skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, does a creditor have to push you into bankruptcy? They seldomly do, because then they can't squeeze more money or control out of you.

And at the same time an investor could also push you into bankruptcy by suggesting, supporting or blocking certain decisions.

It's like knight and bishop in chess. True, they work differently, but they are all just pieces on the same board, used in the same game to achieve the same goal.
Bill Gates was born in a privileged family but this is not enough to sustain super challenges Microsoft dealt for decades. He outwork almost everyone. I am not saying he didn't use unfair tactics, just saying that he was not only lucky.
All information trends towards fast, cheap, and global. We saw this first with mp3s. You used to have to pay $20 for a CD with 10 songs that you could only play in your own stereos. Then Napster came along. Music is just information. It was made digital and became fast to access, cheap to acquire, and you could bring it anywhere.

Money is just information, like music. There is no reason it needs to be slow, expensive, or restricted - which all other money currently is.

Bitcoin is better at organizing the information of money than all other existing methods. This (+ scarcity) is what enables it to be valuable.

Specific bits in the bitcoin blockchain are not valuable, as you're stating. There are no individual bits in memory or on disk that have value. They're simply clones of the same distributed information, which is that you have some slice of the pie. It's your ownership of the slice of the pie that is valuable, because it is scarce, and because it is value-information that is fast, cheap, and global.

What does "backed by the full faith and credit of a stable entity" even mean? Why does it matter? Does it have anything to do with the organization of information? It seems like it doesn't.
Hi! I am using this to keep an eye on which commits cause my webpack
chunks to increase (in particular the initial one), and it was hoping
others might find it useful too.

(Fair Warning: Some stuff listed on the page (like the Github
pull request integration) is not enabled yet.)

What I think would be really cool is if it had something like
webpack-bundle-analzyer built in, so you could just browse the
bundle at any point in time, and see the diff with the previous
version.

Since it's really just storing and comparing file sizes, there
might be other use cases that don't involve webpack/JS at all.
Trying to understand risk by looking at historic data alone is wrong when you're talking about catastrophic ruin and uncertain tiny probabilities. Add the word weapon in the headline quote to see what I mean,

"Contrary to popular belief, nuclear weapons are the safest modern weapon"

Arguments that nuclear power are safe need to prove that while assuming the worst-case scenario, since the probability of such a scenario is a-priori unknown despite what much of this comment section seems to be claiming.

Solar is knowingly much safer because it is much easier to reason about.
The risks of AI are not that it becomes self aware and has it's own intentions that are contrary to that of humans. There are massive risks by simply putting decent AI on killing machines for "defense" and the new calculus of putting various plans into action now that the lives of our brave young men and women are not at risk.

We already see some of this with drone attacks. It's just so easy to drone somebody, and so hard to verify, in the moment, that we will only kill the bad guy. Never mind the logic that we just kill anyone anywhere in the world because we're good and they are bad. Not being a Pollyanna here it's a new option that we did not have before and that option takes on it's own logic and momentum.

This technology will not be limited to the good guys and even in the case of "the good guys" new options are opened up and robots do not question the morality or validity of their orders.
My bad peeps, not a rocket scientist here... Way harder then I first thought.

https://www.wired.com/2016/07/physics-trying-crash-sun/
Are they paying him to help make an open source alternative to github? If not, then it's not really relevant.

They are actively working against open source tooling for software development by developing features only for their closed platform.

Gitlab is a much better example of a company that fully embraces open source.
> several hours of free time each day

Do people really need to spend several hours a day cooking? I don't think so. Simpler meals, simpler prep, putting something in the oven and setting a timer. Totally doable in much less "active" time. Maybe people are just not spending enough time at home.
Solar prices in the sunniest regions have already dipped below 3c unsubsidized, and are projected to keep falling for decades to come, even without any major technological breakthroughs. So aiming for that price 10 years out, with a new design isn't a very good sign
They do, when implemented properly. Take a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_nuclear_safety#Example... for why some passive safety features fail.
In my line of work we say:
"It ain't cancer until the pathologist says so."

