skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if we fixed it today, it's unlikely to end this supply chain disruption - it will likely make it worse, as now that companies can't avoid facing this problem they have to get more stock in order to build a buffer. Making it easier/cheaper for them to build a BIGGER buffer just means more hoarding/supply chain shocks until everyone has enough of a buffer they stop trying to hoard/buy extra.

The issue is that when you become brittle supply chain wise, the only real answer is to stock more/buy more individually - which crushes the supply chain even more. Either that, or co-ordinated (gov't level often) rationing, which has it's own problems.
> Banning all UK entities would kill the global economy.

I wonder which of these "too big to fail" statements will end up being the one that actually kills the global economy.
My comment was in regard to propaganda that followed the incident, working to belittle victims and participants and promote government actions.
As a summary, the various vaccine manufacturers got the federal government to agree not to ship them outside the US as a condition of purchase, because then there would be additional liability issues the manufacturers would be exposed to.

This seems like an easy fix. Coordinate with those other country's governments pass a similar indemnification law for the COVID-19 vaccine and the price for the US organizing that and the other governments doing that will be the manufacturers allowing the US to ship its doses to them.
Yes, and the best of the best: Japan. But, the point is that we're taking about Amtrak -- have you experienced them?

The odds of Amtrak pulling this off are near 0. They earned their poor reputation.
>Grain aims to modernize innovative features from functional and academic programming languages and bring them to the masses.

What are these features?

This could be things like "pattern matching and sum types", or it could be things like "effect systems and dependent types". Personally I don't think you can reasonably call pattern matching an "innovative feature" from an "academic programming language", but as far as I can tell that's what they mean...
Apple could have avoided this issue entirely by allowing users to download the content without any DRM to a storage provider of their choice (ie, Dropbox, or local storage).
Or at least downgrade your "purchases" to "rental" price.
To my mind it's the other way around. A "loud" recording with little dynamics sounds OK at lower volume; the listening fatigue sets in when the volume is increased. A dynamic recording, on the other hand, often sounds great when you turn up the volume and can really hear the difference between soft and loud sounds.
> C, of course, just ignores this problem entirely.

Many C/C++ compilers special-case printf, and can actually catch some printf format string problems at compile time. For example, gcc 5.4.0 and msvc 19 warned about both of the dodgy printf usages in your example (the type mismatch and the wrong number of arguments).
I used to customize common commands, but stopped once I started routinely using many machines. Aliasing “htop” to “top” may sound like a good idea, but it will break the muscle memory the first time you login to a server without your shortcuts.
I understood this thing long time ago and removed my credit card from my account to resist tempation of buying stuff. I briefly added it back to purchase an app or two I really couldn’t do without. As far as media goes I have none on my Iphone.
I think this is his USA shop/distributor. https://silent-sticks.com
Everyone's just looking for someone they can trust so they don't have to read and actively discuss things.
Why single out Amtrak? It was set up to fail by the Nixon administration, it has never received the funding it needed to address the poor state of the equipment, stations, and ROW (i.e. NEC) it received at its inception, and most of its operations are on other railroads' ROW where there is little hope of upgrading lines for high-speed service (or even electrification). Either we should nationalize our railroads or we need to accept that Amtrak (or whatever company) is providing a public service that requires adequate public funding.
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“Among us” has a lot of the vibe if you want to join a random game when you have a few minutes to kill.

