skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A fair observation, though you could equally argue that Apple's market value and revenue is almost entirely the result of evolutionary progression of ideas already in play during Jobs' lifetime.

But for all their present economic success there has been a subtle yet distinct erosion of product clarity and software quality since his passing. Take 3D touch as an example: a great idea in theory but from a UX perspective it's just a bunch of hidden easter eggs. Or the iOS flat UI which sometimes gives zero affordance to the tapability of many elements.

Another one: Watch was released with a whole pile of bad assumptions[1] and basically hoping that a market would darwinistically emerge. Luckily one did—fitness and heart health. It could just have easily been an epic flop.

[1] Wrapping the equivalent of an iPhone 2G or Macintosh 128k in 18-karat gold. With zero upgrade path. Seriously? Did they really think a first generation wrist gadget was going to be purchased as an heirloom? (And it gets magnificently worse with their rose gold, where the same expensive raw material is chemically molested to look nothing like what anyone would interpret as expensive.)
And according to the Numberphile video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKhacWQ2fCs) there is a prior paper showing it for bases 2, 3, and 4
There is something to be said how amazing it is when everyone around you is also able to get the same health care no matter their income or background.
> It is like saying that UPS should deliver to everywhere on earth in one day for the same price

No, it's not like that at all. UPS makes it clear to the customer in advance what the cost is, how long it will take, and the customer agrees. Also, UPS is not held responsible for delays that they couldn't reasonably prevent (bad weather, etc).

It's also an exaggeration of the situation; it's essentially saying "If we can't achieve perfection, then we might as well not have any standards and we can't hold anyone accountable for anything." The fact is that those speeds are obtainable in most of the common situations that people actually need them, and the throttling only occurs out of unwillingness on the part of ISPs to negotiate agreements that would allow those speeds; it's greed and/or laziness, not physical or technical limitations.
Eliminate cars.
Eliminate the options for people to be autonomous.
Pack everyone into major metropolitan cities by the millions.
Stop building houses.
Build Up.
Build condos and apartments.
Eliminate the option for people to buy land because it is unsustainable and the state knows better.
Sounds like a perfect dystopian society.
Haha I didn't even notice that, I'm using a chrome plugin to force old.reddit
> This is actually less than Apollo 8 did

But isn't it exactly what Apollo 13 did?
The C2 Wiki is where I first learned about things like refactoring (http://wiki.c2.com/?ReFactoring), rubber ducking (http://wiki.c2.com/?RubberDucking), and DRY (http://wiki.c2.com/?OnceAndOnlyOnce).
That's a price I would very very happily pay for a self-driving car that works in my city. If I want to take a road trip, i'll rent a traditional car.
I remember exactly what Sun Microsystem did it breached and been waving a carrot in front of Apache about TCK. What's stopping Oracle from giving TCK now? Also that's exactly not the whole truth you're presenting.

https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/the_asf_s_position...

> Unfortunately, Sun breached the JSPA in 2006 by licensing the Java SE Compatibility Kit under terms inconsistent with its prior representations to ASF and its obligations under the JSPA, and incompatible with ASF's development of Apache Harmony. ASF urged Sun to honor its agreements, but after Sun persisted in its breach for a year, ASF withdrew from the JCP. At the time, Oracle supported ASF's position that Sun was in breach of the JSPA. But after acquiring Sun, Oracle adopted Sun's policy, disregarding the limits of the JSPA that formed the basis for ASF's participation in the JSP and acceptance of the various TCK licenses.

> Some people easily forget or act as if past actions/history aren't a metric, while others forget who actually did them in first place.

Choosing a video to support half a truth or a part of timeline doesn't mean anything.

Here's another source:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2010/12/apach...

> The heart of the issue is that Apache can't certify that its open source Java implementation—called Harmony—conforms with the Java language standards because Oracle refuses to supply the necessary test suites under a suitably open license. Oracle's position on the issue falls afoul of JCP policies, which stipulate that standards and other relevant materials must be freely redistributable and made available under terms that are conducive to enabling third-party open source implementations.

