skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I wrote that up here, in a fairly gigantic blog post:

That blog post is the same link for this thread.

> without creating a User model

A User model isn't necessary if you don't require login to use your tool.
Whole heartedly agree. I was big into Go years ago, and some newer guys tried to make it a functional language. When they argued with me, I couldn't say 'its's just not right', but instead pointed them to std library code.

Protip: That doesn't change their mind, it just makes them hate Go.
Its interesting to note that the GPLv3 allows what TiVo did too, even though RMS didn't want that. Also interesting OTOH is that the LGPL seems to imply that a combined proprietary+LGPL work should continue to work after replacing the LGPL part.

https://events19.linuxfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2017...
> they are not competitive with normal networks

It doesn't have to be. The main goal is a free uncensorable network, if we must pay a price in performance for that, so be it. People use extremely old ThinkPads with libreboot because they're the last processors without Intel Management Engine.

> Governments have also shown the ability to regulate radio usage very well the world over.

Yes, because usually it's only a few people at a time who are interfering in radio communications. Easy to respond to a few isolated incidents. What if it was everyone at the same time?

What if every smartphone in the world could create and maintain its own mesh network? In some places there wouldn't even be a need for ISPs. They'd be needed for long distance connections only.
12V is high compared to a lot of <5V electronics that do "the thinking" for 12V & 24V power systems that do "the work" in a lot electric systems around the world.

As for the heating up... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbGcSjRAyxs is a good demo of how fast 12V can heat up a small hunk of metal given enough amperage (in the case of that video 12V at 100A) . There are a surprising amount of 12V and 24V DC power systems (like in that video) can push in well over a kilowatt (12V at >100A or 24V at >50A) of power in a dead short situation.

My father had a paperweight in his shed that looked like someone used a spanner as a fork for lava, drooped away from its normal shape like a Salvador Dali clock, one end barely recognisable with blackened carbonisation marks and a ragged but lightly polished place where it was cut clean from something with an angle grinder. 24V at 150A for just a few seconds before the batteries were discharged, big marine batteries for lots of current to kick start an old heavy duty engine, lots of Amps but not many Amp Hours, still enough to destroy the spanner.
That caught my eye too. The others all looked reasonable (including Marxism) but the socialism one sounds like a caricature of an ignorant facebook post.
I think "commits ahead" and "commits behind" are more useful in ascertaining active forks than the most recent push time.
I suspect the OP was making a historical analogy to the past experience of the ECU transition. The ECU transition was disruptive and caused pain for both mechanics (who had to reskill) and consumers (who had to deal with a market full of mechanics who didn’t necessarily know what they were doing for a long time.)
I think the new version is beautiful it shows the flow and connections of the lines and stations to easily count stops and make transfers while on the move at a glance.
> what are the edge lengths

And what measure do the edge lengths represent: time, distance, map typography?
It just means that Linux users are more technically savvy I would say.

If you've installed and use Linux then 90% your interests are in IT / software / hardware design.

So you know concept of a bug. And it is a good chance you've produced and fixed those by your own too.

The best person to report a bug is a programmer really.
There is choice: people can use Webkit instead. Webkit and Blink have diverged significantly since Blink forked Webkit: Blink is as old now as Webkit was when the fork happened.
I was skimming through the EPA’s Underground Storage Tank Responsible Parties documentation and getting more and more horrified at how I am sure these companies will structure themselves, via lease agreements or other mechanisms, to limit their liability as they go insolvent.

https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2014-03/documents/rp...
It's likely to be very resistant to fungi, without all the convenient gaps and holes. Treating with borax or other antifungal chemicals would be easy, but that's a problem that would kill the structural part of a house whether or not the nails are wood.
I simply just want to do other sports and want to have the choice of what I do for exercise, and have maximum freedom to how I spend my (free) time and energy, and not use most of it on commuting.
Historically the US Post office used to do this too
Protonmail wins Swiss appeal over surveillance rules
Just thought of the same, thanks to Andres Duhany who pointed at this long time ago. (I think this is a good summary lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jftwNC3k65o)

A lot of sprawl or plastic goods are branded as "eco" because they promise less exposure to exhausts, but hide the fact that their users emit a lot more.
I'm a huge fan of this system, but it's worth pointing out that it doesn't have a single NaN, it has a single infinity with an undefined sign, modeling the projectively extended real numbers. NaN is a bit of an abomination; projective infinity is an uncommon beast, but one that can be worked with consistently. And yes, by pairing zero with infinity on opposite sides of the number ring, you get a symmetric system with no undefined or redundant encodings.
The half that dies of preventable diseases because of hubris.

Funnily enough, diseases and viruses don't care.
Couple ideas:

1) what happens when I transfer money to someone in another country (eg SWIFT).

