skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't like the way it's phrased like an exclusive dichotomy, and that games must stop "pandering" to mastery to "embrace" intellectual life. This reads like someone who just likes film but doesn't like videos games turning their nose up at something they view as aesthetically inferior, as if their shitty aesthetic opinions are informed by universal objective truth itself.

Yeah, absolutely, video games that enhance the emotional and intellectual lives of the audience are better for it, but games that give the audience a sense of accomplishment and reward curiosity are also better for it. There is no reason to stop doing one to do the other. Video games don't need to be movies.
Deep Learning Specialization
"Boring" is the process of excavating a tunnel. Play on words :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnel_boring_machine
Ha, who said that? Stating your opinion as aphorism doesn't make it true.

The application of wit seems to me to only be a positive. Humor brings joy. Adding wit to a conversation makes it strictly better.
I pirated a lot of software in high school, but used it to Tech myself skills and now EPA’s for much of what I used, or have enough good will and skills that I would pay for it if I needed it.

I also pirated a lot of films. I now subscribe to 2 streaming services, and search them and BBC iPlayer before pirating anything now as it’s more convenient.
That reminds me of a commmon experience I have with asperger's. English is my native language, and yet I regularly have the issue with words not actually coming from where my thoughts are generated, and I can't always express the thought I've had as quickly and fully as I would like.

More recently, I've been taking a foreign language, and it feels much the same only more extreme. Since I've actually lived in the country where thins language is spoken, my words come at a reasonable speed now and feel automatic. The gap between thought and words is larger than ever. (2 years into the foreign language vs. a lifetime with my native should do that though)

I wonder if people living with Asperger's or similar disorders that delay development of language result in every language being your second. :P
The documentation is available in books people are supposed to buy.
Love the list, quite comprehensive. To any beginner or even pro - my advice would be to cut out 80% items from the checklist and nail down the 20%. Your job is to which which is the 20% which will give you 80% bang for your buck.
> Mr. Bell hired his own investigators. They contend that it all began with faulty equipment: Officer Erich Strausbaugh’s holster caught on a cable dangling from one of the cars’ side-view mirrors, so that when he tackled Michael, he felt a powerful tug on his belt. Assuming that the young man had grabbed for his weapon, he called out to his partners, “He’s got my gun.”

And then they lied about it. What is brave about that, in this case? Yes, there are uncountable cops doing untold amounts of great "work" (I put it in quotes not to belittle it, but because I think it's more noble than that). I even think the "blue shield" does serve a valid purpose a lot of times, but it's when it's abused that is the problem. And that is a problem.

Here's an idea how actual guts might look like:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK2652/

> This chapter examines reporting of health care errors (e.g., verbal, written, or other form of communication and/or recording of near miss and patient safety events that generally involves some form of reporting system) and these events’ disclosure (e.g., communication of errors to patients and their families), including the ethical aspects of error-reporting mechanisms. The potential benefits of intrainstitutional and Web-based databases might assist nurses and other providers to prevent similar hazards and improve patient safety. Clinicians’ fears of lawsuits and their self-perceptions of incompetence could be dispelled by organizational cultures emphasizing safety rather than blame. This chapter focuses on the assertion that reporting errors that result in patient harm as well as seemingly trivial errors and near misses has the potential to strengthen processes of care and improve the quality of care afforded patients.

Looking a relative in the eye and telling them their loved one is dead because you made a honest or even careless mistake -- now THAT is bravery. I don't know if anyone is actually doing that just because it's in the guidelines who wouldn't also do it if it wasn't -- but do similar guidelines at least exist for police? Because if you swap out some words, all of that could be said about police work, too.

It doesn't get much more hateful than lying about someone you killed. After that comes defending such incidents, then there is a big gap, and then comes "all cops are pigs" on the hate scale. That doesn't justify the latter, but I don't know what moral high ground you think you're posting from.

> And there are a good number of those 1000 that die that deserved to die and thankfully we have brave people to go after those crazys

A "good number" would be 1000. What "good number" do you have in mind? If it's even just 999 or less, would you swap with one of the innocent people who got killed? And why do the others "deserve to die"? Because it has to be that way, in your mind, or because you looked at the individual incidents? Wouldn't they deserve even more to get disarmed and do their sentence or whatever?
> but more about giving workers the feeling that they are all rolling up their sleeves together

Sure and maybe to show his appreciation he will invite all of them to use some of the great things that he gains or has that they don't (material or otherwise) for the herculean effort. They aren't all created equal and his equal we all know that. Would think especially the factory workers on the floor.

