skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should do it! I took a year of improv as an adult (30's) and found it an incredibly valuable experience. It benefitted my communication skills tremendously and reduced the anxiety I had talking to strangers.

"yes, and" helps with the communication protocol. You're more constructive and work harder to clearly communicate your points.

"you don't have to say anything clever" takes you off the spot and reduces the pressure. If you're less comedically included, you can still heighten the stakes by interpreting what's going on and going along with it. The audience just wants to see human drama, and the most truthful thing is how you feel about what's happening. Just to do it -- it's that easy. There are no expectations.

Improv teaches a meta language. Your intent, what you're going to do with the scenario, how you feel about each other and the world around you -- none of this has to be spoken. You're having a dialog with your scene partner(s) and communicating to them in realtime outside of the actual words that you're speaking. This is especially important, because so much of real life communication is non-verbal. Improv opens you up to that whole world.

There are no wrong choices. Yes, there are more optimal choices, but there are no bad ones as long as you follow the simple rules of improv. You don't even need to worry about that until you become serious about improv as a hobby.

You'll find analogs to all of these points in your own communication with friends, peers, superiors, et al.

Improv is one of the best courses on human communication. It's also cheap, fun, and highly effective.
I'd love to see Brin's lawyers explain to the court how they found the real world contact info of a random user on HN.
Tridium/Niagara AX is the leading supplier-agnostic integration software for building automation. It's huge and it's QNX.

Air-handlers, fluid-coolers, chillers, etc., are now frequently powered by a JACE (an embedded controller running the Niagara platform on the QNX Neutrino microkernel). JACEs are used to handle integrating BACnet equipment and coordination across sites.

It's quietly becoming the standard way to do things if you're not just going to hand Honeywell or Trane a million dollars and hope things turn out ok.
The problem is, I don't think anyone completely understands the code when they write it. 90% of the time, you're writing code with a library written by someone else and you have an abstract understanding of what it does.

The trick is this: Do you actually have that good abstract working understanding, or have you only convinced yourself? This is the difference between sloppily convincing yourself you understand a word salad, or being able to coherently teach a concept. It's even a further step to be able to understand the specification of something in enough detail to be able to implement it and to see potential pitfalls. (This is the difference between real science and cargo cult science: Predictive Power.)

You just type + and the compiler/interpreter does everything for you.

There's a world of difference between just typing "+" or "/" because you've seen it and just going on token frequency/pattern matching, and really understanding the concept.

X = Y + Z

Is often going to be quite different in control flow consequences from

X = Y / Z

If Z happens to be zero.

If one is a careful programmer who has done substantive work, one should know there's a world of difference between a specification of a program that sounds good on the surface and a really good specification. After many years, one will have encountered many specifications which had to be re-thought one or more times to be practically implemented.

No, you shouldn't have to always rewire your program in hardware from NAND gates you make yourself from silicon in the bucket of sand under your desk. (I've actually quit a job because the manager was going overboard with that attitude.) But you should be able to peek under the next level of abstraction, and have enough working knowledge to become wary and know when you should be peeking. Either you can do this, or you do not have that level of skill/knowledge. Simple as that.

(Addendum: If you think to yourself that you can't do that, there's two common reactions to that. Either you tell yourself excuses and denigrate and don't bother, or you roll up your sleeves and learn it for yourself. You choose.)
In the 90s microsoft prohibited you from selling a compiler built with their compiler.

Edit: microsoft
Is nice that Bloomberg has an rss by author https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/authors/ARbTQlRLRjE/matthe...
Who should I trust, 97% of climate scientists or some edgy contrarian on the internet?
(Not PP)

I just discovered his writing recently, and he publishes a daily newsletter that's, more often than not, all of funny, interesting, and informative. I haven't gone back to the archives, but the day-to-day is terrfic:

http://link.mail.bloombergbusiness.com/join/4wm/moneystuff-s...
The world would be such a better place if there were 1000 more people like him. What a wonderful human being.
What licence?

Their FAQ certainly reads more like "source available" than "open source". You have to be a registered MIPS Open Member to even see anything.

https://wavecomp.ai/mipsopen
No, they're not. When someone says "I need a drink," reasonable people do not interpret that as "I literally cannot continue without immediate hydration."
Followup comments from the inventor are here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/9ywify/inventor_may...

(found via the Oculus Go article comments from earlier today, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18696840 )
The primary use case for BAT seems to be a micropayment scheme that replaces ad revenue. Of course, micropayments are still payments and people still don't want to pay for content, so you can also pay them (in BAT) for watching your ads, and then they can spend those BAT somewhere else.

As dubious as I am of cryptocurrency in general, display advertising is evil and needs to be destroyed, and BAT is the best (only?) micropayments alternative out there, as far as I can tell.
> What possible benefit could LMCU receive if you log in four times a month instead of just the one time to pay off your credit card? There is none, it's a dark pattern.