2) if you had to design a business model for financial institions from scratch, that was aligned with customers, what would it look like?
I've never had a camera on during meetings. The profile pictures of people also make me feel the same way as video.
You’re correct. I didn’t cite ESBuild as a use case, I mentioned it to give credit where it was due.
Data Labeling Case Study in New Retail – Image Recognition and Labeling
I feel bad about it, used to have the stand up scrums and then just disappeared behind a computer oh well, been like that over a year and a half now. Only 1 out of say 10 people have their webcam on now used to be more early on.
This is still better than some of the similar designs. Some of them look really easy for the pilot to fall off and get ground up by the propellers. At least this one the pilot kind of looks sort of enclosed so they would not likely be able to fall out into the blades.
Or blinking out "torture", as one POW did during the Vietnam War: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rufnWLVQcKg
the great thing about the internet is that it makes physical space meaningless, and thus the centre can appear as a shifting network event.
You’re making this out to be far easier than it really is, to the point of being an armchair commentator. People want phones that can call and text and shoot perfect video and play demanding games. All of this necessitates complexity. The average dumbphone is far less complex than an iPhone but it’s obvious which one people want. (And, I should also note that “simplicity” doesn’t necessarily mean “security”: people have found bugs in ridiculously small pieces of code. The rest of your comment of making “the unexpected stand out” is similar in intent to “just find the viruses bro, how hard can it be?”)
Creator burnout: what it looks like, why it happens, and how to heal from it
It’s kind of a perfect plan really - it works as long as folks are using Chrome or anything Chromium based (which still feeds into Google’s leverage with W3C). Makes one wonder just how “free” Android really is.
I recently installed a Toshiba RC100 into my T480's WWAN slot. Are the newer models worse in this aspect? The T480 is not the newest, but still pretty modern.
No quite the opposite! Part time is fine, and you can build a simple niched-down version of a popular tool.
Which “fascist totalitarian technology” is he ok with? How is it fascist or totalitarian?
If you do one you can easily do both.
Is there a repository for Fork Freshness? I could see the twitter account ignoring requests in the future and the same fate could fall to this project. I would recommend releasing the project under AGPL-3.0-or-later to partially solve this issue so the project can continue in the event of abandonment. I could see people contributing code to search for projects in other known forges such as GitLab, Sourceforge, Savannah, Gitea, pagure, and sourcehut as sometimes projects are forked outside of the original forge.

I have noticed this issue that Fork Freshness tries to solve. My example is Twitter's project murder https://github.com/lg/murder When a project becomes unmaintained whether officially or unofficially, the future home is often lost unless the original points to the new home at the top of the README file. You can dig within GitHub in the Insights > Network section to get a visual glimpse of what has changed since. https://github.com/lg/murder/network The original repository put up a notice that the project is unmaintained and archived the project which effectively ends the project in practice. In this case, ervinb's fork seems to be the most active commits before being abandoned. https://github.com/ervinb/murder Other forks also had independent commits that never were pulled into other projects. Looking at the network method fails to differentiate 30 grammar fixes from 30 new features without digging into each promising looking fork. Even then, you may miss a single commit that included more work then the entirety of the other commits. Disclosure: I have not worked on murder.

This is a serious problem and I hope we solve it.
You know who the best person I could show an ad to? The person who went to my website but didn’t click buy.

Had him 99% there. Payback is great on these users.

If a few really did buy already? Who cares, beats showing the ad to a room of 20,000 random people
> Swiss Post and Telecommunications Surveillance Service (PTSS)

From the department of "It Does What It Says On The Tin"...
> Nudges are interventions, big and small, aimed at getting people to act in their own best interest.

Oh yea? Says who? What a trashy, statist claim.
What's next, social credit in America?

Nudges are coercive measures, big and small, aimed at getting the individual to become the state’s agent.

More here: https://mises.org/library/nudge-wrong-direction

From Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville:

> "Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications and to watch over their fate. That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident, and mild… The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided; men are seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting. Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd."
If it drove them to write in another language, might that be a win? A code base full of non-idiomatic code, where devs think in the style of language A while using language B, isn’t a great place to hang out.
Facebook whistleblower warns ‘dangerous’ encryption will aid espionage
E-Prime as a tool for critical thinking [pdf]
Ask HN: State of the Art Java Projects
I'm currenctly picking up Java at my current job. Looking for some current state of the art open source Java(8+) projects to serve as a basis for my learnig. Thanks in advance.
Please also advise her to power it on every 2 or 3 months or so (and leave it running for a bit), so that SSDs continue keeping the data, and HDDs don't get "stuck".
> feed more data in the machine learning pot, stir it, and see what comes out.

