skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Similar story. During summer vacation in the mid 80s, a Chinese guy from Hong Kong came to our door in NYC and ask me to tell my dad that he wanted to buy our house.

I took his card and said “sure”. As I closed the door he said “wait”, ran to his car and grabbed a Miami-vice style aluminum briefcase. He opened it up and said “400 thousand dollars for house, see?”

Given that my folks paid like $18k for the house about 8 years earlier, that was pretty amazing. They didn’t take it and sold in the 90s for less. A few years ago it sold for $2.5M and was torn down. The replacement condos sold for about $12M
You might like this book -- "The Pleasure Trap"; summarized here:
http://web.archive.org/web/20160418155513/http://www.drfuhrm...

Essentially, they explain how the brain "neuroadapts" to high levels of stimulation to where you are just getting normal amounts of pleasure but with all the negative side effects of the food or drugs (e.g. caffeine) and then you have to go through a painful withdrawal period. The book is mainly about healthy eating and also fasting, but the ideas are more broadly applicable.

See also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernormal_Stimuli
http://www.paulgraham.com/addiction.html
I am located in Europe.
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This is cool. I love reading Wikipedia so this will enable my habit.
For sure, thanks for pointing this out. We have https://documentation.pagedraw.io/why-not/, but we're trying to be clearer about how exactly our layout system works with https://documentation.pagedraw.io/layout/.

We give you controls to annotate your design with layout behaviors. The css we generate is 100% accurate to the constraints you specify, but our constraint system doesn't capture 100% of desired layouts (yet!)

We have 2 ways for you to control responsiveness: A flexbox-y constraint system, and media queries (Screen Size Groups).
They're roughly the same controls html/css give you, though hopefully presented in a cleaner manner.
My impression is that they are more involved than the 20-year-olds of a generation previous.
I have to tell you, I've been in Silicon Valley for 23 years and I've never seen anything used at work besides caffeine and maybe a (company-sponsored) beer on Friday afternoon.

Outside of work, I know tech employees who used pot, LSD, mushrooms, 2cb, and (in the late 90s especially) MDMA. None of these had significant impact on their work, although those who did MDMA every weekend seemed a little flaky to me, even years afterward.

I've known a couple of people who combined intensity and dullness to an extent which might indicate Adderall usage, although I've also known completely drugphobic people who come off the same way.
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Some years ago, I owned sixipedia.com. I never knew what to do with it.... If I still had it, I would have given it to you.
Claiming that people who don’t love tether are “Paid comments” is especially weak coming from a 27-day-old HN account.

They’ve taken a lot of regular folks money and provided no confidence to date that they’re solvent.
Airlines are highly competitive because there are numerous competitors, the product is fungible, and prices are transparent. It’s not perfectly competitive, but nothing you pointed to suggests collusion or price fixing, as the OP suggested.

> They want the Open Skies agreements between the United States and Persian Gulf governments thrown out and to deny Etihad Airways and Qatar Airways access to American cities because they're subsidized by their governments. But so are other U.S. airline partners, many of whom happened to also be government-owned. Such subsidies are unfortunate, but they're hardly a reason to rip up the very system that's pressuring governments around the world to reduce protectionist behaviors.

Like that’s a problem?
Is there a book like this but on building your own custom version of Android?
I personally find the OED just as useful as many of the people commenting here to defend it. I am interested in the content and it's something I would be happy to own and occasionally consult. (Though not to purchase.)

But unlike most everyone here, I'm acknowledging that the value I get from the OED is purely entertainment value, not utility.

I'll note also that it obviously cannot be true that "many, many people" find the OED useful, as the total number of people who access the OED more than a couple of times a year is less than "many, many".
As a UI/UX guy, ReactJS/JSX is a very high bar for us to cross. I have tonnes of Sketch/Figma files ready to be wired, as a JS newbie, JSX is too complicated for a Designer mind to understand :-)
Any hopes for a beginner friendly language like VueJS or Webcomponents (AMP Pages/Polymer).

The tool has great potential, if u can address the UX market than the dev market. Devs have many many tools they wont give up, but we do not have any hybrid browser based tools which can take a Figma/Sketch and wire it with logic (maybe Ionic Creator)
Yep. Properly squatting and deadlifting fixed my back for me too.
Are eggs really literally $0.50 a dozen? And perhaps a bit alarmist but if it is, is it really a good thing for you/your family/the chicken/the environment/the employees in the factory/the transportation system/etc?

Not that that I'm saying paying higher prices in the Bay Area is automatically a solution to anything (https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/09/business/direct-action-ev...).
I'm not quite sure what you mean by "not at all set up to sleep during the working day", but I assume you mean that it would be difficult to find a comfortable place to sleep.

