skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Spoken like a true sailor :)
> procrastination is often a side-effect of perfectionism

this also eerily applies to shipping software. the launch date is repeatedly "put off another day" while trying to build the perfect product with no customers...

little life hack gems we collectively discover is what makes HN great.
He could be using "dang" in the "damn" "darn" sense.
Electromagnet.
My thought it, what's the purpose?

Eg, the goal of the US pledge was to teach children loyalty to the United States.

Why the first 10 amendments? Is the 3rd really more important than the 13th, 14th, 15th, or 19th?

The pledge is short. Some schools also do the national anthem. How much more time to you want to take away from actual teaching?
http://archive.is/S4aXl
They really needed a script to follow to make it more focused, and the questions were... not great. Some good advice though still, especially about truly listening to users and launching asap, probably the single biggest thing that startups have trouble with.
Canonical has about 500 employees, Red Hat about 12,000.

It takes a certain scale to herd all the open source cats
Startup idea: "Summarize it for me" - Upload any document/video/url and pay $x for the cliffsnotes.
The fact that lead causes violence isn't in question.

Violence is caused by multiple factors. One additional factor is the billions of dollars to be made preparing and running drugs from Mexico to the US.

My assertion is that if lead were removed as a factor, this would not negate the other cause.
Agreed on that point. Mouse study results shouldn't be taken as human health advice. Need large-scale human studies for that.
> Self driving cars don't have to be perfect to be dramatically safer than human drivers.

This statement is technically correct, but it severely downplays how close to perfect the autonomous cars have to be to be significantly better than human-driven cars.

If you look at European countries, current statistics are around 2 fatalities per billion km. The US is around twice that number. Either way it's actually a quite safe mode of transportation.

In fact, if you compare it to travelling by train, the average over European train travel over the past decade is around 0.2 deaths per billion passenger km. Trains are driven by professionals, still accidents happen.

In other words, the fatality rate for cars per billion passenger-kilometers is in the same order of magnitude as for trains driven by professional drivers. How much do you really expect autonomous cars to be able to improve on that?
I think there were also some games where this happened accidentally... you'd have a difficult boss with 32767HP, cast heal on that, and surprise integer underflow.
The easy and glib way for Apple to get to a 5 trillion valuation is for the market to give them a p/e ratio like they give Amazon.

If market analysts were sane, Apple would've hit the 5 trillion mark a while ago.

But it's a stupefying number that isn't worth talking about. Apple is bad at growth. Apple is very good at profit. To them, that's all that matters, and that's not going to change.

I think we'll never see Apple valued at 5T because Apple will increase buyback programs and go totally private within 10 years. Exactly because they don't want to have to deal with people who talk about a 50 trillion valuation like it's a thing that better happen or else.
There are also many countries/cities with excellent publicly owned transit, various excellent public services in the US, and many terrible privately owned services (including transit services) around the world.

I don’t think this is an adequate complete explanation.
World’s Richest People Just Can’t Give Away Their Money Fast Enough
Wonder how they decide whether or not a contract is ERC20 or ERC721 compliant to set the `is_erc20` and `is_erc721` values in the `contracts` table.
Most european cities and countries have government run public transport or semi private monopolies running the transport. Privatization is usually singled out as the root cause of the sorry state of the rail service in e.g. the UK. Basically it leads to companies cherry picking the most lucrative routes and shutting down the rest.

So, I don't think you can blame the shift from private to public for this. It's not that black and white. I think the car lobby has been a much bigger factor in driving both the construction of highways, suburbs, and destruction of local tram networks across most cities in the US. This did not happen in Europe.

I was in San Francisco a few months ago. The public transport there is pretty bad compared to what I'm used to in Berlin (clean, fast, efficient, etc.). The local muni trains are tiny and infrequent and you basically have to step over hords of homeless people to get into them. I was kind of shocked to see a 1 car muni show up after waiting for that for close to 15 minutes at Powel station. It's like they're not even trying.
There’s one I’ve seen like that for React Native [0].

[0]: https://github.com/nanohop/sketch-to-react-native/blob/maste...
Science cannot speak to general morality, as an abstract set of axiomatically good values, because it tends to tell us that those are completely arbitrary.

But science also teaches us that humans have a set of common, shared values, and while they may be arbitrary in general, they're not arbitrary to us. And they're shared, because humans are not isolated minds, each coming to existence ex nihilo, but in fact are connected through the process of reproduction. All of us have brain architecture we've inherited from a common ancestor.

This is how science can point us where to look for some practical morality.
Bird-brained – Chinese men cheat in pigeon race by taking birds via bullet train
Less code = Less surface area for attack?
For popular, public content, you could split the price amongst many buyers, like Kickstarter.
Swift specifically took these ideas from Haskell, Haskell was even mentioned in comments in Swift source code for a time.
In what way was early DEC not open?

