skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I have a problem with this premise. Anyone that knows history knows that humans were as tame, if not tamer, in the past. Plus uneducated.

The past is full of revolutions, revolts, regional struggles, dethronings, and so on -- since time immemorial.

Humans were anything than tame.

>Most of humanity has never been agile, curious and resourceful. Historically a handful of people were, and they tried to steer everyone around them.

That's the myth of the "sole inventor" and the "great leader".

Most of progress have been a much more mass struggle...
Looks like someone grafted half a headline from the 1950s onto a modern one.
>... when passing junctions, look at the head of the driver that is approaching or has stopped.

That doesn't really work any more with the steeply sloped windows of contemporary aerodynamic vehicles. All you see is a reflection of the sky. If the vehicle has tinted rear windows you don't even have a chance to see a silhouette...
No need for implants once we're all wearing AR glasses/lenses.
On trains with the original version of the UK's TPWS protection system you have to reboot them if somebody mistakenly leaves them on top of the TPWS transmitter when shutting down, for example stopping slightly short of the usual position in a terminus station. In this state when the train boots up TPWS is in an error condition, so you have to override that, move it a few metres, then reboot it to get rid of the error. Newer models recover without being rebooted.

Failing to reboot caused at least one accident because the TPWS was just left overridden and so wasn't protecting anything.

Since a series of UK rail disasters involving trains whose safety systems were switched off, running in passenger service without the safeties is prohibited.
I do this too. Fantasy universe works best for me. Always asleep after a few minutes doing this
This guy is a self-promoter and a fraud. He pushes some "cillary pop" idea that the eyes "pop" into position after looking at far objects for a long time. This has zero scientific evidence.

He has refused to come debate a scientist and markets a "secret" method for fixing eyes.

In short, I am all for natural eyesight fixes, but this guy is a fraud.
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Despite the explosion of data, we do not understand how phenotype arises from genotype. We are developing whole-cell computational models to predict how cell behavior emerges from the molecular level. Our goal is to use whole-cell models to transform bioengineering and medicine into rigorous, quantitative disciplines. Our work is interdisciplinary and team-oriented.

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OMG, that's terrifying. United Airlines flies a lot of those. United doesn't, as far as I can tell, do maintenance until something breaks.
When I was in the military sleep deprivation worked wonders on falling asleep. Could sleep anywhere. The hood of a humvee was my preferred spot.
I strongly agree. Rarely do I see such a humanistic approach in tech. It brings an important matter to our attention and is meaningful. As a side note, what is meaningful is pedagogically valuable, because what has meaning is easier to remember.
Uh, what are you going to do when the zombies come? Or the Russians? Or the Nazis on the moon (Antarctica?)?
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Indeed. People expect cars to be appliances. Sadly they're not.

I'm not talking about mechanical accidents such as a tyre popping though. I'm pointing out that the guy on a B road entered a curve, failed to account for the clues that grip was closing in to limit due to underinflated tires, looked into the approaching headlights which were blown up by its dirty windshield, blinding him, pushed the brakes which further reduced grip both front (due to wheels being turned) and rear (due to weight relief), misinterpreted the car reaction due to loss of visual information and overcorrected, throwing his car into a spin, and crashed into the incoming car.

Change "car" to "plane" and you get a thorough investigation pointing at the chain of events that led to the crash, but somehow with cars society accept it as normal, the go-to explanation generally being "he drove too fast", skipping all manners of root cause analysis. But hey, it's more efficient to lay out speed traps and reduce speed limits (both having proved to be inefficient long-term) to satisfy lobbies of crying families hit by careless people and looking for an easy scapegoat. Plus it rakes in cash like nothing else. Speed† being a byproduct of movement, as long as you have movement you have a risk of collisions, so the rhetoric can be recursively applied until we reach perfect standstill; interestingly enough, some other means of travel proceed at much higher speeds yet are statistically much less dangerous, because training, procedures, infrastructure design, and maintenance.

