skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found this part to be pretty interesting.

> Bill Venners: Speaking of spacecraft, would you be comfortable enough with the robustness of Python systems to fly on an airplane in which all the control software was written in Python?

> Guido van Rossum: That depends much more on the attitude of the design team that built it than on the language the team chose. There are situations where doing part of the software in Python makes much more sense than doing it in any other language, even if it must have the reliability requirements of a spacecraft or air traffic control.

> Bill Venners: Why?

> Guido van Rossum: You'll never get all the bugs out. Making the code easier to read and write, and more transparent to the team of human readers who will review the source code, may be much more valuable than the narrow-focused type checking that some other compiler offers. There have been reported anecdotes about spacecraft or aircraft crashing because of type-related software bugs, where the compilers weren't enough to save you from the problems.

My guess is that in 2003 the context of this last statement about compilers was talking about C and C++. Time should always challenge us to reevaluate our assumptions.

These days $x-lang compilers provide much more than "narrow-focused type checking" in their type systems without sacrificing read/write-ability. +1 for progress.
>Can you imagine if everyone only had to pay security guards for the time spent apprehending thief's and they got no pay for all the waiting around reading newspapers they do?

Yes, it's called a commission. Many jobs pay that way.

Making a comparison between a security guard and an Uber driver is like making a comparaison between a limo chauffer and a bounty hunter. It's an unnecessary and convoluted analogy given the differences in goals. Regular taxi drivers are paid per ride (i.e. a commission) and Uber drivers are taxi drivers without the medallions. I don't see how one would take issue with Uber drivers doing what taxi drivers do while simultaneously operating as rational actors by undercutting the competition on price.
tbh i am not shocked you cant figure it out.
Which feels quite amateurish and thus ridiculous for Microsoft. Like, they invent a new app store in Windows 10 and they still can't even be bothered to implement a working update routine that isn't infuriating to end users?
I'd encourage you to flip this same thought process around. Could it not be that the low-quality results are the result of low salaries discouraging quality people from entering the profession? You get what you pay for after-all. It shouldn't be too hard to find this correlation within the Unite States where average public school teacher pay can vary as much as $40,000 state-by-state [1].

https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/which-states-have-t...
what you save in gas, will lose in repairs!!
I have driven all sorts of sports cars, trucks, rvs etc. Nothing so far has beat 10k corolla. At the end of the day, traffic/road condition, AC and a decent music system gets me to inflection point. After that, it barely moves the needle for me.
Walking on grates wearing shoes is one thing. Walking on grates wearing hooves is something else entirely. Especially if you want to make the holes big enough for cow patties - which are high in fiber - to fall through.

In fact there's a device for letting cars through but not cows that is basically a grate you put on the road. The fence comes up to the grate on both sides and there is no gate. You just drive over the grate.
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Alice vs CLS bank threw out most patents saying "do X on a computer." Patents basically have to have a physical effect or give something a property it wouldn't otherwise have, so compression (saving bits) and encryption (giving security properties) are patentable, but most things like web apps and online shopping carts (an infamous patent troll sued many people over this pre-Alice) are not.
San Fernando Valley residents have trouble casting recall ballots
Apparently only GOP voters are having trouble.

Interesting.
Yes. I took those tests (and more as I presume your son did) for my ASD diagnosis. It was very enlightening and I feel like everyone should have a psych profile like that done.
Plants are alive, in that they reproduce and react to stimulus, but I don't have any reason to suspect them of awareness, feelings, thoughts, or desires. Everyone's morals here will be different, but I have to eat something, and I'll choose to eat a lettuce over a puppy any day.
The unfortunate thing about oil changes is unless you're DIYing them or have a reliable mechanic overqualified for oil changing, every one is a risky diceroll of some oil changing lackey putting their ham fists on your vehicle and wrecking something.

From cross-threaded drain plugs to unnecessary access holes cut in aero panels out of laziness, there's enough examples out there to be concerned.
Do these people get the benefit of blow back, like al-Qaeda does? Ever asked if they've been a victim of crime?

Virginia, where that drunken foreign mob descended on to destroy, held onto the union as long as possible, until the war came home. Texas was a state just for 15 years. After killing a million people, more slaves today. If California was still Mexican, Silicon Valley would be Sinaloa.

What do you think would happen if I put up a "Endless Hostility Avenue" off of Malcolm X Blvd., or a "Double the Murders Alley" off of Black Lives Matter Park?
Sony permanently shuts down LittleBigPlanet's PS3 and Vita servers
Oh I remember when in my town we used middlemanapp to build our ruby community http://oaxacarb.org/ jamstack still growing up
I hope this clarifies our point: https://postgresql.fund/blog/postgres-core-team-attacks-post...
> This is what is called "the founder's will".

