skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure what you're seeing is an effect of being older. Learning the first 200 kanji in RTK is easy. So easy it feels like magic.

Things get much, much harder by the time you get to 1000. You start to have very similar overlapping words (e.g. Earnings and Profit and Assets and Savings), primitives that share the same name as an graphically-unrelated kanji, kanji that are made up of a grab bag of completely random primities, e.g. Dissolve, which is made of ceiling, mouth, hood, human legs, spike, insect.

I'm also skeptical of the idea of learning these things permanently on your first try, as Heisig claims. He even used flashcards himself, and describes how to review with them properly. There are certainly some characters that I have such vivid stories for that they stick easily, but coming up with 20 such vivid stories per day seems impossible.
It’s a non-fitting abstraction that’s poorly glued on top of a prototype-based language.

As a result, uou have thongs like:

- methods have no access to `this` on the instance of the class. Because they are defined on the prototype. As a result, you have to manually do a .bind(this) in your constructor for every method that needs access to `this`

- meanwhile, if you define a class field: `field = () => this.foo` (with an arrow function), then you have no problems accessing the instance. Because of different scoping rules, binding etc.

- and now there’s private fields. Which are just a hack to make them sorta kinda work
Since ES6 it seems like the language is having an identity crisis. Trying to cherry pick OO concepts here and there.

If Javascript is determined to become fully object oriented, then it might as well just adopt the tried and true concepts in C++/Java for encapsulation.

This just seems like a painful and less verbose way of forcing encapsulation.

I can appreciate Ruby and Python users might not be happy with this convention but this is going to end up in tears I think, maybe not PHP level but still...a mess!
Evidence very probably exists to show the faked comments accessed the FCC unpublished API to bypass the web form. I wonder if these server logs still exist...
This is a really interesting idea and I feel like it has the potential to make the common usages much easier to ramp up on, but I'm skeptical because I run into conceptual completeness problems of the "how do I think about this?" sort much more than "how do I do this?" problems.

Blog posts like this are always optimistic and celebratory. Sometimes it's warranted, sometimes it isn't. I'd love to hear how people on the ground at Etsy actually feel about it.
I really loved the first one of these.

Unfortunately, this is really annoying to read on mobile as the unhideable “share” widget fixed to the right side obscures the text, so I have to either have the text at the top or the bottom of the screen. This is on an iPhone X in portrait mode.
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FWIW, I just upgraded my VPS today, using freebsd-update(8), worked like a charm.
They might be able to actually make a profit off the float in this case, too

Or maybe they're going to be able to sell people's transaction histories...
5 Steps for Making a Perfect Mobile App User Interface
If you drive a car you can go above 1g when accelerating or breaking, especially with the latter.

Rollercoasters can do over 6g which is about twice the g force for most manned launches iirc.

In fact if you play any sort of ball sports you likely experience jerk movement well above 1g nearly all the time, and you don’t even want to get started with full contact sports like (American) Football.

It’s not just how many g’s you pull but also the duration, the longer it is the more stress it puts on your body but nearly anyone without any major health conditions should be able to experience 2-3g for a fairly prolonged time without adverse effects and much much higher momentary g force than that as long as you are securely strapped.
Whatever he did, I suspect Medium will plug the hole any day now.
I love these kind of stories this should be on bash.org
This whole checking account / savings account, credit card/ debit card system that Americans have to deal with is so cumbersome and backwards.

For Europeans that don't know: Most Americans have (at least) those two accounts, and those two cards. They usually spend from their checking account with their credit card, and save on the savings account. When they spend on their credit card, they sometimes "earn" points, depending on what agreement their bank has with the major retailers. Salary is inserted on the checking account. Some people still receive salary on old fashioned paper checks. Some people still pay in stores using paper checks. Almost everyone, has a lot of paper dollars in their wallet since there are plenty of places in which you need it. Now, on regular intervals, for example at the end of the month, Americans then transfer money from their savings account to their checking account if the salary is not enough to cover. If they forget, they pay high interests and fees. Generally speaking, it's a hassle to transfer money to people you know and fees are hefty. When you use your credit card, no pin code is usually needed. There are regularly issues with your credit card being abused.

In the three European countries I have lived in, people have one account, and one card. Depending on your agreement with the bank, it can dip into negative (in which case you pay some interest, but usually not much). If it dips below the agreed max, let's say minus EUR 5,000, then you can't withdraw more until you receive your salary or until you insert money otherwise. People have one card attached to that card. When the balance on the account is positive, it is essentially a debit card. When the balance on the account is negative, it's a credit card. Usually, no points are earned on any spending. In most of Europe, you use your pin code if you use your credit card. Where in America, you regularly spend time on the phone talking to robots and objecting to expenditures you didn't make, that's almost never the case in Europe. People transfer electronically without any fees from account to account. If you go out, and your friend pays dinner, you can transfer your half directly from your smart phone using just his phone number (so essentially just using the contacts on your phone). You don't need Apple or Google pay or similar. It's your bank's app. No fee is charged.
Chorus.ai raises $33M
In this case, manipulating government regulations by submitting false comments. If it's proved that companies fraudulently submitted comments to create the appearance of a grassroots sentiment that did not exist, specifically in order to obtain favorable regulations that would enrich them, don't you think that someone should go to jail for that?
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Define overlapping.
> San Francisco could literally price itself out of existence

No, it can't.

