skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder what your YouTube recommendations look like, could you share a cropped screenshot?
Guy writes like he's in high school. Where can I buy tickets to this "end of the world" thing?
California pushes first US vaccine mandate for schoolchildren
I think the "is on fire" is more commented upon. (which is the one that inspired me to choose the bees)
Automatic handbreak at a traffic light?
Are you suggesting that driving around with 2 cars, one towing the other, will double the range?

Moving 2 cars together takes almost double the power. The aerodynamic drag can decrease slightly — work on semi trucks in close convoy formation suggests maybe 10-20%.
It was pretty clear at the time that the Soviets had no intention or capability to destroy the US in such a way that the US would not able to respond with a nuclear strike.

He was noted by his colleagues to be exceptionally unperturbed by his work. He recommended that the US strike Kyoto despite having no military significance to speak of.

He himself admitted that he was ideologically violently opposed to the existence of the USSR. It's clear that his motives were not about minimizing death and destruction.
> This series offers accessible, concise, beautifully produced books on topics of current interest. Leading thinkers write the books in this series, and experts deliver overviews of subjects that range from the cultural and the historical to the scientific and the technical.

...

"Open Access" ($7.47) https://www.amazon.com/Open-Access-Press-Essential-Knowledge...
But if you've done research or tried to get a recommendation letter, you know self-promotion and self-inflating also matters in academia. Especially if you go to a large public school.

> objectively evaluate your work

I suppose if you're talking about code quality et. al, yes, but you definitely do get evaluated on its impact on the business. If you are part of a successful product launch and you engineered major features (even if other people could've written those features) you get rewarded.
Wouldn't it weirder if he kept the mansion? Perhaps he might not have been able to pay the mortgage anymore so he sold it? It's a bit shocking how tone deaf the the Instagram posts are though. Not really excusable when you're totally ghosting your company.
> In a world where there were _only_ smaller, more niche social media sites, fears around things like online radicalization would be much less

How so?
It's amazing how passionate some people are about the mail service. Any question like this _will_ get downvoted.

I always hated USPS when I lived in the US. Service at the post office was usually terrible, clerks were clearly coasting on the fact that they were hard to fire (customer service was poor), and delivery rates were hit and miss (whereas somehow the private carriers always managed to delivery.)

Now I live in a country with no mail service. It's fine. I do everything online. If I need to order something, I pick it up from the DHL store in town. The one time that something was sent via certified delivery, a motorcycle messenger delivered it.
Alexa, Ring, and Astro: Where's My Privacy, Amazon?
I'm sure it's something that becomes instinctive, and that develops best at a young age even if it can be learned a bit later as well.

I don't know if the environment regarding play is somehow different to other European countries so I'm not sure what you mean with that. I believe engaging in play that tests one's limits without risk of serious injury makes a person more aware of one's body and limits, though, and I find it a good idea, too. I wonder if the Dutch have a different culture somehow in that respect.

I also learned to ride a bike as a child, and so do most others where I live, but the culture regarding what's considered safe or typical cycling is somewhat different here.
If they used Simulink, the model output and input, aswell as state, are global variables when generated to C in some settings.
I wish company leadership knew that conventional wisdom is time-bound and has an expiration date. Of course, actually trying to figure out if the conventional wisdom still holds involves risking time and money on R&D. And, the larger the institution the more risk averse the leadership will be. It’s a real shame that the companies you would think have the most ability to absorb risk are the most averse towards taking them.
Isn’t this the company that famously went to a 4 day work week years ago?
California Battles Historic Drought with $5.2B
You mean dynamic scoping and lexical scoping. Dynamic binding is something different; a dynamically-bound subroutine call may call different functions depending on runtime state, for example because it's indirected through a function pointer, for example in the class vtable of a method call receiver.

I agree that it's useful to be able to locally override variables like deactivate-mark and case-fold-search. (This kind of thing makes tail-call elimination more difficult: any dynamically scoped variables must be restored when the "tail-called" function returns.) But there are some other such things in Emacs that can be similarly locally overridden and then restored, but aren't variables: (current-buffer), (point), and (mark), for example, which can be restored with (save-excursion ...). And it's common to have such locally-override-and-restore facilities without using linguistic dynamic scoping for it; PostScript has gsave/grestore, for example, which were copied by Win32 GDI SaveDC and RestoreDC, but that doesn't give C dynamic scoping.

I don't think SaveDC and RestoreDC are known to give rise to problems when "writing a prgoram for other end users that multiple people are working on".

I agree that elisp will never remove dynamically-scoped variables; it would break compatibility with all existing code. Even Common Lisp has "special variables" that behave this way.
That’s a simple and lovely poem that speaks to me deeply. Thanks for teaching me it exists.
Most people aren’t accessing their medical records on their phones
You don't have to believe me but I don't own a tesla nor do I own Tesla stocks.

