skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To save you the Google tour:

> Quien se quemó con leche, ve una vaca y llora.

This appears to be a saying that corresponds to the English saying "A burnt child dreads the fire."
True for both comments. In the case of the "ideal" lisp machine, in my mind should be something which rewrites local patterns in memory, randomly, in many places. It is possible, theoretically. Multiheaded TMs can also be seen in the same way, provided the state of the heads are also actually on the tape. Both models are particular rewrite systems and among them the lambda calculus based one is simpler (has fewer rewrites) than the TM one. Now that we really feel the need for decentralized computing, maybe some simple generic hardware (much simpler than a TM style processor) could be more fit than what we have now.
I could frankly care less about tools. I would not work on something i do not care about, and all tools are fun to use if you are solving fun problems with a great team of coworkers.
Intriguing. The "broadband" assumption made me wonder - maybe it could be due to artificial modulation? Has anyone analyzed the signal this way?
> If we lose general purpose computing to a world of app-store enabled iPad Pros and Windows Store-locked Surfaces, we will have lost something important I think.

Absolutely. Here, here.
Run the tracker in a virtual machine running locally. Run your “work” apps in that vm.

This is so stupid.
When your very influential in tech, Google provides support (only after taking to Twitter).

For the rest of us... Good luck!
I think people here aren't saying they hate shorting in general, but that Musk hates people shorting his company. So it's Musk enjoying twisting the knife in the shorters, not these guys on Hacker News.
> Do Facebook and YouTube constitute quasi-governmental actors that should be held to constitutional standards when regulating their vast marketplaces of ideas? Mr Tribe says that under current law, they aren’t.

Betteridge's Law wins again
Oh hey, welcome to every news outlet that needs a quick "EV" article to get clicks over the last 10 years.
If someone is willing to put up 60+ billion dollars. He should have no issue with financing his debt.

Tweeting info like this is probably not good for the SEC.

I hope he doesn't turn out like Preston Tucker. Tucker: The Man and His Dream is a good movie.
Some kind of combination of what is currently feasible (I have the space to work on it), interesting to work on and occasionally, has the potential to be monetized.

I sometimes work on stuff that don't have a clear monetization path. Generally those turn into experiments that I can feed the lessons into easier to monetize projects.
> Cameras are pretty small these days and facial recognition is cheap.

Masking your face is also cheap and easy to do if you are really concerned about it.
Wouldn't it self-discharge? And at that size, also blow itself up?
Most Tesla owners install standard J1772, not the faster Tesla thing.
True, but I would argue there has been serious persecution at least from 1936 onward.

I guess I meant they first got deported, then murdered. This is also what it looked like where they lived. They were put on trains (and I would argue, things were rather clear from, say 1941 onward. "Wir haben est nicht gewusst" is bullshit). Before 1940 or so, it was only deportation. Later forced labor, then mass-murder. This was accepted and even assisted (e.g. the "Jewish councils") by perpetrators ... and by victims, and by wittnesses.

Please don't think that I intend to deny what happened, that is not at all what I intended. I guess I've just read the term deported many times online, and in movies. I feel somewhat ashamed that I do see what you mean complaining about that being a euphemism and I do apologize deeply. That was not clear to me, but it should have been.
This work should not be hourly. I think if I don’t know someone well enough to trust them logging hours, I don’t pay hourly.
> It's definitely a reason we're not jumping on the new low level APIs in the VFX industry currently.

While the big studios on Linux (people like Pixar) probably don't care about the lower level APIs, the major vendors like Autodesk and SideFX are going to have to if they still want to target macOS.
> Is there something that can be done about our polarized discourse without trampling over our civil rights?

Actively and without consequence? No. Simply maintain self control and realize that the more dialog is open, instant, and global, the more it is subject to the loudest and most manipulative. Not necessarily ideal, but better than alternatives.
Rust definitely has Firefox
Correct. Also a large part of the reason why we still don't have universal speed limits on Autobahnen.
> Even Top 500 players suffer 80ms RTT to the server and they're still better than the other 30 million players.

