skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just find Go a more pleasant experience. The source code is easily readable and understandable. I don't run into weird wrong version or dependency problems ever. Go get, go build and i'm done. Or if i download the binary, just dump it in a bin folder and it works without even having Go on the system. I haven't written anything in Rust or Erlang yet, but I have run into trouble when building Rust packages from source. Maybe it was the package maintainer's bad every time, the system setup or I'm just dim, but I just need to get stuff done and not go down the rabbit hole. I also personally don't like the hassle with Python version environments.
I think they're just part of the background, like stars, and not connected to the letters at all.
Come up with a better system to exercise and eat better.
Potentially, but you would need to define what is meant by earning. Is earning defined by subjective difficulty? Is ability already part of the concept of earning, such that what we find virtuous about earning is in part the capacity to do a thing?

There is also a more fundamental difference between the two propositions, the first is empirically measurable: people have the same or broadly similar potential, or they do not. The second is a value judgement regarding who deserves what, which is ultimately a moral or aesthetic matter. This seems to me somehow more difficult to decide upon and somewhat weaker in its force.

(I upvoted you by the way because I think that’s an interesting point)
> Nuclear is ideal for dealing with climate change, because it is the only carbon-free, scalable energy source that’s available 24 hours a day. The problems with today’s reactors, such as the risk of accidents, can be solved through innovation.

So refreshing to see someone with his reach pushing for nuclear.
Thanks, title fixed ;)
No freeways! But it was different. The bay bridge had only opened a few years prior and the bay area pop was low enough not to need them yet. By the time “Bullitt” rolled around, the peninsula had begun to fill out.
Yeah, fair enough. In 2004, I think I was still running 1024x768, so this would have been less of a problem then, and newer articles have a better layout: https://asktog.com/atc/principles-of-interaction-design/ (2014)
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> For comparison, the first intercontinental railroad was built by hand and muscle in 6 years.

Actual construction, even nowadays, is pretty fast. What takes 20-40 years is the long-term planning. By comparison, the first intercontinental railroad was advocated first in 1832 (before most of the American West was even American), and serious planning first started in the late 1840s and early 1850s, which led to the Gadsden Purchase in 1853.
I had one of those multi-power adapters for a pair of infrared headphones when I was about 14 years old. You had to get the plug the right way around. Plugged it in, and BANG, the headphones were toast.
Another variation of "it works fine for me".
> they're extremely likely to get paid back in full

in dollars that may become increasingly or fully worthless, and you cannot choose to be paid back in anything else
This is probably not the most comprehensive or iron-clad solution. However, it might be of some help to you.

http://blog.totalcloud.io/benefits-s3-select-protect-data-gd...
The internet seemed more trusting back in 2006. Also, things like Google Voice didn't exist yet and who knew spam/robocalls would be such an issue.

Hindsight is always 20/20
It's difficult to say precisely. Someone with classic autism most likely wouldn't be able to interpret the implications of Hitchcock edit sequences because it would require Theory of Mind and social inference. Aspergers would likely have a better chance, but it might not be innately, immediately obvious to them.
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Your comparison is at best skewed. By definition the general populace has on average an IQ of 100. In the US, over 60% of the population has at least some college. The percentage of MENSA members is small. How do MENSA members fare agains the general population with at least some college wrt income?

The fact that this info is not in plain sight nor is even advertised is a clear indicator that the correlation isn't that favourable. In fact, some sources [1] state that the top MENSA eaeners (top 10%) earn over $57k, which is surprisingly low and a fraction of what the average software developer earns (above $100k).

[1] https://www.paysa.com/salaries/american-mensa--member
If you care about what college someone graduated from, you care about something highly correlated with IQ. Indeed, part of the reason why elite colleges are able to command such high prices is that, as you mention, we rarely use formal IQ tests when evaluating people and so graduating from an elite college is the best way that high IQ individuals can signal intelligence.
This is a straw man, sort of akin to asserting that all right leaning people believe that might makes right.
> that government debt is consumer surplus and not inherently a bad thing, and also that printing fiat currency specifically to pay for programs does not itself increase inflation

Sounds like when cigarette companies funded studies to 'prove' cigarettes were safe.

They even went full 'USA Freedom Act' by throwing the word Modern in the title.

Those are two non-political red flags. I'll save my personal ideas on economics as this gets into politics.
That link doesn't work for me, but https://www.goodnotes.com/ does. An iOS only app. It does OCR, but I suppose that information doesn't get exported.
Screw Infineon. They won’t provide the data sheet for their 80 GHz chipset, despite my buying $5k worth through their distributor.
I would have been inclined to give the same charitable interpretation, but then I stumbled upon this Arstechnica article [1] from the time of the sale with a quoted statement from the Stardock CEO Brad Wardell:

“We won't be making any changes to the existing Star Control games. And Atari doesn't actually own the copyright on Star Control 1/2 so it's not like one could make a Star Control 2 HD or what have you without a license from Paul Reiche. And even if we did have rights to SC 1/2 I wouldn't touch them without his blessing.”

