skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the 1828 (first edition) of Webster's dictionary:

> Republic: 1. A commonwealth; a state in which the exercise of the sovereign power is lodged in representatives elected by the people. In modern usage, it differs from a democracy or democratic state, in which the people exercise the powers of sovereignty in person. Yet the democracies of Greece are often called republics.

So historically, a distinction was in fact made.

Here is Alexander Hamilton (a republican in the classical sense of the word) making the distinction very clearly:

> "We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments. Those who mean to form a solid republican government, ought to proceed to the confinges of another government. As long as offices are open to all men, and no constitutional rank is established, it is pure republicanism. But if we incline too much to democracy, we shall soon shoot into a monarchy."

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alexander_Hamilton#Debates_of_...
* Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

* Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger

* The Model Thinker: What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You

* The Great Mental Models
Apply exponentials to anything without limit, and you'll get absurdity.

Mining anything in space is ridiculously difficult. The only asteroid mining companies basically stalled out. There's no point to this right now. Earth has much richer reserves of basically everything.

The only point to space mining is if people want to live out there for their own reasons. Mining for export would only be a minor component of that.
This is interesting from both a technical challenge point of view as well as a neat introduction into the various differences for ECMA run-times, especially for the module scope. It's impressive how small this polyfill ends up being, even with the Object.prototype munging avoidance.
I do the same, but I'm not thrilled about it.

There is the person I am and the person I have to pretend to be.
The community benefit district folks, including the various “Clean Teams” don’t necessarily deal with the toilets or feces. Mayor Breed established initial funding for the “Poop Patrol” back in August [1], as well as slightly expanding the Pit Stop program (public toilet and needle drop off, with staffing).

[1] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/hea...
Executing well on your job is a much safer bet career wise to progress since you are working by definition on things that already have institutional buy in. For a 20% project you have to create institutional buy in - ie it is possible but a fair amount of work and a non zero chance that it might not go anywhere.
Near the end of 2015 I joined a startup and was relocating from Victoria to SF. The startup was in a Haight Ashbury house converted into multiple units. So this made it extra convenient to sleep in the office until I found a place to rent. Also, my family didn’t plan to join me for a few months. There were a couple other non-local coworkers who regularly shared the space in the early days.

Dr Bronner’s Peppermint soap was in the shower. Not knowing any better, I did a good lather. When I started feeling a tingle in my critical region, I didn’t know what to do. Thankfully, rinsing off kept me from becoming uncomfortable.

This lead to some cautious conversations with the coworkers, and as we confirmed a similar experiences this contributed to a very different experience to bond over.

There is additional backstory, where the Peppermint was bought be accident to replace a previous blue bottle that had generously been left there. The purchaser of the replacement had been equally surprised by the effects.

Since then I’ve gotten to enjoy rotating to the peppermint or tea tree oil soap from time to time.
Global fertility rate is 2.5 children per woman. US closer to 1.8. 70% of women aged 30-34 have a kid; as you get older rises to 85% (can't separate age trends from generational trends, alas).

You can certainly define demographics that will remain childless, but a substantial majority of households will eventually raise a child. Worth considering in a model of how food will be prepared (or any other business it might impact).
I was officially diagnosed at age 32. This wasn’t some pill mill diagnosis either. I worked with my psych for 3 months before we tried any meds, it would’ve been longer but I had accidentally discovered most of the practical methods for dealing with it on my own.

Two great reliefs came from the diagnosis:

1. I’m not a lazy, unmotivated person

2. Meds, at the right dose, are amazing. When my Vyvanse kicks in, it’s like walking away from an outdoor block party in my brain and getting into a sound proof booth where I can hear only the noise I want (or have) to.

Things I lived with my whole life that were both positive and negative depending on the circumstances:

- I can’t even stand the thought of a task, class, or activity I’m not interested in, but if I’m even slightly interested I can go deep fast and keep going with no loss of zeal until I’m satisfied. Basically, I can get super obsessed with stuff for short or long periods of time. My hobby background is ridiculously all over the place.

- I think and iterate my thoughts faster than most people can keep up, and I iterate my thoughts externally, if I’m on a roll good luck getting a word in between breaths. My psych “classified” me as a second order thinker and I run lots of what-if permutations and shave and shape creative solutions very fast. It also means I must be extremely cognizant of letting other be heard, especially those that like to ruminate on an idea and bring it to light more fully formed.

- My leg never stopped bouncing, helpful when I played music to keep time, annoying to anyone near me.

- I’m quick to temper and just as fast back to moving on.

- Little to no patience for bullshit or things I just am not interested in. Don’t tell me a detailed story of how to get there, just give me the highlights. I do t care about how you feel about some objective thing, just give me the facts and let’s keep moving.