It's only expensive as long as there are people willing and able to pay the cost.

> There's a huge fraction of the workforce that cannot afford San Francisco

Yes, and that's why commuting is a thing.

> It has nothing to do with tech.

It has everything to do with tech.

> It's the lack of new housing and apartments being constructed that's driving the problem

No, it's that plus the money (largely from tech) chasing what units are available. Supply constraints alone can't control prices. If there's no demand, price is going to be zero (or undefined) however limited supply is, because no one will be buying. San Francisco has high demand (that is, lots of people willing and able to pay much higher than prices than the market price in many other areas) and constrained supply.
It not only matters where you go to college but which professors you study under. Got one that doesn't care? Sorry, their research is more important than effectively teaching you. Got one that carries out favoritism and/or discrimination? Sorry, your grade and chance of getting a good first job out of college just got lower if they don't like you, and you still get to pay thousands for that. I see MOOCs as a step in the right direction to solving many problems within education.
Skynet trained on ancient Sumerian texts... I like the potential storyline.
My impression was that that they spam every CS grad over LinkedIn trying to hoover up as many engineers as they can. I'd be surprised your school even comes into play. Usually it's more like, if you're from a top30 school +5 otherwise they don't even have an opinion.

I suspect I'm kinda in the middle, UC Davis represent! Great school, glad to have attended, but not really seen as a Stanford, Berkeley, UIUC, or CMU tier either.
Is the reached altitude a first for a private company? I mean, with humans on-board?
You don't even have to drive a car, you can ride in one too!
> I asked about Bitcoin!

My bad! It depends:

"An administrator or exchanger of convertible virtual currencies that (1) accepts and transmits a convertible virtual currency or (2) buys or sells convertible virtual currency in exchange for currency of legal tender or another convertible virtual currency for any reason (including when intermediating between a user and a seller of goods or services the user is purchasing on the user’s behalf) is a money transmitter under FinCEN's regulations, unless a limitation to or exemption from the definition applies to the person.

...

To the extent that a user mines Bitcoin and uses the Bitcoin solely for the user’s own purposes and not for the benefit of another, the user is not an MSB under FinCEN’s regulations, because these activities involve neither 'acceptance' nor 'transmission' of the convertible virtual currency and are not the transmission of funds within the meaning of the Rule" [1].

TL; DR Because "virtual currency does not have legal tender status in any jurisdiction," FinCEN does not consider it a "real currency" for purposes of its money transmission rules. Volatility is not taken into account in their analyses.

[1] https://www.fincen.gov/resources/statutes-regulations/admini...

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. This is not legal advice. Consult with legal counsel before engaging in money transmission services.
Hempcrete makes a great component of alternative homes, where environmental impact and low cost are important and structural strength/long term durability are less of an issue.
> "For Q2, we were approximately 6% of revenue for blockchain. For Q3, we’re planning very little blockchain."
https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/amd-stock-pr...

> "So our forward looking estimates when we set out our financial analyst model, it didn’t have crypto in it. It had growth through high performance CPUs, high performance GPUs, some of our base business. If we overlay some crypto on top of that, that’s great. And if crypto goes down in 2018, that’s totally okay, we have plenty of other growth drivers in the business."
http://cryptoblockchainresearch.com/2018/01/01/amd-crypto-ex...
At only 200 square miles, we can fix it. Assuming the area is square, the perimeter is just 56.56 miles. We can go around with a tunnel boring machine, replacing coal with a concrete-lined tube. We can dig a trench, like a road cut or canal, lining it just as we sometimes line our road cuts and canals.
The 2+ year machine is a desktop, but I also switched my laptop to an XPS 13 a month ago and I've had the same experience; runs beautifully.
You'd think so, but when I visit other countries I see amounts of retail that dwarf anything in the states.

The Suzhou metro region in China has ~3x the population of the Seattle metro, but way, way, more than 3x the retail.

Kyoto is the same way, comparable to the Seattle Metro, way more retail.

It may also be that America tends towards larger retail outlets, we have a lack of high quality smaller restaurants, and the % of boutiques to larger stores (Macy's, etc) here seems different than in other countries.

