skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Don't blame it on yourself.

Do you mean blame as in moral responsibility or as in causality? It's a crucial difference that people miss too often.

Of course, suffering guilt over a thing like this is not very productive. But correcting your behaviour, like letting your eyes rest, is still a good idea.
Seeing a political logo on social media can impair your understanding of facts
Revolut and Monzo have way more outages but are small enough to not draw the ire of regulators. You are living in a fantasy land if you think they operate with less risk than a major bank
It's basically another take on this older report: https://www.trustwave.com/Resources/SpiderLabs-Blog/Mass-Mik...
I’m pretty sure workers at DpaceX are treated way better than workers on rockstar concerts.
In Croatia it's only during winter time for cars.
I mean, the IT platform switch was forced on him by the Spanish parent bank that owns TSB.
Learning Python for Social Scientists (2015)
Ask HN: Why aren't QR based payments big in western markets?
For example in China you find WeChat Pay and Alipay QR codes at every single shop / food stall / vendor.

What is holding a company like Venmo, PayPal, or even Facebook from implementating a similar system?

To me, it seems the biggest value it brings is the lack of initial investment it takes from a company to add support. Just print a simple QR code on paper or a sticker and you're set. It's not like Western users aren't used to digital payments already.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_bank
Daniel here, PhD student working on this. Ask away if you have any questions :)

For now, this is in an early stage, so probably mostly interesting to researchers or as inspiration. But I am working on making it more usable (adding documentation, examples).
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Google docker registry (GCR) seems to be down
Push seems to the registry give:
'''received unexpected HTTP status: 503 Service Unavailable'''

Status page says all is OK: https://status.cloud.google.com/
> if every vehicle had lights on you would no longer stand out

From reading this article I don't think that applies. It's typically only one car or bicycle that needs contrast against the background so that you don't miss them. It's not about trying to pick out one car amongst a sea of other cars.

Even then as long as you're aware there's something there you can avoid the psychological problem of assuming nothing is there.
This is my first app built with Elm - happy to discuss my experiences with Elm, which have been > 95% positive so far.

Originally built it in React-redux, which was nice and worked decent, however when I came back to update a few things this season a bunch of stuff was out of date and -- based on my brief googling -- there was some talk about whether redux would continue to even be necessary at all.

Anyway literally that same day I read:
https://blog.realkinetic.com/elm-changed-my-mind-about-unpop...
on HN and decided to give Elm a shot and here we are.
It's as good as occulus. They're both solutions looking for problems.
There’s still bikes and cars on the road in 2018!
Are gender quotas good for business? – The Economist explains
Tesla Semi shows up at a track with pro-driver – Electrek
Samsung teases foldable smartphone launch for later this year – The Verge
"One interesting fact is that the FAA claim that it will take about one hour to reboot the GCUs - so there clearly isn't a reset button."

I am incredibly surprised by this, most higher level flight control systems have power up requirements in the seconds. Then lower level actuator controls or engine controls have power up requirements in the milliseconds.
It's called photoprotection:

> High sunlight can raise plant growth rates but can potentially cause cellular damage. The likelihood of deleterious effects is lowered by a sophisticated set of photoprotective mechanisms, one of the most important being the controlled dissipation of energy from chlorophyll within photosystem II (PSII) measured as non-photochemical quenching (NPQ). Although ubiquitous, the role of NPQ in plant productivity remains uncertain because it momentarily reduces the quantum efficiency of photosynthesis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoprotection

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-photochemical_quenching
Core typed requires you to annotate everything in the namespace, or add exclusions explicitly. This introduces quite a bit of additional work, and I suspect that's why it never really caught on.

I've read that the author is looking at improving inference in it, and at generating types from Spec, so it might still find a niche after all.

And I understand completely, it's all about perceived pain points at the end of the day, and we all optimize for different things based on our experience and the domain we're working in. That's why it's nice to have lots of different languages that fit the way different people think. :)
Because we have apps on our phone that allows us just to press a button and pay for stuff.
Yahoo Mail is still scanning your emails for data to sell to advertisers
Stripe and twilio are great
> Yet, the reason why nuclear is dying in the Western world is cost.

You'll get no argument from me that if the government needs to give cash handouts then the plant shouldn't go ahead.

