skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't get why they don't do something like give you a computer with a terminal, a buggy program, and an internet connection and tell you to make it compile (or whatever the equivalent is for your domain) using whatever resources you want. Even knowing what to search for or what an error means or how to locate the source is actually like 95% of what most companies are even looking for but they're too much of cargo cult kool aid drinkers to realize it.
> Laws of gravity don't work in Italy either, Pope John XXI in 13th century had them declared null and void /heresy.

This is a distortion of a distortion (the original distortion popularized by Stephen Hawking was that John XXI declared laws of nature in general, not the law of gravity as such, to be heresy.)

The actual fact is that John XXI declared the teaching of a contemporary faction that the laws of nature constrained the power of God was heresy.
The doom of fossil fuel investments
Oh the hypocrisy.
I've found phone calls disrupt my flow, but instant messaging disrupts it a lot more. People are less likely to make a call than to send an IM. As a result, I would get a lot more IM's than calls.

In my last job I had a rule: People who are with me on the site have to come to me physically (or email if not urgent). Remote people can use Skype, but they must call me - not IM. Of course, they can still email if it's not urgent.

People still called, but the volume went down quite a bit.
That's probably also because Times and Arial are perfectly valid defaults.
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Awesome! have y'all seen donkeycar? http://www.donkeycar.com/ great for meetups/hackathons!
Welcome. And good luck. Yes, it's not easy. But it is fun. I have some past experience, early on in my career, with organic gardening, using a biogas plant, dairy farming, etc.
The other video by this professor is worth a watch. I just wish he had more.
Science has shown commuting to be quite bad for health: http://time.com/9912/10-things-your-commute-does-to-your-bod...
I should have provided a source: https://youtu.be/sIQNXH8yHsk?t=31
I see what you did there. Don't touch it, don't even look at it.
This doesn't make much sense to me. Science and the scientific method is a specific way of acquiring knowledge, why would a method used to acquire knowledge be interested in other ways of acquiring knowledge. Scientific knowledge tends to be regarded highly when it comes to many subjects because of the rigourous way it must be acquired and tested.

I'm not saying this is the best example of a study i've ever read, but the scientific method as we use it today was developed over a long time and is used because as of right now, this is the best way we've found to acquire useful knowledge. Is it the best? Maybe, maybe not. Has it given humanity consistently better and more accurate knowledge than other methods throughout history....personally i'd be willing to say yes.

Doing research, writing and presenting a paper don't exist to make science a special club. They're written the way they are to ensure all methodologies and results are clearly laid out and given, allowing others to repeat the process, the discussion giving the author's conclusion is kept separate from the rest.

The peer review system, while definitely flawed and full of problems, exists to ensure submitted papers followed reasonable methodologies and that the reported results and conclusions make sense.....

Now....that's the way it's supposed to be. In my experience, science isn't the problem it's scientists. Personally, the biggest problem I noticed, at least among biologists is worked with, was emotional attachment to personal theories and other things to the point where inconsistent or straight up contradictory data would be ignored or resampled until the desired results were found.

Money was also a pretty big problem especially when it comes to grants and continued funding. Again, inconsistent or contradictory data would be ignored to ensure the desired results and continued funding. Proposals would need to provide economic justification for funding. So there had to be an economically viable reason to do the study. And honestly, a lot of petty arguments and bullshit between scientists over the small amounts of funding available for different projects.

Science itself is great, the institutions we've built up around them not so much. They've corrupted it pretty heavily to the point where depending on who's funding a study you can already give a pretty good guess as to what the biases will be.
Mike Judge created Silicon Valley?

OK, now I have to watch it.
They seemed to do several things, but click through to our site was not one of them. They capture(ed) visitor data much of which I assume they retain for their purposes.
Nope. Sounds fun.
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I second this. I moved from systems engineering to the security field without issue. Security organizations now more than ever need a full spectrum of developers, system engineers/sysadmins and operations folks. You likely already have all the skills you need to find a decent position somewhere. Your existing skills should translate quite well.
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Title IX: The Civil Rights the ACLU Won't Defend
A balanced and convincing analysis. The speed of this decline however, is still very debatable.
I don't. I put things on my to-do list if they are important (it has never been more 20 or so items, some stay on there a long time too) and I put scheduled events on a shared Google calendar with my wife.

Aside from that I have rough goals during the week that I try to achieve such as working out 3 times, cook so and so dish, go grocery shopping, play X game, etc.

I'm pretty happy with the results.
What's the best solution to this - if wealthy and high-income individuals get more power via political lobbying, they can then gain more wealth and higher incomes, gaining even more lobbying power. They can also flood the media with advertising money and propagandist messaging to convince voters to care more about less impactful issues. It feels like an endless cycle to me.

