skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I will assume you're referring to Node. The browser explains why many coders know Javascript well; the fact that many coders know Javascript well explains the popularity of Node --without our having to resort to the hypothesis that Javascript is a good language.
How is this a good idea for a chat protocol though? And what makes you think XMPP doesn't do that (it's quite trivial to setup your server in such a way that messages won't be lost even if there is a network partition, client connectivity issue, etc.)
Do you know if it is possible to actually purchase the daughter board? As far as I can tell they only made a limited supply for the crowdfunding program.
One word. Merging. The database is massively multiuser, plus the process is far worse for cartographic data than for code.
> None of these comments were downvoted

Blind doesn't have downvotes (which could be part of the problem there).
I've talked with HFT firms that spent effort fighting the JIT because they cared more about the latency of rarely reached code paths than the common path.
I think the real story is that there is clearly a market need for a simpler and cheaper (if less effective) bubble CPAP, which will save many lives in countries that can't afford the $6K version. It wouldn't be used here in the US but it'd do a lot of good in Bangladesh.

I don't think it's a story of over-regulation, as I doubt Bangladesh has regulations in place only allowing the $6K version.
It's obviously a very broad topic, but one thing that I find at least my education hasn't covered yet is how to actually _learn_.

By far the biggest part of computer science is learning how to learn the new stuff, and forget outdated concepts.

Their way of teaching around 8 subjects in a single semester is downright laughable to me. The result is that I am not really proficient in any of these 8 subjects beyond what the syllabus covered, which was almost fully outdated and covered such little ground that I cannot really do anything in the real world with this knowledge, except give their petty little "exam".

So whats the point of teaching all these broad, frankly unrelated topics (e.g. flip flop counters) when I'm not even going to ever use them in daily life?

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Instead, how about dedicating an entire month learning git, nothing else. FFS, I've been using it for almost everything, and still don't really understand what it is actually doing.

Surely, learning how git works will be more useful to me than just learning how a hypothetical priority queue can be implemented, no?
stop spreading fake news!
And there were plenty of guilty verdicts. The comment you're replying to is misrepresenting the outcomes.
What makes you think she isn't coeliac?
I would definitely read that blog!
Santa solving Rubik's cube?
Sixteen apps to delete before the new year
The main difference here is that the Iraq war was funded by the government. The trillions of dollars for climate change will be put on homeowners, property owners, businesses, localities, etc and will be used to replace something, rather than be transferred. Further, for places where building dikes / walls are practical, that money will have to come from somewhere and I just don't know where that is right now.

I very much doubt the Federal government will be providing (or will have the funds to provide) much of the assistance required to mitigate this kind of rise, and it will come down to cities / states handling it themselves for a lot of this.

As for the lives in danger - I was considering this in terms of economic damage to the NE United States, but I'd imagine globally it could be on the scale of millions having to migrate / move.

I would not personally equate the impacts of climate change to the Iraq war because of the overall scale and global impact, but I understand how it compares in terms of order of magnitude for a mental model.
I know people who have varying degrees of gluten intolerance but not celiac. For most it's in no way life threatening. One experiences bloating and bad gas if he eats a bagel; another has to sit on the pot all day if she accidentally ingests a saltine's worth of gluten; and a couple have conditions in between.

For the latter, avoiding gluten is pretty much a necessity. For the former, it's a choice, but one I can understand asking for some accommodation for.

There are also apparently gluten allergies other than celiac. I know someone who when exposed to gluten gets the sort of reaction that some people do when they eat peanuts - he keeps an epi-pen on hand because if he accidentally ingests some his throat will swell up, airways will shut down, etc.
For sure they're going to go down in flames at some point. Enjoy the free mirrors while they still work though.
BG 1 and 2 were developed by Bioware. Black Isle developed the Icewind Dale series, also great RPGs.
I've read that FAQ entry, but it's bogus in terms of chat. Maybe the protocol is more useful for some other thing, I don't know (although I doubt it since XMPP at least can also do very similar sorts of things with pubsub if you need them for some use case, eg. the IoT people do this sort of thing a lot).

The FAQ skirts around the fact that it doesn't matter if they're slightly different: you shouldn't make up your own new thing to force adoption of your commercial product. Use and improve the existing technologies that are "good enough" and stop splitting effort and making yet another standard that everyone has to try and support or run bridges for. This is unacceptably bad engineering. Saying "this is subjective" is true, but just an excuse for "we have not-invented-here syndrome".
I have an uncommon last name, and some domain broker contacted me that the domain squatter wants to sell it for $25,000+ (USD). It's honestly not worth even $1,000, and there's like only 20 people in the world who would want it. I openly laughed out loud for a while.
Cryptee – Private, Secure, Encrypted Documents and Photos
I'm a member of several initiatory groups that practice secrecy. The secrecy bonds initiates together and makes the lessons imparted more powerful. Such practices have antecedents dating to antiquity. If it's not for you, that's fine.
If it's GPS programmed then its flight should be predictable; if it's locally controlled (line of sight) the control signal should be easy to triangulate; if it's distally controlled, eg video feed, then the feed should be traceable?
What's extremely worrying is that his election and subsequent events have shown a very sizable portion of the electorate to have problems with mental stability.
US state.

