skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're saying that Spain wants Gibraltar back because it wants to liberate the benighted residents of the rock, which of course isn't true. Spain might claim as such as part of its overall case for regaining the territory, but that's certainly not the main, secondary, or tertiary reason.

If Sardinia were not an island hundreds of miles away, but a large peninsula physically connected to Spain, yes Spain would very much actively try to regain the territory. (Probably much more of a priority than Gibraltar.)
> Plus they have a bad problem over there of people hiring other people to drive for them.

Since the drivers are just contractors, as Uber insists, it stands to reason that they should be able to subcontract. :)
I just spent awhile in Oregon (yes even during the heat wave) and will agree evenings with a breeze were totally fine even on the hottest days.

The 110°+ felt a lot like Florida when it's 92 and humid
Thats evil. Blind is littered with posts of amazon employees who are mentally destroyed. It's ok to put on pip for genuine performance issues, but why destroy those who are performing well.
>is not catering to the lowest common denominator of people using the algorithm

I don't think an expert in some field who just happens not to be an expert in some other field's jargon and pictographs should be branded "a lowest common denominator of people", this terminology is both judgmental and elitist in all the bad ways.
> That explanation doesn’t make sense because people with limited economic circumstances, such as Latino immigrants, have the most children.

This actually makes perfect sense - in American culture there's not a huge expectation for children to care for you in your old age. It's expected that you'll have saved for retirement, your children are a 100% drain on your finances. In a lot of other cultures, your children are your retirement plan, and the more of them you have, the better your retirement will be.

> The immigration boat as already sailed, and will dilute the cultural changes that are limiting birth rates.

Immigration rates seem to have peaked, and they haven't made any significant changes to our slowing population growth. The general political climate is definitely not amenable to increasing immigration any further.
Who wins when Amazon pulls brands from its store?
That doesn't matter at all from the point of view of "is there enough revenue in play that we should port our game engine to iOS and the Mac".
Those terms are decades old.

"short squeeze" (1960s or earlier): https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=short+squeeze&...

"naked shorts" (1970s): https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=naked+shorts&y...
Don't confuse profitable with making millions based on hype.
it was a rise of the independent cities where power in part came from some kind of [granted pretty limited] voting/representation instead of being just an aristocratic hereditary thing. The [especially limited] voting/representation naturally allows for high wealth individuals to maneuver into that power. The cities also allowed for that high wealth to be developed by non aristocratic tradesmen.

>does anyone who can keep organized for 200 years find themselves maneuvering into the public sector whether they want to or not?

i think the answer here is "if you don't do politics politics will do you"
Except that Microsoft didn't write DOS 1.0; they bought it. It was a relabeled version of a CP/M clone originally called QDOS (quick and dirty OS) that was written by Tim Paterson, for a company called Seattle Computer Products, reportedly in about six weeks.
Is PIP==Pivot
“My parents spoke Elfdalian with each other, and with my grandma and my aunts and uncles and everyone around,” Schütt said. “But when they turned to me, they spoke Swedish.”

Schütt said her parents spoke Swedish with her because that’s what was spoken in schools. Students were even discouraged to speak Elfdalian in the classroom. Now, there’s only about 2,500 speakers left.

This same story has played out in so many different places around the world.
Patents kill innovation, certainly, and at an ever increasing rate. The government acts as the enforcers for monopolies, as it always has been.
It is based on an appeal to violence, like everything government does. It is, and has always been the principal enabler of every genocide, war, and mass abuse of human rights in history: educating people to recognize the claims of government authority as logically invalid (appeals to the populace, appeals to violence, etc. etc ) is needed.
Doctors and lawyers aren’t elite though. They are solidly middle class.
This sounds even worse than what was stated on the article. But predictable with lack of transparency - management essentially have carte-blanche to maintain their teams.

To be honest, it's quite possible this kind of focus-listing exists elsewhere that's not FAANG level exposure.
>I actually started using Uber when it was Uber Black only

Think it was UberCab.
What do you regret about the business? Doing it too late and having too many responsibilities?
An assignment in one of my university security course was to mine "gitcoin".