In the 1960s and 1970s, every DEC computer came with a full schematic. You could troubleshoot any signal on any board. Most of it was COTS components, and replacements were easily obtained. Also, by 1980 there was a thriving industry of 3rd party add-on boards.

The operating systems were less open, but that had a lot to do with the cost of distributing megabytes of source code. It was possible and recommended to recompile RT-11, at least, from source to optimize for your hardware configuration.
No reason this couldn't be backwards compatible...
Some places the rich should consider donating their money, if they aren't already:

Open-source software, so that innovators don't have to pay rent to Oracle and Microsoft

Pressure groups, so that government is more transparent and less extortionary of the most vulnerable members of society.

Housing reform, so that we all pay lower rent.

Local food banks and kitchens, so that families can feed other families for a logical price.

Personal transport that doesn't result in congestion or death, like how cars currently do.
The increased simplicity and straightforward API seems to outweigh the edge cases though. React has always been very good at backwards compatibility and slowly migrating though, and it'll likely be the case here. The recent lifecycle methods change is a good example.
Braking systems are controlled by a dedicated embedded software system that's extremely well-understood and well-tested (probably even formally verified). All it does is check the ABS (and anti-skid) sensors and moderate the braking pressure to avoid locking the wheels. It also has a fail-safe system that gets rigorously tested, e.g. if a sensor fails. All possible values of all inputs are known, and the configurational space of those inputs is small enough that you can exhaustively test correctness.

It's plainly obvious that a braking system controller software is a very different beast from an autonomous car software, and I have no problem understanding why someone would trust th former and not the latter.
Were you buying ads or hosting them? They're a whole lot nicer to ad buyers.
What alternatives come close to the carrying capacity of fixed rail?
This is only a small part of a large collection of space sounds. I like these the best because they're from the oldest satellites (although some have been recorded relatively recently!) You can find links to sounds from 1961-present, and more information on how these were obtained on this page of the same website: http://www.dd1us.de/historical%20sounds%20from%20space.html
still doesn't change what happened in the youtube video - just to be clear
You're being incredibly intellectually dishonest with yourself here. Suggesting that shaving makes you swivel your head and become more aware of traffic is akin to suggesting that shoulder checking during lane changes is going to give you a buff neck. It's ridiculous.
That's another mighty assumption. The new shiny doesn't have to be better or safer for it to be popular.
Change is hard, but it will be worth it
If you want it to work in Safari or Edge (or other ES6 compliant browsers), you can use

Object.assign(foo, {'a': 'b', etc.})

Instead of

{...foo, 'a': 'b', etc.}

For example, https://beta.observablehq.com/d/64da99d0a15ecb6a
Try this one https://beta.observablehq.com/d/64da99d0a15ecb6a
Thanks! I should mention that my interest is in workings of everyday things: cars, engines, fridges, etc.

I assumed that most of these are some sort of combination of electrial, mechanical engineering and thermodynamics being a small part of it, but all of them requiring a subset of physics.
I very much doubt it, because unmodified DooM doesn't display the message about secret areas. There's only summary at the end of the level, on the score screen. So the only way to find this secret would be to complete the level with fewer than ALL secrets, then rerun the level and get actually ALL secrets (not necessarily in this order), then DEDUCE that despite getting the full secret score you didn't actually get to visit one extra area... then keep replaying the level essentially blind and randomly try very silly things until you isolate the one that triggers the secret and gets you there. Cheat codes would be most helpful for reducing the time needed in vanilla game, but is any secret supposed to need cheat codes to find initially???

https://github.com/chocolate-doom/chocolate-doom/issues/248
we don’t do revenge after car accidents. we’re a little more civil than that. we file an accident report with the police and then call the biggest personal injury attorney in town and sue for hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages.
I love the extensive note taking. I began doing it in high school; I just write down every single word in a textbook or video about what I will be learn in class the next few days. It makes class so much more engaging and the homework is way easier, so I don’t want to put it off as much. I highly recommend it if you have the time.
You could use clustering, dimensionality reduce or feature selection.

However, the way I have seen the hashing trick being used is not to compress the feature space. For most problems it would be a bad idea to just lump your most discriminative features together with some other random ones. Instead people just choose a very large feature space which makes collisions unlikely. For model implementations using sparse matrices it doesn't matter if the feature space is very large. The main advantage of this is that you don't have to keep an expensive hash map of your vocabulary in memory (hence my suggestion to use a trie).
The Game Engine Black Book by Fabien Sanglard[1] is a wonderful book that talks about some of the engineering challenges and tricks employed by id software to get Wolfenstein 3D working.

