skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder why speech-based IF games are essentially nonexistent, given the popularity of podcasts and existence of speech-only computers (e.g. Alexa).
Metals: Language Server for Scala
It must be that Tesla is losing money on the base model.
I love it when people use that terrible "backtrack" comic.
How, exactly, will they "not have to care"? The identical ramifications occur with Fuscia as they happen with Linux! This is farce.

Every single problem that Android has had, from low-latency audio issues (they've rebuilt that a dozen times in a dozen cartoonish ways) to driver stagnancy, is completely and directly a result of Google choices and implementations (and they do the same thing again and again! It's remarkable). The notion that Google is going to fix all of their own self-sabotage by starting anew is comedic in a sense, and is the folly of countless foolish projects. "We keep fucking up again and again...let's start from scratch and this time we'll surely do it right!"

This time, however, it'll be different...
Now that you do have kids, do you use such an app? Do you plan to?

(I'm a father of a 3 year old; I'll likely use _something_ like this when she's old enough to go to the store around the corner and back by herself, but will likely stop once she's old enough to take the subway by herself.)
Robot forest mapping for forest inventory
Similar in spirit to Django and SQLAlchemy Core SQL expressions.
This is not at all unusual. Poincare discovered special relativity before Einstein, Hilbert found the correct equations for General relativity one week before Einstein, Hamilton almost discovered quantum mechanics decades before everyone else. Newton found solutions to major mathematical problems and never published them. Gauss discovered hyperbolic geometry before Bolyai and Lobachevski and never bothered publishing his results. I can go on and on in the fields of physics and mathematics which I know best. Certainly, the same thing is true in chemistry, biology, etc. I wouldn't doubt someone got there before even Feynman did. Still in every case, the recognized discoverer not only made their discoveries independently but also managed to convince their communities of their merit, something which is FAR harder to do.

This smells like classic Feynman. He did more things than people realize even coming up with his own ideas about the Riemann hypothesis even though he wasn't a mathematician at all. In a certain sense Feynman didn't discover a single physical law. (arguable) . This little anecdote if true would be Feynman's "single" discovery of an actual new physic law (which happens to not have experimental verification).

Feynman was brilliant. If you have a physics PhD you can still benefit enormously by reading Feynman's lectures on physics. His work on statistical mechanics is essential reading too especially if you already know everything.
The couldn’t be as they haven’t produced a single one.
I've been considering a Tesla. Buying the base model with zero options just never really crossed my mind. Seems that's the case for a lot of Tesla buyers.

For me it's like buying a base laptop. For my personal one, I'll always max the SSD and memory.
This sounds like it would be a better workflow for a threaded newsgroup style application.
Like personal owner debt? I.e. mortage up the house for 300k and fuel some growth?

Let's compare VC to Debt for owner capital

Funded via VC:

* Startup Wins Big: You get 30-70% of big money

* Startup Fails: Walk away with a fresh slate

Funded via personal Debt:

* Startup Wins Big: Get 100% of the big money

* Startup Fails: Declare personal bankruptcy, perhaps lose house, perhaps unable to buy a home for 5 or so years, lose any physical assets

I am a big fan of don't get VC if you don't need VC. But for many many normal founders without a huge pile of cash in a trust fund or from a previous exist, the VC debt looks a whole lot nicer than the person debt story.
I'd be careful with this unless you've done enough selling to come up with a repeatable sales process/known business model!

https://steveblank.com/2010/09/13/job-titles-that-can-sink-y...
Well i could tell uou from data i am working with that improvements in ASD are not that frequent and not of such magnitude. Obviously this could be an issue with their coding, but just for context, those changes are not typical seen in other cohorts. Proper funded study now needed. Longitudinal clinical trials are not cheap.
Katie Bouman and black hole code: Andrew Chael added 850K of 900K lines of code
Maybe if they hadn't included $5,000+ worth of (fake) "full self-driving" hardware by default into all Model 3s, they wouldn't have needed to do this, and maybe they would've been able to make the base Model 3 a little cheaper, too, which I'm sure would've positively impacted its popularity (I think a $29,900 base Model 3 would be far more popular than Standard Plus).

I could understand all the other carmakers being lured by the bells and whistles of "self-driving" marketing blitz over turning their cars into EVs, but I expected more from Tesla.

Making great EVs that are also affordable should have always remained Tesla's #1 priority. Last I checked, Musk said he wanted the world to switch to EVs and the way to do that is through them making cheaper EVs with each generation. The priority shouldn't be to keep adding gimmicks to those Teslas and keeping them more expensive than they need to be. Has he forgotten that?
I've worked for enough crappy managers that I know how much that affects my job satisfaction and work-life balance. I'm at a point where I'd probably (and, currently do) sacrifice 10-15% of my salary just to work for someone who is respectful and interested in my development and wellbeing. I'd bet others are like me, and if you truly mentor and develop someone, you won't need to pay Netflix-level salaries to retain them.
The article is about Fortran, not Forth.
Slack only works for companies where the nature of their employees' work actually requires team communication that will benefit the organizations.

