skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree that a positive sum game implies an internal cause of failure. Easiest example is inflation. You can be gaining positive ground, but not quickly enough to outrun the entity outside of your control who can wipe out your assets unless you stay ahead of the curve.

This is true for many people who didn’t invest in the right capital such as certain real estate, equities, or intellectual property, as efficiency and automation gains means less of the labor is needed.

One can claim it’s an internal failure to not invest in the right things, but it’s not reasonable to expect everyone to have that kind of foresight.
When it comes to products, marketing is also one of those dimensions, and can easily swamp the others. It's a good assumption that if you hold price steady, the more marketing, the worse the product. We don't see this because it is often canceled out by economies of scale, which of course are a result of size, and the larger the relative size, the higher amount of marketing as compared to other brands.

At the same production scale, you should expect the most marketed product to be the worst.
Over the years I've tried a leap, gesture, HON exposure, aeron, and embody... and after all of it still find I vastly prefer a $70 Ikea Millberget to all of them https://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/00331707/ - the cheap material starts to flake after about 2 yrs of use so I'll just buy one every two years I guess.

I guess the lesson is that every body is different and you gotta find what works for you
What I find most amazing about this isn't the image (although it's pretty cool), it's the fact that a bunch of amateur astronomers[1] can locate a satellite in space with no help- even after the satellite makes an unannounced move. The US government literally spends billions of dollars to track things in outer space, and a bunch of amateurs can do basically the same thing. Granted, Space Fence tracks more and smaller objects, but the amateurs are winning on the price/performance ratio.

To clear things up- ephemeris (orbit parameters) are published for many satellites, but not for the X-37B. It had to be found by some educated guesses and a lot of staring at the sky.

[1] To be fair, some "amateur" astronomers use very high end equipment.
That's likely a myth. Even in space, cold welding doesn't happen under static loading: http://esmat.esa.int/Publications/Published_papers/STM-279.p...

It requires impact of fretting, and even then there's a lot of debate over whether it's really cold welding or just more normal galling etc.
Doesn't open source software kind of throw a spanner in this idea? In quite a few fields, the best option could be released for free and made by a team of volunteers, and if so, it would logically be better than its paid alternatives in pretty much every possible way.
Well, of course. Can we stop giving him attention, please?
Is Office 365 any better - or am I stuck running my own mail server if I really want privacy?
You are welcome to try to duplicate the functionality of the moc tool somehow. If it was trivial, it would have been done already.
Where do you get your info from?
> It's a requirement here in the UK to publish a paper to get your PhD

Categorically false. I did my physics PhD in the UK and while I did publish a paper, it was not a requirement and I have plenty of friends who did not publish a paper and still got their physics PhD.
I know it’s not what we are supposed to be commenting here, but the photo in that article is awesome!
That's just the benefit of working as a group though.

Bob, Bill, Jill and Joan are already working as a group when Bob and Bill are the bosses. If we make Bill and Jill the bosses we don't inherently gain anything from that. Yes Jill and Joan might work better because they feel appreciated, equally though Bill and Bob could work worse because they've lost something. Hell Joan could still be annoyed because she didn't get the bosses job.
I just get captchas
what changes could be made that would encourage users to explore

Microcontent, context.

News sites (though not HN) typically categorise stories topinally: local, regional, world (often forthrr by region), events, disasters, crime, politics, business, labour, science, technology, sport, culture, entertainment, health, real estate, transport, style (with varying overlap).

Jacob Nielsen on microcontent. I'd prefer a brief lede 'graf, say, 10-20 words (about a tweet), well chosen for framing item(s).

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/microcontent-how-to-write-h...
In some places there are entire wholesale businesses that operate on this model. For instance, in Austin there is a place you can go that resells pretty much every office furniture that you can get from cannibalizing these auctions. http://www.topstexas.com/

They don’t always have the color you want, but I got a basically new condition Steelcase Leap there for less than half of what it retails for.
Amazon sells a $19k DIY tiny-home kit – here's what it looks like
False. The MCAS exists to prevent stick forces from inverting as the nose pitches up towards the stall angle. If the stick forces invert, it becomes easier to continue into a stall angle than to move away from it. Commercial airframes are required to never exhibit this characteristic as a condition of certification.

MCAS was Boeing’s idea of a solution to this; command the stabilizers down to provide counter force against the stick, making it harder for the pilot to pull into the stall than pull away from it at every point.

Even if the 737NG had never existed and the 737MAX as it exists today were for some reason an all new design, it would need the MCAS counter-force to get certified as air worthy no matter how much new training pilots got. It (claims to) solve a fundamental airworthiness requirement; it is not a “737NG emulation feature” as some mistakenly believe.
Oh, I think building a web browser extension might be the easiest solution. Thank you!
I would like to see an ECS style UI design in Rust that represents widgets as IDs, to allow arbitrary object graphs without interior mutability. I don't see a reason why this would be incompatible with GTK, but we won't know until we try. It might work out really well.

