skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You just have to let go of the need to be "caught up" or hear everything. Most podcasts don't really need that much continuity, so the need to listen to them ALL or even the idea of a "backlog" is just FOMO.

Think of it more like the old days of broadcast radio or TV. You listened to whatever happened to be on while you were listening and if you didn't hear something. . . who cares it's just entertainment?

Most of my podcast subscriptions I listen to only rarely. It's more like a shortlist of channels that have things I might be interested in hearing.
Well, the typical wooden buildings you're probably thinking about (ie, suburban housing) would be terrible and burn completely. If you take a look at their construction, they use relatively thin pieces of wood both for structure and walls.

CLT or Mass Timber buildings are very different, there's basically a crapload of wood and it is very dense, so dense it can't burn well because oxygen can't get to it very well.

It is essentially the difference between trying to burn kindling vs a single large log.
It feels good to make decisions for every coding style on the planet, doesn't it?
I'll tell you why, and it's going to be unpopular: Money. Millions of views === money, no matter WHAT or WHY it's being viewed ( remember that many of these videos are monetized ). Do you seriously think Google encourages their developers to develop systems which will reduce viewing?... The only way I see this happening, is under duress, i.e. profits suffer because of bad publicity, or similar social pressure.
We have a few "undocumented features" in our product because us developers like conveniences that our sales team doesn't seem to value.

For example, part of our application is controlling PTZ (pan tilt zoom) cameras, but we only have rudimentary manual control. I got tired of using our clunky buttons, so I built in gamepad support a few years ago, and it has become one of our sales team's favorite features. One of our developers didn't like the layout we had, so he built in a shortcut to change it, and a bit later a customer requested that and we were able to use it. We also have a map interface set to up being north, and one of our developers thought it would be cool to change that orientation, so they hacked it in. Shortly after, one of the sales members saw his different orientation and asked how to do it, and now some customers use that feature as well.

Basically, when we get tired of working on boring business use cases, we try to add in some quality-of-life improvements, and those tend to be favorites of our sales team (after the fact; they seem to always ignore our suggestions).

I've been meaning to add in some less useful Easter eggs, but I honestly don't care enough to build something that could get me into trouble (my boss hates video games, so putting Pac-Man or something into it would be crossing a line).
It doesn't matter if "dark matter is just a hardcoded variable or a hotfix to an existing problem" -- all physics cares about is building a theory of dark matter that can make effective predictions. If a "theory of a simulated universe" can make concrete, testable predictions, then it's a physical theory. If not, it's more of a philosophical theory.
As TechCrunch just links to WSJ in the first sentence, maybe we should link there instead?:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-goldman-sachs-team-up-on-...

Paywall bypass: https://outline.com/YsNyha
I love reading, but podcasts let me consume knowledge or entertainment during activities where reading isn't possible.

That being said, for me, the biggest downside of podcasts is that although I'm willing to pay, there's no easy method of discoverability of high-quality, ad-free podcasts.

edit: However, I jump around in media fairly often - I often go months without listening to podcasts, so I have no interest in paying a subscription fee. I just want to pay a per-episode rate and get DRM-free audio files that I can use as I wish.
PHP's weird Comparisons
We all know that PHP's comparisons my feel kind of weird but at least i thought it would follow some reasonable rules.

Recently i came across some comparisons, that may follow rules, but make me feel really uncomfortable using the == operator, when comparing strings:

// true
var_dump("+09"=="009");
var_dump(" 09"=="009");
var_dump(" -09"=="-009");
var_dump("\t-09"=="-009");
var_dump("\t\n-09"=="-009");
var_dump("+0"=="-0");
var_dump("09"=="009");
var_dump("9"=="009");

// false
var_dump("+ 09"=="009");
var_dump("- 09"=="-009");

Keep in mind: I am comparing strings, NOT numbers.
Spark Ada for the Misra C Developer
You're totally right, there are issues. However, I think the current system is better than the alternatives I've heard. I would never claim that it's perfect and I'm always open to slow, small tweaks over time.

