skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A truck crashing into a series of bollards (a glancing blow, not a direct terror attack) turns into a meat grinder. The first bollard impact, say to the right of the front bumper, initiates a rotation. The vehicle then turns sideways to its direction of travel, becomes unstable, rolls, then impacts the next bollard. Anyone inside or anywhere near this chaos is injured. The bulk of the vehicle will eventually stop beyond the line of bollards, in pedestrian territory. This never happens, and there are no videos, because no idiot builds roads this way. The closest we have to bollards beside roads are telephone poles and trees. See this vid at 2m15s. Watch the car rotate, roll, become airborne and land on the sidewalk.

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

More rotation after impact: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3DC-Ryx7RA
And more rotation->roll->stop off the road: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY7xo61drg4

At the 2010 winter olympics a luge slider also illustrated this as he left the track and hit a series of uprights/bollards. He died, his body landing outside the track. Anyone standing there could have also been killed.

Modern traffic safety is about keeping cars away from pedestrians during a crash. Smooth barriers without gaps keep the crashing vehicle on the road. Many are designed to redirect front wheels, literally stearing the vehicle back into the road and away from people. The goal is to slow everything gradually while keeping the crashing vehicle away from pedestrians. Barriers are even tied together in a big chain so that they can gain strength from each other, allowing very small/low barriers to redirect enormous vehicles. They might not look pretty, but they work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22mzoAkJJBQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-HevN1bzbA
Thanks to the person whom ran their genetic data through their Excel autoformatter?

Is this what really passes as science around here?
These are typically at the exits of the moving walkways to warn people that they are about to hit terra firma, and face first if they are not paying attention which is pretty easy given the length of some of them.
All the big sites have recently prevented domain fronting.

They are too scared of their main website being blocked at ISP's just because your small site uses their servers as a domain front.
Cuba's communist government nationalized property from people and corporations without any compensation.

It still illegally holds these properties today.

The communist Cuban government acceded to hosting Soviet nuclear missiles pointed at the US. This almost caused a nuclear war.

The US embargo was based on these and many other things.

It is hardly a comparable situation.
https://teams.cardsync.xyz/, a Trello Power-Up I started as a Trello bot some years ago (I actually "invented" the concept of Trello bots as there were no one doing that at the time, but now all bots are banned).

I just made it because I thought it was a cool feature that was missing. As I started to develop it I realized it was much more complicated to implemente than it seemed, that was probably the reason the feature was missing. Anyway I accepted the challenge, put it live for free on Heroku and forgot about it.

One year later I got back to check it out and thousands of people were using it.

Still, I'm bad at market and monetization, and it's still a side-project to this day, but makes about $1200/mo.
Poor sleep triggers viral loneliness and social rejection
There exists an information asymmetry. You know you can't reach another supplier, but the supplier doesn't know that.

The supplier seeks to remedy that asymmetry.

I thought HN was usually against information asymmetry in the free market? Or does that only apply when it's not to the consumer's benefit?
> helped mentor their developers

This is typically missing from startup culture.

Anecdotally, mentorship improves everyone involved, but I don't know if there's data out there showing if engineering mentorship within a startup improves its chances of success (or is otherwise beneficial [1]).

To some extent, groups like YC participants and alumni end up being mentors to each other, but I doubt that extends beyond the founders. Might the OP have an opinion on something like a rent-a-mentor program/startup?

[1] Not that certain benefits, like productivity, would be enough to motivate a change, as evidence by the open plan office situation
So how is an attacker going to access the machine?
Lots of crossroads on that bus.

When I was on one, in the exact same situation, it was impossibile not to think about the staggering quantity of humans in this world, each of them separated by language, culture, beliefs, needs, space. Suddenly, communication and building bridges becomes one of the really important questions.
The dragon is not going to care about what the ants are doing. It will only care if other dragons start taking collective action.

