skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
About 30 years ago, I had the very same experience as you. A very fast mouvement of the plane to avert a collision during an air traffic controllers strike over Paris. At the time, I was flying about twice a week. For about 18 months, I was so frightened during my flights that I was feeling exhausted when bording off the plane.
I finally cured it by learning (in principle) how to pilot a plane, by reading books and using MS Flight Simulator (on an IBM PC/AT at the time !). It completely cured me. Since then, I have flown hundreds, maybe thousands of times without any fear. I amuse myself by watching the knuckles of my neighbours when the plane moves a bit : if they turn white, it means that they are feeling very nervous about it! It's a lot more common that one thinks.
Good luck!
I don't know but reading between the lines: soon.

This article happened because Waymo wanted it to happen.

Waymo has a very strict NDA which is why outside of Google press releases we haven't heard a word about how this early rider program works.

Google explicitly allowed Bloomberg reporter to interview few people who used Waymo car.

The only reason for Waymo to allow this publicity is because they are gearing up for a public, unrestricted release.
No it was not. It was part of the evidence presented to the FISA judge by the FBI to obtain a warrant to monitor Carter Pages communications AFTER he left the campaign, and the FBI had been interested in Page before the Trump campaign even existed.[1]

The investigation into Trump's campaign and its Russian contacts was NOT started by the dossier. The FBI was not given the dossier until December of 2016. By this time there was no campaign anymore since Trump was president-elect. In fact the investigation had already started months prior when Papadopolous made suspicious comments to a diplomat about the campaign's knowledge of information related to Hillary's emails. [2]

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/why-trump-wont-stop-talking-abou...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump–Russia_dossier
Weapons of Math Destruction, Ethical Matrix, and Nate Silver
There's a lot of work trying to piece apart the "thermodynamics of information". I am not sure that the linked paper is a natural starting point for the curious non-scientist. This popular summary is a much better place to get oriented: https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/PT.3.2490
For what it's worth, I've received constructive criticism from Dan in the past as well (and I thought about it when replying to you when I tried to bring us back to the main subject of bail). Dan's bias is not so easy to discern.
The issue is detecting the lines and edges of the road after it snows. Snow just makes it all an inconsistent white matte texture. Even human drivers have issues with it.

Heavy rain at night time can obscure road features to both humans and cameras.
Also, I don't think there's a trivial way to get the PID of the process handling a particular tab.
Do you know if there's any (public) companies who are close to producing solid state lidar at any kind of scale?
A lot of people were waiting for a macbook pro refresh so that might be the reason for lower sales.
On one hand you have free journals out there and on the other entertainment companies producing billions of dollars worth of content for less money charged to their consumers.

These people spend 0 on content and their infrastructure is easily rivaled by free alternatives.

He is in no way downplaying anything. The whole thing is ridiculous.
I'm way more willing to accept this policy than I would a policy, say, of 32 accounts that have been "issuing propaganda" or "spreading lies" or "failing fact checks" or "interfering with an election" or "saying offensive things".

Each of those other heuristics sound horrifyingly Orwellian.

The judgments involved in enforcing this policy seem way easier to apply without excluding individuals with genuine opinions that they wish to voice to their friends or followers on the platform.
Or maybe 90% of websites that currently give you cookies have no good reason to do so and shouldn't?
No wonder Apple were so quick to push out a MBP update
Might surprise you but the vast majority of IT units hiring people are not giving them $1500-$2000 Macbooks
s/book/good book/
IMHO you are confusing data with information with knowledge. And mixing mediums. You can't compare a novel - the plainest of plain-text mediums, with the front page online of a major news organization in 2018 - of course it will be interactive content, its an entirely different medium, a different market, and different sets of user expectations and competition.

https://www.quora.com/What%E2%80%99s-the-difference-between-...

DATA:
a "given" or a fact; number; picture
represents something in real world
raw materials in production of information

INFORMATION:
Data that have meaning in context
Data related
Data after manipulation

KNOWLEDGE:
familiarity, awareness and understanding of someone or something
acquired through experience or learning
it is a concept mainly for humans unlike data and information.
I know this is an unpopular view, but who are you to decide what level of risk should a patient accept? Literally every step, including inaction has risks. Can patients decide independently what should be done with their own body, or are they presumed to be too dumb and must obey your decisions?

Should patients be consigned to disability immediately without even attempting some procedure, simply because the chance of success is too small in your arbitrary definition?

You have never been seriously sick.
If you're into video game music, there's a really good set of Skyrim background music + environment noise videos on YT.
There was a nice analysis of this done by Bob Zeidman where he compared the released CP/M 2.0 and DOS 2.0 source code. His basic conclusion was that source and basic commands were not copied, but that a large number of the system calls were copied.

https://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=...
UX density is reduced by icons and images. Utility used to be thorough link quality (ie. the portal) but has been reduced to ranking on search endpoints to collect nickels.