Like everything in life, it's always a trade off. You may gain scores for team work but will sacrifice individual creativity. Deep creative tasks always require a full strength of focus and that state is only attainable once we allow our mind some time to completely "dial in". You simply cannot switch from 0 to 100 and be in the zone within the span of just a few minutes.

When you are using Slack or any social media communication platforms, your brain must allocate cognitive resource to manage your ego because you do care about what other people think of your opinions. Since the pool of our cognitive resource is limited, we will have less remaining that can be dedicated to other real creative tasks.

On top of that, you now have a distraction source where you constantly have to switch attention to. This may condition your brain over time and cause it to lose the ability to "dial in".

Some companies were eager to force employees into using these tools while it didn't really provide any real tangible benefits, and may in fact even be destructive. Within a company only some departments should use it but some definitely shouldn't. It's the same reason why open office concept may work for certain organizations but not for all.
This is Nature Scientific Reports, a low impact journal.
> Atom's Vim-Mode-Plus is amazing

Its even better than vim itself... multi-cursors Vim Mode in Atom is insanely good.

i know you can basically do the same thing with native vim, but having instant feedback like in atom makes it just so easy
Yugoslavia had more than one radio station broadcasting computer programs - Ljubljana's Student Radio would also broadcast Spectrum software, my father recorded almost all of it so we had over 30 cassettes (he probably still keeps them :P ).

A friend had a doorbell that would very briefly disrupt the electrical current in their house so he would stand at the front door to make sure noone had to ring it during the broadcasts :D
Still could be, as long as their calculated build costs were higher than the advertised price, even if they haven't built one...
It seems that author advocates for design tools to become more and more like developer tools - a notion that I, as a developer, can totally get behind.

However, in my 12 years of experience in game development, many people who are world-class designers and artists don't have the same mental model as developers. There are a lot of "technical art" issues that in the end, you'd rather handle on a developer's side. I just don't think that a person who spends his time thinking about character's emotion, colour balance, human anatomy and other art-related issues is in the same mind space to think about technical issues like which UI containers should be scaled on what rules (full-screen or safe area? hugging the screen outside or inside?) for different screen sizes, how things should be composed from layers and animated, how assets can be converted from a static image to a resizable one, how a giant image can be cut into a 9-slice (or in a more complicated way) to save texture budget, how can we reuse already existing assets without importing another image that is very, very similar, how different kind of gradients behave with not-pixel-perfect scaling and crunch compression (and I didn't even go into 3d!). I tried empowering designers and artists so they would make these decisions, but they hated it and were miserable - so in the end I'd rather get a static, single-sized PSD and do all that work myself.

All of this, of course, are just my 2 cents from a specific industry and with a very specific kind of people in mind - I'm not trying to impose these views on any designers and artists who want to get into the technical art side and would be thrilled to see more and more individuals who can be productive and happy in this kind of hybrid role. But as a matter of fact, these people are very, very rare and we shouldn't expect most artists to be like that.
Don’t Forget Step Zero – Successful People Remember
Maybe they figured out they would be losing money, which is why they kept delaying manufacturing it?

This whole "Standard Plus model is so much more popular anyway" is a sick joke.
This is one of the worst crypto-debit cards I've seen. Coinbase's card has a "Crypto Liquidation Fee": 2.49% of transaction. (Even Gemini, the most expensive cryptoexchange has 1% exchange fees, while the median is probably around 0.2%)

You are better off selling manually on an exchange (0.1-0.25% fees) and transferring to a sane bank with debit cards and minimal fees like N26(EU) or Charles Schwab(US).

Have a fiat buffer, but control your holdings and don't get milk by fee-vampires like Coinbase.
Per the new lease:

"Please note, customers who choose leasing over owning will not have the option to purchase their car at the end of the lease, because with full autonomy coming in the future via an over-the-air software update, we plan to use those vehicles in the Tesla ride-hailing network."

Elon once again promising fully autonomous vehicles in 3 years.

Also, isn't this a rental? A lease normally has a residual, so you can choose whether to buy the car.
Perhaps msluyter was thinking of big companies that smaller ones can't match on spending power.

