skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry what I meant was, is it the same company/organisation..
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Interesting note: there is one Canadian team - the Toronto Raptors. I've been to a game between Celtics and Raptors, both US and Canada anthems were played.
Try meditation. Control your mind.
It is incredible how fast SpaceX became the leading contender in what looked like an impossibly entrenched industry just a few years ago. Hopefully, Blue Origin and some of the other private launch companies can have similar success.
This reminds me of the moment Facebook redesigned profiles as "timelines" making it possible for anyone to zoom back 5 years and read status updates that you thought were lost to obscurity.

Was the information always public? Yes. But the difficulty in accessing it meant that only the most obsessive stalker would find their way back to it.

Making difficult-to-access public information extremely easy to access is type of privacy change.
> I harbored racist beliefs, and told plenty of racist jokes as a boy. My "opinions", I posted on twitter, as a teenager, would be more than enough to get me expelled from society today. Be it culturally cancelled in the US, or imprisoned in the UK

that's not a problem with you, but with cancel culture in general.
lol. but the third time you read Moby Dick those are the best parts.

loose fish vs fast fish is top of the line 19th century humor.

i admit i was bored to tears by those sections on the first read.

honestly i think it just isn’t a great read for people in their teens/20s as the world weariness, fatalism, and obsession with an imperfect understanding of an obscure expertise is something better appreciated as one ages.
> However I find it hard to reconcile it with the fact that many/most of the nicest countries on earth to live in are constitutional monarchies. Including Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands, Canada, Australia, UK, NZ and Japan.

Because it has nothing to do with wealth?

The detrimental financial costs of monarchies are a drop in a nation's budget.

Just as the prime minister gifting his best friend 1 million euro per year from the nation's budget wouldn't really impact matters much overall in a nation that deals with billions each year.

It would still be quite corrupt, of course.

> It might be the existence of a monarch unites society in some way

Of course not, it is almost always a decisive issue in countries that have a monarchy.

In republics, almost everyone agrees that republics are better, but in monarchies the issue divides the population, and those that are in favor of retaining the monarchy are almost always traditionalists who desire to do many senseless things simply because they are tradition and are afraid of change.

History has always sided with the progressives, for no man wants change for it's own sake. When a man desire change, he typically has thought well of it, and desires a change for a reason, but when a man desires that matters stay the same, he very thought little of it, and wishes that they remain so for their own sake.
This is what code review is for though, right? I think any reviewer worth their salt is going to be pretty skeptical about a new language feature being the right way to solve a problem.

New syntax is often a bad idea, but sometimes it's a really good idea. It'd be good to allow experimentation in the wild, and potentially upstream these features later once they've been proved out.

This is why I suggested macros as the feature I'd like to see most in the last python developer survey. Most of the time, defining a macro is bad idea and is a code smell, but sometimes they add very useful language features.
Speaking of the Harry Potter system.. have you come across http://www.hpmor.com/ (Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality)?

If not, I can guarantee* you'll enjoy it.

* as much as anything can be guaranteed anyway ;)
"30-50% of their yearly budgets" -- I tried to find some sources for that figure.

Regarding what United States cities spend on police, Mother Jones has some information here: https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2020/08/the-blue-b...

Honestly, the numbers are surprising to me. Example: Normally, New York City is quoted as having the largest police force in the United States. However, NYC only spends 8% of its city budget on police. I lived in Manhattan for a few years, and it was normal to see police on foot/bike/car patrols even in wealthy, relatively crime-free neighborhoods.

Also: In the Mother Jones article pie charts, Oakland spends 44% of its city budget on police. But in the historical graphs below, they spend about 8%. There must be a subtle difference in what they are measuring, but it is unclear to me.
Luckily no one is making me go to Dallas Mavericks home games.
Pretty cool, but I would assume this depends on internet speed for left nav items? no?
That movie was based on the Haruki Murakami short story “Barn Burning,” though it did reference Gatsby directly in the dialogue
ISPs step up fight against SpaceX, tell FCC that Starlink will be too slow
I'm aware 10,000 workers is part hyperbole and mostly not coders more like HR, managing, translations and marketing but I'm pretty sure you could kill off 100 people without hurting the product given how it stands so even if the fuzzer did nothing it could replace 100 people.

