skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 8. I will be diligent and take pride in my work.

Hacking something together for some reason and later admitting it was garbage should be some grand violation of an oath. certainly not on par with the other things that you pledged to
NY and Chicago - you guys get to be our financial centers. You get to play with the money that SV and the SV wannabes make. We already have Seattle, Portland, LA, Vegas, Salt Lake, Phoenix, Austin, Louisville, Madison, Indianapolis, Columbus, Kansas City, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Boston, Raleigh, DC, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Miami, Provo, Baltimore, and Ann Arbor. Stop trying to create another overpriced tech mecca.
Yeah, certainly true. I wish I had summarized more of Gwern's take, because he goes into piracetam + choline as a specific example. His take is that it doesn't violate the rule, but provides a case of a changing environment - burning choline for minor cognitive improvements is a vastly better deal than it was in a choline-scarce environment.
Dash’s Year in Review: 2017
It gives results if you do it with spaces... so g u n works...

*edit for clarity
Will be definitely be looking out for it.

This is a great first minimum delightful product. Good job.
Good heavens yes old chap we don't want those greasy engineer types getting the sort of bonus that partners at the vampire squid get
This seems like a clever move by Google to build a "write once, run anywhere" framework so that they can get some amount of apps running on their new mobile OS spike Fuschia. All they need to do is make Flutter compelling enough for Android developers to adopt it.
Can Neuroevolution Change Machine Learning?
The inherent danger in rewriting dependencies always seems to be greatly underestimated, though. Especially when this is your first time tackling the problem space in earnest.

* Getting the solution 80% of the way there is often pretty fast (which ends up deceiving everyone depending on it "it's almost done!")

* You are nearly guaranteed to encounter a bunch of bugs that were already solved in the original dependency.

* Due to the previous points, there's a big chance that your initial design had a few fatal flaws, and requires significant refactoring to address (making the project take longer, and if not careful making it much harder to understand & maintain)

Rewriting dependencies can definitely be worth it from a code ownership/maintenance point of view; but more often than not, you'll end up creating a cycle where the new version of the dependency is just as obtuse as the previous—and once you leave, the same problem all over again.

If a dependency is well documented, has a clear architecture, and follows consistent coding practices, it will stand the test of time (including loss of authors/maintainers). Most people/companies aren't willing to put the time/effort into that level of polish.
I thought that was needlessly snarky. I'm pretty sure other fields rely on lawyers to know the relevant legal landscape just like we do.
> Another theme that pops up sometimes is someone who says that they used to take stimulants and they were super productive, but they don't anymore, but actually they still do.

or never were. I mean "super" , just regular productive as on "motivated" .
I does not. In fact, it explicitly assumes that the risk depends only on the car - insurance on a 500bhp car will be a lot greater than the one on a 100bhp car, even if the owner of both is a 50 year old lady with a perfect driving history. As I said - the law guarantees that the insurance cannot differentiate between drivers, so letting your 18 year old son drive your 500bhp range rover has no impact on your premium.

Tbf - it self regulates to some extent. My dad wouldn't let me drive his car, because he knew that if I crashed it he would lose all of his discounts and pay a lot more. So even though I technically could drive his car and be insured, he wouldn't let me as that was a financial risk to him.
From the article:

"So should we replace sitting with squatting and say goodbye to our office chairs forever? Beach points out that “any posture held for too long causes problems” and there are studies to suggest that populations that spend excessive time in a deep squat (hours per day), do have a higher incidence of knee and osteoarthritis issues.

But for those of us who have largely abandoned squatting, Beach says, “you can’t really overdo this stuff.”"
Not if your stance is "Seriously though, fuck ads, fuck ad companies, fuck browsers made by ad companies".

