skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say it absolutely does. PTSD is primarily caused in people that had a traumatic experience. Trauma in one's childhood from abusive or neglectful situations is probably more common than soldiers. The point there isn't to "chemically forgive", its to help people realize they weren't at fault in the first place.

Still, if you think the point or goal of the topic here is "chemical forgiveness" then you're way off base in the first place - someone can be so horrified they can't even internalize the shame of what they did. The point isn't to feel good about doing bad things.
We could also just link to Google's blog.

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/google-cloud-gran...
it's rare to get pulled over for going 60mph in a 55mph zone, for example

Maybe where you are, but someone I work with got pulled over for 63 in a 60 recently.

She also got nailed recently for 93 in an 80MPH zone. Her excuse was that she was just keeping up with everyone else. The cop didn't buy it.

I'm honestly asking; I just do not get the appeal.

I like keeping my money, instead of risking it in fines and higher insurance rates to satisfy the peer pressure of a bunch of strangers.
muh russia
To be more specific, 9 feet (2.7m) is the report's worst-case upper bound, the 99.9th-percentile results of running a new simulation model, RCP 8.5, not a prediction of what's likely to happen. That model has a huge range: Its 50th-percentile (median) estimate is only 1 foot (0.3m) of rise, and its 95th-percentile estimate is 7.5 feet (2.3m). There's discussion of that on pp. 31-32 of the summary report here (PDF): http://www.climateassessment.ca.gov/state/docs/20180827-Stat...

The chart on p. 32 is a bit tricky to read, because this particular model is estimating maximum sea levels, not mean sea levels. Maximum sea level here is measured relative to a fixed reference of year 2000 mean sea level, and the 20th-century typical max was 1.5m above mean year 2000 sea level. The 99.9th-percentile line at 4.2m is therefore showing a 2.7m rise in the max sea level above pre-2000 norms. The colored blue and red ranges below the 99.9 lines represent the 50th-95th percentile estimates of the two different models. (In this case, at La Jolla specifically.)
lactic acid brain fog
No, he didn't go to an Ivy League school.
Their iOS reading app is pretty good and allows offline downloading of books. I use it regularly.
Not quite so, you'd have to be Dr. Doolittle to give a horse a direction and then have it navigate there on its own. I imagine it might perhaps be possible in limited circumstances in the countryside, but definitely not in the city.
Driver Faces Charges After Tesla Model S Goes Airborne
Explain hunger strikes.
Diver attacked by Elon Musk as ‘pedo guy’ is prepping a libel suit
Came here to post the exact same thing.
I remember watching a video about Sierra OnLine's network (later The Imagination Network which was sold to AT&T) where when they needed to expand, they just added another computer full of modems.
I just want to be transparent. Everyone has an agenda, I don't want to be perceived as "sneaky" (have been accused in the past, even changed my username)
I think it is the opposite. Party balloons are a relatively small consumer of helium.

https://geology.com/articles/helium/uses-of-helium.gif

It is lumped into the "other" category on this chart.

One of the problems is that our helium supply comes as a byproduct of the oil and gas industry so as we switch to renewable energy sources the yearly supply will diminish even as demand increases.

So party balloons may become unaffordable but that won't affect the total demand very much. Or maybe we'll have far more exciting party balloons filled with hydrogen gas instead.
> after the 1972 flood.

Again, that was a reaction to something that already happened. Are there any examples of elected officials forcing folks to leave an area well before something bad happens?
They have those LaserDisc games at the Arcade like Mad Dog McCree and Dragon's Lair. I bet we'll all LaserDiscs connected to our computers one day.
MUTE: Bringing IoT to Noise Cancellation
VR is just really bad right now. Every experience either requires a thousand dollars' worth of equipment or it's going to make the user nauscious. The only borderline acceptable experience I've had was a Vive, and that required 2 lighthouses, an HMD, 2 controllers, 400 sqft, and a $2000+ gaming machine -- and I was still tripping over the fucking wires.