Basically it is a joke amongst the pathologists that no matter what MD does the diagnosis, s/he will always send a biopt to the pathologist and ask if it is cancer. Well, in simple terms of course.

I guess the correct moment to say you have been diagnosed with cancer is when the pathologist tells the physician it's cancer.

Beautiful thing is neural networks / deep learning can really outperform the pathologist now that we have introduced digital pathology. Sure they will for some time give the final verdict but before too long AI will do the actual diagnose with better accuracy than a human possibly could in a fraction of the time. Reports started coming in the last year. E.g. [0][1][2]. Last one is directly mentioning years.

0) https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/233746-ai-beats-doctors-...

1) https://news.developer.nvidia.com/diagnose-heart-disease-wit...

2) http://bigthink.com/paul-ratner/heres-when-machines-will-tak...
Snapzu.
That's an order of magnitude cheaper than they were 5-10 years ago (at least for the prototype printer). Noncommercial pilots can easily spend that much money on a plane + training whereas seven figures is far rarer unless you're getting a supersonic military jet (like an F5) or planning on flying clients around to finance a small corporate jet.

The rate at which the price of this technology is falling is fantastic.
I learned to touch-type Dvorak about 5 years ago and it's been fantastic. It takes a moderate amount of commitment to become proficient, but immediately more comfortable and natural.
To be fair, your example returns false in JavaScript, unlike in PHP.
It's super retro, but part of me kind of likes the NASA "worm" logo over the "meatball".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_insignia
high DPI in windows 10 is honestly such a shit show. Bugs, you have to Log Out and Log back in every time you change settings/monitors! Its honestly unacceptable given how seamlessly macOS and Linux (Fedora at least) handle this sort of thing.
My apologies. I knew my Perl 6 wrapper for GLFW was bad, but never realized it'd be so bad that GitHub would choke to death on it.
I would have plopped the money down on one of these on saturday but I tried the one on display and the keyboard was horrible.

So I bought the 7560 (which had a much better keyboard and was 650 pounds less)..that went back after 6 hours when the hinge broke.

Shop didn't even quibble so I suspect it wasn't the first they'd seen.

Now I'm buying a Thinkpad.
What suicide missions? The only people who have died at the reactor were killed by the tsunami.

You're worried about contamination of fish? Coal power has contaminated fish throughout all the world's oceans with dangerous levels of mercury. You've probably seen warnings for children and pregnant women to be careful about the fish they eat and not to eat fish more than a couple of times a week. Coal is responsible for about half of that. Compare this to fears about potential contamination of some fish near Fukushima, and I'll take nuclear any day of the week and twice on Sunday if that's the choice.

I constantly hear about the Fukushima Daiichi disaster. I don't recall hearing anything about the non-nuclear consequences of the earthquake after a few months. Is it offensive to state what I see?
Well technically, a plethora is a 'large or excessive amount of something', so I think in this case it works, though it feels a little sesquipedalian.

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/plethora
The reason is github did a fantastic job of implementing useful features. The visual design is unmatched and they have done a great job implementing developer oriented integrations and social features.

A more federated approach to this sort of thing might have been nice, but so far nothing I have seen comes close to the value-add offered by github.
Why don't you pay the dollar and let us know.
That's it. I'm starting a github on blockchain.
He probably concluded that the database didn't scale because inserts were so slow :-)
Filamet is the Kickstarter'd filament I was thinking of. It looks like they've got a decent product, though it also looks like the campaign became a bit rocky (typical Kickstarter delays, etc.). (I didn't back, so can't speak to it beyond appearances.)
Use RightGif, much better IMHO. It can find really obscure GIFs with ease.

Giphy's Slack integration is a pain point, just pasting in the first result (or just a slot machine type system) is not the best UI. They do better on other platforms, but RightGif tends to get it right the first time.