...that also suffer 80ms RTT.
The thing is, this is almost identical to well written JavaScript. In fact you could do almost all of this in JS even before ES5. So the non-Java-like features you're using here were already present, which again suggests that Dart isn't really getting past the "Good Enough" problem.

It's also something you could do in Java, with the exception of having to wrap main with the obligatory EntryPoint class.

I think this just goes to show that good code can be written in almost any language (except Perl of course) because writing good code almost always just means writing obvious code, which necessitates avoiding cleverness and obscure features (literally all of Scala), twisting control flow (I'm looking at you State monads and call/cc), or adding too many indirections due to limitations of the language (Java).
When the market is ready for hybrids and electrics, hybrids and electrics will become more plentiful. People seem to forget that individuals have to look out for themselves first. Not everyone is willing to make the financial sacrifice to solve a nebulous problem.

As long as China and India have little incentive to fix their pollution issues, the impact of even the entire state of California is literally a drop in the bucket.

The thinking is “why should I suffer” when the developing world pretty much does whatever they want. A bunch of Bay Area techies driving electric has about as much impact on climate as a whale farting in the ocean. The sky might be falling, but it isn’t going to be stopped by Americans driving electric.
Don't you get it? That's precisely the plan. Facebook and Google want this to be the law because then simple people cannot even host a forum anymore.
How much review does 'cperciva do of the source code and build-dependencies that are copied to the air-gapped machine, which presumably originate from internet-connected machines?

Also, how secure is the kernel on the air-gapped machine against malicious filesystems on the USB stick? (If it's running Linux, the answer is almost certainly "not;" I could imagine FreeBSD is better but I don't know how much people have explored that.)

To be clear I'm not opposed to air-gapping if the maintainer is excited about it, I just suspect there are many much weaker links on the way to/from the air-gapped system, and fixing those is a much harder project that almost nobody is excited about.
This is really difficult to get right unless you've done the same kind of project a few times and have code you can reuse. You also have to manage scope creep, be crystal clear on definitions and what's going to be delivered, and tactfully keep the client from trying to add big features at the margins.
Who’s using Dart for Web (angular dart?). I’m interested in hearing pro’s / con’s especially if you have any experience with react as well.

Thanks!
Might they also be scanning the wifi networks we all connect to and if they see us on the same network as someone else N amount of times, go ahead and make the suggestion?
I think the faster we make companies liable for the content on their servers the better. Why? Because I want distributed/federated data to become an actual priority to these companies. I want it to hit their bottom line when they get sued for content uploaded to their servers so they consider keeping the data owned by the user who generated it.
Extra points for the "Made with [rage emoji]". Can't stand the cheap sentimentality of "Made with [heart emoji]" (Then again, maybe people who use that line mean it...).
Hahaha. What? That’s awesome. What did the macros do?

I’ve always wanted to make a plausible code generator based on markov chains. It still seems like an effective way to trick people into thinking you’re working on some hard problem.
Street parking spaces aren’t reserved for individuals. Anyone else with an EV (visitor? neighbor who just bought one?) is equally entitled to those spots. You would own a car rather than rent or take public transit (esp. in an urban area) because you need it to be available and working every time, not just under ideal circumstances. Gambling your work attendance on getting a particular street parking spot the night before isn’t smart.
To reverse the process we can then run an osmosis power plant and have a way to store energy. I'm sure someone out there already ran the numbers.
The extensions are just that. They are essentially proposals or hardware specific items not meant for broad adoption. Those that are get drafted into the proper specs.

And variable driver support is common across all big graphics APIs. If anything, the feature per driver coverage here is better than DX12.
The VR version has haptics. It's kinda interesting. I think there is a little bit of intuition to be gained.
Would you say the same thing about employees standing around the water cooler planning the company picnic or talking about their spot in the company fantasy football league?

