skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, once you’re looking at one of those two possibilities, you really want the prison. But before that point, almost your entire focus is going to be on not getting either one.

My point isn’t that they’re basically the same in all aspects, it’s that they’re basically the same in terms of their input to the decision of whether to travel to a given place.
For me it didn't even load. I just got a slowly loading blur of text that slowed Chrome on Android to a halt and made me force restart the browser.

Sites like this make me hate the web. I have even started to like pages that I hated when they were launched because they were slow (prime example: Swedish state television: www.svt.se). They now shine like beacons of hope.
Try 1-10, well maybe not 3, but don't give them any ideas.
We launched about a year ago. We put a bunch of time in the beginning but then we slowed down to a trickle since we are all working and doing this on the side.

Marketing has been very minimal. A couple of blog posts, a few tweets/fb posts/linked in posts/etc, a Show HN post - i think that's about it.
> Maybe because "fruitful", like "seminal", is imprecise ... More precise terms might be "canonical" or "foundational" or "popular" or "influential" or "groundbreaking".

These all mean different things though: are you seeding the ground (seminal) or did you flow through subsequent work like a river (influential) or perhaps you begin work to actually build something (groundbreaking) or maybe people liked it regardless of inherent value or lack thereof (popular) or perhaps the paper laid out a corpus that an enormous amount of subsequent work turns out to have been built upon (foundational).

Seminal is perfectly reasonable given the way machine learning is spreading (huge numbers of papers on various topics from which grow various branches that interact).
Intel is multiple times larger. Also imagine how much bigger of a challenge it is to turn around Intel technology growth` (Which is infinity more profitable)

2016 is the latest numbers I can find:

Employees Intel 106k AMD 9K

Sales Intel $59.3B AMD $4.3B
Quickly find messages in your local Maildirs. Full replacement for Google mail and other centralized spying email systems. It uses https://github.com/djcb/mu and mutt https://www.mutt.org in ~/.bash_functions directly from shell, and displays emails

function search-messages () {
/usr/local/bin/mu find --clearlinks --format=links --linksdir=~/Maildir/search "$@" && mutt -f ~/Maildir/search
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The problem with applying it to utilities is that they're near universal and have a natural monopoly, so when you try and punish them, the tendency to seek recovery through rates makes it everyone's problem.

And I'm not saying this from a "privatized profit/socialized loss" argument standpoint. I'm saying it from a "nearly everyone is some electric utility's customer, so when you find the utility liable, the customers (i.e. everyone) ends up paying for it somehow".

If the state assumed stewardship of the grid, the liability would still go to customers through either rates or taxes. So at that point, what we're really discussing, is how you feel about/how does fully public ownership of an electric utility fare relative to a regulated private entity replete with executive compensation and capitalistic motivations?

Once you hit up the utility for all the money you can get, either you ditch the grid altogether, or everyone using the grid is going to end up paying for most of it in one way or another. Who knows, maybe California will decide to try some grand gridless experiment. But the options are limited.
It's a header-only class[0], and "using namespace" in headers is discouraged.

[0] https://github.com/sol-prog/cpp17-filewatcher/blob/master/Fi...
He wrote books about it, have you read them?
For many years, I have used yellow text on a blue background. The rationale is that the human eye is least sensitive to blue, and most sensitive to an orangey-yellow, and thus this combination is the easiest for your eyes to distinguish.

I pair that with xterm and the traditional 6x13 fixed font. But don't let that undermine the colour argument :-)
That’s not really what agile is about. It is about early feedback, so yes the customer might see an incomplete product. This is similar to watching a bespoke house being built. As long as they wear a hard hat, it’s ok for the client to inspect the footings.
What makes you believe a publicly run institution will do a better job?
You're getting downvoted b/c there is enough negligence and history involved that there are other more proximate reasons so the "climate change" line feels off-topic, but, you're not wrong.

The bad maintenance on the transmission tower is what created the spark, but there's also the point that the area was such a dry tinderbox that one spark was able to ignite the tragedy.

Resilient systems don't show such fragility.

The fact that an unattended campfire, a hot muffler, or any other number of things (inadvertent or intentional) could have caused the same effect shows there's a systemic challenge here. We can grab whatever we legally can from this business malfeasance, but systemic challenges are much harder to deal with (and there's no one to easily blame)...

The tinderbox is not going away, and whatever comes after PG&E is going to be operating in a far riskier business environment.
Hooktheory is about the best songwriting tool I've ever used, delighted to see this on HN. Their Hookpad software is completely magical and helps not only to write chord progressions, but to learn music theory as well.
Of course. But we’re talking about the potential impact on tourism here.
The reality is that you aren't likely to find a solution in a single article.

