skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a Java trainer/coach, I find books to be a great resource for learning, and are woefully underused (under-read?). However, depending on what you’re learning, feedback of whether you’re on the right track is important. MOOCs are also useful, but the dropout rate is high, so be aware of that and ask for help.
right, so the point is that you can't look at photos from a music festival from the 1960s or 2019s to understand what society looks like

OP's whole point is that everyone must have been lean and fit just because they were in a 50 year old documentary - about a music festival.
People keep wanting to read stories about bezier curves. It's the law of spline demand.
Look at Jobs’s application, and you’ll see a glimpse of his unique vision (2018)
> Tesla is also facing a federal field investigation by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board after several Model X and Model S owners across the globe said their cars burst into flames

yawn

Are other automakers suffering the same investigations?

https://www.hsdl.org/?view&did=812639

> Each year, from 2014 to 2016, an estimated 171,500 highway vehicle fires occurred in the United States, resulting in an annual average of 345 deaths
> Approximately one in eight fires responded to by fire departments across the nation is a highway vehicle fire.

Car fires are nothing new. The media coverage for EVs is not proportional.
Which demonstrates that the fear of Microsoft, and before that the fear of IBM, was unjustified.
Even if it were true I’m confused about how it’s an advantage. Maybe it leads them to seek out financial foul-play more enthusiastically and thus more often profit when they find it and short it?
I prefer putting the main code into a "main" function (called from the __name__ == '__main__' block) fairly early, since otherwise the functions you extract might accidentally keep relying on global variables.
I think if it's at all comparable, GitHub will win out. It just seems convenient to not have one more subscription with another provider. Plus, hopefully, it will all be integrated well workflow-wise with a repository with actions that publish to the registry.
Another Tesla bashing article by mainstream media, move along.

100s of thousand of damage, that's pocket change for Walmart and Tesla.

Model X and S burst into flame !!! Tesla stock is down 1%, Be Afraid !
Don't buy Tesla !!!

Tesla spend zero on advertising, their main source of revenue.
They are also disrupting big oil and the auto industry, plenty of enemies to go around.
Thomas Mann's War Against Hitler
> Chrome/Chromium on Linux isn't even all that well supported sadly enough.

What makes you think that? I'm using Chromium as my daily driver and it even comes with hardware video acceleration (chromium-vaapi package from Fedora + RPMFusion). In my experience Linusmx support is a lot better than Firefox'.
accuracy is 90 percent
Solstice Studios (LA) is Hiring Lead Software Engineer (React.js, Ruby)
Interesting point, but isn't the fear of a Socialist takeover ever-present? Or perhaps the media/political powers are just paying lip service?
The rise of Globalism, Technology, and the cult of Greed also seem to have played a part.
That's not what "barrier to entry" means. Entry is not making 2019 Linux. Entry is making something.

I can write a tiny blog engine in a day on my existing computer. I can't walk into Global Foundries and ask them to make me a single wafer of my tiny microcontroller on their 14nm process.

Hobby software is on the same playing field as pro software, and can smoothly become pro software like Linux did. Hobby silicon is on the 1970s playing field - Jeri Ellsworth and Sam Zeloof making a few transistors with size measured in micrometers. There is literally no way to make your own "hello world" in modern performance silicon.
I hope they add robots accounts like Quay.io (https://docs.quay.io/glossary/robot-accounts.html).
That Arab Spring comparison is gross. Opressive governments are making political opponents disappear, use torture, etc. But sure tell me how hard it is to work two more years.
XKCD did a "What If" on hydro power from your municipal water[1]. tl;dr: "In either case, for a bathtub faucet, this works out to almost 200 watts, or $25 per month." (And that's in addition to all the other issues he pointed out.)

[1] https://what-if.xkcd.com/91/
The Walton family collectively is worth over $150 billion, it’s not surprising they have exposure to a solar company somewhere in their vast fortune. If you’re implying that this lawsuit has no merit because of that investment that seems like an incredibly shaky accusation.
There's hundreds of times more non-EVs on the road, so the question would be the proportionate level of fires.
Do you mean it is okay to just put it in credits?
I really like this thinking, its more independent and logical. Just because the idea worked for one, doesn't mean its gonna work for all. We need to create our own paths to freedom.
It's also a myth that Django makes it difficult to pick and choose. For example, this article fails to mention that Django includes support for alternative template engines, including the popular Jinja2. Of course, if you choose not to use a feature like the ORM, you won't get any of the benefits of that feature- but Django doesn't get in your way or make it difficult in any way to do so. You can use as many different ORMs (or no ORM) as you like with Django.
Realtors are outdated, help Realoky assist them out the door!
Hey All!