There are good freelancers, there are poor ones. Same goes for any type of employment. This is quite apart from whether it is appropriate or necessary to micromanage their keystrokes.
And that's why Britain is overrun with submachine guns to this very day!
Downloading binaries from the public internet and executing them on corporate machines is likely prohibited at all three of those companies.
rails + ruby + a bit of frontend. It's not super specialized but rails can easily become a huge mess if you don't know what you're doing. So we're definitely interested in more senior talent, ideally someone that has made all the new rails eng mistakes in someone else' codebase.

We would pay more locally, but we're mostly not on upwork because of money. We just needed someone we could get soon. I will say that what $45/h gets you on upwork is far more than what you get in sfbay.
The data show that areas with high incarceration rates generally have higher crime rates; and areas with lower incarceration rates generally have lower crime rates.

The article then deduces that high incarceration rates CAUSE high crime rates when it seems blatantly obvious to me that the causation runs in the OPPOSITE direction.

Areas with high crime rate cause high incarceration rates because as crime rate goes up, more people must be put in prison.

I don't necessarily disagree with the article's agenda (to support prison reform) but the reasoning seems shockingly lacking.

Also, the article mentions that the incarceration budget went up by 340% with no meaningful change to public safety, but fails to mention that inflation during the same time period was 240%....so the budget didn't really increase all that much.
Interesting that the utilities with fixed sunk costs are feeling a pinch from renewables.

I suppose some of them will take the bailout path (companies keep profits, taxpayers or ratepayers shoulder losses).

Traditional utility economics guarantees a return on capital, and imposes ratesetting in return for geographic monopolies. The real story here is the upending of that model as carbon-based fuel loses its deathgrip over the grid. A consequence of this is less economy-of-scale advantage for vast generation plants. Small distributed generation is more attractive than it was a generation ago.

But every market has its quirks. The Texas grid system doesn't have any way to export power to other markets. And West Texas is a windy place. So they find themselves with excess capacity sometimes.

I wonder if any grid operators will respond to these price signals by developing smart grids: by realizing that their future lies in offering both electricity and good information about that electricity. Then they can send signals to local time-shiftable equipment (for example car charging, water heating, power storage, desalinization, even blockchain mining).

In Norway the grid operators deliver near-real-time supply signals to customers using the same sort of radio signals that tell people the song that's playing on the radio station. Sure, the US is bigger. But if the don't try to do this, they'll never figure out how to do it.

One negative consequence of this pinch: as it spreads the net metering deal that current solar-cell households enjoy will fade away.
200 coming in cold is too high without a solid record / examples / focused vertical.

Have paid 200/hr easily and was happy for a 2 month project with a specific scope ( needed a solid RN<>iOS/Android bridge w. a lightly documented video player + optimization ). In another case, 250/hr (2k / day x 4 day week x 6 mths) to shore up team as it ramped up.

In both cases :- super clear communicators / solid engineers. 8-12 years eng. experience, 3-5 yrs in specific language.

In both cases, it required 2-3 strong references & examples within the specific requirement we needed. And it took 2-3 weeks back / forth before we decided (and we looked/searched hard for other options)

I've also 'taken chances' with folks at the 80-120 range. And that's the typical range where it's much easier to make the decision and never went much beyond samples and a quick 30min tech chat. Onboard fast ... and off board just as fast if things don't work out in the first 2-3 days.

If you're just starting out, placements are fine, build your portfolio up for 2-3 mths, then start looking at the 120-140 range. Once there, 6-12 mths out, you should see what you're good at / what are the particular trends and then focus there. Then you're closer to targeting specific companies (eg. do outreach) and for those specific hotspots, you would be able to command the 180-250 range.

