skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a nuclear engineer and have some buddies who work(ed) at this facility (the National Ignition Facility, NIF) and they showed me this video. I now use it when I go speak at middle schools and stuff about science. It's so cool. Allow me to explain a bit about what's happening.

00:18 - stuff charges up

00:25 - timing pulses come out of the control room

00:31 - the pulses get split and passed into the two BIG laser bays

00:45 - The laser pulses get passed back and forth passed some laser amplifiers (xenon flash lamps) which boost the heck out of the beam.

01:21 - amplified lasers get reflected around the giant spherical chamber you see in the background

01:30 - lasers enter the final optics, (each the size of a phone-booth) where they get converted from infrared to ultraviolet and focused

01:35 - UV lasers converge on a tiny little cylinder (hohlraum)

01:45 hohlraum starts kicking off x-rays which compress the fuel pellet in the middle

02:01 the fuel pellet gets so hot and compressed that the atoms overcome their electrostatic repulsion and fuse together, releasing astounding amounts of fusion nuclear energy

More info at Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Ignition_Facility
Author mentioned home town as Zagreb, so I'm not quite sure that this has an American author.

But yeah, it's ridiculous that there's no mention of public transport, a system which has many other positive effects and per capita advantages.

Weird.
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Correctly predicting timing is hard with cancer.
For sure, but the time spent learning React would provide value for all his future projects too.

I'd probably use React for a project that simple, particularly if it needed to be maintained and expanded by others.
The number of libraries is too high, but the bigger issue is the speed at which each one is replaced. I thought the ruby ecosystem was bad 10 years ago, and the python ecosystem bad 5 years ago, but these are like sloths on Vicodin compared to the absurd rate at which the JS community seems to adopt and deprecate libraries and frameworks and whatever else they're calling them today.

The worst thing is, every single thing these frameworks are trying to address are solved problems, and have been for decades. But people love reinventing wheels.
Why wouldn't it be possible to version control in the same way we version control other random files? Just treat it as a stream of arbitrary data.
Also, after learning a few frameworks, it simply isn't hard.

I mean, if you get the right mind-set of wanting to understand "what is the intention of the framework devs" you can pretty much learn any framework.

Problems mostly come if you try to force your React/Ember/Backbone knowledge into another framework.

I got all my jobs without prior knowledge of the used frameworks.
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How Much Do iOS Freelance Developers Actually Make?
Is this only a problem with Java frameworks? (The hammer-factory-building-factory talk leads me to believe that).

I stared learning Django a few years ago and have never looked back, it has increased my productivity loads. Admittedly its reasonably opinionated about the style of app you are building (but it covers the majority of apps and you don't need to use every part of the framework).
That is something I've been googling an answer for. In "alarms only" mode the media volume is still not muted, as one would expect from the name. It seems they forgot to make it so, or forgot to describe that mode as "alarms + media only"...
Check out The Walkable City by Jeff Speck or Suburban Nation. I believe both of those books touch on the lack of use of parking spaces. Especially with city codes requiring a certain number of spaces for businesses or residential structures even when said spaces aren't necessary.

You can reduce spots/meters and raise prices and that should solve a lot of the problem. It'll also increase walking/biking/ride sharing.

Also please keep in mind I'm just trying to be constructive with some thoughts I have and books I've read, and not trying to be argumentative.
Yes, but the point was that the poster said that "flavors of the week" is just a meme, and then said all you need to learn is two current flavors of the week.
Facebook's Attempt to Take on Craigslist Could Impact Google, Too
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Sounds a lot like https://qloudstat.com/ which I've been using for a while.
The sun is quite dense. I have to think a Dyson sphere surrounding it could be as thin as, say, an onion's outer layer when compared to the onion itself. (Assuming enough distance from the sun to avoid burning up.)
When I had no experience I was asked to define the next few years for my company's single page app.

I researched all the major tools and committed to django, react, fluxxor, leaflet. As the major parts.
All but leaflet (now OpenLayers) are still around and growing well.

