skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We had this. It was called Flash and it was glorious.
Websites about trending startups
Where can I find a website about Start Up's divided by topic?

I need to find Start Up's who are using AI or something like this to give new methods about customer satisfaction (e.g., there is a start up called Worthix that elaborates a 8 question survey to measure NPS and each question is updated using AI), I have no idea where can I find companies like Worthix, tried google already but it was in vain.
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Oh man, I remember how long it took me to learn to ride a bike. Quite a lot longer than driving a car, I'm afraid. Learning that you have to turn one way, fall, and turn the other way is definitely counterintuitive and requires your brain to do some rewiring.

I also hate attaching my feet to the pedals. I do not want to confess that I've hit the ground in a very undignified manner more than once because I couldn't get my feet unclipped in time :(
Doesn't matter whether it's radio or light or sound; if it's a point source (zero-dimensional) in three-dimensional space, it's inverse square falloff. If it's a line source (one dimensional), it's inverse (one over first power of distance) falloff. This is why fluorescent lights are so effective at illuminating large warehouses: At near distances, they are approximately line sources.
I also think in many cases comments serve as a stand-in for poor design. These days, when I catch myself writing a comment, I try to think of whether I could choose a better name for a variable or method instead, or if I could add an assertion to clarify that an invariant holds in a particular location. Comment rot also makes ordinary code rot look like a walk in the park. Since comments aren't tested, they rot incredibly quickly without meticulous double-checking every time you modify the code. In a heavily-commented, older codebase this become super annoying, since every other line is a comment that, ten percent of the time, doesn't hold any more.
... nothing about writing code in windows is the future.
This is impossible to achieve since every vehicle has different acceleration and every driver has different response times.

There will always be stop and go traffic once the carrying capacity of the road is reached. Once the capacity of the road is reached, it's actually most beneficial for everyone to be as close to each other as possible, and fill gaps as quickly as possible, since there's a finite amount of road at any given time, so only way to maximize is is to fill up as much if it as possible.

Also why you should use all lanes available and create zipper merge at the very end.
> I just can't shake the notion that this is based upon Utopian concepts.

So is the idea that governments can solve all problems. And all of the Utopian visions you speak of that cost upwards of 100 million lives in the 20th century were visions of government solving all problems, not of abolishing government.
Once again as a reminder - just because your computer is running qubes os doesn't mean it's secure from the 3 letter agencies. If they compromised the underlying hardware then whatever you run on top of it is compromised(e.g. qube os etc).
Nah. When freeway traffic slows, you halve the speed of the vehicle in front of you. Leave 4-5 car lengths between you. Regulate your gas pedal usage so you never have to touch the brakes. You mostly just coast. Sure, there’s one vehicle that will come up quickly behind because that’s how everyone usually deals with it. By the time they slow, wondering why there’s so much space in front of you, they have time to recognize the other lanes are deadlocked and stop-and-go, while the lane they’re in never ceases moving. You’ll notice they start mimicking your movements/behavior. Occasionally, a car in the next lane inevitably thinks they’re going to get somewhere by getting in front of you—let them. They’ll just ride up on the ass of the vehicle in front of you while you again adjust speed slightly to leave the same amount of space. I’ve been driving this way for years and I never see a noticeable effort by the people behind me to get in front of me or ride my ass. People hate stop-and-go-till-you-move-five-feet-then-stop-again. People are happy, however, to be constantly moving, even if it’s only at 10-15mph, passing everyone sitting in the lane beside them.

Adaptive cruise control is easy to achieve no matter the car, and without any technology doing it. You just do it yourself.
> server-side rendering

That costs an HTTP round trip, which can easily pay for the cost of tens of kB of JavaScript code on each hit.

Since a properly-optimized web app will have all or most of its JS code set to be cached indefinitely, the cost of the JS code is near zero; basically, just the cache lookup time. Contrast the HTTP round-trip, which you pay on each such interaction.

If you can render something on the client side without reaching back to the server, you should.

> plain-vanilla javascript

XHR and the browser DOM are horrid, inefficient APIs, in terms of lines of code per amount of functionality delivered to the end user.

I recently wrote some jQuery code to prototype a user-requested feature which ballooned to about 3x the size when the person managing the project demanded that it be done without any external dependencies. (It was about 2.7x the lines of code and 3.5x the bytes of code, the difference being that the XHR + DOM lines tended to be longer.)

In the same project, a separate rewrite from plain-old-JS to jQuery cut the code size nearly in half.

Since this plain-old-JS code was inline on the page, the user now pays for it on each page load, whereas an aggressively cached static library pull will be paid for only once as long as the user doesn’t toss the browser cache and re-visits the app often enough to keep the cached JS code in the cache.

