skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is the government, via TSA, ICE, etc., and not Delta or Lufthansa or whoever, that most impedes the feasibility of air travel. Let us put to bed the notion that freedom of movement means only the freedom to walk on foot or to take absurd measures to avoid contracting with private or public entities that exist expressly for the purpose of serving travelers.
I've had a couple false starts over the past 2 years or so as well. This time I'm determined to reach "critical mass" where I'm comfortable reaching for Rust when I need to hack together a new CLI tool, web service, whatever. I won't quit this time if you don't.
Organic food is not higher quality. Organic just means they cannot use some arbitrary list of farming practices, (some good some bad).

Sure McDonalds is not good, but there is also plenty of organic that equally bad (or worse).
This article follows the tried-and-true format of "Everyone used to think ABSOLUTIST_STRAWMAN_NO_ONE_ACTUALLY_BELIEVES was true, but now we've learned the issue is more nuanced."
It is theatre if it is applied randomly. It is not if all devices are tested equally. The same goes for testing of people. Unless all are tested, random checks are just about useless, since there will be a pattern to the selection of people for "random" testing.
I don't know, I guess it could be. It depends whether the multiverse has infinite "flavors" or not. If every black hole linked from one universe to another, then observably, we have many more drains, and only 1 know point we're expanding from. OTOH, maybe all black holes in this universe drain right back into the one we're expanding from and there are only 2. Finally, there could be more points of expansion than just the big bang in our universe, but they may be outside of our sphere of observation. I'll admit the one-ingress-many-egress thing bothers me a bit.
Facebook Launches (And Deletes) Another “Security” App That Silently Tracks You
True, real, motivation comes forth from becoming begeistert or obsessed with your project. The Kanban board will not help with that core thing.

This is at least something I notice when reading biographies or success stories, or even looking at my own humble side projects: the obsession, to think about it day and night.. that’s what moves things forward.

Agile with Kanban etc.. are just tools to facilitate and reinforce the process.

Or perhaps “obsession” is not the right word: but “passion”, is.
Who cares ? Is it profitable or not ?
We’ve tried real identities plus serving as many ads against user conversations as possible (Facebook), and “algorithms” designed to keep users on as long as possible regardless of the cost to their mood, or the world around them. Perhaps “social media” should stop trying to be a way to make lots of money.

Naaah. Gotta monetize every inch of everyone’s life. It’s the American way.
But it could be a reference to freedom. :)
Maybe not! Some people think the universe is shaped like a torus, and that everything in the universe, all of the energy flow, all of the minute systems, also reflect this. If that were the case as well, it may make sense to say that the universe is not a closed system. This universe would be a toroidal aspect of a larger toroidal universe and so on. And perhaps in the middle of that torus, you would see energy merging to a singularity.

Obviously I'm not claiming any of this as fact. But it is interesting to think about. After a certain point there is non fact-based validity in applying philosophy to our conception of universes.
> This is important because the narrative also defines our sense of political possibility.

The thesis rests on this assumption, but I kind of doubt that people base their political beliefs on how early agricultural societies ordered themselves.
This is a concern, yes.
Th Inuit actually do have a fairly high rate of CVD. The idea that they live long healthy lives on an all meat diet is wrong:

https://nutritionfacts.org/video/omega-3s-and-the-eskimo-fis...

IMO all creatures have a right to fight for their survival, including killing and eating meat if necessary. But humans don’t have to so why should we?
Yeah, though, one annoyance with Nullable<T> in C# is that T must be a value type. That gets obnoxious when you want to program generically against it, because, e.g., you can't do have a method like

TValue? TryGetValue<TKey, TValue>(TKey key)

and have it work with any possible TKey. Unless they've fixed this in the past couple years, you get stuck writing your own option type to be able to also work with reference types, which is always fun to try and get past code review, or you fall back on the out parameters idiom, which is not composable.
From a public health perspective that’s still a net gain, even if it’s not an environmental one.
"About half of the privately owned plazas are required to be open 24 hours a day, according to the Department of City Planning." This includes Zuccotti Park. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/14/nyregion/zuccotti-park-is-...

Edit: you know what, I'm not going to get into it here... it was years ago and people can look up what happened if they're interested.
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> Hitch-hiking is mostly illegal in most states

No it isn't. There are only a few states where it's illegal.
The existence of a pilots license necessary to fly a plane makes this incorrect off the get go
Parsing the .DS_Store file format
I'm in a similar boat to the OP. We're near the boundary of your pricing between startup and traction, but the non linear jump (while being more common these days) is an immediate turn off.

