skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This particular topic is something that all 19 year old electrical/mechatronic engineering students at my university in Australia learn, so it's probably a standard topic around the world (I think it's used to understand Fourier analysis in more advanced courses). Currently the post reads similar to what most readers would have encountered over the course of a 2 hour lecture, so my advice would be to vary the tone so that it's more conversational, giving you the opportunity to add your own insight to the problem.

The problem is that you need to have mulled over the problem for months to years before you can develop insight.
I’m having trouble understanding what you mean by an option type that is not a monad.

I thought the value of an option type was being able to “program the semicolon” to do automatic null checks for you.
Five “why?”’s in practice.
System76's site is great. Simple configuration. Think it is because this is their only sales channel.

https://System76.com
In today's America, demanding politicians only goes so far and I would say its one of many broken parts of our system. You can say that I "as a citizen" should do X but the reality is that citizens have lost control of their government and have for some time now. I personally believe that representational democracy is very flawed and would love to see a return to more direct democracy.

Amazon isn't the source of the problem but a company that exploits the problems of others for their gain is not a not moral company in my book. And of course there is a spectrum here as it's impossible for law to match morals, but for a company in such a large and good position to do this without need is a notable action from a moral perspective. So no, Amazon is not the problem, but given that no one has really quite done this at this scale, they basically created the problem in the first place and Amazon deserves scrutiny and blame for that 100%.
No not at all. I just mean that I had never been exposed to anyone who wasn't white before college. And while I didn't dislike them, I never even gave a second thought to making fun of people of other races. I suspect that had I not been exposed to other races, I would have turned those jokes into actual beliefs.
Given how many innocents died in London, Dresden, Leningrad, Tokyo, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, etc -- not to mention the Holocaust itself -- "genocide" seems rather overwrought. This one sounds about like Mỹ Lai. And the troop psychology was probably similar.
Not studying abroad is my biggest regret from college. Wish i could somehow do it again.
QUIC forcing these boxes out of the network is a feature not a bug.
It's not. The first Blade Runner was set in 2019, where LA had a population of 106 million (from the original voice over by Harrison Ford). That was the 80s apocalyptic view of our time as an overcrowded and polluted hell where people have to crowd into massive cities for survival.

If you lived during the 80s, you'll recall predictions of the Amazon being cut down and the ozone layer being depleted by now. Also peak oil was supposed to have happened, along with several other resources becoming rare.

2049 was a continuation of that alternative future, which had flying cars, off-world colonies and strong AI in the form of synthetic, fleshy humans. IOW, nothing like the actual future, to date.
If it worked, sure. Just like cellulosic biofuels, mentioned in the article. Neither is cost-effective, despite a fair amount of investment.
Certainly true, but more complex than it may seem. How much environmental damage has been saved by not having to ship oil from the middle east and not propping up those countries and all of the environmental damage they do? I don't think it's possible to know.
But it’s pretty fuckin fun bro. Seriously tho, although I had to do a lot more growing up after college, it helped me grow up. If I were forced to go pay for stuff instead of having a card with MascotBucks that covered my needs (like now) I might have grown up faster, but I’d do it again
A major step of growth for me was to be able to focus on what I lack; it was (and is) a much more worthwhile use of my time.
same. Great response A+
Option type is just an algebraic data type.

datatype 'a option = None | Some of 'a
> reducing their issues to one thing

Not at all, I focused on the one thing that was mentioned as the most significant reason for team frustration with react native.

> I don't want to come in too hot

No worries

> it's increasingly clear you are pretty fresh in your career

I was thinking the same thing about you, no offense.

> but taking this kind of negative view

Not sure what you found negative about my view. Teams and individuals make mistakes and misjudgments. That is part of life. If you read my comments I said that removing RN was probably the right thing to do by the time it happened. This is often the case with bad technological decisions in startups and is rational because of sunk cost.

> many_ cases and orgs where it is not a good fit

This is why I cite architecture. With react or react-native you really need to know where the data is coming from and how the data will flow through the application. I'm arguing that the architect should have had a plan for how this would work before introducing react native into the app.

Airbnb has done a lot of great react-native work, so I know the issue isn't technical competency, but the linting rules Airbnb popularized suggest a very trees-oriented (not forest oriented) perspective on tech, which is the kind of perspective that makes the above kind of mistake.
Comments written like this are why I left reddit.
That’s funny, since the last time I was on a commuter train was in Boston from Wesley to downtown. It was pretty packed as well.
Indeed.

> Stool Hardness and Transit (SHAT) score

Hmm, that could be a joke or could be a coincidence...

> Found and Retrieved Time (FART) score

Ok, that seems like more than a coincidence. The authors are clearly at least having fun with it.
Meh, I'd rather keep ours in the ground and be the last to run out. Maybe that's a selfish and defeatist mindset, but it's another way to look at things besides just "lets not ruin our own environment".
I like the idea. I find it incredibly tedious to lookup IMDB ratings while surfing Netflix since that's almost all I care about when I'm indecisive ("Just give me a movie roughly in this genre that's roughly decent").

