skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think I started learning manual transmissions when I was about 8 years old, riding with my father. He'd pick less busy stretches of road and tell me I had to shift for him, while he operated the clutch. At first, he told me what gear to move to next, then started to just say "shift" and expect me to have figured out we need to upshift or downshift, and eventually he would just warn me I was on duty and then expect me to anticipate and synchronize with his pedal actions without further voice signals.

When I was tall enough, he'd have me move his car around on our long driveway so I learned to feather the clutch for start/stop maneuvers in first gear. By the time I was getting my learner's permit and hitting the road for the first time, I already had the theory and practice for the drive-train and could focus on the more important traffic rules and vigilance.

I still remember his "graduation" test for me, which was taking me on a ride to a nearby very steep hill and parallel parking. Then, he gave me the keys and said very sincerely that I needed to pull out, drive around the neighborhood, return, and park back in the same spot without burning the clutch and without stalling the engine...
When I started ReadMe, I tried to buy the domain developerhub.io to use as name... I was inspired by StatusPage.io. But alas, I couldn't get it and went with ReadMe.io instead :)

What do you see as the main differentiators of DH compared to ReadMe?

(Zaid, feel free to contact me! My email is in my profile)
This is my situation as well. I buy all my outdoor gear from Backcountry these days because I know I'm getting real products and their gearheads are super useful as well.
Our healthcare system is not a free market. Insurance companies are forbidden to discriminate premiums on the #1 killer in America: obesity.
> I decided then that I never wanted to work with that person, or with other people like them.

sounds like the interview was a complete success.

As a candidate, keep in mind the most important thing you are going to get out of an interview is to assess the job and the company. They need to make a quick decision (employ you for years based on a few hours interview), and so do you.
On the other hand this is the kind of bugs you'd expect to see when programmers rely too heavily on the tests to catch bugs.
For the curious, this was the resolution: http://www.sqlite.org/cgi/src/info/206720129ed2fa88
A lot of what is in here just feels like someone being a cry baby. If you don't like the way a website is being run, used, or maintained, then don't use the website.

These "dark patterns" aren't actually "dark patterns", it's a buzz word to make the purpose of the object on the page seem malicious or unwanted. Misdirection isn't a "dark pattern", and if you paid for a service that keeps charging your credit card, you didn't read the fine print.

It just feels like a complaint and not a paper.
I agree the vendors needs to solve this. In the meantime I think you can hack it by using Kinesis shards ( one lambda per shard ) if you know you will need many lambdas in advance. https://github.com/awslabs/aws-lambda-kinesis-prewarming
My first grade teacher taught the class that word as the longest in the English language. I remember it to this day.
Of course the 'free market' solution to education I've seen peddled for education often involves taking away options for poor students in hopes that somehow the market will correct itself. Never mind that they're playing with people's lives. That's the thing I always find so appalling about many of these solutions is that lives are viewed as statistics to be experimented with.

It's gotten worse as I've seen the same nonsense peddled for lower education as we see arguments made for school vouchers and directing funding away from public schools into private ones. Which the end result should be fairly obvious as the more affluent neighborhoods move to private schools while funding is sucked away from public ones.
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> Why do people always reach for central control, when we have the ultimate mechanism of price control as a core part of our society (competition).

Competition & free markets doesn't work in all markets. Medicine is a prime example of an inelastic product that allows companies to abuse the consumer. There's endless examples and research on this if you feel skeptical. Education less so but it seems to still be there.

And I think it needs to be recognised because central control in education of USA working, doesnt mean central control doesn't work. In Australia we have good systems for universal heath and an excellent system to control the price of medicine (called PBS if you want to read more). Our university system while not perfect seems much better run than USA - its called 'HELP' if you want to read more. Or Germany & finland seems to have gold star education systems.

These days people seem to increasingly worship 'free market' or 'socialised markets' wholistically. The reality to me seems each suits different market categories and many markets need a hybrid approach.

If we stop preaching political preference and look around the world for the many examples of where markets are set up well I suspect we'd improve things greatly. And stop aligning one market category with the if it works well here it must in every category.

PBS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmaceutical_Benefits_Scheme

HELP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tertiary_education_fees_in_Aus...
I don't think it's a hard rule; it seems to apply to certain companies who pursue a strategy of deliberately not making any money at first and just acquiring as many users as possible to reach critical mass and ward off competition, and then after-the-fact slap on monetization practices (specifically Ads) that degrade the product and piss off users.

