skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't know what to check my power supply for and how I would go forward with that in an iMac. And this phenomenum isn't limited to the iMac, my Mac Mini had the same problem. Across different disks and interfaces. The disconnects are not constant, but an irregular thing. A colleague occasionally has the same problem, he even managed to get a local disk image unmounted when waking from sleep. So it might just be a MacOS problem.

With Thunderbolt3, there are more solutions for external storage, but still I find it odd consindering the price, that you don't get a desktop Mac where you can plug in some NVM SSDs or you get at least a few 2.5 inch bays.
You can't ignore the timing.

If he wasn't fired/forced to resign because of his comments about Minsky, why did it happen just after those comments?
I think the fascination with WW on HN is because of how deftly they've used the "tech company" image to shield themselves from criticisms that their valuation is far removed from their reality of their gargantuan losses.
My grandfather was in the double digits of heart attacks before he passed. He ended up dying of Liver cancer instead of a heart issue like we all expected.
Bob Nystrom (aka munificent)'s previous book "Game Programming Patterns"[0] is really nice, and there's lots of things in there that work outside of a game context.

[0] gameprogrammingpatterns.com
What type of process could be used to make sure that their experience and knowledge gets back into the mainline product?
I don't see a single person in the top comments speak about this. This feature is going to allow people to hide legitimate non-trash responses that criticize the tweet, and it will be very convenient going into the 2020 elections. Dissenting voices WILL be silenced.
Are there such things as brands on the black market? Any producer can imitate another producer's product.
Interesting! Do you have any clue on why these websites are being made? Reddit also has many aggregators, but some of them are literal blogger websites.
Good analysis!
Because the government is, or becomes, terrible at everything. All it takes is one super republican or democrat or socialist in leadership to start padding the office with their own people. Add to that, a lot of government jobs are stable, regardless of how awful you are(DMV, anyone?). I just don't trust it to keep fresh, and not fill with aging folks who haven't paid attention in years.

I'd probably be more OK with the idea if there were mandatory term limits, like the USDS, and the vetting process had oversight from a committee of congress.
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Mean is 3.125, median is 2, and mode is 2. All of those are averages.
Way to take my comments out of context, I make these comments actually as a Colombian myself first except I don't live there, also I don't believe it's as simple as saying Colombians don't learn from their own mistakes, but obviously there seems to be a lot of political turmoil much of which people instantly want engage with in emotional reaction instead of thinking about the bigger picture for the entire country at whole and what it would take to unite it.
Why is this downvoted? This is informative and (in my opinion) basically correct.

And while I agree that in the near term, refueling via chemical rockets is a far cheaper (and even higher performance) way of solving this problem, I do support the research because someday we'll want to go even beyond refueling of chemical rockets. When you get REALLY high transfer times between Earth and Mars, the higher Isp makes a significant difference.

To explain: Conventionally, it takes about 6-8 months to get to Mars. Nuclear thermal rockets can shorten this time for the same mass in LEO to like 3 or 4 months. HOWEVER, agreeing with what api said, you can get the same exact speedup by using refueling with conventional rockets (and aerocapture/braking/direct-entry). It increases the required mass in LEO, but if you have cheap (especially reusable) rockets, then cost to launch more mass to LEO is not a major factor compared to the cost of a nuclear thermal rocket. And this is exactly what SpaceX has proposed: (see slides 19 through 22) http://www.spacex.com/sites/spacex/files/making_life_multipl...

But the Isp (exhaust velocity) advantage is maintained. The rocket equation is exponential: mass full = (empty mass)*e^((mission delta-v)/(exhaust velocity))

So eventually, when mission delta v is much higher than exhaust velocity, the mass ratio explodes. So a factor of 2 improvement in Isp is worth the extra cost, even if you have reusable rockets. The exponential curve eventually beats even the cheap, brute-force approach, if you want transfer times of on the order of 1 month.

It's also the kind of work NASA should be doing. Private industry is doing a really good job reducing the cost to orbit, so NASA can focus on these longer-term problems.
All social media is bad imho. For example, people on Instagram only show the good, never the bad. So its a fake reality that people look up to, when in fact its far from the truth. The like button is part of the problem.
The Science of Functional Programming [pdf]
Constant harassment via private mails while maintaining a civil facade on the mailing list. Personal aggression and threats of lawsuits.
Either the author is misunderstanding things or I am.

I was under the impression that HN had a relatively liberal policy on scrapers, allowing hobbyists to scrape the content and present it in alternative UIs, such as https://hckrnews.com or http://hn.elijames.org

That doesn't seem analogous to PBNs, where the value they add is not a better browsing interface but just some extra link juice.
Although similar they are not the same. The government must still, in most states, have charges on the books or more to seize anything and there is generally recourse if not suing for your assets back then voting or running for office to change laws.