“Vote with your wallet” is bullshit.
Mostly interested in infra, specially data infra. My email is in my bio, would love to chat more over email.
Did the researchers license Excel for genetic work? This seems like a major error to treat your gene data as dates.
US supplied bomb that killed 40 children on Yemen school bus
Don’t worry about feeling sad: on the benefits of a blue period
Frédéric Chopin and George Sand Go to Majorca
The vanilla market
With Goals, FAST Beats SMART
It's an unpopular notion in these times, but it might even be said that this arises from a deep-seated awareness that one is separated from one's true source or even (gasp) "God."
I honestly read the title thinking the article was going to be about a program built by scientists that generated high pitched sequences eliciting certain behavior in mammalian mice.
Ask HN: Good Name for a New Programming Language?
Some "goodness" criteria:

Make it easily searchable in Google: J, C, D, F, R, Python, Go, would be "bad" names in this regard.

Make it memorable, evoke the idea that it's a simple, fun, sophisticated, friendly, high-tech language
Will this never end? I won‘t even attempt to list all the famous people who claimed to sleep less than 5 hours a day (Nikola Tesla was one of them...) without apparent major cognitive impairment. If Musk was the kind of person to listen to this kind of attention-seeking „advice“, he wouldn‘t have come so far. Publishing it, posting it here is rather pointless.
Show HN: Deep learning Using TensorFlow
How the internet has changed dating
Thanks Yodon for trying it out! Unfortunately it's not implemented at the moment. Currently, on the keyword pages you can check which apps use a particular word, then check the keyword analysis of the apps, but of course it's not the best. If I will see that some people utilize this version, I will add more features.
These days I usually start the conversation with a recruiter saying I'm looking for total compensation above $300k.

Some don't respond, which is fine because it saves us both time.

Others will shoot back with something about equity. Then we can talk about cash / equity split and there's plenty of room for negotiation there. I've never felt like my $300k number limits my ability to negotiate (beyond putting a halt to some discussions).

Where did I get $300k from? My peers at FAANG, my friends in recruiting, recruiters who state salary bands upfront. Basically, I've done my market research.
The crazy thing is, in this current market, you might actually be low balling yourself at 300k...
what does it matter whether it is individual property owners or the EPA taking up the cause

Because, as you can see, the EPA is subject to the whims of politics and will wax and wane in effectiveness. Property rights, however, will be consistently effective.
Show HN: Where to start learning Deep learning?
Don’t forget chrome://extensions
I think the point above was that once the binary is built you don’t have to worry about maintaining the exact same libraries on the server where they might be competing/mixing with various incompatible versions of shared libraries for Python or Ruby or whatever.

That said, yes this is a shameful hole in the golang world (caused by the project leads’ inside-Google myopia) but I’m glad they are finally addressing it at this level of integration. And despite a few oddities it looks pretty solid.
Whilst that is totally correct morally, law enforcement must be very careful about applying that. There is a trade-off between having a stable and predictable set of laws (i.e. strict enforcement) and having room for judgement calls when the letter of the law is unfair (i.e. discretion in enforcement).

I understand when regulators decide to side with strict enforcement when a companies only advantage comes from not following the rules. Especially when it is disputed the rules shouldn't be there.
They’re just people who are aggressive and disagreeable. Those people are prone to conflict, but can actually get along very well in the right environment.
HP's "keylogger" doesn't belong in this discussion. It was a debug trace to a driver. I've left similar traces as part of debugging. It wasn't even their driver but belonged to Synaptics.
Scale is what gives these companies some cover from "not having human review". Not having human review is what made the scale possible.
Playing Doctor with IBM Watson
In the short term I agree with you. But it decreases the long term value and utility of the platform IMO.

Take Instagram. It used to be a platform for posting pictures. It was a digital version of Polaroid—an “instant” camera. When you look on Instagram now it’s core functionality and differentiation is basically gone. When you look on the explore tab you are hard pressed to find any photos at all, let alone ones that were taken with the camera itself.

