skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well that could be a problem in Western countries, but we are speaking of China. Their political system and their culture - their people's intrinsic sense of right and wrong - will be fine with that.
Get a prescription for Ritalin.
Headphones and Spotify.
Volunteer for EVERY nightmare project to keep you engaged.

Learn HTML5 canvas. Learn SVG. Learn to make components in whatever framework you're on and get really good at it. Get into webgl. Make yourself the special projects guy. Go deep where others won't.

Hyperfocus is your super power; research it, figure out what puts you in hyperfocus, and what keeps you there. Listed above are some of the things that do it for me (that exist in the overlap between your job and mine).
If it's not code someone else could write, you aren't a disposable cog whose replaceability the company can leverage against you when negotiating compensation.

Conversely, well-written and document code that the maintainer wouldn't be able to make the leap to invent can still be maintained. Comprehension regularly exceeds ability to create.
Alas, HN gets more than one bad comment.

If you see a post that ought to have been moderated but hasn't been, the likeliest explanation is that we didn't see it. We don't come close to seeing everything that gets posted here, even in a single thread—nor do we read the threads sequentially. If you assume that the state in your head matches the state in ours, your judgments are going to be off base.

Instead of making a false assumption and posting something snarky, you should just let us know in a straightforward way. hn@ycombinator.com is best for that, because we don't see everything in the threads (cf. previous paragraph) but we do see all the emails. It may take us a while though.
On maintenance, the rail companies work very hard to not interrupt the service, pulling off some incredible feats of planning and engineering in overnight operations. I think America is plagued a bit by the same issue we have in Australia, where we are frankly just not willing to solve hard problems if there is an available status quo. Also because long distance high speed rail is generally about replacing short distance air and long distance road travel those methods would still be options. But the reliability is still going to be higher than plane or road could ever offer.

> The other issue is political: does anyone think that Washington State is going to spend $50 billion on a transportation system in Boeing's back yard that is not made of airplanes?

The article addresses this, saying there is currently a unique political climate that is in support of rail projects. But I hear you, it will take some persistence.
I love elementaryOS. Except for the kernel. That thing receives no updates.
> It is funny that the dog whistle for conservatism these days are the immigrants whom are supposedly taking peoples jobs.

You have this backwards. My point wasn't that immigrants are taking American jobs, it was that Americans are giving them these jobs because Americans are being lazy, soft and cheap.

The immigrant is not at fault. It seems like you're responding to Fox News talking points, not to me. I would suggest doing that on foxnews.com.

At no point did I suggest that better labor standards are a bad idea, but I did observe that anyone who thinks society will eliminate all the jobs Hacker News perceives as shitty is drinking a lot of kool-aid.
Just signed up for your service today and got OnlyOffice and NextCloud provisioned and working in under 10 minutes. This is after dozens of hours over the last couple weeks attempting to do the setup following guides and install docs online. $30 is a great price point and I will probably add this to my service offering to my customers. One question, any plans to offer installs on different servers all managed under one my.domain.com?
"There are two types of screening that can be carried out as part of the IVF process. Preimplantation genetic test for aneuploidies (PGT-A) screens for any chromosomal abnormalities that may be present, while other preimplantation genetic tests (PGT) checks for specific conditions such as Down’s syndrome, Huntington’s disease and muscular dystrophy, among others. In fact PGT can now be used with IVF to test for nearly 400 rare genetic conditions, including cystic fibrosis and early-onset Alzheimer’s."

https://blog.ivf.com.au/embryo-screening
I have, and I agree - as a user AMP sites seem to be faster, at least the ones that I've noticed are AMP.

But I've also implemented AMP pages and as a developer they are a PITA. And as discussed in the OP and related they are definitely an of example Google crowd-sourcing their challenges onto everyone else.

Part of what makes AMP pages faster is that the AMP constraints force you to abandon not just ads but also many other complex HTML5/CSS/JS features. The resulting UX is less sexy and may be lacking in functionality, but there is simply less of it. Getting simple AMP pages from Google's cache _is__ noticeably faster on mobile, as much as I wish it wasn't.
I had to do a project in C# many years ago, small piece of code that needed lots of concurrency and error handling. We were able to write it in a very clean monadic DSL (ala do notation in haskell or 'for' in Scala) by wrapping Task in lawful monad types, we wrote monad transformers, etc. We ended up being extremely productive and getting good performance.