And I am a owner and not a worker. So this isn't about the downtrodden or me feeling abused in a similar situation. Hasn't happened. It's about being realistic and quite frankly in all honesty jealousy of someone that can flip such stuff which I was never able to do even if it would benefit me. Couldn't be that dishonest.

Not saying that it isn't an effective technique (your point). It is.
Decentralization is not an upside, we should be _more_ concentrated, not less. It's much more efficient.
Well I don't know any other disciplines where so many people are implementing an idea so badly :-)

See my another post for a real discussion of an issue is see with OP's post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15004260
They are almost impossible to buy in Germany.
GPS signal is very weak, it would not take much to overpower the signal from a good distance I think.
They've mentioned water when asked about Hyperloop, to point out that standard tunnels are waterproof to a specification that they could also support the level of vacuum necessary for Hyperloop, without modification.

The SpaceX rep mentioned this in the recent Hawthorne city council meeting, and I believe Elon said the same thing in one of his presentations.
It sounds like something really innovative for those times. Do you know more about that system? Is there a disk image anywhere?
Most people as in they don't want their kids to learn it, or they themselves don't want to learn it?

Because kids don't want to go to school usually, yet they do. And luckily with a good curricula the school system could teach critical thinking with a significant efficacy. (And it could be added to common core)
Repetition is sometimes instructive.

Repetition is sometimes instructive.

Repetition is sometimes instructive.
Have you faced any difficulties with your target audience not being able to fill in the payment form? Have you needed to process orders by phone or alternate methods? I see it's really minimal, which is great and probably lessens form abandonment.
Just at a guess, I guess what is "missing" is the private security, and the private legal representation, both paid handsomely to deploy various degrees of "fuck you up" upon command.

Even if you are "in the right", as a normal citizen, it's kind of hard to take a beating -- physical or legal. Which, in both cases, also means financial -- against very deep pockets.

P.S. Kholsa's position is simple the modern, tech baron version of "might is right". Nothing new in that. Laws and rights have always been "for sale" to varying degrees.

Which is why some people support stronger public institutions, as a counter-measure to outsized private power.

P.P.S. And one of the essential tricks in THAT, is to keep those public institutions accountable.
Tawk.to hits 1M Active Users
automation at checkouts won't replace the cashier any time soon, you're right. you don't need to spend all of that money on automation when there is zero skill and customers can and will do it themselves.
We looked at Trump's Twitter interactions for more than a year
Here's a neat video, where Miyamoto describes some of the processes. You can see near the beginning that the sprites were hand drawn on graph paper and translated onto the computer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLoRd6_a1CI
If nobody knows which 20% of tactics gets you 80% of the results for any given product, then it's good that the list covers all the possible things. By definition of that rule, you can't generally weight any of the items above the others. If I'm misreading, and you are saying you know the best 20% of tactics in general or the quickest meta-strategy for finding the 20% for a given a product, please share. That would be the hardest part, especially for the target audience of this: non-marketers/new marketers.
>they will require complete replacement at too high a frequency for a society.

This is a completely subjective and vague statement.

However if we start to quantify it with economics costs, it turns out to be wrong. The lifetime cost of solar is very cheap. And the lifetime of turbines is not a huge amount longer than PV panels.
You can certainly complicate the hell out of linear regression, but Andrew Ng introduces it in the setting of optimization/stochastic gradient descent, which I think is both mind blowing and a much simpler introduction than most statistics courses.

It's the very first bit of the course, I think everyone who is interested should try learning it. If not it's fine, but I wouldn't want anyone to not even try to spend a few hours on it because someone on the internet said it would be too hard.
I don't like to drive, I like small shops, and luckily where I live we have a healthy dose of small groceries. (But they are part of large chains.)
I might be wrong but I seem to remember the Sharp X68000 being a preferred platform in the early days?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X68000
In many ways Tesla is the China of America.
The LaTeX Fetish (2016)
> Adding wit to a conversation makes it strictly better.

Clearly there are many exceptions to the above assertion. The most common being when the main purpose of the wit is not to entertain but to showcase the punner's cleverness.
I think the OP was referring to news.ycombinator.com , not your site :-)
The Onerous, Arbitrary, Unaccountable World of Occupational Licensing
In my experience, these things have nothing to do with the language itself, but rather that it's a second language.

As a non native speaker, you just don't have those strong emotional connections to words that a native speaker would have.

