skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Congrats on shipping an MVP! In my humble opinion however Kanban and email are not a match.

In fact for most people (definitely for me) I believe email is a very poor backend for a todo list.

My reasoning is that your email inbox is something that anybody can add items to -- even if those items start out as uncategorized, you still need to decide whether they deserve action or not. And when you receive 100+ emails a day, that's a job in and of itself.

The essence of any prioritization system should be that it helps you focus on the most important things first. And you already know what those things are -- you don't need dozens of people proposing them to you.

My personal system is to sit down every Monday morning, think about the absolute highest impact things I need to accomplish that week, and write them down in an old fashioned paper notebook which I refer back to any time I feel like I'm spinning my wheels.

Fundamentally the value I generate doesn't come from reacting to people all day, it comes from identifying outcomes that truly matter and doing whatever is necessary to advance those outcomes.

There absolutely are jobs where the inbox-as-todo model makes sense: customer service agent and certain kinds of sales rep come immediately to mind.

But I think this model where externals just keep on pushing new tasks onto you is fundamentally not a great tool to help most people generate value. Also not good for mental health.

If you have a boss, a personal assistant, a spouse or kids those are people who should probably be able to reach you immediately and easily. Outside of that I think we should generally start at zero and have to whitelist specific people. In the old days this was accomplished by giving them your phone number.
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I had an interview one time where I couldn’t remember the name of a plugin that I used every day. I’m terrible with names. It was quite embarrassing to try to answer a theoretical question about how I would solve a problem when the most obvious answer was just the name of the plugin, but I couldn’t remember it. I was reduced to trying to stall and pull up my usual tools so I could see the name. (It was a video interview.) It occurred to me that the interviewer might think I was just googling it, but whatever.

All that to say that it is quite true that without the tools in my hand I was hard pressed to describe what I would do.
That would wreck the economics of pro cycling because most of the teams are partly sponsored by bike manufactures. Those manufacturers want to be exclusively associated with particular winning teams for marketing purposes.
It's reasonable that amputees with prosthetic legs would be banned from normal competitions because they weren't born with those legs; they were manufactured. But what if it was discovered that people born without an appendix somehow performed better? Would they be banned? It would seem unfair to ban them. But it could lead to competitors surgically removing their organs, which would go against the spirit of the sport. But allowing them to compete might also create a class of appendix-less "mutants" who dominate a sport.
Genetic advantage is what we're testing for in these running experiments though. It isn't an unfair advantage, it's the whole point.
TL;DR: don’t put switches in functions.
> If there is a very low-dimensional manifold in parameter space that accounts for all the predictive power, that would be a very easy thing to diagnose from a neural network model.

People wouldn't waste time researching neural network visualization tools, coming up with adversarial examples and developing alternative (more explainable) machine learning models if that was the case.
Well generally it doesn't pay off. I feel it's similar to being on the bleeding edge of tech, it's only worth it some of the time and it's not for everyone.
The maker of the game flat-out lied about what was in the game dozens of times. This isn't on consumers.

It's one thing to say "my pizza is the best in the world", and another to make tons of specific, concrete claims that are _simply false_ about the game. If you're not sure what I mean, see this Reddit thread which catalogs numerous statements by Murray, with source video or text, that were unarguably false:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/4y1h9i/wheres_the_no...

I don't own NMS and have never played it. I think outrage is acceptable when people engage in false statements that border on fraud.
The intention at the outset. There's a low chance of success whether you are trying to make money or not. If you make money accidentally in a new tech stack... who cares because you can afford to support it.

Also build using what you know isn't always the best advice. Figure out what you want to optimize for and optimize for it. That may include doing things in a different stack.
The reason the term "argued" is used is that we can't prove what actually were cornerstones of the evolution of society. The evidence is scarce enough to allow many different ideas, that in itself is not a valid criticism.
That's how I explain stuff to my kids.

"What is jello?"

"Uh... tastes like fruit, except it isn't fruit..."

Heck it is how I learn programming... maybe everything.

"cost is like let but..."
To be fair PC gives tons of credit for stripe to the employees. Almost every interview. One interview specifically is how I Built This with Guy Raz with him and his brother John.
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I think people tend to focus on specific symptoms of bad code (duplication, in this case) without thinking about what makes good code.

Ideally, we'd like our code to be:

- Mutable (i.e. easy to modify

- Understandable

- Good at doing what it's supposed to do.

- Other stuff that I'm forgetting.

The general recommendation against duplicate code is intended to promote mutability (by avoiding multiple implementations that need to be changed). If you apply it blindly without keeping mutability in mind, you can get situations like the one the authors describes.