Any sub-$100 system is a total joke that no one is going to use for more than a minute. Anything less than $1000 isn't pushing the frame rate or the latency to keep users from vomiting, and even if you don't get sick you're probably constrained to your chair.

It's going to take serious technological advances to get VR into a place where it's fun to use consistently for most people.

IMO, the best place to look for VR opportunities right now is actually in AR/MR. Plenty of enterprise customers interested, frame rate comes second to utility, augmentation means you can actually see what's going on so frame rate doesn't actually matter that much (indeed when I developed for the HoloLens, 30fps was sufficient.)
Actually, it's not that consistent. Some clickable things have a 3D-shape, some are just text (top menu), and some are a picture of a folder with some text.

Frankly, I don't think modern UIs are much worse than old ones. Yes, you could add visual indicators to what is clickable and what is not (3D-effect), but it's not like that was a universal rule back then either.

Perhaps it's just that people find most intuitive what they learned first and don't like adopting new paradigms.
The Tree of Life Explorer
https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/3/15537000/whatsapp-stories-... More than snapchat, in 2017.
Woah, I had no idea the testing module existed. One thing I've found useful in pandas are the DataFrame .query and .eval methods [1]. They're nice for cutting out tons of lambda functions in pipes.

E.g.

df.somemethod() \
.loc[lambda df: df.x < 2]

becomes

df.somemethod() \
.query("x < 2")

One issue I've noticed is that there's a frustrating bug [2] that causes many queries to raise an error before evaluating, but this can be fixed by changing the engine argument:

df.query("x.str.contains('a')", engine = "python")

1: https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/generated/panda...

2: https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/issues/22435
I agree with you, but I also think it's a legitimate complaint that crud apps take so much time to build.

They used to be pretty quick with things like PowerBuilder...we've regressed.

There are things like this:
https://developers.google.com/appmaker/

But nobody seems to have gotten big/broad traction with them yet.
Right. There are roughly 10^15 atoms in a speck of dust. A terabyte is 10^12 bytes. Our inability to simulate does not mean our models are wrong.
Who to include in your growth team?
You seem to be getting very upset over the phrase "running out" vs "painfully expensive" when the former can easily, and often is, interpreted as the latter, and articles which talk about a resource "running out" usually describe what they mean by that, therein.

I too tend toward pedantry but I try to stop myself and say "I can be technically correct all the time or I can be sane"
Backward compatibility is easier if the OS APIs are as terse and featureless as possible. Higher-level frameworks (VB, .NET, VCL, etc.) can then be distributed independent of OS releases with multiple versions installed simultaneously.
This just demonstrates that you don't understand what speed limits are for. They're not some arbitrary number imposed on you to make your life inconvenient.

In addition to being adjusted for the engineering of the road, they also create gaps in traffic allowing people to change lanes, or other people to enter traffic, or — in the case of roads with intersections — allow other people to make left turns, especially on curves.

Just because you don't understand why a speed limit exists doesn't mean it's wrong. A lot of science goes into these decisions.
Remember the part where I said "with empathy, in a non-hurtful way"?

"The UI sucks" is not that. Neither is the shit sandwich - it tells me that there are issues with XYZ, but it's buried in unrelated information. Are you saying that the app is helpful? That you want Q? Or that you want XYZ fixed? And if you want XYZ fixed, why are you burying it?

"Hey, we have a couple of issues with XYZ. I know, you're currently looking at something else, but if we don't fix them, we'll cause problems for $USER_GROUP". Clear communication of the problem, that you're aware of the impact it has on the person, and why it's important to address the problem.
"Good news, everyone!"
> But if you want meaning, ..., then have some kids.

Or anything else that involves devoting time other beings: homeless feeding drives, mentoring disadvantaged people about programming, working in an elderly home, etc.

The feeling of being part of something broader doesn't only come from having children sorry.
That sounds like an interesting starting point for an academic paper on community interaction. Many of those metrics could be gamed if they were the 'goal' of a particular site, though before they're gamified they do sound like an interesting way of filtering through repos to find examples to talk about how communities function (or not).
I never said the melodramatic "What nobody knows is when that will happen, or what happens next", so consider yourself spared.

