skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In central london (London Wall is the name of the road), you can see 9-10 turrets from the original Roman city of "Londonium". I've walked this road and seen a handful of them. To be able to reach out and touch something that was built by Roman soldiers over a thousands of years ago is simply amazing to me.

One of them is set in a garden behind a church and it is really beautiful. My wife and I had a picnic there and it was surreal.
The original commenter being replied to wrote "that this world has ever seen".
I would like a backend developer perspective on the same.

I haven't done any GraphQL stuff myself, but the "I can get whatever data I need" aspect feels like a huge potential headache for backend devs. Won't be a problem at prototype scale, but once you have a significant client count, how do you deal with unpredictable data access patterns that can't be optimized ahead of time?
The Long Dark's backstory begins with a geomagnetic phenomenon, the rest is "regular" survival: https://store.steampowered.com/app/305620/The_Long_Dark/

Edit: oops, skipped a few words and my eyes focused on "game".
To me the core "innovation" in the M series is the reasonable pricing comparing to Intel Macs.
>>> writing software is a low status academic activity; it is a low status activity in some companies, but those involved don’t commonly have other higher status tasks available to work on.

If measured by compensation, then research is a low status activity. Perhaps more precisely, researchers have low bargaining power. But I don't think that academics actually analyze activities in such detail. The PI might not even know how much programming is being done.

The researcher is programming, not because they see it as a way to raise (or lower) their status, but because it's a force multiplier for making themselves more productive overall. Though I work in industry, I'm a "research" programmer for all intents and purposes. I program because I need stuff right away, and I do the kind of work that the engineers hate. Reacting to rapidly changing requirements on a moment's notice disrupts their long term planning. Communicating requirements to an engineer who doesn't possess domain knowledge or math skills is painful. Often, a working piece of spaghetti code that demonstrates a process is the best way to communicate what I need. They can translate it into fully developed software if it threatens to go into a shipping product. That's a good use of their time and not of mine.

>>> Why would a researcher want to invest in becoming proficient in a low status activity?

To get a better job. I sometimes suspect that anybody who is good enough at programming to get paid for it, is already doing so.

>>> Why would the principal investigator spend lots of their grant money hiring a proficient developer to work on a low status activity?

Because they don't know how to manage a developer. Software development is costly in terms of both time and effort, and nobody knows how to manage it. Entire books have been written in this topic, and it has been discussed at length on HN. A software project that becomes an end unto itself or goes entirely off the rails can eat you alive. Finding a developer who can do quantitative engineering is hard, and they're already in high demand. It may be that the PI has a better chance managing a researcher who happens to know how to translate their own needs into "good enough" code, than to manage a software project.
It can be very high if there is excellent continuity of communication (for asynchronous work matters), the right tools are being used (for asynchronous work), and the workers have the right qualifications and experience.
Why are you implying I want aid for billionaires not the poor? I was making a pretty objective point about Peter Schiff's opinions, without adding any opinions of my own.

So please don't turn me into the billionaire bailout supporter. I'm not and I never said such a thing.
Both artists are under 50. I would not be at all surprised if you get the chance to see them perform together again.
Not to mention its objectively wrong.
Can you expand on the types of errors you're seeing? Go has a fairly powerful race detector you can run as part of your test suite that seems to catch everything I've thrown at it.
Congratulations, you found the "everything they did after Homework sucks" snob.
>Can't wait for them, and Stripe.

Wise is obviously a rebrand intended for IPO, along with their talks of being IPO ready. But Stripe? They dont seems to be making IPO preparation at all. I wonder when will it happen or they are happy now as they dont have to deal with the pressure of being a public company.
I think this is the opposite of how FAANG or FAANG-like companies treat the hiring of SWEs. They don't want people to specialize in any particular area. They want engineers who can be freely moved to whatever product line or team has a need for years to come, possibly working on fairly greenfield stuff that nobody has pre-existing expertise on. But deep knowledge of the fundamentals of computing and software engineering are non-negotiable.

They're looking to build a maximally deep bench even if you don't meet a specific immediate need they have. It's sort of like the dichotomy you see in pro sports draft philosophies, where some teams focus quite specifically on finding players who fill existing holes in the current roster and some teams just try to draft the most talented person possible even if they can't figure out what to do with them right away.
I don't think law would prevent a fully collateralized loan on the basis of borrower/lender risks.

AML seems a non issue too, as the loan only moves the question.

KYC remains one big problem but there are many startups providing those services and they are slowly gaining acceptance in courts.

Don't be impressed if a few years (and maybe even months) from now you start to see classical banks trading mortgages onchain.
Archaeologists Discover 12th-Century Bathhouse Hidden in Spanish Tapas Bar
No need for the reductionist strawman. Some experiments cannot be reproduced
for proprietary data. Those that can should be.
Spinner – Powerful Swift CLI Spinners
America’s racist housing rules can be fixed
Make Ethereum great again?
The value of that loan is less than the value of the collateral they put in though, that's how vaults work.