Yes, the actual judgment document just vaguely refers to it as "Georgia" but it's inferred that it's the state since FCC has no statutory authority outside of the U.S. However in the application it's clearly marked as state of Georgia.

"Swarm seeks narrow authority to transmit data from the SpaceBEE satellites in order to access tracking information. The SpaceBEE satellites will only transmit to enable downlinking of GPS data, and will be muted at all other times. GPS data will be downlinked during passes over Los Altos, California and Buford, Georgia. These passes Swarm Technologies will occur approximately four times per day. Each transmission will require approximately two seconds."

[1] https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-18-184A1.pdf

[2] https://apps.fcc.gov/els/GetAtt.html?id=212398&x=.
Pillars of Eternity has also done a fantastic job in this regard.
Which is the proportions of women in national parliaments?
My mom worked in the neonatology ICU for years, and while every once in a while there was a tragedy which made her very upset, not many bad (and unexpected) things happen these says. It's a very rewarding job, as you help start a life.

Alas this can only be said about the first world. In less developed parts of our world this would be the complete opposite I imagine.
Choosing a Lean Software Stack: How to Avoid Multiple Systems Chaos
Why do you think the people affected by this are also against nuclear power?
This hack isn't necessary in the US because the hospitals can afford (and already have) the proper bubble CPAP devices, which are more effective than hacked-together shampoo bottles anyway.

It's a good thing there's regulations in place here preventing the use of less effective hacks when better devices exist. And yeah, it's not just regulation but also legal liability that comes into play here; in the long run it's more expensive to use cheap hacks and risk many-million-dollar lawsuits if they kill someone than to pony up the thousands of dollars for the correct equipment.
How to use the (non-differentiable) F1 score to train a machine learning model
When I lived in County Donegal (Republic of Ireland) a couple of my favourite phrases you'd hear in passing were:

"Now we're on a pig's back" - doing well

"They're doing a big thing" - performing a task, but perhaps in an over complicated way
Winevdm: 16-bit Windows (Windows 1.x, 2.x, 3.0, 3.1, etc.) on 64-bit Windows
It feels to me as though the mantra of "move fast and break things" wasn't meant to apply to laws. Purposely ignoring laws, regulations, or seeing vague ones that didn't expect your crazy idea, and then hoping you can work it all out later after you've made lots of money- this is becoming more and more common in tech startups. And I personally don't like it.

Uber and AirBnB are the classic examples (and it's worked out wonderfully for them). In Toronto, Car2Go told customers to just park anywhere- don't worry about getting parking tickets, we'll handle it. (They didn't). Swarm was told that their satellites could not be launched, so they just did it anyways hoping no one would notice. (Someone did). RobinHood announced checking accounts without checking if there were laws around such things. (There are).

Governments would be better to be ready for disruptive ideas and have flexibility in regulations to try them out. And we should all be voting and supporting candidates who want to see such changes happen. But until they do, it seems wrong to purposely break laws in order to make money.
>believes their environment will be destroyed if they frak.

Because there are valid reasons to believe so based on the way some fracking operations have been run. Contaminated ground water (look at Wyoming) and potentially even seismic related risk (a 5.6M earthquake in Oklahoma may have been directly caused by fracking).

Hydraulic fracturing can also result in its own air pollution, noise pollution etc.

Sure, it can probably be done safely but a single mistake could have wide-reaching and long-lasting implications. Instead of replacing one bad thing with another risky thing we need to get less spooked by modern nuclear reactors,and renewables, until (if ever) we figure out fusion.
You're welcome and good luck :)
My favorite thing is how food items that obviously don't and never would have gluten are now slapped all over with labels that indicate they're gluten free. Guess what? Your dozen eggs are now gluten free! So is a gallon of (cow's) milk! And that bag of apples! And a head of fresh broccoli! And green tea! And bottled water!

What's next? Advertising gluten-free toothbrushes and paper towels and smartphone cases?
> ather than get a new app for everything, it's all controlled by once interface.

Makes sense.

But why does that interface have to be the clumsy, always listening crap that we see today?

And why can no one except Apple[0][1] give any guarantees with regards to what they use my data for?

[0]: No, I'm not a Apple fanboy. I just can't stand their UX, seriously, which is sad since I value their current stanace on privacy.

