skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Amazon delivering stuff I want is better for the environment than USPS delivering junk mail daily.
Imagine if instead of constantly building horrific low-income housing projects to (fruitlessly) retroactively "solve" the problem of middle and lower-class people being unable to afford housing in major metropolitan areas, we didn't poison the market in the first place by treating housing as foreign investment vehicles.
> Is this common elsewhere in Scandinavia

Same in Sweden, babies are left outside while the parents sit in a coffee shop and kindergartens have a line of baby strollers outside for the young ones to sleep in.
These are getting removed in the UK to be opened as an extra lane, with overhead sings warning you to get out of it if there's a stranded vehicle.
A quick introduction to the Linux filesystem for Windows users
Yup. I bought the book after it came out and threw it away a few years ago. Most of the material in the book (like the peculiarities of 320x200 vs 320x240 VGA mode) hasn't aged very well. But that's the name of the game. You can't write truly optimal code without knowing all the details of the hw you are targeting.
That just sounds like a circular linked list. They were probably going for "list of loops", so I think the ambiguity here makes it a bad choice.
I like how the availability of each file is 0%. "Yeah, we focused on the amazing UI first - we'll handle downloading later".
For all of 3 seconds, after which the CPU catches fire unless you have an industrial chiller or clocks down to 2GHz to cool off.
This article is painting mobility as a bad thing, but it also has a good side. China's capital controls are a big part of how it oppresses people: if they could just leave, China would have no ability to make itself into a productive dystopia. The ideal situation would be if countries had to compete for everyone's presence, but as it stands limitations on mobility mean that only the very powerful can leap over the boundaries and have countries compete for them.
I agree but this might be already useful. The biggest challenge for most when they work from home is lacking social pressure leading to procrastination. When I read about Tandem's take on this, I thought that’s a smart, subtle solution. You could still game the system by just using your phone but still: Any cheating results in odd behavior on Tandem and probably to more discipline. Maybe I am wrong but I need just people who tried Tandem and share their experiences.
Are old speech synths not harsh on the ears to listen for longer periods? Or maybe I'm just familiar with the super robotic ones (I like them for music production).

If so, have you considered using an EQ plugin to maybe turn down the harsher high frequencies a few notches? Just a thought.
Whether you value OIS is more a matter of personal opinion. I don’t need to shoot at lower shutter speeds generally, especially with these Sony sensors which are pretty great at higher ISO.

Point taken on f-number and aperture not being equivalent, but that’s getting pretty picky ... f-numbers are ratios of focal length to aperture diameter and so effectively do represent aperture size. The point is the smaller f-numbers will give a more shallow depth of field, and at this point, that property is one of the few advantages that a high-end p&s camera has over a nice phone camera (yes, I know some phones are faking shallow DoP in software).
How to Learn Computer Science? (From Zero to Hero)
Wow, if I came across that without some prominent warnings, I'd probably assume some kind of key setup mistake and cut the string.
This happens quite a lot. There are some advantages to be had here if you play it clever but you better have a very solid play on how you plan on staying in business while the VC funded companies burn through their capital. At least you'll have a few opportunities to buy cheap Aeron chairs ;)
Yeah. I am in favor of a high tax on absentee ownership of real estate. Deduct the property where you live and where you work. Everything else gets taxed heavily.
I hope this goes further than app.net (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/App.net) did.
“I ordered the tuna salad every time I ate at the restaurant. About half of the time, the manager informed me that they were out of tuna, and had to send a truck to fetch more.

After a while of this, they banned me from the restaurant for ordering the tuna salad.”
Tell that to the UI "experts".
Locust [1] is fantastic for load testing for python or any REST API, it's also nice as wrk. [2]

In our startup we used it to test 100,000 users traffic on our python based backend and optimized it continuously. We also used wrk with test cases written in LUA scripts. That too worked fantastic.

We did not use bokeh visualization, but just with locusts we could improve the response time by logging and improving sqlalchemy query logs.

