skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would bet on biodiesel for long distance highway transport, farm equipment, and other heavy industry; and electric in a bewildering array of form factors for short distance urban transport.
Hey, that _is_ neat! Thanks for the data point. Hope you enjoyed your time there as much as I did.
HTTP is standardization - eg LN/BTC. Google is centralized service on an open network, ala Coinbase.
I think McMansions are bad because for the same money, a much better* house could have been made in the same location.

*better: more affordances for the way people actually live; easier to move around in; easier to clean; stronger construction; more suited to the local climate; more efficient to heat and/or cool; and on and on in that vein.
Obviously you check for NULL first. If something may or may not exists you first ask if it exists (check for NULL) and then of it exists you do something with it. When you free something you destroy it, that's why it's useful to set the pointer which before pointed to it to NULL.
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I don't know how she could say this with any authority. One of the biggest roadblocks in quantum computing is finding a faster way to make quantum logic gates. So far they're only making them one by one, when tens of thousands are needed. We will not be using this tech anytime soon.
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It's been a very long time since brick or stone were commonly used as structural elements in US houses. For decades, houses have typically been stick-frame, perhaps with brick or stone used for the facade. In such cases, the brick or stone is serving merely as cladding for the house just as siding would. Brick or stone facades are typically more expensive than wood or fiber cement sidings but the choice of the former rather than the latter is based on aesthetics, not intrinsic quality. There are definitely high-quality and attractive houses that have no brick or stone. For example, this older house was re-clad with fiber cement siding and it's appropriate for the character of the house:

http://www.fibercement-siding.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09...
Wow, what a great discovery... sleep is crucial xD
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On one hand that's bad. On the other hand, not eating them might actually increase your risk of cancer.

Perceived risk from harm due to pesticides on food is overestimated by many people, and the risk of not eating more fruit and vegetables is underestimated.

"If just half the U.S. population were to increase fruit and vegetable consumption by a single serving a day, an estimated 20,000 cancer cases might be avoided each year. That’s how powerful produce may be.

But because the model was using conventional fruits and veggies the pesticide residues on those extra fruits and vegetables might result in ten additional cancer cases."

https://nutritionfacts.org/video/are-the-benefits-of-organic...
This isn't the pay gap "at Uber", no info on corporate pay here. More like this:
"Gender Pay Gap for Uber Drivers Not Caused by Gender Discrimination."
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I don't know why you assume I don't know git.
“We’re a data-driven organization! [as long as the data fits our agenda]”

It’s one of my favorite methodologies, next to “agile waterfall” and “holocracy with managers, middle-managers and minibosses”.
Whatever happened to the custom endorsements? It only seems to allow ones that 'match' your declared skills now.
Big cities with nothing in-between is a good sell for HSR. Europe's two largest countries that have that population distribution pattern (France, Spain) rely heavily on very fast HSR (300-350km/h). The countries with more distributed, but also more dense population (UK, Germany) rely more on fast networks with more stops, but less maximum speed (200-250km/h).
2.0 will be called "Star Ninja".
Technical progress is slower than the VR hype train. Not only that, but ergonomics was a bigger issue than many predicted.

In the meantime, I don't see any reason why we can't see arcade venues bounce back, with dedicated VR rooms using powerful projections rather than headsets.

I know I'd prefer a room with 360 VR projection done well, moving platform or chair to simulate driving, flying etc, and surround sound with huge cinematic range, than a headset with headphones.

The other issue with headsets is when sharing them, particularly public ones. There's a certain hygiene factor, if you know what I mean!
Well, you can use vevctorized string operations that allow for null terminated strings.

I do agree with the general idea that null terminated strings are a mistake though.
Open a PR: https://github.com/dosyago-coder-0/brutal-hn/pulls

I'd like to get item links to be shareable. I don't know how to do the routing yet. Then I think it's done. I want to make it a "progressive web app" and enter it to HNPWA.
So if a faster shoe came along (Vapor Fly 5%) that didn’t use a plate, that would be okay? But if people preferred the Vapor Fly 4% over the faster shoe, they couldn’t use it because of the plate? . . .

The patent application Ross Tucker cites has close to zero applicability. Nike has been working on a different energy return “spring” shoe that probably would be illegal - the patent could be for those shoes. And people claim lots of things in patents, that doesn’t make the claims true. All shoes have some combination of firmness and cushioning, and shoes have used an embedded firm plate design before, and nobody complained.

