skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was in top gear, but at a steady cadence and not in head-down thrashing-it mode. The issue for me in London is that the road layout doesn't really invite people to look out for cyclists. The road I was on didn't have a separate cycle lane - in London you can cycle in bus lanes, which is where I was, but cars are looking out for buses rather than cyclists. The cycle lanes that do exist in London are also so narrow that when it's busy it can feel pretty dangerous to try and overtake someone slower. I'm sure the few idiot risk-takers who thrash down the middle of those lanes put quite a few people off.
I have strong feelings about your response.

There are people who were either medicated at a young age or forced to take medication through legal proceedings. Of those, most will have experienced the same hit-or-miss phenomenon with psychiatric medication. In some cases, however, this means that they were forced to take medications that had debilitating side-effects or didn't particularly work, and experienced serious stress trauma due to their ongoing helplessness in the situation.

I do not expect them to be any less capable than anyone else, as a result, of understanding that other people are not them. I do not expect them to be offended when other people describe experiences that are not theirs.

You're responding to the advice of someone who has taken medications voluntarily and had control over the process; this person is writing in response to an article by a man who, for all his bad experiences, was ALSO taking medications voluntarily.

The statement that you single out as objectionable is actually nearly universal advice, and reflects my own experience with medications and mental health problems.

If your comments about "how offensive that is" are based in your own experience as someone who was coercively medicated, I would be interested in hearing an explanation of why you find them objectionable. If they are not, however, I seriously question the value of your interjection into the conversation.

I am attempting to be gentle and moderate in my response and I apologize if it seems harsh to you.
You still need time based planning. You can't go to client and say it will take 500 points to finish the project. You also can't bill story points.
Yes, after some time velocity will enable you to easily convert points to time, but in real world when customer is de facto product owner and team size is in constant flux depending on each customer wishes, you need experience engineer to give you ballpark value how long something will take long before the coding even starts.
Quibble - this comes from Smith. It's not specifically a Marxist complaint - just one popular with them.
During my driving test (rural countryside of Austria, after 2000) not doing the "Dutch Reach" could decide about fail or pass. Now I live in a bigger city and cycle every day and I wish this was common practice.

As a cyclist you have to treat the typical motorist like an idiot with no perception of their surrounding and no knowledge of traffic rules. Sadly the same is true also for cyclists (especially with sunday-nice-weather-cyclists).
Uber does not force a price.

It is up to the driver to accept the fare.
I do see your point - I keep my big computer on windows for this reason, and for hardware support. However, I think the picture is more complicated than windows having a 'vibrant' ecosystem, and linux having no such thing.

My experience is that 90's-era flagship programs, like Adobe suite, Microsoft Office, and so on, generally don't have Linux support. However, for anything past that, Linux is simply way better. If you want something like a nice calendar app, a good music player, or a good calculator, or whatever, linux is way ahead.
Cantilever brakes. I have disk brakes now, but I actually feel safer with those because I feel I have more fine control somehow.
Gah, sorry, fixed -- thanks!
This is AntiPolygraph.org co-founder George Maschke. I didn't offer services to those needing to pass lie detector test. AntiPolygraph.org only provides information, all of it free, in the public interest. But it appears that I, too, was targeted for entrapment:

https://antipolygraph.org/blog/2013/11/03/an-attempted-entra...
A little suspect when they say " giving them access to the most sensitive code even on machines that have crashed or are turned off."

When it is turned off? A magical chip that works without electricity is much more valuable than any data which could be exfiltrated from servers. A chip that works without power changes the world more than the iPhone... in the iPhone Age
Or maybe you should get over your mcarthyism when even Bloomberg speaks in socialistic terms.
Wow okay that article is trash with little substance. I would also not want such articles in my publications.
There's a difference between "unethical to make a human do" and "create an unethical result": e.g. there are ethical benefits from the automation of risky jobs. The obvious one in ML and computers is image recognition of horrific images.

(Granted, there are then additional issues of where and how you deploy that technology.)
Another way to look at it is that with copyright, there is an important constituency who wants to make it stronger (not just Hollywood companies, but the hundreds of thousands of voters they employ), and essentially nothing on the other side. How many jobs does EFF create and how many votes do they represent?

The idea that it’s about money also is hard to reconcile with the relatively weak lobbying power of tech companies. Tech companies are vastly richer than Hollywood and have been for a long time. Facebook earns five times the profits of NBC Universal but employes just half the people.