People don't like it when you mess with their products, especially once they already have something they really like. It's all about expectations.
The major downside, I think, of the US totally abandoning the stick shift is that in my experience the majority of rentals outside of the US are stick. I'm very aware of this in Europe, and I guess it would also be true in even less developed countries. I recognize that this is a somewhat niche problem but when the time comes and you can't drive any of the rentals on the lot, that's going to be a real pain!
Actually, ultra-low power devices (ie months-/years-long battery life) are probably better suited for older technology nodes, say 40+ nm for bulk, or 22+ nm for SoI. Standby leakage power is going to be too high on the lower nodes. Lasting months/years on a coin cell means sub-1 uA standby combined with infrequent, short-lived wake cycles. There's no real way around this until you go to energy harvesting, and right now that's limited to very very low power, single-function devices.
I love driving a stick shift. I also love Morse code. They're both probably anachronisms but I don't care.

My 19 year old niece bought an old F-350 and taught herself to drive a shift. She told me that it was retro cool because so few in her generation know how to drive one. I may have to teach her Morse code ;<).
In most of the US, if a relationship lasts long enough, it doesn't matter much whether you "get married" or not. As far as the state's concerned, you are legally married.
Maybe you've only driven traditional automatics with paddle shifters slapped on? I've driven quite a few high performance sports cars with twin-clutch automated manuals, what most people would call an automatic (Cayman, GT-R, Evo X, etc) and the shifting using the paddle shifters is WILDLY faster than I could ever shift (I drive a 400+whp manual every day). There's a reason sports cars with heavier twin clutch transmissions still beat their manual counterparts in 0-60 and quarter mile... No human can shift as quickly as the computer controlling the clutch.
Computers have gotten better at managing the coupling sensibly, but they still are not perfect at predicting drivers' future intentions.

This argument basically says that if the computer only does it better in 99.99999999999999999% of cases, the correct solution is to have the computer handle 0% of cases. Which makes no sense.

(also, almost all "automatics are terrible at anticipating what needs to happen" arguments are based on decades-old experiences, as if automatic transmissions are fixed in time and incapable of improving)
The IMF report is overly biased because it does not take into account the benefits that the Marshall islands could obtain from being an economy with a crypto official currency. For example, having a crypto official currency would eliminate currency controls and could encourage new economic activity on the island.

The Marshall islands is desperate for solutions to grow their economy so they have very little to actually lose if they do adopt it. The IMF report does not reflect this.
> Switching to Linux isn’t an option due to all the design, legal, and other such documents I need to work with frequently for my startup. I can’t risk using alternative open source tools to edit such important documents because the professionals in those areas, are set in their ways and are not going change just for me.

Excuse me, what? Since when editing such important documents can be done only on Mac? That's the dumbest thing I've read all day.
Benchmarking Nvidia CUDA 9 and Amazon EC2 P3 Instances
Chord: Building a DHT (Distributed Hash Table) in Golang
You're considering network transmission time, by which cached JS is indeed free, but ignoring parse/JIT time and CPU usage as factors. Processors aren't getting any faster, and all that client-side rendering code has a very real cost in terms of compute-bound work for the user's hardware. Processors aren't getting any faster.

The usual answer I've heard here is to use an SPA, but those have problems of their own. They chew up huge amounts of memory if you use tabs, their UX is worse than if you'd just built normal webpages, you have to deal with making it indexable, and so on.

Honestly, I'd be ecstatic if most pages loaded in two or three network round-trips. A cold request takes maybe 100ms when I'm on a cell connection, but JS-heavy pages I've seen tend to have load times measured in seconds.
Deep image reconstruction from human brain activity (2017)
I agree with the rename. I'd suggest

"SQLite (Severity: Critical): Infinite loop due to ORDER BY LIMIT optimization"

It's very arguable that the bit in the brackets is editorialization. On the one hand I added it so nontechnical manager types would go "wait, what" and forward the issue internally so techs learn sooner. On the other hand, the subject itself is bad enough that _most_ will figure it out anyway, and pragmatically speaking this probably isn't going to kill anything by not being fixed within the next 30.8 seconds, so...

