skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> hereditary rulers that are related to each other starting wars

Star Wars (New Hope) is nothing of the sort. The universe just got progressively smaller as they retconned every character into being related to every other character.
I personally prefer the regular mobile view.
I have a project going that tries to bring back ultra short compilation times:

https://github.com/robertmuth/Cwerg
Not 100% sure this fits your use case but UltraVNC goes back to w95.
Hawking hawking Hawking...

How far can that go?

See: Buffalo⁸

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffal...)
Use of "widely" suggests bias, so I'd recommend being careful with that use. There is definitely a concensus among many scientists of that hypothesis, but it's disingenuous to pretend that there isn't the presence of a significant number of scientists that argue the opposite. Objectivity is incredibly important in science, and it breeds credibility. This topic has social and ideological components, both of which cloud objectivity when speaking of the science. If you believe that science evolves, it's paramount that we treat hypotheses objectively rather than through the lens of absolutism
I believe the reason can be genetic https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/gene-id...
My only question is; why? Don't get me wrong, it is cool, but do people actually use it?
the existence of a terrible bank doesn't mean they're all awful

like any market, there are competently run companies and there are terrible ones (e.g. HSBC)
Never had these problems with my CU (LMCU), and honestly Cap1 bank has been doing a pretty bang up job with my CC's. I'm considering trying them for banking.
Possibly, funnily enough his daughter mentions in her book that in hindsight one of the first signs of cancer was that he started sleeping for 7 or 8 hours a day!
Its not as if those are the only two to hold it.
I watched "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" with my kid recently, and it was still awesome.

I'm struggling to recall the last time I watched a 'modern' movie. I have even downloaded some but I always seem to have something better to do with my time.

Oh. Come to think of it, it might have been "Star Trek II: The Type Casting of Benedict Cumberbatch".
In general I’ll watch anything the Drinker recommends (I’ll never stop being grateful that’s he got to me to give the Expanse a second try for example).

With that said, there are lot of fantastic movies getting made, they’re just not big budget. You could watch nothing but stuff Pattinson (to name a single example) has been in over the last 10 years and have a, uh, good time.

I personally think that these days the most effective way to watch great films is to pick actors that are only in stuff you like. Some actors are extremely picky about what they’ll work on, and that’s great.
“In this thread”
how do you block popups?
Morrowind becomes too easy an hour in - you make some 99dmg fire enchantments and kill everything in a few hits. I found I would rather kill 3x stronger enemies for 3x the reward. And even then, I was already stashing millions' worth in armor and weapons I could not possibly sell to a NPC.
Didn't expect anything else from this company
Did adding weapons to Europe in 1940 shorten the war?
Its all very well to bitch and moan about "tech industry controlling conference funding", but the reality is that conferences are expensive and the money needs to come from somewhere.

Speaking from experience. Even a decent sized "basic" conference (i.e. no fancy stage setups etc.) will still cost you an arm and a leg.

You need to:

- Pay the venue for the space
- Pay the venue for the refreshments during breaks and meals (unless you are mean and don't feed people !)
- Pay for a basic AV setup
- Deal with registration
- Pay for hotel rooms and travel for your team
- Pay for various other things that soon add up (e.g. transport storage costs if you are shipping stuff there a few days before)

So you might say, well, how about going 100% digital. Well, trust me, the good platforms know they are good and they charge accordingly.

Ok you might say, "well, we'll charge registration fees". Well sure you might, and sure that might well cover 100% of your costs. But have you ever seen how registration goes for a conference ? It takes time for the numbers to ramp up. In the mean time, you need money in the bank to pay for stuff you need to pay for "now". And you need money in the bank as security for the contracts you'll be signing with the venues (if nobody turns up or fewer people than expected, the venue will still want some money off you).

