skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For Ruby the dry gems are pretty nice and help for validation (https://dry-rb.org). There is a dry-validation module, although I found the dry-types and dry-struct gems even nicer for expressing validation directly on my model fields and hash schemes.
Not that it's a consequential distinction for your argument, but for those liking it and wanting a cheaper alternative, WhistlePig's standard 10 year and 15 year straight rye is not MGP, it's Alberta Premium. Their 12 year old "Old World" is MGP.

Backing up your argument, Alberta Premium sells in Ontario government stores for 18% of what the Whistlepig goes for - in your choice of glass or plastic bottle.
No, insurance works because of the asymmetry of the payoffs. It's a positive sum interaction because the insurer thinks they've priced the policy with enough margin to make a profit, but you think it's a great deal because it looks cheap enough that you'll buy it even though the thing it guards against is improbable.
Much of the content of that article is talked about in depth in Why We Sleep[1] (and much more)

[1] - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34466963-why-we-sleep
"I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom."

-Andy Warhol
Previously discussed. Thanks jsnell

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15516526
In that sense, map just composes its two arguments.
This popular article oversells it by about 3 orders of magnitude.

Roughly, the effect is that moisture causes a nickel hydroxide material to expand. You can drive the moisture out with light or heat and it contracts. In a humid environment, you can cycle it. The fastest cycle time they show graphs for is 0.1 Hz (a cycle every 10 seconds.) They use a thin film of about 1 micrometer -- presumably a thicker film would take a lot longer to change the moisture level.

They don't try to measure the efficiency, but usually anything that involves temperature change is pretty inefficient.
> You can't even plug a USB stick into it.

I don't think I've used, or seen anyone else use, a USB stick in about a decade. We can't just keep these legacy ports around forever, cluttering up our devices.
He's probably pretty uncomfortable in his grave knowing that his name is used to sell overpriced Bluetooth speakers.
Or even a lot of other people, like professors.

My wife, the professor, is finally going to replace her 2011 Macbook Air. She was excited to check out the new 13" MBP. Then she saw the touch bar (without a real escape), hated the keyboard after typing on it in the Apple Store, and realized she'd have to replace the dongles she uses to present to her classes (VGA and HDMI). What really killed it was when she realized she'd have to have yet another dongle to plug in her mouse.

She already has a Linux desktop both at home and at work, and asked me if I'd help her put Linux on a laptop for her. We're looking at the latest X1 Carbon..
Chariot teams were very politicized in ancient Rome and very much represented people and ideas.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/blue-versus-green-roc...
> I'll have to get used to the reduced travel after working with a late 2012 for 5+ years!

I have been working on my 2012 MBP since my wife got it for me new as a birthday gift. I absolutely love it and actually just put in an SSD the other day and it is even more amazing now. I just can't imagine not being able to easily change parts on my own laptop and the fact that this is the last model to allow that for MBP has driven the price up relative to other model years.
It really depends on the types of people you wish to attract. Obviously this is very subjective but I've always found mailing list discussions to be of noticeably higher quality than forum discussions. If your topic is a technical one then a mailing list makes sense, whereas a support area for average Joe really wants to be a forum (actually, Facebook groups seem to have taken over a lot of the area previously carved out by forums, and the standard of discourse is lower again).
They haven't disabled the arrow keys, you just have to focus on the content area (e.g. by tabbing to it), since only that <div> is scrollable, rather than the full body.
I've got a wife, kid and one on the way, and even just us 3, I think uber/lyft wouldn't work. Why do a lot of people on HN assume everyone is single(and always will be), or a family <= 2.. That's a huge fallacy of thinking.

I can't wait for self-driving tech, I'll probably buy it when it hits used car lots, though. I'm hoping by 2030 it'll be real. I don't think uber/lyft can sustain more than 4-5 more years on investors alone, without charging a LOT more for rides if they're going to continue using real drivers.

The real disruption will be when car companies instead of selling cars, simply sell memberships to a car sharing plan... pay $200/family member/month to Ford, get unlimited self-driving wherever anyone in the family is going. No need for insurance/etc... gas included.
Also TV boxes and embedded SBCs. Having an AV1 decoder on board of say a Raspberry PI or other similar board would make a difference. There's a lot of them around playing movies through Kodi.
The comment to which I replied has been edited. Originally, it said ML & DNNs are neither necessary nor sufficient for driving, then proceeded to say they are only used for perception--hence my question that perception was necessary for driving (but obviously not sufficient).
I have a 2015 Macbook. I like it, but I know that my next work computer will likely be a desktop dual booting linux and windows. Containers and kubernetes hog RAM like crazy, my laptop is used at the same desk 99% of the time, and for the price of a macbook I could build a phenomenal desktop that I can easily upgrade as necessary.
Natural selection works on genes, not individuals. How do my career choices affect my brother's and sister's children?
You mentioned Olympics but you missed out on the original Olympics which were very much all about that international (sort of as they were city-states) competition with a truce set up to allow for a relatively safe event.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Olympic_Games
TLDR: a startup takes the existing survey data and uses it to highlight the region on a map. Missippi says that this is an act of surveying - equating it to a person out on site with little flags and the neat looking tripod thing that surveyors use.