It also might be that Rust is not the right language to write high level UI logic in at this time, and a GC'd language would be more appropriate. That's fine too. One of the strengths of Rust is its interoperability with other languages. C and C++ are certainly not the right languages to implement high level UI logic in, for example.
Imperfect how?
Have to agree. This has been my main workflow for the past year and a half and the speed increase alone makes it worth it
Seems like a fine thread for a personal novella stirred by reading this:

After my grandfather sold his business and retired to Big Pine Key, Florida, he befriended a fellow who lived on No Name Key. No Name Key is connected to Big Pine by the "Old Wooden Bridge" (made of concrete).

No Name Key is known for a rock quarry, being the practice grounds for the Bay of Pigs invasion, and for complete lack of public utilities.

Now this is the early 90s, as my grandparents left the Keys after hurricane Andrew. In those days solar power was properly challenging. And yet the fellow in question had a fully solar powered house.

He was a physicist by education, rescued from deliquency by an insightful first mate on a Navy ship. Per my grandmother he worked "not one day longer than required to retire to a life of poverty."

In my grandfather he found a (mostly) willing source of free labor. And labor who was trained as an electronics technician during WW2. So the two worked on his solar house in the bad old days of solar on very little budget. His backup generator was the front third of an 80s something Honda Civic with a hotrodded alternator.

In addition to the solar house, he also had a 9 meter(ish) sailing catamaran of his own design and construction. The catamaran, like anything he cared about, was meticulous. I never did understand how one could be both so haphazard and so careful, depending on the task at hand.

He was a lazy sailor, but had traveled all over the East Coast and Carribean looking for his "soul mate." Indeed, he left the Keys to stay with a lady friend when hurricane Andrew hit. The problem with that plan? Said companion lived in Homestead. Oops. My grandmother suggested that perhaps he would have better romantic luck with a "smaller beer belly and fewer 'banana hammock' swim suits."

When he sailed on the open water, he used a small commercial autopilot that used a servo to move the tiller. It was based on a compass heading set on a dial. It only "worked" if you weren't that particular about where you saw the sun rise above the horizon. That was perfect for his adventures.

Grandpa died January 1, 2017, and I doubt his friend is in any condition to sail so many years later. But, if he is somehow still out there chasing soul mates, I guarantee the boat has solar power, and it's probably navigating with pypilot.
Containers weren't a thing back in 2014. Vagrant IIRC was fairly new and I remember sitting next to a guy that was scripting much of this up.
And that's no accident. I'm currently reading Kendi's excellent "Stamped from the Beginning". He goes into a fair bit of detail how early in the US's history poor whites allied with poor blacks in pursuit of better economic equality. The white elites quickly recognized this as a problem and worked to turn poor white people against the black population. We're still paying the price today.
Shark Skin-Like Surfaces May Ward Off Hospital Superbugs
As 'Eliezer summed it up perfectly:

"Politics is an extension of war by other means. Arguments are soldiers. Once you know which side you’re on, you must support all arguments of that side, and attack all arguments that appear to favor the enemy side; otherwise it’s like stabbing your soldiers in the back—providing aid and comfort to the enemy. People who would be level-headed about evenhandedly weighing all sides of an issue in their professional life as scientists, can suddenly turn into slogan-chanting zombies when there’s a Blue or Green position on an issue."

From: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9weLK2AJ9JEt2Tt8f/politics-i....
The boxes with numbers

Change the colour or remove it entirely.
I'm building a new way to grow plants using electromagnetic water-vapor distribution systems.

Had some successes, mostly failure, but getting there. Should be more accessible, use less water, less expensive, and produce better/more food than traditional hydroponic systems (and far more than traditional farming).

LPA grow system without needing any pumps.
If what "some" might say about what the author intends is irrelevant, then what you say about what the author intends is also irrelevant, because you are just some person (unless you're the author). My point was why should I trust your interpretation of what the author intends more than anyone else's.

>"So you think you know C?"

That goes along with the interpretation that the point is to illustrate C is confusing. It would go along with something like "You think you know it, you think it's simple, well actually you don't know it, it's confusing."

>intended identify to test takers whether or not they really understand the intricacies of C, and to think critically about that source of their knowledge

Yes, its intent is to indicate to test takers that a lot of them don't really understand the intricacies of C, which demonstrates that C is more confusing than they originally thought.

>Never once does the author mention that C is confusing, use the word confusing, or otherwise indicate that general idea.

Here are some quotes that indicate the idea that C is confusing:

>C is not that simple.

>It’s only reasonable that the type of short int and an expression with the largest integer being short int would be the same. But the reasonable doesn’t mean right for C.

