skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair, the professors are like this because the funding agencies---ie, the government and a handful of private groups---essentially refuse to fund duplication research. I thus think that the issue has broader origins than the attitudes of individual faculty.
Exactly. Paying for them to be cared for, fed, educated? Great. Paying for you to have time off, not the same thing.
Considering that “cars owners” in America represent 88%, maybe it’s just an alignment of interests. Maybe alternatives are rejected not because of these subtle systemic issues, but rather because a supermajority of Americans own cars and don’t want the alternatives? Talking about “car owners” like that isn’t synonymous with “most Americans” is a very particular way to frame the issue that makes it seem like a top-down structure when it isn’t.
I do not expect individual ownership of vehicles to decline much. People trash vehicles they don’t own. Fleet-shared driverless cars will be filled with bad smells, weird stains, cigarette butts, and leftover fast food wrappers. Anyone who can afford to buy a car for themselves will do it.
having worked in the ad business... a conversion rate of 1 in 1,000 of in-market people is fairly standard. having zero sales with just over one thousand visitors is not surprising at all _especially_ if you consider that a good percentage of those people probably aren't in-market for your particular game anyway.

You need _way_ more visitors to have any clue if your efforts are resonating with your potential market or not.
I agree, this is very badly phrased for git. It refers to the version of git we're selling, which only really makes sense as soon as we start to provide our own downloads (soon…).
I think in OPs case a Linux port could have a non-trivial affect on sales because he's on the front page of hackernews and people that see this post and feel sorry for him will buy his game and not play it because he supports Linux.
A hyperlinked knowledge-management system for personal use, on all my computers, is essential. To achieve it, I use Emacs and Org-Mode and Dropbox.

An additional benefit of using Emacs: the personal wiki can be integrated with my task-management system, which Org-Mode handles as well. Plus I can draft and edit at warp speed, having customized the native Emacs keybindings to suit me better.

Were I going to publish my wiki to the Web for others to use, I'd export the wiki to HTML with Org. But for now it's all personal.
Seeing the forest for the trees as they say. This is why indie games are focused on the simpler style of video games in some cases like Stardew Valley. It still took the developer 8 years (give or take) and you can tell he worked his tail on it.
I seriously think that differences between countries in factors like medical care, corruption, education, religious freedom/etc outweigh the climate issues by a huge margin. And climate-driven migration would normally mean moving to a different climate, not trying to offset the ~1 degree Celcius change that is observable as of today.
Farms need a lot more than water, though. They need square footage, soil quality, suitable climate, access to infrastructure for shipping, and a good amount of cheap labor. All of those (except, increasingly, cheap labor) can be found in California.
Not sure why you got downvoted?

IMO, it would be reasonable to ban these mass-market ham radio transceivers like the ones mentioned in the article (Switzerland banned most of them). 99% of the people buying them aren't ham radio operators, and their output filters are so bad that you need to mod them to make them acceptable.

> Now if it’s “test equipment” it’s the Wild West. All my SDRs can transmit to 6 GHz, but it’s not something for consumer use. Hope it stays that way.

That's how it was with model airplanes, before the big drone hype happened - there was a small community of experienced people who would play by the rules and police themselves.
Understanding Bash: elements of programming
Why is this freaky?
Consciousness is an utterly arbitrary definition that is not free from debate or alteration.

Same goes for life which is why often we use the phrase life as we know it.

If a cloud of gas can do everything a brain can and we set an arbitrary set of rules of consciousness and it passes the benchmark then it’s conscious based on our arbitrary definition on a cosmic scale it’s still a cloud of dust just like we are lumpy specs of hydrated carbon.

There is no special meaning to life or to consciousness other than the former might be an intrinsic outcome of a universe with an entropy driven arrow of time, and the latter might be an intrinsic outcome of iterative natural selection of self assembling replicating strands of hydrated carbons and other organic molecules.
Listened to this talk given on another campus! It's a great intro and makes the concepts feel accessible
these projects evolve during their production.

it's difficult to market what you haven't finished imagining.
Game industry is the economics of superstars.

The Macroeconomics of Superstars[1]

>Abstract

>Recent technological changes have transformed an increasing number of sectors of the economy into so-called superstars sectors, in which a small number of entrepreneurs or professionals distribute their output widely to the rest of the economy. Examples include the high-tech sector, sports, the music industry, management, fnance, etc. As a result, these superstars reap enormous rewards, whereas the rest of the workforce lags behind. We describe superstars as arising from digital innovations, whicih replace a fraction of the tasks in production with
information technology that requires a fxed cost but can be reproduced at zero marginal cost. This generates a form of increasing returns to scale. To the extent that the digital innovations are excludable, it also provides the innovator with market power. Our paper studies the implications of superstar technologies for factor shares, for inequality
and for the effciency properties of the superstar economy.