Here's a very useful site that uses Javascript without going near megabytes:
https://www.freeformatter.com/
> That quote was […] using a tiny bit of hyperbole.

Then you certainly won't have a problem changing the wording to make it true, right? The Owl author explains the limitations of his software up-front, why don't you?

> It never claimed to be a general tool.

The documentation does give the impression.

> If you take a look at our academic paper

Consider that HN is populated by craftsmen and businessmen, not scientists. We judge the tools on how well they work in practical terms.

> One never knows when they will hit a landmine and the parser takes overnight to parse a file.

No wonder, I see it's O(n⁴) for ALL()/ANTLR. You need to keep up with the current state of the art, which is O(n³).

> It took me 30 years

Time and effort does not count for anything, the quality of the end result does.

> I'm not sure […] your understanding of the parsing landscape [is accurate]

I can see the practical results of the various software I tried. Does the software get the task done? Yes, fine, that's a candidate for further consideration. No, fine, I can eliminate it. Documentation does not say…? Now one has to come up with experiments to find out the flaws and limitations, multiplied by every single user. That's a waste of people's time.

> When was the last time you wanted to parse a language where the same syntax meant two different things? […] ambiguity is almost always an error.

That was 2014, and I did not design that language. It does contain ambiguities, it can't be helped. No one gains anything by simply wishing it weren't so; there was a task to be done. There exists software that can cope, you should take that as an incentive to improve yours.

> but the speed and ambiguity issues are not something I care to deal with.

… or don't improve. But why would you refuse to? Is not your reputation at stake?

> You also mischaracterize ANTLR's handling of left recursion. […] It does not handle indirect left recursion.

That's what I meant. I was incorrect when I wrote "any grammar that's left-recursive".
That's true, but I quite like the keyboard it does have. It's not quite as solid as my old 2012 MacBook Pro, but the difference there is subtle. I've only typed a few paragraphs on the modern MacBook Pro keyboards, and didn't find them too offensive, but would prefer the one on the XPS 9570.
Especially if they also fired all the employees.

You can look up their cash and cash equivalents and get a sense of their employee costs, you don't have to guess.
And that right there is why a lot of things are actually cheaper in local B&M stores if you're in an area where there's a good concentration. This strikes me as the kind of thing that he might get into some hardware or auto parts stores as a holiday sales item.
I'm not a crypto skeptic: things like encryption, one-way hashing, etc. are extremely important, fundamental technologies with loads of math and experience behind them. They work, and should be used widely.

Crypto-currencies are a totally different story. For one, many of them are scammy rich quick schemes that have used greed to influence the technically unsaavy to corrupt the English language.
I heavily use the auction listings. For specialist tools the Business/Industrial category is near impossible to beat. As a seller there aren't enough people interested in esoteric items to offload locally and as a buyer I never see them available on Craigslist in my area.

With that said, I only buy on Ebay, never sell. Between shipping, fees, and the non-existent seller protection most stuff is better off given away locally or tossed.
R&D spending up 26% y/y.

Other revenue(watches and AirPods) up 37% y/y.
To be fair to MS I’m pretty sure a physical store also would not allow you to circumvent their main profit making mechanism: markup. Ie if something is selling at WalMart they probably won’t like if the package says “go to our website and cut out the middleman”, seeing that their business model is, well, being a middleman.
I don't know how far into this you want to go, but no, I don't think it's possible to think that there are biologically determined on-average cognitive ability differences between "whites" and "black people" without being a white supremacist.

I recognize that there is a trope suggesting you're not a white supremacist unless you want there to be a biologically determined difference. But, no, that just makes you a reluctant white supremacist. Similarly: there are people who believe it can't possibly be white supremacy to simply recognize science that suggests those differences. Nope, that makes you a scientific white supremacist. What if the differences are very minor? Then you're a mild white supremacist. This bothers people, and I guess it's heartening that it does, but I think most of us are aware that the most pernicious and dangerous form of white supremacy isn't the tiki torch army, but rather the subtle biases and self-dealing that work to keep difference "races" locked into different socioeconomic status brackets. The term means what it means. People should stop looking for loopholes.
who knew emojis were so profitable
If the United States' economy is so good, why are the its elites doing everything they can to shovel their money to the Cayman Islands? It's the same thing really.
Without the business, 15 years would be a fair estimate for how long the cash would last, based on modest inflation adjustments on salaries, an average $100k to $125k cost per employee (all in), and either clearing their debt or just paying interest on it perpetually.

