skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well then obviously for some reason "crazy" driving is selected for. The exhaustive options are:

1) profits are optimized by driving slightly faster and slightly more recklessly.

2) with hours and hours of experience you can drive better than an average person. Our simple non-professional minds simply don't comprehend their driving style and interpret their decisions as crazy.
RSS is a nice format, but it'd be even nicer as json.

Recently had a client that needed me to read their RSS feed into email templates and update their template after they switched their email service. First time working with RSS. 10/10, would do so again.
Hope they didn't lock the gate on you at the Sheepfold parking lot. Had to chop down a tree after sunset once..
> No, pterosaurs had wings built out of hand bones, and hands develop their size early in vertebrates. Therefore if you've got the right proportions to fly as a grownup, you should be able to as a kid. Whether that was right to birth is still debated, but certainly they could fly from being young.

You've got the GP's question exactly backwards - they aren't questioning whether the juveniles could fly, only the adults. If you develop the full hand size early in life, and that supports flying with 20kg of mass, a 15kg juvenile is going to have a much better time of things than a 50kg adult. (Numbers pulled out of my ass, I'm not sure what the actual ones would be)
There goes Linux
Hey there, easy on the guitarists.

Guitars, like other string instruments, have multiple ways to play each note. Depending on the note progression, hand position needs to slide up and down the neck of the guitar to ensure the necessary groups of notes are all easily reachable from the current position. Tablature solves this issue by telling guitar players where to place their hands. Orchestral sheet music involving stringed instrument parts often include both the standard staff and tablature.

Of course, the simplicity of tabs also make it a great way for the community to spread knowledge. A simple tab can be written down in notepad in minutes and passed along freely, whereas sheet music requires specialized software and hours of time.

This makes it very attractive to beginners who aren't looking to become professional musicians, but simply want to mimic what they hear on the radio for their friends. I can either sit you down at a piano for two years and teach you sheet music, or give you a few weeks and tabs. Will you be playing perfectly? Of course not - but you'll be enjoying yourself.

Mind you, piano notes are already in a 1:1 correspondence with the staff, so hand placement is greatly simplified and tablature would be redundant. When the bar to musical literacy is to learn how to read a notation optimized for piano, it becomes a pointless question to ask why piano players achieve literacy.
A bit of unpopular opinion for HN the perception is highly culture specific and the way Linus conducts himself might be very controversial for US PC culture yet might be considered fairly mild by other cultures standards.
Elon Musk and SpaceX building “Big Falcon Rocket” to circumnavigate Luna
The study's abstract ( http://science.sciencemag.org/content/351/6280/1433 ) says We found a significant effect in the same direction as in the original study for 11 replications (61%); on average, the replicated effect size is 66% of the original.

On average, the replicated effect size is only 66% of the original effect size. What explains this?
This is so true, and I have unfortunately observed this personally too many times.
After scrolling through their website [0] I can't help but to think of Portal 2's "Official Turrets" trailer [1], except it's batteries instead of bullets.

[0]: https://impossible.aero/
[1]: https://youtu.be/GGPIQ72-2Vg?t=7
I assumed it was a reference to the surface area of a sphere - which is 4pir^2. The point would still hold.
>Don't you think your perception of the painting was perhaps colored by the fact that you knew it was an original Van Gogh?

Speaking just for myself- I had a similar experience as the parent comment, and at the time, I was kind of 'meh' about even going to the museum in the first place. But my girlfriend at the time was majoring in art history, and she always had fascinating things to tell me to help fill in the missing context of whatever we saw together. So I thought that with her, the trip would be worth it.

And it was! But, and I can't stress this enough- Irises utterly captivated me (both of us, actually), before she had even uttered a word. the gap between the real thing and a flat reproduction is that wide.
This is a great question. Thank you!
If I'm reading your summation correctly, someone made edited the CoC in an attempt to indict Schito ad-hoc, and that bad faith attempt was foiled because the community was able to see the timing of the change. Doesn't your version of events strongly imply that having the CoC on file is what made it even possible to see how transparent this attack was?

