skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Horse poop degrades fairly rapidly (relative to omnivore and carnivore excrement). Doesn't smell as bad either.

Cars produce all sorts of chemical compounds that ruin the air we breath.
Amazing, I did avoid hell to collegues by implementing some form of counter in VBA. My most prized coding contribution. 8 lines that evaporated hell (filtering 1000 rows in Excel to find duplicates) into fun.
What makes you think you ever won't?

Plus, sometimes, it might not need to be done tomorrow, if it turns out to be obsolete.
Non-electric cars will be banned in most inner cities probably within the decade because of their pollution, sort of a parallel with how horses were banned earlier.
A trivial solution is a delay before any pop-up accepts input. Chances are a click on something that only appeared 50 ms ago is a mistake.
It also means that this is mainly applicable on software that is expected to be in development for many years and then have many years of active maintenance.
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> None of the very large number of day laborers, etc, could afford an electric car

Used Nissan LEAF's start around $7k, even in the Bay Area. With $0 down, that works out to about $125/month car payment. For the vast majority of drivers -- if you can afford a regular car, you can easily afford an electric one instead.

> Yes, the math says that if everyone in california drove an electric car, we'd be in trouble. Even if they only charge off peak.

An electric car can charge on power draws all the way down to 1.4kW (that's a standard 15amp 3-prong US household outlet). An electric car charging likely uses less electricity per second than the Air Conditioner or Clothing Dryer you already have in your home.

There is no doomsday scenario for the electric grid. Electric Cars simply don't draw enough power to do any of the things you've described. Especially once you factor in that their charging mostly happens off-peak anyway.
I've been a back pain sufferer for most of my adult life (I'm 45, this started at 20) after being attacked and having my back bent badly backwards (with a knee placed in the small of my back). I know how you feel in terms of wanting help, so here's my (anecdotal!!!) experience.

I'll spare you the full story, but I've tried just about everything - Chiropractor, Osteopath, Yoga, Pilates, Exercise of all sorts, Physio (NHS in the UK), etc. Nothing has really helped - more paper the cracks than fix the wall.

Very little worked, and the pain has increased in frequency and intensity over the past 10 years or so - culminating in a prolapsed L4-L5 disc, and some nasty sciatic pain episodes around 7 years ago. The NHS treatment (pain killers and exercises) didn't help. I did all the exercises they gave me, and they did nothing. They discharged me without any improvement.

Three things HAVE really helped. Firstly, learning Alexander Technique [1] which got rid of the sciatica (and the need for daily pain killers) in a couple of weeks. Much later (in the last 6 months) some really specific exercises targeting the multifidus muscles [2], and reading "The back pain bible" [3] was eye-opening - having a good idea of what's going on in the back helped, and there were some exercises in there which with hindsight did help. I read somewhere (can't find it now) that once you lose the tone in your multifidus muscles, you don't spontaneously regain the tone/strength in them; other muscles cover for them and then you're in trouble.

At the end of last year I was at my wits' end - pain all day every day, no-one understanding what was going on, and being told by the chief physio of my NHS trust that "this is just how life is now" - despite me being the kind of obsessive person who actually does the exercises I've been set. So I decided to try things for a month and see what helped - some things did, some didn't (including a very expensive piece of mobilisation equipment). And the multifidus exercises (with leg weights) seemed to just 'switch on' the rest of me, allowing me to maintain good posture and protect my spine. I'm definitely not fixed yet, but I'm not in pain all the time - in fact I had a nearly 3 week period without a twinge last month, which was like being on holiday away from the usual hell. I really think the weakness in those muscles is the key to me actually improving for the first time in a decade (they were pitifully weak initially, and I'm sure there will be other areas where that's true). Maybe something that specific could help you?

For context, I'm 6'1 and around 90Kg with a fairly muscly build - I -look- fit and I'm certainly not overweight, but there's more to bad backs than appearances.

Anyway, hope that helps someone.

[1] - http://www.alexandertechnique.com/
[2] - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Multifidus-Back-Pain-Solution-Exerc...
[3] - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sarah-Keys-Back-Sufferers-Bible/dp/...
>Cost of living is absurdly high, unemployment is low and life is just really convenient.

My understanding is that the cost of living is very reasonable, with what the average person gets paid. Almost everyone else in Europe spends a bigger portion of their income on accommodation, food, clothes, commuting etc. while the cost of electronics, cars, vacations and so on remains the same.
It's not a black and white thing, you can have a feature structure for your UI and services, and one folder with just the data models.

Sometimes your frameworks kinda force it on you too.
In my country they are banned on highways, national roads, cities. I was referring to that.

