skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think wireless technology will ever be able to compete with fiber for bandwidth. You can cram incredible amounts of data through glass. It's on the order of Petabits/second for a single strand.
Hopefully this trend continues. Every mile of my overcrowded and high COL city dedicates a few square blocks to huge retail outlets - Office Max, Kohl's, Best Buy, etc. Besides the stores themselves, they all include huge parking lots which are often completely empty.

Though I've made purchases from these companies regularly, I probably step inside the physical stores no more than once every six months.

Knock em down, build more smaller residential neighborhoods, and maybe those of us under 40 can begin setting down roots, buying affordable homes, starting families.
>Looking at truck size, this doesn't even look like a very hard problem

Can we now add UPS to the growing list of other HN-Commenter-Weekend-Projects? So far I’ve got Facebook, Twitter, Shazam.
Hoping to see this implemented in JavaScript running on Electron for maximum irony.
I'm no $whatever, but anything after the word "but" in this sentence structure usually contradicts the first clause of the sentence.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/I%27m_not_prejudiced,_but%2e%2...
And sometimes, but not always, a financial safety net or a boatload of funding.
This is a nice motivational piece.

That said, I would have liked to see some acknowledgement that the original idea is rarely the one that generates value. The "single person with an idea" by itself places too much emphasis on the value of the idea versus the dogged persistence and willingness to throw that idea out the window as needed.
"Many archives of that age and size don’t get digitized because the papers are of different sizes and thicknesses. It is expensive and it is difficult to make sure you have the necessary accuracy."

I don't buy this. I've archived a lot of family documents. Putting them on a flat bed scanner and pushing the button works just fine - it is not expensive nor difficult nor inaccurate.

When I was on a trip and had only brief access to a big pile of old letters, I simply took out my phone and took photos of the papers, one by one. It took literally a few seconds a page. I wasn't sure how it would turn out, but later going through the photos, I was very pleased with the results.

I suspect that sometimes archivists get obsessed with perfection, and wind up with nothing as a result. What's really valuable about the HP archive was the text, not the coffee stain on the paper. The archive copy only has to be good enough to read the text, and for that a common handheld phone camera is way more than adequate.
On Android, there is a top strip of suggested words that you can tap (seems to be one on iPhone?). It's pretty decent, and is definitely a part of how I type, which is basically, type 2 to 3 letters, tap the word I want. I can write some lengthy emails quickly using this style of typing, and I really don't use autocorrect that much.

Touch-screen typing is an entirely different interface than a physical keyboard.
There is no question that nuclear weapons testing produced deadly pollution. Atmospheric tests (of which there were hundreds) produce fallout in fairly large quantities. There are cases of people being killed or injured by this fallout in pretty obvious ways. The spread of fallout is pretty easy to track since it emits radiation, so less obvious cases can be discovered as well.
That feels true until you imagine plucking a random real life human driver off the street and paying them to act as your own personal auto correcter. Same or worse results and yet they make it to work without a wreck on most days.
I want this to be true. But I highly doubt it will stay. :( Would be really neat to see numbers supporting that this is more than just a few fringe people being served.

I've recently started using an RSS reader again and I'm finding that I can find some feeds, but what I don't know where to find is a good place to discuss the articles. More, it does feel like the feeds are a second class citizen, at best. Is amusing to see the page that lists some feeds, such as https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/fear-not-readers-we-hav... still list the demise of google reader. Which, sadly, reminds me that I haven't checked google+ is about as long.
> Being better for the planet is not the main part - for starters, homo sapiens dying off would likely also be better for the planet

George Carlin had it right. There's nothing wrong with the planet. The planet is fine and will be fine no matter how much we meddle with it. It gets to live on a geological timescale...it was here long before us and will be here long after we're gone. Rising CO2 in the atmosphere, pollution, rising seas and all that won't kill the planet. Some species will die, new species will evolve and the earth will keep supporting life just as it has for millions of years.