† Speed does have consequences, due to simple enough energetic calculations. Nonetheless "speed" is not a cause, it's an effect.
nice for people who are bad at choosing colors in their UI thanks
It goes to funding distribution models that can't deliver unicorns, rainbows, OR puppies to your doorstep. See the following quote from William Gunn, Communications head at Elsevier.

When one user argued that people in rare-disease
families “shouldn’t have to jump through additional
hoops to access information,” Gunn responded, “Yes,
everyone should have rainbows, unicorns, & puppies
delivered to their doorstep by volunteers. Y’all keep
wishing for that, I’ll keep working on producing the
best knowledge and distributing it as best we can.”

https://slate.com/technology/2018/08/who-gets-to-read-the-re...
I have heard several guided meditations having an instruction like "let your mind do whatever it wants to do". Surprisingly it works very well to let the mind do nothing.
I could close it properly.
Occasionally when I see other parents with babies, I imagine a life with my wife and I raising a baby and thinking I missed something. Then they start crying and just being kids and I quickly get over it.
I occasionally read about people doing it, and a Bay Area air taxi startup kept trying to sign me up for a free trial… but no, no personal experiences of people I know.

I wouldn’t consider it for someone earning less than about $180k/year, just because of how much licensing and vehicles cost, but the comment I was responding to said >$300k.
Universities are always under pressure to show impact. They need artifacts to show to funders (govt ministers) and demonstrate relevance. The explanation 'our lab turned water into fuel using algae' is generally intelligible, while the Nature reference lends a credibility the intended lay audience isn't intended to cash.

Also, there is some element of just wanting people to be aware of cool stuff that got done.

Universities are primarily there to produce scientific breakthroughs, not bring technologies to market. The value is in undertaking high risk research.
oh, I like it! specially that poetic moment when you find out that you are all alone. waiting for someone is nice. no, seriously, I think the idea is great. in general, I like the idea of using internet to bring closer people who are already geographically close, so they actually have a decent chance to share something outside the screen. a chat might be the most dangerous way to do this, but anyway, still cool.

a "simple" idea to dynamically adjust areas, if you aren't doing it already, at least for lonely people, is setting a timer and progressively expand/reduce the "here" area, up to a more generous limit? (basically, automatic population density control, in an evil way)
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It's a difficult one to ask (and/or get an honest answer to), but something like "how much do you trust the boss, and the company".
If they don't have integrity, other answers might not matter.
I concur.
I always start with select * from table
because I cannot possibly remember all the right column names
Describe how you work as a team.
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I usually avoid Twitter threads, but that thread is one of the most interesting things I've read. Recommended.
Down for the last couple hours!
> Lots of mysterious terms are bandied about excitedly in ted Talks, at government think tanks, and at high-tech conferences—globalization, blockchain, genetic engineering, AI, machine learning—and common people, both men and women, may well suspect that none of these terms is about them.

globalization - by definition effects billions of people

genetic engineering - in 2016 GM crops, according to Wikipedia, make up 12% of global cropland

blockchain - digital time-stamping service that scales to the unfathomable rate of 7 transactions per second

It tells me the author is unable to separate wheat from chaff, as if writing this:

> Lots of mysterious terms are bandied about excitedly in ted Talks, at government think tanks, and at high-tech conferences—globalization, HDMI to VGA adapters, genetic engineering, AI, machine learning—and common people, both men and women, may well suspect that none of these terms is about them.
What is Kubernetes and why should I care?
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If I understand correctly the "people around you" is decided purely by distance. In that case is there anything done to avoid seemingly nonsensical conversations for a random observer? With this I mean if two people are in distance close enough to chat and the third one (the "observer") is only in range to one of them would the observer only see half of the conversation.
> Your options are to increase the number of bits used, which puts off the overflow, or you could work with infinite precision arithmetic, which would slowly use up the available memory and finally bring the system down.

Yeah, no. Doubling the amount of bits to 64 while keeping the same precision gets you about 3 billion years worth of time, which is probably enough. And I'm going to leave calculating how much time it'd take to fill up any reasonable amount of memory with a single arbitrary-precision integer as an exercise to the reader.
Hammers don't favor one kind of architecture over another. Hammers do what the people holding them make them do.

