skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not if you want a fun game. Civilization is a game about role-playing as the leader of a nation, not merely about sprinting to the finish. The AI is meant to take part in that roleplaying, to enhance the experience for the player. An AI that consistently loses but does so in a very human way is better than an AI that consistently wins but plays like a machine.

(Obviously the ideal is an AI that plays like a human and can hold its own, but a playstyle similar to humans is definitely more important than ability to win.)
A Successful Phone Interview Can Take You to the Next Round
How to Ace Your Phone Interview
Android has usability issues that iPhone does not. I have several Android devices and recently switched to iPhone.

iPhone does not have useless prompts like "Phone is fully charged, disconnect charger".

iPhone does not randomly lock up.

iPhone is consistent. Once video playback from a website goes full screen, native iOS controls override custom web player. Some specialized apps implement their own native app controls to override iOS. Native controls are a far superior experience when interacting with the video.

I still prefer VLC on Android for playback, but forcing a site to stream with it is a challenge.

iPhone has its own quirks. For example, you need the Plus or Max version to rotate the home screen to landscape. Notifications in locked mode are always in portrait, which makes them appear sideways in landscape. That is true even on Plus or Max. I switched to a Plus partially because of this.
I've been using vim for roughly half my life at this point. What I've found is that actually using the editor is so thoroughly muscle memory at this point that using another editor, where I actually have to consciously think about how to do something, is incredibly distracting.

It's not like the difference in input speed is really meaningful; as you'll see someone point out in any discussion about this stuff, the bottleneck in programming is thinking.

But what I find will often happen is:

1. I settle on a course of action.
2. I go to actually do it.
3. The editor doesn't do what I expect, because it's not vim.
4. I am momentarily confused, and have to think for a minute about how to do what I want.
5. I lose my train of thought entirely.
6. Rinse, repeat.

So for me it's not so much about any specific thing the editor does to make me productive. I do have opinions about some things, but what's important is that it just fades into the background and lets me think about the problem I'm trying to solve.

Beyond just being "different," I tend to eschew IDEs for much the same reason -- while many of the advanced features seem useful, I find them too distracting to be worth the trouble. Just me and the code, please.
No, but IntelliJ ultimate has more features than Android Studio given there are JetBrains developed plugins that aren’t available in the CE platform.

Guice support, for example. You can live without it, but if you are working on a larger Android codebase and utilize it then it may be useful.
Matt Levine wasn't so far off with his characterization of the Son Masayoshi Adam Neumann conversation:

"""

Son: What does your company do?

Neumann: We lease office buildings, spruce up the space and sublet it in small chunks.

Son: Hmm I invest in visionary tech stuff, this doesn’t really sound like my thing.

Neumann: Did I mention we are a state of consciousness. A generation of interconnected emotionally intelligent entrepreneurs.

Son: Okay yeah that’s more like—

Neumann: The world’s first physical social network. We encompass all aspects of people’s lives, in both physical and digital worlds.

Son: You’re crazy! I love it! But could you be, say, ten times crazier?

Neumann: You’re going to invest $10 billion in my company, which I will use as kindling to light the whole edifice on fire, and then when we are both standing in the ashes you will pay me another billion dollars to walk away while I laugh at you.

Son: All my life I have dreamed of meeting someone as crazy as you, but I never really believed this day would come.

Neumann: I’m gonna use your money to buy a mansion with a room shaped like a guitar, where I will play the world’s tiniest violin after all your money is gone.

Son: YES PUNCH ME IN THE FACE.

Neumann: Also I’ll rename the company “We” and charge it $6 million for the name.

Son: RUN ME OVER WITH A TRUCK.

"""

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2019-10-23/mon...
What's the point of having sound in vim?

What are possible use cases?

Can't a plugin developer do this externally?

This also brings the question of why having a GUI?
Sarus – A JavaScript Library for WebSockets
Economically, there's something very strange going on with the net today. Aside from streaming video and perhaps some specialized apps like games, for the vast majority of people, they're just fine as long as they can move around a few MBs every day, mostly in text. Even photo sharing doesn't use a huge amount of data, relatively speaking.

But to get to that paltry amount of data we actually need, we have to sift through 50, 100 times as much garbage, all of it related to engagement or advertising.

For people who have transfer caps or end up in "jail" when they use too much internet, it puts them in a really odd place. We're charging them to pay for us to do things we want to do, not things they want to do on their own. Then, when we charge them, if we're lucky we reach our goal: more usage of our site or the user buying something they normally wouldn't, both of which involve spending even more money. This seems a bit like the old "heads I win, tails you lose" joke. There is an illusion of choice, but not really.
Retro emulators seem to be increasing in popularity lately. I've seen a few articles now covering the "how", but does anyone have pointers to something explaining the "why"?

