skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like we are beating a dead horse here. Everyone I talk to knows Medium sucks. I personally hate the modal that comes up every time if I'm not logged in and how much of my screen is take up by fixed bars.

Medium has a community though. Facebook sucks, but it has a community. Twitter sucks, but it has a community.

You are going to get more people to see your post if you put it on Medium. You are going to get more "friends" if you are on Facebook. You are going to interact with more people if you are on Twitter.

Creating your own blog will now result in you having to manage your own hosting and possibly even do some "development".

Using another solution may not reach the community you expect to reach.

I find the discussion of HOW to get communities onto better platforms to be a more interesting topic than why the current platform sucks, especially when that platform doesn't even seem to listen to the criticism.
You need look no further than Ev Williams' opinions on the future of the web to understand why it sucks:

"The idea won’t be to start a website. That will be dead. The individual website won’t matter. The Internet is not going to be about billions of people going to millions of websites. It will be about getting it from centralized websites."

http://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthof/2015/09/09/mediums-eva...
This is why I am a big fan of POSSE[0] which is an abbreviation for Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere, a content publishing model that starts with posting content on your own domain first, then syndicating out copies to 3rd party services with permashortlinks back to the original on your site.

[0] https://indieweb.org/POSSE

Also worth reading:

https://medium.com/@joe_wegner/why-i-dont-write-for-medium-c...

https://www.webdistortion.com/2019/05/16/can-we-all-please-s...
I think Lets Encrypt is a big deal. I think making TLS certificates free is a big deal in terms of getting people to deploy HTTPS. I don't think they're a big deal in terms of getting people to use some other protocol like DNSSEC instead. Sorry, I worded that imprecisely.
These are beautiful. Rather more boring is the Topre I bought last year. I think I've finally found the keyboard that I will never need to change. I tried both Das Keyboard and WASD and was quite disappointed.
Hey, I think we all know the stakes of the game, I went through like 9 companies, before I ever saw a return on my stake.

As I've gotten older, the gamble that is this model is less appealing to me, as are the 18 hour days, and zero home life.

But that is a young persons game, and can be really fun and exciting, no one is forcing anyone to take, or even apply for the position.

At least they are upfront about it.
Gödel's System T in TypeScript
Experimenting with a rudimentary type system that ensures the programs always terminate.

https://deniskyashif.com/gödels-system-t-in-typescript/
Google’s main DC area office is in the suburbs of DC.

Google has 2 (or 3?) offices in DC metro. One is on Mass Ave, in the heart of downtown. The 2nd is in Reston, which is suburban (20 miles out of downtown) but is accessible via rail and a 10 minute drive to IAD.

They might have an office in Sterling/Ashburn, but I think that's a data center, so not a huge employment center.
How much would people pay for a trips app? I was looking at starting something like that out of college but my market would have been other college students and grads. My impression of the trips market is that you upsell boomers on travel packages (no in-depth market analysis though).

I did keep up some docs around the project, though I'd probably do a full rewrite it's been three years: https://yingw787.github.io/traveltile_docs/
> sliding towards authoritarianism

I think that we are at a time where there is more public input, whistle-blowing, outcry over corruption, democratic processes, and so forth than ever before in history.

I daresay that we are also at an information age; a time in which we can identify authoritarianism, and argue and critise it from the comfort of our couches and for the larger part without fear of death.

We should not confuse the matter: to think that the sum of our current challenges imply the lesser to be the sum of historic challenges.
something like:

var widgetLength = widget.Length;

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Some wealthy trust fund babies were asked how much wealth they thought they would need to really feel financially secure long term. They had inherited wealth ranging from tens, up to hundreds of millions. Almost all of them named a figure about double their personal net worth, regardless of what that net worth was.
I always lose a few magical internet points when I say this, but, if possible, avoid public schools.
I would prefer that no assholes almost hit me while operating anything that can kill or seriously injure me, and the original point was that bicycles are somehow much less likely to do that.
I have a hp z210 e3-1270v1 3.4ghz, put a 1050ti mini powered by pci-e, works great for my minimal gaming needs and damn save some ram for the rest of us!
The other way of looking at it is that TripIt still provide a reliable service, that works the same way it worked 5 years ago, but still work perfectly fine for the use case it was built.
Improving Browser Performance 10x
> Ruby on Windows is a nightmare.

Nightmare? No. Suboptimal? Yes.

We're running some legacy rails 3.2 against oracle db on windows, and it works well enough. It sure is a lot more pleasant on linux, though.

Biggest challenge on windows is to get a c compiler working/get binary dependencies working. Other than that, you need a version manager (same for other platforms really, unless you're aiming to shoot yourself in the foot).