Just to be clear: you're saying that "the founder's will" should not be interpreted as meaning "what Alvaro Carlos Hernandez Tortosa [the founder for life] decides"?
Except that, at least in my state, there is an inverse relationship between teacher salaries by district and the education results (as measured by graduation and literacy rates)
I really do wonder what causes the unevenness of this. For me, I installed Foxit reader and it's always stayed my default. I also switch .txt files to open in Notepad++ and it has always stayed the default too. I've changes a lot of file extensions over the years and they always stuck through all the Windows updates, etc... I've never used any version of Edge as my main browser nor has it ever become the default for anything automatically. I may have been prompted to try it during an upgrade welcome screen but I've always said no and it's never bothered me again.
I have lived in some of the best school districts in the country and sent my kids to the public school in them.

1. Garnet Valley in PA ( this one was the best of all we tried ) https://www.greatschools.org/pennsylvania/glen-mills/garnet-...

2. Fairfax Country in VA ( this one was the worst ) https://www.greatschools.org/virginia/falls-church/fairfax-c...

3. Los Gatos/Saratoga in CA https://www.greatschools.org/california/saratoga/schools/

In California we sent our kids to a private school before pulling them out for home schooling. Essentially I don't think its the school districts fault, I think its a suboptimal model and if you are really well funded with really engaged parents you can kinda make it work. Although the number of Kuman and Russian Math tutoring facilities near me makes me double guess myself on that.
8 minutes, and someone already hit the downvote button? Parent isn't wrong, a patch (and especially a plug) does decrease the structural integrity of the tire, no controversy there. From my previous life as an auto mechanic, many times some of the strands of the steel belt(s) will be broken. And what used to be a solid sheet of rubber now has a hole in it. IIRC, plugging a tire at a minimum knocks off a speed rating.

That's not to say I haven't driven a plugged tire until it's bald. And that's not to say that I wouldn't tell my sister to go ahead and get that pricey tire patched. But if you think that repaired tire is now as good as new, you are wrong. Would I do a track day on a repaired tire? Would I whip my Tesla up to ludicrous speed on a patched tire? Would I ride a plugged motorcycle tire any further than I have to? Fuck no. If I can afford a track day, I can afford a new tire.
> Others doing the same from a minority market position would have been fine.

So where's the interest in slapping billion dollar fines on Google for bundling Chrome and Google Search with Android? They own the majority market share for both mobile operating systems, web browsers, and search engines.

I guess they probably get away with it because they bundle it with Google Play Services instead of Android, but you could make an argument that GPS is fundamentally a part of Android given it is necessary to provide the features generally associated with the OS. It's not rock-solid, but it's at least a better argument than any of the other big-tech monopoly cases the US has been pursuing.
There's some good analysis here:

https://tl.net/forum/brood-war/526252-newbie-question-about-...
This might be nitpicking, but I feel this is the proper site for it: the name of the system is "X Window System". There is no "X Windows", "X-Windows" or such.

See the Wikipedia section [1] on nomenclature for details.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System#Nomenclature
> Because F-Droid runs their own builds and requires published source code, …

That seems… completely reasonable for distributors of open-source projects. Mandatory, even, for compliance many open-source licenses. Are you saying there are other open source repositories (e.g. Linux distros) which would not require published source code before distributing binaries?
Here's a response to tbe same from Mara Bos:

>What a bullshit. Steve is absolutely right that the 'core team' is becoming less relevant. But that's not because Amazon is taking over. The core team hasn't really been steering or leading Rust anymore. Other team members have been doing that. Many of which don't work at Amazon.

https://twitter.com/m_ou_se/status/1437493300496420868?s=19
If Tesla can activate their own showrooms in more reservations across the U.S. and drive a stake through the heart of third-party dealerships, that's a positive development.

I hope that Tesla (and other auto manufacturers) can go one step further and provide lasting, meaningful employment and other opportunities to local residents in the reservations. Casinos often fail or extract exploitative concessions and demands on local tribes.
I know you're probably kidding, but plugging a tire doesn't require removing it, and while lying down on dirty ground might be helpful, it's not a terribly sweaty activity either .
It is currently an outlier, but my goal with the farm is to be riding the currently-growing wave of small farms directly marketing to consumers, who care deeply about their land, the local ecology, and the welfare of their animals.

Our customers are so passionate about our product, it's quite shocking (this is Season 1 for us). As we get towards winter, we're going to start building a platform upon which we can foster competition--that's right, we want to have more and more small farms compete with us on pasture-raised, quality animal proteins.

Over time, we want to be part of the vanguard that leads to Americans spending double on their diets and half on their healthcare.

What's that quote about a small group of dedicated people?

