skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A long part of my scientific career has been unpacking simple statements about things like bike riding, and finding the underlying process is subtle, and reveals many interesting things.

When I was a kid, I had a teacher who said that cutting paper wasn't a chemical change- no bonds were broken. That seemed odd to me, but after I had a PhD, I understood a few things better. That when you cut paper, mostly hydrogen bonds- bonds, but a particularly weak form of bonds- are broken, but threre is enough kinetic energy to break some covalent bonds too. This turns out to have huge implications (besides the fact that the teacher was wrong).
True that, but they're still Christians as far as R's are concerned. Yeah, they do have some weird radical views like the Pope - but those can be fixed.

The people in the middle east worship a "psychotic man with a hairy mole" (aka: Mohamed). I learned that on WIBC, 1070KHz after a multitude of interviews that Mike Pence hosted back in the mid 90's with "religion intellectuals". I was in my mid teens during that.. should have recorded him talking about all this, but I'm sure the radio studio has recordings as well.

And back to the main issue, "Otherization" allows targeting anyone they don't want. And this seems to be drifting hard to neo-nazism. I know the people on Daily Stormer and similar groups are rather happy.
Agree. Such pipe dreams smack of laziness and disinterested minds to me.

“I’d rather not learn to cope in the world and let the thing I know best deal with it.”

It’s similar to a religious person pointing at the Bible for everything.

“This is my thing, I know it well, and it can just deal with everything for me!”

It’s freighteningly anti-curios and smacks heavily of approval of utilitarian sacrifice

Example: those blockchain clods and their “code is law”. Puritanical nonsense pushed by self-proclaimed holy wise men of blockain
Every time I see a comment like this I think to myself we must either be using a different Amazon or just buying totally different categories of items. I buy lots of things from Amazon. I probably get a package from them at least twice a week (I hate going to stores). In all that time I've never gotten something that was straight up garbage. So how is it so many vocal people are getting a significantly different experience?
> brew postgresql-upgrade-database

Oh man. That is frigging awesome. This is going to save so many people so much time. Where's the tip jar?
There are fundamental physical limits of quantum nature to Seebeck effect based thermocouple efficiency.

The maximum what you can get can't be higher than the hypothetical ideal quantum diode made from a material pair.

There are much more down to earth alternatives that beat both stirlings and thermocouples on reliability and specific power density: thermionic converters, thermoaccoustic generators, AMTEC converters, radiophotovoltaic (works only in 0g)
From what I understand, Amazon also commingles its own "Sold by Amazon" inventory with other sellers who use the Fulfilled By Amazon programme, without checking for counterfeits. [1][2][3][4]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16003872

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15944675

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15774793

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15589274
The techlash against Amazon, Facebook and Google–and a memo to big tech
Fax-to-Email with Twilio and Sparkpost
I have a Delsey suitcase (with Samsonite they’re in similar price range). I was never too careful about handling it, rolled far on various uneven surfaces outdoors, and usually filled it up in excess of 30 kg with books and equipment—it was quite reliable, I’m sure it would’ve served me for years to come.

One time at baggage claim it came out without a wheel. I suppose it doesn’t matter how tough your piece of luggage is if your baggage handler happens to be having a bad day.

To replace the wheel a Delsey store asked me to give it up for three weeks in Hong Kong, which I couldn’t do. Some pricier brands’s policies promise 1–3 day turnarounds, which makes a difference if you’re moving around frequently.
I've spend a long time trying different methods of doing this.

I briefly investigated tiddlywiki, used OneNote heavily for a while.

Currently I'm migrating to using JupyterLab notebooks on an ec2 instance with IP whitelisting.

It works pretty well, I have a kind of dream to connect it to a Datomic server instead of using filesystem notebooks and have relational notes.
If I say my perfect person is Joseph Kony (a North African warlord; who created a religion of a sincretic mix of animism, Christianity, and Islam) and that I'm going to follow his example as closely as I can - please let me in to your country. Why would you ever say yes?

