skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't forget that Eisenhower created the Interstate System [1] which was car based and heavily advertised for traveling for Americans, while also being a national security need for military transport.

Creating the interstate systems did kill trains but also greatly influenced where cities and economies sprang up. It also made the US a car culture and locked it in, which worked great for big areas of undeveloped land at the time, and allowed people to move around more freely.

I'd love a president or government in the US to do the same and make an electric car interstate system, basically just giving it to companies like Tesla or others with conditions. Basically start adding electric car charging stations and add an iteration to the interstates, make them self-driving capable and more.

Or a president or government policy to get gigabit broadband across the nation as a new baseline of digital transportation of data that will open up unforseen new products and markets.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_Highway_System
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See I can totally get behind what you are saying. Or at least most of it. Tiny houses require a lot of external infrastructure to make work. Again, a few people camping out in Golden Gate park is not an issue. Thousands would be.

Also remember that there isn’t a big difference between tiny houses and trailers. Imagine turning SF into a trailer park.

But there is a huge difference between a minimally viable shelter (electricity, plumbing, standing room, privacy) and a car or a capsule. Where exactly do you have sex? Vomit when sick? Keep a pet gold fish? Cook? Poop? All of that is possible in 400 sqft apartment and not possible in a car. So it’s not quite relative.
The article includes much discussion of Carney.
> Every time the issue is the same: there is won't be any significant improvement to justify the re-learning curve of everything.

Magit and org-mode are a killer pair of reasons for many. Dunno if they would be for you, though.
A couple small feature requests:

1) Can you add a guide to deploying on GH Pages, Netlify, S3, etc.?

2) A search feature, along with a theme/example showing how to integrate it
For humans yes. For humans against machines? I don't think so. Can any human beat a modern chess computer? The chance is zero.
>how extremely well targeted marketing and sales can build a so-so product into a huge IPO

Thats how most products succeed if you ask me.
Yes, of course, if certain tools are required to do the job then it's another matter.
I don't get it. Who cares if there's bugs in your grass?

I used to play with bugs in the yard as a kid.
I'm pretty sure Einstein's name and image are managed by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
People use their open source contributions as part of their resume when seeking jobs, correct? That sort of abuse would reach outside the group if you were showing off your contributions as a necessary part of your career.

I don't see as wide of a gap in effect on career between open source contributions for engineers and published papers for scientists as you seem to be implying
I think a lot of the psychotropic drugs can help us unlock new treatments. IMO, if we can remove the morality issues from some of this research, we'll see greater progress. I'm also hopeful that cannabis will make its way into more research.
The training exercise is Dual N-Back https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-back#Dual_n-back
maybe mongo is the db of failed products. Perfect until you really need a database.

The high valuation could be an index of the number of failing products happily using the tech :)
Purism Librem Laptops Completely Disable Intel’s Management Engine
All the YC startups get access to a queue of new job postings that run on the site.
It's obviously of interest and obviously not limited to SV. The issue isn't whether it's off-topic for HN (it isn't), it's can we stick to substantive discussion about real things and avoid flamewar and repetition.
Objects of Intrigue: 16th Century Rocket Cats
Thanks, I posted the cache because the author's site was down at the time I clicked the link.
I seriously doubt it. Google does business with its competitors all the time. It pays Apple billions per year to promote its search engine while engaging in proxy lawsuits against Apple.

CapitalG also has completely different objectives than Waymo. Larry & Sergey have 51% of Alphabet, but I seriously doubt the board of directors would approve a $1B spend out of spite.

The Lyft deal looks to be genuinely good. The Waze Carpool app still has low usage even in the Bay Area. Lyft can supply their network, so Waymo doesn’t have to support every metro area, which is what they would have to do if they just sold self-driving kits to automakers.
Looks like they use Binary Ninja too.

https://bitbucket.org/cse-assemblyline/alsvc_binja
Speaking for myself I'm not negative about the core idea. I just think sometimes someone comes out with a good idea and investors act like it is the greatest deal of all time!!!!
Managing Amazon ElastiCache with Terraform
This article troubled me. There are many good reasons to have children, and likely many bad reasons. I think everyone's situation is different, and there's no definitive answer for either side.
Tesla workers claim anti-LGBT threats, taunts, and racial abuse in lawsuits
I love this idea.

Looking at the code it looks like the db is downloaded from s3 when a connection is opened (although I'm not entirely sure if there is some caching in here) and then uploaded, overwriting the old when the connection is closed.