Very reductive and dismissive way of describing what they are doing.
Pretending local or user-controlled solutions don't or can't exist is a big tech favorite.
I can feel Amazon’s dystopian internals leaking out when I get YouTube ads talking about how supposedly great it is to work at Amazon. What a depressing company. I’ve been trying to reduce my usage of Amazon.
It is tiring. Even more so for me as I joined remotely a few months ago in my new job. Knew 0 people in the new company!
Basically at the least you want to create exact frequency ratio of 3/2(major 5th) and 4/3(major 3rd). And also all the power and inverse power which is not achievable in one scale. Instead we substitute 3/2 = 1.5 to 2^(7/12) = 1.4983 and 4/3 = 1.3333 to be 2^(5/12) = 1.3348
> [...] Google went to market falsely telling publishers that adopting AMP would enhance page load times. But Google employees knew that AMP only improves the "median of performance" [...]

How on Earth does it NOT mean that AMP improves load times?
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I thought this was about human language :(
> 3. It makes absolutely no sense for the battery to 'brick' or declare 'out-of-range' while regeneration is adding charge back to the battery

Wait so how often are you in this situation? Like one ever 1000 drives? Or am I missing something?
It puts the process people over the producing people. It's a great vector for graft and jobs programs. Once that has taken hold it's fatal.
The only thing I can find on Scala with "sealed" is for exhaustive pattern-matching on types, which 1) broadly matches Java, and 2) has nothing to do with data-only objects at all. Sealing and methods are entirely orthogonal.
Interestingly, my engineering school adopted the opposite approach on practical teaching: the first couple of month after the preparatory years were all about re-building all the C stdlib, networking layer, then building your own shell, then building your own assembler and corresponding vm (it was an assembler for a quartet based system for whatever reason), then compiler for a random language in c++ (tiger) and so forth.

We also built a simple CPU from gates using an electronic simulator.

Left me with some confidence that I could do things with a relative confidence. Definitely value in learning the basics.
Send a message on a closed-source social media platform for my source code on a closed-source Git forge. That will be a nope.
I think it all depends on the location of the service station. The big gas stations on major freeways will likely survive. But, the local neighborhood stations near suburbs or other housing will likely go away as folks charge where they park their cars while at home or work.

This article goes into data a bit based on information from Norway which has been electrifying passenger vehicles rapidly. Although, I wish there was better data to draw on. Maybe London will provide some data soon as they add more and more zones where EVs are preferred.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-18/when-cars...
I’m really starting to question just how much of the rest of the world actually looks towards the United States for leadership. I think most countries leadership just does whatever they think is best for their own countries and it’s always been like that.

I think the whole “look towards America” thing is some comforting line Americans tell ourselves because we like to think we’re superior. And you can always invoke the actions of the administration you don’t like to claim we’ve lost that special status / respect.

Edit: I’m talking about the whole “Leader of the free world” schtick. Not so much industry standards and funding.
Yeah, that one didn't quite work -- I was trying to think of what a better one would be. I think the proper tone is parodying what someone who believes this might actually say, and they're fairly on the button for the rest of them. Something about the page's utility being made redundant through common ownership? (Economic jokes are hard.)
I worked in banking during the Great Recession and moved on to insurance for a couple years, before arriving into FAANG.

I don’t think banking or insurance were “better” or “purer” than any FAANG company I’ve worked at.

I haven’t worked in energy, but personally I don’t have the best opinion of Exxon, Shell, Saudi Aramco, etc. either.

So would a FAANG resume be equivalent to Enron? No, I don’t think so.

My spouse works for the state, and the shenanigans and outright theft going on there is its own mess, though certainly not sexy enough to be on the news.
There are one or two spots in a conventional car where that can happen. One is at the + battery terminal, and one where the battery main connects to the starter. Everything else is fused. And that's why you always disconnect the battery ground cable first before working on anything electrical.
I would love to see this in Minetest, so it would be easier for everyone to join and the lack of Minecraft feature seems completely unnecessary to me for this.
We're just used contributing bug reports and pull requests, sort of our thing. It's not as prevalent with Windows or MacOS users, just not part of that culture.
I suspect that the part of the stdlib that deals with the OS and runtime will be fairly messy and un-idiomatic in any language. They are inherently hairy problems.
Ans #1: We outsourced the parts of the economy with the highest potential for productivity gains (manufacturring) and kept the ones most subject to Baumol's cost disease (services, computers, and finance bullshit)

Ans #2: Rentier capitalism saddles productive parts of the economy with onerous rents. Notable the portion of labor costs that devoted to workers housing rents has been increasing.
Google eng-practices: Small CLs
To Tesla's credit, they are building a simulation environment, 'dojo', which, theoretically, will modify driving environments to include varying visibility, temperatures, precipitation, jay-walkers, windshield occlusions (bird-crap)... which was not in their toolkit 5 years ago.

