skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is a very generous interpretation of academics. In the UK, academics are notoriously militant (i.e. they strike pretty much constantly, have a huge media/lobbying profile...they aren't like the BMA but they are definitely up there). Even if you are going beyond nationality, it is a fairly well understood aspect of human nature that, in tertiary education, there is a tendency to teach whatever the teacher finds fun. The more arcane, the better (CS/Econ are the biggest areas for this).

And the problem isn't that the ideas are abstract. But that they are abstract relative to what the task actually is. It is like teaching a cookery course but not doing any cooking. And presumably, you are saying that it isn't difficult to teach these things because you know that? I can tell you it is false because many CS universities in the UK don't manage to produce grads that can program...easy though...amirite?

I didn't say it was pointless. I implied it was pointless to teach to children. And you are right, we need significantly less professors and significantly more doers. The UK has a massive quantity of people with immense talent wasting their lives with arcanum. The only value produced is in teaching this stuff other people...that isn't useful knowledge. Trying to control that process by brainwashing children based on what you think is valuable knowledge is not only a disturbing pattern of thought, it is utterly pointless. We have had this system (the UK civil service used to hire based on knowledge of Greek/Latin), it doesn't work. Give people useful knowledge, give them opportunity to innovate, and they will get on with it themselves. The problem we have is that we encourage people to waste their lives at universities (I say this as someone with postgrad degrees btw...you can learn useful things but the most useful thing is actually using your skills to help other people).
This was announced and extensively discussed 5 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20298653 (and several other articles)
Just like fat didn't have a good reputation for awhile due to X, Y, Z - be weary of your sources.

I use my own experience with Igg food sensitivity testing and removing those foods to see how I felt after. After allowing my system to calm from the foods then reintroducing just one of the foods that I was conditioned to the discomfort of, it let me see how much discomfort/pain different foods that showed up on the Igg test that make me feel horrible.
Which specific ideas are important enough to censor the public to enforce but not amenable to empirical verification? Sounds like religion to me.
In SF/Peninsula that's not even enough marginal income to go from renter to home owner. Eg: Single bedroom apartment is ~4k and mortgage on a 1.6M home is almost 12K a month unless you have 350K down payment.

IMO the only option in the bay area is FAANG or live as frugal as possible and take the wealth to a lower CoL area.

EDIT: or improbably be a highly paid Cofounder / Executive and earn >400K per year.
Airbus A380 failed A similar test at 3% less load and Airbus responded in a similar fashion. Boeing has problems, but this is practically a pass.

Airbus was testing a new (higher MTOW) variant of the A380. It's likely Airbus was expecting the premature failure as the fix was quickly deployed. I'm pretty sure you can't say the same about the 777X.

Note that wing spar cracks were later found in pretty much every early build A380 in service. Airbus then spent around 500,000,000 EUR to remedy the problem.

I'm sure Boeing can make the 777X safe, but it's likely a matter of motivation.
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Following unpopular laws is itself a consensus, one where abandoning the rule of law altogether is seen as more harmful than enforcing one unpopular ruling.
Practice. A lot. Learn the whole stack (down to the hardware, understand failures modes and limitations of each layer).

Solve many different problems, make experiments and throw away code. Make connections between sub disciplines.

You have to have the attitude that if somebody understood this, then I can too, if nobody did, there's no good reason why I can't be the first one.

Fail a lot and learn. Think about every failure you had, but as a problem to solve not a comment on your value as a person/engineer. What could you have done differently? What were the signs that got you in that situation?

For tricky problems, what works for me is the obsess-and-let-go strategy. Work intensely on some problem for some time, if you make no progress, just let go of it, forget about it, do something else and perhaps your brain will connect the dots. Talk about the problem with other people. Explaining it and different points of view usually change your perspective enough that you are no longer stuck.

Also note that reading about something is not the same than doing it. You need to read and attempt to replicate, even if a toy version of the thing to better understand. Some things just take time an effort to seep in.
The funny part is that Obama smoked through most of his presidency and no photos ever emerged.
Start changing behaviour after the IPCC first report came in, in 1990. Waiting until we have not just visible, but dramatic and surprisingly early consequences is leaving taking evasive action in the car until the bodywork has started to crumple. I note that nearly all the surprises seem to be of things being far more or far sooner than predicted...

That leaves dramatic and expensive global scale action. We're not doing it. There's no sign we're thinking about doing it. Let the market resolve is the sole incredibly weak suggestion.

I don't think history is going to view citizens and politicians of the 21st century kindly. I can forgive and understand those contributing to the problem before say 1990, before the awareness was widespread. We've emitted more since 1990 than in the entire time before.