It would be awesome if there was some sort of merge that could be done rather than an overwrite. It would probably mean needing to use guid's rather than sequential id's or have some sort of central blocking id generator.

I wonder if something could be done with a write ahead log, effectively implementing an operation transform system. Each lambda function could download the db once and then tail the log to update the db? It's a pity that s3 has no append function...

Obviously, the main limiting factor with this is that each lambda function needs to download the entire database and so it's not really suitable for dbs of more than a few hundred MB.
I probably should have left the "if P" part out, but the "if !P" bits that assume no cost are where the cryonics crowd plays their deception and it annoys me to see this repeated. This really approaches the sort of "what's the harm" claims made for a lot of pseudo-science and so I feel compelled to address it but did not mean to suggest that you were making the claim.
If they Modify MDMA to increase efficacy, or bioavailability they could potentially patent it. Or, if they found a way to reduce side effects.

Small modifications can have that effect. It's why we see so many sulfonamide drugs... small modifications that increase the efficacy of the drug.
>it's an unlikely success story that deserves admiration

Well, it's a success story due to marketing, smart marketing, clever marketing, and more marketing, not due to lots of technical merits.

And it was not the first document store to appear, just the most successful. For starters, CouchDB was previous to MongoDB.
The wayland protocol itself doesn't handle network transparency like X11 tries to (i say tries because there are issues with it). My understanding is that a large portion of it is done through shared memory, unix sockets and other things like that.

A detailed overview of it is here, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayland_(display_server_protoc... .

Essentially the client connects to the socket created by the compositor and asks it to pass a surface (basically the same as a frame buffer) back that matches what the client wants to draw. The client then draws on the surface (via GL, raw pixels, cairo, etc.) and then tells the wayland compositor that the surface is ready to display. The surfaces can have a number of things set about them, such as the color depth, if they're hardware (gl, vulkan etc) capable and other things like that.

This is why it's hard to make wayland network transparent because the compistor and the client are much more intertwined than X11 and it's clients were. This enables better performance and eliminating tearing and a few other problems that X11 just isn't equipped to do normally. It does mean however that you should be able to make a wayland compositor that forwards the surfaces from itself to another wayland compositor similar to how X11 forwarding works, but this isn't specified as part of the wayland protocol itself.

My expectation for what will work best for that is something that allows using modern video and image compression to allow the transfer to occur without using as much bandwith as modern X11 apps require when forwarding them. This would also mean then that clients have to use the hardware available to them rather than the hardware available to the display server. With X11 it's possible to do GL remotely (i've never had that work well) but it'd be much more difficult to set this up over wayland.
That is an interesting point, that people have bought too much into this simplified model s.t. reality bends towards the model. I don't know if I blame the model for that - like you say in your last sentence.

But what's the alternative besides starting with simplifications and iterating?
Sparse heterogeneous data is often the type of data stored in NoSQL dbs. Modelled in a relational way, this produces many tables with many NULL fields, while keeping it in a key value format is neat and tidy.

I'd recommend the paper What Goes Around Comes Around[1], the first paper in Readings in Database Systems[2]

[1] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=73661829057771494...
[2]redbook.io
Where can I get in on FastYap? Does it also have a coin?
$100B is not enough– SoftBank is in talks to raise second giant tech fund
A Painless Introduction to APIs: Usage, Integration, and Benefits
If poker is both a game of chance and a game of skill how can life not be?
I wish there was less focus on distributing money and more focus on free water, food and shelter for everyone

It's crazy to me in the UK that we have free healthcare, where you can get free water food and shelter if you're ill but if you're healthy you can go back on the street with potentially no food water shelter
Nearly universal may be overstating things somewhat, judging by recent human history[1]. Common, though.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_matrilineal_or_matrilo...
Gelman has forged his own path to "fame, fortune, and acclaim". It's not clear to me that this path has actually improved (this particular branch of) science. In fact, by the sound of it, that path may've been at least as destructive as he claims Fiske et al's was. Which isn't an indict of Gelman, as I hardly intuit anything but positive intentions on his part.

I'm less concerned with Fiske vs. Gelman and much more concerned with Jay Van Bavel's observation that either way, science loses.