Although this could be classed as a security vulnerability because now SQL injection can get you DoS. But the likelihood of the DoS being on a server is arguably low. Definitely nonzero but arguably low.
Did you see anything from a local reporter? I'd guess flying there would be pretty expensive and not worthwhile for the average technology reporter.
I did not mention any database behind the very imprecise term "modern database" because it was not the point. Those databases at least try to solve those real-world issues in good or bad ways. Some people/companies have the empirical proof that they work for their use-case in production, just like I do, and I don't think the conversation is specifically about how good the DB solves the issue when Postgres does not even try to solve it. And again, I'm not saying this is bad (well, some of these points have become so essential nowadays in most of real-world applications that I think it's a very practical issue), but these are elements to take into account when opting for one DB or another. Sometimes, it may disqualify postgres, some other times it may not. In this respect, the original assertion (the one that made me react in the first place) “if PG gets better text search […] I don't see much reason to use anything else either.” just sounds very wrong to me. It depends on so much other (more important) things. At work, I have colleagues that are huge postgres fans to the point where they loose any critical sense on it. I think this situation is never ever good for engineers when it comes to taking the right decisions seriously.

I also know that distributed systems don't come without their own issues and complexity (CAP mostly, but also distributed systems = more complex = more bugs, and also younger = less mature = more bugs, and configuration issues, sharding issues). Some databases are very clear about those bugs and limitations (https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/resiliency/cur...) some aren't (I don't think MongoDB documents them). Behind "modern databases", I am thinking of ElasticSearch, CouchDB (they solved a lot of issues regarding scalability recently by merging BigCouch in v2), MongoDB (arguably one of the worst way to address all the mentioned problems, but whatever), DynamoDB, for the databases I've been using or I'm currently using in production. I've also played around with AWS Aurora (yes, AWS is forking MySQL and Postgres to solve those issues at root which is a good proof that there is actually a demand), and also more specific databases like InfluxDB or key-value stores like Consul's. They all have their own solutions and tradeoffs. But I'm not sure mentioning them is very relevant for the argumentation.
Go: Love HTTP Tests with Tf
Could you not get a prenup?
You might also be interested in http://myriota.com/

It's essentially a long life "tag" (10 years depending on duty cycle) that can read sensors and go direct to satellite. Funded by Boeing. I'm not involved in the company, but in the last 20 years have regularly crossed paths with one of the founders at Information Theory conferences. He's a very smart guy.
I think that's the point of the question: to see how you approach it. The 'correct' approach that they'd be looking for is 'Fermi estimation': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_problem
ARG. The sqlite mailing list manager sent me my plaintext password back in its "welcome" email.

D':
Person A is religious and values spiritual growth. Person A wants their kids to believe in God and develop spiritually. Person B is atheist and thinks religion is a crock. Person B wants their kids to reject religion and flush spirituality down the toilet. Person B is willing to let A go to church on Sundays to make the relationship work since B is attracted to A.

But there will probably be big problems with this over time, especially if kids come into the picture.
Yeah, I don't at all understand this mentality that stick shift is a burden in stop and go traffic. I've since switched to a motorcycle, but when I used to drive stick I can't say I ever really noticed or paid attention to the fact that I was having to shift, even in stop and go traffic. After you've gotten comfortable with shifting it just fades completely into the background.
More information on this thread: https://twitter.com/ykamit/status/1039672289413844993
Stop and go traffic, when suffered long enough, will drive anyone to an automatic.
> Society, in most parts of the world, doesn’t like when a relationship lasts too long. To society, a relationship is simply a testing ground—an incubator that prepares you for The Decision. And if too many years go by in a relationship without The Decision being made, society decides that something must be wrong. To help right the wrong, society will begin to apply pressure on the couple, from all angles.

In polyamorous circles, this is called the "relationship escalator" - the idea that a relationship must escalate up to marriage or be considered a failure. In the polyamorous context this is considered a fallacy, because you can still have another live-in, child-raising relationship while this one ceases to escalate; but in a monogamous context there are real reasons to "fish or cut bait" other than just social pressure. If you're looking to have a married-and-settled-down life and that's not happening with the current partner, you need to pursue that end-state with someone else, and monogamy requires you to break up the non-escalating relationship before you can do that.
Yeah if _everyone_ left adequate room, but that just is never gonna happen.
William Beaty demonstrates a smart approach to driving in traffic.  (2008)
Like Groucho Marx said, "I don't want to belong to any club that will have people like me as a member."
America lost its love of more than just the stick shift. I regularly find myself around people who just simply can’t drive safely. They don’t use their mirrors, they don’t know how to stop rapidly in emergency situations; I’m not surprised no one drives a manual anymore.

On top of this, we pretty much hand out drivers licenses like fucking flyers in this country. Just stand in line and earn yours.

If you’ve ever been on a road in Europe you’ll see a dramatically different scenario. Free flowing traffic, everyone seems to see everyone else around them; people are paying attention and know their cars.

The market for automated vehicles is ripe because we’re fucking morons behind the wheel, and somehow we’re ok with that.
> the same reason MRIs are expensive

MRIs in the US are very cheap. However people are dumb and freely choose to pay much more than they should.

