skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A friend of my mom died and his wife died sitting in her car just as they were about to begin the procession. Nice couple, married for a long time, shared some of the same odd characteristics. I don't recall what he died of or if there was indication it was coming, so it's not clear how far down this progression she was or how fast it hit. It was sad but also the thought of a couple meaning that much to each other is rather touching.
Until now. Introducing my new line: 'Craft Harbor'
We've updated the link from https://longreads.com/2018/09/25/mind-your-mindfulness-youre..., which points to this.
A lot of colleges are using Java which is what is on the AP exam or at least the AP exam I am taking. I don't know many colleges that are actually teaching CS with C anymore sadly. Tbh, the AP exam does not prepare one for programming at all, any self respecting university should not accept credit for passing it.
> CSS frameworks feel like a "let's get all the shit CSS was meant to help remove and just put it in divs".

You just made me realize this is why I always have a hard time every time I try a CSS frameworks.

It always goes the same way. I'm first amaze by all what they offer, how simple and quick a great UI can be made. Then when I try to use it, there's always something wrong and I hate how it goes and I always stop and goes back to the logical ways to do it entirely in CSS.

I guess I should try some CSS preprocessor, they must support heritage of CSS class I guess.
More fundamentally speaking, I'm wondering what the intrinsic value of CSS is when you compare the work involved in building a UI in web-land and native-land.

I remember once looking up on the proposed alternatives to CSS. One was basically a lisp, or at least the syntax, as far as I recall it. Think of what you could do with that!

However the problem now is that the problem CSS intended to solve can only be considered in terms of CSS itself. I'm curious what other approaches could be taken if we worked entirely from a clean slate. Would it involve changing the DOM? Would it require a separate language? Who knows...

CSS works great for websites but not so much for full-blown apps, where you're programming with a totally different mindset than what the web originally anticipated.
I could see road-side battery exchange - assistance arrives with fully charged batteries, swaps them for the empty batteries, truck rolls on. Faster than pumping fuel.
Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lo_and_Behold,_Reveries_of_the...
> To follow up on your cardiology example, I'd say that pills certainly helped, but the game changers really are the new toys of the interventional cardiologist.

Balloon caths re-stenosed 30% of the time. Balloon caths with bare metal stents re-stenosed about 15% of the time. Balloon caths with stents and dual-platelet drugs re-stenose about 3% of the time. I think this is one of those "drugs help ... but less so" situations where drugs get less credit than they're worth, and the physician scientists that did the endless slogging to figure out how to optimize interventional cardio's toys deserve real credit.

But, yes, I agree: most MD's aren't scientists. Quite a lot of MDs are only barely science-literate. They're engineers: they're taught a body of science and its application, with the expectation that they apply it usefully.
Leaked video reveals Amazon's union-busting playbook
Interesting related video from Kurzgesagt released 1 week ago: https://youtu.be/NtQkz0aRDe8
I'd love to pay cash, but it just doesn't make sense given the rewards and the benefits of the reward credit cards. Citi Double cash gives me 2% back and does price matching. That is a huge savings over the course of a year.
A professor at U of Washington who's been been teaching for 32 years wrote an essay in response to James Damore's (Google-Memo guy) firing, saying that tech's culture is too silencing of opinions, and wrote an article using the thesis that there are fewer women than men in CS because women are less interested in CS than men [1].

In this article, 6 women in prominent CS roles each wrote essays in response.

1 is professor at the same school, says his thesis is wrong because the numbers are changing to be closer to equal (On a intro-to-code website for students K-8, genders were split 55/45 boys to girls).

2 is professor at the same school, says the gender gap happens because by not expecting girls to be programmers, then girls don't expect it of themselves, and when they do they don't get offered as much help, so it becomes self-fulfilling.

3 is PhD alum from the UW and lead data scientist at a startup, says girls often don't like CS because they feel unheard or taken advantage of, and that the article is a mean but ironic example of women's opinions being ignored. She also insinuates that the professor should be reprimanded for writing it.

