skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Where to start for your next big thing?
I land up at Google and search for something in my mind and always get disappointed with the results it throws at me unless something which is very specific like ‘undefined vs null in JavaScript’. Let’s say I would like to know how something is built and whenever I search for it I get random ads related to what I searched for and if that specific thing is not very popular then only god can save you.

Where do you guys start digging for anything?
I often wonder how much creativity, thought and self-reflection is missed out on because the response to boredom or quiet moments is to reach for the phone, rather than engaging the brain and being alone with one's thoughts for a time.

Not only personal time, but work time as well. How many of us see work colleagues on their phones or random websites during work time? If that moment of boredom had been spent thinking about new products, the details of a customer problem, or something else work-related, that could have produced something tangible, rather than being wasted. When "slack time" is automatically used for indulging in phone apps or web surfing, that's displacing activity which pre-phone-apps and pre-internet, would be much more likely to have involved alternative productive activity, from future planning to work-related talk with co-workers, to designing and prototyping experimental stuff. Now it's self-indulgent skinner boxes compelling us to fairly fruitless time wasting.

Some people are so focussed on this stuff that it takes priority over actual face to face conversations, which I personally find intensely rude, and I don't think I'm wrong in saying this is going to directly affect the productivity and effectiveness of them as an individual and the team as a whole. Their focus isn't on the company's business, but on themselves. I don't find this degree of self-absorption healthy; it's like working with zombies. In some ways, I preferred my original programming job where we only had a shelf full of books and dial-up internet, and you actually worked with your co-workers, talked to your customers on the phone, rather than merely existing in the same space while their minds are somewhere else. Not that I'm a Luddite, it's the social changes I abhor, not the technical.

It's weird, and worrying, just how addicted people have become at the expense of real life in the here and now, and a pushback against it is long overdue.
Show HN: Webrtc signal solution with primus
For this particular case they thought ahead and require implementations to work with a GC that might move pointers. You run into it with cgo, which, as a result, has quite arcane rules for passing data between the two: https://golang.org/cmd/cgo/#hdr-Passing_pointers

Like with randomizing hashmap keys, they randomly enforce the rule to make sure that no one relies on it just happening to work since Go's GC doesn't currently move pointers.
Show HN: Uilicious Snippet – Catch, replicate and share website bugs
Currently, you do runtime checks. We’ve accepted an RFC for integer generics that will let you do compile-time checks instead, but we’re still working on an implementation.
Hi Everyone, creator here.

The idea behind this, is to allow users to write clear test scripts, and bug reports that can be easily understood, repeatable, and most importantly publicly sharable!

Normally, writing bug report could be tedious or inaccurate. Sometimes the developers maybe unable to replicate the bug even with the steps provided! Now, users can simply attach the shareable link that contains the test results where the developers would be able to view it immediately. And rerun the test after fixing it.

Some notable examples,

youtube downtime - https://snippet.uilicious.com/test/public/RuGwPjbwFX1QU5EVhv...

product hunt title bug -https://twitter.com/picocreator/status/1056148538411769856

Feel free to ask / clarify anything here =)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald%27s_Rest...

That woman burned the skin off her genatalia when McDonald's served a far too hot coffee. After they refused to pay a small amount to cure her injuries (remember, no socialized health care in USA), she sued. She offered to settle, again for a small amount to cover expenses, and McDonald's refused again

McDonald's launched a massive PR campaign to mock her in order to pollute public sentiment in favor of corporations over victims, so thejury awarded $2.7 millions in punitive damages to defend the public against McDonald's brazen attack on himan society. The Judge lowered the award to $640K; and McDonald's appealed, refusing for the third time. They eventually settled for a confidential amount.
Does https://github.com/ClassicPress/ClassicPress/blob/develop/sr... answer your question?
I am a general surgeon employed by a hospital system in the southeast.

