skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Much like turing completeness, you can build systems with any choice that "work", so an argument always has to be from aesthetics, which can include simplicity and "uglyness", but these aren't totally individual (you can get 99/100 people to agree on which of two schemes is "simpler"). Simplicity and beauty aren't something that even mathematicians dismiss as they can be trying to tell you something.

There's another argument, I can't remember if I originated it or read it but it's the one I find most convincing.

Consider that you have finite units of equal length 1 stretching away from you in a line. How would you specify to someone (using real-number measurements) to retrieve the first N=6, or describe the vector they occupy? You would say, take everything between [0.0, 6.0). If you use zero-based indexing, the numbering scheme specifying the interval is identical across both systems: [0.0, 6.0) => (python)[0: 6]== 0<=x<6. In real numbers the interval could be open or closed for this argument to work, because for there to be any elegant translation the integer upper bound has to be open. That's the only way you can keep the elegant transformation with 0 and 6. Caveat that thie works because you're numbering the real-number origin as 0 but try telling physicists that they're not to do that! O=(1,1,1) is an even more indefensible position.

So there's another mathematical argument that I either came up with or read elsewhere that feels deeply convincing to me. If there's 2 there's probably more, and here's the list of languages on wikipedia, you tell me which you'd rather work in.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_programming_lang...

Sorry for the irate tone but I really think that on reflection and fair consideration this is an obvious one.
Yeah I agree with you. Make it financially expensive for them to mess around.
A pretty great example of "microworlds" from Seymour Papert'a "Mindstorms," which you would enjoy!
I just saw you ask this question yesterday. On your profile it says indeed that this thread is a day old. But here it says it's two hours old. And all of the old responses from yesterday have had their timing reset, "10 minutes ago" -- I definitely remember that boffin comment from yesterday because it made me look up the word.

What happened?
I'm chuckling because you're right on the same path I was, though I never bought any land.

I think you're dead on when you say "a group of 10 people", and that's where you have to get into building community dynamics, even for a group of hermits :)
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> Anyone know of a service that provides drip pester-the-shit-outta-people messages until they pay you back?

There are federal and state laws about debt collection to protect debtors from aggressive debt collectors. If you harass someone for a debt that you can't prove they owe, you could get into deep trouble. If you continue to contact somebody after they tell you to stop, you can get into deep trouble.

> It can use constantly changing numbers and emails, so it can never be blocked.

This could be a violation of anti-spam laws.

> You can select how aggressive or sweet the messages can be.

Aggressive? If you threaten someone with violence, you're going to get a visit from the cops. If you threaten someone with reprisals like ruining their reputation on social media if they don't pay up, that's extortion. You could go to jail.
Sure but look at the top-level comments on here and there are words like:

* "anti-pattern"

* "overzealous autocorrect"

* "this is everything I hate about 'modern' UI"

* "I hate this idea"

* "This is a weird API for what it’s trying to achieve"

* "...THEN select the country..my number gets deleted... I hate you now"

* "Cute, but it looks like it's trying too hard to be clever."

* "Couldn't find my country for the phone number (UK). Looked for EN and UK, eventually discovered it was GB. Hard!"

* "hot garbage trash" - wait whoops ... that's mine - seems to fit right in though!

It actually took me a few consecutive quotes before I even found a neutral sounding "should simply be solved by browsers imho" comment.

"Your response is assholish" is correct, and I will agree. However I have a visceral reaction against these anti-patterns. The web is suppose to be open, and the web is suppose to be usable by a diverse group of people (including those with disabilities). I don't care if someone built this in their "free-time", this is NOT a responsible front-end lib to use.
Prime r/shitamericanssay stuff here.
Which places in France look like Syria?
I was curious if this would beat James Webb to space, but this is targeted for middle of the 2020s while NASA appears to be pushing for James Webb to get up to space in the next couple years. Fingers crossed!

> In testimony before Congress in July 2018, NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine proposed slowing down the development of WFIRST in order to accommodate a cost increase in the James Webb Space Telescope, which would result in decreased funding for WFIRST in 2020/2021.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_Field_Infrared_Survey_Tel...
>if you are on US soil (or operating from the US?)

Exactly. Email and nextcloud exist. With a government or a bank's budget, it's not that hard to set these things up locally (i.e., within your jurisdiction). Look at France and Matrix for example. If someone tries to subvert your security measures, that can be taken up as a criminal offence. At least you are not relying on legalese and other agreements to safeguard your interests.
It sure would be nice if there was solid data on the ROI from government subsidized education loans (beyond the economic stimulus of the colleges operating off of those funds, I mean).
I disagree with your approach, most people are too stuck in the paradigm of conventional medicine to even realize there's another alternative to managing (or even healing) their condition, so it's not surprise people don't ask. They can take or leave my recommendations, everyone's in charge of their own mind.

