skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I personally think your idea is likely, you really only need people to live to be about 50 or 60 to accomplish this, I think. If every generation has kids from around 15-20 years old, which seems very likely in our distant past, then you only need to be about 60 to have three generations of descendants (children, grand-children, great-grand-children), in which case by this argument perhaps you've done enough already and are free to die by whatever means you prefer after that point.

Maybe our advantage was that we, unlike other primates, had a lot of individuals even only making it to 40 years old in the distant past before they got eaten by tigers or succumbed to all manner of mosquito-borne diseases et cetera.
The title does not represent the content of his answer. This is the line

'A dark close up display will induce dark adaptation while looking at it and light adaptation when looking elsewhere.'

Meaning keep the light from the monitor consistent with your surroundings, to avoid having to readjust.

Going a bit further into his point, the tests were done on a CRT not an LCD, where black is no light, not just a grey. LCD black is not really black so I don't think it 'induce(s) dark adaptation'. Even when we have OLEDS and low brightness text that would be dark enough trigger adaption monitors have an ambient lighting setting that would crank brightness to be clearly visible on a sunny day, adding light to the dark elements.

Finally I use dark mode, when working in the dark, exactly the 'troglodytish existence' he advices against.
You do not need a bouncer to connect to multiple servers on IRC. Any client will do that and have server lists ready for you to just check and join.

Now, you might want a bouncer to store messaged and logs when offline, but not to be able to connect to multiple servers. Logging is a basic feature in IRC.
How many people can the platform support in one meeting? Would be very useful for >2 teams (instead of having multiple screens, could have just one environment with multiple people inside)
Abstraction is useful when the resulting code is logically simpler, much like say category theory makes certain results in algebraic topology seem obvious.

Perhaps, you simply mean a different thing when you say "abstraction".
Introducing an abstraction is a way of extending the "base" language into the domain of the problem being solved. Viewed in this way, creating an inc_pair() function does not
make sense beyond applications that deal with incrementing stuff. On the other hand, if we are moving a player on a grid, move_diagonaly_up() makes sense and is worth introducing into the extended language vocabulary.
Do you think you could leave the speculation about cause and fault to the authorities? People have died and you're confident enough to start attributing blame with essentially zero information? Appalling.
The last shop I worked at had System76 PCs for all the devs and they are great. I have since switched at home also and recently test drove their new PopOS since I needed CUDA and Tensorflow and they package them so it is as easy `apt-get install` and it was also great. I would highly recommend looking at their PCs and PopOS.

I just wish PopOS was built on Debian and not Ubuntu.
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it’s already happened, but supply is low and prices are correspondingly exorbitant.
Boeing 767 crashes or emergencies are extremely rare: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Accidents_and_inciden...

Most are related to human intervention such as terrorism, pilot error, fuel error and only a very small amount are mechanical errors. Of the 12 problems, only 5 were mechanical error. I wonder what the cause of this will be.
And your theory that two separate rare catastrophic failures happened on the same flight, at the same time, is based on what evidence?
There's a lot more to the design of an MPU than its instruction set (as you point out yourself by discussing cache), different mixes of functional units and different paths to memory for example.
I think its better to give feedback explicitly rather than sneering. The latter just feels bad to read (even as a third party) but doesn't really espouse some better active social norms to follow.

> to add a cost (the possibility of being dismissed/sneered back) to such dismissals.

Given the fact that this is a conversation among strangers, I would assert that it isn't really that effective to just add costs by making discourse less pleasant.

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In general, I think a community is healthier when we treat people 25% better than you expect to be treated, to account for the Fundamental Attribution Error and other misinterpretations.
> high fuel costs mean that pure EVs already have a lower TCO than ICE vehicles

As much as really really want that to be true, it just isn't for most people.

An electric car is ~£30k, but most people pay much less for petrol cars because there is a great second hand market. I'd say typical is ~£5k.

Most people do something like 150k miles on a car. Assuming 40 mpg (8.8 miles per litre) which is fairly typical for motorway driving. The price of petrol has been around 120p/L for several years. That puts the total cost of the petrol car at: about £25k. Still less than the purchase price of an electric car.

Maybe it will change when electric cars with a good range have been around for 20 years so there is a decent second hand market, but at the moment it just isn't true. Sorry.
Personally, I thought the solar system thing was a cute gimmick. I wouldn’t buy it just for that, but if I were in the market for a smallish Linux desktop where everything worked out of the box, the rest of the review makes it sound like a decent option. Whether you mind paying a modest premium for that, versus doing the research/confit yourself is a personal decision obviously.

