skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had a similar, although not as extremely bad, experience to you. It does make the project look bad, but I've actually run into this issue with lots of stuff where "stable" is horrendous to use (Debian) and gives the whole project a bad name. I wouldn't mind recommending spacemacs to a friend around my age, but I guess the issue of having to be on develop is something that would make me hesitant to recommend it to my parents (something I've genuinely considered, by the way).

I also frequently wonder how I'd introduce spacemacs to someone who hasn't used vim or emacs... I used vim for a very long time, so to me it's great that my knowledge carries over. I just don't know if it makes complete sense to say to someone "vim has better bindings than emacs, so even though this is emacs, you should learn these vim binds". Plus then they should probably still know at least the basics of emacs for screens where evil fails you, or for if they ever have to use emacs on another machine, or for when an emacs bind is better ("C-x h" seems better than ggVG to me).
What's wrong is that there is no profit in selling real estate and housing at below market value, by definition. And in places like the bay, market rents are not affordable to an increasingly large population. Hence, the greedy perception. Developers are acting in self interest and the old system of financing predicated continuous wage growth.
I'm living abroad in Bali, Indonesia. 90% of my payments are made in cash.

- Does this have an option to manually add entries?

- Does this have an option to input one currency, but have it easily convert to another currency?
I use Perl in my day job and enjoy it a lot, but the biggest showstopper for me is that its greatest strength is its greatest weakness. "There's more than one way to do it", it's amazing at getting things working, it excels at writing "glue" programs to shim between bigger and slower moving parts, especially if they're throwaway hacks.

However all that flexibility means that it's not possible to run static analysis with full confidence. Yes, tools exist - but it's been proven impossible for them to catch all cases, and this uncertainty carries real risks for critical business processes.

When you have a code base encompassing a set of core modules, with hundreds of auxiliary programs using them across the business, then any attempt to update perl or its modules grinds to a halt. It's impossible to even enumerate which programs will be impacted by the change with confidence, let alone the effects of such a change.

For details see "Perl Cannot Be Parsed: A Formal Proof" (https://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=663393). You can mitigate the impact with coding style guides and code reviews but once the damage is done it's very difficult to untangle an existing code base that loads modules at run-time and makes full use of Perl's flexible nature in other ways.
> All good and sorry, maybe my initial comment was still offending.

No seriously I did not find it offensive even one bit.

> While I like new takes in frontend, the overall wording was the reason not to read more about Connective but rather leave a snarky comment.

And I'm sorry to hear that. I am aware of this and do consciously try to keep it as simple and straight-forward as possible, though there is always room for improvement. It would be really helpful if you could perhaps elaborate a bit more on this, so I would know better on how and what to fix.
I like this.

Currently, webapps can read files from disk using an upload dialog and write them to disk by triggering a download, but this is clumsy enough that it only really works as an import/export feature. Webapps are essentially forced to have their "native" document storage be an online service, usually bespoke to that specific app.

Files on my disk are files under my control. I can back them up myself, pay for their storage myself (rather than be subject to inflated cloud rates), and easily bring them to other web or native apps. Files hosted on my account on some website are... less so. If you're lucky, the storage costs are reasonable. If you're lucky, there's an API. Often there isn't.
Link? Every time I see "Apple" and "right to repair law" in the same sentence, Apple is opposing the legislation.
> It’s widely believed that the two most naturally occurring transcendental numbers, p and e...

Not really germane to the larger topic of the essay, but I don’t think it’s true that those two numbers occur naturally very frequently except that they make it easier to calculate systems with cycles or exponential growth. It’s almost certainly exceedingly rare that someone would measure exactly pi or e in nature, and even in calculations they’re generally multiplied by some constant or other.
How do you purposefully leak data and get paid for it without a paper trail?
Nah, a higher end Ford Fusion is an “American Audi”. Same performance, same handling (with the notable exception being the difference between Torsen and a viscous coupled AWD system)

Compare the fusion to an A4 and you’ll find the A4 feels cheaper. Now an A6 does not compare to a fusion, but a Lincoln continental blows it away.