Developer efficiency and user efficiency don’t have to be at odds. There’s a wide gray area between the article’s cherry-picked examples and a web app engineered for efficiency.
This is a great idea and I've seen a number of companies offering 'drone inspection as a service'. At the Commercial UAV conference in Las Vegas last year there was a funny/sad video of a UAV that was inspecting high voltage lines and it tried to fly between the wires. Apparently weather conditions were such that this violated the minimum viable air gap and the two wires arc'd through the UAV when fell to the ground in a smoking heap.

That said, when you take care, there are so many ways that this solution is better than lines people in trucks inspecting the infrastructure!
Singapore’s public option is for poor people. We have that also, it’s called Medicaid.
Being able to assign the blame elsewhere is cold comfort when you've been in an auto accident.
Horses -> Stick Shift -> Automatic -> Self Driving Cars. Nice.
When you say “make money”, there is a problem. Maximal efficiency does not necessarily correlate with making money. Are bloated and obnoxious ads making money? Depends on who you ask. And on what metrics we are using to determine actual value added.

One could make the argument that ads are as much of a waste of energy as mining on a proof-of-work blockchain. There is an implicit subsidy and externality in both cases.
> I have a pet theory that when people interview they bring this buried frustration into the room with them and use the interviewing process to play the part of the people they feel humiliated them.

That's a very rare individual. I've been on both sides of the desk a lot, and I don't think I've ever run into anybody like that.

The much simpler explanation is that being an interviewer is hard and takes work and practice like any other skill. The problem is that nobody ever applies actual work to interviewing.

Did somebody let you watch their interviews before letting you interview somebody else? Did somebody watch your interview to give you advice for what you did wrong and right? Did you ever role play being an interviewer? Do your interviewers occasionally try to calibrate themselves to other interviewers?

I can count the number of people who can answer "yes" to even one of those questions on one hand without using a majority of the fingers--and that's over my entire career.
Meet the most successful writers on Amazon
Customers are somewhat complicit too, by choosing buggy products with more features over stable products with less. It turns out having a buggy product is still more desirable than not having the product at all. Also if asked to put a price on stability or performance... I suspect that number is going to be smaller than necessary.
Super hard to talk/text and drive when you have to shift as well.
South Carolina officials won't evacuate prison ahead of hurricane
According to the article, this also included user passwords:

> The apps in question were collecting users browser history and sending files, including user passwords, in a ZIP archive to a remote server.

I remain numb as to how little accountability there is in tech. The abuses taking place now for too long - even out of sheer laziness (ie, not updating or patching software) - is mind-blowing.

I suppose the moment you hold a single company accountable, you're forced to hold the entire abusive industry accountable.
Not even Ferraris come with sticks anymore. It's sad.

Anyhow, a stick is turning into a great car theft prevention device.
You act like that's a lot. The Davis dorms are on campus. You couldn't find an equivalent private space across the street for that price or else everyone would do it.

This argument is really disingenuous.

Edit: Also I believe Sodexo only runs things like the franchised Taco Bell and not dining commons but I don't know that for sure.
Stay hungry, stay foolish. Someone said that.
No, but given a list of random addresses of Swiss citizens scraped from wherever, you can validate each one by checking them against this portal. If it shows up, it's an active address.
> pure torture

You're just not worthy of a stick. I'd get a crash box if they offered one. Synchromesh is for wussies.
Audi may have been confronted with the lesson that BMW already learned to its chagrin: there's no demand for crappy manuals in the US.

That said, the only reason cars have a transmission at all is because of a serious flaw in the way internal combustion engines work. That means that the best transmission would be no transmission at all... and the transmission that best approximates that state of affairs is, more or less inarguably, PDK.
What? Who said anything about discrimination?

You're going to build blanket standards and rules without acknowledging its effects on the population, and the proportion of the effects on different groups within that population?

Without accounting for the migration process to the new standard?

Without trying to minimize damage across the groups?

Addendum:

There is a world that exists, and there is an ideal image of the world. We aren't going to suddenly transfer to the ideal version, but we're perfectly capable of pretending we can in law. Congress is perfectly capable of arbitrarily requiring that all cars today meet 50mpg, and declaring it law. But we do not want to do that, because it would stupid, and shut down industries and cities across the nation.

Regardless of whether this is what our ideal looks like, it's not a suggestion that takes us anywhere near it. When someone goes around advocating for it to people who do not already agree with it, the first question is whats wrong with it? And the first answer inevitably features the poor, because they're the most affected. And the next question is, by how much? And again, the best example is the poor, because they bear the brunt of the negatives.

Everyone else will also eat shit, but they get the most of it, and so they show it off the most, making for the clearest example of what damages a blanket policy might incur.
Idk what Keynes really meant honestly, but I like to think it means we can only plan so far ahead. Every action we take is to push Armageddon back another 5 years. Having disaster be just over the horizon is our constant state of being.
Only the ones with a sense of humour.
> This is totally anecdotal but to me it seems like the stick keeps me more engaged with what's happening with the car so I find I tend to be less distracted.