PE / VC don't add anything other than trying to skim a profit off the top of medicine, like any other capitalist. Dermatology is a lucrative practice. They don't have to work in hospitals, so they set their own hours. VC/PE's are doing the long game - purchase a practice (dermatology / anesthesiology, orthopedics ) and reward the current partners who basically get to receive compensation for their future earnings. In return, the current partners accept a lower salary going forward. Lucrative with guaranteed $$$ for senior partners with a few years left to practice. For new partners not so much. And definitely not for new hires. The problem is that the cost of establishing a new practice is overwhelming. You can plant a stake as a new physician in a town, but then you have to rent an office / furnish it / equip it / and employ people without any guarantee that you will get patients.

Or, when you graduate with $300k debt, you take the job that pays you $200k / year guaranteed with no risk, but accept the fact that you will be earning less than you generate. And I'm sure there's a non compete clause (I have one).

What will happen, over time, however, is that less and less people will choose that subspecialty, just like what happened to pilots.

Of course, then the VC/PE will just close shop and walk away.

In general surgery, our reimbursements have been lower than any other surgical subspecialties for years, but our saving grace is that you really can't have a hospital without a surgeon. Here in SC, there are ZERO self employed general surgeons. 30% of what we do are urgent/emergent interventions, and tons of people here in SC have either medicaid or no insurance. When I became a hospital employee, my salary tripled. Before that, if I made > $150k that was a good year. And that's 80 hour work weeks.

Because that was typical around the nation, general surgery went from being one of the most competitive residencies to one of the least. My senior partner (10 years older) was top 5% of his class. I was top 25%. For about 5-10 years, all you needed to get a residency spot was to graduate from medical school. It's recently become more competitive, probably bc most of us are employed, boosting our salaries.

Hospitals make their money from the facility fees. I do all my surgeries in my hospital system's hospitals, not the competitor's hospital.

Dermatology is one of, if not the hardest, medical professions to match in, because for whatever reason, their reimbursements are high.

For example, if I do a laparoscopic appendectomy on an 80 year old, I get $623 (CPT 44970). They'll spend a couple of days in the hospital which is not chargeable by me bc 90 days of post op care is included in the fee.

A dermatologist that cuts off a 1.5 cm skin cancer in his office gets $251 to cut it off (CPT 11602) and $307 to close the wound (12032). No nights / weekends / and pretty stressless procedure (to me).

Anyway, VC/PE want some of that revenue
14 CFR FAR 121 is the FAA regulations governing scheduled air carriers in the United States.
Trump is on record calling the whole thing a "hoax". However, the Trump administration has recently indicated that we're likely to see a 7 degree increase in average global temperature by 2100.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90243700/the-trump-admin-says-sc...
It's technically correct (the worst kind of correct): as I understand it, the global climate has been warmer than it is now. But there weren't any humans, and it didn't warm up nearly as fast.
"We always talk about learning disability, but never about teaching disability" - Eric Weinstein (paraphrased).

Don't worry. There's a lot of shit out there and it's not at all your problem if they don't feel satisfying.

I also used to think there was something wrong with me for not understanding or being satisfied with vauge intuitive descriptions of mathematical ideas. Then I discovered proof-based mathematics and realized that, heck, here finally is the unambigous, high-resolution, no-corners-cut explanaion I've always been looking for. (Sure, it's a lot of hard work to get to a satsifying end-point, but at least the problem has shifted from trying to parse vauge intuitive statements in a visual-heavy video, to being bottle-necked by my own will power and dicipline to go as deep into an understanding of a proof as feels necessary to reach a satisfying depth-to-effort equilibrium.)

Maybe proofs aren't the key for you (or maybe they are), but don't blame yourself if you don't find the resources out there satisfyingly understandable.
I hope that's true, as I think Patreon aligns much more closely with the creators' incentives than YouTube does.
These people built a business that provided a lot of value and a bunch of bureaucrats killed it because they didn’t like the thought of something being in a fridge for less than 48 hours.