Tesla do have their own custom chemistry and doping, it is written all over the internet you're willing to read that.

TEsla has several patents and their own research group:
https://www.scribd.com/document/440951044/Tesla-battery-pate...

https://www.scribd.com/document/424878572/J-Electrochem-Soc-...

just to name a few. to me you seem like a Tesla skeptic, unwilling to acknowledge their success
The semantic web is a non-solution in eternal search of non-problems.
It's not a charity organization that can run deficit financing. If you have fewer and fewer paying users, you have to make harsh decisions. They are never easy. How one handles those decisions and conversations with the employees that will be affected shows the class of the CEO/board. This example shows they had none.
OK well that was 2020. Maybe fast forward to 2021, and blogs are here again. Or still here, I guess that depends on how you see things. To me blogging never died, but then again I don't go around randomly surfing blogger either. You're likely to run into spam that way.
Yes, it's probably necessary if they wanna get near-400 miles on extended range. Even the F150E with extended range only has a 300 mile EPA with estimates of 170kwh[0], and the r1t doesn't look to be insanely more aerodynamic. It's indeed going to be a disaster, but Amazon wants a foot in the door regardless of how much it costs.

0: https://insideevs.com/news/508674/battery-capacity-ford-f150...
The problem is that rural USPS is _not_ reliable (source: have lived in multiple rural locations). USPS is reliable in cities. Internet is also reliable in cities.

Most people have phones. For those who don't, alternate infrastructure that leverages the internet could easily exist, and would be way more efficient than the USPS network.

Watch this get downvoted, because people really emotionally _care_ about USPS.
Regulated monopolies are definitely a thing, and a valid way to protect the interests of consumers. When the regulations that constrained a monopoly from predatory behaviors are removed, as they were before the break-up of AT&T, it's reasonable to get rid of the now no longer regulated monopoly. The alternative to breaking up AT&T would have been to re-impose regulations that protected consumers, but the courts didn't have that power and the legislative and executive branch weren't acting.
> I am sorry but the arguments about brand betray terrible naivity

You were complaining about coffee machines and lights. Not vast custom-built corporate/government IT platforms. Completely different products and a completely different discussion. And besides, the staff at Fujitsu working on such a system would likely be university qualified and certainly subject to liability insurance and contractual requirements specified by the client – which is exactly what the original article is calling for.

> 1 simple law

It's not simple at all, to completely rewrite every IP law and technology business convention in every country in the world :) And that's not what the article is calling for. It's just saying software developers should be qualified and insured.
No senior I've worked with could be replaced by a fresh out of college dev. You don't deserve to be called senior if you can.
These exact kinds of problems seem to happen every time a root CA expires, e.g., AddTrust External CA Root in May 2020. And they're always problems that could have been avoided if devices received updates in a timely manner. Why hasn't this applied any pressure to improve the software update situation?
This happens so many times and some people posted it on HN before. The most common reply is that you should not put all your eggs in someone else’s basket. I’m amused no one has posted that comment yet.

By the way, Google will most probably not restore the account, but I’d be interested to know whether it does because our startup is also similar to yours, and half of our eggs are in Google’s basket too. Please keep us (the community) updated.
Maybe the issue here is making one's business solely dependant on a third party which is well known for that kind of behavior...
How do you find Lisp work, out of interest? Especially for an experienced professional without commercial lisp experience?
Awesome, we're looking for a multi-chain version of infura at earthwallet.io! Sounds like exactly what we need on the Coinbase Cloud page, but it's a bit tricky to find the docs for this type of application. Definitely a great idea though, hopefully we can make it happen!
"No other company has to do this."

This is false. Every private company has to do this.
Sadly I'm not, it's just using ethers.js to trigger a transaction to be signed by whatever wallet you have connected. Hence the $5 donation with a $30 fee :(
You're factually correct, but one of the CEO's functions is maintaining morale amongst employees by at least appearing to exercise inspiring leadership. I don't know enough about the company to blame Carson for its failure, but optics matter in his role.
I was looking for an adage that captures the sentiment of this quote[1], and happened upon this instead!

> This paper explores the political significance of narratives of home. Using the aftermath of the 2012 criminalisation of squatting in England and Wales as a case study, the paper traces the ways in which the concept of ‘home’ is deployed to both reinforce neoliberal ideals, and is utilised as a tool of resistance by squatters.

[1] > Every URL eventually decays to pointing to a parked domain loaded with ads.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28730318
Agreed.

I’m hoping in my lifetime the great firewall is destroyed. I’m also hoping for a united Korea. But I’m a dreamer.
Truth hurts. Good luck on your third phd
Ah this is a great question!