Other than war or complete societal upheaval, what can actually be done to solve the problem?
> S-100 was very important for it's time...

Lot of people doing serious software development at the time were either using minicomputers or S-100 systems.
Is there a more direct way to encode garbage collection in type unification without separate treatment?

Eg can you chain pure fuctions together that pass a world(memory block) around inside of some user defined monad that does the memory management/garbage collection for you?
https://gitlab.com/tslocum/meditationassistant - Android meditation session timer and logger with numerous features and customization options.

available via Google Play, Amazon and F-Droid.
All the articles seem like drivel to prompte some new social media app this is an ad in my book and flagged accordingly.
Best description I've ever seen for TBBT is "geek blackface".
Actually a great programmer will figure C++ out fast enough for most purposes. Templates are weird and hard, but a great programmer can figure them out. However if you don't have a several years of experience you will make mistakes, so I can't hire you as the next go-to expert in the difficult corner cases of C++ that sometimes we can't avoid (though as we move to modern c++14 there are a lot less of them)

If you lie on your resume and I catch you that is an important red flag because I no longer no what else I can trust you on.
One of my constant pain point with all distributed data stores is that it's really hard to find out how they behave if something breaks. Be it the network, local storage and so on. How do I find out what's wrong? Are there guides on how to fix a problem? What happens if I lost more nodes than required to automatically recover? How does backup and restore work? Any estimates on how long a restore will take? Are there failure modes that I should monitor for that might be non-obvious? This is mostly the operations side, but personally I would never use something I don't understand enough to have a good feeling of how the system works beneath the shiny surface.

And of course there's the application side: With SQL and EXPLAIN, I can usually see bottlenecks. I have a latent fear that performance with distributed systems suddenly tanks if some structure is suddenly split across nodes for example.
I have a copy of the Conjoined Triangles of Success tacked to my office wall. I don't think anyone I work with has keyed in on the fact yet that it's a joke from a TV show. It captures serious business jargon and corporate culture so well that it doesn't read as anything but.
" tax its carbon emissions, tax its particulate emissions, require real management for whatever waste it produces, and see if any investors or inventors want to keep it alive."

Actually, this is exactly what environmentalists have been trying to do. This is what the cap and trade system which has been pushed by various environmental organisations was all about. But of course it was blocked by conservatives paid by the energy industry.

There is one rare fact that both environmentalists and coal executives agree on -- if the coal industry is forced to pay for their emissions it will die. So I can confidently answer your question -- there would be no investors wanting to keep it alive.

Furthermore, the US government has spent literary billions of taxpayer money to make coal environmentally acceptable. All kinds of schemes have been tried -- carbon capture, coal liquification, coal gasification, etc. None of them work. It turns out it is very expensive to capture large amounts of gases for an indefinite period of time. You can liquify or gasify coal at a significant cost, but it still turns out much dirtier than gasoline or natural gas.

Even with its current preferential treatment, where it does not have to pay for damage it causes and it uses much government subsidies, the coal industry is generally losing money. Most major US coal companies went through bankruptcies in the last several years. It is highly doubtful investors would want to put good money in coal plants that actually have to pay for their environmental damage.
People who enjoy Silicon Valley should read the book Disrupted. The writer went on join the writers at Silicon Valley.
Probably there are some differences but there are hundreds of sites doing this to eBay, why haven't they stopped it?
Was thinking the same thing, thanks for asking.
Interesting - thanks for your answer.
They absolutely exist. A previous company I worked for had the same system as a legacy product but it still got plenty of traffic.

We also had fax -> email. Believe it or not there were plenty of accounts sending email -> fax which they had configured to forward using fax -> email. ‍️

They incured costs on both ends rather than just sending an email. Stupidity knows no bounds...
Tricyclics are the absolute worst. They were the first generation and are very rarely prescribed for their on-label usage anymore because the side effects just aren't worth it. SSRI/SNRIs aren't much better though. Adult use is one thing but giving this stuff to kids is seriously messed up. I was raised on a cocktail of Prozac, Wellbutrin, Lexapro, Cerezone, Zoloft, Depakote, and Vivanse from the age of 9 years old that I am certain caused profound physiological and mental issues to this day, yet they are still pumping kids full of this stuff. We are literally giving pharmaceutical grade meth to kids just because they can't sit still. This has to be the symptom of a sick society.
The Lena easter egg in plain sight was amusing during a few episodes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna
This is a pretty great pop cultural analysis of American society of when Idiocracy was created.

