skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have to admit that I've been rude on the phone with Support as well.

So I'm using a car sharing system. The car is great. The app is a weird, slow, HTML-ish thingy that appears to trigger bluetooth bugs and frequently loses state.

So I drive my family to a friend. My partner will then continue the trip with our kid. What you need to do, is get out, lock the car, and close the reservation. Then my partner can create a new reservation, and continue driving.

We're already late. It's hot outside. Kid is crying. I open the app, lock the car, and close the reservation. App fails with vague error. My partner is standing there, kid and phone in arm, asking "c'mon hurry".

I call the support line, and give him the problem. The support guy asks me to go through a series of steps. Then I flip and scream: "DAMNIT I'm sick and tired of this app failing me, it's never simply a painless process and now I'm standing here in the heat with a crying kid".

He laughs and says: "I understand but I'm trying to help you, sir. How about you let me talk to the partner?"

To this day, I'm both ashamed, amazed and happy how professional this guy was.
Yes. It is a more convenient way to search addresses in bulk. Also makes it easier to identify possible speeds within 500 feet. This is actually how I found my acreage homestead.
By 2050 they'll have force sterilized your children, and by 2100 it will be as if your entire family tree never existed.

The Uighurs are just a trial run.
I really like this, thanks for sharing
This is different. Anybody can create a website and thus the next Facebook/Twitter/TikTok. As far as I know, I don't need a permit to build a website. Requiring one would stifle freedom of speech.

On the other hand you bet that if you work on missile guidance/plane software you'll need some sort of certification. Your comparison just doesn't work. And there are already laws in place that any website dealing with user data or any sort of ecommerce must follow.
Indeed. The data is only on a census block level and could have false positives and negatives. Unfortunately, the data is not more granular than the census block level.
> a significant minority of businesses will flatly refuse to allow users to use that type of numbers.

How unfortunate to hear, I guess I've just gotten lucky so far.
> We have invaded others countries for less

Those countries don't have nukes.
These are all fantastic photos. One thing that stood out to me is how prevalent the AT&T/Western Electric blue is everywhere.

Much of my career has been spent inside telephone company central offices, where I've seen equipment from dozens of different vendors. The 5ess is still the sharpest and cleanest looking hardware I've ever seen. Bright white with that distinctive blue accent trim.¹

It's really a timeless look, and shows just how much effort they put into "irrelevant" details like that. A lot of vendors aim for a unified style, but it's usually boring and hard to distinguish from their peers. But AT&T stuff was distinctive, and I don't think it suffered from the passage of time. In other words, it doesn't look retro-futuristic. It just looks nice.

Look at the the 8th photo². You see the cabinets in the background, the keys on the console, the keys on the terminal, the platen knob, and the drawers on the desk. All matching and designed.

[1] (I give Nortel some "anarchy" credit for their courageous use of brown and green. It's fugly in an endearing sort of way :)

[2] https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vaO-bHVmCQ4/XciOziQqrqI/AAAAAAAAS...
Wait until you hear about organs collected 'on demand'.

Yet NBA players now bow to China and Hollywood goes to great length to make their movies as little offending to China as possible.
Water has a much higher heat capacity than water, and obviously much higher density too. By filling freezer space with water, the thermal mass of the freezer goes up, and it will stay cold for longer in a power outage.
that's a lot of words to try and move accountability from the executive level into the common soldiery.

the medical profession hierarchy is completely different to accommodate for medics own agency.

responsibility without freedom (and without just compensation, dare I say) is just bullshit.
I have to aggree with a lot of statements made in the post. Both left and right have become more extreme defending their views, calling out 'offenders'.

Here's a small sample from across the ocean. We used to have legal and illegal immigrants in Slovenia. Most countries still do. But since leftist media found illegal to be a non-correct word they simply started using another one (prebežniki - could be translated as runaways). This in a way signifies their humanity but I ask myself what's wrong with calling a criminal a criminal?