You're never going to get an amazing loan deal from a trustless system.
Are the middlemen competing with each other to change the supply chain tracking information after it's been recorded in a system over which the purchaser has no control? If so, then maybe blockchain could help with that specific risk. But it can do nothing to prevent middlemen from putting fraudulent information into the record in the first place.
Yeah, we better destroy the economy with lockdowns while waiting for vaccines that don’t work against these new strains, and then pay the price for herd immunity as well.
> I'm willing to pay 15% performance for this layer to just be forever ridden of this, but people treat me like an alien.

I'm not. In fact, what irritates me the most about computing nowadays is how much slower everything is now than it was 20 years ago.

And the work at these levels is what allows everyone else to be so cavalier about performance.
Carpenter Brut...

Bless...
Not really, an actor can implement an FSM but it also can have an infinite number of states.
Either your country is handling assisted suicides in a terrible way, or you don't really know what you're talking about, as rude as that makes me sound.

Especially "It does not require the agreement or desire of the person being killed" is absolutely, 100% false.
One of the answers [0] on that page even discusses the next step in decoupling airframes from engines - sorry, I meant decoupling their supply: Power Generation as a Service complete with on-demand billing and feature locking. It's not well sourced, nor highly upvoted, but fascinating if true.

> These days, the engines are often leased, not bought, as part of a "power generation package"...The only physical difference between two "different versions" of a particular engine type, with different advertised power ratings, may [be] the electronic engine control system. In that situation, the airline might negotiate a "total power generation" deal where they only pay for the "higher rated" engine when they actually use it.

[0] https://aviation.stackexchange.com/a/38196
The hardware it takes to run a node now isn't the only consideration. Higher gas limit means the storage size of the history grows at a faster rate; every single full node needs to store that history forever.
U.S. ban on China's Xinjiang cotton fractures fashion industry supply chains
Note that screen reader accessibility isn't just for visually impaired people, and even if it were, visual impairment is a wide gamut.

Take features like voice control for example where a motion impaired person can still enjoy visually rich content.
https://youtu.be/aqoXFCCTfm4
How do you plan to use this universally across compromised systems, if they don't have Go to compile this?

A better solution might be https://github.com/Frissi0n/GTFONow which is written in python without dependencies and supports Py2/3. I would expect this to work on more hosts.
It’s driven by nuclear war, but check out Metro 2033 by Russian author Dmitry Glukhovsky. It takes place in the Moscow Metro where people live after a prolonged nuclear winter (with mutants). There is a subsequent video game series derived from the book.
Spoonerism
I'd guess option A.

They aren't doing radical redesigns, so ramping up is easy and fast.

They've pulled an Osborne Effect on their Intel devices by announcing they are transitioning in just a couple years. Nobody wants to buy a brand-new second-class product.

Finally, launching their new laptops this fall means they are half-way through their transition time, but just getting started with their most powerful segment.
When they deliberately gave diseased blankets to indigenous peoples, I think that checked off both boxes.

Curiously, the Viking are often portrayed as bloodthirsty brutes raping, pillaging, and burning their way through towns.

The reality is different. There was brutality, but it was generally limited. Vikings were more likely to conquer and settle than to burn things down to the ground. They were vengeful though, so any killing of Viking captives or civilians could result in a disproportionate and brutal retaliation. For example, Aella, the King of Northumbria killed Viking King Ragnar Lothbrok not by combat, but by having him thrown into a pit of poisonous snakes. As a result, when Ragnar's son Ivar the Boneless sought revenge and captured Aella a quick death wasn't deemed appropriate. Instead, Ivar created the Blood Eagle ritual and used it on Aella. It was a gruesome and painful method of execution, but one the Viking probably felt justified in using giving the cowardly death Aella gave Ragnar.

This is not to say they weren't brutal, but much of what we know about the Vikings comes from their enemies, which colors the history.

Some links for more information, the first is a really good rundown by a history professor specializing in Vikings:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/dzioe8/were_...

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26431858

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/140926-vi...

My own amateur research shows England and English-colonies had the most violent behavior (Norman raids, Irish subjugation, Botany Bay, violence against Indians, American violence against indigenous peoples (including trail or tears, smallpox blankets, etc.), etc.

