skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's quite a ridiculous sight in my opinion. I'm imagining that person trying to bring that thing aboard the tube in London.
There's also "An Industrial Application of Mutation Testing: Lessons, Challenges, and Research Directions (2018)" by the same authors: https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub46907
Funnily enough I find organic street layouts easier to navigate as a tourist than grid systems. In an organic layout there are central roads that go to places of interest and the smaller streets flow to the central roads. In a grids all the roads look the same (they have the same size for example) so I often can't work out how I'm oriented and wandering around doesn't necessarily lead to anywhere interesting.

I also find grids less satisfying to walk. I feel they favour cars over pedestrians. I'm always stopping for traffic lights in New York while I feel I can walk mostly without interruption in London. London roads are also more interesting because you don't know what's around the corner.

Conclusion: these are pretty graphs but I think the claims in the first post are overstated. Experiments are required.
Interview with Paul Romer On Hong Kong, Charter Cities and Growth Theory (2015)
My experience:

20+ years in specialized field.

All of that at large well-known tech companies in high COL areas.

Took about 15 years to break though $200k total comp.

Doubled to $400+k by moving to a company with large RSU grants relative to base pay, and got that by negotiating hard.

My refresh grants have been declining because my performance has been good rather than outstanding, but with moderate stock price growth I don’t see a problem continuing to report $400k total comp in my current position.

I’m considering moving to one of two other large tech companies where I have been told I should easily be able to increase that to $500k, and probably $600k+ if I am seen as successful.

At $200k in the Bay Area I felt like buying property was out of the question, but at $400k it was very doable with enough spare cash to feel like I can enjoy the area.

Having said that, a lot of the delta between those two points goes to taxes.
I wrote an article on learning web development, might be useful to you. Here's the link: https://medium.com/career-change-coder/how-i-broke-into-web-...

If you're only looking for high-level concepts, Crash Course has some good episodes about the workings of the internet.
Because cities do grow it would be interesting to color parts of the ray depending on the age of the streets/districts with that direction.
What the author wants to read is probably a survey ...
I grew up in the UK where most towns and cities have roads going in all directions.

I've always found the grid layout of US cities difficult to navigate, which is strange because it's objectively a much simpler system. The sameness of each block and straightness of the roads makes it really hard for me to position myself with sight alone, whereas in the UK there seems to be more uniqueness to each road that makes it easier for me to find my way around.

Interestingly, my US friends who've visited the UK have had the exact opposite experience!
Female engineer here. What do you mean by "robbing her of her femininity"? And how would equal treatment do that?

Damn straight I want to be treated as an equal. A professional relationship on equal footing doesn't have to be a "cold" relationship. Why would it?

And yes, I'm highly tempted to vent here in large part because I really don't understand this question at all.

Can you please explain further what you're trying to get at?
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin.

It is one of the books that is referenced all of the time over the span of my life. Realized I never thought to actually read it for myself...I recommend checking it off the list.
From personal experience, I would endorse the above advice. I'm all for being honest, but organizations are strange beasts, and I once got fired for something just like this.

As long as you are sure you will eventually succeed, ignore the problem and keep going. Being late is no big deal; it's actually a confirmation of how amazing and innovative your product is.

If someone senior brings up the issue, don't flinch, and be ready with an alternative timeline.
None of the pictures shows the “pro” keyboard.

I going to venture a guess why: lack of a real keyboard row for esc + function keys.
I recently, by accident, read two books that worked really well together:

One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson

The Plot Against America by Philip Roth

The Bill Bryson book is, I think, a work of subtle genius - he makes stuff that I would normally have no interest in absolutely fascinating (e.g. baseball).

It was purely accidental that I read these in the order I did and so close together - but the extensive descriptions of the adventures of Lindbergh and other aviators did provide a great background for the Roth novel.
Ask HN: What open-source projects do you wish existed?
It's time to start a new project. Rather than doing another meaningless (but fun nonetheless) side project, I think it'd be better to work on something people find useful.