The stakes are too high to drastically overhaul or throw out the same system that has resulted in our prosperity over the past 100 years.
Almost any article about neoliberalism is at least somewhat disingenuous. It's mostly a term that gets used by critics, and it
groups together movements that aren't related and don't call themselves neoliberals.

I can't recall any proponents of neoliberalism.

This article is a good example. Everything is euphamized (neoliberalism is market fetishism). Nothing is addressed directly. There's a disagreement between camps, but nowhere does it bother to delve into what they disagree about specifically.

It's also simply not true that economics is monolithic, or that the majority of policies are based in economics of any flavour.

The EU was (i suppose, see first paragraph) a neoliberalism exercise. It promoted free trade, and dismantled all sorts of industrial structures and regulations as part of that. But, the actual goal was peace, moreso than prosperity. The history of us-china trade is similar.
It's really ok and not at all "disrespectful" for a company's chief culture officer/cofounder to remind a company PR Rep (and subordinate) to be mindful to display company ethos while at work. She's a PR Rep, her job is literately to represent the company.

When did we become so self centered that we think we can behave however we please while at work under the guise of "it's just a personal choice, man" and any reprimanding of not following company policies is automatically considered "disrespectful?"
Looks like the people who made this are German, it's a common mistake for German speakers. They mean "Delta Chat doesn't have their own servers".
Where do you find them? I keep trying to get into podcasts (tech, computer science, military, history...) but I really struggle. A sea of ancient abandoned shows when I search on my iPhone, seems nothing still running? Where should I be looking?
Myths About a Job in Industry After a PhD Debunked
> Plus, the whole idea

What idea are you referring to? The article I read talks about why podcasts are becoming more popular but doesn't present any new idea around advertising (unless I missed it).
Navy Wants Faster Ship Repairs; 70% of Destroyer Fleet Late
That is not even a little bit true. The exact opposite of that has been taking place: a reduction in upward mobility between socioeconomic classes.
People continue to report sites like that for the hate speech, racism and so on, and Disqus doesn't do anything. They could easily drop the entire site.
I think that's the highest interest rate I've ever had on a credit card. I applied for financing on my brand new 2005 MacBook Core 2 Duo. I made the minimum payment on it every month and ended up paying nearly twice the cost! (this was totally my choice - no fault of Apple or Juniper Visa/Barclay)
I'd love to see how expressive they are. Many times, these kits are really good at building exactly what's in the directions, and not much else. Would love to see some blogger or other independent to get a kit and play around. Contrasting it to LittleBits and Mindstorm would be useful.

That said, this isn't the first time i've seen this company. They had a few other kits that were interesting and I almost bought them but my kids are a bit too young. I hope they continue to grow and are around in a few years.
Try making jokes about Catholic church or Catholicism in Spain.
ULID – Universally Unique Lexicographically Sortable Identifier
In principle, TCP packets are just bits with a dumbed down interface.
It's definitely reaks of 90s Clinton triangulation.
They're not ignorant of it, they simply don't care. They don't care because the public good is not, never has been, and never will be, the primary goal of politicians and bureaucrats. They spout "economics" rhetoric to support the policies they want because it helps garner support from certain sectors of society. They only do that because, in a representative democratic system, they need to maintain support else they will lose the power to do what they want. So the solution should be obvious (which doesn't imply that it's easy).
I can’t find out what massdrop does without signing up.
5 year survival rate is just a single data point.
It would be better to also look at 7 year and 10 year survival data. Is this available?
Nasa Set to Demonstrate X-Ray Communications in Space
Slightly off topic, I remember another distributed UI system that was posted to HN or mentioned in the comments not that long ago. I think it supported normal 2d widgets and maybe 3d as well. It was nothing web/js based but had native clients. Anyone remember this? I tried searching for it to no avail.

