skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Costco (NASDAQ:COST) has a policy of not hiring MBAs and generally only hiring internally. That means the managers are personally invested in the long-term viability of the company.

Such a conservative culture may one day be their downfall, but it won't hasten it as is so often the case of management culture elsewhere.
This is my question every time I see a new language pop up here. If there's nothing obviously novel about its design, its platform, or its community, I don't see the point of further fragmenting what people are using (unless it's just an experimental/learning-experience/for-fun language that isn't intended for production).
> so might they balance out?

That's basically saying "there's a systemic trend in this data. Let's hope it's not correlated with other trends in this data".

Maybe it is, maybe it isn't - but until we know the whole dataset is suspect.
That's why I like the push-pull workout, since it focusses on building overall strength, also I've found don't just do the same exercises over and over, vary the workout, so you hit all muscle groups.
I remember reading somewhere that people raised in modern housing and cities could cultivate a better affinity for thinking about geometric shapes. That could give a cultural bias against the global rural south.
VLC is amazing, I love the work you guys are doing and heartily recommend it to my friends and family as well!
The only argument you can possibly make here is for Node. Any of the other examples can easily be decompiled or reversed.
Simple web servers are already written for me. If I'm serving static files, I'll just use a CLI tool or S3.

If I'm making a simple API, I've already moved into territory where I'd prefer to use C# or something like that. The ecosystem is better and you can write it to avoid runtime gotchas.

Big languages/stacks can still write tiny programs.
GANs making talking heads from only a few head shots
“The Uber of Live Music”
I hire freelancers for $xxx-$xxxx contracts in the games industry, and I've set a blanket ignore to proposals from Indian contractors as well for the same reasons.

The other problem is that the person you speak to and agree to do the work with is often not the one who will actually be carrying it out. Generally speculative applications where the quality or focus area of the portfolio doesn't match the job is another problem.
Why would retiring unprofitable coal plants raise prices?

Closing them all would save US consumers 10 billion a year, just in electricity costs.

No Country for Coal Gen report

https://www.carbontracker.org/reports/no-country-for-coal-ge...
Are you suggesting that genetics have nothing to do with Intelligence? AFAIK it isn't much but I find it hard to believe that it's nothing. Our genes make us smarter than other animals, why shouldn't they make a difference between humans?

Also I just listed all possibilities that came to my mind, whether I think they're likely or not.
The statement that "We have access to all human knowledge at the palm of our hand" is a profound error that I'm seeing repeated more frequently of late. Getting a search result with the text of some learned document is not equivalent to actually reading the document and digesting it mentally and emotionally so that you have some understanding of it.

This illusion of having all human knowledge at hand is one of the reasons people are becoming dumber, not smarter.
Ask HN: Any business models for providing low cost services in a costly market?
Uber and Airbnb provide services by reducing cost associated with 'hiring a cab' or 'renting a place'. On the other hand we have hotels and city cabs which charge more and attract people. I am trying to learn and/or share what successful business models 'startups or companies' use to sell products in a market where the costs are always high.

Below are 3 business models that i thought would help as a starting point-

1.) Airline - Airlines tickets are pricey. To overcome this, airlines introduced options where we pay for luggage and seats separately. This made tickets look cheaper while reducing overall cost in a pricey and competitive market.

2.) Phones - Phones are expensive. To over come this,phone companies offer payment plans thus making it easy to buy one while the cost of mobile phone is still higher.

3.)Food - Making food in bulk is cheaper. But we do see lot of meal service companies failing. Not sure what can be the best model here as users tend to stop using meal services after certain point in time.
What do you mean by "feature size"?
I think this scheme is too fraud-friendly to be true
If we on HN are being consistent, we should appreciate an airline that offers frequent over-the-air software updates. We love it when Tesla does it...
"In 1989 Russian president Boris Yeltsin's wide-eyed trip to a Clear Lake grocery store led to the downfall of communism."

It didn't led to the downfall of communism but it helped tremendously in Yeltsin's understanding what communism really was and is: just another form of human exploitation by a small group of elitists (or aristocrats).

Noteworthy is the following description of events which happened while travelling in the US:

""For a long time, on the plane to Miami, he sat motionless, his head in his hands. 'What have they done to our poor people?' he [Yeltsin] said after a long silence." He added, "On his return to Moscow, Yeltsin would confess the pain he had felt after the Houston excursion: the 'pain for all of us, for our country so rich, so talented and so exhausted by incessant experiments'." He wrote that Mr. Yeltsin added, "I think we have committed a crime against our people by making their standard of living so incomparably lower than that of the Americans." An aide, Lev Sukhanov was reported to have said that it was at that moment that "the last vestige of Bolshevism collapsed" inside his boss."