I guess the left/right zeal is a response to politics ignoring those opinions and it's likely to get much worse until either side gets some changes into motion.
It certainly does require you to verify coverage. However, it is a good heuristic to see if you are in the right spot.

For my area in Denver it has been quite accurate. I recently found a 5 acre homestead property with fiber next door. I ended up trenching a line myself and I have gigabit speeds!
My first job out of university was working for a debt collection firm that made its own ACH engine in Perl. I remember all the 99999s and headers and stuff. I didn't work very much on the engine though (thankfully).

I was pretty shocked at just how far behind the American banking system was when I lived overseas for a bit. I wrote about it here:

https://battlepenguin.com/tech/the-american-banking-system-i...
Monopolies stamp out competition, resulting in less innovation.

You might instead ask if society was better off before the invention of the teenager. That was emblematic of the shift toward short-term-profit-driven thinking we now call neoliberalism. That economic philosophy also happens to stifle innovation of the Bell Labs type by not financing long term projects.

Today monopolies exist in spirit if not in technicality. Does society benefit? I'd say that looking back longingly at Bell Labs means no, it doesn't.
> Except you've made it a DIY thing and claiming that it's a the solution for doing development on an iPad which is clearly false.

Why not? You're basically claiming that solely because it's remote it's completely unfit for development purposes. That doesn't really make sense to me. Especially with VS Code being an Electron app the browser version is equivalent to the desktop app.

Just to be clear, I totally concede that there are certain tasks where you do run into limitations, e.g. handling files is rather a PITA, but other tasks like plain coding are perfectly fine. And if you can save the former type of work for your PC then an iPad plus code-server is actually not going to cause you any trouble with workarounds.
This is well-written, and a good survey of basic data structures. It would be more useful if you included more advanced data structures, as well. Do you have any plans to add more? For instance, the first thing I looked for was self balancing binary search trees.

Side note: I've never heard it expressed as FILO before. Or at least I've never noticed it. It's always been LIFO. :)
How do you organise your journal?
Duplicate of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24105311
GraalVM consists of a couple of things.

1. A modern JIT compiler written in Java that takes bytecode and transforms it into machine code. There is a plan that it might someday replace HotSpot [1]. However, we are probably a couple of years away from this.

2. A native image compiler [2] that uses ahead-of-time compilation technology to produce executable binaries of class files. This means startup times and memory usage similar to a language such as go.

3. An abstract syntax tree interpreter called Truffle. Which allows you to easily implement languages on top of GraalVM. With the performance of compiled languages but using an interpreter. You can read more about this here [3].

There are also other features such as a LLVM bitcode engine called Sulong. And various PolyGlot functionality to support integration of whatever language you want. [4]

[1] https://jaxenter.com/openjdk-project-metropolis-137318.html

[2] https://www.graalvm.org/docs/reference-manual/native-image/

[3] https://www.beyondjava.net/truffle-compiler-compiler

[4] https://github.com/oracle/graal/blob/master/sulong/README.md
Thank you for the suggestion!

I actually used the tool myself for my own house hunt. I disliked all the tools out there for the reason you mentioned. I will write an article about my journey in the future.
Some professions like teacher are tough to find a similar role in other country. Different qualication, teaching language and teaching method they have to accomendate. It's a tough call to them.

For IT profession though, it's more flexible. Personally, I have worked in a multi-nation develop team, and the experience is good.
Although not based on die photos AFAIK, there is a cycle accurate SystemVerilog core. https://github.com/ijor/fx68k
Agreed, but using the word "evil" in a political context tends to suck all of the nuance out of the room.

The rich who attempt to bend the government are certainly ALSO a threat to the democracy.
Just adding to this by mentioning the situation is similar in distant parts of Europe; there's a lot of areas that aren't served by anything but 2G/3G and where you can't even get dial-up.
And again, the analogs in software are much more, messy.