I am fascinated by such systems. In the best case you get screen/tmux re-attachment features for GUIs, down to the application level, not desktop level (x11/xpra does some of this). And you do not just stream pixels across a network (like x11) but have at least some of the render logic locally. If you can then use local graphics hardware that seems like an unbeatable combination.

Maybe some websockets/webgl/webassemly which does all that will become the de-facto platform agnostic GUI platform in the future.
Travis CI Is Laying Off Senior Engineer Staff
On-Call Nightmares Podcast 12 – CTO Baron Schwartz – VividCortex
Cofounder of Chartable here, happy to answer any questions.

And, if you're looking for podcast recommendations, I recently analyzed 522 recommendations from 25 different critics' best-of lists to find the best of the best podcasts of 2018, also on the blog: https://chartable.com/blog/the-best-podcasts-of-2018
What music do you listen to?
I hate these "could be" headlines. They could be doing anything. Apple could be working on making pigs fly. I don't think they are but they could be...
As a long-time podcast listener, I have been steadily reducing my intake of podcasts in recent months. For me, this is largely due to a few annoying trends, such as Podcast A airing an episode of Podcast B, a new offering from the same organization. These crossovers are becoming common, and they are basically very long ads. I am seldom interested, but it's difficult to get them out of the play queue, especially while driving.

As a long-time independent podcast creator, it feels as though the field is becoming saturated, making it nearly impossible for a podcast to stand out without the backing of a major podcast network. It is reminiscent of the tipping point of blogs, where the quirky ecosystem of offerings mostly congealed. That change was good for advertisers and a few big content companies, but detrimental to the diversity of content.
Not just semantics. The state level laws resulting from directives are different from each other, sometimes substantially so.

Also, the EU cannot regulate everything. I think that a directive about free speech is not possible. However, there is the Charta of Human Rights that is signed by all member states of the EU that guarantees freedom of speech. Again, this construct has the wrinkle that this charter demands the individual states to uphold these rights. It institutes the European Court of Justice as the highest court in matters concerning this charta.
Okay, what's an example?
+1, this tool is great.

Someone made a flame graph analyzer for Oracle queries, which seems like an even better way of visualizing explains, and seems like it would be fairly straightforward to translate to postgres: https://externaltable.blogspot.com/2014/05/flame-graphs-for-...
If it restricts what you can say, how you can say it, or who you can say it to, it's a free speech issue. The restrictions being "copyright" doesn't change that fact.
> there is great portable SIMD support over there

It's not stable yet. The only stable SIMD stuff Rust supports is access to the raw x86 vendor intrinsics.
You are trying to prove that a league isn't crooked by pointing out all the similar "mistakes" that make the league look crooked. I'm not saying that they are crooked. I'm just wondering if you have thought this argument through.
GMail also caches images these days.
I was thinking the same thing too. I don't understand why someone else hasn't come up with a better product to get around the Visa/Mastercard network.
If you link to an image from an email (with an <img> tag) then:

* It looks like you're tracking which recipients read your email and when. Spammers do this a lot (or rather they used to) with single-pixel images called "tracking beacons". You send an email to millions of people, give each one a slightly different <img> link, look at the server log to see which images got downloaded, and those are your suckers.

* Because of the previous point, most email clients don't load images from external sources by default. They pop up a little notification bar saying something scary like "Click here to load unsafe images", because "Click here to load external images that might cause spammers to see whether you've looked at the email" is too complex. So your emails all now come with a scary warning, and most people won't see your image anyway.
I found a few gems on tastedive.com, soundcloud.com, and iTunes.
The choice of reason isn't arbitrary. You could say that they have stripes because it helps them shoo away flies and someone else could say they have stripes because it makes them look pretty - but one (or both) of these answers would be wrong.
The hypothesis can be falsified. We could test whether zebras do find stripes pretty in other zebras - perhaps it's not the best way to spend your time and resources, but it can be done. We can measure whether stripes discourage flies from landing, and we can measure what impact (if any) less flies has on health of zebras and their likelihood to survive until breeding. It's tricky, but it's generally possible.