The catalog seems very limited though. I couldn't find the few Netflix shows I searched for from my Netflix homepage: "el internado", "gran hotel", "el barco", "3%".

Feedback: Would be much nicer with permalinks and the history push API so that back/forward worked.

For example, clicking around the movies a bit and then pressing the back button took me back to HN. And would be nice to link someone to "/shows/123", one of the key advantages of websites over apps.
Yes! That's exactly the scenario I'm imagining. I'll definitely check this out. Thanks for the recommendation!
Improving efficiency means lower footprint per kW of installed capacity. People are now viewing solar in terms of area of installation, contract with power company, etc.

Even in rural India, the idea that solar is cheap has crept in. Farmers are buying solar power pumps across many states.
The article doesn’t touch on it much, but the palm oil industry basically runs on slave labor, too.
Perhaps not the best name, given the similarity to `dweeb`.
The U.S. patent office disagrees with you and notes that the U.S is obligated to protect trade secrets [1].

The Coca-Cola company and defendants Williams and Dimson might differ, as well [2].

[1] https://www.uspto.gov/patents-getting-started/international-...

[2] https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-11th-circuit/1234095.html
I would suggest publishing it if you think it can get accepted at a refereed venue. It's never bad to add an extra paper on your CV as a grad student.
True story. At work, folks going out for lunch. Ask if I want dim sum. I had never heard of it. All I could think of, in redneck fashion, was "that boy ain't bright, he's dim some." I declined going. Still not sure what it is. I think it is a soup.
Literally called "Notes on Euclidean Spaces". Not "Everything You Ever Need to Know About Euclidean Spaces".
Only the privileged can afford to go to college to “broaden their mind”. Most people go to college to compete in the market and get a job.

It’s amazing how much push back I get about computer science degrees should teach marketable skills and people say they weren’t meant to be ”vocational degrees” and you shouldn’t go to college for “job training”.

Just the idea that people are suggesting in some of the comments that everyone should be “required to live a year abroad” as part of college is more evidence of the bubble that many HN posters are in. How many middle class[1] families can afford to send their children overseas for a week let alone a year?

[1] By middle class I mean the real middle class income of about $60K a year not the Silicon Valley/west coast definition of middle class.
Which is awfully similar to Haskell's Maybe. Ignoring boilerplate and comments, the entire module is just [0]:

data Maybe a = Nothing | Just a
deriving ( Eq, Ord )

And the deriving line isn't really nessasary.

The Monad module is larger and contains code specific to Maybe [1]:

instance Monad Maybe where
(Just x) >>= k = k x
Nothing >>= _ = Nothing
(>>) = (*>)
fail _ = Nothing

(Only the first 2 lines are needed. The 3rd is an optimization, the 4th is a historical wart that will be removed in future versions (moved to MonadFail)

[0] https://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.12.0.0/docs/src/G...

[1] https://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.12.0.0/docs/src/G...
Do a google search for “articles predicting DC and nyc would win amazon” and you’ll get results going back at least to September 2017. Folks had NYC and DC at least in the final four, if not outright winners. A sample:

https://money.cnn.com/2018/01/19/technology/business/amazon-...

https://amp.businessinsider.com/amazon-hq2-will-be-new-york-...
Don't many of the "go and live abroad" types mostly self fund by getting work in their target countries? eg waiters, fruit picking, or whatever they can get
By graduate student do you mean masters or PhD. If PhD clearly (try to) publish academically. If masters, and you have interest in a PhD, also academic.

If you’re a masters student with no intention of serious further academic activity then it doesn’t matter much, arXiv + blog post seems reasonable.
Tutorial: How to host your own file transfer service on your pc
https://blog.florence.chat/tutorial-how-to-host-your-own-fil...
>I never even gave a second thought to making fun of people of other races.

You shouldn't make racist jokes because you shouldn't needlessly hurt or offend the people around you.

That isn't quite the same as being racist (although depending on the intention it could be). Racist means hating someone based on their ethnicity or skin color. It isn't quite the same.

>I suspect that had I not been exposed to other races, I would have turned those jokes into actual beliefs.

This is such a strange and cynical view. Are you sure you want to make the argument that you would have been a racist in America in 2018 had you continued to live in your neighborhood??
The actual author of the OP did:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3baKe4B3eyI
Obviously several. It’s quicker to learn. It’s easier to use. A non technical person can use it. Etc etc.
Show HN: Monetized Hugo Theme Documentation
Sadly, none of them are any good. :( Read the reviews for details.
Legal protection of trade secrets gives the trade secret owner the right to sue if someone steals the secret.