I think the piece has some good bits, but there are also things I don't necessarily agree with. The main thing I don't agree with is the idea that you can give someone a comprehensive solution in a short article.

It's written like a how-to guide, like if you just follow this bullet point list, it will work out. And that's not likely to be true in most cases.

The piece makes me feel like I ought to write something on the topic, but I don't know that it will happen. I'm currently hip deep in dealing with other stuff. Perhaps the thing to do is start a stub and hope that I revisit it at some point.

My point being: I actually have quite a lot of experience dealing effectively with difficult personal problems and I don't think some bullet list of To Do items is a slam dunk solution to any thorny problem.

I posted it hoping it would generate meaty discussion, absolutely not intending to provide a guide book for people dealing with this.
From the same Wiki:

> In his 2003 paper, "Human Genetic Diversity: Lewontin's Fallacy", A. W. F. Edwards argued that rather than using a locus-by-locus analysis of variation to derive taxonomy, it is possible to construct a human classification system based on characteristic genetic patterns, or clusters inferred from multilocus genetic data.[97][98] Geographically based human studies since have shown that such genetic clusters can be derived from analyzing of a large number of loci which can assort individuals sampled into groups analogous to traditional continental racial groups.[99] Joanna Mountain and Neil Risch cautioned that while genetic clusters may one day be shown to correspond to phenotypic variations between groups, such assumptions were premature as the relationship between genes and complex traits remains poorly understood.[100] However, Risch denied such limitations render the analysis useless: "Perhaps just using someone's actual birth year is not a very good way of measuring age. Does that mean we should throw it out? ... Any category you come up with is going to be imperfect, but that doesn't preclude you from using it or the fact that it has utility."[101]

Race is a fuzzy concept, not inherently related to skin color, not highly predictive for an individual, and perhaps disappearing with increased migration and interbreeding.

However, there are clusters of human genetic trends, and there’s every reason to believe that these clusters can be associated with things like intelligence in addition to, say, thigh bone length or melanin production or muscle density.
I think this is great news. Why would we want to give money to wildfires?

They're pretty destructive, causing millions (billions?) of dollars in damage and killing innocent civilians. I do not think we should be giving money to wildfires. They can't even use the money anyway.
Interesting fact filled article with an obvious employer bias slipping in at the end.

"Employers wishing to protect themselves from unfair competition in North Dakota should tread carefully."

It would be great to get these laws prohibitions of non-competes in more states. It is one of the main reasons I still live in the high cost of living/high taxed state of California.
This might be a good time to let others know: Android (at least my OnePlus) has a "Lockdown" mode in the shutdown menu that locks the screen and prevents the usage of the biometric methods. You have to use the password. This is good because passwords have already been hashed out in court and are unequivocally protected by the fifth amendment; you don't have to tell an officer your password (and entering it for them constitutes telling them).
If that was the case, my Pi-hole would not be blocking thousands of outgoing network requests from my Echo and Google Home.
We don't. In cryptography we generally trade off information theoretic security for computational security. This means that (more broadly speaking) we don't usually know what anyone has broken if there's no public proof.

But that also means that, as a research community, we've mostly accepted that that's okay. Likewise as a heuristic we can generally say the same thing about any cryptographic algorithm that hasn't been publicly broken. And that means that evaluating the security of publicly unbroken cryptography by postulating the hypothetical strength of the NSA isn't very useful.

We know the following based on an examination of history:

1) Most vulnerabilities which compromise confidentiality or authenticity actually happen in cryptographic implementations or infrastructure code, not algorithm design;

2) RSA has not been publicly broken. Moreover, we have no research providing a way to break RSA given current technology (nor even a path forward);

3) Quantum key distribution is extremely immature technology, which trades off decades of well-studied literature about computational security to pursue information theoretic assurances.

Quantum key distribution is an extremely overengineered and brittle solution. That's not to say it isn't technically cool...but it's difficult to reconcile with everything we know about modern cryptography.
I highly doubt it, even for American citizens at the border. The "Border search exception" pretty much says that anywhere within 100 miles of a boarder, the fourth amendment doesn't apply[1]. I imagine they would make a similar rule for the fifth amendment.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_search_exception
I was citing rule 2.5.4 with that list of approved background app categories, unless you can name exemptions...
Is there any part of California that runs power underground rather than overhead cables? I understand it’s a significant cost and effort (sometimes infeasible) but at this point in time, just based on the past few years, I’m surprised not to have heard of any large scale pushes for underground power.
Unfortunately due to privacy concerns we have issues using this - I would be very interested if they offered a self-hosted option. Notion looks great and I might try it out for side projects.
I'm not sure I understand your math. The support burden is very real but why would the pricing be anything other than $premium/user/month with tiers based on support requirements?

