skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't count the number of times I've read an announcement of some OSS project, gone to the project home page, read it all and still had absolutely no idea what it was, what it did or why it might be important.

It is impressive how much Linus had working at that point though. Getting bash and gcc working and a multithreaded FS is no mean feat, and is enough for other people to actually make useful contributions without excessive pain.
FYI: You find 20+ in the FizzBuzz by Example - There's More Than One Way To Do It (Free Online Book Edition) - http://yukimotopress.github.io/fizzbuzz
This is the kind of behavior that drives cord cutting

And drives them right into the arms of the HBO Now $15/month plan. Oh, yeah, cord-cutters have 'em so torn up at HBO, they're crying rivers of gold bars over there.
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During the Middle Ages, forks weren’t really part of the picture in Europe.

Supposedly, Catherine de Medici brought the fork from Italy to France and popularized it:

https://www.cooksinfo.com/catherine-de-medici

http://www.courtneyprice.com/fork-you-said-catherine-de-medi...

https://wonderopolis.org/wonder/when-was-the-fork-invented
Not sure why the GP was flagged. Seems unnecessary.
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I feel this way abut getting rich with some super smart idea that is just, just beyond the grasp of my intellect... This may well stay true for the rest of my life of course...

More down to earth though, I'm a biologist and whenever I get this feeling related to work, scientifically I have learned to trust it and keep at it, it usually does mean there is something of value in my ideas.
> Of course, but wouldn't this be so obvious that the researchers would undoubtedly have accounted for that as a confounding variable? At least I hope so.

Woudln't count on that these days, in general. If something is accounted for, it's usually stated in the paper.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18356812 and marked it off-topic.
Exactly. The past couple years have been an exercise in the inadequacies of the honor system. There are no consequences; we can't expect either industry or government entities to self-regulate out of basic human decency. Their efforts to fix the problem amount to nothing more than a cynical PR move. They halfheartedly assuage doubts until the news cycle shifts again. There are no consequences for anyone.
Allow people to defend their or their relatives honour without punishment and most of the harrasment will be ni more.
Weirdly, every time I see this e-mail I curse AT&T and think how much time and opportunity they cost the BSDs.
Or a boat? Air travel is pretty necessary for going across the oceans these days. I don't really understand that as being a luxury compared to watching television.
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Anti-satellite weapon
> how does non-ionizing radiation cause cancer?

It's the same way that DDT caused cancer when it was first used. It's the same way that BPA caused fertility problems for decades, and it's the same way that BPA substitutes look to be causing fertility problems now.

What way is that?

We simply don't understand what's going on, and it's important that we acknowledge that.

Our current scientific model says "we have spent decades and millions of dollars trying to see if cell phones cause cancer, and we have never found a link, therefore cellphones don't cause cancer."

Which is exactly the same as saying "we have spent decades and millions of dollars searching for little green men, and we have never found any, therefore we are 100% they don't exist."

Both of those statements are utter nonsense. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

We honestly have no idea if little green men exist somewhere in the universe, and we also have no idea if cell phones cause cancer. We think we know, but we're just doing our best to look at evidence.

You can rest assured that in ~50 years we'll look back and say "Of Course! Those scientists in 2019 were so simplistic and quaint!"

"But don't worry, now it's 2070, we know so much better, so that new-fangled thing you have is perfectly safe!"
Strike a blow for polysyllabic sesquipedalianism!
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> The patent system needs to be changed in some way

It needs a lot of changes. One simple but important fix would be to revert the 1991 budget change that made the USPTO run on fees instead of taxpayer funds. This dramatically increased the incentive to approve shit patents, something borne out in the pre-91 and post-91 data:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/12/these-experts-fi...
Yes. The best government puts in regulations when necessary, with the minimum of side effects.
I've looked at the HN guidelines, but I'm still confused: is it okay to appropriate Slashdot culture here? Because: whoosh.
Lots of ordinary people complain about regulation. One of the top stories on HN right now is a StrongTowns article. What do you think it’s complaining about? The whole new urbanism movement is a reaction to decades of bad regulation.

