skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not nostalgic for the old versions of Java. I learned on Java 3, when they designers were still saying, "yOu Don't nEEd typE paraMeterS BeCAusE yOu CAn cAsT tO Object!"
Euronews simply has facts.
> CPGB-ML who are full on tankies

It remains astonishing that a number of these people did a full 180 turn to right-libertarians and from there to Brexiteers, eventually leading to Claire Fox, apologist for the bombing of Manchester, becoming a member of the House of Lords. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claire_Fox
If we are talking about the TV station, 20% of any given news clip are actual information, the remaining 80% are spins and opinion from the editor or host.

Also, we are really stretching the meaning of the word "news" nowadays. Remember this piece? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixEahmx0Btw

While i have great respect for Larry King, i have lost nearly all respect for CNN. By the way, the same applies to Fox.
Maybe with Starship flying soon we can replace the station for a fraction of what originally cost. I hope they consider pushing it out into a stable orbit instead of deorbitting it though... it seems like such a sad thing to destroy a piece of space history forever that we could feasibly retain now mass to orbit is orders of magnitude cheaper.
Although you are correct I feel like you skipped over an important detail that is crucial to your argument.

The power consumption does not depend on the block size.

Securing blocks has a cost that is independent of the block size. Bitcoin Cash is a good example.

I also find it interesting that Bitcoin Cash is not as prone to deflation which means that in theory you could actually use it as money. It never caught on so it is effectively dead though. It's best to forget about it.
Not gonna lie, I’m more likely to click on Big Mac woman video than on unrest in Darfur.
As a Dane I can attest that charging infrastructure is most definitely not anywhere near good enough for most people that doesn't have their own parking spot. I just bought a mild-hybrid for the exact reason that charging is impossible if I don't want to drive in circles looking for a spot or risk having to either walk home or sit at a charging station starring at the sky on my way home.
Glad to see this. I’ve always felt so dirty paying an annual fee just to play Halo online once or twice a year - particularly when the online experience isn’t exactly worth paying for.
>If you mistake the soreness and fatigue for pain and stop at that moment, you will still get in better shape. Really. It just gonna be slow.

Fitness is a slow process anyways, why artificially increase it by spreading FUD about bodies? bodies get sore and fatigued. it's normal. When you think soreness and fatigue are pain, and for some reason you're ALWAYS in pain when you exercise, you're never going to do it.
All radiation that you care about on the space station will be electro-magnetic - i.e. gamma rays.
Since you mentioned biosphere 2, I was really surprised to learn the Steve Bannon was director for 2 years of the project.
Is the new book any good? I liked Martian.
In my mind any good he's done was long erased by his informercials for scam supplements -- no wonder old folks hate the Government, most of what they see advertised on TV is fraud in plain site and nobody does anything about it.
Dude had a cameo in the first Ghostbusters. Larry King was already a known entity. There's a reason CNN picked him up.

Never mind, I got mixed up, you're talking about just CNN.
> Undercover police with fake identities had relationships with activists and sometimes fathered children with them.

whilst I suspect this happened in the 80s as well, the actual case that was prosecuted was from the early 2000s

> were responsible for criminal acts (i.e. terrorism) which discredited the organisations and movements they infiltrated.

Our dealings with the unionists in NI are a particular dark stain. Now sadly legalised by this new intelligence bill. (simplification, but its not a good bill.)

> destroy left wing organisations of all kinds.

Much as this is nice to believe, having worked in a number of left wing organisations, they are perfectly capable of imploding by them selves. It appears that they attract a certain kind of idiot, who is exceptionally well adapted at persuading other middle-class idiots that black is blue.