Confining scientific critique to scientific venues seems like a reasonable bulwark against this sort of thing. If it had been Reviewer #3 in a program committee or editorial board, or a well-received letter to the editor, instead of a blog post picked up by thousands of internet warriors with no stats training, perhaps the result could've been refined or thrown out without expelling someone from research. If the feud hadn't been picked up by pop science press, then maybe a bad piece of science could've been questioned without poisoning the well for further inquiry.
It tracts most of them. We can't really compete on the salary, benefits or programmer community/culture that is available in the bay area. You also are unlike to get rich in an industry that relies mostly on grants. What we do offer is meaningful work. The upside is we attract more motivated, idealistic people that tend to produce amazing work.
Any examples of “worst trek in history...”
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That's not a helpful ingredient to pour into the well. You're basically just repeating a mental mock-up you have, not backed by data, only snark. Anyone who looks sincerely and closely will see how much more complex the situation is.

Moreover, there's evidence that repeating such generalizations—even though you intend them critically—makes the environment less welcoming and poisons it further for the equality you'd presumably like to see.

When you do this, you (i.e. we—we nearly all do it) are valuing the rush of morally posturing above our peers more than the cause we care about. If we're going to actually make HN be the welcoming place we want it to be, we'll have to do something about this.
Passwordless database authentication for AWS Lambda
There currently is no AR consumer device. If they launch within the next 6 months, as rumored, they are in a very good position. That being said, I didn't say there isn't reason to be skeptical. Just that most people are oblivious to the leaks because it's easier to talk smack about them getting funding without a public product yet.
You can say you'd choose to be homeless all you want, but saying "many" would do the same I think is being a little too dramatic.

And quitting your job (as you now point out, but didn't originally) is much different from "choosing to be homeless".
you're right, they used Polymer and Material Design for the frontend in combination with the spfjs framework, which was introduced in 2014.

https://youtube.googleblog.com/2017/05/a-sneak-peek-at-youtu...

https://github.com/youtube/spfjs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNe_HdayTtY
All I am reading here is a complacency with the way this person was taught. I have no problem adapting to the new tech and welcome the abstraction. I trust the communities and maintainers of such abstractions to help me when the time arises.
True - but my god the experiences aren't even in the same league and for me that matters. WeWork is worlds apart.
Been there, done that. I got so sick of flag/hiding the latest Uber nonstory for a while.
I upvoted you because you’re technically right for many cases, but if you’d ever dealt with a database you couldn’t scale further (we were using multiple of the largest instances EC2 had at the time) and new data was flowing in faster than you could delete it and downtime wasn’t an option, you too would hate any predecessors who said “you can always scale higher” before things got so bad it was almost impossible to recover.
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I certainly have a fair degree of sympathy for Cuddy's losses, but should she have been given the accolades (TED talk, tenure track at Harvard, etc.) in the first place?

Her work was interesting no doubt, and in our scientific age we have always celebrated the novelty and originality of the scientific geniuses that have advanced our understanding.

But the real value of science has always been novelty plus certainty. The scientists who we esteem should be known as much for their industrious management of the empirical process (recruiting replicators, statistical auditors, etc.) as they are for they are for their creative insight.
Sorry to be annoying on this topic, but:

This is explicitly one of the goals of replacing the current social safety nets with UBI.

UBI can't replace social safety nets. It's impossible. 12k for every adult is 3 trillion dollars, which almost always assumes cutting other programs. What about healthcare? I bet most would rather have comprehensive health coverage instead of 12k every year, but you can't have both. In the US we have neither.

You'd have to lose safety nets to make UBI work, financially. If you can show otherwise, do you mind explaining it?
In Fermat's Library, No Margin Is Too Narrow
Could you add expected stage half-life? I'm stack @8 and would like to advance to 9 ASAP.
Couch was a nightmare to use, mingo made all the friction to get it into products go away, especialy when teamed with dynamic languages.
“nothing resembling consensus” about whether online misinformation can be solved
In reference to the last question:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_...
Scientists Found a Spot to Build an Underground Colony on the Moon
The IPO was $192M, the worth of the company is slightly above $1B
Or better yet, forgo a hub at all :)
I had a N810. Great device, but once iPhone and Android smartphones came out, the market for these quickly shrunk to niche status.
You've got options there though

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity%E2%80%93attribute%E2%80...
The United States has been in a war or conflict in 55 of the last 60 years: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/02/america-war-93-time-2...
Python in Climate Science, an audio conversation
Sure, but your corporate overlord^W^Wfounder pays for that. From your POV, it's all you can drink coffee.

Also $2200 is on the high end for four people. You can probably talk them down to $2k or less.

You'd be surprised how valuable it is to have a pot of coffee ready to go all the time, next to a mini fridge that's always stocked with half and half. Sweetner's on the counter. It ends up taking like 30 seconds to grab coffee.

