skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everything you mentioned can be done with statically allocated arrays - if you have known bounds - or lists of large arrays, as mentioned before.

Lists will eventually become a problem since your next/prev pointers may not be pointing to adjacent memory positions, now your linear iteration over elements will not be cache friendly. Not only that but you need to retrieve pointers and dereference them, more pressure and worse for the cache again. You also add a "load" dependency between all elements so you can't easily break processing between multiple cores.

Lists may be conceptually elegant but they are not the most suited for performance or efficiency.
I'm going to repeat that Fantastical does 95% of what Superpowered claims to do. And Fantastical has features that Superpowered clearly does not have, such as a really good natural language mechanism for event and task creation.

And subscription costs are less.

https://flexibits.com/fantastical
My mother could not be any less exposed to the “discourse,” and yet she has spoken variants of the first two phrases to me. I believe they may just be common sentiments in the Deep South.
> I would expect people to understand that it costs money to maintain a product for different systems.

Huh? What has that got to do with this case? They're already maintaining it on multiple systems and its not like aetherspawn would be able to use it on more than one system. It literally is no different to the Affinity devs whether aetherspawn is using the OS X or Windows version since they both cost the same amount (and the license was only three months old).

It just seems like they wanted another sale to allow access to a second platform, which would make sense if they retained access to the first.

I'm not sure what the right approach is here (certainly being rude about it isn't it, though!) but every time a company has given me leeway, I've always then went around telling everyone who would listen how great the company is. Seems like they did the opposite by alienating the customer instead. That doesn't seem like a good approach.
I didn't say it's unacceptable, neither meant that. In many contexts, it'd be tough without case-insensitive regex matching, for example. Reinforcing my point, //i gains issues once applied to the entirety of Unicode.

It's almost comical: people continue insisting on "letters not code points" knowing very well how computers are bad with guesswork and under-defined notions. Issues stemming from that keep coming up. What if, instead, the norm accepted that 'A' ≠ 'a' and stopped creating problems which computers are known to deal poorly with?
Resilio is quite the head or two above - very polished commercial product, actually, with basic free license. From the authors of original bittorent protocol and client.
Looks really good. This seems like it would be a great alternative to AirDrop if support is added to enough platforms. One issue I have with it is, if it's p2p having a speed limit seems silly.

Note: I'm obviously thinking from a user perspective, I'm sure others, especially non-technical people might find this reasonable. From a business perspective I suppose it does make sense.
Oh, i see now how to do it. i always assumed it was a simple button. for some reason, not.
This goes beyond just the Indian caste system. We're importing all kinds of historical grievances from around the globe. I worked for a consultancy in a regional tech hub on the East Coast. I thought it was odd that all of my fellow software engineers were from China or Taiwan. Turned out that the head of software engineering was Pakistani and refused to hire anyone from India. Since the company had a strong preference for H1B holders, there wasn't much an Indian candidate could do about it or even find out the reason why they were getting passed over. On three occasion he was given Indian employees due to acquisitions and in all three cases he quickly ran them off or had them laid off.

What can be done about the above? Do racial discrimination laws even apply to the selection of H1B holders? The company was already getting away with favoring visa holders over citizens and permanent residents so there was no reason for them to fear not being able to get away with excluding Indian candidates due to our head of software engineering having a personal grudge against India. The only reason why I was hired was because they had a client with a need for someone with deep knowledge of Microware OS-9, which wasn't something they were able to find in their usual sources of employee candidates. Makes me wonder how many of these companies silently exist as black boxes that no one outside knows what discrimination is going on inside of them.
I think it's always fair to criticise somebody's work - after all, starting a company is stepping into the public sphere. I don't know if what they're doing will be successful or not because I presume they've investigated the market more than I have. The proof is in the pudding though - we'll see in a few years if the idea was good or not!
Is there anything but counterculture on the internet anymore? How I miss the occasional measured, adult point of view! The internet has destroyed most of my interest in eccentric artists or alternative viewpoints.
I think it'd be fair for them to say "no, we can't send it to any address but your home address", but that their fallback is to say they'll send it to where you are and then to send it to your home address instead is itself a security hole (albeit a smaller one).
What they're saying is "The problem with the curves appears only in Newtonian gravity. If you take general relativity into account, maybe the problem goes away."

That's been proposed before, though it's hard to do the calculations, and the differences in GR are thought to be too small to matter at that scale. I believe that this approach to demonstrating it is novel (reformulating it by analogy to Maxwell's equations and deriving a gravitational analogy to magnetism), but I'm afraid the math is beyond my pay grade.

As far as I can tell, this kind of approach usually doesn't get traction because the evidence for dark matter goes well beyond galactic rotation curves. And what he's produced so far doesn't even cover the rotation curves completely. Intuitively, he's trying to make an effect like frame dragging (which requires hyper-precision satellite experiments to detect) account for a very large effect (big enough to require multiple galaxies worth of matter to account for). Gravity is very weak, and second-order effects are even weaker.

