skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
actively dipping back into c++. I've needed this and I didn't know it. thanks
From Nand to Tetris: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles
I just mentioned them because they are in the ops library but not Colourful .NET, not because they are especially important. In the end all color spaces and color representations are just means to represent electromagnetic spectra, most of the time only a subset and most of the time lumping together different spectra into equivalence classes. And they all have their uses, they all make certain things easy and other things hard.
Technically yes, since the gate (control input) of a field effect transistor is functionally a capacitor, with the source-drain connection acting as a very crude sense amplifier. (You can actually observe this with some discrete MOSFETs, by attaching them to a breadboard in series with a LED and tapping the gate line against VCC or ground to turn them on or off.)
The article also mentions that suicide rates have gone up in the United States in recent years. It's not saying that every country has had a decreasing rate of suicides, it's saying that the global rate is going down.
Is that a question (yes question -- not assertion) that you don't think is worth asking?
$15/hr now . . . and $150/hr to fix it later.
Personal "repeated observation" is nothing more than anecdotal evidence. It doesn't mean anything.

Watching anything that you enjoy will create a stimulus feedback loop.

I like watching let's plays of old games and learning new strategies for old games from people who dedicate large amounts of their time and expertise to that kind of thing.

I don't suddenly have a "lack of cognitive concentration compounded by emotional sensitivity" after watching. I experience the same symptoms I would if I had just watched half an hour of television, whether its a sports game or cartoon. If I was intellectually stimulated during this time, then my brain begins sorting and strengthening connections between new and old information. If I have a mental addiction to whatever I'm doing, then some negative impulses may also occur, but that happens with literally anything and is irrelevant to video games.

The ideas you're suggesting, that watching someone else play video games creates negative behavior such as "focusing on homework better after sport and worst after game" is some serious armchair psychology that, unless you can provided citations to credible studies, simply has no basis in reality.
Learning to love robots
Al Gore created the climate hysteria I was responding to and profited immensely from it. I have yet to see any compelling evidence for anthropogenic warming. People (even scientists i've seen talk about it) will invariably fall back to an appeal to authority and explain how the greenhouse effect works, which is not proof the sky will start falling.
It's becoming increasingly hard to gather any useful information about software development topic from a concise title because rampant terminology growth and (sometimes fueled by reuse of concepts with different terminology in different projects) to the point that concise titles are almost always ambiguous in some manner.

For example, I've seen this submission for hours now, and every time I assumed it was sort of function annotation/decorator syntax addition to achieve some interesting result, which didn't pique my interest at those times.

Is any other field quite as bad with this as software development seems to be?
It seems like we have to do some geoengineering no matter what, because the emission cuts required to solve the problem are unattainable even if every government on the planet was trying to do its part.

The current climate change problem has been caused by unintentional geoengineering with an undesirable outcome. It's reasonable to assume that different methods of geoengineering can have different effects, and might be capable of helping solve the problem.
I don’t agree with the false equivalency of open source or shareware meaning a lib is crap.
But the Atlas of Urban Expansion, a project based in New York University, estimates that roads built in Ahmedabad after 2000 are 8.5m wide, on average, compared with 7.2m for roads built earlier. Roads also take up more of the land area in the newly developed suburbs. Because wide roads can carry more cars and buses, future suburbanites in Ahmedabad ought to be spared the awful traffic jams that frustrate large Indian cities such as Delhi and Mumbai.

I grew up next to a three lane street(roughly 18m in total width) that lead to the suburbs which in turn experienced rapid growth during the nineties, continuing a few years into the 21st century.

The additional few tens of thousands of new inhabitants commuting each day to work were enough to turn this place into congestion hell.

I don't think 8.5m - even each way is going to cut it in a city of well over 5 million.
Hide it,in a untraditional way. Do not have wires leading to your property, have it surrounded by earth walls, use the electricity to synthesize methan or to generate hydrogen. Retrieve the catridges full of pressurized energy every once in a while.
If something is true, it's true no matter who says it.
Abstract

Aim

Children frequently ingest coins (generally with minimal reported side effects); however, the ingestion of other items has been subject to less academic study. Parental concern regarding ingestion applies across a range of materials. In this study, we aimed to determine typical transit times for another commonly swallowed object: a Lego figurine head.

Methods

Six paediatric health‐care professionals were recruited to swallow a Lego head. Previous gastrointestinal surgery, inability to ingest foreign objects and aversion to searching through faecal matter were all exclusion criteria. Pre‐ingestion bowel habit was standardised by the Stool Hardness and Transit (SHAT) score. Participants ingested a Lego head, and the time taken for the object to be found in the participants stool was recorded. The primary outcome was the Found and Retrieved Time (FART) score.