5-years is a glacial age in a software development environment... so 5 years I'll say it could happen (30-45% chance), with maybe 10% chance earlier, and 45% in year 6 or later.
> As long as you're doing the job, what does it matter where the "not here" you are?

Where you are matter for tax paperwork the company has to file.
The MDN web docs (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/) are quite good.
This is definitely one of the hardest parts of self study and what gives me enormous appreciation for good teachers. Progress can slow or even halt because you are forced to be so rigid about understanding everything before moving on- otherwise you risk serious gaps in knowledge. I have found CS classes with autograded programming assignments far better than other types of online courses because I known if I at least learned one thing.
I think that's how evolution works.
> The days of mechanic shops servicing these vehicles is going to have to be over

Explain to me again why I want to own one of these cars?
Without the use of computers, 1m^3 blocks seems bad, but 0.5m^3 blocks seems impossibly harder.
Happened [1] after 1250 (or so) drives. As seems to happen in these situations, I got very close to the supercharger. So close, that I convinced a passerby and a policeman to push my car the remaining 200 yards to the charger.

Not going to do that again... heh. I sold my S70D.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28629060
What country are you in? Apply for a job at a FAANG and you should be over $200K easy. A senior role, which is attainable with 7 YOE, will easily have you over $300K.

Keep in mind not all companies pay $200K+. These are mainly tech companies.
Malicious Life is pretty good, so is Security Now
While Patrick is right that community banks have provided an important role in the explosion of fintech in the United States over the last 10 years, that role is unique to a small subset (~100) of community banks that have become heavily involved in Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS).

The other 9,900 community banks and credit unions largely continue to operate with vanilla retail and/or business banking models. I'm biased, but the importance of these financial institutions cannot be understated to the success of the American economy. Obviously a homogenous credit underwriting and decisioning process is a negative for society. While some do heavily rely upon the traditional credit bureaus in their decisioning, many do not. Access to responsible credit is one of the best ways to lift a group of individuals and/or businesses up. There is no surprise then that these organizations receive bi-partisan support.

As @patio11 points out this long tail often best serves their communities. There are a lot of reasons, but these are not purely because they happen to serve a specific geographic area or because they use different underwriting methods. Credit unions especially tend to be extremely diverse. For example, the majority of credit union CEOs are women[0].

I highly recommend supporting these community banks and credit unions by moving your loans and deposits to them. If you need a recommendation for one that has better digital experiences, please feel free to reach out to me.

[0] https://news.cuna.org/articles/119415-cuna-study-finds-51-of...
>Acupuncture

Acupuncture is FDA approved for the treatment of certain types of chronic pain (and, I believe, asthma). It's not entirely bullshit.
Reminds me a lot of the Martin Jetpack, which received tonnes of media hype when it was first unveiled at Oshkosh 2008, and despite being "almost ready" for the next decade, nothing was ever built and the company went bust.

Incidentally, the remaining assets (including intellectual property) were just put up for auction a few days ago [1].

The market for what's essentially an aerial jetski has always been small, and now due to the drone renaissance it's basically non-existent.

[1] https://www.skylarc.co.nz/tenders/martin-jetpack/
Indeed; In C/C++ land this is rather the norm.

I learnt more about C and C++ from studying Plauger's The Standard C Library and Plauger/Stepanov's The C++ Standard Template Library. I also remember learning Object-Oriented Framework design from MFC Internals.
The MTA spent wads of cash adding screens and displays all over platforms throughout the city -- ones which show ads for 30 seconds+ at a time instead of showing actual useful things like when the next train is coming, or whether there are service disruptions. Instead you get to stand there waiting for what feels like hours while trying to make decisions.

Fixing that and catching up to public transit throughout the world is more important than redesigning the way the map looks.
I believe the US government did this at least once, by implementing the black bars in a PDF as a separate object, so the unredacted item was intact in the files they shared.

Whoops.
What if there is no dealer (Tesla)?
My recent experience of keeping 1000 tabs around and auto unloaded (managed by Sidebery, a vertical tab bar plugin), is that it usually occupies 3~5 GBs.
What if people shouldn’t be able to say so much, and to so many, so often?
Using Central Park's geographic center as the common intersection point, the north-south distance between the park bounds isn't actually much longer than the east-west distance between the island bounds. (North-south and east-west according to the street grid alignment, that is.)
I don't think this is a good read. A standard library is very concrete - it's the core of the language in action, and the shape that its code takes will likely be repeated regularly in 3rd party code written in that language. There's nothing academic or abstract about it.

EDIT: As others note, a good chunk of a stdlib may involve system interop that isn't representative, so that tempers my comment with regards to whether that code is idiomatic. But my case still stands regarding concrete vs. abstract.