It’s all in the eye of the beholder (luxury by name, or actual feel of luxury). If anything a Volkswagen competes with Honda these days. Utilitarian and bland... plus Volkswagen will have a random electrical failure that totals the car. Now if you had said Nissan you would have had a point (but the price point doesn’t match Ford)
This is why I pre ordered the Fxtec Pro1, a landscape slider android phone with microsd card and FM radio. Oh, and yes it does have the increasingly mythical headphone jack.
Ask HN: Is free college an existential threat to ISA-funded schools?
Thinking from the perspective of an ISA funded school like Lambda, would free college effectively destroy, or at least severely limit the growth potential, of those types of schools?
Efficiently handling million of events per second (not per hour) using whatever cloud PaaS is a no brainer these days. The lock-in is worth it when you can reliably move that fast.

If you're really worried about lock-in, most event based PaaS support running containers. Moving between clouds would then just be the glue-work around your containers.
I honestly don't even see the need for screens in a car. I'm perfectly happy with having physical buttons/dials to control my music and AC. I don't need to know anything else other than what's on the dashboard. (speed, rpm, fuel, etc for those who are wondering)

It just seems like a huge waste of time, effort, and money for something that a smartphone can do, all while introducing a mandatory version of a potentially fatal distraction. And it looks shitty and operates pretty terribly.

Maybe this will make more sense if/when cars become fully automated, but it should have no place in a vehicle today, when your attention should be on the road.
Based on musical training, I have a fair amount of belief in that we don't use much of our system. Both actuating and sensing. That said, I'm really not sure what to do to improve things regarding vision. Stare at the sun ? jk.
I'm a huge regex fan too. The main thing I love about Perl that is missing from most (all?) other languages is that regex is plain old syntax, not an object/function/module.
At a guess I'd assume `FOAF` = `Friend of a Friend`.
A relevant and rather entertaining article from Merriam-Webster:

Did We Change the Definition of 'Literally'?

Literally every modern dictionary includes this definition

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/misuse-of-lite...
Personally whenever I hear "states rights" my mind jumps immediately to people using that term to justify the pro-slavery side of the Civil War.
Meanwhile folks defend "GIMP", a confirmed sexual and ablest term, to the death.
Oh boy, I can relate. In fact, I would go as far as saying that many modern cars (sedans) are so close in terms of mechanical reliability, safety features, etc, that the differentiating features that determine which car I buy end up being mostly the car software behind all the dashboard features that I use every single day: Android Auto, Bluetooth connectivity, precision of the touchscreen (if any), lag, etc.

Manufacturers take note:

If your shitty infotainment system takes more than 3 seconds to show the video feed after engaging the reverse gear, I won't buy your car.

If your shitty system doesn't let the passenger change radio stations when Android Auto is in use (because the physical button for the radio channel is repurposed to zoom in/out in Maps in Android Auto coughChryslercough), I won't buy your car.

If your shitty HomeLink buttons are non-responsive the first few seconds after the engine is started (because your firmware is bloated and takes seconds to boot what could be done in milliseconds), I won't buy your car.
I would say this is largely true in practice, although when I found out that vim could have multiple buffers, windows, tabs, and that you could save session files, I suddenly was keeping vim open for many hours and opening new files in my existing instance. I would say a lot of people learn vim in a hurry and don't go far beyond the basics.
A Tweet Led to a Shortage at Popeyes
If they thought about the trade-off that way, sure, but people have a desire not to feel "taken advantage of", a feeling which might be triggered by road tolls.
Maybe it's related to the brain maturation that apparently finishes up in the early 20s.
I use https://emacsformacosx.com/

what is the "plus" in emacs-plus?
I used Astro, Es, Solid, and finally settled on Amaze file explorer from F Droid store fwiw.
I've also got a 2015 Mazda 3 GT and I absolutely love the system. It boots quickly and works really well. I got the CarPlay upgrade done though. Everyone that gets in thinks my car is brand new.
I'm quite happy to pay for a BMW shop manual.