I wouldn’t consider that surveying, anymore than I would consider a friend a surveyor if they printed a map and circled their house on it.

If we were being more extreme: according to missippi if you printed a bunch of copies of a satellite picture and drew outlines of each property, you would be a surveyor. Given I have done this for OSM that means I am now a surveyor. My rates start at $500 per line.
KurzweilAI, Physorg, and the various Futurist/ism blogs are the worst offenders in uncritical presentations of this kind of thing. Every day brings articles of “new battery to save world!” orsomething equally credulous. They’re as bad and breathless as a university press release, but more frequent.
Motorcycle riders have a lot more risk than auto drivers, yet they don't usually act more conservatively.

I see people driving classic cars, which would probably be instantly fatal in a crash just like a motorcycle, and yet they are driving conservatively.
This is nothing new, maybe an improved version of the same idea, but farmers have been doing this for at least 20 years. I remember travelling on vacation to the north (I lived in Santiago) and it was a common sight to see those nets on the plots. Still, a very good idea and prob the only "reliable" way to get water for the crops in that region.
Obligatory link to ‘How to Wreck a Nice Beach: The Vocoder from WWII to Hip Hop’, http://howtowreckanicebeach.com/?page_id=14.
> Doesn't that apply to pretty much everything? Be it JS frameworks, games, fridges, toothpaste etc there always seems far too much choice. It is the nature of our system.

Hmm. I can't say I feel the same about all these choices, which is why I made the comment I did: to me this set of games is somewhat of an outlier in how homogeneous the games appear. I'm not saying they are homogeneous, just that they appear to be, which might purely be a marketing problem.

For me, among FPS, among RTS, and among Western style action RPGs there are a lot of differences that make me prefer one over the other. It's pretty clear what is the difference between StarCraft and Age of Empires 2, or between Grim Dawn and Path of Exile.

But when I look at the Terraria-style games, it's hard for me to tell what makes them different besides very subtle details (i.e., I think Starbound has space maps; there's probably a different style of resource gathering between the games). The art styles are similar, the gameplay seems similar, all sets of games seem to involve exploring, collecting items, and building.

> I far prefer the world of Indie games to the tedious repetition of AAA titles.

My post has nothing to do with AAA vs indie whatsoever. There's also plenty of tedious repetition among indie titles (there's a very large number of retro-style platformers and roguelikes for obvious reasons), so I am not really seeing the point.
When I'm doing UI usability I usually just pull out a real iPad–the simulator is just there for "this change looks about right", and I coalesce a couple of these changes together before running on a real device. I rely heavily on AutoLayout, so most basic UI work is done on the iPhone simulator anyways; I only switch to iPad when I'm testing specific features such as split-screen support.

By the way, battery life on virtual machines has gotten better, I can get around 3-4 hours with a Windows VM running and seven or so with a lightweight Linux one. It seems like Windows has a penchant for preventing the VM from idling which really kills battery life.
> If I'm an average or above average driver, for example, then it doesn't make sense to have insurance, does it?

You’re waiting at a red light when a drunk driver smashes into you. Your skills as a driver can’t affect the probability of this. It may not be your fault, but someone needs insurance.
What types of parts are you making?

I’m mostly making 2.5D wood projects with carving. Occasionally 3D carving.
Apple's removal of the Escape key is courageously guiding its users into the superior Caps-lock-as-escape configuration.
That implies buyers of insurance are being tricked, which I don't think is true. Reducing the variance of your costs is worthwhile.
Ask HN: Could founders donate their zombie startups to our 501c(3) non profit?
How does this idea sound?

No one wants to work at a walking dead / zombie startup and most of your investors probably want the thing to shut down so they can get a write off and consider you officially dead, if only for tax purposes.

You as a founder want to give your investors their money back, or at least give them back pennies on the dollar, but they don’t necessarily want that. A lot of the times a clean shutdown is best for them.

See the mismatch?

The problem is: You may have built something amazing and have money in the bank. Rather than shut it down, what if you donated it to our 501c(3) non profit and we see if any other non profits could use the tech or product you built.