[1] https://locust.io/

[2] https://github.com/wg/wrk
I know it sounds rather ‘Wow thanks! I’m cured!’, but that’s the point — if you’ve stopped worrying about it, then you’ve dealt with one of the root problems. Anxiety is dumb like that and being able to chill out and realise that even though it is important, you shouldn’t spend too much mental energy on it.

It’s not an easy thing to do by any means, but it is the end goal, and a lot of people are unfamiliar with how to just let go.
Sleeping with an eye mask changed everything for me, making sleep possible under a number of conditions where it wouldn’t have been before.
Can't find a source for it now, but one of the design goals of JSON iirc was that it should be easy to parse.

You should have a go at writing a JSON parser to convince yourself it isn't hard. Can manually lex it in less than 150 lines of Python.
The alternator needs to get some decent RPM to generate enough power. You'd have to go downhill quite fast.
Exploring Deployment Strategies in Kubernetes
Intentional. Zuck should go to jail.
Apparently the "commercialized junk" sells better, though. Lego was close to going bankrupt in the 90ies.

Apart from the price, I personally can't really complain about the modern Lego sets, either. They are nice puzzles, and my kids like to play with them. After a while they fall apart, and new things can be built.

I don't think Lego wants to pay for expensive Hollywood brands. They always try to establish their own brands, too, like Ninjago, Lego Movie, Nexo Knights. Often it seems the Hollywood stuff simply sells better.
It will be more expensive later.
Maybe a straw man? Citation?
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I am sure AMD appreciates a little breathing room to work on the issue that roughly half of Ryzen 3 CPU's are unable to reach advertised frequencies.
The new normal in public relations seems to be to make irrelevant or simply mendacious excuses which seem to suggest that they don't have a clue, but which actually show their contempt for their users.
Because the NRA isn't a 2nd amendment organization, they're a gun lobbying group. They oppose reasonable changes to background check laws, that their membership mostly supports, and application of existing laws. They serve more to fan the flames of fear than support a well regulated militia or the Constitution. I'll agree with people who say it's a publicity stunt but it's a good one, nonetheless.

Full disclosure: I'm a life member. I'm no longer happy with that decision but it's true .
Could this line of reasoning be applied to other amendments of the US constitution? For example, could one claim that the right to free speech is only limited to forms of communication that existed at the time the amendment was ratified, which would exclude video or online communication? What about the fourth amendment and what it covers? Should we exclude forms of stored information that weren't available in the 18th century?
Mobility is great but when on .001% of the entire global population gets to do it, and they get to do it much easier than anyone else would have (sometime skirting laws and requirements that normal people would).

The rich and elite get special treatment, when they should not. It leads to more unfair conditions.
We're working on something at Remote. While working at GitLab, I saw the issues they were having, so we're building an alternative to CXC and Safeguard.

Launching a little launch page later today, but feel free to email me if you're in need of some help: job at remote dot com.
I'm Curious how you are arriving at the 600ms since ping is already round trip.
But clearly the money guys know best, because they would never act irrationally!

/s
As I understand it (and I do not remotely claim to be an expert), they used to be an organization that provided gun safety training, supported gun clubs and shooting ranges, and did some lobbying for gun rights as well—but within reason, supporting provisions like background checks.

Then, some time in the '70s or '80s or so, they decided they really wanted to make lots more money, and the way to do that was to radicalize their support base. These days, they not only oppose any and all restrictions on the purchase of firearms (including preventing random people from getting their hands on military hardware, preventing convicted violent felons, domestic abusers, and the mentally ill from buying firearms, etc), but they are actively involved in spreading propaganda to keep their base scared of an Other that they'll need guns to protect them from. This ranges from Democrats coming to take their guns, to immigrants coming to take their jerbs, to brown people coming to take their women.

