skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there is a similar thing with electricity production, having a fusion generator would give "huge amounts of electricity" until someone thought of a use for all that electricity. There's always something bigger you can find that is limited by current amounts of resources.
> That will be a NO for me. Beef, bison, and eggs are my favorite.

Your favourites simply don't matter at this point.
"Seeing Like a State" discusses legibility vs illegibility, and how centralization incentivizes legibility. E.g. like how units of measurement were standardized in order to mitigate tax evasion.
Any data backing that up? Don't forget HN users are a bubble. I'm actually pretty sure standard users don't even notice a difference between Electron and native apps. I for one sometimes prefer Electron apps over badly designed and ugly native apps.
The point is there's a balance. I think it's perfectly reasonable to allow a certain amount of technical debt to accrue, especially when prototyping new features, and treat it as a priority to clear this debt by the time said features become a dependency to other parts of the project.

It takes a bit more nuance to get a team to work that way rather than just enforcing Best Practice(tm) always, but in my experience it can be much more productive overall.
Inflammation's Hidden Role in Weight Loss
He pulled back, just not his arm but other muscles in his body.
> This actually happens in Europe, typically when authorities decide squatters should not be tolerated.

How often does that happen in countries where squatting itself is not illegal?
Why Only 25% ?

I just had to point out in the UK to a recruiter pitching me a short term contact at straight time instead of at contract rates is taking the piss.
If we're talking individual contributions, here's a few easy ones: buy new equipment less often, paint roofs and walls white/silver/reflective, use gravity fed heating systems (more up to house builders), if you have a garden grow edible plants, maybe have a chicken coop, use a bicycle for short trips.

And yet, one trip on a yacht equals dozens of families doing the above. So people say, why should I suffer if those people don't?
> It's better to go home earlier and write good code tomorrow than write bad code that in the best case you'll have to delete and start from scratch tomorrow.

I'm on the fence regarding this statement. If you are accumulating increasing amounts of fatigue by being there and writing bad code, then yes, go home, rest, and recover. But, optimal is the enemy of good. Write some shit code in your own branch, learn from the mistakes you made, so that the code you write tomorrow might be "the good code".
I'm not a linguist but I do enjoy linguistics and language learning as a hobby so I suppose I've gained a certain perspective that I feel most monolinguals lack.

Basically here's my rule of thumb: any linguistic claim coming from a mainstream source which seems to imply the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis[1] or other kind of objective criteria to compare languages is a huge red flag and extremely likely to be entirely bullshit. Out of those claims the "language X is more precise/able to express more nuance than Y" is probably the reddest flag of them all.

I think generalities about languages ("French like to say no") fall in the same category as horoscopes: if they're vague and general enough you'll probably recognize yourself in them to some extent. People like to feel special, they like to feel special for speaking a given language so they'll gladly accept any claim that sets them apart.

>If true (I suspect a methodology shenanigan there) I really doubt this is a factor. Very few French or English speaker will have a mastery of 70,000 words, to say nothing of 500,000.

Yeah, this claim alone shows that the author really stayed at surface level. I suspect the main reason for these numbers is that English, traditionally less prescriptive than French, considers basically any word once used in an English text to be an English word while French curates more heavily. The average English speaker definitely doesn't draw from a reservoir of 500k words, probably closer to a tenth of that. Maybe somebody could link this website to the author: http://testyourvocab.com/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity
Yes, and I'm not sure the R*RS standards even specify which special forms are fundamental vs implemented by macros. However, Smalltalk has some keywords too. In any case, it could be a concise cheat sheet.
A Simple Explanation of the Softmax Function
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The produce that's slightly better than inedible is used for soups, salsa, jam, ice cream, juice, smoothies, stock, etc.

The produce that is ugly is sold at the grocery stores for poor people.

The reason you only see tier 1/2 shape and flavor produce is because you're priviledged.

Ugly produce is a non-issue, eating meat is non-sustainable and oil companies are killing our planet.
As an ultimate noob of this area of expertise, can I ask if Sublime Text works? If not, why?
Well, there's that. My intuition is that ILP should appeal to computer scientists more than statistical machine learning. Unfortunately, it is not very widely known- we're a small field.
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An UI without logic is an useless app.
> would you trust a robot to look after your aging parents without hurting them?

I often see these kinds of examples with 'non-automatable' work. I agree that the full extent of this might not be automatable, but there's probably opportunity for efficiencies through automation, which won't make all people reduntdant, but might decrease the number of people needed to provide this care.

One thing I could think of is camera systems with anomaly detection to watch over people to make sure they're not hurt or something. Or biometric devices that provide feedback to a centralized system. Sure, people might be weary, bot 15 years ago people were stil weary of mobile phones too.
Thank you for sharing this - Almost all the info in the article is new to me. Definitely worth reading
Army is all about how to kill other people. Not hypothetically, very real. Every day.

