skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The taming of the newbie – a comedy on IRC (2010)
Did Outlook team have any idea they where inventing their largest competitor?
So I actually had this idea years ago. People were joking that people can "sync" up so much on twitter that the next evolution is just thinking thoughts to each other.

Even bought the domain thottr.com for this back in 2011. Hilarious
Planes are complicated, and you can't test for all n! different things that can go wrong. I think the case that:

a) an MCAS sensor is giving incorrect data AND

b) the data is leading MCAS to set the trim to the max AND

c) the plane is going so fast that the force of the air over the elevator is too great to manually override AND

d) the plane is too low to temporarily drop altitude to reduce the force on the elevator to allow a manual override

I don't think this is an obvious set of things to foresee happening, especially D.

It's the same way with software. There's just too many things to think of, and errors that slip through the test cases are inevitable. I've had what I've considered to be pretty thorough test cases and had a bug that was "obvious".

I'm not excusing Boeing, but it isn't gross incompetence either.
Especially when the word "harm" is redefined to include invisible injury, rather than physical or material.

Its one thing to say "He beat me up!" as your nose is bleeding and you have witnesses, or "He stole my wallet" and the police find your wallet on the guy, but its another entirely to say "He hurt my feelings!" We are leaving objectivity behind here.
Would that be this paper?

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228139699_The_Stati...
Bots are going to have a field day on this unless you got spam detection right.
Levenshtein distance, an n-gram comparison, or similar might be good enough instead of having to invite a machine learning solution.
Good idea but it needs some work. I get the reason of having hashtags is to only reveal the attempt to connect when the intent matches, but with arbitrary syntax allowed you will get a lot of false negatives when your chances of people even matching their timeframes are low as it is.

Instead offer a few predefined categories of tags, and the user can select one or more of them. That also improves the UI as you can now offer autocomplete in that field and lower the barrier of entry (removing option paralysis).
If that was the case, then why did he not just run the Senate out of town when he returned from the East after clearing the Mediterranean of Pirates and finishing off Mithridates? He was extremely popular with the people and the Army. Right before the civil wars with Caesar started, he was preparing for a virtual retirement with his appointment as governor of Spain. The governorship was to give him a steady source of income.
Why does Facebook own your identity and personhood just because they monopolize the social network? Clearly if you don't own your data then these entities will abuse any intent of law or ethics as long as they can circumvent the law (or you know just come up with a new edge case).

The model of letting other entities molest your private data has been tried. It's been a human rights violation from the get go. I don't think we need more propaganda supporting the poor little tech giants. They can come up with a humanistic business model like everyone else. Even if it hurts their profits - idgaf.
Hello HN,

Thanks to everyone checking this out. I know it's kind of a weird project, but that's the idea! I've been kicking this project around since college in 2003 when I was afraid to ask a girl out even though I was pretty sure she liked me too. Instead of just asking her out I tried to come up with a way to fix my anxiety with software, and thus Thoughter was born. Don't worry I'm a bit wiser now. :)

You can read more about the back story at https://aytwit.com/blog/thoughter_origin_story and why it took so long for me to complete. Hint: I cared too much about privacy, before it was cool!
Homer wasn't the only person writing in the classical period. His contemporary, Hesiod, depicted gods as immortal arbiters of justice in Works and Days.

The Ilyad clearly has struck some narrative gold, but was in no way the only manner in which the pantheon was portrayed.
I had no idea he (JWZ) hadn't gone to College. Very impressive.
> but for a utility which is making investment decisions in new generation capacity, it isn't so different.

You are probably familiar with all of this, but that's a tricky one since dispatchability puts those into different equivalence classes. California ISO has negative LMPs right now, which means building additional solar provides little marginal value to the utility. As a result, even if the "traditional" LCOE for solar (just using capital cost, O&M, and capacity factor) is lower than coal, coal would technically still have higher value to the utility.