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Yeltsin

In case anyone wants to know what actually led to the dissolution of the USSR check out this Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Soviet_Unio...
Because children who spend their time looking at screens will probably find it harder to understand spatial dimensions. Perhaps they gain something else, like heightened social awareness, but not physically actively playing with 3D objects will surely take its toll.

But, the trend of increased screen time in my opinion is a bad one and would probably lead to lowered IQ. There's no reason to get stuck on a problem or spend time being bored. As children playing with Lego, Mechano, K'nex, etc, we taught ourselves to solve problems with no shortcuts. We were bored, we found a problem, we got stuck, we troubleshooted and we overcame. It seems like the younger generations of today are losing this Scientific process.

Probably the most concerning issue is that the reward system doesn't require pushing your mental abilities. You can see interesting output without having to put the work in. Because many of the websites/apps measure success in engagement, they literally want you to do as little work as possible to see as much interesting content as possible. Contrast that to pre-screen time, where if you wanted to play with the Lego model on the box you had to build it. Mechano would even actively put mistakes into the instructions to allow kids to problem solve.
Ocaml is getting something similar to ‘do’ syntax very soon (but for applicatives too!):

http://jobjo.github.io//2019/04/24/ocaml-has-some-new-shiny-...
It is a complicated area, you might find this paper interesting:

https://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~filkov/papers/lang_github.pdf

It tries to measure the defect rates between programming languages. To say it doesn't matter is too simplistic, in my opinion. I think matching the tool to the task is somewhat important, but often, as you suggest, you can get by with suboptimal choices and choose based on familiarity or esthetics. People would probably do better by spending their time learning how to think critically about code rather than learn a new language every year.
Here's my work so far.

https://github.com/immersivecognition/unity-experiment-frame...

https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758%2Fs13428-019-01242...

There are also some older papers by Loomis et al. https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/BF03200735
I'll try to search for the clipping files. It's been some time, and I don't remember exactly what it was. They did play perfectly in other players.

I do remember the offending song had a deep sine wave bass. The issue sounded like non-saturated clipping, integer overflow.

It drove me crazy, because at first I suspected my bluetooth headphones, etc. I tried to reset VLC completely, reinstall, tried to reduce levels below 100%. But nothing helped.

Edit: Couldn't find the files for now. I'll make sure to send them to you once I find them.
> The top 10 according to Red Monk[1] are JavaScript, Java, Python, PHP, C#, C++, CSS, Ruby, C, Objective-C, Swift, TypeScript, Scala, Shell, Go, R, PowerShell, Perl, Haskell, Kotlin.

Top 20?
Not even old buildings. It stopped being used in the 90s in the UK.
Apple should allow the user to select their default browser, e.g. Brave, which can enable Javascript on a per-site basis.
I've been through what you are talking about, but unfortunately I could not continue using those medications.

What worked for me was not forcing structures in the brain to function through chemicals but actually changing them through a breakthrough treatment called Neurofeedback. It is possible to physically and permanently alter the behavior of the brain and achieve far greater results than any drug could possibly do. Along with proper physical/mental training you can come out far ahead and still retain the "you" instead of some artificial version that may never go away.

The leading specialist in this field can be found on this website. You can find information about it here[1]. After significant research into the functioning of the brain. I realized that ADHD isn't a focusing problem. It's that the focus networks in your brain haven't been adequately trained and require the use of pharmaceuticals to temporarily induce this along with other negative side effects.

[1] http://addcentre.com/
Big Data Reveals Hidden Subtypes of Sepsis
That is my understanding as well. Most of my macbooks (I've owned 3) have been plugged in the majority of the time, with at least some time every few days spent on battery power unplugged. I'd say you're fine as long as you're using the battery at least once every 2-3 weeks -- longer than that might not be good for the battery over long periods of time.
> Already sort of happened in the mechanical watch space.

So-called "Tourbillon" escapements, for instance:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourbillon

Fantastic (and expensive) works of mechanical movement art, but it goes well beyond this.

Some "watches" (the fanciest ones aren't really wearable, but could be considered "portable") contain an amazing number of various mechanical functions and movements (called "complications"), of utter insane complexity:

http://reference57260.vacheron-constantin.com/en2/the-worlds...

Similar such works are done in the clock space as well.

I wish I had the wealth to be able to afford such a piece (then again, if I did, I'd probably have a 3rd iteration of the Difference Engine commissioned first - sigh).
Bikes with transit: faster than cars
Paving Roads Sustainably
I served a static website off nginx from a docker container for a while. At some point there was a breaking change and it would have taken 3 minutes to fix, but I didn't bother. Static hosting is a solved problem and there's not really a reason to do it yourself unless you just want to learn.
If IQs are dropping so much and society is getting dumber, why is there so much innovation and discovery lately in physics, math, and computer science? Look at arxiv. Every week there are tons of complicated physics and quant finance papers uploaded there. Just don't buy this narrative, sorry.