4 is professor at the school, says discrimination (sexual harassment, unequal pay, condescending attitudes) are rampant in the field and make it hard for women to stay motivated.

5 is undergrad alum from the school with high honors & PhD student at Cornell, says girls lose interest because they're frequently undermined. She also thinks the wrong people get recommended to CS at a young age (e.g. kids who like computer games but not kids who like math). She says having supportive parents and good role models is necessary.

6 is undergrad alum from the school and software engineer at Microsoft who TA'd for the original professor, says it's hard to stay confident because the field is male-dominated, and that articles like these make it worse.

Everyone agrees that the issue is very complicated, and says so in their essay.

[1] https://quillette.com/2018/06/19/why-women-dont-code/

edit: removed names of the responders
Well yeah... Chemo is incredibly difficult on the body, not surprising it would significantly shorten your lifespan.
Depends on where the truck is driving. If we restrict them to highway or designed hubs off of highways the problem of trucks isn't much harder than cars. When we start talking about maneuvering in smaller areas like city streets and receiving areas at the destination it's definitely somewhat harder just because there's so much more vehicle to handle and keep track of.

One reason to think it'll happen much quicker in trucking is because the economic incentive is much higher for a trucking company to replace it's drivers than for a single person to use an autonomous car.
That was perfect. Thank you!
Milwaukee makes pretty decent power tools. Their M18 batteries seem to hold up better than most. Whatever you go with, you really do want to standardize on one model of battery, so that everything is interchangeable and you don't end up with a half-dozen different chargers.
Here's my list of 10/10 documentaries:

Biopics and Portraits:

- Kung Fu Elliot (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3228302/?ref_=rt_li_tt)

- Listen to Me Marlon (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4145178/?ref_=rt_li_tt)

- Man on Wire (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1155592/?ref_=rt_li_tt)

- My Winnipeg (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1093842/?ref_=rt_li_tt)

- A Gray State (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6794380/?ref_=rt_li_tt)

- Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1683876/?ref_=rt_li_tt)

- Valley Uprising (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3784160/?ref_=rt_li_tt)

- You've Been Trumped (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1943873/?ref_=rt_li_tt)

Environmental:

- Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3302820/?ref_=rt_li_tt)

- The Cove (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1313104/?ref_=rt_li_tt)

- Chasing Coral (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6333054/?ref_=rt_li_tt)

- Virunga (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3455224/?ref_=rt_li_tt)

Crime:

- Cartel Land (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4126304/?ref_=rt_li_tt)

- The Act of Killing (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2375605/?ref_=rt_li_tt)

- The Culture High (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1778338/?ref_=rt_li_tt)

- The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4299972/?ref_=rt_li_tt)

- West of Memphis (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2130321/?ref_=rt_li_tt)

- How to Make Money Selling Drugs (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1276962/?ref_=rt_li_tt)

- The Fear of 13 (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5083702/?ref_=rt_li_tt)

- Brother's Keeper (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103888/?ref_=rt_li_tt)

- Auschwitz: The Nazis and the 'Final Solution' (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0446610/?ref_=rt_li_tt)

Reflecting on Life and Death:

- Given (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4890452/?ref_=rt_li_tt)

- Extremis (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5538078/?ref_=rt_li_tt)

- Touching the Void (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379557/?ref_=rt_li_tt)

- Attention: A Life in Extremes (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2846628/?ref_=rt_li_tt)

Society:

- Israel vs Israel (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1753960/?ref_=rt_li_tt)

- Inside Job (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1645089/?ref_=rt_li_tt)

- The Overnighters (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3263996/?ref_=rt_li_tt)
Burger King's A.I.-created campaign pokes fun at A.I
Head's up on the publication's goal:

> Medical Hypotheses is a forum for ideas in medicine and related biomedical sciences. It will publish interesting and important theoretical papers that foster the diversity and debate upon which the scientific process thrives. [. . .] Medical Hypotheses was therefore launched, and still exists today, to give novel, radical new ideas and speculations in medicine open-minded consideration, opening the field to radical hypotheses which would be rejected by most conventional journals. Papers in Medical Hypotheses take a standard scientific form in terms of style, structure and referencing. The journal therefore constitutes a bridge between cutting-edge theory and the mainstream of medical and scientific communication, which ideas must eventually enter if they are to be critiqued and tested against observations.

