skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sports:

- start mountainbiking again (carry over from last year, got inspired after riding Slick Rock on a vacation)

- climb a 7b grade bouldering route (attained 7a as a goal for 2019)

- be able to do 20 consecutive pullups

- be able to do 40 consecutive pushups

- run a half marathon (attained 18k as a goal for 2019)

Career:

- go to more meetups and networkings events

- start blogging

- keep in touch with old co-workers

- prepare to start working as freelancer/consultant

Other:

- meet up with friends more

- fix my RSI issues

- change my diet to be more plant-based

- pick up some creative non-computer hobby
I guess the 8000 likes in one hour is a _global_ threshold.

For spanish / german / italian content I guess it should be lower (and with much less impact).
Sorry to hear that you had issues with the LED. We did receive reports of some user's having issue with LEDs on some computers years back. With the latest OnlyKey hardware there have been no issues reported, you can check out the reviews on Amazon as if there is any issue at all there will usually be negative reviews on Amazon - https://www.amazon.com/OnlyKey-Stealth-Black-Case-Communicat...
The Paradox of Scale
FYI on Android Firefox Preview social icons are behind heading. No idea if that's true for other mobile browsers.
The counter example for Svelte is remarkably terse.
> I know your argument and reject it.

And I yours, so it seems we're just at an impasse of opinion. That's fine. We can continue being productive in our own ways, and history will judge the superior approach, in whole or part.
I've gone so far I don't even watch the TV anymore. Just the 2nd screen (only screen?).
This is only progressive if you retroactively punish the companies that benefited from the lax laws as if they were violating these new laws all along. Otherwise this is just pulling up the ladder for new competitors.
> YouTube is one of the sites that does this.

that's because they have a proper iframe-embed url: https://www.youtube.com/embed/quyj70RogxI (instead of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quyj70RogxI )
So many responses from people who are not target audience. Here is one from me so you can compare.

I just played this with my daughter who is 4 year old. She have found the first 4 levels easy. She was having a little bit trouble with level 5 negation and conjunction but we had to take a break since we were running for a date.

She didn't have any problem with zero being on the right.

She didn't have any problem with linguistics compherension so far.

She was able to differentiate colors and animating cats from the rest and it was perfect.

She is familiar with digital buttons so she was able to press them but even with her tiny fingers sometimes pressing 4 instead of 5 etc. (We played on mobile)

I direct the game for her. (Start, go up levels when she was bored)

Overall thank you for this because she is going to have a gifted and talented "test" next week and this looked very similar to that and she was active and entertained choosing the answers so I can see this could be a good segway I to it.
Sounds like typical California legislation to me.
This is such a bizarre mindset. It's sort of like "the beatings will continue until morale improves."
Anecdotally, an aging motel owner in small Sierra town, trying to sell, told me he and his wife needed a place with "straight roads to the doctors".

Real estate agent who told me retirees were coming down out of west-side Santa Cruz cabins as "the medical problems start."
It’s not me who has the issue with preferences though because I’m the one getting downvoted for saying there are plenty of options on the market :)

I actually have no issue with AirPods specifically (aside that they don’t come with a selection of silicon gloves for different ear shapes - that’s standard with every other earphone but it’s an extra cost with Airpods). However this is a technical forum and the last time I checked it was considered proper etiquette to discuss similar products when similar products do exist. Which is what I did.

As an aside, it’s a real pity the media machine is so obsessed with Apple because there are genuinely some really interesting earphones and headphones out there from independent companies making real innovations in audio tech. But they often get overlooked now that Apple have entered the earphone market.
Correct so a lot of the comments are not relevant to the article. But to clarify, Medicare does not cover Americans who choose to live abroad.
Watched most of the demo with my permanent roommate (an architect) before dinner and we both found it interesting. Good work.
You are a very unusual doctor. I wish there were more like you.
p = p + v * dt;
v = v + a * dt;

How is this "single assignment"? Aren't v and p assigned values already before those lines? Or do they have some default initial value for their type that doesn't count as an assignment?
Charles Murray’s *Human Diversity*
I also wouldn't call scabies an STD. Just as likely to pick up scabies shaking someone's hands then someones........
I have a few 30 day experiments I am setting out to do this year:

- No sugar

- Daily journal writing

- Sweat every day (via exercise and/or sauna)

- Contact one friend/acquaintance I haven't spoken to in a while every day
Thats an odd thing to say. Websites don't need to allow free access either. I can't comment on any particular revenue model but I imagine many websites chose personalized ads as they provide better revenue returns than non-personalized ads.

