skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Childish website. Flack Friday is crucial for retail, economic growth and beneficial for the consumers as with larger movement of goods, margins are dropping. As a matter of fact it also carriers a sentimental vibe with a hint of a tradition.

I only see some straw man anti-arguments that don't really explain why black Friday or consumer driven economies are bad (hint: they are not)

EDIT: looks like I overreacted by taking the OPs intent seriously. It turns out to be just a landing page for referrals? Oh the irony.
But how many of the shares of any major company are owned by funds with other companies doing the voting for thousands or millions of investors?

Every single cent I have in the market is via index funds.
You can but to fix what problem exactly? There are downsides and unintended consequences for constraining liquidity. It isn't a free lunch, especially given that I'm not sure what the problem is.
What dematerialization? Facebook's entire business model is advertising, in other words: getting you to buy things. It used to be Google's and Amazon's entire business model, too, until they diversified into cloud services.

It's the exact opposite of dematerialization.

Edit: To clarify, I'm not at all against these things. On the contrary. My point is that among those people most vocal in demanding (sometimes radical) change from others, I frequently see a complete lack of self-reflection.
You need more that 60 watt.
> quadcopter drone ... could easily outrun

Even the old Hindenburg did 135 km/h (85 mph), which is quite a lot faster than most drones.
it’s a lot simpler than that. People need growth. Nobody wants a pay cut, you would be really unhappy and leave because it messes up your plans, you can’t make your mortgage payment, etc. The need for growth is universal at all scales and layers. Wealthy or poor, Society to cellular. BTW check out Macro Voices podcast.
Hope they still get covered with a thick layer of thermite.
We also punish violent adults who learned to be violent in their childhood. It is sad to think someone might be doomed to be who they learned to be as a child.

But it’s also clear that many have risen above such circumstances and even far worse. So we protect the people from those who put them in great danger (whether by impulsive violent outbursts or dangerous drunk driving).
For the argument I can stop saving wheat after the first bag.
Tiny Brain, but Great Vision
Thank you kindly, profound advice for any father! I do my best to advocate for him every day, and I have made some mistakes along the way, but will never waiver my commitment.
Electrostimulation Study Gets Alzheimer’s Patients to Recall Vivid Memories
Why 5%? That's enough to very nearly double the recurring cost of my house (mortgage, insurance and taxes), which seems overly punitive. Does this get offset somewhere else? Looking at a few quick numbers from Google, just residential property alone would add 50% to current US tax revenues. I'm guessing that means we'd be in the ballpark of doubling Federal tax revenue. I guess that's not necessarily a bad thing, but how do you make sure that money actually goes to the things you listed instead of the military?
NY startups shaking up real estate
New research reveals why people say things they later regret
Many places recognize an “implied warranty” which holds manufacturers to some basic standards by law.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implied_warranty

One might argue that this flash memory was not the correct choice for the purpose it was being used for, and as an expert, it’s was Tesla’s duty to select a part up to spec for the purpose it was being used for.
This is silly. You will not convince most people to abandon technological progress.
Computer security... I don't know how feasible this is, but it sure would've inspired me a lot more at high school than the curriculum we had. As a student, I want inspiration, I want magic. I want to feel excitement and to feel alive. I want something that draws me in and lights me up.

Set up two sets of computers in your computer lab as separate networks. Divide your class into two teams. One team are the security administrators for one network. The other for the other network.

Teach your class about hacking techniques to bypass the security of each other's networks. Teach them also the techniques used to lock down their networks and analyze intrusions/attempts to prevent further hacks.

Give them access to resources to learn about defense and offense in a safe closed environment.

End of year assignment - capture the flag. Teach them about information security warfare. Make it a game, a competition and pit them against each other.

In today's technology environment, information warfare is prevalent and it will only become more so as time goes on. These skills will become more and more important across all aspects of ICT, from systems and network administration to DevOps to back end systems and public web development. There is no aspect of today's I.T. environment where security is not of critical importance.

The biggest thing you can do to inspire the developers of tomorrow is find a way to inspire fascination with computers. Kids, teenagers, hell, most adults want some magic in their lives.

Find a way to make it magic. Teach them about some of the greatest hacks of all time, what inspired them, how they were achieved, what happened to the perpetrator, whether history showed them to be on the right or wrong side of both the law and morality. Teach them about hacker mentality, black hat and white hat. From Mitnick to McKinnon, Schwartz and Snowden, their motivations, the results and the repercussions of their actions.

My feeling is that the greatest role (and admittedly this is only my opinion and it doesn't mean a lot given my one semester of teaching 25 years ago) you can provide as a high school teacher isn't necessarily the technical detail you provide, but the magic that will inspire the student to take their learning at their own initiative and thrive on their own.
I'm only rambling. Sometimes is useful for finding new ways to crash things.