>Actually, it’s much more complicated than that. Take a peek at the standard, you’ll enjoy it.

>The third one is all about dark corners.

>The test is clearly provocative and may even be a little offensive.

Then the author says that he did C for 15 years and thought he knew it, but then realized he didn't. That indicates to me either that the author is saying that he's not smart, or that C is confusing. The second appears to be the point the author is actually making.
It has always been very difficult for me to find a chair that isn't a complete disaster either for my lower back pain or for my shoulder problems.

After trying a very large number of very expensive spaceship shaped chairs (Herman Miller, etc) I'm now pretty happy with IKEA's Alefjäll swivel chair:

https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/alefjaell-office-chair-glose-bl...

What this chair has going for it is that you can lower the backrest so that you can lean back over it. That takes a bit of weight off the lower back and leaves the shoulders free.

There are a lot of cheap, flimsy office chairs that can do the same, but they mostly don't have armrests and are generally too small.

The Alefjäll is very un-IKEA-like in that it has a very solid, even heavy, feel about it.
Peak urban real-estate, regions with good weather, clean air and water, natural resources, biodiversity etc. might be counter points. Unless we achieve fundamental breakthroughs in natural and physical sciences as well as improve basic economic incentive structures that drive corporate behaviour, our current prosperity might be short-lived. It is difficult to confidently predict how any of these things will turn out though - our way of life has undergone massive change in the last five decades than it might have anytime before that, and that pace is only accelerating.
Same, it's just less ambiguous than anything else.
Btw, from 2003 to 2019 Java evolved (syntax and JVM) much more than Python. So who is in the dead end now? )
I have a great example from today of the efficiency of trust.

I went to a three storey old factory turned into an antiques store. 150 000 square feet. Three floors of booths of all kinds of stuff. Coins, cards, collectibles, toys, furniture, everything. The whole place had maybe five visible employees. It was all consignment. You'd pick up $300 worth of nicknacks from the top floor and walk it down to the first floor to buy. It's incredibly easy to steal from if you wanted.

So what I see are hundreds of individual vendors that don't need to be at their booth because of the trust between vendors, the managers, and the public.

If we were part of a culture where theft was all but guaranteed, that store just wouldn't be able to exist.
Oh awesome.

See also Conal Elliott's "Compiling to categories" ( http://conal.net/papers/compiling-to-categories/ ) where he is converting Haskell automatically to point-free form (like a concatinative language but not quite) and then instantiating that over different Categories to get different correct programs from the same expression.

I've been working with Joy recently and I think this stuff is "the next big thing" for PLs. http://joypy.osdn.io/notebooks/Types.html
"Where nuclear fails, and where improvement is desperately needed, is ability to deliver on budget and within schedule."

Something that see nobody discussing and that I gave almost no thought to myself is the embedded carbon cost of the mining and enrichment of Uranium itself.

Never mind the building of the plant, etc., but the actual carbon expended to achieve a workable fissionable fuel.

This process was brought to my attention in the long, detailed chapter on Uranium enrichment in _No Immediate Danger: Volume One of Carbon Ideologies_ by William Vollmann.[1]

It's really quite amazing how many steps are involved and how expensive those steps are in terms of embedded carbon cost. In the absence of fully non-fossil-fuel power sources to do that mining and enrichment it is difficult to see how that process makes any sense absent the massive economic and military subsidies we have in place for gasoline/diesel.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_T._Vollmann
I’m with you on this. If they allow this plane to fly again, I’ll be actively avoiding it when booking my tickets. Even if that means much higher ticket prices. It would take many years of flawless service of this plane to change my mind.
Are you sure? MCAS depends on AoA + static pressure + IAS to my knowledge (https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/61286/what-type...). If you are sure it'd be nice to support this with a source.

Also, the thrust change nose-up moment is not much different to a 737 classic or 737 NG; MCAS is required due to the lifting moment of the engines, which are in front of the center of gravity (thus pulling the nose up when in a positive AoA situation).
Physics, but not optics. Also, I read and understood the paper. The Wikipedia link seems to agree with me too. Look at the diagram there, and compare it to the diagram for coma [0].

Spherical aberration causes the single point in the center of the object to focus to a different place depending on where the ray hits the lens. This means that the image of that single point is not fully sharp. If you restrict what parts of the lens can be hit by rays from that point (by closing the iris, for example), you reduce the area in the focal plane that the rays hit.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coma_(optics)
Craig Wright in particular is suing people in the UK for libel for stating that he is not Satoshi.[1]

Being sued for libel in the UK is no joke.

