skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't tried the thing yet, but if it made my life easier, I would most certainly pay for and use it. Or get my customers to do so.

Data pipelining, cleaning and feature construction is the most time consuming part of data science. Its almost always a struggle, and the process usually produces fragile and ephemeral code that will need to be rewritten to put into production. If you could provide a labview-like GUI thing to remove some of this drudgery, assuming you could hook it up to database and csv back ends, or if there were a target which could do this, and the result were robust and could be deployed, it would make me much more productive than fiddling around with pandas or R data tables.

Maybe it isn't what you built, but I've said many times this is the most useful data science product; the one that is 10x easier than writing your own every damn time. Fancy woo-woo classifiers with alleged superpowers don't even begin to compare to tooling like this.
In “Building Communities with Software” (2004), Spolsky writes:

“Q. Could you make a feature where I check a box that says “email me if somebody replies to my post?”

A. This one feature, so easy to implement and thus so tempting to programmers, is the best way to kill dead any young forum. Implement this feature and you may never get to critical mass. Philip Greenspun’s LUSENET has this feature and you can watch it sapping the life out of young discussion groups.”

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/03/03/building-communiti...
>This is a contrived situation that never actually happens

I have encountered this situation at least three times in the last month alone. Distracted pedestrians frequently walk in front of cars during a light change.
Agree. For some reason many people either dismiss or undervalue the character of cities and neighborhoods, which are a critical part of their culture, the quality of life, and what made them attractive in the first place.
IMO the conceptual level below CSS is in the design sphere - the box model itself. You would not believe the number of people who hack together properties until they get something that looks right, without understanding the box model, who think they're really good frontend developers.
… and 50 years from now the people being annoyed by green measures will be remembered only as at best misguided, like the people who claimed that smog prevention would devastate California’s economy.
There is some code that is still in C/C++ - remnants of XeTeX, but there is a project[1] to convert all legacy code in Rust.

[1] https://github.com/crlf0710/tectonic/
If you convert to monthly at that daily rate, parking costs $1550/month. If you figure your car’s share of the space in the garage is on the order of ~250 sq ft (the space itself plus a portion of the lanes in the garage), that seems about inline with what studio apartment housing goes for (quick google search turned up 500 sf studios in the $2500-$3000 range)

I’m just loosely estimating here but $50/day for vehicle storage seems like about what I would expect it to cost based on other land use in Manhattan. But of course none of it would be possible without a massive subsidy in the form of public road access.
So when my father puts a SUM() calculation into Excel via the UI he is programming?

That's a bit of a stretch.
I'm the other way. I don't trust the users here to be real or not vote manip. Top comments are most dangerous.

The heart of discussion can be found in the details, not the surface.
nice! i had this idea in mind for a while but didn't see how to monetize it :) glad someone did it.

> We collect every new submission and comment from Hacker News, and once every 5 minutes or so (assuming I don't break something).

nit - you should decide if your tone is "we" or "I".

edit: another idea would be to add notifications for upvote/downvote you get. it's harder to implement so maybe just when your score changes...

edit2: why downvote? ️
Interesting—‘selective enforcement’ [1] or what I’ve heard described as ‘will to enforce the law’.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_enforcement
Mun Programming Language
They need to be documented obviously. Valid medical records are an absolute must, or more people will end up dead. Refugees are a different matter but should still be taken care of.
I have ongoing medical services and a lot of smaller places have archaic billing systems so I regularly write checks. When I call a plumber or electrician I often end up writing a check. I'll still send a check if there's a fee to pay online or via credit card (like DMV or property taxes).

I find it a bit silly and wish there were other options. My co-workers in other countries find it very backwards, too.
> I lost all respect for Project Zero this week.

Aren't you being a bit... dramatic?
How does "I'm not smart enough" turn into "I'm so smart"?
Chevy Bolt has very workable range. ~230 EPA
And also using the java.util.concurrdent package sidesteps most foot-guns involving roll your own synchronization.
I can tell you. In 2 years of running the previous version of this, i emailed the hundreds of users a total of 0 times.

I will email the old users for the first time later today once I migrate their accounts to the new platform.
Paris is one of the densest modern European cities I have ever lived in. My first flat was a 20sqm studio. And my last apartment was 97sqm for a family of 4. Even in NYC the smallest place I could find was 45sqm and even that was considered less than ideal.

It costs a lot of fuel to keep a large apartment comfortable. So your typical American, 800sqft, 1/1 simply would not work in Paris. Micro-apartments are just becoming a thing in the US and even then there is a lot of pushback from inhabitants and developers.