Doesn't that go against the adage that after a week shifting becomes muscle memory or is there something else?
I suppose the grass is always greener, but I wouldn't reconsider the wisdom of your decision.

I took the other path, and am left trying to throw off the burden while I can still take youthful risks, and carpe the damn diem. The window is closing fast on me.

If I had enough in hand to pay off my loans, there's no way I'd elect to waste even more of my life waiting to see if some currently unimaginable fit of political productivity might let me off the hook.
I’m not familiar enough with the technology to read through the explanation: that article doesn’t mention Cobalt, Lithium, Nickel or rarer Earth metal. My understanding of the future of batteries is that, unless we find alternatives to those (or large sources outside of Tibet), we might get into geopolitical troubles.
The junk stuff was repackaged many times over and sold as separate financial products. That was where the whole rocket scientist quant bs came in as it required made-up math to make it work. So it was re-rated from crap to AAA. And then AIG started offering insurance against those products and things really started heating up.

So it took taking some good bonds and some bad bonds and throwing them into the same CDO to get a good rating.
This comes up often, but you gotta think about what would happen if everyone suddenly tripled the gap they leave in front of them. The same road surface would suddenly have 1/3 the throughput. I shudder to think what kind of traffic jam / commute time that would lead to at the edges of the road network.

I do appreaciate when people drive densely packed and I try to do the same (up to a safety limit). For merging there are turn signals.
Did you actually perform experiments to substantiate your claim? As in: Do you have numbers that clearly show that there is a net benefit when you make the user experience as bad as it is today?
I think some of the earlier usages of this blurred things because the users were the developers in many ways. Emacs, for example, had a fun anecdote about how they had basic manuals for their secretaries teaching them lisp.[1]

That is, even non-developers were empowered by the same tools as developers.

That said, I can't but agree with your point and the premise. Worse, how many technological waves today have an implicit "and then migrate all current users" that is completely ignored by the team/developer?

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/3tj71x/even_office_s...
Right. The problem with college is that customers are price-insensitive. If a college raises its tuition, plenty of people will just sigh and take out the necessary loans. And then of course they have no trouble getting credit, since student loans are much less risky for lenders than other types of loans.
My lust for the Roadster is at least partially offset by my desire not to be the kind of guy that drops $250K on a car. We'll see which wins out ...
Kansas-born woman told birth certificate not proof of citizenship for passport
For me, I prefer manual over automatic based solely on price. I also appreciate that manuals are less complex and more easily serviced. I think disposable automobiles is an affront to decency and I despise obsolescence of perfectly fine autos.

I'm eagerly awaiting the first 'open design' auto that uses easily acquired and interchangeable parts. I would also like to see the same in lawn mowers.
Yes, easy money is what allows institutions to raise prices so dramatically. But it's not just student living expenses that have ballooned. As the article notes, non-teaching staff (administrators, lawyers, marketers, etc) account for much of the price inflation.
Pretty shocking and sad article.

While reading I found myself thinking, "wouldn't it be nice if instead of all this frenetic hazardous work we had a centralized shipping infrastructure that all businesses could share..."

And then I remembered the post office exists.
is....is that how it got its name? (serious question)
Magic Leap didn't get investments from that many big incumbents. It's mostly just investment groups and Google being the only technology player.

And as I've said before. You can't make broad generalisations based on two data points. Huge investments from reputable companies are still a pretty good indicator of company success.
Mirai, Gafgyt IoT Botnets Reach to the Enterprise Sector
So fish are wet by virtue of everything being wet?
> Or, we can go the tried-and-true European route of making higher education free

We aren’t Europeans.

What makes you think it would work with our culture?

And if it can work then let’s get a state or two to prove it.

California easily could and has the most left-leaning culture.
This is addressed in the article, but your comment does not seem responsive to the article. (To summarize: shame works; social media reps function as the face of the organization.)
Recovered log from a corporate engineer’s onboarding journey
Geez, I learned to drive on a stick, so did a hundred million other people. It's no travesty.
I've been trying to learn python for a while now, and I have a grasp of it in a similar way that I have a grasp of golf- I know what to do, but I'm still missing a few fundamentals.

All these intro to X things seem to gloss over the high level stuff, but I've hit a few walls in certain concepts that I just can't possibly Google. Maybe HN could help me out:

take a pandas dataframe. There's a .describe() method that I can chain to get the mean of the columns in the data frame grouped by var1:

df.groupby(df.var1).describe().mean

But then, there's also:

df.describe(df.var1).mean()

They largely do the same thing, but one gives me the mean across all variables, and the other one doesn't.