You're deflecting any and all of Oracle's action toward Google should have bought it and well Sun did it first. That's a terrible argument to counter my point of Oracle past actions being terrible toward open source. The "google should have bought Java" is such a hand wave especially when Google did a clean room implementation of Java and involve the issue of if API is copyrightable (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_America,_Inc._v._Google...).
A quick introduction to the NumPy array
https://archive.fo/Sr59B
> Im starting to twitch at "unpythonic" feels of having something as nuts as a recursive expression in a lambda with some assignment.

Welcome to the Dark Side. Enjoy the cookies!
yeah i don’t see how this isn’t obvious.
To use an example from a German city: Because going from the park+ride spaces at the edge of the city to the center takes > 45min by car, but 4min with the train. And parking at the edge of the city is free, but downtown you pay 8,50€/h.
> I tend to evaluate arguments on their merits, not on the author's credentials

Of course, let's not make this binary, one or the other. Everyone uses both to varying degrees, and other signals too (if the post used bad English, for example, many would doubt the author's credibility).

In this case, I lean more heavily on expertise because the content is a product of expertise - rules of thumb. If they wrote 'I can create cold fusion in a teacup', I'd lean heavily on the merits - can they do it or not?

> If one doesn't have the background to evaluate those arguments, I don't think they're supposed to be reading them anyway

That greatly narrows everyone's reading material and awareness of the world. Somehow I have to decide what to do about many things in life, almost all of which I lack expertise in.

In the end, there is no way to avoid having to decide whether to trust the author or not - or more generally, to trust others or not, from consultants to bosses to employees to that wonderful person you might want to marry.
That's an option, but I was thinking we would probably agree to call the days we've always called Thursday "Thursday" locally.
The town I'm from, Eugene, Oregon, did this too.

They later reopened it, but put in roads that let cars through, but very slowly. Seems to be a good compromise.

Closing a road entirely is probably something you should do once you're at such a level of pedestrian traffic that the car lanes are impeding pedestrians, which isn't terribly common in US cities. However, making areas where people don't drive fast is absolutely a win.
It's 1 to 4% energy cost based on https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/10.1162/REST_a_00131 Additionally, that study found increased pollution and associated costs.
Same thing happened in Kalamazoo, MI back about 1978.

The city center closed part of the main street to cars when a four story enclosed mall of boutique stores was built. Within five years most of the mall and nearby stores were dying.

This was partly due to the growth of a pair of large enclosed malls 5 miles away which sucked business elsewhere. But I think most of the problem was that shoppers don't wants to walk outdoors in the long Michigan Winter. They needed to somehow enclose the pedestrian piazza to minimize peoples' exposure to the elements, but that wasn't in the budget.
Also when I go to the U.S. it’s kind of shocking to see how many people could do with good healthcare but are obviously not able to get it. I want everyone around me to be healthy not just my immediate friends and family.
I'm very pleased with the point cloud technology called "depth cameras". What was, and is, a gigantic attachment to the xbox is now smaller than my fingernail and there's two of them in the Iphone X series.

What I'd like is for greater range and more situations for the algorithmic depth to kick in (ie Instagram's focus camera). My use of exchangeable lens cameras in traditional form factors is about to disappear if I can use it for selective focus on subjects 20 feet away. (Note: my use of cameras are a means of expression, and although I'm well versed in the technology and discipline I don't have any interest in the elitism of how an image was captured.)

I don't think this new generation of Iphones achieve that, but its an area I'm watching.