That being said, we need to distinguish between the cost of building a plant that is:

* Safer than what we are currently using (which I'd see as inherent)

* Compliant with government regulations (which I think are often unreasonable and unnecessary)

There is pretty convincing circumstantial evidence that nuclear power is safer than fossil fuels (eg, less risk in the mining process, less deaths per watt [1]). There is also evidence that governments response to nuclear accidents is, if not hysterical, disorganised and overzealous [2].

Now the marginal cost of small increases in safety, once you are under as much scrutiny as the nuclear industry, is huge. I've worked in safe industry and the costs were already high. If we'd been held to the same standards as a nuclear plant we would have gone out of business in a few years.

Nuclear operations are facing a real risk of being held liable for hypothetical deaths of unknown individuals based on highly uncertain modeling and theory. They have big up-front costs, and are vulnerable to all sorts of political attacks. We haven't really shaken the tree to figure out how cost-effectivly these things can be run with modern control systems and design software.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/EkYYLRh.png - not really a source, I remember reading this in a fairly well known NYTimes article though.
[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/22/science/when-radiation-is...
The key here is that this becomes easier as you do it. It's hard fighting off those few first thoughts, but I personally find that once I do, my brain is put into slow gear and fewer thoughts come up. This has an accumulating effect and I'm asleep before I know it.
> There's also been evidence in recent years that, in birds, the cryptochromes in their eyes are responsible for their ability to orient themselves by detecting magnetic fields, a sense called magnetoreception.

How soon until someone in the body-mod community tries implanting these into their own eyeballs?
Super-Agent vs. The Demotivator Slashing agent attrition – the comic
They don't, they reboot it on the ground. The implication is that airlines need to find at least one hour in each 248 days to service this bug.

This shouldn't be a problem, but in the highly optimised logistics of air travel, finding a solid hour to just reboot the GCU is expensive.
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Email security on Democratic campaigns is as bad as 2016
See https://sqlbolt.com/ for an interactive SQL tutorial with less distracting examples.
I would suggest Food of the Gods by Terrence McKenna as it brings an interesting angle over religion related to our consciousness: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51660.Food_of_the_Gods
At businesses? What apps are those, that a local business supports? Can I pay for my dinner with Venmo?
Reducing cache contention with nontemporal stores
Interlibrary loan is fairly cheap, and since this book is so small, the short lending term shouldn't be a problem.
Seeed looks good, they offer a $1 for 3 deal, which with DHL 1-3 day shipping comes out to $34. Pretty decent, thanks.
Scrum Retrospective Teardown – Best Practices and Tools
Aircrafts operate at 400Hz to reduce the size and weight of transformers, motors and power supplies. Its less efficient than 60Hz, but planes aren't that long anyway.
Kind of surprised by a sum that high.

From everything I've heard from people close to the company they've been struggling really hard to close big contracts (and spending a lot of time/money/effort on building prototypes for that), and they've been hemorrhaging employees the last year.
If you as a society ignore it and let it loose, why won't it?

See GDPR as a solid example of trend reversal.
Doesn't Trump park half of the Secret Service 100 times a year at his golf resorts at huge costs? Besides the various scandals regarding his Russian contacts.
Having lights on is good advice, especially since you tend not to notice the evening getting darker gradually. If you've been outside since daytime, by the time you realize to turn on the lights it's already quite dark. In my country, all new cars need to be equipped with daytime lights and even before that rule, using lights at all hours has been mandatory.

However, this advice is a bit questionable:

"Flashing LEDs (front and rear) are especially effective for cyclists as they create contrast and the on-off flashing attracts the peripheral vision in the same manner that movement does."

Flashing LEDs as your only light is really bad, because it's impossible to judge distance and speed from a flashing light in darkness.

Having a flashing light on your helmet or handlebars in addition to a normal light may be beneficial but only if you have otherwise decent lighting on your bike.

In fact, in my country there are regulations that require a non-blinking white light on the front, a non-blinking red light on the back and reflectors on the pedals and wheels. There are actually quite strict rules where and how the lights should be placed.

Unfortunately not everyone complies with these regulations, and the worst offenders I see are children. I've seen kids riding bikes dangerously on the roads (and had closer calls than I'd like to) on otherwise affluent neighborhoods. Their parents (and themselves!) had completely neglected to put lights on their bikes (or check that they work, have batteries, etc).
What do they do if there is a temporary power loss in mid air?
So on a project like this, you do not use many standard libraries. It is usually explicitly stated that you can't use anything from the std c library and such.