This company cheapimaging.com was founded by a teacher as a part time project. They have contracts for MRI imaging throughout the entire US, at fixed, reasonable, cash-only price. Some states you can get an MRI for $265.

Or you can go to the exact same facility naively and pay $10,000 or more for the same scan.
What does it mean when viral products exist to calm us down?
Anyone else having the experience on the iOS app when trying to tap on a search results keeps taking you to the Echo product page?
Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg changed the way I thought. However, it, ah, doesn't matter at all if both parties don't buy in.
So how does tailgating people and braking hard and often not make traffic worse? Or is it the same? You didn't explain why you think slowing down more gradually is not better or how tailgating does not cause traffic.
I think most readers of Hacker News realise that an infinite loop bug is pretty severe.
Seems reasonable that you could also create dry heavy water. Could that be useful as a moderator for nuclear waste if mixed with powdered radioactive material?
This is a perfectly reasonable setup for these agreements. If your spouse is not working and you are married, it is either through mutual agreement or inaction. Fundamentally a marriage is about mutual navigation of life. If you are failing at this, a divorce is an option, as are other avenues (marriage therapy, etc). The point of a* marriage contract working this way is exactly the flip of it: to go extreme, if you are abusive in the relationship and will not let your spouse out of your joint home, and they eventually manage* to get a divorce, they are now attempting to operate without the last N years of work history. How does your spouse get back on their feet now? The person who is taking advantage of the marriage can be the breadwinner, and the breadwinner (if there is only one) provides the means of survival.

Marriage is a life plan. You say that jointly and indefinitely, you will navigate life together. This means both of you are (should be?) planning with both of your current and future states in mind. If one isn't working, they are planning on the other's income to continue life. It's perfectly reasonable for the baseline of a marriage contract to be shared income and a reasonable time to adjust to the loss of shared income should you get divorced (and that this reasonable time grows the longer you are married). You might say, half of the duration is too much! Then propose something better, and adjust the contract accordingly. You might say, that jeopardizes my wedding, it seems like I don't love my future spouse! If this is important to you, that is something you must work through.

Now, it's also an emotional thing, so it can be hard to abandon ship and get a divorce when it's clear your life plans have utterly diverged; I'm not trying to trivialize that decision. But for the default case of marriage to be “you have understood your mutual obligations and the fact that you are embarking on a mutually navigated life” seems perfectly reasonable to me. As for kids… Kids cost money and time, which our society for better or worse equates with money. So of course kids add to the number.

Engineers who make big bucks and “let” (!?) their spouses stay home or pursue careers as ‘”artists”’ (?!?) are making that choice, either explicitly or by not having the conversation. If you don't steer your life, you let your life happen to you. And if you let your life happen to you, sometimes it will happen poorly. If they are having the conversation, then there's mutual agreement that this is what's best for the family, and no one is letting anyone do anything. It's absurd to talk about anyone “letting” their spouse stay home as if they have some sort of ownership over them, or passing judgement on the value of an artistic career choice from the outside.

Is there a human aspect to this, a fuzziness to it all? Of course. But feeling incensed on behalf of others because their marriages are operating in a way you don't approve of because of how you got burned… I don't know how useful that is.
How are the professors there though because this HN thread [0] titled "'We can't compete': why universities are losing their best AI scientists" was about American tech companies hiring European AI researches because European colleges pay miniscule salaries to high valued professors which is probably exacerbated by free/low cost tuition.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15600275
The thing you're not implicitly suggesting isn't even really helpful since your assets are likely held in American institutions that will respond to legal claims against your holdings there.

You might be able to flee overseas, but that doesn't help if your money is still here.
I guess that I've been lucky. I've been divorced twice, and the idea of alimony never came up. So I at least chose well enough to avoid that pitfall ;)

Honestly, if my wives (and near-wives) hadn't raised the issue of marriage, I would have never considered it. But then, I've never wanted kids.

Edit: clarification
We must message Cody to ask him to please make and consume some dry water, for our sakes. As he has already done with heavy water, last year...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXHVqId0MQc
Video is out now as well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQNWrFw2bQw
That was a pretty fun/interesting read. Nowadays something like that would be done with an animated video instead.

What I found most amazing about it is that most of the ideas mentioned in there have persisted and many have made their way into other browsers. Which kind of indicates how many good choices they made at its inception.
Real reason is simple: can drive manual implies can drive automatic which means that automatics are more marketable and dealers adjust inventory accordingly. Negative feedback loop ensues.