skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is sound reasoning even needed all the time though. I have an environmental ideology that causes me to not use cars even when its much more convenient for me. Have I ignored logical reasoning and is that even a bad thing?
Good. God only knows how much money is wasted when you just want a camera in the sky to monitor traffic/incidents and are forced to spend money on a helicopter/fuel/pilot.
1's and 0's representing words are the same thing as ink blots in the form of characters representing words.
I think you need to read the court opinion, because you're only addressing one half of it. There's a 5th amendment aspect too and that's a lot harder to overcome.
Another electron toy saves the day complete with flat buttons and hamburgers - I wonder how reliable and fast it is?

Is it that hard to make something in QT that doesn't eat up a gig of RAM?
So, maybe a minor victory this was flagged? I don't think that, but it is what it is? (I think the post is great, I've only read 2/3 of it, but pretty on message. Feel like I only just got to the technical part...)
> We're not done with improving the static type analysis in our code.

Nor will you ever be. And that's why you shouldn't write back-ends in JS.
Aren’t all laws ultimately backed by threat of force whether to take your property or imprison you (not sure I’d call this violence)? You can be held in contempt if you ignore a court order but I doubt they would like smash your thumb down on the screen.
Being that the language is user-extensible, where do you see it going in the future? Will "finished" mean feature-complete, or will we see anything worth incorporating into the language?

This isn't directed specifically at you, but to anyone who might have ideas.
Costume pour homme
I believe the comments below reflect that...
I dunno if anyone has pointed this out: the article is by a reinsurance company. I don't know why people are making the leap to "cleantech."
Yeah I'm in the same boat even with just one roku
Legitimately passive income is not a thing.
The fact that Hidalgo's student mistook Imagine for a Coldplay song is pretty damning evidence.
Absolutely you could have waited for a lawyer. You voluntarily decided not to.

"voluntary" - done, given, or acting of one's own free will. You said yourself that you could have waited, but decided not to.

Alternatively you could have just done a "no comment" interview, which - let's be honest - is what the lawyer would have advised you to do, no matter if you're guilty or not.
Apple Leak Accidentally Reveals Radical New iPhone
I was genuinely wondering recently why the Hackernews site search tool didn't show a very recent article with very obvious keywords, that google, for example, had in the first place in the results, when adding "Hn" to those 2 keywords in the search field. Is it a matter of the indexing, it means the article was too recent and it wasn't yet in the Algolia's(I believe) based HN's search tool memory; and in this case google copied it to memory faster; Or is this purely a matter of the Algorithms themselves? The algorithms for sure sound to be the matter, when the case is that of a search for an old article, that should be in memory already. It seems unnatural. Algolia has a free tier for open-source projects, what is very nice of them and thanks. I genuinely wonder if those algorithms are indeed so complex to justify those comparatively weaker behaviors seen at HN's internal search.
I prefer FileMerge. Built in to osx/xcode I believe.
I don't think that's true

https://techreport.com/r.x/wd-red-4tb/power-idle.gif
That’s not the important conclusion of the primary article. Highly mutated cancers of certain types respond better to checkpoint inhibition and so forth. Melanoma, lung adeno, colorectal with MMR defects, for example. Others (glioma, high-grade serous ovarian, germ cell for example) don’t seem to get “hot” immunologically in proportion to their mutation burdens. (And there are other tumors, serous ovarian hypercalcemic for example, that have a vanishingly low mutational burden and respond to checkpoint inhibitors anyways).

The initial results suggested that more mutations == more immune response. That’s clearly not universal enough to rely upon clinically, although in some tumor types it’s suitably reliable to stratify clinical trials. In other tumor types, it looks like we are stuck with trial and error to find good enough biomarkers for response, as with most drugs.

So while TMB can be useful, it has limitations, and this study (the primary results, published in Nature Genetics, a related but different journal) helped clarify where those limitations are. The news & views piece just has pull quotes.
I remember using Showcase ODBC over Token Ring using IPX and Netboui for Windows 3.x systems. Use the AS400 as a database.
Joe Lieberman Called ZTE a National Security Threat. Now He’s a Lobbyist for It
I much preferred the 68000 to the 8086. The regularity of the instruction set made writing a disassembler trivial. Coupled with the single-step bit you could write a very capable monitor, which I did.
How SpatialOS works with game engines
Well for one, Java is ridiculously memory hungry. The resource costs of Elasticsearch is the #1 reason I'm not using it. I've seen a few projects which had the aim of reimplementing the Elasticsearch backend in Rust, but were incomplete. That would be my ideal solution, personally.
It's not about E major as such -- all the songs were transposed to C major/A minor scales. It's about chord III in major scale or chord V in minor scale. In classical music chord III is basically never used in compositions in major keys. In minor key music, chord V is typically altered to major as it leads to the tonic much better. Often, for instance, melody ends in G# and A. Minor V, on the other hand, is kind of ambiguous and rarely, if ever, used.