Is it a Zachtronics-style technical challenge? Specific nostalgia for the software that ran on these ancient platforms? More general nostalgia for the days when platform stacks were still thin and comprehensible [1]? Something else?

[1] https://ptrthomas.files.wordpress.com/2006/06/jtrac-callstac...
There isn't much to paraphrase, really. When my doctor was prescribing fluoxetine he offhandedly mentioned that he would start me off with a lower dose than he normally would for a person of my size and issues because I was already taking amphetamines, which meant that I wouldn't need as high a dose. The offhanded way he mentioned it gave me the impression that it was common knowledge and later another doctor also mentioned the same thing to me, but this one was not a psychiatrist but a cardiologist, farther cementing my suspicions.

When I later asked my psychiatrist about this he said that since SSRIs and amphetamines are though to complement each other (even if the science on the matter isn't really decided) the recommendation they get is to adjust the dose of SSRIs down. I'm sure the actual reason is more complex than that, maybe involving fears of serotonin syndrome, but my takeaway from it was that the effect is well known.

No idea about coffee in particular since I wasn't allowed to have any caffeine during that time.
Why don't communists emigrate to North Korea? They will be able to enjoy state-provided public transportation and housing, away from those terrible profit-seeking capitalists
Sound could be useful for accessibility.
Yes, I'm in the US. And it's entirely possible that I've got the back story for the missing sound completely wrong, I don't remember how I got that information.
Mental Health and Gaming
The only thing worse than no good string data type is 5 different string data types in one application.

std::string, OString, QString, char*, QByteArray

OString was our wrapper around database library strings.

And there were automatic cast between SOME of these. I especially liked the helpful automatic cast to bool from OString (true if it wasn't empty if you're wondering). It meant that doing OString("password") == OString("wrong password") returned true because it converted both to bool.
Now that's a coincidence, just yesterday I was thinking if it would be possible to use WLAN in FreeDOS on my 1998 Toshiba Libretto xD I found one of the PCMCIA cards mentioned in the article for sell and immediately ordered it, can't wait to try it :-)
So maybe you meant something other than code size here, but using words like "minimal" and "subset" feel a bit (unintentionally, probably) misleading to me.

I understood it as as a subset of features. It doesn't seem to me that the author is trying to play code golf with their codebase, or optimize for binary size (and why would you in 2019, storage is cheap)
It was on the front page briefly, but fell off because users flagged it. We don't know why, but one guess is that they felt it was more of a sensational political article than the kind that would lead to substantive discussion here.
>The Necker Cube, published by Louis Necker in 1932, ushered in an almost 200-year investigation into visual illusion. This video continues that exploration today in-light-of what we now know about the fact that matter equals energy. The quantum physics revolution has altered our world in ways beyond compare. What we see in our day to day experience is quite different from what science has confirmed. This video asserts that we must question our assumptions about perspective. The Renaissance helped us understand how we see 3-D distance visually, and today’s science confirms that there is more to the story.

This should win an award for the greatest pile of random words masquerading as information.

What the hell does the first sentence even mean? How could an event in 1932 usher in a 200 year investigation - predicting something that ends in 2132?
Career Notes – Vinay Hegde
A great example of "During the gold rush it’s a good time to be in the pick and shovel business."

Increasing productivity of expensive developers is a great selling point.
It is much easier to see if you do not fullscreen it. Keep it relatively small, and if you still don't see them, unfocus your eyes just a little bit. Good luck!
>I think it's incredibly irresponsible to tell people that things like yoga, meditation, exercise and diet changes are a replacement for professional mental health help.

People probably made this kind of sentiment about lobotomies, and farther back things like bloodletting and leeches.
Why does this matter? Yes, their original plan was pure SaaS. But they listened to criticism and changed it once they realized that there was backlash from the community. If anything, that should be admired not criticized.
"One dollar a copy"...that must have been a lot of money in the depth of the Depression.
The lower boundary of the 99 percentile goes up as 1/sqrt(N) and approaches the average member intelligence, but never reaches that level. At the same time, the upper boundary of the 99 percentile goes down at the same speed. However the number of super smart members, with IQ higher than say 160, grows linearly.
In a practical sense, how could JetBrains' software compromise security? People don't generally deploy build artifacts built from IDEs. And I suppose you could turn on a network monitoring tool to see if JetBrains software is broadcasting anything.
Boeing Weighs Cutting or Halting 737 Max Production
It eliminates frustration. I hate having to look away from the screen, and with a regular keyboard I always have to look down too often, unless I'm writing just prose.
I'm always amazed by how a complex software as IDEA seems so crisp, I'm always thinking the internal structure must be very well pieced together, there are a lot of small things and small features that you'd think would not have polish but then it's all working flawlessly. Really want to study their code one day(although it's been years I'm saying that) :t
As cost of living rises, more people will migrate to cheaper countries, including the skilled labour that moves with their spouses to a country more favourable to raising a family.