So if employees of Coca-Cola conspire to steal the (trade) secret formulation for Coke, the company can sue them for damages. There can be criminal offenses as well.

Trade secrets are used in situations where there's a secret (like some manufacturing process) that can't easily be reverse-engineered from the product. In that case, the owner can keep the secret as long as they wish. No patent to expire, no transfer of the IP to the public domain. For as long as the secret can be kept.

Of course, there's no legal protection from reverse-engineering a trade secret. Somebody who RE'd Coke's formula would not only be free to use it but could patent it as well. The patent holder might even be able to sue Coke for patent infringement.
As a counterexample, Gina Rinehart who is Australia's wealthiest woman and number 7 worldwide, never graduated. So there are exceptions, but I get that it is not the norm.
And the "Stool Hardness And Transit" score. I get the sense the researchers were having a bit of a giggle.
Now instead of a room think about a house or a office, is your idea of carrying a speaker everywhere still practical or do you think adding a speakers on laptop is more practical?
Convenient, and perhaps legitimate, but not provably so. Courts are supposed to be adversarial, that's why we have prosecution vs. defense or grand jury. Judges are meant to be impartial arbiters. In the FISA system, judges play a dual role as both arbiter and defense, which is a conflict of interest.

It'd be a real court if there were a sort of public defender, and the judges simply mediated between both sides. You could see it working in the warrants rejected.
Is it possible to turn encryption off? If I'm running a cluster of sensors on a remote airgapped network, the ease of using tools like tcpdump and nc far outweigh the need for encryption, especially if one is power constrained.
I appreciate the sincerity and depth of your analysis. This nicely wraps words around a concept which I had considered, but never organized well, and previously never expressed. Nice work
This is what the article says, in regards to water:

"Frequently, not trusting the quality of local drinking water, workers drink sodas and soft drinks, and experimental evidence suggests that doing so can lead to even more kidney damage."

I find it hard to believe that someone who has access to soft drinks doesn't have access to clean water. The way I read the above statement, is that the workers don't trust the local water (i.e. well water or streams, it's not clear), so they bring their own hydration, but unfortunately they are bringing soft drinks instead of bottled water.

So if you want to change the title, the alternate title would be 'Coca-Cola is turning dehydration into a deadly epidemic". But still, this is not quite right, because Coca-Cola has been in the global market place for decades, so I would presume workers drinking soft drinks in these areas is nothing new. But what is new is climate change, hence the original title.
m.facebook.com is down
More networking woes for Facebook. Desktop site is functioning normally.
The cost per mile lumps in cheap to build rural roads with urban roads, pulling down the average. It also doesn't take into account the several hundreds of billions deficit in roads investment. At today's levels of investment American roads are crumbling and are barely holding together. And that's just the federal road system. Most states also have issues funding roads. And this is before we also calculate the cost of requiring all the parking to support a roads-or-nothing environment, or health externalities from pollution and inactivity.

The reality of the situation is that if you want a city to have more than Oklahoma City levels of density, while not having congestion completely strangle the economy, you need to build rail, or at least invest in usable mass transit. A two-track subway in Manhattan can carry something upwards of 80k people very reliably within twenty feet of right of way; a highway lane only carries about 2.7K per hour.
Yes they are.

But choosing a pre-seatbelt GM X-frame sedan to compare to is a less than honest way to prove that point to put it charitably.

The biggest improvement in road safety since 1940 has been seatbelts. Everything since has just been chasing edge cases.
Total BS. That is the bill of goods sold by TDD. In TDD the tests become as critical as the code and they are an anchor that weighs you down and slows down time to delivery. It isn't that tests are bad. Build the code, write tests to support anything critical that is a risk, but for the sake of all that is good throw out writing tests first or any notion of 100% test coverage. It's a huge time suck that does not balance out in the end.
Petitioning local governments for incentives to build factories/business related enterprises has been around for a while. Pretty much every major sports team ownership group goes for subsidized stadium construction.
Engineers are far from being the main target audience for these products

And that's why I was careful to say exactly that by qualifying that they are not. The bigger point is that post-Jobs Apple doesn't seem to target engineers or even "content creators" that strongly anymore.

There are always going to be the type of people who just want the brand identification that Apple serves up, and will happily use a MacBook Pro to access Facebook or YouTube and little else. That seems a really bad way to appeal to the pro user market, even if it's smaller.
Sure as hell broadened my mind. Getting broader ever since.
Awesome! I find myself watching less and less Netflix because it is just plain impossible to find anything to watch.

I also think that we (developers) are doing something wrong with recommender systems.
With entertainment, I normally want to watch something new that broadens my mind.
Even if I just want to kill time, they never seem to work for me.
As much as I love gevent I can't claim in good conscience that it always "just works" for me. It tends to just work until it doesn't, and then you're stuck investigating how a dependency of a dependency just switched to using a network library implemented in C that therefore isn't monkey-patchable and causes process-wide stalls.

