skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mathematics isn't a great place to find the actual meaning of words, either, if by actual meaning you mean the meaning understood by the general native-speaking population.
That's weird, I would thought that if(value) was the equivalent of if(value == true). Learned something today!
The US-American lie is that the world is a dangerous place.

A lot of the problem is related the fearmongering media, and how the American public buys into it too much.﻿ Americans are afraid of each other and even more about others, are paranoid about so many things. Now it is a disease. There's a culture of fear.
Any positive number can be written as a sum of three palindromes
A sina weibo spider  welcome to star && thanks
CDE!
From this numberphile video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKhacWQ2fCs
Real talk here : what makes an iPhone slow after 2 years?

- the battery aging?

- the apps using more ressources than before?

- the newer OS version using more ressources than before?

I've started using my old Android phone again after it being unused 3 years (Nexus 4), the apps are extremely slow now, the camera takes forever to open : what's going on? Computers don't age as much
> They should warn you specifically what will actually happen.

Should they do a better job? You betcha! But I don’t think it’s possible to tell you exactly what will happen in a good UX. One major reason is because distribution rights change all the time, today you might not lose streaming switching from country X to Y, but after switching today, you might lose streaming rights tomorrow.
Its not all they do. But it is the bedrock on which their whole profit model is based. So critisism seems apt.

I find corprate overrule of law for 'benefit' of the consumer facinating, but dont have a dog in the fight. But I can't help feeling its like shooting the moon in a card game. It only works when unexpected, and already on a roll.
Addressing the far-right/far left for the mobilization of unheard voices is kind of like treating the symptom. What we have here is a failing economy based on the enormous banking sector, debt and trickle down economics. Most of it is based on ideological premises, the belief that big profits will be reinvested to create more jobs, the idea of "responsible business", whatever that is. I mean, I can imagine small responsibilities that successful businesses take upon themselves, but can't imagine them solving global or national-scale scale problems.

Anyway, the public political discourse is usually addressing the symptoms, like far-right blaming the immigrants or far-left bringing back some welfare-state memories. Looks like ever since the iron curtain was lifted global economies have been rocked by constant crisis and the voters want an answer, so they choose either left or right or whoever is speaking "the truth". And of course it's hard to address economic problems, requires a well-educated know-how.
Yes but iOS 11 was really slow.

Does it run faster than iOS 6?
This is very much required. Sadly the US nuclear regulatory environment has been an absolute disaster and very much hurt the global evolution of nuclear power.

The worst thing is that it is impossible licence a non LWR reactor in the US. Because a licence requires specific systems to exist, that might not even make sense in most other reactors. Additionally you have to pay the regulator for their feedback and the whole process, adding 10s of millions to your development cost, and that is for a traditional LWR reactor.

Furthermore many regulations and subsidies are built around 'renewables' rather then non-carbon energies. Production tax credit, build requirements and so on.

Furthermore the US government has massive capability and facilities but they are not used well for innovation and there is very little interaction between nuclear startups and these facilities. Having a government that allows stronger sustained cooperation between regulators, companies and government capabilities will be required to change the licencing process and the whole nuclear industry.

Interestingly there seems to be now some amount of bipartisanship about nuclear and bills are passing surprisingly quickly.

The University of Michigan had some great talks and debates that people might find interesting, this video explains some about the bills that have passed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1lkDRX2huM
Holography attempts to explain 3D in terms of 2D, but that doesn't make 3D go away. People are still around after it was found out that we were made of cells.
There's lots of stuff like this that you'd
never think of in a million years, but is
super-obvious once you've experienced it.
And amazingly, in spite of all of this (or
maybe because of it?) everything still works!

I think it's because like with many other issues, we are not really in such a resource-constrained environment as the free-market advocates will make you believe ("every company below peak efficiency will quickly and ruthlessly have their lunch eaten and go out of business").

According to the first link I could find (https://eh.net/encyclopedia/the-american-economy-during-worl...) in 1945, 37% of American GDP (and almost 90% of government spending) was spent on the war. And yet basically everyone was still housed and fed with 1945 tech on only the remainder.

There's a lot of fat for these inefficiencies to feed on before (and if) they kill the organism. That's also why there are so many bullshit jobs around that the world would actually be a better place without.
Top Common and Crucial Challenges Faced by Startups and Ways to Overcome Them
For any business challenges are to come and they will have to find ways to overcome it and definitely it is an important step. For the same reason, it is important to make sure that these issues are not taken lightly. They need to know some skills and have profound knowledge to ensure the company moves towards success. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/top-common-crucial-challenges-faced-startups-ways-overcome-patel/
All Electrical Engineers are androids.
Reducing Belly Fat After Abortion?
Will Bitcoin Crash When Mt. Gox Investors Sell?
I couldn’t finish the article.

