skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
buckminster: We'll create a static frontpage in the future without the need for the click. And we'll also keep the easy-to-login feature for existing users.
I keep hearing about this, and must be missing something. Why is a woman beating a man of such significance? Isn't it just one talented player beating another? No one was interested in darts before; why ought the sex of the winner to change that?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/20/business/boeing-dreamline...

> Safety lapses at the North Charleston plant have drawn the scrutiny of airlines and regulators. Qatar Airways stopped accepting planes from the factory after manufacturing mishaps damaged jets and delayed deliveries.

> Less than a month after the crash of the second 737 Max jet, Boeing called North Charleston employees to an urgent meeting. The company had a problem: Customers were finding random objects in new planes.

Turns out trying to squash the unions by moving to a different state helps show why the unions existed...

> Managers were also urged to not hire unionized employees from the Boeing factory in Everett, where the Dreamliner is also made, according to two former employees.
It's funny, because I quit using WSL because of high latency. I can't say input latency is a big deal to me. I can always wait 100ms for the buffer to catch up with my typing.

But when most commands have 500ms of overhead that is another story. My Xfce4 terminal running in a Hyper V VM is so much faster. If only there were seamless copy-paste. (Incidentally, I tried using Virtualbox but the latency there is more like WSL.)
> I don't think this is a factor for microdosing studies.

It's still illegal for folks to drive home with LSD in their system even if it isn't impairing them, so I'd think this would be a challenge in getting IRB approvals.
Can’t find the reference, but according to a contemporary, Maharaj-ji palmed the LSD.

Then later, mixed it with sacred ash, and gave it as prasad to his devotees. Who were duly impressed with his shakti!
I was specifically curious about input latency. Is that what you're saying is much faster, or just WSL in general?
I have to chime in that I too have a love/hate relationship with Lotus Notes. I started using it back in ‘98. It was massively empowering to build functional and secure workflow apps, and do so faster than you could wireframe on other platforms. I rolled it out to thousands of users successfully. It was truly visionary in scope. However, the performance was mediocre and there were many really poor oversights and omissions. Often I would go to program some base operation and find out you just “can’t get there from here“. It seemed their QC process hadn’t really given much though to global calendar synchronization or to very basic needs like printing landscape. I still use it daily for a large (funeral) industry specific app. and it has run flawlessly for a decade (albeit making API calls to MS Office and the web). I go to program new things in React or even Rails and am disappointed that you have to reinvent things that were built into Notes 20 yrs ago.
To each their own I guess.

I’ve been using it for the last 2 years, and I am not doing any project again without it.

Bazel is not that complex if you start a project with it. Migrating to it and learning it at the same time will be hard though since you’re likely to uncover a lot of skeletons.
Show HN: Postgres.js – Fast PostgreSQL Client for Node.js
Not in my garage, no. And even if so, for a few seconds.
I think the thing journalists find interesting is that Japan is creating these particular words at all, when most languages/cultures don’t bother. (Edited: removed some badly-sourced assertions.)

We have an English word “truant”, referring to someone who happens to not attend schooling; but we have no English word for someone who actively avoids the education system. This is an uncommon construction; I don’t think there’s another language besides Japanese that has such a word. This is a problem that has only risen to the level of intensity to need public knowledge and communication about it in Japan—at least, so far.

It’s interesting that they need such a word enough to not only create it, not only to make it short, but that it seemingly is a word any average Japanese person might now know. The fact that this word exists as a “layman’s term” says a lot about the phenomena. The fact that it replaced an earlier, less PC word for the same thing says even more!

(But, besides the subtle statement being made by introducing an element of cultural linguistic evolution, journalists are probably also trying to be “the person who was responsible for introducing a loan-word into English.” Since English doesn’t have this word, but might need it sooner-or-later, maybe we’ll use the Japanese one, like we did with taifuun, karaoke, or emoji. Probably the journalists who first used those words in English-language articles feel very proud of themselves.)
It doesn't, and I'm willing to donate my own body and mind to science to prove it if ever given the opportunity, and there are many others who feel the same way.

You won't have any trouble finding test subjects who are entirely cognizant of the dangers but place emphasis on pioneering the study of pyschochemistry.
I often find myself using cmd (the old terminal prompt that is default WSL) on windows. It's not perfect, but I found a patch to enable ANSI color support and it's so much better latency-wise. I hope others work as well in the future; the fancy new much-lauded windows terminal, on the other hand, is to horribly latent for comfortable use (as are many others).
Correlation does not imply causation. The paragraph stating that the “finding was independent of other factors” doesn’t really inspire confidence, there are countless factors that might impact the results.
I know nothing about go, but it seems to me in your example powers_of_x is a list of n integers, while in the example being discussed is an list of n functions (which can be used to compute the n'th power).
Why isn't it enough to retrofit all past and future models with enough hardware redundancy and create a properly written MCAS software?