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We have the landing page posted and are working on the site itself. It would be super appreciated if people could test the signup functionality and give us feedback on that, general feedback or comments on this startup idea, and maybe take the survey if you've ever tried to do a real estate transaction on your own (or wanted to).

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Thanks again!!
Rich
Realoky.com, Founder
Just read the beginning so far, but it sounds like home-grown is safe (even if not self-started plants)? Ie, the article (so far) makes it sound like it's an issue of soil microbiome. If that's the case, and I no-dig grow my own veggies, I'd be okay?
Seems to me that people who require a single order instead of a dance of interactions will cause less management overload.

In fact, nerd talk is many times efficient and to the point.
That makes sense. Especially since these blockbusters have all gotten so capital intensive!

> I don't think there's many from that crowd who invest in tech startups.

I meet a fair number of LA types that want to invest in SV types, and that is a portfolio play (one win can cover 9 losses), but they appear to at least "want to play" with the people who make outragous returns off minimal up-front (think: the leverage of instagram at point of purchase -- it's romantic! that's the stuff of gold-rushes right there)
It doesn't work like he says. You can't just sum up the number of calories and convert it to pounds of fat. If you eat a few hundred calories too many you will rise in weight. But increasing your weight means your metabolism will increase. In the end you will reach an equilibrium were your weight is high enough that your metabolism equals your intake, and you will stop gaining weight.

Let's take a 5"10 male aged 25 weight 170 pounds. According to some calculator they will have a basal metabolism (how much you use if you stay in bed all day) of 1850 kcal / day. Lets say they eat 450 kcal / day too much. i.e. 2300 kcal / day. By running the metabolism calculator backwards we find that they stabilize on a weight of 245 pounds.

Thats a seriously overweight, to be sure, but it is also well below 200 pounds of extra weight.
I don't think Microsoft wants to be funded by advertising. They and Apple are trying to run the exact same playbook of not charging for OS upgrades, and instead focus on value added services on top (App Stores, Cloud Services, etc).

Apple telemetry and intrusive advertising for their services is so similar on iOS on volume/scale/purpose to everything people are complaining about on Windows 10, but I guess Apple gets a free pass because they are the "scrappy underdog" that also had a larger market cap for a few recent years?
in order to be successful you have to be naturally smart, tall, and attractive, work about as hard as everyone else, and be well-connected and lucky."

I can write a short pithy book on that one :-)
Hah yes. My original list was much more than three long, you can find many places to draw the line.

Going in another dimension, you can introduce the kind of wonkiness you get around "made in the USA" labeling on products which have all their parts manufactured elsewhere and then some trivial last step done on US soil.
> The media coverage for EVs is not proportional

Do we have EV car fire frequencies for comparison with ICE engines? Without denominators saying “all cats burn” is overly reductive.
Exasol loves CentOS.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exasol

Let me show you how much they love CentOS:

http://www.tpc.org/tpch/results/tpch_result_detail.asp?id=11...

Exasol and CentOS are alone in TPC-H database performance. There is no other competitive player.
I have to say, these three particular sections are able to finely articulate what I've been thinking as I watch rich people try to run the United States.

> "At bottom, when many of our country’s wealthy citizens say “democracy,” what they really mean is “our class’s way of life.” If they respected democracy as fervently as they worship the “invisible hand,” they would see that the popular discontent simmering across the world today is the direct result of decades of elite hypocrisy and greed, hidden behind a façade of neoliberal economics.

> "The “center” is not where the best policy is made, or where public opinion converges; it is a place where political activity is fully dominated by financial elites and thoroughly subordinated to the mar­ket."

> "These are the same people who have left us with an upside-down economy and a weakened social fabric. Income inequality, financialization, and a socially inefficient distribution of both capital and tal­ent are the legacies of shareholder capitalism. Although these elites now mourn the erosion of the political “center,” they actively par­ticipated in the erosion of the American middle class. To add insult to injury, they insist on telling us elaborate stories about their entrepreneurial spirit and good intentions, and invite us to celebrate their virtue when they give back a tiny share of their captured wealth."
Aka eigenfactor
We need to write a lot of small APIs in Python for SPAs. We ended up going with FastAPI which utilizes Starlette under the hood. I'm surprised neither of them are mentioned here.

Starlette was developed by the same dev who wrote the Django RESTful package. If you mostly just need REST APIs or even GraphQL, it feels far more light and modern than anything in Django and forms some better opinions around things than the usual roll your own stack in flask alternative. Not to mention it's ASGI based instead of WSGI and naturally faster because of it.