But it could test UI both voice and graphical, test inputs, test codebase, test load balancing, find security issues, it could help with marketing and translations. I also think a fuzzer could beat a manager at doing their job, but that's probably cynicism. You'd be better using the fuzzer at getting useless managers re-assigned.
I’m surprised, given recent presidential elections in the US and elsewhere, that the advantages of not having an executive that individual citizens can covet hasn’t become more widely appreciated.
Maybe maemo with modern ofono (derived from mer?) Would work on pinephone.

Maybe megous has a better idea, but I believe bt requires keeping the wifi radio powered as well? Is there something that could be done at the driver level to separate the power domains?

Maybe using mpd and disabling the UI when you don't need it will help. Most of the gnome players use gstreamer and trigger constant events in their UI.
The Mavericks play basketball, not football.
Scheme from Scratch (2010)
I am not being pedantic. I don’t understand your position. It seems you are saying that the police officer is violating copyright by playing music in a public space. Whether or not ASCAP would come after me or not, is it really true that in the US I cannot play music aloud on public property?
which novels are better?
How to really get good startup ideas: steal them, and do it better.
Amazing!

If we don't want the programs that used the GMP library, then we can simply not show those results!

Except "Some languages rely on GMP to implement built-in bignums. They are marked with an asterisk (*)." — why are they shown?

(And why isn't there a C program + GMP measurement?)
I believe the old map was mostly TomTom (TeleAtlas) with a little bit of other sources sprinkled in.
That's completely different, and not wholely beneficial either. The piper's due is merely deferred until the last of the original abstractor's guard dies, then everyome who relied on it has to rederive the fundamentals, or stagnate.
I like the videos by David Casler on YouTube. He has many. The videos for the Technician class license may be of interest to you.

You might also want to check out the American Radio Relay League, at arrl.org.

Wishing you success with your investigation.
The organizers have been pretty clear that they're not going to hold one during COVID, so I'd judge the chances to be extremely small, no matter what Thierry "GOAT IET OAN" Baudet says.
Thanks for the feedback. I put fileinput in CLI chapter since it is a good example for a cli app and I'm introducing sys.argv in that chapter. I link this section in Files chapter as well. That said, putting it in Files chapter would work too.
What special identifiers are there in the OS? And does this also apply to Linux/Ubuntu?
Any information on Wilbur Labs? Seems like an interesting company
The first commits to the Go repository are a legendary easter egg
what happens if len(parts)==1 ?

in this case pattern matching would have helped
I like it. I was just trying to do some simple "parsing" of a pyproject.toml file. So I wrote the standard crud of, "is it a dictionary? If so, does it have a specific key? What if it's just a string? If so, ..."

Having a dedicated syntax would mean someone could look at the patterns I'm matching and see clearly what the format of the input should be. This seems ideal for handling various user-friendly toml/yaml/json configuration formats and other semi(poorly)-structured data.

I think it also addresses a real weakness in OO: to add behavior per class you either lard up classes with not-really-relevant methods, or create a proxy class, or do the inevitable if/elif isinstance chain.
If you want data, you need to specify what standard of evidence would be enough for you to consider that there actually are people who hold this position.

For instance, you won't find anyone simply stating without context to hold these 10 positions. If you're expecting that, you wouldn't find it no matter how many people actually held those opinions.

Another issue is that any data people _actually_ do bring you can dismiss as "non-representative", as you have not set your standards of evidence.

For instance, if you want scholarly research proving X% of Americans think so and so, you won't find any, for a plethora of reasons. That does not mean that X% of Americans don't think so and so.

