skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
+1 for Sentdex
I'm a pedestrian, a cyclist and a car driver. I walk on sidewalks, pedal on bike lanes or roads (usually roads because they are faster) and obviously drive on roads.

I strongly hate cyclists on sidewalks. If they dread pedalling on a road and there are no bike lanes, they (we) have the option of walking, using public transport or drive a car. And campaigning for more bike lanes: this is how they did it in the Netherlands https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/may/05/amsterdam-bic...
In short, choose a problem you have, then fix it the easiest way possible by building software/website/webapp/whatever. Language doesn't even matter.
Online sports are about to get actual real-time streaming
Again, like the other guy below, ugh - no.

I’m a musician and have thousands of voice memos from writing tapes over the years. Those effing dongles disappear on me. I actually prefer the dongle + old iPod headphones to newer Lightning headphones, because I can plug them into EVERYTHING ELSE. Bluetooth headphones don’t play voice memos (built-in iOS application) back at a normal (acceptable) nitrate. It’s been that way for years and Apple refuses to fix it.

I’m sure there are plenty of other arguments for including headphone jack. I mean, I have probably 10 sets of nice headphones in my studio that all use a standard connector. It’s real frustrating to have to consider going Android just to get a headphone jack on my device.
Just because one technique has been lost doesn't mean there are no others.
I notice this about cyclists. Basically, I change between the types depending on how tired I am. I still feel like the majority of people will always be in the first category but unfortunately, the second category are more of the "enthusiasts" who actually engage with cycling organizations whilst the first category don't really seem to.
It's also a moot argument because animals that are raised for meat... eat plants. Lots of plants. Meat is incredibly inefficient in that sense. Most farmland in the US is for animal feed.

So if someone really is worried that plants feel pain and wants to reduce the amount of plants being killed, the most effective thing they could do would be to stop eating meat.
Yes, they have been around for quite a while already, although I don't know if they have since updates their tech stack. Back when I played with it apps were formed from a bunch of bash scripts that simply automate install and uogrades. One nice thing though was the self made SSO module for nginx, so everything supporting http basic authentication could easily be integrated.

Nowadays I am running Cloudron for these use cases. Here the big plus in apps is that each app runs on docker and has to use the Cloudron docker vase image (with very few paths having write access), through that apps and the server can easily backed up and restored in exactly the same state (user, data, apps installed).
True. I failed to mention that I was talking about dedicated servers. In which case, the servers with vRack enabled are costlier.

I did not check for their VPS offering.
logging

And for the love of all that is holy don’t just log to a text file. Use some type of structured logging framework (Serilog,StructLog,etc.) that gives you JSON structured logging that you can then query instead of depending on regular expressions.
> Methods like propensity matching, propensity weighting, and hierarchical models using different treatment levels as strata, are absolutely critical for applying this stuff in the real world.

Have you got some readings? I've been reading the Pearl books on this subject.
Thank you for this fantastic explanatipn! It is much appreciated
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.

By contrast birds and bats use arm bones in their wings, and so cannot fly until nearly an adult. That imposes child care needs on the parents that are pretty severe if you are large.

Now when species compete, they usually don't do it head on. Instead each specializes on what it does better. Pterosaurs couldn't do much about the fact that feathers are more efficient flight surfaces than their hair. But they had one advantage - it was easier for them to grow big. And that is why at the end of their time, the last niche that they held was a freakishly big carrion eater. (And dinosaurs could make for some freakishly big carrion for them to eat!)
> at a price point that is not particularly amazing

This is a fitting description for most Amazon products today. It's a good deal at all. It's conveniant because they have a good delivery platform but Amazon prices are seldom the bests.
I was recently given this list of books by some very skilled engineers who I trust

