skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to pick on these people specifically, but when they wrote, “technology companies, including VacationRenter, Vitabox, Joblist, Barkbus” I literally laughed out loud. I mean sure, there’s a lot of advanced technology involved in a dog groomer being in a van but it’s all the responsibility of the van manufacturer.

The word “technology” has been completely inflated out of any meaninful description at this point, in part because of its magical cargo-cult aura to a lot of people and in part because what was high tech and novel is often now commodity table stakes these days.
Too bad the recidivism rate is also firmly in the "shit that clearly does not work and is absolutely a fucking waste of tax dollars" range, then.
I've done work for a well known euro car maker, and they had several of the brackets interfering in CAD. This could have been avoided with a simple collision check that they should have done. After informing them of the errors, they fixed the print with a -/- tolerance and left the 3d model interfering.

All of the domestic car manufacturers took great care to ensure clearance between parts.

(I'm a Toyota fanboy but have never done work for them.)
>>>>>> nothing mass-produces racism and extremist political views more than treating an entire generation of young men as though they are automatically racist, regardless of their actions, or lack of action.

>> I'll turn it around: please provide some reason to believe that some recent generation of American young men has been more effectively manufactured into an army of racists than has ever occurred at any time or place in the past, excluding other times where the mechanism was the same kind of “treating an entire generation of young men as though they are automatically racist” as has supposedly occurred sometime recently in our history.

> It is difficult to parse what you are saying, your post consists of a single run -on sentence is too long to follow.

I think it's pretty clear: the original statement is clearly false, because there are obvious, well-known historical counterexamples to it. It's basically claiming the current American culture creates racist white men more effectively than Nazi Germany or the Jim Crow South, which just ain't so.
I wonder why domino hasn't been released? Is Mozilla selling it to other companies?
We all harbour silly opinions.
Ubuntu is the distribution. GNU is the operating system. Linux is the kernel.
There are many. CentOS Web Panel, Virtualmin, DirectAdmin, Interworx, and many others. I use Virtualmin on my own stuff. It has a FOSS version that works well. But it's no cPanel. The interface and general paradigms leave a lot to be desired. But it works. The problem isn't variety, it's user base. All the Big Hosts are using cPanel, migrating away from it is a pain.

There's also Plesk, but let's face it. Nobody likes Plesk.
https://sharedstreets.io/ may help!

> SharedStreets Referencing System is a global, non-proprietary system for describing streets. The Referencing System is the foundation of the SharedStreets toolkit and it is used to connect a wide range of street-linked data. The Referencing System connects street data from private companies and cities. Referenced data can then be transferred between different maps seamlessly.

I think it can align maps that have similar streets that may not align perfectly coordinate wise.
It's not that you _can't_ do these things in vim/emacs it's that the experience is different. I'd argue that VS Code is closer to an IDE than just an editor.

For example, I can Cmd+Click on a function usage and it takes me to its definition. If I hover my mouse over it it displays information about the variables/function/data structure/etc. If I'm running docker containers I can attach a shell, view its logs, start/stop/restart it with the click of a button. There are thousands of extensions that allow me to augment the user experience – a Terraform extension that allows me to open resource documentation with the click of a button, running diffs on code, running code formatters, etc.

Yes, all of this is possible with vim/emacs plugins but its not out of the box and the UX is not the same (and you're lying to yourself if you claim this isn't true). Installing and managing all of these plugins (in vim at least) is a lot more painful.

As for the RAM consumption, it's honestly minimal. Running Chrome is more of a resource hog than VS Code.
If you price carbon for energy production, all industries are incentivised to move clean. Bitcoin miners would love it. This argument is a complete red herring.
I'm not how naming a couch Gatsby really reflects a misunderstanding.

His character really does have an opulent house and reading about it is one of things you can enjoy in the novel.
A quant fund is looking to hire high-ranking Wall Street Bets members as traders
They asked to add it to Git, however they are rejected.
In a bull market retail comes alive. When the bust happens retail will go away. I don’t think there is anything particularly long term here.

Retail will not enjoy a shit market where everything trades sideways for months or sees the major indexes bank countless down days. They won’t enjoy allocating capital on any of these platforms (and so they will disappear, until the next boom).

It’s almost a matter of loyalty with retail honestly.
The Concorde crash is complicated. That narrative leaves out a lot of details, notably:
The fuel tanks where filled above the maximum allowable amount.
The fuel tanks ruptured above the wing, not where the tire fragments hit. The fuel tanks ruptured because of the shockwave from the tire fragments traveled through the fuel and into the top of the wing. This was a known issue and fixed by always having an air gap between the fuel and top of wings,but the the plane was overfueled in this case.
The plane was over maximum takeoff weight, and taking off with the wind behind it.
The plane had/may have had an unrelated engine issue with engine #3, leading the flight engineer to shut down engine #3 shortly after takeoff.

