skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Too many lords, not enough stewards
I think saying it destroyed independent digital comedy is extremely incorrect.

Memes have taken off and are now the primary form of digital comedy. They’re cheap to create and distribute(both photo and video forms). Memes are alive and well and very much a form indepdent digital comedy. Memes are wildly popular.

Sometimes, most of the time?, memes are funnier than longer form digital content.

I think Funny or Die didn’t evolve quick enough so wants to place the blame on Facebook and while I think some of what he says is undeniable true, how do you explain memes?
TL;DR; - You get more fault-tolerance with a large number of smaller engines
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I don't think this is an explanation for the current status and gains of Twitter. Trump has been president for over a year, and has been a prolific tweeter for far longer. If anything, Trump tweets are less novel and more common place then they've been to date.
Because integer (milli/nano)seconds since epoch isn't a human-readable format, and logs need to be read by humans, particularly under stressful conditions.
18F is the MOS for Army intelligence if I remember correctly. That alone will have put lots of people off.
And instead of paper options they will have to increase real $ - part of the problem for them is the way options are treated from an accounting perspective when in fact not all options get exercised.
Well, yes — the problem is that the JVM was too big and too platform-independent. We don't want JVM everywhere; really, we want POSIX-everywhere. The JVM's also this weird level of statically-typed hyper-extensibility — it's Greenspun's Tenth Law in action, and the result is typically in really terrible taste. The end result is a JVM which is really, really impressive, but appallingly ugly.
I mean that the web has been a tremendous success story for long-term backwards compatibility and widespread access. We've lost a few pieces of technology, like Flash, but overall you can take any modern browser and go visit ages old websites and find them fully functioning.

Here's Bob Dole's 1996 campaign site:
http://www.dolekemp96.org/main.htm

Browsers are on every platform, and for the most part different platforms require no different code for your web application to work. Mobile vs Desktop, Android vs Windows, you get it all.
Your best bet is to work remotely for a SV based company, receiving US compensation. There are a few people I know who do this, and they easily gross €10k+ per month.

Or you become a contractor on a day rate, but then you're not really permanently working for the same company.
Sure. Check these out -

https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2016/05/...

http://www.primalbody-primalmind.com/protein-how-much-is-too...
They’re stealthy hunters, so bright aposomatic coloration would be counterproductive. I also believe that there is some aposomstic scent markers and behavior in the case of cane toads, it’s just that native Australian fauna has taken time to adapt.

http://www.pnas.org/content/101/49/17150

They’re not “learning” to avoid, but selection pressures are having the same end result.
And of the remaining friends, some subtract value by the nature of their "engaged" content.
Reindeer Ordering (SQL)
I don't speak bureaucratese but have attempted to make the title more accurate above.
While this really makes sense, it would require humans to completely rethink their concept of time as it relates to their day. We can't even get the US onto the metric system, so there's no way this can happen realistically.
It makes sense from a reliability perspective to have more smaller semi-redundant parts, especially since it sounds like they have the whole control system down, "scaling up" from managing and controlling 3 engines probably isn't all that different from managing 9, and eventually 31. (obviously this is still rocket science, and nothing is "easy")

I'm curious if there are other benefits. I'd imagine that manufacturing the smaller engines gets easier and faster and more reliable as they make more of them.

Also, I wonder if this plays into their reusability? If there is a defect found in one of the 9 F9 engines, theoretically you could replace just that one and refly the rest. I have no idea if this is even possible, but it seems like it could be.
http://www.pnas.org/content/101/49/17150

They’re not learning, but they are evolving to cope.
Creepiness level: high
Google has largely ruined Boulder, CO after building a huge new sprawling thing and effectively dictating to locals and politicians exactly how they want the neighborhood and city to be structured going forward. Everyone who isn't a googler hates them and wishes we hadn't allowed that, much less given them massive amounts of corporate welfare.

Resist googlers if you can, they destroy communities.
Yes, but I'm guessing the reliable mechanical feeding of the cards is the harder task than the actual image capture.
What does it mean to target "stable Rust" with a proposal? How is it different from how these proposals usually work, one would think they would land in stable Rust after being implemented in the development versions?
In the case of the configuration manager, the test project would have its own underlying configuration file.
I consider rumors of 18F's demise to be greatly exaggerated.

It may take a few years for a shift in power to occur which results in better funding, but the momentum they have already built has inspired myself as well as many others, and I consider that to be a great success.

Code For America and 18F: Thank you for your many sacrifices, don't be discouraged. Keep it up.
That depends on what's prompting the smaller-scale activity.

If increased capabilities allow more parties to engage in an activity, you'll increase total consumption.

