skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can improve, as everything, with enough trying and failing :).

I did almost all of the school years mostly alone: I connected with very few people, even at university, mostly because i always had the anxiety of "what if I fail", "what if they don't like me".

After starting to work and after changing country twice (trying to change everything i didn't like about myself every time) the biggest lesson I think I learned is that basically everybody has always the same self-doubts, internal problems, etc. Everybody has a life as difficult and complex as yours, but you can just see the external side of it (the side they want to show you).

It's just not worth keeping up a fake image of yourself and never "risking" doing something because of fear of what happens, just live life doing what you love/feel like, and you'll find other people that like you for whatever you really are :)

In 5 years from now nobody from your school will remember even the biggest failures (and even if someone does, chances are you won't meet them again - if you don't actively work together to remain friends). So go out and try talking to new people, open up about what you really like to some trustworthy-looking people and see if they like something that you like too :)
Forced prison labor should also be outlawed. Just because we haven't fixed every problem yet doesn't mean we shouldn't cheer improvements like this.
Adoption is going pretty well - from matrix.org we see around 10M mxids out there, of which around 5M are on the matrix.org server. Many of these on the matrix.org server are bridged from other systems (Slack, IRC, etc), but 3.5M are native to Matrix. It's hard to guess how big the wider network is because there are many folks who don't phone home or federate actively with matrix.org.
The problem here is that ordinary people sometimes start deep conversations with phrases like "this isn't going to win me any friends, but..." or even "candidly:".

It's natural to guideline out people (1) working the metaphorical refs with asides about voting and (2) posturing and, at the same time, implicitly disrespecting even the notion that some people might disagree with them. The former invites horrible meta conversations, the latter is uncivil and toxic.

But you don't want to go so far that people have to alter totally normal speech patterns in order to avoid some conversation tripwire that the guidelines set. If you do that, you get more pointless meta threads.

What I think you want is a guideline that says "no matter what, don't talk about how your comments are being voted, and if you must mention the feeling you have that what you're about to say is probably unpopular, do it in a nice way, and quickly". I don't know how to say that with any kind of concision.

(A lot of things would work as guidelines if they could capture the nuance of "this way of writing is fine if you assume the burden of being extra gracious about it, but not fine to do casually and thoughtlessly". But it's super hard to distill that sentiment into a guideline!)
Yeah but we're not discussing those other issues. We're specifically discussing using technology to enforce borders.

If you want to make immigration to the US completely legal and unfettered that's a different conversation.
Alchemy used to be considered science. Chemistry - the same science - used to have people concerned with ether and phlogiston. Apparently some physicians truly believed that it was aberrant for women to have a large clitoris; and still today, many doctors believe it's medically beneficial to cut off males' foreskins. etc.
do a youtube search for "wintergatan" and you will find an artist making very nice use of wooden gears
People will still go even if it's expensive, even if it causes emissions. People are irrational, economists have struggled with this fact of psychology for years.
Then better learn how to use it properly, specially .NET stored procedures, OLAP engine and SSMS.
You are either measuring incorrectly, or you are fully aware that the vast majority of the population walk nowhere near that fast, as I'm sure you've noticed as you blow by them.
> What Patch offers instead is to take a piece of your home equity (currently limited to $250k maximum) and sell the upside on it to a investment fund.

Sometimes I can't help but feel that we deserve what's coming.
JPMorgan's Athena has 35M lines of Python 2 code, and won't be updated in time
I would love to see a wasm API for Web GPU and then have a new tensorflow web runtime targeting that.
They dig the pond and use the dirt as fill to build houses on at a higher level than sea level.
CEO of Cover here. This is super surprising, as we sell our own policies + own a national insurance brokerage. No need to share/sell your information at all (nor would we, as a matter of principle), because we have access to most carriers in the US. We'd prefer to sell you a Cover policy or one from our partner panel that can be managed via our service.

Do you mind sharing which companies sent you physical mail? I'm at karn at cover.com. Would be great to dig in.
Why would you need compiler support? It's not like C doesn't already support libraries.
Thank you for making this site. I think its important that people think more deliberately about the kinds of game mechanics they find fulfilling. I would point out that what may be a dark pattern for one player could be a desirable feature for another. For example customization can be used to exploit the sunk cost fallacy to the detriment of casual players, but others might consider that investment to be a good part of the gameplay as with some rpgs. It might be useful if people could express the magnitude of effect a pattern has on the game with some kind of numerical score. That would open up the possibility of eye catching data visualizations.
That’s called a consult fee!

Or a salary.
> It takes so much time and effort to make these laws, yet they can be undone in a heartbeat.