Which was a git based proof of work, the server would only accept pushes for commits if it had more leading zeros in its hash than the previous commit on that branch.
Thanks for that, I've been watching through the whole lot while indoor cycling (I started to see what the fuss was about, so I have to finish now, but it's not really my sort of thing so I watch it when I can't pay full attention to whatever I watch) on Netflix and noticed some gaps compared to my tracker app. One of them was that 'takes out the trash' episode, so must be the same (link is about Hulu).

I really don't like this trend. Honestly, satire or not. Rate it appropriately, and let me decide what I'm comfortable viewing? It just seems petty and mollycoddling to prevent me watching something because at some point within it something that may or may not be offensive to me or others happens.

I actually don't even understand the reasoning? Do the producers request it to protect the reputation of the programme, perceiving it as a risk?
> What games [...] don't have the property you list there.

A game of almost any genre doesn't have to be designed purely on those neural and mechanical skills.

(And puzzles are actually a bad example, as many can be unimaginatively played by a machine, and machine typically wins in terms of the computing speed. Unlike a complex strategy game where bots don't necessarily dominate human players.)

My previous comment had even hinted at how a FPS could be designed to not depend on one's eyesight difference, sleight of hand or gaming chair performance. If everyone has a perfect aimbot by design, tactics and teamplay (if that's a team game) becomes a deciding factor in a shooter. If everyone has a helper AI that alleviates mundane clicking you don't have to put your mouse on fire doing that 9000 APM micro - the actual strategic thinking and planning ("macro" rather than "micro") makes more important in winning a tower defense or RTS game.

I'd wish I could just write a whole implementation idea, but I'm no game designer. I just believe that things could be designed and balanced in such a way. I can be wrong, but I don't think it's proven yet (given the modern status quo of "don't you dare think of any aids or tools but those game designers have very very explicitly allowed").

It's just that most games out there were never designed for this so their gameplay becomes extremely unrewarding, as there would be a huge imbalance if everyone is mechanically perfect. Which is probably why there is no cheaters' competitions.

Maybe I'm thinking about a different genre, something like first-person-shooter-but-not-FPS?
If the goal is to call functions on things whose prototype does not define them, then yes arrow functions cannot replace `call` and `apply`. They can't replace `bind` in such a situation either, but the precondition of this subthread was where `bind` can be replaced with an arrow function, ie the bound function is being called on the same `this` in the first place.
I really enjoy a good lambic beer. Some are up there in terms of alcohol content, but many are in the 2 to 3 percent range.
You likely vaped something with poor genetics and/or was grown with too many synthetic nutrients.

Also, the majority of strains are hybrids - so it's unlikely you have a bad reaction to indica (unless you only ever vape landrace sativas - which is highly unlikely).
You drive yourself since you can’t assume they will be there.
Sure if you want to get nitty gritty, but you just asked how to replace it in the context of someone saying you can go without call and apply, which both of these do with the same input and output.

Unless your nodelist is insanely large, this is going to be a trivial GC to perform.
regional styles which evolved with the local climate and available materials.

That's often called vernacular architecture and it typically innately includes elements of passive solar design. Such building styles were well-suited to local climate with a minimum of energy-intensive cooling or heating because people simply couldn't afford it.

Additionally, we had cultural practices rooted in staying adequately warm or cool without counting on an HVAC system:

Tapestries on castle walls blocked drafts and provided insulation.

A "three dog night" was a night so cold, the upper classes let three of their large hunting dogs sleep with them to stay warm.

Siestas were naps taken during the hottest part of the day in place of working in the heat.

Buildings routinely had windows positioned to create a cross breeze if you opened them.

Windows routinely were positioned to provide adequate light for essential tasks without having to turn on any lights during the day.

Etc.