Results

The FART score averaged 1.71 days. There was some evidence that females may be more accomplished at searching through their stools than males, but this could not be statistically validated.

Conclusions

A toy object quickly passes through adult subjects with no complications. This will reassure parents, and the authors advocate that no parent should be expected to search through their child's faeces to prove object retrieval.
They don’t mean for the sentence to be hard to navigate, it just has to provide different levels of meaning to a wide variety of language consumers.
Palm Oil Was Supposed to Help Save the Planet
Since you know (or suspect) the frequency, aren't there simpler ways to find the curve than full FFT?
There was some evidence that females may be more accomplished at searching through their stools than males...

Something for the feminists to be happy about.
So I actually agree with you 100%... but in the sense that's it's working inadvertently.

I'm very familiar with internal politics/chaos resulting in an explosion of models... ;)

But the thing is: if this were hugely detrimental to the bottom line, it would get fixed. But it's not. To the contrary, it actually improves the bottom line, even if it wasn't designed to do so. So other things get fixed, but not this.

And if I'm shopping for a new <insert superfluous consumer item here> then sure, confusion is death to a sales funnel because I can just not buy. But if I need a new laptop and can't afford Apple, then I've got 3-5 brands to choose from and their websites/models are equally confusing...

...and so I probably wind up spending more money that I needed and the companies come out winners.

BUT... if another company comes along and goes after the value market with a simple-to-understand lineup, where the business model is massive, massive volume of a tiny number of models? And gains consumer trust? Kind of like Casper did with mattresses, another impossible-to-understand market? Or Warby Parker with glasses, where incumbents were waaay
overpriced? Well then there's a ton of money to be made, my friend. Indeed, I'm actually surprised it hasn't happened yet.
The biggest problem seems to be preemptively cutting out speculators.

It'd be nice to see some kind of eminent domain clawback for someone who bought land solely for speculative zoning change.

Whether financial (e.g. compensating landowners on a multiplier scale according to how long they've owned the property) or legal (e.g. land recently sold is more easily seized via eminent domain, weakening the new owner's bargaining position).

Land development in a coherent, socially productive manner is the ultimate tragedy of the commons -- the individually optimal move is always to be enough of a dick so that the social utilities get built on your neighbors' lands, then reap the benefits.
Sounds like Visual Basic's DoEvents() all over again?
While that makes sense for working people and before high school, it doesn't explain the situation for university students. Time in university is rather stress free for the majority of Japanese students.

Another issue with your assessment is that things have gotten better rather than worse in terms of personal time and freedom. Still worse than in other countries I'm sure, but the trend there does not correspond with the dating trend.

My impression is that people who do have free time in Japan spend an awful lot of it on their hobbies and doing additional part time to fuel them, where hobbies are mostly travelling, media consumption, or going to events (like live concerts).

There' no shortage of consumers who spend time and money on entertainment. Also, I'm not sure the article says anything about dating in general. It talks about both (!) some people not being interested in sex and others being more intetested and earlier. Things are getting more extreme on both ends. I don't think that is explained by stress or work and academic pressure.

I don't have an explanation but maybe it's grounded in the fact that people have more (!) personal freedom then less these days, i.e. that there is less pressure to go along with what everybody does. As far as I know that is not too dissimilar to the situation in the 70s so it kind of makes sense.
On the early PCs you could easily control the refresh rate (it was done by the timer tick), and some applications, notably games, would reprogram it to refresh less and still get away with it while enjoying a small but possibly critical boost in performance:

https://www.reenigne.org/blog/how-to-get-away-with-disabling...
Looking at market cap, for 2018

Q1:

1. Apple

2. Alphabet (Google)

3. Microsoft

4. Amazon

...

8. Facebook

Q2:

1. Apple

2. Amazon

3. Alphabet (Google)

4. Microsoft

5. Facebook.

Q3:

1. Apple

2. Amazon

3. Microsoft

4. Alphabet

...

6. Facebook

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

If you want to quibble that the five listed aren't always the top five or that the order isn't exactly that listed in the article, or that this isn't valid criteria, go ahead, but this seems like a pretty minor point and tangential to the article.
YOU'RE a MEAN ONE, MR. GRINCH
I can understand why you may find it suspicious. The problem is the abundance of the rather fake history about the dating of the great Indian events & epics. For a very long time, the narrative was monopolized by people who believed that the history of mankind (or life?) is not more than 5000 years ago, (mainly because of the bible or something else)? Therefore, when the British & other Marxist historians found something older than the purported 5000 years, they had to adjust every event in Indian / Hindu history to match it. Too many things have been "adjusted" in this way, unfortunately.

When modern human species evolved approximately 200,000 years ago, it should not be so far fetched to imagine that advanced civilizations existed 10,000 years ago?