The other improvements suggest a 2019 or 2020 model will be amazing.
Won't something like rental cars make more sense in such a case ?
They are built by their german division Alstom Transport Deutschland (former Linke-Hofmann-Busch) in Salzgitter and Alstom is about to merge with Siemens Mobility.
From what I have picked up somewhere the PAs to the big players all have their own network so that they can get stuff done

If Steve Jobs wants to get in touch with Bezos (lets assume no prior contact) he would ask his PA to "get me a call with Bezos" - The PA then reaches out to Bezos' PA and they arrange the call between them
When people ask me why I like living in Mexico, this is one of the main reasons:

The other week I walked around my neighborhood in Guadalajara to do some errands. I got my knives sharpened, picked up my repaired shoes from the cobbler, some fried pumpkin seeds from the seed guy, some meat from the butcher, and then some tacos of course. All within two blocks.
I could see a shopping mall and restaurants from my hotel across a busy multi-lane road and there was literally no way to get there on foot.

This is almost exactly the situation described by Bill Bryson in I'm a Stranger Here Myself. I believe he wanted to visit the shops across the street while his wife was at a mall and there was effectively no way to get there without a car.
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I don't think it's the oldest by a longshot, but check this one out, from the Apollo 11 software: https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11/blob/master/Luminar...
how about they just charge you really high tolls and congestion tax instead? ;)
What is with the obsession with hand soldering everything? I did all of the pre-production prototyping for a startup several years ago using low temp solder paste, laser cut stencils, and a hotplate.

It was way easier than trying to solder everything by hand. I started out only using the hotplate for the stuff I couldn't get in a through-hole package, but I eventually moved almost everything over to SMD.
We are running out of drinkable water, breathable air, ice in Antartica, corals at the Great Coral Reef, mineral oil.
It's very useful for navigation not accident avoidance. Cars needs to navigate without GPS in underground parking garages for example. Reading signs and inertial navigation are part of it, but knowing you just cross the same point is really important when trying to find your way out of a maze.

The highway value is when snow covers lane markers. The GPS will still work, but it's only so accurate without those lane markers etc.
> Apple describes the glass (front and back) on the iPhone XS as “the most durable glass ever in a smartphone”. I asked, and according to Apple, this means both crack and scratch resistance.

I feel like I hear this statement every other year. I'm not invested enough to go back and actually validate my theory, but this definitely isn't the first time I've heard that from a phone company. They always seem to fail the 6ft drop test.
Those places are limited to a strip running along the coastline.
So the contractor did indeed come through and mine for about three years. Contractor opted not to renew his contract. At this point I have to disclose my home country, it is Zimbabwe. We have had trouble convincing anyone to invest in the country. Dictatorship. Money that we made was shared according to the shareholding structure. I made peanuts.

Nothing happening now, I guess we tired from fighting.
In North Carolina, young Dan Tonkel had taken to wearing a bag of asafetida around his neck, in the belief that the stinking extract would protect him. “It smelled to high heaven,” he recalled. “People thought the smell would kill germs. So we all wore a bag of asafetida and smelled like rotten flesh.”

For most of human history, we thought that germs were spread by certain odors. So to counteract them, we would often use aromas: this is why plague doctor masks had the horn which was filled with herbs.

EDIT: I meant diseases were thought to be spread by odors, as we didn't yet have a germ theory of disease.
All of a sudden, Elon Musk's vision to have all traffic underground is a lot more sound.

I love this guy, seeing him so misunderstood makes me sad.
I don't think there's any need for a breakthrough in order to have world wide massively adopted electric cars.

The only bottleneck right now is battery production, not even demand.

The technology is here, the demand is here, the supply chain is being adapted so that price (not weight) drops.

I don't see how the weight of a car has any meaningful impact on adoption. Speaking of which, adoption is usually an S curve and I fail to see how electric car's adoption would be any different. That makes it everything but "steady" and it will take pretty much everyone by surprise, like any other technology before (computers, internet, laptops, smartphones... and petrol cars). That raises many interesting questions about the readiness of each country's infrastructure but that's another debate.
for some values of "everyone"
My startup's website is currently built on Gatsby. I originally looked to it because we wanted to get something up very quickly for a tradeshow. 16 months later we've never gotten around to "we redo it down the road". It's still serving us very well.