If you were to suggest stopping all people who admitted to idolising Kony from entering the country it would seem reasonable, no?
Having actually read the article, this would suggest that your kernel is too old to have the fixes.
This is really amazing!

Thank you for building it. What would be the pricing model after the main release? How realtime is your data/analysis?

Whats the best way to contact you?
An viewpoint I want to raise; what about representation? Traditionally, those who work and make money have been in some way represented in the state and the general fabric of life. Those who don't, are generally don't, or rather, someone else represents for them.

I'd all for a universal paycheck, if it weren't for that nagging suspicion that it won't work out like in Star Trek. That the powers that be will decide something altogether unpleasant for the non-working majority.
> but I guess that would take moderating human-power.

Maybe they could use mturk?

Or maybe give you a button to set up an mturk job on a product to weed out the fake reviews for you, then you could pay only a few cents to get a 'real' review...
This command appears to work in Fedora too...
I appreciate how much the rich have helped other people along their way to, uh, being Sam Walton's kid.
I'm not sure if the ghost stuff is really indicative of a failing economy. I mean, China is about 20% of the world population, you're bound to find emptiness. We're talking about city planning on a massive scale. 220 cities of >1m people are expected by 2025. (SF at 0.8m by comparison). China has multiple cities bigger than countries like the Netherlands, multiple cities 4x bigger than Norway that was recently in the news. It has 280m (rural) internal migrants. Compare it to the US working age population of is just 200m.

The numbers are insane. In the US, we move 11x in our lifetimes of ~80y aka 13% of our population moves each year. Apply that average to China and you're looking at 170m migrants annually. And unlike US (a lot of urban to urban), in China there's a gigantic one-way rural->urban traffic, i.e., two people aren't switching urban houses and calling it 'moving', two people are leaving behind a rural home and needing an entirely newly built urban home.

How do you accommodate that many people in new homes. Do you start building homes only after they're needed? Or do you build some capacity at a surplus, to cover expected growth?

Probably the latter. It isn't much different from any company stocking surplus inventory. That's not an immediate indication of a failure of economics and a bubble.

And do you only build in existing popular cities and just try to add to the periphery, or do you build-up new cities? Probably the latter, too.

Plenty of other countries do it as well. Incheon developed very much due to overdevelopment in Seoul. Or here in the Netherlands, we now have close 0.8m people living in so called Vinexwijken. They're a development centered on a new ordinance concerning housing development between 1995 and 2005. Since 1995 our population grew by 1.6m or so, apparently half our growth went to these new locations created out of nothing. And we always have discussions about structural emptiness, big malls being built and remaining 75% empty for years. But the scale is smaller, the country is 75x smaller than China. We had issues with structural vacancy rates at a new 100k 'village', scale that up to 75x and you have a similar story. Yet the biggest ghosttown in China ia Ordos, planned for 1 million people, scaled back and built for 'only' 300k, and currently houses more than 100k and climbing. That's what is consistently called the biggest ghost town in China. For Chinese, both the size of the project as well as the timeframe (10 years of vacancy) is a rounding error.

Don't get me wrong, there's definitely an asset bubble. But we've also been saying that for who knows how many years and I feel we tend to focus too much on symbolism of the ghost town narrative.
> A lot of people did/do watch TV linearly out of habit. Plop themselves down on the couch and watch.

I'm in this category. I've got a bunch of streaming subscriptions yet I usually end up channel surfing regular TV.

Maybe it's a generational thing. Maybe it's laziness (i.e. let them decide what I watch, I don't want to pick). Maybe it's the convenience of the interface (it just works, no connecting, changing channels is near instant, etc). Maybe a combo of all of those.
When I was in middle school, there was this free web host I found[1] that gave you a small amount of storage and allowed you to load in templates and build your site with a WYSIWYG editor. Anyway, the homepage features a single text field where you type in what your website's subdomain would be (eg, website.20megsfree.com). For years that lone little text field was really exciting to me. With a few key presses and a click of the mouse I could create _anything_ on the internet (as far as 13yo me thought anyway!). And it was up to me to decide what went on the internet.

