skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lol. VSCode with telemetry and autoupdates turned off still keeps pinging MS servers. There is your privacy.
Usually, a year in parentheses on a HN post indicates the publiction date of the article--specifically when the article isn't current--not the dates of the events recounted. In this case the article is from 2016 as the date suggests.
Usually there is a whitelisted set of messages available through the OBD port, it doesn't give you unfettered access to the CAN bus.
> Cedar Fair, owner and operator of the park, announced on Monday that it has sold the land to Bay Area real estate developer Prologis for $310 million.

> Cedar Fair bought the land beneath Great America from the city of Santa Clara in 2019 for $150 million

The quote about the Cedar Fair purchase links to a Mercury News article about the sale:

> The city was forced to sell the property, which it bought in 1985 with money from its former redevelopment agency, as part of a state law that dissolved redevelopment agencies statewide.

> There have been rumors in recent years that another buyer would come along and try to change the property’s use, even though the theme park’s lease wasn’t set to expire until 2074.

So in effect Santa Clara was forced to sell the land to a private corporate which resold it for twice the price after 3 years.

The previous lease didn’t expire until 2074, and presumably was tied to the use as a theme park.

Personally this seems like a big failure to hand a corporation a $150m windfall.
And a lot of very smart people worked on Itanium! Or on the Segway. TransMeta. Google Glass must have taken thousands of world-class engineers. 3D TVs! The world is full of plenty of Very Smart People who are all dying to work on cool tech, often blissfully unaware of the economic and social consequences of what they build.

Saying very smart people work on it doesn't do much to really convince me. Bitcoin's block size isn't a technical debate that requires Very Smart People to solve. It's a social one, about externalities, core beliefs, power structures, and motivations. And those are ones that Very Smart People tend not to make progress on, because they're unable to step outside of their lens of technicalities.
The emphasis on nuclear is a game the fossil fuel industry is playing. They know it will take a lot of time to build nuclear power plants, which means more time for them to extract $$$ from oil.
COBOL is still being used though. Not sure if that's what you meant.

What I want to know is if any variation of Algol is used in any production context today.
If you control for income, though, out-of-wedlock birth rates for black and white mothers are now very similar, though. “Our Kids” by Robert Putnam is a good summary.
One thing for me was paying attention to what I ate, and what my brain did after I ate it. I found that some things would slam my brain anywhere from 15 minutes to 2 hours after I ate them. My mind did better if I stopped (or at least reduced) eating those things.
In addition to this, GP is wrestling with an open feedback cycle. As long as the executives are allowed to behave this way with no consequences, they become habituated to doing it. They need back pressure, in order to train themselves to look a little farther down the road (a month is not too much to ask) instead of constantly sabotaging the team every time a new thing they just thought of enters their heads.
Looks and works great.

I was a bit surprised, though. I expected a range slider[0]. I usually see "blaze slider" widgets called "carousels"[1]. Is this a regional thing?

[0]https://www.w3schools.com/howto/howto_js_rangeslider.asp

[1]https://www.w3schools.com/howto/howto_js_slideshow.asp
guys, don't mind the CCP bots commenting on here. Just ignore them
Keynote looks great but is essentially unchanged for almost 20 years. PowerPoint is less awful in many ways than it was.
The recommendations on that page don't make much sense? The foods recommended are not major dietary sources of tryptophan (cf. [1]) and while a variety of fermented foods are mentioned, I am not aware of the use of the crucial bacterium Clostridium sporogenes in any deliberate fermentative cultures, such as are used for yogurt or kombucha, which rather contain [checks fridge] Lactobacillus, Bifidis, and Streptococcus species. But Clostridia are typically found in the gut of breast-fed newborns within a week of birth [2], suggesting they don't need much help.

I will also note that there has been some work done on the incorporation of Clostridium sporogenes into probiotics, but it doesn't come from kefir or miso, and... well... just read it! [3]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tryptophan#Dietary_sources

2: https://jasbsci.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40104-01...

3: https://scholarworks.calstate.edu/downloads/x920g252b
I haven't encountered features in other languages that are pervasively used and work by leaving meaningless markers in the code which some other (typically undocumented, typically in another repository) code will eventually use to do codegen, AST rewriting, and so on. But other than this feature that's like way more difficult than macros in Lisp or C, which makes up like 20% of non-whitespace lines in Java code I have encountered in the last few years, I agree.
He did $10 million in sales, but has to pay only $2 million in fines. This is not even a slap-on-the-wrist.
What does Meta lose if the US fails as a state? I'm sure there are some downsides but isn't it a global company anyway?
The EU bureaucracy has around 33,000 civil servants, so it's not particularly massive. Compare with the UK government, which has around 475,000 civil servants. In fact, there are English local councils that have bigger bureaucracies.