Also source lines of code are usually calculated as lines of code that need to be verified. So if a line of code is in the software, it needs to have a test that covers that line of code.
Why wouldn't they count everything? Does a line of code stop being a line of code if it's written by someone other than you?
There is something I didn't like about the weed and it was that it flushes my short-time cache very often, in the end, I had nothing to take away if I wrote it, it wasn't clear enough. So weed can differ a lot in other people's minds, hence your downvotes I think :)

IMO I can mention 2 correlated factors, Some of us are kinetic thinkers and we need the movement to accelerate the clock and effect more misfires causing "aha moments". And blood speed and pressure is a thing in our brains.

Personally, I have found myself in situations where a problem's solution is presented very clearly in the middle of a low pace run (7 mins per km) and immediately go back to my shelter with something new to try out.
We also can't access it and we're also getting some weirdness with google dns.
App that lets you bet on whether Elon Musk will step down from Chairman
Perfect for the dinner table.
Also Estonia was home to the Institute of Cybernetics in Tallinn, which was one of the premier Soviet computer science institutes.
I've heard this kind of argument a number of times before... but I really don't understand what foundation it grows from.

Our organs generally do not take "breaks", with the primary exception being our brain. Hearts don't take power-naps, skin doesn't... I dunno, stop being skin? Your digestive system may seemingly reverse course at times, but it essentially never stops. Why is it such a common belief that [organ X] obviously needs to take a break and that'll fix things?
>many of my clothes are dark

I've taken so many risks like this when I was using a bike: dark grey coat: check, black pants: check, dark grey backpack: check, black shoes: check. And usually my light (only in the back) is barely visible because of using old batteries and forgetting to change them.
I look for policies like this to see how I'm likely to be treated by a company in general.

Even more critical are terms of employment. Over the past few decades, companies often went from a healthy relationship (long-term employment, companies own IP in the domain of employment created on work hours) to a rather unhealthy one (3-year stints combined with abusive terms -- overreaching non-disclosures, non-competes, IP ownership, etc., digging deeply into my personal life).

Then there's background checks. These went from reasonable due diligence (I got my degree and worked where I claimed) to digging into past salaries and using those in negotiations (salaries get shared through data brokers like Equifax, often in violation of state laws), looking at credit records, etc.

There are policies around emergencies -- what happens if a relative dies and similar?

And there's the practical: How often do employees get legally threatened or sued on the way out? I've now had this happen to several friends; it's surprisingly common. In all cases, they settled on the company's terms (which were always without merits) since litigation would have cost years of life and hundreds of thousands of dollars.

A job is kind of like a marriage. Even if they don't effect you directly, these are pretty good indicators of whether you're getting into a healthy or abusive long-term relationship.
I thought this article was pretty poorly written too, and the website is a clear example of the "Bullshit Web." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17655089

However, the number of people who have read a book published in 1981 has no bearing on the validity of the book as a source.
Ask HN: Apps that can be used to make passive income in spare time?
There's more to life than productivity though. Lots of people use social media to stay in touch with distant relatives.

I've drastically reduced my usage of social media services not for productivity reasons, but because I'm not comfortable with the insanely detailed profile I end up revealing.
I have a somewhat limited ability for visual hallucinations, apparently called Aphantasia, discussed before on hn [Aphantasia]. As such, when meditating I tend to simply look at the "blackness" of my eyes closed. What I mostly see is a very dark pulsating tunnel pattern. A quick search suggests this is called phosphenes [phosphenes]. I find it interesting that as I fall asleep the pattern abruptly stops; somewhat like having a LCD screen set to black and the having the backlight turned off.

It works for me, particularly when trying to nap. In the evening I prefer to listen to podcasts. As dzhiurgis mentioned, finding the right podcast makes a big difference. I look for podcasts where are interesting enough to keep listing, but not interesting enough to keep me awake. Usually podcasts with 5-15 minute segments are best. I like The History of English podcast [podcast 1] and The Naked Scientists [podcast 2].

