skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why not? I don't see the guidelines that say that it can't be done. I think people reading this are a super audience prone to the above due the coolness and hypeness of the startup world having to move ever more. If anything, I think it should be talked about on channels like this. And yes, also a professional is necessary.
This issue is compounded by the fact that you need a search engine to find old reddit posts and AMP-free DDG doesn’t have the last year and custom date filters Google does.
This article seems the describe what it means to grok something; and that maybe one (easy?) way to reach that is via spaced repetition systems.
What’s weird to me though is because I browse the internet on my phone a lot, there are some sites that are terribly slow (and prone to those weird “you’ve won an iPad” hacks).

The Huffington post is one. On an older phone or tablet, the site is unusable on iOS. It will crash, and sometimes freeze. Long articles fill in excruciatingly slow.

I would think in a data driven business, that there has to be significant numbers of people who actively avoid the site, and that they would want to minimize this.

Yet there seems to be no improvement over time.

I’ve sometimes wondered if it’s because literally every person in engineering and management at company like Huffington Post have fast devices, and they don’t notice how bad it is.

I find it paradoxical.
Exactly. I made a very good decision this time around; I wanted the cheapest phone that was fingerprint-protected and had USB Type-C, since I wanted it to last me several years and pin codes are painful.

I got my current phone for 160€ (if I'm not mistaken) 1.5 years ago and I couldn't be happier. Browses the web perfectly and runs my few apps great, I'll keep it until it breaks. I'm so happy that I'm even considering buying an extra screen to have reparaibility in the future in case they are hard to find then!

It's funny that many of my non-tech friends who spent half a month salary on an iPhone (Spain) are quite confused about me using a cheap android.

Edit: also note that my 160€ phone now is way better than those 400€ phones 6-8 years ago. And there's not even that much difference with a current 800-1000€ phone.
In my mind I included software of your own free choosing. As in, not only what’s in the app-store of your device, but that software the kid down the street hacked together for you.

But yeah, I see your point. Of course my memory is somewhat clouded by the circle of people I choose to surround me with.

(Edit: But even the 90s has started the downward slope. There was a time before that, and in first half when systems booted into a BASIC-interpreter)

An interesting case to exemplify: Minecraft started out as java application. You downloaded a set of jar-files an ran. The software was proprietary, but it was yours to run, and java being what it is, was fairly simple to modify and extend. A large community of tinkeres and hackers grew up around this capability of modding the software in various ways.

Then commoditization happens, Microsoft bought it, rewrite it in c++ and started selling it as a service with an app-store. Modding is still part of the echosystem, but the barrier to entry is sufficiently high that I have hard time imagine any new generations of hackers growing up as Minecraft modders.
Obviously I have to know what the medication was!
DISCLAIMER: My own startup, Buzzshot (https://buzzshot.co), makes an Escape Room software SaaS product. I've been running it for 2 years and its been my full time gig for about 6 months

The article doesn't talk about it much but there's also a booming support industry that's built up around Escape Rooms. From prop makers, puzzle desingers, suppliers of full turn key rooms.

It's a fascinating industry to work in. Having spoken to every customer on the phone (highly recommended) there's such a range of people starting Escape Rooms from people starting their first ever business to people with lots of experience in related (or less related) areas. The amount of different skills that go into making these things is amazing. Having multiple rooms seems important to growing revenue, since it's the only practical way to get return customers. A lot of people of expanding to multiple locations as well as a way of reusing work.

A cool thing happening right now in the UK is two rooms are openning using licensed IP. There's a Dr Who one which sounds really exciting and one based on the Benedict Cumberbatch Sherlock show (disclaimer no 2, they're a customer of mine which I'm very excited about)

They're a whole lot of fun to play as well :)
Nexus 5 is expected to be the flagship device for PostmarketOS, running on a mainline kernel, even. So, it will be in very good shape for the foreseeable future, even after it's no longer able to run a supported version of Android.