Right-wing organisations also implode, but in a different way. Ironically they tend to have more "real" working class people in them too.
Digital Ocean is my favorite alternative. They have all the basic services you need and fantastic APIs, documentation and tutorials to help. They're also pretty cheap and there's tons of coupons out there to get free credits to get started.
90% off book price:How Not to Die
For anyone else out of the loop, the blackout game involves

> participants blocking oxygen to their brain in order to get high.
They're cranks. The "left-wing brexit" I think was in part inspired by anti-globalism and not wanting to see financial migrants as more readily and cheaply exploitable labour but it was weird.
The article being from 2019, I highly doubt that DRM was such a common issue in 2017, so much that you had to anticipate for it.

4k wasn't that common either.
For the reference, at the time, I believe Netflix was even using Silverlight.

And Google is the blocking entity here, because they are in charge of delivering licenses for Widevine, which is specifically what you need to play DRMed content.

Not so misleading IMO.
Steps in Building a Machine Learning Project
I do some consulting where I'm paid to fix specific bugs / add specific features to various open source projects, often in Python data science world. Usually it goes something like:

1. Figure out what the project's contribution guidelines are.

2. Check out code, figure out how to build it and run tests.

3. If it's a complex task, might want to build some credibility with maintainers first, so might contribute tiny fix first.

4. If it's a complex task, try to engage maintainers to see if they'll accept it, and to get hints on how to approach it. They may be hard to reach, so this might take a few days or a couple of weeks, though I'm not working during that time, it's just delay.

5. Do the actual work.

6. Go through whatever code review process. Sometimes I might need to gently ask for reviews if it sits for too long.

$80 total for all the above is laughable. And to be fair I ask for a good amount of money because I am good at what I do, and there are people who live in much cheaper places than Boston area and could charge less.

For $80, you'd have to both have an extremely low cost of living and already be an expert on the project for this to be in any way worthwhile.
What switch/router is it going through? There's a lot of gigabit hardware that can't push gigabit speeds.
Congratulations OP.

If you could find a way to deliver books for rent in small towns of Tier2/3 cities where there are no proper libraries then you solve problems like 'I don't have access to a proper library in my city'[1] posted on my problem validation platform.

You're still welcomed to explain how Lurebees solves their problem.

[1]https://needgap.com/problems/33-i-dont-have-access-to-a-prop... (Disclaimer: I created this platform).
What? WhatsApp groups do work on desktop because it is a projected copy of the mobile.
"When the time comes" for what?
I got 8/10 which says otherwise. I voted serial killer for both women just because of how unlikely it is for a female to invent a programming language. If it wasn't for that I would be basically 90% correct.

This means statistically that there likely is a difference.

I can't put my finger on what it was though, I just knew. Basically anybody who looked insane must be an inventor of a programming language and anyone who looked normal must've not invented a language and therefore must be a killer.
I can mail a book across the country for much less. Sure it's probably at a loss to the USPS z but I should be able to do a local delivery or pickup for a fraction of that esp if you could somehow tie in the local post office.
Ah, I was wrong about Signal, I think perhaps one of the early desktop clients was a projected version? It does indeed seem to be working with my phone on airplane mode.
Chatty (the default chat app on the Librem 5) reuses parts of Pidgin's code via libpurple.

Also, I've used Pidgin as my main mobile IM client back in the day on the Openmoko Neo Freerunner.
Also some people just don’t like to share.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/12/charg...
It is Java 1.1.
News channels do not broadcast 24 hours of news. The majority of programming are personalities, opinions and "recaps." The actual news comes on in hour-long chunks once early in the morning, mid-day and at primetime.
>> why should there be battery-less portable Workstations

Actually I think the battery in my laptop mostly functions as a UPS, and is rarely used on my lap. I have a home office and used to visit other offices a lot, and the main use case for me is being able to quickly fold my workstation into a bag and take it anywhere. But I plug it in when I get there, and unless I want to code on a plane or a train (I rarely do), it's just a portable workstation.
What's actually happening: Italy has requested TikTok to disable user accounts beloging to users of unknown/unchecked age. TikTok has until Feb 10 to comply.
First time was me and my dad going to the local library, really thinking on what the heck to do. I think we went for lego.com (I must've been around nine at the time?).