That said, the valuation is nuts.
Vixie cron seems to ignore the #1 part (not a syntax error, just ignored), and it's not mentioned in "man 5 crontab".

It is however documented in Wikipedia Cron article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron#CRON_expression
Still smaller than number of machines with IE or Chrome or Firefox.
"switch database" or "buy more hardware". For the large majority of developers, then database is never the bottleneck. The issue arise when you only to late in the development process realise that your design is the root cause of your problems.
> But it takes so long to aggregate the votes if done with paper ballots.

This is also why the complaints of government being slow to respond to things are hollow: It's meant to act that way.

Which is why Trump and his "Executive Orders" are problematic; that isn't to say they are problematic for previous administrations as well. At any rate, they exist for a certain purpose, but that freedom to use them has been abused pretty much from day one of their existence.

Arguably, they are there mainly for emergency purposes, when something needs to be done fairly quickly, but is something that would take too long to have done thru ordinary channels (Congress, etc). It was probably (wrongly) assumed that Presidents would be wise and restrictive about their use (completely ignoring how human nature works of course).

I only mention Trump because he jumped into using them almost before he was sworn in; but so far (from what I understand) he has yet to break any records for usage of them during a term (except for maybe speed). In fact, the record actually belongs to FDR (who had 4 terms, also WW2, so that might be a part of everything).

In an emergency, I can understand their use, but outside of that, we (everyone, including the President) should trust in the slow plodding of our system. It may not be perfect or work out perfectly every time, but its lack of speed gives us time to reflect and make better decisions, IMHO.
> Do you?

Actually, yes! Statistically it's safer than living next to a coal-fired plant.
The original comment linked to https://www.stormsmith.nl/i05.html which claims that, when you account for the full lifecycle, CO2 emissions from nuclear are comparable to CO2 emissions from coal. If true, then no, it's not a percents vs quantities problem, it's just a quantities problem.
I also found meditation to be incredibly useful. Far more than it first seemed. Meditation seems to take the edge off the highs and lows of the day so you're just a little more even keel.

I'd recommend the Headspace app to start with. After a few weeks you should be good to start meditating on your own and looking into more advanced meditation techniques. Or you can keep it basic too, there's no hard and fast really.
I'd say the two go hand-in-hand. The holy grail of the maker movement is microfactories where individuals or small teams can produce local-scale consumer products out of their garages/basements to sell to their communities. That by definition is a small business with a small warehouse. :)

From a marketing standpoint alone the ability to rapidly produce metal cases for things would give products an air of quality that you could never match with a plastic 3D printer and might cost too much to CNC. Between this and the costs of pick-and-place machines coming down I'd love the ability to design/build my own
consumer electronics products and sell them out of my garage.
Like Craigslist and its downfall, the migration isnt going to be to one large community, but many smaller ones.
_Why_ exactly are they doing a redesign? Is there something deeply wrong with the current one? Is there something it's not accomplishing?

It just smells of executive/marketing meddling to me.
I think it's usual problem with all slides I see from AMD™

Same on their AMDGPU-stack slides and many more.
A company as old as Reddit should be profitable.
I'm against centralized power generation of any kind. Make a household fusion generator that's safe and maybe I'll consider it, but until then I'm for solar because it can be deployed in a decentralized network (with batteries), and it's clean.

That leaves the problem of the mining and manufacture, which is still centralized. This problem can be solved with GM organisms. We engineer fungi and bacteria to grow on roofs and generate electricity. They'd use CO2 in the growing process too. We can grow batteries in a similar way. Bacteria, yeast and viruses can do anything. They're the ultimate nanotech, we just need to learn how to program them.
I'm ordering the T470P today, 7700HQ (4C/8HT) with a 2560x1440 screen.

No thunderbolt 3 (strange one that) but otherwise exactly what I wanted and with discount comes in around 250 cheaper than the XPS15 with a 1080 screen.
I agree but I find that they are pretty quickly downvoted and therefore greyed out, or sit as a parent only comment without any discussion.
Right. You see the red there? How long before it's all habitable?