would switching to non-personalized advertisements without taking additional steps support the website enough? Maybe but its hard to say one way or the other without looking at the data.
People should certainly have an expectation that their quality of life could be the same if not better than their parent’s, 100%. Why should anybody be guaranteed to live in the same area they grew up in though? Why should anybody have the right to live in any particular area, especially at a particular QOL?
Lossy = I don't need all the data. I can look away for most of a baseball game and still enjoy it. But if it's some intense drama like Game of Thrones then I need to see it all. You miss a scene and you're confused for episodes to come.
Bond – Internet Trends 2019
A resort town in SE Asia is pretty nice; you also have to consider much cheaper services that you aren’t going to get in a cheap Deep South city. It has nothing to do with communism or Bible belts.
Anecdotal, but I usually have something on TV in the background (a random youtube video/music set) and use a laptop to browser reddit/HN all the time. (Obviously this is when I'm chilling by myself and not when I have friends/people over)
Most of the record is letters that read "can i have access to Teslas stuff please" and the FBIs answer "we are not responsible, contact the Office of Alien Property".

The FBI of course knew where Teslas stuff was: It was stored in rooms 5J and 5L in the Manhatten Storage Warehouse on 52nd street & 7th avenue in New York. In the first 10 years only once were people allowed to examine it. Their report is in (PDF 1 page 178ff) with a second copy in (PDF 3 page 40ff). It is by far the most interesting piece of information in the whole record.

Sadly it basically says: Tesla was a genius but in his later years he didn't make any new breakthroughs at all. Even sadder: Tesla didn't seem to understand nuclear energy.

Keeping that knowledge about the late Dr. Tesla under seal for 50 years may have helped the "mysterium Tesla" far more than any actual invention he could have possibly made at the time.

If you ever visit Belgrad everything interesting from that warehouse has by now been moved there and is on display in the Tesla Museum. With the exception of some "original manuscripts" which Tesla gave away to good friends, like for example the great publisher Hugo Gernsback. The list of "people close to Tesla" (PDF 1 Page 186ff) is a bit creepy, yet that is actually what i would expect to find in an FBI record.

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On a side note the FBI seems to have an unhealthy habit of filing anything you sent them under the topic you ask for, even if you mail them crap: There is a story about UFO conspiracy theorists "Mr. and Mrs. Storm" (pdf 1, page 55) and what does the FBI do? They file the "Interplanetary Newsletter" (pdf 3, page 1ff) and later release it under the freedom of information act.

Now other nutjobs can claim "the FBI disclosed documents that say Tesla invented machines that allowed the USA to contact space people in the 50ths" ... runs a short google query ... yep that is happening.
Wow, I didn't expect HN to have such red-pill-esque views, no wonder this industry has such hard time attracting and retaining female employees.
Electric is simpler and less risky.

For automakers, the worst problem of electric vehicles is that maintainance/service is easy and they make more money servicing vehicles that from selling... but it can be fixed:
1- renting batteries (and still charging annual service fee).
2- renting whole cars by the minute using a mobile app.

The problem with Hydrogen is that's still an _explosion_ motor with a different fuel, and you have to develop a new kind of motor for it plus a way to store and consume the hydrogen cells safely.
May I ask why that is? I've travelled a fair amount of Asia and Africa over the last decade and I have to say many places are significantly more exciting than a rural or small town in the US. I have not so much personal experience with the US, but my family is from a rural German region and if the US is anything like it (and I suspect it's not too far off), there are many more exciting places out there.

The cuisine and the culture in much of the developing world are superb, the cities are dynamic and young, transport and services are cheap, in contrast, going back to my parent's village feels like going to a whale graveyard. Now I'm far from retirement age and maybe I'll mellow out a bit but many western small towns I've seen are outright depressing to live in (and at this point lack basic services and public transport).
More like "the exercising should continue until you're actually exercising". Going through some motions that don't stress the body isn't exercise...
That's... pretty much nonsense.

Maybe some people feel better after exercise than before, but for the vast majority of people I've talked to, they're mostly exhausted after exercising. Same goes for me. And yes, I regularly exercise significant chunks of time at 80%+ of MHR.

And yes, I've done it for extended amounts of time, too. I've done half marathons. I've run somewhat decent times for my age. I was bored out of my skull while doing it. I certainly didn't feel a big endorphin rush.
Seems unlikely given that they were likely contractors: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-28/boeing-s-...
Medicare should work in Guam and other US territories.
Heh, I've seen enough people do this that I assumed the angle bracket actually did something, formatting wise. Now my original post sounds a bit silly. It's very effective. :)
The extra crazy part is that the safest places to fly a drone tend to be places where there is no internet service. I live on the edge of a metro area and I drive 20m into the middle of nowhere, up an unmarked dirt trail to launch and fly around looking at the pretty scenery. By going that far out, I know for sure there are no other people, certainly no aircraft under 500 ft and no chance I'm going to injure, bother or even be seen by anybody.