Studies show that a foreign language uses more of the thinking brain rather than the feeling brain (they showed this by asking personal / sexual questions in different languages to multilingual people.)
Few people are injured when a software sweatshop screws up, at least until the software gets out into the wild and fails a critical purpose. Running a factory with heavy machinery might be a different beast, o ye masters of the office hell hole :-)

Just sayin'
Female Google employee responds to James Damore memo
Yes! That's the one I was looking for. I guess going for 2014 or older wasn't going to get me the 2015 presentations ;-)

It is pretty effective in illustrating how easy it is to break such a system. Easy as in, you don't need a big nation state actor to do this.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14998270
Cricket: Uniting Two Nuclear Rivals
9px is pretty small too
Are you sure? It's a full blown interview from my perspective
The first sentence already states, that fired guy said women "unfit". Stopped reading right there.
Software and Hard Consequences
> I know that science is now saying that "decision fatigue" doesn't exist

Do you have any references? I'm only aware of studies falsifying the model of it as a consequence of "ego depletion" or linking it specifically to glucose, not debunking the phenomenon altogether.
It's a Lenovo W530 Thinkpad. It uses standard hardware that Ubuntu officially supports. Been there. Done that. Also keep in mind I've been using Linux off and on since 1999. I'm not a stranger to hardware compatibility issues and none of these problems result from that.
Or possibly first /s
Thanks, wasn't sure of the impact of family - for the couple years it was my wife and I on exchange plans the cost was basically just doubled.
so this is basically just a long form advertisement right?
I've seen 50-page project specs written before the dev team even new there was a new project. But PMO board. Ouch.

At the other extreme, you have your process-adverse adhocracy where your brilliant new lead developer unilaterally decides the first step in fixing the latest issue with your existing CRUD application written in PHP is to write a new Node framework.

Meanwhile, junior developers are getting bombarded directly by anyone in the organization who encounters a problem while using their keyboard.

Companies like this exist. Maybe not quite this extreme. But I've encountered a few variations on this theme and they've given me a deeper appreciation for agile concepts and terminology.
Where would you fit more millions of people in downtown San Francisco?

In buildings. It's really not that hard: https://www.vox.com/a/new-economy-future/urban-sprawl-housin... or http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/05/03/silicon_valle... . It's just illegal, right now, to build the buildings that people want to occupy. Make it legal and lots more people will live in SF and environs.
That's why the worst, most cringeworthy puns are the funniest. Still probably deserve a slap though.
They have property that they can dig on in LA.
Islands are special use cases. Many non-US islands still run bunker fuel, some of the nastiest hydrocarbon fuel available. It is still eye-bleedingly expensive to burn that per kWh. Diesel gets you to ridiculous cost levels, and that's just fuel running costs. Add in personnel, and maintenance and repair, and solar looks good to a lot of island residents.

But self-sufficiency is a capital-intensive effort, and most residents cannot afford the up-front capital, nor have access to the credit necessary. That's yet another reason scaling up is the way to go for self-sufficiency.

> ...sometimes you end up with more power than you can use in the moment.

This is simply solved by co-generation, but it isn't easy: capital and/or credit availability drives this solution path. Excess power on an island can always be put to use somewhere, but it requires intensive capital equipment investments. Make potable water. Desalinate water. Push potable water uphill into a reservoir, then let it flow down through a hydroelectric generator at a minimum constant flow rate; constantly moving the water up and down hill keeps mosquitoes from settling in it. Many islands are in tropical zones, and there are always chilling needs: chill sea water in ocean-side reservoirs to drive central chillers. Even with efficient reuse and recycling, there will still be unreusable, unrecyclable trash: pull the surplus energy to drive a plasma arc-based garbage gasification plant (which generates more energy). Still more energy to use? Drive automated excavation machines with it, building out more reservoir capacity.

> Other than the fruit trees dotting the property...little else has taken root.

Permaculture techniques might assist here.

> ...the utility is offsetting some panel owners’ bills for their (less efficient) solar power...

This will take time (decades) before building construction habits change to regularly accommodate panels. Anywhere there is more climactic heat than desired for comfort levels, panels can be blocking the solar irradiation, but we don't have commonly-accepted construction idioms for moving panels to where they are needed around a building, and everyone ad hocs their own. I'd prefer to see people continue to use panels for the secondary and tertiary benefits, despite the reduced efficiency compared to utility-scale installations, for as long as real estate asset valuation remains high.
While this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15004138 gets flagged instantly, that rises to the top? Google, HN, New York Times, Gizmodo -- who else? Stand up and be counted.
I really agree that social skills are the biggest missing component in effective engineering collaboration (because there are so many Loner Genius Nerds who refuse to use each others software but would rather rebuild a monument to themselves).

But I wish they wouldn't conflate this with the google memo though. That topic is already too muddled.

The three entirely distinct questions are:

1. Is lack of interest on average (due to genetics) a potential contributing factor to the male/female ratio in engineering?

