skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Ironically, the journalist went through the effort of giving some very concrete numbers:

C'mon. I addressed that in my very next sentence after the one you quoted.

A "concrete number" that is an arbitrary slice of the problem is more misleading than helpful.

The concrete numbers provided here, about individual ERs, with no indication as to what slice of the problem we're talking about, are essentially random noise when considering the problem as a whole.
Gamebooks[1] used the interactive story idea in a paper form quite a while ago already.

1. http://www.abandonia.com/en/gamebooks
I had taught two semesters of a basic pharmacy course at a local community college. Of the 20 or so student reviews I received, 80% of them mentioned my 'ta-tas'. Enough said.
The technical design for views was recently completed, and I expect to see them added soon :-)

Window functions & CTEs are only very recent features in MySQL 8.0 (TiDB is 5.7 compatible). None the less, they are important for HTAP workloads, and I'm looking forward to seeing them too.
Yes but none of us want to die.
There is also a lot of hate for scooters right now, at least in the Bay Area, I was riding one yesterday and made a right turn signal, moved a lane over and promptly got honked at by the car I merged in front of, there was a good 20 feet still between us and traffic was going ~20. Granted a ton of scooter riders are 14 years old and ride like total idiots so I understand the frustration, but they are definitely not given the same respect cyclists are.
With regard to airlines, I think there's another factor in play: the core business of airlines is not selling tickets to individuals and families, it's selling tickets to businesses for work-related travel. The government and most large corporations negotiate contract fares with the airlines, and large airlines have an obvious advantage in doing this.
Jodrell Bank release 50 year-old audio of Soviet Zond 6 lunar mission
For context, this is the OSM decision that they're offended by: https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Working_Group_Minutes/DW...

TL;DR: OSM has marked Crimea as Russian territory with the reasoning that on the ground Russia has control over Crimea.
Chess prodigies tend to be... the nice word is "encouraged" by their parents/teachers.

Which naturally raises the question of whether they can be manufactured. And, regardless of how you may feel about the ethics of testing that experimentally, László Polgár tested it in order to explore his idea that "geniuses are made, not born". The result of his experiment:

* Oldest daughter Susan (Zsuzsanna) achieved Grandmaster at age 22. Peak rating 2577.

* Middle daughter Sofia (Zsófia) achieved International Master, peak rating 2505.

* Youngest daughter Judit achieved Grandmaster at age 15 years 4 months, at the time youngest person ever to do so. Peak rating 2735, ranked #8 (not "women's #8", worldwide #8).
Ask HN: Tips on how to get started in tech consulting?
Hi HN!

Background: I'm an Engineering Manager with 15+ years of experience. I've run my own business (successfully) twice and I've worked in SF for the past 8 years in several startups (two of them went IPO).

I feel that I've accumulated some knowledge and every time that I talk to my friends it seems that they are going through some pain that I could help with:

- Growing their tech team
- Hiring for diversity
- New startup hiring for a CTO/first engineer (founders are non-tech)
- Evaluating some tech they are going to implement/invest in
- Evaluating a possible acquisition

I've been through that and many other problems and I really think I could offer some help.

My question is: how should I start approaching companies/founders to offer help? Is anyone here needing that kind of help? I would be willing to offer a few hours for free in order to start to get some recognition/linkedin recommendations. Any advice from someone that started on that path?
People are currently mad at google for helping to censor Chinese internet more than anything else. That is what I was referring to. I didn't really have anything against project Maven, but then again I wasn't working on it so I don't know it's true scope or goals.
Simply falling on your head from your natural standing height is enough to kill or severely disable.

Stats on accidental deaths from falling or stumbling put it nearly on par with accidental automobile deaths.
Monopolies, whether ephemeral or eternal, are bad. Disappearance of a monopoly does not mean the data collected disappears nor does it repair the torn social fabric.
I entirely disagree. Monopolies discourage innovation and creativity. American companies do not operate in some bubble; we have to remain competitive with the outside world, with countries that would seek to erode our competitive advantage. Internal competition is a great way to ensure that we do not fall behind others.

I also don't think bringing up FB's stock price is relevant, not sure what your point is getting at there?
I think when people say "fake capitalism" or "true capitalism" they're talking about unrestricted and unregulated free markets. It's also important to realize that the thought tied to Communism and Capitalism is one in the same; I'm sure most would be surprised that Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were the ones that coined the phrase and idea of Capitalism.

> Capitalism sets up incentives for people to figure out regulatory capture and lobbying in whatever regime you come up with. Capitalism sets up incentives for companies to influence the public to believe that certain forms of government intervention are perfectly natural (take copyright, for instance - if you convince everyone to get rid of copyright, you'll just set up incentives for companies to convince everyone to bring it back). If you think this isn't working right, please work with the folks who want to figure out an alternative.