Essentially, any time a culture sets up a belief in itself as superior to all others a violence against those believed inferior often occurs, sometimes even in the name of helping those believed inferior. E.g., we'll take these poor children from them and give them to god-fearing Christian homes - I could be talking about events during colonial times with native americans, or I could be talking about separating of children at the detention centers.
I think it's a little more complicated than that. Human After All was widely panned on release (and in my opinion remains very hard to listen to), but then was "rehabilitated" by the Alive 2007 live album. And Random Access Memories always felt like it lacked the energy of their earlier work, sort of like lounge music. Just one opinion, but not necessarily snobbery.
That’s fortunate. But if we’re playing the anecdote game: I know two relatives who died from it this year, and a young, healthy, person who had a “mild” case and now has weird blood issues, clotting, etc.
Function objects, including closures, can be serializable - they are in Erlang/Elixir. You can send a lambda/closure over to another node (on another machine) to execute. It's actually one of the basic building blocks of OTP.
AFAIR the DK64 thing was about a memory leak that couldn't be fixed before launch date and the quick-hack workaround was to just make the game require the expansion pak, which made the memory leak take a few days instead of hours to happen.
"Like, why are there even arrays at all?"

Because while Go is garbage collected, it also provides modest control over memory layout. Arrays are allocated chunks of contiguous memory for holding a fixed number of things. Slices are something that sit on top of that and let you not worry too much about that.

You almost never want arrays yourself, but they are a legitimate use case that the language has to provide because you can't create them within the language itself. But the right answer for most programmers is to ignore "arrays" in Go entirely.

"Why is append() so braindamaged to make a copy sometimes?"

(Tone: Straight, not snark.) If you understand what slices are and how they are related to arrays, it becomes clear that "append" would be braindamaged if it didn't sometimes make copies. Go is simple, sure, but it was never a goal of Go to try to make it so you don't have to understand how it works to use it properly.

It is a fair point that quite a few tutorials don't make it clear what that relationship is. Most of them try, but probably don't do a good enough job. I think more of them should show what a slice is on the inside [1]; it tends to make it clear in a way that a whole lot of prose can't. "Show my your code and I will remain confused; show me your data structures and I won't need to see your code; it'll be obvious."

[1]: https://golang.org/pkg/reflect/#SliceHeader
I eat at a restaurant that uses their gear. It was a little bumpy at first, but the servers seem to find it usable. The same people have been working at this restaurant for 15 to 30 years, so I think it was a good test. A couple of them grumble about the handheld devices for various reasons, including takes time to get used to them and the UI quality also depends on the manager that is configuring the system. The handheld devices need improvements in battery longevity they go bad too soon
More or less the belief that we are all equal with equal potential (it's more or less a consequence of egalitarianism). That if little Timmy just tries hard enough and is given enough support he'll be able to master differential equations.
How is being able to do this good? There are reasons why this shit has been regulated.
And, of course the measurements are about false positives.

If you are vaccinated and then come in contact with someone who is infected, do you test positive? Nobody knows, really. And people you are in contact with? Unknown.
You can see where your tax dollars go now (except for the classified items, but even there you can see the totals). You can get detailed breakdowns of nearly everything, including salaries. For example, you can see every NYC employee salary here https://www.seethroughny.net/payrolls. If you want, you can scroll through the massive list of federal, state, local gov contracts on a variety of websites today. For example, Florida state gov contracts https://www.dms.myflorida.com/contract_search

But the fact is, (almost) no one really cares. Many people want to believe they would care, but they don't really. Either way, knowing what's being spent where only makes corruption marginally more difficult. It certainly doesn't lead citizens to be any more engaged. We know this because what you want is already here and it has solved precisely nothing (IMO).
There was a (pretty amusing) hint book included and it is also with the online version. I think cheating was likely encouraged. You should read the hint book anyway, once you are done if you do not want to cheat.
After seeing luckydude answer questions on the little thread the other evening, I'm wondering what other things the SCCS/BK folk think we should be doing better. What have we forgotten?

luckydude mentioned real per-file history for example¹, and that pushed me to remember per-file comments as the thing I'd want back.

Perhaps someone is listening.

¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26207037
My favorite band in my youth. Revolutionary music. Time to play the vinyl once again.
One example springs to mind. The racism controversy on Celebrity Big Brother in 2007 led to the sponsor and several advertisers withdrawing. The show was "rested" the following year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebrity_Big_Brother_(British...
I mean... there are a few.

Brave (the browser) uses blockchain in their privacy protecting ad technology.

Skynet uses a blockchain to allow users to share their extra computer storage space for a CDN.

