skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ad Astra – How Realistic Was It?
Mars to Neptune in 68 days. Communication between the two planets via "laser" almost instantly. The necessity of being near Neptune to study exoplanets. An anti-matter machine that can destroy Earth from Neptune, but somehow we can't destroy it from Earth.

Then there are potentially possible, but implausible occurrences: surviving a huge cliff fall on the moon, instantaneous monkey implosions (explosions?), inability to track a spacecraft with its communications off, mutiny on a well organized space mission.

I'm happy to give artistic license liberally (and any Moon shoot-out scene is admittedly fun), but this one seemed to have a bit too many science holes. Am I wrong, are there plausible explanations or is this just sloppy sci-fi?
The claim is that when other people try to replicate the experiments from papers published in Nature and Science, the success rate is lower than when attempts are made to replicate papers published elsewhere.

(I have no knowledge about whether this claim is accurate.)
Iceland was the best i've ever had
Yeah, ironically using the app, I realized that coding made me quite frustrated and then my hard drive failed in 2015 or something and I lost the most current version of the apps on both Android and iOS :-/

That being said, I have been thinking about how to get it fixed and even develop v2.0, possibly through open-sourcing it. Do you think you or someone else you know might be interested in that?

In the meantime, the magic sauce is really nothing too complicated...I used a note app on Android before developing iFeelio and it worked pretty good.

I would open up the note pad, type down the date, time, 1-3 comma-separated words for emotion, and then 1-2 short sentences about how I was feeling. Similar to an I-statement from NVC.

An example would be:

2019-09-28...01:09...grateful, tired...just checked HN and saw that a few people replied to my comments, and it's also 1am so maybe I should go to bed soon.

I made the app mostly because I wanted to enter the date/time automatically, password protect it, and create some ways for me to sort/filter/search previous entries.
Even worse - Backpage was taken down without the use of SESTA/FOSTA.
> Rather than downvote, instead reflect on the fact that if you interview, you'll often be on the receiving end of this

You don't understand. I don't want the job because that would mean having to interact with you.
This is a pretty rare case. I'd say the commenters made it abundantly clear that the project is not to be taken at face value, so in a way the title is not so important. Upvoting the submission doesn't mean you support what the site is saying or doing. It's more that you think it deserves attention, relative to the other articles that are in play that day.

The HN guidelines do ask submitters to use the site's title "unless it is misleading or linkbait" (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). That's why we changed it.
I'm a little confused...what do you mean that the expression of sadness will ramp up?
> people that can handle their own problems

I grew up west coast, spent a lot of time with people who I could "share my problems" with. It taught me to be pathetic when I'm down, to really reach for it. I don't like who I was when that was an effective means of attention.

I really wish the response would have been "You're having a hard time coping with the harshness of reality and acting immature, do your best to get it together soon."
Just wait till you see Emacs plus Gnus!
I don't remember if it was in his book[1] or if it came up when I was discussing the book with someone. Climate change basically ruins all the outdoors stuff so it's tied pretty directly to his business.

[1] Let My People Go Surfing by Yvon Chouinard; the founder of Patagonia
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These questions assume the person has significant prior experience, which makes them unusable for a decent amount of hiring.

At my previous job, we got a set of generic questions like this on our hiring forms from HR. I don't think anyone in my group ever asked them. It's impractical to ask a bunch of open ended questions like this, and also engineering questions, in a 45 or 60 minute time slot.
Using a 1N4148 diode for reverse polarity protection might be a bit under-specced: the Pi-3 + peripherals can draw something near 800mA under heavy load and the 1N4148 is rated at 300mA max continuous current, 500mA max repetitive peak. Something like a 1N5817/1N5819 schottky diode would be better - and maybe a 3A 1N5822 if there's any power-hungry USB peripherals. That buck converter claims to be good up to 3A.

Ref: https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/43285/raspbe...
Shield-down && (buff vs scrawny)
I totally agree that it's a legitimate concern. I share it. From an internet comment point of view, the first thing is to steer clear of, say, the top 5 "you suck" sorts of comment. Because if you fall into one of those, or get interpreted that way, then you're not teaching anybody anything, just putting someone down and encouraging worse from others.

