skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great piece. But if our goal is increased capacity, perhaps HS2 isn't the best way to do it - are there cheaper and slower alternatives? And if this is an either/or decision, there are alternative proposals that are absolutely worth of consideration - some scandalously poor situations up North for example. I just can't help feeling this is yet another example of the public being stitched up by their taxes being funnelled to a financial bonanza for the politicians' chums.
There are ways to work around that problem remotely.

When working similar to the Basecamp guys it's even the other way around.

Write problems down and give people time to chew on them. Everyone adds his thoughts and refining the idea will lead to better results than a two hours meeting.
It wasn't a male trophy, that's the point. I was replying to the commenter who asked "Yeah wtf is a "male" trophy ?" with an answer to what "a 'male' trophy" would be if they had one.
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For archival purposes, it makes no sense to store anything less than lossless.
Not sure if this is intentional or not, but the page doesn't blur out if you just continuously press a letter and then delete it again.
In theory, completely possible. In practice, strong enough materials to hold a vacuum are too heavy and nullify the buoyancy.
> in my personal opinion it conveys the content of the post much better

Your title breaks the guidelines [1] on multiple fronts:

please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize

Please don't do things to make titles stand out

So, it's clearly against the guidelines to modify titles to what you personally think is better.

And using that word in 2019 is extremely provocative and not appropriate to invoke when discussing programming languages.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Don't know about the material science behind it. But from a purely physical point of view, the problem there is that void (= vacuum) does not have any pressure. So the frame would have to support itself against the atmospheric pressure instead of the gas doing it from the inside – that is a big technical challenge. The catastrophic failure scenario (hull breach) would be an implosive compression of the entire hull, which kinda sounds worse than a hydrogen-fuelled fire.
It's the same in Asia. It's a great way to ensure entrenched cultural norms are passed across generations. This can be positive but I'd wager it's more likely negative especially considering the lives current grandparents led.
Representing State in REST (Roy Fielding) and GraphQL
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It just misses the feature where some of the deleted words can still be found in the saved file.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2008/02/19/why-are-the-micros...
One success/failure story does not mean much.

There are a lot of studies about how economic prosperity and democracy/liberalism went hand in hand in a lot of countries. And there are outliers, and the studies can be questioned, and so on.

China rented out its workforce and a relatively enlightened but autocratic leadership made sure it works, they make a lot of money, and that they reinvest that.

India never had such a strong leadership. They probably spent a lot of time and energy just doing what other multi-party democracies do, squibble, play the politics game, and so on.

Also, don't forget how India slowly started to get rid of the caste system and other deep rooted inequality problems, similarly grassroots efforts to curb corruption progressed through the various courts and legislatures.

China spent no time with such sentimental stuff.
Having spent a year in japan, it’s not the country of the future nor is it the one west should look advice from. Nordic countries are much better on almost every aspect, but they’re not as ”exotic” as the mythical land of the rising sun.
Maybe? https://www.o-boot.com/en/

"Our goal is the presentation of the first vacuum airship in history in Brescia on December 13th of this year [2019], for the anniversary of Francesco Lana, the Brescian inventor of vacuum airship, who was baptized in Brescia on December 13th 1631."
Being a dad, whilst rewarding in its own rights, can also be hard AF. Throw in a diagnosis of ASD+ADHD with therapies etc that must be managed, and the pressures just sky rocketed.

Managing his behaviour feels like an everlasting uphill battle. So much energy is drained, especially during meltdowns, causing frictions in the whole family.

So in order to be able to look after him I also need to look after myself. Getting enough sleep, some decompression time, looking after my body and still performing well at work is an everlasting struggle.

I don't expect people not in my situation to understand. At least I'm lucky in that it's "high functioning" we're talking about, even as much as a lot of people take objection to that term. But I know with effort he has every opportunity to thrive.

Nonetheless, in a market where as an engineer you need to stay on top of new stuff constantly ... yep, it's tough. We do it because we must.

Edit: Some additional thoughts.

As difficult as it sometimes is, being a parent is also a source of great joy. The responsibilities truly grow you as a person, and you kind of learn to cope. It's not something that's all at once either, I mean, you take it day by day, and you just learn.

As for work, for me it has helped that I'm truly passionate about what I'm doing, so have enjoyed learning about the new tech. I'm not saying I've got the same amount of talent, but it's amazing what persistence and a lot of deep dives into e.g Pluralsight can offer. As I grow older I'm more aware of my limitations, and picking the right horses (not just one) is über important.