What "save the planet" means is preserve an environment that's best for the homo sapiens and other species we care about. So killing off all homo sapiens isn't really better for the planet. It might be better for the survivors if a good chunk of the population died out or even if we stopped growing the population of humans, but it's arrogant to think that environmentalism is acting in the planet's best interests. Environmentalism is just acting in the best interests of our species instead of the best interests of individuals.
Java is worth learning because:

- It's a popular programming language with a large and diverse install base;

- It's commonly used in server-side backends, and in a modified but recognizable form, for Android app development;

- It's an imperative language whose dominant paradigm is object-oriented, but Java 8 and later bring in constructs familiar from functional languages;

- It's verbose and doesn't favor cleverness. If you think this is a drawback, avoid it.

A comparable language that's better-designed in C#. However, in many settings, it is less used.

A language which was designed with most of the same design goals as Java is Go. The two nonetheless ended up perceived as quite different.
You can make a good salary and still live paycheck-to-paycheck. If you can't afford a good, strong cushion (regardless of how good or bad your salary is), I'd consider that a certain degree of poor.
I somewhat agree with this compensation logic, however, I think the correction is not intelligent enough to be bearable yet (Not context-aware, no grammar support, poor support across languages, etc.). I type my stuff faster without autocorrect.

Also, the post is about a macbook, which has a keyboard.
A Spare and Simple Life – Historic Environment Scotland
We are not giving the US a pass.
What books or articles did you read? I found his course to be a little boring.
I have to say that my interviewing experience at Google was existentially bizarre.

None of the interviewers (I think there were 6) looked like they would rate their mood higher than 3 out of 10 both before and after their time slot. The guy I had lunch with gossiped about how much he disliked it there. The interviews were pedantic to a degree I never thought possible.

You need to hit somewhat of a perfect storm to get interviewers in a decent mood and then upon receiving an offer somehow not be put off by the grey cloud of gloom you witnessed and actually accept it.
Toilet Paper History: How America Convinced the World to Wipe (2009)
That was an incredible read. I had no idea about it. Hilariously dangerous.
It's also not difficult to take a picture of every document with the right downwards facing camera rig either, and much quicker. That way you can do cleanup and orientation correction in post processing. Both ways beat not doing any digization at all.
I've been living in Jakarta for about a year and a half now, and Id agree with what you are saying overall.

I think a big problem is that since a lot of the institutions are at the national level with offices locally (very different from having institutions organized/with jurisdiction locally and having one or more overarching above/beside them), such that there's no "competition" over local governance which would naturally attract/repel people to regions over others based on how things are run. Which incidentally, seems in line with the pervasiveness of the corruption.

You just wont get the local office for the national police to care about people cutting holes in the flood walls, or pretty much anything unless you pay them.
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Friends of mine used papercrafting as a cheap alternative to plastic sci-fi spaceships for wedding table center pieces.

I loved the low-cost of this crafting hobby and kept doing it almost 5 years later; I love assembling models and having a beautiful spaceships to show off afterward.
It doesn't hurt to have a few friends or relatives higher up.
Illustrations from the Six Voyages of John Baptista Tavernier (1678)
It was a "CPU throttle" register that controlled the ARM's clock, with four or eight bits of divisor from the base 20Mhz clock. It's been a long time and it's hard to remember h/w register layouts from several decades ago :-)

(Yes, we did the whole Newton on a 20Mhz ARM with less than 512K of RAM).
step 1: don't trade crypto
That's pretty overstated (there are many different types of wars, prevented by many different means), but a decent case can be made that nuclear weapons reduce the chance of some conventional wars between nuclear armed States.

However, nuclear war between the US & USSR was not prevented by the existence of nuclear weapons. Even ignoring the logical absurdity this would require, the simple fact is that nuclear war nearly happened on many occasions as a result of various misadventures, and it was a matter of pure dumb luck that it didn't. It literally is just an accident of fortune that we didn't have a world-encircling cataclysm. Your and my existence hinges merely on happenstance. Huge amounts of documentation attest to this. The best single-volume account is probably Eric Schlosser's Command and Control.