Your idea also fails to explain things like FOSTA/SESTA. How much money do victims of sex trafficking have? Why couldn’t the tech industry, with its blinding amounts of cash, stop it?
We have nextbike in Cardiff and they've been a huge hit. There's static points to return them to, which most people seem to do, and the pricing is very sensible. There's no security deposit like with oBike, and they've rigged up some deals with the local council and universities to get more people using them. The quality of the bikes is alright, and I just carry a keyring with a few utility allen-keys on it in case anything needs tightening (though they are prompt at fixing broken bikes, it's handy to be able to tighten something up if you're in a rush).

https://www.nextbike.co.uk/en/news/another-27-nextbike-locat...

Now if only our council would design cycle lanes that weren't massively fucking stupid, we'd be golden.

Sidenote: I was sat in a bar having locked one of the nextbikes up outside (lock through the wheel, on its stand), and got a very entertaining 5 minutes watching a woman and her partner try to steal it. They didn't seem to understand that it was locked. They're also fecking heavy, so I'm not sure how far they'd have gotten with it if they had the brainpower to move it in the first place.
Oddly, all site text invisible in Chrome 55 (UC Browser) and FF 57. (text exists, but must be same as bg color, including all buttons)
Yes, it’s the manager’s ultimate responsibility. But it’s not only the manager’s job. Every team member, and especially those with more experience, has a responsibility to ensure the team communicates and operates cooperatively and effectively. It’s the sort of thing that can’t be imposed by above by a manager if individuals aren’t taking responsibility for it in the first place.
I agree with p0cc that a simple screenshot of a more advanced list on the front page would be great. Even better: an interactive, non permanent example on the front page, maybe you can even structure all your talking points within that.

For the app itself: why do lists branch off other lists and not items? Can I at least convert an item to a branched list? I'm not quite sure what the use-case is. An example again would help.

I have to admit to prefer nested lists instead of mind-maps. When mind-maps are purely tree-like the same kind of relationships can be depicted in both.

My nested lists fail when a child has two parents, with mind maps this is not a problem. Maybe you can lever on that advantage?
Show HN: Pure CSS toggle Web component
It happened so quickly that I didn't really get time to think about it - the car pulled out right in front of me with very little space. In hindsight I'd say the choice was to go head-first into the car or over the handlebars. I'm not sure there's much to choose between those two.
There's an optimistic take on this which says that in the beginning, the only people who were close enough to computing to understand what was possible were programmers and engineers, so the ideas that had currency revolved around programming and engineering. As the reach of computing has grown, the range of people who can have good ideas of what to do with a computer has grown to include half of humanity (give or take), so the ideas of what's worth doing are taken from a much bigger pool.

The trade-off is that projects which can make an impact across the entire ecosystem (like Hypercard did) must reach a much wider variety of minds, and that's incredibly hard today. However, I can almost guarantee that there are tools out there that have similar impacts to Hypercard within specific niches, with higher user stats than Hypercard ever had. You don't hear about them because the size of the pool has grown so much.
>Statistically much of China is under-policed [0]

That table is slightly misleading depending on how you count police forces. China's numbers are slightly shewed due to the 1.5 million strong People's Armed Police[0] not being included.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Armed_Police
Yes, it does. Some individuals react differently. Some individuals cannot take aspirin daily for heart benefits, some cannot take ibuprofen for pain relief. Both these drugs can have reactions with other medications. It isn't an insignificant portion of the population, but we shouldn't allow those individuals create a dialogue that scares others away from trying the drug.

If anything, we just need to spend a bit more time talking to folks about the possible side effects of the medications.
"near minimum wage" just became $15/hr. Sounds like a solid deal.
They aren't isolated incidents, just as the testimonials from people who were really helped by the exact same drug aren't isolated incidents, and the testimonials from people who have experienced side-effects that were not discovered by the original qualification study are not isolated incidents.

Psychiatric medications, in many cases, do genuinely affect different people differently. This has been well known for a long time. It also contributes to the contrast between anecdotal clinical experience and what are often dismal statistical performances.

The difficulty is with people who feel that they have a grievance with the pharmaceutical companies and the medications themselves, when they actually have a grievance with the doctors who directed their care.
Do whatever the fuck you want. But please be careful with what accusations you are throwing at people.
A simple guide for how to write unit tests for smart contracts
Yep I use these but I thought that they are a form of guide comments.
Which part sounds paranoid to you?
As somebody who cycled in nearly 15 different nations inside and outside of Europe, cycling in the Netherlands is a joy. For me it was mainly three factors:

1. Infrastructure: wide enough seperated lanes without potholes in a bright color, making it clear also to pedestrians. Most of the time very clear visibility on crossroads.