My thoughts:

Pros:

* I love React, so Gatsby was a natural extension for me. It's very helpful to use the same toolchain/mindset in most places.

* I don't have to learn/forget/relearn all of the stupid bugs in Wordpress/Drupal/etc. Gatsby has some shortcomings, but in general if you've worked with React, you already know where the shortcomings and limitations are.

Cons:

* Deployment isn't terribly straight forward if you have a custom use case. I ended up manually building and serving with a small node script.

* It can be very, very (too easy) to accidentally share a server side ENV variable into the JS build. You have to be very careful not to leak an important key.
Not a problem unique to programming.

Just look at math and psyics. They got stuff lile monads and quarks...
I was expecting that to lead somehow to the line "...however, this implies that no ISP exists which doesn't throttle, a contradiction. QED"
I wonder what effect the increasing performance of cars has had on safety. Any modern car can accelerate to ridiculously unsafe speeds within the span of a single block, whereas cars from the 1970s and even 1980s were sluggish. Similarly, modern cars can make sharp turns where older cars risked skidding. Then factor in things like less noise and larger A-pillars reducing visibility[1], and modern cars seem more anti-pedestrian.

The gap between inattentiveness and recklessness has been closed. Even considering improved braking, there was simply more margin for error back when speeds were naturally lower.

I know cars have always been dangerous to pedestrians. But there were other factors at play, like drunk driving being nearly ubiquitous.

[1] The left A-pillar in my Honda CRV has just the right size and placement that it blocks the far left-hand corner of the intersection from view. A pedestrian about to cross the street is invisible to me unless I physically lean over or have already entered the intersection.
Twitter is bringing back the chronological timeline
California has the better "car culture", but Texas or Arizona has to take the cake for car dependency.
Ah, shame! I haven't read it in several years.

I have not found anything better then Borges. Actually, it's kind of annoying because somehow reading Borges appears to have become synonymous with pretentiousness, at least to my friends, and my earnest appeals to others to read his magnificent fiction have been poorly received. But he really is so damn good!

Let me know if there's anything you'd recommend.
I do have the setting. It doesn't work (well, it "works" and then reverts). 6 year old account IIRC.
Ah that is neat. For most smaller numbers, it seems to use 0 a lot, which is not interesting. But your example is the first one I saw that didn't include 0.
Why three? Anyone have a theory (or the answer)?
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MacIntyre is very good. But I wouldn't so much say that he points out flaws in Nietzsche's arguments, as argues that Nietzsche is not the appropriate answer to the problem of modern thought as he sees it. But very few people agree with MacIntyre's 'problem': that because we have inherited the remnants of pre-modern moral and political thought, while rejecting the metaphysical beliefs with gave them their original coherence, we must either turn back (to Aristotelianism), or give up on moral philosophy.

There are three obvious problems with this: (1) the historical story is only partially true; (2) it is not at all difficult to rework pre-modern beliefs within a modern and secular framework; (3) this whole argument depends on a very particular view of what 'moral philosophy' is and can be.

IMO the best introduction to Nietzsche is Christopher Janaway's 'Beyond Selflessness', though it concentrates on the Genealogy of Morality. It's also worth reading Walter Kaufmann's 'Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist' - the book that originally rehabilitated Nietzsche's image in the English-speaking world in the 1950s. Before that, Nietzsche was either ignored, or thought of as proto-fascistic (Nietzsche's sister, who controlled Nietzsche's papers after he fell into insanity, famously had an important role in this. Hitler helped her open a Nietzsche archive).
Sorry, but Drug-Induced Homicide Laws Aren’t Going to Solve Our Opioid Crisis
Their pricing and paid features scare me, because it's clearly intended for professional news gatherers, which means I'm not their actual customer.
Because parking is presumably cheaper on the periphery and the subway may actually be faster than driving all the way in. When I worked in Boston, that's how I sometimes did it. (Other times I took the commuter rail but that was more or less useless if I was doing anything in the evening.)
I started to try to explain in detail why this is wrong, but it is so incoherent I gave up.