I think banning them on congested roads will increase the demand for public transport which is what we should have on those road anyway.
I'm sorry, you lost me. What do you mean?

It is undeniable that transportation is a major contributor to the greenhouse catastrophe, accounting for 27% of U.S. emissions and 14% of global emissions.

I'm a huge proponent of electric cars and solar panels, but let's not kid ourselves that they'll solve climate change all by themselves. Those are necessary, but not sufficient. We also need to figure out how to grow food without long-term desertification of the continent.
I think beacons are potentially the only thing you want to leave on a static web site, out of all possible javascript assets. And it'd be best to load them asynchronously (which pretty much all the tags already do, by creating a request <script> tag dynamically).

Certain tags also provide noscript 1x1 gif, so even your analytics is gracefully degraded!

Potentially web fonts are another candidate for a necessary javascript inclusion (css fonts are load blocking unfortunately), but that's by itself is pretty excessive.
Horses were never banned (except maybe locally), they're just far more expensive and difficult to run than cars.
You can. Georgia Tech's intro to CS classes for non-engineers are both Python (the engineering one is Matlab). Objects are introduced at the end, but as a concept OO is largely deferred to the following class, in Java. GT actually used to have the intro class be in Scheme, but switched it to Python a number of years ago, which they've stayed with. I agree though, Scheme would be a good language, but the impedance mismatch to get to more popular languages would be higher (plus have students asking "who uses this?!" Being able to reply "Google" tends to satisfy that question pretty well)

When I was there, at least, the focus was on basic programming concepts, functions, variables, loops, recursion, conditionals, and library interaction was largely imperative, more focused on successful execution than on the organization of the code.
I remember the first time I used X Window and noticed windows not stealing focus. It was one of those times where you realize you have not even understood the full extent of your abuse. Approx. 20 years later and Windows still can't get this basic thing right.
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Who should we blame in your opinion?
An earlier thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14669626
It's extra annoying when that .8s lock happens right in the middle of css animation.
True, but you probably won't be actively working in some other app when that happens. Your hands were, up until that point, actively involved in connecting the phone to the laptop. It's still a bit annoying - maybe you only wanted to plug in the phone in order to charge it. But I'd say for that moment, the phone is your focus, and the pop-up app is related to that.
They'd probably just write a threatening letter, and that would be enough for the Apple Store to fire the friend. Unless you're high enough in the food chain, a company would rather drop you than deal with the potential trouble (even if the threat is completely bogus).
It seems like the O/S should have some idea of normal human response time and just filter out inputs that follow too closely.
Depends on your location. In my country they are banned on highways, national roads and cities or in other words in all those places in which cars rule.
> And here's a large, we'll run, study showing acupuncture is more effective than sham accupuncture

And still not clinically significant.
^ This. The Model S has a lot more in common with a mid-high range Mercedes or a low end Ferrari. Anybody who owns an exotic car like that will tell you, you do not buy those for the reliability.

It's also worth noting the Model S is, and is marketed to the audience for, a performance car. When you put down that kind of money, you're going to drive it like one. If you drove a Honda like a Ferrari you'd likely break a whole lot of it's "reliable" parts too.
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"We" did? Who is "we"?

>"Every person having control or charge of a vehicle shall, whenever upon any way and approaching any horse, drive, manage, and control such vehicle in such a manner as to exercise every reasonable precaution to prevent the frightening of such horse, and to insure the safety and protection of any person riding or driving the same."

That's the law (for instance) in New Hampshire. The same article (the very first link when I search for "horse street legal united states") http://cs.thehorse.com/blogs/horses-and-the-law/archive/2012... further states

>Traffic laws in a few states, including Colorado, Michigan, and New Mexico, specifically state that horses have all the rights and obligations of other vehicles when they are being ridden or driven on a public highway. Everywhere else, except in states like Louisiana where it appears to be illegal to ride a horse on a paved road, riders and drivers probably enjoy similar rights and obligations by implication.

>Some states prohibit specific conduct when riding on a highway: It is illegal to ride a horse at night in New Mexico; to cross bridges at a gait faster than a walk in Idaho, Mississippi, and Pennsylvania; to ride or drive a horse "recklessly" in Nevada; to race or run horses on a highway in Kentucky, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, or New Jersey; to ride on a levee in Kentucky; and to ride on interstate highways in several states. Horses should be ridden on the right-hand side of the road, going with the flow of traffic, almost everywhere except Colorado, where riders must ride on the left.

