skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That sounds like leading by micromanaging...
website: HTML/CSS + Javascript + PHP (or any other backend language like Python, Node.js etc)

Or learn a CMS software like wordpress, u can easily build a website using it. (but to customize it to meet your 100% satisfaction, you need to learn the above techs)

If you want to be full-stack web developer, u need to learn some web server knowledge, basics, etc. But its okay to not know it.

APP:

web app: web app can be built by using HTML/CSS + Javascript + PHP (or other back-end language)

native app: (those APP in the ios store or Google Play)

you have to learn the native programming languages, in Android case, you need to learn Java/Kotlin, in IOS case, you need to learn Objective-C/Swift.

That's pretty much it.
DIY has benefit of trust, but disadvantage of unique to you IP address. With 3rd party VPN you share the IP with many, much like hiding in the crowd.

I was lucky to find small paid VPN provider, that doesn't do marketing, pay for referral and stuff, and I'm sticking to it.
>purposely laid-out most modern cities to require private car use

This is only true of LA, Phoenix, and Tucson, cities established or seeing their principal growth after the invention of air conditioning.

Pretty much every other American city got its street plan decades or centuries before automobiles. New York's streets were drawn in 1810. San Francisco got its streets in 1840. The assertion that America is "designed for cars" is totally bunk. Cars are invaders in cities designed for walking and horse riding.
Having to start over every 5 generations doesn't explain very much, though. Sure, you have to do some very expensive things to make a batch, but then four generations at a low 80 babies per female gives you two and a half million mice. So what are the other factors?
I thought this was going to be about C++

However, this little language looks a lot like Joy (which I suspect was named ironically).

On a serious note, I'd be more curious to see alternative syntax for Lisp (please, I know about code as data etc). McCarty envisioned M-expressions [1], but I have never seen anyone implement them or even nicer ones.

[1] http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%...
If it were a money game they wouldn't be hiring a bunch of people in the most expensive part of the world to pay them huge salaries, they would just base everything in other countries.

Maybe it's just that they want to recruit good people and some good people just happen to live outside the US?
That's their prerogative, but I'm okay with major media outlets trying to wake people up to the fact that Facebook is a danger to society.
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Ask HN: Did Google suggest to my GF I am going to propose?
I have been looking at engagement rings to propose in the coming months. I sent my girlfriend an email, and she texts me saying that when she opened the email a huge engagement ring ad popped up on gmail. She texted me about it because she thought it was funny, I don't think she knows I have been looking (I just started looking this weekend).

Does Google suggest ads to my contacts based on my search history?
At the dawn of the age of rail, Germany had double the US population in an area about the size of Montana. There were a lot of people who wanted to move around way before cars were a factor, so you see much, much better rail systems in Europe.
The Green Card process has definitely slowed down. I recently physically lost mine (with my whole wallet) and the process to get a second card printed, again, I've been approved and had it for years... is 2 to 13 (not a typo) months. Stuck, unable to leave the country until then, lest they not let me back in again.
The real issue with Indian elections is with the fake news being spread via Whatsapp which is multiple times more popular vs. Facebook. Because Whatsapp is e2e encrypted, there is literally anything FB can do with it. Whatsapp is so many times more dangerous vs. Facebook as no one can do anything about all the hate/fake news that spreads via it. =
It's also what gets us great code and reliable software, when done properly. Engineering is all about tradeoffs. A major tradeoff is time versus... just about anything else. Deadlines help you know how to make that tradeoff properly.
When I took over at my new lab, 40 FTEs, I implemented OKRs, just between my direct reports and I. It quickly became apparent who gets shit done and who doesn't. It also became apparent how overloaded some folks were. How little some understand their jobs. It helped me see what I needed to focus on and what I needed the lab to focus on.

I am also in a massive, MASSIVE, organization with literally acres of people dedicated to formal communication processes. I submit that OKRs were handy because they forced formal communication that revealed problems outside the official formal methods. It's a hack. And in the realm of formal comms, it's a particularly low-friction, low-cost-of-adoption hack.

10/10 will use again.
Speak for yourself. I don't use LinkedIn and have few references after 10 years. Don't need either, my work speaks for itself.
Extensive discussion last week (81 points, 110 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19487815
IIRC it was bandied back and forth but you'd only get a few hours of peak load, vs a diesel which can run at peak power for days before running out of fuel.

