skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am pleasantly surprised to see Amir Rajan on that list. From this reddit post I thought that after his game went viral he couldn't capture any long-term success and went back to working a regular job: https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/7m96wn/a_dark...

It's a fascinating story. He has several other iOS games besides A Dark Room, but none of them seemed to go anywhere. Glad to hear his business is doing better now.

I suppose there's always money in the Skyrim business model -- just port your one successful game to every platform ever :)
If you put everything in your house up on 20-ft-high shelves, then you'll need a ladder to reach anything. I don't need a ladder to reach anything in my house, because I don't keep things up on 20-ft-high-shelves.

We used to design cities so that your school, child care, stores, gyms, club meetings, and everything else, were in one neighborhood. Why would you want them anywhere else? Now we build cities so that these things are far from one another.

It's like putting everything up on 20-ft-high-shelves and insisting every house needs a series of ladders.
I don't think so. The article openly says it's adapted from the book. It's just marketing. Submarines were hidden.

This was in the article:

"ESSAY DRAWN FROM THE POISON SQUAD BY DEBORAH BLUM, PUBLISHED BY PENGUIN PRESS, AN IMPRINT OF PENGUIN PUBLISHING GROUP, A DIVISION OF PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE, LLC. COPYRIGHT © 2018 BY DEBORAH BLUM."
Your comment is all past tense -- are you still working on this business?
I live in NYC and have had so much frustration with the MTA being constantly delayed, very dirty, and with beggars abound. I'm talking a 40 minute commute just to get from Williamsburg to Midtown. Being stopped in tunnels due to trains broken down ahead. Homeless urinating in the trains and defecating off the side of the platform during rush hour.

I ended up moving within a short walking distance to work and it has been the best decision I've made while living there. I appreciate Andy Byford's ambitious turnaround plan but for now I just use the MTA when absolutely necessary, like for sporting events. I don't expect to use MTA for my commute for at least the next several years, there is just so much improvement needed for train and signal reliability, and general maintenance.

Byford has mentioned a potential "death spiral" of NYC public transit where if enough people forgo taking the bus or train, there will be revenue shortfalls causing further dilapidation. I guess this is possible given how "farebox revenue" makes a large portion of total revenues and MTA is required to adopt a balanced budget [1].

[1] https://new.mta.info/document/12481
> How did the artificial shortage work out?

You neglected to specify WHO it works out for:

1) the folks getting depleted.

2) the (doctors) who decide on the doctor residency programs and also reap the income of financially depleting folks?

Now truth be told, there is a quality argument to be made here. 2) is the only thing guaranteeing that IF you do get treatment, it is at an acceptable standard. They ALSO use it for personal wealth of course, but also for quality. And this is medical care, bad quality destroys more lives and causes more misery than the author of Doom can imagine. Just take that time when they accidentally (really) disfigured ~50000 babies as an example. Yes really, accidentally. As in "oops, chirality really matters".
I assume by "documented the crimes" you include your documentation of things like the mai lai massacre as well?
Is that the one that was massively revised about a month ago, where all the 'worst-case' assumptions for ev production related emissions were dramatically reduced?
>My best advice 3 year post blow up. It ain't worth it. Move on. You will save yourself pain.

My own personal view, if I could go back in time, would be to tell myself to go all in. I think it had a shot, and I needed to take that shot. I still think risking a bankruptcy to get a better chance at that would have been worth it.

I don't regret trying. I needed to try. And I think it was a near-run thing. I could have made it. I feel like there are several points here where if i zigged instead of zagging, I'd have done really well.

I just regret that I spent so long at it, without much success. A spectacular flameout involving business and personal bankruptcy after three or five years would have been far better for my long-term financial health than just slogging along at 1/4 wages for a decade.
The PS2 was capable of Real-Time raytracing (2019)
Christmas 'Gift' from YouTube: An Attack on Crypto
I’m not saying to cancel the thing altogether, just maybe run some more unmanned tests first to make sure.
Okay, but... you could have gotten a better email address at least? Random numbers after your name is barely a step up from "at yahoo dot com"
And what if you _didn’t know_ your “career depended on it?” What then?
In fairness, I hear that the lifespan of large working trucks is far longer than vanity consumer cars.
You'd think this would work in the bay area yet it hasn't. I've changed jobs four times since 2006 and none has ever been within thirty miles of the next.
Check your VPN?
Reading the paper, it appears they treat the plasma as a gas, relying on acoustic pressure interactions that don't happen in a plasma.

