skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, I should have written major changes. In practice, benchmarking identical Haswell vs Haswell Refresh (that, again, are effectively DDR3 Broadwells), such as with an E3-1230v3 vs a E3-1231v3, I did not see anything that wasn't within a reasonable margin of error.
Please don't post flamewar comments here, even when someone else has posted flamebait.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Lost knowledge: ropes and knots (2010)
I still have a problem with the word "Like" and with the full stop that's added for no particular reason

"Scientists still have a lot to understand about these songs, including their purpose" is a much better sentence.

The full stop in the article makes it sound like it's transcribing a speaker that didn't know what words to say next and made an unintentional pause. Or it's seeking to draw attention to how little scientists know in a rather flippant way. Like, totally disrespectful.

Maybe that's what resonates with the target readership, but for the rest of us it just sounds like a teenager, and I for one don't model my speech after teenagers
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The impression I've got is that the Chinese are notorious for cheating. When competing against a billion other people, you need an edge.

https://www.theatlantic.com/china/archive/2013/06/heres-the-...
Spoofing in the Black Sea: What Happened? – GPS World
it is toxic though, repear a (lie) joke enough time and becomes the truth
I love my pixel slate, best tablet/laptop I ever had. Such a shame. The screen is great, the keyboard is surprisingly good and it's awesome to be able to ditch the keyboard for a while when reading docs etc.
Linux and Android apps mean I can run android studio and e.g. Lightroom (android version) as well as many games. I got back to playing some DOS games in dosbox.

It's fast, light and very well manufactured.
I read the book “Why we sleep” and they present some statistics from studies.

One being that lack of quality sleep from working such long hours which can negatively impact sleep and has massive economic costs due to workspace accidents, errors and poor judgement.

From memory, one statistic showed Japan was losing the most money by far.

I highly recommend the book for those interested in improving your life.
Please don't take HN threads into ideological flamewar. We've already had to ask you this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This is possibly what triggered it - MBP in flames: https://twitter.com/whitepanda/status/1133847982317723648
What percentage of the area of Himalayan Glaciers have gained ice coverage. #missingStatistics
This brings back memories. I was the editor of this publication many, many years later, in 2005, but I've never seen the really old back issues.

We had significantly more content than in 1957, but there was a lot more fluff. (All of the honors math classes required writing a math research paper, and the Bulletin chose the most interesting ones for publication, but there's only so much originality you can expect from 14- to 16-year-old math students.)
It's been funny to watch how more and more static type systems are getting bolted on to dynamically typed languages in recent years.

Typescript (with stellar adoption), native type annotation support in Python, Sorbet, PHP 7, Elixir + Dialyzer, ...

I wonder why there isn't a popular gradually typed language that natively allows writing both dynamic and type-safe code, allowing quick prototyping and then gradual refactor to type safety.

I guess in part because it's a big challenge to come up with a coherent type system that allows this, the bifurcation in the ecosystem, and often a somewhat leaky abstraction. Eg in Typescript you will often still run into bugs caused by malformed JSON that doesn't fit the type declaration, badly or insufficiently typed third party libraries, ....

Google's Dart is the only recent, somewhat popular language (only due to Flutter) that allows this natively - that I can think of right now.

I do think such a language would be very beneficial for the current landscape though, and projects like this show there is a clear need.

Edit: just remembered another option: Crystal. Also Julia, as pointed out below.
Application of the subject aside, Nitinol is fun to play arround with. If you want to tinker, this book comes with a coil of Nitnol wire to use in the demos contained in the book:

https://www.robotshop.com/en/muscle-wires-sample-kit.html

In my experience, challenges of Nitinol (a.k.a. 'muscle wire') for use as a electoactive linear actuator is that if you're not careful you can over heat (or apply too much tensile load to) the wire and it will permanently deform (lose it's memory). Still, and interesting material to toy around with.
Ha. I do have a soft spot for this era, where all manner of fonts and freehand were jumbled together in a single document.