It’s not werewolf - but it is perhaps an arcade version.
Nitpick: the "loudness war" is about mastering / compressing a recording so that it sounds louder at any given volume, it doesn't really have anything to do with optimizing things so they sound better at high volumes or a preference for loud sounding instruments.
That's why we have laws about "contracts of adhesion" that limit the one-sided news of contracts. The law has a general protection against "unconscionable" contracts, to be decided by judge or jury.
string_view is a new feature designed on purpose to be unsafe.
I feel like this deserves an explanation. Amtrak are underfunded, a political football, and have to run like a second class citizen on a large chunk of the US rail network, hardly issues of their own creation.
They already have a rent option, so Rent (As long as your account is in good standing) and Rent (for a few hours) would be even more confusing.
I disagree, specially if you're looking at what you can get for 200k€.
The way your original comment phrased it I assumed phab slots are not actually locked in 12 months in advance, and if you pay someone enough they might agree to swap the masks they were going to use for yours. That would mean fab slots are acting like a scarce resource in the short term (3--12 months?). Is that also not right?

I'm not saying the system isn't broken and/or that car manufacturers aren't jerks for monopolizing a scarce resource and putting other demands in tight spots. I'm just reading it as regular free market capitalism level broken, but it sounds like you're saying it's even more broken than that. This is a topic very relevant to my current interests so I truly do wish to understand it.
> libs for 64bits floats (decimal.js, big.js)

both of those libraries are for arbitrary precision decimals, not floats.
Listen, I love mass transit, I love big sweeping plans…but remember when the last administration Biden was in was all about this?

https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2009/04/16/a-visio...

Obama’s high-speed rail plan went absolutely nowhere, in part because Republican governors flatly refused to participate.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/12/no-high...
Yes! Making commands customizable is on top of my to-do list.
I’m curious are iTunes and similar stores licensing the music to you? I’m guessing it is a license and not ownership. In either case I can see them addressing this problem of lower velocity with subscription only licensing where you license tunes for X amount of time.

Obviously not in the interest of consumers but I can see why sellers would go this route.
See above re: bullying.

If they know they can get away with their suppliers having to front all the cash, why not do it? If all their competitiors get away with it, they'd be fools not to as that is a lot of expense and interest they're eating and they'll need to make up for that somewhere.
Really cool but no one needs this... as a data scientist learning javascript, teach me how to run data science models using javascript! That's where the real gold is... I'm even thinking of writing articles about this myself... JS is great for making things more tangible and interactive
That's what class actions are for. The lawyer and the class representative get paid for their work to pursue the case.
This very article points out routes that rival all the airlines combined in terms of passenger volume.

The article also points out that Amtrak purposefully invests as little as possible into the unprofitable long distance network, which seems to be exactly what you’re asking for: to stop investing in Amtrak’s archaic routes.

The article also details a plan that focuses on profitable and popular intercity service. Routes like Cleveland - Columbus - Cincinnati that are a part of this plan are no-brainer expansions that will easily yield regional economic benefits.

As you’re aware, Amtrak is the government. Any economic benefit they bring to a region goes right back to the government in the form of tax revenue. It should be obvious then that Amtrak itself doesn’t need to be profitable for it to be a net positive investment.

We don’t expect our roads to be profitable and yet nobody questions whether highways are a “feasible” mode of transport.
So kind of... operationally with JIT you're encouraging yourself and suppliers into figuring out how to lower batch sizes and lead times so that the supply chain can be more nibble and financially the biggest benefits to JIT are working capital reductions because you don't have to buy in giant increments.
There is zero chance of DRM free downloads. Literally zero.
I have the same reasoning. The NY Times has done some awful things, and they have some biases that are offensive to me.

But I am a paid subscriber! (As I am with the WSJ). Why? It's a much better source, even with the faults, than all that "free" journalism that the Hacker News people seem to like so much.
When pointers are used to build dynamic data structures the differences are merely syntactical.
Agreed. You can read about hacks and techniques to improve sleep all you want, but many people will fail to consistently implement those. Why We Sleep gives you the "why", highlighting consequences of poor sleep and the "how" science of those techniques working.
Does anyone why they terminated his account?
All you need is a strong federal push.

States aren’t capable of building big infrastructure like this. Federal cash with federal strings attached is incredibly effective.