Why would you never pursue a carnivore diet?
I'd be happy to look at the output of such an exercise. If I were transcribing it, it would either be to J or C. Julia doesn't solve any problems for me.
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I don't like how the article implicitly takes the city's side. Breaking monopolies is usually a good, just like uber and taxis.
No, the person you're replying to is right, the bulk of the energy is from fission. What the fusion does is serve essentially as a "tamper" - it's in a ring around the fissile core and as it explodes it compresses the fissile core. Since the fission rate increases exponentially this tamping dramatically increases the overall energy yield.
Thanks! Wow my implementation sucks! What do you mean by PDA?

The whole Solution().runFunc() thing I just kind of picked up from LeetCode-esque constructions, but I definitely see your point on it being a pure function.
Qualities of Great Software Engineers
I will bite. The USA literally just elected a former reality television star/host as president. Without getting into questions of performance and qualifications, I think most will agree that he ran, and continues to run, a very anti-intellectual campaign and platform. It worked very well. Surprisingly well, even to his own party.
Is there a monopoly to break? Are all hotels in NY owned by the same group?

There are other issues as well of course, that Airbnb guests (and the owners) who are running a hotel don't care at all if their guests bother the neighbors, leave trash outside, etc.

It might be New York City, but it's also a community deciding how things are laid out and work, how they gather taxes, and etc in their city.
Paper Suggests Our Reality Is Just a Product of Quantum Mechanics
Do you have any details about using Cloudflare Workers as an API gateway?
Again, you don't give any sources or references about what you are stating.

If I can chose an indicator, then I pick my personal experience. I live in Europe and I'm happy with the digital experience of social services I have. I'm 28 years old so I experienced a bit of the pre-internet administrative era and digitization is definitively an improvement. Oftentimes, processes are simplified and can be done remotely, which is definitively a net plus for all disabled people.

> Workers are less satisfied, more stressed and less efficient.

Digitization must be accompanied with change management, and the society's laws must be adapted to a digitized society. In my personal opinion, we should develop idea such as Universal Basic Income, and not make "work" as mandatory as it was. I agree with you that operating everyday administrative softwares isn't a fulfilling job to everyone.
Each additional round only requires additional fees if the examiner’s actions were proper. If the applicant can argue they weren’t, then they don’t pay.
That's what I remember it being called when it was new. The quality of the photos were also way better than google
You're right. I didn't write my comment today (it was either yesterday or the day before). Yet, I see it says I wrote it 12 minutes ago. Weird.
I would've just gone with "Photograph", given that the other two types shown are "Default" and "Terrain".

(As the old saying goes, naming things is hard, and I've personally experienced a lot of bikeshed over it...)
> there have to be millions of Americans that are fed up with the state of healthcare and looking for an alternative.

The popularity of Chiropractic "doctors" is another symptom of the same problem.
> additional validation barriers on conversion experiences cause users to drop off

It's not a validation, it's simply a mask - it does not block the user, only formats what they enter into the text field.

> I do love how we like to rip on the JS community when it's convenient for us (npm, every new framework ever, etc) but when I say a front-end lib is "hot-garbage trash" because it breaks something as simple as backspace it's over the line...

Personally, I think "ripping on the JS community" is always a waste of time; jQuery still works in 2019, if you think that's the best way to go, have at it, but even in those threads I think it's pretty rare to see someone openly regard others work with such disdain as "hot garbage".
From a very long article on healthcare, "High US health care spending is quite well explained by its high material standard of living", I got an idea that neatly explains my experience in the USA and the perception of various groups from outside in (I'm from Moscow, that some people jokingly claim is a separate country from the rest of Russia).
It's still not a well-formed idea, just a gist of it.

US to me looks like a first world country with a 3rd world country attached to it; with the bleed of culture both ways (making urban-rural divide worse, sort of), and obviously economic effects both ways. It's sort of like if Russia joined the EU as far as people and economics are concerned - it'd still be a hellhole outside few major cities, but overall richer and with lots of angry anti-EU people. The US is like that, and the states are much more integrated than the EU is.

The strongest case for this can probably be built by analyzing human capital as well as metrics such as healthcare (like the original article did), crime, etc by county.
The weaker case for me personally is that the "feel" (and the norms if online sources are any indication) of rural/small-town places in the US vs urban/rich places in the US, is much more like small-town Russia vs Moscow (except more pissed instead of resigned to their fate), or other semi 3rd world countries, than the same in Europe.

