skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The laws of physics are not localized to earth and yet we see life on earth among countless other possible earths with extreme immense distances between them that light (communication) takes thousands if not millions of years to reach. We see life evolving in the heat vents at the bottom of the ocean along with entirely different paths of evolution to create an eye. Why is this a mystery we have not seen intelligent life? Earths may be frequent and life as well but intelligent life capable of communicating through light AND close enough to communicate may be very very rare. After all, we are only here because the dominant dinosaurs with tiny brains died out changing the rules. In other words, I don't know but intelligent life isn't necessarily the normal end game.
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Ask HN: What front end tools do you find yourself most productive with?
I am poking around for a new tool to learn as a mainly backend developer and coming to the conclusion that HTML, CSS and JS seem to be yesterday's options. I'm left wondering; if you were learning today and wanted to get proficient fast, what would you learn? Typescript? React? Vue? Purescript? Bucklescript? Bulma? Bootstrap 4? (to only name a few)

I realize there are categories such as styling kits, frameworks or UI libraries, but are there any that stand out as diamonds in the rough for quality of developer life or productivity rate in their category or overall?
Cool. This is timely for me. I launched https://nanagram.co about 8 months ago. We help people send printed photos in the mail to their grandparents with a text message. I've been bootstrapping it with contract work in parallel but I'd like to focus on it full-time. Customers seem to truly love it and it's the happiest thing I've ever created. I'm thinking about putting together a family and friends round to focus full-time through the fall. Funding aside, I know I need some mentorship.

Is the $10k funding awarded at the end of the cycle?
Thanks for clarifying that here -- it took some close reading to understand that. With an otherwise nicely detailed account, the mislabelling of the axes is jarring. I would definitely expect a positive number to correlate to more sleep deprivation, if the axis is labelled "Sleep Deprivation" or any variant thereof.
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Why don't you want a software defined radio?
Coinbase didn’t get (or need) SEC approval for acquisitions, company says
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I don't think that's it. Proposals for stuff like additional punctuation[1] go nowhere. Wikipedia has to resort to using SVGs to discuss them[2].

I also think it's also much harder to define an emoji than you're giving it credit for. There's been a lot of unintentional variation in meaning between implementations, and I think part of that is due to a lack of guidance by the standard (particularly in smilies).

[1]: http://unicode.org/L2/L2011/11232r-sup-punct-proposal.pdf

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punctuation#%22Love_point%22_a...
I think they were saying that because it was small claims court, this particular case didn't set any precedent.
I used to live in "show codes" mode, a.k.a. F3

In my opinion it was miles ahead of Wordstar and a bit similar to what is now HTML tags.

The macro language of wordperfect 5.1 did let me add auto-correction for common typos.

And some other things like: if typing a comma after a space, move the comma to be before the space, and the same for dots.

I'm sure wordstar was nice, but for me it was just not as powerful.
I don't think I've yet to experience anything as incredible as the DIY punk scene in my teenage years. People from multiple communities around Chicago would show up at an abandoned transmission gallery and renovate enough of it to make it inhabitable for a show that night. The dedication was purely out of love for the scene itself and it's a shame I haven't found a parallel in modern adulthood.
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I'm going to somewhat tangent this to pick your brain:

Transplant to seattle from Baltimore, back east I knew all the good venues, DIY and otherwise, and had enough connections to friends working radio stations/djing gigs to stay in the loop. Out here I'm utterly clueless, even to something as simple as the basement EDM scene. Any tips, if that doesn't violate some unspoken dogma? :P (hip hop, electro, doom/grunge, punk, whatever.)
The alternative is Amazon Marketplace, which has even higher fees and is even tougher on sellers, yet it's taking marketshare from eBay. They are not 100% competitors, but most of eBays volume is competing directly with Amazon.

They have to be a bit biased towards buyers because scammers want money, and sellers get money. Buyer scams are mostly items that can be easily converted to cash, like laptops and phones.
Amen to this fine! Finally reality kicks in for Google. Late shall the sinners wake. I have been waiting and anticipating this in many years. It’s just the beginning. Facebooks will be next!
Aliexpress covers the bulk of their business which is drop shipped stuff form China. Craigslist covers "used stuff from other people".
I'd say the forced update from 8 to 10, with all the UI dark patterns, was even worse. An OS "collecting telemetry" on you was mostly an abstract problem for non-technical users. An OS trying to annoy and trick you into updating to that scary "telemetry version" - that's another thing, and I know plenty of people who were pissed off about that. Hell, my own mother sticks to 8 and still refuses to entertain the thought of using 10 precisely because of those attempts at forced upgrade.