[Aphantasia 176 comments on a fb hosted article] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11554894
[Aphantasia comment by blakeross to a BBC link ] http://www.bbc.com/news/health-34039054
[phosphenes] http://scienceline.org/2014/12/why-do-we-see-colors-with-our...
[podcast 1] http://historyofenglishpodcast.com/
[podcast 2]https://www.thenakedscientists.com/
Then that really does raise some questions as to what 100 million lines are for. What operations exactly does an airplane need to execute that require that much code?
How would an evolutionary pathway to floating look like?
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The Hinckley Point plant in the UK will pay for its own decommissioning - and has to put money aside as it operates to fund it, so a later bankruptcy wouldn't affect the liability. Of course, it if was decommissioned after only a short period of operation, that wouldn't work.
Even more shorter and modern :)

javascript:(() => document.body.querySelectorAll('*').forEach(el => { if (['fixed', 'sticky', '-webkit-sticky'].includes(getComputedStyle(el).position)) { el.remove() }))()
Ask HN: What fun/useful things do you do when tired, instead of Netflix/Reddit?
After I get tired at the end of a day, I tend to waste my time doing pointless things - watching Netflix, refreshing Reddit, etc.

They are not productive and bring me no joy.

I'm looking for something fun/smart/useful/relaxing/healthy to do instead of that, something that doesn't require a lot of focus, mental energy, or will power.

Can you recommend something like that?
Nice post. 2010. Years back, this blog was started by Nick for app engine tutorials etc, as he was one of the first in Google app engine support, when he worked for Google. Time flies. Tons of other good posts on that blog.
How Can some one write a lot of things in a single Blog Post
This is the blog post ( https://sportsreviewpro.com/best-hybrid-bikes-under-500/ ) I am worried , how did they write so much about a single bike ?
I am a Bike Blogger And I wrote a single post in my blog (https://toptrustedreview.com/) .
But , as you can see I coudn't write a lot in blog post about bike accessories in my blog
.
I just want to know how can people write so much in a single post or a single product review ??
One of them is atlaspredict.com. It lets you create prediction markets about any outcome and it pays you 10% of the money people put into your prediction markets. It takes 20 seconds to set up a prediction market/contest.
Judging by what former employees say, also an extremely questionable management team, at least in the Berlin office.
I also have been doing this since I was a kid. When I was doing my homework, whenever I blocked or something I would walk to the bathroom and back a few times (tiny apt!). That definitely helped.
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I can confirm this - I got similar information from several employees. The market is extremely hard and doesn't scale well. They did a great job solely by surviving and I'm really happy, that their hard work is rewarded now.
Relevant Twitter thread: "You want to know something about how bullshit insane our brains are?"

https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1014267515696922624
I go over my Anki cards.this focus the mind... Is conductive to sleep and very productive.
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What sort of benefits have you seen from something like this in real software? I tried some techniques like this before, but in the end they didn't have much of an impact.
40% of people don't even cook or eat together. We go out as a family or order in like 2 times a month. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/03/05/the-s...

Phones and technology also get in our way and we as a society have become passive in parenting. The pay back when they are pre-teens is going to be painful. http://www.apa.org/monitor/2016/02/smartphone.aspx
One fun and useful thing you can do (that can also make you some extra money on the side) is creating prediction markets in atlaspredict.com. You will not only get 10% of the money people put into your market but will also get proprietary data about what predictions think is going to happen, which is very useful for research or just for selling it.
Could you help out with a small Indie Makers Poll?
I don’t think I’ve seen this “primary” and “secondary” caregiver distinction before. Seems like bullshit to me.
JavaScript Manual for Beginners
Where are you seeing this? Status page is still all green for us.
So that depends on if you mean a power source temporarily goes down or if a box experiences a power blip. So in the first case each box usually has 3 different sources of power, something like the generators on the engines, then backup on the 24 volt bus, then finally a backup battery.

In the second scenario it depends on how long the blip is. Usually there are holdup requirements that a box will not reset if power is lost for x amount of time. If power is lost for longer it will save state and leave itself in a state that will come back up quickly.

What I am thinking is happening in this case is that some value is getting messed up in NVM and it must be reset by the maintenance crew, so the "reset" they are talking about isn't just rebooting after the error occurs. But if you reboot before the error happens the NVM doesn't get messed up and the value is just updated with the correct number.