It dredged back up the insecurities and feelings of personal and professional failure in the aftemath of the financial crisis from watching my home value being decimated and small businesses tanking, those being the bread and butter of my growing freelance design & development.

All the time, financial, and emotional investments completely sunk while watching the rich, entitled Wall St set have their billions of dollars in gambling debts paid off with my tax dollars.

(And then to come to the realization that I probably had that home to begin with largely thanks to the real estate gambles they were making back in ‘02…)
Typescript (or: How I learned to stop worrying and love web development)
> the definition of living wage is continually (and it seems to me, intentionally) slippery/non-specific

That's a funny excuse not to engage with the point. Of course it's variable: different regions have different costs of living, and different social supports. Some countries or areas do have a specifically defined value for a living wage, my own definition for the purpose of this discussion is quite obviously: "enough money to meet your basic needs". This is distinct from subsistence, which is what a lot of employees do.

Plenty of people have defined and even calculated living wage, MIT even have a nice online one. Neither is necessary to engage with a discussion about the general idea of worker subsistence.

> Amazon does not hurt customers overall. I suspect you either meant to say employees, or perhaps have introduced a new argument that I'm not following.

You said "at the expense of customers", sorry the wording in my reply was slightly different.

> A profitable company can afford to pay its employees for longer, but has no obligation (legally or ethically) to pay them more, IMO.

As in this context we've defined more as barely enough to meet their basic needs, I'll have to disagree with you on the ethical obligation.
Of course you're missing out one option - perhaps they actually aren't actually that much slower, but you're just used to newer stuff being much faster. The definition of slow changes.
Are you claiming a 4-day work week would result in less productivity? The article makes a good case for the opposite.

How do you explain the "paradoxical magic" in the final third of the article where, in every historical case of shortening work hours, "management was surprised to discover that output actually increased — and that expensive mistakes and accidents decreased"? Or the recent example of the Boston firm that took a day off in the middle of every week, and whose clients "reported an improvement in service"?

Are there any examples of companies going to a 4-day-week and reporting decreased productivity?
I disagree that the parent comment “shifted the goal posts.” The type of news article or segment that involves retelling facts like in the original comment is also where editorial choices of what facts to tell, how to present them, how to stylize a guest commentator, etc., all take place.

There is no isolated part of the news about foreign affairs, say, that is commonly just a complete summary of discrete facts. Every choice about presenting it for consumption is part of an editorial and marketing process.

In this sense, I think the parent comment adequately captures a useful counterpoint to your original comment, and is not “shifting the goalposts” or anything by talking about one (journalists) of the many factors that make reporting even on fact summaries still often full of politically convenient ommissions or focused on politically convenient estimates rather than full disclosure of all estimates, etc. etc.
> I'm not sure I'd allow the delivery times and customer support to be attributed as a real thing to Amazon.

Amazon has "Amazon Lockers", which let me accept deliveries at a time convenient to me, with no human interaction. This is a real improvement over previous methods, and AFAIK no other retailer in my country has anything similar.
On the other hand, the iPad 4 has been supported for 5 years and the newer devices are still supported. So their current direction seems to be supporting the statements made in this talk.
So anyone that uses sudo on the box it is installed on will be sending a hash of their password to an API? What warning will users receive before putting in their pw?
I wish AirBnB took more responsibility for the damage they are doing to the NYC housing market
As the user draak567 points out:

> Chrome doesn't crash because the backdrop-filter CSS property is not enabled by default. You can turn it on by enabling "Experimental Web Platform features" in Chrome flags, at which point Chrome will also freeze or crash, at least on all the devices I've tried.
> so Apple surely had space for a headphone jack on the 7+, right

That’s easily answerable by heading over to iFixIt. You’ll see the Plus models are near identical to the non-Plus in available space, just the Plus has a bigger battery and even more circuitry (do to the dual camera). Apple doesn’t waste any space inside their devices typically.
Overheating issues are still plaguing Apple’s AirPower charging mat – The Verge
All the other studies I’ve heard about said that the benefits of fasting kick in pretty quickly, with 24hrs being plenty to get quite a few benefits.

Edit: personal experience and some scant scientific evidence seems to point to there being a significant difference between men and women on this one. Men seem to accrue more benefits with longer fasts (diminishing returns though), women seem to get metabolically stressed earlier on. More studies are needed though.
>> Nuclear is considered valuable because it's a zero-emissions energy source (...)

