skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Safety and the steepness of the track, among other things.

Regular freight trains from China to Europe are a real thing by the way, no need to speculate. Service is running flawless as well.
Disagree. The guy who built the system I am now maintaining reinvented the wheel many times. So now we have a lot of undocumented buggy code. Most people aren't programming the linux kernel, they are writing a variation on web based CRUD.
There's a reason the US Patent Office requires a working model from inventors who would patent a perpetual motion machine. Every other kind of invention may be described on paper.
I think you and the grandparent underestimate your own abilities. I CAN replicate a lot of art if I were to put some effort into it, and I CAN create original art without replicating it.

It's just that I don't wanna, and I appreciate other people's efforts more than my own, etc.

Art is not about effort -> result, it's an interesting combination of factors.
Which one will offer the capability to embed a public or private(with keys) audio broadcast on a website?
What kind of content do you expect it to be used for "exchanging"?
1983: Suspended
Wait, I'm not ready for this. I'm still putting the finish touches on my Yo clone. /s
Microsoft wins U.S. Army contract for augmented reality headsets
I was hoping this was legit. If people were forced to type, rather than copy/paste, maybe they'd learn or remember a few more things
You probably should have bg'ed that process, but yes.
Thanks for the book recommendation. Just bought it.
I’ve had a similar experience trying to fix up the code of someone who learned enough to code up some CRUD pages. They got some basic Rails working, and wanted me to take over. I spent a week fixing shit HTML so I could possibly take a stab at fixing the CSS. After about a week I couldn’t take it anymore.
100% this. The developer behind Prometheus was a huge dick to people about env vars a while back, in similar fashion. Just the other day, they held another closed-doors vote after a year or so and finally decided they were OK.

Doesn't surprise me the creator of Meson of all people made the same dogmatic assertion.

What a circus this industry has become.
>But it’s helpful to filter out the number of non-programmers who apply for programmer jobs.

I keep hearing about these people, but I have never met one in 20 years.
Clubhouse is going down the exact same route that Quora did. Initially, they seeded the platform with a sense of exclusivity and big name users, but it is rapidly suffering the effect of what happens to any platform as it goes broad and average quality of user goes down.
I'm not sure if we're saying the same thing or not.

Yes, currently shipping by sea is cheaper, even if it means sending several containers' full of stuff to a place that doesn't need them by the time they arrive. Or worse, sending several containerfulls of stuff somewhere in anticipation of them maybe needing it soon -- because by the time they need it, it's too late to start sending it.

This is of course very wasteful, and the high latency is the source of the waste. But it still comes out ahead in the books.

What I'm saying is that hopefully maybe in the future the parameters of the equation look different, and it's no longer sensible to send huge batches of things just to patch over delivery problems relating to latency.

So effectively what has happened in lean manufacturing and product development flow-based approaches, except on a global scale.
3sb
I tried repeating every vocal noise my cat made and soon found a noise that obviously meant "no!" After a few years of doing this we built up quite a vocabulary. He had a great sense of humor! It helped a lot that he was very vocal, he had an opinion about everything.
I was hoping to port it to the LG Velvet, especially since LG is debating leaving the cell phone space

Unfortunately they geolock unlocking their devices. European models can be unlocked, Australian ones? Nope!
I'm happy to agree with all of your claims. (except the arbitrary label you applied: "junk")

Deuterium depleted water is produced by distilling water multiple times, which is extremely energy heavy operation. That's why a bottle of 1.5L 105ppm DDwater costs around $4. It is still extremely cheap if you compare to the cost of other oncology treatments.

There are minimal differences in the chemical behaviour. The very first scientific paper in the publication list shows the effects of that minimal difference. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/107327482199965... The results of deuterium depletion is what you see on Page 6: Decreased proliferation of cancer cells. In vitro studies were followed by animal experiments, which I mentioned above.

The human experiments were conducted on 22 persons. 2 of DDW consumers died, 9 in the placebo group died. This, as I see, doesn't rule out the possibility of an extremely efficient drug for cancer.

These are all backed by strong evidence, see here: https://hyd.hu/en/publications/
I'm making decent money as a game developer. You just have to hone your craft and find something niche and interesting that few people can do well.

I also compose and produce music and have not made a cent from it other than occasional recording time.

Game dev is way easier.
https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof (low-code for devs)

* I created this
Metabase is great for querying and visualising your data but won’t help you collect input like Google Forms, which sounds like what the OP is after.
This chestnut 'home has too many distractions' line is getting old. Work has equivalent distractions, and those people actually get paid to distract you. It takes time management wherever you sit your butt.
Agreed

The new interiors were nice

I'd say it's the author that has no taste!
Possible. Or they just built a sloppy network.
Maybe this is the case with companies that announced "permanent 100% WFH", but Google never announced this.

