skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See, I meant that there are 5 million visitors to HN every month. I run multiple blogs. I do resume work. I do other things.

I've been here nearly a decade. Yet, I still can't make ends meet.

I don't need someone to drive me to work. I don't need someone to hold my hand. I'm not a drug addict or alcoholic.

I am a woman, and sexism is alive and well, so that closes a lot of doors in my face. I'm dirt poor, so a lot of people just assume I'm incompetent and not worth hiring.

Again, I'm extremely tired, moreso existentially than physically. I'm exhausted from saying the same things over and over and over on HN and watching them fall on deaf ears.

I have six years of college. I have a Certificate in GIS.

Stephen Hawking was medically handicapped. He had a real career. Of course, he was male.

I'm quite convinced that classism and sexism are major factors in my intractable poverty. And when I try to talk about such things, no, no one wants to get the memo. They just want to assert they are one of the good guys.

While not helping me.

Because my ongoing problems are not their responsibility and are best handled by a social worker or the government. And it will all get better someday, when we have that mythical beast they call UBI.

I'm a social creature more than a technical one. And I just can't help but feel that if people here really were as committed to resolving such problems as comments here tend to suggest, I would have long ago gotten hooked up with some kind of adequate income in excess of $20k annually.

The fact that I continue to live with intractable poverty makes me feel like it's absolutely all talk and no one genuinely wants to get with the man in the mirror and ask the hard questions.

The status quo works for them. They want it to stay the same.

This is really a conversation I don't want to have. It's not a positive experience for me. It's also not likely to actually make a difference.

A much more likely outcome is that I will eventually be banned if I openly bitch too much in a way that makes people here uncomfortable, as I was from Metafilter, a toxic classist cesspit of a forum that lots of people on HN gush about the wonderfulness of.

Adieu.

Edit: This piece was written before the first paragraph -- asserting that free money wasn't necessarily UBI -- was added to the comment I replied to. I'm too tired to edit the damn thing and make it make sense in light of that additional paragraph being added.

To be clear, my point is that I don't believe the world will become a better place. If five million mostly well-heeled, high-minded people can't manage to help one pathetic, but well-educated person with a work ethic and yadda to resolve their problems, no, they won't really help people who are less "virtuous" than I am.

The world will come up with excuses to blame those in need for their problems. They need to stop drinking. They need to stop using drugs. Etc. ad nauseum.

You know, like we currently do.
The "Active" sort tab feature on answer pages is meant to address this problem.
From the article:

> The container remains inaccessible and it is not known how much of its cargo is sealed within it.

> In the meantime, both Ar Viltansou and local officials say they will continue to harvest Garfields from the coastline.
Jimmy John's makes delivery work (entirely without pizza) as one prominent example, with 2,800 locations. It has been one of the keys to their success.
Not only do human beings not do this, but we actually exhibit inconsistency, change our goals unpredictably, and can be deceived by ourselves or others about our goals and motives.
This actually has a usage for emergency services. People call and don't know where they are. This app can let the operator send them a text with a link in that they follow and can communicate very effectively the precise location.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-47705912
A useful perspective is that we find contaminants from fossil fuel burning everywhere.
It's interesting that warming would make it easier for ticks from the Northeast to travel south. Or, alternatively, for Borrelia bacteria to do the same, since I have it on good authority that the South has had ticks for a long time.

