skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The geeks were denied the power to keep implementing more powerful tech and nuclear powered rockets and airplane research were shut down. Denied working with real world, geeks turned to computers and no one cared. How could one do anything scary with pure calculations?

Hah! Still, I don't think this is a total loss. Sure, we use computers for a lot of dumb stuff, but we also use them to cure cancer, control rockets, design airplanes, find our way when we get lost, produce art, and distribute information. And there was so much low-hanging fruit in computing that this focused effort let to outsized economic growth and basically brain-drained the entire rest of our society.

> Our philosophy on power generation in the "tech capital of the world" is that we should do less of it, not more. Cheap power is a negative thing. It takes a strong sense of purpose to invest large amounts of money into a project that your peer group is going to say is a bad thing.

> As the boomers fade from power, I see some hope of humanity too gain back some of its dreams for a better future using more powerful tools but with more balance on keeping things good for humans. Elon Musk is a good example for a third way, I hope.

It's not entirely clear that this cynicism will die with the baby boomers. They've had decades to instill and pass down their pessimistic attitudes while the hope and enthusiasm that took us to the Moon gradually passed from cultural memory. Even now, the most audacious project that the average millennial can think of is a "Universal Basic Income" so he gets a lifelong stipend to sit at home playing video games.

Musk is a good example of a way forward, but if anything, his story proves my point. Musk is an optimist and someone who actually believes in the American Dream, and it's no coincidence that he's also an immigrant. Optimism and ambition used to be the defining qualities of this country. Someone who believes in them strongly enough to come here usually believes in them more strongly than most of us who were born here. (Probably a corollary to the old observation that recent converts to a religion are more obnoxiously pious than those born in it!)

But America still has enough optimists, and if there ever is a small-scale fusion reactor design that gets proven feasible, it's a lot easier to convince the last surviving well-funded ambitious optimists than to convince the greater public. And if we the West doesn't make it out of this hole, there are still other hungry up-and-coming civilizations out there in the world who will get around to it in due time themselves.
In that regard I always admired Eliezer Yudkowsky's idea of working to become "less wrong" as you progress. It kind of sums that up perfectly.

We haven't got it all figured out yet, but we're less wrong than we used to be.
What an actual terminal/teletype looks like [video]
I have never, and would never, work without a contract.
I had a similar experience with the cards I had made as an undergrad.

I recently made a Chrome extension that shows cards in new tabs so that I actually review them. Check it out if you're interested, I'd love your feedback https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/forgetmenot/nncbpj...
Yeah, there's a bunch of nasty code we have which is essentially trying to predict if the window.open call will be blocked (in which case we have to get them to click a button instead to open the window). Once that API has enough adoption we'll be able to remove that which is nice.
Oracle has a false sense of security because they’ve managed to become the default choice for many huge companies. Most of those companies are looking at AWS and Azure as replacements now. Does Oracle even offer cloud, personal cloud or Paas/Iaas solutions? I don’t know, we never bothered to even reach out to ask them. We don’t know where we are going, just that it’s away from Oracle.
This might actually cause me to start using Twitter again.

I have one big question though—are inline replies kept in reverse-chronological order like everything else? That was actually the thing that made me switch off Twitter—I read my feed from bottom to top, and replies being in the opposite direction effectively made it unreadable.
Other than the particular crime, please explain how your statement is different from "If you didn't dress so provocatively, you wouldn't have been raped."
Next week it'll be papaumaomao
CQRS and Event Sourcing ... run away, run far, far away.
More Powerful Than a Russian Troll Army: The National Enquirer
I am getting Access Denied errors when adding to queue or pressing the plus button on the ingredients list.
>Underlying this perspective is an implicit assumption that conventional social filtering... serves no social good

There's a middle you're excluding here: that some parts of conventional filtering serve a valid social good, and that some parts don't.