There's some mechanism that makes stripes beneficial. Or perhaps there are multiple valid mechanisms - but in that case, one contributes (for example) 70% and the other 30%, and that can (with enough effort) be evaluated, and those mechanisms separated from the other alternative answers that are just guesses.

There are definitive answers. Perhaps they're hard to find out, perhaps they're hard to verify, perhaps for some aspects we'll not find out these definitive answers, but they certainly are there. You may reasonably choose that a particular answer isn't important enough to justify the resources needed to obtain that answer (and zebra stripes may well be a decent example for that), but giving in to the concept "there's really no definitive answer, except whichever one you choose to accept" is just shameful wilful ignorance. Reality is what exists no matter if you choose to accept it or not.
Deep Learning on the GPU in Clojure from Scratch: Sharing Memory
And there's also no reason to think this is the only thing they'll do. I don't think it takes a majority of 130,000 to setup a deal like this but more than likely some people in finance and some people in legal while on the tech side people are still doing 1000 other things.
> The bottom ~2/3rd of households would, on average, get more money back than the tax would cost them.

Please correct me if I'm misunderstanding: 2/3rds of households would first have to pay up, and then they'll get more money back than they paid in? If that's true, it sounds like it would be instituting needless added complexity, with a layer added for politicians and bureaucrats to take a cut before giving it back.
I was looking for the sources
I think that it could be JSX, hiccup and others output support
A problem with trying to replace TeX is that the only real problem with it is aesthetic of implementation language. And its main strength is its stability.

Note, it is not that it renders documents well. While, I do appreciate that fact, the real strength is I am not constantly having to play gardener with all of the documents I've written. Any bitrot in my document will come from facts in it, not because this year's version decided that promises were better than callbacks. Or that "box-sizing: border-box" is the more natural way to do things. (Or yet another brand new construct to lay things out.)

I think a lot of this stability can be traced directly to Knuth. He has a discipline that is basically unmatched.

And it isn't like he hasn't had some misgivings about choices he has made. However, his main choice that he is willing to stick with is stability. And that is huge for long term use.
I am one of those people who listens/watches all media at 2x speed. It takes some time to get used to and is nearly impossible without headphones. Some people do talk quickly enough that I can't listen to them while doing any complex activity (e.g. Mike Duncan's revolutions podcast). But most other podcasts aren't scripted, so 2x is easy enough for speakers like Joe Rogan and Dan Carlin.
I am surprised that higher capacity storage on phones was not mentioned as a driver of podcast listenership. For me, when I upgraded to a phone that had 32GB of storage around 2014 I was finally able to store mp3s that would download automatically ready for me to listen to along with all the music and photos that we would otherwise fill up our phone storage with. Before this, it was actually pretty hard to be an avid listener of lots of podcasts without having to deal with the hassle of managing your data storage.
I just looked it up again, and he actually did hack them:

"Forælderen, Henrik Høyer havde blandt andet opdaget, at den infoskærm, som hver enkelt børnehave havde i systemet, var befængt med et sikkerhedshul, der tillod cross-site scripting. Ganske enkelt blev de beskeder, som man skrev til den fælles infoskærm, ikke renset for tegn, der gør det muligt at indsende Javascript-kode.

Det udnyttede Henrik Høyer til at skrive en simpel Javascript alertbox, der poppede frem med beskeden 'Ring til Infoba og sig at jeres nye intranet løsning er blevet hacket', hvorefter brugeren skulle trykke ‘OK’.

Det var der flere af pædagogerne, som så, og som undrede sig over, ifølge Infobas produktchef.

