skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"You're just parroting propaganda" counts as a personal attack here, and we ban users who repeatedly do this.

I am not following you around or even remembering you. If you keep getting moderation replies, it's because you keep breaking the guidelines. Would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow them from now on, so we don't have to ban you?
"Considerably more complex" is probably underselling it. A fully capable port has a withering array of signaling standards to support, as well as supporting very high data transfer rates. It's a seriously challenging port to implement. Not something where you can buy a $2 chip and support a dozen ports like USB2.
I don't think you can just swap out the word "survival" with "middle class". Survival is a really powerful word, "the state or fact of continuing to live or exist, typically in spite of an accident, ordeal, or difficult circumstances." So the claim is that you need $85k in King County in order to continue to live.

This isn't pedantry. If people are scraping by in that area with less family income, then this metric is flawed and either the numbers should be revised or it should be renamed.
I've lived in lower income areas were code enforcement of things like that was common.

Regardless I think the gp makes valid point against the ggp. It's definitely not "unenforceable".
How Eight Middle Schoolers Toppled the Scripps Spelling Bee
It is pretty cool indeed, you can watch his presentation of the project here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq2M00vghqY (disclosure, I organize this conf).
I don't think Medium has fully grasped that people read most content because they are bored, not because they really care about the content; thus when you put the content behind a paywall, most people will just go find other ways to amuse their bored brains on the internet.

Content on the internet is usually so shallow it's bordering near worthless; lots of people just repeating other people over and over. When it comes to explaining a concept, most sites on the internet just cover the basics and promise they'll get to the deeper stuff later (and never do.)

The nice thing about the old book model (Before ebooks), is the amount of work it took to get a book published ended up filtering out all the mediocre content which we see today on the internet because it is so easy to hit publish somewhere. Paying for a book is worth it, as the book is actually a complete thought. The stuff people are trying to charge for on the internet is just mostly low quality stream of conscious writings with no actual content behind it.
I recently got to ride in the co-pilot seat of our company plane and it was a neat experience to see everything and listen to the radio chatter and the view was amazing to watch the sun rise and the moon set at the same time.

He showed me how as a fighter pilot he was trained to spot other aircraft.

When one would show up on the radar he would point and be like see that plane over there? I could never see it until we were very close and I have great vision and no glasses.

After a few times of this game he then said, "Now when you are looking for another aircraft you don't focus on where it is, scan your eyes left to right horizontally".

Now I was able to pick out the what seemed like 1-2 pixel dot in the distance by not trying to focus on the dot but look at everything else and your brain somehow figures out the anomalous pixel/dark spot against the horizon.

It reminded me a lot of when I was a kid bird hunting how my dad would try to point at the partridge and it was the same game. You try to focus directly at them and it was hard to see them in the brush, but scanning your eyes back and forth helps make them pop out and be visible.
Forcing the wealthy to help the poor is how we avoid a surge in the guillotine construction industry.

Governments use the threat of force all the time to make people perform pro-social actions, if I park in a handicap zone I get a ticket. What is that ticket besides the threat of force if I dont pay it? What is any contract between any two parties besides a threat of force? On a fundamental level the government exists to threaten force against rich people in order to help poor people, which allows those poor people to go on living and not take up arms to take what they need from the wealthy.
complete conjecture, there is a giant cohort of people older than 30, crushed by debt and medical bills, stuck in menial jobs because their parents couldn't afford college. you're telling me that the janitor that cleans your office isn't hard working? or the factory-worker that makes your clothes? are they all just lazy morons that don't deserve to reproduce?

please, just go mask-off, be true to yourself, and admit you just want eugenics. you're already A-OK with the death and suffering of children.
Space Spacewatch: Nasa awards first contract for lunar space station
$100million per lithography machine!

A bit of a side topic, but can you imagine if there were fewer people in the world? Computing power would never improve because it would be too expensive.

I wonder what other technology could be done, if only there were more people (i.e. larger market), but is too expensive right now.

People always like to talk about the downsides of population, but the high tech world we live in now could not exist otherwise.
Agreed. USB c is unreliable in that just a small movement is enough for it to disconnect while appearing to be plugged in.
their Exchange architecture reminds me of the Plug framework used by Phoenix on Elixir.
The Case Against Annotations (2017)
At least with census data there has been a well known gap for some time between data on income vs. data on consumption, with the latter generally being higher. Census poverty data does not count a number of benefits including food stamps and the Earned Income Tax Credit.
If you can't afford condoms don't have sex.

23% of those 18-30 aren't having sex and they're not dying.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/03/29/share-ame...
You do have a point but still let's look at it another way.

