skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sometimes, particularly in disaster situations, the most help you can give is to stay away and let the people who can do the most good work without distraction.

The original intent of the rescue, judging from the Washington Post version of this article, was to have the two rescue drivers carry the kid between them as much as possible. It was realized when they were transporting the first kid that said transit mechanism was impossible, as the space was too cramped to do that; the operation then had one diver carrying the kid, swapping divers frequently because that's a very physically taxing job.

Between the weight and the length of the sub, it's clear from descriptions of the rescue operation that it was completely unusable. Any attempt to use it would have had a very high risk of it getting wedged somewhere in the cave that would have made the cave impassable. And guess what? Pretty much everyone who had some sort of experience with caving commented that the sub idea was unworkable when it was first announced.

Just because you want to help doesn't mean you can help, and you shouldn't give someone a pass on their actions just because they're trying to help. As the saying goes, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Wow. I thought I was nuts for noticing this pattern. I have seen it when criticizing various nation states, politicians, and other corporations both here and on Reddit. I guess current generation bots are dumb and have no time delay.
It's Not Asians Who 'Game the System'
Things that interest me. I try to avoid articles about politics, social issues, anything about millenial life, anything with react, kubernetes or other framework names in the title, clickbaity titles, anything that seems like it's probably just an ad for something, the random porn that gets added and killed fairly quickly, the strange dead articles with Arabic titles, spam....Hmmm

I like articles about interesting programming concepts or historical tidbits. Stuff that helps me learn C or just general computing stuff better. Articles about behind the scenes development of different software. Stuff about biology or chemistry. Sometimes the weird historical pieces that get added here. I've learned a lot of different obscure historical things from hn.
The Best Way to Improve Focus
> If the thought of running a huge untrusted shell command full of obviously compressed text scares you (like it should)

If, however, I clone it from GitHub and build it without looking at the source, it's good to go.
> The structure was spotted this week by drone enthusiasts recording footage over the Newgrange historic site in Boyne Valley, County Meath. The UNESCO World Heritage Site is home to several 5,000-year-old circular structures from the Neolithic era, many of which remain buried underground.

Add in the fact that these are educated researchers, and the odds seem pretty good that this is more than just a really weird circular water ditch with a segmented appearance.
Sex Beer, and Coding: Inside Facebook's Wild Early Days
If you didn't know this nor the effects of vitamins specialized for you, would you be able to tell the difference? If you were simply told it was medicine to help you, would you be able to tell the difference between steroids and something else?

I've only taken high-dose steroids for a medical condition once. I could tell at the higher levels, but not much at the lower levels. If someone started off slow and slowly increased the dosages, it is quite possible that it would be missed. And that's with adults, not necessarily children.
While I don't use semicolons often, to me they are useful for three things: ordered lists, where options are related or parenthetical; to conjoin or inline an example; or a kind of silent differential to orient the idea in a paragraph in a new direction. It's not relevant in business anymore, but useful in tech writing.

In business, the tone and style of email is all about affecting power in environments where people pretend there are no rules that would imply accountability. The result is an absurd competition of who can be more brief, less coherent, and affect the ostentatious transfer of the burden of comprehension to the bottom dog.
I think that this guy issue is that on top of being in high pressure high stakes situation that require cooperation of huge amount of people, he had to deal also with that submarine thing.

I don't know whether you had experience with clueless dominant people trying to help you, but it usually sux big time. And I mean, it sux and slows down in low pressure low stakes situations.
Ask HN: SR&ED – Can I use it for my goals as a dev?
There is a Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) tax credit in Canada that my employer wants to use.

I want to create more open source libraries. Is there any benefit or penalty for developing open source tools with respect to getting this tax credit?

Would they look at the organizations NPM/Gitlab/Github contributions favourably when deciding whether a company is eligible for this tex credit?
Not really. Reproducible research depends on reproducible execution, which depends on a reproducible environment, which depends on a reproducible set of libraries and frameworks. I don't think Node is apt for that. The community values new over stable, and cool over technically superior. That might have its value, but I do not believe those are valuable traits for a project of this sorts.

That it's popular means nothing. Windows is the most popular operating system, pop is the most popular genre of music, oil is the most popular fuel, since decades. This doesn't invalidate their utility or our appreciation of them, but it does not mean they're good for everything.
"Eat Fat Get Thin" by Dr Mark Hyman.
The book explains what you need to do get in shape and how to stay in shape. caveat: to be healthy you most likely need to change your lifestyle. Many do not want to change their lifestyle and consequently stay unhealthy.
Haha! WebAssembly is a really simple spec. I’d say optimized for speed and low level simplicity. You could put the entire byte code spec on a single piece of A4 and you wouldn’t have to squint.

It literally is a fancy turning machine bytecode that anyone can write an interpreter/transformer to actual cpu bytecode if needed.