I don't actually think that Civil War was a war between those countries, but its interpretation these days by many people seems to cast it as such... and the present-day GOP leadership looks to me basically like United Russia in Russia - it's a party of power, plain and simple, that aspires to unleash the freedom to shear the great unwashed.. a typical 3rd world party of which there are few or no European equivalents. The Dems (and centrist GOP, I guess) are such a bizarre party these days because they, in turn, have to represent almost the entire spectrum of the first-world parties - from Bill Clinton liberal and Christian centrists, to Greens and Socialists.
I am unaware of much publicly available proof, but in my experience, there is definitely a class of trader that is consistently profitable every year or even much better than that. These are the traders who are meticulous about their risk management and have found a way to improve a market. For a public glimpse, you could have a look at Virtu Financial's S-1 filing from 2014 (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1592386/000104746914...). In it, they disclose that over the previous five year period, they were profitable on every day except one.
Probably this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_of_the_Devil
I have read about off-gridders who live in the middle-of-nowhere in Southern California near the Mexico border because it's possible to live on next to nothing. Like they support themselves on as little as $600/month (or did, whenever the piece in question was written). They also do stupid stuff like reclaim ordinance as a means to make money and sometimes get blown up that way.

It's possible this was mentioned in the book "Salt Dreams," a book about water issues in Southern California. But I couldn't swear to that.
The LinkedIn profile is a convenience for us but not strictly necessary, we'll make the form field optional in the future. If that was a blocker drop us an email at support@modernlabor.com and we'll get you an interview another way.
Intel also had KNC instruction set (AVX512-like) on Xeon Phi (these CPUs available on PCI cards). They abandoned it in favour of good old x86. One of important factors was the difficulties related to tooling, especially necessity of cross-compilation.
+1, I actually had a Lt. Col. use the same math on me when one of my Marines was worried about chemical exposure.
Three more years and the kid will be online on his smartphone. Don't worry about it.
I don't understand why, but I believe I've observed similar. Possible hypotheses include:

DHT Sybil attack?
Hash ring bloat?
Bad peers distributing exclusively irrelevant content?

Wonder if this is a common observation, and if so, what kind of research might elucidate the underlying change.
How do you know that this testing isn't anything other than a facade?

Where I live, they do the same thing. You get a water quality report in the mail a couple of times a year. However the level of the one thing that's most likely to be a problem here (PCBs) is not included.
I'm gonna assume graduating with at least BS, probably Computer Science.
Correlation Is Not Causation. How Often?
I think what he wanted to say is to break regulations and zoning. Cities are too strict and Airbnb showed that it doesn't have to be that way, things kind of sort out themselves
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And the pay about being fired: http://web.archive.org/web/20041101091454/http://www.michael...
Every debt is someone else's asset. If you deposit money in the bank, is that a bad thing? You're creating a bank debt to you every time you do. If you deposit a million dollars you just put the bank massively in debt to you. Is that bad?

People often use their small local understanding of debt ("my debts are bad, because the legbreakers will come if I don't pay") as an interpretation/understanding mechanism for the entire economy, and that misleads them.
I can't help but feel bad for this guy. The city will try to make an example out of him while all the other rule-breakers will get off scott free.

There are hundreds if not thousands of other business schemes just like this one going on right now on Airbnb.
Yep, we aren't set up for that right now but that's where this is going - giving people, at various stages in their career, a significant block of time/money and guidance to focus on increasing their skills.
For those who wonder what the seemingly random number '$114.75' comes from (from the Berkshire Hathaway 2018 Annual Shareholder Letter [pdf]):
"On March 11th, it will be 77 years since I first invested in an American business. The year was 1942, I was 11, and I went all in, investing $114.75 I had begun accumulating at age six. What I bought was three shares of Cities Service preferred stock. I had become a capitalist, and it felt good."

Taking inflation into account, '$114.75' in 1942 is equivalent in purchasing power to '$1,444.20' in 2019, according to:
http://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/1942?amount=114.75
The Magic of the Gap
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Without patents, there's zero incentive to innovate. Let someone else spend the money innovating, and then copy them exactly when their done. You don't get rewarded for innovation. You get rewarded for execution.
It doesn't react chemically but is useful for its physical properties, which means it does influence the environment it's in in that manner. I wouldn't rule it out as carcinogenic because it's mostly chemically inert because of the same reasoning, namely that there are other ways it may change the environment than chemically.
I think bird's eye view was the angled view, which seems to have disappeared? I cannot find it.
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Cost? The URSS was already declining by then, and Ukraine was “born poor” in many ways. A procedure might well be safe and effective, but if the local health service can’t afford to do it thousands of times, they will just ignore it.
If all the hotel, taxi, etc. owners group up to create a cartel to keep the status quo and not to disrupt the market, then that is also not exactly good.

The choice of a community does not necessarily mean that it is the right choice.
It's all remote but, how it's currently set up, you do need the right to work in the US at the beginning of the program.
Is what you're proposing, actually the case as far as hotels goes?
https://www.anandtech.com/show/13392/the-iphone-xs-xs-max-re...
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It’s not “the community”. It’s a bunch of loud mouthed busy bodies and bureaucrats flexing their authority because it gets them a hit of that dopamine.
Here's an idea. I remember using some flakey DVI cables where one of the colours would drop out. How about making an HDMI-HDMI adapter that doesn't transmit blue? Even better make it a splitter where one has blue and one doesn't and feed them both into inputs of the same display.
Always interesting to see when the disruptor becomes the disrupted (AirBnb's One-Host One-Home policy), and then suddenly bending the rules is an issue.