It's a shame, really, because Windows 10 is a decent OS, and it fixed most of the issues with 8.
What event happened to make google come out with this blog post? I missed the hub bub apparently
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How do so many people again and again get roped into obsessing about their companies? I realise there is a bag of tricks to keep people on their toes (frequent waves of firing, impostor syndrome, friend cliques), but how do they fall into the trap initially?
Most therapists can't help you, but mean well and don't know it, so if you're not seeing dramatic improvement after 6-8 sessions, find a new therapist. If you find it hard to break up with your therapist, that means they're really doing a bad job, and you should definitely find a new therapist.

Also, don't be impressed by credentials (PhD, MD, etc).
Arendt's book introduced the expression and concept "the banality of evil".[6] Her thesis is that Eichmann was not a fanatic or sociopath, but an extremely average person who relied on cliché defenses rather than thinking for himself and was motivated by professional promotion rather than ideology. Banality, in this sense, is not that Eichmann's actions were ordinary, or that there is a potential Eichmann in all of us, but that his actions were motivated by a sort of stupidity which was wholly unexceptional.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eichmann_in_Jerusalem#The_bana...
> Most HMOs are not as good as KP.

There are several (but still not most, I would agree) that are if you also have a good medical group. KP is the medical group as well as the insurer, so it (aside from any benefit from synergies and absence of interparty conflict) provides a more consistent experience on that end.
I'm wondering if a barrier to more people seeking help is the appointment vs walk-in option - how many more people, if they could see a therapist like they could go to a urgent care center, would do it?
I imagine a security automation, basically a drone-army. Serviced only by family members and intensely indoctrinated technicians. Admin passwords passed down from father to eldest son.
Mathematically that's irrelevant to finding planets with an integer ratio of days per year. Integers are still integers no matter what base you express them in.
It does get better with age in that your circadian rhythm will shift as you get older. It's a crime that we force adolescents to wake up far earlier than they are biologically wired to just so their parents can get to their jobs. According to Matthew Walker (Berkeley professor and sleep researcher), waking up at 7 is equivalent to an adult waking up at 5. Highly recommend his book on sleep. It's incredible, the best non-fiction I've read in the last couple years. https://www.amazon.com/Why-We-Sleep-Unlocking-Dreams/dp/1501...
Private reserved blocks are perfect for emoji and developling languages. They can be a time-variable recommendation, not a standard, by Unicode. That's how anything gets standardized. You don't just put new arbitrary ideas into the mainline standard. This is like Boost and the C++ standard, or PEP drafts and the Python standard, or W3 WD and REC, or industry de-facto standards and ISO. If emoji becomes constant enough (not likely since no language will even be developed using it), it should then be moved into Unicode Standard.

But accepting emoji to the official standard on the spot? I see they've chosen my (1) from above.
Nice podcast episode from earlier this year where Aidan talk about his work: http://futureofcoding.org/episodes/21
People about to lose their job and therefore their home, health insurance for their family, children's college fund, etc. need a solution, not a theory of why that solution isn't some particular institution's responsibility. If not government, then who?
SpaceX is light years beyond what they are doing right now.

--but--

Jeff Bezos has said he plans on spending $1 Billion/year on blue origin.

Unlike SpaceX, they don't need to actually worry about money.

To put in perspective how much money Jeff Bezos has (and he is somebody who really want to do space travel): he could privately fund a manned mission to mars and still remain the richest man in the world.

It's just incomprehensible the resources that they have there. Blue O will almost definitely catch SpaceX.
That’s neat. High probability of employee taking your offer and not just shopping around because they are layed off and good for the employee who needs to make ends meet quick. I like that they try to exclude companies that had mass layoffs within the last 3 years as well.

Though if I were the employee, I’d take that severance and try to stretch it for a couple of months and depending on the engineering field, do a bunch of interview questions and apply at FAANG or other high paying ones. I feel like a large portion of layed off employees aren’t the ones who jump companies and get promoted regularly. Those ones can smell the end is near and jump ship probabaly beforehand. If finances are stable, getting laid off might be a great opportunity if one can maintain focus and is willing to put in the time.
Out of curiosity, OP: did you fall in the same rabbit hole I fell into after reading the article about the chorded keyboard, finding the link to the picolisp wiki and seeing the snippets about showing notifications on Android via picolisp?
If somebody could post a nice write up of the hashlife algorithm, that'd be nice.
I'd love to apply but I'm finishing an evening MBA and want to do it or just apply to YC after school. Got a year left, I'm going to just audit it. Can't believe how accessible YC is to the startup market, thanks YC :)
adding amazon marketplace, ebay's growth is in serious doubt.
Theoretically, a black hole can exist at any mass as long as it is dense enough. It is true that a black hole won't form without enough mass to cause it to collapse, but once formed, it can evaporate down to nothing without ever becoming gravitationally unbound.
In Oregon it’s illegal to bill different amounts to different payers. So you have to be billed what they would be bill insurance for.