EDIT: Thinking about it, E minor is fairly common in phrygian scale (it's the tonic chord), however, phrygian, unlike dorian or myxolidian, which are used at least sometimes, is super rare -- its dominant chord, B dim, is dissonant, which kind of sucks.
Any good books you can recommend? Most of what I've seen is about "offshoring" rather than "remote-first" situations, I'm about to build a team using the later and want all the reading material I can get my hands on.

Thanks for a great article!
>It seems kind of scummy

how is it scummy? is because intel's efficiently allocating those CPUs (via auction market), rather than randomly giving them out?
A clock, a piece of paper and a pen.
Untold experiences that help keeping your workflow smoothly run
I was wondering when these folks would pick up blockchain. Their particular brand of feudalism weirdly synergizes with the general philosophy of the blockchain crowd, despite them appearing to be at odds. Maybe it's the semi sovereign citizen mindset that crops up in both?
PG&E, utility tied to wildfires, will file for bankruptcy
I'm impressed by the numerous times the person being interviewed says "I don't know." Refreshing and reflects and intellectual humility that allows folks like him to uncover unique perspectives.
A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.
The only hope for humanity is to find a way to fix this nature mistake in future generations by correcting the genetic code (or anything else important for this process), when it will be completely reverse engineered. All cognitive biases at once.

It might take centuries though...
Solid is a protocol. If you use Solid to expose your data to, say, Facebook you have no control over Facebook's code.
Apple has a stated goal of increasing the usable life of iphones.

These people need to realize it’s strategic.

http://www.asymco.com/2018/09/13/lasts-longer/
https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2012/12/06/imagine-jim-borg...

I mean, some people like it and some people even love it, but lots of people also think it's bloody awful, and awful on many different levels too.
http://www.asymco.com/2018/09/13/lasts-longer/
I groan every time I hear someone say "both sides", as if it's just not possible for there to be a simple right answer sometimes. Remember "teach the controversy"?

Edit: not to say that pointing out that "both sides" have some sort of mistake is never valid, it's just that almost every time I see the argument it's from someone akin to a flat earther, or climate change denier, or an anti-evolutionist, who really doesn't have the facts on their side. And it's incredibly frustrating that they just expect me to respect their opinions just as much as I would respect someone who's talking points hadn't been debunked over and over already.
One great point in this post that I don't see much of in articles on remote work is the importance of setting people up to work autonomously as much as possible. One thing I love about working remote is being able to spend much of my time deep diving on problems without distraction.

Good communication practices are equally important, but I feel like those are less often overlooked these days.
https://www.amazon.com/What-Life-Autobiographical-Sketches-C...
An uneducated mind?
Those financials say they increased their net profits from under 900m in 2015 to 1.6B in 2017 (nearly a 10% net profit margin--that's after taxes, depreciation, etc).

Don't you think they could use some of that money to perform the maintenance required?

Instead they cut it: Operating and maintenance expenses:

2015: 7B
2016: 7.4B
2017: 6.3B

It looks like their 700m in extra profits in 2017 came directly out of the maintenance fund.

Thanks for the link, but this makes PG&E look even worse... since pg&e caused more fires in 2017 than the previous year, and 2018 is even worse than 2017.. now I really want to see what they spent in 2018.
Super helpful, thanks for the info.
Easy there killer.
Push it hard on social media for 2-3 years.. Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube, etc. Lots of useful, practical demos showing solving read-world realistic use-cases. Any time there's a release or press mention, add a hand-crafted Tweet that brings some infotainment value (just like any good public presentation).

If after that time, traction isn't happening: adjust prices or make the offering clearer. If that doesn't work, then pivot/try something else. When/if it gets to $1-2k+/month, then it's probably worth selling to someone for $20-25k and not just apoptosisizing it. It can take as long as 10 years or never for something really good and ahead of its time to catch on with insufficient hustling. HUSTLE! :)

And for heaven's sake, don't throw away a good team if it vibes and flows just because one project doesn't work out immediately.
This is just a language issue. A fun technique: try to have this discussion with someone while banning the word “life” and its derivatives from the discussion.

It usually turns out that you’re arguing over the preferred definition of an English word, and you can actually find a point of agreement on the underlying models.
"use VPN" is a pretty strange advice if you consider how any shady providers there are. Switching you phone to 4G-only pretty much gives the same level of trust in the radio access.

Covering the webcam is just ridiculous. If someone has access to the webcam without obeying the standard interfaces in your browser and asking for permission, then the problem is not the webcam picture. Your computer is controlled by someone else.

Also I have trouble recommencing 2FA. User, password and e-mail access is considered one factor. Adding another one increases security over that - even if it's insecure SMS. But it often completely disables fallback authentication. The advice for 2FA should be: if you need 2FA, add a minimum of tree factors to allow recovery.