It almost explains too much.
My favorite Onion article of all time is "Taco Bell's Five Ingredients Combined in Totally New Way". It's from 1998, as true today as it was then, and short enough I will quote it in its entirety:

> With great fanfare Monday, Taco Bell unveiled the Grandito, an exciting new permutation of refried beans, ground beef, cheddar cheese, lettuce, and a corn tortilla. "You've never tasted Taco Bell's five ingredients combined quite like this," Taco Bell CEO Walter Berenyi said. "The revolutionary new Grandito, with its ground beef on top of the cheese but under the beans, is configured unlike anything you've ever eaten here at Taco Bell." The fast-food chain made waves earlier this year with its introduction of the Zestito, in which the beans are on top of the lettuce, and the Mexiwrap, in which the tortilla is slightly more oblong.

http://www.theonion.com/article/taco-bells-five-ingredients-...
Hi, this is a reference site. It's documentation for devs, not end customers. Not meant to be used on mobile.
Im just not a huge fan of participating in toxic communities. Editing often changes answers and perspectives of the original questions and answers, you often run into a 'too many cooks in the kitchen' scenario. And doesn't solve the "This question has been closed" issues.
Yes! This is what I was trying to convey, but I was having a hard time articulating it.

Instead of the process being:

- Observe problem

- Ask "Hmm, how could AGW have caused this?" (easy)

- Find plausible way AGW could have caused it

- Publish, adding another mostly uninteresting dire AGW article to the stack

It would be nice if the process were:

- Observe problem

- Ask "Is it possible something other than AGW caused this?" (harder)

- Find plausible alternative to AGW ("hmm, looks like there's some sort of fungus killing the frogs")

- Publish, leading to further investigations

Obviously some things really are caused by AGW, but I fear it's becoming easy, and indeed popular to attribute problems to AGW, rightfully or not.
How does his ride compare with yang’s? I am wondering how yang got the momentum that he did
I live in SoCal and I see frogs and praying mantis around our front door a couple times per year.
My own preferences: No, don't, that's a bad idea. Unicode belongs entirely in Userspace.

If the main reason for this change is to make end-users lives easier then the solution requires two userspace parts.

1) When creating a new filename, check to see if it collides in a case insensitive way.

2) A 'filename validation' tool that scans for filenames that are not normalized in a desired way, and also for case insensitive collisions.

BOTH of these tasks should be OPTIONAL and entirely in userspace.
She Lied to My Face: Inside the Hectic Last Days of Gymboree’s Retail Bankruptcy
> My point wasn't that general users are stupid -- far from it!

Thanks for clarifying. I guess we more or less agree somehow then.
Different modes of transport serve different purposes. I would however like to point out there's a very strong distinction between long distance trains and rapid transit trains (i.e. Amtrak vs. subways a la DC or NYC): long distance is for travel between cities outside of the origin's metro area. Rapid transit is for travel within a city. Amtrak's only meaningful source of profit is their Northeast Corridor route [0]. That route effectively subsidizes all of the other routes. It is my understanding that the other routes are operated to provide access to rural communities that are otherwise unserved by transit.

Buses are generally better than subways until the surface level roads physically cannot contain the buses necessary to ensure there's enough space for passengers. Once that point is reached, subways are essentially the only option to prevent excessive amounts of sprawl.

I interned just outside of DC last summer and I agree the Metro was remarkably free of people who appeared to be working class. However, my personal belief is that it's a consequence of the Metro's distance-based pricing. In NYC, it's a flat $2.75 per trip if you're paying on a per ride basis regardless of how far you travel. On the NYC subways, everyone takes the subway. There, there is a mix of poor and wealthy on the subway. NYC is so densely built that the number of buses needed to accommodate every journey physically would not be able to fit on the (typically very narrow) streets.

[0]: See last page of https://www.amtrak.com/content/dam/projects/dotcom/english/p...
Selection of vendors is a rigorous process in these multi billion deals. The products they are selling are extremely complex. They would not be winning these deals and billions of calls would not complete if they were as incompetent as your writing implies.
KStars/Ekos is fantastic, especially the astrometry.net integration [1] for offline plate solving.

[1] https://indilib.org/about/ekos/alignment-module.html
perhaps it was known that hCG is present in the urine of pregnant women.

and also that hCG induces ovulation in frogs.