This is the message of these regulations: don’t try to do anything in the real world.
Solve only ephemeral, virtual problems.

This guy is working on a travel information app now. He has gotten the message.
Wasn't 'burner phone' used throughout The Wire, so must have been in print before 2008 (the show's last season).
Garmin Vivosmart 4 review: The attractive new face of the Vivosmart line
You don't need to believe, those are verifiable facts.

You can see the exact same cycle go through as industries develop. They start with no copyright/patents, they develop successful companies and business models, those companies lobby to increase protections for themselves resulting in lower amount of new competitors and a decrease in creative/technological development while increasing profits for existing entities.

You saw it from the early beginnings with Watts engine, you saw it in the film industry in the US, you saw it in the German, Japanese, South korean development, and now you see it happening in China.

Make a list of the most famous composers in the 1800s. How many of them made most of their work prior to the introduction of copyright in their place of business? How many did it after? You can see it clearly there.
What was wrong with the library timeit? Isn't this a legitimate one?
For most people, if you actually have the flu rather than a bad cold - and there's no easy way to tell since symptoms are similar, an actual flu will have you bed-ridden for at least a day.

I don't mean that people should take a few days off, they should, but that may not be possible, I mean that you'll have a period where you're not capable of more than basic tasks.
How is a conflict of interest to be paid by your client to represent their interests?
To elaborate a bit on this: the 'use v5' project is pretty much dead at this point in time. (see also my open letter to the Perl community: https://www.perl.com/article/an-open-letter-to-the-perl-comm... )

To call Perl 5 code from Perl 6, we currently have Inline::Perl5 (https://modules.perl6.org/dist/Inline::Perl5:cpan:NINE):

> Supports Perl 5 modules including XS modules. Allows passing integers, strings, arrays, hashes, code references, file handles and objects between Perl 5 and Perl 6. Also supports calling methods on Perl 5 objects from Perl 6 and calling methods on Perl 6 objects from Perl 5 and subclass Perl 5 classes in Perl 6.

In a similar vein, there are Inline::Python (https://github.com/niner/Inline-Python/blob/master/README.md) and other Inline modules (https://modules.perl6.org/search/?q=Inline ) that can be called from Perl 6.
When you've got 10+ doctors sharing the same building & infrastructure etc then it starts looking more like a classic business. Accounts receivable department etc
I think shortcuts like the following are fundamentally flawed, at least when dealing with user input.

If (user && user.name) { ...

While it sucks to have to even check for user etc, not checking that it’s truthy, then an object, then checking that the name is the correct type also during runtime, will cause bugs over time.

This type of developer provided shorthand validation is pretty much the cause of all hacks/data breaches currently. It’s more of an attitude or how a developer prioritizes their own wants/needs over maybe a client/end user. Like I mentioned in another comment, checking for more advanced, abusive behavior will make issues with type checking seem basic in comparison.
Isn't CLRS mostly a secondary source that puts together previous literature? Citations usually prefer a primary source that lets you place a "discovery" accurately in date and place (aka conference/journal).
It’s cool but why don’t they let you search for a word?
It's not that simple. For Berlin, counterculture vibe is an economic resource, more important even than being the seat of government. It's what lures companies like Google there in the first place. Google wanted to be in Kreuzberg instead of Mitte, just like they wanted to be in Meatpacking instead of Midtown. Many companies are content settling down in neighboring districts, well within car-less commute range from Kreuzberg, but Google, in an impressive act demonstration of bad judgment, thought that with enough money they could just buy right into the heart of it. Even on a strictly economic level, it makes perfectly sense for the city to not want that to happen, in the same way that Rome would be stupid to allow the construction of hotels on the ancient forum even though they would surely "create jobs".

The good thing is that Google eventually understood their error (you can't buy the friendship of people who will despise you for trying) because any attempt to achieve this through regulation would have been a total shitshow for everyone involved.