Look at interstate highways as an example. Fairly standard overpass bridge replacements cost $50M. Project quality varies but stuff gets built mostly on time and with minimal corruption.
I learned it OTJ at HP. There was a "UID" or User Interface Design group there we worked with. They were the group that invented green/purple keyboard/mouse mapping and similar mapping with colored traces mapping to colored controls and colored cables for oscilloscopes back in the 1990s.

There are references that were involved in that but none individually nor as ensemble is a "systematic" source. So they wouldn't really fit your requirement. These range from Card & Moran to vendor design guidelines to general industrial design concepts.

You will learn the most by "doing" and solving real problems. Honestly half the issue is looking at customer use-cases and testing with customers which is the ultimate source. Doing it in a vacuum or from arbitrary recipes generally doesn't work. Customer. Customer. Customer.

My current company has a number of beta customers who are willing to try things due to long-term friendship combined with a modest discount on the first copies they buy. They are our guinea pigs and our inspiration for both problems and opportunities both for UI/UX but also intimately tied to product features.
"no reasonable person" defense is used when the defendant knows they were caught in a lie and have no other defense. It's the legal version of "just a prank bro" or "I was kidding", and just as despicable.
I think the courts are going to look for legality instead of fairness.
I'm impressed by the sign language . when it comes to new technical words how does one make a new sign for it ?
Numerous times we were promised 'Level 5' self driving cars last year:

> Tesla 'very close' to level 5 autonomous driving technology - Musk says [0]

> Level 5 Self Driving Cars this year (2020) [1]

Now, it is admitted that it is Level 2. So its not 'Full Self-Driving' as promised.

When will the Elon fanatics stop listening to his bullsh*t?

[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-autonomous-idUSKBN2...

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2020/07/09/elon-mu...
Do we know why his account was terminated? I couldn’t find anything on that.
Why shouldn’t we trust them on the extent of their lies? Except three research commits, everything they have said has been true.

Given how few of the 190 have turned out wrong, given the timeline of the research relative, given the existing static analysis paper. Did Aditya Pakki write two entire papers about static analysis as cover for continuing this hypocrite commit research? Or did Aditya Pakki submit a bad patch in good faith and Greg Kroah-Hartman misunderstood and then overreacted with this mass revert? I think the latter is more plausible.

Otherwise, why stop at 190? The hypocrite commits came from Gmail. Logically, we can’t trust the researchers so we need to revert all Gmail commits. Wait they could
Be infiltrating other universities, we should ban university commits everywhere. That would be a lot of work. So Greg picked a medium set of patches that expressed his power and outrage but had no real effect. The point is the particular set of commits he chose aren’t risky (by inspection we know they are good) and aren’t related to the hypocrite commits. So many innocent people are having their work thrown away because Greg is angry.

Note that we have only seen the simple to revert patches. There are 68 complex umn patches that have not been reverted. I expect they won’t because this is mainly theater. The commits are good but Greg wants to be show how angry he is.

My impression is we are just living through some kernel maintainer lashing out because he was embarrassed by the failed review process and mixed up the buggy static commits with the hypocrite research. Admitting you’re wrong is hard, so I don’t expect Greg to do that.
We paid for them
I think this roughly boils down to information theory and the exploration / exploitation tradeoff. Play is fun because it’s information-rich. It’s personally rewarding because exploration opens new doors.

Exploitation is boring because it mostly discovers nothing new. It’s information-poor, and its reward is mostly fixed, and doesn’t open any new doors.
>> As much as I would like to think that this is true, all the concerts I went to prior to Covid had WAAAAAY too much freakin' bass. These were bands with vocal and guitar gods and the bass was cranked up to like 9000 such that you could barely make out the vocals and guitars if the bass was playing.

That's not a band. That's a bunch of people playing at the same time.
Notice the dotted line between Jacksonville FL and Mobile AL in the lower right?

That is because of a "temporary" service suspension in 2004 from damage by hurricane Katrina.[1]

Apparently even Amtrak thinks that by 2035 they won't be capable of restoring service.