(Besides, I don't buy the notion that current phones are more expensive than in the past. A good baseline-to-midrange device, costing around $300, can do everything that the N5 could and more. The Xiaomi A line is very good, or you can pick Asus or BQ if you're concerned about Xiaomi being from China. Really, just pick something that's trivially unlocked and has good support by the modding community, and you're good to go.)
I’d love to update my 2012 MacBook Air as it is getting a little slow on some of the scripts I’d like to run. Unfortunately the 2018 MacBook Air is only 1/3rd faster for CPU (it dropped a power category), so there’s little point just yet. Maybe Apple will use their own CPUs in the near future which should give a nice boost, but for the time being I’ve just been hand-optimising the scripts instead.
UX rant: The nightmare horrorshow that is the Apple TV remote
Why would they continue allowing you to use the registrar but not the nameservers?
I think education is going to evolve in this fashion:

1. Education boards will realize that technology needs to be better embraced so they increase tech funding and begin enhancing classrooms with AI.

2. One particular AI software outperforms the rest and becomes the de facto education tool.

3. The software becomes advanced enough that human teachers become supplementary. Most educators are laid off but the best of them start careers as tutors for wealthy children.

4. The company who developed the software receives permission to begin rapidly constructing "campuses" -- circular smart-cities that provide everything necessary to nurture the next generation of academics. Using the metrics their software has provided, they pick the most capable students and offer them permanent residency. For students below a certain age, the campuses censor communication with the outside world, fearing that they might be negatively influenced.

5. The campuses become the fastest innovators of the modern world by hoarding all the talent. They become so powerful that each campus houses its own military unit composed of a robotics and cyber intelligence division.

6. Governments around the world become puppet states as the campuses continue expanding. The campuses are officially recognized as the most powerful political entities.

7. Eventually, we're either wiped out by some genius psychopath who exploits a security flaw in a system, or we start enhancing our bodies biologically/technologically until we're no longer human.

Anyone know of a book that describes the above?
Teachers always forget: everyone has been to school. So teachers moan about how much time they spend lesson planning but I wonder how much planning went into putting on a video and nipping out for a fag? Or marking, but I wonder, when the answer book was given out and everyone marked their own? So when they whine about how underpaid they are, noone believes it for a second, in fact for the work they actually do they are if anything wildly overpaid... I’d start by paying them only during term time, so that’s a cut of at least a third immediately, maybe a half.
If you don't notice that the article is missing some paragraphs, then the article has had a bad editor.
Teachers already seem overworked. Wouldn’t they just invent a new magic number, maybe “1”?
I saw a thing, can't remember where, that some telecos are planning on turning 'manhole' covers into antennas and running the cables through sewers.
At some level I agree with you. You can learn tons from folks that are in similar situations or have gone through similar things.

But, if you are really burnt out or depressed, this could quickly become a life or death situation, so seeking professional help in a timely manner, is the best option. Your life could literally be at stake. Reason is, HN lacks context and any sustained attention/followup. Take this thread for example. OP has not provided any comments or followup. We have no context on why this person is asking this question. Are they going through this personally, asking about a co-worker, a spouse? We have no idea. Their question and following discussion could come back to haunt them via a search if they give enough details. We are not experts with context, sure we can offer advice on something we might have gone through, but that is not expert advice tailored to their situation.

So, it is really a good idea, to seek professional help if you find yourself in this situation vs asking random strangers on HN. Chatting with a professional is confidential, they will ask and gather the correct context (with local customs, current medical practice, and laws in mind), and hopefully give you a good path forward.

Your advice might be different on where you are located too. Do you have the same options if you live in the US, EU, or Asia? I have no idea on what your situation is, what your support network looks like, what your resources are, how bad it is, etc. You are much better off chatting with a professional.
I don't want a product that just "succeeds" (in monetary terms). I want to make something that is not of questionable/poor quality. I guess it's about the difference between a craftsman and a businessman. Businessmen are happy selling poor quality products to customers, as long as the hit to reputation does not endanger their profits. Craftsmen won't be happy doing it, even if they can get away with it.