Any thoughts?
Sheldrake is my go-to example of bad science.

In one of his experiments monitored by another scientist, when the dog didn't respond in a way that met Sheldrake's criteria, Sheldrake changed the criteria in mid-experiment.

That one incident alone should be enough to dismiss any results coming from Sheldrake. He's not only dishonest but blithely unaware that he's being blatantly so.
And a year ago they wouldn't even tell you that.
A Brief History of Everything by Ken Wilber.
The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin.
I can't believe it took me so long to read one of the most important books written.
- Neromancer
- 1984
- The Bitcoin Standard
- The Conquest of Happiness (Bertrand Russel)
- The Book of Why
Would you say the same about the Logitech "Crayon" that was obvious designed with Apple's help, only works with the iPad and is Apple's solution for pen support for the 2018 iPad?
The Steve Coll book is pretty disturbing - e.g. the CIA hints on "How to spot a terrorist" including things like "Keeps insisting on their innocence when tortured", "Keeps asking for to see a lawyer or a doctor" etc.
I kind of like where this is going. Plug and play performance and less noise.

I'm not really interested in dropping thousands of euros on the latest gaming hardware. I'm not in the pointlessly blinking leds equipped PC market. And I'm done building my own PC after having to replace the power supply in my last effort three times.

I do tend to have up to date mac hw. For me the whole point of that is buying one and then using it for 4-6 years. I actually have the MBP 15" from last year with 16GB. It's not great for gaming though. My four year old imac 5k still gets better framerates in things like x-plane. Both have the issue that they run quite hot when doing anything 3D and cpu intensive. My imac needs to emulate a vacuum cleaner just to keep it from throttling cpu and gpu.

My imac 5k is coming up for replacement somewhere in the next two years. I'm probably going to drop around 3-4K on whatever replaces it. I'd totally consider something with an external GPU. I actually like the form factor but would spend money on an external GPU for casual gaming and VR.

I'd prefer something that focuses on just cpu/memory/ssd and then plug in storage and gpu via some cables. So, this is going the right way.

Apple should focus the next mac pro around this concept. They tried with the previous one but then messed up by soldering the GPU in, which turned out a deal breaker since the whole point of mac pros is 3d graphics. So, simply ship something with plenty of ports and CPU sockets and sell GPU, Storage, screens, etc. separately. CPUs are barely evolving anyway. I got about a 35% build speed improvement by replacing a late 2011 MBP with a late 2017 one. Both were quad core i7s. Seriously underwhelming. And yes, I max out 4 cores with my builds.
I Finished Witcher 3 Thanks to DXVK (Wine)
This is not what he said. He basically said that in many cases, some developpers pushed something like mongo, ES or cassandra in their project or even company when a small sqlite or an effective postgressql were much more appropriate.

Specific databases solve specific problems. In my current company, for log storage and analysis, InfluxDB was our solution after testing both ES and postgress, but we did compare all the products, and we still do as we expand. In my previous company, the main database in the product was Zope. I agree that mongoDB may be better in some use case, but i strongly doubt that most company are running it because it's the most appropriate product.
Think resonates well with minimalism. My site (halfcoded.com) is inspired by https://zenhabits.net/ and follows a minimal wordpress theme. Happy to learn that more people are cautious of the direct impact of internet on the green world.
I am not familiar with npm package maintenance. Can somebody explain these two recommendations to me?

Package maintainers should be careful with using
any services that auto-merge dependency upgrades.

What is an example of such a service? What is an 'auto-merge' of 'dependency upgrades'?

Application developers should use a lockfile
(package-lock.json or yarn.lock) to prevent the
auto-install of new packages.

What is an auto-install of a new package? What triggers it?
FWIW, I've found it to be a bit over an hour (maybe 1h15m or 1h30m).
OTOH, I would love Python even more if I could do:

x = function(x) return x*x end

and not use those awful Python lambdas...