Maybe you believe that the CoC is what made this attack possible, but that's a far-from-self-evident line of thinking, because such bad faith attacks and power plays have long existed in projects with no code of conducts. I'm not for now getting into the argument of how a CoC may be overall beneficial, I am simply challenging u/aaron695 on his claim that CoCs have led to "lynching" and "are evil at its worst". I'm assuming that he, like many programmers, believes terminology have meaning, and that his choice of words reflects actual quantifiable and tangible wrongs.

I'm not even particularly bothered by aaron695's implicit comparison of what CoCs' allegedly inflct compared to the violence of real-life lynchings. But I think his use of the overdramatic term is a symptom of poor thinking here. Lynchings generally imply acts of horror arising from the absence of agreed-upon norms, or actual law. People who advocate for CoCs in good-faith, ostensibly do so because they believe a CoC can instill some trust (because actual laws aren't possible nor desirable) that behavior won't be punished/ignored for nebulous/arbitrary reasons.

The two examples given so far are examples in which:

1. The attempt to use the CoC in bad faith failed, as in your example with Schito.

2. Both the CoC's impact and its correctness are debatable, if we attempt to avoid taking or refuting Vegg's side. For starters, Vegg resigned. And if he hadn't, there's no indication the Node.js overseeing committee felt empowered to take action to remove him. And yet if the CoC did provide for that action -- again, such a rules-guided process (even if ultimately stupid) is still the antithesis of what a "lynching" entails.

I'm not trying to just be pedantic here, nor am I arguing that you and aaron694 are morally bankrupt bigots for your anti-CoC positions. I am arguing, though, that you have taken this stance without justifying evidence or logical reason. For an example of the latter, look at how you bring up the problem of "everybody else using the Contributor Covenant" that now includes the "Elia clause". Think about how absolutely absurd it would be if, in that argument, you replaced "Code of Conduct" with "[some library well-known to be broken/insecure]", and then used that line of reasoning to assert that open source software is "evil at its worst" or even, "kind of evil".

edit: correction, the user who brought up Rod Vagg was not aaron695, but another commenter.
RSS never died. On the contrary, its usage for content aggregation & monitoring has been increasing over the years, specially in the business world and niche markets.

I'm speaking from my own experience running Feedity - https://feedity.com, a growing startup that helps with custom feeds for unstructured sources like webpages.
Podcasting is RSS. That means that 26% of Americans (I don't have worldwide stats handy) depend on RSS every month.

So, more Americans use RSS every month than use Twitter.
'Scientists still confusing themselves by taking a 200 year old interpretation of an experiment as scripture.'
Amazon.com?
Makes sense. That’s what I would have thought if not for the area of a sphere in three dimensions remark.
I attend international conferences for work. I also travel internationally to discuss business deals, exchange technical information, and on the rare occasion actually do engineering. There's never been a (weird) tax implication.
I've been once told about how mail was handled by a certain Israeli government office.

The mail was sorted into two piles, registered and unregistered. The unregistered was thrown in the trash.

Always use registered mail.
https://fs.blog/2015/11/the-single-best-interview-question-y...
Why exactly is 1 + 1 = 2?

Yes, postmodernism is in a sense very theoretical and I would also say the word itself has been misused or used too broadly in ways, but the essense of it definitely is a step further from the previous default.
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Reading music is not hard, playing it is.

You'll be comfortable with reading standard notation relatively quickly compared to how long (forever) it takes to get your fingers to move to the right keys at the right time.

Standard notation may not be ideal for many instruments, but it is perfect for piano. It was designed off of the keyboard layout after all. I've sometimes been asked if there is an equivalent of guitar tabs for piano. Yes, I say, there is, sheet music.
From a user’s standpoint, who cares? Just because most people don’t use RSS, doesn’t really matter. Every continuously updated news site and blogging site still supports it - as well as HN.