The janitors are surprisingly cool people, and they're fastidious about making sure the trash is taken out, doing the dishes (yes, you get a kitchen + fridge!), and making sure everything is stocked.

It's so effective to pool resources like that. Everyone gets those benefits just by being in the same place. And it's remarkable how un-cramped it all feels. Your office even has beautiful floor to ceiling windows that gives you a nice view of downtown and sunsets.
I've always felt that Wikipedia is an interesting tool, but I don't have a positive feeling about the Foundation, or the organization. There are many problems with Wikipedia, and maybe I haven't looked enough for it, but I would really love if Wikipedia would tie more of their fundraising to fixing these issues. I would like to see Jimmy be more open about their spending, problems, criticism, addressing all of that, and then saying here's why we're raising the money, and here's what we're going to use it for, not just to line Jimmy's pockets.
I've been awaiting sway as well. My big issue has been rotated displays, since I have two vertical monitors that this simply wouldn't work with.

After that there's also the Nvidia proprietary drivers not supporting Wayland, but I'll be switching to a FOSS driver stack with AMD by the time 1.0 hits.
Ask HN: How to get a job as Gameplay Programmer?
I’m an experienced software dev - 8 years building apps and websites. I currently hold a Sr Software Engineer position at a startup, and write rails/js full time. For the last 6 months, I’ve been building and learning gameplay programming. What can I do to make the transition into new role and highlight my past software experience?

I think my knowledge of software patterns (GoF) and deep full stack experience gives me a unique approach to game dev. I also have 3 AWS certs, if that matters. I’m very comfortable in UNIX and any c derivative language.
Problem is: Tell that to the people losing their jobs. "Sorry you have to choose between medication and rent now. But hey, the overall economy is doing great so you should feel happy!" This idea that a rising overall economy benefits everyone is a lie told by the smaller number of people who it actually benefits.
Hey Amazon, We Need to Talk
I think I'm just saying that I'm not sure you can conclude they don't have a real database backend now from the news.arc code.
Why Cryptocurrencies Matter
I think you or the mods should remove your comments because they are potentially defamatory. There is indeed no evidence that the Dash author himself was responsible, he says it was a family member.
I used the word quit in my very first post on this thread in a way that should’ve been obvious I meant quit my job.
It's a reasonable office services model -- every company would like to have (at least) fresh coffee, internet, print/copy services, meetings rooms, janitorial service, etc. All the unsexy things that make a workspace into a place to get stuff done. Depending on the size, the companies may do it themselves, or may contract with one of the many vendors for that.

With WeWork, though, the sweet spot is for companies that are in between the solo entrepreneur (or the 2-3 friends) and about say 20-25 people. There is a good value for the hot desk or reserved desk for individuals.

At least in the locations I'm familiar with, once the number of people in a company gets too big then costs per square foot soar above regular office real estate in the same area. We found that having a meeting for 3-4 people couldn't happen on a whim, you had to book a room and if none were available you had to delay the meeting. Also, our meetings could never run long because inevitably someone else had booked the room afterwards and needed us out.

A lot of small things that might matter for some sorts of companies never really gave us much value like printer and copier services. While there's no true paperless office, the amount of printed stuff we generated (not counting marketing materials, which went to a graphic print service anyway) was negligible.
>I'm sure he'd also agree with me just before using "snuck" in a sentence and winking.

I strongly doubt that.

"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure, that just ain't so."
Notes was a document store before JSON, or even XML was even a thing. The wheel turns.
I don't take this result at face value or consider it definitive, but it's one imperfect result among many other imperfect reports that all point in the same troubling direction.

Alarms have a very useful function: to alert you to impending danger. That's why it's useful to conduct fire drills and spend some time/money on tools and methods that you hope never to have to use, notwithstanding the cost of occasional false positives.

I've noticed that people who say 'oh you worry too much' are never around to help when things actually go wrong, so I pay increasingly little attention to drive-by naysayers.
Ah, right, like RethinkDB?

As much as I'd love this to be true, the #1 measure of success is if people even know you exist and #2 is if you solve enough of a customer's problems that it's worth using your product. MongoDB hit these two points hard right out of the gate and are now very successful because of it.
You can't guarantee success. you can do things to improve your chances. and real success usually doesn't happen without a team.
I don't know why you're using my comment as a venue to litigate penalties applied to your account. The point here isn't "people like 'jsmthrowaway get penalized". They do. The point is "moderation is far more coherent and transparent now than it was in some supposed 'good old days'", when you could be shadowbanned simply for irritating Paul Graham.