Not saying it's completely without merit, but this should not be interpreted as a scientific study of any type.
I was commenting on the original proposal, even in the single-client context. So, we're talking about the same problem - I just obviously wasn't very clear about it :)

So, yes, semantic names matter, and functional names are a bad idea in the long run, because they shatter maintainability.
I profoundly disagree. IMHO, the destination is open space, not another planet, and the gravity well on the Moon is waaay easier to overcome.
One I haven't seen recommended yet is "Stories We Tell". A bit unique and definitely one to see without reading too much on it.

As for others that people have already mentioned, I'd second the nods to "Touching the Void", "Encounters at the End of the World", and "The Act of Killing".
Understanding user support systems in open source
> At the same time, if you look at Sears's peers, most of them are still alive and kicking, if not thriving. E.g. Target, Wal-Mart, Macy's, Kohl's, JC Penney, Best Buy etc.

That seems like confirmation bias to me. I could write a much longer list of national retail chains gone out of business over the last decade and a half. Circuit City, Mervyn's, A&P, Borders, CompUSA, Toys R Us, Marshall Fields, the list goes on.
+1 to you, it's always amazing who hangs out on HN.
The article states that you can give Facebook a list of phone numbers or email addresses and it will put your ad in front of only those people. Does anyone know how small a list you can target? List of one? List of one plus N number of dead email addresses? Therefore a list of one, but more expensive?
Last Train Home: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1512201/
Segway is back, and it’s coming for your last shred of dignity
I assure you that there are many things myself and others do well, some of which we like doing more than others, that we're absolutely not going to do if someone isn't paying me for it. Frankly it's one of the things that defines a professional--getting tasks done even when it becomes a slog or you're just not that into it.
Specifically this story: http://audreyii-fic.tumblr.com/post/170886347853/the-entirel...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16389342
It hits a nerve when a programmer or designer either tries to fix something that isn't broken and ends up making it even worse (Such as web pages that try to implement smooth scrolling), or removes functionality for the sake of simplicity and it lowers usability. Yeah, in this case it was a bug, but let's not pretend it doesn't happen deliberately sometimes.
??? surely you must be talking about a different sub
He then dies a lot harder than 'a little', probably.
What are the ethical reasons? Do you find it unethical to foster a species that behaves in such a way? Strictly curious.
Nimble is quite nice. It's still beta so occasionally rough around the edges (maybe mostly so in the docs).
I’m glad you’re here.
When a Google executive describes altering search results to achieve a favored electoral outcome, that qualifies under any reasonable reading as an in-kind (a good or service provided directly, rather than a bundle of cash) campaign contribution. Whether you consider covert attempts to use their market power in search to achieve unrelated political outcomes as "rigging" I guess depends on your viewpoint.
Is this evidence that they use their hardware to mine their own cryptocurrencies before they sell/ship it to you? I remember reading terrible reviews for bitmain and their customer service about how orders were delayed for months because cryptocurrencies were skyrocketing.
i've tried to solve some of these issues with the feed reader i built https://aktu.io :

- sites without feed:
These sites usually have a Facebook page so i added a feature to subscribe to a Facebook page. The page posts now appear in your RSS feeds as regular RSS items.

- noise:
The content is automatically categorized, with names of people, places, etc... extracted so you can easily filter your feeds.
Articles in your feeds are automatically grouped together if they're about the same story, that helps reduce the number of items and at the same time provide different angles on stories.

