skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bet these non cash businesses start taking cash right away of their card reader goes down. Either that or close for the day? No way. They will change their policy temporarily because keeping poor people out is less a priority than making money. Still a priority, just less of one.
That's maybe true for simple C-style languages but very likely not near true for modern statically typed languages that freely allow forward declarations and have type inference.
You don't lose information if you pick your points correctly (you store only the extrema). In the cubic case, you need the two extrema (one minimum and one maximum and you need to know whether each extremum is a min or max) and then interpolate between them.
It’s too bad that even on hacker news, opposing viewpoints are often times downvoted into oblivion so that only one side of an argument is presented.

I’ve often found that the people who preach tolerance and say they are accepting of differing viewpoints are in reality, those who practice it the least.
The speedometer is pretty close to in front of the driver. Nnot exactly in front, I understand that.

Keep in mind there’s a lot of misinformation out there. For example people have wrongly complained that turning on the wipers requires a bunch of interaction with menus on the screen and such. Not really. Usually they are on auto. If you really want to force an immediate wipe, there’s a dedicated hardware button for it right where you’d expect. Just an example. I could say more about it but... I’m replying to a six day old comment and maybe you already know this stuff.
"The network, which attracts more viewers than its two major competitors,..."

In reading a quote line that. I can't help but wonder in the back of my head that such an article is self serving (I.e. read my newspaper and read my opinions, not theirs!).
>The mega rich don't use more - proportional to their wealth, they use much less, but smartly designed. And those designs eventually help everyone else.

There's a saying -- "being poor is expensive".
It is reasonable, however, that they not be watching a cell phone when they're being paid to be a backup driver.

The optics for the driver were really bad. They weren't just not paying attention, they weren't "just" eating and drinking (something accepted in American driving for the last 60 years), they weren't staring blankly into the desert, they didn't fall asleep. No, they were doing the one thing that has received the most public messaging for the last decade.
> After realizing how easy it is to parse sexps

Why should "easy for the machine" ever be a consideration for software used by humans? Surely "easy for the human" is the metric that matters. The entire point of having computers is so that can do hard things to make our lives easier.

If rich syntax is easier for us to read and feasible for computers to parse, that's the right trade-off.
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I can't stand the review inflation. You're totally disincentivized from leaving an honest review because of the counter review or because you somehow feel like the dick, and I'm sure AirBnB loves it.

A place that turns out to be right on the noisy highway won't have a single review that points this out. Only "great for early risers!"
Fastmail has unlimited aliases, they aren't trivial to set up, but easy enough that I've set up ~10.
It's a little more self-indulgent. Lots more pop-culture references, less data, less introspection and "what if I'm wrong" counterfactual exploration. I also think it makes less of an effort to make itself clear, because Epsilon Theory sees itself as talking to a particular free-thinking crowd, not trying to educate anyone who will listen.
Interesting writing style.

I really like the quote; "It's always the meta-game that gets you." (which is the whole point of the essay really).

Basically, if you think that you've found a way to win the mini-game that you're playing - you're being a coyote - so watch out! Because when that mini-game ends, the bigger, meta game is going to blow up and end your fun.

It's basically the concept of "finite" vs "infinite" games: Don't play an infinite game like a finite game. You'll think that you're clever and winning while you're playing - but the game will always get you in the end.
Airline crashes absolutely are treated as "whose fault is this". That's why airline crashes usually have lots of lawsuits, with millions of dollars of damages, filed after they happen.

Every NTSB report has a "probable cause" section determining who or what was at fault. And then the FAA hands out fines and courts award additional damages largely based on that finding.

It is true that the punishments aren't handled by the NTSB but that's more about separation of concerns & departmental remits than anything else. Is separating out "fault finding" from "punishments" a good idea? Maybe? I honestly don't know.
That is really strange. Here, the utility company would be happy to have you buy lots more power.

Are you lacking a meter? Is the utility company unable to read your meter remotely and unwilling to send a truck out to read it? This would explain things, in which case you'd want to charge batteries (for free!) whenever you don't need all the power you have purchased.

Fuses are weird too. Those went out of style 60 years ago.

Maybe you will find this weird: I have a device that lets the utility company cut the power to my water heater. They can remotely activate it if they are having problems. In exchange for having this, I get a discount.
The interest in making languages safer, rather than in making code written in them safer, seems to have developed into a bigger factor recently than it was in the 90s. I can’t personally think of any not-Rust languages that prioritize operating safety over ease of coding (compared to Rust). Perl lets you rewrite the global interpreter at runtime, PHP enables decades-old code to continue running, Apple Basic offered PEEK and POKE for writing arbitrary bytes to anywhere addressable by the memory controller. I’m sure some exist, but my point is that we have been favoring expanded capabilities for decades and only now are we starting to favor expanded safeties. When taken in that light, it makes perfect sense that C++ has always wanted to expand the capabilities of C without caring about safeties. What else could have resulted from that history?
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>This is potentially precedent as a legal blocker for public adoption of self-driving cars.