Not that it really matters though, bridges still get built.
There are multiple perspectives to this. Without heap allocation during kernel execution GPUs might not even become the dominant driver of computation in the first place.
That's a great resource. Thanks.

The noise issue does seem problematic. Especially once you're beyond what's doable classically. I suppose that you could just check for reproducibility. But maybe there could be systematic problems that wouldn't show up doing that.

But for cracking encryption, the end results seems pretty clear. You either get sensible plaintext, or you don't. And you can try multiple times. Systematic effects that consistently yield incorrect plaintext seem unlikely.

Or am I just confused?
World Politics
He just said what was on him mind. Clearly and unambiguously.
A graphviz layout algorithm for data-flow-diagrams that meets these requirements:
The boxes/nodes/vertices need to be large enough that they can contain readable text.
The lines/arcs/edges should group together into bundles/runs/buses to minimise the space that they occupy; to permit them squeeze through limited gaps between boxes, and to show where similar data flows travel in the same direction.
6 Future Trends of the IOT
> - ctrl-a and ctrl-e don't work in most applications, even though these are old school shortcuts that work nearly everywhere on a mac

The shortcuts for text fields on Windows are not consistent either, are they?

I am very used to the organization of shortcuts on macOS, especially those for text editing. Strangely, that's what I miss on Linux the most now. However, it's probably easier to provide them to users when there is only one mainstream GUI toolkit (and, for instance, in Office for mac some of those shortcuts don't work).
Not sure that "plausible" is the word I would use - they are both set explicitly in the same universe with the same "physics" - Deepness just being a bit more subtle about it as the characters don't know about the Zones of Thought - but the Zones are central to the book and the ending.

Edit: Having said that, the concept of "focus" in Deepness is utterly terrifying - particularly as it seems very plausible and, as is noted in the book, some people might willingly submit to it (relevant to HN!).
Is Instagram changing the way we design the world?
Developers. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhh_GeBPOhs
Can it be also for something dynamically load a symbol and call it? Like for .so making
what saddens me is that there seems to be no way out. There are so many projects that worked fine in the past and now the're using npm, for example PhoneGap.
i'd like an alternative to linux and BSD that has better RISC compatibility
Again, the accusation isn't against the builders, but against the popularizers (subsquent users).

To stretch the kool aid metaphor, they're the ones mixing the kool aid, not drinking it.
Surely the OP could be referring to any number of kinds of scripts. What does it matter what kinds of scripts? Bash scripts? Logs files? The output of scripts is surely enough.
https://github.com/mrakgr/The-Spiral-Language/commit/1dee010...

That one is really in the "mad scientist" mindset. I love it, I wish him and this project good luck.
Why aren't space photos real? For deep space photos, where we have to wait for individual photons, maybe they're false color, but many photos are taken by putting colored filters in front of the lens and then combining the exposures, so they are actually true color.
The upgrade is to swap out the entire unit and plug a new one into your laptop.
Why does treating someone as equal make the relationship cold? You have this with your male colleagues, right?
Really interesting. I suspect there's something about the political climate more than the age of the city that dictates the orientation of the roads. Where societies where strongly controlled by small group of leaders (religious leaders, monarchs, city planners, etc) the streets ended up much more coherent. Where cities grew organically as needed the layouts are less coherent.

Also, what happened in Charlotte?!
Researchers find that filters don’t prevent porn
Ask HN: I'm risk averse to reading books, what you recommend?
I find it really difficult to choose a book to read since I feel compeled to read one stars reviews and next to look for other suggestions. Hence I get into a loop: search, read one stars reviews, and reject. For instance, today I navigated from
1) "Rationality from AI to Zombies" (someone in HN recommended it in other thread)
2) "The Tyranny of Metrics"
3) "The Elefant in the Brain"
4) "Enlightment Now" of S. Picker.
This one should be One star review of that was demolishing. What you recommend?