I don't login to pay off my credit card, that's set up to happen automatically on the credit card company's side.

I basically just login to see if I've done 10 transactions yet. If I've met that but haven't logged in enough, I'll just logout and login real quick until that part is done. It's really not that big of a deal.

The benefit LMCU could receive from requiring monthly logins is:

- Not having to pay interest to a dead person

- Potentially being the institution you go to when you need a loan. This is where they (and other financial institutions) really make their money. In this respect, it's in their best interest to be with the customer as they become more financially savvy.
Anyone can create a new emoji. Here’s an animated guide to doing it right
FCC Blasted for Opening the Door to Text Message Censorship
Scalable – Makes the UI elements scalable to fit inside the container area
The basic theory is that between the car and the wire there is a spring connected to brakes. When the car hangs in the wire this spring is loaded and the brakes disengage, if the wire breaks, the spring returns and brakes engage. All this is mechanical.

What I never understood is how elevators can travel downwards so quickly without such a system engaging. Can they block it somehow or are they never accelerating fast enough down?
From what I understand, it's so expensive and takes so long to form a bank in the US that it's generally better to acquire a bank than start one. The capital requirements are the easy part.
perhaps not quite the same level but I would assume anyone with any FAANG on their resume wouldn't be in the category of "need their job."
As only big companies can underwrite development and then support ongoing/backlog compatibility quirks-mode work for a new engine, you are effectively saying "no" to other, higher-order values offered by new browsers than the engine.

Yes, I include Mozilla in "big companies" (2017 big revenue, which won't recur from what I can tell; big pay to chair too). Nevertheless, Mozilla has mismanaged Servo into an AR/XR only position where it won't go big, and Mozilla (for same reasons as MS) faces pressure to bail on Gecko.

Blaming little browsers for using chromium/Blink is blaming them for surviving.

Successful genes (e.g. for adaptive auto-immunity) tend to sweep. Think of WebKit and now (on desktop) chromium/Blink as such alleles. We may not like it but it happens whatever we may wish. I've chosen to fight for user rights at a higher domain of discourse: private ads, anonymous donations, ad and tracking protection by default. The time for a more radical new engine will come; it isn't now.
Ok, let me tweak my list of additional conservative values then: heightened concern for purity, intolerance of ambiguity and a heightened concern for security.

NOTE: I am not conservative, so take that for what it's worth.
I definitely think so. I started my career in the financial industry and stumbled into a position that required me to attend mutual fund board meetings at 25. As the youngest person in the room by at least 20 years and the only woman it was hugely intimidating to me. It was also immensely frustrating. They would ask a difficult question of me (as good board members do) and if it wasn't a question I had anticipated I would freeze, blubber out some sort of halfwitted response, and hope they'd quickly turn their attention elsewhere. Later I'd get angry at myself because if I hadn't panicked I knew I could have given a much better and more valuable response. Complaining about my frustration one day a colleague suggested improv classes to me and they were HUGELY valuable for this exact reason. It taught me that I can take a moment to gather my thoughts and nothing bad would happen. It also taught me that I could decide where a conversation was going instead of being dragged along for the ride while my brain tried to work out the details. I often tell people it taught me how to "think faster" but perhaps it's more accurate to say it taught me how to react slower and think more deliberately.
> Most people can fast without doing the surgery.

Very few fat people have that level of self control. That's why they're fat in the first place.
The argument is that minikanren does more than SQL. I strongly disagree.
Anyone currently working on replacing product SKUs with public keys and verification process on the last hop where only the manufacturer can verify that a product is brand new?

That has blockchain all over it.
I tend to run old crusty applets with http://eclipse.org?

This usually solves for weird, deprecations, and routes around profoundly unfriendly browser barriers, which, sadly and admittedly are required from a security standpoint for most clueless users.

I prefer using Eclipse over IntelliJ CE, because Eclipse settings for static libraries that aren't handled by source control are a bit more concrete. IntelliJ CE is well-suited for many professional coding activities, but buries some commonly used, yet clunky settings that are right on the surface with Eclipse. Namely JRE/JDK choices, and build path settings for static jar files.

On the other hand, you might need to know a bit about Java, to do this. For most HN users, and even many gamers, this is generally not too much of a problem.
here's an LA times article about metro's issues with byd buses: https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-electric-buses-201...
Strongly recommend Billion Dollar Whale on the 1MDB ... Amazing and extremely entertaining book. They literally stole 16 billion usd.
It depends if they truly open source their stuff, or if they just do their newest items. Their definition of open source and ours might be different as well.