I don't think it is because in this case the person was hired by Uber specifically to "drive" this car. They knew that the car is still an incomplete product, they knew that they were testing it, they knew that they were literally getting paid to keep this car from doing something like this.

That's very different than a random person using a self-driving car that they expect and were told is a finished product.
We had over a dozen chickens growing up in rural New England. The one at the bottom of the pecking order lost a toe due to it being pecked at by all the others. Our chickens were only for eggs. My Uncle & neighbor had a flock as meat birds; one fall we had a get together where we killed them all, de-feathered and cleaned them, and ultimately froze them. He said sorry to every chicken. You're right; such things are not shocking if you grow up with it.
Seatbelts and airbags aren't defenses against a clever adversary that is trying to kill you, and who has the means to replace your real seatbelts and airbags with phony ones.
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Sure mileages vary. Long term stay places like Residence Inn can provide many of those amenities though
Indeed. It's kind of like, "The grass grows right up to the invisible fence, but won't cross it. Grass is so clever!"

No, it's just not growing where there's dog pee.
Cost is heavily dependent on the size of the move. The boxes and paper are actually a pretty large faction of the cost.

I was a while back, but moving a 1 bed apartment was $1-2K, I think.

5 bed house was roughly $7K to move 100 miles.
Here's the thing, your description of the continuous set is already discretized. If we say an interval 4-6 we have captured the continuous space using only two numbers.

I know that this is a silly argument in some sense but this is something that you do naturally that you don't even think about it.

Do you see what I'm getting at? You capture extrema in the discrete space and the interpolate in the smooth space to recreate the smooth curve.
>Nothing works like that.

Sure. Thrown in another order of magnitude in to account for that. Heck, throw in two! Why not say that a single 4GhZ CPU core today has a processing power of 100 4GhZ CPU's of yore.

You're still orders of magnitude behind the growth of disk space.

And that only makes sense for very simple and fast algorithms. Anything super-linear is still very hard with the amounts of data we are able to collect. Which is the author's point.
I think you could do worse than that diet, but this is a multivariate comparison. From the study abstract[0]

> Conclusion. Modifiable risk factors, such as physical activity, diet, smoking cessation and mid-day naps, might depict the “secrets” of the long-livers; these findings suggest that the interaction of environmental, behavioral together with clinical characteristics may determine longevity. This concept must be further explored in order to understand how these factors relate and which are the most important in shaping prolonged life.

It could be that the quantity red meat is solely responsible for their longevity, or has nothing to do with it, or plays some role with the many other confounding variables.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3051199/
In NYC Schleppers were really good - used them twice, would use them again, if I was in their area.

I used United for my last move, who were also good.
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The problem is that people deeply care about the reason a bad thing happened, much more than they care that a bad thing happened.
Cloudflare Workers sound cool, but their pricing is, to me, all wrong. I'd like to try them out on some of my low-volume side-projects to see if I'll find them useful and like them, but $5 per month per site is more than I pay for the entire server for all the sites combined.

I don't like being that guy who asks for free stuff, but a free tier would at least mean that I get to spend an hour or two trying the feature out. Not that $5 is a prohibitive cost, but Workers haven't sounded good enough to take my credit card out for.
The dependent types example seems underwhelming; rejecting arrays of unlike length at compile time is something I'd expect from a Pascal compiler from 1975.

How about C90: pointer to array of 10 is not compatible with a pointer to array 20:

int process_array(int (*pa)[20]);

int main(void)
{
int array[10];
process_array(&array);
return 0;
}

GCC:

array.c: In function ‘main’:
array.c:6:17: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘process_array’ from incompatible pointer type [-Wincompatible-pointer-types]
process_array(&array);
^
array.c:1:5: note: expected ‘int (*)[20]’ but argument is of type ‘int (*)[10]’
int process_array(int (*pa)[20]);
^~~~~~~~~~~~~
Oh. I assumed you were Catholic. :)
What's the "cost" to supporting HTTP 2 as an app developer, though? As far as I know, adding support to nginx requires changing one line of code. That's about as close to free as you can get.
Pushed along, sure. To graduate, though, I had to pass a written test. The kids you describe who went to school with me just dropped out without a diploma at some point.
> And if the risk is being taken by a company, it has to pay for it - because it intends to reap the rewards? Not a woman or a negligent employee.

First of all, this is criminal liability. Uber may still be held financially liable in a civil court.

Secondly, liability needs to be decided on a case by case basis. In this case, the woman (not "a woman") shouldn't have crossed the road and the operator should have been alert.