Either way - if you trained/grown someone to become much more valuable for other companies and still can't create enough value working for you... Then you have a different problem.
The next paragraph is interesting too:

"Its range will be limited by 10%, and several features will be disabled via software (including our onboard music streaming service, navigation with live traffic visualization, and heated seats). Similar to other software-limited vehicles produced in the past, Standard customers will have the option to upgrade to a Standard Plus at any time. Similarly, anyone who has already bought Standard Plus and wants to convert to Standard is welcome to do so, and we will provide a refund for the difference in cost."

It's pretty confident to offer both upgrade and downgrade options between the two.
Care to clarify? I was never alive at either of those times, nor were my predecessors (all immigrated legally after that). I and my family have fairly earned what we have. I agree there were past issues, but socialism/communism is worse in that it keeps taking every year after. And none of what you mentioned is a free market.
Jumia: 'Africa's Amazon' in landmark NYSE listing
Disclaimer: I work in an IoT-focused consultancy and work with Fortune 500s in their IoT strategy.

This is a _great_ idea. Not sure the implementation is perfect, but giving consumers more control/visibility over their devices is going to be increasingly important.

I hope we get more companies into this space, but I don't think it's well understood enough to be a viable business. Until then, open source tools like this are going to be great.

If the authors are watching this thread, reach out, I'd love to connect you with some of my customers.
Unrelated, but it's "through the wringer" not "ringer". A "wringer" being something that wrings your clothes out i.e. puts a great amount of stress and force on them.

Sorry for being annoying and pedantic :-(
I think it is time for tech workers to force their companies to pursue an agenda that is in-line with the worker's ethics. We are highly paid, we are also highly valuable to the US economy. If we can effectively unionize - we can use that leverage to pressure the government to act in ways we support with regards to surveillance and climate change.
Service did fix it. To be fair, it was the only MacBook of mine that's had that problem. I've had many.
I paid for hadean lands and it was worth every penny
For me, the base model is all I've considered. Mainly because I want a electric car without any bells and whistles.
Fad? That’s the Unix philosophy going back 50+ years.
Yes. Or more precisely, any language puts various limits on what you can easily and conveniently express - in the strict sense, everything you can implement in one language you can implement in all of them as long as they're Turing-complete. However, the amount of effort required to express different things varies between the languages very significantly, and the users tend to confine their thinking to the most directly-supported features of the language they use, as they are most convenient to use most of the time. The term to search for is the "Blub paradox".

Go is a language which consciously limits the expressive power of the language in some areas, with the goal of simplifying the implementation and reducing the complexity of codebases written in Go (trading that for repetition). We'll see in 20 years how that plays out.

Anyway, constraining oneself to a single language is never good. Learning other languages widens the horizons of what you can imagine implemented (and how), also in your original language. I wish more people - especially starry-eyed fans of this or that language - learned about this fact... :)
It sounds like you are mixing the positive and normative. Yes, corporations now don't represent the values of their workers and lobby for all kinds of awful things. Yes, there is no social net now provided by unions or the government in the United States.

But wouldn't it be excellent if these things were true?
Subsaharan Africans have mated with for now unknown hominin cca 30kya.

As for your claim, you're mostly right. There was an incursion of non-African DNA into Subsaharan Africa around 3000kya, probably related to Bronze Age Collapse and migrations around it. Because of this, Africans can carry up to 25% Eurasian DNA, and part of that is Neandertal.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-34479905
The Corruption Continuum
The core argument of the article is not that Buddhism was either a unique spur to warfare or the specific source of obedience.

The article is about how Zen has at various historical moments, despite core anti-violence Buddhist beliefs, been used to justify and excuse violent acts, or even be directly referenced in learning martial killing arts. Then the question is: How has a deeply anti-violence religion found pro-war or pro-violence logic when in those contexts. The author looks for explanations of this contradiction in the Taoist elements of Zen.

The article references https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_at_War, it is factual that (some) Zen leaders supported the imperial holy war in WWII. Enough that some contemporary leaders have issued apologies.

I think the question is more similar to: Christianity has explicitly stated principles of non-violence and against killing, yet has also been used at historical moments to justify holy war, during WWII did not prevent (some) German churches from aligning with Nazism and violent anti-Semitism, etc. What are the historical philosophical strands in Christianity that have allowed it (sometimes) to be used to justify acts that would seem to be in direct contradiction to its core.
Am I the onyl one who thinks he's similar to Louis Wain? Both guys seemed to be seeing fractals in their minds, after all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Wain
Think of it this way, what did parents do before these kinds of things were available? Humans are still in existence, so teenagers were able to survive without this level af parental tracking. I think this level of parental overwatch says more about the parent’s insecurities than anything. You know what you were up to as a teenager. That’s probably what your teenager is doing. Did anything you do deserve big brother level tracking?
That hardware is necessary for safety features included in every car, and I seriously doubt it costs anywhere near that much money.
Your first point is a baseless assertion; I will ignore it, as you can't really argue against a "yuh-huh".