Which is arguably the correct one to take these days.
I found that results from the Polyhedron benchmarks are online again <https://www.fortran.uk/fortran-compiler-comparisons/polyhedr.... Note that they compare gfortran from 2015 and ifort from 2017. I don't know how representative they are of the part of the workload on typical HPC systems for which the compiler might be important.
This feels like the Tennessee Valley Authority but for Dart. Just send people out there digging ditches in Dart to keep Dart's makers employed.
Bathroom mirror photography
So this is the problem with any cross-platform GUI toolkit: you have to make one of two choices:

1. Implement the lowest common denominator between all your supported platforms so you miss out on key features on each platform; or

2. Bypass native widgets so you end up with your own versions of everything where nothing quite behaves the same as native widgets do (ie Java Swing) and/or you incur a huge performance cost (ie Electron).

This is a touch hyperbolic but only a touch.

But consider this: Android uses garbage collection. iOS uses ref-counting. On a mobile platform, IMHO ref-counting is clearly superior and is a competitive avantage for iOS. GC leads to unpredictable behaviour, unpredictable resource usage and the inevitable stop-the-world GC pauses (at least I haven't seen a GC system yet that doesn't suffer from STW GC pauses to some degree).

On a server, this is less clearcut. The locking for ref counting itself can become hot but this just isn't really the case on an app on a phone.

It boggles my mind that years later (ARC came in in iOS 5), iOS still has this competitive advantage and not only does Android still not have it, nor does the Android-wannabe Fuchsia.

But back to Flutter, it uses Dart. I honestly don't see the point of Dart. Maybe it's just me but I don't want optional typing, or rather optional type hinting. I want static typing. The romance with dynamic typing over the last decade I think is on a downward trajectory with the rise of the likes of Go (really a better Python) and Rust.
I believe PICO-8 (https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php) is one of the most simple and fun environments for kids to learn programming (specially game programming).
It's very accessible and affordable.
An option, sure, but not for the labor side of things, and why should a corp care about congestion?
Sorry, I didn't mean bind mount, I mean union mount, like with OverlayFS or whatever the most-used one is.
This comment reminds me of something I read recently on Yaron Minsky's twitter:

"An odd habit of functional programmers: when confronted with a nice, but clearly imperative way of structuring a program, they will often declare that this technique is in fact functional." (https://twitter.com/yminsky/status/950883335324225541)

and then

"Case in point: structuring a program as an imperative, deterministic state machine, where the state is determined fully by the state machine logic plus the sequence of transactions." (https://twitter.com/yminsky/status/950883598189686784)
Online direct-buying of guns is mostly fiction.

You (if you're an appropriately licensed federal firearms dealer) can sell guns commercially. You can put up a webpage advertising those guns. You can accept payment for those guns. But you cannot ship the guns to the buyer. You must ship the guns to another licensed federal firearms dealer (FFL) designated by the buyer, and that second FFL completes the transfer, according to all federal regulations which include a background check or equivalent.

Where there's confusion is that it's technically legal, if the State doesn't have any regulations, to conduct a private sale from one state resident to another resident of the same state. The catch is you can't do that as a business — or, if you get caught, you'll be in serious trouble. Being in the business of firearms dealing requires a federal license. If you have a webpage advertising guns, even if it's a mere few guns from your "private collection", it's going to be very difficult to convince the ATF that you shouldn't be required to have a license.

And anyone who thinks FFL regulations are too loose, just try getting one (other than a C&R).

There are ebay-like firearm trading websites, but a lot of the sellers are FFLs, and even the ones who aren't probably aren't in your state, so the transfer would have to go through a FFL, as previously mentioned.

It's conceivable that you could find someone, on such a site, who lives in your home state, with whom you could arrange a private transfer, and it could be they're genuinely not in the business of selling firearms (i.e. it really is a gun from their private collection), but those types of sites are unlikely to show up in google shopping search results to begin with.
This is the future of mobile development, and of googles new operating system Fuchsia, that will be replacing Chrome and Android on the long term.

The architecture of Flutter is superior to that of non-reactive based frameworks like Cocoa and Android widgets.