I would almost never recommned doing something like this given the maintenance issues and how long it takes to bring the average C# programmer up to speed, but this was three fairly advanced FP folks working on the application. It was probably some of the cleanest C# I've gotten to work with.
While Chess960 is being played more, my impression is that Blitz and Rapid have done more to breathe life into modern chess. Slow chess has become more and more about playing for draws in the past few decades (high-ranked players would prefer to keep their rating rather than risk it by playing more aggressively -- but nobody really cares about their Blitz or Rapid ratings).
Was that just from the former CEO?
Consider me a pessimist it may be going there, but I surely don’t think it will end there.

Amazon is too entrenched.
0.99999 at least.

Compare the capabilities of digital historians today to those 10- and 20-years ago respectively. It’s night and day.
I just read that Bill Gates is promoting some kind of Orwellian Id system tied to cell phones that would allow the police to scan your identity at a distance. It raises all kinds of questions in my mind like "will everyone be required to have Id and a cell phone?" And "will we live in a free country in the near future?"

So no, I don't trust either one. The government wastes billions on things that are frankly unethical to me. Private industry has similar cockamamie ideas and they aren't at all concerned about basic freedoms or privacy.
Personal attacks are not ok on Hacker News, even when the person isn't in the room. Maybe you don't owe the subjects of media articles better than this (though maybe you do). But you certainly owe the HN community better than this, if you want to keep posting here. Putting people down for being in a difficult situation degrades this place. Please don't do it again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
pop! shares dna with elementary (same people worked on both) and probably is closer to that definition. E.g. backed by a company with actual customer support. Different aesthetics though.
Isn't the government basically underwriting SpaceX, though?

Musk is a clever con man with cool tech, but still a con man.

Also, the manned space program was political cover for ICBM development.
Here, take your father’s parentheses.
A lot of the product descriptions just lie about that. I recently wanted to buy some dust masks during the fires here in California. People recommended getting N95 certified masks, but when you go to Amazon and search for "N95" most of the listings will claim to be N95 certified but aren't listed on the government's lists of masks that are actually certified. I even found some masks that claimed to be certified and listed their certification number, but when I went to the NIOSH website the certification number was listed as "revoked".

The only legit ones seem to be the 3M masks, and there's no telling if the ones they're selling are actually real.
Depends who you follow. As I understand it, restricted feeding window is not IF. IF is ~20-24 hours no more than ~once a week (cf "Eat stop eat"), any less than 20 hours you don't get the benefits.
Sure, and there's nothing stopping your country from doing the same. I mean healthcare is basically irrelevant since minimum wage workers can't afford to look after health conditions regardless of whether or not they have a job. Regardless, there's no observed correlation between minimum wage and unemployment if that's what you're getting at.
Feels very big for a 0.1 update, which is how it should be. Congrats to the elementary team!
Yes. Before college, I worked two years as a night shift machine operator in a cup factory. Try taking the SAT the morning after a full night of work.
I'm trying to find the original source for this, but there's a quote I've seen about how finding a cycle in a linked list used to regarded as a FizzBuzz like test. It came of age when most people worked in C - if you worked in C for a year you'd know that cold.

I wonder how much the technical question approach isn't so much wrong as it is testing for things that matter much less now. There don't seem to be many questions about concurrency and distributed systems in this kind of interview, or at least not good ones. Everything now is "it depends" and the hard solutions are about ten lines of code for ten pages of problem explanation.
> Short term suffering from failed experiments.

By "short term" you mean "only until the kids die of their mutations"?
I'm convinced all public life will be recorded in the not at all distant future. Cameras are just too cheap and useful. As is storage.

It's not a conspiracy, just an inevitable consequence of technical progress.

The only "countermeasure" I can imagine is to have several independent surveillance networks. If hobbyists put up one for the public, we can at least watch the watchmen as much as they watch us.
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> And the truly bad mutations should self-correct before passing to subsequent generations.

That's an awfully euphemistic way to say "The kids'll die before they grow up."
If I have chickens and get more eggs than I would ever want to eat, each additional egg provides me less and less marginal utility. If you have cows and get more dairy than you would ever want, then each cup of milk provided you less and less marginal utility.