[1]: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/07/stardock-acquires-sta...

I simply do not know how the interpret the above quote in any other way than that Stardock was aware that at least some of the rights were retained by Paul Reiche III at the time of, or immediately following, the purchase from Atari.
A small Go library we wrote to centrally manage distributed session tokens such as JWT inspired by CAS: https://github.com/endiangroup/compandauth. Main highlight is central revocation, locking and unlocking of distributed sessions

The core concepts can be translated into any language that supports integers, happy to reference any alternative implementations.
> We will soon notice whether the populist West will support government with the consent of the governed or stand by while Taiwan is thrown under the bus.

That's unfair, I think. There's a huge gap between "I don't agree with what's happening" and "I'm willing to risk nuclear war defending this cause".
it doesnt matter how much you save if your native currency is debased into worthlessness

lots of people in Weimar Germany had savings too, and Venezuela today
Turns out I already knew roughly how this process works from playing Factorio with Bob's/Angel's mods. It's relatively 'realistic', requiring crushing ores and sorting to get different breakdowns of products (And byproducts), further processing those products to get powders, recombining, sintering and pressing into pellets.
The lines in blue in the cover image spell out the word
I am curious about the sand dunes on piece M6. It appears they were cleared and roads were put in, but perhaps the Great Depression led homes in that district to become abandoned, and the dunes took over once more?
If this was more widespread or built into phones like QR code scanning is in the camera app, it could be an interesting way to share data with many people at once (something like a concert for example)

But I agree it's more interesting from a technical point of view over a practical one...
Could not handle the music and closed 10 seconds into the video.
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>So as long as the assets of the world make enough to service the interest on the debt things will keep chugging along. The real problem I suppose is how much of the world has to work to service the interest bill.

I worry that this is the case. Our best economic leaders have been wrong(or told to do wrong policies for political reasons for ~200 years).

Tasty candy today can spell a stomach ache later. Given the numerous times our grandparents generation has pushed off problems, I wonder if government debt is a short term political win, with long term ramifications(looking at Japan).
And three lines of CSS would make it readable on wide displays. Somehow not included in those 35KB.
You can be as "not sure" as you want, data doesn't lie

https://www.trulia.com/research/new-home-smell/

Portland happens to be among the metros with the smallest new house premium at 14%. Thats still $28,000 premium on a 200,0000 house.

Sure "not all new homes" are in new developments, but the vast majority of them are. Most neighborhoods simply don't have empty lots to build on, they don't exist, any new homes are teardowns.
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Arguably, you have mental images. But you just don't "see" them. And if it's true that "their spatial imagery scores were above average", then not "seeing" mental images arguably works better ;)
> [Monty Python scene of two guards who see a distant hazy image of a knight charging the castle, but do nothing because the image is so distant and hazy, but are surprised when the knight finally arrives and kills one of them]

I'm intrigued that you used that particular scene as an example.

I've watched a lot of Monty Python and I've seen this movie at least a couple times, but that scene makes no sense to me. I don't get how it's supposed to be funny and why it's even there. It is possible to explain it?
End to end encryption is now common which protects everyone. SSL/TLS is now unbiquitous as are secure messaging apps. Crypto research looks for volnerabilities in all sorts of software. This protects everyone, including Americans.
I generally agree with this, which makes the existence of buttons that do kill (you, someone else, or an expensive device) a problem.

I did have to teach my toddler not to press the power button of the PC while I was working. What kind of idiot puts a led in a power button?! Of course children will push that. Clearly PCs need to be put as high up as possible, to keep them out of reach of children.
If you've got friends I think it's worthwhile, I played most maps either solo or with one friend, occasionally we got a full group too.
Face-to-face key signing/exchange, or any other kind of in person secret sharing, perhaps?

BT/Wifi methods will broadcast data to anyone within radio range, but optical data exchange like this can take place under your coat, or using some easy means of protecting the transfer against 3rd party listeners.
I can't imagine it'd be easy to get away with secretly drilling a hole into a space station as small as the ISS. I mean, someone is bound to check where the unexpected drilling noises are coming from, right?
Very well, maybe not everyone who would describe themselves as on the left would have this belief, but in my experience it is very common.
What constitutes reasonable?

Here's an example of someone explaining something to five different levels of audiences.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWJCfOvochA

None of these approaches are prima facie "unreasonable." But if you get the wrong level it won't feel useful.