Here's another example. A beach that had a quarter million visitors a year had to be shut down, and was recently reopened thanks to "tide embankment construction". That's seven years of not being able to go to the beach because of nuclear, and now they're told it's safe because the water is blocked. Japan is still living with the disaster. For locals, the consequences of the incident continue to shape their lives. Statistics will not change anyone's mind.

http://www.nippon.com/en/genre/society/l10385/
Something is off here. There is absolutely no way Giphy's search volume is 1/8 of Google's.
> the company is literally re-writing all of its code

The old and ugly mobile website is _perfect_ (apart from some bugs). The new one is a horrible piece of garbage.
You could maybe pick 20/30/40 random subjects to fake a prolonged interest in, and really focus on those, maybe swapping some out over time. In any case, I think one has to pump enough fake volume through to make fake interest look like real interest. But then the opposite problem comes up - excessive requests for one topic might signal fakeness. Maybe you could have fake traffic be produced proportionally to real traffic?
I've been pretty happy with my Precision 5510 (which uses the same chassis as the XPS 15) but I agree, the keyboard is a low point that the reviews seem to miss. I prefer the keyboard on my old HP Folio 1040, which admittedly is very Macbook-like.

That and the webcam are my only complaints though. I love the speakers, screen, trackpad.. and the single-cable thunderbolt dock is great.
There are designed similarities in the naming of modules and functions. Many mimic the names of modules/classes and methods of Ruby code and standard libs.

Past the naming and def do end layers they are very different languages, as one should expect. The main basic difference is due to pattern matching, which pops up everywhere even in function definitions. If then else is the first casualty.

A word about JS. I'm working in a project with an Phoenix backend and A React front end. The (mainly) front end developer chose Webpack. I had to fiddle with the configuration files and man, it's not a language for DSLs. It's no Ruby. I don't want to say those files are inherently messy, but for a moment I tried to remember if Java's configuration XMLs were as bad as that.
Seen a few comments focus on the "redesign" and comparisons to Digg, and wanted to add a few comments:

1. People may forget, but Reddit was a (the?) major winner in the Digg exodus.

2. I don't think Digg every got the subreddit style discussion boards down. I think the reddit "homepage experience" vs. the typical subreddit experience to be very different. Should be interesting to see which way they slide for the redesign.

3. The influx of new capital and the focus on the redesign sort of telegraphs that they want to grow reddit, which is a very large but idiosyncratic community.

If they do it right, the change will be very transparent and very incremental, ala the ebay background color change [1].

Should be an interesting thing to watch!

[1] https://articles.uie.com/death_of_relaunch/
Maybe even just some better default CSS, like r/LifeProTips is very pleasing to look at and still has the great “Reddit Feel”
I fear people are downvoting you for merely pointing out that alternatives already exist, even though you indicate your distaste at the site in your post.
A commentator on Arslan's post mentions “Medium’s foolproof wysiwyg editor.” This surprised me. I find their WYSIWYG editor to be incredibly frustrating, counter-intuitive, limiting, and obnoxious.

Allow me to belabor only the last point.

Imagine typing the following sentence (I’m using pipe | to show the cursor):

Clifford is a big dog.

But it's missing something, so you move your insertion point:

Clifford is a big| dog.

and you type “<space>red.” In any sane editor, the result will be exactly what you typed:

Clifford is a big red| dog.

But on Medium, the result is:

Clifford is a big red|dog.

Clifford is a big reddog? Ffffff. This happened because when you typed the first space after “big”, the result was not the insertion of a space but in fact the same as if you had hit the "right arrow" key:

Clifford is a big |dog.

Not cool. I have a strong habit of inserting words with the surrounding spaces already inserted. How dare Medium forbid me to type the way I want?

