skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was one of the places CoffeeScript really innovated, IMO (though of course Perl did it first). The "Block Regular Expressions"[0] allow whitespace and comments:

NUMBER = ///
^ 0b[01]+ | # binary
^ 0o[0-7]+ | # octal
^ 0x[\da-f]+ | # hex
^ \d*\.?\d+ (?:e[+-]?\d+)? # decimal
///i

[0]: https://coffeescript.org/#regexes
it's quite venue dependent. in some italian trattoria you can get people almost screaming at their table, even without a loud music, because they need to overcome the loud mouths at the nearby table to have a conversation.
> include at least 1 Photoshop file

That’s not a photoshop file, it’s a JPEG file saved by photoshop. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exif
Xoxbox and the Cyclone ones feel very cheap. Knobs are shitty plastic. The TB-03 feels much better, lots of metal parts. As to the sound of the machines, that's a never ending discussion.
I wonder if the median age of HackerNews readers has shifted through the years? I started reading HN probably around my early 20s, if not sooner, and now I'm in my thirties with children. Life doesn't get easier or less complex as time goes on, that's for sure.
> how many good 50-75% candidates self-select against applying

Got some data to back that up?
After having kids, you go to work to get some rest.
Not OP but ... If you turn off the downstairs lights && go upstairs && it's after $time ... ?

That would work mostly for me, perhaps including the TV and computer being off. That's going to cover 99% accuracy, probably as much as I'd get with a button.
obviously embryos can't consent that is the problem. I think there is an entire field of philosophy dedicated to this

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetal_rights
In Palo Alto, there’s a cafe (more or less) call Hana House that has three big sections. One of those sections is very comfy, quiet, has proper acoustic design, lots of outlets, and, gasp charges for time.

It’s actually a fairly nice model. If you want to work in someone’s commercial space, paying for it is entirely reasonable.
The Costs of the Confederacy
Is it just me or is this article just fluff? I would classify it as simply an entrepreneur venting... It does not seem like there is any valuable insight in this article apart from what conventional wisdom tells you: "You will need friends", "You will need mentors" is really applicable to any job / experience in life. I'm not sure why this is at the top of HN.
They do want business, just not the kind that people who sit and stay bring. When you’re trying to improve your sales velocity, keeping existing customers moving so as not to dissuade new ones from coming in makes sense.
John Lawrence Aspden on eating-place pathology:

http://johnlawrenceaspden.blogspot.com/2018/09/do-right-thin...
To me it indicates much more than that: high taxes, high regulatory fees, high cost of labor. The median cost per square foot for a home in California is $319 dollars, the median cost per square foot for the entire U.S is $151. The median home price in California is $379,000, and the U.S. is $225,000. One only needs to do a simple web search to see the current migration from California's tech centers to other tech destinations such as Austin, for example (note in my previous comment I said more people will leave, people are already leaving)

>If you drive people away, more will replace them

There is no data to support this hypothesis, however, in this case. The facts are California housing is expensive, and there are not enough jobs at those wages to support the expensive houses.
The tunnel initial capacity will be 1400 people per day and maybe 2800 later. This is 3% of average game attendance.

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-dodger-stadium-...
Technologically this was possible a decade ago or more.

This was an issue with mindset (the old banks don’t want to invest in user experience) and the huge barrier to enter the banking market.
Is it just me or is this article just fluff? I would classify it as simply an entrepreneur venting. It does not seem like there is any valuable insight in this article apart from what conventional wisdom tells you. The advice of "You will need friends", "You will need mentors" are really applicable to any job / experience in life. I'm not sure why this is at the top of HN.
"Useable energy" is vague word and thus not a good description.

There is a quantitative definition of entropy but it is based in a way off of "opinion". Given a system and its laws look at all possible final states. Then group the states according to an arbitrary "rule"

For example: the state of white marbles and black marbles in a jar.