And governemnts openly advertise for it. On websites, (even in schools). And private enthusiasts maintain forums where army people discuss about the current wars and how to better kill the current enemy. Etc. Etc.
Air pollution triggers early infertility in females: Experts
https://www.surrogacycentregeorgia.com/reproductive-health/air-pollution-triggers-early-infertility-in-females-experts/
Android client it's quite good.
That's nothing, multiple people were struck by lightning several times. https://listverse.com/2018/06/02/10-people-who-have-been-str...
> TBH, services like Cloudflare should be free to operate as they please. A publisher is simply not entitled to a CDN

If a CDN is necessary to support the site being a public platform that's not a given. This whole "A private company should be able to act like it pleases" that Cloudflare mirrors in their news is an ideological standpoint, not an absolute truth. It's certainly possible to see it differently: If a company becomes a public platform important for the public discourse or for the function of journalism, regulation and laws can limit what a company can do. Like Germany does with Facebook.

Edit: Thinking about this a bit more, I'm really frustrated with Cloudflare about this. With the announcement they are causing the political discourse after the massacre to be about free speech, while the one thing important here is gun control. This stuff happens in the US because the easy access to guns allows murderers to act like this. It does not matter whether 8chan falls now or whether it survives or whether the US limits their extreme stance on free speech as long the US society continues to accept that those massacres happen in favor of having guns available to everyone.
The models not doing anything, it’s a straightforward e-commerce play. It’s the relationship and curation that matters.

He’s barely using the software.
Every stat I hear about meat production is shocking. 40% is lunacy. For anyone interested, the book, Diet for a Hot Planet takes a close look at this topic.
I hope this works. I am doing leetcode.com interview questions in my evening and definitely getting better at these.

But, as I said, the problem is that when I feel under the magnifying glass, basic cognitive skills like being able to read what's on the screen, or remember a syntax I've used for a decade can escape me.

If I was making mistakes on hard problems, I'd be more accepting. What I get in interviews is similar to forgetting super common words that you use every day ("thingamabob" doesn't gain the interviewer's trust).
I respectfully disagree. Manager's job here would be to:

- work with devs to make sure whatever gets into the work pipeline is well understood

- everybody agrees on the planned work scope

- prevent anyone from adding "just this tiny thing" into planned scope|
- visualise all of this tough, tough dev work, especially the ad-hoc work (putting out fires, for example)

- keeping both management and devs accountable

- and more!

Also I disagree with the bridge metaphor; while true, you can't use the bridge when it's 50% done, you should ideally be able to to use 5% of the planned feature. If you can't, then maybe it was planned out badly and shouldn't go into planning in the first place?

If there's a person that's "working hard" in a team and a person that's "hardly working", then the team has a big issue and should do everything to fix that.

However, This takes a lots of guts on part of (both!) the manager and developers and always has an emotional toll.
Yea, that ought to do it.
I don't get the part about Scrolling. It doesn't feel not native it feels incredible fluid, smooth as butter.
I'm pretty sure Typescript is already "Typescript done right"
Yes definitely that second pic is probably not great. One thing I think it does benefit from is being surrounded by other tall buildings, so often you can only see it from very close up and its that view in the first photo that I see nearly every day.
> I was told several time (and experienced) that Americans love to say yes, and not follow through, which is a pretty rude thing in France. "Why don't we have lunch one day?" "you should come to my house!" "Let's make something together" Apparently these are non-committal statement in US. In France they are. That's why being able to say no is far more important.

I wonder if the French are better at reading body language and social contextual clues so as to not make such offers either too early in a developing relationship or to someone who would really never be interested in the first place. In my experience these offers tend to overwhelmingly come from people who are oblivious to the fact that they and I are not particularly socially compatible.
The government that doesn't.
And how does easily being able to catch it not feed back into being able to create better Deep Fakes vis-à-vis something like a GAN?
Oil will be priced according to supply and demand. There may still be use cases which require oil. And however cheap the competition can produce oil it will be priced. This is non-news.
There is (in the paragraph after the last picture):

> First of all the most commonly used films in the early 1950s were slower (less sensitive) than modern emulsions, and consequently less prone to fogging due to radiation. Second, all Leica rangefinder cameras use a focal-plane shutter, which means the film behind the lens is shielded from the radiation it emits except for the instant the shutter is open when making an exposure, which would produce negligible fogging. Since the decay chain of thorium consists exclusively of alpha and beta particle emission, neither of which is very penetrating, the closed shutter protects the film from the radiation from the rear of the lens.
Food production is a larger source of pollutants than transportation in the global economy.
The First Transcontinental Railroad, 1868 mi in length, was built between 1863 and 1869. Six years - completing a route from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

California High-Speed Rail, 520 mi in length, began construction in 2015, cost 90x as much per mile, even after accounting for inflation, and.... was indefinitely postponed in 2019. For a rail line in a single state.