So, its then a question of where the money comes from. And like it or not, corporate sponsorship is typically the easiest way. The corporate structure "understands" what a conference is, so you won't get bogged down in discussions. The corporate way is also the easiest way to get nice big chunks of cash instead of having to beg tens or hundreds of different people.
Well if you can solve problems of functional analysis or linear programming while at a party with others I must congratulate you, you're probably half way there lol
I think I'm with Jack on this one, at least when it comes to REST interfaces. When I query GET /bar/123, I want an object with a Bar protocol/content-type. I don't want a Envelope[Bar]. What if it's any data type other than json-isomorphic, e.g. image or video? Is /videos/123.mp4 going to return a json object like

{"data": <base64_encoded_video>, "status": "whatever"}

Of course not!

You already have an envelope, it's the HTTP protocol. The real trick is generically mapping data structures to HTTP responses with headers. In fact HTTP-response-shaped-objects make halfway decent general purpose envelopes in the business logic itself. They are basically Result[T, E] but with even more metadata available.
> there are competently run companies

You're just gonna leave us hanging like that?
I thought about it but I don't want to reveal who I bank with

sorry :)
Tropes are not bad[1].

[1] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Administrivia/TropesA...
I think job requirements evolve based on who is available in the market, and based on how quickly and how willing a typical hire is to move to your tech stack. If people with specific experience are available, companies will tend to hire those first - lower risk from their viewpoint; otherwise training becomes a necessity.

Expected tenure is also a big factor - if a company seeks to recruit long-term employees than the criteria will be very different: they will focus more on ability to learn and adapt, team work, communication skills and leadership ability than on short term tech stack.
Engineering Blog's Worth their weight in Gold
Hey HN,
What are some good tech/engineering blogs are worth their weight in gold in terms of knowledge and insights they provide?
For e.g. Uber's blog is top-notch.
I am looking especially for recommendations on the data infra and AI/ML side.
It is nostalgia for movie era that never really was. By cherry picking old movies and seeing in them what you want to see. Which is something different then trying to analyse actual past production as it actually was.

It is seeing decadence in contrast to past heavenly era, because you want it to be like that.
You have 5 major challenges:

- Build a tech stack, that is limited on your skills

- Deal with laws, regulation and banks

- Be ready to feel the beautiful world of "everyone will try to steal money"

- Been business savy to sell & manage this

- You will handle a potential BIG amount of money. Now you need to be reputable AND worry about been a target (in all senses: A target for the tax collectors, regulatory agencies, banks, entrenched player(s) that will try to take you down, etc)

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The first is challenging.

The second can be near impossible depending on a lot of factors (like, be friend with that "connected" people, have enough cash to support legally you can operate this, etc), specially if your country have not an already healthy ecosystem (a big tell something is fishy).

You need the second more than the first, if wanna be FIRST party on this, instead of a player in a segment of this.

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A probably better avenue is to incorporate in a place where you have access to a stablished processor (like https://stripe.com/atlas) and be a intermediary. STILL you will deal with the 4 things above (and still need to have enough financial capability to deal with the incorporation, taxes, hiring of lawyer, accounting, etc), but will be relatively easier.
I think you mean "Hamlet" or was it "Macbeth". One of the two.
Putting Gradual Types to Work
I've watched Interstellar with multiple audio setups and didn't have an issue understanding the dialog. It may have a higher dynamic range than most movies but that's a good thing.
I couldn’t find his data set available, so his assertion about terminal degrees is curious to me.

He seems to consider Ph.D. the only terminal degree, and specifically calls out the Arts school for having faculty with Master’s. But in most fields in the Arts, an MFA (though usually not an MA) is terminal.
> The age of the article should be taken into consideration here because back then Unicode support was still patchy in places

If the article had been written 20 years before it actually was, maybe. You're making me feel old here, 2015 really was not very long ago and little of relevance to this discussion has changed between then and now.
Abstraction in Rails
Sometimes you really should use perl.
I study Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) which is a kind of inductive program synthesis. Inductive program synthesis is learning from partial specifications, where deductive program synthesis is learning from complete specifications (compilation can be seen as a form of deductive program synthesis, for example).

