skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone who plays video games on computer, ps4, or xbox one also regularly saturates their connection. Game updates are a daily occurrence on Steam for me (mostly because I have hundreds of games) and giant updates are normal on console
To encourage active participation, I have created a private repo where all future edits and entries will be made starting November 2019 after which this project will be deprecated. To join indefinitely you have to submit two unique open source python ML or DS projects to d.snow@firmai.org (unique to this list only, it needen't be your own). Please submit them now so that I can put you on the list. How to know if your contribution is unique: search the Google Sheet file for the respective URL.

So the intent is to "lock out" anyone who doesn't contribute before November 2019 by keeping all new content in the private repo? Seems kind of sketchy, unless I'm misunderstanding. Maybe the intent behind releasing this publicly is just to build up the email list mentioned in the readme?
This looks great for simple stuff and awesome that they have a neat end-to-end product ecosystem.

I essentially do this with org-mode in emacs, though I don't have a special mobile application to edit it and sync with dropbox -- I know that others actually use orgzly[0] and similar tools.

[0] https://github.com/orgzly
Time is a property of the universe.
I don't agree with this. Humans are capable of leaving incumbents for something better, safer, more convenient, more provate, etc.

Our current value system is the cause of this evolution of tech. Changing value systems of the youth will drive the future - as it did with the current generation)
Maybe, but most US households don't even have the "bandwidth" that they say are advertised as getting. Just because Comcast says you are getting 200mbps doesn't mean you are, it's probably just boosting it temporarily and allocating it from other houses in the neighborhood. And the uploads are laughable, try having multiple FaceTime video calls going in the same house, they degrade quite quickly because they barely have a solid 2mbps upload.

Also, behind all these NATs and blocked ports, the whole system is designed to not be used. Update it so everyone has strong connections with consistent bandwidth and low latency with IPv6 and perhaps we would see more possibilities with home internet use.
You'd likely be able to expense the dollar (deduct 100% of it against your taxes in the current year), versus having to capitalize the CapEx (deduct perhaps 20% of it against your taxes in the current year, via depreciation, while carrying the remaining 80% on your balance sheet for the next ~4 years in this stylized example).

The real magic, though, is flexibility: you don't have to bunch all of your server purchases into an annual (or worse) exercise, execute a buildout at a data center, and then somehow allocate them to internal teams consuming them prior to the next capacity planning exercise. You just fire API calls, and a bill arrives at the end of the month. The bill may be a lot of money, but the amount you were spending on planning, building, operating, fixing, and decommissioning your infra was a lot of money, too, split between big spiky equipment purchases and employee salaries with a dusting of leases and electricity on top.
Go read the sales book written by Jordan Belfort (the wolf of wall street). It works very well and its easy to understand.
It might be lawful, but it isn't ethical. It's just legal plunder at its best.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_plunder
Here's a nice orbit simulation for Chandrayaan-2 mission: https://sankara.net/chandrayaan2.html
reminds me of the movie Into the Forest https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/into_the_forest
Hmm, a clear history feature that does nothing of the sort. Sounds like Facebook!

The product manager in charge said: “people were able to mentally connect that with how their browser controls work, where they can clear their history. We clearly state that … the information isn’t connected to your account.” [0]

So, they deliberately designed it to make people think it works like a browser's clear history feature (which does delete everything), but instead, it 'disconnects' the data (but doesn't delete anything).

Such a bunch of weasels.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/aug/20/facebook-...
People are in prisons for substantially longer than 8 hours / day and don’t take weekends off. I don’t think equating “being alone working for 8 hours” to “a prison with only virtual visits” is helpful.
> ...the habits of capturing tasks when off desktop.

* email to myself from my phone

* pen and small paper notebook

I put captured info in appropriate org files when I'm at the desktop.
I think the air resistance is the main factor. Even with the roof bars/cycle carriers on I notice maybe 5-10 less average mpg. They’re the Thule aero ones which are designed to reduce drag!

Also my car has a 6th gear for more efficient cruising on the motorway, but you can’t tow in 6th, it just sounds like it’s struggling.
They say they are doing aeroponics, so soil is replaced by much lighter plumbing...
Unfortunately there are a near infinite number of factors involved with the learning of social rituals and each human only has developed the skill of social ritual compliance to specific extends. There is, as far as I am aware, no universally accurate evaluation algorithm I can provide you in this case.
UI Library: How to Version, Publish and Update Individual Components
Uhm, sorry, but is the author serious?

