skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I read this I was reminded of how trees in prehistoric times piled up because no bacteria had evolved to eat them yet:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2016/01...

We don’t feel so bad about using paper or wood because it now biodegrades, but if those organisms hadn’t evolved, we’d be worried about wood and paper the same way we worry about plastic.

This article suggests there are some bacteria that has already evolved to eat kinds of plastic:

http://theconversation.com/how-plastic-eating-bacteria-actua...

Maybe in a few decades with more research, we’ll have solutions for plastic that don’t involve sending it across the world?
> those children were already exposed to civilization and in contact with language-using humans.

Exposure to civilization is obviously not important, as all uncivilized people also speak. (Exposure to other people is important.)

Contact with language-using humans doesn't help in developing sign language either; deaf children exposed to speaking humans do not develop spoken language or sign language.

It is generally felt that what prompted the development of NSL was the fact that the children were put into a group. Children in a group want to communicate with each other. A hearing child in the same group would also have learned/participated in developing the language.
Stop on holidays. Take champix. An cut alcohol and coffee for a few days and that'all you have to do quit.
> I have never seen individual cells being removable

Sure you have. Any device with removable single-cell 'batteries' has removable cells.

> Imagine the increased complexity/cost and decreased reliability if each of the 6 cells in a standard car batter was individually replaceable.

Car batteries are already removable and replaceable, and come in standard sizes, which is precisely the point.
An different but related scene was the RSPS (Runescape private server) community that created replications of the game with a reverse-engineered client. Developing private server code was my first experience with programming and with backend software problem spaces like networking, concurrency/event handling, etc.
What's your target audience? Who are you building apps for? Yourself, with 64GB of RAM, or much more common users with 4-16GB?
I had no choice but to downvote for the greater good.
He misunderstood that the masturbation was not purely intellectual
We have different ideas what a meritocracy is. You believe any examples ( as you've given) are evidence of a meritocracy. That's not true. That's like saying it's a democracy if we elect a class leader. We have different standards.
Landlords are natural scapegoats, and have been most of recorded history.
Obviously there is a great need for some good investigative journalism for this situation as to clear the air.
The Israel Lobby: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N294FMDok98

It is a great examination of the power and influence that Israel has over U.S. politics...
yeah, almost no internet access other than a very constrained mail client (think aol instant messenger but with captcha and 4 hour delays) that can be accessed in the library on a single computer. Also, this doesn't allow access to the START button or anything like that. I'm guessing it's an old windows desktop that they've setup so it can only access this one website. I'm sure a clever engineer could get around this but like, is that really what they're afraid of?? It's not like the inmates don't have visits and phone calls, in addition to the actual email client, to send their "Coded Messages" or whatever, so it's overly cautious IMHO.

but I digress... There's no capability for this currently but I think an education program could be instituted where they are given unix computers with no internet access and can learn basic command line, or perhaps ubuntu with a browser and no wifi card so they can learn to locally develop websites.
A coworker has one.
The most immediate use will likely be for the Apple Glasses which are expected to come out in 2020.

LIDAR could definitely assist with identifying what the user is looking at.
Vaping has been pretty well studied (except for the flavorings). Nicotine is very addictive but not very damaging on its own. From what I've read, vaping is probably a better habit than, say, eating lots of sugary food. I say this as someone who's never vaped and likes too much sugary food.
China Grounds All Boeing 737 Max Planes
Personally? I really, really don't want to switch between two (or more) messaging apps depending on who I'm talking to.

I have an iPhone and live in the iMessage-friendly United States, so this works out well enough for me. If I lived in Europe where everyone used Whatsapp, the inability to change the default would be a big point of frustration with iOS.
Yes! This is my favorite way to dust. On a windy day I'll open some windows to allow a cross-breeze, and then blast my shit with the blower. I have to mind my distance, and be careful to secure lighter objects. It makes quick work of floors, under furniture if there's at least a little space, and my shelves full of bins.