A shoe is a physical artifact. It must be made somewhere out of something. Software is much more flexible. If I tell you to build an 'ethical' piece of software with an extensible API, it will only take a tiny amount of work to make it do something unethical.

And much like the shoe companies abusing labour's, that had nothing to do with the engineers that made a a product line, but the management that is driven to ever lower costs.
The general context of this particular anniversary is the "short twentieth century", from 28 July 1914 to 26 December 1991.

In particular, the significance of the first date helps explain why it would be the US making a first strike, and the significance of the second date why it they held it necessary to make a countervalue strike.

(Afterwards, 31 March 1991-12 November 2001 —from which we have many refugees— would start the twenty-first century of "nationalistic" fake news.)
It comes down to an attempt to centralize and make mandatory which translates to excessive control and easy abuse.

If there were some pressing real world need for it then perhaps it would be acceptable. There isn't though, so I can only interpret such a move in the most cynical of terms (ie exploiting 9/11 to increase federal power).

It's already fairly difficult to get by without a state ID or passport. They're often required where they aren't really needed simply because everyone is assumed to have at least a driver's license. States already collect far more information about you (IMO) than they have any business doing. Various forms of state issued ID are already more than sufficient for the vast majority of use cases. In the rare instance that greater security is required for some reason, passports exist and can be used.

(As an example, the DoD has legitimate real world security concerns. As such they've had their own ID card system, which includes a PKI chip, for far longer than most institutions. But no one is complaining (I hope) about being subject to stringent ID requirements while working for the military.)
A lot of germanic and romanic countries just change the ending, so Million*1000 = Milliard and the Billion and Billiard, etc. Now I could be wrong about this, but I think it might have been part of Napoleons norming efforts.

There's no reason to switch to the short scale, that's the reason I guess.
Can't do that on the laptop!
The farther away and more abstract the problem, it's absolutely more difficult to get people to care. Trying to get Americans to care about what's going on with prison camps in Xinjiang province right now is difficult, if not impossible, outside of the subset of people who deeply care about the issues involved.
These blog systems hosted by the news sites do not have FTP access, there is a simplistic web interface that you use to publish articles and set up categories/tags. There are "freehostings" that give you a 3rd level domain and FTP access to a LAMP server (in exchange for displaying an ad banner), but that's a different thing.

I am not sure what you mean by your question, could you clarify?
Farmers pumping their cows full of hormones for milk production is a thing of the past, for the majority of US dairies.
The point of refusing the surrender and continuing the war was to fight to nation’s death and show their spiritual might.

So saving face is dead on.
> We have invaded others countries for less

Countries that didn’t have nuclear weapons and ICBMs

It is like asking why the US never invaded the Soviet Union. There was a window in the second half of the 1940s it might have been achievable without global thermonuclear war, albeit a war-weary world that had just endured the biggest war in human history didn’t have the appetite for that
I moved to India at the start of the year and there's the Universal Payment Interface (UPI) here that essentially allows a Venmo like interface to transfer $ instantaneously from any bank account to another - by simply using the recipient's phone number or a QR code. There are multiple apps that interface with UPI, and the barrier to entry isn't high - allowing for good competition on the UX.

Literally every person I've met here or wanted to transact with in some way accepts payments via UPI... heck I was forced (or rather "strongly recommended") to pay a bribe to a cop that they were able to accept via UPI.

I felt like I stepped into the future. Transferring money to a friend w/ a different bank in the US is such a hassle if they don't have Venmo (and more than half in my circle don't), and I've had horrendous experiences with Zelle (terrible UX, confusing and often incorrect sending limits that I have to call my bank to resolve).

In India I mostly use Google Pay as my interface to UPI and wow, it's a magical user experience.