[1]: https://www.jacksonville.com/article/20081117/NEWS/801256449
You get a couple of lines in, and it’s painfully familiar, since it’s sadly so incredibly similar to my waning love of programming...

It’s wildly destructive for society to have these completely devoid of ethics, fascist-style assholes with capital/power, that can dictate what what more useful people than can spend their time thinking about, yet no-one even thinks it’s a problem.

Although to be fair it’s just a sub-problem of how humanity has forced itself into self-destructive patterns, by ignoring reality and following fanatical ideologies about “unrestricted capitalism” and “the free market” as if that is some sort of divine power...

Imagine spending your short life developing ads for Google or Facebook. It would have been objective better for all of humanity if all these naive assholes people had become alcoholic bums living on the street... that would at least have curbed their ability to fuck with the rest of humanity.
Really interesting. Reminds me of an old Indian saying.

What you know is the size of a toothpick. What is to be known is the size of a mountain.
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I don't agree it is a problem with the companies. The issue most companies (and their lawyers) have is that this has not (afaik) really been tested in court. So, sure _you_ may state that we should be fine if are are not modifying the code or directly linking, etc, etc, but the interpretation of the license is still _very_ open. Until legal precedent is set, most companies are not willing to take the risk. And why should they?

Many companies (our included) consider AGPL to be a poison pill. and until someone gets sued and the courts set precedent...
Interesting experiment. It seems like it wasn’t able to change directon though and looked like it was wasting too much energy to just move
For anyone really wanting to learn computer graphics in depth I recommend the book Real-Time Rendering[0]

A great way to explore, play around with, and share shaders is Shader Toy[1]

[0] https://www.realtimerendering.com/

[1] https://www.shadertoy.com/
Click wrapped Terms of Service like that need to be ruled as Unenforceable Unconscionable contracts as they are clearly soo one sided they can not be seen by any reasonable person to be enforceable
Generally speaking, the corporation can terminate your count for secret reasons, including violating any term of any service they offer, such as storing something that looks like offensive content.
Well at least Corbyn got his life long dream of getting out of EU. He was pushing the idea for what, 20 years?
Game of Life in One Line of APL?
A while back I realized that I don't care about my career anymore: Promotions, politics, etc. I'm just going to work on what I enjoy. So far I'm a lot happier this way.
This is not even an option, since it will just make it easier to share files illegally and defeat the whole purpose of having an online movie store.
You can't lseek() (what is seek()?) a socket because lseek doesn't make sense on 'streaming' data. There are multiple answers for how it can be done (i.e. receive it to a buffer) but you can do that yourself, in userspace, at no real expense. You also can't lseek a pipe, or files on some types of hardware, and "POSIX does not specify which devices must support lseek()" (https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/lseek.2.html)

open(), of course, is an operation on a path/filename, not generally a descriptor. Not sure what usage you're referring to.
People don't own the things they buy. They don't have property rights today. Today, a mob or a single unaccountable low-level account reviewer may declare someone an "out law" and anyone may do anything they like to him as is the old germanic tradition.
> Electron apps aren't slow, bloated, and awkward because the new junior SWE on the team used a O(n^2) tree-walking algorithm for the app's search feature - they're like that because it's inherent in using a general-purpose web-browser engine for your desktop GUI.

¿Por qué no los dos? If we're going to implement a desktop GUI via a general-purpose web browser, it should at least be as fast as a generic webpage.
Thank you for your feedback! Kotlin∇ is currently a research prototype for composing differentiable programs from basic primitives. If you’re looking for a higher-level API, KotlinDL [1] or KInference [2] might be a better fit for building end-user applications such as image, speech or language processing.

[1]: https://github.com/JetBrains/KotlinDL

[2]: https://github.com/JetBrains-Research/kinference/
It seems overly naive to assume any company's actions don't have pros and cons, or aren't part of the larger society/ecosystem you're enabling by existing? You can't take an action (or exist and take no action) without a side effect, and at the scale of any significant company, it is impossible to do what someone somewhere considers to be harm to someone or something.