Lots of other stuff, but basically I coped, unknowingly by creating rituals that allowed me to not forget or have to waste time finding things:

- Get home, keys and wallet go in the exact same place every time

- Todo list for next week created at the end of every Friday, revised at the end of every week day, and reviewed every morning

- The thing I want to do least is the thing I force myself to do first, and nothing else until it’s done

- Organize my schedule in a calendar, if it’s not in there it doesn’t exist and I won’t remember

- Just remembered to put that thing in the car for tomorrow and I’m laying in bed? Get up RIGHT NOW and go do it.

- Can’t forget your coat if your car keys are always in them

- My working area is spotless. No bobble heads on the desk or stacks of papers. Desk is completely clear, cables neatly organized, zip tied, and hidden.

Here’s the thing, maybe you do have ADHD. Maybe you don’t. The rituals you focus on and make so habitual you don’t even have to think about them will still work for you.
I have ADHD and I've been running my company for over a decade.

I actually created an app to help my workflow specifically around the way my brain likes to jump between topics:

https://getpolarized.io/

Part of the challenge I have with reading is that I'll be interested in something for a few hours and then my brain will be triggered with something I'm reading and my brain will switch contexts.

Then I'll want to read about some other topic.

With Polar I can jump around easier and take notes directly in the source material.

It supports incremental reading such that you can mark the portions of a document you've read and jump right back to them when you open the document a second time.

It's really a lifesaver for me honestly. I've definitely been able to get a lot more reading done.
Life isn't deterministic.
Show HN: Atlas – Interactively Visualizing the Loss Landscape of Neural Nets
Thanks dman.

Is there externally available documentation about google 20% time?
> Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria is big problem for me. I over think things, the slightest misread comment can ruin my day.

I am a recent adult ADHD diagnosis recipient, and I never knew that there was words to describe this but it describes me perfectly as well, so thank you for the knowledge kind stranger.

I ditched my Ritalin for similar reasons, although I do have a hunch Adderall would help me better since the one time I took it recreationally in college, rather than "get me high" like it was the other college kids, it sort of just made me well..normal. I got my homework done that day according to schedule!
It's ultra concentrated, you're supposed to dilute it.
I think your overall point makes sense, but most people I talk with prefer wooden flooring due to carpet's links with allergies, respiratory conditions, dust/mould/bacteria etc.

I'm sure some people link it with a rustic, wealthy style or so, but I would hazard a guess to say most people are choosing it due to health reasons. I certainly always have been.
Let's say you have a company that tries to make online checkout more efficient by predicting which payment the user will prefer, and research shows that if the user is first presented with a payment method they use, they are more likely to buy.

If I subscribe to your API and get the outputs of your predictions, since I can see the kinds of inputs that you tell me are associated with preferring PayPal, I can approximate your PayPal-preference model.

This works for basically any machine learning model-as-service. So if I invest heavily in approximating and then serving models more at lower cost than anyone else, that might be a viable businese.
> I thought it was a truism in tech that monocultures are a bad thing?

There were so many benefits to the PC compatible/DOS monoculture in computing. Competition drove down prices, the need to be compatible meant that many new advancements were done in a standardized way, and everybody got a flourishing software ecosystem to use. Monocultures come with _tradeoffs_, but you could argue that without a few of them coming along at the right time, computers would be way behind where they are now.
> So, chaos in the news and the elimination of any kind of consistent narrative from on high.

Isn't this just an offshoot of The CIA's "alleged" control of the news, which dates back to the 1950's? IMO it is. Unless [1] Operation Mockingbird never happened, and [2] Carl Bernstein was writing fiction.

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

[2] http://www.carlbernstein.com/magazine_cia_and_media.php
The Catechism of the Catholic Church
The interview starts at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY6q5dv_B-o&t=450s

Brian Kernighan coined the word “Unix” and is the “K” in K&R (co-author of the The C Programming Language book).

Ken Thompson co-invented Unix.

Full of funny anecdotes like needing 3 weeks to write the kernel and serendipitously his wife was going on vacation for 3 weeks.
My "coping" mechanism, annoying for some, I am sure, but I just bluntly immediately ask for feedback and try to get to the bottom of it as soon as possible. I am fortunate enough to have a manager that understands my condition and he offers me plenty of "spot" feedback which I cannot appreciate more.
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Also again look how insane china's claims are east of Vietnam.

https://i.postimg.cc/3NLwVPGX/china-s-insane-claims.png
same in Tamil. That's because it's a Sanskrit phrase, and all Indian languages borrow heavily from Sanskrit.
Based on your username and the Russian astroturfing I've seen on this site many times, I would struggle to believe you're a neutral observer.
The thing I'm mostly curious about is situations where a client manages relationships. For example, you already have an 'article' resource and now want to add a new 'category' link to that article. Clients often need to be able to create new relationships, or perhaps remove them. I'm curious if you ran into this and if so, how you do this with just Link headers.
I think 4K panels inherently suck more power than 1080p panels, even if you downscale. Not sure what the ratio is though.
You may be forgetting that her job was to socialize with potential clients (developer evangelist). That's a pre-sales marketing job, completely different from the typical life of a developer at Microsoft.