Can't wait for there to be more competition in payments UX in the US once this service is set up.
I think you might find some intro philosophy useful to understand how you can have a universal morality without a deity. Some Kant is a good place to start, with his universal law being a fundamental idea.
I'd say Imagemagick is still the best image software manipulation out there. As essential as ffmpeg is for video manipulation. Very few, if any others (whether standalone or in lib form) come even close.
> Just try US sanctions and pushing the EU, Australia, Japan, Canada not to conduct any business with China.

You dont to sanctions to countries that provide most of your goods without a viable alternative. Sanctionning Iran does not change your daily life. Sanctionning China would suddenly make a large impact as to what you can actually buy and at what price.
Run genny to cool freezer, refrigerator, UPS batteries,
and all rechargeable devices. Stop genny overnight,
or when all is cooled or recharged. Repeat as needed.

The less expensive generators may run at a constant
speed, regardless of wattage load, so there may be no
concept of “idling”. Thermal mass as jugs of water,
or bags of water ice (if available) is a win.
It's actually a combination of the tyrosine (an amino acid) and the high fat content that makes cheese so satisfying.
Also unlike a shoe, the management of a company with ethically produced/designed software could fire all of the original developers and sell the company and its IP. To an organization that would make API changes/data storage changes and it would suddenly become something much more harmful.
There are so many problems working in tandem here:

- Leaky abstractions which are treated/documented as if they're perfect. Read a file, do a thing, write a file. Except when running in parallel, things are never that simple.

- Lots of important projects ("base of Arch Linux" level important) still don't have public repos, an official site (or even page) with references, bug tracker, or any reasonable way of contacting the maintainers. How do these projects get updated? I guess they simply don't.

- Even the best feedback mechanisms are still awful. Figuring out whether something is effectively abandoned before spending 30+ minutes writing up a bug report could take longer than writing the bug report itself, encouraging writing the absolute minimum (which ends up being less than minimum half the time). Every project is also its own unique snowflake. They want different types and amounts of information, some won't touch an issue unless it's reproducible in the very latest commit (requiring hours of setup and lots of domain knowledge to compile the damn thing), and they all have a completely different process.

- Most tools are still skewed towards one maintainer per project. Take any random GitHub abandonware as an example. You can fork it with one click, but so have 20 other people. You can put up a web site for your fork, but search engines will rank the original web site (or just the GitHub repo) highest for years. You can rename it, but now you've just burned bridges with all the other forks and the original repo, in ways which would be difficult to repair. Now try to migrate all the issues, mailing list, forum, IRC channel or other communications. It's basically hopeless unless the original maintainer is completely on board.

- Most open source software solves only the author's immediate problem. But not a single user of the software has exactly the same problem to solve as the original author. So pretty much by definition no library will solve the problem you are dealing with.

Maybe one way out of this mess for any particular language might be if the standard library was meant to grow to take over popular code, possibly with a tiered approach. You could nominate a library, then it would go through reviews, extensive testing, the whole shebang, before being accepted into a low level "this might someday be part of the standard library in some form" tier. This ideally would make it possible for example to replace core libraries in steps, steadily pushing the old one out of core and pulling a better alternative in.
Did you or your correspondent view a web page related to the product before or after the conversation? Viewing web pages is quite common.

Facebook also has a button next to ads saying why you were shown the ad. What does that say? Also the causation might be in the other direction. You and your correspondent might have seen an ad that then caused you to have the conversation.
> I looked for references in the story for modern female mangaka that might have been influenced by her work and the author does not seem to make that case

Why should it? It is a review of a new book about Tsurita. Book reviews rarely talk about the other people who were, in turn, influenced by the artist.

If your complaint is that the title doesn't match the article very well...those complaints have become frankly tiresome. Does every single post ever need to remind people that the editor picks the title not the author?

By engaging with the title, instead of the substance of the article, you're just proving the editor's point.

If you don't like a title, ignore it and respond to the actual substance of the content.
Gerald Jay Sussman on Flexible Systems, the Power of Generic Operations (2016)
Isn’t that pretty standard?