At a place I worked at previously, I asked if they had any quiet rooms that would be good to take a nap in. They gave me a key to the lactation room, which was quiet, dark, and great for taking a nap. As far as I can tell I was the only person to use that room when I worked there. And I believe the rooms are required by law for workplaces with a certain number of employees in the US. (If anyone who was nursing wanted to use the room, I'd gladly leave, though as I said, the room seemed to be unused.)

At another place I worked at, I'd often take a nap after lunch in the library. The location was not ideal due to noise, but it was acceptable most of the time.

Right now I'm in grad school, and I moved a small sofa chair that was being surplussed into my office. Works great, and I'm not the only person to use it for taking a nap.

Taking naps at your desk might be okay. For me, it hurts my neck.

Earplugs may be necessary, particularly if you work in an open office. I probably would not be able to fall asleep so easily in an open office. But you can ask around to see if there are any private rooms you can use.
At first I thought this too, but now I prefer for my file storage to be platform agnostic. For instance, if I decide to switch from iOS to Android in the future, I can just download the Dropbox app instead of implementing workarounds.
Sort of similar here. A coworker said I should buy real-estate - any amount, any way I possibly could. It has to go up 20% a year, he told me.

There's just something when random people who have no particular interest in investing suddenly are preaching an investment that smells like a bubble - and one close to bursting. It still took a couple of years from there, though.

Maybe it's because the pyramid has nowhere else to go from there.

And of course me pointing to previous real estate downturns was dismissed - it was still viewed as fundamentally impossible for real estate to lose value.
Right, and I'm saying I fundamentally disagree with this vendor-locking approach. Qt doesn't lock me into a particular environment and is cross-platform. It's a view framework, not an entire browser. Huge difference.
I have come across a lot of folks in my life who have comfortable lives, by virtue of working hard for it or being born into it, and too have observed that they fall into a slump, such that a major shift to that lifestyle can bring them down to their knees. I am, frankly, scared of landing in a similar situation. I do try to keep myself sharp by reading/trying out things here and there, but since I don't apply them to a meaningful extent, I have hard time trusting these.

As far as sharing the stuff I know is concerned, I have held an opinion that I don't have any new knowledge. Most of what I know has been derived from works of others, and all of that is already available out there. So I have felt that duplicating that information just increases entropy without any meaningful gain to anyone. That is why I haven't made an effort in that direction.

I might sound like a bad human saying this, but I think I have been largely apathetic about the world. I do think about the worldly issues, usually going into a zone such that I am unable to sleep at night, but I don't think I have ever taken a step to contribute to it meaningfully. I will take up your suggestion and see if I can start putting my skills to use in that direction.
Thanks. Why can't all math teachers talk like that? I mean... I know you're clever and all, but if you were really clever you'd explain it in a way that's easy to understand.

Still, kudos to the OP. That was a great attempt to be precise.
> Warning alarms have been ringing since the start of the last US election...

Agreed.

> ... warnings won't be enough to stop it from happening.

Here I disagree. For it to happen in the US now would require a constitutional amendment. I don't see any way that would happen now. Especially since seeking one would make the alarm bells ring much louder.

Or, for it to happen now would take ignoring the constitution. I'm pretty sure that would trigger a civil war.

Either way, in the US it's much harder than just having a party congress decide that it will be so.
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The first four articles are interesting and i was following along, but i am not buying the last solution - it is way too complicated and over-engineered. It is telling that unlike the other four articles, the last one has no implementation code.

What i would do is simply have Item (base for Weapon, Potion, etc) have a "IsUsableBy(Player p)" which returns true in the default implementation (which would be the case for the majority of items) and the objects that have special considerations check the player class themselves.

Similarly an Animal (or Entity or Organism or whatever) class would have a "OnDamage(Animal source, int damage)" that by default calls -say- "ApplyDamage(int damage)", but special animals - like the werewolves - may want to filter the result so that the damage is doubled when they are on holy ground or when the class of source is Paladin.

Also the IsUsableBy and OnDamage functions could check against Item objects in an inventory (e.g. Item could also provide a "FilterDamage" and "VetoUsageOf" so that an HolyCross can multiply all damage from Undead enemies by 0.25 but veto using any UnholyItem based class - truth be told here, you probably need a tag system for some of that stuff instead of relying on classes alone) and on an active Effect list (would also be able to do the same sort of vetoing and filtering and the Animal class could also provide a HasEffect method for use by the other classes to make decisions about - e.g. a PaperDoll might refuse to talk to you if you have the OnFireEffect :-P).

To me that sort of setup feels more natural and intuitive than the user-command-state-rule stuff mentioned in the article. You can't really generalize it in a way that applies to other things (e.g. a MagicSpell would need its own set of functions and such) but i believe that there is a thing as too much generalization.