You'd have to model real-time demand and fratricide to get a average marginal rate (almost impossible to predict for a 20-30 year horizon right now, given rate of innovation), and then compare that against the amortized capital cost and O&M to get an expected ROI for the plant. An LCOE comparison wouldn't really make sense from a decision making standpoint.

That wouldn't be true if they were both closely equivalent (say NGCC vs NGCT, or coal vs nuclear). Then a strict LCOE comparison would be useful.
Anyone who has been a diver immediately understands why this was necessary. The last thing you want is your diver partner panicking underwater, which can happen even with certified divers. An uncertified diver in a cave is a massive liability to your own safety.
Also 'include'? Why would you add the single most awful part of C/C++ to a python-alike.
Hey we could still see a sea change at the US federal level of either progressive or adherent libertarian representatives that curtail the fear / police / surveillance state in the 2020 election.

Its about as likely as bitcoin taking over the world economy, but hey we all have to cling to false hope sometimes.
The site says it compiles to bytecode and C++ source. Looking at recent commits, there's some non-functional WASM support: https://github.com/aardappel/lobster/commit/5b89bacd1b1d1e63...
1. The service will send an email to person A saying "Someone wants to #wannaGoOut". As long as person B doesn't make a typo when copying the hash tag, this problem is solved.

2. Yeah, it's a nod to certain eras of web design, which I like, but other people won't care so I agree.

3. It's email-based in order to make it work for recipients who don't have the app.

5. In 2019, it's probably best to support Facebook, Snapchat, and Instagram as recipient addresses... somehow. Although most of those aren't technically possible. Those platforms aren't really great for building services on top of.
I see a lot of similarities between writing code and making music. I wrote about it here: https://osherove.com/blog?tag=codemusic
We are now lost in a semantic discussion, as it is clear that all parties agree on the content, just not the terminology. In that spirit, I will disagree.

In mathematics, commutativity is always about two operands. My textbook on floating point arithmetic[1] (probably the most famous one) states that addition and multiplication in floating point is commutative. They use examples similar to yours as an example of associativity being violated, and point out that commutativity is preserved.

Putting FP aside: In mathematics, no one disputes that addition is commutative. Yet, they all agree that for infinite sums, if you rearrange the order of the terms, you can get different results. They don't say that addition is commutative only for finite sums. They say it is commutative for all addition, and that associativity is the property that fails for infinite sums. See the discussion here[2] for example:

>The commutative property of addition is that a+b=b+a. Technically, it applies only to sums of two numbers!

>Actually, commutivity does hold for infinite sums. Glossing over a few technicalities, commutivity says that you get the same answer whenever you interchange any two terms in a sum.

Although I'll grant that when I look at some other answers in StackExchage, they do generalize to "repeated use of commutativity", and that if commutativity is applied a finite number of times, the sum is preserved, but not if applied an infinite number of times. The common refrain in both cases, though, is that commutativity applies only to two operands.

[1] https://www.springer.com/us/book/9780817647056

[2] https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/646665/why-does-com...
What is worse, this 737-MAX issues appears to have been caused by under regulation, which has subsequently resulted in the needless deaths of many hundreds of passengers.
You're on HN so you have some tech education and access to computing resources. You speak English, probably at a native level. You've been a marine which probably means US Army. You're very likely male, and white, and American from birth, and comparatively wealthy - vehicle owning, at least. Straight, CIS gendered, Christian, Jewish or atheist, physically and mentally mostly healthy, and between 18 and 60 years old?

If so, you sit at the top of a power hierarchy of hundreds of years of dominator culture, in the best possible region you could be in.

Certainly your individual experience of life won't be Donald Trump just because you own a car, certainly you have problems in life that you fought against and overcame with difficulty, that doesn't say your life is easy full stop. It says your baseline position is vastly above a whole lot of other people.