What is the number of possible arrangements of all black marbles to be arranged on the left side of the jar and all white marbles to be arranged on the right? This is an arbitrary "rule." It's a big number but that number is much lower than every other possible arrangement.

From these quantities you can derive an entropy value.

However you will note that it depends on that "rule" you define. I could point to the state of marbles in the jar after I shake it and call that my "rule" and it makes that arbitrary state one of low entropy. I could point to any arbitrary state and do this and thus any specific state is one of low entropy. It's a complex definition and it encompasses "opinion" and "choice." The definition of entropy allows for an numerical value to be derived based off of your "opinion."

In Boltzmann's definition, entropy is a measure of the number of possible microscopic states (or microstates) of a system in thermodynamic equilibrium, consistent with its macroscopic thermodynamic properties (or macrostate).

The macrostate is basically what I defined above as "rules" and what you defined as "opinion."
What you linked is the original press release. What this story is about is the development history of the chip.

It warrants its own discussion.
Is that really the reason why Apple Health didn't include menstrual cycle tracking? Or did they just decide not to add it in additional to a bunch of other things?
To complicate matters, you really have to decide ahead of time whether the licensing route a la Stephen Key isn't a better or more efficient option if what you are looking to do is just get a product out there and help people. Not a company, yet potentially more impact.
> any ideas on how to break them of this?

separate them when play becomes loud. take away toys etc. restore peace, give the toys back.

they will scream and fight it a lot the first few time, but if you keep a constant, predictable and strict response they'll get the idea, eventually, that they need to play in acceptable ways.

also make it clear that it only applies in specific time/places (evening, home, public indoor building) and where it's acceptable (afternoons, parks, etc)
yes, VS does this by default too and it's nice.

lots of editors have plugins (like git-gutter for sublime) that do this with VCS integration: highlight lines that were modified since last commit. for me, this is even better because it remains not just after saving the file but even after closing the file/editor and re-opening it.

combined with a minimap like sublime's which also shows the gutter annotations, i can navigate a many-thousand-line file with lightning speed.
Babies cannot consent to vaccines, but it is unethical to not give them to them anyway.
holy cow i thought the scrolling text would end at some point.....
Have a chance to building a company is fucking hard.
How we went from 0.8M to 130M impressions in 3 months
> however we are subsidizing the shipping for most products on there with our tax dollars

I want to point out that international postal rates are determined by the UPU [1] which has existed since the late 1800s. It is not only Americans who are subsidizing shipping from China, most postal services in developed countries are paying to subsidize postal rates in less developed countries through the UPU.

The fact that this system can be abused isn't even a new debate, it was occurring well before Trump arrived [2].

One can argue whether the UPU has been too slow to reclassify China relative to their development. But I think at the time of the conception of the UPU, and for much of the 20th century, before electronic communications became cheap and ubiquitous, it did serve a useful purpose. I imagine the UPU helped make sending postal mail to people in developing countries within financial reach, and I would also think contributed toward the development of postal systems in some of these countries.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Postal_Union

[2] http://fortune.com/2015/03/11/united-nations-subsidy-chinese...
>the event reported on is almost certainly a scam (HIV resistance ? Seriously ?)

I haven't decided what I think about this event yet, but I would certainly not assume it's a scam. HIV resistance is a real thing and has a genetic basis. Here's a handful of articles documenting HIV/Aids resistance around the world:

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

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/may/27/aids.features

https://www.nature.com/news/2005/050307/full/news050307-15.h...
You mean you want companies to stop relying on FOSS and start paying for people to write "better code" for them while at the same time programmers should stop working on FOSS and just start working on things they're paid for? Great idea, that will surely improve things.
(maybe not what you were asking)

But for beginners there are some pretty nice LineageOs build guides floating around:

For specific pieces of hardware: https://wiki.lineageos.org/build_guides.html

Generic instructions: https://forum.xda-developers.com/chef-central/android/how-to...