And, of course, the EU has a bigger population than the USA. Why don't you check out how many Federal government bureaucrats there are, just for fun?

This idea that the EU is a massive bureaucratic entity is seriously, factually wrong.
> remove all the tech decentalisation and inherent transaction costs.

cost: check, definitely.

decentralisation: nope, that's the point.

If you have to go to bitcoin.com to get your drug money, you can just shut that site down.

The Pirate Bay still works even though it's blocked in lots of countries, because running a mirror on a new domain is incentivised by littering the site with scammy ads, and the trackers and magnet links are an organic, decentralised matter.
Primary production in groundwater rivals that in oligotrophic marine systems
> A developer leaving the company is not responsible for a successful handover or that the documentation is correct.

It is a mutual responsibility. More often then not I've found that my manager, coworkers, etc. didn't ask any questions about my work during my notice period.
Not yet.

The only way to make sure that it continues like this is if nobody can collect the data.
Agree. Fine them as well, impound the car and crush it (send them the video), and tell them they can't own a car anymore. All of the above.
> regular people don't want to manage their keys

They don't have to, but they can if they want to.
Am I the only person who gets annoyed by scripts called something.sh which turn out to be bash scripts?
I run a house sitting site where house owners post listings for house sitters to respond to. Sometimes I flirt with the idea of making this community a decentralized autonomous web3 community. Currently I am the sole arbiter and mediator when there is conflict. I would love to shift this responsibility to a random selection of active members that have enrolled for this role for a certain time period. I envision a rotating council formulates the complaint, and a selected group votes on a set predefined outcomes. Members pay a virtual crypto currency and when problems arise this fund can be used to pay for insurance claims. Still very much in its infancy but I could see a good use case for web3 here.
No it doesn't, it calls into question how much redundant knowledge, code quality, documentation, and support the org values.

Which 90% of the time for anything but features and UI appearance is no value.

That allows the construction of micro-empires and dependence. Orgs either recognize that and provide resources, or they rely on shorter-term one man hero efficiencies, and pay the piper later.

They paid the piper later.

And who knows what "19" means. 19 offshores, so that's more like 6x the cost? And offshores are probably short term so they assume they'll hire one or two offshores long term which will ... maybe ... eventually get cheaper.

That's the beancounter logic. So they think long term they saved money.
You’ve just described a gigantic contingent of Texans
Anders Hejlsberg worked at Borland for many years and was heavy into creating Delphi. He was hired away from Borland to Microsoft. Having said that, it's more the IDE than the actual language. Delphi and C# aren't similar syntactically. C# is a C styled language while Delphi is a Pascal styled language (well it is Pascal/Object Pascal in everything but name). There are some similarities though, for example, C# has standard data types along with objects like Delphi where Java does not (at least last time I checked).

Visual Studio early on and Visual Studio today are very similar to the Borland dev studio when Hejlsberg was working there. I've used both languages/IDEs in my career extensively, albeit I haven't used Delphi in probably 15-20 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Hejlsberg
I think the "maintenance crew accidentally oiling the 'perfect' squeaky hinge" is an oft-repeated urban legend told at every movie studio.
> That reeks of "we need this replaced ASAP; get two teams of contractors working on it"

When I once saw something like this it was "We just got a whack load of investor dollars for hiring" coupled with a belief that moving to a PaaS, requiring a rewrite to support that new infrastructure, that was purportedly easy for inexperienced developers would allow them to hire literal high school students (some quite amazing, to be fair) on the cheap and thinking that more developers would equal more output.

The original product was built on Postgres, and when I questioned the move away it was explained to me that hiring someone who understood how to work with such systems (the PaaS provides a document database that indeed does make it really easy to get data into it) would cost four times more than the juniors they were hiring. Four juniors over one senior was considered a good tradeoff for the business.

And it probably was for the first month or two. The early work was pushed out much faster than a lone dev would have ever been able to. But it wasn't long before the technical choices started to fall short, in particular the document database not being suitable for the workload, which ground velocity to a halt once the easy work was done. Eventually the project shrunk down to a couple of senior devs that were hired to untangle the mess.
> The cost, in lives, of a major nuclear containment failure is easily in the millions to tens of millions.

> My priors on this shifted tremendously after Fukushima.

I'm curious why, despite Fukushima being pretty close to the worst-case scenario with modern technology, you feel these are mutually compatible feelings?
Diesel and gas have different emission profiles and the regulations don't get evenly applied. For example, harsher regulations on oxides of nitrogen will impact diesels more than gas. As someone else eluded to, "soot" may not be the best proxy for "emissions".
Is anyone even seriously interested in stopping csam on a grand scale, or is it just bluster to get surveillance passed? We just had ghislaine maxwell sentanced to only 20 years for a lifetime spent grooming kids for the elite who remain unpunished
That was my takeaway. It isn’t gleeful, it is sad… and I think that’s the point. Getting huffy that a horrific battle is being portrayed with toys seems to miss the entire message.
SpaceX Mounts Starship Booster on Texas Launch Tower
Once in grad school I went to a talk where another grad student was presenting on his fear research with mice. Many powerpoint details unfold of the hell he and his advisor had contrived to make the mice chronically afraid, and to be able to quantify the fear induced and its effects. I learned that when mice get scared enough they shit excessively. In the presentation of results he lingers on a graph, and says, for effect: "That's right, they were scared shitless."