»Jeg skrev til Infoba og hørte aldrig fra dem. Så lavede jeg den her løsning, som måske var lige på grænsen for, hvad man må,« siger Henrik Høyer og fortsætter:

»Jeg lavede et harmløst javascript, men kunne have gjort det meget værre.«"[0]

(Sorry for the danish ya'll)

[0] https://www.version2.dk/artikel/foraeldre-finder-banale-sikk...
Urban cyclists in USA learn to be hypersensitive to this situation. If the car is approaching the intersection and does anything to make a turn seem possible, don't pass on the right. Take the lane behind the car and be ready to pass on the left, between lanes. Lane-splitting by a cyclist is a totally normal maneuver. In stopped traffic, it is strictly better than riding on the right. In slowly-moving traffic, it's often better.
But email relies on free and open source standards while instant messaging is a walled garden that relies on closed protocols by some shady corporations that sell your data.
Worth it or regret it?
The list was an interesting read, but I don't think anyone should really take it terribly seriously. It's 50 companies from a billion different industries vaguely ranked against each other.
thickness * 2^folds
Exactly this.

For the sake of argument, let's assume you try 10 different strategies over the next 6 months and all of them fail to reduce the overload. Will you still feel responsibility for not being able to keep up?

A lot of people don't recognize that sometimes you can't fix a situation and that isn't your fault. Burnout comes from that - lots of effort with no result. A great sign of this is that the company has hired more people and the workload increases to keep everybody overloaded.

As ThrowawayR2 said, don't enable this behavior and take responsibility for working nights. Push back against requests and work a sane amount of hours. Make it clear to your management that the workload isn't sustainable. Do this so when you look back you don't ask yourself "Should I have been more clear with management? Was I the problem?" If that isn't supported then find another job.
The place where direct democracy works is as a veto. If the legislature passes a law and you collect X number of signatures against it, it goes up for popular vote. If the people don't approve, it doesn't pass.

Then you mitigate populism creating ill-conceived laws, because the legislature has to introduce and pass them first, but then the legislature can't as easily pass corrupt laws because they can be challenged and shot down by the people.

It would also be pretty great if you could challenge existing laws in this way, e.g. for any that hasn't been challenged this way in five years and you get the signatures again, it can be used for repeal.
Redis Labs Modules License Changes
Economists for Inclusive Prosperity
Most of the podcasts I listen to are while doing things like exercise and housework that aren't compatible with reading.

The podcasts I listen to are all from the BBC, so they're scripted and produced for radio, rather than just being people chatting. Listen to e.g. [1] or [2] and it's all on topic (and being the BBC, ad-free).

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p066rd9t/episodes/downloads
[2] https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006r4vz/episodes/downloads
SpaceX Test Fires Twice-Flown Falcon 9 for World's First Commercial Moon Mission
It doesn't seem that laughable to me to want faster JSON parsing on a Chromebook, given how heavily JSON is used to communicate between webservers and client-side Javascript.

"Faster" meaning faster than Chromebooks do now; 2.2 GB/s may simply be unachievable hardware-wise with these cheap processors. They're kinda slow, so any speed increase would be welcome.
I recently started out on this road as a solo founder [0], and out of all the given pieces of advice that YC gives, two things are the most conflicting for me:

- This pressure to have a co-founder. I see that quoted as a major reasons for why startups go bust but also necessary for doing anything meaningful. I can imagine there being truth to both statements. I've seen startups go bust in my own network on both sides of the divide. But I feel there isn't enough advice out there for folks who are doing it Solo - that's still a valid design pattern for many startups in the past or present.

- The whole idea of go big or go home - lot of the advice seems to assume you want to be really big one day. There doesn't seem to be enough advice for someone wanting to be a 10M-100M dollar business as their main milestone, not as a path to hit a billion dollar valuation. That kind of assumption results in very different kinds of design patterns, often borrowed from other billion dollar startups that may not make sense to your own little venture in the beginning.

I wish startup advice wasn't universal as every author or speaker would like you to believe - there could be a system where it was doled out based on the current phase and situation, or at least recognizing the fact that there isn't one size fits all for something as varied as starting your own venture.

[0] https://stockquanta.com