Also, the author is a college undergrad writing on her own blog. If there’s ever a time and place for rationalizing something, that’s it!
I think you misunderstand me.

What I mean is you wipe the phone, reinstall either AOSP or LineageOS (or other custom ROM), do NOT install any Google Apps (to include Google Play Services, Google Store, Google Maps, etc.). Use F-Droid (https://f-droid.org/) as your App Store.

I have been using OsmAnd (https://osmand.net/) as my map service.
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I would say it's a place where people who spend a lot of time on the internet try to gain status by posting comments which they expect to be upvoted.
Adblock? Don't they allow "approved ads"?
Yeah, I think Manhattan/Martini is a closer comparison than Manhattan/Old Fashioned or Manhattan/Screwdriver...
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Living in SC, we live on the edge of the urban-rural divide. I anticipate the urban transition to meatless happening pretty quickly but I could see substantial opposition from rural people for a couple reasons:

(1) they’re closer to the people actually farming cattle.
(2) a general distrust of science
(3) the price drop to the traditional meat market as tremendous new supply floods the market.
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No, but there is a correlation between the chairs position, and your position while sitting in that chair.

And arguably it is partially causative. The reason you are sitting there is because the chair is there. If the chair were 2 ft to the left, you'd be sitting there instead.
People love remote working, but only a few fit
Before Bing, Yahoo allowed OSM to trace.
Hopefully they have a contingency plan to keep those Prime parcels on time.

Edit: They must have contingency plans for such scenarios. That's part of the job.
But I think that it is not possible to keep to the initial schedule, so I'm guessing that the plan is to re-despatch ASAP to minimise delays while displaying the standard "delayed-apologises" to customers.
If I’m understanding the article correctly, it should be possible to create a Racket language that compiles to any other language. A quick google does reveal work has been done on C and Python, although it appears there are bugs and various work-arounds that precludes a full and clean integration. The Javascript integration appears dead (in terms of using the latest version of Racket)

Although using Racket for this wholesale integration appears impractical, it does suggests a killer-app: extending general programming languages. In other words, using Racket as a transpiler. I.e., a better Babel.js, but for any language.

I routinely use Python for machine learning tasks, but frequently am frustrated by the inflexibility of the language. Instead of solving the problem itself I have to first solve how to make the language do what I want (usually resulting in code that lacks expressiveness and brevity, and thus extensibility).

I’d love to use lisp to leverage ML work that can only be done effectively in Python (Tensorflow, PyTorch, etc).

Can Racket be an effective transpiler?
I have gained such respect for the FAA and the NTSB in that every crash is followed up with a root cause analysis that all other industries should be in awe of.

When this is all over, we'll know exactly what went wrong. We'll see the FAA issue guidance or rule changes that will ensure it doesn't happen again. And then we'll somehow see an even further reduction in airline crashes.

I hope that in a few more years, as more companies join the industry, we may see a similar pattern start to evolve in the space launch industry.
After having just gone through this with my startup - the litigious nature of society makes it hard to reveal any of the information. If the board or the C* reveal too much, it opens the company up to a lawsuit.
Very very different. Don't put C/C++ on your CV if you don't know C++. You'll just annoy employers who are looking for C++ developers.
I wouldn't call an additional reference from the same psychiatrist as the original article as a "ample" information. Here's one of the expert reference she cites:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24769880

It acknowledges the research connecting red and processed meat with cancer and suggests further study be performed to understand the exact mechanisms involved.

If you have any references from a second source that appears to discredit the WHO report, that would be more interesting.
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I was surprised by page 24: "Definitely Illegal!"

The ⊥ shape is apparently illegal because "because the
receiving brick has smaller dimensions than the one being connected to it."

I always thought that was intentionally possible.
I've interviewed at a few startups and worked for one. Never got a whiteboard question, just saw them at bigger companies. Small sample size, but 'universal' might not be accurate here
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I think you could argue that cultural domination is bad. I was mostly thinking of technological and scientific improvements that came out of the USA: from nuclear to gps to smartphones.
They're screenshots from a 13 year old desktop application. In 2006 The Elder Scrolls Oblivion was considered high-end graphics.
It pays to be seen as honest, not actually honest.
I would say Rust is simple... compared to C++. On an absolute scale it really isn't that simple at all. Not like Go or Python.

For instance, take a look at the things you have to do to get perfectly reasonable-looking code to compile if Non-Lexical Lifetimes are not allowed:

https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/2094-nll....
Totally.

https://threejs.org/
>I think its better to give feedback explicitly rather than sneering. The latter just feels bad to read (even as a third party) but doesn't really espouse some better active social norms to follow.