As someone working at Google, there was never any surprise Google did not announce a permanent WFH solution, since it has not been part of the company culture nor did they put out any expectations you would be able to WFH permanently.
there's an astonishingly silly GitHub issue thread linked in the comments of the post: https://github.com/ninja-build/ninja/issues/1482
I love this font so much. Actually I use the nerdfonted version "Caskaydia". It just sucks that it does not have italics.
But just the last month I was trying out every other font under the sun (with ligatures), including checking out some commercial ones, but none of these is so damn readable while still being rather dense with the perfect weight and expressiveness than Cascadia.

It makes the code so much prettier. However I am extremely open to alternatives that look similar but have italics.
> things like batch norm. We don't know why it's important

It is pretty well understood.
For perl programmers, you want CGI::FormBuilder:

https://metacpan.org/pod/CGI::FormBuilder
FWIW, I've built and strengthened plenty of friendships with coworkers via Teams, which obviously, I've used a lot more during the pandemic. This shouldn't seem that weird... I've made plenty of lasting long term friends over the Internet too.
Completely agree. I've been looking to get into poetry, so wanted a daily poem via RSS. The stuff that's available is all purple prose which I couldn't stand.

Shameless plug: I wrote my own feed, currently delivering Robert Frost daily: https://github.com/felipeochoa/rsspoetry/ (also a good ocaml learning experience with some notes about it for the curious)
Have a look at elementary OS (https://elementary.io), it's much more resembling MacOS.
The education system is a complex organisation. Having the will to change means little if everyone wants to change differently.

Education reinventing itself radically needs a goal. The current (public) system has evolved to be frugal, which is a real consideration.
In case it turns out to be an April Fools joke and not an actual initiative: Google getting rid of passwords.

http://blog.tyrannyofthemouse.com/2021/04/leaked-google-init...
Discord just cloned clubhouse in their app.
https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/31/discord-stage-channels-voi...
If you can’t have a conversation about this with your partner, your relationship has bigger issues.
The pre-widespread-Internet lifestyle relied on institutional support too: phone booths everywhere, banks that had humans willing to talk to you, paper checks. Heck, I rented a car five years ago and asked who to contact if something went wrong, and they said "go to our website; no one answers the phone".
I quickly googled the saying - which was familiar to me - to check and it is indeed etymologically correct.

The origin is the proto-germanic word kunnan, which means “to recognise, to know (how to be able)”.

According to Wikipedia, the first known usage of the phrase by the German poet Johann Gottfried Herder is actually a bit more complex and references both the knowing and the being able to:

“Kunst kommt von Können oder Kennen her (nosse aut posse), vielleicht von beiden, wenigstens muß sie beides in gehörigem Grad verbinden. Wer kennt, ohne zu können, ist ein Theorist, dem man in Sachen des Könnens kaum trauet; wer kann ohne zu kennen, ist ein bloßer Praktiker oder Handwerker; der echte Künstler verbindet beides.”

Quick and dirty translation:

“Art is derived from being able to do and knowing, maybe from both, at least art must combine both in proper measure. Who knows, without being able, is a theorist, whom one cannot trust with regards to being able to do; Who can without knowing, is a mere practician or craftsman; the real artist connects both.”

By the way, I don’t know you, I don’t want to offend you and the very little info I have from your comment is evidence that you’re a intelligent, well educated, open-minded and complex person…. but to be honest, when I see the phrase “Kunst kommt von Können” my first association is of a narrow-minded square, who doesn’t like anything they are not familiar with. Again, this is not directed at you, I just wanted to share what kind of associations this phrase creates in me in general from my personal, limited experience with people, who used it.
I just settled on a pixel 3 xl.
It has still one of the best camera quality available.
Got it on ebay for 135€.
OS Lineageos microg ROM. But kept stock camera app.

I was not happy with the selfie quality on the pixel 3a xl although I would have liked the audio jack.
> The sigils are a feature that underpin perl's roots from practical linguistics

I am not sure this metaphor makes sense to me.

Imagine that I have a pack of dogs. When I use a language to say: "Remember that pack of dogs that I mentioned previously? Go ahead and give it to me" — I do not expect to also need to specify whether I want the pack with all the dogs in it, or whether I just want some value associated with that pack, which, if I remember perl's behaviour here, would be its length. I could understand if a language wanted me to specify whether I want the thing itself as opposed to a reference to the thing (I suppose it would make total sense as a Saussurian opposition of a signifier vs the signified); but the ternary opposition that perl enforces is neither here nor there linguistically — it's just bizarre.
Looks like it needs to be repartitioned, which would be rather non-trivial.
A lot less time than you would think. There are a ton of devices that don't use magnetic memory like SSD and SD cards. So although a lot of data would be gone, the tools to build everything back up would still be intact. Devices like CNC machins usually use SD cards and other forms of non-magnetic storage. Biggest issue would be controlling public unrest until you can restore infinistructure. After that it would be business as usual after not too long.