Now, how do I possibly Google this question? One method has parentheses, the other doesn't.... but It's clear I'm missing something fundamental here that I thought an intro online resource should address... but none do.
When is that article from? I can't find a date. Am interested to know if the suit has progressed.
> I'm also glad Flash has finally been killed off.

I actually think JavaScript video has been worse for users. Flash was easily blockable and worked fine for the majority of users. It was developers and Apple's need for control that killed off Flash.
> “At Amazon we work hard to continually invent new ways for customers to find the right products to meet their needs. We take the same approach with sponsored products and sponsored brands. We are focused on creating value for customers by helping them discover new brands and products.”

I hope everyone else see's whats happening with this statement - that famous "customer obsession" of Amazon's is now turned towards advertising buyers, who are now more the customer than you, the person purchasing the product. Now you are just a data point.
How would the Established Order coordinate this? That's an awful lot of people who all have to work together to make the conspiracy function, and there would be a big temptation for rich people to shirk their oppression duties and just free-ride off the efforts of others.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-rider_problem
I cannot help but nitpick either. You're off by over 50% on your eastern mountains:

Mount Mitchell, NC: 6684 feet [1]

Mount Washington, NH: 6288 feet [2]

These eastern Mountains are indeed majestic, towering overhead when you look to ascend them. Mt Washington would stand in perfectly for Caradhras.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Mitchell

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Washington_(New_Hampshir...
LinkedIn Co-Founder Reid Hoffman Talks About His Best and Worst Bets
Perhaps the solid cells could be warmed up via some cheap coils powered by some bootstrapping liquid cells?
That's because the steering wheel gears are different in a car made for manual steering than one made for power steering. The manual steering wheel has quite a bit more leverage.

I drive a manual steered car. It's no problem at all. It's more physical than fingertip control, sure, but I like that. You can feel the road better.
Yeah, I think the "rude to customers" thing (I've heard it too) is far too focused on the act of rudeness rather than the effects (unhappiness / lower retention).

Self-checkouts trade one kind of unhappiness for another, and many (most?) are horrifying experiences. There are a few that are reasonably quick and user-friendly, but certainly not all. Most seem to be scraping the bottom of the barrel in an effort to squeeze a few more $ off the purchase price.
And I learned a lot of things without modern tools. Doesn't mean I was better for it. Or that I didn't make more mistakes than I might have, had I been given better tools.

Just look up survivor bias sometime. It is a thing. This is an common refrain of it.
If the free market is the answer why aren't there a swath of good and cheap private options?
AI detects 72 fast radio bursts from a distant, unknown source
It only defeats keyloggers that don't record the mouse.
I buy that exact litter on a regular basis from Amazon. What happens is that Amazon periodically runs out of stock and the price jumps because all of the 3rd party sellers have much higher prices than Amazon.
Forget that. How is that a win. I make a statement and then he can say only a few thousands kids die so tough. Sure I'm emotional but I can give some good reasons why Pediatric Cancer Research needs more funding.

Pediatric Cancer went over 20 years without a single chemo? How is that reasonable?
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/01/our-dispr...

1) Pediatric Cancer Treatments are beneficial to adult cancers. They have less side effects and are usually more effective due to the fact that children's bodies and cells are all growing. Most adult treatments are too harsh and attack all the cells.

2) Treat a 60 year old smoker for lung cancer and you gain maybe 10 years. Treat a 10 year old and you have 60+ years saved. Most adults get cancer because of poor life choices.

3) Save your own life as a full grown adult or save a child. MOST of us would choice to save the kid. https://phys.org/news/2014-08-driverless-car-child-life.html
In the same sense that a password manager is secure if you have a secure keyboard.
Auto manufacturers release new car platforms every couple years, so I'm not sure what your point is...
Okay, I'll do a bit more reading on it.

I found the paper you referenced here: http://www.spovnet.de/files/publications/SKademlia2007.pdf

Also found your overview here: https://github.com/CovenantSQL/research/wiki/Secure-Kademlia

Thanks for sharing.
At least in my city in my commute this morning (~30 minutes), I was forced to hard brake 3 times to avoid having an accident with someone wedging themself in at the end of an exit lane.

I find the problem isn't people merging into your lane in front of you, but doing so badly (ie not leaving a safe amount of space behind their rear bumper and your front bumper).

Semi drivers have this even worse.
People work on the features that they either are paid to work on, or are otherwise interested in. While far from a perfect selection, there's some correlation between what companies are willing to pay people to work on in PG and what their users need.

It may turn out that your essential, and a lot of other users essential aren't exactly the same.

I worked on the JIT stuff because there was quite some concern about query speed (yes, from actual users). And after some other micro-optimizations that was the right point to attack the performance.

If you have strong feelings what you want to be worked on, you'd be more than welcome to help. Or alternatively some of the dev companies around PG certainly would appreciate business.