skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that some news is relevant. One of my friends has given up reading or watching any kind of news altogether. At first this seems impressive but when I asked him about how far his house was from the wildfire, he was like "Umm - what wildfire?". He was oblivious to the fact that country's biggest wildfire was just three miles away from his house. He is a very smart and successful guy and it really jolted me how a guy like him could be oblivious to such an important event that could impact his life. The reason - he doesn't watch news.
There's no overcoming the limitations other than the options you mention. That's the structural nature of your business...it scales linearly with available billable hours (or its equivalent). It's why business models that scale linearly are usually unattractive to Silicon Valley venture capital. In a sense, scaling nonlinearly is what separates a startup from an ordinary new business.

Traditionally, one way to (linearly) scale a consulting business is by partnership with other consulting principals. Doe Consulting, Inc becomes Doe, Moe, & Joe Consulting Group, LLC. This distributes management of sales, technical leadership, and staff management among several people and makes adding employees and feeding the project pipeline more manageable because they can execute simultaneously among Doe, Moe, and Joe.

One way to scale revenue without expanding is to raise your rates. Higher rates screen for better paying clients. Good consultants are not fungible with bad consultants and clients who want you to compete with free are either bluffing or don't have critical problems that need solving.

Good luck.
It is much harder/expensive to place a big truck on heavy object on a train track then painting a line. The trains also have a driver that will try to stop the train so reduce the impact.

This self driving cars can be tricked by bad conditions or some optical illusions, like you have a t-shirt with some pattern on it and the Tesla car will coma and hit you
> Recycled water, including purified effluent, offers a cheaper source than desalination, but many governments are reluctant to embrace this. Purified effluent is used for drinking in Singapore and Namibia, but that would be a hard sell here.

I don't get this. If it's been cleaned thoroughly, why not drink it? And if it hasn't, how can we discharge it into streams in good conscience?
Yes! Email has the best chance to take over.

Links to photos, events, and group chat can all happen using email as transport. Like @esfandia suggested, the social-emails could be tagged as hidden so they are not displayed by your regular email reader.

Here is a old write up of how "events" could work over email:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12671812

Does anyone know if something like this has been tried before? Surely someone has thought of this before...
For a guy who grew up on a dryland wheat farm 400 miles from ocean, that is going in the wrong direction for me.
Before the End of 2018 I'll Quit Your Job and Travel the World. Will U?
Have you tried putting them in the sun? Sunlight does a lot of good on diapers. If you have the option I'd put them on a line outside.

As for the other stuff, we used a double-rinse with powdered detergent and things seemed to work pretty well.

The time factor was _super_ annoying. Maintenance for cloth diapers is a full-time job sometimes, but it felt good not to add a billion pounds of waste to the landfill.

Full disclosure: Now that we travel a lot more, we're pretty much only in disposables.
And let's not forget people like William Randolph Hearst, Joseph Kennedy (JFK's father), Charles Lindbergh, John Rockefeller, Andrew Mellon (head of Alcoa, banker, and Secretary of Treasury), DuPont, General Motors, Standard Oil (now Exxon), Ford, ITT, Allen Dulles (later head of the CIA), Prescott Bush, National City Bank, and General Electric.

http://www.rationalrevolution.net/war/american_supporters_of...

And then there's IBM whose Hollerith card system so effectively allowed the Nazis to document Jews.
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/b/bl...
I gave up news last year. It was really hard, I instinctively and habitually checked various news sources, so it was hard to fight this back. I've also removed my Facebook news feed. Now all I consume are HN and Twitter (from which I cull anything political or current affairsy). I have a subscription to Delayed Gratification[1], and am a lot more content now than I used to be.