If injecting frogs with urine is cheaper than other methods of detecting signaling horomones.. well, there ya go.
Duplicate post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19512668
> restaurant owners lower prices on the app because app orders are more convenient to them

They also cook app-ordered meals quicker, and make in-store diners wait until there's no pending app-ordered ones to cook.
This needs to be an episode of radiolab.
A rack with panniers and/or a backpack works good enough in 9 out of 10 cases. For the rest, some sort of bigger motor vehicle is likely to be significantly better than cargo bike.

The only good use I could see is carrying 2 toddlers to school. But that's a very specific situation for a short span of time and in the end it's very rare. Looks damn cool in pics though!
> If someone wants an idea for an app or website - a way to lookup local ERs by price would be great.

Predicting current local ER wait times for a given set of symptoms would probably be more useful.
I had a history professor tell me that if there was any kind of cultural/economic revolution in the US, it would be over health care. And that was during the worst of the HMO days.

It's even worse now with these "HMO/PPO hybrid" systems, where instead of getting nothing, you get "something", then a massive hospital bill afterwards.
Hi, this is the docs site. It shows info about the library/framework. Not a representation of a site built with the library/framework. Thanks
"We learned that the reactor design should not rely on external power sources to prevent it from blowing up"

This has been known for decades. Fukushima (like essentially all nuclear power plants) had backup diesel generators. But the electrical switching equipment that connected the generators to several of the reactors were located in areas that was flooded by the tsunami. Oops.
Anything that isn't an RSS feed that serves MP3s, and therefore can't be synced to an offline media player, isn't a "podcast", and shouldn't be called such. If they can just remove their show feed from Google's program, then it's probably not an open/standardized RSS feed, and Google's program probably isn't a podcast program as we know it.

Podcasts are great because they're essentially open and standardized, and I can sync them with bloated desktop programs like iTunes, FOSS programs like Antennapod, or even command-line interfaces like Newsboat. DRM and arbitrary gating of media behind proprietary technologies just makes it worse and blocks it off from so many people.
Well, I think just about all of my filenames have personal names in them - they tend to start with /home/geofft.

And "never," your original claim, is not "hardly ever," your revised claim. If there are valid use cases for case-sensitive filenames, it seems like it should be allowed on robustness-principle grounds, even if they are rare, unless they impose some disproportionate cost on users of the system.

And filenames don't have to be in English, and usually aren't. "geofft" is not an English word; neither is "usr" or "etc" or "tmp," let alone "xt_RATEEST.h" or "/tmp/tmp.CGZ8Lq5f".

And even for common nouns in English, case matters - the UCC for instance requires certain text to be "conspicuous," and gives one example as "a heading in capitals equal to or greater in size than the surrounding text." It's pretty common for lawyers to write "conspicuous" text in all caps to satisfy this requirement. In these cases, you do want to distinguish between "never," "Never," and "NEVER".
What is TypeScript and what does it mean for React?
Dash will now serve Venezuela’s biggest retailer
This what I like about indonesia. They do have food regulations and food safety standards but not as over regulated as in the US.
Java was at one point going to have a bunch of CPUs[1] built around the JVM bytecode, that would have allowed J2EE and such to run on the bare metal hardware, but they largely didn't go anywhere.

The most successful attempts that i'm aware of are Jazelle[2] and Java-card[3] plans to augment the software solutions

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_processor

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazelle

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Card
I'm generally apolitical (read: cynical) but I really like Buttigieg.

He seems anomalous as a politician: smart along every dimension, incredibly well-rounded, and able to talk intelligently about policy (and philosophy and literature!) while avoiding the trap of talking down to people.

I don't know how he'll play nationally but I'm hopeful.
On iOS they are both case-sensitive. My guess is that they didn't want to break compatibility.
It's like BS without opinionated style, dependencies, limitations (in embedding components) and bloat. Regards
15 reputation on Stack Overflow seems easy enough. I got it with a single answer on a low-traffic topic.

500 reputation for full Hacker News privileges, on the other hand, seems like quite the undertaking! I say this as a decade-long reader who still is far below that.
I'm not surprised that the official Go survey showed: "..Go is the top language they'd prefer to use..."