So it seems unlikely. But it's not impossible.
Keep calm and everything will be fine.
The infrastructure in our Minecraft City, Greenfield
By the way, Mozilla's Send is down, but I'm maintaining a fork with a public instance. :)

https://send.vis.ee/ (https://github.com/timvisee/send)
Agriculture was the first victim of the red/blue phenomenon. Agricultural and trade policy is all about government supported grain industry. For the dairy farmer, they are stuck between regulatory reform that dramatically increases the supply of milk by creating a national market, while their downstream supply chain partners are allowed to consolidate and form monopolies, because American legal theory is insane.

I live in upstate NY from a former dairy producing region. I’m aware of 5 different dairy processors that were within 30-40 miles of my childhood home. Now there is one larger company.

It’s only getting worse. The push for meat-substitutes will just lead to even more consolidation, and start introducing supply risks down the road. The aquifers that support Midwest grain are being depleted, and climate change will affect the Southern California miracle in the desert. In the meantime, the well-watered, prime farm I worked on as a teen had most of the topsoil stripped and sold, and there is a subdivision with 40-50 houses on it.
Took me a while to realize you're talking about a few very specific book (or maybe even just one of them)
The tweet does not substantiate its claims, at least not that I can see due to the source being paywalled.
>A possible solution could be to expand the goalie-only area around the net. That would, in theory, force opponents to focus more on shooting and not on piling around the goalie.

Pandora's box is already open. Bigger net, more space, smaller pads, etc. won't get players to necessarily focus more on skill shots... it will likely make the chaotic approach today more successful.
>a gnu

A Gnu that's not Unix

>Grep

Global regular expression print

>yacc

yet another compiler compiler

>bison

well...i don't know :)
why better? I have a privacy issue with MS Windows after they integrated advertising into windows 10 and bought linkedin.

That said I like the object oriented nature of powershell. And Excel is amazing if you know what you are doing.
Interesting because they actually decreased net size like 7 or 8 yrs ago.
Ellis D. Kropotechev and Zeus, This marvelous time-sharing system (1967)
Define irony
Thanks, my wife’s wait (she wasn’t from India) was seven years but that was a while ago. I hadn’t realized things were diverging more recently.
> thinking that GDPR is nothing more than just that accept button that people click in order to get access to the websites

I know of small companies that before GDPR didn't really consider the implications of private data at all. They'd just let their SQL databases grow forever (mark as delete and have "script to actually delete the data" as a TODO that never happened), had random backups lying around on dev machines.

GDPR forced them to actual define policy, start deleting old data that was no longer relevant, strip private data from developer test sets.

It was a bit more work, and adds a small bit of friction, but these are still important things!

Forcing cooks in restaurants to wash their hands after using the bathroom also adds friction to the process but is similarly important.
It's actually not true that family dairy farms in Ontario are doing well. If you look at actual data (search for "D056 Number of farms with shipments of milk by province"), you'll see that the number of independent farms in Ontario has declined by 29% since 2006. You see the same long term trend in every province.

At one time long ago, the quota system was billed as protecting the family farm, but in practice now it drives the death of family farms, as people with quotas slowly sell out to large producers and new farmers cannot enter the marketplace because of the quota cost wall. Ontario currently is tied with Quebec for the cheapest quotas in the country, but getting started in the industry is still impossible without huge investments beyond the reach of young farmers (e.g., the upfront cost just to buy just the quotas, not the land or the cows, for a small 100 cow venture in Ontario is currently $2.4 million -- compare this with someone else in this thread who managed to get a whole farm up and running in the US, including land and his herd, for around $500k USD).
But farms across the nation are failing and conglomerating. It just seems like he's investing in horses after the Model T has been released.
This is just simply not true.
> Gentlemen: if you have no place to leave your keys and loose change, carry them in the left pocket of your trousers. This makes it less likely to bruise your partner.

For those with less context into social dancing, this is because the typical default "stance" is offset to avoid stepping on each other's feet - each partner's right foot is roughly aligned with their partner's midline.
This is never going to happen.
sherlocked

To have developed a product and just started shipping it, only to have Apple come along and provide exactly the same functionality in a system update. It happened to Karelia Software twice. Once with Sherlock and again with iWeb.

I'll bet the Pro HDR folks groaned and got drunk after the Apple event yesterday where they showed the HDR functionality built in to the OS. They got Sherlocked!

by franketh September 02, 2010
> they're still terrible concepts that have been roundly denounced on their own merits

Hol' up, "it is ok to be white," is a terrible concept denounced on its own merits? Lol ok

It's a good thing that under Critical Theory, since race is a social construction (that's why Black is supposed to be capitalized, because it refers to the construction, not the color) there's no reason besides being "roundly denounced" (which will happen eventually to you anyway if you're an untermensch White) that you can't be transracial.