FastAPI just builds on that by adding some nice features like minimal dependency injection and really awesome integration with type hints via Pydantic.
I’m claiming that number of excess calories consumed easily surpasses a realistic level of exercise, based on eating habits I see.
I’ve retired twice so far. Each time I loved it for a while and then eventually I miss the social contacts from a work environment and the stimulation. I LOVE making things happen. So I end up going back to work for a while. Also paying for healthcare on your own is challenging. It would be ideal for older folks to gracefully exit full time work by transitioning to part time but also have a means to keep health care.
Breaking apart large US tech companies will open the door for foreign large companies to fill that niche. This doesn't sound like a smart move for the US government.
Yes, the controls of an excavator look very complex, but it is a one-to-one interface. There is exactly one control for each type of movement and it does not have any 'options' attached to it. There are no levers on levers that make the lever just work a little different. I am getting the impression that this is not the case with git. Sometimes there are multiple ways to get something done. Often you have to use several git command to achieve a certain effect. There are several modes of working with git. I some modes of working, using 'git rebase' should be avoided at all costs. In another mode of working, it is almost mandatory to use it. Git is like a toolbox with a large collection of elementary tools, where it is often the case you have to use some of the tools in a very strict order to achieve a certain results. This gives you a lot of flexibility, but also room to a lot of errors. I can imagine that some people prefer a less flexible toolbox, where each tool performs some complex combination of elementary tools, but where there is much less room for errors. Also see: https://svnvsgit.com/
A Journal of Light Construction editor had a fire in his SolarCity panel set-up as well, and had a hard time getting it sorted out.

https://www.jlconline.com/how-to/electrical/solar-panel-fire...

and here's a follow-up:
https://www.jlconline.com/how-to/electrical/solar-panel-fire...
I drop "Per our discussion" PURELY to put things on the record for auditing/CYA reasons. You say "it's an expression of deep frustration with a tinge of insult at it's target."

No It's business not personal. It's literally just saying that I informed you about whatever issue. I do this to inform my team that you've already been informed about an issue and you don't need to be bothered again, to trace back to where something went wrong if an incident occurs, and to protect myself by proving that I did my job.

Sure you can use "per our discussion" maliciously but it's not always like this.
Perhaps it would be useful for reviewers to point out which citations do not contribute to the paper? It really is a tough problem. If someone is toiling along in some niche they have carved out, they and their colleagues may be the only one working in that space. That leads to a lot of cross citation and self citation.

That said, if you publish paper A, and then cite it in paper B which builds on that work, then in paper C you really only need to cite paper B if you're building on the work, not B and A. It might make for in interesting data set to plot out those sorts of relationships.
https://the1a.org/shows/2019-05-06/draft-4-day-school-week

Oklahoma and a number of other states moved to a 4 day school week to cut costs. Do you include cutting teacher pensions as an education cut? I can provide significant examples of education cuts.
We don’t need to create a new system. Capitalism is perfectly fine with a few tweaks.
>>No city in the US could withstand that kind of rainfall.

Florida gets that kind of rainfall all the time from all the hurricanes! There are water retention ponds built everywhere that are empty all-year-round right up until a hurricane comes. They’re built mainly for hurricanes and heavy storms. This is especially true in the Florida counties with Universities due to the higher population of cough smart people cough. I know that’s inappropriate to say but some city planners design cities on a whim or because “it seemed right”, while others appoint some rather smart local engineers to design it.
From reading the comments, I really wonder how many HN Users are tax evaders. I see the top two comments are “the tax code is too complicated, we shouldn’t be going after tax evaders” and “this isn’t actually a big problem.” If the government is getting more money collecting unreported taxes than it costs to fund the collecting of said taxes, what’s the problem?
I was an early, enthusiastic adopter of Yubikeys at my work. Above and beyond the other issues people have mentioned, though, the one that kills the product for me is the frankly stupid OS integration. The key behaves like “just” a special kind of keyboard which types a long string of gibberish and then hits enter any time you touch the trigger.

I can’t tell you how many times I have accidentally bumped the thing and thereby entered my secret key in:

- text editors
- the URL bar of my browser (!)
- Slack chats (!!)

The solution seems obvious to me: make a new type of input field at the browser and OS level which accepts U2F input, then reject that input in any text field that doesn’t opt in.

This one issue has made the key way more of a liability than a simple authenticator app for me.
Chouinard is quoted about this in the article:

“But I’ve become cynical about whether we can have any influence,” Chouinard said. “Everyone’s just greenwashing. The revolution isn’t going to happen with corporations. The elephant in the room is growth. Growth is the culprit.”
I was mainly kidding, but you could look at Signal as a company like that.
The article is just doing a generic cargo cult warning there. Not bad as a general C++ gotcha warning, but definitely incorrect in this specific case.

