skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Humor is like seasoning: it enhances the meal; it is not the meal.

When a comment has substance (food/meal), humor can enhance it (seasoning).

Furthermore, not all humor attempts are funny. Even professional comedians "bomb".. We can't force people.

This, or the jokes go unnoticed because of HN's small font size.
Ha that's rediculous. Thanks for letting me know.
Maybe let's do it in two classes: oldest information-managing tech company and oldest mechanical tech company?
They didn't provide any real arguments that the answer is anything other than "yes".

Plenty of languages have support for hot reloading, which means you can just edit, save, refresh exactly the same as in PHP, with the added benefit of not having to use PHP.
Just some somewhat related date:

The worst year of the Polio epidemic in the United States was 1952 where 3145 people died and about 21,000 had some level of lasting (but not necessarily permanent) health impact.

I personally don't think the state should mandate vaccinations by the way, even though such a mandate would almost definitely be a net good to society.
Content lessons from one of the MOST COMPETITIVE niches
Also, hopefully the people in charge are thinking closely about what time engaged means, for that product. I imagine breaking user actions down to intent, if possible, would help quite a bit with that.

For a product that is supposed to be simpler and save people time compared to the alternative, increasing time using the service might mean people like it and are getting more done so using it more... or it might just mean that it's getting harder to use. Then again, maybe they've graduated from doing simple things with it to complex things, and even though interactions take longer, they're still saving more time and effort overall compared to the alternative and are happy.

I guess the bottom line is I think you have to slice and dice the data a lot of ways and think about what it actually means for your product to be using that data effectively.
> Urbit has more sinister motives, not least of which is to separate fools from their money by selling them "real estate" in the Urbit cyberworld.

How is paying $20, once, for an Urbit planet different than paying $20/month to play an online game? How else would you propose to have at least some minimal level of protection against spammers / bad actors?

My take is that they went with all their bizarre design decisions in order to keep normies and entryists out for as long as possible.
I'm no expert in this field but I think the challenging part in IC design is the light-based lithography process that makes integrating large numbers of transistors possible...so I guess the 3d printing part is not the limiting factor.
I am glad that you get so much more color-related happiness from your lights than I do.
Like how Pierre Menard wrote Pierre Menard's Don Quixote but not the original? :)
Uh, no. Nope. http://levels.fyi will prove you wrong.
Are you a manager? When has american style management made companies more agile? American style management is all about kingdom and silo building.
Yeah, why can't I `man Alexa` to get its speech UI syntax the way I can `man bash` to get its command line UI syntax?

Why not?

Why not?!
A lot of us don't want our stuff on G-drive for privacy and security concerns. Tools like this are valuable to us. It's an old problem and there are plenty indexers out there, this more real-time scan is more than welcome to join the bunch of course.
Nukes are absolutely needed for any deep space missions beyond Mars. Unless you're going with laser propulsion or solar sails.

Moreover, if you can fit a compact reactor (fission or fusion) on a space ship, then you can run nuclear thermal (ISP >800), or nuclear ion engines with extreme efficiency. (>15,000 ISP!) Considering NASA's Kilowatt reactor weights 2tons, assume a dry mass of 10t and a payload of 2%, you end up with a 500t ship (wow, do we even have 498 metric tons of xenon in the world?), but with a delta-v of 500,000 m/s. That gets you to Pluto flyby in 99 days. (I didn't count the Kilowatt reactor fuel weight, I'm not sure how much uranium is needed for a 15,000 Isp burn, I was just interested how much delta-v 15,000 Isp buys you.)

SpaceX starship, if it works, could launch this in about 4 refuelings. (>100-125t to LEO)
> funny stories dealing with obsessed players

aka sad stories of the mentally ill people your company was exploiting.
Memories! Back in school days in early 2000s I was a basketball fan and also of course running Winamp 24/7. I was never good at drawing but got curious and started making skins themed with basketball clubs' colors and logos. First few were rather horrible, but I think the last ones I did are not that bad (even if pretty simple); they got quite a few downloads back in the day and I was really hyped!

https://archive.org/details/winampskin_Idea_Slask_Wroclaw_Am...

https://archive.org/details/winampskin_Lotos_VBW_Clima_Gdyni...