A google search provides many good resources & links that I will just fill up my comment to provide. These resources have documented many many proofs, events more than 3000 years ago cannot be treated the same as events 500 or even 1000 years ago, because the archeological remains would not survive that long unfortunately. Please try this: https://www.google.com/search?q=dating+the+ramayana

I think the research done by PN Oak & Dr. Koenraad Elst would be most pertinent. I am assuming that you are not limited or prejudiced by the timelines provided in the bible or something else.
When I read the title to a buddy he said:
"Asking for a friend."
Thankfully, if there's enough room, you can repurpose roads into light / heavy rail when density increases enough.

Especially if the roads were laid out with foresight instead of organically tangling.
I would conceptually put reusable view components ("a list representation") completely outside of the scope of all MV* thinking. The "V" part is a composition of high or low level view components, not the components themselves (at implemention time - at runtime the view is the sum of active components). When you write universally reusable view components, you are not implementing the V of an MV*, you are working on tools to implement a V. Just like writing a database engine isn't defining a domain model.
The very best thing you can do on climate change, right now, for free, is stop suggesting people "do their part" by flying less or eating less or making any other kind of individual sacrifice. Erase that proposition from your brain and never mention it again.

Climate change is a collective action problem. It can't be solved by voluntary sacrifice or any other kind of uncoordinated action. Suggesting that it can is harmful in two ways:

1. It puts the focus on solutions that don't work and won't even help.

2. Framing it in terms of sacrifice—which, again, won't even work—makes people less inclined to help in ways that might work, like lobbying for more effective policy.

"Eat your vegetables" is not the answer. People won't—no matter what. You might, your friends might, but people won't, and that's what matters.

Deny this fact at everyone's peril.
Comparing against the peak of the dot com bubble seems like an interesting choice.
Thank $$d someone someone else thinks this. I would add that TDD is a joke if you're serious about getting a product out as quickly as you can. TDD stifles that essential, fast-paced creative process like nothing else. Tests are fine. It's just TDD I have a problem with. If you have plenty of VC money to burn sure, burn it on TDD but if you're on a tight budget it will kill your ability to ship.
In my view, this could be dangerous if we do it before we are on the way to eliminating carbon via an alternative. If we get a symptom reduction via aerosols, we might just burn everything we can, and have some terrible effects on the oceans.

We might have to do it anyway, but I'm hoping we can hold off till we have a replacement, so as to avoid compounding things even worse than they are. Human psychology being what it is, we'll use aerosols to push off solving things.

Anyone know the expected outcome of a seriously acid ocean? My assumption is it would be civilization ending in some way, but maybe that's wrong.
Lenovo has one of the worst laptop websites. They have 10 "series" currently on the site: the X, T, P, Yoga, A, E, L, 13, 11E, and V.

Given the number of configurable options across the product line for processors, memory, hard drives, screens, etc., there must be thousands of possible combinations.

I assume many laptops across all of the series are available with 13-inch screens, so the name of the "13 series" is particularly confusing.
Prozac. It works. Most rural folk don’t necessarily have access to quality health care. (I was one of those rural folk at one time.)

People say work out, it will cure all of your problems. That may be true. But it wasn’t until I took Prozac every day for a solid month that I noticed a real improvement. Now I’m in a position where working out is a possibility, whereas it wasn’t before.

I’m not saying it’s a miracle pill or that it will work for everybody or that it won’t cause problems. I don’t know any of those things. All I know is that it was a miracle pill for me and doesn’t seem to cause any problems.

It’s like wearing a prosthetic leg. You don’t really realize how much of a struggle you’ve been dealing with until you put it on. The trick is that you have to wear it every day for a month before it works at all.
The other not-that-nefarious explanation is that laptop brands with the exception of Apple tend to be not that great at merchandising their products. That's what retailers do really well. If selling direct to consumer is only a small fraction of overall sales, having a great consumer experience is strictly not a priority. If a lot of your sales come from corporate or academic IT departments, having a great catalog website for consumers is not a priority.
Nah, just speed through a few YouTube video series, pirate a couple of machine-learning textbooks, clone into the Deep Learning with Python repo, and market yourself as a data scientist.
I agree with GP, this articles more glory than spotlight. Hard pass.
I have a fairly advanced knowledge of git (that is, at the level of porcelain and plumbing commands; I haven't touched the C codebase itself) and I intend to give gitless a try when I get back to work on Monday.

My reason is that, while I'm a fan of git the technology, I think the default git CLI is an unmitigated fucking nightmare and I begrudge every neuron of space that I have to waste remembering how it works. Unfortunately, none of the graphical tools I've tried are as good. So I'm eager to try an alternative command line porcelain that's not so completely batshit insane. If it works out, maybe I can reclaim some of that wasted space.
I'm not surprised. Some of these poor kids are on a rigid schedule from like 500 to 2200. Activities before school. School. Activities after school. School after school. Homework. Sleep(?)