I do believe your argument is coherent, and that McWhorter might be exaggerating and even strawmanning a bit - but if you want data, you need to specify in advance what's the standard of evidence you'll accept and people can then determine whether that's a reasonable standard.
The Great Semiconductor Shortage
Agreed. This also demonstrates: Does one-thing and does it well.
Between The World and Me spent over 100 weeks in the NYT bestseller list. Ibram X. Kendi, author of the other book cited, wrote another book, How To Be An Antiracist, which was a bestselling book in the U.S. 2020. Another bestselling book in this vein was White Fragility. Check out the sales figures from May-June here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jemimamcevoy/2020/07/22/sales-o...
15 Minute City
> you can't disband the police because $(blatantly_ridiculous_reason).

Most of us do not consider apprehension of violent criminals to be a “blatantly ridiculous reason.”

> The police in this country are unaccountable, in a literal sense. There is no mechanism to hold them accountable; what exists to do this is inefficient, inaccessible to most people who may need to use it, and also largely ineffective even in the rare cases it does work.

This is true.

> And none of this can surprise when you know the past of most police offices lies in slave patrols and union busting Pinkertons.

This is false.

> Policing in the United States is not broken, it's doing exactly what it was always intended to do: abusing poor people in the interest of the owning class. You can't reform that which is doing exactly what it was designed to do.

This is a leftist talking point that is designed to avoid recognizing that abuse of authority is not a consequence of a specific country’s troubled history but a consequence of the existence of authority. They do this because they can, not because some oligarch somewhere wants them to.

> And if you hold officers accountable, then they won't overpolice minority neighborhoods, they won't beat people to death for sleeping in front of your buildings, they might hesitate to shoot someone in the back for stealing a $5 beer. I.e., they become less effective to the owning class. And that's why it doesn't happen.

It doesn’t happen because the ability to hold the police accountable is the same as the ability of the police to hold members of society accountable, i.e. coercion. And coercion always begets abuse. So your institution that holds the police accountable becomes the one who is responsible for people getting beat to death, etc, and the cycle continues because we can’t seem to come to terms with the idea that society shouldn’t recognize norms of differential status.

> Until this cultural gap is resolved, where we acknowledge not just what is happening but why it's happening and that it's happening was the intended, desired outcome, we can't move forward on it.

You’re never going to make any progress on this because you’re wrong about this being the desired outcome, and so any solution based on this premise is flawed.
While this is a move in the right direction, Gitlab has had a similar feature for years, and it's not read-only.
What's very interesting is the licensing requirements for Ham Radio, while being dumb, are very good entry points. [1] and [2] essentially give you flash cards and tell you when you have enough of the questions memorized to pass the exam. Once you do that you can use [3] to find an exam session. These are usually hosted by radio clubs so you can immediately find a club of people who like radio and live by you. If you live in Tucson, Arizona or Dayton, Ohio you're in a lot of luck since they are the biggest clubs I know of.

There's mainly a few "areas" people like:

- Digital (PSK, etc)

- CW (Morse Code usually over long distances)

- Repeaters (VHF, a small local community, essentially TeamSpeak)

If I had enough money I'd buy a FT-100D [4] since it lets you do "everything" (poorly) in a single package which is important for me since I live in a small apartment.

When you get your license, go to your local radio club, tell people you're new, and ask them to participate in something called "Field Day". It's a disaster preparedness "drill" done yearly and works like a contest: talk to a bunch of people regardless of method and get points for it. You'll see everyone doing everything. There's people doing QRP (very low power transmissions usually off batter/solar) and QRO (people using very high power radios). Digital/analog, etc.

[1] - qrz.com

[2] - www.hamradiolicenseexam.com

[3] - www.arrl.org/find-an-amateur-radio-license-exam-session

[4] - https://www.universal-radio.com/catalog/hamhf/3473.html
> The same is also true of map apps

Either you haven't heard of or used Gnome Maps (which is wonderful, highly recommend), or it doesn't fit your criteria. Assuming the latter, what do you consider missing?
Strong agree that this is hobbled by being a statement.