You and I are now friends.
Nicotine is no worse for you than caffeine; it’s not what kills you in cigarettes, it’s just what makes them pleasurable.
could you send me your contact info, or more about this program? I'd like to learn more.
AFAIK you can choose your nicotine dosage. It's how people slowly quit.
The article implies that this is the Chinese government's way of signalling itself as a separate world aviation safety authority besides the FAA. Morbid as it is to think about, they're now postured in a position to benefit if another 737 Max goes down anywhere in the world.
Doxylamine succinate is a potent anticholinergic drug, as are (IIRC) all other OTC antihistamines that cause drowsiness. Long term use of such drugs have been linked to dementia later in life. I would at least read some of the literature and re-evaluate whether using drugs like this to sleep on a regular basis is worthwhile.
Because your apps and your phone know who you are and what is your home town, they deliver targeted ads. Who needs a local newspaper if Candy Crush delivers the ad for a local business? Your local newspaper competes with Candy Crush for ad revenues. All thanks to surveillance capitalism business model. As simple as that...
I find small doses work better than huge doses anyhow.
Why not standard dialog box for loading and saving programs? I remember using GW-Basic that didn't have them, and it was painful. I recommend innovating in only one direction.

About the scrollbars: Weird decision, but I think I can live without them.

Do you have a GitHub repo and/or a playable demo?

The problem with English-like languages is that they are easy to read but difficult to write. You can write a lot of sentences, but when you hit a corner case it's very difficult to understand what failed. For example:

Draw a line at the top of the screen with the green pen.

Draw a green line at the top of the screen.

Using the green pen, draw a line at the top of the screen.

Since you allow spaces in procedure names, parsing mutually recursive procedures must be very difficult. Can the program do this?

Anyway. I read that you have a Spanish version of the Language. [Hi from Argentina!] Spanish has a few declinations. For example, you say "linea roja" and "cuadrado rojo". Is Spanish more difficult? Also, the adjetive usually go after the noun, so the parser for the nicknames (aka variables) must be different.

Do you plan to support German, they write Compositewords without a Spaceseparator. And they have a lot of declinations too.
> I've done both of those. There is an alternate reality where the friend has been looking for people to make this thing fast and cheap, and is now sitting on a pile of these things that he can't sell at a price point that will break even, much less make a profit, with an order of magnitude more money than he is comfortable losing sunk into them.

Been there, done that.

"Customers" that love the product, at the price point of the raw materials.

Charges that come at you from nowhere because you didn't hire an import agent that knows widget X has anti-dumping duties attached to it for the next six months.

Warehouses that look good until it rains and then your whole stock is ruined. This one was actually the best thing that could happen, because between the insurance and accounting the business finally broke even and I walked away from it.

Hardware is different to software. It's all downside all the way. The only thing I learned is that you should do the most pessimistic accounting you possibly can for sales and manufacture and then divide the first by 10 and multiple the second by 10 and you will be right for what will happen in the first year.
That's the thing isn't it? People are always so sure that the one they could have built but didn't is so much better than the one you could build and did. Except for that one tiny detail of not actually existing.
Indeed, a shrewd political move.
Control Earth
Any chance of open sourcing it?

Confluence's search is appallingly bad, and tags barely help.
See who's logged into your Netgear Router via command line/termainal
Many of us are running on corporate computers at work and don't have the freedom to spec a 64GB computer
What's the correct answer for this? Is it definitely a rabbit regardless of the orientation. Or is it definitely a duck regardless of the orientiation?

I still fail to see how human brain only fall for this illusion once.
Been using Debian more or less exclusively since Potato. And I'm a bit surprised by the tone of these comments and even more by the content of the blog post. To me, Debian had become an irrelevant fossil not because of any technical factor such as those listed here or there (lack of powerful tools to go over packages silos, bug reporting tools, communication tools, packaging tools...) Indeed I tend to believe not following the industry /best/ practices is actually an asset in many cases, sometime even a Debian landmark that served them and their users well (for instance, refusing to stick to release dates and favouring rock-solid new releases instead); Indeed, "they still use X why everybody else is using Y by now" should sounds very suspicious to many ears.