I'm not White, I'm a light tan person. Get off my lawn with your racist Theory.
I commented on this risk. The founder smartly replied that they have much broader plans than just calendars. Still, anything that lives in the menu bar and serves such a core purpose as notifications is at risk of being “Sherlocked”.
Maybe the professionalization of classic games has just gone too far?

Perhaps what was fun for kids in the winter wasn’t actually designed to be taken seriously by grown men/woman, with millions of dollars at stake?

I don’t know. I still watch F1, so perhaps I’m just off base here, but it seems that there is a disconnect between the sport and the spectacle.
True, but this would require older cars to be retrofitted with transponders as well. That’s a monumental policy and implementation task given the number of cars on the road. And there will always be some laggards or those who disable or refuse to use them
sherlocked:
to have developed a product and just started shipping it, only to have Apple come along and provide exactly the same functionality in a system update. It happened to Karelia Software twice. Once with Sherlock and again with iWeb.
> Lists will eventually become a problem since your next/prev pointers may not be pointing to adjacent memory positions

But what if they were pointing to adjacent memory positions in the common case? What if the problem you're suggesting doesn't exist in some circumstances?

Like in Knuth's Dancing Links. The neighbors of links are laid out in memory next to each other. If the list upon program startup is "1 -> 2 -> 3", we know that 1, 2, and 3 are neighbors in memory.

And what if it is demonstrated that this weird "linked list with nodes laid out next to each other" is shown to be sufficient to solve NP-complete problems like the exact-cover problem with great efficiency in practice?

-----------------

What if, when creating 100 nodes at a time, we lay out all 100-nodes in a row.

chunk = malloc(sizeof(Node) * 100).

for(int i=99; i>=0; i--){
chunk[i].next = head;
chunk[i].data = foobar();
head = chunk[i];
}

Now we have the spatial locality you so desire, while still retaining the ability to rearrange the list. In fact, add/remove is still possible (though the malloc/free is harder to keep track of: if you're in a Dancing-links scenario, you may not ever need to call free)
This was a marketing myth put out by Apple in the early days of the app store. It's not true.
Very broadly speaking we tend to now think of history or time as being fairly linear with progress being made while ancients tended to think of history as cyclical and those before them as random.

The Antikythera mechanism or the somewhat inexplicable late bronze age collapse and the unidentifiable "sea people" that caused it are good examples to indicate there's some degree of cyclicality, wherein people stumble across ruins more advanced than their own civilization and wonder where they could have gone.[1]

Getting to the "why" part, Peter Turchin's work expanding on Ibn Khaldun's concept of Asabiyyah seems the most compelling to me.

[1]https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46565/ozymandias
Censorship is the battleground, not the issue. The problem isn't censorship per se, it's the weaponization of it. Claiming you can or can't do something is merely projecting how one frames the debate. This issue still stands and the entire argument is moot.
You'll notice almost all of these are undersea cables. HVDC connections are used there because you can't really hang air cables over the ocean and the capacitive losses of HVAC cables under the sea makes them prohibitive.
I understand Dropbox and Airbnb, but the long-term growth potential was clear to begin with - here, I just don't see it. It's a stupid calendar widget on a subscription.

I understand the potential for future expansion, but wouldn't it make sense for YC to wait until an MVP for said expansion is released before investing in it?
China didn't eliminate poverty, Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-k_ed7D7Dw

China doesn't have a big middle class.
Education in China does not produce a lot of creative people.
China government can disappear any Billionaire or Actor or any influential person. Such regime will always be less effective, less creative. Solution to the Problem: remove trade advantages for china, add sanctions and wait while it degrades to the state Russia is now. If you cut them from the global markets, China will crumble. China is all about "face", to the determent of everything else and is the reason for a global Corona outbreak. I believe the author has too good opinion on them, they just lie a lot. Sure a lot of the products are assembled in china, but not created. As I look around my desk, I don't see anything beside mobile phone that was engineered in China. As a matter of fact I prefer to buy locally engineered German stuff even if it costs a bit more, because I have a better quality and after sale support than with any Chinese Product. I hate dealing with Chinese Traders after a sale and I started to pay more for European products, even if they cost more. The west and others can relocate supply chains and that would be the end of it.
big things have small beginnings
Looking for more visuals and less verbal
I can confirm. There are very fringe sections left in the society which are still practicing caste based discrimination. To get more clicks, news websites try to project this small minority as the truth of the whole nation.
Knowledge is passed on from master to apprentice. Nearly-universal literacy helped to alleviate this issue somewhat, but even today most practical knowledge is passed on by people working together.