Unless we're planning on using magic to obtain the fuel, build the power stations, reprocess spent fuel, and decommission the power stations when they're done, that claim would appear to be false.
> professional money extractor

It's strange how SV geeks as a class will generally skew libertarian and wheel out lots of free market arguments, but haven't read Coase nor thought about how this applies within an organisation. Of course they're money extractors, that's what you've selected and that's what your culture prizes - you were just hoping they'd turn the money-extraction skill only against people outside the organisation. It's not even necessarily a bad thing, every successful startup needs a bit of this to get money from investors and make their first sales of a not-really-existing product.
Well, looks like my knowledge is negative. I clicked the box random and when i asked for my result i was 245% wrong. O_o'
Unicode in Haxe 4 We finally stopped doing pointless stuff and focused on emojis
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/top-common-crucial-challenges...
When Apple no longer supports a device, the boot loafers should be unlocked so they can be reflagged. This should be a requirement for all hardware.
Maybe you don't need a "pen plotter", but rather a "pen robot".

There are quite a few around in the 200-500 US$ range, I'll name a few only as an example to show you what I mean:

https://axidraw.com/

https://uunatek.com/product/idraw/

https://www.banggood.com/EleksMaker-EleksDraw-XY-Plotter-Pen...

https://www.robotics-3d.com/makeblock/3923-speed-plottart-ro...
I can see it working this way. I think there are still boundaries though, like you have to be hygenienic and not too extreme. I don't think a woman can dress too skimpy for a business meeting unless she is a stripper or a porn actress or something. With clothes you have a lot of time and space to convince other people that it's ok to trust you, even though you look like Lil Pump. Because you are in the same room, you are close, and they are invested, the expectations are set, and it would be too weird to make an issue out of your clothes if you carry yourself with conviction.

This stuff doesn't work for things that can be classified as weak signal. Stuff like your resume, or name of your company. I follow author of Destroy All Software screencasts on Twitter and remember him mentioning that some companies refuse to buy his screencasts because of the seemngly silly name of his company (Destroy All Software). They think such collabaration is going to reflect on them badly. The signal is weak, it's just a few words on a screen, so it's easy to say no.

Clothing has relatively weak effect compared to your style of communication. You can't dress your way up to being a CEO of a multimillion dollar company, but you can talk your way up there. I don't mean lying, manipulating, and playing office politics. I mean being as intense as Gary Vaynerchuk. Just watch his videos, you can see effective he is at dealing with people. In my real life I have never seen anyone who comes even close. Everybody around me is ridden with flaws: some have severe speech impediments, some are too passive, some lack ambition, some (everybody actually) are too anxious, some are just clueless.

I think it's smart to aspire to be more like Gary Vaynerchuk. I don't want to be like Paul Graham, or Mark Zuckerberg, or Elon Musk, or Linus Torvalds. They are interesting people, but they are not free. They are stifled, rigid, and not cool. They manage to be successful leaders despite their crappy social skills. I mean, have you seen Elon's interview on Joe Rogan? Cringy! I mean, I love Elon Musk, but he should emulate Tony Robbins or somebody, it would be one of the most effective things for Tesla. I know very little about Tesla, but I'm sure there is a lot of failure going in communication when Elon is involved.
I'll offer to take your money so you can't use it to buy food. For a fee, of course ;)
Kevin O'Sullivan - I'm sure he's a nice man - just didn't have any guts or vision. First day of his editorship they ran the first ever hint of Advertorial I ever saw there: a lottery ad in columns that slightly bled down into an article.

Geraldine Kennedy had some serious backbone and she wasn't driven by business considerations. On the other hand the corporate side made some horrific blunders during her tenure though I don't know to what extent she was involved with that.
Also you might want to notice that the last email from Fred is at 4:26am. In France that would be illegal in itself, sending a work email outside of the working hours. /s
I've first hand experienced teams of 4 people achieve higher output (both in quality and velocity) than teams of a dozen+.
For a more modern take, I wrote a zork-inspired text adventure you can play inside FB Messenger: https://fb.me/amessengeradventure
I'm closest to a Green, but I would never vote for them in a national election. They should focus on winning some local elections. And work like a PAC at bigger levels.
Gravitational waves are the best litmus test we have for gravity on a large scale which is why they put to rest most of the modified gravity theories.

Newtonian gravity on large scales wasn’t “proven” explicitly in fact we have had to introduce dark matter to make it work to match observations, there is also the issue of empty space having weight which is attributed to various favtors depending on the theory in question.
Scripts created for this site were posted on a previous HN thread. There were also some on the r/datahoarder subreddit.
Is this the only way to get ClojureScript on mobile?
Battery throttling, slow flash? Be hard to say without historical benchmarks.
A little less than a year ago, I got approached with an amazing job offer. Great salary, options in a fast growing company, very flexible team, location and hours. I wasn't passionate about the company or their mission, but I figured it would come, as it has in other jobs.

However, fast forward to today, I'm still not passionate and keep thinking I'm wasting my time. Once my options vest, I'm out.