If I trade you a dozen eggs that have near zero marginal utility to me but lots to you, and in return you give me a gallon of milk that has near zero marginal utility to you but lots to me, then we are both enriched by this trade. That enrichment is wealth creation.
Instructions per Cycle: AMD Zen 2 versus Intel
Does anyone know if any other distros are packaging any parts of elementary OS?
But taxis are horrible in so many other ways. Either they are allowed to act in the way they do ("oops. My card reader isn't working") or the rules aren't enforced. The average Uber ride is miles better than a taxi ride and just as a matter of scale, the extremes will be worse.
I can't tell if your comment is satire or just sincere Lispism.
People try to avoid reflection like the plague, most use cases don't depend on a hard-coded method/class name, and the ones that do can sometimes be detected by tools. It's pretty rare to run into this, and the one of two times I did something horrible like this, I wrote a test for it and made if fail loudly because what I was doing was brittle (by Java standards) and unexpected.
From my experience answering emails from customers all around the world I am not surprised: Spaniards are by far the most difficult to communicate with. It seems even going Google translate way (they write in Spanish and then translate my emails to Spanish) is more difficult with them than with say Koreans or Chinese.

I handle emails for the company I've founded for 5 years now. My experience is that nationality of the customer has big predictive value when it comes to how the communication goes. For example:

Germans - decent English with funny spelling/grammar quirks (der computer, der solver, using gender pronouns when referring to things etc.)

Chinese - rarely write any English but are very smart at using Google translate, I rarely have any communication issues with them. General computer literacy very high.

Japanese - exceptionally polite. Often write perfect English. Some of them don't though but they always make an effort (no pasting of Google Translate) and apologize profusely for their English being not so good.

Scandinavians: write better English than many native speakers, absolutely no issues. If I were to point the best speaking Scandi country it would be Finland.

Russians: often appear rude as I think translating Russian word by word results in rude sounding English. Maybe it's about the culture as well. I like communicating with them though. They sometimes use veiled or not so veiled insults towards me and my software. I keep the tone in my emails sometimes suggesting their brain is just malfunctioning and they are wasting my time. It usually goes well and problems are resolved quickly.

French: surprisingly much easier to communicate with than Spaniards. They rarely write correct English but somehow I am usually able to resolve the issue while when I see an email in Spanglish I brace myself for incoming trouble. French email domains (laposte, orange.fr) suck though. They often lose emails without any message. At this point if someone orders using laposte email I am emailing them from my personal account asking to provide functional email address. It sometimes gets to them but not always. We don't have those issues with any other email provider.

I could do a few more but those I feel strongest about. I am one guy who sells software to a specific niche. I am also not a native speaker so take it for what it is.
That's commendable but also sounds like a great way to scare off potential software developer candidates.
Some Sequential Algorithmsare Almost Always Parallel (PDF 2017)
If you like this you'll love his twitter.
> * This just speeds up the process a bit.*

You can't make an omelet without killing a few kids.
Many chromosomal abnormalities can be reliably detected at 10 weeks into a pregnancy, if not earlier. 10 weeks is well within the window at which many if not most women would be comfortable terminating. In California these tests are required to be covered by insurance for at-risk women (i.e. 38 and older, etc).

I imagine at some point these tests, as well as more precise ones, are likely to become standard procedure for all pregnancies, in California and everywhere else.

EDIT: I mean comfortable as in willing; not comfortable as in "whatevs".
>Anybody who’s got $1000 phone (read: just about everyone)

The ignorance of this alone makes the whole comment worthless.
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Snapdragon 865 is 25% faster than 855
I don't really subscribe to this idea that the US Government burns money as a rule. I'm sure there's many places that could be streamlined or made more efficient. But to blanket state that the US government as a whole is wasteful garbage seems naive, considering the immense scale and breadth of functions they carry out. The US Government employs 2.5 million people (3.8 million if you include the US Army, for which spending actually represents 61% [!] of the current US Budget) – the scale is personally hard for me to grok, at least. One thing that changed my mind about government spending is to look at the budget of a government program or facet of a program you're personally familiar with, and at least in my experience, it blows my mind what they can accomplish with what they're allocated.

For example, the entire yearly operating budget of Big Bend, a national park bigger than the state of Rhode Island, is only $7 million, including employee salaries, maintenance and restoration, emergency services, special programming, on-site research, and educational outreach – and it brought in around more than $27 million in visitor spending last year. From a money-making standpoint (which I don't think is the purpose of a government so much as to serve the public interest), that represents an extremely good return on investment – not to mention all the positive externalities of such a venture.
That's such an excellent point!

Why do you think companies are not defaulting to this behavior? it feels like the right time to be working on closed-circuit software solutions as an alternative measure.
By that same logic we shouldn’t care about radiation exposure.

We’re just speeding up the process a bit.
My time is not. 32Gb is a monstrous amount of RAM for a desktop, there's no reason reason for tabs to be randomly dying with memory issues.
When you look at the Phinney family’s finances the right course of action seems less clear. The dad is unemployed, and they also spend $500 a month on child care, which is a chunk of their budget. They could get child care for all their children for another $2000 a month, but the dad hasn’t been able to get a job that would cover that. Only warehouse jobs which pay very little.