It doesn't really say much given the selection bias.
Honest question:

Has this been put into practice in any AI to date?

Does TensorFlow count as a Gödel Machine? ML is basically the machine deciding its own weights right? Is that the same thing? Or have we not crossed into "writing its own code" territory?

And if we haven't, why not? This seems like the kind of thing we already have the technology for.
Cesium-137 half-life is ~30 years. So in 10000 years any additives will fade to what, something like 10^-100 of what they've been when introduced?
At my job, we’ve been using observables in our React front-ends for at least the last three years. These are high traffic consumer websites. We’ve had great success with them and haven’t experienced any of the issues you describe.

I guess the key is to minimise the amount of code that directly subscribes, don’t mutate data as it flows through an observable, and where possible, prefer deriving one observable from another over using imperative code to push data from one observable into another.
The US healthcare system is absurdly inefficient but the nominal cost comparison given in the article is meaningless since wages make up a huge proportion of costs in healthcare (either directly or embedded in supplies and services.)

Nominal per capita income in India is ~$2000 while in the US it is ~$60,000. Simplistically one would expect costs to be approximately 30x higher in the US so a 20x difference in cost of $200,000 to $10,00 doesn't seem absurd.
Honestly, I think I'd be more impressed by the person who got the answer off of SO. At least that person isn't wasting their time trying to solve silly problems that have already been done.
I was going to disagree but apparently that's about right. (Not the same as margins of the overall business but materials are fairly cheap.)

Pizza probably has the benefit of being a food that's not all that easy to prepare at home both because of dough and oven. There are alternative options like the flatbread crusts you can buy but, for the most part, it's a meal that people tend to gravitate to ordering.
Whenever I see someone tout the magical properties of their distributed systems, I always want to see a report from Jepsen, which takes their system apart like a rotisserie chicken.
I honestly don't have an opinion on it. It just seems something that's repeated and accepted often and I'm being skeptical is all.

I will probably look into it myself too! So whatever you can add to the discussion is great :)
As a founder of an startup that uses AI to paraphrase text (https://quillbot.com), I find that this article is hitting a very valid point. As fluency enhancing tools become more prolific and higher quality, submissions will be more standard and thus there will be more unintentional overlap. Plagiarism detection software will become increasingly less reliable.
> Alibaba is betting it can undercut Meituan to death. Both companies are spending billions in an escalating war of subsidies that might persuade even Jeff Bezos to cut his losses.

To me, that's the major reason. Meituan is loosing HUGE each month due to subsidies. Don't forget the food delivery giants in Chinese markets with highly concentrated population with billions of subsidies. It only works in selective Chinese Megacities with very cheap human labor and relative cheap and convenient of electric vehicles. It won't work in anywhere else in the world (probably not even in India).
Music Anywhere. – AirWave Mini
It really was, it still looks better than the vast majority of modern PC cases with better build quality, the bigger ones all seem to be some variant of "How many RGB's can we shove in this" with flimsy plastic and sharp edges.

I went with one of these in the end https://www.corsair.com/ca/en/Categories/Products/Cases/Carb... because it's a box to put bits in, no fuss, no muss no RGB.
If clarity was a compelling concern for healthcare purchasers, everyone would buy HMO plans, which provide certainty for most things even where the provider doesn't.
Hi, those are demos based on actual sites, in order to demonstrate versatility. Please describe what is odd and how it should be done properly? What would you want from such library/framework? Thanks
I’d like to more clearly find out where and if we disagree where it matters the most. Do you think it is justified to ban or suppress content on social media from people that SPLC/ADL view as part of the radicalization process? Eg jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro and Dave Rubin.
The Time Uber Passed on Lyft and Other Deals That Never Were
Did you even read what you linked? This is terrible!
At the very tail end of when I was going to college, classes were starting to move to "online assignments" where you type your answer into an online tool which matches it as a string against the expected answer, and it's exactly as intolerable as you imagine.

