skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My understanding of "worse is better" is that it's a terse reading of "perfect is the enemy of just good enough", or in other words, "just ship it already" - pick a stopping point where it's useful, and stop worrying about how it could be perfect - you'll never ship.

A more verbose breakdown of "worse is better" can be found in Richard Gabriels: "The Rise of Worse is Better"[1] also linked in the OP, which includes a really fun breakdown of MIT attitudes vs New Jersey attitudes. (To wit: AT&T Unix came to us from New Jersey)

[1] https://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html
...everything in the mountains is risky. Sure, it's only a 5 day walk in mountainous terrain...
Seems like the perfect match for aws lambdas. I’d consider setting the tasks for crawling in to SQS and then trigger the lambdas to go do single crawl functions.

For better control over the throttle and concurrency you can leverage dynamodb... I love it for controlling lambdas but not for storage.

If you need more power than a lambda then you can do a similar process with EC2. Populate the SQS Trigger the aws lambda to turn on EC2 machine. Consider spot instances to save a ton of money.

If you need ideas I’m sure HN readers would be glad to help solution for afar.
You can always just check in your node modules. With Reveal Markdown I point a CLI command at a folder of assets and get a website in a folder as an output.

But I hear you. That is a nice effect of checking in your dependencies.
The problem is returning a closure that points to a stack variable that's now out of scope.
Naive question: Is there any reason, given that my registrar allows me to turn on DNSSEC, that I shouldn't? Any negative consequences or things I need to account for? Or is this a no duh move?
Yeah, odd for someone to redo it. So did the Apple ][, with lots more commented ROM.
Sort of a mix. Some areas were better than others. Anything going externally is way more controlled. We executed on tech visions people held hope for a long time.
Hey, I’m in Chi too! Right by North and Clybourn’s redline stop. If you ever want to reverse engineer this together or figure out how to train a drone to fly itself, drop an email / keybase.
Actuarial science ranked as most valuable college major
My main intention when I started responding was to point out the much larger winter heating differential in the north, in response to the discussion about heating versus cooling costs and efficiency. I am not sure why I got distracted about Miami versus Phoenix and inserted that before posting.

My experience living for a few years in a tropical country was that locals acclimate and do not cool nor dehumidify their living spaces nearly as much as many Americans seem to do. Much like in Florida, you will see people running around in jackets or even knit hats on slightly cooler days when someone from a colder climate would already think it is warm and time for shorts.

I think it is difficult to compare different regions with different climates and cultures. It seems impossible to me to choose a metric that isn't inherently biasing the analysis towards one arbitrary normative standard. Compare similar regions or one region year-to-year to evaluate the efficiency of local practices.

Edit: another issue is the daily cycle. You can use thermal mass to smooth out daily temperature extremes but that doesn't work when you spend weeks or months with temperature differentials that remain offset from comfortable.
Some things to check out:

1) is your site running pop ups of any kind?

2) is your site and links all SSL?

3) do you use or link to any affiliate tracking solutions like Cake, HasOffers, etc?

4) do you use any back button redirection scripts or other types of scripts which google might consider malware or harmful to the user?
The Big Bang supposedly encompassed all of space and had no edges.
I’ve been doing pretty well so far....
Analyzing Tcpdump capture in real-time with Wireshark
We're working on serving all the requests that came in before we disabled onboarding (about 200 requests). If you give me your github username I can tell you if you're part of them :)
All true. But my point is that the factual claim made by this article - that CLOs have backing collateral and CDOs do not, is false, and a pretty egregious error for a publication like Bloomberg to make.
I've a number of friends who moved to my area from Taiwan and Korea, and am well aware of what authentic foods from those countries can be like (including the love of chicken feet).

Glad to hear that there's a sanitary way to cook the feet, but the texture was what really killed it for me. I'm a long way from any ocean, so I've never been a big seafood kindof person; texture and flavor of things like beef tongue, squid, octopus and catfish all throw me off as well. Jellyfish wasn't too bad, but I don't think I'd eat it again.