But if the storm is powerful enough to destroy actual chips and systems it would be very very difficult to recover.
Same issue with social media. People don't understand they need to protect their entire network and not just themselves.
I got asked a python question that involved a couple of list comprehensions. I did it and got asked how to do it without an intermediate variable. It involved nesting the list comprehensions, and I nearly didn't get it, not because I didn't understand how to do it, just that I have a personal rule never to do that, as it makes code quite difficult to read.
Not in any multi-user multi-process OS. You set environment variables in a process (ie. shell/CMD.EXE) and spawn child process (the program) from that parent. The environment variables will only be visible to those two processes.
From what I have seen, I'd probably pick Kotlin if I had to be on the JVM. Seems to strike a nice balance between sanding off the rough edges of Java syntax, and still being conventional and blub enough that it won't put people off.
Thanks for taking the risk of visiting a potentially exploit-ridden site for everyone. So, it contains a list of things to be leaked, plus leaks a sample to prove they're not bluffing?
I have no skin in this game, so to speak, so just curios.

What kind of ways did you get burned by other things than env vars in a way in which env vars would not?
Yes this is a very interesting philosophical concept to me.

I think the counterpoint to it is that it's also somewhat common for specialists to get stuck in local Maxima, as their expertise provide a deep but potentially narrow framework for thinking about the problem, and people with more broad experience may be more able to find more imaginative solutions.

There was a piece that I can probably dig up about the theory that this has quite seriously affected e.g. theoretical / particule physics - for decades we have spent more and more money trying to prove more and more complex versions of superstring theory etc., and what might be needed is more whacky out-of-the-box ideas that could lead to simpler explanations that fit our subatomic observations better.
I'm not sure Long Bets was as well known back then.
The UK, France and Israel did try. But the Soviet Union was on Egypt's side and the US didn't want anything to do with it.
Rayleigh–Taylor Instability
Dismissing the power of money, influence over lawmakers etc... just say you like them, no? /s
Storen40
>Stepping outside the Perlish echochamber for a moment

I'm surprised. Many people can't do this.

Honestly haven't seen any perl since a hackthebox machine before covid where you compromise a user with a perl shell.

>In practice, Python has snowballed simply because of network effect. Everyone knows Python so everyone uses it so everyone new has to learn it.

I would interject and suggest this is incorrect. Python has 1 thing that Perl does not.

‘{‘ and ‘}’ and ‘;’ and $`’, ‘$&’

Clearly unnecessary. Python simply does it better. By that simple reality Perl is doomed to death.

>Does the colour of the spoon really matter that much, or is it simply that everyone wants the same colour, regardless of what it is? Do we want to throw away what makes our blue spoons distinctive blue colour just to get in with the "in" crowd, even though we don't actually like green?

This is a very bad analogy. It's making the assumption that all spoons are equally effective. Syntax alone the green spoons are green spoons but Perl's blue spoons have a different handle, 1 with spikes that may hurt you. Why do people use the green spoons? They have scars on the hands from the spikes.
> If any serious work is being done in a company

You seem to be falling into the HN trap of “serious work = what I do” “not serious work = what I don’t do.”

I can assure you that group of people can provide value to customers/clients while looking like the people in that photo.
You can have immutability with an append only log.

What's key in btc is the network and the consensus which gives strength to the immutability claim.

If you have trust (eg. with a centralised system) you don't need consensus.

A commercial system is likely offered by a company who has stakes in the operation and can therefore provide trust without wasting all that energy and without consensus.
Hmm is just grabbing a domain name and pointing subdomains to internal IP address bad idea? Cause that's what I do and I thought everyone did this.
As "better" isn't clearly defined, here are some things that some people might consider superior:

- primitives or any custom value types/structs can be used. No need for boxing or method duplication for primitives.
- type information available at runtime, no need to pass 'Class<T>' parameters.
- type constraint 'new' available, which means it must have a default constructor so you can do 'new T()'. No need to use reflection or pass a constructor parameter.
- type constraint 'notnull' available
- class-scoped compiler enforced covariance and contravariance, though I think you can get similar results with java's "? extends T" and "? super T" constraints
This little bit of cultural misappropriation has always bugged me. Oddly enough, it is always the Europeans insisting on these Persian/Iranian matters being "Arab". I seriously wonder if this is still nursing ancient Persian Greek/Roman rivalries and is a byproduct of a chauvinist classical education of the European educated set of 19th century. I find it very strange.

In the OP, we have a female Persian name (Shahrzad, the story teller) and a male Persian name (Shahryar, the king).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Thousand_and_One_Nights#Pe...

"The earliest mentions of the Nights refer to it as an Arabic translation from a Persian book, Hezār Afsān (aka Afsaneh or Afsana), meaning 'The Thousand Stories'."