I see some of the same myopia when people talk about testing. Testing is there to ensure that your code is correct, and that it's easy to make changes without affecting correctness. As soon as you find yourself writing tests that aren't for those two reasons, consider whether it's worth the effort.
> With REST, the server dictates the minimum requirements of the client.

Says who?

> Also REST necessitates multiple HTTP queries to fetch multiple resources.

Again, says who?
It says that we can't build things. But why is harder to say...
I don't know. I've gotten away with using pretty much the commands in this guide for almost three years now (professionally): https://rogerdudler.github.io/git-guide/ - I even structure my orgs internal git documentation around these commands for newbies (with sources of course).

There are times when you need to troubleshoot a few things but most of the time you can just delete your local repo and reclone it - easy peazy. One of the other great things about git is that even if you do somehow fuck something up upstream it is really easy to get it back. Heck I think git is pretty awesome.
There is a legitimate safety concern with active aero systems. If they fail in the middle of turn the car is likely to slide off the track, endangering everyone on the track.
Questlove from The Roots recently published a really good book on creativity (Creative Quest) where he goes into exactly those points in detail. He doesn't see himself as a terribly creative drummer, but he knows so much about other drummers and can replicate and merge their styles so well that it seems extremely creative to the listener, because the listener doesn't know these different styles. Then he goes on to say that this happens with all artists, especially now where Twitter etc. keep on exposing you to all kinds of ideas and sets from other artists. The artist moves from creator to curator.

I believe it's very similar in some corners of literature, and it's not a new phenomenon. Think of Umberto Eco's novels, he was extremely widely read including some obscure niches (medieval philosophy) which influenced plots and motifs etc. in his novels (think Baudolino, or imagine The Name Of The Rose without Borges' influence!)
Great resource, but I couldn't help laughing at the plot with asymptotic complexity classes categorized as "horrible, bad, fair, good, excellent", as if it's independent of the problem.
> Most (in fact all) pesticides used are designed to kill biological cells

You can make pesticides based on hormones of the target insect. Those pesticides do not kill cells.

Insects are kind of like little biological state machines, with hormones controlling the state transitions. A pesticide based on those hormones can mess up the timing. For instance, suppose you have in insect the munches on your crops all summer, then when it gets cooler and wetter lays its eggs and dies, leaving the eggs to repeat the cycle next year. A hormone-based pesticide might be able to make them lay the eggs early, when it is too warm and dry for the eggs to survive and when things that might eat the eggs are active.
Self-driving vehicles make mass transit more usable and economical, if you expand the definition of mass transit.

Implement congestion taxes and dedicated lanes for high-occupancy vehicles (vehicle more than 50% occupied) and you have a fleet of highly adaptable, efficient, utilized, and available buses at a fraction of the current cost. You've eliminated some of the major problems of mass transit systems - last mile connectivity, financially marginal routes having to choose between poor service or losing money, lack of frequency at off-peak hours, relative lack of comfort, convenience, needing to know a timetable as a user.
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China's leaders have enough money, they could hunker down for a decade and not export anything and still be successful. The people would starve, and there'd probably be some put out of there misery, it'd be a humanitarian nightmare, but China is a dictatorship and will wither the storm better than we will, and face it America will cave as soon as we have a competent leader who repeals the tariffs and fixes our geopolitical status.
Manufacturers have been notorious for not security patching their forks. Manufacturers have been notorious for altering OS compat APIs to lie about device capabilities. While I wish Google would have used their leverage for a more nuanced set of requirements, I can understand the motivation here.
> They “imagined that the next bit of progress will come from some new pieces being dropped onto the table, [rather than] from thinking harder about the pieces we already have,”

When the best minds we have divide into two camps, one saying that (a) "with X and Y we don't have enough information to solve Z" and the other saying (b) we do but we need to think harder, the first camp builds a particle collider, the other creates what, string theory? Aren't we doing "fuzzy science" here?