I would take everything with a grain of salt until it is truly open sourced and then revisit the question.
dissolve the cloner in acid
I'm sure there is weight in having Apple on your resume but Google engineers are generally sought after for SE positions. I hear managers pining over Google candidates all the time at my company.
Yet the comment here was that it's faculty who have the open floor plan. Why are they using the agile aspect of startups for the most stable asset in academia?
You're certainly right that "EULA" is ambiguous -- but Bryan provided a more specific definition which was pretty clearly concerned with the "contract law in addition to copyright law" part:

> EULAs are an attempt to get out of copyright law — where the copyright owner is quite limited in the rights afforded to them as to how the content is consumed — and into contract law, where there are many fewer such limits. And EULAs have accordingly historically restricted (or tried to restrict) all sorts of uses like benchmarking, reverse engineering, running with competitive products (or, say, being used by a competitor to make competitive products), and so on.
The mystery is in why some people eat more than they need and others don't. It's easy to say eat less calories, but until we solve the underlying biological reasons why certain people get full before overeating and don't gain weight and why certain people are always regaining lost weight your solution isn't going to help very many people.(Hint, see the satiety signals and hunger hormone comment I made lower down.)
Once met Yoda himself on the 59th street platform of the Metra next to the University of Chicago. He needed to get to the airport within 45 minutes. I told him he needed to call a cab. Now I get to tell people I once helped him optimize an algorithm. ;-P
I didn't say "only $3000", you did. I said "you only pay for what you use"
You know when kids play make-believe? Where one kid is a knight, and the other is a dragon? That's improv.

Improv can take a lot of forms -- there's one style that's basically "make up a movie, complete with narrated camera moves". There's another that's "a series of unconnected scenes". My team is doing one now that is basically an improvised podcast or radio play.

Simply "standing on stage and talking" is bad form, because it's not especially interesting. How many tv shows are just people talking? None; people are doing _something_. Sometimes those people are very active, like if they're riding a dragon into combat. Sometimes those people are less active, like if they're a radio host talking to callers. But never are people just standing: they're adjusting the radio microphone, or flipping a page to read off of.
I'm torn on this. The liberal understanding of this is not entirely wrong. The evidence is that if you look at the big pro-life groups, they are not just anti abortion, they are also anti birth control. So it is not entirely irrational for liberals to think the way they do about this. Perhaps the folks who are both pro-life AND pro birth control need to up their game?

edit: I would bet that this is because Roman Catholics provide most of the funding for the big pro-life groups.
Am I the only one creeped out by the “interview” style where the interviewer is just facilitating the viewpoint of the investigator? Like it’s all a setup paid for by someone with an agenda?

“I have a crazy friend who says it’s wrong to eat meat...”
Don't have time to look through the code right now, but it seems like a lot of these effects could be implemented as cellular automata (a la Conway's Game of Life). Obviously there are some more advanced simulations going on here though.
Agreed that this is a great example by Gallagher of all-too-rare "real" journalism.

The unfortunate thing is that the headline of this article should probably be "Google's Secret China Project Now Even More Secret."
(43-second video) “Hi-tech” Russian robot turns out to be a man in a suit
The term "climate change" is tailor-made for idiots who think that global warming means that it won't snow anymore.
NAACP returns Facebook donation, calls for boycott on Tuesday
Yes, this is precisely my confusion. I would have expected a good lawyer (of the sort a major fintech startup should employ) to say something more like:

"This language doesn't directly violate the rules, and hasn't seen a court case. But it looks like an unsubtle attempt to bypass those rules and a big announcement using this approach is at minimum likely to draw some unfriendly scrutiny."

The law isn't a computer, and regulators - especially in financial spaces - have substantially more freedom than courts to simply reject loopholes. Things like structuring rules are essentially "laws against circumventing the law" for exactly this reason. I'm pretty surprised that Robinhood either didn't get a warning about how poorly this could go, or chose to ignore it.
I’ve been taking improv classes for most of this year and I disagree with your conclusion.

You don’t heal from anxiety by hiding from anything scary. You get better by doing things you feel anxious about (and then not dying). And as for presence - if you’re getting stuck in your head while on stage, it becomes much harder to listen and be present to your scene partner and the needs of the scene. In my experience there’s a limit to how good your scenes can be if you’re in your head about them.

Improv for me has helped my mental health in lots of tiny ways - I’ve gotten better at visibly failing. I’ve gotten better at expressing negative emotion and I’ve gotten a lot more present. I feel like improv theatre is a microcosm of normal struggles; a lot of the long term issues that we face come up in improv too. And on stage you get the chance to face those demons in a safe, supportive environment surrounded by friends.

Being in your head is exactly this sort of developmental challenge. Your improv will (long term) get better if you get out of your head with it and instead be more present and intuitive. And that’s really important in regular life too. For people who struggle with that, what a perfect place to practice.