Farming, small farming in particular, is becoming trendy. Our product is in higher demand than we can produce. We've turned away customers. So we need to scale up a little bit, but more importantly, grow the numbers of our competitors and, year after year, eat the meat business. Healthcare premiums go down, slowly slowly, as people get healthier.
At least for me, Twitter sneaks in sponsored content into my feeds and the profiles of the people I follow.
>C++ has 3 different ways of initializing member variables, with defined interactions between them (in-place, constructor initiator list, constructor body).

If you generalize that to variables, you get 18: https://accu.org/journals/overload/25/139/brand_2379
I disagree. What organism are you talking about exactly?
Any plant I can think of doesn't require being eaten to live.
This is a pretty wild concept, not that I disagree with it.

But when you think about it, we're asking a tool originally designed to browse documents on the web, to now execute what is essentially a (safe) binary application, and not to let it connect to the internet, while inside a document in a web browser.

I can't see how the future of the desktop is not going to be radically shaped by WASM, in whatever form that takes.
Any good tutorials? I’m having a hard time understanding some of the write ups I’ve found so far.
Maybe because luddites slow down progress.
Joplin works well for me, I started using it as an Evernote replacement half a year ago. It's open source, has markdown, syntax highlighting for many languages, comes with a mobile and desktop app and syncs via various services, e.g. Dropbox.
This is my least popular opinion, but NFTs should have been applied here. We desperately need a legally binding, decentralized and distributed way for us to attest ownership of digital products. Sure, sure, "blockchain bad" and "don't apply crypto to everything", but this genuinely seems to me like the most mutually beneficial way to proceed.
as another Brit, I wondered if it is the case that "we pay for medical training for people", so I looked it up

https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/career-planning/study-and-t...

and it seems that basically you can get a student loan for this for the first four years of your degree, then you might be eligible for a means tested bursary afterwards and a non means-tested £1000 grant. This scarcely counts as paying for medical training, in my opinion.
What is the charitable excuse for the law that enforces the use of third-party car dealerships?

Something about avoiding monopolies?
Even without oil changes. Modern cars are amazingly reliable. I believe you could drive most of them to 50k km or even more without doing anything, but filling gas and washer fluid. Wouldn't do them much good in long term, but it is possible.
This mentions something that has always irked me, YouTube trying to be informative about who the music is licensed by. For one, it's completely useless on classical piano music because the Content ID algo finds similarity in a dozen different recordings. But even when there is one canonical recording, such as Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up, I'm informed that the music is licensed by:

(on behalf of Sony BMG Music UK); UMPI, Kobalt Music Publishing, LatinAutor, Warner Chappell, BMI - Broadcast Music Inc., UNIAO BRASILEIRA DE EDITORAS DE MUSICA - UBEM, LatinAutor - UMPG, SOLAR Music Rights Management, AMRA, UMPG Publishing, CMRRA, LatinAutorPerf, LatinAutor - Warner Chappell, and 15 Music Rights Societies

What is happening here? Does YouTube have legal arrangements with all of these bodies to make sure they get their penny per kiloview?
not very epilepsie friendly
Ask HN: Looking for difficult/intermediate projects involving microcontrollers?
I am trying to learn more about embedded systems and low level programming. I have been looking for projects, but simple concepts and tasks such as connecting small peripherals, sensors, etc. or learning the basics of various data transfer protocols is not cutting it. I want a project or a concept to explore that will leave me saying wow that was fucking hard at the end. Not tedious...Hard. Everything I find seems to either be geared towards absolute novices or longterm experts yet I'm quite intermediate.
> You can't have low inequality and high pay for one group.

You also can't have overachievers. This becomes obvious when looking at academia. [0]

These individuals are the ones bootstrapping entire businesses and economic sectors.

[0] https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-global-brain-trade
I think the notion of "lab-grown meat" is laughable. As mentioned in another reply, it seems to be based on this idea that we can somehow grow in a lab something that requires an incredibly complex environment to grow into healthy food, that we can somehow simulate these conditions, and that the result will somehow be just as good as, e.g., 100% pasture-raised Angus.
Laravel Livewire update dependent select menu's on change
Since Livewire is reactive, it's easy to hide or show select menu's based on whether another one is selected but what about changing the contents of a select menu, that's a little different.
Walk around Times Square these days and people are out in the open dealing and using drugs right in front of the police. I witnessed this myself yesterday.
"And, finally, I am persuaded that no one ever achieves anything worth-while in this world unless he has so great a respect for his work that he compels all other men to respect it."

Distilled wisdom right here. On a tangent, old English is always a nice read. Sentences had more elegance.
I remember back in the late 90's or maybe 2000/2001 running some distro with X from two floppies. OSes that could be run from floppy were great because my parents weren't to keen on me partitioning the hard drive of the family computer, though there were options like the version of Mandrake that easily installed to a disk file on the Windows hard drive(it was probably possible on others, but Mandrake made it easy) and ZipSlack that used a UMSDOS filesystem to run on top of DOS, though it would leave weird little files around the file system that were noticeable once you went back to Windows, so it wasn't popular with my parents either.
The $10k is a feature, not a bug. Society shouldn't allow patents to be filed without commercial intent (because otherwise you are depriving the world of an idea for 20 years without meaningfully using it), and a $10k pricetag is a good signal of commercial intent. In the EU, patents have escalating fees to make sure that patent rights are only guaranteed as long as a commercial enterprise continues to be successful.

