skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Not sure how the author decides what is ordinary and what is transcendent

I think the author gives us a hint about what is ordinary:

"They tend not to be representations of noble ambition, or of a classical or romantic vision of how human beings might achieve greatness."

As an aside and don't take this personally - perhaps your question was actually "I am sure what they mean but I'm trying to disagree" ? Or perhaps it's "I wouldn't be able to make the decision if I had to do it"? I never know about this use of language. It's like asking "I don't understand why someone would vote for X" when the question is really about them actually understanding and wanting to state ones opposition to it? That type of question is not asking the reader "help me understand", right? It's confusing to me.
Or in a similar vein, “My Summer Car:”

https://youtu.be/r0IZ_TEzg7M
> Maybe twenty years of pointless soul-rotting stupid wars

> Next you'll be telling us that trigger-happy crowd-murders are more common

> It's as if chickens... come home to roost!

I'm a bit confused, are you of the mind that there is some relation between mass-shooters and the wars in the Middle East? Or just those wars are why people feel less positive about patriotism?
> 1. enabling cleverness enables creating tool to manage complexity, and hopefully, to manage it with fewer people needed

No. Complexity just makes it harder to read. Go try to read your own code from 5 years ago. I just fail to read even my own code flow every where I used reflections in Java to make it clever (small code which can handle multiple scenarios). Yet I can read every golang codebase in github super easily.

> 2. Google "sets the intellectual trend/fashion"

No. People use what they learn quickly and what gets them productivity. I want to write a software to solve business problems, not want to write software because its cool or something.

Go try to read k8s code. And try to image how it would look like in haskell.

It just looks like you are trying to hate google for the wrong reasons.
This kind of confusion is constantly created when the underlying unstated assumption is we all share the same needs.

We don't.

We spend huge amounts of energy and time trying to convince each other that our needs are whats best for everyone else.

In reality, people and their needs are on as wide a spectrum, as the needs of a cactus and a banyan tree. And it doesn't end there, those needs change with time and context.
That has nothing to do with kernel space vs user space and everything to do with different projects having different attitudes. The comparison is to the case where Linux instead ships a special "linuxso.so" that all processes and libraries need to (dynamically) link against in order to get a stable interface.
Oh, sure - I mean you could carry a balance, but that would be inherently insecure (clearly not something they are particularly fussed about).

Apple Pay is a little different in that the terminal is online - I was under the impression all contactless terminals perform auth in real-time, but I may be mistaken.
Chinese face-swap app triggers privacy fears after going viral
That's what I thought, you have not been able to buy a traditional two stroke scooter in the EU for several years now
Of course, but compiling to JS seems like it could be faster, smaller and easier, and support more features.
How are you defining simplicity? Are differentiating from easiness or convenience? I get the impression you are using the word simplicity differently than I would.
To finish off why this is the case....

Because you need to wait for the generation who enjoyed his work during collage to be the political / social elite.
I wonder what if it's a learned behaviour.

I used to very odd kid and mostly spent my life around girls from very early age.

I almost never had male friends which ofc changed in late teenage.

Now, don't find females that attractive and mostly spend time with guys.

Don't call me sexist or smth but I find it's more fun to work with guys. That's my preference.
As long as you're not actually doing anything in those processes ;)
Shortchanged: Why British Life Expectancy Is Falling
JavaScript: The world's most misunderstood programming language
RIP Immanuel Wallerstein – “This is the end; this is the beginning”
Ask HN: What are good books for funding a small company/becoming self-employed?
I'm in my late 40s years and will likely "drop" out of Academia within the next 3-6 years. I'm also thoroughly fed up with it and have been thinking about funding a small software company for a long time. Essentially, I will be forced to do that anyway, so I better start planning for it now. I'm working on a "test" product now in my spare time to later check how this side project does on the market. It's currently in early alpha and still takes a long time, but it already has some unique features. (I've also sold shareware in the past, though not very successfully.)

The question is about books and resources to help with the business side. I've looked around and found metric tons of crap. I really don't want to waste my time on another self-help book or books on how to get an "entrepreneurial spirit." What I'm looking for is solid & concise information on numbers and indicators, business plans, etc. I'm not shy of math.

Some talks at Y-combinator are useful, e.g. I found [1] informative. However, these talks seem to be mostly geared towards startup funding - I'm more interested in small bootstrapping, starting a one-man business without initial funding.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBC16jhiwak
It still not quite there yet for all uses of a 50cc and its quite a bit more expensive eg the Vespa Electrica
I wouldn't interpret comparing one generation to a previous generation but against itself as it grows older. (as in, most people earn more money and become more able to donate money as they get older)
Very good point with the degraded working. In a train serving hundreds of passengers (or many dozens of truckloads), running on something that is literally as expensive to maintain as a whole rail network, the cost saved by cutting the driver is just not worth the extra hassle and delay in edge cases. Perhaps it is much more meaningful to think of that person as the engineer on duty than as a driver.
It wouldn't necessarily be insecure - the bus could reject an offline-generated ticket at the time the user tries to get on the bus if the user's account is unable to pay for it.
As far as I understand it, "born this way" may as well be true.