Try flutter, try the apps, and you will know why.

Note: This is all guess work.
Was expecting an Algolia ad but was delightfully surprised.
Western Digital Demos SD Card with PCIe X1 Interface, 880 MB/s Read Speed
>In addition to the other fine points: A fundamental job of a life form is to pump entropy out faster than the environment can pump it in.

Yes. From a chemistry perspective, this requires a membrane, or barrier, that separates "life" from "non-life". It also requires mass transport across that barrier in both directions, which would presume liquid inside that barrier. A third variable is the mass of the planet, which dictates which molecules can be present in the atmosphere, and the temperature, which dictates physical states.
The requirement for a barrier and mass transport via liquid already imposes restraints on the chemistry that rule out most of the periodic table. Metals lose their electrons too easily. After metals, you're not left with much to work with. Carbon compounds in water is still the best idea we have. Simple long chain carboxylic acids spontaneously make membrane-like micelle structures in water. If anyone has any better ideas, there's a Nobel Prize for the first person to create life from non-life. Go for it.
To be fair, centering with flex doesn't require the parent to have any particular positioning set. The only reason you need to set the width/height is because the centering happens inside 0 size box, which wouldn't happen if your problem is centering something inside existing box.
Can we email you?
Have you never had the experience of being on a crawling train and counting the minutes after the meeting you were supposed to be at has already started?
This is one of the reasons I'm confused that the coal industry isn't pushing EVs as hard as possible. A huge surge in electricity demand from EVs is one of the few legitimate reasons I can think of to halt the trend of shutting down coal plants, at least in the short term (though coal's still screwed in the long-term as it should rightly be).
My postmortem after hunting for a data science job
> Even if you do them correctly, a heavy load might force you to lean forward which can damage your back.

Leaning forward damages your back? Then why are you suggesting deadlifts?

Squats are not hard to do correctly. Risk of injury is probably not higher than deadlifts. And squats work more than just legs. They do work the legs hard, but they also work the back. Front squats will also work the upper back quite a bit.
> which is for obvious reasons not available on the Play Store

Only if the "obvious reason" you meant there is "Google abusing its Android monopoly power".

I wish the EU would include that part into its anti-trust investigation against Google, too. It should be illegal for Google to ban ad-blockers on its store, for the same reason multiple courts in Europe have found that ad-blockers are legal: the user should have the power to block ads if he or she wants it.

This is especially true in this case, because Google can't even use the "security" argument as it did in the early days of ad-blocker banning. This app is functionally the same as a regular VPN, so unless it's saying that all VPNs are a security risk and it wants to ban all of them, then Google has no technical justification for banning VPN-like ad-blockers.

As as side note, why doesn't Blockada use HTTPS? My trust in that app dropped in half for this reason alone, when it's so easy and free to enable HTTPS these days.
I don't think it was calculated at all. It's highly likely this was just a few lines adding "gun/rifle/revolver/etc." to the blacklist of forbidden search terms for that service. It's the same list containing terms like "child porn" and as long as one of the file owners approves the CL it goes into production immediately. I really doubt this went through a regular launch process and had an Ariane bit flipped as part of a proper review.
DNS66 works the same way and is slightly more popular: https://github.com/julian-klode/dns66
> I really don't want to learn dart

Literally half of programmers: "Ugh why can't everything be Javascript"
Other half of programmers: "Ugh Javascript is the worst language in existence" /s

Given that javascript (esp on mobile) has a hard time reaching native performance, they presumably chose Dart because its design makes it immensely easier to target native iOS and Android without drastically augmenting JS to the point where it's no longer JS.

If there's a non-JS language that's easy to learn for a JS programmer, Dart (and I guess, TS) are it.
One million people get green cards each year in the US.

Immigrants and their children are now 27% of the US population.

Show me the numbers on China.