You might not fit this profile exactly, you may be Black, Mexican, have emigrated as a child, have struggled with poverty or single parent childhood, and so on. But you probably aren't far outside this, you probably aren't a Fillipino immigrant with no education learning English age 30 and working a labouring job, or a South Indian woman in an arranged marriage with no driving license and no access to money, or etc.

Other people suffer the same kinds of individual problems of life, but do so starting from a much lower baseline, that's the bit that's unfair. Not the idea "everyone has problems" but the idea "some people have problems, other people ahve double problems, and we could fix it so they don't".

That is, someone attending a poor inner city school has a worse outcome than someone attending a wealthy suburban school. Yet you can still find suburban school students who have a difficult time and a bad outcome, and inner city school students who overcome the problems and have a great outcome. Neither of those changes the overall dynamic that poor inner city schools have worse outcomes overall.

This kind of discussion is always "I have problems at my inner city school" "well I had problems at my suburban school too, so stop complaining" or "well I had inner city school problems as well and I overcame them, so stop complaining".

Completely invalidating a large number of inner city school students who justifiably and validly feel the situation is unbalanced and unfair, and want to do something to make it more fair in general.

Privileged person saying "I'm sick and tired of hearing about your complaints" isn't a great position stick to and take pride in.
My issue is that the reason to switch to renewables is to reduce your carbon footprint. If you aren't reducing your footprint, why are you investing that money?

I should rephrase my statement. They are replacing nuclear with coal AND renewables. But to me the better strategy is to replace coal with renewables first. Then you can reduce your nuclear production. Get to the problem.

The priority should be to reduce the carbon footprint.
Introducing a More Seamless Navigate on Autopilot
This is awesome. I've played with something similar and have been thinking about automating some of this process to give small startups a really lightweight way to on-board this kind of capability for physical + PIN multi-factor SSH access.
Chrome on Windows and OSX will not stream 1080p Netflix. You have to use IE or Safari.

It at least used to stream 1080p for Amazon, and it may for CBS but I'm not 100%.

It honestly seems like a decision made by the streaming providers.
This was discussed in depth in the long 1/25/19 article re the rescue: https://www.macleans.ca/thai-cave-rescue-heroes/ (Previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19030307)

> A word about sedation. A word, too, about Dr. Harry.

> Anaesthesiology requires more training than most branches of medicine; there is always some risk that when a patient is put under, he or she will never wake up. When the patient is a child, the risks are greater. When the child is yanked along underwater for hours through a dark, cold cave, the risks are incalculable—no one has ever done anything like this before.

> Dr. Harry believes the risks of sedating the children beat the risks of not sedating the children. The lead divers believe the same, and the Thais believe the experts know best. The children cannot dive; the children will panic; the children will drown their rescuers and themselves. That is why Dr. Harry is going to do this: inject 12 kids with a sedative so powerful it will knock them out cold.

> Ketamine: a horse tranquilizer, an operating-room drug, a soon-to-be cave-rescue pharmaceutical product in its early testing stages on rock-entombed human minors.

> If only it were so simple. The children’s drugs will need to be topped up with half-doses along the way. Dr. Harry cannot dive every child out himself, but the divers are not medical doctors. Dr. Harry must give a dozen cave hobbyists and small-business owners a crash course in do-it-yourself anaesthesiology.

> If anyone dies—and many divers think they will be lucky to save two or three of the kids—Dr. Harry will bear much of the burden. He is not licensed to practice medicine in Thailand, let alone teach other foreigners to practice. Though Thailand and Australia have offered some assurance that he won’t suffer legal consequences for his young patients’ probable deaths, a conscience and a name are not so easily protected.
It's not Python.. it just has a similar syntax.