As for whether they're helpless or not... that depends largely on whether the rising sea level infiltrates the aquifer to the point where it becomes brackish rather than fresh water. And even then, the problem can be dealt with, by turning to desalination (probably of straight seawater).

For "Who is Zillow?", they're the #1 real estate website. Property values are their business, and they have lots of data (and a corporate perspective, rather than a scientific one, for better or worse). What options does Miami have? Spend more money on protecting the aquifer from mining and contamination, and maybe invest in desalination. Is Miami an outlier? Kinda. Most coastal cities are also on river mouths, and thus have better fresh water resources. But overstretching the fresh water supply is often a problem, even if that fresh water isn't itself endangered - see Los Angeles, for example.
Is Charity for the Poor Futile? (Peter Singer)
Yes. I think the issue is that mainstream "journalism" is actually entertainment in all respects other than the fact that it carries a fairly widespread credibility among its audience as not being entertainment but rather a factual, verifiable source of information - one that is beyond the audience's ability to understand. Sort of like the unquestioning acceptance that many give to doctors or lawyers because (it is assumed) neither medicine or law can be understood without them.

What I mean is, if you watch a movie, you suspend disbelief and willingly assume the context they give you to be real for the sake of the movie without questioning it. You do that because you want to be entertained. And if you took everything literally and demanded that the context be aligned with reality, it wouldn't be any fun. As such, few people walk out of something like a Mission Impossible movie believing that any of it was actually possible.

I had a discussion in online chat with co-workers in the last week or so regarding the wild fires currently burning in the US west. One lamented how sad the effects of climate change like these are. Out of curiosity, I looked at historical stats for wildland fires. Without getting in to a lot of detail, the source I found was very reliable and did not show any upward (or downward) trend in either count of fires or total acreage on an annual basis since the 1960s. I pointed this out - not as proof that climate change did not affect fires - but as a simple data point that didn't seem to match his assertion. The person was surprised and admitted that he didn't have any actual reason to believe that the occurrence or size of fires was more or less - he just assumed they were more and that the cause was climate change.

So to be clear, I'm not saying that climate change doesn't exist. Nor am I saying that wildland fires are not somehow affected by climate change. Only that people tend to take narratives that are created and repeated by journalists as facts, without questioning them, much as they would a movie.
ERROR_INSUFFICIENT_BUFFER and Concurrency
Musk needs a long vacation, involuntary if necessary. His performance in actually running a car company hasn't really been all that great, certainly not stellar enough to offset his increasingly bizarre behavior.
Why does a GPS tracker cost $800? What's special about it that pushes the cost so high?
Conceptually, yes. Most mid and large manufacturers are using gov-sponsored programs that allow deferral of duties and VAT/other taxes until final sale. Source; I work in global trade.
Since the article title won't fit we changed it to a sub-heading.

The submitted title ("Founder says many job candidates focus on the wrong thing, stock compensation") was edited in a misleading way to imply that stock compensation is the wrong thing—not what the article says; please don't do that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> This silence is the most absolute that any human can experience, one beyond the best noise-canceling headphones or earplugs.

The author mentions how she likes silence. This is interesting, as non-100%-deaf people began to hear noises even before being born, and even when placed in the best anechoic chamber will still hear sounds from the own body. So few people in the world really knows what silence is.
This is the most succinct description of this phenomenon I've ever seen.

As technologists, we often wonder why new, better tech doesn't dominate. If something suffices, why change?
it's a laundromat
How Do We Get API Developers Follow Minimum Viable API Documentation Guidance?
NSF proposes $25M in grants to set up quantum foundries – Fedscoop
Naturally Helium is produced due to radio active decay of radio active elements but all nuclear reactors also produce Helium as a by product which can be captured (worse case most expensive scenario). I am also bit confused by the fact that Helium is so cheap and easy to buy, why haven't the price sky rocketed yet. You easily order a decent size tank of Helium for $50 online.
How did you manage to leave?
Isaac Asimov wrote about carelessness with helium in his 1977 essay "The Vanishing Element," published in American Airlines on-board magazine "The American Way." I can't find a copy of it online but I did read it at the time.
Lerna adds clause to MIT license blocking certain companies from using it
Female, minority students took AP computer science in record numbers
I can imagine that there are senior engineers that couldn't explain to me what a lexer/parser does let alone elaborate on the trade offs of a specific implementation.