I guess so. Sometimes I'm just pissed from the easy dismissal, as in "This 5 second basic retort is all you've came up with, and you think you've taken down TFA?".
If you enjoy reading about risk and root cause analysis in general try the venerable Usenet group comp.risks or read the digest web version at http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/risks/. It's one of those internet sinkholes that can eat hours of your time.
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Wow, I find those numbers simply amazing.
Ah neat -- We're always looking for new graph databases to connect Graphistry to!

Any guidance on wire protocol (BOLT, TinkerPop, some custom HTTP, ...?) + early users? Guessing ThreatGrid..
If the wrapper/library is generic enough then it can be less work across projects and codebase and won't need to change with an actively updated library that is wrapped.

If the abstraction wrapper is tightly coupled, uses third party library types that can change or leaky then yeah, the effort is moot and you end up with more work.

Another case is where you have some sort of messaging system where you want responses/events to be uniform to your system rather than unique to a platform or even a company/product that doesn't match your codebase. An example might be wrapping a game recording library, audio library or something that does not fit well in the codebase or complicates maintenance, even stylistically/standards, or you only need small part of the library like activating it, common types messaging or data level.

Game engines themselves are massive wrappers around many wrapped systems.
The Republican Party is the minority party and have most of the power in the US at every level.

By definition, most things that they do will be fairly unpopular, and some things they do will be wildly unpopular.
I find that these meat substitutes, vegetarian, and vegan options do not do very well because often times they are not only inferior in taste, but they cost way more. I do not see many people changing their mindsets until they can make these things significantly cheaper than eating meat products. As it is currently, vegetarianism and veganism are pretty much only available to middle class and higher people who can afford to make those choices. Healthy and environmentally-friendly options should not be a premium! They should be the default, mainstream, and accessible.

Note: Yeah, it can be cheap to go meatless if you do all the cooking yourself, but with premade products or meals at a restaurant, the vegetarian/vegan options are often priced higher, convincing no one to try them instead of affordable, flavorful meat-based dishes they are familiar with.
Maybe it's my rural background and associations, but I see a powerful psychological effect to eating meat from a real animal, and that won't disappear because some meat substitute tastes pretty good. I like falafel, I like shiitake mushrooms, I like a good veggie burger, but there's no substitute for the flesh of an animal — especially one I raised, where I know its diet, its experiences, and how it was slaughtered and butchered. I feel like I'd lose something essentially human in giving that up.
Processed meats are unequivocally bad for you, but when you compare the data on that to unprocessed meat the link to harm vanishes. Conflating the two is deeply dishonest.
I will have a look ! Thanks you for this sharing !
I don't think I would call this a 3D "engine". Looking at the source it's just a bunch of static images with css animations. It's pretty though :)
With regard to your last paragraph: that would probably be an excellent application of Ben Thompson's aggregation theory. It would increase Apple and Google's moat by making them the hardware gatekeeper for all mobile app analytics. And battery life is also a strong cover for the business reasons for doing it.

But the public claim, "it saves battery life!" would not make it defensible for most analytics companies, in my opinion. That would mean Google and Apple get duplicated access to just about all mobile analytics data in the world overnight. They already get vast data from the mobile phones through telemetry and their own apps; I think the largest third party analytics providers would revolt. They would all be at the mercy of Apple and Google's benevolence, which is basically backing their business into a corner. You don't want to be reliant on the whims of a giant tech company.

There are probably also some (maybe weak) anti-trust arguments against it, because all analytics other than e.g. Google Analytics become literal second class citizens on the phone. That would basically be telling app developers they're not allowed to send requests to specific hosts within their apps, only Apple and Google can do that (on their respective phones).