If increased costs reduce the effective maximum scale of operations, you'll tend to have reduced consumption.

One formulation I've come up with is that "bad hygiene leads to decentralisation", where hygiene is meant in the general sense of systemic health and efficiency. Anything that reduces the capability of scaling up operations will lead to more and smaller rather than fewer and larger units of operation. This is something that proponents of decentralised systems might want to consider.

https://mastodon.cloud/@dredmorbius/36518392

https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/7h8sqk/open_th...
Nice enough design work. But as someone who works in the climate data space I think there isn't much value add here. CO2 data is already free and open and not challenging to use. It seems like a half-wasted use of electricity and contributors time to just show data and not have any call to action or resources for how to do something about the problem. From the branding and social media integration I am guessing there isn't any deep interest in actually _doing something_ about carbon emissions. It feels like the villager who is screaming about a house on fire instead of joining in the bucket line.

Something like ClimateWatch[0] is actually building a strong platform for aggregating disparate data sources around climate change, GHG emissions, climate resilience practices, and multinational legislation. Granted ClimateWatch isn't built by an online community of volunteers, but maybe it is something to look at for further inspiration.

[0]https://www.climatewatchdata.org/
Get your own lawyer. The companies counsel will have an inherent conflict of interest.
Link is just a blank page?
Python doesn't have multiple dispatch though. It's central to making Julia's type system fast. I.e., it's not just loops that are fast, but also code that uses Julia-defined data structures are fast. Additionally, you can write generic code and have it automatically compile fast code for large classes of types. Also, the whole Base library is written in Julia, mostly generically, so this will be compatible with your user-defined data structures as well.

Then finally, the kicker is that Julia, especially on v0.7, doesn't optimize functions separately: it optimizes them together. It will inline small functions into others, perform interprocedural optimizations and utilize compilation-time constants, etc. Thus when the code is Julia all the way down, it can and will compile everything together to optimize it a lot more than functions compiled separately, giving a lot more performance benefits. When you add in the macros to turn off things like bounds checks and adding in explicit SIMD, you truly get to C-level of performance and many times beyond because your code is so architecturally and vertically optimized (it's like you put on the flags to say "compile code that only works for this current machine with this current codebase", and it can safely make this assumption because it's JITing).

Because of this, it goes much further than Cython, and this also makes the type system and multiple dispatch central to the language. So I would say at a surface level it's "fast Python" (or "more productive C", that's how I usually think of it). However, at a deeper level the type system is so central that larger software architectures will be different to accommodate this multiple dispatch style as opposed to OOP.
I'm still in the progress of setting up my product, but my day job does mysql replication. The issues come from when there is a good 5 minutes of 80% packet loss. It's caused some major issues.

I'll keep that in BBR congestion control in mind`
The many places and faces of the Salton Sea
Fearmongering much?
Would you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and/or flamebait to HN? We don't want partisan flamewars, or any flamewars.
We did that with B2B consulting in machine learning (rare-technologies.com) => transitioned to B2B products (scaletext.com, pii-tools.com).

Actually, we started even one step earlier, by working on open source (Gensim), no money involved at all.
Long term contracting is not much different from 'permanent' employment. But it does come with slightly less safety net (e.g. essentially you can be fired at-will)
Exactly. The sentiment is: this/us is important to me, I want to make sure I communicated properly, if you’re willing, please help me ensure that.
> DST gives you more sun-hours during the day, which is exactly the opposite of what you want.

The kind of weather you are describing does not sound like something which is applicable for a place like NY. DST works great here.
You might want to clarify that the data you're plotting are from a ground-based station on Mauna Loa. One symptom of this is that your plot does not have a title or y-axis label.

Similarly, the "global" CO2 number you display as text may be (?) an average of selected ground-based stations.

CO2 varies with altitude, and with time and spatially, of course. The ground-based stations give part of the picture, but there are also various total-column CO2 measurements, prominently from TCCON (http://tccon.ornl.gov/), and remote-sensing measurements (https://co2.jpl.nasa.gov/).

This is why clarifying what you mean by "global CO2" is important. In the light of the sophistication of what's out there, it might be good to think about where you're trying to add value.
While what you're saying is correct, I have little confidence in the federal government's ability to increase headcount in technology to reduce headcount in another area.
I think this is true. In Stockholm, Google pays engineers much more than native Swedish companies (it seems).
You could gather empirical data in controlled settings and make a model that relates the things you can measure easily (speed and downward force) to the things you care about (rock distance and control). I don't know for certain, but I'd guess that's what's been done here.
If my comments are derogatory, what are comments like this?

"Mark Zuckerberg just walked into Funny or Die and laid off all my friends."