They can give you a processing discount but it is negligible and only applies to services rendered at that time.

Also they have to pay the insurance handling clerk whether you pay cash or not. The marginal savings are small.
The way a wrote that you most certainly have a point!

In my mind I had an explanation for that. I realize that I mainly hang out with people that I went to university with (since I moved to a new city to study) as well as collegues (which also have higher than average education).

And I figured that untalented perfectionists would have a hard time enjoying/coping with higher education and thus possibly quite underrepresented in my social circles.

Anecdotally, from what little I've spent thinking on this, my experience seem to match that (untalented perfectionists are generally not well educated).

That was my theory/reasoning at least.
JQuery or plain Javascript.

I am in the same boat backend dev who needs to do some front end. I now have an app to maintain with an Angular monstrosity on the front end. I can see why everyone dropped it, I am still trying to work out where all the hype came from 5 or 6 years ago.

If you are looking for employment options then React seems to be the way to go.
1970 is not a Stone Age, and civilization didn't collapse since then. Why would it impossible to have data? Also, does it mean if a study in 1970 made a mistake, we're now doomed to carry on with this mistake forever? And if not, how would we discover it if not by trying to replicate/re-analyze data?
I hate to be cynical, but quid pro quo?
For the record, I'm one of your users, and I absolutely love nanagram.
And productivity is surging...
Read the actual case, not the review of it. I suspect the judge is relying upon the fact that the money was not paid in one lump sum. It is reasonable to believe that later payment constituted an acceptance of those new agreements, that they should apply to past monies too.
Foster competition?

If a company can capture a greater share of the market by offering the same service with a lower premium, isn't that what they'll do?

I don't know why that effect is not present now, but it could have much to do with the way most people get insurance through a group policy provided by their employer (and therefore get no chance to shop around).
I think you misunderstood my argument, because I really can't see what your message has to do with mine.
I had an opposite experience of crowdfunding just yesterday. I had played the f2p clicker heroes (with iap, but it was easy to hack your save to get them for free, but i didn't) and liked it a lot. Never having supported them in any way, I thought that them asking for $20 to make a sequel was a perfect opportunity to give back even if I got no game for it. And yesterday, half a year after they asked for money the beta is out!

Anyway I feel asking for your money back sounds like it would ruin crowd funding. How can the developers spend the money on development if there is a risk they need to refund people en masse? And if they can't spend it, what's even the point? I mean yeah I guess if all the money's gone to luxury resorts and bunga bunga parties then that's not acceptable but if they spent it trying and failing that's just tough shit.
Good on Catherine Bernard in thinking outside the box to fight for the common-man committing victim-less crimes. No one should have his life ruined for smoking pot and most reasonable people recognize such (i.e., in the USA a criminal record is basically a hex for life with, among other things, a majority of companies maintaining zero-tolerance hiring policies for applicant's with a criminal record).

The ignorant judge that punished her for legally advocating for her client's rights should be removed from the bench.

"'He [the judge] told me I couldn't say it, so of course I continued to say it,'" she told me of her references to the state constitution and the power of the jury."
In your response, you first wrote about a benefit provided by your employer and then equated it to universal / single payer systems. Do you understand the difference between the two?
Awesome piece. Will have to read that one again and bookmark it. Puts all life's little shitty events into context!
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He's not entirely wrong though, CryEngine was and arguably still is wholly unsuited for anything that borders on MMO. Instead of realigning your plan around the changed scope, Chris Roberts decided to keep the glitter of CryEngine visuals and he is paying the price for this decision. Netcode is still affecting performance to this day and I doubt if it will ever be solvable.

We are long past the time when Iwata managed to single handedly refactor Earthbound in a few months with minimum external help. Complex projects carry so much inertia that makes it very hard to correct course once you have momentum in one (wrong) direction.
That was the first dot com boom. Are you seriously trying to argue the web didn’t matter at that point? It was all about the web.
I'm glad you brought this up; my head spun when I read that too. I'm hoping this is a error on the part of the article author or source.

Are there records created for small claims cases?
If you are have no expectation to get your principle invested much less potential for additional monetary returns then it is NOT an investment. The potential monetary returns on this is $0 in all cases.
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This should also help put an end to cross domain search timing attacks. An old example of one using the IMG tag:

https://www.idontplaydarts.com/2015/09/cross-domain-timing-a...
I upvoted, but also chiming in to say networking is very important.
I bought two 12x100x200cm pieces of (probably) PU foam from a local hardware store in the Netherlands. Link (Dutch): https://www.hornbach.nl/shop/Schuimmatras-200x100x12-cm/3843...

25kg/m3 density, 4kPa compressive strength, 70 euros per piece.