For example, Julian Assange, Kim Dotcom, and Richard O'Dwyer were all prosecuted for crimes committed outside the US.
I keep a coffee mug filled with water in the freezer with a penny on top.
lol There lots of messages on Chinese social media criticize CPC eg. Weibo and Toutiao. Unless it is something really absurd no one will come after you
Microsoft itself imposed their OS by very questionable means, unethical means, I will not be lectured about ethics by any Microsoft bigshot to begin with, as a software developer. Especially when none of the Microsoft execs made amend for their little schemes in the 80's and the 90's.
When you don't have anything to compare it to I am sure its perfect and faultless.
I prefer unsweetened lattes. For some reason sweet just clashes with the mouthfeel and flavor to me.
These days where everyone is emotionally high. Deliberately avoiding anything that reflects today's state of affairs:
1. Amazon: The Boys, The Feed, Upload, Catastrophe, The Widow, Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, The Newsroom, Homecoming
2. NBC: Zoey's Playlist <--GREAT to unwind emotionally.
3. CDW: The 100
4. ABC: The 4400
5. Netflix: Mars (only 1 season, 2nd season looks and feels like current gov state of affairs whereby the 1st season was more Mars adventure)

So much crap going on, just trying to avoid anything that reflects today's idiot run gov/policy makers. But admittedly, slowly finding it hard to avoid since every show plot always seems to come full circle to why things gets F*d up in the first place. Netflix' Mars is a perfect example where 2nd season they brought in more gov/policy/corp injustice and made it unwatchable.

If you really need to get away...mentally, found Zoey's Playlist quite touching... like sobbed in every episode it was so emotionally releasing. I was forced watch bc my wife won the night's remote control.

Bottomline: repeating what I've said above, just avoid anything that has gov/policy/corruption/corp.
imo sharp is probably the only thing that comes close. It does not have the full feature set of imagemagick, but it is faster
I do this with my fridge too, always making sure the back is full of beer.
So we trade out future freedom for currently cheap goods? I'd rather buy stuff from Taiwan and other places in SE Asia.
What about the calories used to travel up and down the stairs by multiple family members?

Say over a month you burn enough calories to eat an extra steak to make up the energy lost, would the environment be better or worse off?

What about time lost? Say you wasted an extra hour or two every fortnight just getting to and from the fridge, what if instead you had read a book or worked on your hobbies? Would you be happier? Would your family be happier having an extra hour of time every fortnight?
I remember both "islamofascism" and "weapons of mass destruction". Those were not only historical, they were even this century.
another man's word: Law & Order
I actually majored in philosophy, Kant presupposes the existence of God in his assumption about the specialness of rational (i.e human) beings.

I never liked my ethics classes. Phenomenology and existialism is my shit, though I suspect Husserl was the inspiration for GPT-3.
The page was written using Adobe PageMill 3.0, which was released in 1998 and discontinued in 2000 (https://winworldpc.com/product/pagemill/30), and references a Michael Quinion "Wierd Words" page created September 2, 2000 (https://web.archive.org/web/20031202154745/www.quinion.com/w...) which might narrow down the range a bit further.

GWS suggest February, 2001, as I see it:

https://www.google.com/search?q="How+SHRDLU+got+its+name"&hl...

I've done worse: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23203180
So getting rid of ptrs and using roaring bitmap indices would make them fly.
Why should it be a pain? Parsing XML is no different than parsing JSON, there are plenty of robust parsers available since around 2000.

Mature libraries with plenty of experience deploying into production.

Plus for small enough stuff, like configuration files, one can just plug XPATH as well, making the search for items even easier.
It’s like the Trail of Tears all over again.
A cow does lactate for around 10 months before it would need to have a calf again. Also, a cow produces faaar more milk then one calf needs. Source: live on a dairy, grew up feeding calves. Used milk replacer for a while but then switched to plain milk cause it's healthier for the calves (no surprise)