You currently run it either as a bytecode VM (which is rather fast and runs on any platform), or you can translate it to C++ if you want an additional speed boost.
Industrial heating is one of the solutions to the problem, because a lot of processes are not that time-critical. Some processes already require electricity, such as arc furnaces. However, as the process cost is dominated by the electricity usage, they are already being run at times when the electricity cost is very low, that is, when there is overcapacity. This makes it easy to absorb overproduction of a grid which is intentionally oversized for peak demand. It's already not unheard of for industries to get paid to consume electricity.
> 1. The service will send an email to person A saying "Someone wants to #wannaGoOut". As long as person B doesn't make a typo when copying the hash tag, this problem is solved.

That's only one of four possible settings, and using it breaks half of the examples: it works great for #reunite, not so great for #breakup
Best wishes to you.

If I am reading correctly, if person S sends person R a message M bearing hash tag H, if R sends their own message M2 to S bearing hash tag H2, then M will be revealed to R and M2 will be revealed to S, if and only if H equals H2. (S may choose some behaviors, such as revealing their identity, in order to prompt R into sending a message.)

As for your second paragraph:
I like this site's design<1> a lot. I was able to skim it quickly, and absorb enough to answer your question and more. With respect, I think more work has gone into its design than "antiquated" would suggest.

For one example, on mobile the body paragraphs on the right of the screen can themselves be dragged to the left to read all the info, instead of my having to use the tiny fiddly scrollbar. I think that's a smart feature for a mobile site with a fair bit of text (such as on the SQL page.) Consider also that the site uses colors for text, background, and UI elements (body, nav, etc) that neither clash hideously nor strain the eyes with too-low contrast; plenty of old websites don't take that level of care (think a typical professor's academic homepage - now THOSE can get antiquated!)

Bootstrap will get you a "modern"-style site without too much effort, but I don't think it would add anything here.

<1> By design I am waving in the general direction of layout, color scheme, ease of use, etc.
> Harris told reporters that all of the rescued children “needed re-sedation at different times on the way out.”

Crazy. Definitely not an easy job.
Perhaps the father/son example is too dark, but it does offer a use-case other than the obvious asking-out-for-a-date example.
I presume this is the same Nancy Leveson who wrote Safeware?

If I could push one book on all engineers (and not just programmers as it goes over entire systems failures), let it be this, I recommend it to everyone.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Safeware-System-Safety-Computers-19...

I'll watch that link ASAP - thanks @Gibbon1!
While an interesting read for sure, I'm not sure why people are surprised by this? Given the context, the boys are already at an elevated risk for panicking, seems like a cut and dry solution that worked as intended?

I don't view drugs as "scary" or "bad". They're tools, if used correctly they can effectively do what you need them to. There's risks with these tools of course, and those need to be considered, but in the end they're just tools. (Not talking about miss-using drugs, only talking about approved usage by professionals)
Show HN: The best things in life are free, including this CSV generation tool
Still much better than Coca-Cola and Pepsi. Once I tasted Kofola some years ago I'm never buying Coca-Cola/Pepsi again. 2 other great colas I love are Fentimans Curiosity Cola and Red Bull cola but these are more expensive.
What about...

when you play music you ???

when you write music you ???

when you write code you ???

when you debug code you ???

Doesn't seem like the answers would be the same in every case.
It's unlikely that's the case unless you're in a weird niche where people use ancient tech though. Both flexbox and grid have been available since IE10, albeit in a slightly different form prior to Edge.

I happily write flexbox layout code in particular that works everywhere without any changes necessary for old browsers.
It is not intended to be Python compatible, it merely has indentation based syntax that is similar.

The cases where it differs from Python are actually for good reason: unlike Python that only has built-in control structures, here any function can look like if/for/while if it takes a lambda body.
Usually competition pushes down costs, not the minimum wage. Some things might increase a little for scarce goods IF this increased wages causes more demand but many goods are not like that.

In terms of increasing the costs of goods because of increased labor cost, unless the human resource is the only cost, you're still better off. If you're paid $10 to make a $12 item, you need to work 1.2 hours to buy it. If you get paid $20 to make a now $22 item, you now only need to work 1.1 hours.
The West isn't dismantling its collective identity. It is refactoring it. Key elements of what construe western identity are restated in more defensible, universal terms through the process of critique.