And if you want to talk about Canada and dignity. Why is Canada only 1% hispanic? Because they restrict immigration overwhelmingly by skill. If you can't meet their skill-based requirements, you're very unlikely to get in. How's that for treating people with dignity? The US has ~46 million immigrants currently, ten million more people than the entire population of Canada.
Advertising _without tracking_. Advertising was done that way for all of human history until recently. Take away their ability to run arbitrary code on users machines and the problem is completely solved. There just needs to be an advertising company that steps up to the plate and says: We will get your ads to eyeballs and _we_ will ensure sites are holding up their end of the deal instead of deferring that role to user machines. You won't be able to track users, but you never should have been allowed to do that anyway.
AiFi replicates Amazon Go's checkout-free shopping in any store
It would be interesting to look at the impact of this on, e.g. cancer rates among people living at sea level versus cities with high elevation, e.g. Quito in Ecuador.

It is interesting, and there are some studies exploring this and related issues. The results are not always immediately intuitive!

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4113517/ is one good place to start.
> Don't accept euros as currency.

I see multiple comments mentioning this. Do American banks restrict which currencies your credit card can be charged in? As far as I've been able to tell, my bank lets me pay in any currency I'd like, and they will convert the amount to SEK before charging my account.
Computational Fluid Dynamics in Data Center Design
Counterexample: comedy central now has to work to redact all noncompliant programming.

Best practices are funny because context and history are important. Actual regulation is not so forgiving.
Doesn't it cost a few bucks to register a domain name? How could a malware group pay to register thousands and thousands of randomly generated top level domains?
Dart is being used by the AdWords even when no one else would use it. So in a sense it's the opposite of most cancelled Google products, used internally but not externally, vs things like reader that were used externally but not internally.
This is one of the things that's bothered me with it - in a similar vein to VATMOSS, GDPR will probably have more of a burden on smaller businesses, whereas larger business will have the development/consultant resource to get it right, and have those larger law firms to provide that "extra context" to brush things under the carpet if something goes awry.

The ICO seems reasonable, so hopefully they won't crush a small software shop for fucking up on something, but they're going to want to go after some people to send a message at some point. I'd guess you'd want to check that professional indemnity insurance policy, just in case.

It is, of course, all down to context. You need to show that you at least took the guidance seriously and tried to mitigate things. A notice of "collect ALL THE THINGS" won't fly, as you're basically admitting you're not prepared to consider it.

I think you're right on the social media sharing thing, it should be fairly well handled by the OAuth notices from most networks (I'd have guessed - "allow this app to post on my behalf" counts as consent?), but yeah, can't be taken as a given. IANAL, of course.
Comparing the cost of a 10km Uber ride in different cities around the world
I don’t see a “add yourself to a mailing list” form on the home page.

You should definitely have one so I can follow up with updates on the product.
> the presence of other industries like finance, media and advertising

This is a huge part of why I didn't enjoy being in SF (admittedly for a very short few months).

Every party I went to, most conversations I had (or overheard in a coffee shop) were tech-related. It felt impossible to have a conversation about anything else, and all conversations naturally gravitated towards tech like some sort of awful singularity.

It's pretty refreshing regularly talking to people who work in the arts, finance, education, administration, etc. If nothing else, just for novelty's sake - more interesting conversations happen when you can't talk about your work all the time.
There are lots of unofficial clients that work quite well. Drive is pretty good, if you like manually pushing and pulling files, which I actually find kind of nice

https://github.com/odeke-em/drive
CNY isn’t really over for another week or even two. The lull in traffic usually lasts for around three weeks. Even if the shops are open, many haven’t returned from vacation yet.

Pm2.5 is the big killer that everyone is worried about these days. PM10 is larger particles like dust which should be less of a problem in SH. Historical data is included on site, but no easy way to compare them.