Bad regulation hurts consumers. Ticket prices plummeted after airlines were deregulated. FedEx and UPS and (eventually) Amazon sprang to life after freight was deregulated. Conversely lack of regulation has enabled great products. Restrictions on vertical integration, for example, would have precluded the most popular mobile phone product lines on the market (Samsung Galaxy and Apple iPhone).
Such a humble announcement. I miss these kinds of projects. Most new projects today (by individuals or otherwise) are usually "best of", "world changing", "ground shaking", emoji filled nonsense, usually biting more than the developer(s) can handle, causing a buggy mess.
> But I think FB is overwhelmed too. Especially now that they have news vultures like Vice dunking on them post-Cambridge Analytica.

Would you prefer everyone just let it slide instead, to avoid "overwhelming" Facebook?
It's not clear that data location matters when courts are determining whether they have jurisdiction.
This belongs to "pure gold dust" category of my neurofeedback-related readings. Makes a good point about the prevalence of data dredging in scientific (and esp. medical) communities.
To convince someone to look at your fusion reactor plans, you have to first convince people that you'd be the kind of person capable of innovating in the field -- ie, publish papers, produce smaller results. Success follows success. Not knowing you or your ideas at all, I can already tell you that it's extraordinarily unlikely that you've come up with something new and effective, or you'd know how to get it built already.
Report: Developers not clear on how to get involved in the open-source community
Eh, I can't agree. Lots of projects that grow up to be successful start as just a GH repo with a decent Readme.
Linux + FF 62.0.3 seems to work just fine.
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I'm curious what you found to be the brickwall for you when using Access?
> I'm pretty sure that having no zoning regulations in addition to allowing business and residence in the same building would improve a lot.

Assuming this is sarcasm, you don't need to have no zoning regulations. Existing zoning types like "residential mixed-use", which usually have restrictions on the type of businesses that can be operated within them, could be expanded. If the area is sparse enough, mixed-use could just be a business district you could walk to, not necessarily one right underneath you.

> Who doesn't want to live above a grocery store?

Again, assuming this is sarcasm. In many places, if the grocery store is clean and has things that the residents above actually want, a lot of people would like living above it - so much so that today, it's considered a "feature" of premium real estate and apartments in big city high-rises.

Of course nobody wants to live above any poorly kept space. If a poorly kept space were to appear below your home, you have the option of moving to a place that isn't like that.
To be clear, Linux was definitely a buggy mess at the beginning and definitely more than Linus could handle, but they got through that by building community around fixing all of that.
You're discounting the fact that cell phones are more used for data than for talking and data is always being transmitted, especially with apps that run in the background.
>I think FB is overwhelmed

Then perhaps they should stay out of political advertising.
Yep. Make no mistake, he is a totalitarian dictator with temper, though a pretty capable one.
The only blade length mentioned in the SF Police Code is in a loitering law (Article 17, §1291). Arguably any pocket knife would also be covered there, regardless of length, under "any cutting, stabbing, bludgeoning weapon or device capable of inflicting grievous bodily harm."
No, it was more like just write a good proposal. There was a problem related to Swagger API specs that had been bugging me for a while, so I wrote it up and sent it in. I was delighted when it was accepted.

I'm planning to submit another project this year. Working with students is fun.

p.s., The class is ECS 193AB in case any folks living near Davis are interested.
I don't think you want to compare industries and determine the importance by the number of workers.

Facebook is trying to be a content platform for everything. If it had it's way, it would be YouTube++. To be locked out of YouTube these days would be pretty bad if you wanted to be a vlogger. And Air Travel is pretty critical for remote towns in America. Train isn't really competitive for cross america travel in terms of time even if we have to put up with all the security theater.
Nobody talking about old growth logging... so many strawmen attacks today.
Namecheap acquires Launchaco site builder
No, it doesn’t happen all the time.

Yes, it does. You are correct that this is the first dispute between HBO and Sling. But as I stated, this type of dispute between content creators and content distributors happens all the time.

Welcome to professional broadcasting. So much for the SV "disruption" strategy.
It's floods of people in almost every major city, so a lot of the local news crews and stuff have something to point a camera at. It's a very visible thing to a lot of people.