The whole problem is that these were not laws. The FCC does not make laws. If it had been done through Congress, it would have been a more lasting change. But anything one president can unilaterally do, the next can unilaterally undo.
It's the biggest step that has been taken in decades. You're completely pathetic.
The comment above specifically referenced this:

> instead of freeing the detainees, Ice moved many of them to prisons in Colorado and Hawaii

Of course, no one could have rationally believed that these people -- considered to be lawbreakers -- would just get FREED automatically. That would be an idiotic assumption. And yet, the article is worded as if there actually were people who believed it.
I like this. I just wish it was available as a pdf instead of the dead tree version.
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I'm not attempting to prescribe a definition or usage of any terms. I'm simply describing a very common way in this these terms are already being used, and pointing out that your usage should probably be further clarified. If you wish to use "libertarian" to refer to something very specific, like perhaps the Libertarian Party in the USA, you're free to do so. I just think you should make that clarification, because people will understandably be confused by an unqualified usage of the term "libertarian." It is a term that is used very broadly by many different groups.

I also made no claims regarding the viability or merits of any of the viewpoints I was describing. That's not a conversation I'm interested in having in this context.
Only 1 in 5 prisoners are there for nonviolent drug crimes. You can't reduce the prison population by more than that unless you want to repeal laws against fraud, burglary, rape, assault, or murder.

One alternative would be to reduce sentences for those crimes, but good luck getting the public to vote for any politician who would propose such a thing.

See https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2019.html for some interesting stats on US prisons.
That's only useful if all of the photos that I want to search are already on my iPhone. I can't search from a different device, and I can't search the hundreds of GB of photos from years ago because they don't fit.

> When companies like Google say they have to have a copy of your pictures, they are lying.

Did Google actually say that? I think they just built a product with different trade-offs than Apple Photos.
Mostly I was just amusing myself, but here's what I meant:

Usually when people refer to generics they're referring to a static type system that allows for expressing generic algorithms. (Untyped) Python inherently has no static type system, so necessarily can't support generics by that definition. The other definition of generics that _is_ satisfiable by (untyped) Python--the definition you presumably had in mind--is equally satisfiable by Go via its `interface{}` type. So regardless of which definition you adhere to, "Go lacks generics" is no more valid a criticism for Go than for Python.

Practically speaking, there's some syntax ceremony involved in using `interface{}` in Go; coming from Python or another dynamic language, this ceremony will probably offend your sensibilities--why is it so hard to opt out of the type system!? But that's by design--Go generally tries to keep you on the path of correctness without being overbearing (as many find stricter languages--e.g., Haskell--to be).
I am OK, now.

In college, I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder after staying awake for three days and attempting suicide. I was hospitalized for a week, then had delusions and depression that persisted for months. Two years later I had a rough mixed episode. A year later I finished school.

I graduated with a social science degree and was lucky to get a customer service job in online retail making $13 / hour. I worked there for several years, taking abuse from regular American consumers. They would cuss me out for trivial reasons, like if I couldn't give them a discount on an item they had ordered if the price went down the next day. I held on because it almost paid the bills.

I managed to get a better customer service job at another company with a train commute. I studied coding on the train. I switched companies again, nearly doubling my pay, and kept studying as much as I could.

Years later, I'm a real Software Developer and I make a pretty decent living. More importantly, I've been asymptomatic for over ten years. I have a successful career and have built a great life for myself. And I'm happy.

Would I feel comfortable sharing my story in a professional setting? Probably not. It took some guts just to post this with a new account. I don't know what will need to change for the mental health stigma to go away. For now, I will probably continue to fly under the radar, maybe like many others.

Months ago a good friend was really battling depression. I wish I was better at helping people in need, I wish I could just find the happiness switch in their head and flick it to 'on'. But you can't usually fix another person. They have to do it. That doesn't mean you shouldn't try, far from it. Sometimes the best thing you can do is listen, try to understand, and help them help themself.

Or open the door for them to ask for help. Like by asking, "Are you OK?".
It used to mostly be the children of parents who had the financial wherewithal to pay for it went to college. Looking at an article from InsideHigherEd.com [1], you'd think the "10% smartest of a generation" would actually be smarter than they were. At least 60% of college graduates didn't have prose proficiency and document proficiency in 1992! The breakdown for college grads, 1992 vs. 2003:

Prose literacy proficiency dropped from 40% to 31%
Document literacy proficiency dropped from 37% to 25%
(quantitative proficiency not shown)

1. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2005/12/16/graduated-not...
All the activists you know don't want felons to get jobs in the private sector?

Edit: Also, can I introduce you to this poster: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20955714
# why is markdown so popular?
## (my opinion)

Markdown is fast to type for the majority of use cases since you have:

- bullet points

- headings

- __bold__

- __italic__

- `inline code`

- etc

```

fn you_even(_have: &str) -> &str {
"nifty little code blocks without needing to indent"
}

```

And more importantly, markdown syntax preserves the structure of the document without harming legibility, unlike say latex or HTML. That limits it, since the syntax is small, but also reduces friction in learning/writing markdown.