Finally, Paris sits in a valley. The trees aren't just an aesthetic, they help keep the inhabitants sane and clear the air. New York City on the other hand turns into a miserable, swamp during the summer. It's hot, humid, and with no breeze the air actually feels gross.
I agree, cars are only more practical and efficient since we designed the infrastructure around them. We have immense highways, fairly available and relatively inexpensive parking, even in major cities. Without this infrastructure it would be extremely impractical to get around with a car, see for example some old European cities. For example, I remember being in Toledo, Spain and my rental car that I needed for the countryside was completely useless, I left it parked in an expensive lot the whole time and walked everywhere. Even the compact hatchback could barely fit down the narrow cobblestone streets and there was certainly no parking in the areas around the shops or restaurants. Compare that to Oakland, CA where I live now and there are massive freeways going right through the center of the city, in fact, I can use one for my 5mi commute to work when I drive, this is the only reason that its about 1-2min faster to drive than to bike.

Many people also claim its not safe to bike in the city but this is also a symptom of designing the system around cars. If we simply dedicated all the roads to biking and only a few sporadic car-lanes it would be much safer to bike.
>The number of people making the decisions doesn't matter. Democratize things as much as you want and you'll often get irrational choices.

Of course you will. The point about the greater fool theory is that the market system for equities generates a negative feedback loop rather than being dampened by rational actors in the system. This perpetuates an enormously wasteful misallocation of resources.

>I guess capitalism is flawed because resources are not infinite? Is capitalism flawed because humans die?

Something tells me that if I were talking about the soviet shoe factory principle you wouldn't be so eager to excuse socialist misallocation of resources. Could it be that your argument is based more upon tribalism than logic?
i learned a bunch of German years ago, and while i don't really know what the particular components mean, it's pretty easy for me to decompose the word into parts. do you see a "ge-" or a "be-"? its probably the beginning of a verb; an "-ung" or "-eit" are usually noun endings; etc. and this happens pretty much subconsciously
It should be an RSS feed.
> As a result, its much harder to see in front of you and the extra clearance means you actually suck someone underneath the car instead of over.

I drive a crossover and I'm not sure where you get this idea from - let alone it being the issue. In can see much better out of my crossover than my sedan because I have a higher seating position and a smaller engine bay to look over. Height would really only be an issue in a parking lot if a child was hiding in front of a car.
In many large cities you see sprawling suburbs and neighborhoods with individual houses. These take up a huge area that could have been planted with trees, need a lot of new infrastructure built (a lot of asphalt), and a lot of brand new lawns to water. All of which have plenty of negative environmental impact. This also encourages people to go for personal cars since public transport never really seems to keep up efficiently given the low density and large areas. And all of those cars go to the city every day.

The problem is basically everyone thinks the solution to all of this is to buy an EV (I know I'll get a lot of hate from EV owners/fans for this one; still true for those who fit the rest of the description above) instead of seeing all the other ways with far bigger impact. Like not needing a car at all, for one. This would slowly reduce traffic to the point where cutting a lane doesn't cause any severe inconvenience.
I'm the same way with remembering facts. Like a juicer and a sieve I quickly turn experiences into facts, potential facts and general concepts. My memory for facts and concepts is better than most people I meet but my chronological memory is poor. I remember going to lectures in uni and providing I comprehended the lecture and was focused remembering all the concepts and facts presented was trivial. Conversely remembering the order of events like what year I went on that holiday to the USA or what month this year I left my last job is harder. I might remember the season at best.
Plenty of them already take the subway, and the rest of them will too once cars aren't an option.

Am I supposed to feel sorry for them for having to take the subway with the rest of us plebes? They don't deserve any better than the rest of us.
How about math formula support?
We is my company. I is me, the developer. I realize it might be confusing, I'll have my editor look at it.
Hello! I’m working on Retool (https://retool.com), and it does exactly what you said. Our focus is more on building internal applications + dashboards, and we have a HIPAA-compliant version you can deploy on-prem with no telemetry. I’ll try to reach out to you (but if I can’t find your email, mine is david@). Thanks!
Prius are doing just fine, so are Honda hybrids, especially plug-ins
Everybody is different. I never cared for rote but never cared for project oriented learning either. For me the preferable thing would be to skip all the busy work problems and go straight for the challenge problems. But most of my teachers graded such that challenge problems only counted if you did well enough on the busy work as well.
I'd guess from your comment that you don't experience visualisations or memories as movies - but others, like myself, do so. This isn't a postmodern "I can imagine it like a story, or movie, or song" the memory literally appears as a movie.
His rationale as to why:

“If you offer the “notify me” checkbox, these people will post their question, check the box, and never come back. They’ll just read the replies in their mailbox. The end. If you eliminate the checkbox, people are left with no choice but to check back every once in a while. And while they’re checking back, they might read another post which looks interesting. And they might have something to contribute to that post.”
That's an idea. And cheaper than sending emails.
Can anyone recommend any tools for routing? Ideally with a couple sentence pros/cons breakdown
This used to be called function over form.
Because you need to be foolish to care about such things.
There’s a song that eludes me at the moment, but it always conjures memories of my telescope as a child. I must have heard it one night as I was looking through a star chart waiting for it to get darker.
I'm not a big fan of BAT, but how much clearer can the incentive structure be? Offering a browser completely for free is actually much more questionable. User becomes the product, but it's never stated anywhere. With BAT it's pretty clear who are the interested parties and why.
Yes, we want to support this too and will be looking into it.
> you can't haul much on [a bike] anyway.

I'm gonna have to disagree with you there. Here's someone moving a fridge (!) on a bike trailer.[1] And that's on a regular bike, not an e-bike.

1. https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2014/06/23/how-to-carry-majo...
None of this adresses the storage problem. Unless/until storage gets a lot cheapet, there are going to be baseline/peaker fossil/nuclear plants. (No peaker nuclear, ofc.)
able.net only costs 17 dollars per year on Google Domains. This should work. :)
"And we have that in my city too. About 3% of people here are wealthy enough that they can judiciously rewire their entire life to support "car-free" living."

Genuinely curious - what city do you live in ?

Thank you.
Does training for something like this lean more towards perfecting technique or forcing adaptation through repetition like training a muscle?
That’s because NYC itself gets hotter than Paris. Paris isn’t very breezy at ground level because the streets are all short and keep turning. The air stays stagnant, unlike NYC’s grids.

Paris’ density is from the lack of building: instead units just get sub divided ad finitum, instead of building up. Still, density isn’t high, it just feels that way, especially with Paris proper's small size: not even 2 Manhattans.

Then you have larger units 95% unoccupied kept as pied-a-terres/investments.

Those Haussmann buildings don’t do a good job of insulating or HVAC. Even 1970s multiunit buildings in the burbs are all single-pane windows with cracks to the outside.

When you have a weak radiator-based central heating system, you don’t dare turn it down or off when you leave: your unit may never recover and be warm again.

Meanwhile in North America, I turn off HVAC whenever I leave for a few hours: I know it can get back to human temperatures quickly.

Though the French do a good job in summer: every window has shutters, so you can block out the sun very well.

Some of my darkest days have been in Paris in summer because my hosts kept the indoors in total darkness :)
We almost don't have these anti-vaxer folks here, but it seems to me that people who spread hate towards them are incomparably more worse. It's like a hate cult. People buy whatever the media sell them and start to harass any group they were told to hate and fear, actually giving these groups growth.
I think it's been shown to have the opposite effect. Initially you're shocked/dismayed, but after repeated viewings, it becomes normalized in your mind and loses the shock value.
FWIW I did some things in this area a while back and ended up needing to stream canvas state back to my Python scripts for image processing.

https://gist.github.com/iandanforth/0ed987bfddf8205b8a23

I hope that could be a part of this framework in the future! (If it isn't already)
I've left Paris 12 years ago. I hate cars so much.

Glad to see they're realizing those things.

People should never forget how the car industry lobbied so that cars own most of the street. Biking and walking have become marginal things. How often do you realize you can't go from point A to B because it's impossible to street walk anymore? I've walked around cities many times, and I could not go in a direction because of how roads could not be crossed.

The "1-person car " meme is a real, real problem. Most people think that driving is a right, but we soon realize it's more a privilege and a source of problems.
I didn't think it was that subtle, but different people have different sensors I guess.
The Focus isn’t considered a compact car in countries like Denmark, where it’s priced similarly to Norway. The Focus is a midsize car.
The privacy trade-offs of cheap Android smartphones
Easily build unique, accessible, and lightweight Vue components
I respect their technical expertise, of course. So, maybe all is an exaggeration :-)
Than you could crawl up to the maxitem instead of relying on 404

https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/maxitem.json?print=pre...
> This is utter nonsense. Electric vehicles have no direct emissions, including no direct emissions of fine dust.

Have you ever changed a tire on Tesla because it was worn down? Where do you think the rubber in the old tire went when it was worn down? Emitted into the environment, that’s where.
>Also my country does not have any viable means to store nuclear waste responsibly.

I don’t think you realize how little there is to deal with. It could easily be exported to a competent country.