2. Is asking that question (or expressing an opinion on it) a punishable offense? If so, when and why, and are both sides equally punishable, or only the conservative side?

3. Are social skills an undervalued in technology?

The reason the google memo instigated such a shitstorm is that it (and the ensuing debate) conflated questions 1 and 2.

One side was largely arguing that presenting gender-based-patterns in a scientific light (true or not) has negative psychological effects.

The other side was railing against the fact that a debate couldn't even happen because one side was being socially punished for even bringing up the question.
Multipart+JPEG is easily 5x more expensive than MP4 in terms of bandwidth. All new IP cameras come with MP4 as a replacement. Steaming can be done in various ways, usually with the help of some JavaScript + video tag.
Same things as with electric cars, 10 years ago Tesla started as a luxury car manufacturer and now it moves to wider and wider auditory. And there's plenty of 25k roofs for them to be busy for years...

Also, I think math for new houses should include the fact that property is usually mortgaged. So, you take part of the cost that's over 25k and it's mortgaged for 25-30 years. You don't pay $30k at once, you pay $100 a month for it, and it saves you $150 in electricity. So it works right from the start. Now there's plenty of roof space for the beginning and let's see where tech will be in 10 years.
Linux as a platform is the equivalent of asking random volunteers to build a city, not telling them exactly how you want it built, and then hiring contractors to take what has been built and make it work for the majority of people. It's organized chaos.

I think the author is wrong that you need to enforce specific ways of doing everything, or that we need to even think about standards. The only thing you really need to enforce is a culture, which becomes an unofficial, de facto standard. I think Windows is a good example of this. Windows doesn't force you to do everything its way - it's just way, way more convenient. Linux makes it too convenient to do something different, so everyone does.

I think the solution for a distribution is the following:

1. remove all unnecessary software
2. remove all methods to easily install new software automatically
(reserve that function only for updating existing software)
3. make all base software follow a set of guidelines which are incredibly
convenient to adapt and follow by new applications

The result would be a culture of convenience that would enable more compatibility by simply making it easier for everyone to do the same thing. My apologies if the author proposed this very thing; it was too long and I didn't read it all.
This was a question I had as well. I could easily see pilings for a multistory building going more than 20' under the surface.

However, they don't appear to want to tunnel in arbitrary places but more along roads. Roads have a relatively fixed amount of infrastructure "under" them (around here that seems to be a sewer pipe and cable/fiber/copper cables along the edges (not very far down though, at most about 10')

I can imagine a very efficient public transportation system if you combine the self driving aspects with elevators. At what would now be considered a bus stop would be an area where a 'pod' can be summoned. You tag your card and your destination. After a short delay, the elevator lifts and on it is a 'pod' with seating for four. You step in, sit down. The doors close, the elevator lowers, and the pod drives along easy to navigate tunnels to your destination. Then queues for the nearest elevator, rises, and the doors open. Done.

The beauty of such a system is that you can do autonomous faster because the lanes/signalling/weather conditions are all normalized to the tunnel. There are no 'manual' drivers or bicycles or pedestrians. Its a much more constrained environment so fewer things to worry about. It can re-use the right of way under the street so there isn't any need to use emminent domain to seize property for a right of way. All of the 'stations' are above ground and can re-use existing bus stops so very low cost.

Hostile acts are an issue. If you carry on a backpack bomb into your pod and blow it up you're going to block that tunnel until maintenance can clean it out. And people sleeping/living in pods would no doubt be a nuisance. Same thing with summoning a pod that the previous occupant had just been massively sick in or defecated in. Probably needs a button on the summon station to say 'send this pod to maintenance' but there is an interesting denial of service attack then of people sending all the pods to maintenance. Perhaps some operator / NOC ability to look record/evaluate the users would be required.
It coincides with the Christopher Nolan "Dunkirk" film.

(Currently considering whether I should Britsplain Dunkirk and its significance to HN. Any takers?)
>The most common being when the main purpose of the wit is not to entertain but to showcase the punner's cleverness.

Not to get bogged down by minutiae, but I'd argue that wit and ostentation are two separate things, and that it's certainly possible to practice one without the other.

But sure, I'll concede that some puns are made pretentiously.
> The man asked just for $2 M for his DRACO research (100% effective proved cure against viruses like flu, herpes, etc)

Why would you still be researching if it's 100% proven? Maybe the claim that it's proven is a lie?...
I don't think Scrum should be judged on how well it can perform but how well it actually performs. If 9 organizations out of 10 can't succeed in applying it, that's certainly a bad evaluation of Scrum even if technically Scrum was never properly applied in those organizations.