skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
reading the tweets while Trump started to win the elections.. before was like "no way it will happens" and after just "omg he is winning", was kind of a tragic comic day.
My undergraduate education was in archeology at UCLA. I did an honors thesis analyzing Classic Period Mayan burial remains. I've also excavated Mayan sites in Belize. I stand by what I said, despite perverse HN downvotes.
Has anyone managed to break out of this? I've tried increasing exercise, waking up with sunlight; nothing works
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A 2017 meta-analysis of 44 studies found that DST leads to
electricity savings of only 0.34% during the days when DST
applies.[81][82] The meta-analysis furthermore found that
"electricity savings are larger for countries farther away from the
equator, while subtropical regions consume more electricity because
of DST."[81][82] This means that DST may conserve electricity in
some countries, such as Canada and the United Kingdom, but be
wasteful in other places, such as Mexico, the southern United
States, and northern Africa. The savings in electricity may also be
offset by extra use of other types of energy, such as heating fuel.
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Very interesting work!

I'm a big proponent of intelligent tools with development.

I've encountered developers who look down their noses at people who use IDEs and their features, seeing it as somehow proving their lack of ability.

My argument is we're in the business of writing software. We should believe in the ability of software to make things better, including software development.

Also, I've often had a feeling that we could be doing more with our tools, different ways of viewing code to assist in understanding it and editing it.

I think developer experience is almost as important as user experience at the end of the day. And that UXers who understand coding should be hard at work making our tools incredible to use.

So best of luck with your mission!
That's kinda negligible compared to the other 150k daily deaths around the world. It sure registers as a big event in the media, just like plane crashes. Probably because of saliency bias.
In service of relevance: some claim that Akhenaten was the first rationalist, or even the first scientist. (IIRC from my half forgotten libart coursework)

I couldn't find any citations from a 5 min goog search on the latter claim, but here's an even more recent article (2018) that talks about Akhenaten anticipating the Athenian philosophers.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/128/Does_Western_Philosophy...
Minutes? Instantly upon opening that link.

Utter pillocks crossing, than turning around to recross the crossing (and again, and again). Oblivious ninnies stepping out onto the carriage way with their attention focussed on some or other device in their hands to photograph the aforementioned pillocks, and Londoners seemingly used to them going about their business.
I like this book, but not a lot of practica advice. A good compendium is The Sleep Solution by Chris Winter.
It's not an argument at all. I'm just stating that I do not claim to know more (or less) about the matter than you do. I don't have the knowledge to make such a claim. You, on the other hand, apparently (think you) do.
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I've seen so many awful standards in my time when it comes to comments. Most of the time it's NIH syndrome, or people who love arbitrary rules. People love to make/follow rules, but comments are too nuanced for absolutes.

I've seen the following... These are all sins in my eyes.

// This code is the property of Blamo inc.

// Returns the result
return result;

// The name of the entity
public string Name;

// author: @author
// Date last changed: DD/MM/YYYY

/*
/ public property Name
/ The name of the Entity
*/
public string Name { get; set; }

I always try to tell people. DRY also relates to comments.

Also if you are going to supply me with badly written inconsistent style guide that was cooked up internally with no references or reasoning. I'm just going to download a popular one from github, and have all the tooling sorted out-of-the-box. I don't negotiate with terrorists or religious nutcases.

You need a pretty damn good excuse to deviate from industry standards. Most of the time it is personal preferences and a need to be in control.

AKA. I care about standards, I just don't care about your standards.
It's not just the creators, it's also the backers. As soon as I am receiving something in return it's no longer purely a donation, but a purchase in some jurisdictions. This means, as a backer, I need to pay VAT (in Germany). There's a few options here: The service handles this for me, the creator does it or I do it.

If the creator does it they now need to deal with the authorities in multiple countries, that doesn't work for any but the really big ones. If I do it, I now need to collect the receipts and list then on my tax return to pay the VAT. Or the service just takes care of it for me, like Patreon does.

Honestly, if I had to deal with paying the VAT "manually" I don't think I would back anything.
Yeah I mistyped as I meant few hundred million today or a few billion in the future.
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Chinese hackers strike US universities in bid for military technology
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It is very different than Python.

