skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I should also mention that a lot of reviews of flashlights found on Amazon praising things I would rate as absolute junk are probably entirely honest.

If your last flashlight used alkaline batteries and an ancient LED, or even an incandescent, anything using an LED from this decade and a Li-ion battery is going to look pretty impressive. That Li-ion cell might well be taken from a laptop battery sent in for recycling, and the charger it comes with might burn your house down, but it's still impressive to the average person.

On the other hand, I've seen a one-star review for not including a battery. It never said, or even suggested that a battery might possibly be included. My conclusion is that Amazon reviews for most kinds of products aren't useful for much more than determining if a product has an unreasonably high failure rate.
Don't blame it on movies. If movies disagreed with accepted culture, they wouldn't be popular. Qualified immunity and blue wall of silence exist not because of the movies.

Also note that Hans Gruber is not exactly an example of average citizen and was shown committing several murders (not to mention a row of other felonies including hostage taking) before McClane has even a chance to encounter him. This is exactly the case where police officer is justified to use lethal force - unlike, say, woman in her pajamas calling the police because she heard a strange noise in her backyard. Constantly confusing these two is exactly the reason why no sensible discussion happens in US public debate about it - it's either "police can do no wrong" or "always blame the police, even if the other side is Hans Gruber".
> We put in a ton of extra work to make it perfect and they didn't care.

The question is whether the game would have made more money for the company if it was perfect and shipped later. It is not necessarily true that making a product better and delaying shipping is long term better for the company.
A Hacker News IRC might be a fun thing to start.
> See, I want to send my kids to school and be reasonably sure that some idiot can’t go down the street, buy a couple of rifles, and murder them and their classmates.

Everybody does. Let's not be disingenuous, though: the chances one of our children dies from a gunshot wound at school is incredibly small.

By my counts, 4 students have been killed at school shootings this year. 4 students out of ~50 million kids at over 130,00 schools. Consider also there are over 350 million firearms in the US.

People only care about it because of _guns_.

<soapbox>

Nobody seems to care much about the ~30,000 firearm deaths in the US each year.

They don't care that 2/3 of them are suicides, usually of middle-aged men.

They don't care that most of the remainder are usually in poor areas (often because of the US' long history of racism) and often gang-related.

They only care about the sensational (and very tragic) 0.0001% of deaths.

It annoys me to no end because it's proof they don't care about gun deaths. No, they just care about tear-jerking cable news stories. It's gross and disingenuous.

</soapbox>
what are we supposed to do exactly?
Maybe it's pent up demand after a lull that lasted a few decades. It's just a feeling, but I don't recall much building happening in the 90s and 00s. Not that there wasn't any at all, but it seems after the 70s boom, there was a tapering off and a resurgence in the late 00s. Could be wrong though.
Here are some experiments on more complext data and with more layers: https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.03480

Unfortunately, it does not look very promising so far.
Some further advantages of forefoot walking: it is much quieter; it is easier to precisely place your feet (e.g. 10 people can all walk in the same footprints and hide their numbers); you can very quickly and easily transition between walk and run or other types of motions (jumping, climbing, backing up, scooting sideways, crouching, diving to the floor, ...); it is more stable / easier to recover from sudden forces if e.g. the ground gives way or someone shoves you; your torso bounces around a lot less, which can make carrying certain kinds of loads or wearing some types of clothing easier, and also really helps if you are trying to aim a video camera while walking.
> There's already more than a few bodies up there now. Some are a little famous, like the green boots guy. The bodies can't be removed.

The Times just had an interesting feature on Everest body recovery: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/18/sports/everes...
Now ban Denali.
>"diets that include too much salt"

Hasn't that been debunked I thought I read? I certainly hope so.

I had the pleasure of visiting with my Grandma's sister who was down for the holidays with us. She did not eat much of our cooking as she stated that her doctor had her on a "low sodium diet". She said she couldn't eat alot of things she liked, but it wasn't so bad as there was no restriction on sugar intake so she "gets to eat all the sweets" she wants.