[1] The Macroeconomics of Superstars, Anton Korinek
Johns Hopkins and NBER, Ding Xuan Ng
Johns Hopkins, November 2017
https://www.imf.org/~/media/Files/Conferences/2017-stats-for...

[2] The Economics of Superstars The American Economic Review
, Vol. 71, No. 5. (Dec., 1981), pp. 845-858.
http://www.uvm.edu/pdodds/files/papers/others/1981/rosen1981...
Thanks for your answer. I'm really curious how practical metallic hydrogen it.

>How would you continuously crush hydrogen with that?

Why do you the crush to be continuous? I thought the idea of metallic hydrogen was that it is stable once you get it in a metallic state.
I think rather than advertising an actual payments system, this is an example prototype application built with the Solid stack, with the intention of promoting Solid development. https://github.com/solid/solid

Seems like something that might eventually show up in the Showcase section at https://solid.mit.edu/#showcase.
> It's the richest country on earth. What's the excuse?

Car lobby, brainwashed citizens.
There are even now niches in gaming that are under served, and games in these niches are much easier to market.

You can engineer a relatively high chance of success but it requires two things:

1) Actually picking an under served market. Meteriodvania style games are not one of these, there are a ton of game out there fulfilling that need.

2) Really really understanding the audience. You have to know what details of the previous games in the genre were actually important, and what were not which you can innovate in. Even the tiniest details can be super important.
Self-driving cars technically wouldn't have to go anywhere besides the roads - except maybe periodically to charging and a repair station. Of course, by 3 am, it might be cheaper to have them parked. But there's a lot of parking currently available at 3 am.

Of course, these cars occupy space, which means the road they'd be on would be a good deal more occupied. But remember, parking and traffic aren't static per-car, it's all a matter of rates.
What would probably happen is that the price of a car would go up, which means more people will share a car (this would be feaseable with autonomous cars because you can still leave pretty much whenever you need to, and go pretty much where you need to, because you only need to coordinate with any other group of people who happen to need to leave at that time, rather than select the people you want to share a car with and then coordinate when you need to leave).

There is also the alternative that people will move further away from their work, because they can use the commute time -- essentially then, they would leave their homes at the same time, start working and then leave their offices so that they are home again at the same time, which means (assuming everybody lives at different distances from their workplace) that you automatically get a stackering effect.
Ask HN: Good, non-english software engineering related materials
Hi! I'm from Poland, I'm currently studying English and German. I want to communicate also in few other languages in the future, that's why I'm posting this as an open question. One of the best ways to study new language is by reading/listening to materials which you find most interesting. Show me/us please some non-english quality contents (forums, websites, blogs, youtube channels, podcasts, etc.) related to software engineering and other computer science topics :)

For people who wants to learn some Polish:

https://www.youtube.com/user/confiturapl/videos

https://4programmers.net/Forum

https://programistamag.pl/

https://www.nafrontendzie.pl/

https://pl.python.org/forum/

http://forum.php.pl/

https://zaufanatrzeciastrona.pl/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCe6nK69Yc1zna7QSJEfA9pw/videos

https://www.youtube.com/user/programistok/videos

(if you want materials about some specific topic, let me know)

For German I already found those:

https://entwickler.de/

https://www.dev-insider.de/

https://www.python-forum.de/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrTapoqqRfVKL7MxPaXt1qA/videos

Do you guys know more? Maybe some podcasts or blogs?
The problem is, everyone driving and parking a car in dense urban areas is not sustainable past a certain level of density. This results in heavy traffic and a large amount of land dedicated to parking which could be better used as anything else.

This is a top-down structure that was intentionally designed by urban planners after WWII and it is reaching its scalability limit.
The environmentalists have been saying for decades that we are destroying ourselves. Yet as a whole, this is the best time in history for humanity. We live longer healthier lives. Fewer people as a percentage live in poverty than ever before. Climate change is real, and the effects are real. However, it is in the billions of people coming out of poverty and into a “modern” lifestyle that we find hope. We will have billions of people who will now have the time and opportunity to fully develop their potential. The wonders of the scientific revolution of the 15th-20th centuries was with humanities hands tied behind our back as it was only limited to the elite western white male. Now we are opening up opportunities to all genders, races, ethnicities, and countries. The scientific advances and technological breakthroughs of the 21st and 22nd centuries will be amazing. Humanities politics may be bad, but our creativity is amazing and will be our salvation.
Cameras vs. The Human Eye
Don't start by trying to test your idea. That's already getting ahead of yourself. Instead, start by identifying and checking the assumptions behind your idea.