So a planetary scale game of chicken...
To be clear, if you're interacting with external services that you don't control, you will run into the problem of coordinating transactions. Doesn't matter if you're running a single-server monolith.

(That's why the OP considers this a microservice)
But commenting about commenting on voting on comments is interesting?

Law firms should hire from this site. Utter goldmine.
I wonder if that smells bad?
Your comment is a perfect example of what rationalization looks like. You’re exactly like all humans (including me); closed to logical argument, because you don’t want to have to care about it, since it would be hard work to change. You just want to get on with your life, just like everybody else (including me). Note: I’m not saying that this is wrong; everybody does it, and we can’t change it, so calling it “wrong” would be pointless. It’s not my intention to disparage you.

But you would probably benefit by recognizing that nothing about this is logical. There are some logical arguments why one ought to use (for instance) the Librem 5 phone as a phone and forgo the additional features present on mainstream smartphones. But you (or me) can’t be open to those logical arguments unless we’re already ready to change; i.e. when we already (irrationally) want to find a reason to do it. Then, logical arguments can be effective. But not otherwise.
I like the idea behind this list. But is it seriously suggesting that I buy a Galaxy S3 in 2019? Does it even get OS updates anymore?
... change three different operators because you can’t handle the syntax of two different languages? Sure why not.

Perhaps php should also drop all type information so it can be more like the cluster fuck that is “modern” JavaScript too? Maybe change “const” so the constants it declares aren’t... constant?
don't use them so i m curious how they did it:

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Why don't they though? I'm in Europe and school is free.

I also went to college in New Orleans, and my classmates got $700/mo. from the government if they stayed in school (no idea how, though).
Next : sicm in physics class
Lol. Open the page, popup appears

"Sign up for breaking news!"
There is no debate, however, about whether or not he was a good boy. The scientists were immediately able to determine that he was
Yes, that line in the article is naive, perhaps gratuitous. "Credible commitment" is a major concept in game theory. It's also important in certain branches of the study of international relations.
Sorry I meant safety.
Starting a colony on the ocean floor is also challenging and possibly leading to a lot of innovations [1]. However, compared to the efforts around Mars, there is no-one trying to settle the deep seas (that I know of). You don't need to go to another planet to find problems.

So for Mars, I don't think merely the opportunities for _any_ innovation, are a convincing enough argument, at least for those investing in Mars. For them the specific innovations around spaceflight and non-earth construction are indeed valuable, because of future expansions into space and first mover benefits, using Mars as a stepping stone.

As for the colony on Mars itself, I speculate that having somewhere outside of existing jurisdictions is also attractive for a lot of people; the new unclaimed West. Some may imagine this to become a scientist utopia, free from the restraining politics of Earth; others might be more cynical.

We will see.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20130930-can-we-build-und...
Well, the moderation comments are a special case. They're out-of-band feedback signals. In case it helps, they're even more tedious to write than they are to read. Yes they break the guidelines too, in the way that many medicines are toxic, but one uses them when there's no better alternative.

Alas, the system doesn't fix this without moderation. It hasn't yet become self-correcting [1], which is why I'm still doing it [2].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7605892

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7505041
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I'm considering to buy a Ststem76 workstation with dual CPUs and 64GB RAM.

Can anyone share their experience or recommend other vendors?

I usually buy Dell machines. Thanks.
You're being overly harsh. Sometimes there's also an else.
Does malloc lazily create the backing pages for an allocation on Linux? (2009)
Doesn't HDMI share internet connection? So if you connect any HDMI device with an internet connection then your TV will have one too?
I'm supplying a +1 for this comment because it's hilarious to think of our industry as useless as the DEA.
I can tell you that this prospective customer didn’t care one iota about whether the site looks on-trend. If anything, the site design confirmed the app was likely free and — significantly — probably free of late ‘10s-era tracking/adware/user-as-product nonsense. It actually makes me want to use it. I looked at the screen shots, read the device/OS support and I’m sold. I’ll download it as soon as I have time/energy.

If it had a mobile version, I’d have run it, but I fully expect to only want to use it on larger format devices. I’m happy to be proved wrong, but I doubt a purely touch interface would ease creation of a model of my weird-shaped rooms.
Another post mentioned that this may be self-dealing. This comment they linked has information on complaints/actions that can be taken: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21658324
see addison lee. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addison_Lee)

This is the reason why I find this "TFL is against innovation" rubbish is so annoying. AL had an app way before uber was in london.