It seems that the experts in one of the camps should go back and retrace their steps because somewhere along the line they made an assumption based on some data that they (I assume) forgot to encode into their equations and now they have trouble taking it to the next level. Why is it not clear to us that eiher a or b is true?
What is a language that you claim I can't find a similarly difficult sample of?
It's possible we're at the top of a market cycle...but I also see a lot of technological progress that has yet to go mainstream but probably will soon. I think the 2020's will be an absolute booming decade for the world economy, U.S. included. Electric vehicles, autonomous vehicles, process automation, robotics, IOT, blockchain, continual cloud software growth, AR/VR applications, space industry, medical tech, solar energy...I just see a huge range of industries that have a long way to grow and I have a hard time being pessimistic. Sure, a recession is possible, but I doubt we'll see the same downturn we saw in 2008. A lot of that boom was driven by real estate flipping, which didn't contribute to sustainable economic growth. Technological progress, on the other hand, is both disruptive and produces permanent gains in quality of life.
thanks, banksy
Haven't used meteor for a while, how does it solve the scaling issue for large amount of pub/sub?
Why not just make the law available upon request at the office in charge of enforcement? People that need to know about the law can visit the agency responsible or, they can pay a fee and order a personal copy. Buying it for every library or household seems ridiculous since it’s pretty clear that the vast majority of people wouldn’t even use it.
how do you know trump wants to remain in power? I'm not even sure he really wanted elected. I think it was possibly a stunt to get more views for his shows, or possibly to drum up business for his interests. Might be, he's doing this to piss people off, and get unelected fast. If that's the case, then he's doing just what he needs to do to get kicked to the curb.
This sounded interesting and I had trouble looking up the details. For others, the Voter Action site is available on archive.org[1] and from there the court deposition for the Lopategui v. Vigil-Giron case and several other documents are available.

Searching for the aforementioned case turned up another case wherein Vigil-Giron (the NM secretary of state at the time?) and several others were indited for additional shenanigans[2].

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[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20140831100709/http://voteractio...

[2] https://www.abqjournal.com/14230/updated-ex-secretary-of-sta...
Even regular foam soles have at least a little bit of springiness.
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The last paragraph of your article is the most important. Positioning yourself well financially (i.e. limited debt, access to liquid capital) will allow you to really build wealth during the next downturn. 2008 - 2010 were windfall years for me. A little luck and bold, aggressive moves played a big part but if I was not financially positioned to take advantage of the underpriced assets, I would have been stuck on the sidelines.

You are correct that right now is the time to start getting your financial house in order. But, if you're considering investing (rather than paying down debt), I don't believe you should sit in cash. It would be better to invest in a solidly performing asset today than a cheaper asset 3-5 years from now. If the investment is solid, this will just add to your balance sheet during the downturn.
I didn't just make that up; there was a measurement study at last year's Usenix. It's a debacle.

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurit...
I am both optimistic about its application to other hormones and pessimistic given the failure of glucose reading and the discoveries that not even all blood sources are equal apparently. Heck not even all cholesterol is equal and it took time for science to figure that out.

The easy quantification could have interesting implications if it is sufficiently spot-on however.
It's not like the US can just print more money when it needs it, it needs to raise taxes to account for money, to put money in it's bank account. Printing more money can upset the scales of deflation/inflation.. I'm not an economist, so can't say more than that.
If you're spending 100% of your time building you're doing it wrong anyway.

I feel like this is just missing so much conte xt.

If you are working full time and can hack in your after hours to learn a new tech stack first and then start your project there might be an aggregate benefit over just starting the project right away using what you know.

Context matters to a huge degree in these kinds of discussions. I feel like people just like to give blanket statement advice.
Actually I am finding content is getting stale. I used it for mechanic videos, how-tos, product reviews, and tech videos. Since they cut the "low" end and there is little incentive for people with a couple dozen mechanic vidoes to make $150...I am seeing more and more videos at 6-8 months with nothing new. Tech videos yes but smaller channels are dying and I am finding less of what I need.
The command failed, with a clear error message, and a direct instruction on exactly how to redolve it. That is good UX.

Your example boils down to not knowing the word "upstream". I would argue that is table stakes domain knowledge for decentralized version control, and is trivially easy to search for. That does not make bad UX.

Good UX does not eliminate the need for domain knowledge, it eliminates incidental complexity from a user's task, and one could argue makes a tool pleasant to use.

I don't disagree that there are rough edges to git (the debate over merge vs rebase is a glaring example), but "just plain terrible in every way" is gross hyperbole.
I've wondered about becoming a 'citizen of the world': what is the combination of passports that grants citizenship to the most nations? For example, this immigration attorney cites a client who held 8 concurrent citizenships[1]:

Cape Verde (through economic citizenship)

Belize (though economic citizenship)

Dominica (through economic citizenship)

Grenada (through economic citizenship)

Saint Kitts and Nevis (through economic citizenship)

Ireland (island) (through lineage)

Canada (through naturalization)

The United Kingdom (through naturalization in a British Overseas Territory)

[1] https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-greatest-number-of-citizen...
'Looking like an interplanetary traveler, with choppy silver bangs that taper to a point between piercing blue eyes' WTF? for a few minutes, I thought this was a serious article by a serious journalist. Apparently not.
> we may have people using cars even more instead of walking or public transport

You're aware buses are large automobiles right? Lyft Line with self-driving cars is effectively a more nimble, efficient, usable, and cheap bus network.
Do you have any specific reason for believing the transition from horses to internal combustion engines increased casualties in the long run? Or is it just a gut feeling?
Yes. Bill is great and has a lot of info in his posts but Tanta just covered so much good information in her essays. And with such flair.
Ok let me unburden you. I can't wait to get rid of my personal vehicle if a comparable SDC alternative exists.