In honor of your half serious attack, I'll offer a half serious rebuttal.

Mostly I love the single use fonts designed for one menu, one restaurant sign, one film title card, or here, one amateur magazine cover.

The most hated fonts today are the descendents of these: the wacky theme fonts like comic sans or papyrus.

My pet theory is that those fonts draw out such contempt because they are faux unique. They are a cookie cutter way to try to signal originality.

But back then! Somehow people had time to churn out new special lettering every single day.

Some were better than others, but all of them represented work and risk and an aesthetic commitment.

That crazy page one diamond two tone? In one sense it's... Just not very sophisticated. In another, though, it's play. And more creative risk than I've taken on a font today, or yesterday, or possibly ever.
Google and Stackoverflow work just fine without javascript enabled. Trustworthy sites can be whitelisted if absolutely necessary.
Amazon has made a tiny profit for several years before AWS, when it started having larger ones.

But it was never too much in the red. It shouldn't be placed together with Uber.
You don't get public transit until things are dense. :)
Not if you live in Phoenix[1], Miami[2], Las Vegas[3], Chicago[4] or a host of other US cities.

[1]https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PHXRNSA
[2]https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MIXRNSA
[3]https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LVXRNSA
[4]https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CHXRCNSA
Cloud hosting is high-margin, though
We've banned this account for repeatedly breaking the site guidelines and posting unsubstantive comments, and ignoring our requests to stop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It happens all the time, and they just don't tell you. We get automated notices when banks connect and disconnect from the Faster Payments network, something happens every few days. Not always this length, but occasionally.

Just yesterday a major high street bank stopped sending payments for an hour, and was telling customers on Twitter that there were no problems.

Hell, the central system (what I called the Hub in this article) had a 12 hour split brain meltdown last July which had banks emailing each other spreadsheets back and forth for two weeks afterwards.
Right, this is why it seemed like an overreach to me. I guess you could say it's also related to men generally being encouraged to be more competitive- which might make them overwork to seem more committed- but that's an effect that's so indirect it's hard to pin down.
In this world of NSA, data leaks and FAARG, the only way forward is undocumented births and backwoods medicine to avoid personal information being at the mercy of the state, corporations and criminal organizations.
I'm critiquing the implementation shown in the blog, not your hypothetical implementation in typescript that I've never seen.

That was not what you originally wrote:

The fact is that it's forcing a concept that can't be expressed in the language properly.

Your claim was that it cannot be expressed in the language properly, and I am disagreeing.

In nominal type systems like Rust/Haskell/F# you want to be able to match on the constructor. In typescript where '|' means something slightly different you need to fake a type constructor by adding a type: "variantname" property

You didn't answer the question, what useful pattern matching can you do with Either/Option? Give me pseudocode even.

Javascript doesn't support those things.

A few jsdoc comments and tsc command, and hey presto - it does.
JavaScript Debugging Done Right
Also, 1) Work new hires to death, 2) Make employees cry, 3) Pay like sh*t
His philosophy relied on reason when reasoning about religion was nowhere to be found. You have to put it in context. Also, believing in religion is unreasonable even now. I don't mind people having faith in whatever they want though.
Yea but the root problem lies in Larry's management. Larry gave Vic pure dictatorial powers for Google+ without holding him accountable for real results. They gave him way too much budget, control, engineers, etc. And they waited way way way too long before kicking him out when things weren't working.

The engineering headcount was ridiculous for Google+. It was also ridiculous to have OKRs for every team at Google to integrate with Google+. Facebook (or really any company) didn't start with Mark Zuckerberg hiring a 1000 engineers and start cranking. If a VC cut him a check for $500 million after his MVP Facebook would probably be a failure. Instead he built the MVP with a few engineers and increased headcount as he increased the user base and shifted vision. Google had this mistaken notion that they could just throw more engineers at the problem and skip the whole product discovery process.
According to them, there's permanent monitoring in place. This free paid plan is simply a bonus.

