?
Ask HN: Why don't we use SVG instead of HTML for web applications?
This has been on my mind for years, now—time to see if I'm the only one.

HTML is great for what it was intended for—Documents. Primarily to flow unpredictably long text, and it still does that quite well.

It's not great for UI layout (or art direction), which is why we needed CSS in the first place, and why CSS only gets more sophisticated (or complex, depending on your perspective) over time.

This is not a deal-breaker, but feels like the first smell I noticed. HTML doesn't even have a coordinate system. The one added by CSS leans hard in the direction of providing relative, "top/right/bottom/left" measurements, rather than absolutely X/Y coordinates (though you can get those by jumping through some hoops).

The goals of creating a UI and writing semantic HTML are often at odds. It can be done (most of the time), but not without a lot of code-golf. Adding the admittedly superfluous, but sometimes required wrapper element often feels like a failure. In SVG, however, there's absolutely nothing semantically wrong with nesting your component into a group element.

While the responsive features available to web developers today are incredible, it's still hard to translate "pixels" into their many, context-specific definitions. If we'd been working with SVG all along, we would never have been worrying about half pixels, 2x versus 3x displays, etc. We would be thinking in vectors.

I'm not proposing that SVG as it stands now is a better option. Obviously we can't switch until we build things like forms, buttons, options, and the like in SVG. I'm wondering what the potential for an SVG-powered Web would be.

1. What would it look like now if we had chosen SVG over HTML 5, 10, 15 years ago? What would our tools look like now? Would web development look/feel more like iOS/Android development? Would we have things like HStacks (SwiftUI) and LinearLayouts (Android) instead of CSS's flex?
2. If that vision is attractive, is it too late? Could we start now?
It's not necessary to eliminate racism. Imagine if the citizens of a community had the power to pull some of their money away from ineffective police departments to hold them accountable. There could be competing police forces, all run by the government, and the citizens could fund the ones they prefer, not unlike charter schools allow parents to fund the schools they prefer, and food stamps allow the poor to buy the food they want from the grocery store they prefer.

If your police department sucks, but the one neighboring one is good, you could choose to move your funding to the other police department who would expand their operations to cover more territory.
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I grew up in Germany, but have been in the US for close to a decade now and all my technical education has been here. I have tried sending technical emails in German, but it's usually an absolute disaster. I have no Frome of reference for how to actually express things correctly. I also find my non-technical written German to have suffered quite a bit. Spoken word is fine, but writing is a bit tough. I guess I just didn't do any of that for a good ten years, so it got a bit rusty.
Can't a pair of Falcon Heavy rockets send a lander and an Orion separately so they'd dock in Lunar orbit? 22 tons is a lot of hardware.
I worked somewhere that used paper memos and initially I thought they were just woefully tech-inept. It turns out if you’re doing shady stuff a written memo that can be immediately shredded is one of the more “secure” methods of communication because it doesn’t create a digital record like an email or a phone call do.
Massive difference between “I visited and took a couple” and “I rely on them to get to work every day”. I can spin up a few VM’s on any cloud provider in the world and they’ll all work fine. That doesn’t mean every provider will be equally suitable for my production load.

I lived in SF for a period. I was lucky enough to be able to walk to work, but my roommate had to take two busses both ways. At least once/week one of those would go offline and they’d have to walk.
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Let's say <90 F in summer and >30 in winter :). Open to suggestions with weather extremes as well. Thanks!
And it happened again and again after the head of CNN spoke with the gov about Omar Jimenez. Either the gov has no control over MSP, the gov pseudo-apologized for optics, or both. No one is safe from this mafia of savage, wild dogs.

The actions of police prove the point of the peaceful protestors (as opposed to looters and pillagers the media conflates with the former as "protestors.")
No, it makes absolutely no fucking sense.
I can guarantee you that the people in New Zealand are not fed up about whatever the hell happens in the bloody MINNEAPOLIS police department.

Your entire narrative makes no sense and it's just a well-organized, global form of race baiting that is going to end up doing the exact opposite of what you claim to support. It's going to further divide communities along racial lines until eventual separation. It makes sense if you claim to follow the ideas of Malcolm X, but not if you think what you are doing is in the spirit of Martin Luther King.
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I think that school choice can certainly help but there are limits. District 1 in NYC has a form of school choice but segregation persists and is even driven by minorities in some ways. This article is really interesting:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/07/nyregion/a-manhattan-dist...

It touches on two NYC schools that share a building (The Earth School & PS64) but have remarkably different racial and socioeconomic makeups. I found it fascinating after touring Earth School earlier this year.
Yeah, we're seeing it in coworkers still running OSX Mojave (albeit with older LibreSSL instead of OpenSSL) using the default curl. Catalina users seem okay though.
Many inlinks are good for search ranking - people create fake sites and spam.
domain is important for search ranking - people pick domain after search keyword.
Faster pages rank higher - people make fast websites.
Quality content rank higher - like if that ever going to happen.
It would go a long way to even make it possible to get rid of cars. There are huge swathes of America which aren't within a mile of mass transit. And you can't fix that with more mass transit, because the density there isn't high enough to justify it -- a bus with one rider is worse than a car.