This is why these headlines are somewhat misleading. Just because mean IQs are falling does not mean that intellectual output must fall, so it's possible to have simultaneously lower mean IQs but more output if for example low-IQ populations have a higher fertility rate but otherwise tend to not procreate with high-IQ populations due to assortative mating. The good news is mating patterns are not random. People generally seek out partners of equal intelligence.

The idea of a 'global iq' is somewhat fallacious. To take this fallacy to its logical extreme, imagine including house pets and other animals as part of such a score. suddenly, there should be no technology at all given that such a mean would be probably 50 or so. Rather, we should be looking at IQ by quantity for each 10-20 point interval of iq above 100, not by proportion.
The 737 was not a modified 727. They reused some pieces. In particular they chose the same fuselage cross-section. This is pretty normal and I prefer it over offering all-new designs.

Also, the E195 has less than half the capacity of the largest 737. That would be a hell of an extension.
Even so, and I may be a selfish bastard for saying it, but I'd rather they poison their rivers and groundwater with containment pool breaches and toxic runoff than we poison ours.
IQ, flawed as it may be as a measure, is sometimes touted as one of the best predictors of success in life. It's just conjecture, but maybe there's a feedback loop there.
And is there a corresponding increased rate of cosmetics-related illnesses in the US compared to Europe?
Using Go and AWS Parameter Store to Build Portable CLI Tools
The C language is purely functional (2009)
If you don't want to switch to a different email provider, why not just use native email clients rather than the gmail web client?
Eh, I don't think most people think of Taiwan when they say "Chinese culture", especially in the US. The mainland and Taiwan are far enough diverged that they should be considered two fairly distant clades.
Is this really true? Genuine question, I'm not being snarky. When I think about common complaints about web dev, they all seem to be caused by something else. JS's non-existent standard library and mournfully inconsistent semantics were caused by Brendan Eich writing it in a weekend and never getting a chance to fix it because it got standardized too quickly. Framework churn is caused by the fact that the web browser and all its primitives were unlike any platform that came before it and we didn't (and still don't) know what the right abstractions are even for any given kind of web app. UI design to a good extent is just inherently hard and requires accounting for many details that HTML and CSS must therefore expose to you, etc.
The 2015 Macbook Pro has the Force Touch trackpad as well (so no physical movement), so it has the exact same feel when you click at the top of the trackpad. Everything before the 2015 did have that issue though, you're correct. Never really bothered me though to be honest. The nicest part of the FT trackpad if you ask me is the ability to make trackpad clicks almost silent, and the fact that it's (supposedly) less likely to break.
AFAIK it's strongly discouraged: https://github.com/elm/projects/blob/master/roadmap.md#can-i...
As former Java dev, returned into .NET world, I don't consider it a mistake, the CLR was designed with multiple languages in mind, and there are plenty of options available, even if Scala devs failed at that.

On the other hand, what I consider a major mistake from Java side was ignoring value types and AOT compilation since it's inception.

Had Sun blessed such features since the beginning, and many use cases for C and C++ wouldn't be necessary.
True, but it's still neat.
The people producing those innovations and discoveries don't represent a random sample of the population as a whole.
I kinda hope this branches out into complex automata; I tend to wonder, though, if such mechanisms from the 17th thru 19th century could ever be improved upon in purely mechanical terms, but to me it's a fascinating thought.
Also: Who's more intelligent, the person who spends time and energy on memorizing phone numbers or the one who buys a notebook?
Definitely agree on replacing cleans with more targeted movements -- slight nitpick, none of this is "weightlifting" which is a separate sport of its own requiring these movements but incorporating power and speed to efficiently perform the snatch and clean and jerk with maximal load on the bar.

One thing to keep in mind with starting strength is that it was meant for high school football players who needed to rapidly add mass and strength. Low bar squats emphasize the posterior chain which are simply larger muscles, and will help the beginner see bigger gains faster and without spending time on the particular advanced cues necessary to perform high-bar squats correctly and safely without injuring your joints. (I'm thinking particularly of adductor strength and thoracic spine mobility.) On the other hand the low-bar squat is often coached incorrectly , resulting in much worse stress on the back and elbows (terrible cues like "knees back", etc). When taught correctly, the pressure commonly felt in the shoulders and elbows in this lift is simply a lack of flexibility and will resolve itself.
My response is that (And this is a common refrain) adtech companies seem to assume everyone is a collector in waiting.

One time I needed to buy a new washer+dryer. I did so, but I continued to get aggressively targeted washer/dryer ads for months, maybe a year.

Similar for furniture.

I am not a closet deck chair collector, but adtech decided I was.
Some people take solace in the idea of childlessness.