Pattern matching is great for dispatch and overloading, but because it's a statement there's no way for users to add overloads.

There will have to be some `matches(pattern, object)` function in CPython. Why not make this available to users? Why make patterns syntax, not objects?
Kudos for the progress Agnikul Cosmos has made and I wish them great success.

Prior art:

https://www.relativityspace.com

https://3dprint.com/111799/nasa-3d-printed-rocket-engine/

https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/06/19/134877/rocket-la...

https://hackaday.com/2020/12/08/sla-3d-printed-vortex-cooled...

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=3d+printed+rock...

https://3dprint.com/278184/startup-accelerator-ursa-major-is...
I like to call it "poor engineering"
and there are many forms of poor engineering I've seen. Following the analogy... painting the bottom of the bridge in same color as the terrain. Then repainting because there were color differences.

Spending time and money looking for lighter materials even when the bridge is designed to support a lot more weight than traditional time tested materials. Justification : "Maybe cars will get heavier, and bigger saving 3 pounds is a good pursuit"
Brilliant!! Github should make it first class. Most times, I don't need full power of codespace, something leaner(free) just to browse code will be awesome.
Someone should make a profile noise generator that frequently updates profiles with non-substantive changes to make such tools less interesting.
The average person doesn’t think enough.
Pretty much the same as in the PEP: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0636/#adding-conditions-...
I agree with using descriptive identifier names and using function names to express intent of lines of code.

But I don't understand your point in bringing it up here.

> "It is not worth doing," she said, [it=foobar]

baz(it) = "$it is not worth doing"
baz("foobar")

`it` is neither a descriptive identifier, nor did I see a suggestion for what the function `baz` could be called to make it descriptive.
OSM is lovely, except for the UI. It is way over complicated.
Let’s compare the cloud shells offered by AWS, Microsoft Azure, and GCP
Hey Jacob, we're a startup studio. If you boil it down, everything we do falls in two buckets: starting new companies and supporting the portfolio. For new companies, we start a few companies per year when an idea is in our strike zone and meets our thesis. This post, at a high-level, hits on what that strike-zone is. We won't start a business unless we are uniquely positioned to solve a big, growing problem.

For existing companies in the portfolio, we provide funding, shared resources, and operational support.

We shared more on what a startup studio is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26004021
Wanted to come here to plug this: https://teams.startplaying.games/. Participated in a hosted game with them a week ago and really really enjoyed it. Think that D&D and other role-playing options like it are a great way for teams to stay connected during the pandemic in a lower stakes type environment where everyone can express themselves in a cooperative/constructive way!
We're building a company around this called Marco - we'd love for you to check us out! We think we're the best way to bring your people together and have options ranging from Kombucha Making to Private Comedy Shows [0]

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I downloaded magic earth and it works surprisingly well. I am concerned about the fact that it is free, though. I wonder what's their business plan.
My father insisted on getting a brand-new Massey Ferguson compact tractor. Way overpriced but he's got brand loyalty from many decades back.

Wouldn't even hear of a Kubota.
The Great Gatsby entered the US public domain this year, and you can read it for free at Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/f-scott-fitzgerald/the-gre...
In my case, I have found myself not doing enough stuff whenever I think too much. "doing" here doesn't necessarily mean productive work. Even spending quality time with friends and family counts towards and can have much more rewarding effects when compared to overthinking.
Ask HN: Where do you think retail investing is heading?
Robinhood seemed to unlock a new customer segment of investors. Where do you think it's headed next? Social investing? Defi?
No they don’t. The comments here are the perfect counter example.
I am a business owner and I’ve had reviews taken down solely because I was a paying Yelp customer. I’ve had other accounts that were non-paying that couldn’t get fraudulent reviews removed at all.