The most important thing is that I got to pick which tools felt most resilient to rapid development and lots of rookie mistakes. Even if they may have been overkill or not ideal or some thing I cant possibly know as a newcomer.

In the past I did chase the dream of the one toolset to end them all and it had me never committing for any meaningful duration.
There is a consensus, and in social sciences like economics, consensus absolutely matters because universal truths do not exist.

And no, the incentives of academic economists are not aligned with industry like is claimed. If that were true, the majority of academic economists would not be Keynesian welfare-state supporting democrats like they currently are in the US.
> Yes, I realise you wrote "convince them that they may end their suffering," but makes little sense.

Remember when you were a kid and your mother explained to you the difference between 'may' and 'can'? Yes, it is possible to end one's suffering (in this world, anyway — no guarantees about the next), but it is not licit.
Everybody goes camping the same weekend(s). The same number of vans will be required; now they're parked at the rental place most of the time. It changes the equation for the individual, but not for society.
Hi, author here. The goal for Gulp - even in the Webpack chapter, is for back-end transpilation. Webpack is great to replace Browserify for client apps, but Gulp is better suited for back-end stuff in my opinion. I also wanted to show people the specific part that Webpack replaces (the Gulp 'build-client' task) to give them a clear idea of why we introduce it.
The way everything is formulated it sounds like successfully exploiting people, but actually it's the good side of capitalism: Someone providing a valuabe service and getting paid well for it.
Media volume can be max even if ringtone volume is zero. Also on my phone (Galaxy S7) notifications is a separate volume which isn't controlled by the ringer volume, except that it is muted when you mute the ringer volume. I have started playing really loud things many times in bad situations due to the media volume not muting or reducing when you silence the phone.
> (Maybe because it has such bad reputation in the US etc.?)

Author is Berlin-based, according to his bio.

But for Americans, there is so little public transit in the US, and what little that does exist is so rarely useful, that a large majority of Americans don't even remember to think of it at all -- particularly if your not in a top-20 US city.
I've hired multiple people onto team using React when they have no prior React experience.

The learning curve for React is pretty smooth, so I'd mostly check if they had experience of building the types of apps we were doing with other approaches - and whether they'd seen any ill effects from those choices.
A trap for what exactly? By the time your society can do this to a star, you're not exactly fighting others for resources. You're very much into post-scarcity territory and the traditional motivations for conflict are long gone. I never understood the scarcity mentality we apply to hypothetical super-advanced civilizations. This is like expecting Jesus to take your wallet or the Buddha to kick you down the stairs.

If there are other advanced societies out there I seriously doubt war is their main motivator in space exploration, the same way Voyager and Curiosity are unarmed. Sure, that makes for fun sci-fi stories, but real life is governed by fairly simplistic game theory rules, at least from a high-level perspective. The motivators we have been given through evolution will be the motivators they have as well. Unless we're dismissing evolution as only a local phenomenon, we should expect similar beings to ourselves. I think the 'hostile alien' scenario shouldn't be our default. Sadly, that approach sells ad impressions and schlocky futurist books and influences a lot of people to believe things that are pretty questionable.

If we discovered a primitive species in the European seas we'd be tripping over ourselves to preserve them and study them and to make sure they never, ever get hurt by us (or a stray asteroid or anything we could prevent). We wouldn't be conquering them with robot subs for their pretty coral jewellery or sub-surface oil or whatever. We have enough pretty things and energy here on Earth and in unihabited places if need be. Life is rare enough that we don't need to attack other life for resources, assuming we ever find any.
The only way to win is not to play. I'm past 50. I'm not overly fussed about dying, it's not like it's avoidable. I'm not overly fussed about how either as I'll get what I'm given. Of course I'd prefer a pain-free exit rather than a 2 year painful decline to incoherent as my father had. Unless you go in your sleep I suspect all routes have pain as the final memory. I have no fear of any of it.

The only thing actually on my radar is being aware I have limited time, and am past half-way.