I mean, how did we come to the point where not being indebted is bad and should be condemned?
> e.g. the gravity is always either 1 or 0 g

In the Expanse TV show yes, it seems that way. However I suspect that is more due to keeping production costs down. In the books, gravity varies all over the place depending on what moon/planet/rock/station the characters are on, and even goes into details describing the differences of spin gravity near the center of a station vs outward.
It's not hard, and I think anyone reasonable would ask "why not?"

But someone who does not understand the employee's autism might leave satisfied with why the employee would not like to complete the task, but assume that the initial blunt "no" was deliberate disrespect or disregard for the manager's request... and after a series of interactions like this, come to an erroneous conclusion that the employee desired to be uncooperative or doesn't care about showing any regard for our feelings.

Understanding why helps us be empathetic and "not take it personally."
If he were still alive today, Stanley Kubrick would be very happy that people are still finding his movie set useful.

:)
>After all, if it's so unimportant, then it should be trivial to eliminate.

I think you would have to scrap nearly every piece of fintek since at least the time of Newton and completely reinvent how modern monetary systems and economies work from the ground up, to eliminate debt.
Being a generalist is just more fun. That should be reason enough.

> A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. -Robert A. Heinlein
Face to face meetings also suck because the extroverts own the floor. You don't know if people didn't pipe up because they agree, or because they aren't rude enough to stop Bob talking, and now it's too late.
Sure, but how many managers are actually trained to do what they do? There's this strange expectation that everyone somehow knows how to be a good manager, when in truth, most of us know (some of) what a manager is supposed to DO, but have only what we've personally experienced to guide us on HOW to do it. And what we've seen is only a sliver of the process - we've likely only seen the managing of others in public, and the managing of ourselves in private.

Ee can, at best, know from experience how to manage someone that is just like ourselves, and have an idea of what to say in public to people not like ourselves, but not what to say to them in private. And that's the best case, assuming we've had good managers (and thus have good examples to draw from). More likely, we've seen tolerable managers, plus plenty of bad ones.

To your point, how do we even recognize good management when we've seen it? How do we know what to emulate and what to avoid? We're the parents that say "well my parents beat me and I turned out just fine, so....".

Management is a skill (or collection of skills) It's not a skillset that most jobs actually train, nor is it one that they do a good job of recognizing. Most of the jobs people have growing up (and beyond) reward managers that push for short-term gains over such things like "morale" or "communication" - these are the managers that are "successful" for the vast majority of experience. Just look at how many places have techies shift into management as a career development path, but don't do anything to train them or say that people are managed any differently than code.

There are plenty of reasons for people to be biased against the person (their manager) that tells them what they don't want to hear (such as "take on this extra work" or "your time off request is denied" or "don't implement your idea"), there's also plenty of reasons to expect that most managers legitimately ARE poor managers.
This is, incidentally, how the WSJ conducts all of their research. ;- )
> His note about cell phone towers losing power was scary. Never really thought about that.

I was working for a cellular provider in Michigan when the northeast US lost power in August of 2003, and we got a taste of this.

Most sites have a few hours of battery (maybe more than a few), but only some sites have generators. Fuel storage permits are a hassle, after all. Most cell companies have some trailer-mounted generators they can tow to a few sites that're out due to sporadic storm damage, but this isn't enough when the whole region goes out at once.

After the '03 outage, I started seeing generators at a lot more sites! Then it just becomes a question of whether your fuel contractor can visit them all regularly enough to keep them topped up. A local tower tech will probably end up just riding along with the fuel tanker, to unlock each gate, etc.
As with most absolutist statements, the truth is somewhere in between--the inverse is true there as well. If you don't do anything to keep caloric expenditure constant and just restrict intake, your body will reduce expenditure to match the reduced intake.

And to the person you're replying to's point, where the walking/stairs/etc. involved in city life might serve keep that expenditure constant for someone who's otherwise sedentary, that's not the case for someone driving everywhere and topping out at 1000 steps a day.
The main component of "vapor" from e-cigarettes is the atomized liquid, not a gas. The laser would create extremely hot gasses that would not be pleasant to inhale. (Boiling point of propylene glycol is over 300°F, and glycerol is even higher.)

There have been attempts to use a piezo element to create vapor without using a hot coil, but as far as I know, the results are not nearly as effective as the coil-and-wick method.
Basically. "Abs get created in the kitchen not in the gym"
I wasted dozens of hours of my life trying to jog off a horrible diet.

I have heard some anecdotes of professional athletes who have horrible diets. I believe Chad Johnson survived off of multiple Mcdonald meals a day during his career. Those are unique cases of individuals having the required genetics and being able to spend hours a day with elite trainers
Yeah exactly this. I have cousins that still live in rural America and yes they drive F150s and yes they are considerably more active than the average city dweller. There’s just more (manual) work to do on a farm. Hence the pickup.
There are disadvantages too, though:

- Accountants/lawyers are also expensive to employ, and remote workers that live in N different states will require accountants/lawyers that are experts in tax/employment laws of said N states.