Nuclear weapons don't prevent war. They reduce the frequency of some types of conventional war, at the cost of making cataclysm absolutely inevitable. They will be used at some point, whether by malign choice or accident. It is only a matter of time.

There are a whole bunch of other questions discussed by military historians which complicate the matter further, arguing (for example) that nuclear weapons increase the number and length of proxy wars. But even that's all a detail in the face of the manifest fact that if nuclear weapons continue to be deployed, we will have a nuclear war one day.

So perhaps we should be working on some less risky peace-building efforts, while there's still time?
Especially with the great improvements in phone cameras today---many years ago, even dedicated digital cameras were considered inadequate for digitising, but the situation is very different now, particularly when the choice is between a suboptimal copy and none at all.

Those of you who have read "cammed" ebooks may remember what it was like back then.
So raising the rent on homes, got it. Good idea.
This has literally been proposed since the very first meeting of the United Nations General Assembly. [1] The problem is that nuclear weapons are too attractive to powers with weaker conventional militaries. In the 40s, that meant the Soviets stalled until they had their own nukes. Today... well, see North Korea. Weaker powers will always develop and retain nuclear weapons, because it is too attractive to make it unthinkable for stronger powers to destroy them militarily. Conversely, stronger powers feel forced to maintain a deterrence force against these weaker powers. It’s really not clear there’s a way out of nuclear weapons until they’re used again.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baruch_Plan
I love autocorrect on my phone. I frequently fat finger letters, and my typing on mobile is faster now due to me being able to assume it'll autocorrect for me. My phone isn't a device I would ever use for writing long prose that might have legitimate spelling issues.

On my laptop though--I usually disable the autocorrect and instead limit it to underlining misspellings.
sounds like you are calculating & shifting your "dim light melatonin onset" (DLMO)
I'm comparing the same areas of the goat's head between the screenshot and the paper model. They don't match up.
Thank you, saved me having to suggest its "autoincorrect". A thousand times, yes.
You know I don't see the point of working beyond my means (taking on risk) if I can't give that to my kids in some way.
Got me to search for more:

https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/382vyw/a_simple_on...
"TreeMaker" mostly created for paper folding aka origami modeling, and its little different from '3D model -> papercraft'.

"Pepakura Designer" & discussed Blender add-on are different from "TreeMaker".

But for origami there is also cool "OrigamiEditor3D"[0]

[0] https://github.com/ba-sz-at/origamieditor3d
I recently got difficulty to sleep. Gonna try and see if magnesium helps. Thanks
Yeah one has to buy into the premise that debt based money is a good thing but I reject that premise.

At least each BTC represents a certain amount of work (in the form of electricity expended) that's already been performed.

Debt is great as long as there is enough work to be performed to square the accounts.
e.g. learn Latin. Or Greek. Or whatever it is that 10 fking years in med school actually gives SMEs in that field. Autoincorrect isn't an expert system, and it's behaving like one. Thank you for the detailed example.
Yep.

There is something in the human heart that falls for people who are young enough to be their children. That same awe-shucks people get when they see a baby is the same feeling one gets when they feel the desire to mentor someone.

In an industry where there isn't many people older than 30, it's going to be much harder to find someone who looks at you as the child they never had.
You don’t have to justify to anyone why you are having a child. (As a parent, I can see by you’re set up better than most)

If for no other reason having children is our biological raison d’être. Go tell a squirell it’s not rich enough to procreate!

Children are brought up with very little means everyday; they don’t need rich parents.

Children are seen by our rich society as a luxury good that only the well off are worthy of buying.