I like your line of thought but I'm unsure if I agree with the fact that copyright could be incentivized to come back but that's just an opinionated view of mine. It started with the structure of the government from the beginning making it was a day 0 idea. There are also different types of capitalism; China's capitalism is different from US capitalism. So, that also is something to consider with the "fake capitalism" issue you brought up.

Overall, I think one baseline to be able to tell if capitalism is working is if one can actually go from rags to riches in today's time. I also think what people are picking at is the imbalance that happens at an economy of scale when a company becomes so large that it is the market.
I lived in Italy for a number of years and would love to move back.
Student reviews are also ridiculously sexist in the average case. In a recent study, the students rated identical teachers differently enough by gender that actual teaching performance was lost in the noise:
https://academic.oup.com/jeea/advance-article-abstract/doi/1...

Another pair of studies showed that identical courses where students thought instructors were male rated higher than those that had a female professor, and their qualitative answers were also very different:
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/03/14/study-says-st...

I'm grateful to be a computer scientist, where the consolation prize for not getting tenure is a cushy industry job, but I feel deeply for my pre-tenure colleagues in the life sciences who have to work twice as hard for their evaluations while still maintaining their research and service requirements.
Jesus Christ.

Suppose he is being treated unfairly by the mods. Is that not worth complaining about?

I don't give a crap about some silly "downvote every comment complaining about downvotes" rule. Complaining about downvotes was frowned upon because people get inexplicably downvoted as a matter of course here, and the frequency of complaints was deemed sufficiently detracting to warrant being frowned upon. Being treated unfairly by the mods, however, is another matter entirely.

I haven't seen a preponderance of evidence suggesting the complaint was ill-founded, and the guy's tenure and comment history (what I looked through of it) do not suggest he's an ill-mannered troll, so I reserve judgement as to whether the complaint is in the wrong. Like any reasonable person would.
Changing the background image of the Visual Studio editor
Are you really sure you want to carry on swinging over the importance of HN accepting harsh criticism of someone's wedding site? I mean, it's a _wedding_ site. Maybe just let it go?
That depends a lot what exactly visas are those. There are dual intent visas, which allow change to permanent immigrant status, and ones that explicitly prohibit such change. Most visas at your link are B type visas, which would be denied if immigration officer even suspects you have intent to become a permanent resident.
Hmm, based on your interpretation, it seems like a lot of money could be made by offering people ostensibly free services, while quietly collecting and monetizing their data.

But who knows if your theories about people choosing convenience are accurate...
Especially comparing folded scooters to bikes. (Yes, there are foldable bikes, but they're still big). Part of the workflow of shared scooters is picking them up for recharge and re-location, and you can fit a lot more scooters in the back of an SUV than you can bikes.
Strange earthquake waves rippled around Earth
And then it leads to separate "uninterpreted" names for each number of fingers that a person can hold up. After that there's a natural route toward place value with units of either one or two hands.

Even the shapes of the Roman numerals may have originated from chunking "hands" as units:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_numerals#Hand_signals

(although the Romans did use further multiplicative combinations of 5s and 10s, they didn't come up with implicit ways to continue the process indefinitely)
I just went to my old wedding domain name to see if it was still up (www.paulandtessa.com) and it turns out another couple bought it for their wedding next February. Amazingly, they are from the same city as us (Long Beach). I'm not sure what the chances of that happening considering anyone in the world could have bought it. It's a good thing I didn't renew the domain name so that someone else could enjoy it for their guests. Keep that it mind when you are gobbling up domain names for important life events ;)
if you want just simple layer 4 ACLs among the services, I recommend just using NetworkPolicies[1] of k8s.

Personally, I think that Istio is overly complex but then so is k8s :)

[1] https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/netw...
Didn't they also install some malware in UEFI at one point? Which is even worse, since you can install Linux on Lenovo laptops wiping out their pre-installed (but non refundable) Windows, but you can't easily replace UEFI there.
> people, generally: don't vote with their money for greater good but rather personal convenience

Not personal convenience, but personal benefit--people want to be better off after buying something than they were before. That in itself is a perfectly reasonable thing to want.

There are, generally speaking, two potential problems: (1) people might misjudge whether they will actually be better off (through lack of information or lack of understanding or failure to recognize longer term consequences); (2) people might individually be better off but society as a whole could be net worse off due to externalities (costs not borne by the people making the choices and so not considered by them).

It is true that these problems are unavoidable in a free market. However, outside intervention does not, in general, solve them. In fact it almost always makes it worse, because whoever is making the outside intervention has even less at stake in the choices about what to "vote with money" for than the people making those choices.

I think the best we can do is to try to give people the best tools we can for making their own choices, not trying to dictate those choices by outside intervention.
How does one preserve these for posterity? I realized this when I was re-reading Grant Morrison's Superman Beyond - I had lost the 3D glasses that came with the book. Newer printings did away with the anaglyphic panels, and the impact of the story of Superman seeing the reader is diminished.

