skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nah, golf industry will be fine. If a technology is so advantageous, then it will eventually become the counter to itself. Imagine several drone swarming around you like a body guard and you would have several orbital layers for short/medium/long range protection.

Imagine a drone being so sophisticated that it can calculate the sniper shot gunning for you and can even deflect the bullet or take the direct hit for you. Same for suicidal bombs. If the enemy drone explode on impact, your drone can kamikaze theirs.
To me, commodity money (gold/silver) is only required when the trust in the gov't enforcement of money creation doesn't exist.

and this isn't the case (yet) with the USA - despite the rampant increase in money supply. Unlike other hyper-inflating economies such as Venezuela, the USA gov't isn't printing money to meet it's obligations, but instead turning illiquid assets (such as bonds and treasuries) into liquid assets (cash), that can then be used to grease more commerce and transactions. I don't believe this can cause hyper-inflation that many fear (and thus turn to buy gold/commodities), because the money is backed by debt, which has to still be paid pack.
Sketchup or Fusion360 - not OSS but who cares...gets the job done.
Then you just use meters, and learn to stride a meter. My Dad used to be a farmer in the UK, born in the 50s so knows the imperial system very well. He could fairly accurately measure a field in meters by walking up it. Could also do it by sight.

Walking one foot in front of the other as so much slower than taking a stride.
Yes, QC of macOS releases is inadequate. I can’t say it’s really new though, even Tiger and Leopard had their issues on day 0 (it was also way worse in the 7.5.x era).

On the other hand, it is entirely possible to stay on a given version for the entire life of its successor. It is also possible to wait for the next x.5 version to upgrade, notwithstanding the incredibly annoying notification about a new major version being available (I don’t know how they can get away with that).
> Ps. We just learned this year, from released documents, that Greece was planing at some point to send a invading force to the South

FUD. That is implausible considering that Greece has enough at its hands with Turkey. An offensive war would void all defence treaties. If there were any "plans" it would have been as part of a UN/NATO peace mission.
I don’t have any kids and don’t plan on having any. Just wanted to thank you for such a detailed explanation of what an au pair is. Also, I’m in the Bay Area too. Oakland. Hi neighbor.
downvoted because time traveling through a medium vs traveling through curved space are not anywhere near the same underlying principles[0].

The implication being suggested is - if I was trapped in a block of plastic or... underwater, I would experience time different compared to someone standing on land just because "c" is slower.

Clearly not the case.

To be specific, when "the speed of light" is discussed like this, it usually means the "speed of causality"[1] which is the underlying meaning of "c" in relativity.

The speed of causality through a medium (i.e. water) is the same as a vacuum if spacetime curvature is the same.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiHN0ZWE5bk

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msVuCEs8Ydo
The idea that we need to find a single escape-goat to blame and throw in jail for every accident is a very antiquated way to think about justice.

There are many cases where nobody is at fault, or multiple people are collectively at fault.

I would much prefer we think in terms of overall safety. If human drivers have 30000 deaths a year, and switching to autonomous driving results in 1000 deaths per year, we've made progress as a society. We don't need to hunt down and throw people (or cars) in jail for those 1000 deaths.

We should instead demand that engineers investigate those 1000 deaths and try to find ways to get them as close to 0 as possible. Throwing people in jail is a waste of resources that could be diverted towards achieving better safety. The engineers should be investigating and making improvements, not sitting in a jail cell.

(Of course, if there is intentional negligence that resulted in 1000 deaths when there would normally be 500, that's another story.)
Anyone point to sources describing how people come up with these large meta-structures in the first place?
Next thing you know will be 3d printed drone for the body with the battery, microelectronics and propulsion(?) sourced from Shenzhen, or salvaged from 2nd hand drone and smartphone.
For the software, with a few million dollars, probably, cartels might hire engineers to fork open source autopilot software to do the bidding. Everything done on darknet paid with cryptocurrency.
kumarvvr's point was that you[1] have to consider the collateral damage of shooting down drones. If you make an enemy drone crash there's a possibility that it could crash in to a school or a hospital. That would be bad.

[1] The person defending something, not you. Your comment makes it clear you believe in defence at any cost.
Thanks, that makes sense. :)
INS chips providing enough precision for autonomous operation over last few kilometers are rather cheap nowadays too.

A small-ish plane frame could easily deliver a grenade from sleepy suburbs 10km straight to the Oval Office with only few minutes of warning (assuming somebody could actually detect it in time at all). We're just lucky nobody seems to be bothered to do that.
Do you take into account storage? Having zero electricity at night or on cloudy days is not an option. So it’s either batteries or nuclear. On the scale of powering a city, what make more sense?
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It's a tautology. You cannot observe time slowing down, because anything that would affect the "speed of time" affects your brain also in the same proportion.