Google is far less likely to ever let you tell them what they can or can't do, even as a regulator. The government is you, fundamentally, while Google is not.
Um, uh, um, uh...where to start?

"Mined" from where? How?
Mail it to yourself.. You'll get a postmark with a date/time it was processed. Don't open the envelope once it arrives, and now you've got proof of when you mailed it.
To understand the difference between stressed and unstressed, it may be useful to consider versions of words which differ only in their stress pattern, of which we have a few. Record, the verb, as in "I'll record the show", is two syllables, unstressed-stressed. Record, the noun, as in "Hey, wanna listen to my new record?" is stressed-unstressed. Ditto address the verb vs. address the noun (at least in American English). In fact, we have a whole family of these words with two versions, mostly french-derived bisyllables, known as initial-stress-derived nouns[0].

Most words of more than one syllable have one primary stress. (Sometimes longer ones have a second, weaker stress, too.) In words of more than one syllable, the stress more often than not falls on the second syllable, though this is far from universal.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial-stress-derived_noun
Perhaps a better title would be "Differences between Dutch and English as seen through poetry", or something along those lines?

I have no idea what the title is supposed to mean. "Ebbing" appears nowhere in the text. There's a passing reference to a poem called "Eb", meaning "ebb" in English. It's not really about language "ebbing", much less a thing called by the name "Ebbing". It's certainly not about an Ebbing programming language, which is what I had assumed it would be given its placement on this site -- aside from the link to poetryfoundation.org.

Aside from that it is an interesting essay on the nuances of words and the challenges of translation. Especially for poetry, which depends on every aspect of a word -- its sound, its meter, the contexts in which it has been used.
As a CTO, what hack did you find to deal with your most painful recurring task?
The UK has what are called "Non-ministerial government departments"[0]. These are government departments who aren't overseen directly by the government because they are deemed issues that live outside of the domain of the current governing party. This is in part to avoid the kind of "50% control" problems.

Does the US not have some kind of similar element?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-ministerial_government_dep...
In the 90s, I taught retraining courses to government computer programmers (e.g former COBOL programmers) Let’s just say “they’re not sending us their best people” roughly describes my experience. That is, people who had previously held jobs writing code by the government didn’t even know what “parenthesis key” meant or where it was located which largely led me to believe that many of the people in my class were collecting paychecks but didn’t really know how to use computers.

Unless the government radically raises salaries and benefits for these positions to attract top talent, I’d be concerned with it being stacked with a bunch of people who don’t have much developer or engineering experience.
I would do that for free!
I don’t see that as a one or the other decision. I think of it as a continuum, where decision making on either side is grounded in knowledge of history. Should the government decide if Nike or Addidas make better shoes? No, let the market do that. But if one company makes cheaper and better shoes by offloading toxic waste into aquifers that feed large cities, the market is not good at weeding that out until the damage has been done. Enter regulations created in and of the public interest.
"Simplify and streamline" is exactly not the solution here, in fact the issue was that the relevant information was invisible and hidden from pilots, not that there was too much. Not everything in good design needs to end up looking like a Fischer-Price toy.

The main problems from my limited understanding were: pilots didn't know the subsystem existed; they didn't know it had activated; they didn't know what it was doing; they didn't know how to turn it off.

Additional instrumentation could have addressed all these issues but would have been more expensive than what they actually did.
And we at https://simulify.com are making a UI for react based static sites. Pls join our alpha.
Effectively, they already do that. Although the United States doesn't launch reactors, we do on occasion launch radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs). These use a core of sub-critical plutonium surrounded by thermocouples, which turn the heat into electricity. These are used for probes going to the outer solar system, where solar panels aren't effective enough.

Anyway - there is certainly a concern with the plutonium in RTGs being dispersed by a launch failure. The engineering that goes into designing the protective system for RTGs is extensive; they each have their own miniature heat shield, and are surrounded by iridium and carbon blocks. Tests show that they can indeed survive the explosion of the launch vehicle.
First definition:

>a foolish or contemptible person who lacks social skills or is boringly studious
What difference does it make if someone willingly gives up your personal information, or someone is tricked into giving up your information? Either way, people who didn't consent had their information collected by a political campaign, which is what everyone was upset about with Cambridge Analytica.
If you comment on their tweets, yes. If you just tweet something out, Comcast can't hide it (yet).
What makes you think asset forfeiture in the USA is on the way out?
I find all the talk about bureaucratic waste disingenuous when there are never reductions in the parts of governmental spending that benefit business directly. Ie private prisons and industrial complexes.
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The reason why companies like Google care to do things like lobby is that those companies get the majority of their power from the government, so of course they want to petition the government for more of it. It doesn't make sense to get into an arms race in this way. Instead, let's eviscerate copyright and patent protections, and let's take a wack at the corporate veil too. That will chop companies like Google down to size and make their lobbying irrelevant and/or useless while simultaneously weakening their power to control the rest of us.
I suppose the question is not whether these people are a completely accurate representation of the country as a whole, but whether they will effectively serve as a dampening factor on corporate lobbyists. We shouldn't compare them against an unreachable ideal, but ask if they'll be an improvement on what we have now. I think they probably will.
A different point: most murders are committed by people who are known by the victim, while DNA can reveal connections from strangers.