Environmental factors have never been identified, and there is no clue as to when the determination is made. The sexual orientation can only really be observed/felt around puberty, but it seems to be determined long before.
Off the top of my head, if the backend holds either the payment details or an alias to them from a payment service provider, you could also implement a solution where the turnstile/conductor is connected to a network and the payment gets done on the backend once a ticket generated offline gets scanned/used
Does anyone have a link for a non-paywalled version?
Netflix, NASA, Ebay ... https://thetechhacker.com/2018/12/10/top-10-nodejs-success-s...
A welded in / bolted in roll cage isn't something you find in a production vehicle, I'm not even sure if they're allowed.

The sleeping Bobby test is the ability to go over a speed bump (so names because it's like a policeman laying down).

These two metrics were often used by Clarkson to disqualify certain cars from the lap time leaderboard.

Cool car, but it'll be cooler when anyone can theoretically buy a road legal 300mph from the showroom.
"ContraPoints" is not an education channel.
It's amusing that the only sign of a "culture war" here is the author's tendentious carping about, of all things, the Patreon Top 50 list. Why?

Very possibly, if you are doing things that random economics professors consider "transcendent", you are probably extremely well served by the far more lucrative network of grants and funding that exists outside Patreon. He nods briefly to this idea before rejecting it and just plain making some shit up:

"Maybe, but there is another possibility: that Patreon is the tip of an ever-growing iceberg."

Awful.
I dunno about Trabants, but one of my motorcycles is a two stroke (a Cagiva Mito) and except when it's cold and on the choke, you definitely can't see any smoke coming out it's exhaust.

It's certainly burning the oil, it goes through about 1 litre of oil every 1000km or so. It runs an oil pump, so there's a separate tank for fuel and oil, and the pump mixes them before the carburetor.
Why does MSVC actually need import libraries? It seems MinGW is able to link against just the .DLL without problems even on Windows.
I think you have this the wrong way around. The article is undoubtedly correct to my mind. The most popular content creators are basically doing nothing. Looking at the truly huge Youtubers, people on Patreon, Instagrammers, streamers etc it is clear that mundanity with high production values is what people want. This is non-art served up with the orchestra and vino that you are criticising as bourgeois. Reality TV gets it wrong with exotic locales, tattooed narcissists and manufactured drama, that's too much actually. People seemingly just want a nicer, sanitised version of their own lives served up to them. They will swallow this all day every day.

The saving grace I think are podcasts. There is some authentic intellectual stuff going on there, it's a renaissance medium that humanises debate and invites nuance and complexity.
This is not really that surprising considering that the closer we look it seems like all genes affect complex traits, the omnigenic theory.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/omnigenic-model-suggests-that...
But then if Occam's razor tells you the random process[0] will manage just fine, you have to push God's guidance further away still. At some point you might ask yourself, if increasingly sophisticated phenomena keep turning out to be explainable without any reference to God, if anything science touches turns out to be devoid of God, then why should we expect to find Him?

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[0] - an important realization is that evolution isn't a completely random process - it has state in form of environment and path dependence, both of which concentrate the probability mass.
Forgot to mention: this site https://www.metaflop.com/modulator ought to be better known, and I ought to remember to mention it every time I mention METAFONT.

One great drawback of METAFONT, which held back (still does, but used to too) its adoption in the decades when we could have wonderful things built on it, is the lack of quick visual feedback. (The bigger one of course, is that most font designers don't want to describe their shapes with equations: they think in curves, not about curves.) As I understand it, the site is developed by a couple of enthusiasts and goes a long way to address that problem.

At https://www.metaflop.com/modulator just adjust sliders to create a unique font (or get something random by clicking "flop it!", and then tweak it). You can even download the resulting font if you like it.
UBI: $1k a month, no strings attached? In Miss., such an experiment is underway
You can't detect cheating if the user is using a custom client in this scenerio. At most, the software client used by the inspector could mark your ticket with the backend as 'checked', which would mean that any checked ticket that doesn't get reported as actually purchased at some point could indicate fraud. A sophisticated custom client could just actually purchase any ticket that gets checked though. It would still net you a rather significant discount depending on the coverage of ticket inspections.