It's basically the same story as the Chelsea Market building, but with gritty Berlin punks instead of cute but toothless Greenwich Village and in an environment where even rich conservatives agree with the left that money cannot overrule everything else. It's really not surprising that it turned out differently.
I think the parent is suggesting that they don’t do nothing. Only that they do nothing to further the best interests of the people. They will absolutely further their own interests and have little interest in the (often human cost) side-effects of attacking each other.

Eg. Medicare.
Also in places like Venice and Barcelona that are overrun by tourists, asking for directions disrupts the lives of locals. Imagine being asked for directions a dozen or more times a day. Thank goodness for Google Maps and data plans.
Fantastic story.
Because DST is used as THE standard Anti-Brussels rhetorical Point it was all over the news for weeks in Germany.
The real timeit doesn't need to be installed off pypi, it comes with python.
Which makes this example the sneakier one, the rest is mostly typo-squatting with diango dajngo etc
HTML Notepad – HTML WYSIWYG editor for the rest of us
I think these are organized by the first time they appeared in the Merriam-Webster dictionary, not when they were first used. A word is typically in use for years before entering the dictionary.

It used to be a "thing" on some news shows to comment on what words had entered the new edition of the dictionary for that year, and I recall thinking "wow, I've been using that for years" many times.
It's not that they say there isn't global warming. It's that they say it's just mostly part of the natural climate cycle.

Just as astonishing as "climate change deniers" are the "climate change fanatics" who thinks climate was static until 200 years ago.

I believe humans are affecting the climate to some degree, but not all. I'm more concerned about preserving the environment/nature/species/forests/etc rather than global warming. I don't think the world is going to end because of global warming. I do think there will be winners ( global north ) and losers ( global south ). And most importantly, I'm against people fearmongering about the climate to sneak in global carbon taxation system to enrich themselves.

Also, for much of the 20th century up until the 1970s, people cherrypicked data points to assure us that we were experiencing global cooling.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/GISSTemperature/g...

Hopefully one day, politics will leave climate science so that people can do real science rather than practicing politics.

Once again, I do believe the climate has been warming in the short term. I do believe humans have contributed to it somewhat. I don't think it is the end of the world. I don't think humans should give up civilization because of global warming. And I don't believe in using climate to give bankers and wall street a global carbon taxation system to gamble on.
Older parts of European cities can be a bit harder to navigate. I’m thinking the El Gotic neighborhood in Barcelona and Alfama in Lisbon. But one does get used to it after a day or so.
They do have a valid argument - it's possible that future predictions are badly wrong.

It's like the early days of the space race. Scientists would say things are dangerous and were just being alarmist, or think it was safe then the whole thing blew up killing everyone aboard. Scientists can't always predict the future as accurately as they think.

I don't think this is a good reason to just blithely hope for the best, though.
You're right. Good habits are important. Routines relieve our cognitive capacities and help us to get through the day faster and more efficiently.

But the best of all good habits was to stop hoping that something, a change or a habit could have a massive impact on my life. So I ceased to hope and believe.

Be strong from yourself and accept that there is not THE answer or ONE life changer.
Yes. That's why a good language makes this explicit in the type.

For example in Scala, this example would be that user is of type Option[User] and the name property would also be Option[String] for example.

Then to safely get the name would be:

user.flatMap(_.name)

and the resulting type would be Option[String]

Which would then carry on the info that you don't know for certain that you know the name.
We (FastMail) use it in production, and all backend development is in Perl for all the products. Booking.com, cPanel, Craigslist, and ZipRecruiter all have sizable Perl codebases, as do many others.
Oh wow.. I didn't know that. I will be more cautious from now on.. Thanks for the info :)
Also the About page of the project offers the answer: https://www.classicpress.net/about/
With Bucklescript/Reason you get typesafety, immutability, performance and small codesize:

>Now we compare the runtime performance:

BuckleScript Immutable Map: 1186ms
Facebook Immutable Map: 3415ms

We also compare code Size:

BuckleScript (Prod mode): 899 Bytes
Facebook Immutable: 55.3K Bytes

source:

https://github.com/BuckleScript/bucklescript/wiki/Why-buckle...
I find your experience very relatable. I think writing things down helps greatly with that. Everything that supports your memory actually should.