2. Motorized traffic is most of the time far less stressed than in other parts of europe

3. Other cyclists seem to be more educated about traffic rules than in other places where you often only have two types: the suicidal and the overly cautionous, barly going faster than a pedestrian
> I put “write code” first because I find it surprisingly easy to accidentally let that take a back seat

As a first-year-out-of-school developer, I shadowed an interview once from a "Principle Engineer" at another company. By the end of the interview, we understood two things: 1: He did not code in his job and hadn't in a while. 2: He could not code anymore.

This role was for a senior engineer position, where he would need to mentor people on writing software. It was a pretty hard 'no' by the time we did our group follow-up with the other interviewers.
Just finished Life 3.0 - very good overview of ethics and possible futures.
This, unfortunately, is exactly the sort of attitude I’m talking about. This comment reflects a profound ignornance of what we currently understand about how trauma works — that there are protective elements that may be in place even in terrible circumstances, that a developing nervous system does not care if society is functioning if the people responsible for a child are not, that there are circumstances that can occur anywhere that quite literally change the brain during key developmental stages — and cloaks it in a moral judgment.

It is somewhat stunning to see someone make sweeping declarative statements about a field they know nothing about on this forum in particular. I would encourage you to read the relevant research.
> I went through a few repos and the result was a weirdly consistent 30-45 LOC(sans tests) daily for a 2-3 person team

The "sans tests" metric is in my opinion some kind of cheating to keep the number small.

Let me explain: when I was younger, I was already immensely productive as a programmer. But because I was young and naive, I did not care about testing etc.

When I look at code that I produce today in my free time, I observe that the ratio between test code and normal code is about 6:1. It is similarly hard to produce good test code as it is to produce "ordinary" code.

So by demanding that the code is well-tested, we need a lot more code to solve the same job. If I multiply your upper bound of 45 LOC by my factor of 7 (= 1 + 6), I obtain 210-315 LOC/day. This is much nearer to my experience of 400-500 LOC per day. The remaining difference can be plausibly explained by experience of other team member, time for communication in the team, time for communication with customers, overhead demanded by management, ...
It’s more a formality I think. Since recording of atomic time started in the early 1970s it’s accepted that an atomic second is an actual second back as far as 1970. No assertion of accuracy is made beyond that. Of course otherwise you can negative offset as much as you like beyond that but because of physics and stuff it can’t be treated with the same level of certainty or something.
I actually really like how debos handles this - unfortunately when I went down the road of trying to get it working for my setup I couldn't get it to complete the debootstrap process (I admittedly didn't spend too much time trying to get this working - my suspicion was that it had to do with kernel support on my build agent).

I hit the same roadblock with qemu-debootstrap, which is a great wrapper for this use case, but makes (to be fair, reasonable) assumptions about permissions you do and do not have that might not apply in a build agent where you don't have control of the kernel.

Separating the process out into two stages helped with this as I was manually able to perform only the mounts needed to get a minimal filesystem produced.

Not to plug but I wrote another article that explains the context in which I'm producing the builds and goes into more details about the constraints (https://headmelted.com/continuous-delivery-with-azure-pipeli...).

All that said, debos is a great tool if it fits your situation (as is qemu-debootstrap!)
Those are not CPI charts, but derived from them. And they are not accurate for the last few years due to methodological changes, where most of the supposed catch up has occurred. From a PEW study using the same numbers:

"The 2015 ASEC utilized a redesigned set of income questions, so the household income figures reported for calendar year 2014 may not be fully comparable to earlier years. The 2014 ASEC tested the new redesigned income questions by offering five-eighths of the sample the traditional income questions and three-eighths of the sample the redesigned questions. Median household income for calendar year 2013 was $53,585 (in 2013 dollars) based on the redesigned income questions compared with an estimated $51,939 using the traditional income questions. The difference reflects both the different questionnaire and the different sampled households responding to the questionnaires." http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2015/12/09/methodology/

Nonetheless, even though these numbers attempt to take costs into account, and even if they were accurate, remaining stagnant over almost two decades of intense technological development indicates a societal failure.
You can play online if you have ever wanted to give it a try. It’s probably the best way to learn, since you can take your time communicating and planning your next moves.

Diplomacy is probably the emotionally hardest game I’ve ever played. It feels bad when people betray you, it feels bad when people utterly outsmart you, and after this happens to you (on say, turn two) you still have a couple hours in person to play, or a couple more weeks in person. You have immediately roll with the new situation, try to get help from previous enemies, and keep going with loosing your cool or your will to fight.