You'd figure AirBnb would remember their days of being a rebellious teenager and provide legal assistance to these enterprising disruptors. Then again, maybe there's an AirBnb shell corp legal defense fund.
Thanks for all the info.

No no none of that aggression. I am a gentle father of 6 lol. I just mean like a more firm wording like “pay by XYZ date” versus a “hope ya pay soon.”

And yeah, everyone should keep track of their financial transactions and purposes for it. But those get proven or unproven in court.

And drip emails happen all the time. I don’t see that this is different.
Was it Visual Age for SmallTalk which became Visual Age for Java which later became Eclipse? Vaguely remember reading something like that earlier.
Yea but if you can make a bird analogy why not a satellite analogy?
You mean elected officials?

It's certainly not the neighbors who want this.
…and the addition of one of the most sensitive coronagraphs ever made…

I find it interesting that one of the major improvements in this light gathering instrument is a device to physically block light from getting into the instrument.

For Earthlings viewing the Sun a chronograph is a disk on a stick to block the Sun's surface so you can see the corona.

In a space based telescope blocking out a star but not any planets which might be orbiting it becomes complicated. They have intricate computer generated masks designed to block the starlight and the interference patterns created by the edge of the primary mask implemented as mirrors on black silicon.

I wasn't able to find a published paper on the design, there are several available as abstracts but not viewable by me. This presentation from Caltech covers a lot of it and is probably accessible to people in the field. http://kiss.caltech.edu/special_events/JPL_MPIA/presentation...

My takeaway was that compared to the Hubble, they should be able to block 100 times more starlight relative to the planets and should be able to directly see planets illuminated by their star.
It sounds like you haven't considered any of the multiple reasons or situations where 1-based indexing works out better.
I don't really thing what this guy did was a bad thing: He had positive reviews, multiple maids to cleanup after guests, and willingly broke leases and lost money when there were complaints.
More bad behavior that is encouraged by the AirBnb leadership. Disgusting. They could solve this problem overnight with their software but choose not to because it makes ~70% of their revenue, while at the same time claiming they are a "home-sharing" site.

AirBnb needs to go into the trash. They consume resources and push costs onto the community and neighbors, while making millions.
Answering my own question: it still exists, it's on the right-click menu.
But it is now available with Google Maps! View some location in Satellite mode, and then click the "3d" button on lower right. And then you can view any place from various angles
I'm not sure there is much legal support that would change much. Unless they can somehow get someone decide that the laws in question don't apply or are not appropriate laws.
Or use an ad blocker. Not difficult.
Extensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19224657
Sorry, I did not keep the file. I still have the 3 replacement commands that created it in my vim history though:

%s/[^0-9]\.//g
%s/(/-/g
%s/)//g
> How would the ability to type an arbitrary amount of numbers, or letters, in a credit card number field lead to higher conversion?

Sure - I'll bite. But I'm also going to point out that you're swinging to the other end of the extreme. Obviously no one in their right mind would just allow arbitrary input...

Clearly every CC number can be represented by numbers alone (by omitting the slashes). People are absolutely familiar with this and often will omit the dashes in their fields all together without any filtering of characters. Personally I key off of the "keydown" event on that field and e.preventDefault/return false on anything non-numeric. In the future, I hope the "inputmode" HTML attribute catches on with non-Chromium browsers - that would eliminate my need to do this.

After the number is entered, or (personal preference) before the form is posted, you do a simple Luhn check and show a dynamic error message RIGHT ABOVE the field saying "hey invalid CC num yo" - ideally you keep the "process" button and CC num field close to each other so this happens within the same document view without having to auto-scroll/anchor to the invalidated field.

Then, as always - ensure you have the capability to validate that data using the same rules on the back-end before it's allowed to be sent to your processor, or w/e.

There ya go - there's the "everyman's" approach to CC validation on the front-end.
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People using it would beg to differ. Just don’t use their service.
“Just something daddy likes to read”

My kid is a few months shy of 3 and I don’t think there’s anything of value to tell him about the internet at this point. Once he can read I’ll probably explain more to him.
This is great! Thanks for the recommendation.
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This is a nice article on corium:

https://www.wired.com/2013/04/the-most-dangerous-manmade-lav...
For AMD GPUs, Brazos owners are SOL after they rebooted the driver design, only having partial support for what fxglr was capable of.

The old driver is no longer compatible with modern distributions.
The platform actively harms communities. Don't be selfish.
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