So, the government could pay $2500 a month for this family to have free child care. But, the unemployed father could also just take care of all the children. Why is it better for the government to pay for child care, and then this father either stays unemployed or takes a job that pays less than the cost of child care?

It would be nice if there were not such a social stigma against stay-at-home fathers.
I see this comment everytime a post about ride hailing services pops up... but I can't figure out how it's relevant to this discussion this time.

The only word you mentioned that was relevant was safe... So are you suggesting that because they're fighting over costs with lyft, they pay drivers less which reduces reputable drivers and "poorer and more likely to rape" drivers join the app?
I would point out that individual consumer choices don't affect the system as a whole, only a coordinated boycott would have a hope of changing Amazon's behavior. However, I do think your efforts prepare the ground for it when it happens by changing people's sentiment.

Edit: Interestingly, against Amazon's retail business, even a small boycott would have an effect because their individual products are cut to extremely low margins. AWS is their cash cow with fat margins.
I wouldn't worry so much about reduced diversity. Once we're good enough at creating genetically manipulated babies we can recover any diversity we want in one generation.
I’m not sure I agree. I just rewrote code that another team member just wrote that was four layers of strategy patterns and factories into one single one page static class. Even they agreed that my code was easier to read and understand. I don’t think they could have written my version. Yet though. I’m trying to get them there.

My point is that it is sometimes easier to write complicated and unmaintainable code than writing clean and clear code.
This is cool good job!

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Woops that action caused the model to start looping. Try a different action to
prevent that.

Alas my evil plans were thwarted
Some algorithms, such as the famous Knuth Shuffle, are a sequential algorithm in the worst-case scenario. This slide-deck however, demonstrates that the Knuth Shuffle is in fact highly parallel in the average case.

In the average case, the dependency graph of a random shuffle is O(log(n)). An infinitely parallel machine would only need O(log(n)) steps to complete a Knuth Shuffle, on the average.

This, and many other "sequential" algorithms, arguably have a "parallel in the average" form waiting to be discovered.
And in the US.
Alex Schroeder.

I would really like to have a > 1hr edit window at times.
I mean if you're unwilling to accept a published document from them, then you can't accept any claims by any company. Including Google + Android.

At least, unlike android, iOS indicated that the location system was being used.
Lose the straightjacket, lose the guarantees. That makes sense. I had been thinking of it as just a straightjacket.

And, as you point out, there are some OO patterns that we can also provide useful guarantees and constraints.
It's unsettling how many pleasant euphemisms I'm seeing that amount to "any kids who get really fucked up by gene editing will die before they reproduce, so it's fine!"
I'd like to see antiperspirant usage as a variable, but it seems like it would be hard to find a control. Having tried several times to buy deodorant without antiperspirant for my wife, I can say how hard it is to find an armpit product without aluminum oxide. It's not so hard to find masculine scented deodorants.
I think Elementary should have focused on just shipping Pantheon as their end product. GNOME has had issues not only in the performance department, but it's also a very different type of minimalism for a DE that's supposed to be the mainstream pick for normal users. Elementary has adopted a far more conventional DE that feels as simple as GNOME, but far more usable.

But I'm never going to use Elementary over Ubuntu or Fedora, and I wouldn't install it on a non-tech person's computer. Redhat employs all the systemd/kernel folks so you're getting a super stable system with lots of updates and vanilla packages. Ubuntu has lots of documentation and a huge community. In terms of just gettting shit done as a programmer or a normal user Elementary is fighting an uphill battle. Now if I could get Fedora or Ubuntu with Pantheon as the default choice over GNOME - sign me up.
Looks like this release does update the kernel.
Well I was thinking more along the lines of disabilities, weakness and abnormalities, but I guess death too.
I didn't want to say, "Survival of the fittest."
Well see the just world theory says that if they have spent 10 years in a low wage job then they obviously have a character flaw that makes them unsuitable for any higher position in society so certainly we don't need to look at any other factors apart from that to know that we won't employ her for anything else.
/s
It's more like it's hard to mix together built in and modeled notions together. Like I could hand-write some CPS and then compile that all go gotos, but if I forget to never return the invariant is broken and the compile fails. Monads in rust sort of work if you don't use any "native" control flow.
Do you happen to know of any studies or benchmarks that show how much of a difference in performance there is between strong and relaxed memory consistency models for real-world workloads? It's something that I've been curious about for a while.
Beware the perception of progress as an unmitigated good.