Hilarity. The room bubbles with laughter. Just enough transgression.

I remember in that moment bubbling with rage. A famous and well-regarded paragon of the field [1] who had recently come to the university to give a talk spent his career characterizing animal emotions, especially of mice and rats. He revealed their rich emotional worlds in glorious detail. The presentor, his advisor, many of us in the department knew -- or should have -- how un-funny the joke was. We were perfectly positioned to know it.

Despite knowing what I knew, I didn't say anything. That silence is still among the top few of my regrets. I guess I learned the weight of doing the right thing in a packed room full of people with contrary opinions, and learned that I was way less strong / bold / principled than I had believed myself to be; which was remarkable, as that bar was already low.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaak_Panksepp
Here have been the phases so far:

Gen 1: Bitcoin - general ideas established, mostly a proof of concept

Gen 2: ETH - Building on bitcoin's ideas it establishes the idea of the VM + chain, which transforms bitcoin into essentially a new digital economy.

Gen 3: AVAX/SOL/DOT - ETH with scaling and fixes environmental concerns

AVAX, the chain I develop on, and the one that has the best technology to enable the capabilities required is less than a year old. Solona and Polka Dot are 2 years old.

The stuff i'm talking about is what I would call Gen 5. I think it's pretty unfair to say it's always been "10 years in the future".... a lot of progress has been made, it just might not be apparent if you're not active in the space.
The cease and desist letter stated: "proprietary images and data", I doubt a commercial/sponsored database of prices exists. That would have grave anti-cartell consequences. But you're right: for most reasonable people reading the article, the _only_ relevant data on trolley.co.uk _would_ be the price information. (And I don't have any insider knowledge, I was only guessing ...)
> Imagine saying there is too much food/water/gas/energy with a straight face to someone.

I sure hear a lot of statements that sound a lot like that with only the scantest of qualification here on HN.

I think the housing equivalent would be something along the lines of "there are too many single family houses available".
And to make myself even more explicit, I am saying that desires of the US Public are indeed different from "US (Gov) Interests" as noted from the Snowden leaks, the Pentagon Papers, the Church Committee, Afghanistan Papers, Manning Leaks et al we can see that there's a (rather) serious divergence between the desires of both and should not be conflated
Like the inner workings of the brain, the way the microbiome of our body impacts our life is poorly understood. There will definitely be a lot of FUD that will come from this, but the TLDR for many of these studies seems to be: eat better quality foodstuffs and you'll be better off.
Maybe? I'm tortured by years of fish usage, I just run all scripts with bash by default now.
and does not integrate with public transit in the slightest

I used to live in SF and commuted to Sausalito daily, either by GGT bus or bike (or rarely, took the ferry but riding home from the ferry wasn't much shorter than just riding to Sausalito).
I am really interested in GNN in the context of compilers.

* Predicting the color of a node in a graph, could be used for example speculative devirtualization.

* Predicting edges weight could give us a better estimate of hot basic blocks statically.

* Running performance experiments is as easy as running the benchmark and introducing some metric of performance which you can give back to the GNN to learn from.

Imagine also for debugging and IDEs. I haven't played with copilot, but I imagine that something like guessing the graph based on node labels and on some edges is feasible using GNN? This means that the IDE could try to match the name of your variables, the control flow, and the name of the function to other known functions and could potentially point out differences. Potentially giving us a way to fix logic errors, or better algos. E.g., "Mmm... it looks like you are implementing your own bubble sort from scratch. Would you like to click here and use <insert better sort>."

I am not an expert on GNN, but if anyone has resources for someone to learn more about the state of the art of GNNs (a link to a literature review or something similar) do let me know.
As a point in support of this comment, I recently perused the xxhash sources looking for the actual implementation of the hash functions, but it's difficult because there are like 20kloc of mostly preprocessor macros. This probably was not created using an IDE, and if it was, the IDE is not the cause of these issues...
Not many characters left in ASCII. Reuse of an existing operator almost required.
Binary operators cannot be use as it would be grammatical ambiguous and would need resolution at the semantic pass which is a big no-no (that's why C++ is so slow at compiling, it cannot be parsed without semantic analysis). This left only the two exlusively unary operators !, ~. As ~ was repurposed for string concatenation, only ! remained.

templ!thing(a,b)

I would have thought that templ(thing)(a,b) would have been a good solution, as it is what is used in the declaration/definition side of templates, but this would have made removing redundant () not possible in UFCS expressions.
That's my point: avoiding nuclear is failing to solve a problem that will certainly have catastrophic effects within decades to avoid a problem that may effect us hundreds of years from now. It's a bad trade.