Instagram now is no different than Facebook or any other generic network, it’s just the biggest. The content is nonsensical and people will eventually get bored of it. At some point I think it occurs to every user, “why am I even doing this” and they bounce, so it always requires new users coming in to grow the userbase.

IG is now easy, from a technical standpoint, to replace as it has no real identity. Just let people post whatever for internet points. Socially it’s hard to topple, but that’s hard to defend long term and somewhat out of your control.

I just don’t see how or why IG exists ten years from now. For what? At least in its original incarnation it had a purpose, however niche, which might have had some long term viability.

I think the best example of this is probably looking at the Chinese social apps like YY, Inke and Meipai. A billion people who don’t give a shit about Kylie Jenner and are developing apps with far more interesting features than anything we have.
Also, we should be using Entrez IDs or ncbi accession numbers instead of the horrible gene symbol system
Interesting, must try that out sometime. In India paneer (a sort of Indian cottage cheese) is made that way, by putting lemon juice in hot milk, which makes it curdle. Then the curds are put into a cloth and hung up for a few hours to drain off the whey. What's left is paneer, which can be eaten raw, or used in dishes like palak paneer (spinach with paneer), mutter paneer (green peas with paneer), some Indian sweets, etc.
I suffer from pretty strong tinnitus.

I have also had episodes of extreme eye dryness. Furthermore, I got floaters whose onset matches my tinnitus onset. Additionally I have very mild sporadic joint pain. I'm HLA-B27+.

Altogether, this is quite obvious evidence for autoimmune arthritis or some related autoimmunity. I know this because I do autoimmune genetics research in a top lab. I've gone to a few doctors and they never even suggested the possibility of me suffering from autoimmune disease, which is scary.

I'm in the process of being diagnosed only because I explicitly decided to go to a rheumatologist myself. The rheumatologist facepalmed when he heard the whole story.

I suspect a significant proportion of tinnitus phenotypes are mild autoimmune ones.
Have heavy fines in the TOS (communicated upfront) about illegal adds. This gives FB an incentive to police themselves, and lets the bad-actors pay for the enforcement.
I created a website to browse and listen to YouTube music livestreams
That's rather interesting. From Google, I guess you're referring to a site like directlabs.com or www.healthlabs.com?

The 'contract rated' for my test ($30?) was less than the pricing those sites are offering, but at least good to know for future if I want to do it outside the doctors visit.
I wonder if the world couls benefit from a SQLite-backed spreadsheet program. All the data type BS would be basically solved.
Hopping after 6 months, or say less than a year, will definitely hurt your resume, even in the Bay. As a hiring manager, I'll typically assume your either got fired, or gave up too quickly. Both strong reasons not to hire you.

Hopping after 2 years in the Bay is extremely common. So much that I'm not even sure it's considered "hopping" anymore.

I'm not sure how long of a time horizon you mean when you suggest job-hops will eventually hurt you. In the Bay, at least, if you have say 5 2yr stints, what's likely to hurt you is... your age.

A developer with 2 2yr startup stints is your typical Bay "senior developer". And a developer with 1 2yr startup stint is your typical "experienced" Bay developer, and generally one of the most in-demand categories of developers in the Bay.

I'd go so far as to say that the 2 2yr stints will look better to a startup hiring manager than 7 years in an corporate environment like Oracle. The former is definitely in tune with SFBay startup-scene vibe, the latter looks like a corporate potato whose fit for startup life is questionable (not to mention a little too old as well ;).
The reason you don't do this is there is a real possibility they are willing to pay $X+25%, so now you've just anchored the discussion around $X and you'll likely not see an offer for more unless you've really low balled yourself and the employer has set salary bands.

Also definitely do not follow up with the '...but i'm willing to negotiate' bit.
Free 42S is my favorite phone app. I've the original 42S manual PDF -- not easy to find -- their `charity' pay-wall.

~35MB Download: original HP 42S 358pp manual: e3pi.org

I've many HP rpn's, Free 42S is better at everything, except
keys haptic satisfaction.