1. [The Pragmatic Programmer](https://pragprog.com)
2. Martin Fowler's [Refactoring Book](https://martinfowler.com/books/refactoring.html)
3. Kent Beck's [Test Driven Development: By Example](https://www.amazon.com/Test-Driven-Development-Kent-Beck/dp/...)
4. [Thinking in Systems: A Primer](https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Systems-Donella-H-Meadows/dp...)
5. [Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice](https://www.amazon.com/Zen-Mind-Beginners-Informal-Meditatio...)
6. [Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware](https://www.amazon.com/Pragmatic-Thinking-Learning-Refactor....)
Yes, this is a great example of how naive neoclassical micro appears to get things wrong. So, my argument is that given the malleability of supposedly purely descriptive and value free economics, the intrusion of politics is inevitable.
If bikes are going to be treated like real vehicles, then I think that safety regulations need to catch up. Something like:
Require breaks and a free wheel on roads so that bikes can coast and stop suddenly without loosing control.

Ban clip on pedals from roads so that bikers can put their feet down at intersections instead of lurching forward and back unpredictably.

Require bikes to keep up with the speed of traffic (when not in bike lanes) just like cars are expected to.

I personally would also like to see electric assist/motors be mandatory so that bikers are less tempted to blow through intersections in order to avoid losing momentum, but I can see how the cost would be prohibitive.
Not sure what your point is. That graph shows about 10 deaths per billion VMT, which is exactly the number I stated. It is a completely unfounded assertion that they are safer than humans.
To be fair to Jurassic Park, I'm not sure its pterodactyls were explicitly claimed to be dinosaurs, and much of the film talked about non-dinosaur extinct species being resurrected as well (eg, ancient plant life).

Maybe it wasn't the filmmakers intent, but they have plausible deniability here. :)
Launch your own startup. Good luck getting funded.
A ha, maybe the CBC version [1] makes it clearer:

> According to the Yukon government, the miners promptly reported their finds to researchers, for study and preservation.

> Both specimens have been accepted by the Canadian Conservation Institute because of their scientific value.

> The mummified animals are now on display at the Dänojà Zho Cultural Centre in Dawson City, where they'll stay for the rest of the month.

So probably a lot of the science has been collected, then they prepped it for preservation and display.

[1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/mummified-wolf-pup-cari...
I've experimented with viewing 3D scans of paintings in VR. It's remarkably more effective than viewing them on screen or in a book.
In Jainism some of the more strict followers do not eat root vegetables (like potatoes) because it is considered violence against plants. If you eat an apple you are not killing the plant and actually helping it to spread its seeds. If you dig up root vegetables you most likely end up killing the plant.

Mushrooms and other fungi are considered violence against plants as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jain_vegetarianism
None of those are particularly expedient, but you have a point.

Crypto, the not-so-fast bullion-based international payment system. Perhaps the perpetrators might have better luck sending each other USD notes by mail instead.
Transcript at https://kpknudson.com/my-favorite-theorem/2018/9/12/episode-....
Hmm... I rarely open Facebook and it doesn’t show up near the top of my battery usage charts. Odd.
For the first category the bicycle is a convenient mean of transportation but it's nothing special. It's like computers are nothing special to most people except to professionals and enthusiasts.

However cycling organizations can leverage all those people to campaign for more bike lanes and the like. They vote...
Didn't work for me
You could always try the startup for 1 year and see how it goes. This way you get past your cliff, and you will have a much better idea of whether or not it has a chance of becoming something. If its flopping around like a fish then you can always go to a big co. Yes it would have cost you some $$$ short term, but you would have probably learned a lot more simply by having to wear more hats. Plus its a lot of fun to build something new from the ground up.
This week people in our community confronted me about my lifetime of not understanding emotions. My flippant attacks in emails have been both unprofessional and uncalled for. Especially at times when I made it personal. In my quest for a better patch, this made sense to me.

I know now this was not OK and I am truly sorry. The above is basically a long-winded way to get to the somewhat painful personal admission that hey, I need to change some of my
behavior, and I want to apologize to the people that my personal behavior hurt and possibly drove away from kernel development entirely.