For those who die slowly, or lose faculties, the process seems unfair. For those who have a sudden exit the event seems unfair and can leave much unresolved and unsaid.

Euthanasia, to me, seems to be the least worst option if I should ever find myself facing a drawn out exit. I get a bit frustrated those professing relgion like to play the "you must not" card. It's not their business unless I share their belief, which I don't.

So I'll get the exit the universe decides. One day I'll be part of a star.
Machine-generated C is not source code, so this doesn't solve the reproducibility problem.
It's a weird world we live in where a marketing headline sounds like the voiceover introducing a cyberpunk dystopia.
So... ignore them? If you want to use a table for tabular data, then please - use a table!

If someone whines you've used a table, then ignore their whining and keep using table markup for tabular data.
I'm soo 100% like You.

I've found my own stack of choice - requirejs+jade(pug)+npm scripts(to parse requirejs and ES6 with babel) just do my job - no matter if it is a front-end or mobile one.

I've also add to it Express.js if want to build something full-stack - no front-end frameworks, just jade(pug) and own way of files organization etc. Sometimes I have worse day and think that I'm behind new hyped stuff but then I realise that my way just works without any fancy setup..
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The world's population continues to grow, and people worldwide are still migrating from rural to urban areas. So there will be additional people left to travel for at least several decades.
In practice, there is usually only a single dominant technology at a time even in the JavaScript ecosystem. See this recent survey: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12627693

Right now it seems very clear that React, Redux, and Webpack are winners.

The difference, I think, is that many of these tools are simple enough that if you have a new idea you will simply write a replacement instead of trying to work with the maintainers to push out a dramatically different new release.
I use car2go to get to work about 5 days a week, and have for a few years now. The big problem is that the cars move, away from my neighborhood in the morning, camp out downtown all day, and then migrate back in the evening.

Since I leave for work a bit later than my neighbors, there's rarely a car nearby when I want one (though obviously, if I wait long enough, one usually shows up, if not, there's still uber at twice the price). By the time I get home from work, the neighborhood is flooded with them again, exactly when I don't want one.

Being able to "accio car2go!" would be perfect.
Or we're seeing one fall apart.

(I still think that Dyson spheres are an idiotic thing to build. If you're worried about getting energy for your civilization, and you can do stellar-scale engineering, there are better things to do with a star's mass than let it waste its fuel in a big, uncontrolled trash fire, collecting it with solar cells or whatever).
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12614681 (3 days ago, 69 comments)
The system handling dirt roads was an order of magnitude more impressive than anything else I've seen including George Hotz little toy project. Can geohotz system navigate dirt roads? Intersections? Can it read signs? No, no, and no, but hey it can record video... I gave several examples of different levels of tech - all developed by non-"tech" companies.
It's not your fault though. The way the article is written it sounds(!) like exactly what you are saying.
Ambient github!
He's still doing awesome stuff. See his blog, for example: http://otherthings.com/blog/ (I never knew Cassidy but I studied under Tom Banchoff a few years later, so I certainly knew his homeworks!)
You don't get that kind of accuracy in any system that has to deal with congested roads, or any dense major city. E.g. there's plenty of bus-stops near me where stops on the same route involves going around corners and traffic machines and stopping close enough that GPS would be insufficient to be guaranteed to tell the stops apart if you don't get a good enough fix on additional satellites quickly enough.

Even with all the extra data, and a lot number crunching, in London it's a challenge to get it to withing a few minutes during rush hour.

So, sure, if you're dealing with simple, small systems with little congestion, you can simplify.
We make cars, but perhaps we could improve our career website. Thank you for the feedback.

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> we were best of friends for 23 years.

Close friends often know our trigger buttons better than we do. If he were here today-- what do you think he would say? What do you think he would do to help pick you up?