Also, Reddit + GitHub.
You’re totally right. It just looks like the current situation in places like SF is almost entirely due to difficulty in getting permission. Remove rent control entirely and the supply wouldn’t increase much. It’s different in various other places.
I am looking at all the other major news publishers, and none of them have this on their front page.
One of these? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SZiI2KhWfU
Ask HN: Would anyone use a charitable payments API?
Recently built a tool providing a real-time, direct link between donors and recipients (living on ~$2 a day or less). Donors can send cash to very low-income people and exchange messages (e.g., confirmation message, a SMS indicating how the gift was used). Wondering whether it is worthwhile to make it open via API, so that anyone could integrate an option to make direct cash transfers to globally poor people into products, sites, etc.

My question is if people would use such an API, or more specifically:

a. What are the use cases / potential needs solved that would motivate developers to use the API (e.g., something for people to use for side projects to develop skills, a way to encourage more customer spending)?

b. Are financial incentives important (e.g., developers keep 1% of transfers sent through their application)?

c. What other motivations might be there for use?

Curious to hear thoughts.
1) dig pond for drainage, retention, and fill dirt

2) use fill dirt to raise land for houses so they are above flood levels

3) sell houses with "waterfront views"
To me there's no value in talking to a human if the human is roboticly following a script.

It's really frustrating to call the helpdesk and get:

HD: Hello! What's your customer number?

Me: xxxxxxx

HD: Thank you, what's the problem?

Me: It is failing to connect to the network. I've tried a soft reset, then a factory reset, and finally reinstalling the firmware. While sniffing the traffic it looks like the device is failing to accept the DHCP responses from my server, as it continually broadcasts DHCP solicitations and is send responses but never configures its network settings.

HD: Have you tried turning it off and back on?
One anecdote doesn't make the IT industry.
I think it's actually only available as a PDF!
While not technically correct the meaning is clear enough and commonly used as shorthand for "on the order of"
$3 per day per inmate on average for food, keep the wig, leave us with a wreck of a human, covering his/her medical bills until end of life.
Classic WTF: The Indexer (2012)
> It was easily 4-5 times faster than walking

I can walk a mile in 20 minutes which is 3 mph. This implies these scooters can maintain 12-15 mph?

Am I just underestimating how fast you can get going on these things? That seems kind of fast unless you are going downhill both ways.
> All of my zines are best printed out (though you get a PDF you can read on your computer too!), so here are a couple of pictures of what it looks like when printed.
I agree that if everyone is being ethical then that is the right thing to do. I'm just worried about the situation where a fiduciary might actually be doing what they think is best by waiting for a better opportunity and I'm not sure how you judge whether they are doing that criminally or sincerely.
This is a great point! I've noticed a similar thing with Muir Woods in the San Francisco Bay Area. There are other amazing ancient redwood forests in several other places nearby (e.g. Samuel P. Taylor State Park, Redwood Regional Park, Joaquin Miller Park, the north side of Mount Tamalpais facing Fairfax, and several places along both sides of Skyline Drive along the peninsula -- probably among others that I don't know).

OK, the redwood trees in them might be only 80% as old and tall, the United Nations might not have been founded inside them, and some of them might have only 6 km of trails through the forest rather than 10 km. But many of these places are often nearly deserted, have no entrance fee, are a quicker and less twisty drive from San Francisco, and are incredibly majestic, peaceful, and spectacular.

Meanwhile, Muir Woods had to introduce a rationing and permit system to visit by private car or public bus (https://gomuirwoods.com/), and along the main trail on the valley floor you are basically never out of sight of other visitors during a weekend or holiday.

I've reserved a picnic area inside an ancient redwood grove for an upcoming birthday picnic.

https://www.yelp.com/biz/lake-lagunitas-fairfax

OK, it's definitely no Muir Woods, but it's just 6 km north of Muir Woods and you can reserve the area for a small fee on a weekend during the summertime.

I think the power-law effects you describe have been true of tourism forever. Muir Woods has attracted dramatically more tourists than the MMWD or EBMUD redwood groves for decades. But I also think you're right that the Internet is accelerating them, because you can hear about where to go via discovery mechanisms that so drastically and rapidly reward pre-existing popularity.

(If you live in or visit the Bay Area, check out https://www.marinwater.org/175/Directions-Maps-to-Watershed-... and https://www.ebmud.com/recreation/east-bay/east-bay-trails/ for information about hiking in -- often -- redwood forests owned by municipal water districts in reservoir watersheds, or https://www.marinwater.org/DocumentCenter/View/156/Map_Marin... for a map of all public lands in Marin County.)
However, if you think of these products as a "gateway drug" to more plant-based eating, I think there's still an argument to be made that there's potentially a health benefit eventually. If all you do is eat fast food, you have no hope of dietary health. But if you start thinking, "plant-based isn't so bad' perhaps you'll consider them in other contexts as well. Most people could benefit from eating more plants, at least ones that haven't been processed into oblivion (like Beyond or other fast and convenience foods). Of course, it's possible that people will delude themselves that eating White Castle can be healthy if it's vegetarian, but that is a delusion that implies more willful ignorance than fake meat can be responsible for.
In what? Only if we are talking about Github stars or Silicon Valley coffee shops.