For example, let's say you want to make a retro platformer. The assumption is that many people would be interested in a new retro platformer. That's easy to check: browse through Steam's new releases, find the 10 newest retro platformers, and see how much interest they get. Heck, even imagining that exercise could be enough to make you change course.
> I'm surprised there aren't more games studios in Asia and Eastern Europe

Aren't they?

> Belarus still relies on state-run manufacturers and Soviet-era collective farms. The European Union prefers not to buy food from those farms because one-fifth of Belarus was contaminated by fallout from the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine. Video games, however, are another matter, as are mobile phone apps and software products. All these are being produced in a drab industrial park on the northeastern outskirts of Minsk, an unlikely but booming high-tech hub.

http://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-belarus-tech-boom-...
A Tale of Two Asyncs (Rust and Node.js)
I don’t like how this argument is presented, I can’t remember the correct name for an argument articulated like this but I’ll try to explain why it’s misleading as I keep seeing it lately:

> Clearly the way to close the wage gap is to get women to stop having kids.

That’s one way, the basis of the rest of this comment is then predicated on this being the only way, and as such only has to deal with this.

> I personally don't care if there is a wage gap as long as it is not being caused by workplace discrimination against women.

This a statement that almost every reader agrees with and allows a reader to justify the position that follows (I.e. great, can’t argue with that)

> If instead it's the case that the wage gap is caused by women (disproportionately to men) making an informed choice to de-prioritize work in order to prioritize childcare, then I am totally alright with that.

There is the massive assumption here, “the wage gap is caused by women” without any evidence to back it up. But the author has already trained the reader in the previous statement that they are saying something they agree with, and that the only problem we are solving is to stop women having children (the first statement).

The comment ends with a slight retraction, “maybe, ...” but does not deny the core of the argument. This allows the author to looks like they have presented a balanced view, but it’s anything but.
Fair point, and I have two answers for you.

The real thing I would advocate (if this weren't a beautiful Sunday afternoon, calling me from my keyboard) is a design for traffic that began from the premise of three (or four) interconnected but separate networks, one each for pedestrians, bikes, and rail, and maybe one network of specialized freeways for trucks and buses. Personal cars would be a luxury (unless you live in the country) that few would need (rather than a cornerstone of our economy) with rentals taking up the slack for vacations and such.

But if you're interested in this sort of thing, don't bother with my blathering, go read Christopher Alexander.

My other answer is really just an invitation to a kind of thought experiment: what if we really did restrict ourselves to just walking, biking, and trains? How would civilization look in that alternate reality?
>"why should I pay for raising someone else's kids?"

Well why should I?
Could you please not up the ante like this on HN? This comment and the ones you added below take the thread into flamewar. Picking a gotcha phrase from what someone posted and giving them a smackdown leads straight to degraded discussion.

Instead, please follow the site guidelines and (a) assume good faith, and (b) react to the most plausible interpretation of what someone said, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Both of those are necessary for thoughtful conversation, which is what we're trying for here. That still leaves plenty of room to disagree, and then your disagreement will be much higher-quality, be more likely to convince others, and much more likely to lead to interesting (a.k.a. unpredictable) responses.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Games are a lot like movies industry. #metoo's, low median pay, too many hours put into flops. This kind of effort is best financed by deep pockets that can eat the loss.

One area you might reuse your talents and efforts, is gambling industry. It is another toxic environment, I take antidepressants since 2003 since I worked once with a client of this industry, but the payout is at least certain.
Why is bing maps not a "real alternative" for consumers?

https://www.bing.com/maps
The Butterfly Networks US requires a $39/mo. subscription for the cloud data storage, at least for the first year. Not sure after that.
It's hard to give a general strategy without knowing the problem structure, but I guess you could say one general strategy is to exploit the problem structure in a way that lets you test multiple values in one shot.
I've enjoyed using it on Dropbox - with this: https://twcloud.github.io/tw5-dropbox/

The great thing about TiddlyWiki is that you can easily move it somewhere else and edit from there because it is just a single file.
If a lone programmer wants to write tight code for games, they should build game engines or libraries that games can use and then sell those to game developers.

There exists large value added chain for specialized tools, arts and libraries.
Having mastered C++ is not a bad outcome for the OP’s future in the software trade, though.
Why? All evidence so far suggests we can, standard of living globally has only increased with population growth.
Actually true, even amongst dinosaurs.

Jack Horner is decreasing species counts: https://youtube.com/watch?v=kQa11RMCeSI
External policy server for Postfix MTA-STS support
The grandfathering of water use rights from 100 years ago and the political clout of rural areas guaranteed by the typical state/federal senate apportioning makes this extremely difficult to turn around from having the farms in the desert in California and Arizona. How do we fix that?
Once a city is built around cars, it can be VERY expensive to reconfigure. Things are built too far apart.