I can buy genuine BMW parts with no problem, but I can't buy a genuine Apple iPhone battery, even from iFixit.
I'm continually astounded that threading involves jumping through so many hoops in 2019. If you want a language that provides a REPL and easy threading, your choices are few and far between.
iOS has “do not disturb while driving” mode for this scenario
Unrelated, but I was SO happy when I finished reading and clicked the back button on my browser and it actually took me back to HN instead of showing me the previous slide.
Doesn't this end up implying that a city that was made entirely of dead-end roads would in some sense be very 'good' as it would lack all congestion? Portland seems intent on trying to prove that argument, but just because there would be no congestion in such a city does not mean that there is no value in making the roads efficient even if congestion remains the same. Sure, congestion doesn't decrease with more efficient roads, but efficient roads can clearly have a higher bandwidth.

A saturated dial-up line is not of the same quality as a saturated fiber line, even if packets are being dropped because the line is saturated, unless your protocol (roads) are of a deeply inefficient design to begin with.
I have big problems understanding conversations in bars or larger groups where other people seem to be able to follow without problems. But based overt hearing test I have taken my hearing is actually very good, way better than average. I believe that somehow my brain doesn’t assemble the input correctly so even though the right signals are there I am not using them.
Self-checkout is significantly slower and more error-prone than using a cashier. It would be one thing if you could just walk your cart under a scanner and get a bill. But self-checkout is exactly the same as regular checkout, but with nobody there to help you. It's hideous for any orders with 10+ items.
Usually one person suffices for that, no? Like the single cashier handling self-checkouts or the old times elevator operators. I doubt we'll get rid of humans entirely, especially if a building requires upkeep, etc.
Prefab Homes for Under $10k
"while adding api for direct hardware access"

strange cultural shift
I would say the ratio of a circle circumference to its diameter is naturally occurring.
I think your reasoning here is flawed. People do not all need to develop skills in all aspects of life.
By keeping someone from experiencing physical violence you may prevent them from learning how to defend themselves, but by many this would be considered a fair trade.

I believe the same is the case with limited control over technology. Most users do not care to learn, and would opt to actively avoid the opportunity to learn if the associated danger was removed for them.

In my opinion the best option is to remain in the current state by default and have a more obscure 'power user' option that could be enabled within the OS itself.
Depending on the state, yes, they are, for 11 states.

https://www.childwelfare.gov/topics/systemwide/laws-policies...
Yeah, I could deal with the touch bar if they had a physical button for the ESC key.
Probably, thanks.

Iris (built with Gun) has "degrees of separation" as well. https://iris.to/

I believe SSB does have degrees, but I'm not sure how many.
Guix or Nix should be able to handle a problem like this. They can handle normal OS packages, emacs packages, python packages, etc. Hard to say which one you should try. Maybe search the package lists on both sites to see if they have everything you need packaged already. Nix has more total packages, but Guix has a lot of emacs users.
I wish this machine bias wasn't always presented in such divisive terms as race and "disadvantaged groups". It can affect anybody. If you happened to develop a writing style that looks like typical bad essay writers' style, then you could be hurt by bias in the grading.
Your post resonated with my first thought on reading the article. I wonder if it would penalize writers with simple declarative sentences.

You know, those average writers like Hemingway /s
This sounds weird. It is linked with suicides and decreased life satisfaction... I wonder how all the other drugs fare, even alcohol and smoking. How did they factor in the bias that is obviously at play here?

If I am super happy with my life, I will likely not take an excessive amount of drugs. I would say I am reasonably happy with my life and I like taking drugs every now and then just for fun and because it feels nice.

The story goes totally different for people with shit lives (which is the majority of the population unfortunately). If I am already in some sort of depression, drugs will aggravate these problems. They will show how nice you can actually feel, just to go back into your sucking life afterwards. Who wouldn't want to take drugs all day in this scenario?