Okay... lets see. Water splitting recipe: 1) Put water in a recipient with a pinch of salt, 2) add electricity, 3) hydrogen will float upwards and must be recovered in a different recipient or if mixed again with the oxygen could explode. Anything else that we would need to take in mind?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZJEDe_HUcw
If you're going to do that, you could probably use towers instead of blimps.
I just had to look up that claim, and it seems that Turing admitted a homosexual relationship during a police investigation about his house being burgled, seeing as that relationship was with the accused burglar. That's slightly different to the implication that he walked into a police station of his own free will and promptly signed his own castration order.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing#Conviction_for_i...

(I'm aware of wikipedia fallibility but I'm on mobile and will generally trust in the citations for this particular individual)
It’s never so clean and isolated when dealing with humans. Life would be much easier if it were.
The articles on NYT get paywalled after some time... So it's pretty useless to post them here without an archive link. I think the archive.is problem is with the ".is" domain and some DNS issue. It's recommended to share the http://archive.today/p3ZK7 link.
Previous discussions:

* 2 yrs ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15389727

* 2 yrs ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15778902

* 4 yrs ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11744430

* 5 yrs ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8166388
People who take calculus in high school tend to be the more advanced students. This is not a course the typical student in the US takes until college. I think those advanced students who do take calculus are still better served and reach a higher level of mathematical maturity by learning calculus than by statistics.

Calculus also aids the student in the appreciation of physics. It is central to the understanding of many mathematical concepts.

Calculus is a requisite for understanding where statistical distributions come from. How else do you make sense of probability distributive functions and cumulative distribution functions? or understand where those statistical tables come from?

Statistics is already taught in high school at an elementary level. The topic is frequently taught repeatedly in the courses.

Statistics should probably be taught more but not at the expense of calculus.
GP100 and GP102 are different sizes. They are certainly different silicon - the die area can't be changed in firmware or drivers.

From techpowerup:

GP100: 610 mm^2

GP102: 471 mm^2
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It didn’t work for me on mobile, and only in a weirdly rendered way on tablet. I would have liked it if there were just plain image links available.
Yes, it is concerning. Fortunately the research actually says the exact opposite.[1] It is a strongly held stereotype (in the US at least) and natural ability or natural interest is often pointed to on HN as the reason for the lack of women in STEM. I personally don’t believe it has anything to do with nature and is entirely attributable to nurture.

However, I wrote “whether by nature or nurture” because my ultimate goal was to let OP know that teaching logic might be a good avenue to spark the interest of high school girls who were like me - interested in CS even though they might have been discouraged from participating and feel like they don’t have the “natural” ability because they’ve been pushed toward language skills for most of their academic career. My message would have been brushed aside (at best, I likely would have been, and perhaps will be, berated) had I written “as a woman although I was interested in numbers I was encouraged to focus on words”. And so, like women often do[2], I held back my true thoughts on the matter because I hoped that doing so would be for the greater good if it meant OP would be the CS teacher I wish I had as a high school girl.

[1] https://time.com/81355/girls-beat-boys-in-every-subject-and-...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/07/opinion/sunday/girls-scho...
Do not quit.

The team lead wants you to quit. He may have been threatened by you and your level of contributions.
Even if you can reach a more specific conclusion, that wouldn't necessarily rule out complexity as the cause of failure.

It's a question of how far you zoom in or out.

In the micro-level you can find the particular bug that causes failure, while on the macro-level it's still complexity that's causing failure (because it causes bugs like that to occur more frequently).
Without the user-hostility!
Even in a barter economy with no government, money system or central fiscal planning there can be inflation. Inflation is nothing more than sustained higher prices for the same amount of goods or service, no matter the cause. Prices could be denominated in fiat money, currency, bartered physical goods, time, whatever. Inflation could be localized to a cafeteria where kids are trading lunch items for the best desserts, or span the globe in ways that transcend any given government’s ability to use fiscal and monetary policy.

Inflation caused by Federal Reserve actions is just one (minor) type of inflation.
Beep.js – A Synthesizer in the Browser
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So? The idea is batshit insane, but I'm not sure it's against physics. Imagine a supercavity nuclear powered submarine cargo ship. I can't run the calculations for that. It would probably kill/scare all whales left in the ocean, but it might "work".
What Eats Your Programming Time
Travis secure variables are broken for all builds
All secure variables have disappeared from build output and are not defined in the build process.

No status page update yet, but we're seeing lots of failing builds :(
It is completely unclear to me whether you are agreeing what Matestack does or not. It could be read as: "Yes exactly, this is what we need, not this other tech." or "What you have built is nonsense, please spend your time differently"

Also, it is completely unclear to me what 'old bullshit' is in your story. Is an API backend with UI front-end old or new? It could be read as that or as "API backend with JS front-end is the best, stop trying to push server-side rendered HTML on us."
It would certainly explain its popularity as a coping mechanism!