It started quite a few hours ago now, and HN pretty aggressively slides down old stories throughout the day, so something submitted back when the walkout started in Japan is pretty dated by the time it hits Mountain View.
I don't understand. Isn't Mac OSX "Secure By Design" (that's what they say on their website). How can some ICMP packet take control of every platform they make? Isn't Mach a Microkernel?
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Comfort in a Linux ecosystem

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Fundamentally it's about risk.
If your startup is writing OCR that out competes tesseract or automatically diagnoses melanoma that has very different risks than building a B2B product to allow optometrists to manage their clients.

In general though I think most startup's have more go-to-market risk than technical risk. If you can out compete tesseract in OCR you're not going to fail because of market. And if you're Salesforce you're not go to fail because you can't build software to track leads. You're going to failed because you couldn't find enough users.

This is why investors spend so much more time looking at adoption rates, and so little time looking at the backing infrastructure.
I think OP meant most successful companies
Zoning regulations that make it illegal to build new housing in major cities is perhaps the biggest problem in America today.
"Quantum field" is literally "3d array" ("field") of "integers" (quantum). It's mathematical abstraction, not a real thing. Yes, in mathematical abstraction, when we have something in a point of space, we can name that "excitation". We don't know what it is, so this is fair. But whole idea of quantization is that we have whole things, i.e. particles.

Yes, abstract thing can exists everywhere, mathematics have no limits, but real physical thing cannot.

You can look at reimplementation of double-slit experiment at macro scale using walking droplet[0][1]. As you, dual particle-wave behaviour can be implemented at macro scale too, so quantum world is not special in this regard.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsaUX48t0w8
[1]: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-fluid-mec...
TLDR; researchers at UC Santa Barbara, intending to show how statistics can be used misleadingly, received statistically significant results when scanning a salmon with fMRI to show that it's brain responded differently to photos of different social situations. The salmon was dead.

(sauce: https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/9t3bc4)
Now you're hopping from evolution to genetic features as though they are the same thing. I never mentioned that I have good teeth or that I was vegetarian, nor is it anecdotal that vegetarians have better dental hygiene. I highly doubt our teeth will change at all because people don't die from lack of a certain tooth. Teeth don't matter when you can literally have all fake teeth and get by eating just fine. In fact, we often remove teeth because we have too many. Again, individuals do evolve, which is not the same as suddenly getting new distinct physical features half way through your life, which actually can happen so you're also wrong about that.
You go elsewhere.
I never said they didn't allow control burns at all either. They were stopping them too soon, doing them too little, etc. Which is why I said they stopped listening to locals for input on those policies, not that they stopped them completely. So no, I did no such thing, and in fact, it is you who created the strawman. That seems to be the theme of the day today, because I'm starting to sound like a broken record.
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Any nontechnical roles ever come up? I'm at the e-Residency program in Estonia leading a team but definitely want to come back to the States and serve at some point
How am I arguing in bad faith? He responded to my comment with link to a far left think tank that uses an alternate definition of wage gap than what were talking about.

> "Women earn less than men at every wage level"

It's utterly useless to compare wage levels across different roles. I read the article, I strongly disagree with it.

Do you really think comparing the pay of people in different roles is useful? It's apples and oranges. I don't expect a nurse and an engineer to make the same amount of money. This is my argument and it's not in bad faith.
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Always surprised by how well effects like this work. Wouldn't expect the wind shader to look as good as it does, for instance. Games (especially older games...) are full of so many elegant hacks!

One that I think about a lot is how in order to animate a 'rain' effect, you can actually just spawn randomly positioned 'impacts' on the ground and randomly positioned raindrops that disappear 'behind' the ground. You would think you might need to resolve each raindrop's collision and animate an 'impact' at the right point but it turns out our brain is pretty good at being fooled.
Using WordPress is "over-engineering"?
Sorry. I guess I straight up disagree with all of that.

I also disagree with the notion of "sole job", which inevitably leads to "that's not my job", a common response at ossified organizations. IME, well-functioning companies are made up of flexible individuals with good judgement.

Obviously, there must be a "main job" for every individual -- I think that's absolutely required. I really wish more managers would actually get their hands dirty.
And I meant all successful startups, lol
Sadly, this is a lesson that I learned more directly than I would have liked. Hopefully OP learns from a helpful HN comment instead. I imagine it's a much easier path.