If you're voyager/landscape 10C 11C 12C 15C 16C centric, rotate phone: rot90:HP-42S <--> HP-42C

yes, ballistically-black ruggedized Otterbox-ed, cost $0.00.
What would a hiring manager say if you told them "I'm going to finish my job hunt, if yours is the best offer at the end I'll submit another application" ?
In what sense are Taiwan and China the same country? China has acted as a bully to deny the independent status of Taiwan, but I have no idea why you think that they don't have the right to self-determination.
Sure, sometimes someone made a mistake. But they're not to blame; the process was set up that someone could make a mistake. Change the process so if/when a mistake happens, it doesn't cause a problem.
my 1.9KB version: https://gist.github.com/caub/437e5d98ee9260df811628f7900c1c8...
There has been an amazing project like this on HN this year.

I will do a quick search to see if I can find it.

edit: not so easy, but here it is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16772276

https://www.querystorm.com/
It's two clusters, one centered around big data from 2000-2004, and another on large-scale machine-learning from 2011-2015. The middle period from 2004-2011 mostly just featured Spanner and helping other people pick up the torch for his accomplishments of 2000-2004. While Spanner is great and last I heard had one big client inside Google, it's hardly as impactful as GFS, Protobufs, MapReduce, Google's serving system, and BigTable were, nor as Brain, TensorFlow, and that other internal project are now.
A proficient abacus user can be faster than a proficient calculator user in tasks involving addition and subtraction.

This is a motivation for abacus/calculator hybrids, http://retrocalculators.com/digicus.htm
Running Headless Chrome / Chromium is a bit of a hassle on AWS Lambda and other FAAS providers. Chrome requires some specific bindings/binaries to work. I think the Chrome guys and girls convinced their Cloud coworkers to provides these in the underlying Linux machines that run the Cloud Functions.
They hire an online company to install tracking software while you take the test, there's also someone watching you through your webcam. Bit creepy to be honest.
The "backing" isn't the problem, it's the interface to it.
In the "do other countries recognize Taiwan as a country" sense. Generally speaking, the answer is that they don't.

That means Taiwan's independence is only de facto, not de jure, and that is a very bad thing for Taiwan's prospects. Particularly in a world where China now has much more economic power than Taiwan.

I'm not talking about "right". Like I said, I think Taiwan should be independent. But, I'm not optimistic about that continuing to be the case over the long run. China seems to really, really want it, and to be patient about it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-China_policy
I negotiated flex time at my current job, as I have for every job since 1999.

After 6 weeks they told me I couldn't have flex time anymore but wouldn't give me the pay cut I took to get it. So now I leave early every day at different times and "work" from home once a week.

I haven't done any real work for them in over a year and a half because of the flex time fiasco. I keep waiting for them to fire me but I'm friends with my boss so he's protecting my job, which is hilarious, but that's how shitty this company is.
thanks a lot for the field report (and your english is fine by me)
IG content isn’t nonsensical IMO. The content on IG is generally of higher quality and visually curated. It’s also a better platform for showcasing your brand if you’re in the ecommerce space than FB Pages for example.

Granted, there are accounts that are dedicated to memes and other ‘nonsensical’ content, but you get much more of that on FB. Putting IG in the same trash pile that FB is in is unfair.
Corrected headline: "One in five genetics researchers are careless with their data"

See also "A poor workman blames his tools"
Oh boy... I've got some bad news for you...
I wonder how feature/pricing compete with Browserless?
Prior to the FSMA (Food Safety Modernization Act) [1] there used to be very little regulation in terms of food safety in the US. Since the comment was suggesting that throughout history people have successfully opened restaurants without any related experience, I find it relevant to note that selling food was not always so difficult: if someone had the wealth, they could hire some chefs and wait for customers.

Nowadays, though, there are dozens of different dynamics involved in the management of restaurants. As such, it is very difficult for someone who has both a culinary and business background to open a successful food shop. To believe that someone who does not possess such an expertise could do well in this arena is foolish.