[1]: http://fabiensanglard.net/Game_Engine_Black_Book_Release/ind...
Probably an unpopular opinion, but when a project is starving financially, responding to bug reports should be the first thing to go. Hugely popular features and large subprojects
that change the direction of the project are more important than the average bug fix. One of my projects has 1000 new open issues in the last year, and I'm the only paid contributer, so the chance your issue will even be responded to is about 25%. Only the highest quality bug reports are addressed. If not enough information is provided, you can pretty much guarantee it will be ignored because there are hundreds of other issues that are written better and deserve better attention.

Without knowing anything about the blogger's bug reports, I'm going to guess this is what's happening at Canonical that is causing bug reports to not be addressed.
Probably by checking if contract supports the mandatory functions.

(I did some eth blockchain analytics a while ago)
> Holmes told the gathered employees that she was building a religion. If there were any among them who didn’t believe, they should leave.”

My wife teaches a class at Stanford called "The Religion of Stanford and Silicon Valley". It has been interesting to see how the course has morphed over the last few years, with Theranos, Juicero, Hampton Creek, and other notable failures (both financial and moral). The above quote from Elizabeth Holmes definitely made it into a Powerpoint slide.
Doesn't even require a website anymore. A Discord channel and a Google Spreadsheet and a variety of payment methods can get this all done
Gotta be careful talking about private companies in japan.

For example, last october the bank of japan owned 74% of all publicly traded companies. And it has only been buying more since.

Japan is a strange failed-capitalist state sleepwalking into unintentional(?) socialism. Impossible to make a coherent point about a situation like that.
I wonder if the fact there will be no effective antibiotics by 2030 will influence people's decisions to put foreign bodies under their skin.
Oh yes, Chrono Trigger and Secret of Mana! So good!
By the way: Octopath Traveler came out for Nintendo Switch a few weeks ago and is awesome (a modern JRPG). Its stories are good but not as deep. Gameplay and music are really great.
I can't believe no one has mentioned https://waitbutwhy.com/2013/10/why-procrastinators-procrasti... yet
Wow, thanks for all the comments here! It’s a gold mine of tips
There's no need to say that I have bullshit standards. I literally agreed with you that lead is a contributing factor.

You seem to agree with me that there are other contributing factors.

Now that we're both happy, I will thank you for the work you put into investigating the sources and bid you a very happy, unleaded farewell.
It's not trivial, that's for sure. And it is not download times that kill you, it is recomputing that is really slow, and you need it if you want full history. You really want to have SSDs. The export itself is quite fast though.
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Also in the Seattle area the local government insists on building huge amounts of rail based mass transit (just because an abandoned rail line exists doesn't mean it's in a suitable location or condition for integrating into a transit system).
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I kinda liked the double shotgun, it really packed a punch.
Public roads are a public transit system. A very useful and productive one. Before paved roads and trucks, many towns and farms were only served by a single rail line. If competing water transportation was not available, the private railroads would charge extremely high rates, extracting all excess production of the area. The coming of public paved roads and trucks was blessing.

Many roads are now past capacity much of the time, which makes them much less useful, and many modern cities have been designed only for people in cars (is there a word like bicyclist for a person in a car?) instead of people walking, which is definitely a mistake. But the high speed, point to point, on demand, variable cargo, transit system of public roads is a great thing. Deride and shame it at your peril.

We need to improve the road system in many ways. Some possibilities are congestion pricing, lots of tunnels, and public spaces people can walk to from their homes, but to believe some externally controlled system for transit is what we should shoot for as a society, I think, is mistaken.
You don't trust it now, but when everyone will happily ride autonomous vehicles and will have demonstrated they are safer, then you will change your mind. That's how we were convinced to go into metal tubes with wings hurtling through the air.
1976 is the only time since the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that a Democrat has won a majority of the south. !976 was definitely not a regular election. The Democratic candidate was white evangelical southerner. The Republican candidate was a northerner who had been Nixon's vice president and had pardoned Nixon. It took pretty extreme circumstances for the south to vote for a Democrat after 1964.
You're suggesting that mouse studies are not useful because they do not apply to humans are overly cynical. You're not giving enough credit to the similarities between mice and humans in physiology.

These time restricted feeding studies have been done in humans with effects in the same direction.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S155041311...
Object spreads work in Safari (I'm using 11).
That is a good point. But again, a decade is a long time now.
I took your comment to mean that we shouldn't demand the time of volunteer open-source developers. I agree. But Canonical is a for-profit company.
That only applies in a few specific cases. Basically, a linked list or an array of objects containing no further references. Otherwise, those internal references get immediately followed and significantly dilute the locality.