We could provide your investors with a write off and you can see the product you built be used for the common good.

I’ve been speaking with some startup lawyers who love this idea in concept, but concepts only go so far. If we get some willing zombie startups to explore this idea with us, we will pay for the legal, tax and other advisory stuff to see if it is truly the right path for your company.

The idea started because a founder of a small tech company donated their 70% ownership of their company that was in the eyes of the founder and investors a "failure". The company makes $700,000/year in profits! They called this a failure! See the mismatch? That $700,000 / year now that it is restructured as a donation and not a "billion dollar exit", the non profit takes 70% of the $700,000 / year in profits because we pay out the profits to the other investors (and ourselves as a non profit) as dividends. That money is going to be used for good.

What may seem like a failure to you in the for profit space, can be an amazing success to a non profit! Just think about the potential here for our non profit to be YC's recycle bin. We will recycle what we can, and click "empty trash" when we need to.

Thoughts?
One of the main reasons for the battle of Stalingrad was for Hitler to secure a route to the oil fields of Baku, Azerbaijan.
One and a bit programmers - I worked on moon quest for a couple of months a couple of years ago, and will probably be helping out a bit more in a couple of months.
A lot of productivity gurus and life coach-style authors are simply the survivor on bias (or whatever it is called, brain is blanking). Basically they did X, and they are successful, so they recommend doing what they did as a path to success. Of course as xkcd said, a lottery winner could logically follow the same pattern by recommending people buy lottery tickets.
Apple notes, seriously.

Its good if you use an iPhone, great if you use a Mac too and fantastic if you're "all in" on the apple ecosystem with a watch/ipad as well.

Organize it using a GTD like system and you'd be hard pressed to find something that is as powerful as it is while being super simple.
"Young Zimbabweans are still tentative about taking advantage of that freedom of speech," Munyati says.

Honestly, I’d still wait a bit myself in their position. Maybe this government really will go in a new direction, but if not then this kind of thing could very easily come back to bite you. Having said that, I respect and admire the dozens of people who overcame decades of fear to speak up.
The handler being a typeclass in Haskell vs the enumerated cases being pattern matching?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amar_Bose
I prefer caps lock as control. Although for a while I ran in a hybrid mode where if I hit caps lock and released quickly it was escape. If I held it down and tapped another key it was control.
The Battle for Usenet (1995)
Speech Intelligibility
Very. The actual rescue involved "plastic cocoons" and sedation for the kids, I don't think any of that was previously proven. If there was a proven rescue technique, they would have used it.
This is not a serious option.

I've tried it and it's very difficult to get everything to work in particular iCloud and Messages.
The U.N. is way better at marketing than FIFA could ever dream of being. You’re assuming that all those things would not have been done if the UN didn’t exist. The good things done by the U.N. are a consequence of its funders. If the UN had never been founded other organisations would have been to do the jobs the UN does now. If the UN collapsed tomorrow the associated humanitarian organisations would rebrand and continue.
> you need to compile each function twice ... This can be wasteful.

More wasteful than writing each function twice? See C# for endless examples of libraries that have manual duplicate X() and XAsync() for every single method. If you compare the two they're almost always have the exact same body, except the async version has "async" and "await" peppered in and calls duplicate XAsync methods (which are implemented the same, except they call XAsync methods... you might be seeing a pattern here).

If I'm not mistaken most rust doesn't use separate compilation and is built from source. In this case the compiler can treat it just like normal generics and just not compile it until it's used. And even with separate compilation for, e.g. a library, a very basic LTO would trivially trim out the unused methods when compiled into a final binary. And if you don't want 2x library itself, even then you can just use an escape hatch to turn it of on the crate/impl/function level and it's still better for you than the status-quo where you have to manually add a bunch of tokens and junk that the compiler already knows how to do precisely.

If anything is wasted it's human effort because we're wasting our time doing something the computer can do better and faster.

> "annotations in the object file to describe the frame size"

Wouldn't you need this anyway for anything async, even if it's manual? This seems like an argument against async in general, not automatic async.
Could you not run a relay from thr parallel port and pulse dial?
If I were trying to explain insurance to a person from Mars, I guess I would say humans will pay a premium to reduce variance in cash flows. This is a win-win situation, not a case of one party taking advantage of the other. It's one of the basic services that underpins civilization.
Hi Sam!
Yes people have different requirements from a laptop and blanket statements like "Macs are bad, use X" don't really apply to everyone.