1: https://www.slow-journalism.com/
In my experience, users can't be bothered to copy and paste those errors. One feature of <literally any error tracker> is to give the user a code instead of the raw stack. This pairs well with the feature to attach arbitrary data (like current state, or atleast just user id), then you can see the whole error data in the tool on your own computer. I've been able to fix bugs before the support staff approaches me about it.
My husband and I are gearing up for our first pregnancy. We're at the point in our careers for we know we can actually afford this. That said, we are really liking the idea of washable diapers. I'm surprised this hasn't caught on. Instead of more diapers, what if the state paid for a service to collect and wash those?
I too use a DE safety razor and chose Feather blades after sampling an assortment. Is GP asserting there's something even better?
Very nice and intense read, couldn’t stop till the end. I’m sure it would make a great movie. Pity for the people on board.
it's not as vague as you think. Ashkenazi Jews literally share a lot of genetic material, for example, when two Ashkenazi Jews get married and want to have a child, they get tested for genetic diseases that only Ashkenazi Jews have.
This article was a really good read. The woman featured in it celebrates finding a job in Pinellas Park but sadly she lives in Tampa and is about to experience another ill afflicting our piece of paradise: It's about an hour and a half by >= two buses from Tampa to Pinellas Park. That problem will still be around when the diapers are rotting the landfill and the kid's in school. Being poor in Florida is hell. Without a car it's hell^2.
You do realise that people, before disposable diapers, did just that?
I'm not even sure it's fair to describe it as purposefully confusing. If I'm in the market for a Tesla I want to make sure the expensive car I'm buying will be getting all the updates I'm excited about. Otherwise I might hold off buying for a few years.
I think I normally would have given Tesla the benefit of the doubt. But after the misleading, weasely-worded data they discussed to defend AutoPilot in light of the recent fatal accident [0], I think the onus is now on them to provide more concrete proof.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16722500
The internet changed from an informational "push" method to making it possible and easy to "pull" "just" the information a person is interested in.

Similar to others, I stopped watching the news 10 years ago. Yes, fatal car accidents and scary robberies are unfortunate and tragic but also fairly rare. The worry the news causes is irrational. The news would just stir up FUD and stress, because under FUD people are less likely to think and more likely to follow commands, even "benign" ones and subtle hints like "buy this toothpaste to have a 'socially' acceptable white smile". It's not a social standard, it's a company forcing their standard on the public to make it a social and peer force because the company stands to benefit from it. I feel less compelled to go to a store and buy new electronics and gadgets and a plethora of other things. I spend less time chasing the things TV and media attempts to tell us all to obtain.
It may be location dependent. For example, it doesn't know that I can bike across the street by my place, because there's a tram line down the middle. So it insists I go all the way to the end to turn around. It'll often also tell me to go a way that involves a left turn across effectively two lots of traffic, which is a nuisance when it's busy. Usually I use its routing as advisory, and figure out my own way based on it.
Open Letter to Professor Sung-Chul Shin, President of KAIST
So, to reiterate, how to stop Facebook from stealing your phone number from your friend's phones? Phone numbers aren't content - FB is still stealing it.
But you are signed - you're a vanilla distro kernel booting a custom userspace that fires up the victim OS under virtualisation.
OAuth 2.0 and the Road to Hell
Seemed simple. If legitimate customers do that too, it suddenly is not so simple.
No software patents.
That only spoils their experience. If they want to rate like dummies, then that is their tailored experience. With five stars, the thumbs up / thumbs down people can continue to vote either a 1 or 5. For the rest of us civilized viewers, we can more accurately categorize stuff.
Sure. If I were to give feedback, I'd say it needs a better landing and a user guide for the app (as opposed to the protocol inundated with dev jargon). Not really gonna send my mother a GitHub releases page; she needs to be the intended audience. I guess I could send her http://dinosaur.is/patchwork-downloader/ and ask her to read https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/getting-started.html and/or https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/#quick-start but even that has friction. Also, I'd like to see it shipped with Tor and just hit a checkbox (at runtime not install time) for anonymity instead of having to manage my own daemon.

But this is very close, yes.
Three miles? Did he also give up looking out the window?
You're absolutely right.
There was only one mention of cloth diapers anywhere in here, and it was quickly dismissed by "they are difficult to clean without a machine".