Edited to emphasize need to read one stars reviews. Perhaps navigating through reviews and books is like reading a non writen book?
I loved Sapiens. It has a couple of ideas that help explain so much of our world - really powerful ideas. Once you know them they seem so obvious and you feel like you should have thought of that yourself. For example, (spoilers for human history ahead), our civilations are based on agriculture and very few hunter gatherers remain. But that doesn't mean that people consciously chose one over the other. It's just that for various reasons, agriculture is a more "viral" idea that spread more efficiently than the alternative. Ditto with monotheistic vs polytheistic religions.

Homo Deus... less so. It rehashes a lot of Sapiens and I found it a bit of a drag. The introduction is worth reading though. He recounts all the progress we've made as a species, which would surprise people who think our world is growing worse by the day.

Chasing the Scream was amazing. Nothing more to be said.

The book I learned the most from was probably The Dictator's Handbook. Again, a very simple idea - how can we predict a politician/leader's behaviour based on a simple assumption - they will try their best to stay employed. The authors manage to explain almost all of how politics works based on this one single idea. If you're one of those people who likes to try-before-they-buy, here's a trailer of the book - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs
The word you're looking for is "compound words". English has a couple too -- i.e. bedtime, nowadays, etc -- but in english it's generally considered poor grammar to invent your own while in languages like dutch and german it's mandatory. That said the longer ones tend to be never used, in dutch "tafeltennistafelfabrikantenvereniging" is a popular example translating to "table tennis table manufacturers meeting", but you'll be hard pressed for a situation where that word is called for!
Read a book because you want to, not because people have reviewed it. Everyone has different tastes and let us not forget trolls and competition trying to tank people's books.
I don't care about pg tho
كلمات اغنية نور الصبا ما يحرمني غلاك مكتوبة
Persistent XSS, a full write-up
some discussion already in the submission of the american cities only article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17507676
Thanks for the recommend! I just read the excerpt in the New Yorker [1]. Geez, this is some heartbreaking stuff, a an even more sobering account of the neoliberalization of urbanism than Solnit's book.

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/02/08/forced-out
Ask HN: What are your heuristics for deciding which HN links to click on?
I've realised that I've built up a set of heuristics for deciding what to read on HN:

- don't click on anything with the word "quantum" in it — it's either too technical for me (physics or computing) or mainstream fluff with no substance

- don't click on very specific programming language links, unless they're about Python or frontend web stuff (just not interested in languages I don't use)

- will read anything from certain domains — danluu.com, stratechery.com, wikipedia.org, fermatslibrary.org

- won't click on the latest iteration of "ML tutorial for beginners" that makes it to the front page (not the right audience, but nice to see this stuff getting popular)

What are your heuristics?
Pi-top raises $16M for modular PCs that teach you how to code
You could use a programmable laser cutter, I suppose. Or less expensively, but slower and with more waste, just score and use a tile breaker.
It's in the docs folder of the public git repo:

http://repo.or.cz/unleashed.git/blob/HEAD:/docs/illumos-refu...
One of those things I've always wanted to have in ST but somehow never took the time to look up. This is really nice, thanks OP!
Hi. Sorry you haven't had a satisfactory answer from us - I'll try to do that here.

The click redirects are to stop the subsequent website from seeing a user's search terms, but we only use it for browsers that don't support meta referrer. Even then, we obviously don't collect or share anything via the redirect server, in line with our privacy policy ( https://duckduckgo.com/privacy ). There's a bit more about the redirects here:
https://duck.co/help/results/rduckduckgocom

Also, it's possible to disable them completely here:
http://duckduckgo.com/settings#privacy

Disclaimer: DuckDuckGo staff
I'd strongly recommend her novel about the French Revolution "A Place of Greater Safety".
I'd like to point out that recommender algorithms are also used in biology/biomedical research.
This is laughable. What would you consider a "personal" insult?
I run a dev server trough grunt for a project, now I can open that terminal window in the same project I'm working on and close it when I'm done with the project.