"Facebook has completely destroyed independent digital comedy and we need to fucking talk about it."[1]

"[Facebook is] a lamer, shittier looking internet"[1]

"Facebook is essentially running a payola scam"[1]

"Facebook feels like this dingy, disgusting, rapacious place to me."[1]

[1] But it was "fine" when he was making a living from their traffic.
Google NYC is literally right across the block from Chelsea Market. This transaction would mean that Google will occupy the real estate above the actual market. Chelsea Market is an amazing place with great offerings of food etc. As long as this transaction does not ruin the ecosystem of CM then New Yorkers are OK with this transaction. Lets face it who would not want to sell their real estate to The Google?
Vaguely approaching it from a UK Patents Act point of view that is the foundation for most UK digital IP but IANAL (do get counsel):

1. If you worked on this in work hours, your employer may have a claim to the IP.

2. If you worked on this on work equipment, your employer may have a claim to the IP.

3. If you worked on this using employer resources (including from the office), your employer may have a claim to the IP.

4. If none of the above are true and you were asked to work on this by your employer and you were not previously working on it, your employer may have a claim to the IP.

5. If the IP has a degree of similarity with IP by your employer and was started (or contributed to significantly) after your employment started, your employer may have a claim to the IP.

6. If all of the above are not true, your employer does not have a claim to the IP.

Any declarations or contracts that you enter into should reflect IP touched upon by #1-5 of the above and explicitly state whether or not your employer will declare an interest, no reasonable contract should preclude you from work you undertake covered by #6 (in your own time, your own resources, not asked for by work, unrelated to work and any future area that you know they may expand into, etc).
Yeah that probably depends on your personal situation of course. But I met many 18F'ers and USDS'ers through my friends, lots of people coming on between startups for a few months, some staying for years. They seem to match your current salary up to the federal civilian max, which appears to be $161,900. So that's not exactly a small amount, especially considering the additional benefits like excellent health care and blameless vacation-taking. Though you won't be getting catered lunches or free drinks/swag. Really just seems to depend on what you value. I've considered joining myself.
By Swedish law we are allowed to have 4 uninterrupted weeks of vacation during July/August, my company doesn't care and if I wanted I could take even my whole 6 weeks at once.

Or even more, I could get my 6 weeks and negotiate some more unpaid vacation days if/when needed, I know people who took 3+ months off for personal projects.
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Inverting the first 2 into positive form would be better: maybe "Pay attention to your dreams" or "Listen to your dreams". I'm not finding the second one so easy to invert...
To be pedantic, that's the unambiguous way to represent the UTC offset, not timezones. Different timezones can have the same offset at some moments, but not at others.
Small world, at least three different programmers spoonerized Minesweeper. No, mine is not online, nor will it ever be - it was jacked-up student-written Java, I had no idea how to structure code at the time. It's amazing it ever worked at all.
Interesting, I didn't know that about Elixir. Do you ever have to break them up into smaller Elixir apps or can you stick with that pseudo-monolith for good?
On the other hand, it could be that the social functions declined due to an overemphasis of news, companies, ... which people seem to feel increasingly unhappy about and might bounce back if they actually become visible on the site again. (Total speculation of course as well)
Exactly. Just to amuse myself, I spent a few minutes googling for materials that are "stronger than steel."

spider silk (a classic): https://www.npr.org/2017/01/14/509807212/spider-silk-is-stro...

bone: http://ipfactly.com/human-bone-is-stronger-than-steel/

a graphene sponge: https://www.materialstoday.com/mechanical-properties/news/sp...

carbon nanotubes: https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/presspacs/2010/...

silica nanofibers (because carbon is old news): https://prescouter.com/2013/02/new-material-is-lighter-than-...

fiber-reinforced hydrogel: https://www.global.hokudai.ac.jp/blog/new-tougher-than-metal...

One starts to wonder if steel was ever all that strong. But I'm sure the real lesson is there are a lot of ways to measure strength.
How does one go about requesting an airstrike from the USAF? Is there a form that you need to fill out? Asking for a friend.
Seriously though, it would be interesting to know how that conversation went.
I wonder how many people interested in and competent at 18F's mission would be familiar enough with enlisted job codes in the Army to make that connection.
Yes, if you mean to wrap world potatoes peelings.
The funny thing is that every Lean Startup founder who delays shipping struggles with excuses like this. Most customers in any market (consumer, SMB, enterprise) do not want to take a risk. He's ignoring the important advice in Moore's Crossing the Chasm [1] and Blank's Four Steps to the Epiphany [2]: the people who will buy a very early stage product are a tiny fraction of your total market; you have to aggressively find them.