(note that the above are when talking about the common Java/C++/C#/etc like OOP languages, in something like C i'd go with a more data and/or script driven approach...)
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I've always liked "Aspergirls." (This is the term a friend of mine uses for herself.) As a group, they seem noticeably more attractive to me. I've noted that a lot of them do not like me, and make it more apparent than most women, though often this is done in a rational and polite fashion which I find more intellectually honest and respectful, and so like better. I was also in a relationship with one. That was quite difficult.
Good call. I will try to reprogram myself the same way. You never know when something becomes heavier than you thought, and that's when your back gets thrown out. Especially anything involving children.

I can imagine it being the same as indicating, or putting on my seat belt in the car. Seatbelt is always first thing on, last thing off - and I never change lanes without indicating, it's fully automatic and doesn't require conscious thought.
Are they kidding? Oh yeah, it's HSBC.

Singapore has very serious problems that translate differently to all of it's inhabitants including it's expats. This fact can be uncovered with a simple conversation with a cabbie.

Rant: I can't help but feel insulted when I'm presented with media/propaganda that mentions a survey or poll that supposedly promotes the point of view of a particular group of people. It's a warn out (albeit effective) tool of manipulation that should be laughed off stage whenever it's presented to an audience like HN. What expats? How long have they lived there? Where are they from? These are just a few questions that one should ask in a case like this.
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Personnal anecdote here. I majored and graduated from two bachelors with very distinct demographic. The first one (CS) was 90%+ men, the other (language studies) was about 75%+ women.

In the CS degree, relationship between people ranged from friendly to don’t care. Most people weren’t concerned about people that weren’t their friends in the class. All in all it was a neutral/good ambiance.

In the language promotion the ambiance was awful. The class was split in various groups of 2-3 people half openly hating each other (tons of gossips going one). When a group of 4 existed, it was actually 2 groups of 2 that also disliked and bath-mouthed at any occasion. I’m sill reading the Facebook degree group sometime, and besides one year, this distrust ambiance still exists as of nowadays.

So the conclusion of the paper doesn’t seem farfetched for me; it actually confirm what I experimented myself.
We eat leftovers when we have them, but don’t necessarily always cook extra unless it’s something that is easier to cook more (eg extra pieces of chicken in the oven takes no extra work and results in cooked chicken for salads/sandwiches)

Some things like lasagne are better once they’ve sat for a day or two in the fridge.
How people perceive others is irrelevant to the question. Women are more often clinically diagnosed with BPD, not simply perceived by others to express it. The rest of your post is mostly unsupported speculation. Apart from the parallel you've drawn with APD, which has a lot of similarities to BPD, except with inverse gender distribution.
From the FAQ (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html):

> "How are stories ranked?"

> "The basic algorithm divides points by a power of the time since a story was submitted. Comments in comment threads are ranked the same way."

> "Other factors affecting rank include user flags, anti-abuse software, software which downweights overheated discussions, and moderator intervention."
Not usually. "State machine" is typically used to refer to the more general concept of a finite state machine, which includes Mealy and Moore automatons. DFAs typically are not viewed as having an output (or arguably a single bit for the whole input sequence that represents acceptance), while FSMs can have outputs on each transition or in each state, which means it can induce some action.
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10 years in tech and I’ve never seen drugs in the workplace, other than alcohol at the occasional mixer. I would say pot usage is pretty high, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone come to work stoned (thought I had a customer who was smoking on a call once).

Honestly, you have to operate at such a high mental capacity all day long in this profession that I think consistent drug use (beyond weed and alcohol) would be evident to your coworkers after a couple of weeks.

I’m sure drugs are done by lots of people in this industry, but I’ve never even heard it referenced openly, let alone seen anything.
This is insanely cool. I had no idea this was possible.

If I'm reading right the spacecraft would have to be placed at about 600-850 AU from the sun to take advantage of the solar gravity lens. For reference, Pluto's orbit is located at (roughly) 40 AU.
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One thing I love about working from home is that I can take long naps.

I'm usually far more productive after taking a much needed nap than trying to drink coffee/tea and power through it.
This sounds like moonshot-level complexity. It invokes solar sails, laser communication at 550 AU, as well as "advanced propulsion, lightweight telescopes, membrane mirrors, inflatable/rigidizeable structures, and novel coronagraphic techniques." All that for a telescope you can't aim...
I'm the author—I think maybe I should clarify in the article, that I'm talking about young people not engaging with local/municipal issues like they do for issues at the national level. The point that I was trying to make is that these local issues also matter, and reinforce many of the national trends. It's possible I didn't do that as eloquently as I hoped to.