Mine's a different example, but I know exactly what you mean. It was my first opportunity to make a place of my own on a website and almost 20 years later I'm a web developer and the feeling that website gave me had a lot to do with me getting where I am.

I missed the generation of computers where writing BASIC was just a part of owning one. I think it's a shame that writing code isn't a more integral part of life, but I understand why it isn't anymore.

[1] - http://20megsfree.com/
How do you organize your paper notes?

I take a lot of "scratch" notes on paper, but often end up copying them into the computer at the end of the workweek. Usually they are quite a mess, and preserving them as-is makes for a challenge when using them in the future.

The other nice thing about notes on the computer is that they are easy to move around, tag, edit, etc. I can also integrate a tool like Zotero into my workflow, using pandoc-citeproc to keep a true bibliography and reference list.

I'm not saying you need all of those things, obviously. But I find them really helpful, and I would like to know how your system obviates the need for things like that. Do you write URLs by hand?
In regards to UBI, I was disturbed by a comment that Jaron Lanier made in the latest Ezra Klein Show [1] (starting at minute 55).

He said that some "known" Silicon Valley folks have expressed that the recent opioid epidemic is a positive because these addicts aren't needed will fall out of the workforce, thereby making the transition to the "world without jobs" easier.

[1] https://www.vox.com/2018/1/16/16897738/jaron-lanier-intervie...
It's because Amazon emails everyone (who bought that product) every time someone asks a question. The subject is "John Doe: Can you answer this question about ...". I've had this email a few times. Some people (I'm guessing old/non-tech savvy) assume someone has asked them directly, and so feel the need to reply.
Red Oxx bags are ludicrously over-built and cost under $300. Most leisure travellers would be better off with a cheap, lightweight MLC like the Rick Steves Back Door Bag.
Some companies sell directly on eBay, usually at a discount.
Russia is still a paper tiger. Its economy is smaller than Spain's. There are two factors keeping it in "the game":

- that huge stack of nukes

- the ruthlessness of its mostly autocratic leader(s)

Neither of those bode well for their future... ("it's the economy, stupid", and all that).
Arguing from the specific to the generic is an obvious logical fallacy and a darn slippery slope unless you also want to kick all Christians out a country based on the behavior of a small number of infamous ones.
nvALT is growing on me as of late. Very quick and easy way to build a library of markdown notes.
I was under the impression that Moore’s law was still alive and well.

Obviously game cost can’t sustain exponential growth if the market doesn’t grow exponentially (potential buyers times what they are able/willing to pay).
> Where's the tip jar?

here: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/3568/files#diff-04c6e9...
> And that's fine, but none of this addresses the assertion that cellphones can't work without GPS tracking

Perhaps because that was never asserted.

> Your cell phone cannot function without actually knowing where you are (to some approximation) at all times.
Giving human propensity for unverified beliefs, I agree with this.

It’s painfully obvious the opportunity for manipulation of the public

It would be treated as a new divine, infallible ideal we MUST protect, like God, free markets, and nation states
I suppose it's as good a programming religion as any other.
No, Mozilla's is Obsidian:
https://github.com/KhronosGroup/WebGLNext-Proposals/tree/mas...
Government of Canada Publishing on Ethereum Blockchain
It seems like it would be fairer to privatize the roads entirely and force the people who can actually use them to pay the entire cost.

Otherwise poor people are subsidizing roads reserved for the rich that they can't even use.
> Those two genres are a strange choice considering...

Ah ok, I didn't have commercial success in mind, only that 'cockpit games' are a more natural fit for VR than other genres (you're sitting in a cockpit, and you're usually sitting in the real world, unless you have a enough space for room-scale VR), and the fixed reference point of the cockpit frame seems to be better for avoiding VR sickness.
Is VR sickness still an issue in games without artificial locomotion? Most games these days tend to at least include an option for a locomotion system that doesn't result in VR sickness. (Like teleportation.)
just saying motherfucker a few times does not magically create a solid argument
Zed Shaw is a treasure. I'm not sure he's all that much of a role model.
This topic comes up occasionally and we see lots of answers involving plain text and wikis. It seems like there is still room for some perfect solution to the OP's problem with just the right feature set. Something with the stellar web and mobile ease-of-use and performance of Trello but document-based and at the same time free-form.