ILP studies algorithms that learn logic programs from examples. "Logic programs" as in programs in a language of the Logic Programming paradigm, such as Prolog or Answer Set Programming (ASP).

If you're interested in program synthesis, this is the staple modern reference:

Program Synthesis

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...

For ILP, see this recent review:

Inductive logic programming at 30

https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.10556

Or this longer version, here:

Inductive logic programming at 30: a new introduction

https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.07912

(Both of which ignore my own contributions. Oh well :)
> The entire industry of venture capital is based on a tiny percentage of companies absolutely exploding.

Exactly. Which means the risk level to founders is high. Because it is a roulette wheel where the VCs are the house, and the founders are the gamblers. With TechStars vs. YC being akin to the difference of the wheel having one zero or two. Founders are still gambling... even if YC gives better odds than others.

Again, VC has it place, as does YC. I'm not saying nobody should do it - I'm saying they should do it as a fully informed decision.
That is a long notice period. I’ve quit many (10+) jobs over my career and usually give 3 weeks to not burn any bridges. Doing anything productive during that time is difficult.
Why Rome?
> And the best we can do with tech is still ads??

The next step is to make VR headset that creates augmented reality without any ads. Something like uBlock but now for real.
If this allows me to use “latest tweets” chronological view as default instead of the brain dead “home” view I’m totally setting up a laptop with this. The official twitter clients are more atrocious each day (spaces? Home by default? 95% promoted tweets in my timeline? List suggestions I don’t care about?)
It’s like people complaining the Lord of the Rings is just all the fantasy tropes. Well they weren’t tropes yet when Tolkien invented them.
Deterministic time-reversible things could still have causality in a universe that has causality. But that's not an effective response to the claim that there's no causality at all.
I agree that it's hard to compare people's intellect, especially dead vs living. However Newton and Einstein were humen as well, and not unlikely had their importance subject to exaggeration, misrepresentation and misunderstanding. When you become a celebrity other factors than significance comes into play, sometimes out of the control of the person.
OMG I've had that experience! It was ... weird.
I would do it in a heartbeat. (Lead Architect at US FinTech startup, 20 years of experience and several startups under my belt).

The twist is this: I live out of the US (CT TZ) and am currently paid a good competitive (for the US) salary in USD. Even if I was paid about half of that, it would be really good for me. If you tell me that in addition I was going to only work part time? Sign me up.
He pushed for sanctions against Nordstream 2 and did pretty much everything to stop the pipeline from opening. Does that help strengthen russia?
> Anything worth hearing about will be written up by a newspaper.

True. Old complaint. TV news has always been a parasite on newspaper news rooms. With some rare exceptions.

I did student broadcasting (radio, public access cable, job shadowing) in the 80s. Learned about the history, the players, "journalism", etc. I loved the gear, working in the studio. (At least as much as I love programming computers.)

Corporate media has always been as bad as everyone imagines. Completely walked away from the industry after some interning. Once I got a peek behind the curtain, I simply loathe the entirety of it. I even refuse to own a TV, watch the news, etc.
Russians are targeting civilians. Thus, we should assume they are state-sponsored terrorists, not soldiers.
Yes they were screwed and lots of people did die unnecessarily. However, Saudi Arabia wants nukes, Shinzo Abe (ex Japan PM) said Japan should get nukes, the future of the long term program of Iran is still unsettled. Apartheid South Africa had nukes and only gave them up because they didn't want the native Africans to have them. The problem becomes as more and more countries develop nuclear weapons, the risk of conflict using them grows higher. Already we have a long term conflict between Pakistan and India where both nations are nuclear armed and I very much doubt Pakistan's nuclear security as anywhere as good as say America's or China's. What would happen if 20 or 30 or 40 countries had nukes? They would threaten to use them over every small thing and eventually I guess someone would use them, and who knows what happens then.
Blendshift cycling ( http://www.effectgames.com/effect/article-Old_School_Color_C... ) would be so neat to see in this context.
Didn't know what UEFI was, so here it is:

" UEFI and BIOS are low-level software that starts when you boot your PC before booting your operating system, but UEFI is a more modern solution, supporting larger hard drives, faster boot times, more security features, and—conveniently—graphics and mouse cursors.