They'll probably burn $150b over ten years on employee costs, with 100,000 employees (present count). That's mostly ignoring the destruction of the stock itself, which would hit employee compensation and require higher salaries to offset.
Yes this is correct. Apple added the option last year so developers can choose to reset all reviews when they release a new version or keep the old reviews.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/07/ios-app-developers-will-be...
Arqiva. Owned by an Australian investment bank. They also own the old IBA transmission network that broadcasts ITV/C4 and co-owns the Freeview service. I.E. They hold a monopoly on TV and radio transmission in the UK. Plus with the roll-out of 4/5G mobile all those hilltop sites are making them a fortune for providing microwave relay feeds for data services.

RTÉ still owns their network as 2rn Ltd (the callsign of Irelands first radio station - phonetically 'To Erin') and they are making decent money from providing the same mobile services. Making the BBC sell off their transmission network was shortsighted.

I'm a radio and love all this. The head engineer of 2rn is a member of my radio club - he really knows his stuff.
Because that's what you get paid for as a techie (and in turn, what most tech companies relentlessly grill people for in the interview process): the ability to jump through hoops others have set up for you.

Not the ability to do original, groundbreaking work.
Facebook bans pages aimed at US election interference
What do you want? A system that does all the work of being a landlord for you?
"we are allowed to send them to you for free".

Keyword: allowed.

How can these smart and brave people, that push the boundaries of human understanding and knowledge, act so stupid.
Once again, the Wall Street Journal is pushing GOP talking points with half the story, the number isn't adjusted for inflation, so it's actually a slight pay decrease due to inflation.
> That is a longish way of saying that 99.9% of the overhead in any modern web site can be traced almost entirely to the mechanisms by which that web site is attempting to extract value from you for visiting/reading.

Well, that and the fact that front-end developers just can't seem to exist without pulling in hundreds of kilobytes, or even megabytes, of JS libraries. You actually don't need all that crap to serve adverts, or really even to do tracking: people managed without it in the 90s. It's just that it's more work to get the same effect without a buttload of JS in this day and age, and most third party tracking services involve their own possibly bulky JS lib[1]. The thing is, given the slim margins on ad-serving - whilst I don't condone it - I can see why people don't bother to put in the extra effort to slim their payloads.

[1]And if you have a particularly idiotic marketing department they might want, say, tracking to be done in three or four different ways, requiring three or four different libraries/providers. This is not merely cynicism: I encountered exactly this situation at a gig a few years back.
It really is perverse to get a discount when you go with the $120 OS.
He means Ragel. https://www.colm.net/open-source/ragel/
Rails 5.2 credentials cheat cheat
Show HN: Masonite – An increasingly popular and lovable Python web framework
I've been holding off buying the new Macbooks due to issues with the keyboard, CPU performance (which was fixed), and the absence of a non-touchbar 15" Macbook (biggest blocker for me).

Until they release a 15" non-touchbar version with a better keyboard, I'll stick to my 2012 rMBP, as I'm sure others (including people I know) are too.
Not really. I think nature = universe = god. Again, a bit speculative.
This reminds me of the idea that seemed to be very popular a couple years ago that everyone can and should become a programmer. Nothing is quite that simple.
MacStories has some nice graphical visualizations comparing this quarter's results to previous quarters.

https://www.macstories.net/news/apple-q3-2018-results-533-bi...
Well that's what the rest of my comment was about, "digitizing a vinyl record" makes it sound like you take a vinyl, pass the analog audio through an ADC and output that directly onto an other disc and you get a CD. In practice it's a lot more complicated than that so I disagree with your original comment:

>The design is nearly identical to what one would get if one simply literally (almost) digitized a vinyl record.

The rotating disc format is simply due to technical constraints and not caused by vinyl mimicry (unless you also consider that hard disc drives and floppies are nearly identical to vinyls as well). The rest is completely different from a vinyl on almost every level, besides the fact that they both store stereo audio.
I find it a bit funny that the title of the consolidated financial statements PDF [1] is "Microsoft Word - Q318 Earnings Press Release - Word.docx".

I guess Apple's accountants use MS Office?

1: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/pdfs/Q3FY18ConsolidatedFinanc...
About 30 years ago, I had the very same experience as you. A very fast movement of the plane to avert a collision during an air traffic controllers strike over Paris. At the time, I was flying about twice a week. For about 18 months, I was so frightened during my flights that I was feeling exhausted when bording off the plane.
I finally cured it by learning (in principle) how to pilot a plane, by reading books and using MS Flight Simulator (on an IBM PC/AT at the time !). It completely cured me. Since then, I have flown hundreds, maybe thousands of times without any fear. I amuse myself by watching the knuckles of my neighbours when the plane moves a bit : if they turn white, it means that they are feeling very nervous about it! It's a lot more common that one thinks.
Good luck!
But what if everyone does?
I'm not accusing anyone of selling my data and I'm not trying to champion a crusade against the entire advertising industry. I'm asserting that the NYT can achieve the substantial majority of the advertising optimization and targeting it needs to do to be profitable 1) without doing user-specific tracking and 2) without making page loads extremely slow.