And that was demonstrated several times at the dessert table and by the several bags of candy she brought with her from back home. I was quite dumbfounded.
> Color blindness, partial deafness etc., are readily and inexpensively treated, but they do not afflict 5-10% of the young and healthy population.

Isn't color blindness in men right in that range?
The TransAmerica pyramid and its travails are discussed in the article. It was different.
There is a market for less conspicuous bulletproof "clothing" (chest area only), and prices have fallen in recent years. Just saying.
Reminds me of REI being closed on Black Friday.
Thanks! There's only one sending domain, so it would be incongruous to randomize the signature, unfortunately...
AoE 1 and 2, yes. AoE 3 is 3D. True 3D works fine for RTS games and generally looks better, and can apply dynamic shadows, physics, etc. If you are simply saying that you prefer the old-style graphics, then okay. But your initial statement wasn't worded well if that is what you meant.
Many people have difficult jobs in Oakland. Not all of them have lobbying power or unions to extract higher than market pay.
San Francisco grows at a positively glacial pace compared to even mature cities like London. Heck, even downtown Los Angeles rapidly outpaces SF in construction. While at the same time SF arguably has more money and demand for growth then both those places by a giant margin.

I wouldn't be surprised if Sacramento is adding more leasable square footage a year than SF.

It's not tech that's ruined the city, it's anti-growth NIMBYs that have caused the existing real estate prices to fly off to the Moon and critical infrastructure to stall in the courts for years.

If the argument is about "increased traffic" then they're simply wrong. Forcing people to drive in from El Sobrante or San Leandro because of a refusal to build more convenient housing, that's the policy that causes more traffic. Homes will be built somewhere.

If it's against the carbon footprint of new construction then use carbon negative cement, have rooftop gardens, and use solar windows. We need to start transforming our cities anyway.

And if the argument is against "greedy developers" then work on not for profit community housing projects built on land trusts. "Build nothing" is not a reasonable option
I'm thinking about making some"leather socks" like video guy had. They look comfy.
The point is that "jail" shouldn't be the default punishment for every criminal act. There are lots of ways you can punish people. Take away his ability to game for 20 years and make him pay one million to the family, worked off over a number of years. America is locking up people at an alarming rate, when alternative more cost-effective punishments are available.

I invite you to read about the problem of mass incarceration:
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2017.html
Russia will be considered a democracy by the West when it will become one. "Subjugation to the US" is irrelevant, Ukraine is irrelevant. Kremlin makes you believe otherwise in order to not become a democracy, and it is very successful.
> focus on short term measures to boost their numbers

Again, this relies on fooling the investors who bid up the stock price based on that. How long can a company continue to fool the investors?

I had a CEO once tell me how he had manipulated the accounts for short term gains "because that's what Wall Street wants." But the stock tanked. The only one fooled was the CEO. The company has since disappeared.

The S&P500 is made up of companies that have been around for a while. How long do you think a company is going to last, if quarter after quarter they eat their seed corn? How do you explain the growth of the S&P500, decade after decade after decade, if the stock market is plagued with short term-itis?
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In the murkiness shrouding the wrecks of the Franklin Expedition
I wear sandals as much as possible. When I need something that covers my foot, I've been getting Converse All Star Slim Ox and stripping out the insoles. One aspect of minimalist shoes is that there's not a lot there: they're generally not really built to last. The Slim Ox are pretty cheap (when they're available: they aren't always) and are a good compromise in my experience.
Commentarii de Bello Gallico by Julius Caesar

By far my favorite example of any individual human's mental (and often physical) toughness. There's a thousand examples where he displayed herculean mental strength in the face over overwhelming situations.

Some that come to mind:

1. He took groups of cavalry out on attacks during a heavy winter, letting each group of soldiers take a turn resting, while he went out on every mission.