I go there because it's so safe and stress-free. If I were to even hear a vehicle or aircraft in the distance, I'd land immediately (though that's never happened). Where I fly, not only is there no internet service, there's no cellular voice service.

So the FAA has basically assured that I have little incentive to follow their rules. I don't want to start flying within cellular data service range because people, property and aircraft tend to be in those places.
It's a collective action problem - the company can't fire the first engineer if they know everyone else they hire would also refuse orders. But each individual engineer has an incentive (not getting fired) to break with the group's strategy.

This collective action problem is solved by coordination, through the means of the licensing body. That body can impose severe penalties (not just firing you from your current job, but from all future jobs) for anyone who betrays the group strategy, so an individual engineer can feel some more safety refusing orders in the knowledge that the whole profession will back them up.

EDIT: In civil engineering, this system is propped up by the state, which requires plans to be signed off by a licensed engineer. The guild functions in this capacity as a subcontractor of the state, taking on a regulatory burden and allowing rather more severe punishments (barring someone from a profession) than would be acceptable from a purely state organ. In software, this could be enforced by similar means for safety-critical applications - the ACM, for example, could be required to license any software engineer, with the understanding that they would revoke licenses for negligence or malfeasance that didn't rise to the level or criminal liability.
To what extent is the concept of 'dimension' here the same as in everyday experience? (or, e.g. Linear Algebra, where the number of vectors in a basis correspond to dimension. I see that concept as roughly similar to the 'everyday' concept.)

From this comment I would guess this is an alternate meaning of 'dimension' which captures one key property from the usual meaning (i.e. ratio of surface to interior space depends on dimension), but leaves out the rest.

Like is there a sense in which we can rotate onto a fractional axis or something like that?
I've taken to relentlessly using the 30-second skip if there's a side-plot that doesn't entertain me on a show I otherwise enjoy.
What are the closed source softwares that are used for this purpose?
pleasure experienced during exercise does scale with intensity but only to a certain point https://link.springer.com/article/10.2165/11590680-000000000...
I work in a Canadian hospital. We have OOC patients all the time...Out of Country. During their stay, they or their family get told to visit the business office to set up payment. The business office is a tiny, one person desk in the hospital. They will take payment directly or will correspond with your insurance provider. This is mostly for people with emergency and unplanned admissions. I'm not sure how it would work for elective procedures or med purchasing. You could probably walk into a walk in clinic and pay out of pocket as almost all with have debit/credit machines since some things aren't covered in Canada (travel vaccines for example).
Correct, they don't have to offer free access. What they do need to do is pick a business model that is legal in countries they wish to operate in. Things like GDPR doesn't prevent ads. Maybe they make less money off non-personalized ads, but companies can't do whatever they want just because they make more money that way. I don't find it odd that laws can hamper the revenue of certain business models.
I agree with him 100%, but if memory serves, his sentiment in ReWork essentially echos that of the comment he's criticising.
This has been my experience as well. You need to start out slow and let your body adjust, and at different points I’ve had different levels of highs. The rush came for me when I was pushing myself towards my limit without pain, and that didn’t happen until I had set a certain baseline of endurance.
Read that letter very carefully: it is about some Mr. and Mrs Storm trying to exploit Teslas reputation by making up wild stories about UFOs and aliens.
I've used that a few times to send myself files. I like the option to set max downloads. However, the dropbox option seems to add the custom logo option which is kind of cool for SMBs.
Montana can be really expensive for food and restaurants. Helena, for example, it feels like California prices.
My first knee-jerk reaction to your post was the same as the people who downvoted you: Here's another person incorrectly implementing a process, and then blaming the process when it fails.

But, real talk: Automated testing is borderline impossible without buy-in from the developers maintaining the code under test.

You get developers changing function signatures so tests no longer compile. You get changes to function invariants that invalidate the tests. You get UI changes that break tests that look for component placement, or that search for certain strings in the UI.

If your developers insist on changing these things (or are forced to change these things by constantly-shifting project requirements) without updating the tests, then you are just treading water.

In that case, you probably are better off with manual tests.
I'm talking about something different from control fraud; particularly in the case that it can arise unintentionally. The fact that it can arise unintentionally makes it much harder to combat because there is built-in plausible deniability.

Example of it occurring unintentionally:

1. A corporation sets goals for store managers based upon performance metrics that include payroll. These goals are currently realizable by a competent manager without forcing workers to work without pay.