Teachers like them because they don't have to grade papers, textbook publishers like them because the online code prevents reselling the textbook (or at least, the new customer will need to purchase a key anyway).
Cost is supposed to make up for the difference.
Perhaps it would be more fruitful to discuss if you have a concrete example in mind. I haven't personally seen or closed new questions as dupes if answers on the existing questions have been noted as being not up-to-date.

The goal of editing an existing answer is definitely not to change the original answerer's intent.

The tools to solve the problems you identified are available. As you've alluded to, it's up to each user whether they choose to make use of them.
Definitely a lot less if you look at it in terms of lost keys. I'm speaking specifically about the scenario where no keys are lost, the total possible supply of bitcoin will still never be 21M.
I've read, though can't find a citation right now, that we dump more radioactive gunk into the atmosphere every year, just from burning coal, than has been released in all the nuclear accidents in history, combined.
That is why I'm holding to my 2011 ThinkPad T420 for dear life. I replaced keyboard 3 times ($30-$40 off ebay), changed HDD to SSD, and replaced CD-ROM with another SATA drive bay.

Not having USB3 is annoying, the CPU is a little slow and the batteries aren't what they used to be, but the things still works and gives me no problems.

I would like to get something smaller and lighter but all the affordable light laptops come with at most 8GB of not upgradable memory, whereas mine has 12GB and upgradable to 16.

What I ended up doing is getting a desktop computer for anything that needs performance and every time I look at anything apple, it just looks like I'm about to get on a treadmill of shelling out a couple of thousand dollars every year without the ability to own, upgrade or repair any of my devices.
I think I am uniquely positioned to refute your claims.

I was a mechanical engineer at an automobile company before moving to software.
The two are actually quite similar.

It is common to run into implementation issues when going from concept to production.

The big difference is, being a mature branch in an area where safety is vital, the rigor, scrutiny and time alloted to each step are significantly greater than software.

The similarity is especially pronounced on enterprise software products that have long intervals between releases.

A lot of unexpected things happen with cars that go into production all the time. Thankfully cars have a lot of redundancy required by safety. So, small problems can often be glossed over.
It could mean same graduating class, or that they shared a class together. I probably should have written "overlapped at Harvard" as apparently they entered a year or two apart.
I use Stellarium to check where Venus is in broad daylight and look for it in my binoculars (if I see that it's away enough from the Sun). I love looking at the crescent of Venus in daylight.
When I first learned about W3W, I immediately wondered if this same process of mapping n-word tuples across a discrete space could be applied to time. Similar to GPS coordinates, Unix timestamps like 1293432531 don't communicate much to a human developer about when in history they occur. Just use 2010-12-26 22:48:51 then, right? Sure, but then my brain has to worry about timezones, DST, etc. I feel like a unique English name for each second could be useful in some cases, like 1293432531 but (easier, to, pronounce).

Of course a lot of the shortcomings about W3W would apply to to this system too (offensive phrases, lack of relation between nearby points, etc.) Anyone know of something, open source or otherwise, that exists?
A roadmap for deploying ML models
Hi, the arrow keys do scroll. Is it a problem with natuive.net or the demos? Thanks
Given the mix of Arial and Roboto as well as the style, I think they used Google Sheets.
A new narrative adventure game from the makers of Myst
Actually neither of those scenarios seems right to me. At some point scientists should generate a falsifiable hypothesis and then test to falsify that hypothesis.

You are correct that this step seems to be omitted in much popular writing about science.
Right, I noticed that too. Also the "happy gene" thing.

I recall from Hofstadter the idea that feedback loops in consciousness rely on some of the same components that mediate the senses. So anger and fear are rather like mental pain.
The scenes when 99% choose Chrome...

I like the technical advances Firefox is making both on desktop and mobile, same for Opera, but Chrome is still the most consistently pleasant to use.