What does work is providing a way to check-in and out of transport via gates or poles not under the control of the traveller with a token like the Oyster card.
I wouldn't go far to say that there is no genetic basis for sexuality. There is no single gene for aspergers, but we're pretty sure it's not a lifestyle choice.
The hardest path is finding someone else (hiring) to read and understand the intentions behind your code.
Helium balloon releases are being increasingly banned in U.S.
Rewriting Functions in Compiled Binaries
Injection flaws found in big-IP load balancers
> literal interpretation of the Bible, stuck in the 9th century

I have to speak up in defence of people who lived in the 9th century. In the Middle Ages, allegorical approaches to Bible interpretation were popular, and they weren't wedded to literal readings of it – e.g. Augustine of Hippo (4th/5th century) argued that the six days in Genesis 1 were not meant to be understood as six literal days – and Augustine's views on this were very influential in the centuries that followed. People sometimes seem to back-project 19th/20th/21st century American fundamentalism on to the Middle Ages, when that sort of wooden literalism was very alien to the mediaeval spirit.
How exactly, is this "culture war"?
Firefox with a homepage set to blank contacts a lot of domains which I've had to block or explicitly disable in their hidden settings.

Why defend their poor practices? They should be ashamed about it.
By far the best at this is Safari, which contacts just one Apple domain and the Google safe browsing domain. OTOH, macOS itself is way too chatty.
It's worth noting that "ambiguously somewhere between discovered and constructed, and often seen to change over time" does not at all imply "can change on a whim" or "can turn on a dime".
On Postgres 12, CTE's are not optimization fences anymore. [0]

[0] https://www.depesz.com/2019/02/19/waiting-for-postgresql-12-...
There is a difference between the neuro-biological sexual orientation and actual sexual behavior.

Sexual behavior is definitely learned. But despite centuries of "theories" or convictions about "what experiences turn people gay", nothing has been identified scientifically.
I am not looking for political battles here or to spread propaganda from either side. I am not sure that a Tibetan store in Berkeley CA is a neutral and accurate representation of Tibet's history.

The starting point is that geography makes access to the Tibet region much easier from the East and North than from the South. So-called "Greater Tibet" extends East and North East quite beyond the current Tibet Autonomous Region in China.

Perhaps as a consequence, Tibetan are ethnically closer to East Asians than to South Asians (I think that is visually obvious). Their language is not related to Indian languages and neither is traditional clothing.

Historically Tibet has had close contacts with China and was periodically under Chinese vassality/rule since at least the Tang Dynasty in the 7th century.

To claim that Tibet "has historically not had significant ties with China" is simply not accurate.

Likewise, Xinjiang/Uyghurs have had ties with China for even longer because of the silk road, with China establishing a protectorate over the area in the Han Dynasty about 2,000 years ago.
Ah, so essentially require the inclusion of a pre-signed, server-generated token identifying the user in the ticket’s QR code and perform the actual charge when the ticket is used.

That’s much better, though it’s subject to some edge cases similar to the London Underground, caused by the potential for using invalid payment methods. Not bad though; probably low-enough potential for abuse to ignore.
> Don't call me sexist

Why it would be sexist? It's your personal preference and nobody's else but yours.
Electric cars still have chassis and suspension?
I cannot understand how "born this way" could ever possibly not be true. Sure, today people can "decide" (or whatever) but why would anyone in their right mind decide to be gay like 200 years ago, and risk being ostracized from the community, being sexually unsatisfied and/or severely punished (including sterilization and/or death)?

(Obviously "fluidity" of sexuality does not preclude "born this way" - it could be that it's written in your genes that your sexuality would/will change throughout your life, similar to many people's libidos and/or hair color.)

Edit: on second thought, it's very possible that it could be random environmental influences (e.g. amount of... I don't know... drums + beech pollen ... the fetus is exposed to in the womb) - that could be pretty much orthogonal with genetics, while still leaving the person with "no choice". It's just that AFAIK most personality traits have a significant genetic component, either actually genetic or epigenetic [1].

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4739500/
Technically true, and I'm sure the title wasn't intended to have that effect, but judging by the other comments, it appears some people still seem to be led to believe it meant "no genetic cause" - so it's still worth pointing out.

But yes, that's not necessarily malice or incompetence on the part of the title's author.
Sure, if the scanners are online that makes a great deal of sense (though you would have to perform that transaction in real-time, which would be slow)
Maybe akin to the IQ story. Polygenic scores have been shown in at least 20 studies to predict IQ & educational attainment. "Childhood intelligence is heritable, highly polygenic and associated with FNBP1L"

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3935975/
> core assumption that less code -> less bugs

This assumption is false. Either the flows are written in code, are you have to have them in your brain every time you are reading some code which can handle 10 flows.

> solve problems with less code while at the same time keeping that more compact code readable

Less code means less readable.
On my phone, touching the screen to scroll activates the distortion effect behind the links to your clients. I find it distracting, and makes reading the words even harder, as they are already white on a light photo.