Self-hosting nerds like myself would be able to get by on a no-support 'community edition' for like $10-15/mo.
Does that make sense in this day and age? Tech is advancing fast.

The ship that replaced her cost £3.1 billion, over 10x the cost, even when you inflation adjust.

Seems like Ocean was a bargain to me.

Edit: The more I think of this, the more insane it is. The idea that in 20 years, let alone 40 years time, we'll still rely on human piloted planes is pure stupidity. What a colossal boondoggle we've bought, and not one, but two of them!
So you're willing to argue that the output of a polygraph is evidence of something in absence of any responses you give during questioning?
...only 1 chapter on learning ?!

It shows how little we know of how biological neural networks actually work (imo 95% of "work" would be how learning occurs, that's the really interesting bit). I know this is hard to study, but wow, there's a huuuge gap here.
I'm sure this has done wonders for the degree of warm feelings the SF service-sector has had in the past for techies...I'd just tell everyone I worked as a landscaper.
Why? And where do you draw the line? The rules allowed one man (i.e., one married couple) to acquire that much wealth in the first place, so why should the rules change once there's a divorce?
a slightly bitrotted tool for this https://github.com/RichiH/vcsh
Where did the Visual Studio logo come from? [video]
Good. Screw the bankers. Who needs them anyway? These CL pansies already have the mindshare and plenty of connections to people who already invested between them and selling directly to the public why would they need costly banks to help them IPO?
There was a comment here, which I guess was flagged for... being snarky? But I think it merits discussion:

> Guilty until proven innocent...

> "Welcome to America"

I see a lot of this sentiment around, regarding people whose “lives are ruined” etc by not getting a job, or having a public reputation for committing a crime they haven’t been convicted of.

But I don’t understand the “in all matters of public life, treat everyone as innocent of every crime until they are convicted”.

But to me it seems like exercising discretion in our private judgements ALLOWS the state to have the highest possible standard for guilt (proof beyond a reasonable doubt).

To take an extreme example, if we are going to allow anyone who hasn’t been convicted of child molesting to work in a day care center, then I would want MUCH more aggressive conviction strategy by the state. Even a slight preponderance of evidence would be enough, since we would NEED a conviction in order to put in place the most basic protections for the public.

Instead, it seems to me, we all should judge people guilty of crimes entirely at our own discretion, that way the courts are FREE to only imprison those who have met the highest standard of guilt.

I simply don’t understand those who suggest that employers, public forums, and communities should presume innocence until there is a conviction. Does anyone here hold that ideal who can defend it?
Interesting. I usually start with broad, then when I feel I've maxed out inventory, I'll expand to "phrase". Typically my clients don't graduate beyond that given how expensive even exact match keywords are.
Agreed, and I was downvoted to oblivion a couple weeks back for saying as much.

> Stop being a crybaby when someone makes a few forms and buttons that spins up a vm with your DB software running

Sure, but that's not what Amazon did. They implemented the API. It's not MDB behind it. (A few HN comments from awhile ago seem to think it's some flavor of PGSQL.)
The amount of times note taking apps and products appear on the HN front page is quite amusing. Has anyone ever cracked this nut?

I've been using Joplin for about a year, it works. Could be better, but does the job
> Obesity is the natural outcome of food abuse.

Or food enjoyment. A different reaction to the realization that we are mortal.
> Lower quality editor/IDE integrations (when compared to TypeScript)

This is one of my favorite aspects of TypeScript, the first-class support it receives in Monaco Editor (part of VS Code) which is one of the reasons I also chose first-class TypeScript support when making Autumn, since I could embed Monaco right into it and get countless amazing IDE features for free.

> unfortunately, we had to change a very small amount of runtime code to fix some logic that TypeScript could not understand

Would be very curious what this is, I've only found maybe one or two things TypeScript could not understand, and they were already under active development in the Github repo.
Publishing is a nice income to have if you are lucky enough to win it
Anecdata: I have seen advertisements for Slack on magazines like Economist. Also, my HoA community has a Slack workspace.
Ask HN: What is your favorite nootropic?
Because it's topical and accurate.
They wrote: "The TypeScript compiler could theoretically perform bundle optimizations based on types and you are missing on that by having a separate emitter and type checker."

Actually, this isn't true, and it's a fundamental property of TypeScript. It's actually the secret to being a TypeScript wizard, and the more you internalize it, the more questions about TypeScript you can answer in advance. I go through some others here: http://neugierig.org/software/blog/2016/04/typescript-types....

It's an important property in part for exactly the reasons this author worries about it -- it preserves the property always safe to type check and emit separately.

It's so fundamental to TS that their bug tracker, when reporting a bug, has a checkbox about whether your request violates this property, and if so they will discard your bug.
Is their web version limited in any way compared to desktop apps for MacOS / Windows?
Then you have to trust them.
Keep in mind that PG&E performing adequate maintenance would have made causing a blaze considerably less likely. And all evidence points to PG&E indeed engaging in inadequate maintenance and doing so for year.