2. He grabbed a shield an went to the front of the lines when the Nervii were about to slaughter his entire force. Turning the tide in a situation almost no one else could have survived.

3. Instead of giving up the siege of Alesia when a massive relieving army was inbound, he went double or nothing by enclosing himself in a double wall investment.

4. He attacked a beach full of unknown numbers of enemy soldiers with chariots, in D-day style amphibious assault.

He did a hundred major things like this in his life, and a thousand minor ones we know about.

An excellent audiobook version is available free https://archive.org/details/Commentaries_Gaius_Julius_Caesar
Since I had room in the panel for an additional breaker installing a level 2 EVSE (charger) on the driveway side of the house was only $350. I paid $550 for the charger itself. Total cost $900.
Offsetting that:
- $500 rebate/credit from GM for buying a Chevy Spark EV and a charger.
- $500 cash from PG&E
- $150 or so federal tax credit
- Increased value of my house with EV charger.

Overall, I think I made about $500 on this install.

Best part, I haven't been to a gas station more than a dozen times in the last four years. I love not going to gas stations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didier_Delsalle
I bet you could design helicopter that would be able to repeat this with much less effort
Just tell the climbers in advance they will not mount rescue missions for people who do not meet a minimum threshold of competence and preparation.
exactly. it is THAT simple sometimes.
I just hate the design of salesforce tower. it's a recycled take at the architects same building in Hong Kong and Santiago[0,1]. Not sure why you would make such a landmark, dominant building look so unoriginal and unremarkable.

0: https://www.google.com/search?q=pelli+hong+kong&source=lnms&...

1: https://www.google.com/search?biw=1440&bih=762&tbm=isch&sa=1...
Left a job that was sucking my soul dry. It was at one of the big tech companies, in a high-visibility, very popular project (lots of people here on HN follow it), but I just couldn't stand working there anymore, in part because of there being too many "rock stars"/"celebrities" in the team that though too highly of themselves. I was hired at a higher position, with significantly higher compensation, at a company that I actually care about waking up in the morning and going to work to give my best. And with way friendlier and humbler co-workers.
The size comparison is a bit off; Manhattan is about half the size of SF (https://www.comparea.org/r2552485+r111968). Of course, NYC is over 6x the size of SF (https://www.comparea.org/r175905+r111968).
TPTB have so perverted the Law that few of their subjects can bear it anymore. Now they must import new subjects, who will suffer all the depredations of a lifetime in the few years they manage to survive here.
It's not just a waste of money. Climbing Everest, even with oxygen, produces permanent brain damage.
Port Townsend? :)
Yeah, I definitely did find these impressive for the same reasons you mention... hopefully my house won't burn down with the charger I got (it hasn't yet)!
I'm super excited about it. It would solve all of the problems I listed above (and then some).
Its not that hard to put a price on it. As an avid mountaineer, I would attempt a rescue for a cool 10M USD.
Compared to newly-minted coders getting low 6 figures? Well... The world would be a better place if cops and teachers were trained, paid, and respected like doctors. Police officers' jobs are mostly boredom (e.g. manning a radar gun) mixed with occasional stress and quite a bit of dealing with people in their worst moments (e.g. desperate, angry, drunk, or high). If they were paid more, the job might attract enough candidates to hire more people with the intelligence to de-escalate situations, and fewer who get off on the power.
Are you referring to the first paragraph of the article, or something else? The first paragraph describes the observer effect, not the measurement problem or the uncertainty principle. The observer effect is indeed often confused with the uncertainty principle.
It has no technical challenge from the standard "tourist" route and mainly presents economic obstacles, in that it costs as much as an SUV. Most people in decent health could train for a year and summit successfully. It is the mountaineering equivalent of reading an entire encyclopedia. Sheer volume of effort is all it takes.
What I've read is that only about 20% of the population has salt induced hypertension. Regarding low salt diet which I am on due to kidney disease, our tastes actually adapt the lower salt contents if you do it long enough however you still need enough to bring out the flavor in many things. My solution is to pick things that have other stronger tastes like sweet, sour, spicy, etc.
This. The linked article's title is "Deliverance From 27,000 Feet". It's been posted on HN four times (see https://hn.algolia.com/?query=https:%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F... ), but I believe first post is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15951204

Although the main theme of the article is about the recovery of a body from near the summit, it has background information on when climbs can take place, and how the route to the summit is established every year.