The UEFI/BIOS loads when your computer starts up, and the BIOS is responsible for waking up your computer’s hardware components, ensures they’re functioning properly, and then runs the bootloader that boots Windows or whatever other operating system you have installed.

You can configure various settings in the BIOS setup screen. Settings like your computer’s hardware configuration, system time, and boot order are located here.

The BIOS goes through a POST, or Power-On Self Test, before booting your operating system. It checks to ensure your hardware configuration is valid and working properly."

Source: https://www.howtogeek.com/56958/htg-explains-how-uefi-will-r...
For sanctioned countries, there is a very good chance to start successful Amazon alternaives as e.g. Digikala did in Iran ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digikala ).

Anyway, other than crypto solutions (if supported), there is no way to have financial transactions with giant western companies like Amazon. Shipping items is also another issue.

Targeting local customers is easier. Then you can expand the business to the allies countries.
Branches are equally powerless.

See: Bank of America's policy on two-party "and" checks.

I walk in, having had a checking account with them for decades: "Hi, I need to deposit a two-party check into my account here. This is the other party with me, and we're happy to show ID."

Door greeter / agent: "Sure, I can do that for you." {Proceeds to verify my information and set up deposit on her tablet} "Hmm." {Walks over to her manager, discusses}

Manager: "Hello. I'm sorry, we only allow two-party checks to be deposited into joint accounts that list both parties."

Me: "I have the other party standing right here, with ID."

Manager: "That's our policy. Even if I pushed it through, the central system would kick it back out."

... which is a policy they can have. But the annoyance to me, is that it's a policy they choose to have, rather than a policy they're required to have. Corrections welcome, but there's no law that mandates this handling of two-party "and" checks. It's just risk mitigation on BoA's part.

Which, if a multi-decade relationship with your customer doesn't facilitate taking additional risk (over a <$1k check) in the interest of customer satisfaction... why would I do business with you?

Needless to say, I closed my BoA accounts.
Does anyone know where I can find information about what other typewriters had features like this? I would love to do this, and always look at the electric typewriters at garage dashes, etc but have yet to find anything with a port like this. I've thought about buying one anyway and poking around the innards hopefully but that kind of thing is a little beyond my skill (and I don't own an oscilloscope).
That’s not really surprising; they simply operate on geologic time.
> One best example is Breaking Bad

Breaking Bad is my usual example of bad plot building. I'm sure I haven't given it a fair chance as it's universally so highly liked, but the plot events were very much built up so that you could see what's coming. You are already anticipating some events, or they feel predictable and made up, as if precisely to serve the show. They don't come through as authentic.

I stopped watching Breaking Bad in the first or second season due to this poor plot building, and Better Call Saul after a couple of episodes when I realized it's just more of that very same style of bad plotting. The difference to well written shows such as Sopranos is like night and day.

Negative comments about Breaking Bad and pointing out its flaws seems to often receive controversial reactions. I suppose it's because it's the favourite show for so many.
Ah yes. If only the negotiating team of the West had more humility at Yalta. I'd rather have von Neumann every single time.
http://mail2ru.org/
I see what you're saying but it doesn't sound to me like the scenario you describe would be fixed by scheduling 1-to-1s. Sitting down to talk with someone you don't trust doesn't make you trust them - trust is earned through behaviour over time. If I don't trust my manager then our 1-to-1 is going to be pleasantly bland and provide no value for anyone.