I think the movie is a reflection of the time it was created, but it's a little less tied to that moment than you think. If you think of it as a subversion of the generic Jetsons vision of automation leading to mass complacency then it could be a more universal film than you portray it as. (Probably pre-Jetsons but '50s postwar sci-fi probably exemplifies that vision the best. Or maybe it extends further back, and the Idiocrats are just tackier versions of the Eloi from Wells.)

I think the big realization we have now is that automation is far less utopian than we expected, it comes with complications and externalities and inequality, with a lot of what we have now is just abstracting away work so that someone less well-off and farther away is doing it. Funnily enough one minor "plothole" I always had with Idiocracy is that if everyone is stupid, how were the machines still semi-functional? How did their society produce the cameramen at the monster truck death rally? Obviously, the whole movie is a satire or lampoon, but it made me think how society could culturally regress while still remaining technologically semi-functional, buoyed by artifacts of the ancient past like the Eloi or some descendent race from a fantasy setting.

I think if you were to make an Idiocracy today it would have to be focused on how social media and the 24/7 online culture have disrupted the way we relate to one another. Instead of 1001 channels of trashy reality TV it would be conspiracy theories and fringe ideas and charlatans appealing to both emotion and pseudo-logic. (Interspersed with unboxing videos and ASMR and live-streaming, sure.) It feels like anti-intellectualism today is fueled more by anger and zeal (this applies to all political stripes). The current boom feels a lot less even and people are far more desperate and stressed out. Our attention spans are even more frayed. Whereas the original Idiocracy was more about complacency birthed from prosperity, as you pointed out. (Though that rather ignores specific Bush administration policies that could be criticized as anti-intellectual, whether culture wars at home or military aggression abroad. But maybe their absence from that film makes it, as I mentioned earlier, more generic.)
I think pretty much any school district with a million+ children is going to have issues, whether school choice is implemented, or not.

Mayor De Blasio kicked off an integration effort[1] in Brooklyn with plans to roll something similar in the other NYC school districts in an effort to counteract the mini-college application process, with mixed reactions depending on where your child would have placed. Reforms are under way for both middle and high school admissions.

[1] https://nypost.com/2018/09/20/de-blasio-kills-admissions-sta...
Agree, I can't believe that the company owning the major Internet search engine gave the same name to two different frameworks.
>Power comes via a patented two-way “Sway” throttle. Roll it back as usual to accelerate, then roll it forward to brake

as novel and non-obvious as they come...
> Set­ting up and tear­ing down an HTTP con­nec­tion for ev­ery lit­tle op­er­a­tion you want to do is not free.

"Doctor, it hurts when I do this." So don't do that; many HTTP libraries come with connection pooling / persistence built in, so it's quite common to not even need to handle this yourself. Should we also stop using relational databases because setting up a connection takes time?

As for the rest of it, sure, you might have a queue, or some orchestration layer. Is that your consumer-facing API? Just b/c I push a message into some queue implementation does not mean I want to expose that implementation to my caller.
Sometimes (like now) I wish I could give a +10 or +100 on HN! Thank you :-)
I'll take your point to mean this: People who want coal jobs to come back are really just pro- blue collar job. So yes, a good wind blue collar campaign showing hard working men and women that does not harp on the 'evil' of coal, but instead 'harps' on how damn good these new jobs are.
He was into wind power before wind power was cool.
There's probably a project to make here. Take those pixel2pixel models that are able to generate images from drawings, generalize them to 3D, say a pixel2vertex. Would be pretty neat.

The key would be to find a way to constrain the output space so that it's not so vast that it won't be possible to converge to something useful.
I've begun the rationalization process...I should be able to start this sometime in January. I've begun drawing up the plans though...
People making money off of a disaster doesn't make it less disastrous. People can make money off of everything, including wars.
Have you tried CockroachDB, TiDB? Or why do you think SQL could increase utility? It would make things slow and unpredictable, something distributed databases already struggle with.
Best option is probably hackernews's boogeyman - government regulation.

The issue is it has to be in place before money command structures have a chance to develop, so it's not something you can really implement now.

Realistically, it may not be fixable without fixing capitalism, which no one has figured out how to do.
Quarantyne – Next-Gen WAF
Wasn't expecting such an interesting comment here! So many links to read later! Just came here because I like olive oil
Philip Rosedale: Why VR Is Better Than AR Devices Like HoloLens and Magic Leap
And then the factory floor in Extract.
Standing seems to burn about 50 calories per hour more than sitting [0] and walking burns about 80 calories per mile [1]. So wouldn't a first approximation for the benefits of standing an extra 5 hours per day be the same as walking 3 miles per day?