It’s shocking how people are willing to effectively endorse burning fossil fuels for base load to destroy the environment over the next 50 years because of something that might be a problem in a few thousand years.
The trees are not there to prevent climate change by absorbing CO2, but to mitigate the effects of climate change by providing a cooling effect through shade and water evaporation.

Reducing car traffic also helps to improve the "climate" of the city on a hot day.
excerpt from typeclassopedia:

"The wise student will focus their attention on definitions and examples, without leaning too heavily on any particular metaphor. Intuition will come, in time, on its own."

typeclassopedia admits that the intuition is missing. I would go on to argue that just going from the definition alone you would think that a functor is anything that is mappable and that fmap simply maps a function across a functor to produce a new functor.

The intuition that cannot be grasped without some category theory is that fmap actually lifts a regular function of standard types into a function between functors. A functor is more than just fmaps.
Mind the opposite: finishing a bachelor's without ever having to deal with a functional language.

I've met a lot of people (at work and post-grad) who have graduated from colleges without an idea of what a functional language is or the concepts behind them. I don't blame them, but its a pity to find so many workarounds in legacy code which could have benefited from functions as parameters and less state in general.
Per CloudFlare themselves: "Based on data across the CloudFlare network, 94% of requests that we see across the Tor network are per se malicious."

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/03/new-data-suggest...

https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-trouble-with-tor/
> It is estimated that exhaust and non-exhaust sources contribute almost equally to total traffic-related PM10 emissions. However, as exhaust emissions control become stricter, relative contributions of non-exhaust sources to traffic related emissions will increasingly become more significant.

So if this "estimate" (i.e. conjecture) is on point, EV produce less than half of the emissions of an ICE car currently (EV have 0 exhaust emissions) and will continue to produce much less even when ICE are somewhat improved (and manufacturers stop defrauding customers). Let's not forget that EV also brake less than ICE cars.
Final Fantasy 4 and Stairway to Heaven are inextricably linked in my mind for a similar reason.
Paris is one of the densest city in the whole world.
PyTorch Lightning – William Falcon (YouTube)
It’s related to notifications. The longer a user goes between being presented an opportunity to reply, a) the more time they will have had to think about the topic, b) the more likely they will be to write a complete response, instead of just enough to prompt a further reply, c) the less likely they will be to reply when a reply is not necessary. A good HN thread has fewer, comments (fewer than this one. :) )
In my view, punishing drivers for accidents is always going to be to little too late, because accidents are rare. Also, people who can afford good defense can avoid punishment to a substantial extent.

To solve these problems, you either have to enforce crimes at a lower level (e.g., punish them for poor driving rather than for killing someone) or make it harder for people to mount a defense. Both of these things encourage abuses of the justice system, e.g., "driving while black."
How would you get allocated a new MAC address in order to do this?
At what point will it become a safety issue if X% of cars in a multi-story garage are electric, considering both the fire-safety of batteries and their weight?
I half wonder if in lecture format, a silent 60 minute reading session would be more productive. Lecturer is available to answer questions but other than that the textbook is the guide.
Apple do MAC address randomisation on iOS, right? Does this mean macOS doesn't do that, or that does but you can't turn it off?
How's Greek and Latin related to programming language syntax?
I’ve spent 18 years in the field. But what would I know...
Elmo's New Side Hustle Is Teaching Engineering for Mark Zuckerberg
The problem is you're speaking in metaphors. Which security is getting in your way that you can't trivially disable?
Agree.

Switching from wordpress to a static site generator has made it much harder to post for me. Sure I can use vim (or my editor of choice) but on wordpress I could post from any browser on any machine, even a phone or tablet, including images with sites that have a front end. I'm not going back but I'd post more if I had a front end like I had on wordpress. Note: IMO as a middle solution just using github is not enough. Yes I can create a new file from the interface but no preview, clunky image uploading, clucky image embedding, and other issues.
AWS, azure, and digitalocean all give free credit to students

https://education.github.com/pack

vultr, hetzner, and OVH have sub-$5/month VPS plans

Personally, I use digitalocean.
Solar/wind doesn’t compete with gas because it cannot provide dependable base load.

Solar/wind + massive energy storage is what competes with gas. And in that category it’s not even close to competitive because batteries are still way too expensive.
And there I am wanting the opposite ;)

This is good, it should be submitted as an RFC + track implementation on upstream projects.
This shouldn't be downvoted; it's a very good point addressing a basic problem with the "call 'em as I see 'em" side of the argument.
I have no idea where your criteria come from.

But a few obvious massive innovations from both once established as large companies: Kindle, Alexa, AWS, iMac, iTunes, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch. AWS alone is enough of a counterexample to make my point.