Picking the right employer is equally important; being up front about the situation can yield amazing results.
Yes. But in general you need heavier materials to resist the external pressure (cave in), than materials that need to resist the (inwards) pressure.
I honestly believe that Japan is stuck in the 50's if you want to use that kind of imagery. It's like "Leave it to Beaver" here. Of course that's a gross over-simplification and there are a lot of things that contradict it, but it's the way I feel. When people think they want to retreat to a simpler kind of lifestyle where things are more cut and dried -- that's really like Japan. Of course I live in the country side which is very different than living in Tokyo, Osaka or Kyoto.
Five "Show HN" in 6 days for the same page is 4 too many.
HSTs are cool, but I think it's a valid criticism - would it really make so much difference to run at 125mph and the journey take a little longer? And would the project be cheaper if it didn't need to be so super-straight in order to be able to achieve the high speeds?

If they were proposing express trains that would really gain the benefit of the line I could see the justification, but they're not are they?
What unethical crap. Do you seriously get leads through spam on HN?
Just don't fly over highly populated areas?
Well, that's the issue with DRMs. I never went into the Steam ecosystem because I don't like dependencies, but most people have no choice and have to use Steam if they want to access their game libraries.
"As I Understand It"

Edit: By the way BRAW is a lossy format - not knocking it, it looks like it's probably great for most purposes, but if you really want lossless format like CinemaDNG, BRAW is not that.
All anyone said in this thread was it is different. There was no implication of superiority. Why assume otherwise?
I agree with you on the fact that what’s beneficial to the US is not necessarily beneficial to other nations. And I agree with you that the current US president is less restraint than previous administrations.

This is probably going to be controversial, but I personally think the US is relatively restrained in its meddling in other nation’s domestic politics given its power and influence. Every nation has its sphere of influence, and they use it for their national interest as needed. In the case of China, it has been building up its military presence in the South China Sea and establishing military base in contested islands to extend their territory claim. It remains to be seem how China will act when it is at the similar power level as the US.
The problem you have here is that this is a scenario where accurate reporting of this incident is in the interests of the US so why would you ever expect to see anything but forthright reporting? The question is what happens when accurate reporting is not in our interests? An extremely recent incident was the aid convoy in Venezuela. In a convoy sent by the US to Venezuela, one of the trucks ended up getting set on fire. All mainstream news sources in the US ran the story that Maduro forces had set the convoy on fire. Yet within a day non-US sources such as RT had published video showing that it was a protester had set the truck on fire. Indeed our media would eventually acknowledge it was all a lie, but only several weeks later. The timeline is:

February 23rd - truck set on fire. western media runs nonstop articles blaming Maduro. politicians use it as effort to try to justify war.

February 24th - RT publishes refutation clearly showing it was a protester who set the vehicle on fire [1]

February 25th - March 9th - US media and politicians continue shoving the Maduro did it fabrication.

March 10th - NYTimes acknowledges it was a protester who set the convoy on fire and very briefly runs a story as if its breaking news. [2]

Even getting back to the Iraq reporting. Our media did not just passively present what was said. They actively evangelized and argued in favor of the evidence which was always, at best, dubious. Fundamentally I think one of the major differences in our propaganda is that we're simply much better at it. Propaganda should not make most people suspect it's propaganda. Ours doesn't - theirs does.

[1] - https://www.rt.com/news/452326-venezuela-us-aid-truck-protes...

[2] - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/10/world/americas/venezuela-...
That's more a criticism of C rather than LLVM. Bitcode isn't as portable or stable as JVM bytecode because real world C programs use processor specific intrinsics, make assumptions about endianness and word sizes, embed assembly etc etc. LLVM is designed to support all real C programs, which means it can't be entirely portable.

Wasm today is a toy hardly anyone uses. It can't run many real world C programs which means they'll need to be "ported" to the subset of C wasm supports. Well, if you're willing to work with that constraint you can constrain bitcode in the same way.

By the way Graals LLVM support can execute multiple bitcode versions, with seamless and fast language interop, and it virtualises execution so that e.g. a subset of x86 assembly can be cross compiled on the fly to other arch's. It's needed because so much real C doesn't target an abstract machine but real CPUs.
I initially wrote libaio but then thought it would just confuse people. :)

Yes, I mean io_submit, which is what MySQL uses.
The goal of every fascist regime such as the CCP is to perpetuate itself, and to do that it must indoctrinate the population against their own best interests. It must make them think that the state is the important thing.

In China, Mao starved tens of millions to death because they had the 'wrong' ideas in their heads, and the expedient thing to do was to get rid of them while indoctrinating a new generation.

And lo and behold, those that lived through Mao's predations now see what they believe to be a miracle that things are so much better now, as long as they knuckle under to the CCP.