Edit: I guess my point was that I'll try anything once, so I'm far less picky than the average American, but some things I can't bring myself to try a second time.
Slower growth?

You don't need population growth for economic growth. Technology is sufficient.
But the thing is cars are a damned insane mode of transportation. You said it yourself: "They kill tens of thousands of people a year." Not to mention all the injuries and mayhem. The current design of our transportation system is a death and mayhem lottery that we force everyone to play willing or not. Kids, old people, pets, no one is excluded from this egalitarian meat grinder.

There's no responsible argument for "move fast and break things".

"Drop dead gorgeous": lead poisoning in the 18th century because of lead makeup.

Antibiotics: resistant "super-bugs'.

Plastic: fills the oceans and clogs terrestrial ecosystems.

Internal combustion engines: pollution.

Farming: habitat destruction.

Hairspray: holes in the ozone layer.

Easy long-distance travel: non-native invasive species.

Computers and the internet: mass surveillance and cyber-crime.

Split the atom: made bombs.

It is far past time to learn from our mistakes and think carefully about the shape of our desired future.
Some thoughts on this from a core Redis maintainer:

http://antirez.com/news/122
>> Offloading a lot of DOM work to React makes it even lighter.

What exactly does this mean? The only thing that ever changes, as I mentioned, is the src of the image tags in these kinds of tiled maps. How do you get better performance for updating the src attributes in a grid of images of constant size (256x256 tiles or whatever) other than img.src = ''? That's literally the only DOM manipulation being done, there is no "magic".

Also you can reduce a lot of your mouse event handling stuff down to a single "reactive" (haha) callback by doing something like this: https://github.com/mikolalysenko/mouse-event. Instead of binding a bunch of different handlers, the browser's mouse events API is still bizarre after all these years. Should just be a single event that gets sent the state of control input.
I googled pics and the place in hallways is just overrun by roaches, not sure how they can contain those things. Back to topic, they say they grind up the rotting food and feed it into a massive glass container, imagine the smell along with all that
Welp, guess I'm "Elon Musk" ;).

I know it isn't the actual ad delivery itself but don't have public docs for that :(. Here is the ETL layer to back up claim:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/13x_wdXA_C9ZymA2gcjsb...
> It pushes the correlation between stocks up.

Citation needed. I seriously doubt that this is true.

> And also it reduces discrimination between stocks which results in weaker stocks benefiting from just being in the index and being overpriced.

Not really. Retail investors allocating their money to index funds just leaves the price-setting power to the professionals, which, on net, ought to be better for price discovery anyway.
Aspiring astronomers:

Do not expect to see anything resembling the photographs in the article. These photographs are taken with very long exposure times - far longer then the human eye is capable of.

Through a pair of binoculars, you will see a faint smudge (Which you will have to pick out among a sky full of other faint smudges.)

Actually, come to think of it - don't wait - grab a pair of binoculars, and look at a clear night sky, preferably away from a city. It'll be absolutely covered in stars, and star clusters. (Which look like faint smudges)
Ask HN: How do I see something through to completion?
I'm a serial procrastinator.

I have a ~/code folder with about 70 projects, none of which could be classed as finished. I pay for GitHub private repos, of which I have about 30 - again, none finished.

I have a SaaS half-built, with a friend using it (it's a form backend as-a-Service thing) along with a monitoring tool and other bits. I'm unfit, can't stop smoking and getting lazier. I feel like I need a big reset, but every time I try that I fail quickly, and each time it's harder to get back up.

I know if I could dedicate all my being in to focusing on getting fit and buckling down for the remainder of 2018, I could come out in great shape with a published online business - I'm capable of both and I've been very fit before, and made money from side-projects with others (I tend to finish more with someone else working on it) - but I just can't make myself do it. Exercise, meditating, stoicism, good routines, healthy eating - I constantly try one or the other and quickly forget about it.

I'm almost 30 and it's really messing with my head, as I remember being 17 in a bedroom writing Visual Basic apps for money, running PHP and Photoshop tutorial blogs and lots of other stuff - now I can't even get a super simple SaaS out there, despite paying for the VPS and domain for a year now.