Now we build some awful little cardboard box and slap an HVAC system on it as if tech makes up for bad design. It doesn't.
Consoles are no longer a safe space to play your games legit anymore
> This article of course presents automatic programming as if it's a brand new thing that is only now possible to do thanks to "AI", but that is only how companies that sell the technology find it convenient to present things to market their products.

Reminds me of this essay that pg wrote in 2005, titled The Submarine. Someone linked it in another thread here on HN recently.

> One of the most surprising things I discovered during my brief business career was the existence of the PR industry, lurking like a huge, quiet submarine beneath the news. Of the stories you read in traditional media that aren't about politics, crimes, or disasters, more than half probably come from PR firms.

http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
That sounds like a ton of fun, and tbh way cooler than anything I built in school.
My opinion is that until the Linux Desktop Experience is redone from the ground up to cater to the "It Just Works" crowd, the people who don't want to search the internet for 45 minutes to get the one line of code they need to type into the terminal to get the app they want to use to work correctly before realizing that the app doesn't fit their use case and they now need to search for another one, that Linux will always remain the OS equivalent of a tank when people want to drive cars.

Sure, it will get you there, and practically nothing can stop it, but it's never going to reach the "climb in, sit down and go" ease of a sedan.
Often movie theaters run special programs for periods of the year (or continuously), where they take a showing or two a week on a less busy night, and dedicate it to a series of movies they advertise through fliers. Since it's all planned out in advance for a few months, it's easy to see what's coming whenever you're at that theater. For example, they might to a horror themed series of movies, and you get Nightmare on Elm Street, Hellraiser, Halloween, etc, each their own week and advertised together on a flier or poster months in advance with the date of each.
it makes me wonder if Fronk is still out there...

It's definitely still out there in the context of evangelizers who will never consider another tool/language mostly because that's what they learned or resonated with them first.

It might still be out there in the sense of paid shills on the level of the author's experience, but I think the majority of paid shills are probably getting their word out in other ways.

#hashtagAWSissuperiortoAzure #reallyi'mjustsaying,totalynotpaidoranything
Git is a Blocktree - a type of directed acyclic graph based proof of nothing crypto product that is invulnerable to fork based attacks by supporting it out of the box. /s
Hey we got that too...still paying for it though. Hopefully it all just keeps going smoothly with the payments and that's that.
The End of the Veiled Prophet
And those two commits are 00000002bdd056473559d2bd0eb835561b3c874b 00000002f7c605501165ee5e3c2db20ffe178848

What the hell?!
And to preempt the inevitable; I'm not opposed to prop 22 itself. It's a position that's not completely devoid of reason. My aggravation with all of them is the shear amount of money they all spent lobbying for it. I received a half dozen phone calls or texts from people introducing themselves dishonestly. Only for them to go on to misrepresent the reality of prop 22. Which I could forgive if not for the clause preventing anyone from trying to alter, correct, or modify the laws they paid to enact.
Joe Biden’s Covid Plan; Trump’s Lawsuit; Sha’ Carri Richardson; Your Kids
I discuss the government’s plan to “knock on doors” to those unvaccinated for COVID-19; Trump’s Class Action Lawsuit againstbig tech; Sha’ Carri Richardson being booted off the olympics; and the viral video of “We Are Coming For Your Children.”
The Molly Higgins Photo Collection Yosemite Valley, California
So is this a real story that just happens to use “Infinidash” as a stand in for their real product name, or is this just another artefact of the Infinidash ruse?

https://twitter.com/jna_sh/status/1410178986978775040?s=21
With little remaining of Champlain Towers, how will we find answers?
Mathematics Standards
Hah, that's clever. The author is using their other toy research tool/project: https://github.com/not-an-aardvark/lucky-commit
I can't find the link. :(

Edit: nevermind; I am stupid.
You could also say that 99% of the internet is stale and that we are typically consuming content created over the last few days. Maybe we need some all purpose content curation system that gets us the movies, articles, books that would be most relevant to us regardless of when they were created.
Uber bet the house on self-driving cars, that's what was supposed to make all of this sustainable.