The people left behind will be the poor who can’t afford to relocate and the excessively wealthy who don’t care about living expenses.
Craigslist killed the newspaper.
While that statement is usually used as an explicit indicator that the speaker doesn't consider abortion immoral at all, I think there's a difficulty here in that morality is used in two different ways: things I don't think anyone should be doing e.g. owning slaves, and things I'd feel uncomfortable doing e.g. having an abortion.

Perhaps they're two degrees of the same thing, but it doesn't seem obvious to me.

I think there is also a subset of the first: things which I don't think anyone should be doing but social pressure forbids objection - eating meat comes to mind. Abortion may fall into this category for some, but in my experience even in fairly liberal circles people are willing to object to abortion, they just tend to couch it more.
It happens also in own projects that are just huge, without any 3rd party libs.
The keycaps are all from group buys, nothing custom; unfortunately I don't have the equipment to make them (there is no practical way to do double-shot injection molding on a small scale, but dye sublimation on blanks could be possible).

I went for a PCB with underglow leds for the "space cadet" replica keycaps because unlike the others shining a in-switch led thru them wouldn't have looked interesting.
They can absolutely go direct. I've watched numerous movies on filmmakers' websites or youtube that I assume never got a cinematic release.

I guess the difference is that the Hollywood studio model is still so entrenched with the massive PR/media industry built up around it and reliant on its survival that indie releases get drowned out in the noise.

Another thing to consider is that niche content is just that - if a filmmaker decides to distribute direct to fans (or along some other indie avenue) it's likely you'll never hear about it unless you are one of those fans and regardless of what your definition of "success" is.
An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Eng Management
One of the advantages is you can easily explore what changes were made and merge conflicts through the tool.
Visual Illusions
Which is exactly why there is no difference between sixteen tons from eight people and sixteen tons from sixteen people. The emissions per capita alone is totally meaningless.

The reason that per country emissions are important is that countries are convenient political and demographic units.
I thought the punchline was:

My response: use Emacs.
OS X Start Package – Quick installation of 30+ apps for when I reinstall macOS.
I keep meaning to find a local keyboard Meetup and hope to try the ergodox.

The downside is I work 50 / 50 home and work so if I liked it I would probably need a traveling case or something.
All of this is completely off topic from my post. "White supremacists" were just an example. It could have just as easily been neo nazis, or Islamic extremists, or whatever.

Your post is similar to if I proposed a hypothetical about addition using apples, and you posted a screed about how apples are overused in American cuisine and their nutritional value is suspect, especially relative to oranges and pears.
That's misleading. Each year has multiple point releases. You don't get the latest point release.

My PHPStorm subscription expires in less than a week. In order to continue using it (without re-subbing), I have to downgrade from 2019.3 (current release) to 2018.3 (the release available on the date I subbed). Software that is one year old.

Similarly, the JetBrains site says my WebStorm subscription expires in around 10 months. At which point I have to downgrade to 2019.2 if I don't re-sub. Today's current version is 2019.3.

>Also every year the price goes down, so you pay less and less

That part is true and it's certainly commendable that they do that.
Those low effort questions are often extremely popular though, which would imply that they are useful to a lot of people.
The best part about going to a speciality retail is getting expert advice (running shop and getting advice on the best running shoes from a runner or best bikes from a biker) wondering if that value add could be usuario to bring online. Open to feedback
I sure hope they don't let people's lives depend on the output of deep learning models.
I noticed that all of these reactions are performed at very low temperatures. Could there be enough chemistry for life at these very low temperatures?
I think most folks like a graphical merge tool, such as opendiff, or at least that's what I've been able to glean.
Most infrastructure like this is not "financially sustainable" in a narrow sense because most of the positive externalities aren't capturable. It's nonetheless a good idea (although we certainly need to figure out how to do these things cheaper and less corruptly).

The environmental benefits alone must be considerable as the route has replaced more than half of the air traffic iirc.
The Tale of two cities is around 785kB, as demonstrated here !
Back in the first half of the previous century it was insanely easy to make good money. It’s because we made steel and manufactured everything in the world. And because automation was highly limited and there was nowhere to outsource to relatively speaking. It was a miracle. I’m not sure things will ever be as good as that again.

But that era left people with this crazy entitlement as if it were normal for things to be so good. Historically it is not normal I think.

When I look around I see a ton of stupid people but very few jobs that are well suited to stupid people. Now it’s normal for stupid people to go to college in a humanity and get a job in some kind of administrative role. It seems like the world is being infected with stupid people. With welfare and modern medicine and technology, the only thing that is required for genetic proliferation is a pulse. I often feel uncomfortable about where all this is headed. Especially because it seems like people who point out this “idiocracy “ effect don’t ever seem to get any traction.
That's a pretty reductionist view of wealth creation and capitalism.