We introduced additional monitoring and security measures to protect your personal and financial information.

We notified the following authorities: the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, the Commission d'accès à l'information du Québec and the Autorité des marchés financiers.
If it was possible for an employee to "access and share" 2.9m datasets, it's the company's fault. No matter who the employee is, if you don't have safeguards in place as a credit union, you aren't doing your job. Like, at all.
Xkcd Comics in Dark Mode
Yes, like `miri`, which is awesome.
Regarding people getting access to your 1Password account, things have gotten better recently.

1Password supports 2FA to login to the vault itself and most recently Webauthn security keys on browser, which I immediately switched to. On mobile it’s still TOTP, but better than nothing. I’ve got 2 physical keys and Google Authenticator as only 2FA methods.

Once U2F is supported on mobile, I’ll drop TOTP altogether for my 1Pass login. Probably buy another Titan key and throw into the bank box.
Cult Commandments
I don't know why people are so cynical, the results are generally what I would have imagined.

Most interesting - the $13/$100 difference.

Notice that in the US and UK, the 'return rate' goes way up when there's $100 in the wallet, but when only $13 it's quite low.

In Switzerland and Sweden, it's high even for $13.

I think there might be a difference between 'core conscientiousness' and 'meaningful conscientiousness'.

In Sweden and Switzerland, it's a matter of propriety to 'return the wallet'. It's appropriate behaviour. They have smaller, tighter communities, you may even know the person. So they 'just do the right thing' because it doesn't matter what's in the wallet.

In the US/UK culture the thinking might be $13 - nobody is care, it's not worth the hassle to report. But as soon as there's money, then it becomes a material matter of conscientiousness, i.e. 'people will miss $100, it's worth the effort to report it'.

I think $13 is just not really enough money, not that much different from $0. It's almost change.

$100 is a nice, meaningful threshold.

Finally, China ... ouch.

Also, the results are perfectly correlated with transparency international index [1]

It's interesting because it may be that 'corruption' is not just a systematic issue in governance, but it may be correlated or predicted with even more basic levels of civic conscientiousness, as measured by tests such as this.

[1] https://www.transparency.org/cpi2018
ANd what would be the purpose of such a web component? ;)
It's not recommended for parents to let youtube to babysit their children. But most parents in the States let their kids watch animations or kid videos on Youtude Kids, so they can prepare a quick meal, take a shower, or just eat dinner quietly...If you have a kid and work full-time, then you will understand why a lot parents still do it even they know that it's not good.
The downside of Youtube - Youtube will automatically push similar contents even on Youtude Kids. For example, a kid watched a "Baby Shark" video, then Youtube will push a lot videos tagged with similar contents, including weird parodies with inappropriate content for kids.
> hospital charged $4.2 million for a 60-day ECMO

Almost $3,000 an hour!
> TypeScript does not take out dynamic typing or prototypical object orientation

Hence my wording, leads you down the path not forces you to. More often than not, your TypeScript codebase (at least the part you have written yourself or by your team) will be Classical OO style and fully typed, and your code reviews will consist of copious amounts of "we should add a type here"
I've personally known this for a decade and I'm glad people are finally getting pissed off with Google's arbitrary stranglehold on the rules and regulations of the WWW. You either play by their rules or you go out of business. Their rules suck though. AMP can go straight to hell.
Actually, a friend asked me why don't people read/listen to good summaries (like blinkist) but read the whole book? I read the whole book, but I have no answer for him. Many non fiction books have a single idea with many pages of examples. Say if you want to read the 7 habits of highly effective people, why not just read what those habits are? Why do you have to read through all the examples?
Not a bad idea if you are worried about runaway inflation, but otherwise yields aren't great. There aren't any i-bonds issued in the past decade that are currently earning over 2%, which is less than a savings account or money market currently yields.

https://www.treasurydirect.gov/indiv/research/indepth/ibonds...
I don’t get what UBI solves vs the existing social safety net programs

>James Felton Keith, tells The Sociable that a Universal Basic Income is the best way to distribute an equity stake in productivity — thus creating an “asset holder class.”