- truncated content:
There's not much to be done for this one i guess, unless you go against the publisher's wishes
These are good points. A agree that PropTypes are neither as expressive/spesific nor as strict as using e.g. an interface with TS. I still think they are often good enough.

You are also correct to point out PropTypes offer no way of adding typing to component or utility functions. I've seldom seen errors arise from the lack of typing here, and if they do you'll usually discover them at runtime. However types as added documentation of function signatures would be nice.
1. GNU Hurd is usable by those interested, but obviously still needs a lot of work to be generally usable.

2. These days, GNU Hurd isn't GNU's only kernel. GNU Linux-libre is a fork of the Linux kernel that removes support for non-free binary blobs, and is officially part of the GNU project.

3. There's a distribution called GuixSD, which takes the GNU package manager (GNU Guix) and the GNU init system (GNU Shepherd), and the choice of GNU kernels (GNU Hurd or GNU Linux-libre), and builds a complete system out of them. It's easy to make the case that GuixSD is the GNU system in everything but name. And even then, there's the ongoing possibility that GuixSD becomes "blessed" as the complete GNU system and renames to GNU.
Both in progress.

Language server:

https://github.com/nim-lang/langserver

https://github.com/nim-lang/langserver/issues/1

As for a REPL, there is already `nim secret`, but there is work being done to create a better interactive environment.

https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/8927
Is it legal or can other shareholders sue him and the fund?
Of course, in the US, a lot of true long-haul trucking shifted to trains a long time ago. A lot of shipping is now multi-modal.
>> How on earth do you separate causation from correlation in such cases?

The other responses are better, but I think the stories of the prisoners should be enough to believe it. They watched people around them go through the progression with no apparent illness or other causes of decline. They didn't mention but I don't think they were just talking about old people where life may have just run its course. "This sucks, I'm done" seems to fit better than anything.
>How on earth do you separate causation from correlation in such cases?

You don't always need (or can afford to have) a full control group and 100% separation causation from correlation.

Sometimes you can just draw the obvious conclusions from the events you see and only rationally eliminate other causes.
Tires blowing out are a much bigger (in terms of simple cost and the thornier problem of schedule optimization and ability to guarantee precise delivery times) and much more common of a problem than mechanical breakdowns. They're also a problem that does not go away with autonomous trucks or electric motors or anything conceivably around the corner, outside of some miraculous development in materials science.

As such, a (somewhat) well-organized industry has developed around getting replacement supplies like tires and other accessories to the site of a breakdown as quickly as possible, and this would simply need to be extended to include whatever it is autonomous trucks would require that doesn't touch the road.
It was a good guess. I hadn't noticed, but it's a bit ironic that after y2k, we're still making our software work with 2 digit years.
If the “Autonomous Truck Port” model becomes popular,
I wonder if we will see a highway-oriented version of
the https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermodal_container
with a lower tare weight but the same twist-locks and
dimensions?

This could mean that ATP-to-ATP trip
segments would be done by trailers built for containers,
so load/unload operations could be automated,
and hookup/unhook of trailers to tractors
would happen much less often.

Also, equipment to handle ocean port
and ATP container movements would be
similar in specification.
Tucows made hover.com to try and solve this exact problem. How does this differ?
Bringing it back to Linus is easy. The times he stayed technical and on point, he gets things done very well. The times he chest thumped back at someone chest thumping to him, it actually worked decently. The times he just started chest thumping to a quiet person trying to help, that is just obnoxious.

That is, in this case, I'd argue he isn't "faking" it to not bring in outside crap. Just leave it out. Stay on point for the topic at hand and he does amazing. I'd go so far as to say I think he is a bit of a role model in those situations. Deservedly so.
can someone expound on what this does exactly and how it works? Will the compiler try to statically verify that it is actually pure and error if it can't? Does it unlock optimizations or other features?
Same in our company, where I am tasked with phone screening and it's been horrible to interview junior candidates because most of them are looking for good salary rather than passion for computer science or solving the problems not seen before. Ironically, most of them have completed Master's in computer science as well.
S/No/Also
Hazard Fraught is moving up the food chain in a number of tool lines. They're definitely filling that void.