First you say organ donors are either "brain dead" or in "ciruclatory death", but according to the Wikipedia article only a few organs can be harvested in the latter case. Then you say "Most are not brain dead". But your Vice reference specifically describes the definition of brain dead and says that two doctors must agree it has happened. Are you alleging widespread murder or merely contradicting yourself? At best, this is not supported by your references.

You say that you cannot use organs ~2 hours after brain death. That is not supported by your references.

Yes, the donor body needs to "function" as far as keeping the organs oxygenated, but that merely needs a pumping heart and a ventilator. Hearts pump on their own without any nervous system control, and the lungs carry on working because a ventilator is pumping air in and out. Spinal activity is not required.
A photo of that wouldn't go astray on here, I don't think.
DRAM packages don't look TOO terrible, you could probably do it by hand with a mask, solder paste, a heat gun and a fair amount of patience. Alignment is the big issue, but your standard DDR3 package is 96 balls with a high enough pitch that you could eyeball it.
High cholesterol diet is not the same as high blood level of lipids. There are many steps inbetween. It is additionally not the same as the high occurence of atheroma. Even more steps.

You've introduced an additional super complex variable (diet) where there should be none (blood level of LDL-C).
I do not dispute accuracy of atheroma measurements at all. This is easy enough technicality.

What is this "LDL diet" anyway? Do you feed animals with lipids?

If you mean high saturated fat diet, then that's a different beast. It does many more things than just increase LDL-C levels - it also increases TG levels, LDL levels in total, places metabolic burden on liver and more interesting things.

Even there, the trials are rightly calling these levels correlates. Not causes. And it is not a pedantic point, it is critical and informs the way we should be dealing with related CVD.

Secondary prevention wrt statins, hmm, I see one good USPTF study. It includes primary prevention too and has well defined results which are mildly positive.

It actually says you're not allowed to attribute statin results to LDL-C levels as LDL-C dose/response strategies were not superior to plain fixed dose.
More importantly, this area has not been evaluated with enough power.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2584057

Key point 1b. No dose response, likely no direct causation.
Suspected mechanism is thus different from direct LDL-C levels.
Most importantly: "Benefits of statins did not appear to be restricted to patients with severely elevated lipid levels, because similar effects were observed in subgroups stratified according to baseline levels."

We have barely enough statistical power to say they're superior, not even figure out the dosage in 3 levels.

Interesting fact there being that biggest trials reported smallest relative risk reduction. (~15% with pretty big error bars on this.) Absolute risk values are even more funny, like ~0.5% reduction... in high risk groups.
I guess they get a little bit better each year, just a little bit. But not enough.
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I'd like to nominate Christopher Tin as the musician to send.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQYN2P3E06s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJiHDmyhE1A
> China is one nation

Got to to start from somewhere.
Internet "access" is, and always has been, a link to an "access network." ISPs promise that that they'll route packets from that access network to the Internet, but nobody promises you end-to-end connectivity at a particular speed (unless you pay for a dedicated line). (Verizon, for example, caveats it's product as being a "gigabit connection to your home.")

People like to pretend like internet access service is a promise to get your packets from point A to point B anywhere on the internet at a given speed. That is based on the fiction indulged by the software folks, who just think about getting bytes between a pair of sockets and don’t care how the internet actually works. But as explained in that Cisco article, interconnection and transit has always been distinct from access, and has been the subject of separate commercial negotiations between network operators. That reflects the technical reality that the internet is not a single network, but an agglomeration of private access and transit networks. The idealized software abstraction of the internet doesn’t define what it actually is. If you read the contract that defines what you're buying, it's not promising you that idealized abstraction.