But that doesn't mean that drugs themselves cause these problems. Same as meat itself is not unhealthy. The link by statistics is very much against "Correlation does not imply Causation".
I doubt it. The method they are using makes a bunch of implicit assumptions about the content of the image. Microscope images generally are very sparse and have lots of black areas which makes this method work very well on them. At the very least, you may have to adapt some of the parameters (like dt in max finder) to work for photographs.
That magic button is called “vouch”.
Of the "Detroit three", GM is the only one based in Detroit. Ford world headquarters are in Dearborn, Chrysler is in Auburn Hills.
NASA's Multiple Views of Hurricane Dorian from Space
I'd also assume it'd be useful for repair of critical components that undergo trauma. Such as bridges, and buildings that might be struck by vehicles, or repairing prosthetics and other things that can be damaged at the same time as the human they're attached to.
This isn't for photographs of natural scenes but for microscopic imagery -- not the same.
I mean in between the renaissance and WWII the fashion has changed a lot.

They declined during the early modern period, took off after 1850, went out of fashion in the early 20th century, were common place in the 60's and 70's, and declined again until the recent revival this century.
One useful tip: even with Bluetooth connections, "Hey Siri" will still use the phone's microphone for input if that's where it picks it up, for that one command only.

Of course, this still leaves the obvious flaw of iOS not being able to designate separate 'input' and 'output' devices for some reason.
Good lord what a terrible design. Rather than determine if the writer has a coherent understanding and a complex prompt, the system grades based on writing patterns. This is actually my biggest fear of AI. Deploying wide scale systems like this that have very clear flaws
These seem awesome, quite the number of anomalies he addresses.
The US has federal child abuse mandatory reporting requirement laws which include teachers and school staff and personnel, as well as additional state requirements which vary but include, for 11 states, faculty, staff, and volunteers at public or private higher education institutions. Computer and IT professionals are also covered in cases.

Faculty, administrators, athletics staff, or other employees and volunteers at institutions of higher learning, including public and private colleges and universities and vocational and technical schools (11 States).

https://www.childwelfare.gov/topics/systemwide/laws-policies...

https://www.childwelfare.gov/pubPDFs/manda.pdf

This includes penalties for failure to report in multiple states:

https://www.childwelfare.gov/topics/systemwide/laws-policies...
It can be a useful heuristic.

I don't find it adds much here.
I'm keen to have a look. I've been frustrated with other tools because they're too focused on splitting everything into identical monthly budgets when that's really not how finances work IRL:

1) My driver's license costs $150 to renew once every 5 years - I don't want to split that into 60 monthly allocations of $2.50 and end up having over $100 sitting in my account for an expense that's still not due for over a year. I just want a tool that knows what expenses are coming up over the next 3/6/12 months and let me know if it thinks I'm going to overdraw my account. $150 is actually really easy to scrape together when you have 6 months notice that you're going to be short.

2) I spend $100 on public transport every 2nd Thursday because I get paid every 2nd Thursday. That means either $200/month or $300/month depending how many Thursdays fall inside the calendar month, and whether they're actually the Thursdays that I get paid on. Having a monthly budget that allocates $217/month on public transport (because that's the monthly average) makes me set aside $17 most months unnecessarily, or possibly leave me short $83 and unable to get to work if I spend the remainder.
It never works until it does. Many major inventions seemed impossible, but they just took a long time. Software is so young and growing so fast, it's hard to say what can happen.
Topology optimization for 3D thin-walled structures with adaptive meshing
This guy or gal, folks. They know what will happen in an accident!

Never mind that people have been flung from cars in accidents, that cell phone? Can’t do any damage.

Physics.
Ask HN: What Are Employee Unions?
This sounds dumb.

I have worked in tech all my life and I have never had to deal with unions. I have tried reading up on them but never really understood.