Seems all these efforts have failed, and I'd be curious how many short positions are out there against them.

I've been at the receiving end of these Uber & Lyft shortages. Can't get a ridershare below $80 at SFO after 9pm even if you've pre-scheduled one. The drivers also keep cancelling in an attempt to pump rates higher. Its incredibly frustrating.

I've pretty much given up and now rent a car when I would have taken an Uber when I'm out of town.
I also had this trouble, because for all other languages you can just tead the spec once and that’s it. But ES specs are too technical to be used as such. After few years I just read non-boring parts of ES6 and it cleared all dark corners.

I’d say all of the articles on the internet are rehashing the spec in (at best) a dubious and ritualistic way, and have zero technical value if you ask me.
I don't think low investor confidence was the reason for Nortel's spectacular negative cash flow, as much as customers losing faith with crappy, overpriced products.

That, and basing their business on selling film in an age of digital cameras.
> I was a longtime SF resident and remember very well how truly awful the taxi service was in SF before the rideshare apps.

this is because of the legal bribes paid to the government... aka lobbying. The free market would have solved that. What Uber did was illegal in many places, yet the Gov. let them do it (maybe they were scared of repercussions).
I spent the first 20+ years of my life in NYC, taking cabs near-constantly, and I never experienced anything like that. Very, very rarely there'd be a "broken meter".

It's possible things have gotten worse, I haven't lived there in 6 years, and that was basically pre-uber there. But yeah, can't reconcile my (likely thousands of) rides with that.

edit: BTW, with the broken meter (the one time I recall this happening), I just told the guy I knew how much it cost every day - 7 bucks including tip - and that that's what I'd pay. He agreed, he took me where I was going, and I paid. Easy. I know some people will get out of the cab, I kinda remember that once when I was really young and my mother was like 'nah' and we got in another cab.
Did you mean to post this elsewhere? I don't see how it applies to this post.
Pascal seems a way too vintage programming language (not nearly as handy as C#, let alone C# 5.0) and the IDE's editor isn't nearly as intelligent as that of VisualStudio (let alone with ReSharper). But it indeed seems the only of the kind truly cross-platform. The only close-enough alternative I found on Linux was QtDesigner+Python but it still wasn't that convenient.

I adore people who code Lazarus (e.g. Double Commander authors - they have been doing an amazing job with visible progress and persistence all these years) though. Perhaps I'm going to dedicate some time to learn Pascal once, just for this. It would be easier if they had a seamlessly-compatible C++ version at least (like Delphi had).
If you're writing the sort of code copilot generates, you should be more worried about things like wix.com, RPA products, WordPress, or high school kids. (No hate, my summer job in high school was PHP CRUD stuff, but it's definitely the burger flipping of the software development world.)
If you can get a neural interface to drive Dasher, you might be able to get up to the speed you're looking for.

I had to dig a bit to find it, I remember hearing about it long, long ago... it's a cool idea. It creates a continuously expanding set of next letters to the already typed text on the right, with the size determined by probability. The more to the right you move, the faster it goes... if you make a mistake, just move to the left.

https://www.bltt.org/software/dasher/index.htm
I find it's very productive to write the production code in Go, but very labor-intensive to achieve adequate test coverage over the error return branches.

Of course not every organization needs this, but many people will find B2B customers, regulators, due diligence people, etc. who are interested in the coverage metric as an indicator of quality. If you write the same tests as you would for another language, your line coverage will suck.
> And likewise it's unethical for a candidate to attend an interview if they have no intention of considering a potential offer.

If FAANG recruiters keep contacting me without my applying to them, I think it's fair game to expect that you'll get a number of people who interview "for fun".