The USA have very long distances, unusual for other countries. A few hours are more than enough for short travels. Anyway, recharge times are irrelevant if you could change them easily.
The big problem with planes is that an hour long trip takes three hours. 1 hour to enter the airport, 1 hour to fly, 1 hour to exit the airport.

Sometimes you can drive somewhere faster than you can fly there, entirely because of all the setup and teardown implied by a flight. It’s this intermediate distance travel where high speed rail really shines.
Yeah I agree, it's good but it's very clearly not a burger. I'm also not vegetarian, just eat meat only once a week or so.

(But then maybe I'd say the same thing about burger Kings beef burgers too haha)
Is it really that hard to find kosher beef in US restaurants? What about halal beef?
> despite the fact that virtually none of them have ever been in a room where the real meaningful foreign policy decisions are made

I always liked this quote about policymaking:

"This is the most pervasive of of all Washington legends: that politicians in Washington are ceaselessly, ruthlessly, effectively scheming. That everything that happens fits into somebody’s plan. It doesn’t. Maybe it started out with a scheme, but soon enough everyone is, at best, reacting, and at worst, failing to react, and always, always they're doing it with less information than they need.

That's been a key lesson I’ve learned working as a reporter and political observer in Washington: No one can carry out complicated plans. All parties and groups are fractious and bumbling. But everyone always thinks everyone else is efficiently and ruthlessly implementing long-term schemes."
> because the ground infrastructure can't clear the snow quickly enough, or because the reduction in visibility means increasing separation requirements

Only true for airports in the middle of big flat nothing. If there're mountains around, bad weather or visibility makes landing too unsafe, unacceptably so for commercial airlines.

I live near this international airport: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxzQIvVu7mg Closes in bad weather regularly. Doesn't work at all after sunset.
If you can't stop the spread of fake news, then you need to become better at spreading real news.

Easier said than done, I know.

Edit: When it comes to improving distribution of and access to real news, there is a lot of low hanging fruit. Consider for instance the unfortunate state of affairs where most fake news is free, but a lot of real news is hidden behind paywalls. I understand that journalists have mortgages like the rest of us, they can't do it for free, but the social value of real news is sufficiently high we should be highly motivated to find alternatives to pay walls.
Not speaking for the OP, but Catholics don’t consider fish or seafood to be meat from a religious perspective when practicing abstinence every Friday (and Ash Wednesday) during Lent.
> Just replace the roads with rails.

Elsewhere in this thread and in previous discussions there has been this notion that there isn't the room for rail, buying up the land would be too expensive and so on.

For a lot of the US interstate there is this huge median between the two directions of the highway. In Europe you are lucky if the median is the width of a lane, in the US it can be a vast distance to the opposing traffic. Why they didn't build the interstate system with rail lines down the middle just for service reasons is a reflection on the car mad thinking that went with the era.

If you are driving in a car then you have to hold this steering wheel thing the whole time. Any moment of inattention and your number is up. Rail just automates that problem away, no Elon Musk needed. It should be a no-brainer. You should be able to hop onto the interstate and put your car on a flatbed railcar and zip along at 125mph until your destination, halving your drive time and being able to read the paper for a couple of hours instead of spending our hours holding that round thing. Even if you had to wait half an hour or an hour for the next flatbed train thing then it would still be worth it.

There is usually some power line following an interstate highway. I know that power gets sent along at 100's of thousands of volts but why can't the train tracks be the power 'cables' too? With some redundancy built in.

As it turned out America has just rubber wheeled V8 things trundling along at 55 mph between cities, at every opportunity for efficiency this was denied. The aero of cars in America during the last century made bricks look like the perfect aerodynamic shape.

As a European the state of the railways is shocking. We know from our history books about the golden spike somewhere in Utah and how amazing the transcontinental railroad was. But then, until you go to America, you don't realise that they haven't updated the network since. The smallest branch line in Europe has two sets of tracks, commuter towns have four to let the fast trains through. But then in America you have thousands of miles where it is just the one set of tracks. The land is not a shortage problem and you just wonder why over the last century or so they haven't bothered to put in an extra set of tracks so train traffic can be 'bi-directional'. It makes no sense at all. Then, through the Rockies the train slows down to something like ten miles an hour to inch over some trestle bridge that looks like it is a prop from an old Western movie. But that is fast. The train - Amtrak - will stop off for an hour to let some coal train chunter through on the single line. That would never happen in Europe.