(Unfortunately they turned out not very future-proof; I used sponsor-based names and logos and sponsors are long gone; also the once top-European clubs are now barely functioning. Life.)
Except Urbit is a very corporatist project no?
not to mention that they are sharing the prize with 19 other people. Would be much better to pick numbers that others are unlikely to have if you are trying to run a scam.
Oh boi, my apologize, I missed the "Written 4 years ago" part. Good call. Thank you.
You're exaggerating a bit. Water heater will stay hot for a day or so, but will rapidly cool when you start using it and cold water flows in. House will be uncomfortably cold after a few hours in the wintertime if the heat is not running, and it's not really practical to overheat it when electric rates are low/free because you can only go maybe 10 degrees before it's really too warm for comfort. You'd need a heat tank of some sort which complicates the system and as a practical matter homes don't have that and might not have space for.

Finally aside from all that I heat my water and my home with natural gas.
at best 1% and most of the time -50%
Agreed. Not to mention that little green dot acting as a de-facto surveillance tool itself. (I've always wanted to build a Slack green-dot-activator tool that activates the green dot based on customizable settings)
Out of curiosity, is the proper clap speed the same as their song from their commercials? If so I feel like I could nail that cadence every time.
Tail rudder problems is putting it mildly. There was malfunction with a valve that would cause the rudder to move in the opposite direction of the control inputs.
How to debug distributed teamwork, as suggested by new research
Yes its better for the rest of the people who live there and probably better for the homeless guy too.
That's true.

But at the same time, for many people, what they want to do is to carry on a legacy and contribute to something larger than themselves. A culture that forces all young people to build from scratch denies those opportunities just as surely as a culture that forces everyone to follow in their parent' footsteps denies opportunities to start afresh.
Yeah the “good emperors” did that, but just as often there were coups by the praetorian guard or some general marched down from Gaul.
I really like working in PHP but I'd actually agree that edit;reload is a virtue of the language (in the environment everyone normally assumes it's running in) that is losing value.

This virtue was incredibly valuable to me when I was throwing a website together with ducttape and bubble gum and it was the only way (that I knew of) to be able to clearly and quickly see the results of my changes. With tests in the picture I think it loses a lot of that value - it still has some since nobody likes writing front-end tests but most of your code changes should be "proven" by some level of automated test coverage.
For anyone interested, also check out this computer designed in Powder Toy game!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4eHgnLFk9k
How to Use FilterPixel: AI Photo Culling Software
In that case maybe I'll give it 50 years to develop the same safety record.
Win32 API.
https://komonews.com/news/nation-world/boeing-gets-good-and-...

They do have a bunch sitting around. So much they had to hire people to care for them.
This is deep in the internals of Kubernetes, nothing about `docker build/push` or `kubectl apply` will change.
The developers in your example are doing it with the express approval of the company and management. The ones at Google were not.

So yes, there is a big difference.
Another question I'd ask along these lines is:

Do any Canadians have to pass drug tests which test for cannabis use before they can get certain jobs?

I know in the US, even in states like California that have effectively legalized cannabis, many employers still test for cannabis use.

This is employment discrimination, so cannabis use won't be normalized until such tests are done away with.
Do you know that there are quite a few people who can't get vaccinations? Most of them also can't afford to self isolate.

Choosing to not get a vaccination primarily endangers you personally, but definitely also raises the danger level to those who have no choice in the matter.
I was hired right out of school by Google in 2007. I was absolutely presented with various contract documents on day 1 to sign. In fact, I was not even given paper copies of them; I was supposed to click my agreement in an intranet signing tool.

(I couldn't say what fraction of my employment paperwork was handled in this way, but things like IP assignment were definitely included.)
Space applications cannot justify any significant use of nuclear power on Earth. To the extent space uses are valuable, the relevant stakeholders can pay for it.

Nuclear reactors would be wonderful for use on Titan, btw. Simple open Brayton cycle systems would be highly effective at quite reasonable core temperature.
How to become a more efficient engineer – and show it with metrics
> PHP has been improved by leaps and bounds from the days of 4, to the point of being a totally different language.

No, most of bad parts are still here, all the stdlib inconsistancies and co are still here. Just because add more functions to a language doesn't change the bad design decisions at its core. The weird mix between dynamic typing and Java style rigidity (without most of its benefits) didn't go away.

What makes it a different language since PHP 5? more type guards? no, it's still a templating language.
Same, but remotely working from a sailboat, bouncing from desolate anchorage to desolate anchorage.
That's the HN I know and love.
Could this have been worm-able with more effort? Nearby phones silently infecting each other would be the real nightmare scenario.
> I wish I shared your confidence, but this suggests otherwise:

That's a pretty recent poll (on the timeline you provided in the earlier article), so maybe it's a sign that a more comprehensive transit system will be built soon.

> I find it difficult to accept that this is the best outcome by any metric I can think of.