I used the word war because that's typically how socialist and communist governments have gotten into place.
The fear of missing something is real. I have seen decisions taken in Slack by two or three of the four or five people who should have been involved. I'm not saying this is caused by Slack -- the problem is absolutely with the people who thought it was okay to act on such a decision. But I do think it's facilitated; the people involved seem to subconsciously think that because they're discussing in a public channel where the other people are "present" -- even though they're not active -- that everyone's informed. Whereas if they'd just had a hallway face-to-face, someone would have said, "Hey, we really need to check with Laura and Ed about this too".
I don't understand. Will they be selling the standard then ? The quote and headline don't seem to match. And no, I haven't read the link.

edit: I did read the link and I still don't understand.
they could have lost money if they engineered the changes to the production line that they otherwise would have had to do.
The hardware is like $1-2k, the $5k is just what they charge for the feature.
> Maybe all the intersections will detect me if I stop in just the right spot, but I don't know what spot is for any given light.

That's a significant design failure. In my town, they have been adjusting those embedded road car detectors so that they are sensitive enough to detect bikes. You do have to sit on the right spot, but they've added road markings to let you know exactly where you have to be.
Julian Assange: Sweden considers reviving rape inquiry
> what right have you to the fruits of my labor?

You mentioned the constitution so you agree that some effort has to be made to enforce it. This effort has to be paid for by tax on your labor. Once you agree on that you only haggle if it is more tax efficient to put someone in jail for stealing a pizza or handing out free pizza. You’re free to take part in this democratic process.
Computer Science and the Scientific Method
This is interesting. Although an individual song is fairly easy to find. Any plans for playlists?

(for a second I saw the title and thought it was a grooveshark like service, those were fun days)
>Bitcoin isn't trying to be a communication network, so the comparison isn't really valid.

It's not literally labeled as a communication network, no, but it can be modeled as one without loss of generality. The messages are communications about changes in balances. What it tries to be does not matter.
> Coming up with how it actually happens (particle-antiparticle pair) is another story, so it seems a bit unfair to Hawking to say that Feynman got it first.

It is analogous to evolution of how stimulated and spontaneous emission were explained microscopically in the first place:

For the case of general photon behavior, Einstein showed that the statistics of photons phenomenologically demanded that there be a stimulated process; and then (several decades later) QED provided a microscopic description of how stimulated and spontaneous processes work.

For the case of black holes, it seemed that Feynman noticed that a stimulated-like process was occurring, which (again, probably because of statistics) phenomenologically demands that there be an associated spontaneous process; and then (merely one year later) Hawking provided a microscopic description of how the spontaneous process works.

To be honest, I've never heard anyone talk about stimulated emission from black holes in the context of Hawking radiation, but perhaps it is well-known to those in the field.
All matings that resulted in Neandertal DNA in modern humans were by Neandertal male + Sapiens female.
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>seniority and respect of your peers is not transferable between companies, that hopping to the next job from the job board is vicious circle of working of dull dead end projects under authocratic and dumb at times people (with long length of service at the company)

I haven't found this to be the case at all. I know many people who jump companies every 3 years or so, make more money each time they change, get to work on a variety of projects that interest them, and are well respected by their peers regardless of what company they are with due to the work they have done and continue to do. It is relatively common advice that you are generally able to advance faster by moving between companies and negotiating for better pay and titles rather than trying to get promoted frequently while staying with the same company. If you decide to take a position where you will be doing dull, dead end work with "dumb" people that is your own fault.
You cheated not only the game, but you became a meme
> What's the reason for Israel's aid?

Because they are our only truly stable ally in that extremely chaotic, highly strategic region.
FAANG - when you crave that backstabbing "lord of the flies" egomaniac culture for your startup.
I think there's a tendency to discount the partial successes, perhaps because they make the failures yet more shocking. I can fact-check most things I read in seconds, yet there's a still-growing anti-vaccine movement. While the mechanisms promised are there and work great at an individual level, that's not always the case at a national, regional, or global scale.

And now the popular hope seems to be that the wonders of democracy can temper the excesses that came with these partially successful solutions. It is my fear that this hope is also irrationally optimistic, and that regulation will lead to politicians and bureaucrats deciding what is true at scale for their own benefit.
Elon Musk on Tesla Autopilot [4/12/19]
"White’s arrest took place in November 2014, but the case has remained largely under-wraps because of the UK’s strict court reporting rules, which prohibit journalists from covering some cases before their conclusion."

Any UK users want to comment on this? I was unaware this was a thing in the UK, and it seems like a law ripe for abuse. Should trials like this be allowed to go on in secret?