So I don't know if this is a missed opportunity, so much as Apple and Google realizing it would burn their walled gardens to the ground.
I think they are :p
So jealous. I almost did the pepe mod on my x230 but backed out when I got the board in. Right now I have a hackintoshed XPS13. I just want a new thinkpad that I can make run OSX flawlessly. I miss the trackpoint and the keyboard.
Yeah totally this is a primary benefit of working in an environment that is akin reality. You can have around 20 people, we aim to have support for 50~ or more coming soon!
Let's be realistic here, this is not (national) front page news.
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Just don't, I want simple text fields where I can type without being attacked by a script. I want my autofill to work properly, I want to be able to copy paste without any strange behaviour. I want to type the delimiter. And you should be locale aware, for 2019-02-24 I would type 24.2.19. Of course you might target only the US market with your form, but the problem is that bad practices are spreading to global developers.
Imagine if we could rework the public transportation culture to one that would generate spontaneous valuable interaction between the riders, things like topical discussions where multiple strangers could have a relaxed dialogue, impromptu games, and artistic performance and observation.
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Was really strange seeing this last night on the news, I was only about 20 miles away. Very curious what the cause was.
I agree with "eventually" I just think it's further along than PG and you think.
You are exactly right. It's indirection without abstraction. Good abstractions are simpler than the sum of their parts, the author's example of abstraction is clearly far more complicated (templates, references) than two increment operations. Good abstractions are ones you don't even think about, like arithmetic operators. How often do non-embedded/non-OS developers think about how multiplication is implemented?

Quoting from the blog post:

>It also seems that Go's implicit interfaces were designed to avoid unnecessary abstraction.

Actually, interfaces are often extremely abstract in Go. How much more abstract does it get than io.Reader? It's a thing that you can read bytes from into slices (arrays). The io.Reader abstraction is far simpler than os.File, net.Conn, or even bytes.Buffer (a file object, a network connection, and an in-memory buffer, respectively).
Unfortunately I have the opposite experience

- Abusive trust and safety team
- Constant outages for both users and bots
- Frontend is heavily bloated
- UI designed for money grab instead for the users
It's kind of looking like lithium battery prices have been and will continue to act like solar panel prices. Very slow and steady improvement in cost, but nothing massively drastic over a period of 5-ish years.
Funny enough, Bird Mode would probably be the most accurate name for the service as both satellites and planes are referred to as "birds"
These abstraction discussions seem to always result in commenters talking over each other. I would love to have these conversations rooted in a code sample. Otherwise no one is talking about the same thing.

If someone writes a blog series called “should this be abstracted, what’s the abstraction?” I think we would see some great discussion.
Ok. I am talking specifically about Minnesota, Wisconsin, (upper) Michigan, (northern) Iowa, North and South Dakota. These are not desolate places in the middle of nowhere. They are very inhabited. I specifically live in a state university city. These places have well established snow infrastructure. And what I said before is still true.

The winter I describe does exist. It exists for many tens of millions of people in the USA in many states.
> I just wish PopOS was built on Debian and not Ubuntu.

why?
Nowadays, a good startup is one that is going to run into massive legal issues: Uber, Airbnb, any cryptocurrency-related company, or any similar platform that is going to ransack vested interests. Otherwise, it will not make a difference. I mostly do it because I like the fact that the new concept may end up bankrupting entire self-serving industries. I would have loved joining Uber back then, and get a kick from pushing every taxi company on the globe into chapter-11 proceedings. There is still so much to disrupt!
How about stuff like caring for user's privacy and no ads in the products?
Disconnect Pro for iOS is also a great tool. Hasn't failed me yet and makes adding custom trackers super easy via the list of recent connections. I blocked 30.8k trackers and saved 3 GB of data last month. :)
It's an unfortunate naming coincidence. The app I linked has no affiliation with that Adblock
Airliners.net is usually interesting to follow as well. Mostly pilots posting: https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1416323
The solution is zoning laws, which we already have. It's a solved problem.

Maybe the people who actually live in these cities you want to visit have decided they don't want more tourists, and their zoning laws reflect that.

You don't, like, have a "right" to affordable lodging in a city you don't pay taxes in.
I spotted an interesting data standardization anomaly:

"A The Last Word is a Gin Gimlet but you replace simple syrup with green chartreuse, replace lime juice with maraschino, and add lime."

It appears that "lime juice" and "lime" exist as separate ingredients in the ingredient lists, even though they're exactly the same thing. It looks like this is causing a false separation of the Last Word cluster (drinks containing "lime") from the Gimlet cluster (drinks containing "lime juice") in the 2D plots.
Yes, exactly! I don’t care about your mission or your “key values”. What’s the comp? What are the benefits? That’s it.
You can, so I assume it's part of the permit you request from the city concil.
+1. Have a chevy volt. Something like 90% of my driving is on electric, but you are still able to make long distance drives.

What killed it was lack of marketing it as a better hybrid & the smaller size. If I had kids I'm not sure I'd of bought the car.

I wonder if they put the volt drive train on a crossover how it'd sell. EV Range for the groceries, gas for the long distance road trip.
How's the battery life? I'm deeply considering a non-Apple laptop as my next purchase, but have read that System76 laptops just don't last battery wise.