Nothing about how cost effective they can be, and then we go right back to learning about how huggies are better than generics.
I want to remind those Google employees that they are able to work at Google and enjoy very high living standard and obviously freedom of speech just because they are protected by the US army.
Great work, and kudos for reporting it.

It’s worth noting that Google took 5 months to fix, and almost discard it a couple of times.
Coming from a former Soviet state, we did not have disposable diapers when me and my siblings were growing up. Washable diapers were the only option, and it was horrible. Both for the kids as well as the parents having to wash them all the time.

Im actually amazed that there are people today who think this is a good idea and want to go back to it. Seriously what?
2k+ Users Mastodon Instance Shutdown Shows the Need for Choosing the Good One
Or talking to people in general? That seems incredibly odd.
Consider not doing an SPA. A classical web-app will get you to market sooner with fewer bugs. Here are some big issues with SPAs:

- Unsubmitted form input is not automatically saved in history by the browser, so you must write code to cache it and restore it again if the user leaves the page. A classical web app can identify all the form elements before rendering, so this functionality is free with a non-SPA.

- If you use the browser History API to allow navigation within your SPA, you'll have to write code to cancel async requests upon navigation. With a classical web app, the browser will cancel them all for you and provide a handy UI for the user to do it themselves.

- If you have lots of views within your SPA, it's going to get big and then you'll have to structure your project for code-splitting.

These are the top three issues that I've had with building my SPA and I've spent way more time putting together all the infrastructure instead of building user-facing views and logic because I won't ship a broken app. At this point, I might as well pivot my app to be a developer tool for building SPAs! (No kidding - I'm actually considering throwing away months of work to start over with a classical web app after all this.)
Graphus Welcomes Matt Porembski as VP of Business Development
'build better killing machines'. They are able to kill people well enough already.
In this case the blame is deserved though. The Coast Guard's report places the blame fully on the captain.
Exactly. Nothing beats the home advantage. Hot water and soap and a proper cleaning of all those hidden areas is the only way to get clean.
Reddit is a perfect example of a tech-focused product for a minority of young, white, tech-oriented men (and a minority of others) that while it influences the outside world, is mainly invisible to it.

If you want to build a reddit, you'll never end up with a facebook, that's just reality, the target demo is completely different.
It's not all about productivity.
It's possibly a summary of my frustration with the last 20 years or so.

I've never used vue/webpack so can't comment. I've been shot too many times by javascript framework churn over the years. I wrote a relatively small and powerful abstraction over DOM that doesn't hide it away, merely makes the hard things easy and less verbose and allows simple templates to be used.

Hibernate is essential if you ask me. One of the problems I see a lot is relying on features of the underlying storage engine. This, while it has advantages, has more disadvantages such as coupling and vendor lock in. These have been significantly costly when you have to scale something commercial up like SQL Server.
Thanks for those answers. Let me add something for helping the visually impaired who have troubles reading the Red blog. Here is a simple Red script to retrieve information from the Red blog, then calculate and display (with a color fade-in effect) the upper bound result of the RED tokens sales:

Red []

page: read https://www.red-lang.org/2018/01/red-here-we-go.html

parse page [
thru "Private investors" thru "(" copy angels to ")"
thru "open rounds" thru "(" copy public to ")"
thru "Private Investors" thru "&gt;" copy angels-price to "RED"
thru "Open round" thru "&gt;" copy public-price to "RED"
]
angels: to-integer trim/with angels ","
public: to-integer trim/with public ","
result: (angels / load angels-price) + (public / load public-price)

view [
title "Token Sales Result"
below
text 300 "And the (upper) bound sales result (in eth) is:"
h1 300 center bold beige beige rate 5 data result
on-time [
ff: face/font
repeat c 3 [ff/color/:c: ff/color/:c - pick 4.2.3 c]
if ff/color = black [face/rate: none]
]
]

This short example relies on two eDSL, one for parsing data, one for building a GUI. Such built-in features (not requiring any library) shouldn't be that bad for an "incomplete" language, right?
It's a rare counter-example, but Apple released the iPhone SE for those of us who are happily living in the past. I wish they had more "SE" products.
*Taptic Engine, I think I meant
So if you think the timeline is 20 years at best then we need that present self driving cars be able to drive on present roads with human driven cars, pedestrians, bikes, holes in the road, some bad marked roads, roads without markings, roads with a bit of snow, heavy rain,fog.