Instead what children need are strong loving parents. (I’m so anoyed at the parents of my kid’s spoiled friends, and she not even three)

I lived for three months in Cali (Santa Barbara) and it is one of the last places in N. America I would raise my daughter. Only the despair from the poorest, heroin addicted, countries in WV would rank lower.

A well employed parent, a well educated spouse and grandparents to help. We should all be so lucky!
Ok, cool. We are getting somewhere now. What does Bitcoin offer in that perspective?
Economic development is not so bad at the moment - about 5% per annum gdp growth, per capita about 3.5%.

They are not very organised with their city planning and development though - nearby low lying Singapore has reclaimed loads of land at the same time Jakarta has been sinking. Nyt article on that one https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/20/magazine/how-singapore-is...
What socialism? Socialist politics are basically banned Indonesia.
Placebo effect working for sleep disorders? Kind of reminds me of trying to rigorously test psychoactive drugs.
Whenever I store binary data as text, I just base64 encode it and convert on the client.
You are author of blog or of add-on?
Weapons?
Drudge is a pretty good case study in minimalistic design. By most metrics it's ugly and even baroque but it's brilliant because it is easy to parse and gets to the meat of the narrative that Matt is trying to sell to his audience.
Like most things, it only seems simple from a distance. Between branded, generic, ingredient, and chemical names, there is diversity and ambiguity in drug naming.
I agree. I lost about 60 cents on my investors' dollar and I called up every single one of them (including syndicated angels) and told them basically "I have some difficult news for you. Our company is failing and the best option is to sell to BigCo for 40 cents on the dollar. Thank you for investing in me and sorry I couldn't get you a better outcome. Please sign the acquisition agreement."
"fresh-frozen" lol
Thank you for sharing your experience. I have been with the company for a year now (prior to that I had number of years as dev) and to be honest, I am not too familiar with union side of UPS. But I had multiple conversations with higher managers & leads and they told me how they went out delivering packages. Lead developer who manages team I work in, been with company for 15 years, has driver delivery jacket hanging in his cubicle that he received when he was delivering packages few years ago.

Just recently I got this email:
"Directors,
A Peak Volunteer Request has come in for Maryland. The request is strictly for Driver Helpers. They are looking for any volunteers that are able to give at least one week.[...]"
I suffered from insomnia as a child and it peaked when I hit 12-14 yo. My pediatrician told me to do EXACTLY as you suggest, namely "If you’re in bed for more than 20 minutes and haven’t fallen asleep yet, get out and do something else.". Basically, don't use your bed as the place to TRY to sleep. Only sleep there. This worked like a charm for me and I haven't had sleep issues since.
I’m curious about the key points you call out.
Great, we need to have more politically enabled companies like Theranos and hope that they continue to thrive.

Hackers compromising their infrastructure from eastern europe/russia/china based IP, and releasing the genetic information they have could provide a great service to the public in the future.
Yep, Whink brand rust remover is 4% HF. It's a somewhat useful source of hydrofluoric acid in a pinch. I recall a procedure for making uranium tetrafluoride from uranium trioxide (which in turn was extracted from uranium ore) using that brand of rust remover as the acidic fluoride source.
Don't forget the classic way people used to get loaded back in the day, providing essential services to the state.
> I've seen people argue that autocorrect is part of the input mechanism of on-screen smartphone keyboards. The rationale goes, with a physical keyboard of respectable size, you make much fewer typing mistakes than with a virtual keyboard on flat glass where the touch targets are tiny. To compensate for the inferior precision, autocorrect comes in to figure out what you meant.

That's a nice theory; the problem is that autocorrect is often stunningly bad at that, and turns slight typos into radically different words. Humans are very good at getting the correct sense from text with typos, but not so much with arbitrary replacements.

Voice control is, obviously, a whole different kettle of fish since you don't have a text input stream to start with.
I think we’ve still got seven bookstores in Cambridge, but that’s down from the dozens we used to have.