And no, the intent to file and then sell the patent is not a good "commercial intent."
Unless these factors are outside the realm of objective reality, we can certainly replicate them in a lab given a sufficiently sophisticated understanding. Obviously, we're not there yet, and realistically, we might never identically reproduce real meat, but that doesn't have to be the goal. We just need something affordable with a sufficiently similar or better nutrient and taste profile.

Edit: None of this will replicate the romantic imagery of raising animals with love on a beautiful farm. There will likely always be a market for that to some extent, but that is realistically not what most of our meat consumption looks like today either.
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That's true, but I don't see how Jekyll would be improved with a Twitter and a Discord.
This sounds interesting. Seeing a map, the dots of interest - you could even have “related wikipedia pages which reference this data point, and which have a sudden influx of view/edit activity”.

As a result, a user could explore a map, and could see the most relevant wiki pages (or even extracted insights) on the sidebar. Date range slider could explore the past (eg previous wars in Afghanistan, and which articles are most relevant), and zoom to the future (many Wiki pages reference dates & plans - it would be interesting to zoom to 10 years from now, and see planned initiatives, construction projects, trade agreements, and so on)

A true spatial news explorer.
CMS:s do that! Any kind of editorial content being served is a use case.
Actually, IMHO, it's the Core team + PAC + PEU who have acted in bad faith.

As the post states, with dates, there has never been any communication from them to discuss this matter. Only through laywers, since day 0. Even some of them, long-time personal friends of mine, where shut of and were banned to communicate even at a personal level. Not even with laywers present.

There was no need to make all this public. This clearly hurts the Community.

As the post says, there's no explanation to why PEU, who is as legit as any other non-profit Postgres association, including Fundación PostgreSQL, can hold trademarks and not being sued and publicly bashed.

If PEU can hold trademarks, why can't Fundación? Conversely: if there should be one trademark holder (and we agree, read the proposal we submitted to them which got no reply!) then it should be a legal entity with more solid grounds than current Core's Group (which has no legal entity behind) or PAC, which is a quite opaque association too.
As a hormonal teenager I was far more interested in Tanya. The file copying process was not the type of install I was interested in.
Wasn't the grenade infranry pretty good against tanks in C&C?

I remember building them en masse.

Also, in StarCraft you could save groups, with 1-5 you had 60 units.

I remember building masses of the same unit in these games.
It certainly does on my car, we don't all drive vehicles with pickup truck levels of wheel well clearance...

And the few times I've aided others with installing a plug, attempting it without removing the wheel first just made it more difficult, sweaty and dirty, than had we just taken the wheel off for better access.
The way to help poor people is the put the least roadblocks in their way. Government policies that assume that they work only aggravate the issue for the people for whom it doesn't work (creating outcasts).

EDIT: E.g. give everyone 500$ but hike up the price, what about the people that weren't eligible for some bureaucratic dumb reason?

A logical argument does not depend on the person that makes it (which is why its logical). Heuristically you can use the locutor to save you the trouble of analyzing it but you have to realize it's a heuristic and the argument might still be right.
Probably going to get downvoted for this, things like this are why I’m shocked people think veganism is a crazy idea. It’s one thing for people to say it’s expensive or not practical, but I can’t understand how someone can see something like this and not agree there’s at least some merit to the idea.
> this has never been a problem in a major city in recorded history.

This _has_ been the case in major cities around the world before Uber took over. NYC has the yellow cab monopoly. London had the black cab monopoly. These companies grew large enough to buy up all available labor (this was made easier by the medallion system).

Uber is no different. It _already_ has a dominant market position. Other rideshare companies _already_ share their drivers. The amount of drivers who drive for Lyft only is vanishingly small. If you force all those drivers to choose, they will choose Uber and Lyft will die.
Here is the full response from Álvaro Hernández at Fundación PostgreSQL:

https://postgresql.fund/blog/postgres-core-team-attacks-post...

as referred to by Álvaro’s (hn user ahachete’s) comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28514523

I am repeating the link because ahachete was getting downvoted here and he also started a new thread instead of continuing this one.
Yeah, if we leave out compute and geometry shaders, mesh shaders, ray tracing hardware.

Unreal Citadel was running in Flash, back in 2011.

What Unreal based games are making the headlines in WebGL 2.0?
In my language the military has a saying « trust to not exclude control »

Simple and to the point.