It's a bad trade even assuming that we don't use those hundreds of years to innovate on the problem, but we should and are. For example, see the sibling thread, or look at TerraPower's reactor that runs off of spent nuclear fuel: https://www.terrapower.com/a-solution-to-the-nuclear-waste-p...
Do you have any evidence for these claims?
Indeed, a phrase you no longer hear about rich people: "They've fallen on hard times". Because they don't, the Fed keeps bailing them out.
This sounds suspiciously like the law of averages. The reason that people lead within a hierarchy is not because they have the "initiative to lead", it's because they've been assigned to lead. Even if they lose any "initiative to lead" or lack any competence in leading, they will continue to lead as long as the person who pays the bills says so. This could be because that leader has a great track record, because the check-signer or someone they trusted sensed a special spark in that leader, because the leader is someone's nephew, or because the check-signer and the leader like the same music.

That's what hierarchy is - it's being named the leader. To tightly couple that with "leadership qualities" is a sort of capitalist religion.

If there's no hierarchy, maybe one person will lead on this, maybe another person will lead on that, maybe one person will be the nominal leader all the time, but actually materially limit their leadership to orchestrating the activities of a bunch of other leaders. It's not organization that's bad, it's arbitrary entitlement that's bad.

The sentiment you express here is "there will always be a King." No, there won't always be a king.
What does blink mean? Does your chips work when it is -70c - cars are used in arctic environments and so automakers have special tests to ensure they work in cold temperatures most of us will never see. Do you chips work when it is +65c - the inside of a parked car will get that hot, and the car is expected to work. How long will you keep the new chips in production - the longer the better we need to provide spare parts for everything for at least 10 years, so if you go out of production we need to fill a warehouse with the final production run just in case the things start mass failing in a few years.

I think the auto industry is looking to see if they can bypass the whole above mess with their own fabs. They don't need fancy processes, they need something reliable that they can depend on for years. The cost to a fab though means they need to worry about anti-trust as they can't go alone.
Install by executing code from a bitly link, huh?
> Ursula von der Leyen was not elected by EU citizens

it's even worse than that

prior to the election there was the usual stuff you'd expect: potential candidates begin interviewed by the press, television debates, where they would explain what they planned to do if they won, why their policy was the right one, etc

then after the election all of those candidates were discarded and von der Leyen was appointed as commission president

despite not being named prior or participating in the process of democratic scrutiny at all

total farce
Identifying slow Rails queries with sqlcommenter
> frequently

once every blue moon?

> by design

that sounds much bigger than it is, a little like inteligent design.

> not even close to comparable with the legal environment in China.

So, you are literally saying that you are not in a position to compare them. Or at least you are saying it's so out of this world, it may be on another planet, a parallel universe even.

Really, I have discovered a legitimate branch of legal research is in constitutional comparation (or whatever it's called). Sounds more promissing than it likely will be, surely a small field, but damn I'm intrigued.

I do concede that this thread should focus on less whataboutism.
> The losers could suffer appalling casualties in the battle itself or in the ensuing pursuit, but the victors rarely suffered more than 5 per cent fatalities even in drawn-out engagements.

One of Rome’s biggest advantages was that their training and discipline were such that even when they lost, they would often still extract a high price from the opponent (see Pyrrhus).

This could be a real problem during civil wars and the opposing Roman legions would devastate each other.
This park was originally the sister park of Great America in Gurnee, Illinois (now owned by Six Flags), both originally built in the 1970s by Marriott (the hotel company). Up until the mid 1980s when the parks were sold, they were almost clones of each other (the way Orlando's Magic Kingdom is of Calfornia's Disneyland). You can still see some common features of the parks but they've been diverging for the past 30+ years.
I think it's coming from this source (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5872783/) which more or less just generally claims that "Western Diets" are disruptive to gut microbomes.

Annoyingly, it doesn't really pin down what exactly it characterizes as "the western diet". It does include extracted oils and refined simple sugars (glucose and friends). But where exactly stuff like pasta/rice/flour sit is less clear in their description.
Charles Seife describes my feeling about every scientific or journalistic text I read.

What he does not describe is my disability to understand most topics good enough to find out if a source is reliable or not. That a paper got into a famous money-making journal certainly is not a guarantee for reliability.
First Marine World (in RWC), then Great America (in St Clara). Guess there still is Gilroy Gardens.
I've finally found someone else who's seen this behaviour!

I've noticed this too, and I found (in my case anyway) that Bing/Outlook seems to Rot13 the keys of the query parameters - is this what you're seeing too?