Adding some extra markings, special electronic markings for this cars is not a solution, and in this 20 years since the traffic is mixed you can't consider lifting the speed limits or changing the intersection rules, so I don't see how it helps the traffic (except maybe on small streets if you consider that people won't want to own their car and will use any random car. this random cars should be super clean and cheap to make people not own their own)
An Illustrated Collection of Mistakes That People Often Make When Analyzing Data
I remember old giant cooking pots where people would 'cook' those and then dry them later on.
Spice in America is hotter than in Thailand.
Most importantly, what this brings over gnu gettext? Afaict, all advertised features are present on gettext.
Tencent Financial Roundup – Niko
Since we live in a market driven economy, the government (A) will always find a way to buy what they want. So if Google (B) doesn't supply the demand, the customer will just go somewhere else. So it is completely illogical for Goolge to move away. They are an extremely powerful business and are subject to the rules of business.
Coinbase hack report with biggest bounty
> 1. Ethical. One thing is that you do a stupid thing and die. Another is that a technology fails in trivial circumstances that in theory are avoidable. A doctor can make also errors, but a medical device is required to be very safe and reliable in what it does.

This needs elaboration or citation. You're one of the only folks I've seen come straight out and make this point: that somehow a technology or practice that is objectively safer can still be "unethically safe" and should be shunned in favor of less safe stuff.

I don't buy it. This isn't individual action here, there's no utilitarian philosophy rejection that's going to help you.

In fact, medical devices seem actually counter to your argument. No one says an automatic defibrillator's decisions as to when to fire are going to be as good as a human doctor, and in fact these things have non-zero (often fatal) false positive rates. But they save lives, so we use them anyway.

Bottom line, that point just doesn't work.
> a military grade bio attack

This is like thinking you will survive a storm in the middle of the ocean because you have a life jacket on you.
The problem is that Tesla is releasing Enhanced driving and calling it Autopilot.

I dont trust anything from Elon anymore, big talker and lots of hype.
What counts as sustained? Does a bad day, week, month, or year disrupt it? Or is a year or decade of general happiness mean it is sustained? Does it have to last until your death?

Maybe it requires the context of your first sentence about seeking happiness.

For myself, I would not say I seek it, but that I chose it. I feel I've been generally happy nearly always. Sure, there have been stresses, losses, tragedies, tears, and such. There have been extended periods of feelings of inadequacy and of being trapped. Yet, even through all such events and periods, I'd say I tend to be happy. And the last major part of a decade has been the most fulfilling and blessed part of my life yet. Sure, it could come crashing down. Or it could get even better! I chose to be happy with where I have been, where I am at, and look forward to where I'll go.
I've heard from some ex council workers that they are not doing it correctly. You have to cut around the hole, then fill in this wider hole. Basically the bits around a pot hole are weak, so they have to go also. If you just fill in the hole, then a new one will form very easily around the interface of the new tarmac and the decaying road.
this seems to be from 2017. do they still mend the potholes?
Uncomplicated in those days meant IE5, everywhere.
I've tried the alpha on a Acer Surface-esque tablet with a HiDPI screen and agree 18.04 is much, much better out of the box - scaling was set sensibly and usably on first boot. Very much looking forward to the release.
Could be. What I do know is that I have Greek friends who express the same feeling and they weren't a persecuted minority. There's a certain hubris about nationalities with a rich past.