It will never replace my "main terminal" but makes my life a little bit easier.
That's as may be for Kubernetes, but the GP specifically stated "that's the case for everything, not only for kubernetes", which struck me as an extraordinarily broad claim.

One might reasonably expect "everything" to include traditional deployment methods that require no changing of mindsets (not that that's likely a factor in my nascent startup example).
Anyone know why Philadelphia has a kinda NSEW orientation like the other cities but rotated ever so slightly? Manhattan is similar and it makes sense (they are aligned with the island itself), but Philadelphia is so close to the actual compass points and not aligned with anything really else.
Would definitely have been nice.

But if you're thinking about scientific programming, it's not so much effort to use AWS GPUs. I do that, and don't think I would buy an eGPU even if it was CUDA capable.
Not the crown, but the Overton window.
Belittling vulnerable people, behind closed doors or otherwise, is not a part of any healthy culture.
How come there appears to be symmetry in Rio de Janeiro?
I'm with you, this should be my entry in: [Ask HN: 2018 Summer Reading List?](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17513576)
They've always said that to cover their asses from massive litigation costs. It could kill them.

Everybody knows that they are lying.
Not a psychologist, but I don't see the immediate connection to Ramsey Theory other than matching numbers. Is there a proof somewhere that human relationships are isomorphic to colored complete graphs? Why not for example hypergraphs, where Ramsey combinatoric figures should be different?
That is still an extremely small minority who would upgrade.

Based on what I've seen from non-technical friends and family, the standard approach to laptops is to buy a $300 netbook, fill it with crappy browser extensions and malware over a few years, complain that the computer is "too old and slow", throw it out and buy a new one.
A voice to speech system such that you don't actually have to sit down and read a book if you aren't sure you like it.

I suggest espeak-ng since it is the only t2s program that can manage 1,000 wpm without artifacts, can output wav files - which you can re-encode for mobile use.
Ask HN: Depression and job
I have a good job. It pays well. I work with intelligent people. It's programming in a trading company (which doesn't align with my values that much).

Lately I've been feeling depressed and overwhelmed and burnout from all the work that I have to do and some personal stuff in my life.

I wake up every morning feeling anxious, I am starting to have panick attacks at work and I have lost my concentration and the ability to think straight. The other day I started crying while talking to a collegue.

What should I do? Is quitting this job a good idea?

edit: i'm seeing a therapist lately and got some meds but I think this lifestyle is not for me anyways.
If someone had written Bad Blood as a work of fiction I'm sure it would have been savaged for being completely unrealistic.
Thank you for the clear explanation!
What exactly do you mean by that? Both the Linux kernel and several of the BSD systems run on multiple RISC achitectures.
The Count of Monte Cristo is fabulous, it sags a bit in Paris, but otherwise a rip roaring read.

I was recently in Brittany and there was a sea gaol off one of the beaches that reminded me how great that book is.
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I met some scientists (at the pub) from NASA the other day - they had been on a plane going repeatably from sea level to stratosphere all the way from from Hawaii to Chirstchurch,NZ to sample the atmosphere.

They had designed and built their own instruments, but they were on the plane so they could fix any problems, although the idea was to have no problems!
Keep seeing people on Twitter suggesting this as a fix to the unreliable keyboard, completely ignoring that the keyboards were never unreliable until the Butterfly Switches existed.

As for the idea, well if touch keyboards are so great why have they invested so much effort in adding a physical keyboard to their Pro touch devices.
I think the real meat, is here: https://github.com/mrakgr/The-Spiral-Language#5-tensors-and-...
Time for motorcycles!
Of all the books I read this year, I liked "Five billion years of solitude" by Lee Billings the most:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17707637-five-billion-ye...

It's mostly about the Exoplanet boom in astronomy. It also has a lot of philosophical aspects.
not sure if shill !
> if he limited his responses to “this is a bad idea” or “this isn’t done right”

And then people keep wasting his time insisting on a bad idea

Cultural differences and all that. A good 'perkele' will be enough to get the point across in most cultures, even if some leave a bit disappointed.