Definitely target companies that just raised their A or B rounds. Else, it's the standard network + word of month @ those rates. Do try Angel.co as well (w. specific / targeted messages)
I signed up for startup school, but I can't seem to find any description of the commitment it is... What does it mean to "complete" it?
On a smaller scale, putting solar panels in the Sahara Desert and run a big cable to Europe is frequently considered. Being in a desert removes most cloud cover, it's close to Europe, and the area required is miniscule even if you want to provide the entire area of Europe that way.

The only problems are that the day-night cycle still exists and storage is expensive, that it would be a massive capital investment, and that the governments of most countries in the Sahara aren't very stable.
Weird, I have only found review sites that laud the keyboard (even sites that don't really give the laptop a good rating for other reasons). At the very least, they can certainly handle a grain of sand better than a new MBP ;)

It could just be your subjective experience, though! Aint nobody can come between a person and their feelings.
Somewhere, in a corner office on the higher floors, an "Americans for Prosperity" PR manager reads this comment and smiles.
The Model X isn’t an estate car? Actually the S has more storage than the estate car I used to own.
Also if you're a long term investor you probably hate shorters and traders.
To buy an entire company, you always need to pay a premium over the current market cap. The market price is lower than any existing shareholder is willing to sell for because if they were willing to sell for less than that price, they would have already sold it. For some of the shareholders, the lowest price they would be willing to sell for would be much higher than the market price.
"Not in San Francisco" and "easy to exploit" are very different. I had great, professional work done in Russia on Upwork. It didn't cost $200 per hour, but it didn't cost $2 per hour either. The engineer who did the work was the vendor, and I was the client, so I was definitely the boss and treated as such, but he was clearly not hurting for work and if I started behaving inappropriately he could have easily dumped me and found another client. I don't know how far his salary went where he was living, but there are many places in this world where 20 US dollars per hour can sustain a very nice lifestyle.
Ship It - the Game of Product Management
6,999,999 to go.
I haven't had my caffeine yet today cut me some slack :)
What if power companies "de-platformed" you? After all you use that power to spew hate, so they are morally responsible. And there is no constitutional right to have electrical power.

You can just get yourself a generator, right.

And of course, Apple is under no obligation to sell you a MacBook. After all, being a hateful person is not a protected class.

I think it's about time we build a "bad people" list, which companies can consult before providing service. And if any company doesn't respect it, we can social media mob them into compliance.
Why It Is Time to Regulate Crypto Exchanges
I'm in the same category. They said the plan is to "ensure Instapaper can continue for the foreseeable future", which is all the feature I need.

I could believe they will think of other things I want besides continuing to work well. But I don't want them to feel like they have to be on a feature treadmill.
i would have totally jumped on the flutter bandwagon except i feel flutter missed a huge opportunity by not supporting web as a target. microsoft's react-native-xp seems like the right direction. i'd love to hae a combination of dart's sound typesystem + react-native-xp's api.
I don't think the target should be 2000 billable hours in this scenario—shoot for 1000. Its really hard to stay legitimately billable for 40 hours a week no matter what your rate is, unless you're charging a day or weekly rate and don't worry about hourly itemization. 20 hours a week is pretty easy and if you calibrate everything to that, you end up with gravy more often than not.
Overbuilding renewable capacity can significantly reduce the needed storage capacity, so the issue will probably get more pronounced rather than better with time.
Zen of NumPy
Interesting thought. In Richard Rhodes new book Energy, he describes how an early iron smelting works in England, faced with temporarily low demand due to a recession, rolled its excess iron into railroad tracks which could be re-used for other purposes once demand recovered:

Richard Reynolds, who managed the Darbys’ Ketley
ironworks, near Coalbrookdale, in the 1760s, introduced
cast-iron plates and then cast-iron rails to protect the
wooden rails from wear and tear or to replace them. He
had another reason as well for using iron: as an
ingenious storage system. A depression following the end
of the Seven Years’ War in 1764 reduced demand for iron
products. Prices fell. Reynolds wanted to keep his
furnaces going and his employees at work. Rather than
warehouse the excess production, Reynolds used it for
rails. Then, if iron prices went back up, he could have
the rails removed and sold. Reynolds “tried it at first
with great caution,” his granddaughter recalled, “but
found it to answer so well, that very soon all their
railways were made with iron.”
I hadn't thought about it that way! Although I'm actually not sure in which direction it changes their priors - I'm not sure if this adds to the negative-carbon side of the scales in models taking this into account, or if this was already factored into some kind of separate measurement of total natural carbon sequestration and so the loss of seaweed now adds a bigger positive-carbon term.
how are the semicolons in a for loop redundant? Without them it's extremely difficult to parse what's going on.
Firefox’s latest experiment recommends stories based on your browsing history
> People seem to forget that individuals have to look out for themselves first.

Why do you say that? I can understand people need to look after themselves, but I can have my own hopes at the same time. Why would you want me to not hope to address this problem? The market certainly isn't going to provide any hope; that's why emissions are considered an externality, because people don't approach the problem rationally (as a society). Tragedy of the commons should be a descriptive trait, not a justification.
The Renault Zoe does something like this. You buy the car, but you lease the battery from Renault (at least, thats how it used to work)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renault_Zoe
Ask HN: How to contact Müller-Wohlfahrt? (hard-to-reach sports medicine doctor)
I'm looking for a way to contact Hans Müller-Wohlfahrt and I'm hoping HN community can help!

Who is Müller-Wohlfahrt? A pretty famous and sometimes controversial sport medicine doctor. He is currently German national football team doctor. In the past he helped Bono and Usain Bolt dedicated his 2016 gold medal to Muller.

Why I'm trying to contact Muller? I've taken a break from work in Bay Area and I moved to Basel for summer to take care of chronic hamstring injury. The injury proved to be a real mystery and we're running out of ideas. My physio suggested Muller as a person worth a shot. I tried calling Muller's office but he is not really accessible to general public. I tracked down the people Muller works with, including a professor that operated Bono and I crafted emails inspired by Tim Ferris techniques for reaching important people. To no avail.

Who am I? I work at Stripe. In the past I worked on the team that made Scala.

I hope somebody form Germany or somebody with contacts in football world will read this post and help me. In exchange, I would publish the story of meeting Muller which I think would be really interesting. You can think of my recovery as an exponential escalation process and Muller seems to be the peak point: he is at the top of his profession.

If you're curious, I've been writing about my recovery for a while on Medium: https://medium.com/@gkossakowski/hamstring-pull-recovery-week-1-4e0bd949c7a7
There wasn't even a single issue you agreed with either Hillary or Trump on? Because even if there was just one thing you cared about and which only one side supported, then by your stated principle that both parties are (otherwise) the same, then you should have voted for that.

Or... even if both sides were pro-war, pro-big-business, anti-worker, whatever, you could have still voted against the undignified office-demeaning racist.
Does Belgium (OPs example) have the geography necessary to support pumped hydro? Your example, Switzerland, is significantly more mountainous than Belgium.
Thanks for the clarification. Could you update the FAQ with a link to the rules?
Re: wifi, I can also remember constant complaints and whining from NOC folks nearby a couple of years ago because they were regularly fiddling with Cisco AP devices configuration just because of all those iDevices that employees bought.
It’s a great idea and I’m actually in the target market as I’m trying to raise funds. Happy to give it a whirl!
Parties like Expedia do more tracking and analytics of what you look at, when you look at and how you look at offers on their site then most of the urls on the pi hole url lists, which are typically referral counting urls (many also just for adult sites), or just for counting traffic. And I wouldn’t be surprised if they sell this data too. Not saying they are, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they do.

Also since when is giggling mean? The assumption that I intended to be mean, is kind of mean too. This is about the same as somebody saying not to eat sugar yet eating lots of fruit that contain sugars, if somebody says that to you surely you giggle without being mean.