If you know more and have something to teach—and accidental software complexity is an extremely under-taught topic—the burden is on you to establish a context in which real communication is possible. How do you do that? I'm not sure; we could probably exchange notes on this for hours.
Dear all fully-baked "let's decentralize the internet" efforts,

Questions

1. Is the entirety of sci-hub smeared across the edges of your network?

End Questions
myNoise to the rescue-

https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/whiteNoiseGenerator.php
I want to see this married with the Meltano project from Gitlab - it would create an unprecedented end-to-end data environment.

https://meltano.com/
Referring to this Segment blog post? Was my first read on the space, found it pretty informative.

https://segment.com/blog/exactly-once-delivery/
Can someone explain this? I assume it's a joke but I don't know enough
Hi, I'm Eduard, and over the last few years I've been enrolled on many online courses to strengthen my research skills, broaden my career prospects, and to simply learn something new. Some of these courses were free, and others I paid to take part in. However, I haven't completed all of them. Often, I tried to find excuses, telling myself that “this week I'm too busy with my work”, or “this week I’ve a lot on socially, so I don't have the time to submit an assignment…”. This led me to the idea that I needed something that could help me fight procrastination. I needed regular pushes, or gentle advice from some as yet unknown source. As I tried to explore how a tool could be developed to solve this problem, I attended the summer school on behaviour change at University College London. The puzzle has developed. Why not use behaviour change techniques applied effectively to change behaviour in healthcare settings and help others to learn something new instead of wasting their time online.
Slightly more verbose but not much. Just having arguments takes you back to square one where you might mix up the order of width and height since nothing is forcing the caller to use named parameters. Perhaps it would be better to have some linter enforcing such things.
Or it could be he was just disgusted by being propositioned by whores.

The author shouldn't be making up just-so stories about how people in history really think about social issues.
> To form a useful opinion about sex worker laws, that’s what I need. Facts totally divorced from human empathy,

Honestly, this is one of the worst ideas I've ever heard. Maybe you should consider why human empathy is so abhorrent to you. Maybe, if you look into it, there's something going on there that would be worth knowing about yourself?
Right, large-group awareness training. The rationale being that we're a lot alike, and can learn from each other. There's typically lots of sharing, interspersed with material from the presenter. And usually, the person who's sharing is the last one to get the learning.

Hoffstadter's I Am a Strange Loop is mostly about the role that self-referential systems arguably play in consciousness. But it also argues that parts of someones consciousness can survive after death in others.

There's a lot of that in Landmark, but from the opposite perspective. That is, there's the insight that we are fundamentally a set of "stored procedures" that we've copied from our parents, family, friends, etc. And especially those that helped us survive traumas. Such as being told that we're wrong. Or being excluded by peers. Or feeling like we're on our own.

So you get that most of the time, you're just running that stuff automatically. But if you can learn to notice that you're doing that, you have an opportunity to choose. That is, you learn to be aware of the machinery.

The bad news, though, is that there's no escaping the machinery. It's an ancient evolutionarily honed thing, and you're running on it. So all you can do is notice.
If you just admire the historical imagery for what it is, it's an amazing article.

Really, how can you resist this: "the boulevards are currently a veritable court of miracles planted in the middle of Sodom and Gomorrah, and soon all promenades on them will be forbidden not only to honest women who have not been able to show themselves for a long time, but also for men who should not have to be at odds with rascals."
It seems like you're using an extreme example. Most people's lives are not crashing down around them, but they still have vulnerabilities -- anxieties, problems, things they're afraid of. I responded to a comment saying that vulnerability and weakness are not rewarded, and gave an example of how they can be.
Plastics in water that is stored in plastic... very surprising. Glad we have science to tell us this...
> if you're interested in any particular paragraph, you can click and see a whole discussion on "just that paragraph"

Only if you're subscribed.
Human civilization can die much easier than mankind. Civilizations have collapsed multiple times before. Back then the effects were localized because civilizations were localized. In today's globalized world the effects could be much more serious.
Humanity lives in a bubble, and at the edge of that bubble is an incredibly harsh reality.

Someone has to stand guard, typically men. Part of staring into the void is wearing emotional armor. On occasion you should take a break, go towards the middle of the bubble, be safe and warm, take a bath, eat, drop your armor, etc.

But that doesn't mean you were wrong to have worn armor at the wall. Nor does it mean the bubble is reality.

Reality is harsh, and everyone is trying to forget that. I commend those who refuse to.
Thanks. Will check out :)
This is the reason I got more serious about programming. This is really awesome.
Current senior software engineer positions at a FANG company pays better than the president of the United States.
If you're incapable or unwilling to empathize and feel compassion for one single person in isolation, stay away from my social policy.
Ah, cool, I'll check more into Tantra!

With regards to martial arts, maybe it just depends on the definition of expressing them. To put them into words, maybe not so much. I remember taking a Krav Maga class and I saw the head trainer go from calm to intensely focused and powerful in a flash, and then back to calm after the exercise. So, for me, he was expressing the emotions physically, just not so much with his words.

At the same time, in other self-defense trainings I've taken, I've seen more emphasis on how to express verbally, lending towards conflict de-escalation.

