skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do think misread is fair. As far as I remember, the traditional teaching and interpretation of the poem was the heroic individuality one. When a college English professor taught a number of decades ago that, in his view, that was the wrong interpretation that was novel to me and for many people.

The meaning is perhaps still ambiguous in that a number of people I've discussed this with stick to the traditional interpretation. But I'm at least convinced that "The poem isn’t a salute to can-do individualism; it’s a commentary on the self-deception we practice when constructing the story of our own lives."
In Defense of Webauthn
Maybe I'm thinking about this from the perspective of a young, single guy. I would not move to Crystal City for any job, definitely not with a horde of other young, single men. The number of young, college-graduate women there must be way too small.
That's a pretty dishonest comparison to a massive percentage of the country that literally has no ISP choice; I can name several viable products for each of the industries you mentioned off the top of my head.
The fines have to be large enough to discourage breaking the law. Is it a good law? I generally trust the residents to pass laws that make sense for those that live there. What I want to understand is what makes SF different from other cities in terms of zoning laws?
Improving yourself is only painful if you lack humility. If you have an honest and realistic idea of how ordinary you currently are, and honest and realistic idea of what you can actually achieve in 5 years, then the gradual self-improvement process is pretty damn satisfying.

The problem isn't self-improvement. The problem is typically you get deluded about your own magnificence, and you refuse to pop this delusion.

Rip the band-aid off, once and for all. Here and now.

Recognize you are not the special person you thought you were. Really see how incredible all the people around you are. And I mean locally. I don't mean people on the internet. I just mean the ordinary people around you scratching themselves out lives that seem to satisfy them. Become one of them.

If you have it, keep all the ambition you have. But become satisfied with the process of becoming what you want to be. Find someone, or something to pay you to become who you want to be. This will not be easy, and the work will not be easy, but the pain will be growing pain, and not decaying pain. Decaying pain is what kills you.

Most of the work will be unpaid, this is okay. A happy little flow of money is enough, because some money is really damn useful. Some food, some shelter, some freedom. But there is much less in life that money will buy you than people think there is. And there is much more in life that money robs you of than people realize.

Again, rip the band-aid off. Right here and now. If you do it slowly like most people do, you'll mistake the slow process of becoming wise to your own ordinariness for decay. Rip it off, and then you can improve yourself without pain.
Meet Andrew, the PM Behind Lyft’s Recent Transit Launch
My guess is that it’ll be like google in NYC. Quite substantial, but obviously no Mountain View.
I’m starting to think that iPhone SoC performance gains are just a side effect of them investing heavily into their controlled hardware ecosystem. But the real payoff is in their wearable SoC. The watch is seeing huge performance gains. And the W1 chip in their headphones is similar. Low power, high performance wearable chips are something their competitors are far behind in. This is where Apple are headed.

It’s like building a high performance supercar to learn and grow in order to understand how to bring that technology to a lower powered and more effecient vehicle.
Horrible but not terribly surprising.

I’ve been told the PDF spec has some low level functionally to support a MS-DOS emulator. Don’t know how true that is.
Amidst controversy, Bird electric scooters break into Latin America
After moving here, I see this point too. However, there's very clearly parts of the city that could look like Taipei and the city still wouldn't lose its look at feel.

Feel free to stick all of us Techies in Gigantic high-rises in Dogpatch and Mission-bay to bring the housing costs down everywhere else (and stop playing these band-aid games with Airbnb)
Strongly considering pulling Acrobat company wide and replacing with something like FoxIt.
The appropriate local municipality is probably your county health department, who almost certainly has results from the last time your home was sold on file. Here, it's $15 to retest, or a couple bucks and a FOIA request to get all previous records.

I do have 65 ppt of PFAS in my well water (one of the gray dots in West Michigan, where Wolverine operated a tannery that dumped Scotchguard-treated leather scrap in local swamps). The test for that (and various other contaminants) ran $650. Yeah, Wolverine is paying for that and the carbon filters in my basement, but it kinda sucks to have been drinking it for 30 years. At least they caught it when my kid was onky exposed in the womb and his formula until he was 1...
Extra physical switches on an Apple product?
Would actually be pretty cool - but SF is far more beautiful than Detroit so, doubtful that it will ever collapse to that extent.
It could be money laundering
Electrons are the majority charge carriers for NPN vs holes in PNP which does mean that NPN transistors are faster, they also are usually a _bit_ better than PNP in other specs (beta, etc).

However I don't think this was the main part of the joke, rather it's that lateral transistors are _way_ worse in pretty much every conceivable metric than vertical transistors save two - they are hard to destroy and cheap. So add 'lateral' to 'PNP' and you basically have 'worst possible transistor', so bad that you can't kill it.
Diablo: Immortal broke the unspoken rules of Blizzard, and BlizzCon
The definition of conspiracy theory is: "a theory that explains an event or set of circumstances as the result of a secret plot by usually powerful conspirators" (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/conspiracy%20theo...)