I'm not in the position to hire but send me an email if you want to connect.
There was a lot I liked about System 7, but I always hated how Mac OS handled multitasking. And Mac OS 8 IMO was a massive improvement aesthetically. Back in the day when OS 8 was stuck in development hell, I was a diehard Aaron user just because I liked the look and feel so much.

Windows 95's taskbar was a godsend. It was IMO the first GUI approach to multitasking that worked, and on top of that you had Alt-Tab which was the icing on the cake. Mac OS tried to emulate that with Command-Tab, but it never worked as well as on Windows (IMO the only desktop to ever improve on Windows Alt-Tab was KDE, especially when they switched to vertical layout in 3.3 or so).

Now, if you started talking about merging the Win95 multitasking UI with the rest of the System 7 GUI and Mac OS 8's theme, you've got my ear.
Wanna tell us where this place is so we can all avoid it?

If I had to guess I'd say DC, Maryland, Virginia area since they go full 1984 on traffic stuff there but unfortunately any non-white driving a beat up older car is a magnet for fishing cops which leads to unreasonable tickets like what you've described so it really could be anywhere.
Robotic guide dog leads AZ State U team to First prize at Intel Cup
Not sure what you mean by a $44k voucher and California’s per child education cost. California spends around $11.5k per pupil for primary/secondary school[1] per year. $44k per year would cover the cost of even the most expensive private schools while $11.5k would only cover private school if it is heavily subsidized by a religion. I'd quit my job in a heartbeat and start a small school or tutor 5-10 kids directly, if you pay me $44k each.

[1] http://www.governing.com/gov-data/education-data/state-educa...
Just how I like my CQRS!
Just tacking on to this, I'd also be careful to attempt to quantify what we gained by an experience, just because of the limitations of our words or thoughts.

Just because there is 'nothing learned' or something doesn't seem beneficial, does not mean it did not have benefits that often can't be labeled.

Also there's no goal to life, just a reminder. There's no like progress bar you fill up to 100% and then you win. You don't have to stay 'productive'.
Artificial intelligence adapts facial expressions in dubbed videos
The conclusion of the article is spot-on. Our current large platforms are only marginally better than the walled-gardens of online systems in the 1990's.
A friend of mine is running SmashTheStack. He has build an IT sec company in the past (and sold it), maybe you can learn something from the war games. People from Project Zero and very clever people from Stanford are active in the community - those are top-notch hackers.

It's very low-level stuff, but if you like, try to hack those servers. Have fun!

http://smashthestack.org/faq.html
An anthropological dispatch from the landfill dig to unearth Atari’s E.T. (2014)
Echoing what Tim said, it seems to be standard practice on HN, I'm just trying to be transparent rather than somehow get accused of something(?)

I normally lurk more than I comment, but I'm disappointed to see how it's been represented. My teammates work hard _with_ the community.
The mechanism still depletes your stores of neurotransmitters, but the neurotoxic effects and the "regrowth" period can be mitigated with supplements. Nobody should do it more often than once every 2 weeks under any circumstances, and only then in a clinical setting - once ever 2-3 months is okayish, but again the more environmental control the better.
I had an interesting encounter recently:

https://imgur.com/a/i1hm1TQ
Easing into Modern C++: A lightning talk for the unsure [video]
> Traditionally during times of war the US Constitution does not apply.

False.

> This used to mean an official vote by the Senate

No, it didn't. A time of war doesn't require a declaration of war, and while a declaration of war does involve a vote in the Senate, it's not just the Senate, but the Congress (by normal legislative process, e.g., both houses plus the President, or with a subsequent supermajority in the event of a veto, though it's hard to imagine Congress declaring war over a veto.)