[1] https://decrypt.co/6520/peter-mccormack
There's no need for chroot, compiling under a different user should be enough in this case.
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=j...
>> Any satellite can physically navigate in space,

Not cubesats. You need some sort of an engine and an orientation mechanism. You can forgo the engine if you only want to play around with drag via orientation, but the average cube/nano sat moves, falls, along the same path as any other bit of metal up there.
I admire the man and his concerns about debt. But he is playing a young, healthy single man's game.

Family formation without debt slavery doesn't have the same appeal to our media class, but it's far more important in the long run.
> Storage of arbitrary Java objects on the nodes and edges

Seems like a very strange choice instead of something a bit more cross platform.
It seems that the authors do not understand the 'zero-sum' definition and apply it to various situations where it simply does not apply.

To pick for example the first article, the only one linking to the full article and not just an extract:

Australians probably do not believe that there's a fixed sum of humans in the world and every new Iraqi means one less Australian. The demand to pick a nationality might be a bias (though plenty of states do not allow dual-citizenship), but it's not a 'zero sum' bias as commonly understood - nobody believes that there's an 'Australia-Iraq' game where only one side may win.
So... what’s the risk? If a person updated their Ubuntu computers this or last week, are they in trouble?
My simplistic approach to credit: it allows people to buy stuff they can't afford but it drives prices up artificially. Lots of things would be cheaper if people couldn't afford to "produce" money.
All the use cases put forth by 5G proponents, like remote surgery, are so niche that it’s hard for normal citizens to see what impact 5G will make in their lives. In the US, if you have LTE it’s usually more than fast enough for what you want to do on your phone, but there’s still so many areas of the US without coverage that it seems like it would be more impactful to address that issue first.
Not everyone needs mass immigration. Countries with high living standards and low birth rates do.
how can one find areas in the bay area to go plan trees with a bunch of friends and not be associated with any campaigns etc?

With varying local rules and regulations, plant species adaptability, invasive vs non-invasive species debate raging on, it would be great to have a website which gives you info. about the local areas in the range of 100 miles where one can go and plant trees with this information readily available;

I would go one step ahead and propose to also have the saplings shipped or sold either from this website or have distribution centers/farms closer to the region where these saplings can be collected; these centers would be similar to your regular Home Depots etc. where you would have all the information readily available; One can also pay a subscription fees of 5$/month to have the farm take care of these saplings until it becomes self sufficient.

Before someone asks about how we would raise the initial capital for these distribution centers is thru carbon tax/federal/state funds.
I see this most clearly in people who will not trade in a board game like Monopoly unless the deal is extremely slanted in their favor. They simply can't understand that people who trade will always beat people who don't, and the easiest way to trade is to trade fairly.

If four people are playing a game of Monopoly, and two trade with each other but the other two refuse, now two people are playing Monopoly and the other two are begging for it to end.

(Please don't reply by criticizing Monopoly, I know that many people don't like it, I suspect this is a major reason why.)
I think with the slowing progress of single threaded performance modern languages require three essential features if they want to be "main branches" of the language evolutionary tree.

1. easy parallelism

2. easy networking

3. managed memory
That kind of thinking stems from having the car as a first choice, it's easy to go 50km with a car instead of 7km. If bicycle and walking become the first choice for short travels under 7 km then you will see that you can reach most things by bike, and are still able to take the car to do those far away shopping sprees.

Yes bicycle parking is important, but it's relatively cheap, mostly because it does not need that much infrastructure.
I guess the best comparisons would be Hungary and Japan for very different reasons. Japan is automating as much as it can; while Hungary is suffering from a lack of workers, and trying some very surprising (and I think unpopular) strategies to grow its workforce without accepting immigrants.

In general, highly developed nations seem to be dependent on immigration, because the local population doesn’t want to grow fast enough and may even be shrinking. (Hungary may be unrelated; I get the impression they’re shrinking for the same reason that East Germany was shrinking, not because they are “highly developed”; certainly Andrássy Avenue looked like it hadn’t been repaired since the fall of the USSR when I visited).
Well, at least JR East and West are profitable:
https://asia.nikkei.com/Editor-s-Picks/Japan-Update/JR-East-...

It seems it is bolstered by profit by non-passenger _transport_ related revenue, but I think, is an example that train companies can have monetize their positive impact on society
Do you know what was done/said to you?
I would dearly love to know what they are including to get an average UK spend of $629. From a brief scan of sources and data set they don't appear break it down any further.

More in the UK get free prescriptions than don't. Even with the most involved care I can't find a way to make it that expensive. So maybe they're including people voluntarily paying some treatment not available on the NHS like homeopathy or unproven experimental treatments, or private insurance generally. Maybe they count dentistry as healthcare.

Prescription charges for some, hospital parking, drinks machine... Unless you include something else it doesn't add up.
Formula E’s electric off-road SUV is an absolute unit
> loosing motivation

Did some textbook publisher take "losing" out of all their spelling books 15 years ago? I see it misspelled more often than spelled correctly these days.