Admittedly, with much higher speed, and much more humane construction. But nonetheless, even with a much higher per-mile price they still couldn't deliver it? I can see how someone someone might get the impression we aren't able to successfully deliver large projects any more.
you didn't read the part where, taking an offer without inspecting the offer could be dangerous. They gave the (real?) example of inspecting the offer and discovering it was much more complicated than previously thought.
And it's also worth remembering that the stock market has increased in value (inflation adjusted) for decades. So whilst yes, it's true there are winners and losers, most of the time the winners outnumber the losers.
I've been wondering if 20 minutes of coding in 'urgent mode' then a 5 minute break, repeated, with a lunch break, would be more productive than 'average mode' all day, and without the burnout.
Define "fake news". For instance, the Guardian ran an article last week "Facebook says it was 'not our role' to remove fake news during Australian election"[1] criticising Facebook for not removing claims that the Labor party would introduce a "death tax" they said they wouldn't. If you click through to the previous article[2], the supposed "misinformation" included posts quoting their statements that they wouldn't introduce a "death tax" and then arguing that they couldn't be trusted not to do it anyway. Should tech companies be expected to supress the idea that certain political parties can't be trusted to do what they promise (not all of them, obviously - I can't imagine this is meant to apply to Republicans or any of the Australian right-wing parties)? Because that is definitely something that's being pushed for in the name of fighting "fake news".

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jul/31/facebook-...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/jun/08/it-fe...
Optimistic UI and Clobbering
The Link Between Autism and Addiction (2017)
And that’s ok. The no beef movement should materialize in terms of laws, taxes and enforcement - voluntary efforts (or refusals) are irrelevant.
This isn't about silencing the bad actors, it's about muffling them enough that they don't contaminate daily discourse. Fine: let them be on onion boards. We know de-platforming works.
Yacht? You meant jet?
OPEC are much less powerful than the decades of past - thankfully - but it'll be a while before oil will be _truly_ priced by supply and demand and nothing else.
I read that already in the 60ies. Some Czech inventors then even sold products using that interesting feature.
Using Digital Technology for Storytelling
Oil will be priced according to supply and demand.

Supply, demand, and subsidies.
LMFAO - troll coward. I'm sorry your father abused you.
It also counters the import tariff tax lessening the price increase on consumers who seem to be the main constituency of pundits.
I always think together with do stuff faster, "do the simplest thing you possibly can" and "write less code" both allow you to develop, iterate and feedback faster overall. Without the other two you'll eventually hit the wall of too much complexity to keep going fast.
I'll quit meat completely (already eating less than 1 lbs/week, so it's easy) if someone else starts buying new devices only when the battery starts failing? Because that infuriates me to no end, "lololol I still have my S7, but the S8 looks better, and my laptop is out of storage space".
Historically, some of the most discriminated people have been people of a different religion. In principle you can "stop believing in your religion" as easily as you can stop believing that immigrants are destroying your country.

In practice, nobody cares to protect bigots and a lot of people want to protect gays, immigrants, women, etc. It is troubling that we only protect certain classes of people since maybe the next group that comes along after the current group of bigots will actually deserve protection but the arguments we built to allow the lack of protection for bigots will be used to deny protection to that group.
A web view is a client.
> where is the data?

All of these shooters have manifestos that describe how they came to believe what they believed.

> You make it sound it's almost like terrorism didn't exist before the internet.

No, I don't. I specifically said "uptick." This line of argument makes as much sense as showing up in a comment thread about the Capital One breach and saying "You make it sound it's almost like privacy violations didn't exist before the internet." Of course it did, but not at this scale, and we're talking about scale.
Don't even get me started on those :)
Fact check: “It is the second-largest fish market in the world, after Tsukiji market, in Tokyo”

Toyosu Market replaced Tsukiji in October 2018
True, but I believe the recent surge in shootings to be a direct response to censorship ambitions and media coverage these offenders expect to receive.
Their back was broken when they tried to kill shale oil in 2016 and failed.
IPCC politely requested media not to quote or cite the draft report. Of course, media ignored it.

Let's just wait a few days. Can't you wait?

https://www.ipcc.ch/2019/07/16/media-reports-draft-special-r...
Additional tidbits about Shell_NotifyIcon: it still works now, it gets automatically mapped to a UWP toast notification
> No one talks about de-platforming CNN.

Roger Ebert[1], Tristan Harris[2], and others argue that the way CNN (and others) covers these events incentivises further occurrences.