Now that’s something I never in a million years thought he’d be capable of thinking, never mind admitting in public, without reservations. I sincerely hope that it sticks, and the result is good not just for the community, but Linus himself. Good luck, and I hope people give him the chance to make good on his attempt to grow as a person. It takes a lot of courage to be this vulnerable in public, especially when you know and that you hurt people.
Thats very mature of him. Hats off.
people do the back and forth thing with clip ins to show off or because they are bored. I have clip ins and easily take my feet out at intersections. No issues.
For some strange reason that I can’t put my finger on, as creepy as I think Google’s whole business model is an the amount of data they track especially for Android users, I still trust them not to let any random employee to access customer data.
The argument is that basic economic training leads to policy prescriptions that advanced economic training (and related fields, such as economic history and political philosophy) repudiate.

So, no need to propose a different theory. Just prominently include the above disclaimer while you're teaching basic economics, and then proceed to teach further economics (and related fields) before the kids go off to work for investment banks.
I lived in that wireless future for a while and it sucked. Incessant connectivity issues, compatibility problems, irritatingly high latency, and the never-ending hassle of keeping all those batteries charged. I've abandoned it and gone back to wires for everything - keyboard, mouse, headphones, car stereo, kitchen stereo, phone headset, all of it. So much simpler; everything just works, all the time.
Sentdex is one of my favourites too!
Maybe this will finally end the myth that "you can be rude and insulting as long as you're right" that people seem to attribute to Linus's outbursts
Ask HN: Which improvement introduced to replace headphone jack is useful to you?
Take into consideration that the headphone jack and Bluetooth (wireless) headphones were available and working well before manufacturers got rid of the jack in the name of improvements.

Consider that some devices still have the headphone jack and same improvements as those without the jack.

It is to my knowledge that ports provided for the headphone “jack-less” devices are not interoperable. Will you say this is good for the industry and importantly the consumer?
Jeff Caveliere for ATHLEAN-X (fitness training)

He's a great positive motivator. The content is very accessible and also all justified and explained throughly yet casually.

https://www.youtube.com/user/JDCav24
Thanks for downvoting and then ignoring my point.

I’ll repeat since you seem to have reading issues: how many serious musicians were depending on iPhones for live production instead of laptops or purpose built hardware?
Shameless plug? Myself :D! https://www.youtube.com/user/AMGaweda/playlists?view=1&flow=...

I started adding YouTube videos to courses as I taught them and opened them up. They are not designed to be a complete substitute for in class lecture, but do a good job at introducing computer programming and data structures. There's also some Excel and miscellaneous tool use.
Another software developer refusing to work in or understand an existing working system and instead asking for "the big rewrite", which assuredly will get finished on time, with all of the features of the existing system and none of the problems.
You might try to disassemble the code for a bunch of ISAs and see if your disassembly produces meaningful function prologue & epilogue for that ISAs ABI. Automatically.

Not sure if someone is doing that. Our (commercial) disassembler for example is told by the user what target it's disassembling (and I usually look at the output, not the actual opcodes; so maybe that's not feasible).
An apology from Linus and a maintainership note
Indeed. Those are the only usable ones if you insist on self-hosting anyway!
While I don't like this answer, I feel like it's probably the most accurate.

Anecdotally, I know a lot of iPhone owners, and of them only one person uses their phone for music content creation. And my hunch is that one friendship may just be a statistical anomaly compared to the greater population of all iPhone owners.
I was familiar with Van Gogh's work long before I saw one in real life. The paintings on a 2d page did not have much impact. I only fell in love with the impressionists (not just Van Gogh) when I saw the original work - its the brush strokes that bring their work to life.

I recall seeing a brilliant red pointillist painting by some artist I had never heard of and the impact it had on me as I got close and each little red dot 'dancing' was surreal.
Good for him, I wonder how this will affect kernel development though.