To be a little bit more forthright -- I'm not sure the fundamentally dissociative pharmacological pathways that alcohol stimulates are close enough to the psychedelic ones that SA talks about later on in the post to be fungible.
I think it's a tough balance: I personally want to support original content creators but to discourage anti-patterns like showing different versions to different consumers (other than for usability purposes): that helps make search less useful. Eg. there might be better content from a smaller producer, but a big one like NY Times will shadow it.
If we entirely give up growth the world's standards of living will freeze where it is.
It's a mistake to assume I'm looking for 0% inflation-adjusted-growth.

Assume there is no inflation. If I have invested $625,000 and I want to retire with the ability to spend $25,000 per year on food, housing, medical care, taxes, travel, and insurance, then I require 4% growth (or dividends!) for that to be sustainable.
Not sure how US legal system works, I’d lose my license if I’m repeatedly DUI (0.02%). The first time there would be a fine and my license is temporarily revoked. Unless I want to take it to a court I have no expenses other than the fine.

Not sure why it’s to “criminalize being poor”. It’s criminal to drink and drive.

I agree punishment shouldn’t be disproportionately affecting poor people but really I don’t feel sorry for people who choose to drink and drive.

I think the more liberal alcohol limits is unfortunate because they can make the crime seem like an accident (“I only drank a little”). A near zero limit is much easier to comply with - if I drink at all I don’t drive until the after on the following day.

As a final note: not living near public transport is a choice in the first place. Not voting for politicians who prioritize public transport is another.
Database as API with PostgreSQL and Massive.js
How Is NordVPN Unblocking Disney+?
You can't just make that claim with absolutely no evidence to back it up.
You can also use my browser extension [1] to quickly find the original version of the site in other places:

https://megalodon.jp/2019-1128-2050-51/https://firefox-repla...

http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=url:https%3A%2F%2Ffirefox-r...

http://cache.yahoofs.jp/search/cache?c=ULQkH25vOxAJ&p=https%...

http://210.89.172.69/search2.naver?group=web&mtype=web_doc&w...

[1] https://github.com/dessant/view-page-archive
I'm thankful for having a girlfriend that loves me and supports me

I'm thankful I was born in a family that teach me good values and kept me away from drugs and bad life

I'm thankful for having a job

I'm thankful for having a roof over my head

I'm thankful for having good physical health

I'm thankful for having food at home every day

I'm thankful for having a computer and internet connection

I'm thankful I can go to eat out at least once a month

I'm thankful I had the chance to study as a software engineer

I'm thankful I had the chance to improve my career by working outside my original country

I'm thankful I was born in Europe
Do I understand correctly in that you are generating Vue.js components from Ruby? If so, how is that less complicated and not like an SPA than simply rendering HTML with erb or slim?
I don't think the reputation problem is particulary hard or need any fancy technical solutions. If I read something on NYTimes.com I know that the information there is true most of the time (even thought it do happen that they screw up). The job of good journalism is to vet their sources, finding collaborating evidence and listen to those that have different claims. If I read something from a source I don't know anything about, I must keep in mind that what I'm reading just might not be true.
They put in what is essentially a tube similar to what a scuba diver would wear with a piece that goes between your gums and lips. Then they monitor your breathing for a bit and they start to countdown. Then they just turn off a valve and no air can get in. As long as you don't panic your chest doesn't move. If you do panic they make you take Ativan before each treatment.

I'm extremely claustrophobic so I take a number of pills before each treatment to relax.

Last time I had this done they stopped it seven times for about 90 seconds each time. The first time they did a countdown from 90 letting me know how long to hold my breathe. The countdown made it about a billion times worse so I asked them to stop. Now I just close my eyes and let the pills take me to a better place.
> An API backend + UI front-end consuming it is the perfect solution

I call shenanigans.

It is perfect only if you hand-wave away the math and consequences.

You've doubled your surface area, number of apps, stacks, dependency issues, deployment targets, bugs, uptime dependencies, hiring language/framework requirements and attack vectors.

It is the right tool for some jobs. I'd encourage you to stop assuming any of this is done. People thought that when XML and Soap were the thing.
If the Washington Post featured nothing other than articles about Amazon, and those articles only ever painted Amazon in an unreasonably positive light, then I would question the value of having those featured repeatedly on HN too.
He said that he believes the founders aren't aware of the team lead creating problems for him.

At the moment it's simply unknown which of the two they value most, the OP, or the team lead.

The most reasonable course of action isn't to focus on humility right now, it's to figure out which approach the founders value most, the OP's, or the team lead's.