It's definitely not optimal if you support public transit. The western model is more concerned with preventing tyranny than efficiency or optimal outcomes, for better or worse. This could very easily be one of the times where "worse" is the case. I'd still prefer it over an authoritarian system.

> Is it? The conversation is focused on how China is authoritarian, not on how the Western (I really should say North American) decision-making process often leads to poor outcomes and stagnation when it comes to public projects.

It seems to have expanded quite a bit beyond that (not between you and I, just generally), which seems pretty common for these types of topics.

> This IS getting pretty far off-topic from the actual article, so I'll stop here.

Fair enough, thanks for the discussion.
This is strange to me because I’ve taken and succeeded at two positions now where I didn’t know the language going in.
AUR has both a ripgrep-all [1] and ripgrep-all-bin [2] package. Both were addded by you. The bin package has a newer version. What is the difference between the two?

1. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ripgrep-all/

2. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ripgrep-all-bin
First steps with UI test automation
What would "negotiation allowed" mean? Negotiation includes saying "no". The remedy for that is labor law, not some right to negotiate.

An interesting labor law challenge is "one side repeatedly making assertions that don't accord with contract, and I rely on those assertions, or the other side should be punished for making statements that suggest bad faith."
The problem isn't that the average person can't understand all of the modern world, the problem is that them and the politicians they elect and the experts they count on can't understand it well enough to avoid really large mistakes in interconnected systems that can affect everyone.
The actual talk seems to be here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XTg09W5USM
Not just timing, but COVID is a great diversion from the safety issue entirely (in the eyes of the public)

Anyone walking onto an aircraft today is thinking "I hope I don't get a virus" instead of "I hope my plane doesn't crash".
Oh, you were asking about benefits that you can easily relate to.

Well, in that case then you'd be in a much better position to answer than I am.
Yep, with the exception of the computery fields of pyhsics, they cold not care less about programming languages.

I have seen physicists write entire non trivial image processing pipelines in Matlab. Where they happily processed gigabytes of images made by some weird microscope costing stupid amounts of €.

It (mostly and somehow) works but it is slow as hell (porting to c++ cut the time to run a process from 1 day to a few seconds).

They never even bothered with a "real" language because the "computer guys" can port that stuff if need be.

If you have a hammer...
Pixel 4. I'm a lazy bum when it comes to phones, so no customization or any kind of a special launcher or anything.
Somewhat unrelated comment, but the fact that PHP got so good and most people are still not willing to give it a second chance goes to show how hard it is for a language to regain market share after people left for greener pastures.
The economics are obviously different from a 747 or 767 but Boeing sells (converted) 737s as freighters [1]. Alaska Airlines also operates some combined passenger/freight 737s on routes in Alaska that can't fill a 737 entirely with either. Admittedly neither of these are MAX variants but the potential seems to be there.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737#Boeing_Converted_Fr...
Would use it. I have read too many descriptions of the final moments of Lion Air 610 to ever board a 737 Max again.
I might be looking at this at a wrong angle, but why not just have a blog where you post your stories and share your pictures?

People could still "like" your photos and comment on them. Make URLs shareable and then they can email or what ever to their other friends to see if they feel like it.

I know, too much friction. But if they really cared about the content I would guess your friends would hop into the opportunity.
City of Tucson, AZ invites remote workers with over $7,500 in benefits
There's no way to know a priori what history will end up considering important.

There were some documents on terrorist activity compiled during the Clinton administration that, at the time, were of little significance... Until it turned out their information was accurate and that terror cell crashed four planes.
Google chat is not business dependable because google shuts down and replaces its messaging product every 4 years or so. Teams is not a platform in the sense that you could not eg. start selling pizza to random endusers with a pizza bot. I mean something that can be a european wechat revolution.
detectDevice.js lastItem.js and more JavaScript functions
This is really cool and I wasn't aware of this previously. Thanks for sharing!
A Survey on Deep Learning for Software Engineering
As with any novel drug, I have to ask:

How much human use has there been of this drug throughout history?

If the answer is "not much", then you are basically experimenting on yourself.
Been a while since I last used Winamp, and only skin I remember by name is MetAmpMorphosis, which probably means I used it a lot. Can't find it on the linked Archive page, but here it is: https://www.fimble.com/staver/amp.gif
Or the language of any libraries that are useful to build on
IANAL. I just have some knowledge/experience.

A deposition about a work related issue may ask to see all devices that you use in connection with your employer. So yes, a deposition will care when you say you didn't use your personal phone for work if you can prove it by it not being on any device list found with work-related services.