The only difference for the end user is that AL is more expensive. (because whilst the drivers are "independent" they lease the cars from AL, and have an exclusive contract with them)
The cookie acceptance on this site is as good as it gets IMO. Clear, detailed, privacy policies linked, with the ability to accept a reasonable, minimal subset.
I couldn't resist chucking it into wolfram alpha
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=solve+x^x+-+y+=+0
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=x%5Ex%3Dy
I think someone else mentioned W function, which is shown in the wolfram solution
The thing I found interesting is the graph, there is a local min at 1/e, so the solution depends on y >1 or e^-1/e <= 1
very interesting curve.
I cant speak for them, but Gnome is far ahead on UI polish and general tidiness. I keep checking in on Plasma Mobile every few months and how nobody has fixed the god awful interface proportions yet is beyond me.

I see the same problems on desktop Plasma, wildly inconsistent padding, UI elements not lining up and bits of the interface crushed and cramped, while 100px below you have gigantic elements.

If you're going to take a swing at doing a FOSS phone right, you really need to avoid the wonky programmer art or you are not going to convince the average user that its any better or more polished than previous failed attempts.
How is it a consensus when people on the losing side often respond with violence, riots or protests? Lacking effective means to overthrow the government hardly implies agreement.
1% is well within the normal variation in strength that parts exhibit. Even with modern materials and precision machining, parts will always vary in performance to a degree that is known. That said, predicting critical points is very deterministic process. Strengthening the critical point that failed in this test by a reasonable margin should, for all reasonable likelihoods, eliminate this point of failure. Predicted performance has error bars, and actual performance has scatter. If we bump up the strength, we can make sure the tail end of that scatter has less overlap with the failure strength scatter (theoretically we can never reduce the overlap to zero). All of experimental mechanical engineering is a comparison of statistical odds. It's quite possible that if they tested another identical fuselage, it would have passed the test and this would have never made the news, rightly.
Isn't this dangerous in terms of virus and bacteria re-activation?
Interview with one of the professors in evolutionary genetics involved:

> Dalén was working in Russia in 2018 when he got a call that local tusk hunters — people searching for mammoth tusk — had found the specimen near Yakutsk in eastern Siberia.

* https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/scientists-don-t-know-i...

* Transcript: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-wednesday...
Yeah, I'd really like slightly better support for plugging in something smart into a dumb TV.

In the UK, if my shield would show freeview TV channels I'd probably never need to leave the interface, and thus I'd be happy to lock a TV into a shield slave.

Unfortunately it just doesn't work like that for us over here though.
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HDMI optionally does support that, but almost no devices actually do.
Here is another one which I've really liked over the years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NRrUvqQlnY&t

He is so warm and spontaneous, yet smart and obviously can invent exact and concrete things!
I asked the same question a while ago, https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/613946/xx-y-given-y...

Interesting analysis of the problem :-) it has been bugging me since high school!

Might be worth linking to the Lambert W function https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambert_W_function

This was the best comment I'd reckon:

> As you probably saw, the solution of x^x = y is x = Log(y) / W[Log(y)]. Now you take us in a highly philosophical debate. What is the limit of elementary functions ? Thanks for this question. Cheers. – Claude Leibovici
Not even remote. As a nontech worker its unbelievably helpful in a shared office too.

I used to have a big screen tv and 2 keyboards and wireless mice at a coffee table in my office for just this problem, and a crazy (for normal humans) hdmi splitting setup that allowed for a byod of sorts.

Great idea!
"Dan and Ben Volach told WIRED their company doesn't have the resources to pursue the lawsuit if their MacOS app isn't back on the App Store, considering the litigation can take time. It doesn't help that Apple's legal team has allegedly asked for an extension to prepare its defense."

Hmmmm....sounds like this was the intended result....so not sure how writing a nice letter to Apple would help.
I'm worried that somebody with staggering naivete like this is on the board of Let's Encrypt as well.

I wonder if he'd have the same lack of qualms about selling that to a private equity firm...
Early owners had to opt-in into getting early revisions to get them.

I wouldn't be interested in an AOSP-based phone at all. I have used Openmoko Neo Freerunner in the past, I'm using Nokia N900 now and I have absolutely no intention to leave the GNU/Linux land on my phone.
Why no multi-touch on non-mobile ? :'(
Google “sagas” - it is a pattern that helps with this, rollbacks across boundaries, etc
You're right about the flaw in tying capitalism to individual benefit, however, don't those parents also appreciate the love a not-so-fortunate parent has for their own child? If they want such great opportunities for their child, why wouldn't they want the same for other children? Capitalists who are so selfless for their own offspring should also feel the same about others, right?

I guess it's just hard for me to imagine someone who loves their child so much but doesn't care enough about how much someone less fortunate would care about their child. Perhaps it's because I'm not a parent
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> Where are the examples of tech billionaires making it and working to make that possible for all the rest who failed?