There's a pretty big difference between $240 and $1200 a year when it comes to discretionary spending.
Got some news for you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Empire#End_of_empire
I love C for it's simplicity, but I'm super excited to see Rust get a foothold in embedded as well.
I am about twice your age so my situation is a little different that yours. I'd be inclined to stick it out, because for $1M, I'd be able to retire. Granted it would be a modest retirement, but I could retire. Then I'd have time to work on what ever I wanted.

Think about what you could do to improve your situation? Can you move to a different project? If it is something else bothering you a frank conversation with your manager may be helpful.

I just did this myself today. I work for an early stage start-up and was ready to say fuck it and quit. I sat down with one of the founders and we discussed my grievances. I feel a lot better now, and I think it will be helpful in the long run.

Also maybe you can do something outside of work to make things more meaningful. Take up a new hobby, or may a new side project.
I'm not sure what you are saying here.
Soon to be in the terrorist's opsec handbook: don't fly with the phone you use to talk terrorist ringleaders.
Having the system have an ability to log all accesses after switching on get past this problem. As the logs will be proof the system was searched while not in your hands.
I never heard from him.

The Coltrane originals were probably part of his estate, and I would guess have been donated to the university where he taught.
I didn't either. I read it as "activists", and on re-reading, I can't see where I got that. The actual targets could be a lot more important than that...
Because opening a phone and looking at the first few texts/emails is faster than imaging. One cannot take a phone and properly image it in the 5-10 minutes they spend with the average phone.
Exploring word2vec embeddings as a graph of nearest neighbors
Fantastic chrome-like effect
Linus probably doesn't have contributions (as the code author) in all parts of the kernel anymore, entire subsystems have been created since he transitioned to his more curating role.
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This is more or less the model of the universe in the Culture books by Iain M Banks.
Author of Fennel here.

Urn seems to be greater in scope and code. Fennel is intentionally small and a single file that can be dragged into any project.

Fennel does not try to provide Lisp idioms or abstractions unless they have a direct mapping in Lua. For example, there are no linked lists (use tables), and no continuations (use coroutines). Operators are implemented as special forms rather than function literals so that they can be easily implemented efficiently.

Fennel also includes abstractions that might not make sense in a normal lisp but help make interfacing with Lua code easier. For example, symbols that have a dot in them, like "table.insert", have the correct interpretation and can be used as normal symbols. Method calls are supported such via the `(:)` form; `(: "hello" :find "llo")` compiles to `("hello"):find("llo")`.

Fennel takes this approach because Lua is almost already a Lisp, so I felt it was best to add the minimum abstraction necessary. Also, I prefer simple and transparent tools.

Urn may provide more comfortable and "Lispy" abstractions, however, because it takes more control of the environment.
It also seems to have pretty great error messages compared to Fennel, and a good website. There are definitely some features in Urn that aren't
(yet) in Fennel, like built in pattern matching, although Fennel does do destructuring.
Tackling great design for presentations is what I'm working on with my startup, https://www.beautiful.ai/

We focus on exactly the types of things you're mentioning, but we try to automate it for those who don't have the design skills (or time to invest even if you do have design skills)!
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If Rust and TypeScript had a love child
You can't outsource local transportation to another country, and that's historically been a huge component of the most dangerous air pollution in population centers.

Also, the peak of US manufacturing output is right now.
Indeed, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vantablack would be great here.
Apple, Amazon, Google and Facebook eating up every business
I remember when Uber was clearly dominant. That was over a year go. For the past two conferences I've been to, including the one I'm at now(Ember Conf), EVERYONE has been using Lyft.

It really is possible for a company to piss off enough people.
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A shameless plug for my startup: https://blog.beautiful.ai/uber-vc-pitch-deck-presentation-te...
I'm not so sure: it was still to a city with a couple million residents and a smog problem.
Don't you mean any area within 100 miles of the borders? That means some states are completely within this region and are all subject to border searches.
Is firrre still active?
Chinese police are expanding facial recognition sunglasses program
The suburbs are a happy medium. I have a nice yard, a quiet neighborhood, and can drive to any amenity I'd ever want in under 30 minutes.

In the USA, quality of schools are another big plus for the suburbs over both rural and urban areas.
So that's what's happening? The TSA takes your phone, teleports it to cellebrite who unlock and clone it in ten minutes, then they teleport it back?
Really glad to hear you are working with local partners. As stated elsewhere in this discussion, I am skeptical. One of my concerns is lack of localization, basically, though I imagine that is not really the correct term in this case. Vernacular architecture tends to be suited to local climate and culture. This type of approach tends to be not.

Here is my other concern:

Our goal is to help power anyone building homes for the poor

Every time I hear people talking about designing housing for the poor, I hear them floating ideas that will essentially help them remain poor. Student housing, senior housing and other housing aimed at demographics that are perceived as having a full life, but not much money, tends to be designed very differently from housing for the poor. Housing for the poor often has poor access to transportation, education, jobs, etc. This can help people trapped in poverty.