If I understood correctly, and that is conventional practice in calculations about black hole accretion discs, there is a great deal of nonsense published on the topic.
A friend who works in academia published a book with a major university press. The press had someone (in another country) do copy edits, and it came back with all of the historical language "corrected" to modern English. It's as if they ran it through a standard spell checker and just picked the closest replacement for every single word that came up. Since there was no redline provided, it took my friend hours to go back and fix all of their errors (there were other formatting changes that had to stay, otherwise they could have just reverted to the prior version).
I was confused, I meant "second to last" indeed, but you are correct.
>walking to the stop, waiting in the cold, fumbling with wallet and cash, enduring nausea-inducing vibrations, figuring out the right time to call for the right stop, walking again in the cold...

Wait: does the weather never get cold again if there's no fare, or are you actually implying that taking a bus isn't as comfortable as driving your own car, even if "transit" is done "right"? I could swear that's not the usual message to see in "transit" related HN threads.

Anyway, I have to admit that were I asked how to reduce airport-related emissions, I might not have turned my eyes on employees cars first. Or perhaps even second.
I commute 80 miles every day by a combination of train and bike. When I get into my suburban office I have to lock my bike up in the far end of the parking garage. It’s the part that’s always empty, or has someone paranoid about their car getting scratched. There’s really easy things we could be doing to encourage sustainable transportation, like putting the bike racks near the front door.
Well they got the product they bought, so it's a stretch to consider it a cost. Perhaps only the marginal cost that went to advertising, but it's still a stretch to consider it a cost if the buyer considers they got their money's worth.
Your argument is that amount of money wrongfully acquired equals moral wrong. I'm pointing out that this implies that there are bigger fish to fry.
Which part do you think is incorrect or misleading?
I’ve bought several of the authors published and self published ebooks, and they’re all generally done to a professional standard. I know that she uses freelance copy editors for the self published stuff.

In this case, (further down the thread) it was a dialect thing, so the whole problem was a false positive from an over zealous automated system on Christmas Eve, in prime panic ebook gifting time.
Probably wouldn't work, but I also wouldn't mind them trying.
I'm saying both the syntax and semantics (i.e. type system design) of protobuf are much superior to ASN.1 (mostly, by being much simpler and easier to understand).

I believe syntax and type system are, in fact, much more important than the encoding details. To most application developers, there is no difference whatsoever between protobuf encoding, BER, DER, PER, OER, etc., because they never see the encoding. The library and tools handle that part. As long as the data gets through end-to-end with acceptable performance, nobody cares how it is represented in the interim.

Cap'n Proto's encoding is different in that by being zero-copy it actually enables new use cases, like mmap()ing a very large file for random access. Still, I'd certainly choose protobuf's syntax and encoding over ASN.1's syntax paired with Cap'n Proto's encoding.
The downside here is that a back injury while squatting/deadlifting or a shoulder injury while pressing can last the rest of your life. Really important to learn good form and start/progress slowly
YouTube would be one prominent example; Wikipedia, Google search & hosting, Twitter are all popular.

There are also media of a more liberal nature who can’t comfortably host in RuNet / being registered as Russian companies, so they exist outside. meduza.io being a prominent example
The numbers in this report compare the emissions cost of a new BEV to that of a new ICE. But I don't see anyone seriously arguing that people should buy new ICE's; rather, the claim seems to be that people should keep modern ICEs on the road as long as possible before replacing them (with something better than an ICE). This analysis says it takes 19,000 miles of driving to make the acquisition of a BEV emissions-neutral compared to buying a new ICE; how many miles do you have to drive to make it neutral compared to holding on to your Honda?
JIT'd code isn't just about specific CPUs, but about optimizing hot paths. For example, you don't want to inline a commonly used function all over the place, but if there's one area that calls it 10,000 times per second while the others call it once a minute at most, you can re-write the program at runtime having observed that hot code path.

To get an intuition for JITs: there are pieces of your code that you know will always be run in a certain way (or mostly run in that way), but it isn't provable at compile time that it will always be that way. JITs can notice that pattern and optimize it (or even provide optimizations for common, but not exclusive paths).
But that's not a problem, IMO. If something was good enough before, it's likely good enough still. If it stops being good enough, people will be prompted to look for alternatives, which they'll then discover. Given how it's nearly impossible to satisfy human beings, they'll start looking for options sooner rather than later.
> you find out that the hospital was actually run by people that had little formal training as doctors

Ram Dass aka Dr Richard Alpert was a Harvard professor of Psychology
I bet you'd be upset if your comments were all taken offline until you resolved that.
At high enough concentrations. But that's true of anything.

Having a lot of salt or sugar (or any small molecule really) in something makes it impossible for cells to retain enough water to function.

Which is why your sauce/jam doesn't go bad (except at the top, where a layer of condensed water doesn't have the high concentration of sugar or salt).
As always, thanks Dang for your presence. HN is the most civil place I’ve found on the internet in the better part of 30 years.

I’m wondering if the mistake was letting things make the front page, when maybe page 2 is acceptable even for people who feel vehemently about trash submissions. If we as a community can expect some pain in order to find better content it might be worth it (especially if we can train people not to abuse mods at the same time). I dunno. The idea of adding noise to smooth out results is a very common technique in signal processing, I’d like to think it’s useful in this context as well.