Also? We’re not good at infrastructure spending, it’s not sexy enough. And many cities are having trouble just keeping people living/working there.

A very expensive 15-20 year project that may help with that can be a VERY hard sell.

And it’s only to build a few miles of something, so just a tiny piece of what’s needed.

Or you’re NYC and already have an existing subway. But instead of 10s of millions it needs HUNDREDS of millions (or more) to ‘fix’, minimum.
#1 and #2 are strongly related. Procedural generation makes it much harder to create a sense of a coherent world, rather than a series of disconnected mini-games.
> In a perfectly rational market, neither mother or father would disproportionately decide to make one choice or another to prioritize or de-prioritize work at the expense or benefit of raising children. Equal numbers of men would be making that same choice as women do.

Why are you sure of this? Doesn’t this assume that men and women’s natural dispositions to work and childcare are identical? Are they? If so, how do we know?

The shape of the current market could be the reflection of discrimination alone, but I suspect there are other factors.

To me, it seems very difficult to isolate what market phenomena are due to culture and which are due our nature, or what the balance between the two is.

I like the idea of paternity leave (though I feel a little bad for those citizens that choose not to have children), but I doubt it’s going to close the wage gap, or result in a 50/50 split of house wives with working husbands and house husbands with working wives.
Ah yes, I too love my RaPeCam
The most popular/successful combination of those two buzzwords is probably Spelunky.
I completely agree. Every time I see one of these posts bemoaning their sales stats, the game inevitably looks bad. The genre that this game is in is completely saturated, so nobody is going to spend their money on crap when something that looks 10x better is available. While the indie scene is is definitely now over-saturated, the real problem here is the lack of honest feedback to the developer.
Well, point of care ultrasound (which is what the butterfly is for) can often lead to formal ultrasonography to be read by a radiologist. However, it can increase time to initial treatment, and depending on the level of skill of the user can sometimes prevent the need for formal ultrasound, but not always.
Our country is a lot bigger with barely anything in the middle. Cities without adequate public transit can be blamed directly on the voters.
It’s a giant country, and despite what people in the Silicon Valley bubble think, there are a lot of cities with a lot of space. This is an insoluble problem if everyone demands acces to a spot in one or two major cities, because that’s where VC money is concentrated. That’s not a problem for most people though, who frankly don’t care about housing problems or traffic problems for techies. They’ll switch over to EV’s, but good luck trying to get them to embrace trains and busses.
> writing HIPPA instead of HIPAA

Ouch. You'd think in 2018 spellcheck would have solved this for newspaper.
That will never work because companies will always try to double dip.

See cable tv
According to that link he wasn't able to get it invalidated. (not a lawyer, baseless speculation follows) There is proof that that guy did it first though, so if you get permission from him and then get sued by W3W then maybe you can claim prior art that way(?)
Cruise seems to operate like it has an unlimited reserve of money. They also have a bit of a broculture. They are hiring like wildfire.

All self driving tech is in its early days to call it “self - driving”. So it will be interesting to see how the future pans out.

May be you can indeed keep on throwing ridiculous amounts of money and something and make it work. May be not.
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Bolsonaro: Women all over Brazil lead large protests
It would have to get past zoning/etc. when many cities are fighting to get more people to move into downtown removing buildings and putting up parking may be seen as a problem/eyesore.

I think basic profitability is probably the #1 and #2 answers.
The answer nobody wants to hear, but knows is true. There is propaganda from all sides with big lobbying interests. Media is completely in the pockets of those interests which only further pushes the propaganda model.

Just watch TV around an election. It's complete and total doublespeak and propaganda every few minutes.
What the heck is going on with measures of programming language popularity?
I've used MapBox on an a few projects and absolutely loved the experience and API. But I kind of believe Mapbox is more of a "best tool of the job" type of alternative. (Meaning, I wouldn't use it for general purpose mapping. More like mapping out specific points of data.)
I don't think this is anything new. The US was casually bombing people during the Vietnam era with little or no attention from the media. What got attention was the campaign as a whole, mostly after the fact. Individual actions rarely got a mention. I would also be careful about conflating foreign military adventures with domestic spying. While there is some crossover, balling everything into one big problem makes change impossible.

A standard defense by those who support a status quo is to link everything, to state that any change in one area must involve other changes to any number of other programs. It is a delay tactic. Debate spirals upwards until people are talking about bringing down the entire military-industrial complex, not the specific of how drones are being used in a particular conflict. If you see only an edifice it is because they want you to see an edifice. It keeps them safe from specific questions.