- Requires much higher quality of team communication and coordination (of requirements, workload, work scope, expectations, etc), which can be hard to achieve.
When was this published? Bit behind the times since we’re on IOS 12 with 13 coming out soon.

Not saying they’re wrong exactly, but the argument would be stronger if they kept up with the times.
>> People should not need to diet. They should spend enough calories to burn off excess food

This is bad advice, it's been shown over and over again that in the long term people don't manage to lose weight by exercising. They give up, don't exercise enough, overestimate how many calories they burnt, over-compensate by eating more and/or unhealthier ('because I earned it after taking a run'), etc.

You don't have to 'diet' to lose weight, just try to eat a little less each day, and watch what you are eating. Only 100 calories less than what you need each day, and you'll steadily lose maybe ~3KG a year.
@dang do you mind adding (2013) to the title?
I find that most updates silently download in the background, then I just choose when to install them. So I don't actually notice my downlink speed.
Yes and no. The Census Bureau defines "urban area" as contiguous census blocks with a density above 1000 people per square mile. That means many places that we'd call "suburban" or "exurban" are counted as "urban." During the 20th century, you saw two trends: movement from rural areas to urban areas, but simultaneous movement from cities to suburbs: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Percentage-of-US-metropo.... Since 1920, we went from 35% of metro area residents living in suburbs to 70% in 2000. At the same time, the percentage of people living in "urban" areas went from 50% to 80%.

A little back-of-the-napkin math suggest that what we think of as the "urban" population (people living in cities) shrank from ~35% in 1920 to 25% in 2000.
I feel like it should be government making the decisions on whats safe or not, not companies.
Prevention is worth a lot here. I've been aware of Lyme for 30 years now probably? (I have lived most of my life not that far from Lyme, CT where it was first noticed.) Because I've been aware of it so long it would get brought up to the doctor immediately if something happened. It would also be very unlikely I would get bit and not notice.

Taking the usual recommended precautions and checking yourself carefully goes a really long way.

Be careful around tall grass. Don't hang around in areas that make it easy for a tick to get on you. Wear clothes that reduce risk.

I've been a very active hiker/mountain biker for many years now. I've pulled a few ticks (<10) off me but I have always found them before they bit me.

Biggest factor I've noticed in the people I know who have gotten Lyme is dog ownership. I would be really interested if someone did a study. It seems Dogs in the house raise the risk significantly. Dogs on a walk behave in the most risky way possible hanging out in tall grass and going everywhere (they're dogs, can't blame them) and they have a nice furry coat that is easy to grab onto for the ticks. Then you need to check the dog and remove the ticks, bringing yourself into contact with the ticks. Or you miss them and now the ticks are crawling around in your house.

Dog owners also seem to wear more casual clothes going for a walk with the dog. The dog drags them into areas they might not have gone on their own. The casual clothes provide more surface to grab onto vs dedicated clothes an outdoor enthusiast is wearing. (Most feel compelled to wear appropriate clothes and at that point you can adjust for tick prevention)

Unfortunately I've known multiple dog owners who have gotten Lyme multiple times.

Check kids really carefully, they're too young to know any better.
Or if you're rural, an external combustion engine of some sort, so you can keep the lights on with firewood.
I also think people underestimate the amount of knowledge and experience it takes to become a good manager (or any other talent for that matter). In discussions I often hear people claim that they could take on a leadership role and succeed simply because they are good in social settings and "have a way with others". I've seen a few of these people try and fail because they didn't think about the other components of management such as conflict resolution, delegation, etc.

I've only taken on trivial leadership roles, so my default assumption is that I am not a good manager. For most other skills I can practice and gain proficiency on my own, but with management, trial and error comes at the cost of others' time. I assume there is some training you can take to give you basic skills, but I think real experience has to be gained through a gradual expansion of responsibilities, which requires mentorship and an environment that supports that kind of process.
> Is there any reason not to "borrow" when you're being paid to do so?

You still have to pay it back in the future and you can live beyond your means to the point where you can't?
I agree with this completely. I self-diagnosed Aspergers, approached my doctor and was subsequently diagnosed with ADHD (there is a huge overlap).

Growing up, I just could not figure out how people "worked". My parents thought I was lonely all the time; however, my inner world was (and still is), so rich that it's difficult to express to people. Thus, I made it a conscious effort to study people as I would any of my other subjects. Now, unless I tell people -- they would have no idea. Everything I do in social interactions, in order to fit in, is a learned behavior that I didn't pick up until my university years.