There isn’t a place in shanghai that isn’t next to a major road, it’s a city of 10 million. They used to try and game the system by putting AQI stations out in the suburbs but these days those places actually have worse pollution.
Swish in Sweden [1]

Private transfers: instant transactions between individuals, no transaction fees. (Though I suspect internally they do the usual reconciliation between banks at the end of the day).

Business: instant transactions to your account from your customers. Yearly fee: 500 SEK ($61), price per transaction: 2 SEK ($0.24), price per reimbursed transaction: 2 SEK ($0.24)

There are also limits on how much money you can send in one go, but it's usually more than enough for individual transactions and for small businesses.

[1] https://www.getswish.se, https://medium.com/@etiennebr/swish-the-secret-swedish-finte...
Researchers harness brain waves to reconstruct images of what we perceive
Was just wondering today how to build one, thank you.
I'm pretty sure that you're joking, but it reminds me of the story of Microsoft (I think) running heaters in a datacenter to meet one of the technicalities of a power purchase agreement. I cant find a link right now (PR people have probably worked hard to obliterate it from the internet), but from what I recall, MS had a long-term power purchase agreement with a local utility that had both a minimum and maximum energy usage threshold for some time period. Facing contractual penalties if they did not reach the minimum, they essentially ran heaters outside the data center to use some extra energy. This was 10 years ago or so. I'd like to think that if this were today, someone would be willing to swoop in and use all that power to mine some bitcoins.
That's strange. Apparently nothing is spidered in my country and I can't find an easy way to switch countries. A lot of people shop abroad.

Google Shopping is a "good enough" experience for the end user, ready to be shoved in your face when you are searching for links to websites that contain your search query.
That's just lazy thinking...

I for one, am looking forward to my self-driving car so that I can masturbate on my commute to and from work everyday.

They tend to frown on that on most trains... even with a first class ticket.
> My commute is currently around 2 hours each way.

I will never understand how people do this... especially so many of them without car pooling, which means they have to focus the whole time.

I'd easily trade those hours for 100% the rent costs and half the living space.
Cape Canaveral could see two launches in one day Thursday
> But back to Flutter, it uses Dart. I honestly don't see the point of Dart.

Hackernoon's got a recent article covering this exact topic:

https://hackernoon.com/why-flutter-uses-dart-dd635a054ebf
I’m willing to bet that the value of an ad impression correlates pretty well with the relative compute power of the device. But, sites don’t generally restrict/reserve content for, e.g. Android/iPhone users because they are more/less valuable to advertisers.

The premise is that opt-in mining can be used as an efficient micropayment. Any new technology can be used toward dystopian ends, or not, so it’s not a reflection at all on the merit of the idea.
No, I am simply using shortened text not the USA PII legal concept. GDPR has many more restrictions than the USA concept of PII.
I wanted to capture those results on the wayback machine, but I was blocked by a robots.txt
Yes, take the back entirely out of the exercise. That will definitely help with strengthening the back.
One funny thing I've realized is that I like the smell of coal fires. It must have been horrible back when cities were choking on it, but coal is so completely phased out now that when I occasionally do smell coal smoke from a domestic fire or say a steam engine I really like it.
That's why protocol extensions were implemented.
The Horror of Blocking Electron's Main Process
They still have HK passports. It really depends if you think HK is its own country or not. The Chinese just have different answers depending on convenience.
So what‘s with the constitutional guarantee of ownership ? I highly doubt that court decision is constitutional, I think and hope it is going to be overthrown by the German Federal Consitutional Court. I‘m so tired of the freedom hostile Green-Leftist agenda in Germany !
Learn React Native by Building an E-Commerce Search App
> Should the decision of fixing or not a bug that can cause lives be influenced only by how much will insurance cost?

But the price of the insurance takes into account the risk of a bug costing a life. They know if they make riskier decisions their insurance premiums will go up.

Insurance doesn't magically remove costs. It just amortises them. Loss adjusters have been experts at this for centuries.
That's a nice solution to bring blockchain closer to classic applications and processes! Good luck!