Once I waited 8 hours for a train in America. There were no other trains on the track of the passenger variety during that time. In the rest of the world 8 minutes of delay means you have been badly let down and deserve a ticket refund. 8 hours - really? No wonder nobody travels on Amtrak. It is a joke, a bit like they only put it on for disabled people and didn't get the memo about accessibility.
Give me a break. The fee is going to drive people away from Manhattan.

More big brother surveillance, absurd costs and more boondoggle money to the unions. I wonder what the reduced traffic flow will do to MTA Bridges and Tunnels? It’s going to cost like $80 to take the GWB to lower Manhattan and back.

More than a few folks will choose to stay in NJ.
> Who wants to go between Columbus and Indianapolis--the highway between the two cities is pretty empty.

This strikes me as the main problem with the mindset around HSR. Consider e.g., Madison, Wisconsin.

Milwaukee would have a much more vibrant and dynamic ecosystem if undergrads/PhD students/professors could get to/from meetings with investors in MLK/CHI and be back for afternoon classes. Or continue internships/meetings during the school year.

There are enormous inefficiencies (and corresponding brain drain) caused by the fact that the region's center of innovation is 1+ hours by car away from the region's center of finance.

An MLK <-> CHI <-> Madison rail line would change the dynamics of the entire state's economy. Simply counting cars on the roads between those cities in the present ignores how HSR changes the entire dynamic in a very qualitative way.
I'd argue that most companies do care about theory based on the kinds of questions that come up in job interviews. A lot of this is cargo culting sure, and maybe some of them care about it for the wrong reasons, but they do.

>You don’t need deep understanding of computer science writing yet another software as a service CRUD app or most bespoke internal corporate tools that will never see the light of day outside of the company.

Sure provided you’re having your hand held by someone on your team who does have a deeper understanding--basically acting as an apprentice. There's nothing wrong with apprenticeship, but you also don't need a bootcamp to prepare your for that.

And if you ever want to move beyond writing CRUD apps, you’re going to need to make your way into much more complex territory at some point.
> European cities are far more walkable and accessible without a car.

A really weird experience I had while visiting CA (SSF specifically) was seeing a fast food place - I think it was Wendy's? - that wasn't reachable by foot in any clear way. Similarly there wasn't any obvious sidewalks or bike lanes on the highway between Brisbane and SSF, and while that _is_ as 2km walk, I'd still expect it to be _possible_.

I mean, I've been there for a week, and I'm sure it's possible to work things like that out if you live there longer. Maybe there's an entrance to the county park I didn't notice, or I don't know, a tunnel. But where I live, walking is far more intuitive than that. A tram might help, but it won't solve it.
What about statistics exactly? Bayes' theorem etc are enlightening and the numbers never gave me a problem.
Depends if the leader is in the weeds contributing or not.

My experience with quarterly goals at an early startup was that it made an artifact for what was most important at that given moment. Only later we're we able to prioritize a quarter ahead
I agree. But sometimes dates for delivery of something do need to be set. That approach should be very selectively used, with an understanding that it's not a demand that X is done by Y, but that something will be shipped on Y. Then, the question is how do we most effectively motivate people to make X as amazing as possible? On one project where I defined what X was (a unit on a chip), I delivered it by Y with all the most important features and zero bugs. Later, my manager (who I almost never interacted with) revealed that my productivity was equivalent to 32 engineers in a competing company.
Or the sign of a bubble...
How will a streetlight camera affect any of that?
As a vegetarian my entire life. I don't think I am the right audience for this. McDonald's in India gets the right mix of potatoes and veggies to make a delicious veggie burger. Trader Joe's has some Spicy Masala Patties that are very good too. Needless to say these are mostly carbs and no protein but the taste is awesome :)
Amazingly it's hard to find a good link on this topic.

Anyway it's from some study years ago that the most productive people are 10 times more productive than the least productive people. These are called 10x-ers (assuming they exist).

0.1xer is a play on that to talk to the least productive people in a team.
dank u
The implication of your GP that your parent is implicitly criticizing is that merely having a political affiliation disqualifies one's opinions by default on matters of opposing political matters. I'd agree that was the implication made by the GP, and I'd agree that it's a destructive oversimplification.
Do you have a general technique for finding full papers? I often find myself at such a crossroad
More to the point, they are DAGs. Git objects cannot form a loop, thus they are acyclic. </pedantic>
I can't understand why people believe that when Google compromise with the Chinese government on censorship things will become worse in the long run. As if it's okay to put Chinese in a position where only not-that-good search engines like bing are available - some people probably will consider that OK because they do not live in mainland China so they simply wouldn't have to care. To be fair, that's just hypocrisy.