[1]: And for what it's worth, Apple seems happy with selling out if the alternative is leaving the Chinese market behind as documented elsewhere in this thread. Although I'll admit that from what I read they where up front with their Chinese users about the change.
In the mean time they can hit the ISS and damage other satellites.
Most of the small plastics come from the breakup of large plastics. By removing large plastics floating on the top, you can (at least theoretically) prevent more small plastics from being made.
> everything I read about Swift disappoints me (in the "why was that even a problem in such a modern language??" sense)

Can you be specific? I would love to understand which type of problem you are speaking about. As someone who also got into Swift because it is the only game in town for iOS, it's become my go-to language for everything from tooling/orchestration to back-end infrastructure simply because I find it very nice to work with.

Admittedly I'm not an expert in Rust, but the best way to explain why I prefer working in Swift is that I find it to be a permissive language, where Rust is an opinionated language.

For example, I find Rust's memory management paradigm to be super interesting, and I can see the advantages it has in terms of safety (especially with regard to concurrency, where Swift has some things to figure out), but it is something which puts some limitations on the design patterns which are available to you.

Swift, by contrast, has deep toolbox which you can use to implement OO patterns, functional patterns, Protocol Oriented design etc.

So I think Swift and Rust have slightly different goals, and where the worst piece of Rust code you can write which will compile will be a bit safer/more performant etc than similar with Swift, to me Swift strikes that balance where it's still giving me a huge advantage over most languages in terms of compile-time checking, but I can be incredibly productive and expressive.
From the FDA statement:

> This is because both CBD and THC are active ingredients in FDA-approved drugs and were the subject of substantial clinical investigations before they were marketed as foods or dietary supplements.

Wow, this is unfortunate history. So if someone had marketed CBD as a food ingredient prior to the FDA's approval of CBD drugs, then putting it in food now would be OK. Does the FDA even have the facts correct? Were there food products before the CBD drugs were approved?
But people gotta have their Alexas and their Google Maps man. Their webcam & mic enabled smart TVs and their cloud connected thermostat. I mean, c'mon, how could anybody live without it?

/s
I wrote a short paper for HPEC that included some power and performance benchmarks and analysis on the HiFive Unleashed U540 SoC [0]. The SoC isn't open source as some suggest although I believe the core is based on the open source Rocket Chip Generator [1]. It seems the greatest weakness was in the slow memory interface. The details of memory controller and configuration were proprietary when I tried to find out why it wasn't performing well.

[0] http://www.ieee-hpec.org/2018/2018program/index_htm_files/15...

[1] https://github.com/freechipsproject/rocket-chip
How to use embeddings in customer support part 1
Why not have the baseline to be zero deaths, then if you prefer you can add more dimensions like journalists arrested etc, then we can create a metric and maybe you can find one where you can rank China and Russia over US but you still have US rank over the countries with no kills and no arrests.

Your point seems to be a "what about" China/Russia or other extreme country.
I used to own the domain <my initials>.io, and made the mistake of letting it expire. It was immediately picked up by a squatter and now they want thousands of dollars.

Not worth it.
Poutine is one of those things that can be amazing if done right, which is not often the case. The place mentioned in the article is apparently one of the better ones, although I haven't tried it.
For those interested in the problem of speculation attacks and RISC-V:

This talk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjEslX_-t0Q) is about the OoO core on RISC-V and what they did to remove the chance of speculation attacks.
The domain I actually own for this purpose, <last name>.fyi, doesn't appear to be on the list of suggestions. You should add that TLD. :)
> I wonder if people knew back then that this was going to be such an influential game (after it was famous, but before time had passed).

I don't think anyone could have picked how lasting and influential it would be. It was one of about 3 games I've ever pre-ordered though.
I think the general consternation about Mueller started when he predicted that, as a matter of law, Oracle would ultimately be the victor in it's case against Google over Java.

Which did eventually come to pass, in a Federal appeals court ruling in March of this year that overturned the findings of the jury in the previous trial.
That, and carbon recapture
Hemp started to get federally deregulated in 2014 with the passage of the 2014 Farm Bill - this bill properly defined hemp as "cannabis sativa with <0.3% THC" and allowed states to start pilot programs to farm hemp. The Appropriations Act also prohibited law enforcement (including DEA) from interfering with hemp.

However, there was still a lot of confusion as DEA published statements that sent mixed signals to the industry and customers. For instance, the 2014 farm bill legalized hemp & farming, but what about its derivatives (i.e. seeds, extracts)? The 2018 Farm Bill clarifies all this by including hemp and all its derivatives.
Industrial Hemp is just cannabis with a THC content under 0.3%. This has been illegal to produce, but people have been doing it in states like CO, OR, etc, that have state-legal cannabis. Until now, CBD has been in a gray area because selling hemp has generally been accepted because of the <0.3% THC.

But now that the 2018 Farm Bill has legalized growing hemp, federally, the FDA is saying, “slow down, CBD is a drug.”