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-24532996

[1] https://www.verywellfit.com/walking-calories-burned-by-miles...
But its not really pretending to be what you're describing. Its just a web toy they made to show off their doodle-to-thing ai with the added fun of dropping the thing onto a cartoon google-map.
Hey

I understood what you said. This is only our prototype / MVP so the UX is definitely off. Apologies for that but you can be assured a full rebuild is in place.

Paypal option is there though, not sure if you have seen it or not. Regardless, thanks for your precious time
They've likely had chilling effects, haven't they? Just as with any censorship, there are chilling effects. According to some data I saw a while ago given in parliament, around 20 people a year are prosecuted for possession or production of the material, at least in magistrate courts. Taking the concerns of the graphic novel artists in a more general sense, they were completely right on warning about the juridification of the imagination. It's extremely unsettling how in the face of this you can say that their concerns haven't materialised, even given how overseas artists have lost the UK audience too. If Google were declared illegal to use, would you claim that its illegalisation has had no effect on web search?

As a side note, although there were no graphic novelists to speak for me, other regulation on fiction in the UK has had its own effects on my own online activity. The only way you'd know is if you had a keen enough eye to spot my activity cease when I was made aware of the hideous laws in England.
> Why not expose SQL schemas all the way to the front end?
Your API is a promise and if you break your promise bad things happen.

If your API is SQL against some tables, you're promising you won't make any breaking changes to that -- or else you're promising you can roll out an update to all the servers and clients at the same time.

SQL against tables has a very large surface area, and there are many details that are different depending on the version of your database software. So, you'll find you can't update your database software without also updating (and testing) all of your clients. The more complex and more widely distributed your software is, the more time-consuming and expensive it will be to update anything. If you have clients outside your direct control and running on the same release cycle, you'll find you can't update your database software at all without breaking your clients.
I thought this had something to do with the world chess championship though this is cool too.
> like a SQL

Most people don't mind SQL. RDBMS are good enough. People don't want to learn a new thing that's why it's still here and that's why FDB will have a hard time to compete with CockroachDB or TiDB or Spanner.

> document DB frontend which could be built on top

A document database is a low hanging fruit in FDB (except if you want 1-to-1 mapping with MongoDB). But my advice is to stay away from MongoDB API.

What FDB is offering is much more powerful. Think the ease of use of MongoDB with the power of dynamodb + other niceties likes 'watches' (pgsql-like notify), transactions of course and your favorite language to do the queries. Also, FDB works in standalone mode that is you can start using FDB on day one and grow your business with it. All you need is a good layer.

> Any interesting stories to share?

I have been dabbling with key-value stores for 5 years now. So I am definitely biased. Simply said, key-value stores open perspectives you can not imagine, FDB, in particular, is a great great idea and it looks like based on the forums interactions that it's a good (if not fabulous) piece of software.
So basically inequality in any facet of life leads to dystopia (really winners and losers at extremes), but I also think trying to force equality in every facet of life will also lead to dystopia.

So what do we do when people have real grievances ?
Is there any way for technology to solve it ?
Lately I don't see technology has solving our human problems, but exacerbating them to incredibly dangerous levels.

We need to become post-humans.
Block out time by the hour. If you only had one hour to work on a side project, what are the most important next steps you would attempt? Would it be organizing/making lists?--if so you're probably in a planning stage that could benefit from the efforts of even less than an hour. If you begin work and realize you spent 2 hours and 30 minutes... then it seems to me whatever you had scheduled for other hours was less important or you somehow "found time" amidst it. Block time out by the hour and bump what's not important when you're on a roll and maybe abandon the hour early when you're stuck to move on to (aka give time to) other things. Without blocking my time out by the hour there's no way I would ever be able to have so many hobbies.
> the scooter littering issue

Only in SF... lol
you take the time from the full time job, family comes before both in my book...
So, that's a good point, and yes the scheduler will have an impact probably several orders of magnitude in comparison.

That being said, a good scheduler is basically just a loop, like:

https://github.com/kurocha/async/blob/bee8e8b95d23c6c0cfb319...

So, once it's decided what work to do, it's just a matter of resuming all the fibers in order.

Additionally, since fibers know what work to do next in some cases, the overhead can be very small. You sometimes don't need to yield back to the scheduler, but can resume directly another task.
Yeah, operations is something nobody talks about.
Is there a valid use case for “looping” or “chained” NFTs with ERC998?
I read the post as venting disappointment towards the strong anti-remote-work bias, for what it's worth.