Once the trust is there then the 1-to-1 is proven to be unnecessary because the employee will feel comfortable raising issues as needed.
Completely agree with this guy. New movies inevitably seem to teach strange lessons that make you uneasy and kind of feel bad when you leave the cinema or turn of the screen.

Superhero movies used to be about growth. Yet now it's more often than not the case that the hero was simply born awesome. Completely uninteresting.

Politics also creeps into movies in a disconcerted way. Star Wars is suddenly not about defeating totalitarianism and tyranny, but about some strange mix of feminism and animal rights. I think. Batman has to see Batman become a medic rather than do what Batmam does: beat up bad guys. And of course Catwoman must be with the times and complain about the attention paid to "rich white men" when they get horribly assassinated in gruesome ways by a psychopath - as if murdering the mayor such that his now fatherless son finds him should receive equal attention to some drug deal gone wrong.

The latest Bond movie of course had to kill Bond. Something that should just never happen. And then we have to watch this extremely annoying supposed new 007 get an insane amount of screen time even though she is a transparent, vapid character.
There are some projects that want to repurpose old mines for pumped storage.
UEFI needs ~complete access to the machine so it can initialize hardware devices and pass control to the OS (which also has ~complete control of the hardware). How do you think sandboxing it would work, practically?
Please stop spreading misinformation. The narrative that the Russians influenced the 2016 election is a baseless conspiracy theory that has long since been debunked as is the theory you're promoting about Tucker Carlson.

If you have reliable evidence you should post it but I thought posting misinformation isn't allowed here
I think few people read past the first book. I’ve almost stepped in it talking to religious people that say they love this series and I thought it was some kind of coded message. Like, me too, what was your favorite part?
It appears to be this one http://mail2ru.org/
That doesn't make those terms any less disgusting to use.
Help me understand what I said that is Russian propaganda. I don't think anybody denies the Ukrainian Azov Battalion is clearly Neo-Nazi. Are you saying this is one of those things that is best left unsaid, since it is an uncomfortable truth? Is that what makes it propaganda in your mind? Because nobody denies the accuracy of it.

It's especially odd that you call it Russian propaganda since in the same sentence I call out the Russians for invading a sovereign country.
> I really don’t see it being more available than python is

Oh, but which version, 2 or 3?

Bash availability may not be guaranteed, but a POSIX shell of some variety is.
This is great, I don't know how I missed it!

Is there any configuration I can use to tag only, and do no conversion or copying. In other words, I'm more interested in correcting tags than actually managing the library. Can't seem to find the correct configuration options :/
Try smartparens. It's a successor to paredit and works for other languages as well.
I have never coded (and navigated code) faster than in Clojure on Emacs w/ smartparens.
I couldn't agree more. This person needs a corporate budget and total freedom behind them so they can turn this into something LEGITIMATELY revolutionary for computing.
Not sure if you're joking, but I'll take it. ;) Need every bit of luck I can get!
9 years ago China promised to protect a country if there’s nuclear war: Ukraine
People talk about Bash quirks as if Python and Go don't have plenty of quirks that you also find out by trial and error. The difference is, most people hardly ever use Bash. If it were the reverse and people hardly ever used Python or Go or JavaScript, they'd be talking about how quirky those languages are. (They already do, in relation to other languages)

Shellcheck has dramatically increased the ease by which you can write decent scripts before ever running them. But I also have never seen any language that anyone could master without a year or more of constant use.
Generally, anything not-for-profit and older than 40 years is a technological shit-show.

There's neither the individual or management will to successfully migrate or upgrade at the pace required. Consequently, everything is held together with duct tape and person-hours.
I've recently been going through my password manager and closing inactive accounts. 9 out of 10 websites don't have a "close account" function, you have to talk to the support. Unfortunately these conversations are often similar to the ones in the article. You get to talk to 5 different agents, you receive a confirmation your account is closed but your login credentials still work, eventually your login credentials become invalid but they still send promotional email to your email address, and so on.