As per the author's constraints these are "POD types that are trivially memcpy-copyable", so by definition the copy constructors will never do anything. Much less "allocate memory" as the author claims.
and the corollary, "the uncountable is of no account"
Windows on the desktop is a real mental harm for the user.
> The 'costs' to the taxpayer are in taxes they already owe and should have paid though.

No, they're what the taxpayer has to spend on accountants and lawyers when they get audited even though they haven't done anything wrong. Or have done something wrong, but by mistake, and then the government consumes $1 in total resources to correct a $.90 mistake.

> Perhaps the increased enforcement will encourage fewer people and corporations to under-pay their taxes, resulting in greater efficiency than that shown by the direct collections of unpaid taxes.

Except that major tax fraud is a rare occurrence so there is no low hanging fruit there, and most of the actual violations are mistakes as a result of tax complexity that can't be deterred because the people don't know they're doing anything wrong. You could also end up doing the opposite -- causing even more fruitless compliance costs as taxpayers preemptively spend more on accountants and lawyers but result in no additional government revenues. Or less government revenues, if the accountants and lawyers find deductions the taxpayer had been overlooking previously (e.g. because the deduction is less than the additional accounting cost required to find it, but now you're pushed to spend that money anyway).
The idea of "owning" data is incoherent, which readily explains the issues with DRM. It is an attempt to apply rules suited only for scarce property to non-scarce information.

Owning a resource means that you get to decide how the resource is consumed, i.e. used up. This is exclusive only to the extent that scarce resources cannot be put to two conflicting uses simultaneously, so active use by anyone else would prevent the owner from consuming the resource as they choose. Data, however, is not scarce; it can never be used up. There is no possible conflict between the "owner" and any other user, which makes the claim of ownership meaningless. No matter what anyone else might do with the data, the "owner" still has it and can use it however they wish.
OP may have run out of character space
possibly Sutton and Barto's work on reinforcement learning throughout the 80s.
We would already have a vaccine against lyme, anaplasmosis, etc if they were diseases that affected rich people. But since it’s mostly poor people living out in the woods that get Lyme disease, nobody cares. Nobody important anyway.
Should clarify I'm not in tech. I dress business casual for 4/5 days. It takes a lot of time and effort to deal with selecting, matching, dry cleaning pants, ironing, etc and it's less comfortable than true casual. We don't meet clients so I don't see the issue, just conservatism.
I will re-word my original:

Yes, a product that you can't currently buy is a good competitor for products you can.
I think it depends on the history of your soil.
FWIW, Software Heritage already has your github repos: https://www.softwareheritage.org/

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Software%20Heritage&sort=byPop...

And GNU Guix at least will transparently fallback to them:

> Since Software Heritage archives source code for the long term, Guix can fall back to the Software Heritage archive whenever it fails to download source code from its original location. The way this fallback has been designed, package definitions don’t need to be modified: they still refer to the original source code URL, but the downloading machinery transparently comes to Software Heritage when needed.

https://www.softwareheritage.org/2019/04/18/software-heritag...
Radical nationalists see bullying as a positive.
I think they were intelligent, sure. But as I said, I think brilliant has a positive connotation, where intelligent is more neutral.
er, too late to edit but the rationals are dense but not complete (well, the irrationals too, but that wasn't what I was getting at)
I just can't make it very far in articles like this anymore. I've heard too many breathless food/nutrition takes vectored in too many different directions, and now I'm utterly desensitized.

And part of me is screaming for citations while the other part knows that an examination of the literature would reveal the same structures, just one level deeper---one or more warring camps that aren't even talking to each other any more.
It's demonstrated later in the article that he continued to take advantage of short-term business thinking with probable bad externalities all the while and after he was trying to repair his reputation with his Harvard donations and conciliatory speeches.

In particular, the argument is that the critiques offered in conferences like this are insincere and aimed at preserving the insiders' status rather than actually changing any of the things they're talking about: "His career tells us how he would advise those beginning their careers to navigate these challenges: Loudly criticize political dysfunction, but make no effort to explore its structural causes or remedies...[his] prominence conveys that incongruence between words and actions is tolerable, even desired." And further, that it would be "foolish to listen" to said finance people's self-serving political solutions.

A closer equivalent in the tech community would be more like "this guy has spent decades running shady adtech and addictive gaming companies, and continues to traffick personal information and addict kids to pay-to-play games, but is now also running an organization dedicated to digital privacy and is building a reputation as an expert in parenting in the digital age and voluntary gaming regulation".
What contrived numbers? The argument was that the government should increase IRS resources until they're spending $1 for every $1 they recover. I provided several reasons why that would be inefficient, independent of what the current numbers are.