Sorry but I don't think you know what you're talking about, you're not in the United States, or you failed to specify enough context so that in that limited situation your statement is true. At the very least you failed to make a simple Google search for a sweeping generalization that is demonstrably not true.
CH is cheaper cost-of-living-wise than Bay Area at-large. I formerly lived in the Bay Area and now live/work in Zürich. When you throw having a child into the equation, Zürich is hands-down cheaper and better than West Coast. No more worrying about what zip code you live in for a decent school district, etc. Your earnings go much further here.

This is an expensive place to visit as an outsider but cheap place to live and work. Let's not forget tax efficiency, either.

But, hey, the Helvetic Confederation isn't for everyone, and I'm OK with that.
Seems to be cached to disk cache on chrome at least..
This giant crocodile was an apex predator 166M years ago
What would be the point of using anything but the govt's promise then?
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That about sums up the why of my recent job change. It was kind of hard to explain why I was leaving my job during interviews when the question was asked. It's hard to point out one thing and the individual Dilbert-y things seem like stupid reasons individually, but altogether they were a sign I needed to move on.
My point is that kotlin by default targets 1.6. You need to specify to target 1.8 if you want to use it. So for me the experiment is broken. You should either compare java 1.6 with kotlin or set up kotlin to use 1.8 to compare with the same java version.
When I see posts about tuning the OS specific things (like mem allocators, Page size tuning, VMs etc..) , I get the following question (not exactly sure it's the right one):

As there is exponential increase in the in the performance critical software which runs on the dedicated machines, what if we avoid the abstraction of Operating System for them and run using bare minimum, optimized system software?

What if we can pick the specific OS kernel modules + drivers required for our application/ machine needs, tune it for the app and deploy the whole stack (kernel modules + app) as one software?

Example: For a database to work, we need Networking module (accept and send request on a given port), Memory module (to access disk, memory, cache, etc), and Processor handling modules (to create a process/ thread, if we can call that)

Let's say a Dockerfile kind of thing, which specifies all the required modules/ driver for the given software. The modules can be compiled for the architecture and deployed.

Advantages I can see are:

1. Lesser abstraction
2. Full control on scheduling the software. Hence, lesser synchronization issues.
3. Kernel modules optimized for the application software.

All the above three things leads to much better performance.

I see the following problems with the approach:

1. Existing softwares(both user and system) doesn't suite well.
2. Increased development time (as system software needs to be tuned as well).
3. Not so many system software developers.

Isn't that's how the software architecture for the high performance software (which runs the dedicated machines) should be in the first place? Given that we are running so many of them now.

A complete OS (with all the modules and generically coded) looks fine for just the end users who uses variety of not-so-perf critical apps.

What do you think about it?
My original point was that dredmorbius's comment that Pu-238 is in low supply wasn't referencing some law of nature, but a political decision that could be changed.

I said they were a "bad idea for general power generation", so I'm not suggesting that they be used to power a Mars colony, but rather that the reasons not to do so don't include Pu-238 being in low supply.

We also have a low supply of rockets & other infrastructure to colonize Mars, but we can simply decide to make them.

Still, I think any extrapolation of current numbers to say that Pu-238 would be categorically unsuitable for such a purpose is probably premature. Nobody's tried to produce it on a truly industrial scale, which would bring costs down. It has a half-life of around 90 years degrading at 1%/year, so once you produce it it'll power the colony for a long time.

It's also around 6% efficient at generating electricity[1], but 100% efficient at generating heat, which is a huge part of energy requirements on Mars when it comes to human habitation. The Curiosity rover generates 120W of electricity but 2000W of heat.

1. https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/34203/mars-curio...
What's the difference between "crystal formation" and cpu processing? They are both physical processes that don't understand the mathematical concepts that underpin their functioning. Maybe they do computation, but not math. Only humans can do math so far, and maybe some AIs, in a limited sense. Understanding math is harder than computing.
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Oh, man. This is a VM in JS ("Google Script") with a UI in Google Sheets.

If I had more time I'd post a VM in Google Sheets formulas only.

Anyone want to take it up?

Edit: hold my beer (see my reply below)
Horses aren't banned. If you spend some time in a big city, they're everywhere. Police ride them, people ride them, people use them to pull carts and pull other people. The horses are always less useful than machines, but they exist.
You don't need an actual vast conspiracy for the world to behave as if one exists, through emergent effects. Discrimination against blacks, for instance; okay, there was an evil cabal there (the KKK), but it wasn't required for the overall effect, which emerged out of large numbers of individuals acting in what they believed was their own self-interest.
How many useful die per wafer? Is there a ballpark yield for 14nm?