PGE clearly isn't the only entity to blame for the disastrous destruction of the town of Paradise but it certainly seems to carry considerable blame.
"In fact, from the distant observer's point of view, nothing beyond the horizon really exists, and a physical black hole's mass could be said to consist of the mass of the collapsing star, ever frozen in the last stages of its collapse."

Mind blown.

I remember reading that we cannot see a black hole with the naked eye, but never go an explanation as to why...

This is a really good article.
I'm consistently envious of my friends in Civil Engineering. I'm sure it's a grass-is-greener situation, but they seem to have "Decent Pay" but in a far greater range of COLs, and with a far more entrenched expectation of long term job stability. (One friend's employer still offers pensions, which is like seeing someone driving a horse and buggy in tech)

I certainly hear a range of complaints as well, largely around funding and political angles, but for the most part the things that I find most painful about tech (work/life balance, high stress, long-term stability and career growth) seem less prevalent.

Additionally, I also don't see civil engineering becoming quite as commoditized towards "assembly line" work as a lot of CS often seems to resemble, but again, this just based off the stories they tell me so I'm waiting for another rail/harbor eng to come in and tell me why it's just as miserable :)

I say all this because, as slim as the article was, you would not imagine how much "just listen to your programmers" resonates with me. I've convinced multiple coworkers to nickname me Cassandra for the number of times I've precisely identified risk factors long before they were felt, and often even when management makes soothing and affirming noises, having action result from that is a rarity. I've certainly spent more time in the last 5 years of my career "learning how to manage up" than learning how to do anything tech-related.

Personal theory: It seems part-and-parcel with the pathology I've seen for corps to be very averse to promote from within the ranks to management.
I live in San Jose, CA.

The feed that comes to my house is underground.

In my backyard, along the fence, are electric wires up in the air to feed my neighbors.

So it's a mix...
Nope, not a scapegoat. PG&E has a long history of negligence, poor planning, and straight up lying to consumers. I don't feel the same way about SoCal Edison, whom I only switched away from last month. They have their problems, sure, but it's nowhere near the level of malicious incompetence coming from PG&E for the past 20 years.

There are tons of news stories on PG&E if you look, many unrelated to the fires. They spent millions to lie to voters when Yolo County considered switching to SMUD. They routinely backdated maintenance reports to the government. They've had explosions in gas lines, and then there's the Diablo Canyon mess.
I think he's saying the ideas are good, but characterization sucks. I might compare it to Asimov: one would never read Asimov for the characters or the psychological insight (like one would read Tolstoy), but one reads Asimov for the plot and the ideas. It's not for everyone, but you would need to read the book to see if it's for you. To say just read the Wikipedia articles would be unjust.

My advice: read it if you liked Asimov or learning about Chinese culture. For example, another commenter pointed out one theme in this trilogy is "The most powerful human trait is the ability to hide ones true feelings and thoughts from others". This is a markedly Chinese trait that it was noted by a missionary who visited China in the 19th century and wrote a book called "Chinese Characteristics".
Depends on the neighborhood. I've lived in both. Here's one location where all of the cables are underground: https://goo.gl/maps/BhEVwjPSitF2
I think mechanical and low-travel, which is what you like, are not mutually exclusive.

For example, MX Cherry Low has been recently developed and it's pretty similar to what you are depicting. And probably a lot more sturdy.

But you do make a good point. Some very low travel keyboards get me a few extra key-presses per minute too.
PG&E is a pawn of the legislature, they follow all the regulations as best they can and don’t exactly mint money. They cannot unilaterally decide to do “more” to prevent fires without CA allowing them to raise rates to pay for it. It’s not anything close to a free market.

I think CA running electricity as a public service would be only good as an example to others not to make the same mistake.
I would just like something that blocked Facebook and all its many services. (sign-in, ads, etc)
I can’t find a definitive answer of exactly what she was accused of, but it sounds like she just didn’t have a work permit at all. I doubt there’s a requirement to not have a permit to work.
Specifically for your product:

1) Try to add voice interface (e.g. alexa).
2) Try to sell it specifically to professional users who care about time tracking (e.g. lawyers). I.e. in a non scalable way.
3) Increase the price.
Then they'd get out-reproduced by the occasional mutant, until the current state of affairs would reappear.
Only partly on topic, but I wish there was a Confluence/Notion-inspired knowledge management software that's embedded in Git, like git-bug: https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug
I am not so sure about this. I think more and more non-tech things are going towards Slack. A lot of non-technical companies use Slack, and it is in constant use as a University student as a improved group chat.