Once I start finding sites that don’t support RSS, then I worry.
did you overlook MAXIMILIANO???
How do you “miss it”? It hasn’t gone anywhere.
I think that the rudeness/politeness axis is orthogonal to the attention-to-quality axis. I've plenty of colleagues who are rude and pushy and produce shitty work.
weworkremotely.com is a good resource.
When you are doing something no one else has done before, it can be very challenging to figure out which pieces of what you do are essential secret sauce and which could stand to be improved.

I changed my HN handle from Mz to this one after more than 8 years and only after hitting the leaderboard. I appear to be the only woman to have ever spent time on the leaderboard. It genuinely took me that long to conclude that my handle was a real problem in part because I was so dramatically outperforming other women in terms of being accepted here that, for the longest time, it honestly wasn't clear to me that it particularly mattered.

Changing my handle was so very well received that I'm sure I did the right thing. But, no, I honestly didn't see it as a big issue until after I hit the leaderboard. A few weeks later, I changed it.

Linus is a man with no real peers and there are few people who are anything close to a peer. It is hardly surprising to me that he lacks perspective on some details. It would be quite shocking if he didn't lack perspective about some things, given the path he has walked.
Since the discussion about RSS is popping up every month now, I'll just repeat myself that RSS is still doing great in terms of publisher support. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17684481
Show HN: Ray Tracing in One Weekend, in UE4
My impression was more "All models are wrong, therefore all models are valid". Some models are less wrong!

It seems to me that the postmodernism movement correctly called attention to social models being somewhat arbitrary and power-based but then (motivated by ideological agendas?) ran with the ball to say this means all cultures are equally worthy (where worthy means "should be promoted").

To use an exaggerated example, I cannot accept that eg an oppressive ultrareligious culture that practices infanticide, genital mutilation and wife beating is equally as worthy as eg a peace-and-love hippie commune. A philosophy devoid of value judgements is just nihilism wearing different pants.
I am guessing no agreement regarding dilution and/or liquidity preference?
I enjoy thinking of salsa as a fruit salad.
> "we did some things right at some point"

or got lucky, but attributed the success to ability/execution instead of learning the right lessons. Then, because of over-confidence, make poor decisions and cause problems down the line leading to failure (as "luck" runs out).
I might be biased here as i've built a news aggregator/RSS reader (https://aktu.io) but imho RSS was and still is the best way to get news from sources you like.
This is so obvious when you compare RSS to social platforms... I mean Facebook was great to share stuff with your friends and get updates but now it's become a huge mess where you get a little bit of everything, you're not even sure you'll ever see all the publications from sources you like/follow thanks to obscure algorithms, and to make things worse, priority is given to images and videos...
Based on my reading of R186, a work permit is required, so that's separate (and not something you mentioned anyways).

From your excerpt it would be okay to work remotely so long it doesn't compete in the labor market AND it's incidental to the reason you're in Canada - invalidating my point about US employers telling people not to work in Canada while on vacation (though other countries it definitely varies). However, I'd posit that spending 6 months in Canada working remotely is anything but incidental to the reason that person is in Canada.
I mean Galileo arguably did more, he just doesn't get as much credit for being smart because his discoveries aren't at all difficult to understand.
Area = surface area not volume.

Physicists tend to drop constant factors when they do calculations, I’ve noticed.
What a well written piece! Thank you for that!
We need to write some software that generates low-quality articles like this and then submits them to hn automatically. Candidates:

. $x is dead

. the rise and fall of $x

. new battery breakthrough claims to $x

. Ask HN: $question_where_the_answer_is_my_own_business

. <Google|Apple> <unveils|retires> create_rand_product_name($technology)

. Study reveals random_food() <increases|decreases> risk of random_quality()

. <any string of english words that contains "Machine Learning" or "AI">

. A random_quality() RayTracer in random_tech()

. ??? suggestions welcome

This would then force hn to have some sort of filtering/moderation.