Later when we got internet at home we looked up "spelletjes" (Dutch for games) aaand ended up on a porn site. Thankfully not one with images on the front page.
No, because humans can print USD, which inherently decreases the buying power of all existing USD. Can't do that with BTC.
Absolutely, yes. In normal nations, mechanisms existed to pay for both health care and lost wages for all citizens. Those mechanisms don't exist in USA. We only have mechanisms to give lots of money to the already-rich people who control our elections. So, we got "The CARES Act".
I would rather not trust a company with my life that has trouble with basic things like security..
I connect from Windows 10 client to a Windows 10 host using RDP driving dual 4K and it feels like native, though I mostly just use single 4K. This it’s my daily driver over a standard UK fibre to the cabinet (FTTC) connection client end to a gigabit connection host side.

I’m generally using office, internet, Windows terminals/ssh, IDEs etc. Very rarely an overly dramatic full page video advert will jolt me back to reality that I’m doing this over RDP.
I don’t think anyone thinks people are out to eliminate Christmas in the sense you seem to mean it, which is kind of the point. Or rather, I’m sure some people do, but they are rare and not representative of Christians in general despite the generalization.

To be clear there are people who take offense to the phrase “Merry Christmas”, which is what some traditionalists (Christian or not) take issue with, but no one is making a weak man argument about them either, i.e., no one says most people take offense to Merry Christmas.
In those days, I had the JDK in a box of 3.5" floppies.
Experience: swapping the car out with a mild hybrid as the charging while shopping strategy is awful and broken. If you absolutely have to charge there (because you can't charge at home for a lack of a private spot) you end up driving in circles, trying to get a spot, or go to a charging station instead after you have given up at the mall when the parking is full. Suddenly every shopping trip ends up with the risk of taking an hour instead of 15 minutes. Not recommended unless you have your own charger and parking available.
Been a long time user of Pidgin and OTR/XMPP. Been very grateful to those who maintain it. Sadly it doesn't seem to have a big community compared to that which Matrix/Riot seem to enjoy.
I have a totally over-engineered UniFi setup at home. I’m pretty confident the network is not the issue.

I experience the performance issues on the LAN, for instance, even with a 1,300mbps negotiated connection.
By 1 BTC = 1 BTC I mean humans can print USD, which inherently decreases the buying power of all existing USD. Can't do that with BTC.
I distinctly remember when CNN jumped the shark. It was during the 2000 election coverage when they started introducing all these computer generated graphics.
Learn German, we have more vowels!
Zizek writes serious books. He's often known by the public for making jokes because that's what the public consumes: they don't read serious books.
> I often notice the precision with which he used language.

Indeed. Hard to find an inaccuracy, even when he's talking about some details of technical subjects. He had an exceptional ability to translate between the spiritual and the technical in a way which seems to make complete sense.

> Such a joy to listen to.

A true spiritual entertainer. Never boring. I imagine he could be a stand-up comedian today.

> I especially like the chill-step YouTube videos some people assemble and publish. I download them with youtube-dl and listen to them on my phone at night while drifting off to sleep.

Similar, I went thru a lot of the material on youtube. High-quality material with transcripts can also be found here: https://www.organism.earth/library/author/alan-watts
A lot of it I listened to many times over and I keep getting new insights out of it, it's so densely packed.

> At 61 years of age, the philosophy he describes (Advaita Vedanta / Zen Buddhism / Taoism) brings me great comfort.

Definitely helps to know these philosophical perspectives, especially if one gets tangled up in some harmful model of reality.

Somehow the basic (non-religious, just philosophical) Taoism seems to most align with me at the moment. I credit the Dao for solving a very tough naming problem for me. ;)
Ah I know Pokemon too well to fall for this one.
Customizing the Vanilla JS Date Range Picker Library
> instant torque that an electric vehicle puts out just shreds a gearbox.