What if a biomechanics lab proved the Vapor Fly 4% is not acting as a spring but makes runners more efficient through some other mechanism (firm underfoot feeling but lots of cushioning)?
This comment rather flippantly elides that what it means to be in and out in different organizations varies tremendously.

With a healthy corporate culture, being "in" means respecting your co-workers and meeting clearly-laid out expectations.

In a toxic one, it corresponds with social connection, cultural identity, obscuring expectations (and rewards) and zero-sum empire building.
Can you post some of your sources please?
HAHAHAHAHA! This is funny! :D It's pure genius. And I would love to be a certified rockstar developer.
The pain of researching games with a Nintendo 64 emulator
Definitely did, it was a great summer program.
Purchasing a house in Truckee, while not Palo Alto expensive, still isn’t cheap. There are some decent restaurants there. Reno can actually be surprising when it comes to food choices.

If one relies on work in the Bay Area, the remoteness can add a bit of anxiety. Driving to the Bay Area can also be a drag.
To me, it sounds like the bonus's and firing policies are huge factors in how things self organize. I'd expect the experience could be quite different depending which pockets of the company you end up in.

I think it would be an interesting thing to analyze, I wonder if anyone at companies like this track this stuff, looking at what structures get created, key people, how things shift, and who lets go,etc.
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I lived in Irvine CA, my studio rent was 1650 one of the cheaper ones in the complex. Wife and I made combined 110k a year and all we had enough for was to pay living expenses when figure in everything else. Then I lost my job and had to pick up freelancing as nobody else was hiring - I didn’t have enough experience in the field I wanted to work in. Moved to Vancouver WA and was able to afford more while getting better freelance gigs. Now I live in rural Japan where a 3 br house costs $500 to rent. I still freelance and have grown my career significantly- with ability to pull over 100k if I wanted to, except now I work less since I want to spend more time with family. Even the money I’m making now, while far far less than many people here, goes a long way. Meanwhile this has enabled me to spend 50% of my time to work on side projects. I am hoping some of them pan out for recurring income so I can drop wage slavery forever. Big cities are fun and all when you are younger. Spend all your money on rent - no problem at that age. Then you get to a point when it all sounds too absurd and you want a lawn, a place to watch your kids play somewhere to slow the hell down from life in the fast lane.
At some point I would like to continue to be a developer but live in some place like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pampa,_Texas

It has a feel of utter isolation but the town is big enough that it isn't quite like living in Antarctica.
I think it may be more of a cultural thing. Here in Brazil, even the poor illegal unpainted houses in the infamous favelas use brick.
> Processed foods are bad for you.

This is really the key, and would do wonders for a majority of the population. Even if eggs and bacon is not ideal, switching out PopTarts/donuts for an egg and slice of bacon is a healthier alternative. Add some mushrooms and a tomato on the side and you have breakfast.

The other half of this equation is exercise. The benefits are enormous, yet few people do it consistently.
For tech people you almost /have/ to find remote work. We moved to a remote part of Indiana for my wife's job and the only local tech job I've found offered 1 week vacation and less money than I made out of college 15 years ago.

There are perks like having a 4500sq ft home on almost 2 aces of land for a mortgage much smaller than what I see a studio rent for in SF. On the other hand there's only a couple of truly good restaurants in the area, the rest is low end fast food (McDs and the like). The nearest Chipotle, for instance, is 45 minutes away. And the night scene.. it ends around 10pm.
Considerably more relevant than what is left of HP-the-company. Every time I use my trusty HP-12C I feel a little sad for what was lost in the slash-and-burn era of Fiorina. Swiss Micros keeping the dream alive!
When I was a boy, I had something-or-other that made me at very high risk for complications if I took the Smallpox vaccine. When we traveled to Africa in the 1960s, my mother had to take special documentation proving that I culd not take the vaccine, and that I had been tested for Smallpox.

My understanding is that it was regulations prohibiting travel between countries by unvaccinated persons that helped eradicate Smallpox, and my paperwork is now a quaint story about a bygone era.

Or it would be, if I didn’t remember the whole thing afresh every time anti-vaxxers demand the “right” to send their unvaccinated children into public schools.
Nobody. The image is more recent.
Then I was wrong.

Your blog post reminded me of a style of writing. Reciting something with the intent to make it look cool, then show how it applies to your company. The 'Growth' category made me wonder if you were doing that. But I see, it's a pleasant reflection.
Then I guess it runs Unity and when it comes to Unity I'll personally agree with some of the criticism:

Ubuntu Unity was always too opinionated and lacked the necessary UX testing IMO. (Yep, they seemed to have tested it, but not on enough power users; some power users (a lot of them around here it seems) love Unity. Others like me find it a producrivity disaster, probably for some of the same reasons as you found.