The way we use our technology is a reflection of our ideas. Since the 1990s I've watched the ideas that are popular within the culture shift in an increasingly authoritarian direction on both the "right" and "left" of the conventional political spectrum. We are seeing the ascent of strong man rule and other types of authoritarianism around the world for democratic reasons: it's what people want, or what people think we need.

I think the largest single factor is push-back against globalization. Personally I think globalization in some form and to some degree is both desirable (to prevent war and increase wealth) and inevitable (due to travel and communication), but I also think it's been pushed perhaps a little too quickly and in ways that are profoundly insensitive to the needs of the middle classes in the developed world. That's created a massive anti-globalization backlash where people are elevating strongmen and demagogues to re-assert national borders and national independence.

There are other factors too. I think a similar kind of reaction is occurring against global social liberalization.
What have you learnt in the last year and how did that come about? Dig down to see the situation or person or self-motivation that lead to this? Variations can include 'what has the team learnt?'

This is useful at an individual level for your expectations, and it's a company flag if people respond negatively.
I'm not sure I agree with this analysis.

I don't have a lack of self confidence and I consider the vast majority of Facebook posts to be fronting, even if the person actually posting is not actively aware of the fact that they are fronting. A lot of the time the awareness of "fronting" is absent, when it is in fact the main purpose driving the person to upload. Why else would people post very personal things about their lives to an audience they don't even want to reach out to on a regular basis? Even when they are in the same city, etc? Because those are not friends, and if they are not friends, the uploader is an actor presenting their daily demo real.

Of course there are exceptions to this, but I don't think that saying that a vast majority of people on Facebook are fronting is a reflection on our own personal lack of confidence, as much as it is barely a generalization.
In my experience it’s relatively rare that you need them. I think of them as the for-each of joins. It evaluates row by row, not a single time. Another analogy would be a correlated subquery.
Nice initiative. Do you plan to charge recruiters?
I don't know why Ousterhout doesn't want to release an ebook version, but I do know that some authors refuse because of typography limitations in the mobi and epub formats and popular ebook readers.

On one hand it's annoying to not be able to buy something in the format you want, but on the other, it's nice to see people refuse to compromise on aspects they consider important.
That all depends - there are some geography departments that do a lot of data driven analaysis, as do some economists.
There really is a lot of overlap - with various disciplines doing data driven work.
Would also expect that criminologists might be doing similar things.
I don't remember much argument about the term "compiler" when compilation to C started appearing. That goes back at least as far as Scheme->C [1] and f2c [2]. (f2c was "just" a re-targeting of the first Fortran 77 implementation to a C backend.)

1. http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/Compaq-DEC/WRL-89-1.pdf

2. http://www.netlib.org/f2c/
Are you a farmer? In the tropics? What about sustained sunlight in the open is not stressful? I live in a very hot climate and my eyes are very sensitive to the harsh sun. It's a bit more than obvious you'll have eye disease and your eyesight will deteriorate faster if you take direct sunlight for hours a day. Much worse than blue light, maybe, but much less common for white collar workers.

Your comparison is unfair unless you think the working class have it easy in developing countries.
> Why on Earth would they use a 32-bit integer?

Why stop there? Why on earth would anyone use an integer instead of a double, given the inherent risk of truncation error? Or for different arguments: Why on earth would anyone use a 16 bit wchar_t? Why on earth would anyone make char unsigned (or signed)? Why on earth would anyone put the little end first?

Machines are machines. They have fixed representations for different types, with tradeoffs. And you have to pick one. And the thing about timeout handling specifically is that everyone along the path from the timer driver up through the app needs to agree on the precision needed, or you'll get an overflow condition.

Arguments of the form "Bugs are bad and we shouldn't write them" have not historically helped with improving software quality.
United doesn't, as far as I can tell, do maintenance until something breaks.

In order to be allowed to fly in the US, and other countries, you better believe United does maintenance.