It's not just a hinderance to developing a sex life; kids need unstructured time to develop their imaginations and cultivate genuine interest in topics. Being passionate about something will carry much further than any textbook knowledge.

I avoided the brunt of it as a Westerner, but it doesn't seem to get any better for adults in the workforce, if the sheer volume of meetings, seminars, and busywork I witnessed is anything to go by.

Elementary school and university seem to be the only relative respites from the grind.
There's also probably a lack of dogfooding. "Oh yeah sure it's a good idea to publically display people's likes/comments/everything..."

Not to say they haven't also been corrupt to increase engagement because they have...
The best tool in the market to hanlde multiple keywords.!!
A Case Study of a Currency Crisis: the Russian Default of 1998 (2002) [pdf]
An analogy...people who don't feel pain tend to damage their body. This is mysterious if you think "well, they are not blind, they have free will and the ability to control their body, so why do they let themselves be damaged". But isn't that obviously silly? Pain is very important feedback and if you don't feel it is a disability that you are not at fault for.

Everybody who is naturally not overweight knows that they don't have to rigorously monitor their food intake, because they have an internal thermostat that does it for them. They just eat when they are hungry and stop when they are full.

Some drugs affect that thermostat, and some people have a naturally defective thermostat. It is very very difficult to fight it because the imbalance is very small and the intensity of the output is very high.

The thing that annoys me is, given that I have never been obese, and I assume you have never been obese, we both know from personal experience that people without weight problems do not exert effort to control it. So how can you blame those who need to for being unable? We both know better without needing the least empathy or experience of being obese.
In my experience, the most common way people get MVC wrong is equating "model" to "data model", and "controller" to "business logic". Since the controller is responsible for also interacting with a specific view, you haven't made your software decoupled, rather just spread logic into three buckets.

IMHO, the real goal is establishing a somewhat stable boundary between the business logic and state and your UX, both to allow logic to be reused in other presentations and to allow both to evolve without constantly breaking code.

MVC vs MVP or MVA is a difficult distinction IMHO, because the UX portion is really split between the view and controller, which may also include interactions with a more sophisticated UI system (for example, with its own input event handling and data binding). For a lot of these systems, what constitutes a "View" or a "Controller" really depends on the infrastructure provided to the developer.

Template-based web frameworks can actually be fairly close to MVC - the controller handling the input request, translating that to commands against the model, and then taking data from the model and handing that off to the view to present to the user.

A component-based system has components which constitute the UI presentation, but also handle user input and may have data binding. At this point you are far closer to "Model View Adapter", which as the article points out is what you'll see in most componentized frameworks.

Again IMHO, but the difference between MVA and "Model View ViewModel" (MVVM) are really around implementation strategies for the adapter layer. That there are different strategies is one of the reasons that attempts by frameworks to simplify this adapter layer result in different terminology (for instance, ViewControllers and Delegates and DataSources, vs ViewModels)
Anecdotally, people shoot 737 fuselages in transit by rail from Wichita, Kansas to the assembly plant in Renton, WA all the time. Boeing has a specific process for inspecting them when they arrive and patching them up. There's a lot of very rural railway in between the two locations.
The real short term problem if we get to those levels is migration and war. That will compound any intrinsic environmental stresses, especially if nukes fly. There are several nuclear armed countries in drought zones.

That would then probably lead to continued emissions, as any international effort to reduce them would break down, and people would take what advantage they could in a more tooth and nail world.
Is this why so many city metro subways have flat faces? I've always wondered why so many are not aerodynamic in the slightest.
Modern cars are dramatically safer than old detroit steel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPF4fBGNK0U
Good luck. If you use your side project, it's worth it. If you learned new skills, the project taught you better than any textbook.

Marketing is hard. If you ask people what they want, they don't know what they didn't imagine. (Insert quote by Henry Ford about a faster horse, or the St Pancras train station champagne bar, etc). It's better to build something first, and if people like it, continue developing it.

I've made several Show HN, and occasionally even been offered jobs that way. I need a job now, and I've tried some more projects with that purpose, sadly without success. I think it shows motivation and initiative far better than a résumé, though, and attracts like-minded new friends.
Damn, son. Thank you.
The Battle for Amazon HQ2 Was a Con
Middleboxes will only see UDP, no? From their perspective nothing has changed? Isn’t that the whole idea?
You can totally sell medical equipment online. This sounds like you're getting taken for a ride by a scumbag of a medical equipment company. I don't know about your details but it might be possible to get the insurance company to agree to reimburse a cheaper purchase.

Of course, dealing with insurers is nearly as bad. The US health landscape is broken beyond belief.