I think the effect only really works well on the 'Switch' link, personally.
I wouldn't consider a freezer that consumes several times the energy to be well-made.
I've used Apple Pay completely offline - on trains, buses and planes for example.

The terminals in London Underground stations might be constantly online, but I doubt very much there's a 100% guarantee for London Buses.
It is genetic in a number people but environmental factors play a big part. More than one thing can cause it.

One reason:
Later children in large families are more likely to be gay but the reason might be related to the mother already being exposed to hormones with earlier children. On an evolutionary scale this might make sense that the first born are more likely not to be gay as to pass on the genes but later children population control might make more sense.

Another might be hormone levels of the mother.

Another might be gene related where physical changes are different

Another might be gene related that increase gender fluidity which combined with society can shape sexuality

But we do know there isn't a single simple gene.
I was very much 'born this way'. If I could somehow change it or be 'fluid' towards something else, I sure would. Anecdotal yes, but in these cases anecdotal is important because we're talking about personal experiences of individuals.

It might not be a single genetic element, it might be a combination. It might be epigenetic. It might be something during early development. But don't dismiss people who say they're born a certain way just because some other people supposedly said otherwise.
It helps to already have a potential client or two, before even starting the company (or a financial cushion for one, two years or the ability to survive without financial support, i.e. parents, partners, farming community, etc.).

Since you want solid and concise information, your country would also play a big role, but I'm guessing omission of that information is an indication, that you're probably in the US? Every country has their own legal quagmire when it comes to concise information about founding a company. If you're in the EU, thanks to their open borders policies, you even have the choice of choosing a country and the corresponding legal framework.

Nonetheless, (me from Germany) I think this is valid in the US too, are you sure and have put some thought into whether you really want to create a one-man-show company and not be a freelancer? The latter choice is often easier, especially from a bureaucratic point-of-view.
Probably. And fire also. Desert can become chill at nigh so even if there aren't many trees you need some kind of wood to burn.

At some point the ecosystem just can't regenerate faster enough, the buffer is broken, and all is downhill from that point.
Yet a handful of comments here are already jumping to the "it's environmental, not genetic" conclusion
I have read a few cases of identical twins having different sexual orientation. Perhaps they are also good subjects of study, since their genetic make up are so similar, it would be easy to identify if/which genes correlates to sexual orientation.
> the number of bugs tends to end up proportional with the amount of code

This happens when the original code was clever to begin with and someone (else) came try to fix an edge case and lo and behold.
Why? I'm a believing Catholic and believe in science too.
Inheritability of a trait can be inferred through statistic means, though I feel like there is too much confidence around such computations, given that it is virtually impossible to isolate environment from genetics in Humans.

But when looking for specific mutations, the sum of all these effects is often just a small fraction of that inheritability, suggesting that the interaction of the genes and the environment is more complex than can be captured with such models.
> What's True: The standard U.S. railroad gauge is similar in width to the wheel spacing of Roman chariots.

> What's False: That similarity is based much more on coincidence and inherent physical limitations than a direct line of imitation.

The width of chariots/wagons/car/trains doesn't vary all that much, not compared to stuff like sailing ships.

But the Space Shuttle SRBs have a considerably larger diameter (3.7m compared to 1.435m rails) so it's more likely due to civil engineering standards: you can only transport something so big until you need to take down power lines and cut down trees.

The Falcon 9 has the same diameter and it was explicitly chosen because it's the maximum transportable by road.
Laptop model: Dell XPS 13 (9380)

CPU: Intel i7-8565U 4.6GHz

RAM: 16GB LPDDR3, 2.133 MHz

Screen: 1920x1080

Personal comments: I'm not 100% satisfied with the Ubuntu x Thunderbolt Dock combo yet, but it generally works without problems now. Other than that it feels very high quality and I'm happy with the device.
Judaism?
> No one decides to marry their spouse based on how punctual they are.

Not their first spouse at least.
> Personally, I tend to cruise at an indicated 100mph

In the UK? OK, at least it's clear what you think of the law.

Personally, I hope you get nailed for it. That sort of contempt for both the law and other road users ought to be penalised.

(Maybe you only cruise on empty motorways at 3 AM, and so that makes it acceptable...?)
I would naively say (and this is why I made that point about having two different numbers) that life expectancy after in later years is also influenced by Violence, Wars and Addiction whereas infant mortality might be more influenced by health conditions, sanitisation, presence of germs and so on...

Regardless, in an article, saying that the life expectancy is 39 years old will make people think that people die at an extremely young age when often it's mostly due to infant/child mortality. Which is why separating it would make things clearer.
They axed custom subreddit CSS stylesheets. It was very much like unstyled Reddit was a base to build upon.