Personally I highly recommend doing some improv classes to anyone smart and creative who wants to push themselves and grow. It’s hard in the best way.
I like outdoor solar-powered lights, could you link a reviewer doing these tear-downs? I'd love to see.
A few grams of whole ginger root is great for motion sickness, and the side effects are little more than a mild burning sensation in the gut.

It completely kills any horrible car sickness I get from any small motions.
Well imagine you Atari case were made of wood, if it weren't exposed to excessive moisture, or kept in contact with soil it would still be in fine shape.
Not only for us, for most seo too.
There was a short story I recall reading a while ago where there was a release of such a bacteria and it told the story about how that release screwed up the world slowly as it spread. Can't for the life of me find it however.
" It's no secret that a handful of corporations are pushing for this change"

This is not actually true, and needs citation/data.

This is actually the foundation trying to keep peace, and in a good way.

"and not the best interest of the open source community"

And this is an unsourced assumption of bad faith.

It's also demonstrably false.
If it's censorship it's the EU's fault.

The website achieved GDPR compliance. End of story.
We can go back to how our ancestors did it, using leather and clay for drink containers. We can spend twice as much transport pollution in order to ship our drinks in clay amphoras that weigh almost as much as their contents, as Romans did; and we can carry around flasks from slaughtered animals instead of recycled plastic. It's possible, but it doesn't mean that it's better.
That's a fair point. It's definitely not a thing to do all at once, I took baby steps to get here.
>Actually conservatives and liberals do share a lot of values

They share two or three values: care and fairness for sure, and maybe liberty (not necessarily a value held by either group, but one held by some subset of both groups). That doesn't contradict my statement that liberals are unable to understand and empathize with conservative views. Views are based on values. Lacking the values that create the view makes it very hard to understand the view.

>Conservatives go on to add additional values to the set V

Precisely, they add loyalty, authority and sanctity. Liberals do not have these values, often even viewing them as evil. And so they do not understand the views based on those values. Conservatives do have the values liberals do, and so they can understand the views based on those values.
> .. covers the point that efficient markets are not deceptive markets. Participants are assumed to share equal information.

Are 'efficient markets', defined by not being deceptive, and all participants having equal information, a requirement to call something 'capitalism'? Does that mean capitalism has never been tried? How long can such a system last, when it is in the financial interest of a large part of the participants to make the markets less 'efficient', so they can extract a higher price for less work?
Or the scholar/monk archetype.
Congratulations, it sounds like you have the satiety signal that makes you feel nauseous if you eat a little too much!
>that said Donald Trump's net worth was equal to the value of his inheritance if it had been invested in an index fund.

Incorrect, it would have been worth substantially more, at about 13 billion (his current wealth is around 3-4 billion). So he still would have been able to spend billions and be further ahead than he is today.

Source:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/katestalter/2016/09/01/would-do...
I remember listening to an interview with the bylines. Everyone in that interview sounded so sure it would dent Trump’s reputation. Man, I’m really not a fan of the guy, but his opponents have absolutely no idea what they’re up against, and haven’t for a long time.

Trump is the harbinger of a return to patrimonialism. Family offices, a return to patrimonialism. You get a bunch of people who never really understood civics or finance and you try to govern them technocratically, and you’re going to struggle. But everyone in this demographic understands families. They see this dude being passed down wealth, and ‘making something’ of it, and setting his kids up. People understand that, especially the type of person who doesn’t necessarily understand how the neoliberal world works, in ways that are both in their favor and against it.

Family offices are another data point in this trend towards capital accumulation, stark income inequality, and a retreat from public exposure.
I still find that absurd. People actually want extensions and add-ons that get full access to their computer, can manipulate pretty much any of the browser functionality, and has been known in the past to be abused? (See noscript for example.)

I will admit when I first began using Chrome some years ago I found extensions to be woefully incomplete. But even where integration is worse, I'm super glad about the approach taken with WebExtensions for exposing functionality. It gives a reasonable bound on what extensions can do, and it provides a nice API that is stable.
In my totally non-expert option, no, it will not slow down RISC-V.

The RISC-V instruction set family does benefit from the decades of research since MIPS was first created.

Also, a lot depends on the ecosystem surrounding whatever MIPS cores are available. Memory crossbars, interrupt handling, etc. There's a lot that goes into a system-on-chip.
Malaysia does what the US should have done 10 years ago.
> Swift is very familiar with most of the MIPS players in China, “because I worked with them,” he told us.

Well, things change, and if he still thinks about a couple of big vendors, that would fit. But most of the Chinese SoC vendors using RISC-V aren't big nowadays, and most of them probably wouldn't bother with all that corporate memberships and stuff.
It's hard to beat the market. Why would the people managing funds at family offices do better?
Postgresql: cost of a join