The job means you have to go out most evenings to every possible hackathon or meetup and talk to everyone.
These sorts of arguments tend to fail to result in a meeting of the minds.

Some people manage to make lifestyle changes and/or dietary changes and/or ditch people who were part of the problem and see substantial improvements in how they function and in quality of life. They try to spread the good news and people feel like they are being told they don't have a real problem or something and both sides get mad.

I used to see this a lot on parenting lists. People would suggest homeschooling because it had made their lives so much better. People who didn't want to consider homeschooling would feel judged rather than feeling like they were being given options and hope.

Cue everyone getting hot under the collar.
This shows how insane the claims are your talking about.

https://i.postimg.cc/3NLwVPGX/china-s-insane-claims.png
I wrote a blog post today about how I don't believe in the abstract plane, if you're into it:
http://mitchgordon.me/philosophy/2019/05/12/non-existence-of...
> There is a long and ongoing history of security advocates overstating security

I'm not sure I follow your logic. Maybe you can help me out a bit?

There are four quotes on the linked page. Which one do you feel overstated the security of Signal, and why?
I can give it a try. :)

There is an assumption that unique data enables unique insights, which can presumably can be monetized in some fashion. As long as no one else has access to your unique data, you have pricing power for the unique insights. There are loads of companies, big and small, trying to execute this business model.

A problem with this model is that for practical purposes there are no such things as "unique insights". The only thing unique data grants you is a cheap path to a specific set of insights. For every set of "unique" insights, there is almost always many sets of unrelated data sources that can be analytically combined to deliver the same insights. In the slightly seedy underworld of data model brokers, I've seen some very impressive examples of this. The way these alternative data models make money, despite the creation process being more expensive, is that they are positioned as a cheaper alternative to companies that think "unique data" means they can extract monopoly rent. The explosion in data source availability has slowly made these clever alternatives more prevalent.

Currently, the alternative to having access to the unique data is to do significantly more expensive computations on what are typically larger and more diverse data sets. This keeps it from becoming a runaway race to the bottom due to the higher cost. Note that in both cases, the parties are using conventional data infrastructure stacks with their implied limitations.

In recent years I've done extensive studies of the cost structures of these types of businesses. It turns out that if you can reduce the end-to-end data infrastructure costs by an order of magnitude for the reconstructive approach then your total costs will be far below the break even point for the conventional "unique data" approach. Furthermore, the computational work required to replicate one high-value data model is substantially reusable for other data models, so the more data models you reconstruct, the lower the marginal cost of reconstructing additional data models this way. Done at scale across enough data models, the amortized cost of reconstructing unique data can be less than using the unique data! People have been idly thinking about what it would take to do this for a few years. Collecting the rare skillsets required to pull it off is a major hurdle for any company.

The notion that it is possible to reduce end-to-end data infrastructure costs by (at least) an order of magnitude relative to conventional data infrastructures is well-supported but it raises another question: why can't the "unique data" companies do the advanced engineering required to have such an infrastructure themselves (it isn't something you can do with open source currently)? The simplest answer is that it is difficult to justify extremely expensive engineering efforts outside of an organization's core expertise solely to prevent erosion of the market value of their unique data. Fundamentally, it is a shift to competing on infrastructure instead of data, which is an improbable transition for companies.
My understanding currently is that it's thought to be safe, but we don't know for sure.

Even pre-5G phone radiation wasn't definitely proven to be safe until fairly recently, although we had good reason to believe that it was.
As per the standard, main() can take no argument [ie, main(void)] or 2 arguments [main (int, char asterisk asterisk) or equivalent] or some implementation defined manner. See 5.1.2.2.1 in C2x working draft[0].

[0] http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2346.pdf
As someone who was diagnosed just about a month ago after a lifetime of coping I’m curious, what’s the argument against diagnosis?
https://youtu.be/iO6qIM2WO6k?t=185

https://ttte.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sad_Story_of_Henry

This particular episode horrifies me; I feel like kids will grow up and as adults, look back on this and wonder how they didn't realize how dark it was, much like I do with some parts of things like The Brave Little Toaster.
Meal plans start at $11 per meal.

That would be close to $1000 a month. I don't think the public will be signing up anytime soon.
In the first video, the voiceover tells people to buy&install the hardware, and use this software, while showing what appears to be autonomous driving among other vehicles on an active public road. (Not "This is for research only, from the privacy and safety of your own driveway.")