They foment racism and hatred, specifically in order to ensure that people will keep paying them to protect the only amendment to the Constitution that's truly sacred: the right of every single real (white, straight, cis, Christian, male) American to own whatever guns he wants.
Ask HN: How do you make connections on Twitter?
I admire some amazing people I follow on Twitter. I am thinking of talking to them to learn, to connect. Is it weird to get a DM from one of your followers?

Have you guys made connections with someone on twitter (via DMs perhaps?)

How do you recommend one should go about it?
Germany Announces Plan to Ban Glyphosate Pesticides
The Channel Islands, Gibraltar and the Isle Of Man I believe are constantly being used for the purpose of tax evasion, money laundering etc... that’s what frightens me about Brexit - I think the hard Brexiteers actually want to make this easier, not harder.

I.e. I met a software guy from Sachs who told me about what he did there. Essentially he built automated software to flag “suspicious transactions”. So ie if 200 million came in from he Faroe Islands the software would flag it as “possibly” an unlawful transfer. It made sure the books were “kosher”.

So I asked him

Me: oh ok, so then the software blocked those transactions?

Him: no.

Me: Well did it flag them so they would investigate it?

Him: no.

Me: What did it do then?

Him: It just flagged them.

Me: just flagged them? ... so what did it do? What was it for?

Him: It was designed so when the Sachs managing team are called to court they can say “oh yeah we’re very sorry our software flagged that as a suspicious activity. We’re really sorry, won’t happen again”. And then they’ll get a 200 million fine on a 3 billion operation.
By law they don’t have to do anything else, so they don’t.
Private militarized ships were a thing when the Bill of Rights was written, so private citizens did have the technological capability to level entire villages or sink commerce ships full of unarmed citizens if they felt; hell with a letter of Marque there were endorsed by the government to do so. Beside the original intention of the amendment was a failsafe against government tyranny, which makes it necessary to keep up with their level of technology.
Did you eventually make a request to your neighbors to dim down? We had a similar issue and what a headache... depends on the neighbor.
Tip of a giant iceberg. America's political class is corrupt to its very core and the biggest mouths are the biggest offenders. Most every US Senator got rich while being...a Senator, hmm. Insider trading is legal for them!

Then you have to factor in the intelligence agencies and the long con those groups have been running for decades now.

We the people need to stop and think about the heavy tax load (extracted at gunpoint) and consider slowing it down, or at least forcing greater accountability. We are ultimately the ones funding this growing worldwide nightmare. Every Democrat running for President wants to raise taxes, expand the government, and basically wither away our civil rights.

The city of Baltimore took in $16Billion in Federal money over a short couple year (?) period and nobody quite knows where all that money went. I'd like my refund check on that, please.

Bunch of crooked assholes in government, basically the mob.
The question should be, how can we give the average person the freedoms that the elites have, not how can we enslave the Chinese elites in the way we've enslaved the average Chinese person.
A Nobel-Winning Economist Goes to Burning Man
There's no such thing as 'genes from a species', same as there's no such thing as 'words from another book'. They're just words.

Further, mutation, cross-species gene sharing (which can happen simply by digesting another species), gene-hopping happen commonly in nature already.

Again, calling GMO evil while what happens in your backyard garden 'natural and good', is not good science. Its witchcraft, emotional, ignorant. Its FUD.
A billion people can't "just leave". Even 10 million people can't "just leave" - look at Syria for example.
When have we not been seen as disposable. The common man has been reduced to just a cog in the machine, with the exceptions being our concerted fights for what little protections we have.
When my Daughter was born everything said do not let the baby lay on their side or tummy. I tried hard but she turned to her side every time you put her down. If she was on her back she would wake and cry. I spoke to my mum and she said when I was a baby I slept on my tummy, as did my brother and sister. None of us slept on our side or back. We just made sure we bought a breathable mattress so if she ended up face down she could breath. Now she’s almost 1 and sleeps however she feels. Which is usually cuddled up against me while I feel stressed all night.
> How then do you explain this part

All we know from that anecdote is that the car left him stranded in the garage and that he had no cell phone reception. Nothing of what is presented suggest that there is a directly causal relationship between those two circumstances. In fact, to the extent that it's described it's consistent with the situation referred to in the title of this post.