As more languages support WASM, I bet we’ll see more of the front ends written in other languages.

WASM is to the web what JVMBC (java bytecode) is to apps. The open java spec flourished a big ecosystem like Adobe coldfusion/railo, jython for python, Nashhorn/rhino for JS, Jruby for Ruby, Jphp for php, cscjvm for C# and a host of others.

In my university, my compilers course assignment was to write a subset of C compiler that would output java bytecode. It really made me love compilers and programming languages.

I predict a bright future for WASM
There are a bunch of tutorials out there on how to build your own router based on Linux or one of the BSDs. I’d recommend such a tutorial as a good starting point for a top-down view.

The lower-level is very visible through Wireshark, with which you can capture all network traffic.

Does that help?
Thank you for proposing it! I was astonished by the difference when I used it.
I've given some thought to making a better world editor that would interface with Minecraft through command blocks or via the Glowstone MC server. There are a few existing world editor applications but they are quite sluggish (last time I checked). If you want to build small things with cubes then you should check out the latest voxel editors.
I prefer the new keyboard (and I like that it's louder), but I have been affected by numerous failures in different machines. I also know many people who have experienced this exact same issue, often within a year of purchase. Two laptops I purchased in 2016 from the same store both had the issue, brand new. But I've had 2017 models with the same issue.

I don't believe this problem is really a limited as Apple has been saying, but they never seem to admit the true scale of problems.
Given that they did use a stretcher and sedation, the submarine thing doesn't seem as far off now as when I first saw that linked video. Is a sked flexible to fit around twists in a way that the tube thing wasn't? Sked is obviously way less bulky overall, but is it still pretty rigid once rolled up?
I once self published a book. Biggest mistake I made was writing it before i had an audience to sell to. I would take small snipets of your book and distribute for free to places where your target audience hangs out. Then publish more free bits on your site for email address. Maybe some complete short stories.
Then once you have an audience that likes your shit promote a book to them, and leverage those sales as social proof to go more broad.

I will teach you to be rich does this really well. I don't have a good analogy for fiction but I'm sure they exist.
What I meant is you can't get GKE/GCP level experience on bare metal.
Have a look at router7’s dnsd, it’s not that complicated: https://github.com/rtr7/router7/blob/master/cmd/dnsd/dnsd.go You could easily fork it and extend it to implement your custom rules.

I’ve done Go cross-compilation for running on Ubiquiti gear before, and it worked. So, if you’re willing to spend the effort, you could do it :).
Isn't herpes treatment aciclovir? Cheap and with little side-effects.
Weird how in America that simple, fundamental idea is so seemingly fly toxic.
How would you do that? longjmp let's you jump back to the parent coroutine but after that you cannot jump back to the child to continue where it left off.
Why the external rebooter? Do you have stability issues with the APU? I have a couple running in production and never ever had to reboot/reset them... Also, don't they have hardware watchdogs?
How would this help you, though? I would think for therapy to work, you have to go through the process of challenging your own unhelpful thoughts and beliefs and then act in a way to reinforce new thoughts and beliefs which are more useful. The therapist is someone who knows which questions to ask to help you with the first part (as well as provide emotional support), but the second part has to be done 100% by yourself. This is a very difficult thing to do. Just reading about other people's life challenges may help motivate you a little bit, but otherwise the hardest part is making the change yourself.
Don't miss the demo bit at 4:43 and note that in addition to effortless RPC there are also supervision trees for built-in fault tolerance.
This is where biomedical theories go before they die. "Its so complex there cant even be a cure by definition, thats why we failed. It has nothing to do with incorrect usage of statistics, lack of coming up with and testing quantitative theories, and questionable research practices being standard in our field."
When I speak about Datomic, my most frequent questions are about CAP theorem, which Datomic seemingly subverts to do seemingly impossible things (like aforementioned Spanner): http://www.dustingetz.com/:datomic-cap-theorem/
Another (and for large-ish BGAs actually better) way is IR rework station.
The standard exuse is that this would be dangerous and result in warranty claims. But other vendors have managed to cope with that. Either they build more robust phones (Google?). Or they register your device id when you request an unlock code. I would accept that, albeit grudgingly.
People can be passionate about something and it doesn't necessarily mean that the passion is a positive thing. You can be passionately angry, or passionately annoyed and upset. This is why it's useful to reframe passion as something that is not purely positive.
Where I live I know many people who do both of these things (including myself). But we're surrounded by water and forest! It makes good sense to get out into it. I have a 7mm wetsuit so I can swim year round.
MicroUSB is supposedly designed in such a way that the stress is placed on the cable connector which is easier to replace, not the device connector which is attached to an expensive device.