This was something that is less than 10 years old - can you imagine what would happen if this were 100 years old?
I'm not sure if this is the best place to drop this anecdote, but I looked at a position where the responsibilities included working on the backend API and partner integrations, third party integrations, machine learning, internal tools and reporting, devops, and Postgres administration (including query optimization, horizontal partitioning, and reliability).

Since it was a small-ish company, I thought maybe this was just their generic "senior software engineer" posting. Nope. I asked them. They actually expected people to be able to work on all of those things. By my count, that's about 5 different teams that should be working on those things... except that this place has ~15 engineers. I self selected out of that process because, although I could certainly do the API and integrations stuff, if I'm the best person you've got to work on ML, your company is in bad shape.

I probably could have applied and gotten an interview anyway, maybe even gotten the job, but I know it wouldn't have been someplace I could do my best work. I'm very glad I'm not there.
Gray code takes a lot of work to learn. It's not very likely that people would have discovered it as a way of counting on their fingers (or with other objects) prior to the development of other number systems. If they had, it would have been extremely hard to teach, learn, or verify that someone was using it properly, without other number concepts to use as a reference!
I can't reccomend Box enough for businesses. It's an enterprise facing alternative to Dropbox. It has a lot more features companies will find useful

Dropbox is first and foremost a consumer company
Added! Funny enough, I had heard of Homestuck, but never actually read it.
But the self-reporting bias isn't unique to America. There are plenty of people in other parts of the world who say they belong to a religion but don't actually participate in religious activities with any regularity. It depends on the religion, of course, but at least with Christianity there's no fundamental contradiction in going to church only once or twice a year and still calling yourself a believer.

If there's a similar bias in other parts of the world, the statistics still leave the U.S. with a higher overall religiosity.
> Thiel also holds the view that monopolies are often a good thing.

I spotted this (IMO badly mistaken) view of his when he first came out with it quite a while back:

http://blog.peterdonis.com/opinions/monopoly-money.html
> ashamed of

It might be true for some people, but that’s far from the mainstream. same for destroying a 2yo house, that’s an outlyer, as the title says the line is at 22 years in average.

The basic calculation is wether it will cost more to renovate a house or tear it down and build anew.

When considering redoing all the plumbing, upgrading insulation, eventualy the basic frame of the house if it built on wood, to then redo the whole kitchen and bathroom because so much has ch aged in the meantime, just tearing it down is the most cost and effective approach. For anyone buying an appartmwnt in Japan, the budgeting of all of that is layed out in the maintenance fees planning, where some part of it will be set aside for rebuilding.

Some people are renovating anyway, but think of it more like how people renovate 1920 area cars. The cost/benefit analysis is different.
The question of how to repay generational theft is a difficult one. So many people have been wronged historically, and almost no nation / aristocrat has got their land "ethically".

If Oklahoma were to be "returned" to the Cherokee leaders, would they have to return it to who ever the Cherokee battled to get the land in the first place? But America is relatively easy to determine. What about land that has been "stollen" throughout history. Should Israel be "returned" to the British, Ottoman (Turkey), Momluk (Egypt), Mongols, Crusaders (British), Islamic Caliphate (Iraq), Byzantine (Greek?), Romans (Italians, I guess), Jews, Babylonians (Iraq), Jews again, or to the nations that lived there over 4000 years ago and no longer exists?

There has to be some form of statute of limitations, no matter how unfair life is. I mean, why should that author get millions of acres of land in America, when there are dense slums in India, who have a much greater need for it?
The sensible thing would be to have dedicated software for anything involving handling money, in particular banking. Then you could tell people to never interact with their bank using a web browser.
It can still cause things like janky scrolling while the JS is parsed. Less JS is never ever going to be a bad thing
A Guide to Time Blocking
> The concrete numbers provided here, about individual ERs, with no indication as to what slice of the problem we're talking about, are essentially random noise when considering the problem as a whole.

Again, the article lays this out concretely:

> Because rentable electric scooters are so new, federal and local officials haven't started tracking accidents, and the companies have declined to release any stats. But some numbers are beginning to appear.

Then, they list the concrete numbers they do know.
So how do you measure demand's price elasticity in a market before the entry of a technology? Asking for a friend...
That's true. I'm not saying the safety regulations are a bad idea. I'm just saying that they have the side effect of giving the advantage to large airlines and posing a barrier to entry for new competitors. (And that, since they are indeed regulations and have gotten more stringent over time, it is a mistake to think of the airline industry as being "deregulated" in the sense of the term "regulation" that is being used in this discussion.)
> ... at all costs.

Within the rules.