I DO think passion is important. You can have multiple passions and you can get new ones, but it has to be there. At least speaking for myself, it makes a huge difference on how good I feel about my life.
Augmented Reality Everywhere
Anyone who'd read even an introductory economics text would know that such laws are defined "ceteris paribus", meaning all other things being equal. Like in physics: the fact that a law that assumes something is a perfect sphere doesn't work perfectly when something is not a perfect sphere doesn't disprove the law, it just shows that it alone isn't sufficient to model complex phenomena.
> "A third category of people who are able to accomplish their goals by rallying others to their cause. They are essentially imposing their will on others, but are able to do it in a way that is not "rude." This is called charisma... does not necessarily imply dishonesty or trickery; arguably, the most charismatic people might be those that are true believers"

I find it helpful to distinguish between charisma and presence.

Charisma can be on the surface, think marketing. Pop biz lit tends to focus on this aspect.

Presence comes from within, confidence from mastery grounded in centeredness and integrity.

This distinction comes from Scouller's "The Three Levels of Leadership", 2011.

See the synopsis on "Attitude towards others" here:

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

Then the discussion on "Leadership Presence":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_levels_of_leadership_mod...
Does anyone here play hellMOO?
You definitely don’t need 1-3 days to reach ketosis, your previous diet macros have a huge impact on this. My blood ketones are at 1.2 mmol/L right now after 7 hours of sleep.
My experience of economics teaching is something like this:

- Here is a set of assumptions which are obviously wrong

- Given that set of assumptions, we can make this model, which has been shown not to hold true in reality due to the above

- Repeat ad nauseum
I would not trust any opt-out offered by a company who's bottom line is directly dependent on violating people's privacy. The only opt-out that can be trusted is one that does send any network requests to the stalking company until consent is given.

That's the same reason why you wouldn't want to ask an alcoholic to guard a warehouse full of vodka at night, as you'd probably find a few empty bottles the next day. Same thing with an advertising company, even if they claim to respect your privacy, nothing guarantees they're not secretly looking at it anyway (and using it to adjust their ad tracking in a way that's undetectable from the outside, as to not be sued for it). It's even worse, because at least with alcohol you can count the bottles and find the empty ones. With data collection, if they're careful, you have no way to know whether your privacy has been violated.
There were a few "bad Apples" in the iOS lineup, the iPad 1 and 3 and the iPhone 4 were a bit underpowered the day they launched and didn't fare well on iOS 7 (or even 6...).
In the email Linus indicated that this is result of a confrontation with his community. They basically performed an intervention and he has accepted it.

The guy himself admits that something is seriously wrong, and for years he clearly has attacked people, personally, and folks have quit, and many have called him out for it.

This is a positive change. No need to convert it into an slam on politeness. It's not like the world is being overrun by well-meaning polite people being ineffectual. Assholes who don't know when to stop, on the other hand, that's a serious problem!
But isn't it a problem of integration? Globalization did happen and open borders were celebrated both culturally and economically. I understand that people care about their neighborhood, but I think it has a lot to do about safety. If the immigrants do get lower waged jobs or don't get jobs at all, or if it's harder for them to get equal opportunities then, even if it's definitely wrong, crime becomes the solution. And that's what needs to be addressed.
By that same logic, solar and wind aren't zero emission energy sources either...
Oh no, the foxes eat us, that is their job...

"Why dont we get rid of the foxes, we have the power to do that"

No, no, that seems like a silly idea, status quo is the best.
Cheap Casio has better accuracy than any mechanical watches.
Agreed. I live in Montreal and would consider being forced to work in Vancouver as akin to a (living) death sentence.
For quantum cryptography you don't need qubits but entangled photons, and you need to be able to create pairs of these and measure the polarization of individual photons with high efficiency. Both of these things can be accomplished at room temperature (though there are technologies for photon detection that require cooling to very low temperatures).
Just the same, the current diet / dieting of most Western peoples is not sustainable. There's always noise and opportunists. That doesn't the rest of us should try.

Ultimately, for me, these articles boil down to me being willing to change my relationship with food. The more I eat for health, and less for pleasure, the better off I'll be.
A good argument for doing blind judging of CVs.
Close your eating window to 4 hours and eliminate carbs. You'll drop weight incredibly fast. Delay lunch until 1-2pm and then have an early dinner if you can't bring yourself to eating just one meal a day.

I did this and it is amazing, but I failed to keep it up long enough to become my normal.
Interesting, thanks. Ottawa is a nice town, bit small but I bet it's great for families.
> You said "at the expense of customers", sorry the wording in my reply was slightly different.

I directly copied text from your post and replied to it. I even tried to make a good faith charitable interpretation of it.

Are you accusing me of misquoting your own words to some end?
Mark Manson – Why being an Asshole can be a valuable Skill
This shows that although wages in Europe rose faster, they're still higher in the US: http://www.pewglobal.org/2017/04/24/middle-class-fortunes-in....
1. work life balance (especially in the early days)
2. defining new features and backing decisions with data
3. selling your stocks too early and moving on