How this affects the CBD industry will be the thing to watch. On the one hand it just got a lot easier to farm the plant. But it’s about to get more regulated. Which is good for consumers who might be taking products that are toxic without realizing it. But it also will probably make it harder to get legit CBD oil to consumers without jumping through a lot of expensive regulatory hoops.

(Agree about the headline being very misleading – this should be changed.)
Ah, so another "pre-legal" action by a company...
In the case of the satanic panic though, we can be pretty sure that not only was it bad faith policing, but also hysteria, because there have been other examples of baseless satanic ritual abuse hysteria. I believe we had one in the UK.
> How does one prioritize from among the jillion things that might be tested?

Importance. Polluting the oceans is a fairly important problem, and we have the capacity as a species to attempt to address more than one issue at a time.

> One way is to deprioritize the ones where there are many reasons why it's unlikely to work.

When Kennedy announced he wanted a man on the Moon within 10 years, the USA had only barely put a man into orbit around the Earth and certainly hadn't managed to break orbit. There were many reasons that goal was unlikely to work too.

Almost all of the Pioneer and Ranger programs that preceded Apollo failed in one way or another, but they learned enough each time to take the next step. The early launches were just intended to fly at the Moon, and later to try to smash into it to figure out how to.

I guess my point is that when the goal is important you don't necessarily need to start out with all the answers already in your pocket.

> If you really believe we should start from random nonsense, then let's schedule 1200 GMT on New Year's Day for the world day of meditation to cure the planet. If enough people meditate, then the power of our brainwaves will heal the planet.

I don't think this part of your comment should be on HN. You probably realise that already, right?
Active radar? GPS+comm radio jammer? If that works as promised, not something you would like to deploy at an airport.
I'm surprised I'm not seeing a lot of comments simply recommending decentralized social networks as an obvious replacement for Facebook.

We've had these for a while. One of the most famous is probably Diaspora. Instead of having all your stuff on one centralized site so they can profit off it, everyone has their own Diaspora site/account, which can be hosted anywhere. You can have your own hosted site, or you can just have an account on an existing site, and you can easily move your account around if you don't like your provider or want to roll your own. That way, no one organization controls everything.

The problem, of course, is that this is too much work for most people, and most people are perfectly happy to give Mark Zuckerberg control of all their personal information because it's easier that way. So Diaspora has languished with almost no users, because the only way a social network survives is by having a "critical mass" of users. If all your friends aren't on there, you're not going to bother with it either. Facebook has that critical mass now, so it'll be virtually impossible to unseat them; the only way is if people simply stop being interested in social networks, or some other centralized service brings something to the table that everyone craves and FB misses the boat before it's too late (which is basically how FB unseated MySpace).
You're wondering why groups with names like "Skull and Bones" have an occult reputation? They cultivate it deliberately because it's cool. Yes, the public takes this cosplay too seriously, but they don't deserve all the blame.
Currently on front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18733048
Ask HN: How to shadow a CEO?
I have the opportunity to shadow a CEO/Founder of a $25 million dollar company. The company is in the fresh produce sector - not an industry that I ever really considered, but the founder has been able to build it up from nothing to one of Inc’s fastest growing companies in just 6 years. I have free reign to attend meetings/calls in all departments, and I have committed to 4 hours, 3 days a week. The CEO is a friend so there’s an established relationship. My longterm goal is to own my company and I want to learn how a successful business is run and the leadership skills required.

I’ve never done this before, so my questions are how do I get the most out of this great opportunity? How can I add value to him? How long should I continue this internship? Any other best practices/recommendations?

Thank you so much in advance!
This comment takes us off-track a bit, but:

~130,000 K-12 schools in the US, public and private[0]

94 "gun violence" incidents in schools in 2018[1]. This is "each and every instance a gun is brandished, is fired, or a bullet hits school property for any reason, regardless of the number of victims, time of day, or day of week" - so far more broad than mass shootings alone.

Let's say each incident happened at a different school: that's a 0.072% chance that something happens with a gun at your school in a year. If those numbers are the same each year (and that hasn't been the case; 2018 is higher than normal), it's a ~1% chance that something happens at your school over 13 years of schooling. Without doing a ton of research, I'm sure the odds would be much more or less depending on the school you pick.

Is that enough for you to keep your kid out of school? That's for you to decide. But bringing it back to my point - evaluating the risk isn't as simple as giving a body count, making "dangerous" a subjective term.

[0]: https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=84

[1]: https://www.vox.com/2018/12/10/18134232/gun-violence-schools...
https://github.com/facebook/buck

You’re welcome.
Original Sin 2 is much better story-wise, though it's still a game where the best story content is in side quests and environmental storytelling. The animal quests are exceptional.
Honest question: if you take causes of death of school-aged children and ranked them by frequency, where on that list would you expect to find school shootings?