And I get the fact that, if you're making a product that's never been done before, then MVP releases are partly about market research. Not all software is innovative though, and often you just want to produce a good contender on the market that's already established (say, like the Sublime Editor). In such case, there's no need for the MVP approach.

The fact of the matter is that there's tons of successful products, that are way past their MVP phase, which never stopped sucking from technical standpoint. Heck, I'm watching Netflix on its Windows app right now, and the app has serious issues.
Pros and Cons of Bootstrapping Startups
My Nokia N900 has real file system and can run any program that runs on Debian since 2009.
Still my day to day mobile device because of that.
> “It’s a pretty astonishing finding,”

Is it?

I was never abused, but my parents were definitely not pleased by bad school reports. It's not hard to imagine that people who look for excuses to abuse their children, do so after getting a school report.

Why is it so astonishing?
> Source? This term was invented by Sarah Palin and was judged 2009’s Lie of the Year by PolitiFact.[1]

The lie (or at least misrepresentation) was that Obamacare had a "death panel clause" in it. An argument could be made that it still does:

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jun/14/obamacare-d...

For the equivalent in the UK:

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-28983924

> You have no idea what you’re taking about. There are 28 million uninsured Americans and millions more who are unable to afford treatment due to high deductibles.[2]

Your source doesn't actually say that. It only says 28.5 million Americans are uninsured for whatever reason. A high deductible implies low monthly premiums. To give the example of the NHS, it's 13% of your paycheck - you don't have the choice. If everybody was forced to buy insurance, premiums could be lower as well. Obamacare is just a "have your cake and eat it too" system that cannot work in the long run.

You "Medicare for all" proponents simply need to own up to the cost and not keep bullshitting about how some European country has better care at less cost and therefore the US could have the same. It's just not comparable. Several countries like Germany or Australia also have a public-private mix system. That option shouldn't be off the table either.
> iPhone is getting pricer with no good reason besides greed.

Except margins have remained the same. So while the iPhone prices have increased Apple is not making more money (given the increase in service revenue which is high margin it could be argued Apple is making even less margin on iPhones now). If there is any argument it is that Apple got too far out over their skis on things like the t2 chip and A12x.
What's funny is that your comment alluding to the generational persistence of punishment indicates the very cyclic nature that you are seeking proof of. Its persistence does not prove its worthiness ('appeal to nature'), only its ability to survive as a trait. What we have to decide is, whatever the mechanism of its survival, what is its efficacy and moral value in today's society.
Bought a Moto G4 in 2016, cracked the screen that early 2017, use it despite worsening screen burn-in.
Finally decided to get a new phone (Motorola One), which is scheduled to arrive tomorrow. Will probably use that at least three years as well.

I always wondered why I would buy an expensive "flagship" phone other than showing off?
A "mid-range" one is entirely enough...

- good camera for the few occasions I use that
- Watching videos/streaming
- Looking up stuff while on-the-go (when a laptop/tablet isn't available)
- listening to music on inexpensive "conventional" headphones (F wireless headphones) which I can get new for cheap at almost any supermarket
- If I wanted to I could use the dual-SIM-capability that both my current and my new phone have
Reddit detectives are hard at work decoding Black Mirror: Bandersnatch
Healthcare systems are not uniform. Canada or the UK's system is quite different from other systems. For example the Netherlands has a hybrid system that utilizes a competitive, private, for-profit insurance market (with subsidies from the government). I think a lot of first-world countries have systems like that. (they aren't publicly managed, single-payer systems) And given the rhetoric on this issue I was very surprised to learn that.

I agree that the US system is in need of major reform, but prices, competition and markets can be an important part of a healthcare system for price constraints, innovation, mitigating corruption, etc.

As an example, consider food stamps, which helps people get food, but does so via the private market. The program would be a lot worse off if the Government decided to open grocery stores or tried to run the whole supply chain.