For that matter, it was interesting to me that many of the large department stores in Japan are made up of what we'd think of as smaller boutique retailers who just so happen to be located right next to each other. It is a very different way to shop, in an American department store, the store runs everything and may have different brands broken out into sections. In a fair number of Japanese department stores, each brand seemed to be an independent retailer!

(This was super cool for variety and price points.)

I noticed something similar in China as well, not quite in the same way, and large name brand owned stores seemed much more popular there, but there were plenty of malls that consisted of tiny local stores all lined up next to each other.

I've also noticed that the minimum sqft for the newer mixed use buildings seems to be rather large. Compare the newer buildings to what you find in lower Queen Ann, where there are more tiny stores sitting around, same thing around Fremont.

On a related note, I'd love to see more restaurants that fit only 5 or 6 people in them, with just a chef running the whole show. Is it less efficient? Maybe, but the food is better.

If you want something in that vein, Max's World Cafe in DT Issaquah is tiny, and the chef, Edna, is incredible and friendly. I could do with 10x restaurants of that size! Modern construction just isn't setup to pop out a bunch of 150 sqft restaurants in a block though.
i'm a certified personal trainer, a competitive strength athlete, best friend is a nutritionist and doctor, and we can look at a selective subset of science and studies all day long but i'll go with the research i've selected and believe in, the cohorts i know and socialize with and whose examples i can see, and the actions i've decided on.

even if we take inactive, S.A.D. eaters out of the mix, there are healthy and unhealthy examples of most eating modalities. ultimately, i'm of the belief that paining over any "healthy" modality will increase harm, and not-paining over any "healthy" modality won't.

in the end, we meet our end. until then...
> I'm given the option to track if that person shows up again in future video footage, you bet I would use that option.

Most people would use that option if they had the opportunity; tracking potential troublemakers has obvious benefits. The problem is you are not being given the option "to track [a] person". You're being given the option to record video and apply an automated tool to identify "likely faces" and as way to compare those images against a local database using a definition of similarity that is poorly specified[1], extremely complex, and opaque/unexplained. Jumping right thinking of this as "tracking a person" ignores the many layers of metaphor shear between the desired goal and what the actual implementation does.

Metaphor shear is what you experience when you realize that interface doesn't match what is actually happening. The metaphor was lost somewhere in the hundreds of layers of abstraction connecting input to output. The map is not the territory. Efficient and powerful tools are very useful, but they also let you efficiently shoot yourself in the foot in powerful new ways.

Since metaphor shear is about the error between an expected ideal and actual measured reality, it compounds across layers of abstraction similar to how experimental error loses precision with each calculation. Any particular layer of abstraction is probably fine in isolation, but the interface metaphor loses significant digits as more and more layers are added.

If intellectual labor is going to be surrendered to a device, we need to be very clear and specific in what we are surrendering and what the device is expected to do.

(Video essayist Kyle Kallgren does a much better job of explaining[2] the problem of metaphor shear, using examples from sci-fi [Black Mirror, HHGttG, R.U.R.])

[1] poor in the context of trying to track someone. I'm sure the face matching algorithm is very well specified with respect to matching images of faces. The poorly specified part is when "matching images of faces" becomes "tracking someone" (what does "tracking" mean? How are probabilities about matching faces mapped to identifying "that person"?)

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hr9_DcO6G3A
> The city could start by eliminating the sales tax and pile it on property taxes

Yes, sure, all they have to do is secede from California so that they are no longer subject to California’s Constitutional limits on property taxes and they can get right on that.
> functioning bureaucracy

Isn't that an oxymoron?
it looks like a fucking rock
I'll tell you what:

1. No question this raises concerns about the system pinging authorities as someone who has been flagged in the system is detected.

2. This will sell like hotcakes with people who are on NextDoor. Everyday there is an alert about a burglary, stolen packages and people snooping around their properties. These people are very likely to approve sending any images/video of interest to police. (Right now it's very mechanical, scroll through video, capture and send --people will put out requests for footage very often).

I think the only thing we can do is call for strict regulation on its use. It's gonna get deployed and it's gonna get used.
km, not k
Launch an ERC20 token in 30 seconds, without writing a line of code
ES6 -- great!!!
the issue with old housing in the end is simply heat isolation. Old houses leak away alot of heat (especially if deep cracks are present in the brick and mortar, which is very expensive to fix). Which in term will mean you pay a significant amount of extra cash to keep the heat on. Renovation is possible ofcourse, but not always worth it?
> It did not breach the 100km Karman Line, where Earth's atmosphere ends.

SpaceX, Blue Origin, and a few others have exceeded this. SpaceX regularly sends objects to the ICC, which is ~5-6x higher than what Virgin did.