https://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=tp&tid=941

> "Stranger" is a classification of the victim's relationship to the offender for crimes involving direct contact between the two. Incidents are classified as involving strangers if the victim identifies the offender as a stranger, did not see or recognize the offender, or knew the offender only by sight.

Interestingly, there was a brief period in the US 1990's where over 50% of murders were committed by strangers.
Drug cartels in Mexico & Central America have been found to be running heir own cellular phone networks. A rouge datacenter seems quaint in comparison.
I was there, and we did not.
I would subscribe to a blog you write about the people (with names, photos) behind every single business fuckup, especially if it is a decision made because of greed.
Yes, and I can choose to not involve you in the political demonstration I'll take part in. Worst case I can cut of contact with you entirely, if I don't trust you. But removing shared DNA is not possible. I'd have no recourse against you giving an uprising authoritarian government the means to identify me.
It wasn’t a witchhunt. The pedophiles were outed insulted they were discovered after bating people with money for years. Then folks like Stallman came out to defend the pedophiles. People are disgusted by this defense so they want others like him removed from their organizations.

Remove the roaches instead of demolishing the building.
> Why Nerds?

Ask the verge. 'Nerd' was their word, not Warren's.

https://elizabethwarren.com/plans/congressional-independence
Part of the problem is packaging from these brands are ripped off, produced in mass and sold on ebay. Anyone can buy these boxes and put their own carts in them and pass them off as legitimate. Many brands now have QR codes on the box you can scan for authenticity and laboratory test results. Im sure people will find a way to spoof those too.
There are also a good amount of men who make lots of money. However, they are not attractive. They might by chubby, scrawny, bad hygiene, and don't dress well.
Too late. Like 2 years late.
It can be justified, just as nearly anything can be justified under the right conditions. Whether present conditions, contrasting our current state with the state of the past, warrants such political lengths to divide people is questionable.

Considering that they, like you, think they're right, you can at least grant other human beings the same dignity you wish to receive. Obviously, everything is subject to the situation but, from a big picture perspective, viewing yourself and others as fallible, as opposed to a Hollywood-esque fight between Good and Evil, is a greater exercise in humility. Like pulling the trigger on a gun, hostility and rejection should be a weapon reserved until there isn't an alternative.

If you think there's no hope for a common understanding with Republicans(I think it's safe to assume that's whom you are referring to), then I guess all I have to say is that's kind of sad because I'm sure that you have family and friends who vote Republican(whether they tell you or not); why associate with them at all if you think a low-trust society is warranted?

Think of it this way. A Republican might say:

"How much comaraderie should one really be expected to show for an opposing party that actively opposes America as an individual nation, wants to impart an economic structure that's been disastrous in other parts of the world, embraces censorship, participated in proxy wars and knowingly murdered civilians with drones, uses minorities as political tools, hates white people, expanded the surveillance apparatus, and wants to take our guns away?"

I know some imbecile is probably going to take that hypothetical quote as being my own position and attempt to argue every one of those points. Save your breath, whomever you are, because that's not at all what I'm claiming to believe.

Whether they are actually right or wrong, they are Americans who, like you, care about the destiny of the country. That's where your camaraderie begins. If it ends there too, then too bad, but not having that common understanding is dangerous and useful to anyone who wants to control the masses.
"One solution would be to encode the prophecy into a blockchain, and reference that in the envelope. This way there's multiple witnesses that you did something that day at least."

That's the basic scheme. Variants on this idea have been in use for centuries. Modern hash schemes, including those used in the blockchains, make it trivial, albeit at the price of byte-for-byte precision; you just have to provide reasonable evidence that something existed at some point in time, which is easy with twitter, facebook, google, and literally thousands of other places you can stick arbitrary content that will end up with a timestamp that you can reasonably claim you have no ability to forge.
Writing an Interpreter in Go and it's sequel Writing a Compiler in Go by Thorstan Ball are both excellent reads.

Also enjoyed Game programming patterns by Bob again, but that has already been mentioned.
Sure, but this doesn't matter much to me. You're objectively right that this fits someone's wants, but it doesn't fit my wants.