As for the censorship bit - you guys really believe that when the US one day do the same thing as the current mainland government do Google will not compromise, aren't you?
You have it backwards. The Union Tribune is known to shill for the establishment and has been called "not a credible source of information". The San Diego Reader is local, independent and has a good reputation for honesty.

Source: I've lived in San Diego for the last 50 years.
If they say they have a cap, it's probably just smoke and mirrors.
I've driven left-hand automatic and manual in England and I was fine in such locations as Trafalgar Square (within ULEZ now) and BFE Worcestershire. Once I learned the pedals aren't switched it became 300% easier.
For a startup an example objective would be an MVP launch and a key result would be an MVP being tried out by 10 people in a coffee shop, or getting 100 views from various blog posts. Something like this would set an expectation for the whole team (sales, marketing, engineering...) for the quarter. It shouldn't be complex, but it has to be something well thought out and serious.

I would get crazy if I would get a new strategy every 24 hours. The details of the execution can change, but the objective and the key results shouldn't change that often.
To add on to this... I was at HHMI Janelia for a while which has an automated rodent cage cleaning contraption with two robot arms. They have all the automation money can buy. It's still __extremely__ labor intensive.

Beyond all the routine things... consider that, at least in neuroscience, you often need to perform surgery on each mouse...
No, Amazon literally has a real hard cap on salaries. Everything else above that cap is stock. This is true for even seniors and execs.
Are you sure this isn't a lifestyle you're forcing on your kids? I've known a few kids from low-tech families and in my experience, it's rarely something they'd choose for themselves, were they given the choice. Kids use the internet to chat with friends after school and to arrange events. They also tend to bond over videos and TV shows they've all watched, and in general, they don't like to be different from their peers or to miss out on opportunities to socialise or to bond socially over shared experiences.

In my experience, kids from low-tech families also tend to binge on their banned technology when they get the opportunity, like watching TV at a friend's house or spending lunchtime in the school's library/computer lab, maybe because of a lack of learned self-control.
thank you, I felt like I was in the twilight zone at the last company I worked out that used these

I started working from coffee shops until they just dropped the OKR system and every manager wasting the whole company's time on it had "moved on for personal reasons"

I had forgotten about this repressed nightmare, I'll remember that next time I am fawning over the hip location and catered meals
However, even if the animals require no food to be purchased by the farmer, there is still an environmental cost in the land being used, plus the opportunity cost of other uses of that land.

Not all land used for grazing can be used to grow plants, true, but in the cases it can be, you're using that land at a 10% kcal efficiency, so to speak.
Pigeon-Based 'Feathernet' Still Fastest Way to Transfer Massive Amounts of Data
Imagine if Facebook or some other platform did that to news outlets they didn't like. I think people would be quite concerned.
John Doerr's book references Intel and Google heavily to gain credibility for the OKR methodology. Can someone from either of those organizations chime in with their experience?
“I am rich”
The anti-suburbian trend among "city folk" strikes me of arrogance and ignorance just as the anti-car one. If they want to solve problems in their area that's fine and dandy but sticking their noses where they don't live is terribly (and terrible) "busybody" way to live.
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Nvidia Beefs Up Data Center GPUs, Teams with ARM on IoT Devices
In the last three centuries? Let me know which ones once you figure it out.
Treat internal projects like startups
As Eisenhower says "Plans are worthless, but planning is everything".

Setting deadlines is useful for planning. Respecting them at all costs is dangerous. They need to be updated when we have more information.
So let's examine a setup with three cages, with two parent mice having a litter of 6 every 45 days. So every 45 days we have a new batch of 90-day-old mice, and they cost $135 or $23 each. Add a couple more dollars to sustain the ancestor mice, add enough inefficiencies to double the cost, that's still only $50 per mouse. Rearing costs aren't even going to hit 1% of $17000.
As suspected it's useful only to the higher-ups and specifically to manage drones who need military discipline, same as scrum.

If it has an acronym it's useless to functioning contributors. The original purpose has disappeared with the name.
> holding the falling knife

That is... not how that metaphor works. You want to avoid trying to catch the falling knife by placing a trade that attempts to time the market on a plummeting asset. But if you already hold it, and can't make any trades, well...