That said, a lot of the rest seems like a mix of misunderstandings and broken config either in the host or in the VM.
Why is applauding something I honestly find applause worthy condescending? I said what I said because I can honestly say if everything about me were to remain the same except for going through monthly periods, I wouldn't just be able to 'get on with it'.

Periods, pregnancy, child birth all are a part of life and yes women get on with these but that doesn't make it less amazing and saying so isn't condescension, it's admiration.

As for colds and flus, yay! for all those champs who weather them like heros! I have the good fortune to not have them with the yearly (or more) frequency that some people have.... But its not the same thing as periods.
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I can’t ditch windows, Mac OS, iOS, or Linux. I have a separate device for each as I need something that one of those OS’s offer that another one won’t. “You need the right tool for the job” and there is no “one” tool.
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Microservices are mostly an organizational tool: how do you get 500 programmers to work on one website?

Solution: one service per team, aka microservices.

(Occasionally there are technical reasons to have multiple services, e.g. one for loading data and one for processing data. But that's not really the same thing.)
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It is perfectly reasonable. But you still have to have sales or other good contact on the ground in big city. Because if in walking distance you have 100 customers you can maintain connection with people working there. If you will move to small town where you don't have customers and you have to rely on your contacts over the internet then you might get burned when your contacts switch jobs or whatever happens.
One thing that is not pointed out in the article as it is mostly about aesthetics is that most of the traditional houses that McMansions are based on, have regional variants that were developed for the climates and conditions they were built in.

For instance, the top windows in example 2 provide important airflow to a part of the house that will normally get very hot.

McMansions are rarely (if ever) designed with their climate and locality in mind and are therefore very inefficient. They would not be at all livable without AC and are frequently monstrous to heat and cool.

Contrast that with the houses they are modeled on, even in places where AC is a huge boon.

That gets to the heart of why I hate McMansions.
The lack of a "this is a serious machine" setting in Windows is baffling. I have Windows 10 Enterprise installed in a 20 core/128 GB RAM workstation that is used for lengthy numerical simulations. And yet it happily reboots randomly and it keeps filling the start menu with silly game icons (candy crush, etc.). Super fun for your boss to point out and say "so this is why you use this machine, for candy crush?"
Read the essay in the GP and get all the way to the end.

To summarize, diffuse authority, have authority be ultimately responsible to the group (aka the employees as a whole), and avoid informal networks and concentration of resources by rotating responsibilities and equal access to equipment.

An employee-owned co-op with some or all of these systems in place could achieve the freedom and autonomy you seek. It has to be proved in practice, however. Many co-ops have more traditional authority structures still. Some bureaucracy is inevitable when designing a decision-making process for a large group.
Less literate in terms of creating anything.
Definitely adblocker, or a later Firefox with the Tracking Disable set.
It's too slow. No real advantage over the already brutalist HN or hckrnews.com
If your design is such that you destroy thinks more pointers point to you have way bigger issues than UB or even language you use.
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Completely agree. I've taken to running Windows Server on my workstations for that reason though the price is much higher.
We don't have any grounds to say that the people are wrong to buy and live in these houses (except maybe when it comes to the externalities that aren't priced into them).

But we can't dismiss subjective criticism on the basis that some people like the things the subjective criticism says is bad or that people uneducated in the subject don't understand. The criticism is of course not above evaluation but setting a subjective standard is not something that is impossible.

This is an important concept in software. The vast majority of decisions software developers make are subjective. Yet the vast majority of us do not have frameworks for doing subjective criticism. I think that contributes to the flame wars, cyclical fads and generally bad state of our software as code. We'd likely all be better off if we had more subjective concepts in software and not less.
I had one of those stupid expensive macs for years before changing jobs and getting an XPS 15. I love the machine with Ubuntu except for one critical flaw: the stupid thing goes into this thermal safety mode so damn easily. I'll be compiling code for five minutes and suddenly my browser that I'm developing in becomes a choppy unusuable mess. No matter how long I wait nothing recovers until I reboot.

Also gaming is nearly impossible because of the same issue. I suspect the xps15 is more powerful than its cooling can handle. I'm not sure how normal that is for laptops.