Perhaps a similar line of reasoning applies to healthcare?
It is dotted zero, although I have seen modified versions with a slashed zero.
Love this website!

The train from Bangkok to the Thai/Cambodian border was one of the most wonderful trips I ever took. I watched movies until late at night at a mall movie theater, slept a few hours in the station, and tok t 5:55 train, watching rice paddies pass by for hours...

And there's no way I would have done it without https://www.seat61.com/Cambodia.htm#Siem%20Reap
Those working in the industry often know what's coming. What they often get wrong is how it's economically deployed, when it arrives, or what effects it will have.
I feel like we are in utter, complete agreement. At least for the first two paragraphs.

As for the third.. Is making payment conditional on the service provided, weird? I'm not sure how else you're supposed to negotiate. "Here are my demands, but if you don't meet them I'll pay anyway."
The relationship is not that tenuous. The slogan "SSA is functional programming" means something very specific: dominance relationships in SSA are in one-to-one correspondence with nested scope of letrec-based abstract syntax trees (let's call it LRAST). LRASTs support sparse analysis. The connection is quite close: transformations on SSA are in one-to-one correspondence with transformations on LRASTs (e.g. phi elimination is called lambda dropping).

You could imagine a SSA intermediate representation that also stores the dominator tree, and where each transformation of IR needs to update the dominator tree so that it stays in sync with the IR. That's what functional language compilers were doing.

Although they are formally equivalent, SSA is better than LRAST because some transformations that are easy on SSA are difficult on LRAST. A simple and local transformation on SSA, such as common subexpression elimination, may change dominance relationships and therefore requires restructuring of nested scopes in the LRAST. There have been a lot of papers in the functional programming literature about doing that kind of restructuring for transformations that are trivial on SSA. This is one of the reasons why the optimisations done by SSA based compilers are usually more advanced than those done by LRAST based compilers. The result of this paper was that some functional language compilers switched to SSA. MLton for example.
There is a limit to fact-checking others can do. If it comes to bothering witnesses or travelling around the world then the limit is already reached . You can't really except them to do the same work multiple times with independant writers just to prevent something unlikely.

I guess they will now implement some solutions and find a middle way.
Yes the website is modern garbage but the font is superb.
Or just lag the smartphone cycle. I upgraded from 5C to a 6S a couple months back by snagging my friend’s used phone. It’s amazing in every way. Could not be happier. I can’t wait to see what the iPhone X has in store in 2022 or so :-)
> Newspad evidence was subsequently ruled out by the judge

I'm curious about this. What was wrong with the Newspad evidence? Seems convincing and relevant enough to me.
> A̶n̶d̶ ̶i̶t̶'̶s̶,̶ ̶m̶o̶s̶t̶ ̶c̶e̶r̶t̶a̶i̶n̶l̶y̶ ̶a̶ ̶r̶e̶a̶l̶ ̶p̶r̶i̶c̶e̶ ̶i̶f̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶h̶a̶v̶e̶ ̶n̶o̶ ̶i̶n̶s̶u̶r̶a̶n̶c̶e̶.̶

Aside, I hope crossed-out-text generators don't become popular on HN. Maybe a trailing "(not)" will have the same rhetorical effect, though I don't think it added anything to your post.

It triggered my browser's "Do you want to translate from Vietnamese?" pop-up.
Really confused why someone felt the need to downvote that comment.
...is a total outlier country in every respect. It also has a vastly higher cost of living. Nominal salaries are not comparable with the US. Still, they're better than in other European countries, so their doctors (and many other professionals) flock to Switzerland (after having taken all their "free" training in their home countries).