To make an uninformed guess, maybe the car battery drains quicker when cell reception is poor, but that's conjecture based on little information.
Whatever.

This is yet another pure marketing move to get their name on YouTube videos.

Almost nobody ( in their right mind ) would pay top dollar to have that mini nuclear reactor.
These places are called Hong Kong, Singapore, Ireland, Switzerland and others.
Superbugs Deadlier Than Cancer Put Chemotherapy into Question
I had an opportunity to help a kid in the family put together lego-like model. Parts fitted so bad. One or two were not even fully shaped as if not enough plastic was injected into the mold.
According to the US Department of Agriculture[1]

- 6.0 million children lived in food-insecure households in which children, along with adults, were food insecure.

- 540,000 children (0.7 percent of the Nation's children) lived in households in which one or more child(sic) experienced very low food security.

According to the CDC[2]

- 1.6% of women received no [prenatel] care at all.

- 15.0% of women received inadequate prenatal care.

You may want to use a non-US definition of "nanny state" ...

[1] https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-nutrition-assistance/fo...
[2] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr67/nvsr67_03.pdf
8 lbs. per gallon. Adds up quick in a water line.
> 50th percentile driver, it's good enough.

The problem is if there's any correlation with safe driving and early adoption, a median solution could also lower overall road safety.

For example, teenagers are generally more dangerous drivers than most, safety actually peaks per mile around 60 years old. 60 year olds are more likely to be at peak earning, more able to afford the latest car features.

You're probably right at 20℅ though? This all depends on the curve.

And there's a herd immunity, once most people are driverless, you can probably be less strict as roads become less hazardous overall.

We'd honestly probably make the biggest dent tomorrow by just finding the worst ten percent of drivers and giving them free uber/lyft for life. That would probably save us money as a society, money we could use on driverless tech.

Those aren't teenagers. Judging anecdotally from my time as an attorney, those are serially unemployed middle aged males with revoked licenses who somehow still own an old heavy truck and drive it on the sly with a bottle of something in the glove box.

If you read through case law that profile is weirdly common.
Yeah, all true. It’s nice to have the larger sensor for lower noise, but the trade-off is larger lenses.

I also love the Fuji body design. Hilariously, I got the Fuji system as a travel-friendly replacement to my bulky 5D3 setup, and while there are some smaller lenses that make it quite portable, I find that I most often grab the 16mm f/1.4. This lens makes the setup feel only slightly smaller than the dslr! I’ll probably sell one kit or the other and buy an rx100 V for travel. (I rented the rx100 IV for a trip to Peru a few years back and was really impressed).
Oh my god, I had a wool duvet for a while and it was seriously the best. The wool is a natural fiber which allows the humidity to escape, leaving you warm but not sticky.

Be careful with the outer shell of these, though – no use getting a wool duvet with a polyester outer shell (or polyester duvet cover!)
Having a smart phone and a Facebook account does not constitute being on the Internet. In many ways, AOL users were closer to being Internet users than most people are now.
You get into a funny position because management philosophies, Lean included, are basically defined as "Do things that work, don't do things that don't work. Only spend money on things that add value".

So basically anything that spectacularly doesn't work is usually not 'actual' [insert method here]. Management failures are rarely obscure even in foresight.
Did Setting a Timeline Doom the Fight Against Global Warming?
So a positive thing about Brexit would be that it makes it easier to declare war on the Faroe islands... Only need to fend off the British not all Europeans.
You're conflating physical and wealth mobility.

This is purely about wealth mobility for people with >$50m net worth.

People who got it through corruption at best and genocide at worst (literal genocide in a case I know in NY). The average Chinese or Russian citizen will never have the chance to move their money abroad because they have none, they will never have the chance to move themselves because legal immigration is expensive.
> “The house was burning and nobody was paying attention,” Etsy board member and Union Square Ventures co-founder Fred Wilson told the New York Times.)