Human dignity is a stronger foundation for our system of thought than a few statements from the first council of Nicaea or some other arbitrary religious authority.
Are the Show HN submissions systematically verified to be in earnest ?
Kofola also owns Vinea, which is a much better soft drink.
We built a barely working version of that during a hackathon a while back: https://github.com/chesseye/chesseye (README has a link to a video).

It takes a lot of shortcuts, works with just the right lightning, etc., but worked great as a proof-of-concept :)

We got away with not identifying the pieces by just detecting the color, assuming the game started from the initial position, and assuming only legal moves (the whole game is unambiguous using these assumptions).

It's all old-school computer vision with hand-written features, and I'm pretty confident there is tons of low-hanging fruit, but who has the time.
They could easily be keeping a history of everything, so while this would affect the final version of the item, it wouldn't delete the history. The data would still be there for them to mine, and to be stolen.
Wow everyone on here defending tech giants owning their personal data. Is this Facebook trolls working their propaganda?

What exactly do we stand to lose if Facebook can't aggregate data on a level akin to a hyper advanced dystopiam government? Are we worried out advertisements will become less funny? Are we worries well be less manipulable on a mass scale? Are we worried well have options on our tech overlords instead of being stuck with 4?

Its my data and I should own it. Just like I can't login to Facebooks servers and take their data. The only thing that separates Facebook from having privacy and the user is Facebook has billions of dollars of leverage. But hey if yall like billionaires owning you then let's keep it up - let's not say we own what's ours. Make the billionaires even stronger.
Less error-prone in one sense, more error-prone in another. Any time you have an AST integration, you will run into versioning and integration issues. Consider for example a modern ES6 stack with Babel -- will all your third party tooling recognize the latest syntaxes recognized by Babel? And if so, will it all output AST to text in the correct way? Probably not. Same goes for versioning in languages like Python 2 vs 3 where the AST is only slightly different.

It's much simpler for a tool like this to be "dumb" -- leave the correct syntax to the human, since it's a lot easier for a human to deal with on a one-off basis than to have a group of developers writing and maintaining dozens of AST parsers and code generators.
Brunei implements stoning to death under anti-LGBT laws
I don't like the idea since it essentially kills hope. Hope that a relationship might work out when the time is right. Putting a timer on hope is a bad idea.
The cited study 1990 https://doi.org/10.3109/07853899009148930 is evaluating "consistent sauna use preventing colds" rather than "get in the sauna to sweat out a cold", and in fact stated that

"The average severity of the common colds per cent
was 1.8f0.8 in group 1 and 2.0k0.7 in group 2. The
mean duration of common colds per event was 6.7 k3.9
days in group 1 and 7.5k5.6 days in group 2. Neither
yields a significant difference between the two groups."

So, that one study found a minor preventative effect, but no curative effect.

Interesting that they also state

"The average frequency of sauna bathing was 26.8 55.5
(mean k SO) per six months. The frequency of common
colds during this time was 33 in group 1 and 46 in group
2. This difference between the two groups is statisti-
cally significant (P <0.05). The expected frequency ac-
cording to previous reports (1-9) and based on the six
months preceding (Table 1) the study would be 50 per
six months in each group."

They expect 50 colds per group of 25 people in six months? On average each person getting a cold for a week every three months?

Looks like that's not far off, depending on the age distribution. Kids 4-8 per year, over 60 maybe 1/year. Wow.
Same here. Count me in too. Happy to lead/help this initiative.

And tbh I don't think it needs to be projects that make $money. Any automation/ML based projects that make life easy for the coder should qualify. Eg: A simple Python script I wrote as hobbist helped me build a meme page with 17K fb followers when I was in school. I had no intentions of monetizing it. Just harmless fun.