But yeah, I can't imagine Micro-USB being more reliable than regular USB-A.
As a wallet
FP Castle: Hacking Haskell from a Scottish Castle
The apu does have a hardware watchdog, and router7 uses it.

I don’t see any stability issues with the apu at all.

The external rebooter isn’t used as part of a watchdog setup. Instead, it is programmatically used by rtr7-recovery, with which you can recover from a faulty update, to trigger a PXE boot. This way, you can update your router each day in an unattended fashion, with automated rollback in case connectivity is lost with the new software.
I agree, but given that it's such a reocurring problem, why is it not moving forward via the HTML5 living standard? We had this problem before with ES5 and while it was solved with jQuery, ES6 came along and solved a lot of these pain points. HTML doesn't seem to be moving in this direction (yet)
Yeah, that's exactly what I need, XLR plugs on my phone :)
Mastering Machine Learning Algorithms
A friend of mine used a small compass when he inadvertently found himself in a rough part of a metropolitan city. He had just purchased a zipper-pull compass from an outdoor store and didn't expect to use it in that context, but he swore it saved his life. Apparently it was one of those situations where walking in the wrong direction for a little while can lead you into a maze of miles of dangerous streets.
Do you have sources to "credible rumors" for the ARM Mac?
The Bulletproof Diet Book https://www.bulletproof.com/the-bulletproof-diet-book Great book if you need to heuristically avoid certain foods.
These headlines are horrible. The actual story is about "Amyloid Beta, the substance currently thought to cause Alzheimer's, may actually protect against Alzheimer's and herpes".

>"Robert Moir, a neurologist at the MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease, says that many researchers have cast it as a villainous molecule with no beneficial function. “It’s just bad, bad, bad,” he says. “But it has become increasingly obvious that this isn’t true.” Moir thinks that amyloid beta has a more heroic role, as a foot soldier of our immune system. It protects neurons from infectious microbes—and from herpes viruses, in particular."
Maybe. Our company is doing a large refresh, but we no longer get physical PCs, it's all thin clients to a virtualized environment

I'm unsure whether those units are counted as part of the PC market
I tried to read Dhall manual and figure out if I could make sense of it. I couldn’t. Looks a bit too complicated for me.

Jsonnet strikes a great balance of json but with some nice template syntax so you can be DRY.

Also what’s wrong with being Turing complete. I love for loops.
>Because before psychotherapy we were cutting bits of people's brains out and electrocuting them.

The great tragedy is that cutting bits of people's brains out and electrocuting them worked. It still does. Electroconvulsive therapy is still available and highly effective. Here in the UK, we still have two specialist psychosurgery units that perform a handful of procedures every year to treat the most severe cases of depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Psychosurgery used to be crude, dangerous and often ineffective, but that's because surgery used to be crude, dangerous and often ineffective. We pretty much abandoned psychosurgery before the invention of CT and MRI, before the invention of endoscopic surgery, stereotaxy and the gamma knife. There is tremendous potential for psychosurgery that remains largely unexplored.

For all the cheerleading about how humane and enlightened we are, for all the drugs and talking therapies we have, it remains the case that many people with severe mental illnesses never find an effective treatment. We were right to stop locking people up in asylums and stop hammering icepicks through their eye sockets, but we've become incredibly blasé about the millions of people living lives of misery who we are unable or unwilling to help. Take a walk around downtown San Francisco and you'll see the legacy of deinstitutionalisation - thousands of people who are incapable of caring for themselves, just dumped on the street.

What if future generations decide that our ideology is just as barbaric as the one it replaced?
Do you think AI will think by itself, invent new things, and write software in the next 50 years? I don't.
Could you point out any open source supercomputing / data products that get this right (ie have decentralized data flows?).
Am I the only one that found that there wasn't really much actual actionable information in here? There's basically no specific information about how they scaled along the axes they established were important
What (if anything) have you found works for you?
True story: They watched us with webcams and rewrote our code
A reasonable founder would have to ask why nobody will compete on 'high end' features. Maybe they're much more difficult to build, perhaps there is an incredible amount of vendor lock in, or perhaps nobody really cares about these 'high end' features...
Careful, the website hijacks the back button (at least on my mobile device. iPhone 7Plus.) One of the most infuriating design anti-patterns.
Somewhat related, but more counterintuitive and "solved": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakeya_set
> in Soviet style countries.

Conveniently leaving out the experiments performed by the US military, for example, in the sixties. I chose the US because that's the most prominent anti-pole to the USSR, not because they did anything unique that no other country has done or would do.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentatio...

I don't like whataboutism as much as the next guy, but if you put on blinders to only see what fits your world view I think it's okay to put things into perspective. Humans don't always care about other humans, that was, is and will be true and has nothing to do with "communism" or whatever name you happen to despise the most.

By the way, I grew up in East Germany and participated in the protests end of the eighties, so I know quite a bit about the bad parts, but also about the good ones. I also lived in the US for nearly a decade (back in Germany now).