To me as an outsider the obvious cause for Debian obsolescence is, and has been for more than a decade, the growing bureaucracy and consequently the lack of new blood and innovation. This opinion anchored the day when, participating to a Debian bug squashing party surrounded by similarly minded hackers, we were approached by a DD asking if he could check our identity papers in order to "simplify the process" of accepting our fixes.

Organisations, and companies too to some degree, can sometime be best described by what they stand against. Since the beginning Debian has been standing against a hostile environment: I mentioned already the industry bad practices, but also part of this hostile outer world were the negligent upstreams, the unaware users, the cheating corporations and the misguided FOSS enthusiasts. Some bureaucracy was certainly in order to protect against them all. But I'm afraid one of Debian legacy will be that the DD will personify the FOSS bureaucrat, with its 300 pages long packaging manual and 30 steps long contributor approval processes, in the cultural pantheon of the distributions of the future.
> You've gone from "they flew a broken aircraft" to "alight, so they repaired it twice, but you cannot ever trust a malfunctioning aircraft again."

If you think I've changed my argument, you misunderstood my comments. I still think that they flew a broken aircraft.

I'll stand by my statement that 610 should never have taken off, and I'm somewhat surprised that it is contentious. I don't care if all the protocols were followed and the logs made (though obviously the pilots of 610 didn't understand what the previous pilots had done to respond to their incident) - in retrospect, we know that the aircraft was not airworthy going into flight 610, so something needs to change so that next time that is detected before takeoff. Whether that is better observation of the protocols or better protocols, I'm not sure.
Hipster mistakes himself for hipster in study about lookalike hipsters
I think the social fabric of the US is more complex than you're making it out to be. I'm an atheist with liberal Californian views on most social issues, but I also happen to be pro gun rights and grew up celebrating Christmas. It really pisses me off when overly PC weasels complain about how wishing people a Merry Christmas is non inclusive, so I think that sign is great. Point is most people don't fit the stereotypes that well once you dig a little bit and it's best not to assume malice in the absence of very strong evidence.
yeah, I'm hoping for some recommendations, maybe should have indicated that.
What is the problem with old email-based systems? This is an honest question.
Thank you. Paywalls shouldn’t be on the front page.
That requires N times more memory, where N is the number of threads. 32x more memory??
True! You can for the most part but there are definitely brands where you get what you're given.
Machine Learning Explainability
Well, you heard wrong. Both places are much hotter in the summer than the bay area.
There is a long history of utopian city design. Based on what you wrote, your views seem aligned with agrarianism. Quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrarianism

> Agrarianism is a social philosophy or political philosophy which values rural society as superior to urban society and the independent farmer as superior to the paid worker, and sees farming as a way of life that can shape the ideal social values.

As such, you would probably like Plat of the City of Zion, from Joseph Smith, founder of Mormonism and the Latter Day Saint movement. Quoting https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/plat-of-zion/ :

> This imagined city would be as populous as New York or Philadelphia were at the time, and would offer the best parts of a city—infrastructure, education, and community—but without vice and crime. Joseph Smith thought this could be achieved by giving residents lots of space; it would essentially be a rural city. Within the large blocks, each church member would have a plot of land for fruit trees and vegetable gardens, along with a home, which Smith imagined as the essential piece of the urban fabric.
The pedantry is absolutely correct; however most people (aka anyone who hasn't studied acoustics, etc) do not understand the differences in how it's measured. If you just say "this reduces sound by 94%" to a layperson they would assume it to mean "this makes something nearly quiet by reducing its volume by 94%".