I didn't notice any smell with any of the foam I bought. The only issue I ran into was one piece of foam not expanding properly - it only expanded to about 8cm thickness, not 12 as advertised.
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I think a potential motivation for investing in megascale engineering projects is right there in your comment — military advantage. If humans do manage to colonize other planets it seems inevitable that there will eventually be wars (cold or otherwise) that involve many billions or trillions of people spread over multiple planets or star systems. An ongoing conflict on that scale seems like a great reason to develop a Dyson swarm — we don’t know what kinds of weapons would be involved in a war like that but it’s a safe bet that they require enormous amounts of energy. The first Dyson swarm may well be the result of a dick-waving contest with mass drivers instead of ICBMs.

Just think, a military entity with the population and resources of NATO or the Warsaw Pact would have been totally inconceivable just a few hundred years ago.
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Heck yes! This makes my day. I am printing this comment out and putting it on my fridge for my wife to see when she gets home. :)
No one really talks about it but I think what you are lacking is our pro prescription drug culture.

I have a minor ADHD that could easily be ignored or worked around. But to stay competitive as a programmer I felt that I needed to to have Adderall to keep up with my colleges. So I went to the therapist.

When I got promoted into a position where I was required to present to rooms of 50 people... I sucked. I'm terrible at public speaking. Is that an anxiety disorder, or just a personal weakness? I don't know but either way a trip to the doctor and a prescription of Xanax later and I'm great at talking to a big group.

I've been married for 5 years and the wife noticed we don't have the same type of relations that we used to. Saw a marriage counselor for a few visits and she suggested I see a different kind of therapist who could load me up with a little blue pill. Now marriage problems are gone too.

Is that gross to you? Do you think we shouldn't take a pill for everything? Because a part of me in the back of my head, is like "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?". But the bigger part of brain is happy to go with flow. See a doctor for everything, and if I have doubts about the amount of medication I'm taking.... well, there is a pill to help with that too.
No infrared point sources just means it's not likely there are any Dyson spheres.

It doesn't tell us why there are no Dyson spheres.

> Of course the other option is for your civilization to stop growing, but who knows if all aliens would go for that.

You act like this is a choice. What if it's not a choice? What if the initial cost to build a Dyson sphere is too great to overcome? Whether in time, material, energy, or another thing. What if it's just not feasible?

Where does that leave you?

You've basically reframed your statement. You find it convincing because you think it seems physically possible. But how? We're just getting to Mars and you think a significant mining operation on an alien planet to be something we're technologically capable of.

We've skipped straight to 3) Profit and forgot to flesh out step 2).
let's talk about the dong shape. I'm straight but I like it.
Hey incredibly rude, self-centered internet comment troll, if therapy doesn't work for you please don't try to spoil the experience for someone else. Evidence based research into efficacy of CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy) shows its response rate is higher than alternatives and especially beneficial for: anxiety disorders, somatoform disorders, bulimia, anger control problems, and general stress. AKA, all your bullshit!

It is true that you need to click with your therapist- ask trusted friends who they see. Don't disclose to coworkers/bosses/work about seeing a therapist because its still stigmatized, case in point the idiot who posted the comment I'm replying to.

Credentials are important as to how/where therapists received training- and the difference between PHD, MD and other titles are CRITICAL to differences in psychiatrist vs psychology, etc. Some prescribe medicine, some don't, some shouldn't, some are quacks.

Find them based on reputation and perform your own checks to satisfy your concerns. Therapy is really healthy :)
FYI, on the open data angle, the California state WARN site (named after the law which requires public disclosure of mass layoffs) publishes all the announcements -- unfortunately, in Excel Saved As PDF format:

https://www.edd.ca.gov/jobs_and_training/layoff_services_war...

The eBay listings seem to have been announced 2 weeks ago, on June 29: https://www.edd.ca.gov/jobs_and_training/warn/WARN-Report-fo...
This is addressed in the paper.

They estimate that the greatest uncertainties lie in the past terms of the Drake Equation, ergo that there is no evidence of some great threat to the continued advancement of human civilization.
I would have expected some plastic hose meshes to exist, that could be plugged into any sort of cooling system (be it pelletier, compressor, evaporation, or just radiator based) trough a closed-loop "watercooling" system, but couldn't find any. Such a mesh could be built into the mattress itself.

I would expect waterbeds to be easier to regulate as well, as I imagine they have a higher thermal conductivity. This could allow to place the cooling apparatus underneath, and make it something like a regular fridge radiator.

Actually, I found a few commercial products for the first idea while researching the second, among which a "mycoolbuddy" mesh that seems to retail for around $60. To be fair, cooling is always a lot harder than heating, courtesy of thermodynamics.

edit: seems like BedJet does it trough air cooling (~$100), which is interesting as well (and they made a fun marketing video, btw).