Best of luck and I hope you succeed beyond your wildest dreams.
Another plug for those who are design illiterate: My startup https://www.beautiful.ai/ is working on providing great design for presentations
People should be allowed to be anonymous but only explicitly so. The problem now is we have people lying about who they are and using multiple accounts and other forum moderation abuse to push viewpoints, often paid to do so.
Ask HN: How can I be less awkward on phone calls with vendors/clients?
I recently became a product manager, and my job includes talking to vendors / potential vendors, and the occasional client. I've always had a bit of phone anxiety, but I have a particularly tough time "being smooth" on phone calls with professionals I've never met.

I try to start with a brief introduction of myself (how long I've been at the company, what my focus is, etc), but sometimes I speak too quickly or not clearly enough. And because I don't have any visual feedback, I sometimes don't know whose turn it is to speak.

I'd really appreciate any advice on how I can be better on phone calls. I think I'm getting a bit better with practice, but I'm still stumbling over my words and finding that I'm much less clear over the phone than in person with coworkers.
I agree. They just recently entered Canada (and it seems only one province), so of course they are going to have bigger revenue growth than Uber as they enter new markets.

A stretch: is Lyft going to use these metrics to go public before Uber to hype itself up?
Yeah considering in terms of a binary classification the accuracy is not super impressive imo. It could just be learning statistical patterns for code that is more likely to have issues rather than identifying actual bugs.

They did mention is does other things such as suggesting improvements, so maybe it does provide more tangible value in those ways. Hard to say without more information!
Why not support private education? Are you against diversity?
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Well, f_i is certainly computable, because it's in A. I guess you mean f_bar?
T is not computable, but T is also not a function out of F.
Ask HN: Are programmers afraid of new syntax?
I see many developers and companies adopt Elixir because "it looks like Ruby" but the two languages could not be more different. Why do programmers car so much about syntax?
It is pumped, but the pumps are there to force circulation and keep things under control rather than to provide the pressure directly.

You need a steady gradient of pressure. The pressure you need at the bottom of the hole will fracture the rock in the shallow section. Pumps add a constant pressure, so there's no way to get the right pressures at each depth with a pump.

Instead, drilling exploits gravity to do the hard work. The drilling mud is very dense (almost as dense as the rock) so that the pressure at the bottom of the borehole from the weight of the mud is just a bit less than the pressure from the weight of the rocks.
Exactly. This is very troubling : "But we are not going to recruit someone just because they are a woman."

How else do you expect to get gender parity? It should be important to specifically source and hire women.
Well of course. What a dumb title. Lyft is smaller than Uber (drivers, user base, and operating markets). They have more room to accelerate their revenues because every time they add a market it has a larger impact on their added revenue. The title is just stupid because I can buy a cab tomorrow and also claim that my revenue is growing faster than Uber.
At least it’s Apple, so chances are they will do something useful with it.

Google could’ve bought it and shut it down.
I don't remember it anything like that.

Great books, being adapted by Amazon now.
Watch Tesla Semi truck accelerate with a trailer like it’s made of feathers
Yet, "looking for qualified female developers" sounds patronizing at best, and brusque at worst.

We need more girls in the field by cultivating different career ambitions.
Feminists have slowly shifted power. There’s no going back
About that 2% completion rate.

Organisation A runs a traditional class that takes in 100 students. 50 complete it.

Organisation B runs a MOOC that, with a bit of advertising, gets 2500 people to sign up for free. 50 complete it.

Maybe my made-up numbers are off by orders of magnitude. But "2% completion rate" on its own doesn't sound so terrible if it reaches a much wider audience to start with - which both "free" and "online" could contribute to.

I have signed up to many MOOCs and completed a couple. I consider that a net benefit. MOOCs are not going to replace university education any time soon in my opinion, but for people who don't have the university option in the first place or want to take a single course every now and then they're a great thing.
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Letting white supremacists use my garage for weekly meetings is not the same as me building an establishment for the explicit purpose of facilitating conversations of all kinds, and then not kicking out a white supremacist minority for using the facility.

My concern with censorship is always 2 fold:

1.) You have to always assume the person who is in control of censorship is the person who doesn't agree with you. Donald Trump has on multiple occasions indicated that he would like to restrict the press's capability to criticize the president, since he has been in power. Kim Jong Un shares a similar sentiment. Would we like that, because there are many Trump supporters who would see absolutely nothing wrong with that. There was a moral majority in the US for a long time that would have preferred to restrict the capability for others to talk about what they considered to be sinful things, such as homosexuality or communism.