Obviously this will vary on a case-by-case basis based on personal values. Which specific filters to accept/reject (and on what basis) make the difference between "abrasive CEO on twitter" and "guy throwing poop in Central Park."
I recently built a Chrome extension that encourages you to add anything you don't want to forget (say, insights from a podcast), then quizzes you in your new browser tabs on those chunks of knowledge using spaced repetition.

Check it out if you're interested, would love any feedback! https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/forgetmenot/nncbpj...
While it is technically feasible to write a maintainable and well-organized large codebase in Python, in practice the lack of static types leads to a giant mess.

After trying to maintain a legacy system written in Python (where all the authors had left the company) for a year, I threw my hands up and moved on to a Scala shop. I vowed to never work again on any major project written in a language without static typing.

I think this lesson has been learned in the broader community though. Even most of my colleagues that have used Javascript for years have moved on to Typescript and never looked back.

I even disagree with the, "well it's good for small projects" line of thinking. Look - if it works there, it's only because you have net fewer bugs to catch and lines to read, so the cognitive overhead can be born. But why not dispense with that cognitive overhead in the first place and just use static types!

The one exception I make here is for shell scripting. The tight integration with the command line just makes bash the best choice for some situations. But even then, I have about a 50% success rate of estimating whether or not this "little script" will ever grow to become a production application with multiple modules and components, so today I'm even wary of using shell scripts in many cases.
Yes, other languages have the ability to have multiple differing versions as well BUT the big difference is that most have a relatively easy and well-known way to install and set up the environment. In Ruby, if you wanted to run multiple versions of ruby on the same machine, you'd use RVM. Python is particularly hard to set up the environment for. I'd rather set up the environment for Ruby, PHP, Node or Perl than Python. Every other language has an easier path to get up and running. Even upgrading is usually fairly easy as well.
I cheated and read another article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_VG18
In an alternate reality, I made the solutions more performant and you criticized them for being too verbose.
Some fascinating techniques. Including culturing of neuronal cells directly from nasal epithelium of living subjects with psychiatric diagnoses.

Revealing the brain's molecular architecture

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/362/6420/1262
Better off as in less focus on pointless bling and spectacle, more focus on storytelling and creativity.
Excelfie – Joy of Computing
How is rampart fraud here unrelated to LTV? Seems quite obvious to me they are intertwined.
Offer cash rewards.

The system takes a cut.

Crowd-sourced bounty-hunting.

Of course, once it becomes a cash transaction you're dealing with dispute resolution. "I said it was Fred" "It wasn't Fred" "Yes it was! Pay me!".
https://github.com/NixOS/nix
python3.7 -m pip install --upgrade https://storage.googleapis.com/tensorflow/mac/cpu/tensorflow-0.12.0-py3-none-any.whl
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aymericdamien/TensorFlow-Examples/master/examples/1_Introduction/helloworld.py
python3.7 helloword.py

Tensorflow 0.12, released over two years (before 3.7 development had even started) runs fine.
I think it's a balance that each person has to set to the "right" level for them based on the stage of their career, and the trajectory they would like it to take. What's "right" for someone who wants to become a project manager is different than what will be "right" for someone who wants to be an architect or strike out and found their own company.

This topic is of some interest to me - I am co-authoring a book called "evergreen skills for software developers" https://evergreenskills.com/ and delivered a talk at a local developer conference on it about a year ago https://jcooney.net/post/2018/10/evergreen.html
I go to cheap grocery stores all the time. You said to find comparable stuff for a quarter of the price. I can't get a high quality meal of the same caloric value for $2.50, that's what I was getting at.
It isn't just singles. I have a family of four and do basically all the cooking. I struggle to make use of the entirety of many perishables I buy simply because they're packaged in such huge volumes. Leafy/bushy things like herbs comes to mind, as well as some prepackaged vegetables (grape/cherry tomatoes) and fruits.
> At its core, facebook contains a useful service. It's messaging capabilities are good

At its core, the turkey farmer provides a useful service to the turkeys - it feeds them, gives them shelter, protects them from predators and thiefs, and also takes care of their health.