As far as changing the certs, I know offhand to do it with a couple random linux distro's but i'm not 100% sure for android, you might just try searching the repo for the default certs then looking at how they are built into the image and tweaking that.
Speaking as a Chicago resident, I don't think there's much enthusiasm (or opposition) for the project. It's not the kind of thing you'd take if you lived in the city: after all, it's a $25 express ride from the airport to the Loop. Most Chicagoans live out in the neighborhoods.

One thing that kinda shocked me was how limited its capacity was. The Blue Line "L" train actually has something like 10x the throughput despite being extremely slow (45 minutes vs 12). I don't know if that's a design limitation of the technology or if that's all the demand they anticipated. It makes me worried it's not scalable.
Shortcuts JS has a new home
I always thought it was because noise cancelling can only block repeated waves (like the sound of an engine whirring) but conversation is constant changing sound so it can’t be blocked.
Luckily we all get a lifetime to make peace with this.
Wow....hadn't heard the term "struggle porn" before, but I think it hits the nail on the head.
Unless you want to build a different tunnel or a basement, parking garage, ground source heat sink...
Hi! This is a really cool project!
If you care about your privacy in the bedroom, you should take a look at what we are building at https://snips.ai (disclaimer: I'm a co-founder)

We do the first 100% on-device and private-by-design Voice AI platform which you can use for free and run on a Raspberry Pi, to make it possible to use your blanket without sharing your bedtime secrets with Amazon ;)
I think h1b doesn’t have such requirement - only that the wage is in prevailing range...

applying to employer sponsors green card though does require proof of lack of local hires, and job reqs that are created to prove this often go to this crazy level and have to be met 100%.
When I read the title I was thinking that they had just released the final plans, like a secret album drop. This is much more disappointing.
There is no new ground being broken here; infants already cannot ask or consent to any existing medical procedure, and we have resolved this by asking the parents or legal guardians.
The guy's a genius with amazing passion. His kids are very lucky!
>here's an old adage that successful people surround themselves with success. It's all about cohort - if you don't have other friends who are pushing themselves the way you are, it will be very, very, hard.

Or, you know, riches come to riches, which amount to the same thing.

People born in slums don't have as many changes to "surround themselves with success". For one, they wouldn't be welcome by most successful people.
Show HN: Canicallsetstate.in – Handy guide to check usage of setState() in React
Dat Copy – remote file copy, powered by the Dat protocol
It also works offline, so you can heat your bed even when Amazon servers are not available :)
Hey HN!

I'm happy to announce that Shortcuts JS finally has a proper home! The only real source of information on the library before now was the README on GitHub, so it's nice to have a better looking place to learn more about the library.

I've also spent a bit of time building a Playground into the site, so you can now play around with Shortcuts JS right in your browser! Downloading a Shortcut from the Playground doesn't currently work on iOS. I'll be adding support for that in the near future.

Any feedback on the site would be greatly appreciated!

As you'll see, we're about 10% of the way through implementing all of Apple's built-in actions into Shortcuts JS. If you'd like to help us get just a bit closer to 100% then I'd love to have you as a contributor! Adding an action only takes a few minutes and I'm more than happy to help you get started. Plus, you'll get pride-of-place in the Contributors section!

Any questions let me know!
While obviously biased, I have at least learned that svn seems to have easier merge experience than it used to.
> First, the event reported on is almost certainly a scam (HIV resistance ? Seriously ?).

It's actually a pretty likely thing. There was a guy who was cured from his HIV because he also had a form of cancer which required him to get a bone marrow transplant. He was luckily enough that someone with a CCR5-Δ32 was a good match for him.
HN readership is definitely skewing mid 30s at this point.
I've already ranted against blog posts titled 'X is Hard'. Yet another hits the top post on HN. Yes, most things are hard, especially when you can describe it in detail as an 'expert'. To a layman, anything can be hard.