Randy's law 247: The easiest way to fix a non-trivial system is to abuse it.
I just watched a recent documentary on an attempt to recreate Wootz steel. Worth checking out if you're interested in the subject.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP8PCkcBZU4
Heinlein wrote "honorifics and formal politeness". I interpret this as things like saying "please", "thank you", and other straightforward ritualistic decorative words - not as actually changing what you're actually saying to avoid hurting feelings.

There's a big difference between reformatting the message and changing the message.
My advice to aspiring developers can be found here:

https://www.level12.io/blog/advice-to-aspiring-developers/

I believe it will probably give you some of what you are looking for as well as links out to other helpful resources.
Very true.

I think it's worth noting the inverse. That less aggressive men will become more competitive and aggressive over time in all male groups.
In an ideal world these people would all be persistent without being an asshole but I do honestly feel like contributors (whether employees or volunteers) need to handle being yelled at. Even the nicest people can appear to be assholes when you're not expecting a "no."
> Can you show that what we measure is not real?

Yes, just buy any book on the epistemology of measurement.
I agree with you but I think in the meetings coffeemug is describing, the first quote above would also be considered beyond the pale. You'd have to change it to something like, "I wonder if this patch could be improved somehow."
What else did you have in mind in Ottawa?
I assume you are talking about finger-style guitar here. In that case, most beginner books are very strict about providing staff + tab marked up with right hand finger suggestions. As the player progresses (and depending on the style), right hand fingers may progress to simply being assigned a string, or whatever feels comfortable on that line. Individual differences in technique and style can shine here.

If you are talking about picking, then that's simply a matter of picking the string. Both notations are adequate for annotating specific picking techniques. In my opinion, some muting techniques are a bit easier to read in tab notation.
Maybe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principia_Mathematica
I can't speak for RMS. He can speak plenty well for himself! I do try to understand him. On use restrictions and the limits of copyleft, I haven't always been able to find answers:

https://blog.licensezero.com/2018/09/14/free-to-take-freedom...

I can speak about APGL. They limit commercial freedom, specifically the right to commercialize software incorporating AGPL code, and either distribute it or provide it as a network service without source or a similar license. In other words: the freedom to make and market software in the usual commercial way. A limitation on Freedom 3 (to share changes)? The FSF says so. A limitation on Freedom 0 (to run the software)? They don't say, but I think so.

I also think you're right that software freedom doesn't depend on copyright. Copyright is merely a means to it, via copyleft. But if the law required freeing of software, that would restrict commercial freedom publicly in the same way AGPL does by private ordering. Unfortunately, that law would also have to require disclosure or publication of source code, and conformance on all the other fronts where AGPL fights: patent law and DRM, for example.

That's a far more expansive legislative program than abolishing copyright. Abolish copyright, and I can keep my code secret. And lock others' code down with patents. And so on. Many laws affect software freedom!

> I see no reason why your L0 ideas should not be discussed within the context of open source.

I agree.

In terms of open development as a production system, my point is largely here: https://blog.licensezero.com/2018/09/16/two-party.html#swing...

If making software in the open made sense to more people, we'd get more of it. Many of those projects might start as source-available, and end up copyleft or permissive open source. But instead of paving that path, we shame it as proprietary, and lump it in with Windows.

Open source orthodoxy is right about transaction costs and efficiency on the consumer side, but totally abdicates the supply side of software production. I've read on their mailing list that if you have to ask how you're going to make money making open source, you're the wrong person to be making open source, and that OSI doesn't owe any cycles on any business model.

> And the question is different for an academic talking about larger society, vs. an individual business or developer who is choosing his/her/its own license. Obviously your duty as an attorney is to grapple with the latter question.

I can't tell you how much it means to read that. Thank you for acknowledging. It gets lost.
I would avoid saying anything like "this code is awful". Just say "I can't approve this because X, Y, and Z".
> hand position needs to slide up and down the neck of the guitar to ensure the necessary groups of notes are all easily reachable from the current position.