There's just this inconvenient thing that happens occasionally, often around thanksgiving.
I'm not sure this is "new". Aggregation of news to provide trade signals is old news in the financial markets. What's revolutionary here?
I keep rereading this comment, trying to understand what you are trying to say.
It was interesting to watch the crypto subreddits and see so many people make the same mistake. I was surprised that $6K held for so long, because if $6K really was the bottom, it would've been a pretty shallow drop from a very steep bubble. That's only 2/3 down, and it was the point Bitcoin hit in Oct 2017. Bitcoin was < $1k at the start of 2017. Any reasonable rate of return would put its price at under $2k if you ignore the bubble and focus only on fundamental metrics. Plus bubble busts tend to overshoot fair market value, where the underlying asset actually trades at a bargain because so many people got burned buying at the top.

The ETH drop is fairly easy to explain - it was the base asset for a very interesting double-pyramid-scheme on the way up, which meant that that leverage works in reverse on the way down. The ICO boom worked because many of the people investing in ICOs had bought their ETH for pennies and already recouped their costs; throwing $40M into a shitcoin makes a lot more rational sense when that ETH actually cost about $4K in real money, and the factor of 10,000 difference is the price appreciation of the asset you're putting in. That led to eye-popping dollar valuations for many of these companies (even though they were actually raising in ETH), which brought more newbies into the Ethereum world, which pushed the price even higher, which meant later ICOs were raising even more in dollar terms, even though the actual dollar amounts traded were tiny.

On the way down, this cycle works in reverse. Those ICOs don't actually hold $40M in a company bank account; they hold 33K ETH which was worth $40M at the peak. Now that ETH is down to $94, they hold more like $3M, and they're getting scared about being able to pay salaries. So every ICO that still holds ETH is trying to liquidate it for dollars, but they're fighting over the much-reduced pot of money that is coming into crypto now, which drives the price down every time somebody wants to sell.

Personally I still think we're not at the bottom yet (for either ETH or BTC), but we may be getting close. We're at the bottom when companies start going bankrupt, Solidity engineers start getting laid off, and people start going to jail. Assuming it's not all smoke and mirrors and some useful infrastructure was actually built, it'll be the buying opportunity of the lifetime then, because everyone will think this whole crypto fad will be totally over and you'll be able to buy up that infrastructure at really cheap prices.
I used Expert F# (2.0) when learning some years ago. A bit dated now, but I believe that it has had a more recent revision.

It is co-authored by the language creator, Don Syme.
In my org, "event sourcing" is the metastasizing obfuscation layer over the mainframe era batch data processing complexity catastrophe.

PS- Move the code, not the data.
We are faster than a CUDA graphics card. You get a win from designing custom hardware specifically for this task so that you don't have to load stuff on and off the GPU. The fastest previous approach takes seconds; ours takes milliseconds!

Stefanie
Senior Director, Realtime Robotics
Speed up next-page navigations with prefetching
Thanks employees and investors in the public market!
I think the Internet is different. You see the absolute tops, be it real or slightly "boosted", of everyone's highs and project all of that onto a single imaginary awesome person to which you compare yourself.

I think most of us would agree that we see tons of new and fascinating stuff here almost every day. If for no other reason then via the process of selecting where to direct your attention - you wouldn't be here if it was all easy and obvious for you.
Well, it's not that simple. The thief could simply sue under private law (private law = anything that's not criminal law). Privacy violation, for example, is private law. Damage to property, is both criminal and private law. There's certainly options.

Granted, the author of the video cannot be sent to jail in such a case, but it is a near-certainty that he'll have to pay.

Second, I don't think the odds of the police pursuing this are quite as small as you perceive them to be. For one, the thief may BE a police officer. What do you propose happens then ? Do you think criminal police officers just arrest themselves ?