OneNote is probably the closest thing that exists.
I also have WiFI disabled nearly 100% of the time. I use GPS far more often than I do WiFi.
So, apparently my system is unpatched. What is the proper thing to do now?

Should I immediately update my BIOS (would this also patch my CPU's firmware?) or just wait for mitigations arriving with OS updates?
Nah, I heard Yeoman solves all these problems.
This is an incredible read, very thought invoking.

I've never replaced stairs but I have learned enough of the "details" by repairing them (or being aware of them) to know it's a really hard to get right.

A single 1/4 inch difference between two steps can feel wrong; a 1/2 inch difference and people will likely stumble or tumble down them on their first approach. Our intuition and pattern recognition impacts how we solve problems. Some call it "muscle memory" but it's not just in our muscles, it's in our unconscious thought.

Like the author explains so well, once we move a detail into our unconscious it becomes part of us, transparent to us, "common sense"; and an unnoticed detail is completely hidden from us.

The details of reality can only be taught through experience, because once understood, they move almost instantly from hidden -> transparent.
This seems like something, in the EU, that will come back and bite Amazon. They surely know the length of work hours and whether "adequate breaks" are being provided - or don't they manage the final mile logistics? Also the legislation about claiming people aren't working for you seems much tighter now.
That's probably exactly why you are told that you are socially awkward.

Edit: I don't know the creator is there a story to this I don't know?
Lenovo mentions [1] a "target availability" of a bios update for my x230 with ivybridge for 2nd of February. Intel didn't update the microcode for those chips yet.

[1] https://datacentersupport.lenovo.com/de/de/products/storage/...
No magical solution for water issues, says president of World Water Council
Here's my suggested addition, law 00, that this website really needs to follow:
Please don't make your websites into huge Vogue ads on desktop. I have a 27" monitor, I can fit more than 4 lines of text on my screen.
You've found a nice focus with this search engine: the relationship between a currency and the exchanges which trade it.

Don't dilute the engine's purpose with "reviews of exchanges," etc. Instead, exploit the relationship to it's fullest potential.

Two ideas for you:
* Currencies "coming soon" to an exchange
* Volume on exchange by currency
* Decreasing trade volume on exchange warning by currency
Because real programmers don't use such tools?
F-35 'incomparable' to Harrier jump jet, top test pilot tells the Register
Funny to see this. I thought getting commitment was one of the soft mechanisms of scrum. An annoying one, because power dynamics are always at play. Still a mechanism, though.

I think I'm supportive of the idea on removing it. Seems the goal is ultimately to find ways in rhetoric and action to align the teams in working to the end goal. Which, often, might require tradeoffs to reach a timely delivery. And timing is a requirement.
While building my company, we just drop all our experiences, lessons learned and failures down in our blog. It helps us document the process, be able to look back at it, as well as hopefully provide a valuable blueprint for other people building a business.

We've been doing it from day 1 and realise how valuable is and will be, going forward. https://weardulo.com/blogs/origins
Err, Bozeman doesn't have an opera house. Certainly not one with a burger stand across Main Street.

Just sayin'

;)
The people who do the actual discovery are not paid an exorbitant amount of money. They mostly just want to do research and solve problems while living a comfortable life. A pharma company making billions in profit isn’t necessary. It’s just the common way it currently is done. There are other ways to accomplish the same goal. We could try to replicate Jonas Salks’ way Of doing things.
> Where's the tip jar?

https://www.patreon.com/homebrew
a .plan file for my todo list, and some Markdown files synced on github.
Wow the government being inefficient and dumb, color me surprised. Sadly this is the world we live in though. I wish we could trust government agencies to be more competent but so far my experience has been really subpar.
Well, he's good at heart and knows his stuff.