> but since WWII the US decided that we no long would have wars with other countries.

No, we didn't. Hence, well, lots of post-WWII war-related legislation, including the War Powers Act.

> Instead the Congress passes resolutions authorizing the use of military force.

Which are exercises if the power to declare war, which requires no special magic words, just like sky other legislative power.
The beauty of Julia is that it started as a number-crunching PL with a focus on having enough flexibility to deal with any sort of number crunching you might want to do. Ie. The language is built to support complex numbers, quaternions, national numbers, dual-numbers, etc. just as well as it supports good ol' `Float64`s.

It turns out that making a language that did this satisfactorily requires that you build a language that supports amazing flexibility and expressiveness everywhere in the language which ended up making it a fantastic general purpose programming language.

The beauty is that Julia's AST is a language object that you can manipulate at runtime or compile time and make whatever modifications you like. This makes Julia code itself a wonderful intermediate representation for whatever domain specific language you'd care to build and the domain of that language need not be numeric.
> just break

Elaborate?
Are you talking about consciousness?

https://www.amazon.com/Consciousness-Brain-Deciphering-Codes...
Researchers propose new method for secure, speech-based 2FA
My intention was never to put words into your mouth but help you understand why I or someone else might read your comment as funny or backwards (since you asked). It seems that is impossible to do so I give up!
A thought that has just occurred to me. I wonder if self driving cars should have L plates? They are, after all, learning how to drive. It might change the way other drivers behave around them as well since people in general give learners more leeway for their errors.
Americans Think They Have a Shortage of STEM Workers – Best Countries – US News
Hackers can't deal with words like Hell. Should have been Heck. In a couple of decades, on a wholly new interconnected network, we'll see an article titled, "What the Hell Was a Hacker?"
So you can just have your company’s NAME on Google let’s say. Many people actually type stuff into Google instead of the address bar. They don’t even know the difference!

And honestly, I know what it is like to dictate a phone number or name over the phone. You have to spell it out, then they say it back to you. They say “C like Charlie”. Seriously? This is what you are saying people will WANT to preserve this crap?

No way. People will be very happy to get rid of dictating stuff on the phone. How about AT LEAST copypasting into a text? Using words to dictate an address or phone number requires error correction and super slow annoying transmission.

And if you DO tell people something, it is usually typed into a search engine. What if I want to share a URL that’s more complex than “nytimes.com”? What if I want to share an article on NYTimes? HAVE YOU EVER DICTATED THAT TO SOMEONE? So come on. The most you can comfortably do via manually typing what you heard into an address line is to go to the fromt page of a website. That’s a tiny subset of the URLs.
If you know a way to delete your profile/history on HN let me know. Afraid not much I can do
Pursuing one's actual goals rather than letting emotions, arising from identity challenges, guide one's behaviour. Or not, in this case.
Quora has been down for more than 20 minutes
he went to Stanford
Just for counterpoint, Cf, hlt, kidney tx, amoxicillin, fluclox, gentamicin,azlocillin, ceftazidime, vancomycin, you name it... Loving cipro these days
I thought we recently discovered a huge amount of helium in East Africa:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/jun/28/huge-helium-...
What is covered by Cyberinsurance and when does it pay off?
I don't feel like they did drop the ball there. By default I don't want to be tracked. I think that tracking across the internet should be opt in and users should be made aware of what websites are doing _before_ they start doing it.

I also find the idea of secret shadow profiles to slightly immoral for the same reason.
If Greenland melts, you get 6 meters (20 feet).[1]

1: https://nsidc.org/cryosphere/quickfacts/icesheets.html
PR and taking credit
Our company uses various GPS trackers on a daily basis, the only thing that I can imagine pushes the cost that high is size. Smaller = Higher Cost. As the birds probably can only take so much extra weight
From wikipedia: "studied computer science at Stanford University". Stanford isn't Ivy league? Or is wikipedia wrong?
Bodily Sensations Give Rise to Conscious Feelings
Coders Re-Create Blade Runner's Voice-Controlled Esper Machine as Chrome Web App