But I would agree, overall, that most martial arts don't seem to highlight the verbal expression of emotions...but I hope to one day change that. I've been building a martial art/self-defense system that focuses more on responding to emotional attacks, as I believe I'm much more likely to be emotionally attacked than physically attacked.
Well, we're not volunteers except in the sense that we volunteer to be paid to do this :)

I appreciate the decency of your response.
> When prostitution is legalised, the demand often outstrips the supply, leading to an increase in human trafficking.

This line of reasoning makes very little sense to me. Let's just consider another profession. It's pretty undeniable the demand for skilled software engineers currently outstrips the supply. Especially for certain in-demand specialists.

Yet we don't see machine learning PhDs being kidnapped and enslaved to work in a dank basement tuning Netflix's recommendation algorithm for hours on end with Reed Hastings and his goons threatening to kill their families. The simpler solution is for Netflix to just pay enough money to attract qualified people for the job.

Every single other market in the world has a simple mechanism to deal with the scenario where demand outstrips supply. And that is simply to let prices rises to the point where the two reach equilibrium.

There's absolutely zero reason why the market for prostitution should be any different. To the extent that it isn't it's only because law enforcement either is incapable of or refuses to investigate the complaints of crimes committed against sex workers.
How to Deploy a Node Application and Database to Heroku by Bolaji Ayodeji
Fixing up KA9Q-Unix, or “neck deep in 30 year old codebases..”
Love the thought. We weren't aware of this project - thanks for the pointer. Will follow-up.
Scouts are not integrated. Troops are separated by sex. They are safe in their spaces.
It's asking you to deconstruct yourself before you even begin work. You are not allowed to come into a new group of people working with your preconceived notions on how to work effectively or work well with other people, you must be asked questions that kick your brain out of work mode and start making you work on your own character instead. You are to be hazed and integrated, a threshold guardian needs to be passed.

People with a reputation for getting results get to skip this step, the bottom line matters more than your character. But any company will hold up a boundary at the door to make sure you fit the mould, or at least don't sink the ship.

The fundamental problem of bringing the unknown into the known has to have some boundary, what that is that makes sense usually just rides a trend wave. Character and behavioural stuff is all the rage right now. It'll pass onto other things soon enough.
A few days back there was a thread started by students of his course on Reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/d7ad2y/d_s...
Huawei Mate 30 lack of Google services starts to look more and more appealing :)
We banned the account that posted that, so I'm not sure what the complaint is.
> At my previous job, we got a set of generic questions like this on our hiring forms from HR. I don't think anyone in my group ever asked them.

I would love to be wrong, but interviewing still seems more magic than science. I've interviewed for positions and think I did great, and did not get a job, and for others, did poorly and did get an offer. On the other side, I've hired promising candidates that turned out terrible, and questionable candidates that turned out great.

There are some things you can do to filter out the worst of folks (e.g., a fiz-buz test or evaluating basic communication skills), but these generally just filter out the bottom 20%. It's maddeningly difficult to differentiate between the middle 50% and the top 20%.

When you occasionally find a rock-star, they generally know they're a rock-star and demand rock-star pay. The top 5% of candidates is rarely 2X more productive than the top 10%, but they can demand much higher salaries because they are easier to identify.
Another SF attack spotlights city's mental illness and drug addiction crisis
If they say stuff like that, they aren't friends.

The polite response is something like: "I hear that as shaming, and it offends me."
Japan has far worse. See “Audition” , for example of this.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0235198/?ref_=m_nm_knf_i3

I was really emotionally affected after that one. Good fun.
Props to you for a much more open-minded response than most people would have in that position.
Orwellian in more than one manner.
Some of your arguments are used to justify the Nordic Model -- only clients should get arrested. However, it somehow always seems that it's the sex workers who suffer, even being arrested and gaoled for working/living together, etc. It's a rad fem authoritarian utopia that damages SWers routinely, and has had not noticeable impact on already-illegal trafficked SWer situation (generally from former USSR and the middle-East).
I am mildly disappointed to learn that this is probably an overestimate, although it is pretty significant http://factmyth.com/factoids/malaria-killed-half-the-people-...
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The CFS group at MIT is trying to build a larger test reactor to show Q > 1 results. In some cases, it is a matter of scaling up (construction work) a hypothesis.

Agreed on your research point within the context of one approach in one company.
Because they are of a lower intellectual class and primarily employ chimpanzees and orangutans.
And trust, as we see in the totally-free-and-definitely- not-completely-composed-of-back-scratching-b-school-flunkies market, is very very expensive.
You're both right. The aversion to showing positive numbers (because a negative number could become anything!!) is real, and so is the vague uneasiness and deep unawareness of how capitalism works among people working within a system it created.
We've unkilled a lot of your comments and would be happy to restore more if we missed some good ones.
I am concerned with this subject on a daily basis and this is the most civilized and educated discussion I saw until now.