2.) You have to realize how quickly things become conflated. Ben Shapiro, a conservative pundit, went to Berkeley to speak, where student groups attempting to ban him from speaking had strung up a huge sign reading "We say no to your white-supremacist bullshit." It's important to note that Ben Shapiro is an Orthodox Jew who is harassed daily by white supremacists online...and has never said a single thing advocating for racial supremacy. In fact, he is hugely opposed to racial, gendered, or national identity politics of any kind. Students wanted to ban him for hate speech simply because they associated him with what they perceived to be hate speech.
Why is it patronizing? In media and film, such requests are frequently made.
what about the manufacturing processes for EVs. Arent they a lot more polluting esp, the battery parts, compared to traditional auto manufacturing?
The diagrams remind me of performing a Dehn twist. Perhaps what you're doing at each grouping corresponds to a Dehn twist on the Tonnetz? Of course, since the Tonnetz is a particular subdivision of the torus, only certain groupings that satisfy some divisibility relations will correspond to Dehn twists.
Not since last October. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=S3TC-For...
Dropbox Sets IPO Target Valuation at $7B to $8B
People would downvote them or argue it out.

If that person were never able to share that opinion, they would never get feedback that it is an unacceptable opinion; and might therefore act on it.
It helps children learning how to write.
Lowercase letters start from the thicker line to the first thinner line above.
Uppercase letters and taller lowercase letters like "t" or "d" go to the second line.
And the tails of letters like "g" or "y" go the first line below.
It doesn't even have to be targeted journalism, sometimes people write junk because they make mistakes or aren't aware of counter-arguments...not even scientific papers are safe from this. Cunningham's Law[1] to the rescue :)

I can feel that hostile internet comments take a toll on my overall happiness, but I don't want to be ignorant of valid counter-arguments to the content I read.

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_Law
Have you ever... looked at the comments on MeFi? Some posts get lengthy, complex discussions, on subjects related to the link at hand; some do not. There is also Ask MeFi, where you can ask questions and get answers from other users (ads shown against this section to visitors without an account used to be a major portion of MeFi’s revenue until Google did some stuff that lowered MeFi’s search ranking). And there’s MetaTalk, which is for talking about the site and has its fair share of “hey let’s hang out and talk” posts.

I mean, yeah, it’s structured mostly around links, and you can certainly use it as a source of Interesting Links. But there’s conversation and community there if you look around a little.
The lack of price spikes suggests that marginal costs did not greatly change. It says rather less about fixed costs. And it says nothing about whether that regulatory approach was the most cost-effective way of achieving those results.
This is absolutely it. You can mark the day that Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, et all started to suck and it's when the removed control of what was in their actual feed from the users.
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I don't know about youtube. There's a lot of really interesting, useful stuff from people who just want to share a bit of what they know about some niche topic. If you know what you're looking for youtube is a great resources. But if you're just trying to browse to find fun stuff in your free time, then I guess it's not as useful.

I agree that a lot of the bigger channels get worse as they make videos primarily to get views. Although I think this is true of most content producers: You only have so much good material, but it's hard to quit when there's still money to be made at the margins.
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>> "I never got anything useful out of that book"

> Everyone to his own taste, but I think that is just short selling the book. I had no problems in starting to convert the lisp evaluator described in the book to C++ after only a few years of programming experience and I'm not an ace programmer.

@sillysaurus3 just made that book more accessible to everybody by giving them a guilt-free exit, based on experienced results, and your first instinct is to pull a quote out of context and explain why their personal experience is “wrong”?
> But we are not going to recruit someone just because they are a woman. We want the best people on our team, regardless of their gender.

Does not follow.

They shouldn't hire someone because of their gender.
But they might be missing women from their pipeline because they aren't recruiting where women are looking for jobs.

Particularly, since this is apparently a small company, they might succeed in building a well-balanced team because they only need to find a few qualified women, compared to a larger organization that might need to hire hundreds of women to create an environment where there are enough women to prevent a "locker-room" atmosphere.

More likely, since they only have 3-4 developers on staff, they just don't have enough hiring to get women anyway, so there's not much point to the clickbaity title to an article that isn't actually about their hiring.
> Too stupid for college. I don't know if anyone is truly stupid in every way. Everyone has their speciality.

I think "stupid" is the wrong word there; too many other connotations. And I think that the root issue would be something different: A learning style order/pace that's a bad match for the one common to classroom learning, if the specific professor teaches using just one or two methods to convey the information, etc.

I'm doing well professionally, but there was a certain mismatch between my learning style and the classroom teaching style. I made it work for me in the end, though.
I legitimately can't tell if this is sarcastic or not.
Keep sipping that sweet Kool aid.