US already provides a tremendous amount of value to its residents vs the rest of the world - doesn’t that count as a stake in productivity ?
Just also wanted to add a big factor can be personal problems as well. Many of them can't be helped, but things like transportation, commute time, local real estate prices, health insurance, etc. can be helped and should not be overlooked.
I thought the point of working at FAANG is that you get the first two but you get paid really well
Just deep-fake yourself and your spouse into a pre-defined set of pictures.
Usually this is called "Easter egg".
I thought the same was true of my generation (X), but it turns out that on the whole, people I knew weren't representative.
It adds emphasis. Translated: “Like, even their purpose!”
that may have been what they wanted to write. unfortunately they wrote something wrong and misleading instead. i understood what they wrote perfectly well and the implication therein isn't, somehow, my fault
> No need to claim insurance or welfare if shit happens - that safety net stays.

In most UBI proposals (such as A. Yang's) those programs would mostly go away.

> Which is surely an argument in favour of UBI?

In a vacuum sure. But UBI will inevitably lead to inflation of things like food, cars, rent etc. Especially so in the poorer communities that already are heavily subsidized (which would go away under UBI in favor of a single payment).

If your landlord knew that everyone all of a sudden had an extra $1000/mo of disposable income they wouldn't be worried to raise the rent because they know you have it. We will then be in the same position with the option to either raise it to $2k/mo or re-introduce programs like SNAP/WIC/etc to earmark money for food/rent so people don't just go broke paying rent.
You are correct and the argument you are responding to is evidence of the boom period we are in.

The NY Metro area is the definitive example of what you are talking about. Every lane of highway or bridge built increased traffic because it enabled someone to get the house they wanted cheaper somewhere else.

Now, construction costs are too high and land is in tight supply. The result? Infill of formerly blighted areas (aka gentrification).
Facebook's Role in Brexit and the Threat to Democracy. Carole Cadwalladr TedTalk
Final Fantasy VII (Oral History)
I love all the comments here saying that the hack isn’t a problem because the car didn’t crash. That’s a pretty low bar.
I don't blame you lol
> people who bore* with me

Past tense of verb "bear" is "bore" (not "boar", FWIW.)

;-)
I think the biggest thing for me when I was living in the suburbs of Japan is that I could taxi from a station to a remote destination, but on the way back I had to either take a bus or just walk the whole way back. I definitely wish I had uber then. There are also some stations where there are no taxis waiting too. Tokyo is a terrible place to launch since like a lot of people pointed out you'll see 5 or 6 taxis pass by while you're waiting for your ride to come.
Google's tablet dreams died when they killed the Nexus line in favor of Pixel. Instead of making devices 95% as good as other flagships at half the price, they became the market-leader when it came to overcharging.
I'd be more inclined to turn in a wallet with an ID, regardless of whether it contained any money. Those things are a PITA to replace!
Family-first. If you're not family, you're either an enemy or an opportunity.
I think the criticism is that it is hard to understand _why_ it is a large and complex piece of software. It seems like it should be small and relatively simple and load fast.
Some people think that the American dream should only be for "Americans" ie not minorities
The rental market and the home buying market as separate and not perfectly correlated. In SF right now, it's cheaper to rent than to buy, so yes, if a landlord bought today and rented it out they'd be taking a loss.

The thing is that landlords may have purchased the place a long time ago. They can still make a profit with rent being less than what a mortgage+ would be today.
Related submission from yesterday notable for Tesla's snark https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20227439
"But the thought of someone coming along and making a new social network, one that doesn’t have Facebook’s flaws, seems hopeless. After all, if Google, with all its vast wealth and talent, couldn’t do it, then who could?"