Like all of us, he's just human
I don't have the problem with people being rich, poor are the ones that are fairly easy to help, yet we are not doing it. And most likely not taxing the rich enough or the right way.
To an extent. That seems way more coalesced that what I'm talking about, the page seems to talk about low tens of chips as the normal ceiling, with some exceptional cases in the low hundreds.

Even the later "fat processor" (RISC) Connection Machines had several hundreds of CPU (the earlier models had tens of thousands of single-bit processors)
Fascinating to see stuff like this from a tiny country. The playing field is level in people's ability to build or acquire cyberweapons.
And what makes you understand the law so well?
Thanks! Consider setting HOMEBREW_AUTO_UPDATE_SECS to a high number instead. For example I set

export HOMEBREW_AUTO_UPDATE_SECS=3600

In case you're wondering the reason we have auto-update on by default is because before we did literally ~50% of our issues were solved with a `brew update`.
Nothing like Briggs and Riley! Not a lot of their competitors offer lifetime warranties, but they do. They have replacement components, so you can fix a broken wheel instead of tossing the bag and starting from scratch.
I don't know. Samuel L. Jackson seems to do alright even when he doesn't have Tarantino writing for him.
perhaps rename the website to lossofux.com
> physically incapable of having an experience, or the risk is too high, but for the most part I derive more joy from actually going outside and doing stuff than playing a video game equivalent.

Or financially incapable of having the experience, or time constrained - and everyone is mortal and therefore time constrained.

I don't anticipate using VR to experience a walk in the local park, or (personally) mountain biking on the local singletrack because those are things I can do in real life with much more fidelity and have a much better experience. However, I could understand taking a walk in a park on another continent (or six other continents in one afternoon), or advising a friend whom I've raved about mountain biking to try the trail in VR before buying expensive equipment.

I'd rather have a compromise of some vast array of experiences across the world in low-detail VR, and also enjoy the limited amount of experiences I can enjoy in real life in full resolution, than to constrain myself to the small slice of the world that I can afford to physically experience.
unless the point is to promote the present version of Python, Python 3
I don't know anything about the guy but his analysis of agile consultants and agile development agencies is spot on.
Whitepaper: http://fastcashmoneyplus.biz/79f417c21b848aac16507c47f92abfb...
Actually we’ve been prepping for 2018 launch.
Unless I'm missing a subtlety here, the docs indicate it does. https://keepass.info/features.html#lnkclipboard (at least in Windows)
"On 1st March 2018 the python formula will be upgraded to Python 3.x and a python@2 formula will be added for installing Python 2.7"

As someone who really likes Python 3, this makes me really happy
We're unlikely to do that because end-users shouldn't care what language a tool is written in in order to install it.
How stencilJS is going to change the way we create Web Components
Yes, you are correct - I am conflating the GPS hardware with the Google Maps app. As someone else mentioned, if you don't force-close the app after you're done using it, it continues to drain your battery very significantly.
You never were. And there was a reason for that. Maybe you are not the person to put his 150% on the line when needed. It is ok. You do not have to be. Then you get paid accordingly.

You also didnt ask what could prompt before weekend pushes. It could be money, reputation or or compliance. Certain projects are out of your control and you have to implement in weeks notice, or have a deadline imposed by laws. Some are losing revenue so each day you do not release you are bleeding money.

So please, by all means, take your weekend off, while i plan for worst cases and make it so that friday releases are "trivial and safe" to deploy. I do not have to use it, but if i do, i do not need you around, it will be mostly automated anyway.
The trouble is when you start doing something for money it always seems to drain any intrinsic motivation you had.
>Maybe it's a generational thing. Maybe it's laziness (i.e. let them decide what I watch, I don't want to pick). Maybe it's the convenience of the interface (it just works, no connecting, changing channels is near instant, etc). Maybe a combo of all of those.

That's all likely true to some degree. Personally, I've probably become more and more a very intentional (and occasional) TV watcher and I've never been one to flip the TV on in, say, a hotel room for background when I walk in the door. I still have a cable bundle but I rarely use it.