In Lisp, they say "here is a tool that can do anything. Have fun". In Python they say: "here are many tools that are specific and limited to that purpose. Also you gona take bad decisions, so we limited it some more".

The first approach is appealing to very good programmers. The second one, to anybody who had to work with the vast majority of normal programmers.

I prefer the second one. People abuse macros, make way to long lambdas, don't document their magic and indent poorly if they are not forced to.

Since tooling is something people always learn too late, I'm going with the language with sane defaults.
yes it is possible to create objects that can discriminate between colorblind and wild type. but from the point of view of the colorblind person (the augmented person) it will still be a source of confusion.
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I think it's sad... I've lived in Paris for the last 15 years and have explored a lot of the city (but still have a lot to see). I remember a colleague, born and raised in the western suburbs, who saw the Opera for the first time the other day when he had to walk to the office because the metro from Saint-Lazare was out of order.
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well, rebelling against parents nowadays in a unique fashion, is hard to do, our parents have already rebelled using so many facets available to them, listened to punk music, drugs/mdma/acid, fashion etc... one of the areas to rebel with , left untouched by previous generations, is gender.
Hostels have always been filled with young people and young people have always been self-centered and oblivious. If you don't want to be around that, pay more and don't stay in a hostel.
A Tesla representative, in a statement to the Globe, said “there are significant safety concerns when salvaged Teslas are repaired improperly or when Tesla parts are used outside of their original design intent, as these vehicles could pose a danger to both the mechanic and other drivers on the road.”

It seems Tesla is deliberately ignoring or trying to squash the aftermarket/custom-car culture which has basically existed since cars existed... and in contrast, Chrysler/Ford/GM are happy to sell you parts like engines and transmissions without caring whether they'll even be used in a car, and have been doing so for literally decades, so obviously they're aware of and not worried about any legal liability issues.
So where's Haskell's advanced object system or the restart/condition system that Common Lisp has? Even its performance is hardly on par with CL for all the flexibility of the latter.
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I’ve been doing this for years and it’s wonderful. On the few days I need an alarm (someone schedules something early) I’m usually groggy and in a poor mood. The difference in mood and grogginess is so drastic I can tell when I’m getting sick a week or so before symptoms appear because I’ll wake up an hour late and still feel terrible. It’s eerie how accurate your body can signal things to you when left to its own devices.

As far as the “work hard, play hard” mentality, I’ve chosen to work at startups/companies where I can come into the office flexibly (usually around 10) and it’s worked great.

One final note: I wonder if the rampant depression and suicidal thoughts I had as a teenager, that are now entirely gone, were a product of the fact that I was forced to wake up every day at 6 AM to an alarm. I was such an anti-social, depressed creep it’s terrifying to think we continually subject our children to this sleep-deprivating schedule.
Valuable objects; difficult to reach; no resources for living (dark, cold; no food or water). All point to having a very good, very impractical reason for going there. Religion fills the bill very nicely?
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So some of those objects appear much too large to fit thru the narrow places to get into the cave. How did they get there? Were they made in place?
I have found that if I just let my body sleep as much as it wants to I sleep 9-10hrs and I feel groggy and hung over (presumably dehydrated) for a long time after I wake up. I have tried dropping stimulants, all that kind of thing, and have tried it for weeks. It does not right itself.

What has worked the best for me is having an alarm for 7am, 6-7 days as week. If I am having heaps of trouble sleeping I'll disable it and maybe sleep 1hr more, but in general I keep is consistent, and when I wake up it takes me a much shorter time to feel human again.
Communism is a lie, always has been, always will be. Europe is a drug infested shithole thanks to socialism. People come to America for freedom and opportunities. Not welfare handouts like a plantation would offer. Bottom line nobody leaves the USA to move to a socialist country. Period. Yes give the global elite everything and they will take care of us. Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Many recruiters try to put you at a disadvantage out of the gate by flipping the script from them selling a job to you to where you are "applying," to them. It's like they think they are on Tinder. Even as a neurotypical, I hang up on them too.
How much is increasing exercise ?
I'm going to take the word of someone who made an account just to bash a poor lisp book. Thanks.
Most people misunderstand heritability, but there is an excellent video I can recommend by professor Robert Sapolsky: https://youtu.be/RG5fN6KrDJE?t=2427

A common finding is that if you want to explain data around a trait and you can only know the environment or the gene, the environment is usually the better choice.