That process is definitely different in an enterprise market. For whole-hog adoption, giant companies will want a mature solution. So instead you find ways to derisk it. Maybe it's a pilot program with a larger player. Maybe it's proving out the technology in an SMB context. Maybe you just find one mom-and-pop hotel who pays you not in money but in their time and data. Maybe you start with a single floor or even a single hotel room into which you preferentially book people who you think will be early adopters.

The M in MVP is for Minimum, and that applies not just to the product, but to the context of use. You start as small as possible, just enough to test your hypotheses. The smaller your tests, the faster you learn.

He makes another rookie mistake here: "I still need to buy the same number of tablets to rent to hotels, and can’t even really discount the product that much." Lean Startups are not cheap startups. It cost Toyota millions to build the first Prius, but they did not sell it for millions. That's fine, because the point of your early MVPs is not to cover the expenses. It's to learn things, including about what people will pay. In Lean thinking you price based on value, not cost, and then work hard to minimize costs while maintaining value.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossing_the_Chasm

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Four-Steps-Epiphany-Steve-Blank/dp/09...
Believe in people
If a sport or activity can be undermined by learning more about it, maybe it’s not much of a sport.
> i understand this is because of the x/y chromosome effect, but maybe since it barely effects women its not a strong enough evolutionary pressure to wipe colorblindness out completely.

That is a fair point. A slightly less friendly interpretation of this would be that men are the expendable gender, genetically speaking.

> maybe the men have less pressure to select ripe fruit / see social cues

I don't think any gender escapes the necessity to read social cues. There might be differences in which one though, but we're veering into a political minefield of nature/nurture questions here.

For example: there is a famous experiment where people were asked to guess if greyscale pictures of faces (cropped to not show hair) were male or female. The twist was that each face appeared twice, with the only difference in being how high the contrast was (especially the lips, IIRC).

High-contrast faces were more likely to be judged feminine than low-contrast faces. Again, this says nothing about whether this gender perception was nature or nurture.
> you'll want to upgrade /through/ versions 0.5 and 0.6 instead of skipping them.

god that sounds sooo painful
Some idiot posting a video of themselves doing something is timepass, not work.
Or in biopharma, where selling a product requires 10 years and $200M of r&d. The model is to sell your company or go public long before that point

In this case, your "customers" are venture funds and pharma companies, and your MVP is a well thought out experimental plan. You get more customer / investors by doing the experiments and using that data to design another experiment

They tried adapting the lean startup to life science with mixed success. For biopharma as a specific life sci sector other models work better than lean
Perhaps via FAA which regulates and approves SpaceX activities?
Yep! Django back-end dev here who built the API here. It's been a really cool experience with people coming from all over the place to join in and hack on the project. We're mostly hanging out at https://gitter.im/giving-a-fuck-about-climate-change/Lobby with a stable team of ~4. We're recently thinking a lot about datahub.io and how we can take it further. Big shout-out to our front-end devs who made the new re-design! Any questions, just shoot. Want to contribute, please do! Shape the project any way you want, it's free software!
I would think the port authority would have told SpaceX not to tow it back to the port for safety reasons.

So where else could SpaceX take it to if a tow was successful.

This would be logical to do if it's true.
A friend in law school once told me that in the US a deathbed confession is treated as an exception to normal heresay rules, because (i guess ) we think someone dying has no reason to live. Meanwhile in some other countries (india?) deathbed statements are considered less reliable, because the person knows they won't have to face any consequences for lying.
Just to clarify. You get ~15 national holidays. On top of that 6-7 weeks are normal. (At least for Denmark)
"Since last five years" should be more like "In the past five years"
According to Musk, "This rocket was meant to test very high retrothrust landing in water so it didn’t hurt the droneship, but amazingly it has survived." I suspect they never really thought about what it would take to tow it back, and when they did realized they didn't really want to.
> without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity

Is there still a living pocket of progressive thinkers like him who would still stand for this in the days of the Daily Stormer (recently, arguably justifiably, coerced into silence?)
There are other office occupants though, and it sounds like Google's going to squeeze them out. So the food offerings might stay, but it's going to begin to feel like a Google cafeteria.
The GP does not propose that teenagers wake up any earlier in the sense of solar time, just that we don't change the clocks. Right now they wake up an hour earlier than they did the previous day, the only difference is that their clock shows the same hour as it did the previous day.

Instead, they should just wake up an hour earlier and have the clock show that they woke up an hour earlier. There's no actual difference in the amount of sleep or daylight that the teenagers get, just a vastly simplified system for figuring out what they wall clock should say.
SpaceX rockets are switched to autonomous control before take off right? They launch and fly themselves, including landing. Are we sure we want to initiate hostilities against beings with the potential to rain death on our cities? I for one welcome our new Falcon 9 overlords!