There is no reason for false humility, in fact selling himself on his technical record is the best card he has to play.
Individual contributor here. How “good” a founder is doesn’t fix relationships across the organization. Communication and people management are very hard to get right.

I’ve been angry at a founder or two, but holding them accountable for every issue in the trenches is ridiculous.
They likely targeted Kicad because the file formats are open and documented.

Sadly another project designed by a software/AI guy who has little to no clue about the problem they are trying to solve.

When all I have is a hammer everything looks like a nail ...

I wonder whether this is from the same clueless people who were trying to sell an idea of AI-generated board layouts on Reddit not a long time ago.
A lot of people mentioning what is essentially R markdown files as a better approach.

In .rmd the notebook is just markdown where code segments inside triple backticks can be executed.

That sounds nice and git compatible (and it is), but you lose a lot of the convenience of Jupiter notebook, namely that output isn’t stored together with input.

The nice thing about Jupyter notebooks is you get story, code and results in a single package.
I love f.lux and I've used it for years, however I have to bring up the one feature I dislike...the "alarm clock" type feature which supposedly could be turned off by an option, but in reality there was no option to turn it off. I was able to turn it off on one computer but not the other, both windows OS!
With predictable trajectories this does not would make a unsolvable obstacle. A drone can shoot a fireweapon so it would need just to place itself within fire range.
Ah sorry I totally misread the initial comment. I thought the critique was paying yourself.

As for stuffing your own KS...yeah, it’s not allowed. Everyone does it as an “anonymous donation” of course, it’s very common. But yeah, he’s not supposed to.
This looks great. Slightly disappointed that it's not generically "in Ruby" but more specifically "in Rails", but the principle is really good and maybe there are a few bits that those of us who don't use Rails can extract.
And his recent (2019-11-07) interview on France Culture https://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/linvite-des-matins/tr...
Yup. The ICE engine reliability issue is more or less solved. I have built hotrodded engines in my garage that are still going strong at 275,000 miles. The real issue is that tesla reinvented the wheel with everything else too. Other solved problems like rustproofing, doorseals, and component access were overlooked for technology adoption. I admire the bold move, but it was not one destined for reliability. At the end of the day, the tesla is more complex, even in the drivetrain, than my honda civic, and costs quite a lot more, even under ideal conditions.
I don't think it's about imports / foreign production, but about the requirement of labour of high income workers generally. Domestic agriculture and manufacturing have experienced less inflation than medicine and education because they have reduced their dependence on labour with greater mechanisation and efficiency.

I think there's also an effect that people are increasingly able to tolerate working very low economic value jobs, because productivity increases in basic necessities of survival, like food and transportation, make this possible. These people are then priced out of healthcare, education, and quality housing. The decreased consumption of expensive labour-based services then decreases their weighting in measures of inflation, allowing them to further inflate, yet overall inflation stay low.
I think more accurate assumption would be that any increase of productivity on your farm (say going from producting 20 to 25 bags per year) would need to be met with a corresponding decrease of productivity somewhere else in the economy - it's the only way to maintain zero growth.
Not sure if it generalizes. And if it does, not sure if it does do all ADDs:

I'm ADHD without the Hyperactive component, subclinical, ADD or (ADHD-PI or Inattentive-ADHD more precisely). Or with the H component purely mental/internal, which kind of sucks because you get the "benefits" of ADHD plus a higher propensity to slide into an unhealthy ultra-sedentary lifestyle.
I would like to bring another concept to this discussion, which is the cost of externalities.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality

How much corporate growth is directly the result of taking from the environment? Could a regulating body apply the true cost of corporate growth back to the corporations so it were no longer profitable to take from the environment for the sake of your bottom line?
Ask HN: Good Black Friday Software Deals?
Its just amoral people justifying amoral actions in order to satisfy an unquenchable desire for wealth.
I'm all for defense in depth generally, but if a use case demands the convenience of not having this extra step, can't various application protocols be made as tough as a VPN to crack? At that point the VPN just adds obscurity. Wrapping insecure legacy protocols, like SMB for example, with a VPN is absolutely required.
They might try, but any such device will likely be much more interchangeable than the TV itself, with more competition. One significant problem with the TV industry at the moment is that competition has failed and essentially they're all at it.
We traded our local environment too.

I mean South America is 35% Old Growth Forest vs. less than 3% in Europe.[1]

In Europe, pretty much only the Białowieża Forest remains. We destroyed everything else over the millennia.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old-growth_forest#Locations_of...
Looks like they've removed it. Crazy to think that it was Yoast, one of the most popular SEO plugins for WP. They actually have a really good website for teaching SEO fundamentals as well, all free.

The most egregious part of this was linking the "close" button to a sales page for the premium plugin. That is the kind of low-down dark pattern you only see on pirated sports stream websites.