And I'm sure there are a few others. It's just that the amount of use cases send legitimate applications using them are... limited. Most of the ones I'd consider valid uses have a substance-full technical goal, like the two I mentioned above.
What's silly about that? If I were just getting started with this kind of thing, I think this would've been a great post for me. As I haven't done this since an intro class in college, it was actually a nice quick refresher. 6 symbols is easy to keep in the head all at once.
You ship binaries not source code.
You're conflating "settle for less" with "knows more broad trivia."
Very informative 10 lines post. The original article is slightly uninteresting and the "mistakes" not clearly acknowledged and rather obscure.
I feel like Alive should count even though its not new material. It's so good and different take on their own tracks.
I can't help but see the Visa logo when I look at the new Wise logo. Intentional, maybe?
You can do this in the built in notes app, click the camera on the bar at bottom and choose Scan Documents.
When your backend is sql how can you even do this efficiently? Databases require indexes. If you can query anything then there are performance bombs all over the place. It's different if you're querying elastic I guess.
Daft Punk is one of the first band websites I remember — sitting in my college computer lab on a candy colored Mac. IIRC, it was a few “space men” on screen, and when you hovered over them it played sample loops.
I implemented Huffman Coding when I was 14 years old: http://benibela.de/sources_en.html#huffman.zip

Probably the first non-trivial data structure/algorithm I had implemented (previously I was making games, where you need no algorithm more complex than rectangle intersection)
Maybe my biggest concert regret is not seeing the Alive tour. Game changers.
But you can access liquidity without selling your asset which is exactly what they want.
Facebook and Apple are toying with us, and it's scarcely believable
I'm confused. Why should you need Go on the target system? Go generates a static binary, that runs anywhere as long as the architecture matches.
It's important to take all of those things into account, and moreover to consider that we may have differing values and may need to compromise; but, in order to do that, we first need to be able to arrive at a correct understanding of the basic facts of the situation. For example, whether there is or is not enough land for solar power to replace current energy production from coal, other fossil fuels, and nuclear power (there is, with almost three orders of magnitude to spare); whether solar panels do or do not contain rare earth elements (they do not and never have); which mines produce products needed for solar-panel manufacture or nuclear power, and in what quantities, producing what quantity of environmental damage; how much lithium is available for batteries; and so on.

Lacking a correct understanding of even the most basic facts of the situation, we cannot hope to reason about the consequences of possible courses of action.

As you can see above and elsethread, I've spent some time and effort to try to figure out some of the basic facts of the situation. I'm certainly no expert — for example, I only found out this year that solar panels include screen-printed silver paste, which accounts for on the order of 10% of the cost of photovoltaic modules and on the order of 10% of global silver production — and so I'd appreciate some help.
Guessing the numbers on your username to be significant, we’re of the same vintage.

Discovery, Radiohead’s Kid A, and Bjork’s Vespertine defined my late teens - an age that basically defined my musical tastes.

It’s interesting how music does such an amazing job of worming itself into your brain.
I've been a paying user of Spotify for years and I think that happened maybe once. It is not a pervasive problem.

I believe this option is controlled at the app level, not the account level, and is enabled by default in the app. So you have to disable it when you first install the app but after that it isn't re-enabled.
How do multilingual NLP models encode grammatical features?
And with the added advantage that as they are electric they'd sound as good in the future as they did in the past. You wouldn't even know if it wasn't them under the masks.

The counter point being that I saw Velvet Underground live and they sucked badly :D
Saying that racism in the US is a systemic issue does not imply that individual racism does not exist. One is the basis of the other, as people with racist views implement racist laws and systems, which in turn embolden more people.

The KKK didn't come out of nowhere, they came out of a deeply racist society and system. Similarly the NSDAP didn't come out of nowhere, they came out of a racist (deeply anti-semitic) society and system, which they leveraged along with severely wounded German national pride and massive international sanctions after WWI, in order to rise to power.

Systemic and individual racism go hand in hand, but you cannot fight racism one individual at a time, there simply aren't enough hours in a day. You have to attack the underlying structures and systems that perpetuate racism.

Fighting against the thin blue line, and defunding the police in the US is one way to fight that fight, because of how selective policing is based on race and social standing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HehnDHNoItk
one just fucking exploded! did you not see that!?
As a Mobile Dev/Frontend Dev GraphQL is a massive win to work with. No more requesting/building end points to satisfy the screen you are building. Adding fields is non-destructive. Controlling the shape of the data returned (to an extent, you still have to return it in the nested layers the schema is designed towards). I know a ton of backend or full stack devs that don't think that GraphQL is worth it but very FEW UI devs that agree. It's really nice to build UI's against. I've tried SOAP, REST, HATEOAS, Swagger/OpenAPI, and protobuffers. Protobuffers are the only one with as good a developer experience IMO. GraphQL is OBJECTIVELY useful it might not be useful to you apps though and that's ok.
I didn't go in the past because I'd heard their shows had a rave-like atmosphere. I have no idea if that's true, but it put me off. But maybe I won't have to worry about that so much when I'm one of a bunch of middle-aged people at a reunion concert by Daft Punk in their 60s.
I feel the same way. I think I've listened to Discovery hundreds of times.

With any luck there will be a reunion within a decade or two.