So, here we have an event - payment processors refusing to serve Gab. The theory is that this is explained by from some entity "above" that we don't know anything about and that clearly acted in secret to force them to do this.

Using the dictionary definition of a conspiracy theory, this is a conspiracy theory.
> So you also support Facebook giving up names and addresses to law enforcement?

What aboutism of the worst kind. This isn't "law enforcement", this is the justice system. And yes,if a judge legally approves such subpoena then corporations need to follow the law. If you don't like the law then change it through democratic means. Neither Facebook nor Airbnb are above the law. The era of "disruption" where anything went because "we're just an app" is over.
I've been dealing with a neighbor with a barking dog for months. Good neighbor laws are essentially unenforced in the USA.
I came here to post the exact same link. It was a fantastic and well researched article with tons of details and left me feeling sad at the situation but happy that there was someone who fought for helping people out.

Here's another that's in a very similar vein that had some solid research behind it. It'll probably leave you in the same state the NY Times article above will but it's a must-read. I don't think enough people will see it or your link unfortunately.
https://theintercept.com/2015/08/11/dupont-chemistry-decepti...
There is something liberating about letting MS make most of the choices for you- never worrying about a new language or what is the best logging library, or how best to chain three logging libraries together or what not. You just deal with what MS has chosen, no matter how suboptimal, and start coding.

Of course MS has created its own dead ends, and has situations where the best solution is just a warmed-over c# version of what Java does. But, especially if the code is just a means to an end, sometimes it's just best to go hard with the tools you know.
Perhaps I'm just not finding the button, but is there a way to run the code?

35 different color themes for the editor is really nice. I got to try a bunch that would be too cumbersome to install in my working environment.

Font size could probably use a slider vs having to click +/- 1 digit at a time. For example, if presenting, I'd want to scale up and down quickly without having to make 20 mouse clicks.
What's interesting to me is that I read the title as "Improving ourselves UNTIL death" - meaning improvement should be a life-long endeavor. I agree with that read.
Wikipedia says:

l-forms of amino acids tend to be tasteless, whereas d-forms tend to taste sweet.[7] Spearmint leaves contain the l-enantiomer of the chemical carvone or R-(−)-carvone and caraway seeds contain the d-enantiomer or S-(+)-carvone.[10] These smell different to most people because our olfactory receptors are chiral.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chirality_(chemistry)#In_bioch...
Middle East
> You probably mean...

I was just quoting someone else's use, I didn't really mean anything by it.

I've read about Anthony Flew's framework, but it still seems like unnecessary architecture to me, since I still haven't encountered situations where lay terms fail to describe someone's position in a reasonable way.

But you know, come to think, if there's one thing religion has taught me-- people can self describe however they like, and there's no sense fighting them on it. If people want to be called just plain atheists, or negative atheists, or double plus agnostics, or pastafarians, that's fine, I can go with whatever everybody's preference is.
EdenFS is a FUSE virtual filesystem for source control repositories
A related quote I read in a book recently: "You're in trouble when you start believing you're as good as people tell you you are."
Yes, they themselves produce alternatives but they have the same issues generally speaking as the original chemicals. As noted above they'll usually move to the new one because they've exhausted what they can get from the original and the new one isn't tainted by regulation/lawsuits/studies yet. The EPA isn't proactive about testing these things so it then takes time for people to study them and determine that they're not healthy for people and the cycle continues.

Generally speaking though, things like teflon and such and the chemicals that make them up are probably always going to be bad for the endocrine system. I'm hopeful I'm wrong and we can find alternatives that aren't but the human body doesn't seem to do well with chemicals that make things hydrophobic/slippery/nonstick.
Okay but we're talking about razing houses and replacing it not with infrastructure and transportation networks but with more housing in a state with already a quarter of the nation's homeless population.

I have so many questions about what happens in that regional development council hypothetical with astronomically high housing prices and homelessness:

- Do you play benevolent city planner and let current residents in these low density zones stay, redevelop around them? This is already happening without much help needed from the city, hastening that seems to be a good way to add to the homeless population resulting from displaced families fleeing the inevitable raise in property value and therefore taxes, no?

- Do you play well meaning but forward marching city planner who has to watch families move out of their city acquired land and homes, sure probably with a check in hand and a pat on the back hoping they make it-when realistically the market probably, very likely (A) don't have room for them or (B) probably out of their financial range to even relocate to nearby neighborhoods?