Hezar means 1000. Afsan means fantasy/story. Now it's true that the modern version is called Hezaar-o yek Shab (Thousand and one nights). So possibly that 'one' story is the Arab contribution.

[Filed under the "The Gulf" files]
> and those people actually get paid to distract you

And thus a veneer of legitimacy curtails the otherwise dragging distraction of guilt.
This flies in the face of pretty much every opinion I've heard from experienced developers in the past 5 years. Once someone said, "You should be using ENV for configuration" I started doing it, and I found it to be a better solution than I previously had. I am also open to dedicated config files, whether they set ENV vars or not.

I'm open to the idea that ENV is not the only way, and I certainly believe that there are situations where other solutions are warranted, but my opinion right now is that this is wrong, and I perceive this also to be the prevailing opinion in our industry.
> Unless the universities pay the ransom, the hackers will continue publishing student information.

That is an incredibly irresponsible thing to say. The data is out now, you'll be able to buy it from a broker soon enough. Any money paid is money lost. I think paying would also contravene US law.

What these victims do need is new SSNs, and the Gov't needs to find a way to identify people without the ID also being the password.
I recall it also used 386 protected mode as you had to boot it from floppy, which was probably the first for a commercial game.

This and F15 were amazing games of the time. I bought the full thrustmaster setup for these.
> Not to mention that rail seems like it'd be a lot easier and more feasible to electrify.

That's actually quite difficult for this suggestion. The amount of Volts on these lines differ greatly across countries. In this case the intention is to connect multiple countries. In enough countries the tracks aren't electrified. A train which can handle the differences across countries is pretty unique. Tracks can differ in size and lots of trains only handle one electrical system.

See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_transport_in_Europe#/medi...

I've seen a few "solutions" to dump all containers from Asia in e.g. Spain. This so to "reduce" the backlog. Then have "trains" move the containers to the right place. Aside from loads of other reasons why this wouldn't work, just see how many electrical systems are in use. Aside from just: where are these magical ready to use trains? ;)
Reading the comments here makes me realise that how people use the like and dislike buttons differs significantly.

It reminds me of the Uber approach to rating drivers - by Uber's metrics anything less than 5 stars indicates there was a problem with the ride.

There are riders who don't see it that way though, so for them, 3 stars is an average ride without problems.

I rarely look at likes and dislikes. For anything large, it's full of brigading.
Nonsense. You don't get promoted for what you did. You get promoted for what you will do.

Everyone who has made it up the ladder knows this and it's the single aspect that differentiates people who routinely get overlooked for promotions from the individuals who steadily rise through the ranks
He's had some controversy in the past and had a bit of a quack reputation. It's nice to see this research done. When I saw the name associated with this I assumed the opposite result.
Thanks @alexc05!
I deleted the old ones. HN was giving me a damn "submission error" message every time I tried to post, but it turned out that I was actually sending each one successfully.
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What would you do as a plot? The pilot episode with the start of the war would surely be interesting, but the wait+party time of the next 8 years would probably not make for a good plot. Except if you'd want to make a party movie, but that would probably go against the spirit of the GBLA.
The article doesn't claim they're private vehicles. The "amarillo" organized hitchhiking system is absolutely a thing, and it relies on government vehicles:

https://hitchwiki.org/en/Cuba
There are plenty of exceptions to that dualism in Europe though (coexistence of social conservatism with strong
ideological commitments to extending social protections and state involvement in industry in many significant European political parties and arguably even more widespread in public sentiment in many European countries) which are relatively rare in US politics.
This is more or less the way I handle configuration in most applications that I create. +1
C# implements proper reified generics. Generic types parameterised with different types are actual types in C#, while in Java generics is basically just syntax sugar for avoiding type casts. Each element in a List<byte> in C# takes 8 bits, while in Java each element in a ArrayList<Byte> is actually just an Object and therefore is a pointer (64 bits) to a separate allocation.
A patent relies on a state actor to enforce a set of rules
That may have played a part, but I feel that a larger problem was the line-noise-like syntax.

Right now C++ and Rust appear to be competing to be the next Perl WRT hieroglyphics in code. The smug and pointless answer to the complaint that the code looks like line-noise is usually "whichever language you use, you have to learn the symbols anyway".
I would not reccomend directus. Ive used it for a project and it always is buggy and SLOOOOWWWWW. It looks like a candy of a database manager but it’s not. Plenty of features missing.
> String? Method? Abstract method? Stack?

These aren't per-language terms that people have to learn just to use Perl, though are they? 'bless' is. A new term for something that could have been described so simply as 'set-class' or 'give-class' or anything else using plain language.
I did and nothing happened
I often have a hard time convincing someone why Mullvad is better than PIA, NordVPN, etc, because they simply don't know what to look for in a good VPN.

At least I can point at Mozilla VPN and make an appeal to authority.