Hollywood movies are not how physics works. The plucky protagonist can never look down at their hand and see a stopwatch run slower or faster! There is no such thing. If some sort of science-fiction field existed that would affect a clock, it would affect the protagonist also.

If the clock runs at half speed, your brain runs at half speed, so you see it ticking forward at twice the rate, and 2.0 * 0.5 = 1.

Now, of course, I tell a small lie: There can be differences in the tick rate over some distance. But these differences are necessarily small. Big differences in the rate of temporal flow create gravity, as per Einstein's General Relativity. To get an observable difference in time flow over the space of, say, a meter would require a fantastically huge gravitational field that would instantly crush the poor scientists into a pancake.

Conversely, in the gentle field of Earth's gravitational field, if you hold an atomic clock in your hand a meter from you head, and an atomic clock in line with your head, then yes, you can see a tiny difference in the tick rates, on the order of nanoseconds per century or somesuch (I'm too lazy to work it out).

However, as the distance decreases between the clock and the observer, the difference gets smaller. Extrapolating down to atoms and the like the conclusion is inevitable: time locally always ticks forward at one second per second.
The interest portion is never destroyed though. If you loan 50k you might pay back 60k and only 50k is destroyed. Another wrong assumption is that loan gets paid back.

Unpaid loans and interest are not accounted for and create a need for even more loans to create more money out of thin air but of course those additional loans also have interest and are also unpaid so it spirals out of control.
I'm still somewhat surprised there have been no prominent terrorist attacks in Western countries by means of drones with payload.
Which is not guaranteed to be present. 'command -v' should work on any posix shell though.
There's a place for kids who aren't into that shit.

It's called "Outside".
Is a federally owned corporation (Tennessee Valley Authority) still considered an "arm" of the government?
What do you consider to be the conclusion(s)?

I ask because the conclusion is only firm about very short functions, otherwise saying "[f]or longer functions, the picture is less clear" - which you agree with, yes?

Part of the conclusion concerns how short functions appear to be harder to debug, which seems rather the opposite of your hypothesis that defects are easier to find in them. (One of the contributing arguments is that the indirection of a function name adds its own mental overhead.)

Nor do I see a conclusion that smaller functions lead to less overall code. The article seems more concerned about questions like "should [we] refactor our long methods into short ones to avoid defects", with that study concluding no.

And the article addresses code complexity several times, most directly as:

"""The literature doesn’t provide a straightforward way to measure which feature (length or number of methods) is more significant when predicting defects. It’s quite possible that, for example, measures such as “average method complexity” and “number of methods in a class” simply act as 2nd order estimators for number of lines, in which case we’d simply be comparing which measure correlates better with the underlying metric."""

I don't see how your answer fits in, so did I misread the article that badly?
> Smaller nations have no problem changing everything. The marginal benefit is too small for a giant to turn on a dime.

I don't think it is the size of the US that is the problem, I think the real problem is the US political culture.

The most successful approach to metrication is (a) do it in a big-bang, all at once, not gradually (b) make it apply uniformly nation-wide (c) make it apply across as many industries/sectors as possible, with as few exceptions as possible (d) take a predominantly mandatory rather than voluntary approach to metrication. If the US had followed that formula, it would very likely have succeeded, but it never had the political will to go down that path. Instead it opted for a piecemeal, voluntary approach, which was never likely to be a great success

In a parliamentary system such as the UK, Canada, Australia, etc, cabinet decides on a policy, and then the government usually has the numbers in the legislature to enact whatever policy cabinet decides. By contrast, in the US, the executive (President and cabinet) and the legislature (Congress) are two arms-length branches of government, with far less coordination, and it becomes much harder to push policies through unless strong interests are backing them.

Hence, in the US, it is basically impossible to get any controversial policy implemented unless either it has corporate lobbying behind it, or else it is some kind of emotional issue which attracts the attention of activist groups. Corporate lobbyists don't support mandatory metrication (it will cost business money, at least in the short term); metrication doesn't induce the kinds of emotions that issues like abortion or racism do, so there is little activist energy pushing it.