On other hand, you can put way more beefier gears, as you need less of them.
>But good luck in dealing with inflation lol.

2% inflation is necessary to keep economies fair and productive. Without inflation you basically get hoarders that do nothing productive with their wealth. Deflation increases wealth inequality and is far worse for the average person.
It doesn't show up on Googol?
I'm not going to say my news is perfect, but it's from a non-commercial / nonpartisan organization, they get money from the government / taxes (which is less than ideal, but their independence is codified I believe), etc. It sticks to the news, professional-like.

Switch to the commercial channels (we thankfully don't have major 24 hour news channels) and the news on there has much more er, Personalities, quirkiness, some silly background news, and a weatherman that travels the country to visit events and petting zoos and shit.
Bloated software creates demand in hardware. And demand drives supply. When CPU speeds stopped increasing they started adding more cores and created SMT. As Moore's Law is ending they start adding specialized coprocessors (M1). Circling back to the 80s.

All these fancy new hardware technologies are not aimed at particle physics, HFT, or fringe high performance shops. They are aimed at consumer grade shitty software and a whole industry who is driven by deadlines and non-technical managers.

The change in the software industry has to come from within.
Both and the relative rarity of armed conflict.

High aircraft speeds combined with mid air refueling give nearly arbitrary ranges, add in and the risk associated with air defenses makes long distance attacks more common. You don’t want your air bases within easy striking distance of the enemy.

Several other factors are relevant for example prop aircraft can handle rough runways, but jets need a clean surface as they can suck debris into engines. So, even in the event of a US / China war, it’s not clear how long both sides would be capable of having effective air forces anywhere near each other.
As someone following ethereum developments, I would agree we're getting very close.

If you're not familiar with the scene I suggest checking it IPFS, ENS, eth.link domains, and Cloudflare's support for these developments.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-distributed-web-resol...
> I haven't had a 'relaxing' holiday without worries in over 12 months and so I'm considering a change.

(I work in operations/devops engineering and not into sofware engineering so my point of view is a bit different, the underlying reasoning is applicable anyway, imho)

I made a point to grill the interviewers during the interview on such topics. HR bullshit like "we care for work-life balance" means nothing, I grill the technical interviewer when it comes to the usual "do you have any question for us?"

How do you manage on-call availability? How many people are on-call and how many at any given moment? Can on-call people escalate things further? To whom? Are developers on-call too? Do do you architect for HA? How? In your current architecture, what could be a single point of failure?

This kind of questions.

Any negative reply is a red flag. If I start seeing more than two-three red flags (or even one on an important question) then I'll pass.

My reasoning when I last changed job was that my job at the time was awful but I had a permanent contract, it would not have made sense to jump into another awful job and win the additional stress and risk derived from the probation time.
The people that hold the antifa flags are almost always the ones that also let of fireworks and start fires at protests.

Which is always fun, unless its your protest.
But it’s not that anymore so you’re not fine with it, right?
You respond to the article (and to her) as if she's in need of absolution. If the article is true to Highsmith's character, I'd doubt she'd want that, or that she'd really care.

Writing (and reviews of that writing) aren't generally meant to absolve the writer of whatever sins they've committed. Writers are entertainers trying to make a living, and they are successful to the extent they are entertaining (and lucky.) If you find a writer entertaining, then the writer's done their job, nothing more. If you don't want to read an author because you despise them, that's on you. No absolution required.
Based on the title I thought this was about people who created and killed programming languages. I was sorely disappointed.
Feel free to move away. NixOS isn't supposed to be popular, it's supposed to be correct.
What does On Deck's success mean for the future of business school?
I find it's more often intermediate programmers who don't want to invest the time in learning advanced tools like Haskell or NixOS.
Good at compile-time, breaks at runtime. It is because TypeScript doesn't want to diverge far from JavaScript. TypeScript compiles to JavaScript and if you give the wrong input you'll end up with runtime errors.