It's not necessarily bad, but it's still hubris :)
It's highly centered on my country so I'm not sure it's of use to a global audience.

But it's a mix of filtering actual facts from newspaper articles on both sides of the spectrum (they usually carry very little information and mostly repeat words to fill up screen space), then check a few respected journalists publishing analysis after a few weeks (again, from left/right). They will be biased, like anything, but there's a kernel of Truth even when I disagree. So that's useful for informing my thoughts.
Bringing Super Slow-Mo to Life
Being aloof to the gossip, rumors, and controversies of the "news" seems pro-social to me because it allows you to discuss these issues with people in a more civil manner simply because you are not so emotionally charged over the issues as those who obssesively ruminate on them.
Plus .net core supports async and runs on linux.
You can't tell Facebook not to do that because your phone number and texts are no longer just yours at that point.

Your friend has a copy and can do whatever they want with them, including share them with Facebook, the NSA/FBI/police, their friends, or anyone else they want to.

If you don't want them shared with Facebook, don't give the people who are sharing them with Facebook a copy.
I very deliberately don't participate in loyalty programs. Every single time I go through a checkout at a local business, they ask me for my loyalty info. Every single time, I decline.

Then I swipe my credit card through their machine and give them the exact same credit card number to associate with every purchase I make.

I fully understand that they can track me. I am sending the message that I don't want to be tracked. I am also sending the message that I am willing to pass on their incentives to be tracked, but I am not willing to pass on the convenience of my credit card.

Then I make my credit card company send me a new card every year. So vendors get to track me through less than 50 purchases before I switch.

For businesses that track loyalty by customer name, I will give them the name of a neighbor or other acquaintance. It's astounding how often they are willing to give me back information about that person.
$1000/year seems normal to me.

Even when they start using less the older kid pack costs the same for fewer diapers... plus night diapers etc.

Add wipes etc and you hit over $1000 easily.
People have always worked to make their environment better for themselves and everyone prior to capitalism. Perhaps you're the one who bought into the propaganda and claim for capitalism properties that have nothing to do with it as a mode of production.
Wow I totally forgot we only had 1 gaming computer and a really crappy second computer.

Now our household has multiple computers per person.

Wow.
It wasn't stated that the blades were necessarily better, but the fact these "science grade" blades were chosen over name brands implies there may be some benefit. This was totally new to me, and it sparked my curiosity.
It's possible that an incorrectly fixed pothole would a) degrade far more quickly and b) do so in a manner that expands the pothole more than just leaving it alone would have.
You're probably not going to get rich in the stock market
It furthers it for early 2000s projects for sure, a time when getting your site on a Web server was easiest with PHP and most sites didn't rely heavily on AJAX. But now most startups will start in "the cloud," using SPA designs, where PHP is not significant.
“Even if you wanted to mine Monero in your web browser (not exactly the most efficient way I'd wager) why would you share the benefits with some random third party instead of directly joining an open pool?”

I’d be cool with having a site mine at 35% cpu for the few minutes while I use their site in exchange for no ads and no tracking.

I think this is likely the only way that we can replace the Google/Facebook ad-driven business model that runs the consumer Internet.
The Associated Press stylebook calls for reporters to avoid using the term "Accident":

https://www.transalt.org/news/releases/9545
From the same author of https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16248196-the-art-of-thin...
That sentence is just saying that the _hardware_ (not the software) is sufficient for "full self-driving capability". The current _software_ doesn't support that.

The point being that in the future the car _could_ get "full self-driving capability" via a software update. In contrast, a car that doesn't have the necessary hardware will never be fully self-driving even if we do develop the necessary software to accomplish that in the future.
TPB has implemented miners over ads and I have absolutely no issue with that whatsoever. I rather have the folks around me hear fans spinning than random russian lady dancing in my browser.

For some, it could very well be an alternative.
It's not stealing if your friend consents to it. If you don't want your phone number shared with Facebook, don't share it with people who are going to share it with Facebook.