Fortune 500 prefer to care about actual delivered business value.
If you think open borders and ongoing orderly nationare an option you're wrong.

Whoever walks into your nation will shape it. Your children's voices don't matter. There are far more children outside the country than in it and democracy can't work with open borders.
When will Michael Hayden explain why the NSA did not predict 9/11?
> "Amazingly, a vehicle had plainly [been] visible on a Google Earth satellite photo of the area since 2007, but apparently no-one had noticed it until 2019," according to the report.

This sounds like a job for machine learning. Are there any systematic efforts underway to use Google Earth to search for out-of-place objects?
> I can't shake the feeling that making peace with this half-living state as a daily existence is either the greatest achievement or the biggest mistake.

This really concisely sums up a feeling I haven’t been able to put my finger on for the longest time, thank you.
After Hipchat died, I tried to get my company to move to Discord instead of Slack. We ended up not doing so, because Discord's TOS does not allow commercial use, only personal use.

https://discordapp.com/terms

This is likely why there are few integrations developer use in Discord as well.
You're reading non-Unicode into strings that expect Unicode, and since there's no way to auto-detect CP1252, you get bad results. If you want to stay in CP1252 you should clearly use bytestrings. You could convert to Unicode, I expect that:

text = file.read().decode('cp1252')

would work (haven't tried it, though).

I frequently work with CJK text, and Python 2 was a real pain. You had to do things one way to output to a terminal, but a different way to output to a pipe, and all your code had to remember to encode('utf8') every time you printed a string (unless you were using pipes, if I recall correctly). The situation is much better with Python 3, especially if you keep your files in UTF-8. Unfortunately, I think Windows is still stuck in their own world, so it might be harder to get UTF-8 by default. In Unix pretty much everything writes UTF-8 files by default, so everything has pretty much just worked for me (macOS/Linux).
4 glasses of wine over a day, on a regular basis is alcoholism. That's ~20 drinks/week.

It may be functional alcoholism, if it doesn't affect your finances/job/relationships, but it's still alcoholism.
Definitely sounds like a place that would put my precious funds to good use.
I'm trying so hard to get out. I'm single with no plan to have dependents, and a debt-free homeowner. I'm not in a relationship for obvious reasons, but if I was, I guess I'd be limited to FIRE people who don't want children, which isn't a very big pool.

According to the calculators, I still have to put in at least another 10 years and save aggressively before I can quit.

I don't think I'm gonna last that long, and if I do, I don't know if there'll be any of me left to enjoy it.
They probably looked a bit, but missing persons cases don't usually get satellite fly-bys.
You can always just cross compile your SPIR-V to GLSL or something. People have been cross compiling between HLSL and GLSL for ages, it's a solved problem even if there are sharp edges.
So you can make your own judgement about the morality of this, but here's a system that I worked on and I sleep just fine at night[1]. I'm a privacy-conscious guy, and nothing I saw working on this made me particularly uneasy.

Highway Weigh Stations are ostensibly there to ensure safe commercial vehicle operations. The system I worked on had a number of different sensors. A mile or so before the weigh station, there was a weight-in-motion (WIM) scale embedded in the highway; this part of the system measures (somewhat coarsely) the weight of the vehicle and counts the number of axles it has. Around there, there's also an ALPR and a USDOT reader[2]. Using the weight, ALPR, and USDOT information, a decision is made as to whether the vehicle is required to check in at the weigh station (which is indicated using a road-side sign). There's no fine yet or anything, vehicles are just flagged for further inspection based on:

- measured weight vs GVWR

- company history / safety rating

- a few other factors that I don't recall off the top of my head

There's a few more ALPR cameras sprinkled throughout the weigh station itself, and another one on the highway past the station. These ones are used to track the motion of the vehicle through the system. For example, if a truck has been flagged to stop, and it instead skips the station and keeps on going, the system knows right away that they've bypassed and can send out an enforcement officer. Alternatively, if the plate is seen at the (more accurate static) scale at the station, the system automatically correlates the weight and the plate, and if it's within range, the driver can sometimes leave without even having to interact with any enforcement officers.

[1] Note that it specifically ignored non-commercial traffic unless there was something really weird going on. Categorically was not keeping persistent records of all traffic.

[2] Funny enough, there's no significant regulations specifying the exact font/size/placement for USDOT information, so a reliable USDOT camera is significantly harder to make than a reliable ALPR.