There's already several excellent suggestions here. Rigorous exercise is known to help alleviate depression. Honor his memory by making a decision today-- do get moving, start rebuilding.
> Everybody goes camping the same weekend(s)

It's spread fairly evenly over the summer months in most locations. And not everyone has a SUV for camping. Some just need the huge storage to pack skiing equipment or similar, which tends to have different seasons.
in addition, I've took a look on react/ember/angular etc. but it just doesn't fit me - but at the same time I've took some principles from every of them and use it in my projects (e.g. code modularity)
FWIW, you can also write the documentation parsers (Fathead type Instant Answers) in Python, and Ruby

For example, here is a parser for the Python docs, written in Python: https://github.com/duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-fathead/blob/mas...

and the same for Ruby: https://github.com/duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-fathead/blob/mas...
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Currently our stack includes Rails, mySQL and Angular on AWS at a mature MVP stage, but we are looking for engineers with experience in any technology that will help us deliver amazing real-time data analysis and flexibility as we scale out to meet ever-growing demand. We are also looking for front-end UI designers and developers who can help us build out amazing data visualization and customer acquisition components, as well as mobile apps. We seek to create a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone can exercise their initiative and creativity.

Our office is in Back Bay, Boston, and we are looking for folks who can work on-site at least a few days a week. We offer competitive compensation and Health, Dental and 401K.

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A quantum beamsplitter that relies on dust
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I'm just discovering him, and reading through his blog.

His writing is just what I needed right now, at this time in my life. Particularly about how to be happy.

I think when you've lived such a prolific life, you don't need any last words. His life's work speaks for itself.
Just because $policy has a disproportionate effect on one race or another doesn't make $policy racist or mean that we should abolish it. The reasons why marijuana should be legal have nothing to do with racially disproportionate effects of enforcement.
But the system gauges my value judgement poorly. I never made judgements about whether swerving was a factor, but it gave a gauge on that. I considered the passengers living with witnessing smashed bodies on the windshield (all else equal).

Also, even with no difference (or more death ahead), braking and scraping into the wall "left side from observer" drops more momentum safely and allows crossers more time to move forward along their momentum (although I didn't specifically use that because it was against the rules).

There is no way to make an optimal decision in this game.
Or a space goat. My money is equally split between a Dyson sphere that is tearing itself apart (because: low bidder on the project, some things just never change) or a gigantic space goat that is eating the star.

Both are equally likely :-)
"I want to study oncology" - On the biological side? Go learn biology. On the ML research side? Go learn basic python syntax before trying to train a neural network.

I usually see 3 categories:

- I want to learn Web Development.

- I want to learn Web Development, but in all actuality I'm going to quit in 3 days.

- I want to learn Web Development, but in all actuality I just want something working with no effort.

None of these need an informed decision. The latter 2 don't matter anyway, and the first one is better off starting with a vanilla ajax request[0], and they likely know it. When it comes down to it, "I'm going to make an app today" means your decision likely doesn't have long-term consequences and an informed decision isn't all that important. Pick up jquery like the other 80% of the living internet[1].

[0] https://webdesign.tutsplus.com/tutorials/an-example-of-ajax-...

[1] http://trends.builtwith.com/javascript/jQuery
'Team Player' Could Become an Actual Qualification
People writing these kind of articles are really not looking at their current stack objectively.

If I'm doing backend, I have to pick from various languages, I often will still need build tools (often more complicated) for various reason), you need to spin up a server (or make an AWS account....maybe use S3, maybe not!), you still have dependency management, etc etc.

Remember when Maven picked up, the bitchfests that surrounded it?

And debugging a server side app in production by picking at memory dumps, profilers, etc? Its not exactly easy.

The difference is that those problems are understood, and everyone knows the barrier for entry is higher.

The web platform used to feel like it had a low barrier for entry because it was so limited and there was only so much you could do. Those barriers were removed, so now its just as hard as anything else, except its not quite as understood (the barriers were removed recently). So all of the peanut gallery goes in thinking they can change the world in JavaScript, then realize they actually need to learn to engineer.

A good example of that problem is all of the big companies and startups hiring "full stack" engineers, which is code name for "pure backend engineer who has 10+ years of experience doing backend...and has heard of HTML".

Of course, that kind of people won't go far.