There have been garbage collectors designed to improve locality of predictable accesses, but they are not the norm.
I had too much lead in my coffee this morning
This has been my pet theory as well. If Apple loses Ives their stock will tank so throwing a couple billion at a car project to keep him engaged is still a good investment (and if they're lucky it might even yield some valuable patents)
This is a good way to increase your churn. If your product has known bugs affecting my workflow that I have reported and you have not even responded to (a valid response could include instructions for preparing a patch/PR or even a message saying needs more info) I will always be looking for alternatives. If you are adding pointless features (to me as a user I started using the product with the existing feature set so new features are most likely pointless to me) at the same time I'm really starting to wonder about just forking.
does your Toyota automatically unlock when you simply walk up and look at it? can it remote-start just by you hollering at it? Does it open the trunk just by you saying “open the trunk”? Or wait, you actually still even have a car key? What are you still using a flip phone too?

hah. jokes aside, they develop a lot of low-level electronics and operating systems. and they have an AI with arguably the largest voice training. And they have Maps, with lots of real-world travel data. They know which roads are the best and the worst to use for a route. They know when traffic is congested. they know where you’ll need to be and where you’ll be leaving from. They know when your kids get off from school and how they look like. Speaking of sensors, their devices have the most advanced sensors. There are so many different kinds of sensors crammed into the iPhoneX. The best self-driving car sensors use IR, and apple’s already using IR on face-ID. I don’t see why they wouldn’t they be able to develop reliable sensor technologies for cars, given enough time. They don’t have to be the first movers. They’re probably just starting now and maturing the self driving tech and will be ready to respond to how the market develops.

Apple partnered with AT&T to get the iPhone out. They could partner with an auto manufacturer for a self driving car.
It won't if you don't actually draw the lines between states accordingly.

(Counties don't mater, because they don't possess any sovereignty - they only have such political power as the legislature of the respective state gives them.)
Procrastination can actually manifest in seeing that there's so much to do, but not enough time, then feeling overwhelmed and paralyzed by perceived effort and/or consequences and/or required decision/choice, and thus doing nothing. I know this situation all too well myself. The GP totall is speaking about procrastination :)
Unreal! Good pun
My usual rule of thumb (with no particular evidence) is that for every bug that's reported, another 9 users are having the same problem.

That said, what you prioritize depends on what you want out of the project, be that features at all costs, or building a small but sustainable community of users for the long term. It's a perfectly valid thing to throw code over the wall and tell people to fix their own bugs, but don't expect to build a solid community around it.
At the end of doom 2 that is the annoucement (backwards). See https://youtu.be/9v_0HD7iOz4?t=304
You are just of an age where the periodical wasn't really relevant any longer as another poster mentioned -- it started it's decline in the early 2000s. EE Cummings was known for way more than just the village voice.
Planning to get it at end of October. Can't wait. Everyone has nothing but good things to say.
You can already keep a cash balance with Apple using Apple Pay Cash https://support.apple.com/explore/apple-pay-cash
If the scooter wars are driven by scooter design the winners are going to be very different than Bird and Lime which are logistics companies.
Fixed rail is indeed better than anything else at carrying large numbers of people from one place where they don't want to be to someplace else where they don't want to be.

Networked autonomous road vehicles are the obvious way forward, but achieving their true potential will require more organization than our society can apparently bring to bear.
No the article said that's both groups consumed the same number of calories per day.
> our ancestors have been eating the same stuff for millenias so it's probably "right" for my metabolism.

There might be a genetic factor here. The other thing is that the food habits of our ancestors were more thought out than we think. It might be that what they have been eating is not only better because of genetics, but more healthy in general than the terrible foods we can buy everywhere today.
Same here. I definitely missed zooming across maps like CS' surf, Q3's defrag or Tribe's skiing. Is there any good fast paced modern game with good movements? And is there any with a decent single player experience?
Money laundering
Can you elaborate on being "highly-educated?"
Man he was really hating windows. To a point where he "wrote software for it without writing software for it directly"
Sounds about right. For me it's probably closer to 20-30 users.
Sales is grim work for introverts, you can do it but if it's most of what you are doing then you need to question what the point of it is.
Econ theft seems to be their main goal. It's a shame they they feel they have to lower themslves to stealing secrets when they have their own capabilities that they should have enough confidence in to not have to steal.
Ike feels like he would more likely be a centrist Democrat today than a Republican.
Could you try to outline some key insights you got from it? Would be much more helpful and convincing as a recommendation! :)
By having hundreds of thousands of 5+ seat vehicles with 1 person inside.
I was curious about that. Did they mean that they knew where the secret was but not how to trigger it, or that people already knew how to trigger it?

And to be fair, finding the secret is often only half the challenge, actually getting it is the hard part. And I'm assuming this "bug" was intended, I doubt they would design the game with an intentionally impossible level to 100%.
I'd include Hindsight Bias or perhaps Survivor Bias as well. But excellent list!