Also, the US historically has a much more hostile attitude to technocratic bureaucracy than most other Western countries do. In other countries, the scientific/technological elite consensus is "this way is better", and the government endorses it, and so the general public falls into line behind the government. In the US, there has always been much more resistance among the general public to those kind of elite proposals. (That said, I think in more recent years the rest of the English-speaking world is becoming more like the US in this regard; I think the Internet has helped export that US culture of distrusting technocratic elites to the rest of the English-speaking world.)
People in Power at Netflix: An Update
As expressed by ta1234567890, that's a misunderstanding of what models are, and what "the map is not the territorry" means...
Experienced developers are key to share knowledge ! It was the most effective way for me learn about TDD
Show HN: Kubernetes – How to Use Persistent Volume and Persistent Claims
In this lab session on Kubernetes Persistent Volume(PV) and Persistent Volume Claim (PVC) we will be going through -

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Net neutrality promised by FB has gone to the dogs.Money comes before ethics.
Would call it "emergent" instead of "accidental".
I once worked on a codebase that had been subject to this. It had been substantially, but incompletely, refactored at least three times in five to eight years. Everything was a mishmash of half-updated features nobody understood from the dawn of time linked up awkwardly to current methodology.

The product person was more concerned with the font in use than the product, which likely did little to help matters.
But you might have customized your PATH after your shell was executed? So this does not seem accurate.
The "Schwarzer Mann" of the children's game doesn't have anything to do with race. Historically it was a mythical figure used to scare children (Kinderschreck) comparable to the bogey man, visualised as a man with black clothes or a shadow creature not a man with black skin color.

There is a theory which connects him to the black death also, which would fit to the game mechanics.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wer_hat_Angst_vorm_Schwarzen_M...
I haven't used it in a very long time, but pushover.net was my go-to for many years. I just use iOS Notes now. I would suggest checking pushover out as a replacement for email.
> Without gaming on Windows systems I would may never gotten involved in programming in the first place.

I'm just the opposite. My first computer was a Commodore VIC-20 -- with no games! As far as I was concerned, all it could do was BASIC. It did come with a helpful instruction guide to teach you the rudiments of programming.

I got later systems and games for them later on, but my experience with the VIC-20 put this bias in my head that computers were meant for programming, like pencils were meant for writing with. If it is difficult or impossible to program a digital device, I have trouble considering it a computer at all (even though it technically may be).
> there are legitimate instances where shame is deserved

Can you elaborate?
Thanks @rails. Really appreciate the clarification.
I read it as the BEAM or elixer community
Very bad analogy, the calculation in metric is correct unlike the calculation with furlongs, that's the whole point.

660 ft/furlong * 8 furlongs/mile = 5280 feet/mile != 5000 feet/mile

1 mm * 1 hectare = 0.001 m * 100 m * 100 m = 10 m^3 = 10 000 dm^3 = 10 000 l
The problem there is that depending on the person both variants can be terrible UX.

For me case insensitive filenames are horrible UX, for my parents case sensitive filenames are horrible UX.

However I wouldn't advice my parents to use case insensitive filenames: there are too much complications that you might get from it in interaction with literally anything. The UX net effect would be negative for them.
>The correct way to put deposits to productive use is to make them time deposits, not demand deposits. In other words, if you have a spare $1,000,000 that you have no good use for, you deposit it in some financial institution for a period of time, say a year, or 5 years, or 10 years

That will not work for normal accounts where peoples salary are deposited in, they need to use that money over the month.

Also my savings account, I dont know when I will need the money. There might be emergency expensive repairs needed to my house or car that I need to take from that account.
Fair comment but what about when there are monetary damages that need to be paid. Someone is going to have to pay for the cars and what they crash in to to be repaired. If tesla pushes out an update that causes your car to automatically steer in to another one, are you the owner responsible for paying for both cars to be fixed?
I think they've been saying "We haven't yet found a design that gives value proportionate to the complexity, although we continue to think about it." since 2013: https://web.archive.org/web/20130410000959/https://golang.or...
No. Light travels through space at the speed of light. Physical objects travel through time at the speed of light.
That’s a pretty disgusting and shameful comment.
I have always felt putting case-insensitivity at the filesystem level was a bad idea which would have died in the 80s if it was not for some Apple product manager being stubborn.

But making it so that it requires a kernel compile time option to make your filesystem mountable is a level of absurdity that i would not have believed possible before 2020 made unbelievable the new normal.
I've once heard the base 12/base 60 system is derived from how people used to count with their fingers long ago:

1 hand has a thumb and four other fingers, each consisting of 3 parts. So you point with your thumb to one of these 3 times 4=12 parts.

If you run out of numbers, you take your other hand an put up a finger, then start counting from 1 with the other hand again. 5 fingers give you 5 times 12=60 possible combinations.

No idea why they didn't do the thumb + 12 positions stuff with the other hand, which would have given 12 times 12=144 possibilities. Speculation: Maybe there was no need as such high numbers didn't appear in practice?.
Good thing no one would consider using a car older than 4 years.
> - everything you post online is public and saved forever;

That’s a useful thing to know, but may be a bad thing to truly internalize:

“You had to live – did live, from habit that became instinct – in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.”
Yeah, I'm not sure the old $5 wrench approach to "hacking" is likely to get you any rewards from megacorps.
You quoted the title, but the title isn't the complete conclusion, which is:

> As such, software developers should be wary of breaking their code into too small pieces, and actively avoid introducing very short (1-3 lines) functions when given the choice. At the very least unnecessary single-line functions (ie. excluding getters, setters etc.) should be all but banned.