By the way, health insurance in Switzerland is entirely private, but its affluent citizens are forced to buy insurance by law.
Their “no upselling” policy has taken a bit of a nose dive these days with pestering about things. In an email I have with their CS they said it’s not upselling, but offering you things other customers have found useful... Yeah right... all it’s not as annoying as GoDaddy’s at least was (not used them in years) but you are still trying to upsell me; just ditch your no upsell policy :-p

I still have a few domains with them it I’ve been using namesilo lately after hearing about them here and no complaints. Well the only complaint I have of them is they don’t have the range of TLD’s as namecheap does (but it’s only a handful of TLDs such as .es)
Biodiesel is a terrible investment. That's a pretty low bar to set.
Looking at the states still condoning corporal punishment, it seems those god-lovers spend all their love on god, and have only the stick and paddle left over for their neighbors and children.
Similar prediction of ebook readers by Stanisław Lem in 1961 book "Return from the stars". He called them "optons". He also predicted audiobooks and called them "lectons". And Amazon :)

> I spent the afternoon in a bookstore. There were no books in it. None had been printed for nearly half a century. And how I have looked forward to them, after the micro films that made up the library of the Prometheus! No such luck. No longer was it possible to browse among shelves, to weigh volumes in hand, to feel their heft, the promise of ponderous reading. The bookstore resembled, instead, an electronic laboratory. The books were crystals with recorded contents. They can be read the aid of an opton, which was similar to a book but had only one page between the covers. At a touch, successive pages of the text appeared on it. But optons were little used, the sales-robot told me. The public preferred lectons - like lectons read out loud, they could be set to any voice, tempo, and modulation. Only scientific publications having a very limited distribution were still printed, on a plastic imitation paper. Thus all my purchases fitted into one pocket, though there must have been almost three hundred titles. My handful of crystal corn - my books. I selected a number of works on history and sociology, a few on statistics and demography, and what the girl from Adapt had recommended on psychology. A couple of the larger mathematical textbooks - larger, of course, in the sense of their content, not of their physical science. The robot that served me was itself an encyclopedia, in that - as it told me - it was linked directly, through electronic catalogs, to templates of every book on earth. As a rule, a bookstore had only single "copies" of books, and when someone needed a particular book, the contents of the work was recorded in a crystal.

> The originals - Crystomatrices - were not to be seen; they were kept behind pale blue enamel the steel plates. So a book was printed, as it were, every time someone needed it. The question of printings, of their quantity, of their running out, had ceased to exist. Actually, a great achievement, and yet I regretted the passing of books.

http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=1024
> That's an odd attitude. You've also wasted your own time, yes?

Dodging a bullet is not wasting time. In fact, not signing a noncompete implies that the employee will not be forced to wait out an unspecified period before he is authorized to accept a job offer. Thus, refusing to sign a noncompete not only saves time but also improves their chances to have access to better job opportunities.
At my university there are several ironic and funny posters with quotes about mispredictions on display at the walls of the big lecture hall of the mechanical engineering building.

My favorite one is from Gottlieb Daimler 1901:

"The global demand for automobiles will not exceed one million - at least because of a lack of available chauffeurs." [1]

He is the founder of the predecessor of todays Daimler AG, which owns Mercedes-Benz.

[1] losely translated from German: "Die weltweite Nachfrage nach Kraftfahrzeugen wird eine Million nicht überschreiten - allein schon aus Mangel an verfügbaren Chauffeuren."
Wow, 75 for men and 73 for women! That's crazy. I wonder why Wikipedia doesn't seem to indicate this on the otherwise comprehensive life expectancy page.

I did find this fascinating and sad bit on that page though:

"Actual life expectancy in Botswana declined from 65 in 1990 to 49 in 2000 before increasing to 66 in 2011. In South Africa, life expectancy was 63 in 1990, 57 in 2000, and 58 in 2011. And in Zimbabwe, life expectancy was 60 in 1990, 43 in 2000, and 54 in 2011."

Apparently this is mainly due to HIV. I thought the effect would maybe bring down life expectancy down by 3 or 5 years, not 17 or 16. That's insane.
> but why would I hire this one guy who refuses to take it?

Am I the only one who finds this asymmetry bizarre? Shell I ask the hiring manger to take a drug test? And why would I work for him if he refuses?