I can't go on like this.
Yeah, Tesla's lead is much smaller in Europe, IMO. In the US, going long distances with most EVs is really impractical. The Tesla can go almost anywhere, though.
There's no excuse in 2018 for using a 40-bit key. Hopefully Tesla gives its customers the upgraded fobs for free.
Yep, true. My point is just that indexing has nothing to do with Amazon's meteoric rise. Nor does it make the market less efficient or any other such nonsense.
Sure there are exceptions but inflation is (1st order) zero sum. People with a negative net worth clearly benefit and someone has to take that loss as someone is owed money. Yes there will be rich people who benefit (and more than any poor person in this scenario), but as an aggregate it will be a reduction in wealth inequality.
I am absolutely outraged about the way the current system treats and traps the poor. But we need to be clear that this isn’t a fix; it’s a further obfuscation of the problem. I have little doubt that said algorithms will continue to wrong the poor at similar or greater rates - the only difference is that it will be significantly harder to detect.
I lived in Ottawa and then worked in Montreal few years ago.

Compare to silicon valley - the difference is between 2x - 4x.
Canada always been a joke is high tech pays. Add miserable weather to that and that completes the package.
Try glassdoor to get an idea
> The right way, apparently, to think about what happened at NYJM is that Hill got one of his friends to sneak an inappropriate article into a journal.

Who was that friend of his? Rivin, the editor who contacted him after learning about the article from his co-author, Steinberger, the editor-in-chief and founder of the journal who decided to publish the paper, or the unnamed referee who had a very positive opinion?
These cars were made ~5 years ago, but there's still no excuse for using a 40-bit key (which is transformed into a 24-bit response, lol) ~5 years ago.
​Symantec-secured website shutdown coming soon
> Your argument went away when EVERYONE could afford a car and clogged the streets anyway.

I'm not sure I agree. If I drive a car to work, it sits in a parking garage all the rest of the day. If I take a Lyft, it continues to roam the streets waiting for the next fare. Any rideshare (or taxi, for that matter) that is not actively hired is a car that would not otherwise have been out on the road. I don't think they're currently numerous enough to make a huge difference, at least where I live (outside L.A.), but the difference definitely isn't on the side of less traffic.

I'm all for transportation options (and don't forget housing options!) that incentivize people not to own cars, but replacing my car with another car that has to drive a bit farther doesn't get cars off the road.
Part of the story of 2008-9 was that congress nearly didn't act, with Paulson famously getting down on bended knee to beg Pelosi to whip the necessary votes. The government has the capacity to act – but there's no guarantee that they'll make the correct choices in a timely manner.
I know that for a language like c++, the compiler can prune dead code. But I mean for the often-lamented "4gb-electron text editor" something that could nibble away at the redundancy gradually during runtime, dynamically reducing and refactoring. Until it approaches the efficiency of a native compiled application.
- http://recodeproject.com/ (reinterpretations of early generative art)
Careful there, spoilers.
I honestly feel like it’s nuts that we don’t collectively fund healthcare, precisely because I don’t want to live in a world where I may be ruined by an illness and I am willing to pay to make sure others don’t have to live in that world.

However I am specifically a proponent of voluntary collectives for things, as government forced cooperation seems suboptimal and fragile to me.
The solution? Turn off the lights. Didn’t seem very innovative. Why not use drones that look like birds of prey to circle the lights?

The innovation seems to be the analysis of weather data to identify the presence of birds, so someone knows when to turn off the lights.
> of which 30 km3 (7.2 cu mi) was ejected in a few minutes

I'm struggling to imagine what that even looks like... 30 cubic(!!!) km of Earth being ejected into the atmosphere in 'a few minutes' is incredible.
Yep, I actively avoid pinterest because they seem to be so user hostile (at least to people who haven't signed up). I'm not going to make an account if your service teases functionality but behaves like a broken mess when I try to use it.
The socialist getting the most attention in this article is actually William Morris, who tended towards more libertarian ideas of socialism, though not as anti-statist as Goldman. Morris and Orwell were probably fairly close to eachother in terms of how they positioned themselves on the socialist spectrum of their time, both being kind of anarcho-curious state socialists

You're right Orwell had a vendetta against the soviet union and similar 'authoritarian' socialisms, but I think this article reads closer to a good faith self-criticism directed towards his peers rather than a dig at authoritarianism.
Let’s sidestep the fact that most nations and races have been subjected to slavery, so using the term Slave doesn’t refer to any race - except perhaps the Slavs, who were enslaved so much through history, that’s where the word slave came from. Also, lets forget about the tens of thousands of people who currently live in slavery across the world.