I'd be very much in support of congestion taxes, carbon taxes, and expanded HOV lanes, however.
As somebody who uses org-mode a lot, this looks pretty cool at first glance. Slightly surprised this isn't attracting more comments.

It may be addressed somewhere on the web site, but I'm curious about how well this integrates with git for tracking changes to a set of documents. Working well with git is one of the nicest things about org-mode.
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By the same token, people can choose to watch videos on YouTube/Dailymotion/Vimeo; or they can seek out self-hosted videos on the same topic all over the internet, which they can either stream or download to their device of choice. The presence of an extremely small minority does not change the real centralization of the marketplace as a whole.
Wouldn’t it use more gas to park further away?
To save you some time and unhappiness:

Yes, git’s UX is absolutely terrible. It is an abomination. It is the worst command line tool I’ve extensively used in that regard. For a long time I stubbornly used mercurial, which is vastly superior.

But, it has become a de facto standard. This is a tragedy. But it is a fact.

So it is best just to spend time learning it, find a subset of commands and make a cheat sheet you can refer to, and accept that the world is imperfect. Hopefully at some point in the future git will die and we will transition to the next big thing, and they will get it right that time.

There are many such things in the world of tech, and in most cases it is best to say “yes, it’s awful, but no, I can’t change it, and rather than expending energy on hating it (which is totally justifiable) I will expend the energy on minimising its damaging impact to my productivity and focus on accelerating my work elsewhere.”

I say this because I have spent so many hours ranting about git and every time it gets in my way (git submodules anyone?) I used to get so stressed by its design that it would hurt my productivity.

Be the Zen Dev: acknowledge it, isolate it, keep it at arms length.

Tips: Make a cheat sheet, use a minimal feature set, don’t try to do anything clever with it, and always have a way out (eg backups! Take copies of your directory before dealing with lesser know commands! Try things out on dummy repo’s before breaking your own, etc.).
I think the wording of the second part is crucial. Thinking if you can factor it out is a way different beast than "you must refactor to obey DRY". Implied in your statement is whether or not the abstraction can be made simply, efficiently, cleanly, etc. which all serve to make it a good abstraction.

If your only priority is removing duplication at all costs, you'll end up with worse code than if you just let code be duplicated.
Pretty cool project. If you're someone dealing with disparate data types, this may be useful. That is a rare need, but interesting none the less.

Typically you create a connector once then walk away from it. Maybe this tool solves the problem of having to create that connector.
Robinhood has announced that similar to trading stocks on the app, there will be no commissions for any cryptocurrencies, and while you can do the same with Gdax which is linked to the Coinbase wallet, it will give a massive edge in the other altcoins that Robinhood is planning to list that currently have transaction fees on their exchanges, in addition to having two different prices to pick the lower one to buy BTC/ETH/LTC/BCH from.

I think there is something important to note before you start investing in cryptocurrency on Robinhood. While I think it is a great app in many aspects, the way they handle cryptocurrency is bogus. View more on https://cryptonewstrends.com/

You don’t actually own the Bitcoin or Ethereum that you buy, you essentially just own shares of it. What I mean by that is that you don’t actually hold your private key.

You can’t send your Bitcoin to your wallet or to your friend.

You can’t use your Ethereum to invest in a great new ICO.

For this reason, I don’t recommend Robinhood Crypto, even though I have used the app to invest in stocks before.
To me this represents more of a risk than a benefit. If you enter on a Venezuelan passport and that government decides it wants something from you, the host country might be obligated to hand you over regardless of your interesting variety of passports.
There is also the fact that ideas are easy and thus cheap - good execution is hard and thus expensive. Look at grand successes that are essentially formulaic and others which take interesting concepts and squander them.

I have found some B-movies have 'moments of potential' or shockingly intelligent concepts hinted at that are quickly lost or go nowhere. One can often dig up obscure precursors to a concept - and find that there is a good reason that it remained obscure that they weren't very good even when released.
Hahaha the landing page quotes the creator of the app.
I think it's interesting that the Olympics banned certain swimsuits because they were "too good." I dunno how much they cost at the time, but a quick search on Amazon shows these swimsuits are $200-500. That seems a pretty low bar for Olympic quality equipment.

https://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?section_id=36&doc_id=1286...
This misses the obvious benefits of making it searchable. Even if the owner of the standard provides a search function, there's no guarantee that it will be as useful or effective as e.g. Google search.
The United States is (I think) the only country that makes overseas citizens pay taxes. So they have a financial interest in making it difficult.