Wasn't the design sound, except for the lack of hardware sensor redundancy and naively written software?

Why do they need to stop production and so on?
When I was a kid and lived in Ukraine (my home country), I went to a home school. Tutoring happened at a teacher's home. Each class was 4-6 people max. Such were the rules. They hired teachers from the same neighborhood so that kids could easily walk from one teacher's place to another. Sometimes we had to take a bus. It was amazing. Obviously, zero bullying and stuff like that. After class, we could get some fresh air while walking from Math class to, say, English class. Since people's homes are very different from each other, it was also fun. There was no "standard" school interior so to speak. We also had a better "connection" with our teachers. At home, everyone felt safe and teachers were kind, calm and al that. Sometimes a teacher could bake a pie for us or something similar. It was cool.

I live in New York now and we found a somewhat similar school for our kids. The entire school has 15-17 students. Each class has 3-4 students max. Tutoring happens at a multi-family house, which is also a place where the principal of the school lives. My kids LOVE the school. They celebrate every single birthday of each other, with cakes, gifts and al that. They visit theaters, museums, movie theaters, farms, zoos, you name it. They also do classes that are not popular in US, like Geography, Biology and they want to add Chess and Yoga. My older one is 5 years old, he f#cking wants to travel. He wants to visit Paris, London, Romania.

I can talk forever about our kids school, but to finish my comment, I'm a believer that this type of "semi-decentralized" education is the right path. I could be wrong though, but so far, it works out great.
I failed to mention I do physical work because writing software wears me out much faster. I see no reason why it wouldn't work the same way. Brain/Desk work (at least in my experience) is not limited by Newtonian mechanics.

It would depend on the kind of job but I imagine it is worth testing if you are more productive working 4 days, or 3. Perhaps one can just be there for meetings? Maybe you can do some stuff to build up the goodwill, from what I've seen there are companies that actually care about the end result and praise employees willing to run the extra mile to make it all work. An overworked managers should be able to understand that you suspect to be more productive working fewer hours? Could ask him on Friday and point out some examples on the work floor.

I can sleep when I want and as long as I want. 14 hours is not a problem. It's required for recovery. The day before a shift I stay awake till 3:00 am-ish and sleep at least 7 hours. Its great for me.
Because 300+ people died.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21864011
Come on my man, you can see why it's a big deal. Maybe one day it won't be, but today it is.
Scratch that: Cats film to be 'resupplied' with 'improved visuals'
Before someone becomes a terrorist they are recruited and cultivated. It might be trivial for existing contacts to install Signal, it's not trivial for people to recruit when they put up extra barriers to communication. I don't know if this is going to matter in the long run, since one way or another the NSA is going to get in, but in the short run it will damage our ability to track how extremism is spreading.
Going down in flames is a lot less dramatic when you have a nice golden parachute to ease the crash.
The Department of Defense isn't a program. Nationalizing energy production would be closer to the US Postal Service than the Department of Defense. The scope between managing our power needs and national defense needs are so wide I am having a hard time believing you made this comment in good faith. Inane claimes like a national policy would force Minnesota to have solar panels are nonsensical. You're basically just repeating Government Bad tropes.
Best Chinese Science Fiction Books
> Is it only an arms race when other governments try to do it, too?

Yes, that's literally what defines an "arms race".
Replaced on an interim basis by the CFO, and permanently by the chairman, who runs private equity at Blackstone with a background in accounting.

Not convinced Boeing have learnt their lesson.
> "[Lisp and] Haskell don't produce very efficient code (or make it hard to produce efficient code)."

Curious here. Are you speaking from experience -- i.e. you tried and failed -- or is this simply something you guess must be true? People write high-performance software in Haskell, and it's their tool of choice.
> A human being is a part of a whole, called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

—Einstein
Scunthorpe strikes again!
I mean, it was still a great run.

Being a public company CEO is a near-impossible job with so much out of your control, so I wouldn't say "down in flames". His legacy is tarnished, but the public has a short-term memory about these things.
I definitely had some times in school that were less than ideal socially, especially after my family moved to an entirely new place. My family moved from NYC to a small rural town, and adjusting to a new way of life was interesting. I didn't help that I had a thick accent and hardly anyone could understand wth I was saying! But overall, for me, school wasn't so bad at all, and I look back fondly at my experience.

Perhaps I'm a duller knife than the others in this thread, but high school in particular was incredibly useful for me. I enjoyed it. In my life, I've found self-learning works for specific tasks, but I find it difficult to self-learn for general educational purposes or without a specific goal.