What you need is to get rid of zoning density restrictions. That's the only way for more people to live close enough to things for walking and mass transit to be viable.
I agree - and I think you're seeing new products in the lidar space with a focus on cost constraint (with more limited resolutions). I really do hope tesla adopts at least 1 or 2 of these cheaper options when they get cheap enough, my guess is a 50% of lidar would get you 80% of the benefits and fix a lot of these long tail edge case issues around drive-able areas.
i have never understood the argument that "preferences in partners" isn't racist but preferences in ... employees, customers, contractors, movie stars, politicians, etc is.

note: the answer here is not that the latter choices aren't racist.
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Not even that. It’s more superficial and insincere. They’re virtue signaling—not to black people, but to people who think it’s righteous to do such thing.
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I think there's something to be said for going through the exercise even if the answer to every question actually does indicate the language shouldn't be written. What happens when you come up with an idea that actually does have a place? It's better to start with the background of having done it before than try to create a dream project with no experience in making some toys.
This was your point:

"Huh? The 13" MBP has 4 ports, not 2."
Without negating either of these two comments I do think it is alarming the degree to which the US corporate media are capricious in their coverage of these types of incidents. As the link I posted claimed, there are currently thousands of 'news' stories about the unfortunate Floyd's demise but little over time of many other similar incidents regardless of race, situation etc. This massive inconsistency leads me to suspect perhaps there is a coverage agenda here, whipping an already massively stressed population into a state of rage and anxiety, and giving black bloc and other bad actors the media coverage they crave during this era of soft and muzzled martial law.
Raising money for organizations that may be a remedy could be a good idea but could also further inflame a media whipped up holocaust
s/an answering engine/an advertising engine/

FTFY
This video on svm has helped me grok it more than any other resource to date. Actually the whole channel is full of great breakdowns

https://youtu.be/efR1C6CvhmE
The extremely slow IO has been fixed with WSL 2, with IO performance being approx 8% slower than running Linux natively.
Check out the number of questions on those sites:

Pt: 140,876

Ru: 322,061

Es: 122,603

Jp: 22,743

Stackoverflow.com (EN): 19,580,539
Am I the only Tesla owner that finds the blame on autopilot a little hard to believe? My car never reaches the point where I feel that I don’t have to pay attention.
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Loving all these controversial lawsuits and law changes (section 230) we've seen during the crisis this week. Really helpful if you're trying to bury stuff under the noise floor and away from public review.

My friends at neighborhood watches in Minneapolis said some people have been trying to start fires at libraries, to say nothing of the pandemic. If you can't loan a book at the library right now, where the hell else can you?
My wife was a teacher librarian and I used to give her interview questions related to data storage and retrieval. With no interest or background in CS she had no problem describing optimally efficient algorithms based on analog concepts, questions experienced engineers had difficulty answering.
I don't think that's true. As far as I know, typical AEB systems are radar-based and can't determine what's on or off the road, so they rely on Doppler to pick out the car in front from the environment. If you're driving up towards a completely stationary object, it will have a very hard time detecting it.
Blog Post: Waterfall could be better than agile(sometimes)
Blade Runner-styled hazmat meets Coronavirus
It leverages the first sale doctrine to allow individual owners to access digitized versions of the media they own.

I recently bought out another company that was doing the same thing and ran out of money. I'm still trying to get everything up and running before I start charging people, but my burn rate and cost structure should be manageable.
It's quite likely there is foreign interference, but it would be nice to have some solid evidence for once. The bets are open, I guess.
To add to others' comments about mail-rooms and internal posts, a memo would commonly also have a header section with a list of intended recipients and CC (literally, Carbon Copy), plus depending on organisation, an information security classification meaning sometimes they would be distributed via envelope, or require signing receipt for. Envelopes could be sealed in any number of ways, the most common I've seen is masking tape with a signature across it.

Needless to say, the mail-room were privy to a lot of information should they care for it.

Edit: Working where both emails and physical memos were used: Drafting a physical memo elicited a very different state of mind from banging out an email. Printing it out, proof reading on paper, there was a lot more care via reflection knowing this would be in someone's hand and they'd likely be looking at it on their desk, giving full attention, making notes with pen over it, rather than simply a message displayed on a screen while multiple other tasks pop up from other incoming mails or calendar reminders or IM chats. Slower, but a level of preciseness and everything needing to be just right, all the way down to how many spaces after a period vs a colon.
Ask HN: What's Your Definition of “Hacker”?
The comments in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23377186 really made me worried many readers here are actually expecting info about corp or system breach/leaks/virus/malware/network attacks, etc. Hence the question in title.

My understanding: http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html#what_is
The problem with buses isn't that you can't use the ones that exist, it's that the ones you need don't always exist. The bus goes where it goes but not everywhere.

Then you have to go places the bus doesn't go often enough that you need a car, and once you've already paid for a car and taxes and insurance, it costs more to take the bus than the incremental cost of driving everywhere.
What Will Make It Feel Safe to Go Back to Movie Theaters?
This is only talking about 'unlimited' simultaneous users, and the term "unlimited" should be related to its proper context. It's 'unlimited' in a sense because the former limits have been suspended. Everything else is separate, so I'm not sure why we're being told assume that IA can't do their job properly.
Everything is a char.

All application logic handled by SSIS packages. No validation or sanitization of course.

Username: admin
Password: admin
This on a database with the data of millions. I got them to change it ...

Using MongoDb instead of a regular sql database. This ended up making the product extra shitty. Which in turn caused the eventual downfall of the company.

One table per user. As in everything related to a user in one single table. What is normalization?

So many more ...
Is 1 million miles really the approximate distance between major accidents? Because in a lifetime, many people would approach that, and yet most people don't die in auto accidents.
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Damn, so you're saying this isn't gonna be smellovision?