These always come off as ego pieces to me justifying why they're worth money or why they should be hired. How about you just let your work represent you?
That struck me as well. However I have to wonder how many insects in the 'Armageddon' are just caught in the crossfire in our battle with a handful of harmful species like these mosquitos. For example, you can buy yard spray to eliminate mosquitos in your yard for a day or so, which people use all the time, but which also kill all the other insects in your yard.

So if we could target single species like this, maybe it would actually be beneficial for all the other species that are collateral damage in our current wars.
This is my favorite HN comment thread.
It doesn't bother me that I didn't get the job that much. Just the headline of this thread reminded me of it. I already had a comfortable position and I have a new position now in a great team. I think it worked out for the best.

The only way in which this bothers me is that these (I assume) fake, unfilled jobs are used for political reasons. But that's a global problem.
At my company if a candidate doesn't check all the reqs but comes close, HR shows the resume to the relevant department and asks them how important the missing boxes are. We're willing to train employees, so we usually at least give the candidate an interview.
This is blowing my mind. Why would you want to change the "quietness norm" at libraries??
How Casinos Enable Gambling Addicts (2016)
Thermodynamical entropy is not a physical property of a system.

From a thermodynamic point of view, it is: As ΔS = ΔU/T and assuming one holds temperature and inner energy to be physical properties, then so is entropy.
Yeah, but I still see some elderly people who were very well-adjusted throughout their lives (AFAIK), but still be generally sad due to loneliness.

I'm curious if elderly people with many, many kids tend to be happier due to much more frequent contact with loved ones.
Maybe I am jaded but reading the article sounds like the usual "blablabla" to me. In the end we should try to make work a smaller part of our lives so we have time to have real social lives of our own.

With the current thinking of companies as profit maximizing machines everything we do at the workplace is just window-dressing to cover up that soullessness.
Why Ebola crisis in DRC is unlike anything before
808 got an entire movie!
So in your mind, AWS is a completely different company than Amazon, right? They have their own CEO..

What Stock does one acquire to own part of this company? Oh, GOOG
> The Boring Company is no longer seeking the development of the Sepulveda test tunnel and instead seeks to construct an operational tunnel at Dodger Stadium
> we may consider the evolution of functional materials, such as proteins, where several recent works suggest that through continuous structural alterations, resulting from cyclic loading, genetic complexity is reduced via evolutionary selection to perform a specific mechanical task.
This is my new argument for "Emacs > Vim" war.
While you state it in a more rational way, many of the responses dismiss what OP has to say just because he is 22. As somebody who is 22 as well—everybody is facing a struggle here. The market does not care that we are 22, it is equally brutal to both of us.

Also, I agree that raising kids may be something that is more difficult that you additionally have to do (all the other things have no correlation with age), but some of the replies here come off to me like that one jacked dude in the gym giving the newbies stick for being weak. At their current musculature, they are doing the best they can. Difficulty levels are relative.
I agree with utopian thinking really doesn’t work. For people to stay in a city, they need to have meaning in their life. That meaning is provided through multiple ways, a nice impactful job, good schools and universities, family housing, walkable/bikeable roads to shops and restaurants.

In a way, you are 100% correct, most desirable cities will always be most human happiness/friendliness focused cities.

Tech will merely be a means to that end. Tech is always a means to an end. People don’t want fancy self driving cars with a 100 sensors, they just want to get from point A to point B quickly and comfortably.

A city with well networked subway system beats a city full of self driving cars stuck in a traffic jam.

It’s so easy to fall in the trap of loving solution rather than the loving the problem.
do you have any data to back this up?
It's difficult to take someone seriously when they emphasize everything with the word fuck.
You're thinking of a currency transaction report (CTR), which has a standard of $10,000 instead. Banks file SARs against customers so that the feds can follow up. No one would work with cash above that limit if they had to file a SAR every time.