Ruby on windows is definitely not great, but "nightmare" is a bit much.
Haha, that's great - every time I read about some Google product termination I'm happy that I haven't invested any time or effort into using any Google service except Search (and Gmail, but I use it only for free web site registrations and similar garbage so I can't say I care whether it exists or not)
I think the article is pretty explicitly talking about existing cities. Not Siberia.
That's fine but there needs to be more demand to force competance.

We all grew lax with copyleft cause all this corporate pro open source stuff, and now there isn't a critical mass of AGPL projects compelling Square's lawyers to read harder. I have no idea how to build that critical mass.
World View flies its remote sensing balloon for 16 days and 5,000km
> is something that is slowing down every app

If that is slowing down your app, something was done wrong.

This comment reads (and feel free to correct me for a wrong assumption) as written by someone that really hasn't used jQuery in a serious production capacity.
Still don't understand the Inbox issue, out of all the products. Google literally came out and said its an experimental platform.
Yes, you can see the full list of model repos for Meltano here: https://gitlab.com/meltano?utf8=%E2%9C%93&filter=model-

Would love to collaborate, do you want to join our Zoom call https://gitlab.zoom.us/j/542273985? (Anyone else who wants to join in is welcome, the link is open)
I think we agree. I am not sure of the percentages, but there are some people that prefer cars, others that prefer public transport, other that prefer bikes. The way you phrased your comment seemed to assume that car is a preference for everyone, which in my experience is not true (although of course it is for some people)
I recently switched back to using an iphone and my friends told me about how people do this all the time on BART as a funny prank. In March I went to FLA for vacation and my flight was delayed and I was able to pass the time doing this.

It was harmless fun sending funny memes back and forth with strangers who were all trapped in an airline terminal. The hardest part was trying to keep a straight face when you saw some teenagers reaction when you sent them a sloth meme about leaving their airdrop open.
> Basically all the comments here are just critiques.

Welcome to hacker news!
Medium actually works great if you just block all their cookies. This fixes most "news" and publishing sites.
Google snaps up analytics company Looker for a cool $2.6B
It sounds like it would work -- there'd be plenty of time when only EV drivers would be allowed to drive (since the quota isn't met at that moment). This would create a lot of incentive for people to get EVs, so that they could drive for Uber whenever they wanted, rather than only occasionally.

These conditions would need to be imposed on taxis as well, for maximal effect. Grandfather in existing taxis, and then past a certain date, new taxis must be EVs.
You can still have causality.
https://techsviewer.com/install-macos-10-14-mojave-virtualbo...

The link has a guide on how to configure virtualbox to run macOS.
They also have some links to the macOS installer, but there are also plenty of torrents around with disk images of macOS.
95% of the world officially uses metric.

https://www.reddit.com/r/theydidthemath/comments/2cjiau/self...

Do they still teach the metric system in US schools? I learned it over 40 years ago. Metric is the official system for science.

It’s hard to believe that we’re so close but we still have holdouts. It’s not an arbitrary choice at this point.
You're right. The exact number might not be right, but the gist certainly is. For that reason, I don't think they should even be exploring products like this. Especially with their volumes of search data, they ought to know whether a product like this will be successful enough for them or not.
> The bad news is that 1M isn’t what it used to be. It would take 20M to match the buying power of 1M from a century ago.

Wholly disagree with the purchasing power notion. I have lived frugally for years and 1M is enough to set me up for life (providing I don't have kids). This is because budgeting is now an ingrained habit and I wouldn't suddenly stop budgeting just because I can now spend more on things.
The pricing starts from $3k for 20 users if you subscribe to one of their annual plans.
well, the basic gold standard for note taking are GUI apps like evernote and onenote (their GUI works well). I guess upvoters are the people on HN using plain-text, expecting a real nice GUI for their plain-text-markup-files, only to find yet another text-editor based on electron and it's own sync-thing...
> 57 percent of the U.S. workforce is made up of women, but only 26 percent of technology-related positions are held by women ... for women of color, with black, Latina, and Native American women only making up 4 percent of roles in the computing workforce — almost none of which are senior leadership roles — despite making up 16 percent of the general population.

a minor footnote: the denominators in these two comparisons are different. in one case it's the "U.S. workforce" and in the other it's the "general population." which one is the right one to use?
Here are links to the videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhwa9xxTm-Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BrbWjevbao

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p_oa3z1UHs
and good for you! I have so many projects that have never seen a customer but I spend time polishing and creating them anyway.

I don't build things for other people. I build them for myself. If someone buys it great, if not, it doesn't matter. I did this for myself.
Slack IPO: Pros and Cons
How Do I Open This? Find and Open Files with Ease
And what have we learned about private institutions?

But that leaves us with homeschooling...
> Andrei Zheleznyakov, a Soviet scientist, was developing chemical weapons in 1987 when a hood malfunction exposed him to traces of the nerve agent Novichok 5. He spent weeks in a coma, months unable to walk, and years suffering failing health before dying from its effects in 1992/3.