I believe a x_to_y(x) fits into the "etc." of acceptable single-line functions.
But at the same time, go back and look at the older flight sims and its pretty obvious how dated they are. FSX for example looks like a complete joke with all the faked autogen and really low resolution maps. Yes it can look good but you have to spend a lot of time (and money) on add ons.

I'm pretty hopeful with time they'll iron out at least the most obvious cases.
Pangolins became the ultimate luxury good
No mention of the software?

What worries me is that in a close future they might develop their own autonomous Software to do the assassinations and sooner or later the software "leaks" to outside world. Then with a few thousand dollars you can program your own assassination tools. More sophisticated entities will develop the swarm version to do mass damage.

Will there be a proliferation fears of software similar to nuclear proliferation?
It's definitely maintainable, the real question is whether Apple is interested in doing so properly.
Theory is always mindbogglingly far ahead of practice. So much advanced knowledge of light like how our eyes see 3 colors and the color wheel that all modern software uses was invented/discovered before we had electricity and plumbing.
Please omit swipes like "your bubble" from HN comments. They're against the site guidelines because they degrade the container.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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The circles have to be smaller to be packed more tightly within a given square.
Insurance pays. If it's two autonomous cars, split the bill. The insurance companies should be happy that accidents happen at 1/30 the rate they used to (if we take my numbers above as an example). They can give you an 80% discount on your insurance premium for having an autonomous car, and still net a massive profit when averaged over all their customers over time.
Doesn’t really matter, as the requirements were set to 0% recently
> b) is the premium and luxury segment, but you don't see people raging about this. Because - as with smartphone - it's a choice that they made.

I saw people complaining at HN.

"You can choose other than iPhone" is invalid because it's iPhone/Android duopoly market.
So I thought the consensus among economists, hn, etc was that the best most painless way to solve climate crisis is a carbon tax, that doesn't drastically alter the economy all at once. So what to do with the tax money? Presumably invest in green energy. A lot of that can help people directly, like solar and nuclear jobs, and indirectly, like better trains, or subsidies for the poor on any essential goods that price was raised by the carbon tax a lot. We can probably find a use for all the money raised by placing a carbon tax at the rate needed to prevent catastrophic climate change. But if we put the tax at the right rate and have some money afterwards, what's wrong with free college?
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The only reason anyone would want to say "$($echo $0)", echoing the variable through a subshell and substituting it with itself, is to rely on the subshell parameter splitting to remove duplicate field separators from the variable.

That is likely not the case there, and any such file names are unlikely to exist. Just say: which "$0"
Really a fascinating link.

They have an artificial reef 3 miles off the coast of Miami that is "an artistic representation of the Lost City of Atlantis."

What a strange, niche industry.
Except in the fine print there is a clause that says the driver has to always be able to take control in time to avoid crashes and hence Tesla is not at fault unless AP somehow actively prevents the driver from taking control.
This is a thing you need to be doing since the start.

You can't just pick any 10 year old and give them this level of freedom..
I use Medium (also dev.to) only to cross post my weblogs.

I make sure to uncheck the option that may make my post exclusive in the future, and I also put canonical link[1]. The main goal is both SEO, and options for readers. If they prefer reading on Medium app or RSS or Dev.to than in my blog, so be it!

[1]: https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/360033930293-Set-a...
> There is no need for the financial institution to treat your $1,000,000 deposit as a demand deposit

yes there is - because consumer's behaviour is irrational, and they cannot easily calculate the required interest for such a bond. A demand deposit is easy for a consumer to understand, and the bank can pay less than the equivalent bond interest, and pocket the difference.

There are termed deposits that banks offer. But consumers have overwhelmingly not chosen to use them imho, because it doesn't offer high enough interest rates, and the hassle of illiquidity isn't suitable for a consumer context.
That's such a total scam.
Amazingly, as far as I can tell anyway, there's not even a "report listing" button. Incredible.
https://archive.is/IAsgM
As the author notes in the 2nd section, that will return the location of the binary in the user path, which is not necessarily the one that is currently running.
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in shorter version Brian Mays song '39 has similar plot
How to Integrate Face Stickers into Your Apps with Huawei ML Kit
They probably meant that the whole imperial system is still broken compared to the metric, but is still in use nevertheless.
What do you think about nearley.js [1]?

[1]: https://nearley.js.org
Fortunately, I used the word "many", deliberately.

It wasn't a defeatist attitude at all. That is the correct quantifier.