Though when banks see transactions over $5,000, they will sometimes write SARs. It sounds like you're mixing and matching the concepts and standards of CTRs and SARs, which seems like a reasonable enough mistake.

I also agree that when stuff is this complicated for what seems like no good reason, the answer is often money laundering.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency_transaction_report
https://www.ffiec.gov/bsa_aml_infobase/pages_manual/OLM_015....
Would it make sense to classify them as irregular expressions?
ECU ratings are based on an ancient x86 benchmark, and don't really compare well with each other anymore, let alone with totally different architectures. I think they've been trying to retire it for years.

I'm disappointed that they aren't retiring the vCPU designation, too. ARM doesn't have anything like hyperthreading, so an ARM vCPU seems to equal a complete core. The a1.xl has 4 cores, 4 threads. The m5.xl has 2 cores, 4 threads.
True. Also I want to point out some basic math, if the traits are independent, the odds of finding a person who is more of each of those traits than average i.e. > 5 / 10 on each is 1/2^8

So roughly 1/256 people will have all of those traits more than average. This on top of hopefully being able to program.
As did samsung, and many other major brands.
Evernote New CEO: Ian Small
There's a difference, right, in that named capture groups are purely cosmetic, whereas look-behind can dramatically slow down matching? (I dunno in any theoretical sense, but that's the way it goes in Perl.)
>I've been in many cities and suburbs across the US and in other parts of the world. Literally all of them had some green space within what I'd consider easy range. I'd be very surprised if it's any different where you are.

Then you haven't lived in low density suburbs/rural areas, you're very lucky, or you and I have different definitions of "easy range". There is a park about 5 miles from my house. Too far for an easy walk and even if it was, most of that is on a divided highway with no sidewalks that would be crazy to walk on.

Technically biking would work, but I'm not risking my life to drive down a divided highway with cars going 65+mph to bike to a crappy baseball park.

The closest park that is anything more than a few baseball fields is just under 15 minutes away by car, and I'm about 25 minutes from the downtown area of a major city (with no traffic).

This is normal for most of rural and suburban America.
Derek Lowe has a nice summary of the situation and why it's sloppy science.[1]

Multiple microinjections were needed to try to ensure that the majority of cells in the embryo were indeed affected, He said, and even so neither of the twin girls appears to be a clean job of it. One of them is mosaic for the desired 32-amino acid CCR5 deletion, and the other, if I’m reading this right, is heterozygous for a five amino acid deletion. Wonderful, a complete hack job.

[1]http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2018/11/28/aft...
Configuring an Airport Express was always painful.
If those are all blocks required to build a SaaS app I would be a happy man.
This seems to be mostly an advertisement for a book and the RescueTime product? (The term is used like its a product so I’m assuming it is one). The list of things you should do to reduce workplace loneliness seems to be stop engaging with technology and bring your personal life into work. There’s not much here that links loneliness with technology use in the workplace, just loose correlations.
Yeah, I would treat them like a candle. Fine if you're there watching it, but not something to leave alone. Although it's not too hard to build safe electric blankets that shut themselves off when they get too hot, as a consumer you don't really know what's inside.
I was the entire IT department at a small company. (Maybe 50% development; the rest management, sysadmin, and support.) I was pretty sure I could convince my bosses to allow it, since I perform well and am hard to replace. The only hard part was finding someone to share my job with me, because my bosses didn't want to increase my budget. Luckily someone in my network liked the idea, and now we share a job.
Renting out private homes is, or shall I say was still a big part of Cebit in Hanover in 2018. As a resident living in the core of the city you’d always get flyers in the months leading up to it asking you if you’d be interested in renting your home to Cebit visitors. There are some other fairs but none of them needed so much accommodations like Cebit. All Hotels (and we have a lot of them) were booked out months in advance. It was good money to be made even renting out some small <50m2 single room apartment could pay over 100€ per night. You’d just had to stay with some friends a few days and hope that your visitors wouldnt trash your home.