Like I said, serve me an ad. I'm not an idealist, I understand why advertising exists. But don't justify collecting data about which articles I read to serve to some inscrutable network of advertisers by saying that it has to be this way. We don't need this version of advertising.
If you think about the list of "irrelevant non-needs" from e.g. 15th-century Europe (your choice of country), or from any sufficiently different contemporary culture (consider China or Saudi Arabia), maybe your idea of "objective" needs will... expand a little bit.

If for some reason you prefer today's Western culture to that of 15th century, be certain that it changed mainly because of some people pursuing their irrelevant non-needs, as seen by then-contemporary "normal people".
Links to an YT vid:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8xkCYvwiPA

BTW I find the use of 5 digits for years (02018) very clever!
Why don't you think there is something magical happening in the brain?
I'd recommend exploring psychotherapy, learning about the mind, learning about yourself. Not because there is anything 'wrong' with you, but to allow you to improve your mental state, even with less than ideal circumstances. From there you will be more chilled and can make clear decisions, decide what is most important and then set goals.

The reality is if you are earning 50% let alone 80% of $180k US as I have inferred by your posts you have enough money and you probably don't 'need' more. You are certainly earning alot more than me, and I have been software developer since 2001.

It sounds like it is the comparison with others, and being treated unfairly in your mind that is causing a lot of frustration. I had the same feelings in my 20's - I was suspicious and wondered why certain people got ahead and judged things as fair/unfair. Even at an older age with social media like HN I'll see all these super successful people in their fields and be jealous and angry that I didn't take 'their' path. But at some point it is good to be able to handle that we can't all be 0.01% ers (by definition or 0.01%er: only 1 in 10000 can attain it).
>Consider `[]struct{nested []struct{i int}}`.

A typical example, yeah. I've said about structs of ints already, it's not a common type unfortunately anywhere beyond number crunching, in which go sucks anyway.

In haskell you could have unboxed array with unboxed records. Check Vector.Unboxed.
Apple has been said to be doomed as long as I can remember.

Somehow it’s great to be underestimated continuously. But on the other hand the stock takes the toll with a low PE ratio (compared to other tech stocks)
> for many reasons too boring to get into here, and no, it’s not just cheaper to do ebooks, either

Guessing he's not counting kindle publishing here, but regardless I'd love to know all the little details of why publishing e-books are so difficult
>I put it like this: I have been running since I was about a year old. Almost 40 years! But I cannot for the life of me run a marathon. I am not physically capable of it, even though I can run a few miles in a row.

Yes, you are. You just tell yourself that you are not.

And yes, you can write a book. Whether it gets published or not is another story.

I don't understand why someone whose job it is to find the next best selling novel would write a post like this. It reeks of something a literary-agent/failed writer in Brooklyn would say...
I loved the interest-specific Reverb.com (for selling new and used musical gear) and made a point to buy stuff there to support the community even if it was more expensive or slower than a 'corporate' alternative. All the sellers' reviews were spectacular and I just thought people would be nicer on this platform because everyone just loved music and it's one big happy family but then I received some crap recently and just realized that they do the same thing and prevent negative reviews buy externalizing the (time and emotional) cost of forcing self-mediation when things go wrong.

Talk about a broken heart.
IDK, I'd have trouble stringing together enough words to even qualifies for book-length status.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17635227
Why Did Anyone Think MoviePass Could Have Worked?
I actually like SoTM the best out of the list you've posted. More so than the others it's a study of the everyday people of technology, not just the heroes that we've all heard of. Dealers of Lightning, Hackers, and Where Wizards Stay Up Late all do a fine job of telling human stories of technology you use, but SoTM is mainly about the day-to-day life in an industry, the triumphs and failures on a much smaller, more human scale. A similar book could have been written about companies I've worked at, and I'm sure everyone here can say the same. It's less of a history and more of a study of people.

I enjoy this genera though, and I'll add Gertner and Lammers to the list. You may want to try Exploding the Phone by Phil Lapsley (about phone phreaking) and The New New Thing by Michael Lweis.
> Having a sex change doesn’t turn a man into a woman.

Correct. The surgery aligns genitalia with gender identity; social norms have evolved to align ascribed gender with gender identity irrespective of genitalia, so even viewing "man" and "woman" as labels of ascribed gender rather than identity the surgery is largely beside the point.
Far more likely is that it was written on Sunday, didn't get a response by Monday morning, was put into the publishing pipeline/queue right then and there, and cleared the queue and hit the site today.
IF you rely on drivers being aware and able to intervene at any time, then you are creating a dangerous situation. Human beings can’t re engage and obtain situational awareness in emergencies.
seals the deal. $1200 base model Iphone here we come.