There are many other things one could consider, for example that now people do bad things to their own bodies as part of work culture when they go to work even though they are sick. A lot less pressure on yourself to do that in East Germany (yes, we did not produce nearly as much but I don't think it was because people actually stayed at home when they were sick). Another example, from an East German perspective the discussion about "free range kids". We were all "free range" in East Germany and often sent on our ways all alone even when still very young. Who would have thought, culture is complex and the system is only one of many variables, and regardless of the system people will be people and all kinds of stuff develops in a culture that you cannot attribute to some "system" identified by a word.
Of course, it's not the elevator buttons that kill, it's the entrance.
What is going on in tech industry today?
I just want to know, where is majority of the techies/tech companies are heading? What will be the future 5 or 10 years from now?
What things which exist today going to have the biggest impact in future?
Time to move to Norway to finish my degree I can’t afford here? :p

Ontario just cancelled our electric vehicle subsidies. We’re probably in for even further cuts of all kinds... at least my shares in $big_corp will climb.

Seriously. I wonder what a student visa and residence/board would look like for a few years
You may enjoy the work of R.D. Laing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._D._Laing
In my home state Therapist is a regulated term, as is Counselor. There are two different licenses, LMHC and MFT with LMHC being a good indicator that you're not going to a quack. MFT does have some educational requirements but they're satisfied by religious vocational training. It was a helpful filter for me.
Why are you such a pussy? You flagged my Hillary Clinton is shit comment. You lost because your ideology is broken trash and I've been a lifelong Democrat so go let more Russians fuck your mom..#snowflake again I'm a lifelong Democrat and I'm going to vote against you
"the economic miracle of Norway is fueled by oil and gas"

It can't be that simple. Plenty of other countries have lots of oil and gas (Russia, Venezuela, the US) and they aren't necessarily having economic miracles.
It is a CP system, although reads scale out more similar to an AP system because coordination is not required on consistent reads.
With nurseries the situation is much better.
> Insert long discussion here about how nobody wanted a democracy in the U.S. It was never a goal and it was feared by the founders

I wouldn’t say exactly they didn’t want it... but they definitely feared it. The presidency was also not directly elected, and now we’re dealing with that and the idiocy of the electoral college.

At least that one seems more feasible to fix, as the states themselves can decide how to allocate their electoral members.

I do wonder if the equal protections clause could be a mechanism to force a rebalancing of the constitutional senate allocation. I’m no lawyer, but it seems they they could be in conflict with each other.
Not sure why building on FoundationDB is better than building on the similar internal storage foundations current vendors have already implemented?
I wrote a primer on ZKPs[1], with a follow up post[2] that proves and implements ZKPs for 3-coloring (mentioned in the first link of the article, but not proved) in Python, and a third post[3] that gets into more nitty gritty theoretical details about computational and statistical zero knowledge that were swept under the rug in [2].

[1]: https://jeremykun.com/2016/07/05/zero-knowledge-proofs-a-pri...

[2]: https://jeremykun.com/2016/08/01/zero-knowledge-proofs-for-n...

[3]: https://jeremykun.com/2016/09/19/zero-knowledge-definitions-...
- (pesco)vegetarian diet is not bad for health. Vegan diet can be bad for health but only if you are not careful (ex: make sure you get enough vitamin B12). In fact, veg* tend to be healthier, though I think it is just a byproduct of simply caring about diet rather than the details of it.

- They don't ban meat, they just refuse to pay for meals that include meat.

- They can make exceptions for health and religious reasons.
Nice, thank you,
I like the site and really enjoyed reading this.

(written on my Thinkpad, which has a "real" keyboard)
; )
I once worked for a large telco, and although there were some basic security and verification processes in place internally, they were not rigorously enforced. An imposter or social engineer with malicious intent and the level of company-specific inside knowledge this scammmer had about their chosen targets for impersonation could wreck havok at my old employer, or I suspect many other large companies.
I'm just finishing up week 10.

Works great, but I listened to 5-10 episodes of the 2ketodudes podcast before I started.

The worst part of it really was the keto flu and getting used to not eating so dang much. Once my liver started providing all the energy I needed, I was able to do things I had not before thought possible, like heavy cardio for 90 minutes a day. (I'm still not in shape yet, of course, but I don't run out of energy.)

My 18-year-old daughter said she was interested in starting, so I made a one-page PDF "Dad's Guide To Starting Keto" Ping me if you're interested and I'll email you a copy.

Good luck!
CBT felt like an exercise in self-deception to me.

And what makes you think your current perception of the world is completely perfect and unbiased? Perhaps the problem is that you are convinced that you have the most accurate picture of the world and aren't questioning it.
How do you pronounce /e/?

"Slashy-slash"?