Managing restaurants has always been difficult, but it is becoming harder with each passing year. Nobody in their right mind would recommend a complete amateur to open one of these shops given the current economy. They would need some sort of experience in the food industry before even attempting the feat.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FDA_Food_Safety_Modernization_...
A Versatile Computer-Generated Dynamic Flight Display (1976)
They look nice, but I guess a post with more technical details would get more traction here. Something like the post in your blog, but more technical. (In the main page of the blog it is not clear if the image is above or below the title of the post.)

> What differs my nixie clocks from others good clocks is five transition effects, three flooring light effects, automatic tubes brightness control, [...]

Do you have a video?
That is one guy. I never met anyone who espouses that on the ground. If anything, that quote is aiming to generate (a previously mentioned) external support from nations that you would think would want to help due to a shared religion.
Docker in 5 minutes [video]
There are too many ways to fail in a society with no safety net. A lot of SF homeless were once good citizens.

There's a youtube channel called "Invisible People" that interviews homeless people. https://www.youtube.com/user/invisiblepeopletv Many of them are sane and not addicts, who simply became poor for one reason or another.

These interviews are really heartbreaking. Especially how so many feel the need to emphasize that they are actually human beings, just like the rest of us.
Understanding Ceph: Open-Source Scalable Storage
exactly this. The base operating system comes with the system libraries necessary to support headless chrome out of the box.

(disclaimer: I work for Google Cloud)
Even for an experienced programmer this stuff happens, and it's the most frustrating experience I've ever had. It's the stuff that happens when management and C-level just "wants stuff" to be buzzword compliant. And, every day/week/month the requirements change. This weeks feature X has "top priority" and then amnesia kicks in and now feature Y is the next best thing. As a programmer-now-manager I try to shield people from this, trying to find the gems among the rubble of business meetings. But it's tricky, so this really resonated with me:

"I have an overwhelming empathy for developers in this position. They have more information than they will ever need, but it’s completely disorganized. It’s like trying to build a ten piece puzzle, except you have to find the ten pieces within a pile of 10,000,000,000 pieces, all of which are square, and you don’t know what it’s supposed to look like at the end. Good luck."

Even with a team of highly experienced developers things quickly turn to a mess if it's not perfectly clear what to work on. I don't mean things like "button should go 1px north to align with header". That's trivial. In fact, I would go so far as to say: most production-ready programming is trivial. Trivial in the sense that someone, somewhere, solved it in a way that's correct. But, when it is not /crystal/ clear what the requirements are, what the business case is, or what the edge-cases look like: oh my. I've been in the incredibly unlucky position of only being in settings like this. Start-ups, academia, R&D positions. And, as a result even with the best intentions and the best teams you'll still produce production-quality garbage. Mostly because incentives were misaligned and there was no coherent vision. Agile story-driven development only works when there is leadership that has the guts to say "no", and when there is something well defined to work on. Sometimes I yearn for some CRUD webstore ... at least then the things are knowable. Anyway, just my rant. I'll probably go the meme-way of becoming a plumber/welder/etc at some point ;-)
I've been screwing around with running Headless Chrome & Puppeteer on Lambda/Serverless/FAAS solutions. It's all a bit of a mixed bag. You CAN run Headless Chrome on AWS Lambda, but the cost involved is pretty crazy as you need ~1500Mb in RAM to comfortably run any code with Chrome.

Google Cloud of course has "inside knowledge" and I would love to switch to them for my SaaS https://checklyhq.com, were it not that Google Cloud Functions is just offered in four (!) regions...
Then you don’t know enough about it.. now you are the joke.
Link to the podcasts you recommend
No.

A) Cuba w/Soviets pointed nuclear missiles at the US. Iran's government perpetually declares they want to destroy the US. that's a tad offside compared to 'listing Taiwan as a country'.

B) The US very very rarely controls where it's citizens can go.

The moral/relative arguments used by the pro/defend China camp are tiring.
Designing for Micro-Moments