Not arguing with you, just refining the point for the audience :-)
Actually, thinking about it again, the reason it isn't sent back via ARC is probably because actual lag time seems to be something that manufacturers don't want to share.

After going through the rigmarole of choosing a new TV recently, TV manufacturers seem very keen on discouraging actual comparison of specifications.
Extreme ways people protect themselves from hacks
It’s been awhile since I was a student, but I remember the reviews on ratemyprofessors.com to be pretty accurate.

There were some asshole teachers employed at my college and they were called out for it accordingly.
Terribly sorry about giving the wrong url. I loved the article and thought others would enjoy it.
The title states something obvious as news. Have we reached the bottom?
I don’t have data, but I think most tenure track professors get tenure (if not at their current university, than another).

Adjunct professors are not tenure track, so there is really no expectation that they would get tenure. Though I have seen the numbers that say the number of adjuncts is increasing.
I really enjoyed https://readtapestry.com/ and all the tap essays people had published via it. I think they "pivoted" and closed it down several years ago though... so it all seems lost now. :(
Nand2Tetris is a fan-favorite: https://www.nand2tetris.org/

Build a working Tetris game from literal logic gates up.
This was my thought exactly. For many high school and university students in the US, Java is their first language and introductory courses usually deal in unsatisfying toy applications. I could imagine a great primer into building a database that introduces all kinds of interesting computer science concepts as well as practical programming techniques (e.g. organizing a project as it grows).
Yes, though FreeBSD's O_BENEATH would probably have to be done using (O_BENEATH|O_NOMAGICLINKS|O_XDEV). Linus, Andy and Al were very insistent that various parts should be split into separate flags.
The top contenders in many sports got there, at least in part, by studying the tactics and strategies and outcomes of the past. Even a casual participant can learn and improve from unpacking classic games from history. This is true of every contest of ability, from chess to soccer. It is not a fruitless exercise.

However I agree that HN is not the most efficient venue for chess strategy analysis
Burning Fossil Fuels Almost Ended All Life on Earth
I studied Japanese in college for 1 year. After living in Tokyo, I realized I knew basically nothing before moving here.

I've found that I can read and write easier than I can speak, mostly because I have more time to build context in the former. With speaking, synthesizing a thought in a different language (for me) requires use of the language to be a reaction rather than something I think about.
oh my god the football one is the greatest thing of all time. if you have like 3 hours to kill go for it
>>I would argue the problem is that most of the fans have become conditioned to expect entertainment, drama and bold moves in sports like we see in overly dramatic movies.

Sports is entertainment, social interaction, emotions etc. Other wise there is no point in wasting hours and hours of one's life other people's career.

Also likability of a person in sport decreases when you take away these things.
I've been there myself, glad to help, and love the site :)

When transitioning between a different number of properties (e.g. for shadows, gradients) or different types (inset vs normal shadow), this trick is really useful. Here's a fiddle to demonstrate it for box-shadow:

https://jsfiddle.net/90o6av2w/
Teachers should be judged on the longitudinal performance of their students. Khan Academy and BlackBoard must have some utterly fascinating data in this regard.
> Assuming no bad actors

Blockchain gives you security against bad actors. Here's a similar use case for a marijuana supply chain: https://www.nasdaq.com/article/leveraging-blockchains-to-tra...
I think the current answer is quality - people want the best for their kids including a future or they won't have them otherwise. They may feel that their lifestyle consume too much time, that they can't afford what they need, or just that they and their family situation would make poor parent(s) for whatever reason. And this is peripheral to adoption vs reproduction.

Kids have turned from a resource like they were to farm families to an expense and an increasing one at that - and I don't mean in a "kids these days" sort of way - the world changed and not people. Which leaves children to be had by those who want to have them for the sake of having them - some sort of enjoyment or sense of obligation.
Washington state Dems to push for controversial non-compete legislation again
> Not personal convenience, but personal benefit

You're right, personal benefit is a factor too, so I replaced "Convenience" with "Utility" which is more apt and covers both Convenience and Benefit.

> It is true that these problems are unavoidable in a free market. However, outside intervention does not, in general, solve them.

Not convinced. For example, in Australia there exists laws that mandates that retailers either exchange or refund when products are "not fit for purpose" or "faulty", this simple law has eliminated a whole heap of bullshit products that doesn't work because people simply return them.
The weird thing is that stanforchess.org is a thing!

Well, registered.
Wasn't aware of the LSE issue on enterprise models! This is a feature that would get enterprises angry if it messes with the OS by injecting bins full of vulnerabilities from BIOS. Gross!
> Honestly 25 mph isn't that fast. Many healthy cyclists can achieve 25 mph quite easily.

That's very fast. I know someone who crashed a bike at 22 mph (we know because the bike had a speedometer). Their injuries were so bad the ER doctor assumed they'd been in a car accident.