It's a ticket. That means that at best it's boring and mundane. The writer knows this and is trying to convince you, to sell you, on spending some time thinking about it. Granted, you should do that anyways but First test new features before sending to customer doesn't really convince you to do that. If your text was enough then maybe it should have been a check box and saved everyone some time.

All that said, there is a time and place for humor. Maybe this was it and maybe it wasn't. Dunno. Audience matters; timing matters; context matters.
Can you give this "number needed to treat" for some common medications?
You can add any clause to a license. JSON's license is famous for adding "The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil."

It probably makes it non-open source and non-free according to OSD and FSF

https://opensource.org/docs/osd "The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research."

https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article46/json-license
Seems to me, that staying in an Ecuadoran embassy for 6 years and seeing where he still ended up, already shows him having been made an example of.
This was me. They told me I was gifted at 5, but missed the part where I was on the autism spectrum. It led to severe mental health issues and substance abuse. The only reason I'm not dead is because I finally figured it out, 25 years later.

Now I can apply myself and am not so terrified by failure. I feel unencumbered for the first time. I can pursue my interests.

I don't think telling 5 year old children they are gifted is helpful. There is no upside.
Yeah, but the ways I want my devices to improve are more "cultural" than technological. I want easily-rooted phones with expandable storage, 3.5mm jacks, and screens that aren't five times taller than they are wide. I want laptops with non-chiclet keyboards and real mouse buttons instead of clickpads where I can't tell where the right click starts.
> I don't see any issue with collecting and selling anonymized observations.

In this day and age when correlating and analyzing data from a wide variety of sources is commonplace, the only effectively "anonymized" data is data that has been discarded.
Anders Hejlsberg, who created C#, has been heading up the Typescript team at Microsoft.
Didja get lint in there? I'm incredibly impressed with the USB-based products I've dealt with.
This is a tricky article.

Carbon credits are essentially perfect in theory, if they're sold at auction worldwide and governments are compliant with them. They also seem to be perfect even if implemented within a single country.

What this article seems to be arguing is that credits are:

1) misallocated initially, presumably because they're allocated as opposed to being auctioned, and therefore there are too many,

2) not enforced or monitored well enough (if you sell credits promising to plant a forest and then don't plant it, or you cut it down later), and

3) particularly not enforced across international boundaries (because who's gonna check?).

The first two seem politically solvable within countries. The third, I think, is a decent argument as to why cross-border carbon credit selling should be disallowed, or allowed only between countries that can prove compliance (e.g. between countries like France and Germany). Rather, international treaties should set each country's overall permitted carbon output by year.

If the article is trying to suggest that carbon credits are a failure and shouldn't be pursued further, I think it's tremendously wrong, especially since it doesn't provide a better alternative. But if it's trying to point out implementation pitfalls so we can avoid them and create carbon credits that work, then I support that 1,000%.

So it's tricky because it's unclear to me what the author's actual agenda is.
one of the most important key stat is defining housing spend to be "no more than one-third of income"

if you make >3x your rent i'd say you are cruising in life.
In other words, she was completely failed by the education system which forced her to work at a level below her capability and excluded her from the Challenge is necessary to develop that were challenges necessary to develop that were Tailored to meet the needs of less gifted children while her needs were ignored.

It seems fairly obvious that a system that forces people to work below their level of capability for the first couple of decades of their life, is conditioning them to do that for the rest of their life too.

Of course some people will find a way out of this path, but this is what the system does and generally gifted people will be disadvantaged in this way.
The BLUF is exactly analogous to what the internet hivemind calls the tl;dr (too long; didn't read). I almost always see the tl;dr as the last line of a long post, when really, it makes a lot more sense to lead with it.
why would a bank be required to expose this for a 3rd party commercial user?
How does Github "collect data about your visitors"? The repository is cloned, built and served by Netlify's server. And since I doubt Netlify is injecting any js into my site, I also question the extent to which they can track users.
I have experience with half a dozen cities around Canada, and they all have similar zoning issues to those described.
National Spelling Bee, at a Loss for Words, Crowns 8 Co-Champions
I think it's far more likely that people don't want to know. By now I think most people are aware that their privacy is being violated, but feel powerless to do anything and don't want to resist the temptations of using addictive social media etc. They pity themselves for it, and try to ignore that it's a problem.
Or free and easy access to porn. Really.
Genuinely curious though, why try to sweep under the rug the sketchy tactics Medium tried to pull here? I think this should be a good warning for others. You can move on, and focus on the future but still reflect and share the past. They are not exclusive, in my opinion.
When something like this is found, is the family just out of luck as far as the value of the item goes, or do they somehow get compensated? Obviously they didn't know it was stolen when they bought it from the rare document dealer. Is there insurance for cases like that?
Stop Coddling the Super-Rich (Warren Buffett, 2011)
Which is kind of the trick - there may be a point not to far in the future where it is nearly impossible to tell the difference between hostile bots and users who are just really into privacy and not being tracked.
> and terrible for our mental health.