I don't think it's crazy to have open teaching discussions on HN, I think you lay out a fair hope that someone can break something down here. But I'm just not sure which level you're looking for.

Precision and simplicity are often competing constraints.
> That's why I prefer dynamically typed languages for web systems; they start with the rigth assumption about the ever-evolving nature of the project.

I agree with your assessment that we need to design for evolution.

I disagree with your assessment that dynamic languages provide that. Dynamic languages certainly do hit a sweet spot for fast iteration on small projects. As soon as your project gets large or long running, the assurances that static types provide get really nice. Witness how much effort has gone into building type systems for dynamic languages: Typescript (MS) is exploding and had vigorous competition from Flow (Facebook). Python has mypy plus a bunch of corporate backing: MonkeyType (Instagram) and PyAnnotate (Dropbox).

I feel much more comfortable aggressively refactoring in static languages.
Do you know if any of these can be used for text prediction? (I.e. guessing what the next word/token will be.)
The "make accessibility a default rather than an afterthought" phrase was exactly what I've been looking for. I'm currently summarizing my evaluation of over 20 UI frameworks for an upcoming blog post. It's a pity to have even accessibility-aware frameworks like Bootstrap going with inaccessible colors by default - on purpose [0]. Yes, it is not hard to customize those colors, but many people simply go with the defaults, leading to an inaccessible site.

[0] https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.1/getting-started/accessibil...
I'm curious as to why there is an extra Cyrillic version. Doesn't the font have glyphs for unicode?
Nice Report! Good Job!
Ask HN: Windows Hosting for Multiple Side Projects
I have a few side projects which I am tinkering with and am ready to launch MVPs for. Everything is written in dotnet core MVC. Ideally I would like to have my own server and run each site behind IIS as a reverse proxy (do this at work, familiar with it). I also like being able to spin-up/decommission sites quickly and easily, and a dedicated VM would allow me to do that. I also want to run SqlExpress locally on the same box for the sites to talk to, which you don't get with e.g. Azure App Service, nor do I want to have to administer each one separately.

Running a non-minuscule Windows VM in Azure seems to cost around $90 per month which seems pricey to me, when that over the course of a year would pay for a server with similar spec twice over. But, I don't want to touch a physical machine here.

Is hosting multiple sites on a dedicated VM the wrong approach here? Anyone else running multiple sites on windows have a better hosting solution?
Those links see a blast from the past. We were so young back then!
Taiwan has some leading tech companies, most notably TSMC who fabricate a huge portion of all ICs (chips) in the world. China has been investing a lot in building up it's own fabs, with some success - but still well behind TSMC. I wonder is part of this goal to take a strangle-hold on the world's technology manufacturing?
Bluetooth can be complex, finicky, and would add to the cost of a small device.

I could see this being used to share diagnostic information, certificates,condensed instruction manuals, &c.
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I made that argument largely to show the versatility of sophistry. You can take a proposed fact, like strong heritability of ability, and weave many arguments around it.

I have in fact heard people argue for strong socialism on the basis of heritable inequality. This would assume the definition of "earn" as to acquire through individual goal directed action. If most of the ability behind that action was not itself acquired through anything but luck, then this could undermine the notion of a moral claim to outcome.
The historic preludes to the chapters are awesome. The dynamic programming chapter starts with an intro to the study of meters in Sanskrit poetry.
Yes, my experience is very similar. I do enjoy novels and sagas such as A song of Ice and Fire, but what I enjoy is the accumulation of information (plot, lineages, scheming, conspiracies, etc). It's all abstract. I find myself glancing over most of the descriptions, since they're nothing more than empty filler for me.

If I try to play an RPG game now, instead of enjoying the feeling of being inside a new world I'm just eagerly waiting for new plot developments while being frustrated at having to walk through places that the old me would have loved to explore.
I think it's not even racism vs anti-racism.

Which ever way you cut the population (gender, skin color, etc), you are most likely going to get different IQ distributions. But the variance within a segment of the population is far greater than the difference in average between these segments. I.e. there is a far greater difference between the bottom 10% of population A by IQ and top 10% of population B than there is between the average of population A and population B. So it makes no sense whatsoever to treat an individual from population A based on population A average (or percentile).

So acknowledging these differences in distribution doesn't justify in any way discriminating individuals based on race, gender or any other parameter (which is my definition of racism). But these differences may explain why for certain professions you will not find a distribution that matches exactly the distribution of the wider population (I would expect scientists for instance to mostly come from the top 5 or 10% of the IQ distribution).

What you refer to as "anti-racists" though are more often than not identity politics militants, which ideology is based on the tabula rasa theory, which dictates that there cannot be any difference in IQ distribution. And that therefore any deviation in socioeconomic status is fully explained by discrimination and oppression.