I too suspect this was not a profit-in-the-now division. They were probably playing a long-term game. I think they ceded the game to someone else .. but who?
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Not that I know of, but AFAIK you can use a proxy.

Even with Poltergeist I used to debug a slow test suite with it's `--proxy-server` option.

You can fire up mitmproxy and see the requests flowing in real time. You can even modify them or replay them.
> Picking and choosing a feature set for most applications sits in the completely infeasible plane.

I find it rather interesting that there have been tons of applications that have, historically, had optional features. Many of them work quite well.
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Are you using angular in the enterprise?
You want to ban cars on congested roads? Isn't that a paradox? If cars are banned on a road then it won't be congested anymore, so cars will be allowed on it, then it will get congested so cars get banned ... in the end I think what you're suggesting is running around giving tickets to people in traffic jams.

Also, in what country did they ban horses?
Yeah well in some European countries, there is a negative return now - the government is essentially saying "pay us for keeping your money".
Rather define the behaviour of what happens when addition of two ints exceed the maximum allowed value.
Given that their site now brings my pc to its knees with popups and other garbage, good riddance.
Here is the Chevy Bolt maintenance schedule from GM: https://my.chevrolet.com/content/dam/gmownercenter/gmna/dyna...

Tire rotations, cabin air filter replacement every so often, and a coolant fluid replacement at 150k miles.

Nearly all braking is done via regenerative braking and not friction brakes so brake maintenance won't be needed for a very long time.
Yes. But cars produce unwanted mess in atmosphere that in almost impossible to clean..
How the fuck is this downvoted?

NIHR (National Institute of Health Research) is the research arm of the English NHS.

https://discover.dc.nihr.ac.uk/portal/article/4000672/acupun...

> Acupuncture shown to have benefits for treatment of some chronic pain

> Published on 20 June 2017

> Acupuncture is not a placebo for treatment of chronic pain. This NIHR-funded systematic review shows that acupuncture is better than usual care and sham acupuncture for pain from musculoskeletal conditions, knee osteoarthritis and chronic headache.

> This NIHR review was large with over 140 trials overall, and the direct comparison with sham acupuncture helps to address uncertainty around whether acupuncture gives clinical benefit above a “placebo effect.” Acupuncture had a smaller effect on pain when compared with sham acupuncture than when compared with no acupuncture, but both comparisons showed statistically significant differences. Acupuncture also improved quality of life compared with standard care and was assessed to be a good use of NHS resources.
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I had an older, wiser worker relate to me this exactly. He was a line worker in a GM production facility and a while after working there realized his foreman just absolutely couldn't have a clue about what their job. He made some suggestions and soon enough was promoted to line foreman.

A while after that he started to realize that his supervisor just absolutely didn't have a clue with how to supervise the shifts, the lines, etc. And on up the mgmt chain, he slowly realized nobody really knew what they were doing.

I think this is especially true of management at all levels and most professional workers, aka knowledge workers. There really isn't a "book" or a how-to for this type of work. If you have some skills and knowledge of how to acquire more skills, you are good. Just don't be afraid to admit, at least to yourself, that you don't know something but then seek to learn whatever it is that you don't know.
Your topic is kind of wide-ranging and it's difficult to know if something will be off-topic or not. Let's try:

In terms of someone hacking the system, not for himself, but for the benefit of the people, there's this guy Edward, with a documentary made about him called 'CitizenFour' (2014). It's pretty good! It doesn't end like 'The Founder' though.

In terms of continuously hacking an invention to find new ways of exploiting it, I'd say the hard sci-fi indie movie 'Primer' (2004) pretty much revolves around that (although it might not be completely obvious during the first viewing).

I have to mention 'Spin' (1995), about the 1992 US election candidates. The hack here is not really the subject, but the documentary itself: it is entirely made of unauthorized satellite feeds of pre- and post-interview scenes not meant to be broadcast, i.e. you see all politicians talking unfiltered and off-the-record, as they were all unaware that, even though they were not being broadcast at those very moments, the cameras were still on and transmitting over satellite -- and their feed could be easily intercepted.

Rant on actual/software hacking movies: it might be different for some other medium, but I don't know of any movie that depicts hacking in a realistic way and is a decent movie. In my opinion, this is because there is nothing cinematic in hacking. As far as I know, the only one that marketed itself as 'realistic' on this topic was 'Blackhat', but that aspect of the movie was boring, and almost everything else was lazy and/or dumb. Maybe something on TV?
East Asia? As in Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, HK?
It was already addressed in other content that they're not banned everywhere, but additionally, the poop you mention is not a big problem. In many places horses in the cities are forced to wear horse-size napies which catch the poop.
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