Usually this happens with casting. Casting an `any` variable as `string` doesn't do anything other than letting the compiler knows that it must be string. It doesn't transform the variable and throw error when it is not string. This is a bit like casting struct pointer in C.

This usually happens at IO: `fetch`, `localstorage`, `fs.readFileSync`, etc. It can't be solved purely with TypeScript. I used `io-ts` to mitigate this problem.

This is a good paradigm to adopt in TypeScript projects https://lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2019/11/05/parse-don-t-va....

Other than data type, brutally tweaking your tsconfig (and webpack or rollup, if you use them) can also cause errors in module resolution, which is not a nice thing.

TypeScript is almost revolutionary. The thing I wish to exist is a superset of TypeScript that allows Rust-like macro. It is super handful, super beautiful.
One solution I’ve seen posted here (can’t remember the link) is to put a sleep in some call and step it up every day/week/month until retirement.

That way when the application slows down, people complain, a story is created to figure out why, and the answer will be the library is deprecated and needs to be migrated.

The calls can always be made, they just get more expensive.
I'm a developer. The other side of it is that I get told what to build, even if I see a better approach.

I do think up inventions, maybe one every other month. They are usually taken already or would not make enough money.
Hence why over half of the comments in this thread about the passing of Larry King are about the political bent of CNN
You might like this: https://histre.com/features/save-restore-tabs/
Ask HN: Is there an aggregator for new software engineering books?
I'm always on the hunt for great new software engineering and architecture books and find myself visiting the publishers' websites to find out about them. Some publishers' books aren't available via Amazon. If they are on Amazon, it's difficult to weed out the titles that are marketed towards novice consumers.

Is there a better way to find books and textbooks related to software engineering such as an aggregator?
By this logic, there is no such thing as a stateless API because even a trivial "add those numbers" API would rely on the "state" of the server binary or code - which could also change at any time.

I think a more useful definition is your second paragraph - i.e. does the server have to keep state specifically for the client that did the last request? This is the case for sessions and for many non-HTTP protocols that need to track state per connection (e.g. TCP tracks connection flags, statistics and sequence numbers, TLS tracks your keys, FTP tracks your current directory, SMTP tracks which data fields were sent, etc etc).

It does not apply for simple database searches or even CRUD endpoints because while there is global state (there always is), the server does not care which client in particular made the requests.

APIs that have no per-client state can generally be implemented by a shim that internally calls a newer API pretty easily. It's not that easy with APIs that do have per-client state.
The Game Pass model really worries me. It's a definite chilling effect to game studios and traditional publishing, not to mention indies.
When a bunch individuals BUY a stock to hold it, it’s an irrational mob.

As opposed to the “institutional investors” who are shorting a stock, which is to borrow a stock, sell it, and then buy it back later at a reduced price.

Which one sounds more like an irrational mob?

Seems like people are getting mad that the exclusivity of Wall St is getting torn down.
https://histre.com/ might be what you're looking for. You can save your browsing history (tree-style) via open-source browser extensions, take notes on the links, add highlights, and share them as a notebook either publicly or privately.

For example, here is a public notebook: https://histre.com/pub/notebooks/zk4s2695/product-road-map-t...
The block limit has nothing to do with the transaction rate. You'll just wind up waiting longer for a block.

Bitcoin core has had since the Big Forks a larger number of transactions than Bitcoin Cash, which was forked to allegedly fix the transaction rate.

If the rest of you had actually tried /running a node/ instead of just copying and pasting the fifty cent army's argument of the day maybe you'd realize that.
Intel is not way slower than AMD in the mobile space.
Plenty, but you have to find them first.

But even if news LOOKS like they stick to the facts, you should still look at them critically and get your news from multiple sources; they can still influence your opinion simply by omission or by emphasis (random example: put a muslim terrorist attack front and center, put a nazi terrorist attack in a byline or not publish it at all).

The news items themselves can be presented neutrally, but what news to present and how still matters.