Refreshing, really. Thank you
His evidence is quoted directly from the letter where the letter writer says the men who accosted him might have confused him with someone they knew.

It’s as good as analysis of a single stand-alone 1850s letter gets. That is to say, it’s a narrative based on a massive string of assumptions and contextual clues.
New fungus-derived antibiotic: relief in sight for immunocompromised people?
is this a joke I'm not understanding - I ask just because fruit is not normally something one reaps.

At any rate the construction of the phrase attempts to pair the sin with a motivator suited to that sin - threaten is suited to cowardice because one should be afraid of threats.

That said - I would have gone with prod the lazy.
>but it still seems like a responsible thing to do.

Especially, when advertising privacy & security as a premium selling point.
They've been at Google for a while now and it's gone to their head. The funny thing is that the most talented, most intelligent people I know that work in tech are some of the most extremely humble and kind as well. They command far more respect with their quiet strength than he/she does with their bullying nature.
Well, that wasn't my main point and I did mean 10 weeks of gestation (just as an example).

Still, physiological responses are not the best indicator of mental states - plants and primitive animals (from sponges to bivalves) have them too, despite lacking the neurological development necessary for (or evolutionary need for) "consciousness".
We developed an ultrablack fabric and totally missed that opportunity.

But then people pointed me towards the book when we did an Iama on reddit and what an excellent read!
The Church of Scientology doesn't have a flock of over one and a third billions. And unique among religions, the Roman Catholic Church possesses enough temporal power to possess its own sovereign nation-state.

It's perfectly possible to evaluate the statements of an organization that one is morally or ideologically opposed to without endorsing them, especially when that organization is one of the most influential structures in human history. At the very least, it's helpful in determining how the masses of adherents might react to those statements.
Can't a guy throw a joke graph up in his post mocking startup bullshit without folks going full Nate Silver on him?

> Ironic,

Yes.
Community (solidarity, cooperation, concern for others and knowing one's neighbors) is in steep decline in most of the US for many reasons, and especially in Silicon Valley because the vast majority of its denizens aren't settling permanently but are just in town temporarily to earn an income, so they care less about their surroundings or anyone else but themselves. Furthermore, higher income leads people to care less about others. (UC Berkeley Monopoly experiments)

Possible solutions:

- There ought to be a modern replacement for churches (the Atheist unchurches, multi-denominational churches), which were the focal points of communities for centuries.

- Civic involvement in local law-making and local concerns.

- Putting screens away to prioritize human interaction.

- Revive the art of small-talk.

- Less polarized/political interactions, seeking understanding of others' points of view (you can't persuade true believers of anything new if they're already in violent agreement).

- Take the lead to create new leagues for group activities: bowling, skiing/snowboarding, ultimate frisbee, etc.
Moreover this is not attempting to present anecdotal data, but to explain her position eloquently, to illustrate why exactly people might choose sex work, why it isn't black and white. I think it's the grey that hurts people's brains.
Ask HN: What does senior front end developers do/know that others don’t?
I got talking with a colleague about this the other day and would like to know what you guys think?

What do senior frontend devs know/do that others don't? How do they approach problems? What knowledge do they have? How do they interact with others? How much do they work? How do they support others?

Thoughts?
I wrote a webpage in 2015 about the Decety paper, what it was and how it was presented in the media, which might be of interest. The paper seemed highly suspect in various ways even at the time. I added an update in 2017 that "new analysis shows that the original study failed to adequately control for the children’s nationality". On the (unfinished) page I'm using the paper as an excuse to teach myself basic statistics and research methods.

http://www.adamponting.com/decety/
PHP an older and more mature language. It also is synchronous so it runs similar to C/Java/Python.

Programming full stack with JavaScript requires a different programming mindset with its asynchronous nature.
I worked for a major cloud service a few years back, and got a wonderful introduction in to how loadbalancers are, for the most part, somewhat awful.

They work better when it's just one in front of a fleet of servers, and so have the total picture of what is going on, but of course that's quite the bottleneck. So you get two LBs, or more, and they each only have their notion of what the back end fleet is doing. There's no standard feedback mechanism to them at all.

Some offer approaches like measuring response time, but that doesn't work so great as soon as you consider APIs where no two requests perform the same. Was it a fast request that got answered slowly (back-end overloaded?), or a slow request that got answered quickly (back-end bored?). Who knows.

For the service I was working on a few years ago, no two requests are the same by any stretch of the imagination, even for the same API call, and came with a variation on request size, and computational power required to process them.

As you'd expect, traditional loadbalancer behaviour actually handled about things to an okay degree probably 90% of the time. That 10% was a real killer though.
It is definitely a thing

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-018-0399-z