If you're going to use sales tactics to get future hires, you have to accept a certain level of waste.
The lawsuit came about from actions before Java was open source.
RMA: Rapid Motor Adaptation for Legged Robot (RSS 2021)

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.04034

Project Website: https://ashish-kmr.github.io/rma-legged-robots/

Abstract:
Successful real-world deployment of legged robots would require them to adapt in real-time to unseen scenarios like changing terrains, changing payloads, wear and tear. This paper presents the Rapid Motor Adaptation (RMA) algorithm to solve this problem of real-time online adaptation in quadruped robots. RMA consists of two components: a base policy and an adaptation module. The combination of these components enables the robot to adapt to novel situations in fractions of a second. RMA is trained completely in simulation without using any domain knowledge like reference trajectories or predefined foot trajectory generators and is deployed on the A1 robot without any fine-tuning. We train RMA on a varied terrain generator using bioenergetics-inspired rewards and deploy it on a variety of difficult terrains including rocky, slippery, deformable surfaces in environments with grass, long vegetation, concrete, pebbles, stairs, sand, etc. RMA shows state-of-the-art performance across diverse real-world as well as simulation experiments.
It’s commit mining.
Scalex.ai – Always on Prospecting
Any language that begins with Elf- and features forests is clearly doing their marketing right. "Give me the five second pitch!" "Sympathy for cutesie elf people living in a forest in Sweden". Internet win.
How is Microsoft Github a FOSS project?

That FSF link relates to their site.

Audacity is an offline non-networked application.
I do believe that Amazon has irrevocably hurt its image. You only need to spend like a week using the Blind app and you'll run into a few horror stories about amazon.

There were posts on the blind app regarding how amazon has been having trouble hiring experienced folks. I am also seeing increased linkedin posts from Amazon SDMs in my network, all advertising positions they have open on their team.

> maybe their plan is to hire more people fresh out of college and bring them up internally

In addition to new grads, amazon also depends on L1 visa imports from India and other countries. And maybe H1 hires here. Its not easy to switch jobs on visa besides you need to stay at a company for 2-3 years to get green card, so it works out in Amazon's favor. My guess is they are feeling the pinch now because Covid is bad in India, and India to US travel is stopped, So visa pipeline has dried out significantly.
Yeah, you are right - check these out!

https://thenextweb.com/news/ubers-first-ever-blog-posts-are-...
Just get or a program a calculator that shows steps then.
Robots that learn to adapt rapidly to changing real-world conditions
Wasn't, really. DEC founder Ken Olsen had been MIT's liason to IBM during the SAGE project (a massive air defense warning system that had been prototyped by MIT's Whirlwind project), but I don't think he ever worked for them directly.
yep, as far as i see all the religious insurrection is accompanied by some kind of nationalism. Hussites, Luther, Church of England, Zaporozhian Cossacks, ...
Oh. I thought this was about kubernetes. My bad.
I see Cruise cars all the time in SF - it definitely does not feel like all of the self-driving efforts have failed.
GP isn't planing a business, they're wishing for a different reality. That reality could be realized in a number of ways - a nonprofit sponsoring art films is one example.

The Pacific Film Archive[1] is example of such a non-profit. With sufficient interest we could have considerably more of these things.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Art_Museum_and_Pacifi...
This behavior might be justifiable - if it were included in the docs.

If you want to reduce resource consumption, you could zip the results, or deduplicate the values using a separate dict.

There’s nothing unPythonic about a function returning mutable values.

A common use for caching is wrapping a call to a remote servicer. If the response is JSON, it’s likely to be mutable.

Nothing weird or edgy about that.
TV news crews are increasingly threatened with violence on the job
At a prior job we actually little LED RGB light tabs that would stick on our monitors, and set them to red or green to indicate exactly this. Uptake and responses were somewhat mixed, but it was nice to have an explicit signal, beyond just putting my headphones on, that I was not going to be welcoming of interruptions for the next few hours.

At the time we were in a pretty cramped office in a co-working space, so I appreciated anything that could help cut down on distractions even a little.
And the law will fall on offenders with the force of ten eider feather pillows
Here's a nice video of Tim Paterson talking about QDOS / 86/DOS, Seattle Computer Products (and their x86 hardware):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2Qh0O3Dt10