What the hell are they? What is their benefit to an employer? Why and how much do I have to pay them? Why does tech not have them? Does tech need them?
Ask HN: Which tech companies have an average IC age that skews middle aged?
Basically every time I look at the "company culture" page for a tech company, 90% of the employees look like they are between the ages of 22 and 32. Does anyone have examples of tech companies where the average employee is a bit older for individual contributors?
Of Course Citizens Should Be Allowed to Kick Robots
I wonder if you're referring to his talk at ChasmWare '16?

If so I remember that being a thing (potential licensing issues with the megacorp subsidiary that bottled it) so we dumped the bottle and filled it with tap to be on the safe side. Technically he didn't pay a dime and in the end it was us paying the company for the bottle and the venue (not Richard) who swallows the cost of the water and it's delivery as a utility.

At the time I was of the opinion we over-thought it a bit and involving a $100/hr lawyer was crazy. Turns out my manager was right when she said "Alexander Dmitri, I say this to you: Never under-estimate the people who might try to call this ridiculous stuff out to detract. The haters must be met with diligence."
So... it sounds more and more like Uber is going to need to provide drivers insurance, etc... which means they will probably need higher requirements from their drivers at some point. Maybe even licensing and...

wait, is Uber slowly becoming a taxi service?
If I yank a bunch of Apple batteries from Apple phones, those batteries are genuine. They have Apple part numbers, Apple design, Apple-approved manufacturing. The only thing different is that Apple didn't actually sell them. The entity selling the parts cannot be the sole determinant of their authenticity.
I cofounded OneSignal for this reason. We were previously a game studio that built an in-house solution. It was a huge maintenance headache and a distraction. Eventually, we realized that so many companies were one-off push implementations and decided to focus our efforts on building a really great third-party solution.

Firebase and SNS have since entered this market as well. I'm obviously biased, but I honestly can't recommend them. They work for some of the basics, but there's been very little innovation in either product and occasional service issues that go unsolved for a long time. They also don't make any money from them, which should be a concern for anyone that plans to use these services for such a core part of their business.
Queue it. It's not particularly urgent that push notifications go out instantaneously. A 99th percentile latency of 5 minutes is fine.
This will sound paradoxical but... Wearing earplugs can really help.

Hearing loss isnt so much an inability to hear "quiet" (despite how hearing tests are performed) as it is a los of dynamic range. By wearing earplugs you can lower the volume of all conversations and prevent "clipping", so to speak.

Try it! Next time you're having trouble hearing someone try to plug your ears with your fingers.
Panera losing nearly all workers in fast-food turnover crisis
The others are still generally considered metro Detroit
I’m mostly positive about Andrew Yang but it’s frustrating to know he would point to something like this and scream “automation” when GM’s downsizing has more to do with outsourcing and a slowing market than anything remotely related to robots taking over jobs.
"People who are inside the cone, but far from the center, tend to prepare less than those closer to the central line. All of these interpretations of the map are incorrect"

I'd assume people closer to the central line have a greater chance of being hit. Is the auther saying people with a greater chance of being hit shouldn't prepare more?
I'm a publisher relying on ad revenue, and I hate Brave. It's not because it blocks my ads (I also contribute to an ad blocker list myself), but because Brave can swap my ads with its own. This is theft!

Brave is similar to Opera. It's not a mainstream browser, and they also want to make money. Dipping into publisher revenue and using some broken BAT crypto currency to reward publishers is not the way to do it. The currency itself is mostly useless and unstable, plus you will be making peanuts compared to even the lowest CPM country in AdSense.

What we need is an ad provider that provides a meaningful experience to advertisers and non-invasive ads to publishers. An entirely context-based, tracking-less, controlled (iframed and sandboxed).

A browser is a user-agent and it should stay that way. I like certain things Brave is doing (such as proxying Google Safe Browsing API requests), but for all this BAT nonsense, I would still stick with Mozilla.
Not tether. Tether is super sketchy and potentially a scam.