Hard to feel sorry for that guy.
Very extended treadlife is definitely possible.

The problem is that you will not like the tradeoffs.

This is vastly oversimplifying, but the overall tradeoff is grip vs durability.

You get a very grippy tire made for racing in series that mandate street tires, and these will typically have both a very sticky compound and low tread depth. They perform great, but may last less than 15K miles of street use (or less than 20 miles on the racetrack).

On the other end, you can get what are essentially hockey pucks that'll last a very long time in normal highway use.

Depending on what you want to optimize for, you can start with several ratings on the tires themselves. Tire Rack has a great guide here [1] on treadwear and traction grades. It is a good place to start, and then you should always seek more detailed knowledge from people with direct field experience, as the ratings can be a bit games (e.g., you'd want to get some kind of AAA-traction rated tire for an autocross or track day, but getting the best one for your car, driving style and that event it'd be best to also talk to/read articles by people who've been there & done that)

[1]https://www.tirerack.com/tires/tiretech/techpage.jsp?techid=...
You can reproduce a fair bit of Grid using just Flexbox (and we did that for quite a while before Grid came along)—but it's going to be far more verbose, both your HTML and CSS, and probably more brittle and complicated to change.

If you're setting precise sizes in flexbox, or very specific flex values, you're probably in Grid territory. Ideally, flexbox is best when you want things to stretch/shrink to fit and you want the items to determine their own sizes. Grid is best when you have a specific layout/sizes in mind, and you want to impose that layout onto the items.
Not to mention the fact that the Soviet Union kept the half of Poland that they took, and it's now part of Belarus and Ukraine.
Resource were not size for the load. I'll increase resources :)
Show HN: Mobile Web GIF Maker
> I'm sorry, what on earth is "indirect assistance" to someone refusing to eat?

Making them comfortable. Taking care of other needs (washing, teeth, ...). Some level of pain medication. General support.

> It's true that sometimes courts will allow doctor's to force-feed patients through an IV

Which did happen in this case by the way (with a stomach probe not with an IV). For years. Including months spent by this girl in isolation cells.

> routine tragedy and not a political flytrap for right wing moralists.

I'm not sure I've seen this used as a right wing moral cause (I don't understand why you'd say this, it's not about immigration, it's not about money, ...).

Or if it's just that the state and the help system spectacularly failing this girl (in fact arguably causing her suicidal tendencies while attempting to solve other problems with brutal repression). Yeah perhaps. It did happen though.
I really, really enjoyed this. Also I cried a little.
This is with the caveat that the inventors had a close association with GM, who presumably could have altered the design of the engines to be compatible with ethanol gas if they chose to. The profit from the patented additive was incentive for them to not make those changes, presumably helping to ensure the other fuel producers couldn't use a different additive.
Yes, lets continue our thoughts through email. I'll send something for you this evening. My email is admin@vidcap.co.
I would imagine the OP meant the cycles are never-ending, as opposed to one iteration of the cycle.
Keep up your good work! I read your article about v3, about a year ago. It's damn interesting to follow your journey.
Usage-based limits... "1000 edits..." similar to 'moom' I think which allows like 100 window resizes before it makes you pay.
Long time Notion and vim user here. Just set up Inkdrop and tried the vim-plugin and all basic features work great. For things like switching files or navigation in general it seems like you'll need to use the software's standard bindings. But it looks like you can edit them.

If you plan to switch from Notion I recommend using the paste-as-markdown plugin. With this you can just copy a whole document from Notion and paste it into Inkdrop. Works flawlessly!
Landing Your First Consulting Client as a Data Scientist
Why crowded meetings and conference rooms make you so, so tired
Didn't the Indian election just happen a few months ago? So if this was just a PR thing wouldn't it have been better to do it just before the election and not right afterwards?
The Moon keeps flashing us and we have no idea why
a.k.a. decentralization
From visiting Amsterdam, the bicycle lanes are well designed for bicycles. Even when crowded, staying in the correct lane seems to work well. Pedestrians on the sidewalk, bikes in the bike lane, cars in the car lane (plus the light rail). Signals and crossing are designed so all 3 user groups can get where they need to go.

In the US, where most bike lanes are half-assed attempts (no physical separation, no signals, poorly conceived traffic crossings at turn lanes), a crowded bike lane quickly becomes unusable and bikes spill into the traffic lane.
Having kids is the wrench in the gears for many people I'd guess. There's a reason for the term DINK (Dual income, no kids).

Edit: Also to clarify, I absolutely agree with the living frugally thing, and think most people would be in general better off if they focused less on spending every penny they make.
Smart grids needed to overcome old infrastructure's economic restraint
"Obviously leaded gasoline actually did appear to be the better choice at that time, or else people would have just used the non-patent-encumbered ethanol."