So I don't disagree that racists will also use these studies, even if I think they can only do so by misunderstanding basic statistics. But supressing these studies by labelling them as racist mostly serves another agenda that has little to do with anti-racism.
Bing Crosby gave the necessary 'VC' funding to start production of tape recorders with sufficient fidelity to pre-record his radio show.

He was motivated by 'laziness': he wanted to spend more time at home or playing golf than the strict schedules of a weekly live radio broadcast permitted.
You say "without considering accidents", but I'd argue that accidents are usually negligible to begin with. Yes there were the "big" incidents early in the history of nuclear power, but besides being huge public relation disasters, these disasters are not so "big" compared to other energy production accidents (e.g. offshore drilling, mining, etc).

Yes 100% solar/wind would be virtually accident free, but if you argue this point too hard you let the perfect become the enemy of the good.

I always like to point out to people (it often surprises them) that the province of Ontario gets more than half of its energy from nuclear plants [1]. How often do you hear about horrible accidents in Ontario? Not so often - there hasn't been a major clean up required since the mid 90s. And these are facilities built in the 60s! Anecdotal, but this is the sort of "quiet evidence" of nuclear safety that is easy to ignore.

[1] https://www.ontario.ca/document/2017-long-term-energy-plan-d...
When you say 2.5D do you mean that the map appears 3D but the player moves on a 2D plane?
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I've played a number of Zelda games (LA, OoS & OoA, OoT, MM, WW, TP, SW, BotW) and I've loved them all, though sometimes in very different ways. I think Majora's Mask was very interesting, but I think I appreciate its design and intricacies more now, looking back at it, than I did as a kid.

BotW is my favourite and to me it feels very Zelda. That said, I definitely see what you mean about the dungeons. The different dungeons all have exactly the same visual style and theme. They all feel very much the same, which is so strange in a game which is all about variety and dynamics. Even the boss fights, which Zelda games excel at, all feel quite similar. I feel like I understand the idea behind those decisions, but the end result still suffers from it.

On the story, though, I have to disagree. It's true you don't really live the tale as much as find out about it (unlocking memories), but I absolutely loved the story (especially Zelda's character arc) and the juxtaposing of the struggle to prepare for Ganon's return with your attempt to build up the strength to face him after he's already brought ruin to the kingdom.

The fact that your adventure takes place a hundred years after Ganon's victory removes the kind of fake urgency you often have in video games where you need to hurry! but are also invites to partake in countless small quests. To me, the way you're learning about what happened adds a nice bittersweet tone to the hopeful preparations of the champions who you already know failed their mission.
There's his expression in clip A, and the following subject in clip B. The viewer's impression of his social calibration (his appropriateness) in A changes after they see B.

A is a neutral expression.

B is a somber event where restraint is required: A is appropriate.

B is a happy event or perhaps a close family member: A then B implies he's cold, underwhelmed or disapproving.

B is some random, inanimate object: B holds no new social meaning of A, unless B is symbolic or a plot Macguffin.

It's the same A, but it's the clip B following it that rewrites socioemotional history of the viewer.

At a higher level of abstraction, it and other socioemotional back-rationalizations imply most people allow the future to rewrite their impression of the past, making the past not entirely cast in stone. People can easily turn on each other and then forget about it simply because they choose to rewrite history in their minds, twice.
I think you may be confusing the assumption that people are equal (blank slate) with treating people equally (not misapplying aggregate statistics to individuals and not being an asshole). The latter doesn't require the former. Some leftists might argue for a blank slate but I'm not even sure this is the majority view.
Snake text (ie, copying existing learnings from newspaper column widths) was already a thing in 1996

> The column was the first example of what the Web magazine Salon (www.salon1999.com) dismissed as "snake text," meaning the story ran in one long, narrow column. While the reader has to constantly scroll through snake text, the narrow width is far easier to read than, say, oh-I-dunno, Salon's ripped-from-a-magazine page format.

https://www.wired.com/1996/11/web-dreams-2/
Or Toyota just makes high quality pads. The pads on our Sienna lasted 92k miles over 6 years.
He addresses that, the issue is that you aren't identifying "performance" but rather "performance in the sort of test taking environment that exists at school".

His entire point is that, while IQ may identify good, obedient candidates for BS jobs, it is not broadly applicable as anything like a general metric for life.
I guess it's not, but the way the shows are structured, such as Oliver's and Minhaj's they seem to be partly educational where they try to summarize a topic, but it's frequently missing relevant information so I don't get anything out of that aspect of the show either. Audience ideally shouldn't be expecting a news comedy show to be a complete source of information.
Google is moving away from Android, the replacement has Dart built-in.