They could have been better without all of the killing and suppression. Those things were only necessary for the preservation of the CCP.
No it's against the HN guidelines:

Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith. Also, no witch burning.
It looks like Processing to me
> Maybe anti-poor is a better description?

No. Libertarians are against any sort of class system (i.e. legal privileges for certain groups). They are neither anti-rich nor anti-poor. Of course, there are libertarians who are jerks, but that isn't what Libertarianism is about. Also, most people only hear about Libertarianism from non-Libertarians, hence they only hear negative things about it.

Libertarianism is mainly about people being free to choose, and being responsible for their choices, as long as they aren't hurting others in the process.

Milton Friedman's book "Free to Choose" is a good introduction if you're interested in more.
Yes! Even using the local server on your own machine. It’s not as good as incremental, but it really does help when working with multiple projects that use the same deps in the same ways.

NB: it works a bit better on not-Mac because staticlibs are deterministic.
Basically, no - upgrades to the existing rail network are exceedingly expensive and disruptive (the whole East Coast Mainline is basically closing this weekend because a single junction needs to be renewed.) HS2 provide lots of fast intercity capacity meaning existing lines can be freed up for a massive enhancement to local services. The high speed also helps reduce demand for domestic air travel which is vital for combating the climate emergency.

This map shows where capacity will be unlocked: https://twitter.com/HS2ltd/status/1158403767756316672

And this comprehensively explains why more capacity is needed and a new high speed railway is the solution: https://medium.com/@garethdennis/high-speed-two-and-the-need...
A standard 6m shipping container has a maximum gross weight of 30,480kg. The current Zepplin NT craft have a payload of 1,900kg and are 75m long. So it seems that quite a substantial airship might be required, e.g. a modern version of the 240m long "Hindenburg" would be able to deliver a shipping container, given that [1] quotes it as having about 20,000kg of payload capacity (including crew, passengers, food) but allowing for further weight savings with modern aero engines, etc.

[1] https://medium.com/@Jernfrost/calculating-lifting-capacity-o...
It’s mung bean protein “curd”. Is that basically tofu, except mung not soy?

The photo looks convincing. Can anyone report on how they taste?
The graphics immediately reminded me of Tibia (https://www.tibia.com/news), the MMO running since 1997. My friends were into it at one point, and I cut my programming teeth writing bots for the game (sorry CIPsoft).

Kind of sad to see the playership has been in decline for the last 10 years though :(.
> such as for example the notion that it's somewhat something to be ashamed of for an employee to leave its employer, while it's perfectly OK for the employer to terminate the employee at any time.

Your entire post is overgeneralization and dramatizing to prove some poorly thought out hypothesis but this here is the most obvious example. When there is enough choice people change jobs all the time - the demand in my local dev market went through the roof last couple of years for multiple reasons - I see people change 2 jobs within a year, demand all sorts of things - last round of job interviews I did the interviewers spent double the time explaining why their company was a great fit for me instead of actually interviewing me for position - compared to the usual narrative of asking why I fit them.

The situation is pretty much dictated by supply/demand and both sides take advantage. Firing and quitting can have negative implications for both sides, just depends on scenario.

I don't see where shame enters the equation.
React in itself is a simple (and ugly, if you ask me) templating library. The real mess comes with the many libraries around it.

The worst offender for me are reactive stores. I'm reviewing a simple candidates' programming assignment (in Angular, though). There is a simple taks to perform. The horrendously complicated and generally broken ones are those where the candidates decided to use a reactive store. Just tons of unnecessary code impossible to follow and decipher.
There's a difference between a conscious choice to maintain a certain style or level of detail, and a lack of willingness to improve said style. The whole article reads to me less like "I don't want to upgrade to 3D or higher detail" and more like "I'm too comfortable to want to improve the current art by putting in 10% more detail".

Disclaimer: I'm not a business owner and don't work in the games industry. My opinions are that of a layman from the (sometimes similar) maze of the development agency sector.

Lesson 1 is correct. Perfectionism will always be there.

Lesson 2 has a false premise that the amount of effort and cost to increase art quality is more than the value gained in sales and profit. It's not wrong that hiring more people will be a bit of a gamble, but also putting more time in it to iron out kinks is an alternative step. If you're a business owner then long hours are the norm, no?

Lesson 3 is just putting the blame on the freelancers. Yes it's hard to find talent and yes it's hard to afford it, but that shouldn't be an excuse to just give up on trying to strive for better.

Lesson 4 I agree with. One should follow their strengths. However that doesn't mean stagnating at one level.
For typescript to be very useful to indispensable the tooling needs to improve.

If there was a checkbox on VSC that said “use typescript” for a project and I had to do nothing else for it to work then sure, I’d use it.