Yelp is a scam, but you pay the piper because their local SEO is too good.
I passed this along to Philip of pskreporter.info as he'll certainly find it fascinating as well!
Yeah! Suman from Marco here - check us out!
As I understand it, it is quite possible to do this within the rule of law. To avoid the monarch refusing to enact this, it would need to be done in two stages:

1. A new Royal Assent Act, that makes assent automatic upon a bill passing both Houses. Assuming this in itself receives assent, it would remove the monarch's power to veto or refuse a bill (a power that hasn't been used for over 300 years anyway).

2. A Republic Act, that transfers all powers, abolishes the monarchy, strips them of their wealth, exiles them, etc.

Where is the debasement here?
What is the motivation behind Musk's tweets? Does he actually want the public masses to invest in Dog?

Or maybe is he just using it as means for him and his companies to appear hip and relevant to an ever younger consumer market?
First, for people who are unclear about the term "clearance rate"... I found this definition on Google: "charge being laid" (someone was charged with a crime).

Second, as I understand burglary, it is a property crime, like breaking & entering into a home, business, or car. Robbery is person-to-person theft (stick-up by knife, gun, etc.) If we think about burglary for a moment, most burglaries happen when no one is around. Thus, imagine how difficult it is to have enough evidence to even lay a charge against someone. Vanishingly small. I'm not sure that is a good way to judge the effectiveness of police. I lived in an apartment building many years ago where someone got to the roof, then entered an open window and stole some things. The chances of catching this person are incredibly low. The police came to our building to ask questions and look at the inside of various apartments. The effort was made, but it would be nearly impossible to lay charges with so little tangible evidence.

Third, think about robbery. When I think about robbery, I think about "wrong place, wrong time" -- on a street alone at night. What are the chances the police will be able to gather enough evidence to lay a charge? Again, vanishingly small.

Lastly, about this clearance rate for these two crime categories: How does it compare to other high income countries like Canada, UK, France, Netherlands, Germany, Korea, Taiwan, Japan, etc.? I'm sure it is also fairly low.
How does this feature work on Gitlab? Can you link a doc? Is it VS code as well?
Not sure what I should be looking for, any hints? Also, the link doesn't quite go to the "first commits of the Go repository", should I be looking at those instead?

Edit:
Here's a link to the first, legendary commits in Go: https://github.com/golang/go/commits/eef3fbb83ee0d654fbd3545...

I guess HN stripped the "after" param from the URL, breaking your link.
You might want to read a bit more about 1988. Prost won 7 out of 16 races, but Ayrton Senna won 8/16 with 13 pole positions and the World Championship.

So, the facts agree.
Don't quit the job because you lose so many advantages! Get your new role before quitting.

The advantanges you lose when you aren't gainfully employed:

1. The ease of use of obtaining the first interview from a recruiter.

2. Hiring manager's inability to call references at your current company (good or bad depends on your situation at the current one)

3. The inability of a potential employer to discuss a salary and benefits lower than your current one.
You will likely be surrounded by people who don’t care about the bad press, or actually believe in the mission to “connect everyone” or w/e. It’s unlikely team morale at fb is actually bad.

However, if you are the type of person who has a strict moral compass, it will probably eat at you until you need to leave. From personal experience, I worked at a unicorn where everyone I worked with believed we were making the world a better place while on the inside I knew we were absolutely not. It’s a very alienating feeling that might drive you to hate your job.
The three protocols for email (SMTP/POP/IMAP) are all outdated really badly. People today needs more efficient, multiplexed and real time message RX/TX, and those tree just not going to cut it.

A new, chat-styled mail protocol can be designed to address all the problems above while reduce the risk of abuse. I wonder why nobody standing up to do it.
I just started watching HBO's "The Wire."

It was interesting to hear D'Angelo Barksdale's take on it [1]. I think it's related to his character's arc - inner turmoil about whether to leave the criminal world behind.

[1] https://youtu.be/8DOy4hCih7w
> I sometimes wonder why I'm still a SWE. I've slowly started to realize over time that my profession is filled with overthinking and over-engineering

You've already seen how to be a better SWE than most.

Now you just have to execute.