Of course, it’s not like direct sales are a new thing. Mail order business has been around as long as the mail.
What about the nations who don't become signatories?
looks fantastic! does the Blender functionality have curvature modeling as well? in other words, if I want to do a cylinder, would it have polygons or a large sheet rolled?

Also, I think it would be great to have a solid-filling functionality as well. If a part of model needs extra-support, it would generate a honeycomb-like structure inside the specified solid.
How would we get the nuke to the asteroid? With what rocket? We’d have to detect it early, design and build a massive new gen of rockets, and then essentially hit a target moving at cosmic velocities far enough away that we don’t turn a rifle into a shotgun.

Realistically all we can do at this time to cope with an extinction level impact, is crying and dying.
Thank you. Living in a successful metro area as I do, I'm fairly sure that the _entire area_ is one or two failures away from Mad Max-level hysteria. It doesn't take much (a few days without potable water or gasoline, say). And yet, we're balls-to-the-wall consumer capitalism all the way, baby. A bit of planning would make months of difference.
Hah, yeah. On being a dick, I'm tempted to say "no amount of talent..." but I think it's probably just a geometric, maybe exponential increase, i.e., the necessary talent required to cover your personality deficits increases more rapidly than the deficits.
I wrote a simple RSS feed viewer for myself for the same reason. A lot of times I just want to read the headlines from top news sites.

https://www.alexkras.com/eznews/

If I am actually interested in the story I don’t mind waiting a bit for it to load.
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The op is a bit bombastic.

That being said his point is true. They printed money and that money had to increase the price of something.

If you give printed money to state employees consumer goods go up.

If you give it to banks (QE) the price of financial assets goes up. The financial bubble we’re in is huge (pray, what great increase in productivity has occurred in the last ten years that the stock market has gone up so much).

If the CPI included financial instruments (ie my retirement) this inflation would be easily spotted.

QE is maybe the most pernicious inflationary policy yet since at least the previous inflationary spending gave money to normal people but now financial oligarchs are the only ones who make money!
At some point gesture typing got turned on on my android phone, found it by accident, and then tried it out. I really like it much better than tapping. Smooth circling gestures gets the word displayed and the row of three alternative mappings almost always has the word I want if its first guess was wrong.

This was especially nice for me as my natural finger hits about 1/8 of an inch to the right of where I think it should. Is there any way to calibrate the touch position on android to fix this problem? Google fails me and, if this is not possible, it seems the tech industry has also. I have Android 8.0.0.
If they knew this from day one, or even day 501, then insisting on designs with non-user-replaceable batteries looks even more like planned obsolescence for financial gain.
> You don't know anything about the bottom line.

I'm unsure what you mean by this. "The bottom line" is just a manner of expression.

> I made claims about the potential for use, not that it was actually used

And I stated why I believe this to be a dubious claim; crypto-tokens are totally impractical. Your allusion to advancements in medicine and internet connectivity is a red herring argument that hand waves away the reality of using crypo-tokens in the real world.

> You seem to be operating on the assumption that third world = mud huts and subsistence farming, which is very untrue.

Wow. I illustrated concerns surrounding limited accessibility to internet in the developing world and you disingenuously twisted it into an insult to the citizens of the developing world. You don't even have to venture into a 3rd world country to see the impracticality of crypo-tokens in the real world, they're barley usable even in the developed world, and at the first sign of trouble they are useless, e.g. see how far crypo-tokens take you on the ground in Puerto Rico. Jumbling around private keys, trying to coordinate meet-ups to trade crypto for money, managing all the technical issues surrounding wallet management, insane volatility, transaction fees, the concept of confirmations, client versioning, security best practices, staying abreast of blockchain politics surrounding forks and protocol changes that impact security, price, usability... it's a quagmire of impracticality.
For a small fee you can buy anything with BTC via Bitpay Visa.

Just curious, do you think paper currencies have intrinsic value?
Books are good mentors

SICP https://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html

On Lisp http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html