I'm in my 30s now and still learning. We joke about it, but my girlfriend regularly tells me that I have "no emotions." Truth is, I just react differently than what's expected. Even this very day, she asked me a question about love, and I sat there and thought for a few seconds and tried to give her a logical answer. Of course, I was playfully scolded for not answering right away, but this is par the course for how I see the world.

It's difficult to know when people just want a canned response, or when they want an actual answer.
Respectfully: if your employer (for as I understand it you are a Facebook employee) encounters "challenges" to treating people decently and not running a panopticon on humanity at large, it is hard to see a reason why your employer should be allowed to continue as a going concern.
Not my experience, let me explain:

Experience and anecdote does not substitute for real scientific evidence. Research suggests that your body compensate for any activity expenditure to maintain caloric burn within that specific range. This is known as constrained total energy expenditure.

I notice that I have a baseline of appetite, hunger. Going below that makes me deeply uncomfortable. At the same time, I know that I don't need too much exercise to come to a calorie neutrality or slight deficit - but I can't reach that energy expenditure with a sedentary lifestyle.

If I do a 30min run every day, plus walk to work (another 30min), I spend enough calories so I can eat comfortably (still healthy).

A tracker like the Apple Watch helps to see this in action. Closing your rings in the city? Easy. Closing your rings while car centric? Hard.

I don't trust smartwatches and other devices to track caloric expenditure accurately given that they seemed to have constantly overestimate how much I burn.

This does not dissuade me from making sure that I get at least an hour of exercise everyday.

People should not need to diet. They should spend enough calories to burn off excess food. Note I am talking about healthy BMI, not Instagram fitness model levels. Dad bod, etc. Not morbidly obese.

I agree that people should not do anything special, but here we are in a food environment that makes this difficult.
By this logic, Java would be unsuitable for production, too. I think perhaps you're conflating "production" and "real-time".

Personally, what I'm really looking for when I ask if something is ready for production is, first and foremost, is it buggy? Second, has it stabilized, or are breaking changes still common? Third, is package/dependency management something that ops can work with without too much hassle, preferably without just relying on Docker to keep it manageable like a parent closing the door to their teenager's pigsty of a room.

Also, you don't have to be faster than the bear. Julia's chief competitor, Python, is often used in production even though it fails the 3rd test and only semi-succeeds at the first.
not sure that volatile is a right definition of stablecoins
I think the benefit of rooftop gardens is taking what is essentially "wasted" space (where I live most rooftops go completely unused) and repurposing it into something productive.
Can't some people-intensive businesses scale to huge size? Look at Walmart
That's an interesting thought. I wonder how many cars a charging station could handle in the event of a grid outage?
As a daily hg-git user, could you elaborate on (2)?
Because debt issued by a soverign and denominated in its own currency is fundamentally different to debt accrued by a private entity.
Germany gave itself a bunch of rules on debt, and we're not in a catastrophic situation that allows bypassing them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balanced_budget_amendment#Germ...
In 2016, the US FDA approved a canine Lyme vaccine called VANGUARD crLyme [1], and the principal investigator behind its development (Richard Marconi) is working toward a human vaccine [2], so there's hope; availability is still probably years away.

[1] https://www.zoetisus.com/products/dogs/vanguard-crlyme/

[2] https://news.vcu.edu/article/VCU_researcher_develops_Lyme_di...
http://www.happypreppers.com/fishantibiotics.html
> DRM does suck

Yes, it does, but you can make the exact same kind of argument here that it is a necessary evil in the real world. Content creators really do have the right to enforce their copyrights, and it's clear that the honor system is not good enough to accomplish this. Just look at the reaction on HN whenever an article is posted that is behind a paywall. Many people simply feel somehow entitled to consume content without paying for it.
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> companies did IN FACT time share servers.

Ok. It was so uncommon that I didn't encounter it for the 15 years preceding AWS. It's like pointing to a car that runs on vegetable oil. Yes there are IN FACT cars that run on vegetable oil, but nobody does it statistically. This is much different than the chance that a business (with income) is renting commercial space. Yes your local mom and pop pool company doesn't rent an office (and that's a non-trivial amount of businesses, as I've worked for some), but they aren't going to rent space in WeWork anyway.
Yeah the typical wanted to be payed, but not wanting to pay for the work of others.

Thankfully corporations business levels works a bit differently, hence the rise of dual licenses.
My son is on the spectrum and I've observed that he doesn't have less empathy but he in fact has an overabundance of empathy to the point that it causes him to withdraw and he has learned to ignore his empathy because society is not accepting of how he engages with them. His empathy is not the problem, it is his ability to communicate with others that do not share his sensibilities.
Keynesian economics
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