All in all, nice list.
Only thing I can complaint about Joplin is slow syncing. Although, it is still good enough for my needs.
> TeX, LaTeX (and all the derivatives), Asymptote (better ideas: scribble, skribilo)

It’s hard to take screeds like this seriously when their suggested alternatives use LaTeX for output!
Aw this is perfect! I've been using notion and have always wished they had an api for this exact purpose! Thanks for sharing this!
Bitcoin Mining Alone Could Raise Global Temperatures Above Critical by 2033
Is that really passive though
I have seen that interrogation video and I have no problem with her asking questions in a caring and patient way. In fact I would prefer all interrogations were like that one.

There are many, many, much worse examples.

The first one that comes to mind to me is when they interviewed that simple guy on the Netflix show, Making a Murderer. They basically told him everything would be ok if he just admitted to murdering someone, and prompted every detail by just badgering him. He had no idea how serious the charges were that he was admitting to, and clearly had no idea of the details of the murder until they prompted him. I'm sure he should have had a lawyer or guardian helping him, as you would with a child.

He's still in jail AFAIK.
This right here sounds like overengineering.
I started using NixOS over Christmas and I have no trouble whatsoever with the language. It seems pretty lazy for the author to shoot Nix down on the grounds that DSLs are "always a bad idea." He even has the nerve to mention Mozilla as failing with XUL, while ignoring the success of Rust!

Nix is lightweight, pure and maximally lazy. It's a simple DSL that evaluates targets -> derivations (build specs.) Considering it can build an entire OS with so few features, I'm not sure adding a numeric tower and Turing-completeness is really desirable.

Also, I'm surprised this article doesn't mention Hydra. Reproducible binary caches and automatic testing are one of the key advantages of these systems -- does Guix use it?
Capitalists in the 21st Century
> Have the idle rich replaced the working rich at the top of the U.S. income distribution? Using tax data linking 11 million firms to their owners, this paper finds that entrepreneurs who actively manage their firms are key for top income inequality. Most top income is non-wage income, a primary source of which is private business profit. These profits accrue to working-age owners of closely-held, mid-market firms in skill-intensive industries. Private business profit falls by three-quarters after owner retirement or premature death. Classifying three-quarters of private business profit as human capital income, we find that most top earners are working rich: they derive most of their income from human capital, not physical or financial capital. The human capital income of private business owners exceeds top wage income and top public equity income. Growth in private business profit is explained by both rising productivity and a rising share of value added accruing to owners.
> I found alternative models for just about every home-spun experiment.

I have put thought into how to prove a round earth and all the models of a flat earth I have seen cannot stand up to basic observations of the sun, moon and stars (over the course of one year from a single location).

I would be very interested to in an alternative model that can account for astronomical phenomena that are easily perceived with the unaided eye.
True, but Samsung is still making them. A 1TB mSATA 860 EVO is currently only $3 more than the M.2 SATA version of the same, so it's still a reasonable comparison against drives from several years ago. (However, both mSATA and M.2 SATA versions of the 860 EVO are more expensive than the 2.5" version that faces far more competition.)
> U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Ah, OK, so this is as meaningful as the judge who decided that the ACA was unconstitutional.
The pipe was installed in 1956, before modern testing methods such as xrays. It worked for over 50 years. Per PG&E, they have 6,700 miles of gas distribution pipelines [1] like the ones in San Bruno. They have another 40k miles of other gas pipelines. Building perfectly safe systems in the face of enormous lengths of pipe -- ie there will be manufacturing defects -- and over 50 year service lives seems like a very difficult problem to address.

Also, 2/3 of their gas pipelines were built before 1970

> A Chronicle investigation pointed out in October that two-thirds of PG&E's pipelines were built before 1970. That was a key year, in which regulations requiring better welding techniques were enacted.

> Also, the vast majority of PG&E's old pipelines can't be inspected with the most modern technique - a device called a smart pig, which is bristling with sensors and is run through the interior of a pipe. PG&E has also been unable to find complete documentation confirming the safety of maximum pressure levels for about one-fourth of its transmission pipelines in and around urban areas. [2]

Per the pdf [3], page 18, PG&E spent $834m capex and $4.9m opex over 4 years replacing 186 mi of pipeline. This averages out to $4.4m/mi, and much of it doesn't seem to have been in urban areas, which massively increases expense and public disapproval. So you can see the magnitude of the cost to replace the (2/3) of 6700 mi of pipeline built before 1970. Roughly (2/3) x 6700 x 4.4e6 = $19.6B.

None of this means PG&E is spectacularly well run. But the $100m they apparently were supposed to spend on pipe replacements is barely a drop in the bucket of doing a system-wide pipe replacement that we perhaps ought to be doing.