I will say, as an anecdote, I find the variety of interesting content isn’t as high as it was 6 years ago (let alone 10). And weekends tend to be better IMO. I assume the community has shifted, but even just being bigger is going to tend to lower the variance of topics. So I really appreciate any effort made towards helping quality interesting topics surface.
Are vegetables vegan? The man taking aim at animal products in organic farming
It's happened in the UK (£18/tonne of CO₂ equivalent) and Canada (varies per state), and probably others. UK total CO₂ emissions are below 1900 (!) levels, mostly due to many people switching to green energy, and substituting what coal remained with natural gas, which is most efficient power per tCO₂ among the fossil fuels.

Don't give up hope :) keep bringing up carbon price whenever relevant. The tide of public opinion will turn. Late, as always, but it will turn. People didn't think a black man could ever be president but lo and behold you did it. You just need to keep telling people that there is a solution, and that it is carbon price. Keep beating the drum.
I'm also quite skeptical, but if this actually is accurate, I don't think the potential for a mechanism of action is necessarily that far-fetched. My heart rate absolutely increases to some degree for an extended period of time when I consume sativa cannabis, for example, and I don't think this is uncommon. Changes in heart rate could potentially alter aspects of the heart, over a sufficient length of time.

Even if that weren't the case, cannabis contains lots of psychoactive compounds which aren't fully understood, and even for the ones we do seem to understand, the brain and body are incredibly complex and chaotic systems and could possibly exhibit unexpected effects when exposed to them.
The problem is that people focus on the word "carbon" and then ignore what the word "tax" means: tax is collected into a single account. Where it came from is irrelevant, and what's done with it is in no way tied to where it came from, so if you want a carbon tax, you better damn well also have some system in place that forces X% of a munipal/state/provice/federal/whatever budget to first be formally declared as reserved for spending on this particular issue. Otherwise that carbon tax goes to basically everything before it goes to "augmenting cars".
I see little difference between the religious dogma of the 19th century and the scientific dogma of the MWI. For it to be remotely "settled," there actually has to be evidence. There is none. It is nothing but a logical model that one chooses because of their philosophical prejudices.

What you are promoting is not science but philosophical posturing.
In many regions, like my local mid-north coast area, what has burnt is rainforest which doesn't usually burn but has been impacted by several years of drought. It is quite likely these forests won't recover as dense rainforest and will transition to more sparse eucalyptus which is a net loss in carbon storage as well as a tragic ecosystem loss.
There is some bipartisan lobbying for a carbon tax. There is also bipartisan whinging, which is crazy. Just pair it with a dividend like Canada.
A big problem with bolognese is that it's not homogenous. So the protection you get from your preservation process isn't the same throughout.
RF GAN Gains Steam
I just flipped a bank of 16 switches by hand with vacuum tube gates and core memory...punch cards are for sissies!
Remote browser isolation protects against this sort of thing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_isolation
No true Scotsman being taken to the extreme.
I’m glad you’re enjoying your switch! It seems like 1.6 miles at a moderate pace is a 6 minute ride though... Of course I’m assuming no hills and a lack of extreme heat which might be wrong on my end.
"To sketch a worst case scenario, suppose that five years
from now (from 1985) the strategic computing initiative collapses miserably as autonomous vehicles fail to roll. The fifth generation turns out not to go anywhere, and the Japanese
government immediately gets out of computing. Every
startup company fails. Texas Instruments and Schlumberger and all other companies lose interest."

All of which happened. That was the "AI Winter".

The "Fifth Generation" was an initiative by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry in Japan to develop a new generation of computers intended to run Prolog. Yes, really.[1]

The "Strategic Computing Initiative" was a DARPA-funded push on AI in the 1980s. DARPA pulled the plug in 1987.

I got an MSCS from Stanford in 1985. Many of the AI faculty from that period were in deep denial about this. I could see that expert systems were way overrated. I'd done previous work with automatic theorem proving, and was painfully aware of how brittle inference systems are.

Each round of AI has been like that. Good idea, claims that strong AI is just around the corner, good idea hits its limit, field stuck. I've seen four cycles of this in my lifetime.

At least this time around, machine learning has substantial commercial applications and generates more than enough revenue to fund itself. It's a broadly useful technology. Expert systems were a niche. There's enough money and enough hardware now that if someone has the next good idea, it will be implementable. But strong AI from improvements to machine learning? Probably not.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_generation_computer

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Computing_Initiative
Ketchup is not raw tomatoes! Home made tomato juice with pulp is usually boiled and canned. It can be stored up to two years.
It sounds like you've been through some things. How'd it all work out? I'd honestly love to hear it, you're a great writer.
Most software can be classified as a tool, except e.g. games.
> It’s not there yet, but third party tools that integrate with Photos and use non-destructive “edits” are now approaching the usability of Aperture…

Do you have any recommendations? I'm very familar with Lightroom, but am trying to reduce my use of "rented" software.
These authors should start from a position of gratefulness that their work is being published and read.