The business model appears to be to sell reasonable quality tools and nail consumers with low quality consumables.

I avoid HF if I can but their new line of welders is getting rave reviews at a 1/4 the price of the American brands.

At this point, I would buy HF over Crapsman.
The moon has 1/6th of Earth's gravity and 0% of our atmospheric pressure.

Mars has 1/3rd of the gravity and 0.6% of the pressure.

Those 2 factors make them very similar to each other and the distance makes the moon the clear candidate for a first step.
We use it in our company and I really like it. It's opened up a lot of workflows and data streams that either wouldn't exist or would go ignored. However, it might be relevant data that I am the boss and chose it ;-)
Chomsky has been criticizing government for 60 years and still going. He went to jail maybe once for civil disobedience.
I find it interesting that you would absolve yourself for working for Facebook just because you wouldn't be working directly on ads. Facebook is an ad company with services attached (a fairly reprehensible one in my opinion). If you work for them, you are helping them achieve their goals, which ultimately is about serving people ads, it doesn't matter what particular role you are doing there.
Man I miss Usenet. Last time I used a news client was 2006, working at a firm that had an internal NNTP server for announcements, general chatter, for sale ads etc.

I don't think anyone under 30 would have a clue what to do with newsgroups these days.
Don't know about the U.S. but in Canada the Sears pensioners got a 30% reduction.[0]

[0]https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/sears-canada-pension-retire...
I realized that software engineering is not engineering as in applied physics, but more like engineering as in creating things. The opinions of experts are just that, opinions, and there is no need to adopt everything. They are not exactly laws of nature being described. Its ok to have your own opinions and methodologies as long as things work (of course, as an employee I choose to simply follow the herd, but with my own things I am my own person). The best decision I made was adopting this.
Keeping customers. See Shenzhen which is a free-for-all but out-innovates about everyone else in product development:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGJ5cZnoodY
I built https://aktu.io, a mix between GoogleNews and GoogleReader, would love to have your feedback if you want to give it a try!
I'm sure you can find a better example than the people you are renting the helicopter from obviously not wanting to be shown in a bad way.
As someone who hates most interview processes as a candidate, I like this one quite a bit.

- it doesn't waste the candidate's time. If the candidate knows all about it: great! If they don't---it's never a bad time to learn/re-learn the fundamentals.

- it avoids the "gotcha" approach that tests for whether you know a specific thing, right now.

- it tests the candidate over time. Speaking as someone who used to rock interviews but did not perform as well over the long haul, I think this is an important distinction.

I will read the other comments with interest, but initially I say: bravo.
isn't "domain expert" and "reddit" contradictory?
No that's exactly what you need to do. We have a dramatically understated problem today of people with but regurgitated ideas and answers precisely because people don't think for themselves (both due to their personal lives as well as outside individuals and corporations actively working to keep them that way).
Best Buy's retail stores have been surprisingly successful. Sears can probably learn some lessons from Best Buy. Turn your competitor's strength into a weakness, e.g. people want to see and try big appliances before they buy them. You can do that at Best Buy and Sears, not Amazon.
>After my own trauma I went to sleep with a prayer “please god don’t wake me up the next day”, for a year.

Well, what one consciously expresses is not always a match for their inner state.

Second, it's another thing to say "oh god, take me now" than to consider yourself as nearing death. One is a kind of negative wish, while the other is how you view yourself objectively to be going to.

Besides, biological processes are not physical laws. They are statistical phenomena, and people can differ. It's what happens in the aggregate and for most that's examined. In that sense, a counter-example is not enough to take down the phenomenon.

In any case, glad it worked out for you.