You really think everyone in the world could care less about a hardware Escape key like you would think if you just read HN.
I retired at 52 with a $3M net worth – here's what my spending looks like
The game is my life, but so are my wife and daughter. It's a life!
Oh yeah, no chance. The best outcome for me is to earn enough to keep making games.
I use USB sticks semi regularly and I have a USB-c MacBook Pro. I picked up a few USB sticks with dual A and C plugs on them. They work a treat.
Supporting do notation or not isn’t some sort of position we’re taking as a language; it’s an open research problem if do notation can work in Rust. Until that’s solved at all, we’re just not sure it’s possible.

(Previous version of this comment said "HKT" but that's not purely right; we have a path forward for something at least HKT-like, but do notation is the bigger question.)
I think it gets harder the more the data seems to support your claim. You get to a point where being wrong becomes personal, which it really shouldn't, or money and business interests gets involved. I've seen data get ignored because it would have implicated a golf course loved by the community in polluting fish habitat. I've personally worked on a project where data we collected was not allowed to be publicly released, as was actually the terms of our original proposal and part of the stipulation behind us getting our grant, was that we publicly release our data. Once we found an endangered species living in an active mine though things changed.

I've also worked with scientists who basically work their data and write their papers in such a way that it ensures continued funding.

My time in school was interesting. The first couple years we learned the scientific method and how to apply it properly and how it made science great. But in the last couple years we had to take a philosophy of science course. That was totally different than everything we'd been learning up until that point. We talked about real world examples and hoe the scientific method is followed far less vigorously how the meaning of science has changed over hundreds of years and no one really agrees what science is. Then we got to go take part in a few different studies. The above mentioned golf course one was one of them. The day that happened we all sat down to talk about what the fuck just happened when the biologist decided there would be no more water samples taken around the golf course when it started to show massive pH increases from every pond leading off the golf course. It was then decided a salt spill somewhere a few km away was the problem and no more work would be done around the golf course.

Then of course a bunch of money was spent building a few more ponds around the golf course and restoring it....as far as I know there's still problems with the fish there.
Somewhat unrelated, but Adam Butcher's (the guy who took 13 years to release his dream game) Internet Story is a beautifully made, creepy, short film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-SL4ejpP94
What about lines of business that are returning a contribution but not a profit?
I've had the 5th Gen X1 Carbon for a while now, its served me well I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it.
I think the parent is saying that the spirit of open source doesn't mean you eschew safety or best practices, but that's what you see in Shenzhen's extreme capitalism.

There are no safety regulations and competition is fierce so people can and will cut corners.
"Insurance is just gambling with vast sums."

No, insurance is gambling with small sums from the point of view of people selling it, and it is avoiding gambling with large sums from the point of view of people buying it.
Well stardew valley took about five years to develop and has probably made bank for the developer. So there is a precedent :P
I don't understand.

At this point, what are the benefits of a thinner laptop? Lighter I can understand, but what does a thinner laptop enable you to do?
Just minutes ago I got home from a camping trip up in Sonoma County near Occidental. We camped under a small grove of redwood trees. The first night the fog rolled in around 3am or so and we woke up to “rain” hitting our tent a few hours later. The second night the fog rolled in around 8pm and it was “raining” all night while we cooked dinner and then, all night long as we slept, it sounded like a light drizzle outside.

My point being, if you can build tree/like structures, use nets, etc you can capture a significant amount of water. Coast Redwoods are adapted to it, but it was pretty awesome seeing their water gathering in practice and how effective it was. Our stuff is soaked!
I tried much smaller steps, and it never got me there with a reasonable step size. It was a lot less expensive to do adaptive sampling than crank up the step size. Plus, you already know, there’s no guarantee with regular sampling. Near cusps can be arbitrarily small. Production wanted a guarantee, even if things were to run slower. I think adaptive was faster, but their primary concern was to know they wouldn’t have surprises or have to call in support once there were hundreds of hair shots in the pipe.

The other advantage of maximum angle sampling is when calculating arc length of a curve with piecewise approximation.

Anyway, It’s entirely possible that seeing as many very near cusps as we did was because our physics simulation was under constrained or not very good. ;) But for whatever reason, my experience left me with the feeling that they’re common enough to be a serious concern, rather than rare and easily avoidable...
USB dongles are absolutely standard in pro audio. Products made by Steinberg, Avid, and many plug-in shops will not work without a USB dongle.

Aside from a few high-end audio interfaces, most music hardware - including licensing dongles - is USB-A.

Of course you can buy the inevitable wart-on-a-cable adaptor from Apple. But it's both fragile and ugly, and when you have an iLok with thousands of dollars of software on it, you really don't want fragile.

Edit: to be fair, some of these licensing schemes are moving to cloud licensing. But that has issues of its own - and not all are.