If I had to live in a multi family home I would completely go insane. I don't know about you, but I need space in order to function.

People are not livestock, to be packed in as tightly as possible.

That said, the types of multi family houses in this article are fine by me - they have lots of space around them.
Comparison of Many Different Parse Trees, Visually (Google Image Search)
Reminder that Apple designed the USB-C connector, which is why it's so friggin' user friendly!
Yes, they are deploying LTE in that spectrum, not CDMA.
The US already has 98 reactors. Gradually adding 50 more while wind (6.6%) and solar (1.5%) catch up would eventually provide 30% of US electricity from nuclear power. The optimal ratio depends on how alternative energy storage tech advances.
OK, fair enough, but it lends itself to the topic, which also posted about at a pretty significant rate.
The main issue is that the death of moore's law somehow implies that there won't be any progress in chip manufacturing and we'll always use the computing technology we have now because at some point you reach sizes of single atoms. But this is wrong as we don't need node shrinks, we need different improvements. And human brains are the proof that they are physically possible.

Human brains, if you ignore brains of mammals larger than us, are the most complex "computers" we know of. And they are much more efficient at that and their assembly doesn't require huge buildings full of machines that cost billions of dollars.

Their existence means it's possible to reach such efficiency at manufacturing and heat dissipation. It means further progress, like the one we had until now, is possible. It seems that we currently are several orders of magnitude away from what human brains achieve.

Of course human flight doesn't use flapping wings nor do computers have to work 100% like brains. But they should at least be as efficient until we give up and say "no improvements are possible".
https://www.section508.gov/manage/laws-and-policies

They even have a compliance tester.
A sprinkler system might be almost as bad as a fire to the artworks housed in the building.
I don’t think the key to effective writing is following a bunch of standards.
Stadia Pre-E3 Announcement, 'The Wait Is Almost Over'
Burning coal is overall much worse for the environment and people, but in terms of climate change, it might not be much better than coal. The CO2 emissions from a natural gas plant are lower than a coal plant, but it isn't clear that if you account for methane releases during production/transporting/storage that it is better for climate change than coal.

>...Back in August, a NOAA-led study measured a stunning 6% to 12% methane leakage over one of the country’s largest gas fields — which would gut the climate benefits of switching from coal to gas. We’ve known for a long time that methane is a far more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide (CO2), which is released when any hydrocarbon, like natural gas, is burned. But the IPCC’s latest report, released Monday (big PDF here), reports that methane is 34 times stronger a heat-trapping gas than CO2 over a 100-year time scale, so its global-warming potential (GWP) is 34. That is a nearly 40% increase from the IPCC’s previous estimate of 25. ...The IPCC reports that, over a 20-year time frame, methane has a global warming potential of 86 compared to CO2, up from its previous estimate of 72. Given that we are approaching real, irreversible tipping points in the climate system, climate studies should, at the very least, include analyses that use this 20-year time horizon. Finally, it bears repeating that natural gas from even the best fracked wells is still a climate-destroying fossil fuel. If we are to avoid catastrophic warming, our natural gas consumption has to peak sometime in the next 10 to 15 years, according to studies by both the Center for American Progress and the Union of Concerned Scientists.

https://thinkprogress.org/more-bad-news-for-fracking-ipcc-wa...

As we use more and more natural gas, we can expect more and more methane disasters like the leak from Aliso Canyon in CA which was the largest methane leak in US history. This released over 100,000 tons of methane into the atmosphere and required 11,000 residents to be evacuated.

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35659947
Summary: The military bought the gear from a domestic supplier that sourced the gear illegally from China (Not an approved country for military supplies) and the gear was garbage too.
>Ah yes. The needs of a child/teen are surely the needs of a grown person who will need to communicate with potential employers, banks, landlords, schools etc.

I've been working, taxable above the board income (google it, lots of conditions for this including paper delivery which is what I did), since I was 12 years old. I've had a bank account since I was 8.

There is no realistic condition where the majority of the population needs to be tethered to a phone number 24/7/365.

If you have a job that requires you to be on call, certainly, but in that case your employer should be providing the phone or reimbursing the cost. Generally people in these situations are paid rather well also.
No, but you can do something like this: https://formidable.com/blog/2019/strong-typing/
I agree it would be silly to expect companies to do everything themselves, but the example was of contractors (recruiter in this case) doing similar work to and under the direction and control of a full-time employee, at the Google facility, for a long time (1 year). This is where labor laws come into play and why companies restrict temps from working long term. Just putting a contractor on a 3rd party's W2 doesn't mean you're free to do as you wish.