Why? They did a pile of work and someone chose to purchase some of it. Are they somehow less deserving of respect than people in other lines of work?
I think you are the one coming with pretencious entitletement, pretending you can give power to third party actors so unreliable as the average consumer and not expect to waste the time of thousands of authors; such power should be much more tightly controlled and Amazon knows that, maybe something like a dashboard where you can specify why the "typo" is there so next time someone reports it as such they can read why is it actually not a typo, and only _then_ can someone report it again and only _then_ get real consequences such as flags next to the book and other actions that economically damage the authors.
Taking three consecutive car parking spaces and building a roofed cage for secure bicycle parking on them would allow like 15 people to park their bike. That would cost 3 - 15 = -12 parking spaces. Yes, negative cost. Once you start seeing the solutions rather than focus on how bad things are, you'll see that bicycling is ridiculously efficient in almost any metric.
I doubt a majority of Americans are for or against, and support on most issues is very fluid when partisanship holds longer than policy.

While there is legislative deadlock nothing will happen, and that won't change for at least a year.
Whooping cough outbreak sweeps through Texas school with 100% vaccination rate
No doubt that a majority of casualties were on the death marches or working on railroads and bridges.

My dad and his friend used to actually drop food parcels to allied prisoners working on repairing bridges in his area. (He also dropped food to Japanese prisoners later in the war who worked on bridge repair. In fact, he said one of the scariest moments was when a Ghurka guard saw him drop food to a Japanese prisoner, and drew his Kukri in anger. My dad ran for miles to get away because he knew the Ghurka tradition was that once the Kukri was drawn, it could not go back into its scabbard without tasting blood).

The cruelty he witnessed seemed to be behind the wires, with executions and public torture by both sides being prevalent.

I do recall hearing stories from other people outside of my parents while growing up in South East Asia, but once again, the curation and editing of those stories rarely get past local areas. Nobody outside of the countries where it actually happened seems to want to hear, or repeat those events.

For instance, hardly anyone in the West seems to want to acknowledge how easily the Japanese walked into Malaysia, with almost no opposition. When they occupied Kuala Lumpur, they shot up the clock tower in the railway station near where my father lived, and that was it before the foot soldiers moved in. When the allies recaptured KL in later years, they carpet bombed the railway yards, killing hundreds of civilian labourers who lived in shanty towns within the yards. The tales of a triumphant US/English force recapturing their colony usually tends to omit details such as these.
- Lose 14 kg
- Triple my savings
- Deliver one of the biggest project at work
- Rediscover other hobbies.
Also seen in the movie "Crazy People":

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099316/quotes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzyNPoI17rE
Or, at least, most of the people who thought their advertising strategies were worth mentioning spent almost nothing, relying rather on word of mouth.

Those may be quite different things.
There are example codes; that's about it. This would be a good project for someone, but there's a lot of code in a "grep" that isn't there in Hyperscan (finding and displaying lines and line numbers, lots of command-line goop and options, pretty colors for results, etc. etc.).

Also, the limitations of Hyperscan might be quite noticeable. It doesn't support all pcre facilities (e.g. capturing and arbitrary lookaround). It has a considerable compile time - I wouldn't want to use Hyperscan to grep short files! Justin Viiret (another ex-Hyperscan team guy) has a blog post about this comparing our relatively heavyweight optimization strategy with RE2 (which gets down to the business of scanning a lot quicker than we do). You can find it here: https://01.org/hyperscan/blogs/jpviiret/2017/regex-set-scann...

(sorry about the giant 01.org "dickbar", we couldn't control that)

The upshot is that most people looking for big collections of regexen in huge amounts of data aren't really running 'grep' type tools. If someone wanted to do that, like I said, it would be a good project.
Here is another very similar project with full details;

Epaper based Business Card : https://www.paulschow.com/2016/08/epaper-business-card.html
It seems like you're the one with the entitlement mentality here. I fail to see why the author should feel good about someone who doesn't understand their work being able to cripple their sales, howbeit inadvertently.
I've loved two pairs of Xero shoes to death. I'll check out the other two you mentioned.
Ask HN: Have you ever used a language in production before the lang reached v1?
Some developers (possibly most?) won't touch a language for production use until it reaches a version 1.0?

Have you every used (or are using) a programming language not yet at version 1.0?

What was the reason for using the pre-1.0 version of the language? What made you confident in using the language despite it's pre-1.0 state? Did you run into problems? Or was the experience fine?
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Eh, I see this as a form of eventual consistency.
How Germany is failing disabled and special-needs students