I hope the inherent irony of making that statement to an audience of people united by a common interest in technological progress, entrepreneurship, and startups (on a forum maintained by the world's most recognized startup accelerator) isn't lost on you.
A third of young employees plan to leave. Soon
I dont even bother reading on the actual site anymore. I just save them to Pocket and read a clean text-only version on it later.
Then if one service had it all then people would be calling it a monopoly.
Robots help patients manage chronic illness at home
Another CYOA editor with a unique editor that shows you the whole conversation graph

https://aguaviva.github.io/SEMap/SEMap.html

It was used to create this bot that asks you Socratic questions:

https://aguaviva.github.io/SEMap/BeliefExplorer.html

I hope this interests somebody one day!
Here's some quick search results from DDG:

[debian migrate to 64 bit][search]

1st result: https://wiki.debian.org/Migrate32To64Bit

[kodi subtitle white box][search]

2nd result: https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=335337

[kodi compile][search]

1st result: https://kodi.wiki/view/HOW-TO:Compile_Kodi_for_Linux

Are you sure you aren't over-exaggerating DDG's supposed incompetence?
There’s plenty of literature. Another risk that is not generally discussed is that the mindful techniques used to alter thought patterns or suppress thoughts can backfire in a huge number of different ways. Suppressing negative thoughts can just as easily unintentionally suppress coping mechanism, amongst other things.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09567976124491...

Then you have the issue that the majority of studies done into the benefits of mindfulness could not have possibly measured the majority of the potential negative outcomes.

http://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/25868/1/221391_2996.pdf

Personally I don’t have an opinion one way or another. I simply don’t think it’s at all obvious that practicing mindfulness would be associated with positive or exclusively positive outcomes.

I could say the same thing for yoga too. I practice yoga regularly, and there are some obvious benefits to me. It’s a good workout and it makes me feel great. But many yoga positions are pretty intense. Am I doing harm to my body in some way be regularly applying this stress to it? I have no idea, but the answer to that question absolutely does not seem obvious to me.
I wonder what would have happened if they had gone the typical silicon valley VC route. Probably something less customer friendly with more invasive tracking, in order to "properly monetize their userbase".
43% of millennials see themselves quitting their current job in less than 2y
Self-defense. It's basic game theory that we will never have a world where no one has a gun. This remains true on a national level.
Ethical horrors aside, I'm a bit confused by their definition of depression here. I think there's a solid gap between 'constantly exposed to predators and thus feeling like there's no chance you'll survive' and 'feeling like life is just a black void of emptiness'. The latter being a very, very rudimentary description of depression that I've heard from friends.

Is there a scientist in the thread who could clear up why a mouse's will to persevere and live is equated with how depressed it is? Do mice just not perceive circumstance as well?
The Accidental Book Review That Made Jack Kerouac Famous
I had this same experience quite recently. First thing that popped in my brain was, "Wow. Paper newspapers have awesome UI," then I realized how ridiculous that was a few seconds later.

But it is true - they have had decades of experience crafting good headlines.

It's also really clear what the news of the day is. I can't think of a news site that has "front page news".

All of them today are lists of headline news, and prolonged exposure to clickbait makes headlines less appealing. It's the main reason I've never done a paid subscription to one; I just don't know what to read.

I also don't want videos or sound playing. I hate it when an article goes into a video without text; I'm here to skim something in 15 seconds, not 3 minutes. I'm glad Firefox blocks autoplay videos.
If everyone switches to using webtorrent to stream things from their browser, there will be less 24/7 bittorrent clients seeding content.

And the public bittorrent ecosystem won't work without seeders.

As the saying goes: "sharing is caring"
Youtube has a paid tier that negates the ads, no different than other music streaming services with free tiers. It's available in fewer countries, but it definitely exists.
I'm a really big fan of JetBrains. The pricing is reasonable, the pricing model is reasonable, and the products are moving forward quickly.

There's a lot of products I am either reluctant to pay for, or pay for only begrudgingly, because I feel like I have to, even though the value proposition isn't really there. JetBrains isn't like that!
Does anyone use his machine?
IntelliJ Ultimate has a lot of extra features, yes, but I don't recall any of them being related to Kotlin, or Android, so I don't think the parent comment claiming kotlin usage will result in extra revenue is relevant.
Coerce is often misused to imply encouragement or persuasion - but it specifically means to engage the efforts of others through violence or threat of violence. It's an ugly word.
> you're literally agreeing that the current way scoring works is bad for finding up-to-date answers

No you're "literally" misinterpreting what I said. I said there should not be any scoring system at all and people should select an answer based on its own merit, usefulness and how recent they are as per their own judgment instead of relying on other people. In fact this should be true for anywhere on internet including this site.
Alas, it is presently unobtainium. I guess I need to consider building my own split keyboard using Cherry ML switches.