I know that Medium does this because they are on a crusade to kill the usage of two spaces after sentence. That doesn’t excuse insane frustration of the editing process. No wonder most Medium posts don't look like they have ever experienced the most cursory proofreading!
Homebrew 1.3.0
Yes, like always there is a balance. I start off with an index on things I know we'll use and sometimes throw one a column we are likely to use. Other times it isn't until a slow query comes up that an index change is needed. On very rare occasions I've had to hint to mysql to use an index it thought wasn't great but ended up being 10 times faster.
Its not retro at all. To me it's timeless modernism/futurism. They should switch back.
It was a conscious decision of a particular US military official (an admiral, IIRC) to use 235U / Pu based process in atomic power generation projects, specifically to be able to generate Pu in large quantities should a need arise.

If Th-based processes were chosen, that cannot easily generate Pu, nuclear proliferation won't be such a hazard. It would have far-reaching political consequences. E.g. USA is strictly against the Iran's nuclear program specifically because it might help produce bomb-grade fissile material.

235U-based processes are also pretty inefficient: about 1% of the nuclear material is burned when the (very active) fuel needs another cycle of refinement. Known Th-bases processes produce somehow less-active waste, and can burn more of the fuel before refinement is necessary.

A number of new, quite a bit safer, nuclear projects aimed to burn 235U and the current stockpiles of nuclear waste exist. But due to the fear-mongering, and likely due to relatively low coal and oil prices, they have little chance to be implemented, at least, in a reasonably short term.

No, I won't mind living near a well-maintained nuclear plant. In fact, I lived ~90km from one for 20+ years. I would be much less happy to live next to a major coal-burning plant, since it produces rather noticeable levels of radioactive contamination during normal operation [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_waste#Coal
You're sidestepping the main reason I believe it worked so well. It benefits from network effect. It is a collaborative tool and people like to have their work on there so others can collaborate with them.
Check out Hubski (https://hubski.com). It's got a great community, and a unique way displaying and moderating posts.

Instead of subreddits, you follow users and tags. When you upvote posts, you share them with whoever follows you.

It's sort of like a community web of trust. It works really well.
It suffers a lot from bad PR since the start. In public view, nuclear anything is usually related to atomic bomb and mushroom clouds and such stuff, although most reactor designs are inherently incapable of sustaining uncontrolled supercritical fission (excluding for example Chernobyl's RBMK).
Honest question re 2): are there current confirmed cases of SIDS for back sleeping babies with no foreign objects in their crib? The NPR article I linked mentions that the current 0.5 rate is considered to be due to ignorance/non-compliance with safe sleeping policy.
The old mobile page is awesome and the day they kill it is the day I will stop using reddit on mobile.
Whoever is using it to make said decisions.
I'm certainly not as clever as most thieves but if you had a database of people's purchases I imagine there's some low hanging fruit if you run a query looking for people purchasing lots of valuables, with no security related purchases, and a consistent pattern of taking a vacation out of state every year.
Hacker News has its niche that's only interesting to so many people. Which is good, I hope it would never be inundated too much by people making lower-effort posts or just looking to be entertained.
Likely because of their lack of profit despite being so highly ranked.

Personally, other than FB I can't think of a site I visit more often than reddit. Whether at home, on the bus or just sitting on the couch, it's the site I know I can open and find some useful content.

With the amount of engagement they have, they should be making more money.
Arguably gas and coal power stations are a huge part of what is not only destroying a nation but ids making the entire planet uninhabitable.
Trying to be the best father and role model that I can.
If it ain't broke don't fix it.

I miss the early days of Digg before people starting getting concerned about their points and front page drama started.
Search results pages turn out to be the most valuable possible place to put ads.

Reddit might not be nearly so.

Then again Facebook initially seemed like it would have that problem but they seem to have overcome it.
Yes, PLA is somewhat weaker, but still more than strong enough for most desktop printing applications. It's also much less toxic to print with than ABS.
I disagree. I use the extension reddit enhancement suite and _that_ makes it useable.