The interaction between genes and traits is very counter intuitive for most people. As an example from the lecture, if we asked people how heritabile the number of fingers a person has we would expect the answer would be 100% since it is very rare for a person to be born with 4 fingers. But if we asked if genes or environment is the best method to explain why some people have 4 fingers, genes are a very proof explanation since finger amputation are caused very rarely from genes. The variation of fingers among humans has thus a very low (almost 0%) heritability.

Heritability == the observed variation in the data set that can be explained from genes.
Bourbon Street in New Orleans is classic behavior changing. When I lived there, locals mostly avoided it. But from what I’ve seen on visits since then, even pre-smartphones and social media it became even more a street for tourists acting like they thought they were “supposed” to act on Bourbon Street.
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So many people, including a lot of comments here, seem to think that it’s designed around the winter. It’s not, it’s to move an hour of sunlight from the start of the day (say, 4am) to the end of the day (say, 9pm) so that you use less energy in the summer (hence the ‘savings’), and then you can enjoy that rather than being asleep.

Moving to summer time year-round means that the mornings in the winter will be darker. I like having a bit of daylight in the mornings in the winter, and I’ll miss it when it’s gone. As I’m sure a lot of people will when they realise that getting ‘rid’ of it makes the winter worse, not the summer better.
Why does everyone forget the Leaf?
On a code specific sidenote there's LibrePay which is open source under CC0. This might be a good starting point code wise. If you do make a profit off their codebase I advise you donate some back to them, but you're under no obligation to do so, likewise with any code improvements, but again no obligation. I know you're asking more business geared questions, but figure it wouldn't hurt to mention. The only thing is LibrePay doesn't take a cut, not sure if you'd have to go out of your way to implement that 'cut' into the service. But reading about their setup might guide you towards what you do need to do in order to start your service. I am no lawyer, financial or other kind of expert (just a lowly Software Engineer on HN), just pointing out availability options.

https://github.com/liberapay/liberapay.com
> if you want more information or help hashing things out, you’re welcome to reach out directly. i think my email is in my profile or its my username.

Can you email me on my username at gmail dot com or update your profile? I would really like to reach out and get your thoughts on some topics/issues. Thanks.
suburb vs Paris is also something else. I had the exact same experience two times: once with the opera , and another with montmartre’s sacré coeur ( she didn’t even know what that was, she just told me « that’s nice, what is it ? »).
I was in a bit of a shock.
I grew out of it without doing anything in particular
"But I really appreciate the effort to be understanding"

The worst thing about depression is that you can't see a way out, until you are out, and then the path is astoundingly obvious, and the journey so easy. I could say it will get better, but you probably wouldn't believe me. Please do believe me when I say it doesn't take effort to be understanding though.

On to a sunnier subject.
I can't see us going mad max, I think worst case doesnt interrupt civilization, which implies keeping at least our current know-how. Could there be a lower standard of living, yes. Lower than a century ago? (while keeping antibiotics, computers etc) Maybe. But that would still be a higher standard of living than we've had for the majority of human history.
Well in the past years some of Apple products have had serious issues - like engineering flaws that made their products prone to issues.

So it's not just this issue.

About Acer, you'll have to back it up with something, because you know, Acer has laptops that range from 300€ to 1500€+.

But you're right, just because it's Apple these problems have a different reach in media, but on the other hand, Apple doesn't own their problems. And to top it off their practices when it comes to support some of the issues is just ridiculous.

To say windows is a total turd makes you look like you're just trying to hurt it's feelings, because you know, and I know, and everyone knows Windows serves it's purpose for plenty of people. Just like Android does.

If only the problems were in Apple laptops... the problems is in other product lines, and in the way Apple designs their products. Decisions like pinning down a laptop keyboard with rivets, poor choice of materials, poor thermals, the list goes on.