For a single dev working on a fairly simple React + Redux app it’ll slow you down like no tomorrow.
But still there is only a finite amount of it and with each use it disappears into the sky. It's not sustainable and not renewable so it's use must be limited and controlled if we want to leave some of it for future humanity.
Not every webpage need a business model :)
Thank you. The link in the top-level post isn't educating the world freely. It's a scammy edX course. Yours seem like the real deal.

There's a few more out there too.
His 1927 obituary is here: https://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altU...
>>The truth is that plastic generally can't be recycled, and we should stop pretending as such.

This. Plastic _was_ developed to be long-lasting, the indestructibility is _by_design.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20240243
> This is surprising because individual tRNA abundance varies by cell state and type, so that would have been the obvious (but apparently wrong) explanation.

tRNA gene expression varies by cell state, but isoacceptor abundance is in fact very stable (at least in mammals). Meaning, if you have a set of tRNA genes which all code for, say, Ala_AGC, the sum of the gene expression of all these genes is relatively stable, even if their individual expression varies (http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/gr.176784.114l; full disclosure: I’m an author on this and one of the previously linked papers).

Why individual tRNA gene expression varies, and how the cell regulates the overall stability, is unclear (my personal pet theory is that secondary tRNA function as regulatory RNA, in the form of tRNA-derived fragments, causes the need to regulate tRNA genes, see e.g. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2017.06.013).

> It's doubly surprising because a number of single celled organisms utilize the mismatch between codon preference and tRNA availability in order to regulate protein translation

It’s not that surprising: gene regulation happens fundamentally differently in eukaryotes and prokaryotes, and even differently in different classes of eukaryotes. The effective population size (= evolvability) and genome complexity seems to play a role here. Simply put, higher animals have much more powerful and precise ways of controlling gene expression (enhancers and histone control). Regulation at the translation level is comparatively slow and wasteful (it’s several steps further down the line of the gene->protein production process).
I suggest using the right tool for the right job. There is no such thing as "shared but separate". After Spectre, Meltdown and co. everybody should understand this. It's not a limitation of current hardware/code, it's a limitation or principle.
My concern is that it will cost a lot of money but ultimately not deliver a reliable, fast, comfortable service. For some reasons Brits seem incapable of delivering great railway services. The Calendonian Express fiasco is just the latest example - an amazing idea that could have been absolutely fantastic, completely ruined by the awful implementation.

As a taxpayer, I would much rather the work was contracted out to the Japanese that built the Shinkansen services. But for some strange reason that seems politically unpopular.
Wait until you learn about hunter/gatherers.
You're probably outside the security sphere, but H1 is already taken seriously. There is no per-requisit for them to do so to be taken seriously as you state.
As a person who runs on (and really likes) Hetzner... I totally misunderstood, thanks for clearing it up.
I'd guess the idea of this study is not that having a child of your own somehow directly alters your brain biologicaly, but the experience itself is just that intense. I find it much more interesting, the fact that most of the changes mother experiences might not be the "nature's wonder", but lasting, painful, traumatic and exciting experience itself that affects one's brain.

Edit: And that itself has much deeper relation to a biological child than to adopting one. Not that adopting isn't significant or emotional, it's simply not that varying level of experience.

> Another curious question, it would be interesting to see the impact of adopting a cat or a dog on men’s testosterone levels.

I would compare this analogy to the opposite and unfortunate experience like the death of a close one. Losing someone that's biologically linked to you can be really hard even if you weren't that emotionally attached to that person.
By comparing that to losing a friend outside of your family circle, which is also a very harsh experience, it seems that biological line would be an emotional line deeply attached to a person no matter what experience one has.
I gained around 15kg, less sport more food, my daughter is now 1 year and I lost 18kg the last 5 months through diet and sport. That said it takes some discipline, you'll have to get used to a shedule together with your partner. All my private computer time is now past 20h when my daughter is asleep, training time is after work switching each day with my gf. Dont worry you'll get alon
Bourgeois that is merchants and finance took over the state after the revolutions, the dystopia hell we live in is a product of rule by money.
In my country (Norway) retired grandparents stay at the mediterranean sea during wintertime.
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I know what you mean. You can still buy cheap incandescent bulbs where I live, despite EU-wide phaseout, because they're clearly labeled "not for domestic use"...

But this shows that regulating the market is not a "fire and forget" deal, but an iterative process. First you make the main bad thing more expensive than good behavior. Then you look for "life finding a way", "clever entrepreneurs" abusing loopholes, and make those more expensive too, one by one. You end when you hit diminishing returns.
Good for you. Sheds for the win!
People have realized that the revolutions to overthrow the old order were advocated by merchants and finance. The dystopian hell we live in now is the result of avarice being turned into a virtue.
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