[0] https://www.playdiplomacy.com
It’s typically referred to as AEDST though
> UEFI starts the bootloader in 32-bit mode

Or 64-bit mode, on most current systems.
A funny thing I have noticed about Wikipedia is that although citing Wikipedia itself in an academic paper is still not a good idea generally speaking, the references provided in a Wikipedia article are usually far more relevant than the ones provided in a typical IEEE paper.

It was a shock for me to discover that the "literature review" of an IEEE paper I was reading was essentially useless compared to the one provided by Wikipedia on the same topic. When combined with the fact that the IEEE paper was behind a paywall and the Wikipedia article was accessed within seconds using a search engine, I now know better how to do a literature review...

Why is this the case? Part of what I have noticed about IEEE is that at least 20% of the references provided are simply added at reviewer's insistence to boost their favorite author's citation count (possibly themselves), regardless of what it has to say about the topic at hand. I don't really know how much of this extends to non-IEEE venues. What I can say is that the mathematics papers I have read provide much better references.
How to Get Users and Grow – Gustaf Alstromer from Airbnb
If Cringley is to be believed, the original incarnation was called QDOS, Quick & Dirty DOS done up by some guy in the valley that didn’t want to pay for CP/M. Gates licensed it outright for $50k cause he needed something to go to IBM with ...
I can say this absolutely exists in Corp tech shops.

I worked in an environment where the CIO would frequently refer to the tech staff as “the factory”. I often encouraged this CIO and others in the management team not to because it was demoralizing and not true - the work was highly skilled, highly dynamic and not repetitive.

Oh and if you treated tech work like a factory it looked like lots of management overhead, poor execution from low skilled workers, predictable timelines (long timelines), and last but not least higher cost.
Is there any theoretical AGI modell based on Popper theories? I've heard only about ones based on Solomonoff induction & bayesian inference, like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIXI and its various derivatives...
After almost 25 years of taking antidepressants,
I had no emotion left whatsoever. I felt dead and
wanted to be dead.

I wonder how to understand this.

If you have no emotions, can you still want something? Why would you want to die?

I tend to understand this sentence in a way that means she was suffering. But isn't suffering the same as experiencing negative emotions?

Or is this supposed to mean that she had no good emotions left, only painful ones?
I think this could be about efficiency. If it is codified that Breitbart is not a credible source (which is not a irrational idea), you don't need to have daily discussions about Breitbarts credibility.
Most people have a liability insurance so I don't believe this is why the law exists.

This is a very old law from the age of drivers without license and cars made of concrete.

That's also why more and more people think the law is unfair and doesn't fit the current climate.
This is a shame, as it is important to be informed from a diversity of sources. Closing yourself off to sources that do not actively support your positions is unhealthy. It can lead to a kind of political fixation that rationalizes labeling people who you do not agree with as "wrong" or worse. Digging into the links behind this 'article' reveals a labyrinth of lefty sites making dogmatic claims with little or no corroboration.

If you are into news and being informed, leaving off sites like breitbart from regular perusal is a mistake. They often bring up facts and perspectives considered unimportant by other outlets. Even infowars has its uses, if for nothing else other than entertainment value.
what's the deal with round 5 where it's not possible to jump high enough to collect the top row of bombs? BTW, the favorite game of my youth, thank you for this!!!
Sorry but I'm pretty sure that banning cars would be much harder and take longer than implementing my idea, politics-wise. People value their individual mobility. It's a huge problem to remove a few parking places. At least in Prague.
In my opinion, very little current business practices fall under a positive answer to this:

"Are the entities with write access having a hard time deciding who should be in control of the datastore"

Because by definition, if the business practice exists in the first place it is because they already found a solution to collaborate.

I'm almost tempted to add a snarky: "for further information, please refer to this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law"
ROI (Radio Over Internet)
love the down votes, keep them coming, your bias is showing.
The Java runtime is bundled with minecraft. I use 64-bit and I use the same JRE everyone else uses.
Isnt that half of the energy wasted while pumping the water to the higher grounds?
[...] math is just applied philosophy.

I don't think that this would be a good characterization of the relationship between mathematics and philosophy. Philosophy uses quite a bit of math, especially to make arguments rigorous, making philosophy more like physics in this regard. On the other hand philosophy of course also tries to investigate and explain the nature of mathematics, so in some sense this puts mathematics on top of philosophy but I am not sure that this justifies calling it applied philosophy.