> Concerns like this are beginning to dominate my psyche to the point where I'm not sure I want to be in tech anymore.

That’s a part of the problem. People, like you, that consider these questions and would like to make positive a difference, give up.

Because the proposition is an ambiguous long-term play where you could spend a lifetime trying to solve it with little to no results at the end. If these issues are important to you, then wouldn’t it be worth it though?

You’ll have no better opportunity to fix this than by being in the position you’re in now. Which is, an “insider”, that can easily command $100-300K salary+stock that can readily be invested in many of your own ideas and businesses in a bid to ratchet your liquid capital up to >$10M. This capital can then be used to propel you on to >$100M or >$1B or wherever you think is the best point to make a difference in the problems you’re seeing.

You’re only two hops away from making a difference. As opposed to people that are scraping by on $20-60K a year with little to no savings and thus no resources or time to dedicate to more self-actualized pursuits. They’re four to five hops away.

Each hop probably carries 5-7 years worth of effort plus potential risk of ruin.

Point being: don’t give up. Go make a difference in the problems you’re seeing.
I tried to do it the year before last. Bought a desktop and made an honest attempt to switch. I sold the PC last month and am back solely on Mac.

I'm a web developer and found that the filesystem/IO performance on WSL was woeful. An "npm install" that would take 20 seconds on Mac would take 2/3 minutes if not more on WSL. That on its own was a deal breaker. Other things with regard to folder sharing across Windows/WSL was also a realy challenge. Finally, the Windows experience itself I felt was poor. Many of the subtle things I had become used to on Mac are completely missing (preview for example)
I suppose if your use case is marketing sites or something similar. This doesn't match my experience at all.
Yes that was part of my thought too

In response to a pricing surge I expected more drivers to be incentivized to get out of bed at 11PM and make more money

But if that hour of work at 11pm is worth the same as waking up 8 the next day then they lose out on thousands of people willing to pay surge pricing
The Agile Manifesto[1] has been around for almost two decades now. It would be nice if someone finally came up with an implementation of it that was actually true to its first principle:

"Individuals and interactions over processes and tools"

So far, processes (e.g., standup meetings, sprint planning meetings, retrospective meetings, lots and lots of meetings) and tools (e.g., Jira) seem to be what people emphasize the most when they push "agile" on an organization.

[1] https://agilemanifesto.org
I've read that if cookies are stickly required for your app to work (e.g. keeping a login session), there is no need for the popup (Until you start adding tracking).
Love the idea, but I can't for the life of me understand why you use `onclick` handlers on `h2` elements instead of `a` links. I immediately got frustrated when I tried to middle-click one of the "curated guides" to open it in a new tab, but nothing happened. Keyboard navigation also doesn't work because of this, nor does highlighting a link to see where it will take me. Your site is broken, and I can't use it, so I won't.
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Maybe it's more accurate to say that the poster had invented tetration.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetration
If this was some meditative game of sorts (optionally multiplayer) on my phone I would play it for ages (not sure about the mechanics yet, but I already spend 5 minutes just fiddling with it in my browser). Truly mesmerizing, cool stuff!
A and B may not have it at all, and anyway if C pushed a hard bargain, theirs will come first.

At any rate, the devil is very much in the details.
You can get someone on any of the freelancing sites to convert your design to HTML and even a WordPress site - at the cost of five bucks. For 30 bucks you also get a design. If you want quality the prices will go up exponentially though. But noone seem to care about quality /grumpy freelancer
Black cabs are not uber's competitor.

Minicabs are.

There is stiff competition, if uber is banned from london permanently, the drivers will be going to one of the three+ alternatives.

Uber's idea isn't new in london, Addison Lee had a "app based booking" since at least 2013. The _only_ thing going for it is that its ubiquitous. Its not even the cheapest.

I rarely get taxis anymore, because frankly its pointless unless you're drunk. However when I have been forced to (wife in hospital, post tube closing time) The fastest, cheapest and most comfortable was the black cab.

Failing that there was a really good minicab firm round the corner from my old house.
Let’s send people to Mars where there’s a million reasons unknown and known they can’t survive so that they are forced to innovate to survive. Or you know, they die. This is a moronic argument for Mars colonization.

They’ll have the same or worse technology we already have on earth. They’ll have far fewer people and far less access to things to solve problems they didn’t plan for. But nah they’ll innovate and make great innovations, more than could ever be done here. I don’t wish to be rude but I honestly cannot understand for the life of me the rationale of this argument.
In the future, won't it become increasingly difficult to keep your TV disconnected? Anything you connect to it will provide it with an internet connection.