This is one of my favorite reddit comments ever, and goes over aircraft maintenance from a car analogy, explaining what you'd have to do to a car in order to meet the mandatory maintenance standards imposed on airlines as a matter of law:

https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/3v1hzj/how_do_old...
Probably the ones you hear very little about. The ones who rebuilt after a famous leader's wars, whose only recorded achievements were to create an environment of relative riches that later leaders could exploit or fight over.
I too did almost exactly this (albeit a few years ago) and moved to a Ubiquiti UniFi setup for my own place as well as a few small business sites I manage. The single biggest reason was that I became so sick of dealing with updates for "consumer" hardware, if there ever even were any. I didn't find open source to help much on that front either, the whole 30-30-30 song and dance or whatever it was and digging various supported versions up and dealing with the crummy UI and device-by-device work was a PITA and the hardware wasn't even generally cheaper.

It's absolutely not all roses on the UBNT side of things. They are exhibiting some of classic signs of expanding too fast and stretching themselves a bit too thin. In particular their hardware lineup is starting to get overly broad and they aren't being aggressive about retiring older products and keeping the matrix simple, which of course in turn represents an increasing maintenance burden. And some of their hardware which was disruptively priced and fantastic value at launch is now getting very old in the tooth. The UniFi controller UI can be shallow for more then simple usage of things like DNS/DHCP/RADIUS, granted a lot of HN types may have their own separate appliances/servers for that. Their USG has always been a bit of an orphan and only recently has really started getting the serious attention it needs. They've got some features on high end hardware that while niche still haven't been fleshed out. Their EdgeRouter hardware is keeping up better though.

That said the update process has continued to be pleasant and solid, and their support even for old devices has been excellent. There are no required ties to any external services. The hardware itself has been very reliable, and even the RMA process for when something burned out on us was decent (2 minute wait to online chat on a Sunday morning and immediate RMA approval). They've been quite good on security updates for a number of the major issues that have come up over the last year, and have had no major snafus (that MikroTik one storing passwords as plain text was painful/disturbing to see). While enterprises will have more advanced needs for SoHo situations even if they're not open source I think UBNT is worth consideration, particularly for those wearing plenty of hats already who are ready to cut down on cognitive load a bit.
You’re stretching the definition of harassment a lot. Sending death threats is definitely illegal. Following a random ICE agent home is likely illegal. The kind of thing Rep. Waters actually suggested, however, isn’t even remotely illegal — publicly asking high-level officials to justify their policies would be really hard to criminalize unless it was connected to other activity such as trying to detain the person. Think about what you’re saying for a moment: does anyone serious really believe that reporters following someone out the door are engaged in criminal activity?
Why are America's elite universities censoring themselves on China?
HFTT, High Frequency Tennis Trading.
> my own thoughts.

Isn't it impossible to tell which thoughts are 'your own'? Not sure if that distinction even makes sense.
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In the past at a dangerous junction with limited visibilty owing to corners and high speed traffic I found myself looking one way then the other repeatedly before moving.
Now I look to one side until I'm certain it's free I look the other way and if I see nothing, I go. It feels like I'm fighting my instincts but so far so good!
I very much doubt that is true. They wouldn't exist as a commercial carrier for long if they did this.
And the point being made is that other resources are being optimized for instead - wrinse cleaning uses less effort and thus time. The resource of concern varies by area as well.

Technically a nonpotatable unpurified water tap could be used for the same purpose but in addition to the risk of "oops accidentally drank direct river water with pollution and/or hazardous natrual bacteria" the infrastructure for the fringe use would be less efficient than just purifying more water to be flushed down the drain as a cleaning process.
Plus in say southern California the freshwater purification is not the limit but the input water hence the dirty looks for bottling it there instead of say the Great Lakes area where it is actually abundant. Hong Kong I believe is one of the few places that uses salt water to flush their toliets despite large seaside cities being in no way rare.

It is like mass production technically wasting more materials - at that point it usually doesn't matter compared to the sheer efficiency gains.

Granted non-sustainable uses of source water is something to be accounted for.
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