In high school, I found my voice from a writing perspective, discovered drama, and a dozen other things. Looking back on my career, the experience of doing literary analysis in American Literature (Grade 11) or writing long-form essays based on primary sources in a limited time-box for AP History, or speaking in front of a crowd (Drama Grades 10-12) and getting over my shyness was arguably more valuable for me than the specific domain knowledge that I studied in college.
Oh wow, it's basically ZZT. I loved that game in the 90s.
RAM usage 50 years after Apollo
This is very cool. But why didn't they just go with Redis? Their blog stated that this requirement: "be very fast even with millions of entries" wasn't met by Redis, but I have a very hard time believing that.
Not sure how your links support your argument. Literacy rate data is from 1994 onwards, steadily up except one hiccup (by the way I can’t imagine how literacy rate could drop 6% in a year; short of mass extinction of a literate group it must be a change of methodology); life expectancy growth accelerated from ~2000 and is slowing down a bit again; hunger data is from 2000 onwards, same for HDI which you already removed.

So, how is GDP per capita, an important metric, “a bit of a exception” among two other random stats (one of which even accelerated)?

Meanwhile, annual GDP growth rate does seem a lot more steady since 2004: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG?locat...
It doesn't contract the 13/50 stat at all. And also says that "white people commit way more crimes in the US".

Specifically: 4,209 (48.7%) "murders and nonnegligent manslaughter" ("murders") are categorized under race=Black. Incidentally, still less than race=White (4,261 or 49.3%).

Indeed, 12.6% of respondents in the 2010 census self-identified as "Black or African American".

That's your 13/50 meme.

However, murders are <0.085% of all crimes tallied in the FBI report, and are far outweighed by crimes like larceny (1M instances), drug abuse violations (1.27M), DUIs (1M), and "Other" (2.9M), where race=White are all by far the majority.

Thus, 69.4% of crimes are committed by race=White, so "white people commit way more crimes in the US" is also true.
The story of the ouster to inevitably be followed by the story of the massive compensation package he'll receive.
That not been claimed. Plenty of evidence that the extent and severity has been severely exacerbated by the warming climate has been pointed out, exhaustively, to irrelevant objections like this.
I think that quote is describing the fundamental attribution error: "the tendency for people to under-emphasize situational explanations for an individual's observed behavior while over-emphasizing dispositional and personality-based explanations."

When you see someone cut you off in traffic, you might instantly assume they are just a born jerk that doesn't care about others, but maybe they are rushing to the hospital.
He studied at a Hindu University, so that makes sense.

Yeah, there is a lot that you’re saying that’s a perfectly valid objection to my oversimplification, and maybe to his whole thing, but I’ll be the first to admit that it’s easy to take it apart the way I’ve relayed it. I put plenty of words in his mouth in my previous comment.

As mentioned, he spent 15 years writing the book because he wanted it to say it the right way.

There was a whole forum after it came out where a bunch of philosophy students would argue about his theories and what he meant and what that means and what falls into which category, and every once in a while he would pop in and say, “I see what you’re thinking, but no, that’s not what I meant at all, it’s actually this.”

I’d love to hear your thoughts on his own words though. You obviously know far more than I do about Philosophy.

Wikipedia of Metaphysics of Quality is probably a better cliff notes than me: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirsig%27s_Metaphysics_of_Qu...
I didn't realize how bad input latency had gotten in general until recently when I needed to boot directly into a terminal. Sometimes I could swear the character appears on the screen before I even hit the key. It's a weird feeling, but I would like more of it.
I doubt this will happen unless there is motivation from the central government to crack down on it. There are many cultural reasons shameless copying is less stigmatized in China than in the west (not necessarily a negative thing).
> Wasn't the design sound, except for the lack of hardware sensor redundancy and naively written software?

How would you possibly know that? If they missed two serious issues what makes you think they didn't miss more?

Err, make that three serious issues: https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/26/politics/boeing-737-max-flaw/...

Edit: 4 serious issues if you count "identifying problems and not fixing them": https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/05/us/boeing-737-max-disagree-al...
Group vs. individual biases are culturally and historically determined, but the politics or ideology they manifest in modernity are not. Anarchism, socialism, and communism all had mass appeal in prewar Japan and the Japanese Communist Party (JCP) was a powerful political force in the early postwar period, being one of the few groups that rightfully opposed the fascist war that led to so much death and devastation.

So powerful in fact was the JCP, that the American occupation force used the threat of its rising power to coerce the defeated fascists into alliance with them and constitute what is now know as the Liberal Democratic Party. From here, it was a mere matter of providing them with massive subsidies and intelligence gathered on their opponents on the left-

https://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/09/world/cia-spent-millions-...