Now, if they took the entire recruiting work for that team and gave it to the outsourcing agency who did the job from their Florida office, it wouldn't be a problem. They could also do what Apple does and host all the contractors in a separate building with no contact with Apple employees https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-02-11/apple-bla... but the optics of that isn't great either.
Right so you are basically saying companies/governments should not be able to make generic observations about anything involving people in any way without their consent because it is impossible to have truly anonymous data.

I don't know if I agree with that.
I regularly cook for my family of four, and I very rarely use more than two burners. I could probably do most of our cooking with a two-burner hotplate, toaster oven, microwave, and rice cooker.

This just means that the mini-bar needs good wiring. Assuming there's an attic, crawl space, basement, ect, this is trivial.

(I still prefer my real kitchen, but that doesn't mean I need it to cook for a family of four, or even to cook for myself if I was still single.)
I believe he is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15918172
> releasing documents that were partially or entirely forged by the Russian intelligence agencies does make one a Russian puppet

The few emails that I checked had a valid dkim signature.
Year after launching a corporate card for startups,Brex eyes $2B valuation
Yes. There's a long list of different starches and other molecules (e.g. connective tissue in joints) that your gut bacteria feed off of, and different strains of bacteria prefer different types of food. In the FODMAP diet, you avoid certain starches in a deliberate attempt to shift your biome diversity.
For that gap to exist, people need access to comprehensive reproductive health services so they can make the choice of when to have kids. In the long run its much, much cheaper for the state to pay for condoms and pregnancy tests then it is to pay for day care, incarceration, and funeral services.
A newbie tries to rank a page in Google, based on what he learned on Reddit
Got a source on that? I'm genuinely interested to hear about it.
The site guidelines are here https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Jokes aren't explicitly against the guidelines either, but I think the site likes to emphasize high quality content that will not alienate people who don't understand obscure references.
Year after launching its corporate card for startups, Brex eyes $2B valuation
I'm saying that taking a calculated risk requires a framework for calculation. Which must of course include the ability to handle for unbounded risks.
What’s the definition of bigness in this work?
Or pick your moment.
I know a guy who worked a purchasing project for garden hoses. They're made out of so much low grade regrind I would never use them for drinking/cooking...

Also, they breed bacteria like crazy when left in the sun.
This is exactly the point of the silent reading time. Stop lying to yourself and others by saying you'll read ahead. You won't. No one will. Or worse, everyone but one person will and he'll have "skimmed it" and then ask questions that are on page 2, wasting everyone's time.

If you want to bring this to wherever you work, I encourage it. All you need to do is lead the meeting yourself with a strong, assertive voice. Tell them this is what we're doing. When someone inevitably complains just ask them to please wait to ask questions until everyone is done.
iPhone Privacy Is Broken and Apps Are to Blame
really interesting, but i took a look at the docs, and they 100% look like urql is only compatible with react. Can I use urql with Vue.js, or would I just be inviting misery upon myself if i tried?
You could get a fancy convection microwave. (Basically, a microwave that can also be a small oven.)

They take about 20 minutes to heat up on 120v, but they're big enough to bake a cake or a sheet of cookies.
I naively consider(ed?) Google a good actor. I still kind of buy that they want to be at least. I'm sure others think differently though and I'm definitely not going to defend them. (Android, Dragonfly)
Businesses relying on collecting data without explicit permission should go out of business.
No. Less restrictions.

Currently every area of a city is "zoned" for what is allowed to get built there. "Single family home" (SFH) zoning is the most common, and the strictest: it requires every building to be a house meant for one family. No multi-family housing (even duplexes) and no commercial use (even neighborhood stores or home businesses).

This NYTimes articles discusses some of the issues and how Minneapolis is changing its policies. This should be done everywhere:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/13/us/minneapolis-single-fam...
Just mail a letter to this PO box and we'll have your information removed in 8-12 weeks with no way to verify we did it!
I interpreted that as remove zoning that only allows single family homes
The game series is named after an even better known word. This is a bit like complaining Super Mario Odyssey shouldn't have been named after the Honda Odyssey and that Assassin's Creed: Odyssey needlessly muddied the waters further.
It's possible with organic chemistry, but what about inorganic chemistry? It's possible with carbon based chemistry, but what about silicon-based chemistry? I'm not convinced that it's impossible to build a human-mind-level consciousness in silicon, but I'm skeptical.
Median household income in 2015 in King County was $75,302.[0] A conclusion that half of King County's households have died off by 2017 or 2019 (or about to) seems nonsensical to me.

[0] https://www.kingcounty.gov/independent/forecasting/King%20Co...