I‘ve started using a copy-paste history tool, and pretty sure it reduced stress and memory pressure considerably. I can just go back after half an hour and see the code snippets I might else have had to remember.

Creating calendar events with notifications - same thing. I just don’t have to remember most events because the phone will nag me about them, but paradoxically I now remember them easier.

Also, perhaps your sleep is not restorative since your kid was born? On the one hand, as a parent you get a little alert kit installed by nature, perhaps leading to lighter sleep. On the other hand, low oxygen in the sleeping room can be a thing, with multiple people sleeping there - I have way more dream call since opening the window just a little bit (just rotating the handle without actually opening).
The purpose of trademarks should fundamentally be to ensure the consumer is fully aware of just what they are buying, it should never be to prevent purchases.

A consumer should always, 100% be able to purchase a "counterfeit" product should they so desire it.
A Mathematician's Lament (2002) [pdf]
For full feature 'traditional' English the custodians are the Oxford English Dictionary and the BBC. Every once in a while, and with great fanfare, the BBC announce what new words have been deemed appropriate to add to the language.

The OED have an archive of these updates for more recent times online. Not so long ago they would make you buy the actual dictionary to get this information so these 'updates' do not go that far back in time. Words have to be hoarded and protected, can't let anyone have them...

https://public.oed.com/updates/

I believe Merriam-Webster had something to do with this rival 'simplified' English that has been popular across the pond since some incident involving tea in Boston. The real deal is obviously spelt out in the Oxford English Dictionary.
I think it's just an interesting story
Just out of curiosity, what do you think is the bigger, more common habit behind it? I mean, as a wheelchair user you can't do Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.

Do you have any idea what I want to ask?
'burner' was known lingo in law enforcement as early as 1998.
The virtual reality dream is dying
What a petty no one told Fred Cruz that when he gets out of prison that's when he'll REALLY need his Buddhist practice.
That’s some impressive retention!

Different people value different things. Some ideas might be to refresh their stock option grants; or give them an extra couple weeks of vacation (like a “sabbatical”); or title bumps.
First urban dictionary entry was 2006

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Burner%20pho...

In November 2006 a class action suit (http://www.lbtaxrefund.com/) referred to a "prepay or burner phone service" in the court filing.
This is a tricky subject, and we're probably on opposing sides of the political argument, but if you're interested:

Sure, there are people who say "no greenhouse gases, no global warming" and stop thinking at that point. Some of them are in positions of power. This kind of attitude is dangerous and could lead to big mistakes in the long term. On the other hand, the people who say "greenhouse gases, but maybe not much global warming" or "land use and healthy ecosystems are most important" or "gradually moving toward less carbon in fuel is the best approach" never seem to get a shout-out from the activists.

It's usually more like: "We're trying to save these neanderthals and they're stupid/tricked by evil so they're going to end up killing us all."

Can you see how this doesn't lead to healthy cooperation? The "no greenhouse gases, no global warming" people might not know how to study the climate, but do you really believe that all of them were fed that mantra by bad actors, and none of them are just lashing out at bullies?

From my perspective, the activists started their political campaign to regulate CO2 back when the Science (IPCC FAR) said "the observed increase could be largely due to this natural variability" and I have been suspicious of their motives ever since. You want me to be mindful of carbon in the atmosphere, measured temperature trends, changing ecosystems, pollution, and resource use? Great, those are all smart things to care about.

You want me to support your political campaign to regulate the gas that I exhale, because otherwise there will be a doomsday, and if I don't agree I'm either stupid or evil? Ehhhhh, no thanks.