I just don't see a path forward here for SF using eminent domain that doesn't come with some very painful outcomes that probably exacerbate the very problem it would intend to solve. An unforced error.

Perhaps I'm overthinking the conceit here, but it's an experience I've lived through, so maybe that explains why my eyebrow immediately shot up.
I'd venture to say that you are very wrong to say that. I used to believe that too, but I've changed my opinion about what is "progress".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mXW1zPlxEE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterile_neutrino
I'd be interested in specific examples to learn from. I'm always striving to make myself a more useful and enlightened jerk. I've already upgraded from a__hole.
Who surprisingly has the highest approval rating in the country, even higher than Warren.
>gouge visitors

>save $50 on a hotel

how the hell can you simultaneously be gouged and save money?

what makes the long term resident more deserving than the short term visitor? why should the rootless pay a subsidy to the rooted?
A coworker of mine shared this neat little book which contains, among other things, descriptions of a lot of the internet infrastructure markings one can find on the streets of NYC based mostly on the author's own observations:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B018CH0MX2

Definitely something I had never really thought about until recently.
NYTimes claims you could be right!

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/05/technology/amazon-second-...
I'm an engineer at Tinfoil Security, working on a security scanner for REST APIs. At a high level, it ingests Swagger specifications, which it uses to build property testing generators to test the implementation against the schema + against various security tests.

It isn't ready for public consumption yet, but we have a few customers using a private beta.

We're still exploring the problem space, but so far it has been very successful at quickly confirming an API conforms to its specification, and automating the detection of most "input validation" bugs.
Postmark doesn't allow marketing emails, so their reputation scores are better and hence they have better deliverability. That's their main value prop.
Given that it's possible to have javascript in a PDF as well, it wouldn't be too hard to have a bit of code that verifies the XML matches the human-readable version. Or, failing that, some sort of crypto signature to check both to see things haven't been tampered with.
Amazon nearing a deal to split their HQ2 between NYC and DC
Thank you for the thoughtful reply. You've added some things to my reading list. :-)

Not to contradict anything you've said, but my original message above was in response to something very different than I think you're talking about. I see a lot of comments where people seem to treat Science as some unquestionable list of facts and treat Scientists reverently. It's like they've made a religion out of it and don't dare question the priests - which is ironic/silly when they're refuting conventional religions.

Anyways, maybe my current view is a little too hard line on good science relying on falsification, but I still reject the notion that any scientific belief is verifiable / provable. A given theory may be the best we have, but a new piece of information could change it radically.
Why Can't Phone Be Used as a PC?
It seems to me that my phone would be powerful
enough to run almost any program. Is there any
phone that can be connected to a display and
keyboard and used as a PC?
That's certainly a fair perspective that I can't argue with at all. I can't guess on specific #s but I'd bet there are lots of single men that would though at the chance of snagging an Amazon job. That number is probably relatively high and would make you a part of the outlier group. Working for Amazon might have stigma on HN but I think generally people have a great impression of them and would love to work for them.
how did you re-learn to read? I am ethnically chinese and have long been meaning to (re?)-acquire the mother tongue.
I wrote about this specific topic in a poetry class I took in college.

It's surprising how this sentiment was frequently demonstrated by Frost himself. He'd frequently claim how important some life changing moment was in his life and then later walk that back and It's been a long time back now so I can't completely remember all the examples I found but I think an uncle or such paid for part of his education. Frost would go back and forth about how this relative left him high and dry and making it on his own was very important. Then on other occasions he'd opine about how important this relative was and how it made a difference in his life.
Is it the residents (many of whom are tenants), or the owners specifically who are resistant to new housing?

I've always heard it was the owners, but as someone who doesn't live in SF, I can't verify.
I did the same thing! And got the same reactions from some people. There's just something about viewing data you personally are receiving.
I agree. It's nice to see some local officials do something, but a lot of them also have no idea what's really going on in their city because they consume the best products out there. Throw them in the mix with the poorest town and let's see how long they will last. Sometimes this is the only way to make them really look closely as to what's really going on in the city.
Right - those advocating for more housing have almost nothing to offer the people already locked in. This to me is the crux of the problem.
Warning  100 % Superpower Mantra – GODDESS MATANGI MANTRA – FULFILL DREAMS
The European standards for pipes as formal plaques on the wall, and the UK one which uses a different notation and premade concrete stub-sign at ground level had me fascinated.
The industry has been good for coders and IT in general for the last decade or so, but if the past tells me anything, it may not last. For example, our Web "standards" are poor for many things they are being used for. The HTML browser has been over-stretched. If better or more industry-specific standards appear, then less IT labor could be needed to create and manage a good many systems and apps, putting a lot of IT workers on the street.
Fips typically certifies that the algorithm is correct, but it can't be faulted for bad primes

I think I rest my case.
Cleveland Whiskey[0] is a few steps less science-y than what they're doing in TFA, but they're also pushing the limits of what some would consider traditional whiskey. After having sampled a couple bottles, I'd say I'm on board.