And not only that, but different positions of the same note have different harmonic volumes and other properties (especially on acoustic guitar).
Shameless plug backing up the fact it hasn't gone anywhere: https://draft.li/blog/2016/03/21/rss-usage-on-the-web/
I'm subscribing to this blog out of spite.
I feel like micro USB may have actually made it worse because the connector has small springs which bend and fatigue very easily.
I think fear also hinders innovation as it hinders thought and disruption at times. I am sure, to a certain degree, it's good to be fearful and understand the stakes but I doubt this has to be something maintained through verbal attacks, public humiliation and other forms of _abuse_.

I like Linus Torvalds. It's hard not to have a soft spot for him when his counterparts always were Bill Gates and Steve Jobs (for the longest time). But for this, there is no necessity of asshole-behavior.
> Are those logs available anywhere? Can users see when Google employees have looked at their dat

For Google Cloud, we have access transparency logs which let you see when and why your data was accessed.

https://cloud.google.com/logging/docs/audit/access-transpare...
I thought that was the Social Network
Well, I agree that it’s bad if you can’t say such things! But it doesn’t have much to do with Linus Torvalds whose rants were closer to the second example than the first.
What's up with Qi charging anyway?

We've had well-implemented inductive charging starting with the Palm Pre in 2009, but very few devices since then. It was on the Nexus 5 but not the 6 or the Pixels, I think. It adds very little hardware and enormous value. I dreamed of inductive charging everywhere, incorporated into desks, tables, and cars. But no.

So, what happened to prevent its wide adoption long ago?
Capital losses offset capital gains, not earned income (except very slowly). They protect investors, not equity-compensated employees.
Really big fan of S30V, it's a pretty decent blend of edge retention without being an absolute pain to resharpen.

There's some really interesting specialty metals out there like Boye Dendritic Cobalt[1]. I've got one of their sheepsfoot folders and it's a pretty neat for a specialty knife.

[1] https://www.boyeknives.com/pages/new-dendritic-cobalt
"Successful" has a different meaning depending on your title. I work for a successful startup and all the c-levels are happy, but as developer #1 I am very unhappy. The goal was acquisition. We developers did our job: we iterated on several products until one of them struck gold and is minting money. We are ready to move on. The founders are enjoying the success and have put less priority on acquisition. As a "stay-up" we are now in the growth phase: more middle-tier, more process, more meetings, more politics, more hiring, more distractions, etc. Due to our success, I can no longer afford the taxes on exercising my options. I'm completely locked up with golden handcuffs. I want to leave, but if I do and they sell in the next couple of years I don't think I could handle it. I feel stuck and it's starting to affect my mental health.
I love sentdex. He teach to us as well as he loves to learn from us.
This is big quality of a great teacher
Indeed, time to stop giving right wing politicians like Pelosi so much airtime.
Perhaps http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6907 has come to pass.
What you’re mentioning sounds more like a case where the company was not a big success and things like heavy dilution came into play? In that case, I’d hardly call it “getting screwed”, that’s just a risk of doing business with a startup that failed to execute properly, or lost against opposing market forces.

In other words, when the company goes bad and it’s forced to take heavy dilution or aggressive liquidation preferences it’s obvious that common holders are going to get wiped out. But, and that’s the part interesting to me, what greedy behavior from a company can make the common holders get screwed even when the company sale is a big success?

An example of getting screwed was the clawback clause that the Skype employees had, which gave the company the right of buying back the exercised shares from common holders at the original exercise price rather than the market value at sale time (or something like that). That’s called “being screwed”, not seeing your shares getting wiped out because your founders had to dilute the common holders (which many times includes themselves) 50% during a difficult fundraise.
That pits me directly against the best of the best. For people hiring for those jobs which are HN readers, which happen to be very intelligent as well
Or, a blog post sharing one guy's opinion.
OK, gotta know. What did you settle on?