The combination of overweight, overfueled, wrong wind direction and 3 out 4 engines operational severely limited Concorde's ability to return to an airport. So I'm not sure you can blame the design decision of putting fuel in the wings(which literally every other relevant passenger aircraft does).
That was because the Allies expected the Germans to obey "rules of war" in the European tradition, and knew that the Japanese wouldn't. An American GI would be much happier as a POW of Germany than of Japan.
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> I refute this statement with the following..

If any of those so much as raise an eyebrow, you must be the most sheltered darling on the entire internet. "Moxie and Signal is shit"? Really? I get called worse names in online gaming by kids.

> ..their offending material was deleted because it was an unhelpful...

Their offending material was a security issue! A fair amount of people seem to share their concerns. If it's in the wrong place then move it, and if it's a duplicate then close it and add a link to the original where conversation is happening. If you can't handle basic moderation of your forum, then stop using your damned forum and maybe use github issues like every other project.

> In a dictatorship...

Yeah, Signal can throw a tantrum, take their toys and go home. So can us as their userbase and the people who recommend it. Right now I'm one of those people who can be reached on Signal and who recommends it to others - and if Signal can't find a way to appropriately receive feedback then I'm no longer going to be doing that.

> Once they started their abusive behaviour they had to be shut down..

No. They didn't. Signal staff could have literally just responded: "Hey, thank you for the report, we're examining this now and will update as we can. Please mind the language." That's literally all it would have taken. Instead Signal continues to stick it's head in the sand and ruin it's relationship with it's users.
> Are the punishments for crimes committed by police officers scaled based on the likelihood of punishment?

No, but they should be.

> I would not pay 30% of my salary for statins.

Do you pay 30% of your salary for policing?

> The question is not what percentage of an individual's income goes to police, but whether, from the perspective of the city, the overall allocation is an effective use of public funds.

That's an.. ahem.. interesting way to look at it. So if the city wastes twice as much money elsewhere, policing becomes a better deal?

Or if the city gets 30 pennies, and uses 33% of it to stop a fraction of crime, that's a bad deal?

It might be better to look at the services that residents receive in exchange for the amount they pay in taxes, instead of using some ridiculous metric based on fraction of one political entity's tax income.

Otherwise we come up with ridiculous silly comparisons. The sheriff is a tiny proportion of my county's expenditures, and police are a big proportion of my city's expenditures... by your metric, the sheriff is more cost effective, despite costing nearly the exact same amount per capita for the people they're first responders for. (Because the county gets a much bigger share of tax income and spends a bunch on other services that my city doesn't have to pay for).

Or if we're going with the health analogy-- we spend the overwhelming majority of our public health "income" on things with very high NNTs.
In South Africa, jails are where criminals go to level up.
Not buying a new mobile phone until I can get one with a screen less than 5.2" and a replaceable battery.
I'm sure there's a better source, but this site has a list of police budget figures for the 300 largest US cities with links to the budget reports: https://costofpolice.org

According to that list police budgets make up an average of 30% of overall spending.
I'll definitely check this out.
> It's a rather useless form of binary thinking, since it completely ignores scale and severity.

You may also be interested in: "there are 10 kinds of people - those who understand binary, and those who do not"
> you can't disband the police because $(blatantly_ridiculous_reason).

"ridiculous reasons" like crime, murder, violence and protecting people. Stupid people use those reasons to keep police so that they do silly things like... stay alive and safe.

Meanwhile... you talk about riciculousness then talk nonsense about "slave patrols"... (and "union busting") Where's your stance on police from states that fought slavery and for freedom?

Your comments about holding police accountable are reasonable... but they are surrounded by calling other people ridiculous while spewing your own crazy.

We can talk about improving the system to hold police accountable without the crazy.
You can have a fallback to always use int objects for architectures without that alignment requirement.
VSCode has high quality support for programming languages out of the box, and suggestions for which packages you should install, with one-click install. But you can achieve similar results in vim/emacs with more research, fiddling with config and manually installing deps.
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When naming your software, it's probably not a good idea to re-use the same name as one of the most popular games of all time.
Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky struck me as a better novel. But it's almost 1000 pages.
I like them for the most part. Almost always more readable to out things in the brackets rather than the .format at the end, and always better than the %. Occasionally I still use .format with really long strings though for readability.
> To which I normally say the US isn’t a democracy, but a Constitutional Republic

It is a silly semantic debate. If you define "democracy" narrowly to mean only direct democracy, then no the US isn't a democracy. If you define "democracy" broadly, to include representative democracies with constitutionally entrenched protection of minority rights, then yes the US is a democracy, as are quite a few others.

Whether a country is a republic or a constitutional monarchy is rather orthogonal. You can have a representative democracy with constitutionally entrenched protections of minority rights, and with that you can either have a mostly ceremonial constitutional monarch, or a President. The later is a republic, the former is not.