Hence my criticism of the title.
Prior to model explainability was experimental design.
Insert Skimmer and Camera Cover Pin Stealer
Go has lots of packages. They are easily discoverable on godoc.org or just some googling.

There is a cultural skepticism about the overuse of packages. There are occasions where the STD lib copied a function instead of adding an import for example. Like many things in Go this pushback is needed but sometimes goes too far.

But maybe single function packages in npm we're a bad idea.

Anyway caching is a mixed bag in my opinion. Local per-thread caching is often better than a global cache as it avoids contention. It's also trivial to implement with a map and requires no special coordination.

It does require rethinking how you design a solution to a problem. FWIW that design process tends to lead you down a better direction anyway for producing distributed systems.

For example one giant, randomly distributed Kafka topic with a global redis db for a cache is probably a lot worse off than a system with more predictable data locality on the consumers.
Well I guess it's not everyday you see "Masturbation" in a HN #1 post's title and the sentence "I forced myself to release something every two weeks" in the first top comment.
The tone of this post is so superior and dickish I'd rather not listen to the author.
Yes, I apologize. I wrote 100hz but I meant 20hz, which is 56.5 ft. [0]

[0] https://www.jdbsound.com/art/frequency%20wave%20length%20cha...
Good political move, but that doesn't preclude it from being a smart move - as far as I've read so far, the conditions (weather, airline quality, etc) make this completely unexpected. Is implausible to believe that the FAA may be leaned on to suppress news that may damage Boeing, especially with the current administration, and the current slate of news coming out of Canada's shenanigans with the SNC?
Of course not actual rape. But role play
it seems like global competition is the force that ultimately damaged both Detroit's auto industry and New England's textile mills. on the surface at least, it seems reasonable to guess that, somehow, global competition will be the force that ultimately dethrones Silicon Valley.
Unless the parallel reconstructionism is really that good, the evidence that he was the "original" DPR in the Silk Road context is pretty strong. Whether he was the DPR that ordered the hits or someone else had taken over by/for that point is what is more fuzzy. The 2013 Wired DPR interview was officially with DPR the Second, according to DPR the Second. [1]

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/08/14/an-int...
I don't ask anything from you for me in order to use my gpl software, I ask that you give the same rights and privileges you had to your users.

You don't even need to give me your contributions, just your users.
Sure, but for comparison, the original 737 was launched in 1967 (!) and even the 737 NG has been flying since 1997.

So while having two MAXes crash after takeoff mere months apart is indeed statistically unlikely, I wouldn't necessarily leap to the conclusion that the two accidents are related just yet.
That's a great idea! Now if you'll just design an inexpensive turbine that won't fly apart catastrophically at 10,000-50,000 rpm, twist your hand off due to gyroscopic forces, and is easy-to-start w/o first spinning up to 5,000 rpm, we're set to go!

Best bet: electric corded (120 Volts AC) leaf blowers: cheap, powerful, reliable, light and easy to maintain. No danger of battery fire/explosion due to abuse/age.
It's optimizing for long time Californian land owners, cf. Props 13, 8, 58, 60, 90, 193, 218, 39, 26.

Direct democracy has the Native Sons of the Golden West building thier economic wall around the state ten feet higher every election. I don't see any way out without federal intervention.
Perhaps the underlying motivation is that China is a major purchaser of the 737 Max. Indeed, Boeing built a 737 'completion' facility to improve the rate of deliveries to Chinese clients.
Principal component analysis: pictures, code and proofs (2018)
If anyone is interested in a really well written travel essay about how one of those cables was installed in the 90s, this one never seems to get old: https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/
Dupont, Monsanto et al. have been the target of leftist rhetoric for many decades.
You need to add a little extra time to the microwave route because microwaves are line of sight. The signal needs to be detected and re-amplified multiple times along the way. How much extra time? I don't know, I'm not an RF guy, maybe someone can chime in and tell us how much latency each amplifier adds.