But hey, rejoice on it.
I work for a major parts supplier; probably the most well known in America; and I am still very curious how the company will adapt to an EV future. Simple look at the components listing of an EV reveals that outside of the parts most cars share; suspension components, brakes components, some fluids, filters, lights, compressors (think HVAC), and frills, there is little in common among the brands that third party service centers can work on.

I haven't seen really any commonality among packs or even motor designs. I am sure with sufficient volume the motors will eventually be a part that can be rebuilt, replaced, and such, but unless there is an industry move towards a standardized pack design its pretty much going to be full replacement and at the behest of the manufacturer.

Owning a TM3 my only real fear is an accident that requires replacement parts. My auto insurance is slightly higher than normal as my agent stated its flagged as difficult to repair and costly. The cost factor includes length of rental reimbursement.

People like to put EV adoption solely on range anxiety and some point to charging but long term it is also come down to ease of service and that must include choice of who does that.
The car industry is extremely messed up. Every country puts massive tariffs on them and tries to dissuade imports. Protectionism is still very much alive.
This kind of bullshit is why I’m solidly in the “fuck Tesla” camp. The battles over auto repair and nonsense “safety” excuses were fought 100 years ago and shouldn’t need to be fought again, only in this dysfunctional era of American government is it possible for Tesla to even exist.

Like any big company, they demonstrate every day why it’s so important to have independent service. As a company, they are too incompetent to run retail outlets, unable to supply spare parts for cars that are mostly unchanged year to to year, and unable to actually repair cars in the handful of service centers that exist.

Hopefully the successor company that buys them out doesn’t go down this path.
> Why can't the creators handle their own tax?

If you're accepting payments from the EU within the EU, you have to collect evidence of where the payer is from, pay different VAT amounts (i.e. different percentages per country) and have VAT paper work to prepare every year. It's time consuming, you're likely to make mistakes and that's only for the EU.

For what it's worth, I use https://paddle.com/ for a paid Chrome extension who deal with country specific tax for me. They're more expensive than Stripe though.
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> Should we also ban roses

If roses moved around, barked, and pooped on the floor, then hell yeah. Otherwise, that analogy sucks.
Hmm but you aren't limited to buy it on manufacturers website, or are there models limit to their websites?
Confusing a random natural event which is literally orders of magnitude lower with specific access patterns that can rapidly cause errors is pure disinformation.
Not every niche is going to be covered by the benevolent interests of your local friendly cloud provider.
No, it should not, because as long as we have net neutrality anyone can start a new "platform" is no other "platform" will let them speak. The problem is that ISPs are gatekeepers and typically enjoy local monopolies; there is no such problem with edge services.
This is addressed in the paper the article is about. One of the main points is that the 'optimistic stuff' does not address the negative already baked into the system right now.

The point is: too little, too late. If that's true I don't know, that's the whole question I guess.
>It seems Tesla is deliberately ignoring or trying to squash the aftermarket/custom-car culture which has basically existed since cars existed...

Plenty of people are willing to aid them. Go on Reddit and you'll find that it's impossible to have an adult discussion of repairs or modifications more involved than parts swapping without being drowned out by people screaming "hurr durr, muh public safety" or just down-voted into oblivion. You'll find no shortage of people willing to tell you that industry standard modifications (like lengthening truck frames), repairs (like welding cracks in steel wheels) or anything that modifies how a vehicle handles compared to stock configuration (like a lift kit on a Jeep) are fundamentally a danger to the public.

Edit: I dunno why I was optimistic that HN would be any better.
In the slideshow in the article, it says this:

> The local Maya still revere the caves, and shamans make special offerings to the spirit guardians of Balamku and ask for the protection of the scientists who are exploring it.

Seems they're respecting and coordinating with the local living Maya.
This is on the front page already, please check before submitting! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19318341
> First of all, stop talking for others.

Take your own advice. Sure, you think your dog is no problem, but you can't speak for every other dog owner.
That’s why we should get rid of “it” in te summer, where it was added to begin with.

anyone who’s a light sleeper appreciates how harmful daylight savings is.

Plus no one stops anyone from waking up an hour earlier. But I bloody well can’t sleep in an hour later!