I mean, I sort of understand the "the law is just under all circumstances and the law sees all" train of thought, all nice, safe and secure. In reality, law is an imperfect and sometimes outright malicious system implemented by imperfect and sometimes outright malicious people. So I'd be interested in your opinion of what happens if the thief is an ill-tempered police officer, with the predisposition of Joe Arpaio towards you. You might note that this person was not just any police officer, but a 24-year sheriff (chief) of the police of a 4 million people county, including a large city. Those people are part of the police too, and can be very high up in the police force.

> judge and jury

Jury is only in criminal law. In other words, only if you're sued by the public prosecutor. Otherwise, no jury trial. And good luck convincing the jury if a police officer is testifying against you. I will say, it's not impossible. However, ...

> Stories, narratives, and being perceived to be "in the right" go a long way in the criminal justice system

Can I just say, I pity your lawyer if you ever apply this way of thinking in an actual case. In short: it does not. Police and public prosecutors are evaluated on their conviction rate (just ask a police officer. You should be very surprised that he knows that figure in the first place). There's even bonuses for achieving certain conviction rates (and of course you get fired below ...). Secondly there's a sort of constant "contest" between officers for the highest conviction rate. In the criminal justice system, therefore, the primary driver of who the police pursue is whether they believe they'll get a conviction. Nothing, and I do mean absolutely nothing, else.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE

(That doesn't mean they don't apply sanity, but realistically, if that happens, it's the officer on the ground and they are under VERY high pressure to do "something", like arrest someone. "This guy is not innocent, let's arrest him" definitely happens regularly. If the officer on site doesn't just let you go, it is utter folly to count on anyone else in the criminal justice system to take stories or narratives into account)
What do you use for good prepared meals for $9/meal? My boss loves CookUnity but that's more like $12 per meal.
The difference here is that the former (your example) is automatically correctable whereas the latter is not.

If I highlighted that entire function in my editor of choice and hit TAB I'd get exactly the "correct" indentation.

Almost any modern editor can automate this for you. It's one of the benefits of having a syntax for blocks. Yeah, it's extra typing for something you're going to do anyways, but now the computer can manage the style for you.

Also, and this is just my personal experience, I've learned to read by those control characters. I have a really hard time reading python because I'm subconsciously looking for the control characters!

I really think that part is really down to how you learned to program and what language you use on a daily basis.

As an aside, I think something like this is much more demonstrative of the issue you're suggesting:

def foo() {
nums = [...]
sum = 0
for x in nums {
print(x)}
sum += x
}

It's still automatically fixable, but it's way less immediately apparent that something is wrong with the indentation.
Where I am 150MB/s fiber internet is for ~$12 a month :)

edit: what I was going for is, you can't take that number and extrapolate it to the whole world
> Appealing to people who "want to cook", but doing so by turning yourself into a production-line assembler.

That's because you ignore the true reason why it's interesting. I got 800 games on Steam but when goes time to play, god it's awful. Never had this issue before having that many games. Recipes suffer from the choice overload.

Personally I also love it to try new ingredients. When it's part of a full meal, some ingredients "scare" me less.

> Like saying your want to learn carpentry, by buying some Ikea flat-pack.

No holes were predrilled in the yu choy I got in my recipes yesterday. It would be closer to get a few boards that you have to cut/trim/drill yourself, which as far as I know, seems to be a great way to learn.

> I'd quite enjoy one that let you browse recipes and would stick all the ingredients in your basket - but then added some intelligence.

It's weird but I don't trust my supermarket to offer me great recipes. I trust them to offer me food, but not great recipes. Even more so considering their goals is to sell food, not sell recipes.

> Or asks "what's in your fridge"

I agree but this always come down to the laziness out of me. Lazy me can easily click on an image that seems like a great meal, but way less on a adding every single things I may have in my fridge.

> Blue Apron and the rest seem to be trying to solve a real problem, completely the wrong way.