A device list can be obtained (usually easily, sometimes with a court order) through many services you use. G Suite, Github, Microsoft Account, Slack, Reddit, etc... these all track what devices have logged into them with your account. Signal and Telegram have your phone number. And of course any email sent has a list of addresses to which it was sent. So make sure your personal devices aren't found to be communicating with coworkers or vendors and you'll have a valid argument for "I didn't use my personal device for work".

Whether it will stick will largely depend on how good the lawyers are because that's just one way your device can be in scope for a deposition. Another way would be if any messages from coworkers are sent to/from your personal email or phone number then that can also bring your devices into the scope of a deposition. It might depend on whether the content or context of the messages suggests that they're related to the subject of the deposition and that the conversation had been moved (eg, an attempt to hide it). Again, it largely depends on the quality of the lawyers involved.
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Well that seems like cannabis is less accepted - not more. Cannabis has to be pushed outside, alcohol can be inside institutions.
Let's hope not.

A small, geographically bound family business like this is one thing, but we should pay more attention to what kind of creatures we're creating in the long run.

An LLC is a very useful legal fiction, but more and more we're seeing the effects of allowing virtually unbounded, private for profit organizations.
DOE used Chernobyl to cover up radioactive debris venting, scientist says (1986)
Just own the damn robots: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15490104
A recap of the re:Invent 2020 Keynote with Andy Jassy
>While storage is expensive, we'll tend to over-provision wind and solar, and end up throwing power away... unless we can come up for some use for it when we have moments of surplus

Maybe Carbon sequestration?
British Telecom’s origins date back to the founding in 1846 of the Electric Telegraph Company. ETC was the first public telegraph company.
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Serious question: if an airline changes the aircraft, is that grounds for a refund on your flight?
I mean, I don't know what other definition you want.
There's a lot of potential for "smart grid" solutions to help here. But for it to work, we need to get the incentives right. I'm a big fan of Griddy, an electricity provider in Texas that charges you 15-minute wholesale price for your power.

If enough people are paying wholesale price, it creates incentives for smart appliances to time power consumption.
The fact that google is suppressing wages today won't show up on levels.fyi today. It will show up 5 years from now, and by then it'll be a lot harder to unionize.
This encourages offenders to establish many small nominally independent franchises so offenses are distributed.
Not universally.
I'd even say it's a bit more complicated than that: corruption is in the eye of the beholder in a lot of cases.

Some cases are clear; some are not. Pork barrel spending, for example.
She got approval from her manager and passed a code review.

What more was she meant to do?

She didn't bypass anything.
Hotswap – Full class change support for the JVM (2009)
> α = 1/137.03599920611. (The last two digits are uncertain

It must certainly be 42
This is a 20 year old question. A new single or small twin isle would cost $10-20B and take 8 years to develop and certify on the optimistic side. Given they're still bleeding on the 787, the 777X may be cancelled, KC-46 fiasco, Airbus competition, they have to go with what they have.
I'm not sure this is a good comparison. If you cancel your AT&T account, the assumption here is that you're getting rid of your number. At that point, you are not retaining service.

Based on their website[1], you can have an account with pay as you go. There is no reason to assume that if I change to a month to month agreement, I would have to create a new account. Why shouldn't the rollover minutes stay with the account? OP paid for it already.

To go back to the AT&T analogy, if they offered a prepaid yearly contract with rollover minutes, and I lose those minutes because I switched to month to month, I would be pretty angry.

[1] https://www.snowflake.com/pricing/
Just to be clear, I meant that I had switched to ripgrep because its speed was convincing enough on its own (so I did not even extra features to switch).

I'm currently not using any of ugrep or rga, although I have used pdfgrep in the past. It'd be nice for casual users like me to know more about why I should use rga over ugrep (or vice-versa).
Journalist Paul Carr's new publication to keep tech CEOs 'awake at night'
These are grounded airline fleets, not Boeing inventory.
Indeed not every irrational number has this property, for instance you could create an irrational number using only the digits 1 and 2, but some irrational numbers do have this property.

Until I did some research a few minutes ago, I thought this property was the irrational number being a "normal number"; however, that is not the case. That all said, a Normal number definitely has this property and I don't think having this property implies normality, but I don't know either way.

An interesting fact though is that almost all real numbers are normal, which means pretty much every irrational number has this property, though not every irrational number. However, we still don't know if pi, e or square root 2 are normal.
Trello Support team just replied to me:
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Copperhead looks interesting, thanks for that link.
You mean a change that passed code review and for which she was given an ok by her manager?
That's making a bold assumption you get as far as hiring.