Also: when installing Ubuntu on my XPS I had to toggle some bios option about drives. Maybe that's the issue he had with Mint and didn't report fixing Ubuntu.
I'm not a fan. Webstorm (along with its Intellij cousins) is slow, occasionally buggy, and has a horrid UX. Their subscription-based ransomware was long ago eclipsed by VS Code.
The most important point is missing - you can't stop the signal. Even if you somehow make the blueprints illegal, they will simply show up on torrent websites, darknet, etc. The cat is out of the bag.

The second most important point that's missing is the effect on the countries where guns are illegal and/or tightly controlled. They will be affected much more.
I highly doubt they spent weeks training on the toy example. More like five minutes, probably. Again, that the weights learned (quickly) for the toy example can also be set by hand is not surprising and is evidence of a good toy example. The paper’s main result is not the toy example, but the real experiments (for which I doubt you could hand-code the network weights).
I spend hours making notes
and then I do not read them
or action them.

Instead I do the bare minimum to get through the day.
devils advocate: Take your profession, now look at people working in your field who you, with all your experience, can comfortably say "That person is doing it wrong". That is the perspective of this article.
I started just writing it down in the Notes app included with macOS as a list and mostly keep it in my head. I guess I try to look at it at the beginning of the year and see what I achieved but it's mostly bigger generic points ("get raise to be over $amount", "sign up for $class").

I don't think there's much value in micro-managing your life, especially if a lot of things are out of your hand and there's not really a good way to measure progress. Writing down some top-level goals and keeping them in mind feels helpful to me and I don't think a specific tool or task managing methodology is needed there.
The article mentioned his story will be made into a TV series produced by 50 cent.
> Is Oculus still the only real attempt at it these days?

At least HTC Vive and PlayStation VR (if you are a console player) additionally come to my mind.
Wow, fivethirtyeight is still alive. After the major failure during the last election I thought they were done.
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ATL has grown a lot in the time frame when the technology & economics for these houses make sense. These houses would be unlivable without AC in Atlanta and cooling them would be prohibitively expensive any time but the last 30 years or so.
I don't. Live is hard enough without you constantly pushing yourself and giving yourself a bad conscious for not reaching your goals. Relax, kick back and just do what you feel is fun.
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> Sadly, there are very few (if any) examples of long lived leaderless / flat human organizations.

I think this point still stands though.
Libraries aren't free. People pay for them through taxes, donations, etc.
Thank you for this. Looks very interesting !
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Discussions about diet have been massively muddied by things that don't really matter. A lot of people have completely lost faith in nutritional science, because what they hear in the news is often confusing and contradictory.

A glass of wine per day might have a very slight benefit, or it might be slightly harmful. We're not entirely sure, because the effect size is very small either way. Have a glass of wine, don't have a glass of wine, it doesn't really matter.

We are very confident that eating fruit and vegetables is good for you. The majority of Americans eat significantly less than the recommended amount of fruit and vegetables. We are very confident that drinking more than a small amount of alcohol is bad for you. 30% of Americans drink more than the recommended amount. We are very confident that being obese is bad for you. 40% of Americans are obese.

We should probably just ignore any new studies in nutrition, because we're failing to act on stuff that we've known about for decades, stuff that most people would agree is common sense. We need to focus our efforts on getting the basics right.
Why would you do it on the device itself where you can't easily work with the response (tweaking parameters in curl,..)? I always use Charles Proxy and it's great.
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This idea works really well for remote developers.

I live in the tiny, 1,000 person, village of Arbonne-la-Foret, smack dab in the middle of nowhere, France. That is, unless you're a rock climber, in which case it's exactly in the center of the largest concentration of fantastic bouldering on the planet. American companies are happy to pay me the same to work from here as from that little Ohio town in the article, or from the Bay Area.

I think the strategy to follow if you're in tech these days is to:

1. figure out the thing you like to do most in life,
2. find the best place in the world to do that thing,
3. move there and,
4. contract remotely for a company based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

There is good internet everywhere. I'm finding less and less reason why anybody who could would ever want to work in an office.
> untapped demographics

What kind really? Here's the thing many people touting blockchain forget things like cryptographically secured messengers are not the "must-have" of an average Joe. Is it easy to use and can I talk to my friends? These are the only two things matter. Blockchain, for better or worse, has made things even more cumbersome to use. You have people relying on good-old physically secured hard wallets or paper to secure their keys. This is not a sign of progress.

And frankly about selling your data for money. I think people will find it easier to have some utility like free email or apps in exchange than money through blockchain.
Not sure, but i still have awesomeness!
>What was the last first party title that Valve released?

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