I've gotten good at diagnosing these issues over many years as a heavy gevent user, and it doesn't stop me highly reccomending gevent to anyone who will listen, but it's a caveat that should be mentioned for anyone new starting out.
And their iOS app is saddled with loads unresolved UI/UX issues that have been around for years, the iPad version is heavily unoptimised, and it lags behind the desktop/web versions by miles.

The Android version suffers the same but moreso.
I think it's fine, nice bit of entertainment, but perhaps it could be hidden by default with a link to show.
I thought it was just supposed to prevent a health crisis ie prevent heart attacks and other health issues. I don't remember any marketing for palm oil related to saving the environment. Am I wrong?
I just drew a box around half of the teeth. But the rest of the gear cross-section, being an airplane part, was sculpted to put material only where it was needed. Ideally, the strain at any point should be the same as any other point.

So the MoI was not simply a stackup of some stock shapes.

It's not that the calculation was particularly difficult, it's just that calculus was needed, and one couldn't just copy the formula for a stock shape.

It was just clear to me that some engineers were formula-pluggers and others learned it at a deeper level.

Stock shapes were certainly handy to check the math with, however. Fit the gear into a stock shape envelope, and have the gear envelope a stock shape. Your calculation should fall in between the results of those shapes.

The purpose of calculating the MoI was to determine if the stops at the end of the screw were strong enough to stop the gearbox without shattering.
You know you are not allowed to distribute BFM and it's modifications?

> NO DISTRIBUTION: You are not allowed to sublicense or distribute the DATA in whole or in part to any third party.
The US has other more conventional levers of international power to wield. Taking oil off the table is a win for the US.
I wonder if the older iteration counts as prior art now?
People need to share some commonalities or worldview to communicate well especially at some depth, which is a prerequisite for long-lasting friendships.

Career specialization, accelerating changes in lifestyles across generations and groups, social stratification, and having more individual choices in media consumption likely contribute to increasing social isolation in general.
> Very different foods.

This I agree with, just like the US has varied cuisine depending on locale.

> The north is a lot more spicy stuff. The south is more about sauces and freshness.

Citation needed, please.
This is the first time I've ever seen an actual, legitimate web site using an .xyz domain.
And you can deliberately or accidentally leave something out, yes, or go to other lengths to hide information.

The point was to be an illustrative example of why it can be useful for health-care providers to share information. HN, predictably, took it as a challenge to try to work around and find as many possible ways to hide the information as they could.
And all of those processes have been widely criticized for being bad deals that hurt taxpayers. Just because Amazon is playing a long-established game doesn't mean that game isn't crooked, and that they shouldn't be criticized for indulging in such a farce, especially when they have the wealth and resources to do otherwise.
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal – NIMBY
The fundamental difference is that states and towns generally are not ethnocentric. Nations usually are.

Germany in the EU with open migration may possibly present an existential challenge to the nature of what Germany is in the long term. Some people don't care, some people want that, some are against it.

Whereas making SF Bay area '1 city' would be a matter of pragmatism, not much more.

Also - there's actually scant evidence that federalization is better for everyone in the long run, it depends a lot on many things. I actually believe the EEC with slightly better rules for movement would be fundamentally better than the EU - even in raw economic terms. But that Bay Area - with the right leadership - would be better off.
Probably not by a lot. Acela's main issues are the fact that the line is super old and curvy. In Metro-North territory, for example, the tracks are placed too close to each other for the trains to tilt around the curves to increase their speed.

From what I understand, the new Acelas that Amtrak just ordered will be faster, and have higher tilt, though it remains to be seen how much they can actually take advantage of those features on the current Northeast Corridor. https://slate.com/business/2016/09/amtraks-avelia-liberty-is...
Maybe a reference to collectivization in Soviet Russia.

The peasants did not go willingly.
I'm going to plug Alan Macdonald's Linear and Geometric Algebra book as a great way to get an intuitive grip on the latter parts of this blog post
I recommend going through the academic paper route and aiming for the highest journal first. This process will give you free feedback from the experts in the field. You can always fall back and publish a blog post but you won’t get the high quality feedback that going through peer reviewed journal does
How a Mysterious Tech Billionaire Created Two Fortunes
are there improv classes in your city?
I can imagine some twisted data-driven logic. Bad ux -> difficult to compare -> users more often purchase the first few devices they look at -> design site with bad ux and expensive products at the top of the page
> Submission Title: Why the monarchy needs Meghan?

From the HackerNews Guidelines:

.. please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.
Aaaand it's back. 5m routing blip through Comcast.
Presumably you're not being forced to use http/3 and can continue to use whatever you're using now? Or is there a particular reason that you want to move to http/3 for that network?
>being an airplane part,

That explains it.