The answer mostly boils down to a policy decision to maximize safety of the overall system. You can imagine a situation where a malicious actor (not necessarily a broker servicing customers) who's a part of the DTCC system and decides to buy a highly volatile stock. Since the trade settles in two days, they don't really need to put up the money immediately, just need to be sure they have it in two days. Suppose that then this volatile stock plummets in value, this actor has a big incentive to not go through with the trade, since they're going to pay money for a stock that is now worth much less. This phenomenon is called counterparty risk. And the way to mitigate the risk is just to require collateral up front, with more collateral for more volatile stocks. Note too that the rules governing this risk mitigation are very distinct from the rules governing individual accounts (even different regulatory entities).

However, you could hypothetically carve out an exception for broker dealers since theoretically the customers have already put up the cash. But from a policy perspective you're now potentially betting the financial system on every broker implementing risk controls correctly. Why take that risk?

Ultimately the better solution is just to reduce the settlement cycle which reduces counterparty risk. Brokers want to go to T+0 (real-time) since it removes all collateral requirements on their end, but market makers like T+1 because then they can float more intraday (which is effectively passing the costs of mitigating counterparty risks back to the brokers).
I’ll see your salmon sperm and raise you one penis facial[1], as recommended by Sandra Bullock and Cate Blanchett.

Few people seem to care that the source of the active ingredient in the penis facial is obtained through the egregious action of cutting healthy, valuable tissue off of male Korean infants who have no diagnosis of defect or disease.

[1] https://nypost.com/2018/03/15/the-penis-facial-is-the-latest...
The best thought experiments start with what may appear to be, or are in fact, false premises.
Zuckerberg controls 58% of the voting shares. No one else on the board matters.
Lambda functions are just a back end framework tightly coupled to a cloud service, they go in the web backend bin and aren't their own thing. Javascript might be the most popular there but I doubt lambda functions makes a significant dent in the overall web backend landscape.
Their history of shoot first ask questions later would be concerning as well. (Regarding locking people out of their Google accounts.)

While I'm sure your bank could lock you out as well, you basically never hear about it. But with Google, there have been multiple high profile lockouts that show both 1) it can happen to anyone, and 2) getting access restored is slow, difficult, and not always successful. That's not the behavior that makes people feel like their money is safe.
it's also an affiliate link grab too
> The reason regulation is suggested is effect on society, and the effect is the same regardless of the engineer's personal status.

Amateur programmers are not professional engineers. A profession is an activity people are compensated for. If you're not being compensated, it's not professional work. If it's not professional, you should not be held liable for it.

Someone publishing a personal project should not be held liable for anything. A professional software engineer deciding to use that project at work without thoroughly reviewing it and causing a security breach due to vulnerabilities in that software should absolutely be held liable for negligence.

> An engineer designing bridges is liable regardless of his salary, and same must apply to a programmer.

I'm not an engineer but I can draw up a bridge right now. Would it stand or collapse? Who knows. I think it looks nice though so I post it online. Then an actual engineer sees my drawing and makes an actual bridge out of it. The bridge collapses and kills thousands.

Who's liable? Me, a random guy who drew a bridge? The engineer who should have known better?

> Besides, it's trivial to launder everything if you give such an out.

That would require companies to not only refuse to compensate their programmers for their labor but to also open source their source code. Doesn't seem trivial to me.
I have no idea what's going on of course, but I think this is exactly what would happen when a normally nice and competent CEO of a struggling company goes into a deep burnout.

(Note: i dont know whether Carson was normally nice and competent, but this article itself describes Treehouse as a great place to work and toxic asshole CEOs don't usually build such places. So I'm really just extrapolating from there)
The stock market has always been a bit of a mystery to me. There is no requirement that company revenue be tied to a stock's value. Rather, the stock for a given company is entirely based on human sentiment.

Person A buys stock S at time t0 because he thinks it will be more valuable to person B at time t1.

Person B buys stock S at time t1 because he thinks it will be more valuable to person C at time t2.

...and so on.

Buying a small-volume of stock in company X provides no tangible value. You aren't getting a seat on the board with a few thousand dollars. Obviously, things like dividends and retirement tax-breaks have value, but I'm talking about pure speculative investing.

My question to the investors out there: Why should be there be a person C or D who buys the stock from you in the future? In the extreme case, you could buy stock X, and then never find someone to buy it from you.
Are there any free implementations of Snobol4 available? Every couple of years I search for them again and I only find broken links...

(Btw, Icon - Snobol4's successor - was my favorite language for several years. When I tried to learn Snobol4 by myself in the university I couldn't understand its semantics, but the book "The Icon Programming Language" was superbly written and it explained generators and backtracking very well).
I diagree, I think this person has the right idea. Corporations aren't people. They have no feelings, no loyalties, no empathy. Sure the people who work there do, but you all work for the Corporation.