[1]: https://boingboing.net/2012/12/15/roger-ebert-on-how-the-pre...

[2]: I’m having trouble finding the video amongst the flood of news reports from the recent events.
Surface level. Sums up the book pretty well if you ask me. Started not too bad with some anecdotes, yet didn't build up on that on any depth. Maybe helpful, or with some bad luck quite the opposite, for people without any intercultural experience themselves. For people with some experience it is just common sense.

One other point the book misses is the complexity of all of that. Only hinted at are the effect personality has. Let alone the overlaying patterns of culture, personality and organizational culture.

And yes, the theoretical basis is almost totally absent.
The wind and animals carry around the seeds and bacteria needed for soil to happen naturally. It takes some time though, not sure how long.
On Some Possibilities for Life as a Joke [2016]
> I wouldn’t automatically reject such a resume but it would absolutely be a negative signal.

I could imagine using a resume with a wonky font to elicit signal from the employer side.
While you're completely right on the "calories available per energy expended" point, nutrition has come around to thinking that meat is a source of "fatsoes" (what with being mostly protein and fat), and

> - Humans naturally didn't eat the amounts of meat which we consume today

Humans "naturally" ate whatever was available and edible, in northernly latitude they certainly ate ridiculous amounts of meat what with most of the food available outside of high summer being hunted or fished. Humans are not a vegetarian species, and their survival on a strictly vegetarian diet is non-trivial.

Furthermore, our staple cereal carbs literally didn't exist in the "natural" diet timespan, the sources of carbs would have been fruits (where and when available at all) and fibrous and starchy tubers, so your appeal to nature isn't exactly helpful to feeding the world while solving climate change.

Finally:

1. not all meats are equal, poultry has an FCR of about 2 (that is 2 units of feed will produce 1 unit of chicken or eggs), rabbits and pigs are around 3.5~4 and beef cattle is ~6.

2. of note, dairy is worse than beef on an FCR basis.

3. OTOH not all feed are equal and I don't know that FCR takes this in account (cattle being fed raw roughage while poultry or fish is fed concentrate)

4. feed can be a side-product of other food production (e.g. straws) or it might be produced on lands otherwise inclement to human food production, or as part of a rotation scheme
It's not "bizarre", just a tradeoff explained here: https://golang.org/doc/faq#semicolons

If they thought it mattered much, they'd change it... But since the code should be formatted correctly always, it's not necessary.
“I may disagree with what you say but will defend with you your right to say it.”

- Voltaire
> I think people should be free to say their opionions online and offline, no matter how bad those opinions are.

So do I, but outside essential utility monopolies, I also believe that no one should be forced to facilitate those opinions. That Cloudflare choose not to do so is ultimately an expression of their own opinions and values.
> Fix Email

Why does everyone keep being fixated at the idea that email is broken?

The only broken thing in email is Google and it's obscenely obscure and paranoid spam filtering.
What's the definition of a good project in your mind? I believe you, and the person you are replying to, are coming at this from two different frames of mind.

Is the quality of the final product all that matters? Is how the people working on the project felt during it a factor?

I'm, for instance, quite happy with the keyboard I am using at the moment. I doubt, very much, that it is the result of the work of a lone individual or a pair. Is your point that the original design might have been drawn by a lone individual, and you view the rest of the work performed by other people as mere augments to that person's vision?

Or does your interjection only apply to software?
Just curious, I really like the template used to build the site. Any idea what it is?
Please provide citations for your claims.
What am I going to do with all these foot puns?
Gmail filters a sh*t compared to what Sieve with regex is capable of.
Worst Programming Languages to Learn in 2019
However Walmart will keep selling weapons and ammo.
This corresponds to an Anglo-Saxon vision, the evidence below that the French do not always say no, when they should:

- We accept half of North Africa without paper,

- We accept migrants who should be in England,

- We accept this rotten European union,

- We accept a stupid president,

- We accept to be under the aegis of NATO, the worst criminal organization in the world,

- We accept all of America's cultural waste (cinema, music, food),

- CETA trade treaties are accepted,

- We tolerate Trump's haircut and that's already a lot!

So to say that the French always says no is a bit strong... especially coming from Anglo-Saxon who knew how to take the subsidies of the PAC;) but without the migrants!
It is easy to imagine an elder care robot that is humanoid in features and attempts to directly replicate what a human does. But that is rarely how it plays out. Instead you get technology that solves a single practical problem. For example, a washing machine, ready meal, dishwasher, or hi-tech toilet. All replace activites that require a lot of labour to do by hand. Maybe there are other practical technologies that would be of utility to the elderley and help maintain independance.
So, India's at war with Pakistan now? That seems pretty terrible.