Furthermore, why should a company be criminally liable for any negligent behavior of an employee? That's ridiculous.
This is why I sign up with a different email address for every site. You need your own domain to do that properly, but Gmail users can use (for example) "email+hackernews@gmail.com" to end up with a unique address. Of course it would be simple to get your real address out of that, but I doubt anyone but a spear phisher would bother.
Yeah, those are options. They usually aren't very well located, though.

The hotel business is largely focused on the business traveler as their primary market. They only really build for pleasure-travel in non-business markets (see all the Condos available on Maui, or the Hyatt House hotels in Anaheim and Orlando, which have bunk-bed rooms for kids, etc.) AirBNB fell into serving this market, and it's served them pretty well, especially since they were priced below hotels to begin with, and pleasure travelers are much more price-sensitive than business travelers.
The individual operator (the driver, or the person in the operator seat who presses the "engage autonomous mode" on the car) is the one who chose to buy a vehicle and put it on the road, potentially endangering other people. We need to be responsible for our own actions and the situations we create.
That's possibly true, I don't know much about the American health care system however I can't imagine they would significantly raise the cost of your insurance plan beyond what you're able to pay because you needed a 2 week supply of drugs to treat a one-off parasitic infection.

If the American health care system is so broken that insurance companies are making people destitute for receiving care then the USA has bigger problems than a single CEO.
Or write a Python program. But a quick test shows that CPython (using a pure Python reservoir sampling) is 1/4th the speed of shuf.
AWS is not a single service but a large collection of separate services that interconnect. Some of which are quiet old and not exactly cutting edge. Yet they don't get deprecated.
We could tell my story instead. My uncle was an electrician, I didn't take high school that seriously, so my parents wanted me to apprentice for my uncle. I said no thanks, got a low level tech job, worked my way through undergrad and then PhD school, and now I have a cushy, well paid job where I sit indoors in a private office for eight hours a day and think for a living. My uncle had to crawl through attics on hot summer days, fight with rodents and snakes, and deal with live electrical wires and people who don't pay their bills. On top of that, he wound up dead from mesothelioma, probably from spending most of his days just breathing in insulation fibers.

So, thanks but no thanks, basically. You can romanticize the trades all you want but from my experience watching my family and friends from back home, "the trades" are exchanging the better years of your life in time and health to rich people in exchange for an early and painful death.
Was the study of this island controlled for climate, compared to a nearby island with different diets, or compared to a distant island with similar diets?

One of the points made by Ioannidis is that we’re far too easily swayed to believe what sounds plausible when no one has yet asked “Could this be for some other reason altogether that we aren’t testing for?” and then tests for those reasons. That flaw applies here: studying just one community automatically implies that the results are invalid, simply because there’s no evaluation of other communities that share various attributes that could be hidden factors for the benefit.

EDIT: Per one article, that study “would try to cut through the stories and establish the facts about Ikaria’s longevity”. It has succeeded in establishing that, factually, Ikaria’s longevity is a thing relative to other populations. It has not established which of the properties of Ikaria are responsible. (For example, perhaps the island is slightly radioactive, and old people thrive in a slightly higher radioactivity.) Extrapolating that their diet is responsible is an instance of the A/X error described in the above-linked article.
Kitty doesn't support fcitx input.
gmail also ignores dots

so you can do `j.o.h.n+ycombinator.com@gmail.com`

then if you get any email to `j.o.h.n@gmail.com` you can filter it

Of course, they can start stripping dots in gmail addresses too, but then they'd have to be targeting gmail specifically or they'd break for most services where dots do matter.
While that is of course true enough, I go to a fair amount of trouble to remove my name, age, address, etc, from public databroker sites because I value my privacy. I don't want my email going around either. Any information leakage can be used to harm me.
Out of order calculation based on dependencies: mlet (magic let/mutual let) macro:

This is the TXR Lisp interactive listener of TXR 212.
Quit with :quit or Ctrl-D on empty line. Ctrl-X ? for cheatsheet.
1> (mlet ((w 3)
(x (+ z w))
(z (* 2 w)))
(list x z w))
(9 6 3)

Obligatory macro-expansion:

2> (macroexpand '(mlet ((w 3)
(x (+ z w))
(z (* 2 w)))
(list x z w)))
(let (#:g0011 #:g0012
#:g0013)
(symacrolet ((w (force #:g0011))
(x (force #:g0012))
(z (force #:g0013)))
(set #:g0011
(delay 3))
(set #:g0012
(delay (+ z w)))
(set #:g0013
(delay (* 2 w)))
(list x z w)))

Circular dep naturally fails:

1> (mlet ((x y) (y z) (z x)))
nil
2> (mlet ((x y) (y z) (z x)) x)
** (expr-2:1) force: recursion forcing delayed form y (source location n/a)
How does one convert regular beautiful fonts to bitmap fonts? I want to convert Lucida console
In this case, its a slap on the wrist for a comment that doesn't positively contribute.
Do you just work remotely then? That's pretty cool if you can work somewhere else and draw an SF-level income.
I use a wildcard on my domain. Spam filtering is _really_ good these days. It truly is not a problem. I get tons of spam, and it's all filtered.
Also, referendums are terrible at creating anything meaningful - see Brexit or just about anything in the state of California.
I used to live a few hours from Atlanta and would decide to visit at the last minute. I've heard about HT in its infancy and thought it was a great idea that made sense... But all these years they've never been cheaper. I gave up on them.
Why is this surprising? "Using AI" is hyped up, and startups (maybe rightly) believe that this gives them more investor interest and higher valuations. I certainly see this in the US as well. Also, in many cases a startup might employ something AI-ish in a non-essential way, which is better than outright lies :)
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You’re not alone. There are dozens of us!
The irony lay in that email addresses were originally designed as communication channels (like snail mail), but have since been co-opted into serving as a unique identifier (like SSN).

So, you need to share your email address to be able to communicate properly, but you also need to hoard it because it is part of how you identify yourself. Aliases are one workaround but are not universally accepted as identifiers.
I remember upgrading my Slackware box from a.out to ELF back in 1995 or so.
Your service looks very interesting, but I have one concern and some suggestions.

The auto-generated email addresses seen in the screenshot look very long. There are sites that restrict email addresses to 30 characters, 40 characters, 50 characters, etc. A quick count on one of those on your site showed the length to be more than 50 characters. So this may not work unless you provide a way to specify the length of each generated email address.

Now for the suggestions: the pricing on the Plus tier seems quite high. In fact, one could pay less than $4 a month (the Plus pricing) and get a Runbox mail account with 100 aliases and a Fastmail account with 600 aliases. So the only value in using your service at that tier seems to be the auto-generation part. The pricing for the unlimited tier is also much higher than the average prices of any paid privacy respecting email service. With the services mentioned above, one wouldn’t get tied into an @users.idbloc.com address either if one were to use their own domain.
Note the emergency breaking system isn't part of the Uber self driving system, rather it came from the car manufacturer. Uber simply disabled all the settings, including all the safety features.

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/24/614200117...
> "how can we prevent this same accident from ever happening again?"

It would be nice if society adopted this with all crimes. It's not like we can prove we're any different than the low level design of a machine; when it comes to the "free will" ideology currently the justice system is designed around.
Congrats on the progress so far. I can attest from spinning Corilla out of Red Hat and the journey we had with it, that there's always a niche for CMS or knowledge management tools.

Especially in the Series A to Series B segment, where ability to change, and necessity to remove complexity, meet the sudden availability of funds to assist. That's where your example of "you can pay X and hour for your engineer or Y a month for us to handle it" works well. How will you pitch this moving further up-market? Especially where the opex exists that dev costs are less important. And vendor lock-in (or likelihood of existing in five years) becomes an issue?

And further up the enterprise scale, the greater the demand for a robust open source community. Is this on your roadmap? If not, why not? Especially given you use Wordpress as an example, and most of the industry itself using open source as a basis for content engineering tools. It's now the default expectation. Even moreso with the likes of near competitors like Strapi being open source. Thoughts?

Your app library is nice, but much like Gatsby or Hugo... it's not "wow". Any plans to ramp up the devrel? How will you stand out from all the other headless CMS products? Especially with the likes of Contentful so well funded. Are you worried that the lack of open source cuts off the lower end of the market and community growth, and the war chest of competitors at the higher level of the market constrains your customer base somewhat?

And.. wat will CosmisJS look like in two and five years? What I love about CMS teams is the creativity and intent of the awesome people who run them, so I'd love to hear more about the big vision too! :)
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"If in this I have been tedious, it may be some excuse, I had not time to make it shorter."

This writer could spend some time with Strunk and White.
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yes I am using Nginx as a primary web server which is behind Cloudflare using Cloudflare Strict SSL - hence glad to see Cloudflare communicate with my origin via TLS 1.3
Ditto. I found the trilogy to be incredibly over-hyped. The "science" was essentially just inventing ridiculous things to make the story work. The plot started off alright, but by the end of the 2nd / beginning of the 3rd book, it really went downhill.
> Learn basic finance to invest your own money

> The next step on your journey should be to get some practical experience. The best way to do this is to open a brokerage account to invest some of your own money.

Wow, I can't believe someone would suggest doing this as a way to learn finance, when ALL finance literature reaches exactly the same conclusion: that is a terrible idea.

The author clearly doesn't understand finance and financial markets...

But hey, follow his advice anyone, someone has to make really bad investing decisions so that us making the solid investment decisions can beat the average.