IMO, it's a worthwhile read!
Ask HN: Why do so many startups invest so little in design?
OK, this job is objectively worse than the one we were worrying about earlier today:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16033895
Maybe I'm naive but isn't this something Amazon, for example, should be doing? Why aren't they concerned about the integrity of their community?
I'd rather see Nepal ban fixed ropes and yank the ladder off the Hillary Step, but that'd kill the whole industry.
I'd have thought that drawing a cartoon depicting Muhammad and signing it "drawn by Christians in <insert target Muslim country>" would be a better analogy. Then yes, I'd say that the real authors were responsible for the resulting violence (along with the people inflicting the violence of course).
This regulation is for foreign climbers. I don’t think people expect full personal liberty in a foreign country.
Uncommon Languages: OCaml [video]
> some boring dude working at [some company] that just [happens to offer coupons for the first 300 likes]

I'd say that sentence generalizes pretty well.
Yeah -- "inescapably"? Tyler Cowen would call this mood affiliation.
This piece is a great example of entirely the wrong way to think about this issue.

The procession of mechanisms is as follows, starting with layer 1:

- calcification

- cross-linking

- vascular smooth muscle dysfunction

Which gives you layer 2:

- vascular stiffness

Which then, entirely and all by itself ( http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003634 ), causes layer 3 by messing with the feedback mechanisms for blood pressure control:

- hypertension, raised blood pressure

Which then causes layer 4:

- microvascular damage, such as stroke, kidney issues

- major vascular damage and sudden death when combined with atherosclerosis

- cardiac hypertrophy, which is a maladjustment to hypertension

Calcification may be secondary to cellular senescence and other inflammatory mechanisms. Persistent cross-linking may be made worse by dietary sugars, or may not - the better studied forms of sugary by-product are not all that relevant to persistent cross-linking that stiffens tissue. You can read up on glucosepane to learn more about that. The vascular smooth muscle dysfunction is probably caused by a combination of inflammatory mechanisms and everything else that changes with age and poor health, such as metabolic syndrome.

So if thinking about fixing hypertension, you want to be watching people building cross-link breakers, such as the Spiegel team at Yale, funded by the SENS Research Foundation, or people clearing out senescent cells, such as the current brace of senolytic therapy companies, one of which was seed funded by the SENS Research Foundation. Watching the groups looking into smooth muscle may or may not go anywhere; it is very hard to say at this stage whether there is any one target that might help enough for the usual pharmaceutical development approach to work well enough to care about in the near term.
They are also very expensive to maintain which is why they are often sold after a decade or two often below cost.
Telegram is shutting down a channel calling for violent protests in Iran
Yes, I’m sure it really is that simple.
> the mere fact that they were trained to commit murder does not absolve individual officers of criminal responsibility when they actually murder someone

I don't think I can agree with this. Police departments have policies for when officers should and should not shoot at people. In cases where the policy was followed, I think we have to say that relieves the individual of responsibility.

In this instance, of course I don't know whether the shooting was according to policy. And of course I hope, and expect, that it wasn't. But if it was, then it's the policy that has to change first.
I think mental toughness comes with knowing yourself and how to deal with the world around us. Meditations of Marcus Aurelius is a great starting point. It's a favorite of General Jim Mattis the US Secretary of Defense. The biggest badass we would all be lucky to know.
Our rules are not limited to direct owners, as your question assumes. Many institutional investors are fans too
I'd like to know what the facts on the ground were that led to have an roe of shoot to kill. Something did go wrong with the process leading up to this clusterfuck. I hope it's identified and fixed. There _might_ be some change in wichita, but I'm not hopeful nationally.
Sounds like a descriptive non-combative sentence to me. Why do you perceive it as an attack?
We hope in time that better rules will help alleviate the liquidity crisis that is freezing up SV. That said, I don’t think A/B round companies should generally be public
Interested in this, where did you read/hear this?
It's unfortunate that world-class alpinists such as Kilian Jornet -- who recently summited Everest solo, in 26 hours, without supplemental oxygen, after training his ass off for years [1] -- won't be able to attempt such a challenge again (unless I'm missing something).