Who thinks this is a good idea? Where in the US is this legal? In a crash, will insurance cover it, and will there be additional civil liability and possible criminal charges?
HTTPS: //En.wikipedia.org/Wiki/The_Californian_Ideology
Yeah it's all anecdata, that's the point. We want actual data because our experiences differ.
Everyone individual needs to cook thrice a day (or at least once a day + be damn good at packaging it) while gardening or sewing are far from essentials. Definitely concur.
We had the foundation already, now we get the foundation with n players. I think it will look closer to Gibson than Orwell.
To add to this, int is also default return type.

foo(x, y) { return x + y; }
That's interesting. I too played Carmageddon, Quarantine (what a great game), MK3 and MK X - and didn't think anything of it, it doesn't even register as violence. Yet I'm sure I would have trouble sleeping for a couple of days if I watched the real stuff you mentioned.
My handicap is medical. If I can't focus, it's usually because I'm miserably sick or feverish.

Having the correct label helps some people get their uncooperative body to be productive enough to make life suck less. Just calling it "laziness" generally suggests zero real remedies and often leads to the beatings shall continue until morale improves.
The difference is in living through it vs just reading about it in the past tense. For example, my grandmother grew up in it and had all sorts of money-related neuroses for the rest of her life. Maybe that was just her, but many Americans of her generation and background lived their lives as if it was going to happen again any day now, apropos of nothing. Just raw fear from terrible memories.

Most people in the US today have no recollection or even second-hand awareness of it. If anything, people today seem far too willing to take on debt for non-necessities that they couldn’t afford otherwise, and far too unaware of how interest accumulates.
> Why is the candidate asking this question in the first place?

Because every company says "we take quality very seriously" and standard crap like that, looking through the code and the most recent contributions is the only way to actually assess them.

> It makes me wonder if they’re inflexible or unwilling to be pragmatic about imperfect code.

Which is perfectly reasonable when the hiring companies try to avoid being pragmatic about imperfect people. They'll give stupid codes tests and look for rockstars, this is the employee equivalent. Rockstars are picky about their collaborations.

> Can they really learn anything about the codebase in the limited interview time we have? They’re not getting repo access.

Ideally I'd want to run some tooling over it and get some stats like cyclomatic complexity and collaboration graphs to see how many pointless layers they have. I'd also take a look at their unit testing to see if anyone in the company actually understands what a unit tests is.

Interviewing is meant to be a two-way street and code review is the only way to address the information asymmetry and make this true.
If it is, I like the other Zappa tie in: https://www.zappa.io
I have more context / thoughts about Indian startups as I can consume and interact with their products easier than I can do with American startups. Not shilling and these are my genuine thoughts -- I guess I'm too wary, but I always be doubly careful of avoiding connotations in product names.
>Any sort of situation that could require you to take control is warned in advance.

And what about false negatives, where something happens but it doesn't warn you?

The fact that comma.ai pulled out of releasing the comma one when the NHTSA asked them some fairly basic questions is a massive red flag. They can't even guarantee that openpilot will detect low slung trailers or motorcycles [1]. If they want to develop and release autonomous cars of any level they should be going through proper procedures and regulations, not just sticking a "for research purposes only" sticker on everything and distancing themselves from any responsibility.

There are far, far too many unknown unknowns when it comes to autonomous vehicles. If you're already forced to keep your eyes on the road, stop being lazy and do everyone around you a favour: grip the steering wheel, keep your feet on the pedals, and focus on the road.

[1] https://opc.ai/faqs/does-openpilot-see-people-animals-motorc...
Political ad spending has been growing nonstop, outpacing inflation significantly.
How do we convince other cultures to adapt to the new culture though? Any such efforts would be drowned out by cries of racism and cultural erasure or whatever they're calling it nowadays.
>it is not simply a meaningless idea.

When you think of a simulation, you might imagine a programmer, some server racks, and maybe a broader purpose. However you also have to include the possibility that the simulation popped into existence out of nothing, that the simulation is mathematically inevitable, that God created the simulation, that the simulation was created by beings that live in simulation... In so many words, the idea that you live in a simulation leaves as many options open as the idea that you live in the universe. You don't get any claims about how the simulation got there, how it behaves, or even what it is

Maybe it is a meaningless idea.
I did read the article and reviewing it again and searching for "react," "progressive," and "pwa" returns zero results.

I think the article opens by stating a pretty strong disadvantage:

Flutter apps run as Android apps and so are less "native" than something like a PWA or react app, which would just run in the browser.

The article doesn't address my concern at all and I was hoping to have some constructive feedback about that concern, which did not happen.