This feels like asking the wolf what happened after he bought access to the hen house.

An accounting we will never get, but I would love to see is just how much dysfunction and detriment venture capitalists caused their portfolio companies over the past 15 years.

Fred Wilson gets my attention because unfortunate for him, the book, Hatching Twitter shows just how much discord he sowed at Twitter [0]. He is also on record saying he doesn't regret any of it.[1]

Yes, Etsy exists within the VC system, which demands an acquisition or going public, but how many of the bad decisions throughout its hypergrowth were pushed or enabled by Wilson/USV and Etsy's other VC's?

I think it's important to understand these stories, especially in a world where venture capitalists have positioned themselves and their industry as thought leaders in the startup and growth arenas. VCs' actions are almost always behind the scenes, opaque at best, but when actually brought to light can drastically differ from their public opining.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18656827-hatching-twitte...
[1] https://www.quora.com/What-does-Fred-Wilson-think-about-Hatc...
You seem to be talking of closed borders, not capital restrictions.

Britain and some other Western nations had capital controls until around the 1980s, without using them to oppress people. The millions who fled revolutionary China, without their capital, seeded Hong Kong and Taiwan with the huge population growth that made them what they are today.
But then either you can afford to buy your home or you have to live on the street...
you don't want that either, because you want to quality control the changes to behaviour. see for example first generation Forza drivatars, that learned from other online player unconstrained and became insufferable assholes
It depends on the law. Take the fourth amendment. It doesn’t prohibit searches and seizures. It only prohibits “unreasonable” searches and seizures. Or the fifth amendment. It doesn’t prohibit depriving someone of life, liberty, or property, but permits it subject to due process.

Other provisions are less loosey-goosey. The first and second amendments are categorical prohibitions. You can’t establish a national religion even if you think the results will be tremendously beneficial. The taxation clause is similarly clear. We needed an amendment to create the income tax, even though it was necessary to a modern state.
>I don't know how many lives marijuana ruins, except maybe out of laziness or lack of motivation.

Depending on your definition of 'ruin'- a lot.

As a counterpoint - alcohol consumption is in most cases self-limiting, for the reasons you describe. Your body tells you in fairly clear terms that you're imbibing poison. Most people learn not to over-indulge, particularly as their tolerance drops off towards the end of their 20s.

Marijuana, however, is more subtle. You won't have a raging headache the next day - but you will be slower, less motivated, and less socially skilled. These negative effects are not painful, and depending on how demanding your daily activities are, possibly imperceptible. If you're an intelligent person stuck in a boring situation, it might even make your experience more tolerable. And, because weed makes you lazy and weed is a lazy solution to boredom, it traps people in a vicious cycle. They're not lying in the gutter, blacking out or vomiting, so they think they're doing fine; but their life devolves into doing a boring job to pay the bills, and smoking weed to make themselves stupid to relieve the boredom. They never hit "rock bottom" in the alcoholic sense, so they circle the drain for the rest of their lives.

It's not "cool" these days to say the marijuana is a dangerous drug that ruins lives - ridiculous over-the-top propaganda saw to that. But it is, and our "cultural antibodies" need to catch up to the new reality of legal weed. I've definitely known a few people for whom alcohol became a visible, functional problem - but I've known at least dozens of people who could have achieved so much more if only they'd managed to tear themselves away from weed's anesthesia.

None of this is to say that banning is the answer to anything. But the right of legal weed comes with the responsibility of owning up to its problems.
Moneyland is a good book on this topic. Rich people (top 1%) don’t live or earn money “anywhere” anymore. There’s so much ease to global movement of capital they just move it around so they pay - no taxes - have no accounts with their name on it - launder all their money legally (if need be) - buy up property and invest without any interest in any country in particular.

It’s a depressing read.