The use of master/slave quickly describes unique a relationship. One orders, the other obeys blindly.

What alternatives are there:

Parent/child - no child obeys willingly, and this implies a hierarchy or inheritance where the parent and child are similar

Leader/follower - this implies the follower will eventually catch-up, great for databases, not so much for describing work allocation.

Aplha/Omega - this was in that comment chain, without going off and learning about wolf social structures, I’d have no clue what this is. It’s just foolish.

Master/slave terminology is used as a metaphor to describe a technical behaviour, it’s not an implicit approval of past human behaviour.

The only people who recommend this change are virtue signalling - they want to look like their are doing a great good, and they pick an easy target. No doubt when confronted with the choice of “change this term, or we call you exclusionary/non-diverse/racist”, people will reluctantly choose the former every time. Which means the signaller gets what they want, change and the ability to say “I did something” not matter how trivial.
Ask HN: Alternative browser to chrome that have good zoom support?
I try to switch browser to Firefox, and suddenly discover that Firefox & Safari can't have a global zoom for all pages. I try the recomended extension for firefox (NoSquint Plus) and it can't stick to the global configuration I set.

I'm on OSX Sierra.
He's doing fiber optic. They're doing DSL and cable.
My favorite part (though you will need binoculars at least or a 4" telescope with 100x magnification):

> When and where to look

> The comet will be primarily a morning object all through September, well-placed for observation in the after-midnight and predawn hours. Currently, Giacobini-Zinner is located in the constellation of Auriga, the charioteer. In the nights that follow its closest approach, 21P will track on a southeastward trajectory against the background stars. On the morning of Sept. 11, the comet will reach a spot on the sky bordering three constellations: Auriga; Taurus, the bull; and Gemini, the twins.

> Make a special effort to look for 21P during the morning hours of Sept. 15; on that date, it will cross through Messier 35, a beautiful star cluster in Gemini. Of M35, the 19th century British astronomer William Lassell wrote in the “New Handbook of the Heavens” (McGraw Hill, 1948), “It is a marvelously striking object. No one can see it for the first time without an exclamation.”

> Walter Scott Houston, who wrote a column called “Deep-Sky Wonders” in Sky & Telescope magazine for nearly half a century, called M35 his “personal favorite open cluster.” In this cluster, faint stars form curves and festoons, with a reddish star in the center. This cluster will be the backdrop for 21P on the morning of Saturday, Sept. 15.
Building a personal programming knowledge base
Calling Xamarin Forms ListView Context Action Commands from the Base View-Model
The "unnamed referee" is apparently Rivin.
A lot of people seem to be saying this is incredibly fast, but for me it loads only about as fast as android Google maps and the pinch-zoom/pan are incredibly choppy with massive input lag.
Mega-rich family behind opioid crisis has second, secret opioid company
Secure Contexts
Only briefly, and then promptly forget when things start looking good again.

"It couldn't possibly happen again, we're better/bigger/smarter than last time. So we have nothing to worry about, no reason to put in safety guards/regulations!" - Humans throughout history.
ProtonVPN and NordVPN Bugs Left Windows Vulnerable to Hackers
Thank you for the thorough reply
I remembered it because it's a brilliant idea. Fortinbras's final couplet (in Michael Schiffer's version) is unforgettable.
Exactly. As you'd expect from a weather forecast, it's mostly conjecture anyways.
Would you propose that we all precede subjective statements with "in my opinion..."? In my opinion, it is your opinion that the parent posted their opinion as fact. In my opinion, it is clear that the parent was simply asserting their opinion, as demonstrated by your accurate (in my opinion) recognition of their opinion as an opinion.
That sounds like the opposite of maladaptive?
There was really no excuse even in 2009, nevermind 2013, if you were doing some sort of proximity card public/private key crypto...
I believe Simon Peyton Jones has a chapter on combinators in his compiler book, but I don't think they are being used in the final proposed solution.
I think you are looking at this a bit backwards it seems to be a tool used in existing React apps to display maps. Not a tool to display maps that uses React.
> people who had no health insurance but still got health care