-and use the resulting power to produce a social, political, and economic order that was conducive to US interests.

I’m not certain what you’re getting at with regard to being “foreign” to American ideology, but authoritarianism is certainly not, if evidenced only by its long history and support of right-wing, authoritarian regimes.
In practice, you deal with the unproductive employee, lying partner, etc. the same way you always have. You still need to protect your own interests and not let people take advantage of you.

But it means you don't let it affect you emotionally in the same way. While most people have a kind of internal monologue that goes "why are these people so bad, why is the world wronging me, I didn't do anything to deserve this, why does life suck so bad sometimes, it's all these people's fault" you instead learn to just accept that the world has these people and not to waste emotional angst on them. You deal with them as necessary and then move on internally without anger, hatred, etc.
7 Books You Must Read to Exponentially Increase Your Chances to Become Rich
> I agree totally with that, it's an ugly trap in python, although mitigated by the fact the language doesn't encourage this kind of paradigm so you rarely encounter it.

This. I've made this mistake exactly once in the last 7 years, but that one time almost caused a security issue.
>Tell a well educated ancient Greek: “ 95233345745213 times 4353614555235239 is always equal to 414609280180109235394973160907, this must be fundamentally true within our system of mathematics”… and he will look at you like you’re a complete nut.

What is this supposed to mean? I honestly don't understand. They most certainly realized that although tedious to compute it is just as well-defined as 2*3=6. What is he implying here?
Presumably this was posted as a reminder on how things change. In the 1990s Riggio/B&N was indeed a powerful force (think of the Tom Hanks/Meg Ryan comedy "You've Got Mail!" where Hanks plays a character inspired by Riggio and Ryan an owner of an imperiled small bookstore), and Amazon was a small "hip" upstart. These days B&N stores are closing all over and it is questionable if the chain will survive.
If you enjoy it more, it's less shitty by definition...
It could help with stereotypes and bad understood statistics. There are some claims(I am not sure how significant those are) that men are better at spatial stuff and women are better at something else on average, the issue I see people do not understand that if this is true is just an average and it would be meaningless to apply it to individual cases like when hiring somebody.
Also worth noting that the FBI report doesn't break out Hispanic and Latino Americans, which are 16.3% of the U.S. population in the U.S. Census.

And if you want to be really pedantic, technically the stat here is "arrests", not "committed a crime" or "found guilty".
Thank you very much! I will try that out.
I'm not an Apple enthusiast and the main reason is their products' underpowered, oversimplified user interfaces, from the standpoint of a power user like me. One manifestation of this is a chronic lack of buttons on their hardware. I've long preferred the extra functionality afforded by a right-click button on mice and a middle button or scroll wheel. I've preferred the extra buttons on Android phones over iPhones. Not a lot of buttons, mind you, but enough to perform certain common tasks through tactile memory, without having to look at the screen. My latest gripe is with the Apple TV remote. (My family was recently lent an older Apple TV model.) This remote could definitely use a home button, since as it stands, I frequently need to press the Menu button around 5 to 8 times to get back to the main screen (to get from watching a Netflix video to watching a YouTube video.)
There are encrypted chat apps such as Signal that the bad people -- the Conservative party -- are now using for internal communications. Presumably including Priti Patel.
To me, the most interesting fact about Wolf 359 is its low surface temperature. Wikipedia shows its surface temperature as 2800 Kelvin. Tungsten melts at 3700 K, and graphite sublimates above 4000 K. What this means is that you could make solid objects which could be in direct contact with the star and remain intact despite the temperature.

Because Wolf 359 has a surface gravity of about 320 g's, if you made a buoyant object (like a balloon), it would have a very strong restoring force. The photosphere has a very low density, so this would be basically a vacuum balloon. A vacuum balloon is much easier to make in a near vacuum than in a thick atmosphere like Earth's. If it were large enough and floated high enough, you would have the heat of the star on one side and the cold of space on the other - a perfect location for a heat engine.

I started writing a sci-fi novel a few years ago, where the conversion of Wolf 359 into an energy source powering a future human civilization was a major plot point. I chose Wolf 359 as the red dwarf because it is relatively close to Earth and has a relatively low temperature. Unfortunately, I got stuck on the dialogue for the love story plot, so I've never finished it.
Yeah they were great! I had a reasonable collection of these, and I remember on subsequent playthroughs trying to "forget" what was the correct way forward and trying to play it as if it was the first time. Or trying all the possible combinations until I had read every page in the book!
If the culture don't change, then people are going to keep repeating the same mistake, and someone will die unnecessary death.
Seems to me he may have been part of the culture problem then? Bad habits develop...