I personally think you just don't really understands whats the real problem.
Right. That's why

> I’d also dine out 2-3 times a week to mix it up a bit.
There is a lengthy debate surrounding private field syntax [1][2]. As a TypeScript user, I prefer regular-JS drop this proposal altogether, rather than use the current syntax. Refactoring and index-access notation become awkward with it.

Anecdotally, the vast majority of serious developers I know transpile to JS.

[1]: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-class-fields/issues/177
[2]: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-class-fields/blob/master/PRIVATE_SYNTAX_FAQ.md
As the Soviet/Russian Mir showed you don't need some shuttle-like vehicle to construct such a station. Mir was 130 tons, and almost exclusively launched by Proton-K's, which have a 20 ton mass to LEO.

By comparison the Saturn V has a 140 ton mass to LEO, 7x what the Proton-K could carry, and more importantly could have carried modules double the diameter of what the shuttle could put into LEO.

The unique selling point of the shuttle was the ability to return payloads from orbit to the ground for servicing, but as it turns out that was much more expensive than having a cheaper launcher and just launching another module.

Let's not draw the wrong conclusions from history. The shuttle was a failed launch system by any reasonable criteria. History has shown that plain old boring boosters were the right choice. The Soviets/Russians have been able to launch things to the ISS after the US lost its wings.

The only reason we have "no way to do any major service to the ISS" is not because the shuttle was so great, but because it was a dead end. The US has had to play catch-up with the COTS program with SpaceX et al.
The internet turns the whole world into a village. That means your "next door neighboor" is hundreds, even thousands, of people.

Hard to compete against that. Our natural impulse, for a certain kind of person, is to be the best that you know. But when you know thousands? oof
yeah I like weird layouts sometimes, but italics was a pain, especially since this is just text.
Adoption and projects using it. Like any currency, ETH becomes more valuable when you can spend it on more things. It's the base currency for a whole infrastructure of distributed trust & settlement; if useful economic activity occurs on top of that infrastructure, ETH gains in value proportionally.
Wait a guy who works for a company that uses the world's most popular website (the google search homepage) to aggressively proselytize it's own browser is complaining about Windows prompting you to use Edge? For real dude?

Edit: I'll expand. You work for a company the bundled Chrome as a default install with many other toolbars and utility programs. You sell a line of computing products where Chrome is not only the default, it is literally the only browser than can be installed. Chrome is the default browser on the world's most popular OS (Android). Multiple Google properties have refused to work on other browsers and displayed a popup asking people to switch the Chrome (Inbox is the one I remember most vividly). Here's a link to people trying to figure out how to get Chrome to stop asking to be default every time it opens: https://www.tenforums.com/browsers-email/59843-how-stop-goog... As you can see it's not exactly an easy task. All of this, and probably more, and you're here talking about what Windows does? C'mon man.
I remember when and after a friend twisted my arm to join, my reluctance in part due to having read how the young(er) Zuckerberg treated his nascent online property and his classmates.

Well, I considered, perhaps people can improve. And, it's not just him anymore, it's an institution that and whose people will establish and enforce more acceptable, accountable norms.

Not so much, I guess. Shame on me, for overriding my intuition.
Yes, it's mostly about the stress.
Williams-Sonoma Accuses Amazon of Copying Its West Elm Furniture
it wasn't strange to me that they packing ingredients to prepare at home, what was strange is trying to get by on an idea easily replicated by businesses local and with a more direct connection to the same customer.

there was nothing blue apron or similar really was able to do to set themselves apart from what a grocery chain could do, less even.
Not for me. What device/os/browser are you using
After $130M+ in funding, AR startup Blippar collapses
There's probably some really cool tech here, but it's unclear how a new user would start using it. The landing page shows an FAQ and a button saying "Login with Blockstack" that doesn't work when you click it in a normal web browser.

Should I have some other browser installed? Some extension?
Eggs milk avocado-oil

Eggs milk cheese-buns

Eggs milk chicken-salad