IMHO, they didn't reach space since they didn't break the Karman line... They just achieved "very high atmospheric flight". It's still quite an achievement, and more than they've done in the past IIRC, but they still have a long ways to go.
Neal Stephenson is proven right one more time...
Accessing it outside its class body shouldn't be a SyntaxError.
Overall, 67% of men shocked themselves at least once, in Study 10 of a bunch of studies.

The full text is on https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4330241/ and the data can be found at: https://osf.io/cgwdy/

Like, I'm not sure I believe this, but at least the data is available, so other people can try different things with it.
I believe you can.

I asked myself that question over the past few months and ended up building a proto-type logging pipeline using Postgres/TimescaleDB.

I wrote about it in a blogpost; https://www.komu.engineer/blogs/timescaledb/timescaledb-for-...
I agree, also, it definitely doesn’t help readability. That being said, the underlying private feature is appreciated.
They're just a cursed company. Their culture is so disconnected from what users want that they're incapable of ever making a good product. Nothing will ever change within them, no matter how many times they remind us that they Love Open Source.
Are there any credible allegations that Ajit Pai, or any other government employees were behind any false comments?

Because I haven't seen any such claims. It seems to me that people are demanding he be put in jail for drafting and voting for a regulation they disagree with.
Well, every broker is incentivized to get its customers to trade as much as possible, ie, “make you change your mind often.” This is why brokers promote real-time news, information, focus on earnings reports, etc.

Even on the institutional side, the business is setup to encourage investors to change their mind as much as possible. More trading equals more soft dollars equals getting a larger budget for research. More trading/using more esoteric products means you’ll get more help from Cap Intro to raise money. It takes a lot of restraint to invest like Buffett.
My anectodal experience tells me no. I went to a CUNY (NYC system college) school with a 99% acceptance rate and sub 20% graduation rate. It was more important that I lived in New York than that I went to this specific school. I was able to find internships which got me into the industry, network with folks from different industries, and generally have a lot of opportunities available to me. Also, I graduated in 4 years with no student debt and low overall expenses, I was able to pay my way with a part time job and government subsidies. I've given way more in taxes than what it cost the city and federal government to send me to school.

It may not be an elite Yale or Stanford education, but most folks don't have that anyway.
No experience or training is needed. The Zero-G folks have two very clever tricks for making the transition in and out of zero gravity much more benign than you would think. First, the aircraft has no windows, so you can't see how radically you are pitching up and down. And second, during the transitions in and out of weightlessness, they have you lie on your back, so the blood does not rush in and out of your head. It just feels like you're being pressed down onto the floor for a while, and then over a period of a few seconds, the pressure just goes away and you just gently float up. If you've ever ridden a roller coaster, this is much more benign than that.

They also ease you into it by doing a few 1/3 G (Mars gravity) and 1/6 G (lunar gravity) parabolas before going to zero G.
In Colombia we have the USA system. Yes it seems arbitrary and backwards, and banks love to earn fees.

Each credit card is another monthly fee, and you can't do international (Netflix) purchases without one.
Microsoft Issues Patch for Windows Zero-Day Flaw Under Active Attack
you knew you were dealing with a pro when they had "royale blue" or "royale noir". That was like hot-rod mode.
> What you're saying is that cheating is ok, and laws can be ignored.

While I don't agree with GP (like, not at all), Pai has shown repeatedly that this appears to be true. The FCC remains completely unchallenged and OP.
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That was a real question, you absolute weirdo. I am just flabbergasted that you and they have such disregard for human life that they consider participation in its oppression to be an intellectual exercise. You are sick.
It’s not just valid theoretically. There is a cognitive bias on HN in certain hot button topics including psychiatry, addiction, and Facebook. Dissenting opinions there run the risk of getting you trolled and flagged under dubious pretenses.

Overall the moderation system here works better than any other I’ve seen on the internet, but like any organization of humans there are some dysfunctional areas where power prevails over logic.
Sounds like you are confused about what @tailrec does.

@tailrec is not necessary to enable tailcalls.

All the annotation does is error if a function is not able to be optimized for tail calls.

The (attempt at) optimization takes place either way, you don't need the annotation unless there's some doubt in your mind.
There is a huge difference between locking your door and setting up a CCTV system at your house. Locking doors (in normal residential areas) is mostly a signal of intent. You signal to everyone you don't want them entering your house, unless you've given them permission/key. It also sets things up so that no one can enter your house and then claim they didn't know you didn't want them there. Thirdly, it sets thing up so that people who want to enter your house without a key will have to act in an obviously suspicious way. If someone breaks a window or starts breaking your door with an axe, any neighbour or passer by will know something weird is going on. None of this applies to CCTV systems.

>considering that it is easy to surf news sites and find video

This is confirmation bias in action. You need statistics on your residential area to make decisions around home security.
> What is your proposal to stop this behavior then?

In the 18th century, they used the Guillotine.