“Benevolent dictator for life” might not scale. And it might sound horrible; but there are some strengths involved that I feel the Linux project benefits greatly from.

I figure that Linus has insulated himself very well with competent leaders, but, I don’t have much insight-
May I add Bisqwit to the list. https://www.youtube.com/user/Bisqwit

He is very low profile, and an interesting thing about him is that he is a bus driver by profession.
Regen Network Whitepaper [pdf]
> they use second-hand / refurbished hardware at their data centers

OVH manufactures its own servers in France[1]. That's as "first-hand", as it can be.

[1] https://twitter.com/olesovhcom/status/1009539890005118976
Safe-space kids got to the king of the moutain and dethroned him.
We'll still have Theo.
Ah, I didn't realize that, thanks for the correction.
> I am going to take time off and get some assistance on how to understand people’s emotions and respond appropriately.

Wow. Torvalds going to a therapy. I seriously couldn't be more impressed about him, because he always seemed too much of a narcissist to me. I understand how difficult it might be to decide to admit that you have a problem at this stage. And for doing that, he has my deep respect.

Which kind of brings me to the other point - would Torvalds be Torvalds if he was treated before? Is the same piece of his personality that made him a truly unpleasant person also the one that made him super motivated?

That's the second BFDL stepping down (this one claims to go just for a while), after Guido. And note that this is one is also about psychology.
The interview with the reproductions company from the link was fascinating:

Are the reproductions good enough to be mistaken for real masterpieces?

No, it is impossible. No one can do it. Even the original artist can’t do it.

Can’t do what?

Can’t fake their own painting.

That confuses me. Anyway, do you consider what you do forgery?

Even the great art works, like those by Van Gogh, belong to humanity, not only the museum or rich people.
Canada's artificial trans fats ban comes into effect – with a phase-out period
Sergey Levine - Deep Reinforcement Learning

All manner of control methods are covered, including non-neural-net methods, and how to mix and match different methods. Up-to-date and the best information you can get on sensorimotor learning to my knowledge.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkFD6_40KJIznC9CDbVTj...

Complete course materials: http://rail.eecs.berkeley.edu/deeprlcourse/resources/#prevof...
It's about fucking time. I personally stay away from software created by people who lack empathy; technical goodness !> creating a good environment and product for actual people. I don't go to restaurants run by douchebags either, no matter how good the food might be.

And Git has the UX of software created by someone with no empathy.

I hope Linus heals from this, and I hope the culture of the Linux community changes as well, but that will take years to get past his past behavior.
Oh, c'mon...

You can learn about foreign affairs and become educated without visiting other counties, it's not a requirement. You'll learn more in books than you'll learn drinking a margarita in Cancun resort.

Visiting other countries doesn't, by definition, lead to learning about foreign affairs and becoming educated of other cultures. I studied abroad and some of my fellow study abroad students didn't develop any understanding of foreign affairs or enlightenment about culture.

No place that has been bombed lately are where tourists will travel to.
Thunderbird on desktop, K9 on Android.

The only time I ever use webmail is you search for an old message.
sure but when the e-scooter runs out, you just leave it on the sidewalk and you still have your LEGS. With a bike you still have the bike.

And the GP is right, many people have real issues with bikes, they're harder to do right. Scooters are easier because of their limitations for many. I feel the safety (frequent crashes) is because people underestimate their safety and ease of use at speed. They're great when you're going at running speed or less for obvious reasons. People super mis-estimate how fast they can run tho, and if you get off one at the wrong speed you're taking a header. Bikes are easier to control in a run-away, but only if you know how to do it.
Don't get too busy. This is easier said than done.

I've noticed that when we hire newly graduated engineers, we saturate them with CAD (or its equivalent in programming), bureaucracy, and troubleshooting. They forget the cool stuff that they learned in college, such as math and theory, and burn out.