The result is that even a gap of a single generation is enough for some knowledge to be lost. That's why Roman concrete was forgotten, why we can't build a Saturn V anymore, why you can't just start a chip-fab with enough money, and why it's so hard to maintain code without access to someone that designed the code-base.

Most things, even if they're written down, are more accurately modelled in someone's brain.
What the Pandemic Is Doing to Our Brains
> To folks who mount these cultural hills, racism, classism, and sexism are adjacent to murder in severity.

If you're going to assume everyone who thinks those things are real problems believes something pretty much nobody actually believes, more power to you I guess? Seems problematic. By which I mean "intellectually dishonest", maybe a bit of posturing for likeminded people, maybe a shibboleth to organize and rally like-minded people.

> The correct answer is that it’s a shibboleth to organize, and rally, like-minded people.

Well, you've clearly already made up your mind.
Adam Adamandy Kochański
I'm not sure where you're getting your figures from. Here's a more representative view:

https://fullfact.org/economy/how-much-does-government-subsid...

Government subsidies have tripled since privatisation and fares have risen by 20% after inflation.

That doesn't seem like a win for efficiency. And of course it's the customer who bears the cost - which aren't just economic, but also social, because good public infrastructure reliably offers many-multiple ROI for economic activity in general.

And the question remains - how would BR have fared (ha...) with those generous subsidy levels instead of the very constrained resources it was forced to operate with?

Not only has privatisation been very expensive and poor value in real terms, it also destroyed one of the UK's biggest engineering employers and R&D development cultures.

The HS125 is still one of the most popular trains today. Experimental APT tilting technology was given away to European companies and then sold back to the UK in the form of foreign-built tiling trains.

Those could easily have been designed and built in the UK. There were also losses in signalling research - essential for maximised efficiency - and in network integration.

So it absolutely does make sense to complain about overcrowding and high prices when a nationalised network would have been cheaper to run, better value, and also more advanced technologically.

Of course this ideologically unpossible. Even so. Ideologues need to explain why jobs were lost, safety was trashed, engineering and R&D skills were off-shored in addition to higher subsidies and uneconomic fares.
I currently use a dynamically typed pl in my professional capacity (statically typed pl in my side projects). I write a lot of tests, and 0 of them assert the type of the flowing data.
I've been using Scribo (scriboco.com).

In addition to sending files, I can request files from a third party. Includes document signing and payments (which I've not used).
Binance.us is legal, right? When I tried to sign up for binance.com (not knowing better) it said that I needed to use binance.com instead.

edit:removed unintentional coin shilling.
The concept of identity is useful insofar as a person remains stable throughout their lifespan. We don’t expect people to be chaotically random or perfectly ordered.
I don’t know. It just seems inefficient to me. Farming is not enjoyable work for most people who do it so the whole plan just reminds me of Marie Antoinette’s peasant role play hobby.
You are entirely correct. Power between different AC regions is mostly transferred using HVDC-links because it avoids synchronisation requirements between them.

Additionally the capacitive losses of an undersea HVAC cable are prohibitive, leaving only HVDC as an option.
Show HN: Upload and use large files hosted on Discord on your website
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2016/sep/22/uk-failing-on-ma...
Why do you think adding "genuinely curious" allows you to insinuate all kinds of things?
Show HN: Bookslyte, simple bookkeeping for micro-startups
I think he's glossing over the obvious. A friend of mine was just reminiscing about growing up in her family's dairy farm.

Every Saturday morning, every Sunday morning, every Christmas you get up to take care of the cows. Feel sick? You've got to get up and take care of the cows. Want to go on vacation? Can't, there's no one you can leave the cows with. It's a hard life - maybe a satisfying life in some ways but there are a lot of sacrifices.

The author points out that only one of his brothers wanted to take over the dairy. He doesn't point out that without that one brother with the insane work ethic the farm would have shut down years ago. It's not a sustainable business model.
I know someone who raised over 50M to improve technical presales. If anyone has ever worked in this context they'll know it's inefficient. First product: a chrome extension that does time tracking. The question is will this succeed because of the money raised, the domain knowledge of the founders, or the quality of the product? Or some combination of the above.
People misunderstand YC's business model. They invest 125K for a 7% stake in the company. That's a <$2 million valuation. If this company sells a couple thousand (at $120/y), YC breaks even. If they sell a couple million, YC gets back 1000x on their money. It's a great investment.
Canceled Netflix when I read about the content of the Cuties movie. The 3 other people who used my Netflix account were a bit bummed, but nobody paid for Netflix for themselves after I canceled. Plex + Sonarr/Radarr & a VPN is the way to go.
Oh no, the glowing dot! But remember this was well before HDTV. Watching hockey on a grainy old TV was not accessible for those who didn’t know the game. However, I don’t think it was successful in bringing in new viewers, and people who were already fans hated it because, well, it sucked.