Picking and choosing the scope, scale, and amount of the type of harm you're comfortable with certainly seems worthwhile, but pretending there is any option that is harm free seems like self deception. Even refusing to play (not living?) has side effects most would consider harmful - at least to those around you.
Me too(?)
Data scientists are the new webmasters.
https://wiki.openastrotech.com/en/OpenAstroTracker seems like a better starting point. The main web site is frustratingly vague.

This wiki start page actually manages to explain what the thing does:

OpenAstroTracker is an equatorial mount which "compensates for Earth's rotation by having one rotational axis parallel to the Earth's axis of rotation". You can mount a camera (mostly a DLSR or DSLM) on top of it and it rotates with the same speed as our earth rotation in order to remove stars movement relatively to the camera and allow longer exposures this way. The mount is being controlled by an Arduino. The Arduino is controlling multiple stepper motors which in turn rotate the camera mount.

The mount provides multiple options for control: LCD Keypad, USB Serial connection, WiFi. Latter two enable remote control with special astrophotography software based either on the LX200 protocol, ASCOM or INDI platforms.
So the solution is ... ?
What Biden’s Reported Capital Gains Tax Hike Could Mean for Startup Employees
Let's say a group of people want to build a park.
They get together, form a 501.3.c, decide how much money everyone's gonna contribute, everyone writes it off as a charitable contribution, and build the park.

Let's say a group of people with a government wants to build a park.
The get together, vote to decide how much money everyone's going to contribute, everyone ____, and they build the park.

____ is the SALT deduction.

The only reason not to have this deduction is to discourage (non-federal) governments ability to do anything.

Arguments of 'it's free money for the rich' are a misdirection - if you want the rich to pay more money, increase their taxes, don't limit state and local governments ability to collect revenue.

The only hypocrisy is the folks arguing against it will turn around and holler 'States Rights!' when it's politically convenient for them.
Hasn’t been updated in a while, but “Texts from Xcode” (https://www.textfromxcode.com/) has some fun collections of frustrations.
Maybe skip the vision and simply build one reasonably priced high-speed line somewhere. LA to Vegas?

California has been trying to build a line for 5 decades. Now the price is beyond reasonable.

China built 22,000 miles for under 500 billion?

At this point we’ve got to be near ready for 300 mph maglevs.
One thing I've never understood about the US is why both sides aren't funded equally. That seems a very core part of a fair trial being "fair" imho.
Apple and friends will do their best to avoid a ruling and laws which could establish this interpretation because it would end their practice to terminate accounts with the reason "Computer says no".

When contracting with consumers these companies should be forced to be liable and accountable for their algorithmic decisions and arbitrary policy enforcement.

That wouldn't be unreasonable at all. "They clicked the accept EULA button" is not a valid excuse.

Pretending that consumers are able to negotiate a fair contract with Apple is denying reality.
They are no longer an independent news organization and instead are a trafficker and sycophant for one set of views masquerading as independent journalism.
Companies want people to be happy in a post-ownership society, Apple and Amazon are part of that

I hope more people start resisting this narrative that all or our property and in essences our lives should be leased / rented...
Amtrak is perfectly fine. I’ve used it on overnight trips on the crummiest long distance services. Yeah, I mean, it’s no European or Japanese or Chinese rail. But the idea that Amtrak can’t do something just because they’re Amtrak is ridiculous. They’re a part of the federal government, the only thing that the federal
government needs to do things is political will.

This rail plan is 100% realistic because it appropriately de-emphasizes long distance rail that Amtrak is so infamous for.

It targets expansion in very obviously lacking intercity regions. These new routes will be profitable for the government either directly or in lasting economic benefits.
Your Phone – Yes, Yours – Is Destroying the World