If you want to keep up with that stuff, you have to figure out how to weave it into your regular work, so you have an excuse to continue learning more about it, or give yourself some free time to learn cool things that you might use later, or might not.

A lot of people tend to measure themselves by how busy they are. I believe that's a death trap.
My personal opinion but this is purely because I enjoy it the most is functional programming. So much of the positive changes I've seen of late come through functional programming.

For example:

* ReasonML - this is what the founder of React is working on now. The ReasonML claims itself to be JavaScript 2030 (I see it as JavaScript + TypeScript + Immutable.JS + Redux). This contains a lot of the concepts from JavaScript so is a reasonable step to make

* If ReasonML isn't too scary it leads you down a path to OCaml, F# and Elm

* Rust (not strictly a functional programming language, but is ridiculously fast and contains well implemented Linear Types that makes Haskell's Simon Peyton-Jones jealous [0]) - this is one of the most loved programming languages according to the Stack Overflow survey

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0mhvd3-60Y
And you don't have to use your own legs like a sucker.
The Times They Are a-Changin'.
Long time lurker, created an account just to post this - but Aswath Damodran (NYU Stern) posts almost all of his class lectures on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLvnJL8htRR1T9cbSccaoVw).

Apart from being a great teacher, his Financial Valuation course is one of the best you'll find online. To top it all he provides all the resources/datasets needed (including the quizzes/solutions etc.). Wonderful guy :-)
I'll bite, what makes a version control system empathetic?
Which they do because of limited space in their urban areas.

For what it’s worth, Japan was far from the only country to introduce miniature cars after the war to reduce resource usage. Italy, England, France and arguably Germany all introduced subcompact vehicles designed to use less precious steel. America is one of the few nations that kept making full sized sedans, largely a consequence of fighting the entire war abroad rather than at home.

What’s interesting is that Japan still uses theirs, while the other countries on that list abandoned their trend of super micros decades ago. I personally would argue that this is a consequence of Japan’s limited space, which drove government policy to effective tax vehicles in proportion to how much precious space they use.
Try https://moodle.com/

Lots of plugins
Dresses, robes, etc.

Also bikes give rooster tails really bad, which is no-bueno for really any non-biking clothes.
Downvoted, although your git UX comment made me smirk.
The goal of creating the taxonomy was presumably to create clear categories for research and scientific publications. I doubt they cared what an average person called a dinosaur, like the author of this article seems to, so the issue you're worrying about probably didn't seem important.
OMG four stars. I love him.
Good for him
Hopefully this will inspire leaders of other projects to realize that it's not okay to be a toxic jerk just because you're smart and in-charge and confident that you're right.
A slowgoing development for him, still I sympathize and wish him the best while wondering ironically if personal issues aside what works best.

It brings to mind fundamental organizational and management. Is it better to have a "rude" organization? Calling bullshit early and often instead of polite everything is fine stacks of lies since it would be impolite to point out having O(N!) code just can't work for anything of appreciable size? The optimal approach likely varies on several variables.
I'm sure it does open some doors. It closes other doors.

I would be leery of hiring from Google. I would need to be convinced that the candidate strongly rejects Google's culture.
Before you all dismiss this idea, remember google reader? Super popular, super dead.
An operating system provides the lowest stable level of a userspace API to the underlying hardware capabilities. This might be a bare kernel, or a kernel plus bundled runtime libraries. Debian is a versioned and tested copy of GNU/Linux, which is an operating system consisting of the Linux kernel and the GNU libc.

Linux can be also be an OS on its own, because its kernel<->userspace API is stable. This is not true of all kernels, for example macOS does not guarantee stability below libSystem.

Some people extend "operating system" up into userland tools that are bundled by the vendor or specified by a standard like POSIX, for example `ls` or `initd`. I think this is stretching the meaning a bit, because to the kernel there's no difference between `ls` and (for example) Firefox.
It was posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17067821