I think the UK does fall short somewhat, in lacking a codified constitution, there is really no such thing as entrenched rights – other countries without an entrenched constitution include Israel and New Zealand. Then you also have countries like Australia, which does have an entrenched written constitution, but the rights protected by the Australian constitution are rather limited – protection against religious discrimination and the implied right of political free speech. But "democracy" vs "constitutional republic" isn't a good way of capturing those deficiencies.
An ETF of SPACs. Or a SPAC of SPACs.
Github has Codespaces in early release (https://github.com/codespaces/), but much faster
I guess I'm thinking of Python mostly. I thought OCaml did as well but apparently not.
I've been using lazygit [0] for a lot of use cases like this and it's been great. It's a terminal UI with a bunch of shortcuts. In particular, the partial commit is awesome, as is the ease of amending.

A couple others mentioned Magit which I think is similar.

FWIW I learned Mercurial before I learned Git, and SVN before that. Mercurial was great. I still think its commands made more sense than the Git ones, especially coming from SVN.

0: https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit
> From Archive.org, it appears the site has never worked properly.

Of course it wasn't working properly, they were waiting for their x.509 certificate to issue. /s
Most lose a shit ton of money in the next crash and ensuing down cycle and lose interest. Like 1999.
Quote, Don’t Dote: On W.B. Yeats
> I use Python for my day job, and the experience there is illustrative - it has a stdlib which I will use with very strong preference, except extremely good non-standard libraries (e.g. numpy and requests). The ecosystem can still get stuck on that (2-to-3 transition was painful partially because of ascii/unicode distinction, and partially because of numpy taking time to migrate).

I think this is a problem of Python a) having extremely poor dependency management and b) consequently favouring large frameworks. It's hard to migrate something the size of numpy from Python 2 to 3 in one go, but since it's a single giant library they didn't have any choice.
Where should one store the 24 word key though? Are password managers a good option? Physically storing them on paper has its own problems.
I believe and have suggested to friends and acquittances that we should stop using xyz-Tech. Technology is now used by almost everyone in one way or the other, just as Electricity is. So, instead of FinTech, only Finance, Agriculture instead of AgTech. The Tech part is now just syntactic sugar to jargon-witch the general masses that are not directly part of the Technology circle.
When SQL was established in the early 70s, it was called SEQUEL (Structured English Query Language). However, due to a copyright issue, it was changed it to SQL. In fact, SQL is typically pronounced “sequel” today, but some favor the non-acronym pronunciation of “ess-cue-el” (in case you didn’t know, an acronym is an abbreviation you can pronounce like a word, e.g. SQL or ANSI).

Read more at the ANSI Blog: The SQL Standard – ISO/IEC 9075:2016 (ANSI X3.135) https://blog.ansi.org/?p=158690
It sounds like you don't know how wealth works. This is a tax on assets. Bezos wealth is from the fact that he owns a large amount of Amazon stock. It's paper wealth. He would have to sell his Amazon stock to get the money. It's not cash sitting in a bank account.
I was at some point describing a friend and used the word "gypsy". Another friend got very upset at me and went on a long rant about how the word is offensive and wrong and I should be ashamed for using it.

I used gypsy because it's the title the person I was describing used. It's how they asked to be referred to, and as it's their literal blood heritage, I'm going to refer to them however they want to be referred to.

This happens today with words like "transsexual" - there are people very offended by that phrase and there are people who self-label using that phrase and want to be called that.

If we as a species are going to continue down a path of globalization where we have a lot of different cultures and communities around us, we're going to have to understand a word is not verboten universally. There's a difference between someone not wanting to be called retarded and taking offense anytime the word itself is used - even in non-derogatory contexts.
That's a good writeup! Aren't DKIM and SPF supposedly doing the same thing of authenticating the email domain? If not, what's the difference?
How the Biden Administration Can Expand Rural Broadband
"He would still pay his taxes in local currency."

But not enough clearly given the lack of saving and underdeveloped productive capacity, otherwise there wouldn't be inflation.

"If you ever experienced hyperinflation you would understand."

By analogy because planes crash due to bad piloting heavier than air flight is clearly completely impossible and we shouldn't attempt it.

Moreover we should design planes based solely on lurid tales from those who have survived plane crashes and are suffering PSTD from it not by listening to those who have studied aeronautics and actually understand the physics involved.

Your experiences may be sad, but you have the cause and effect completely wrong in your mind. Like those who believe 5G causes cancer.

What we need are better trained pilots. Preferably those who know they are flying an aircraft, not driving a bus.
I take it you've made the assumption that my 40% figure was somehow related to Trump's approval rating, or something along those lines.

First, I am sorry that you're offended by a statistical figure.