This is a harmful myth. It's possible to get emergency care under pretty much any conditions. Everything else isn't available.

You can use this trick if you got hit by a truck or had a big infection. It doesn't work to get a hip replacement, or chemo, or post-stroke occupational therapy, or a prosthetic, or a pacemaker, or...

That stuff requires insurance. You need to stop telling your friends that fraud is the answer and start telling them to sign up for care.
Yeah, on iOS it’s noticeably slower than {Google,Apple,OSM} and significantly choppier than LeafletJS even without the buggy gesture support.
You mean, creating your own data structures is the reason Go doesn't has genrics? Like, off-the-shelve solutions aren't optimized for the problem, so you have to write your own optized version anyway, so you don't need generics.
Not sure if this article was published with permission, but the original article from September 7 is here: https://www.space.com/41758-bright-green-comet-21p-of-septem...
If you're interested in writing code for maximum readability, might it be simpler to write for loops more often, rather than tricky type signatures?
Yes, the usual Teletype loop current supply is a 120VDC supply with a 10K 2W resistor, to get 60mA constant current. Efficiency is below 10%, with over 90% of the power going to heating the resistor.

That's partly why I built a switching supply interface. Far less heat. Small box, no ventilation required.
> It seems to me that the statement that Wu's experiment holds globally is equivalent to the statement that the universe has an orientation so I now tend to think the universe does not admit one of these orientation-reversing loops.

Nice! I tried to play around with this. There's the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_universe where two inhabitants can honestly disagree about the direction of time. (And the interactions between the two are hilarious.) Can we have a version where one can go far away and come back time-reversed? Or is that excluded by CT=P symmetry breaking? It sounds like it, but it's confusing.
> This is needless segregation

Needless?

My experience is this pushes many middle of the road kids to work harder and achieve more.
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> I have no clue where you're coming from with that last statement. Because a code of ethics "with teeth" doesn't exist, we shouldn't adhere to one?

"I shouldn't do X" logically follows from the conjunction of "I needn't do X" and "doing X has a lesser expected-value than not doing X".

> Everyone bears that responsibility. You're claiming CS isn't a profession, because there doesn't exist a board, bar, or licenses? It's just an unregulated profession.

An unregulated profession is no profession at all. That kind of holistic, broad-minded responsibility is levied nigh-solely by professional regulation and decision-authority.

(I say "nigh" only because there's probably some extraordinary and ridiculous circumstance that doesn't come to mind right now.)
I'm afraid my own work is yet inchoate, but there are decades of research. Here are some papers I've been looking at recently:

"Logic Programming and Compiler Writing" David H. D. Warren (this is the kickoff.)

"Parsing and Compiling Using Prolog" Jacques Cohen and Timothy J. Hickey

"Provably Correct Code Generation: A Case Study" Qian Wang, Gopal Gupta

"From Programs to Object Code and back again using Logic Programming: Compilation and Decompilation" Jonathan Peter Bowen

"Automatic Derivation of Code Generators from Machine Descriptions" R. G. G. Cattell
Thanks! I appreciate pointing that out.
Exactly, these countries haven't seen capitalism yet. I misread your previous comment thinking you were suggesting a contract would work, sorry.
aside: Sisk et al (To What Extent and Under Which Circumstances Are Growth Mind-Sets Important to Academic Achievement? Two Meta-Analyses DOI 10.1177/0956797617739704) looked at >450,000 students and found little or no effect size for this approach.

standard primary literature caveats etc and where it is/is not applicable but this does put 'growth mindset' on the back foot.