The neutrino route only needs a single detector at the very end, nothing along the way.
How the Governments Physically Look at the Internet that Travels Across Oceans. [1]

[1] https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/russian-spy-submarine...
Battery is dead. Guess I'll just satisfy my addiction with some cigs.
Having gone through the experiences you describe, your opinions match my own perfectly. I don't think most people that have not gone through it themselves will really understand the topic in this way. I know that you could have never convinced "prior experience me" of what I eventually found out along the way. I also highly don't recommend it. There are also dozens of exact relatable addictions that are represented in completely different ways such as coffee, social media and sugar by society. Not sure I get the newspaper headlines analogy though.
I've seen this opinion dozens of times and the best response is a Slate Star Codex post from 2013[1]:

> The worst are the people – one of whom has so far appeared in every article I have read on the subject – who say that we should be careful because “Big Tobacco” is pushing them as a “solution” to the problem of declining cigarette sales. First of all this is just factually wrong; most e-cigarettes are made by alternative companies in direct competition with Big Tobacco. Second, if your reasoning strategy is identifying the Evil People and then minimizing their utility, you probably shouldn’t be making public policy.

> ...if a public e-cigarette ban reduces the number of smokers who switch to e-cigarettes by 2%, you’ve just killed an extra 9000 people per year – about three 9-11 attacks, or twice the number of US soldiers who died in the Iraq War.

As soon as you do the math, it's clear that allowing vaping is extremely good for public health. Those opposed to it demonstrate their innumeracy and puritanism.

1. https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/28/thank-you-for-doing-so...
> that is still an amazing return on investment.

bingo. to first order it's a winner take all game. it doesn't matter how much cash the VCs need to pay to start one of these contraptions. what matters is that the contraption succeeds.

if the chance of success is 0.01% in SV, but it's 0.0000001% in Austin, it doesn't matter at all if the costs are 10 times as much in SV. VCs are not starting companies to save cash. they're starting companies to dominate an industry. so they buy the biggest guns and it doesn't matter how much they cost.
Nicotine is dirt cheap. Here [1], you or I could buy 5 gallons of 100mg/ml liquid base for $750. Typical eliquid is sold in 3-6 mg/ml, so that could be diluted to produce 420 liters of ejuice. A 60ml bottle of juice sells for ~$25 on the high end; simple math leads to six figures of revenue from that single jug.

Of course, none of that includes flavoring. Flavoring, and the process, clean rooms, scientific equipment, that's the actual expensive part and why you'd never actually see those six figures. The nicotine itself is pretty much a rounding error in the total cost of the product.

[1] https://liquidnicotinewholesalers.com/100mg-nicotine-liquid....
I have been working as a dev from 7 years now. recently I decided to take some time off (for obvious reasons). after I left they added few 0-5's but they have a senior dev with 15 years of experience to deal with new devs.

after 7 years I am not going back. Now stress is zero (as I don't have a family to feed). I see lots of opportunities in the public domain. as most of the devs are busy working for the corporation in India.

Even in the local area, there will be lots of people who want to fix their issues. As a programmer, we should be looking to solve people's problems, not just algorithmic problems.

Seth Godin has written really good books on value and experience. its worth the read.
If so, that makes 2 of us. I re-read the post, and he talks about releasing something on a regular basis. I don't see anything about then going back and unpublishing things once he decides it actually isn't good enough? Sorry if there are edits in play or I'm just missing something, but it sure looks to me like broken links should still be surprising.
The Chinese government is also a competitor to Boeing (Comac and AVIC). Seems difficult to believe China can provide truly independent oversight over certifying airplane or engine products designed by their own government.
I wonder if this is Windows Precision Touchpad compatible? As far as I can tell, there are not many options for precision touchpads that are not in a laptop
I always wonder if people like Mark Zuckerberg or Elon Musk daydream of their ideal future like most of us seem to do. They definitely seem to act on their vision more, but do they daydream as much as the rest of us?