Exploit the corporation. Give them exactly what they pay you for an not an ounce more. Stay within the bounds of the law and your personal ethics, but extract from the Corporation just as the Corporation extracts from everything else.

Don't tie your identity or self-worth to your contractual obligations to the Corporation. Use the money you extract from the Corporation to enjoy life and the things that do define you and give you your sense of self-worth.

The universe does not care if you're good at your job or not. You've only got so many years until you're dead and gone, spend as little of it as possible working and as much of it doing the things as you enjoy. If working is what you enjoy, good for you, but it's not everyone's cup of tea.
Buy some DVDs and/or older video games and systems. Login to your Steam account to make sure the DRM is topped up. Download some reading materials. Maybe get a POTS landline installed. Visit the bank and get a handful of currency.

You need to be a bit more specific about the scenario and what you want to do that you can't when you have no internet.
Yea seriously. Tesla is just a company with a lead but they are in a industry filled with tens of thousands more engineers who have suddenly become tasked with switching to EV design at a fast pace.
It makes sense that planted trees are not thriving in ecosystems where there wasn't already trees naturally. If the conditions were so good for tree growth, you would have a lot of trees there already.

But, this brings to mind that there are places where there once were forests that humans destroyed. Why don't those locations quickly re-forest themselves?

Because, in the process of deforestation, humans destroyed the entire ecosystem that made said forests possible. Nature can't repay that ecosystem debt all that quickly and it's not sped up much by way primates plopping saplings into the soil for money and calling it a day.

Climate change is the mother of all collective action problems and one of our great filters. I dream that one of the descendants of my nieces and nephews will pass through the ensuing population bottleneck.
What can I say... Oh yeah, that Google owes me a lot of money after terminating my adsense account for false reasons and added insult to injury by sending me a 50€ adword voucher to my _physical address_ like it solved anything?...

It was like 10/15 years ago, now everytime I have an opportunity to suggest businesses I work with not to use any of Google services, including GCP, I do exactly that.

I'd say, unless you signed an actual contract with Google, which agreeing to a bunch of random TOS really isn't, do not ever rely on Google services or SAAS, and certainly do not build your startup on any Google stack.
The focus of the article is to make it seem random that this guy was working for a record company that distributed the Beatles and yet he invented X-Ray CT scans.

His biography on Wikipedia[1] which dovetails with the true history of EMI, at one time a builder of computers and other electronics, makes it more a matter of the inspiration from a walk in the countryside coming into the mind of a well-prepared engineer.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godfrey_Hounsfield
I like Common Lisp but I no longer use it. I'm pretty much completely burned out on dynamic typing. It feels like building on sand. I want calmer programming, even if it's less powerful. At present I'm building a new language[0] with that goal in mind.

[0]: https://github.com/austral/austral
I have already. I don't believe what he said publicly. I see no reason why I would have to. He was noted to be much more cruel and unconcerned with the destructive power of the nuclear bomb than his peers and recommended the nuking of civilian targets. He spoke of the necessity to destroy the USSR on ideological grounds. The idea that a preemptive strike would be limited against a nuclearly armed country is preposterous and ridiculous, and he had already suggested nuking for population destruction instead of military use.
Comparing AWS's RDS and PlanetScale
I've been personal blogging since 2003, and I still do so, although a lot shorter form these days. Not everyone blogs just for SEO purposes, I couldn't care any less about SEO. In fact, I don't even pay attention to analytics.
> Newsom said the mandate won’t take effect for all children until the U.S. government has finished fully vetting the vaccine for two age groups — 12 to 15 and 5 to 11. That means those in seventh to 12th grades probably will have until July to get their shots. It will be even longer for children in kindergarten through sixth grades because the government has yet to approve any COVID-19 vaccine for that age group.

> California law requires all children enrolled in public and private schools to have 10 immunizations, with exceptions for medical reasons. For the coronavirus vaccine, California will grant exemptions for medical reasons, plus religious and personal beliefs. The rules for those exemptions will be written after the state hears comments from the public. Any student without an exemption who refuses to get the vaccine would be forced to do independent study at home.
This explanation of this as a "second system" in the form of a "backup middlebox" feels extremely strange, as the behavior described--particularly how the "two" mechanisms are contingent: if the "primary" happens the "backup" does not (which the authors keep noting and seem to think is very surprising, due to their assertion that this is two otherwise separate middleboxes)--makes it feel like this is much more likely to be a single middlebox doing some stateful flow analysis that bails after deciding to kill a connection.
Hey like, did you understand the product?