Second, the figure was from research that was done in my grandparents' era, about three quarters of a century ago. About 40% of Americans displayed authoritarian personality traits.

Any assumptions you've made are merely coincidental. Have a nice day.
It is too late, but I think they should have adopted the ML family approach of uniform pattern matching (in function clauses and parameters as well). Uniformity is a big deal.

Ok, Scala or Rust got a chance. Partial functions (clauses), currying and patterns complement each other remarkably and it is well-researched and formalized for decades.
code = 'f"here it is {eval(input())}"'
(lambda: eval(code))()

k, there we go
This doesn't appear to be true at any time in history for a plethora of monarchies. Do you have anything to support your argument save for your well articulated but poorly reasoned thought process?
iOS 14.5: Apple proxies Safebrowsing to prevent exposing your IP address
Right. That can be done because this is specifically only for reading code with a VSCode interface.
FOSS has always been plagued by the 80/20 rule. Most of it is garbage, of the remaining quality software most are no longer maintained, of the remaining maintained most are slowing in development, and of the very few left that are healthy and active, most are shepherded by a private company or two.
With a known song identified, is it feasible for YouTube to silence (subtract) only that song from the audio of recorded video? Seems like that would be within the realm of similar actions they take to blur faces and license plates in streetview images.
> To which I normally say the US isn’t a democracy, but a Constitutional Republic. I don’t know why I do that, it only causes people to dig in deeper to their position.

Perhaps because this is both pedantic and wrong? A state can be both a democracy and a republic, and many are, such as the United States.
No, the prime minister is the head of government, while the monarch is the head of state, those are two different roles.

You could merge them, South Africa-style if you wanted, but it's pretty unusual. Most parliamentary systems separate the two.
pyupgrade seems to do lots of useful stuff; thx for link!

I guess you need the `--py36-plus` CLI option to reproduce the desired behaviour https://github.com/asottile/pyupgrade#f-strings

thought that might result in lots of other edits to the source, this in particular seems unwarranted "foo".encode("utf-8") --> "foo".encode() because the default encoding in py3+ is utf-8. What happened to explicit is better than implicit?
Released? Right now they have a government issue car and firearm! They're paid to roam the streets! How could they possibly be any more "released" than they are now?
GP said that f-strings were "the f***ing shit", not "f***ing shit", so I assume it was meant as a positive comment.
I wonder if anyone is making open source software for tractors yet?
I really wish it had Cmd+P support for searching for project files.

I find the project a really cool concept, but am genuinely curious what real value this is adding in it's current incarnation? Navigating the folder structure is kinda nice, but I don't see much else.

Am I missing something obvious?
According to the Japanese Wikipedia article I cited above, children were not taught that pi equals 3; rather, children who had not yet learned how to calculate with decimals were told that they could use 3 as a rough approximation for pi when calculating by hand.

This minor change in the official curriculum came at a time when the Japanese government was trying to de-emphasize rote memorization and promote critical thinking in school education. Because that policy also reduced class hours and the amount of material covered, it was widely criticized for supposedly dumbing down school education. The notion that children were being taught “pi = 3” was an exaggeration, but it resonated with other objections to educational policy and apparently led the university to pose that problem on its entrance exam in protest.

I still think it's an interesting problem. I wonder how far I could have gotten with it if, at the age of 18 or 19, I had encountered it on an exam and had just twenty or thirty minutes to try to come up with a proof.
Wow, never heard of it - and will it be around in 10+ years time? Has it reached critical-mass to ensure continuity and availability?
Misappropriation of Likeness, It's in the Game
Fixed term parliament act forces a general election every 5 years, unless a 2/3 majority agree a snap election (e.g. 2019’s)
> This is kind of the equivalent of the Superbowl for the Dutch

Uh, I'm not too familiar with the Superbowl, but the title of 'most popular televised sporting event in the Netherlands' definitely goes to the football world championship.
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Interesting stats in that citation. Hydropower dominates in the renewables category and North America has the highest regional share of renewables powered mining.
Not as poor countries, but as poorer countries than the ones the parent comment mentioned. The GDP per capita of Saudi Arabia is around $23k - approximately half of that of Sweden, the Netherlands, or the UK.

Qatar is absurdly rich, but the wealth is inequitably distributed (unusually so). Although the GDP per capita is ~60k, the median household income (and the median per-capita income) are considerably lower than the countries the parent comment mentioned.
Nice share - Very clear and informative. Wrote some time ago a simple threaded implementation of Sieve of Eratosthenes utilizing POSIX threads (in C): https://github.com/intc/c-notes/blob/master/threads/4-thrd_e...
> Just skimming Wikipedia it looks like I would want to use "total/strong functional programming" but apparently "total functional programming is not Turing-complete"

It isn't, but usually Turing completeness isn't what you want. Take a look at Idris, where functions may explicitly be total or not-necessarily-total.