[1] https://www.pge.com/en_US/safety/how-the-system-works/natura...

[2] https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/PG-E-under-spent-on-pipe...

[3] http://www.cpuc.ca.gov/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=4594
One of the things I learned about memory when I was reading tons of papers on this stuff is that usually people need to have comprehension of something before they will remember it. As an example, when I was teaching English to high school students in Japan one time I told the students to bring their textbook the next class (we usually didn't use it). I spoke English. The next day, not one of the 30 or students brought their text book. I asked the students, "Does anyone remember me saying something last class?" Not one student remembered. I had a teacher teaching with me ("team teaching" -- very good idea) and he remembered me saying it. It was then that I really grasped the concept: if you don't understand, you won't remember. In fact, you might not even remember that something you didn't understand had occurred.

I think what visualisation (especially with story telling) does is create a framework for comprehension. It gives logic to the thing you are memorising. This is especially good when you are memorising a list of arbitrary facts that have no inner logic themselves. People who are studying Chinese characters often create stories (ala Hesig) and I can verify that it makes them easier to remember. Without an inner logic, it's really hard to hang on to.

My feeling (which corresponds to my experience) is that when memorising things that already have an inner logic, there is no need to visualise or create stories. For example, if you memorise example sentences rather than vocabulary or grammar, visualisation doesn't help. The logic already exists within the sentence.
> People make mistakes, we are fallible. Unless it's a felony, these things should not haunt people who have learned and matured enough to have not made the mistakes recently.

Do you have a personal philosophical justification for stating that a felony should continue to haunt people who have learned and matured enough not to do them again? If so, why? (or is this more of a practical "well we don't have a chance in Hell of getting the Justice system on board to forget felonies" type of exclusion)
Tripple camera system, new antenna and improved face id.

Radical only on the 80's sense of the word.
As someone who programs in Clojure--and therefore has no justification for weighing in--I _believe_ that it's a cultural or generational difference. That is, for certain programmers (working in the 1980s? 1990s?) "Lisp" (capital-L, lower-case isp) meant Common Lisp, and many agreed.

I am sure that people tediously, fruitlessly argue about it. But it's also true that for a wide swath of programmers, Lisp is Common Lisp.

I wonder if hn's lisper or lispm could weigh in...
Have you tried using Franz? https://meetfranz.com/
Xapian has a long history starting in the early 80s:

https://xapian.org/history

I've used Xapian extensively, but not this new Xapiand tool, so I can only speak to the actual library. Xapian is a C++ library that accesses index data files directly on disk.
There are bindings for various languages, say Python, let's you do 'import xapian' and get FFI bindings to the library, then you basically open your on disk index files and issue queries.

Xapian supports many concurrent readers, but only one writer. It's not a server, there are no protocols. Maybe that's what this Xapiand tool adds. In general the overhead is very, very light, just enough ram to hold the library code, the OS takes care of all the filesystem level caching.

Many of the very same concepts that are in Lucene, Documents, Terms, weights, flavors of BM25 relevance ranking, query parsing trees, relevancy operators, etc, all apply to Xapian as well.
Apple gets a lot of customer requests, 99.9% of which they ignore, and 95% of which they should ignore. This was a funny one for them to select for implementation.
The bank cartels will punish them. Startup ceos ought to have known this since Google’s IPO debacle.
TS takes one day to get going, which is one of the best things about it.

Stick to the 'basics' of TS, which are super general programming syntax structures and idioms - there's really nothing new you'll come across (maybe unions?) - so it's easy.

Then you can try some of the trickier things but frankly we don't use them that much.

You'll be up and running pretty quickly because you can mix your 'new' TS modules with old-school JS code no problem.

And then go from there.

I like TS because it's not some big new fancy paradigm shift: it's just typing, some other pragmatic things, and it works pretty well, very quickly.

It's the only tech I will actively evangelize as being 'the thing you need if you use JS' type thing.
Right, so there's probably a discussion that needs to be had with your enterprise architecture team on why said stack was used (irrespective of skill sets available) when certain features are available "for free" (e.g. the DesignSystem)

I'll have a wild stab in the dark in saying that if the stack is really tightly coupled, that there's extra labour required by the dev team to meet the Digital Service Standard. Which is, really speaking, unnecessary public expenditure.
> Friday’s employees can work on what they think creates value:
> fixing tech debt

Why wouldn't you fix tech debt on a normal working day?
windows running in a main frame, what a joke...
If you have no profits, CA is probably going to have to directly own the company. You won't be able to get cash from the stock market. At this point, that's the most likely outcome, but I can't imagine many people in the CA government actually want the responsibility.
If you want a dictionary definition, that's easy enough to find online.
Great article!

Just throwing this out there - the animated gifs are cool and fun but make reading the text next to them almost impossible.
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MacKenzie Bezos likely to be world's richest woman after divorce