2. Some fraction of managers realize rather than actually working hard to meet the goals, they can get their numbers up by forcing workers to work without pay. This skews the metrics a bit.

3. The most incompetent managers that aren't committing wage-theft are demoted or fired, being replaced with managers that are either more-competent or willing to commit wage-theft.

4. The payroll goal is now adjusted down because the previous accounting-term's payroll average is lower than before.

5. Competent managers manage to get jobs elsewhere, so the fraction of managers willing to commit wage-theft increases.

6. GOTO 2

Eventually the metrics are so skewed that the majority of managers must either commit wage-theft or lose their jobs. These managers are the only people that will get in trouble if the wage-theft is discovered.
Lock files are useful in production environments where you want to ensure the exact same package versions are being used that you tested with. A package.json file specifies package names and versions, but theres no guarantee your package registry will always serve the same content.

The lock file records the hash of each package and uses it to verify package integrity on future installs. If any of the hashes don't match up, the `npm clean-install` command[0] will throw an error.

[0] https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/ci.html
Definitely lax in some ways, but medically it's incredible what they will latch on to and disqualify people for

Things are getting better though, they're getting less rules-minded and more safety-minded. But the proposals around drones don't seem out of the ordinary for FAA regulations to me
Midwest like the Mayo Clinic?
I am constantly amazed by the guilt people feel that others have to work jobs that they feel are “beneath” them. No, we don’t need some sort of utopian society where we all rotate jobs so we all get to experience what being a garbage man is like. You are an elitist that believes “dirty jobs” are shameful and something to feel bad about. You must live an exhausting life. I’m happy there are people all throughout society who still get stuff done and keep the world turning.
I'm also missing the real tiny ones, such as the one on Galileo or Cassini, deep space exploration spacecrafts. They are called RTG, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_ge...

But they also had real ones, like the SNAP-10A.
I've been doing HIIT for a while. Always very intense and I end up demolished and definitely not feeling better afterwards, just really tired.

I asked my trainer if it ever gets any easier, in his words, "No, you just get stronger".

Feeling subjectively better after a workout session might be in the same line as "happens to some people".
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I agree. My wife and I have the AMC A+ movie subscription service as a “commitment device”. It forces us to get out of the house, away from our screens. We go to a movie at least once a week if there is anything remotely interesting playing.
>This obsession with cheap places to live intrigues me.

That's... pretty damn bizarre that you'd find it intriguing.

>In Memphis, TN you can rent a decent apartment in a shitty part of town for $300 a month.

Who _wants_ to live in the shitty part of town? You've deconstructed your own argument in a sentence.

Also, with American money you can live in Vietnam like royalty, and in an area that looks like paradise. There's a reason the places you are talking about are in the "flyover states".
I think it’s clear mammals and certainly primates exhibit emotional behaviour, in which case it’s clear our common ancestors must have exhibited such behaviour. The question is, is our experience of those emotions similar?

I see no reason to doubt it. The question boils down to whether animals have a sense of self and experience a ‘first person’ view of the world. Experimental evidence suggests that several species, including primates do have a sense of self and there’s so evidence they also have a theory of mind [0].

It has been argued that a first person experience of the world is not required for advanced reasoning, language, etc in discussions of AI. That may be the case. In which case our first person experience may be independent of and pre-date our advanced reasoning skills. Even if it is required for reasoning ability that’s also consistent with us having it first. I just don’t see any reason to see them as necessary for each other either way.

Finally, if the experience of the world and the basis of our responses to stimulus did undergo such a dramatic shift at some point, that seems like an extremely dangerous transition. An awful lot could go wrong with that, and in fact everything about such a shift would have to go extraordinarily well or the result would be catastrophic failure. All evolutionary transitions have to progress through stages that are each viable at every step. Huge leaps don’t happen, because the odds of success are impossibly low. It seems more likely to me that our emotional responses are similar to closely related species, because the neurological basis for them, and mental experience of them are also similar. Otherwise we need to figure out why a radically different mental experience evolved, and why, and how come it leads to no appreciable difference in emotional behaviour.

[0] https://www.discoverwildlife.com/news/theory-of-mind-demonst...
There's something to be said about using the Dropbox or Firefox options when sending a file. I'm not familiar with the other companies and so for all I know they are saving the file looking for valuable info. Middrive.io doesn't even resolve for example.
>You do not have a right to fly anything.

AFAIK, you don't need a license or formal training, or anything, to fly an ultralight.

Well, except for the ultralight.
This might be true of some people at some intensities but it is not universally true. The more intense my exercise the worse I feel afterwards. @ 70% of max hr I feel pretty good afterward. 80% and I start feeling pretty tired. At 90-95% I get super irritable, nauseous, and can't sleep.