With products whose appeal is partly rooted in traditional craft, I realize that gaining mass-market acceptance for highly non-traditional production methods can be tough, but I'm one to let the results speak for themselves. It turns out you can get pretty good results if you're willing to push the envelope a bit.

[0] https://clevelandwhiskey.com/
My bad, I apologize if it was rude, it just came across like that to me.
Hi. I have AS and went from 9.5/10 to 0.1/10 with diet. Why not just continue with the diet? It has zero negative side effects and is free. Would love to learn what you have done to change your diet. Maybe I can help you with the final tweaks.
An Independent Assessment of the Human Rights Impact of Facebook in Myanmar
> I think this sort of ideal is more likely to reward than punish bad actors. I'm certain you can think of a million and one ways companies/PACs/individuals/etc could influence others in ways that would be difficult, if not impossible, to trace back to them. The player that tries to play by the rules and ensures that all of their messaging on the up and up is simply going to get burnt.

So instead we let all of the players become bad actors without consequence?

> Imagine if instead that Netflix and other companies received a tax deduction which was proportional to the percent of time their customers spent consuming locally sourced material. Now suddenly there is a positive incentive for the good behavior, and Netflix would almost certainly be going out of their way to try to get you to watch locally sourced material. On the other hand people often want to have their cake, and eat it too.

And then reward the bad actors for being bad actors in the first place by depriving society of the taxes they owe?

I think it's safe to assume that the politicians making those deals will be often be bad actors too, and courts rarely let cities and other governments back out of those deals just because the deal makers were corrupt.
My students next semester are going to each create a VS Code or Atom plug-in as their course project. I’ll definitely be showing them this!
Because by banning AirBnB short rentals, the rooms and entire properties will then be more likely used to house permanent residents. Owners will be financially incentivized to provide it for the residential rental market, or to sell it, versus not doing anything with it and paying the property taxes.
The city government would like to blame illegal Airbnb rentals for contributing to the housing crisis but at the same time still enforces strict height limits on buildings because NIMBYism. It won't be today, or tomorrow, but eventually SF and the greater Bay Area will no longer be sustainable as the major economic hub it is without some serious change. You can't complain about increasing income inequality and cost of living problems without addressing the core component that makes up the cost of living...
I'm curious how much of the benefits accrue if you use audio books - which is how I do much of my "reading".
Chris Rock and Jewel endorse San Francisco’s tax to help homeless
If you are using FileVault you are not affected. The encryption is done in software.
> Students should learn formal grammatical structure in English language class in high school, not programming class in college.

… but they don't. (There are also people—I'm among them—who found discussions of natural-language grammar dull, as belabouring too much a familiar point, until they saw the power that grammatical tools lent in the less familiar setting of formal specifications.)
A Ramp Contraption May Have Been Used to Build Egypt’s Great Pyramid
It's funny to see how so many people in Atlanta insist that Amazon will reject the city due to (insert pet political issue here). Of all the reasons for not selecting Atlanta, if that turns out to be the case, Cobb acting like they've acted for at least half a century isn't going to matter much. Cobb was Cobb when UPS relocated to Atlanta. Cobb was Cobb when the Summer Olympics came to Atlanta. Cobb was Cobb when NCR moved to metro Atlanta. Cobb was Cobb during all of Home Depot's growth (and Cobb is where Home Depot chose to hq in the metro).
CEOs love to play games for the publicity but in the end Bezos given the choice between (pet political cause regardless of what it might be) and a billion dollars will go with the cash. He doesn't care if employees can't duck out of work to take the train to see baseball.
The stunning transfer of wealth from technology companies to residential landlords through their employees will continue.
You met customers from every geographic region, or just the USA?
I'll shill the St. George distillery tour in the Bay Area. They make my favorite liquor by far.
It's not like they are trying to hide it, the coalition is very open about what they are, a group of advertisers and ad networks that are trying to get rid of bad ads so that people don't install adblockers that block all ads. This is copied from their site:

>The Coalition’s research identifies the ad experiences that rank lowest across a range of user experience factors, and that are most highly correlated with an increased propensity for consumers to adopt ad blockers.

Nobody has to make any mistake about the motivations, they are literally saying this is so that the "good" advertisers can take back the ecosystem and prevent the "race to the bottom" of more obnoxious ads paying the best, and so they can prevent more people from installing ad blockers by making their ads less obnoxious.
Lindsay is a really great physicist. It's been cool to watch what's been coming out of her lab.