Instagram, WhatsApp, Snapchat... The greater issue to me doesn't seem to be who can beat Facebook but rather, what's going to keep Facebook from buying up any real threat that's not backed by one of the big 5 tech giants.
Yes, cultural universals exist, but in the interest of staying on topic, you'll notice a distinct difference between e.g. people having names, and things on zanny's list or cultures that work overtime too much.
> The information includes names, addresses, birth dates, social insurance numbers, email addresses and information about transaction habits.

It's starting to look downright irresponsible to regard such information as private these days.

As such, it should be considered irresponsible to base any portion of a verification protocol on that information.
Capt. “Sully” Sullenberger Slams Boeing for Inadequate Pilot Training
https://www.economist.com/news/2019/01/10/the-big-mac-index
At risk of sounding pretentious, is Manufacturing Consent really all that important?

It seems that most people who care already understand the high-level principals of US media propaganda manufacturing, and those who don't care wouldn't read the book.

For the record, I haven't read the book.
Yes, I agree that this is a very successful case.
Looks like the Firefox-based Tor Browser plans to lag a day behind, on an update for a critical vulnerability that's disclosed by the Mozilla update, like they did the last time. (Does that lag leave a substantial window for second-tier actors to compromise some security-sensitive dissidents and journalists?)

Also, a bit less concerning to me, the Debian package of `firefox-esr` still hasn't been released, as I type this, hours later.

Of course this is a tricky problem, but should there be more coordination on such updates, in the spirit of responsible disclosure?
You'd be surprised how many households have not many "voices" flowing around -- but silence, solitude, anger, confusion, addiction, and other issues.

And even less have "vital, informed, humorous, provocative" voices flowing.
And its true, at everywhere but Amazon
> This shit is toxic masculinity in action

As the same time, you've just assumed the CTO was a man.
YC only deems somebody with at least 10% of equity as a founder (but hopefully that's not how YOU are defining your co-founders...).

YC has accepted single founder teams (I personally know a non-technical solo founder that went through YC) but it is very difficult.
It was a little flat but it wasn’t that bad.
Ugh.

"Are Right, A Lot" - what is this, a magnet for egomaniacs?

"Have Backbone; Disagree and Commit"...

These two mixed feel super toxic. The others are important, but these seem to override the humility necessary for learning...
I'm usually a "dark mode your whole life" kind of person but those seem significantly less readable than the normal color scheme. I don't think his font works well in white-on-black.
I think 'rasz is suggesting that a well-designed higher layer should cross-check its various inputs before doing stupid things. If GPS says we moved but tire rotation says we didn't, well, maybe don't blindly trust the GPS?
I found a wallet in a parking lot of a mall in Warsaw, Poland. The customer info desk would accept it, citing "internal regulations". Maybe I should just have dropped the wallet on their desk and run away :)

(Owner found me, because the info desk at least wrote down my number)
ChromeOS/Android hybrids must have confused people
So, nice study, but two things:
1) it may be that when there is no money in it, the finder thinks "by the time we get it back to them, they will have replace their ID and called their credit card companies to cancel their credit cards and issue new ones, so it doesn't really matter". When there is money, it is more likely to actually matter.
2) It may be that the expected consequences of keeping it seem negligible when there is no money, but if you kept it and got found out, when there IS money, then you could be in trouble
3) What is Mexico's deal? The only nation which went the opposite way. Or, perhaps, what happened with the data entry in Mexico that they got the numbers reversed?
Is there maybe a future possibility of an eventual replacement for GPS being cryptographically signed in some way, so that we can verify it came from the United States government or what-have-you?
And I've witnessed so many conversations ending up with people believing bullshit, because nobody knew anything accurately and nobody really cared.

Some conversations are held for fun, others for exchange of information. Nothing good comes from the two goals getting mixed up.
Are you accounting for the fact that if you pay off the house you are now living rent free with only maintenance + property taxes + insurance?

Would the difference between rent vs buy be enough to draw down at what is considered a safe rate of 4% to pay for some place to stay - ie if you could save $1000/month by renting instead of having a paid off house would you be able to have an extra $300,000 (12000/.04)?
Should we trust meta-analyses with meta conflicts of interest?