I have yet to come across a problem on an old Jeep Cherokee or Toyota Tacoma that I couldn't figure out how to fix with a little help from the internet, and I'm by no means a car expert. Sometimes the parts cost or size has shut me down, but not the complexity. An electric motor is far simpler than a gasoline engine, so it should be easier to work on, not harder. Can you fix your Tesla's A/C if it breaks? Can most mechanics fix your Tesla's A/C if it breaks?
There’s a difference between behavior and discussion. Most of the intolerance today seems to be intolerant of speech.

I agree we should not tolerate behavior, but someone saying (or in this case tweeting) something isn’t necessarily the same.
When you learn enough elisp to start calling external programs. Magit is a
good place to start.
The article states that it is easy to actually buy empty carts and even real branded packaging. Why anyone would sell that is insane...

"One of the shops visited by NBC News in Los Angeles sold packaging for Dank Vapes Gorilla Glue, the same brand of vape that Castillo was using before he landed in the hospital ICU. "
For airliners, there is less room for error caused by the pilots (but it still happens). In General Aviation, the accident rate is more than an order of magnitude higher per mile (FAA has the data on their site) and by far in most cases it is pilot error, even if GA planes are less reliable. The official statistics are not very accurate because the GA accidents are investigated with less rigor, there are no black boxes to record what really happened and the pilots lie about the real cause (in more than 50% of the accidents I personally know).
It is hard to prove all these, but some data exists on the FAA site, the inside info will never be public anywhere to consult. By inside info I am talking about the real story told by the pilots that had the accidents, in small communities people talk very openly about it.
LE. I mentioned General Aviation because I know pilots with over 10,000 on B737 that died flying smaller planes or not able to fly at all smaller planes.
another problem is you can buy the packaging for legit brands

The give away is that the THC and CDB test results are pre-printed on the box, instead of a STICKER on the package.
Don't buy vape carts off the street yall.
So tax the FAANGs what it costs to regulate them, the government is pretty good at spending lots of money.
You are jumping to conclusions. Because the HN UI is not everyone's cup of tea, there are a lot of people that have reworked the UI for mobile, etc. Also, there isn't or wasn't an HN API, so scraping was the only option. Finally, there's a lot of people who take on the exercise for fun, so you get "HN in VueJS" which aren't nefarious, just exercises.

Look at your results, why would you think "React HN clone" on github.io was something other than just a personal fun project.
Some recent court rulings:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/20/us/politics/civil-asset-f...
I'm failing to understand why someone would choose these "wet" cartridges that are mixed with other compounds, compared to just get a dry-herb vaporizer that you just put the marijuana in. Could some enligheten me?
> Indeed! These native ads are getting more blatant by the day. I know times are hard for print media but this doesnt help with the perceived credibility or lack thereof.

I don't understand the complaints about this being an ad at all. Okay, so maybe it's an ad. Is it conveying useful information? I didn't know Apple Watch's were capable of doing this. Ads are just another way of conveying information - often that information is useless. But in this case? No, it's not useless information. It's important and valuable to many people. The alternative is that there's no ads and nobody finds out about this feature, and they lose out on the opportunity to decide whether this feature (and others) warrant a purchase. It also sparks conversation about possible alternatives (and no, the devices for seniors aren't an alternative for many people), or where alternatives fall short.
Not necessarily. If I add chocolate sprinkles to my son's ice cream cone I am improving his experience but ice cream without sprinkles is still pretty good.
Unsurprising. And also not really actionable advice.
I was an English major in college, so maybe I'm taking some background for granted here: no one expected that good poetry had 5x14 da-DUMs without relief. (Certainly you wouldn't want to force Shakespeare to sound that way when you read it aloud.) But the most common variations were well-known and tended to feel right, letting the poet vary things enough to avoid sing-songiness but still not stand out as wrong. So a trochee in the first foot is very common. Same with a spondee in the last foot. Other feet can flip to become trochees too, but people have pointed out that it is more common in some feet than others. For example (IIRC but it's been a long time) I don't think the fourth foot flips very often, because it's hard to make it not sound bad. But those changes are "allowed" and so "it's still iambic pentameter." So it'd be cool if your algorithms could acknowledge those deviations, e.g. maybe give the line a purple-and-white shading instead of just white, or an asterisk.

EDIT: A quick Google turned up this article that has a lot of the patterns I remember: https://versemeter.wordpress.com/2016/09/20/iambic-pentamete...
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> Presumably pay should / can be lower in a place where you actually want to work for than in a shitty work environment?

Some people are in it primarily for the pay -- those people will not be willing to take a lower pay rate in exchange for almost anything.

For others (like myself), the pay rate is third or fourth down on the list of what makes a position attractive.

I think that both perspectives are valid -- everyone has their own individual priorities.