[update]: I decided I wasn't making my point well at all and need to re-frame this before I post it.
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Right, so moderator intervention... which still leaves those questions.
It doesn’t make sense to bounce a signal over North America / Europe / etc all around on the mesh. The best course is to send it to the ground almost immediately (aka <2-3x max) for those areas as otherwise you’re wasting bandwidth. But over the Pacific Ocean it makes complete sense as adding a ground station in the middle of the ocean doesn’t make sense and even if you did, you still have latency to nearest server farm.

So yes, my point still stands for the majority use case.

Also, to be clear, I was making following claims:

1) bandwidth on par with initial 5G deployments (aka up to 1gb/sec offering)

2) Latency on par or better than existing LTE networks.
Using the sun as a gravitational lens is our current best option for interstellar communications, presuming we settled a planet within a hundred light years:

https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2009/11/06/the-gravitational...
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Understanding is one thing, explaining in layman or easy to undertand terms is another, and sometimes it takes a lot of effort.
The prior discussion was from 42 days ago. From what I've observed and seen mentioned, normally if the previous discussion is from a year ago or more, then it won't be marked a dupe.

If you think something was done unfairly, the best way to get an authoritative response is to email the mods via the Contact link in the footer.
Hmm, this seems like a kind of understandable attitude if I'm reading it correctly. Hearing that it's a (standard) graph algorithm means it's a solved problem so you don't need to worry about it: pick up a text book or Google and compare the available options—easy.
It really depends where you are in the city. Take a stroll in some of the neighborhoods around Prospect Park, and you'll find downright pristine streets filled with single family mansions...
I don't know enough about evolution so this could be way off, but I'd guess the idea is that nature "designs" the algorithm via evolution (imagine some Turing machine's code/neural net equivalent being slowly improved by trial and error over hundreds of millions of years) where the result appears like minimising a global cost/action-value function of the species and maximising its probability of survival. The question if this is different in principle from nature "implementing" a supernova or "implementing" electromagnetism or "implementing" a planet is an interesting one, but it seems like in both cases once it starts (cosmic evolution or life evolution) mathematics can be used as a map of the territory.
But going Alt-right -> Anime has a second path through Vaporwave.
There’s quite a bit factually wrong with this presentation, some of which is flagrant enough that I have to assume it’s intentional.

For one thing, Bill Gates is pictured in his deposition for US v. Microsoft with David Boies, not “US Senators”.

For another, Windows 2000 is described as being released contemporaneously with Intel’s Pentium, when they appeared nearly 7 years apart.

There’s also a very strange take on US v. Microsoft generally. If you actually watch Bill Gates’ deposition (recommended!) it’s clear that the focus of the government’s case was alleged attempts to use the dominance of Windows to crush Sun’s Java and Netscape’s Navigator, not undocumented APIs as the speaker claims.

And the description of the collapse of Longhorn is odd. I’ve never before heard the theory that the team was inadequately resourced due to the requirements of Windows XP SP2. Also an interesting take that Vista only got poor reviews because it was released too early in order to meet enterprise contract commitments.

Finally, I have to question a supposedly insider history of .NET that isn’t rich enough in detail to include “COOL”.
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Wow. Wish I'd found this a month ago. I just bought yet another paper copy (the binding of the paper version is not very durable).
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just saw VueJs on the upcoming list! Yay!

Webcomponents support (StencilJS*) would take this to another level! We can draw/design components to be used and reused!

[0] https://stenciljs.com/
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Even with that bias, how that number changes year over year can be revealing.
I just wanted to answer the "why angry" question above. I have a LOT of relevant experience about this issue as both a provider and a victim. I just wanted to share that experience and explain the common behaviors. I don't want conflict and will back away and apologize if I offended you. I didn't downvote you above either in case that's added to it. I can't downvote at all anyway due to my low karma.
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It’ll never be 4ms in the best case though. Both fiber and radio signals are a lot less than 100% of speed of light.

(Know you likely know this, but not everyone does)
> why not just mentally add them and assume that the author intended to sound that tactful?

Because, that could be the wrong action to take. Could you, Would you, Will you, I want you to, You should, The project is stupid unless you, etc.

Therefore, the author should communicate well enough to be understood.
This book is excellent. The AI stuff might be a little dated, but if you've read some intro to Common Lisp books and want to learn more about how to use the language, this is a great place to dive in.

As someone mentioned, this particular scan/OCR has some wonky kerning. If you happen to be an ACM member with access to their library there's a much nicer PDF available there.
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I second this, I did the exact same thing and it made me a bit mad -- why include interesting placeholders if you can't just "go" with them. So, in its current state, it might be a bit counterintuitive and could have a better UX.
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