There has to be a better solution to the problem mentioned in the article.

[1] https://www.outsideonline.com/2187266/kilian-jornet-summits-...
I’m a fan of Vivo Barefoot minimalist shoes. The quality has significantly improved over the years. They’re available from their website and Zappos will usually have some as well.
Rescues above 7000m aren't really an organized affair. When I traveled to the Himalayas I carried rescue insurance and it specifically excluded any efforts above 7000m. When you hear about attempts made to save people at high altitude it's typically opportunistic rescues or folks going back for their friends.

When Scott Fischer was stricken, his friend Anatoli Boukreev climbed up to him with oxygen. Same with Francys Arsentiev, her husband Sergei went back for her and died. On K2, Ger McDonnell attempted a solo rescue of three incapacitated Korean climbers. It isn't like there's a strike force of Reinhold Messner clones waiting at Base Camp ready to run up and pluck tourists off the mountain.

Edit: Hell, rescue below 7000m or 2000m isn't guaranteed. Back in 2009 one of my friends turned around on Aconagua just before the summit due to weather. During her descent she passed an ascending party. That group got disoriented and trapped by the storm. By the time rescuers reach them four days later two climbers were dead or dying.
I'm neutral to the Israeli-Palestine conflict. Each side is doing what they believe is just. The palestine side does not have the resources or military hardware so they turn to asymmetric warfare. On the other hand israel faces a huge security issue as a result and will deploy their resources accordingly.

I do have a lingering hope, given the number of organizations fighting asymmetric warfare like the IRA, FARC have now turned to non violent political representation, that we might see some change.

I condemn acts of terrorism there is simply nothing that justifies the murder of innocent lives, period.
This is quite easy to make into a phone app too, seeing how apps can intercept calls. Combine it with a phone number database like Whoscall, and one can get beautiful results.
Amazon Alexa and Google Home Fall Short of Real Conversation
In my experience "brittleness" has been used a long time to describe computing. They are typically far more efficient than manual methods but also starkly brittle.

The difference between brittle and risk is that brittle connotes unknown/unexpected failures, whereas risk covers the whole gamut but typically known risks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brittle_system

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_brittleness
Once again a "null test" like this, completely disregards the fact that lossy codecs such as MP3 use a psycho-acoustic model to determine which frequencies can be discarded with minimal impact to what humans actually hear, and is therefore misleading if considered as a means for judging the audio quality of a codec... mildly interesting as an art project though.
It's not individuals doing harm, it's the Jewish state, as Israel defines itself. Of course from being Jewish doesn't follow a support for Israel (and there are many harsh critics of Israel who are indeed Jewish)- however let's not pretend there is no connection at all, as that is obviously not true.

If Zuckerberg were of Arab Palestinian descent it wouldn't be hard to imagine a greater sympathy for the Palestinian cause.
That chopper was stripped to the bone so that one dude could fly in it, with a fuel time of 1 hour. It also landed on the summit which is more flat. Don't think it would be easily and safely able to carry an addition (dead) body that's probably perched on an incline, let alone carry rescuers. It takes upwards of 6 hours to chip the dead body off the ice (if it's been frozen there for a while)
There is also the MUNI metro as well. But it's true that even those two combined are inadequate.
I’m sure there’s a pun in there about “sick transit”.
Killian Journet just ran to the top twice, solo. No supplemental oxygen. Looks like his record will stand.