I think that raising as many happy, healthy, intelligent and productive children as possible, with a suitable partner, is our very raison d'etre. Specifically for the high-IQ HN audience. Life and society becomes much simpler and more rewarding when you view things from this perspective.
It's dropping, not dropped completely. It could take decades before we see a drop in intellectual pursuits as a result in a drop of IQ rates.
Also, maybe I'm missing something but I don't see how this addresses fraud and any advertising solution that doesn't address fraud is basically DOA. How do they ensure that clicks and conversions are legitimate? It's already a hard problem, despite the large amounts of data that legitimate browsing activities leak.
It's very interesting culturally. There seems to be two mindsets in the same country: 1. Proud nationalism and 2. Trade driven optimization
They wouldn't mandate any specific technology, but it makes it infinitely more likely that Congress would pass a GDPR clone when they are confident that doing so wouldn't just destroy every web publisher's business. And it certainly disarms any disingenuous arguments by the ad-tech lobbyists along those lines.
I'm not sure what you're asking exactly, but when it comes to a social issue like affirmative action, one which is large and complex and has people with good-faith views on many sides, yes, it can often be flamebait when someone makes reductionist comments using inflammatory words like "racism" to dismiss large aspects of the thing. People don't do that when they're looking for thoughtful conversation. They do it when they're in battle mode because they have strong feelings on the topic, usually hurt and angry feelings. Those feelings are important and based in real experience. But if they're allowed to drive expression in uncontained ways, all we get are sharp words fired like weapons between opposing sides. Those discussions have a lot of energy in them but do not have a lot of information in them, and that means they're not interesting in the sense that we use the term (see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html), and that makes them off topic here.
Yeah, by a much smaller margin.
Andrew Jackson

People back then were horrified when he got into the oval office. Nothing new under the sun, really.
If you do this on a project I am working on I will come find you and I will make you debug JavaScript in IE6.
You are very certain about something about which they're is no consensus amongst even Indian commentators. Some refer to policy failures. No one apart from you is call it a deliberate killing of millions. I'm not sure why you feel the need to be so vehement about it.
Where the Educated Millennials Congregate
Sorry to nitpick, but "Copyright © 2019" isn't a "license". It's not even a full copyright declaration without listing an owner.
And nobody suspected that pence sucked every one of those dude's dicks.
That doesn't make it any less secure, there are plenty of open source cryptography libraries and apps like Signal. Closed source doesn't equate to secure.
Please read into the drug development process and clinical trials. You might be rather surprised.
> A Mercedes SL55 AMG sans limiter will hit 200mph at roughly 500HP, and it's pretty easy to pick one of the 2007s with the fixed top for around $20k.

Huh, you're right. Actually, more than right. If I don't mind travelling across the country, I can get a 2005 SL55 AMG for $7,500. That car was 6 figures at release, though. That's a LOT of value to lose!

> They're also, to my eyes, pretty good looking

I will disagree there. I think they look boring as all hell. Obviously, this is entirely subjective.

> There are a ton of cars out there that really are pretty incredible for not a lot of money.

I might dispute "incredible" here, for two reasons. First, surprisingly cheap high-performance cars are so frequently from luxury brands that don't consider long-term reliability to be luxury features. Also, despite the SL55 AMG being able to hit 200 MPH, it weighs more than most SUVs, and so has a pitiful 0-60 time of 4.5 seconds. I admit I'm moving the goal posts a bit here, but quick acceleration is more important to me than top speed. I can't use 200 mph on my daily commute, but I can use a 0-60 speed on the on-ramp, or whenever I need to accelerate quickly to pass someone.
Tilburg University Twitter dashboard continuously measures political mood in EU
Their new pricing is listed here - https://www.mapbox.com/pricing/

I don't know what their previous prices were, but iirc, Map Loads for Web previously got 25000-35000 free loads/month. I have never come close to maxing out even the old free tier.

I wonder if this new pricing is at all related to (sort of recent) the pricing changes from Google Maps?
The software was as buggy as management overseeing regulation of shady transactions at the firm: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=deutsche+bank+whistleblower&t=cano...
I was actually wondering that myself: Is there interest in a hosted service? It'd be quite similar to (as many comments have suggested) Netlify and the one you linked to.

I was mostly going for a DIY solution since I wanted to "own" the bits being deployed while remaining as close to the infrastructure as possible. Providing a hosted service somewhat moves away from the DIY spirit; I suppose additional tools/UIs could be offered to simplify setup and deployment and still run everything directly on AWS, but at that point one might be inclined to just move to one of the other hosted solutions for the simplicity.
My wife is an aesthetician. She's had to put considerable effort into learning which off the shelf cosmetics are harmful to the point of uselessness.
Health Apps, Data Sharing and the Trust Deficit
Can I run PureScript on node practically? If so, examples please.