Eh. "It could only be this way, because it was" is a textbook definition of begging the question and circular reasoning. It's entirely possible that there were multiple extrinsic reasons that lead to this situation that aren't "leaded fuel was just the better option". Marketing/PR, industry momentum, regulatory capture, cost-of-entry into the fuel industry. In fact it was noted below that the leaded fuel inventor has partnered with GM.

This is exactly what the GP meant by invoking History vs. Econ 101. You're assuming that this simplistic model of price/demand is an inevitable law of nature even though there are countless counter examples throughout history of the wrong decisions made for the wrong reasons.
The Daily Express used to be a broadsheet, and was always thought middle market. It went tabloid after Beaverbrook died - in the 70s I think. Somehow, it had a reputation for decent, honest but right of centre reporting. Quite how I'm not sure as Beaverbrook had infamously told a 1948 enquiry into the press that he ran the paper "purely for the purpose of making propaganda and with no other motive". He may have been Murdoch's role model.

Ever since it went tabloid it's been downhill all the way, and right down the toilet after Desmond.
One of my best interview experiences was exactly that. The interviewer handed me a printed out class and said "tell me what this does, any mistakes you see, and any little improvements that you think could be made."

I got the job and later confirmed it was a class that was actually in the software I would be working on, not some toy class he came up with.

He also asked me a handful of technical questions and had me go over some source code I brought in, but that was about it. At one point he even said, "I know enough to know you can do the job, but now I'm curious what you really know." And asked me some no pressure really low level questions. When I said I didn't know the answer to something he'd spend a couple of minutes explaining the concept to me.

I walked out of that interview having learned a few new things about my field. A couple of them have stuck with me over a decade later.

And the guy was a grizzled veteran who was the lead on some massive mainstream projects I pretty much guarantee you've heard of. He's probably the most knowledgeable programmer I've ever met.

I've never had anyone try going over actual with me since, in probably a couple dozen interviews, and I don't understand why. It seemed very effective.
I wrote a blog post on how I built a custom keyboard. Lots of similar buildlogs out there:

https://bergie.iki.fi/blog/atreus-build-log/
Minor Nitpick: Xonotic isn't a clone of Nexuiz, Nexuiz was the original name of the project until the project originator sold the name and rights. This caused the community to fork the project from the last stable version and continue development with the new name, Xonotic. Today Xonotic has a small but passionate community whereas Nexuiz languishes in obscurity.
It doesn’t. The Toronto and Montreal metro areas are about twice the density of the DC metro area (14,000 people per square mile in weighted terms, versus under 7,000). But about 20% of DC area commuters take transit, versus 22-23% in Toronto and Montreal. (Remember, we’re talking about the whole metro area—in all three places, most people don’t live in the city proper.) In all three places, roughly 70% of people drive to work.
I don't think that will get you enough to really change the math. There's only so much additional space you can get with a fold out panel because once you start going over the edge of the car you create clearance requirements for parking and also start taking up space that's generally assumed to be empty for adjacent cars to open doors into. If it becomes too common parking spots will have to get bigger or your roof will have to raise up above the level of 99% of adjacent car doors to avoid being a massive pain in the ass to everyone else.

On top of that it's a lot of mechanisms to add for not adding much space above a roof mounted panel.
I may be one of the folks not part of the Medium community. I only visit Medium via direct links (on HN, shared on Twitter or shared directly to me by friends). I can't remember the times I've been on Medium's home page or opened up their app to browse.

If those direct links sent me to somewhere else entirely tomorrow I wouldn't care.
Which would be fine if it was possible to use while offline, data roaming isn't cheap.
This is pretty spot on. I was on the receiving end of this and it’s incredibly challenging mentally to work hard to give away 40% to someone that just split. The comment about not being able to raise money is accurate as well.

Sell your stake for a fair value and wish the new owner luck. You could keep a few percent of stock but not enough to deter potential investors.
We need better batteries, this seems promising!
Can you expand on this? How can you have causality - cause and effect - that's divorced from some sort of flow of time?
Identifying the smartest people is only one job of the election process - another one is dividing up limited resources. Usually, elitism focuses on the fact that scientists can elect more scientific politicians than normal people, ignoring the possibility that (bear with me), scientists might want to spend all the road money building roads to their labs.
My apologies. I meant to say that the WHO reports are generally more informative and better presented to me. Nature's article is good, but I find the WHO reports better.
Appealing to "more manual work" is not very compelling to be honest.
Original source has a question mark at the end of the title.
can be, I think it depends on the implementation.
Yes, but it's an outdated version of grid that doesn't work with the modern syntax. You can use autoprefixer to somewhat work around the differences.

https://medium.com/@elad/supporting-css-grid-in-internet-exp...
The default is contacts only. I don't know a single iOS user, including my technically clueless mom, who doesn't know how to change the setting.