skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I claimed that regulation is antithetical to free exchange -- if you restrict me from trading something then I am not free to trade it

Not quite. If you buy something without knowing what you're getting, that's not free trade. An airline selling a ticket on an unsafe plane but calling it safe is fraud, and fraud is not free trade.

A "perfect" regulation would only limit fraudulent trade, but allow all other types of trade.

However, because we don't live in a perfect world, regulation will inevitably limit some legitimate trade as well as fraudulent trade. A "good" regulation is one that limits enough fraudulent trade to more than compensate for the legitimate trade that it inhibits.
The biggest problems I have with paper notebooks are essentially:

1. Privacy. Anyone who acquires the notebook can read anything in it. I'm not discussing anything particularly important most times, but I'm reluctant to write down things that are...embarrassing or otherwise private if I'm taking that same notebook through airport security, for example.

2. Integrity. Destruction of the notebook is easy, as this author can attest. Spilling water or another substance on the notebook can immediately render it unreadable, which would somewhat be counter to the idea of recording information in the notebook.

3. Perfectionism. I'm sure I'm not the only one who grows really agitated by making errors in ink and then not being able to correct them without striking them out. Pencil is better obviously, but you can tear the pages...

I'm sure that these factors don't affect everyone the same, but for me...they're overwhelmingly influential in my choice not to use a paper notebook. I get the upsides, but the downsides are...really meh.
You're arguing over the characteristics of a stereotype. Even if what you say is true, journalists wrap programmers in general up in their manufactured connotation. And that's, as they increasingly say in tech hubs, "problematic."
Yikes! It's a lot of effort to reduce memory use. They might be better off creating a new Go entrypoint/server that can call into CPython to reuse all their existing/tested modules (treat their Python as a microservice called by Go). They could then use Go to create/call new microservices or replace various routes on a selective basis.
You can also avoid using separate process for each client (NodeJS).
Yes. Overusing light, shadow and smoke effects was done when those things were hard. Now, when they are cheap and commonplace, we have gone to find beauty in minimalism.

The piece doesn't become better because it was all done by hand. In fact, they kind of ruined it by cleaning it up so much that it looks like just another stock digital creation. If they had left it 'analog' looking, maybe it would have looked cool. Maybe.

Seems like someone needed to burn through a big budget and then come up with reasons why. As always, this needs a reference to the classic Pepsi logo design case.
Pythagorean Theorem: distance = sqrt(5.1^2 + 5^2) ≈ 1.005km.

With the actual depth, 4.94km, not 5km, 5.1 km would give distance = sqrt(5.1^2 + 4.94^2) ≈ 1.267km.
Microsoft Windows, and the people (like me) who use it, care deeply about beauty, craft, and design. I would expect no less from Microsoft, and this beauty can be seen throughout the design, operation, and usability of Microsoft software.

Sure, the effort is wasted on some, but the most important users love it.
This is exactly it. There's a lot of apex fallacy going on in the discussion of tech.

Most of us in tech don't have any say in the direction of the industry. Many of the rank and file workers would actually prefer to live someplace cheaper like Seattle, but it's the leadership of the tech industry (VCs, execs, etc) that have been slow to geographically diversify the industry.

There's too much blaming of all techies for the actions of the people at the top of the tech hierarchy.
Within-country transfers in the UK take minutes between most banks, except for large amounts which take 3 days, probably for risk/fraud reasons as you said.
This is what I use org-mode for largely, but I do miss hand written notes for the flexibility and freedom.

If anyone is linux/unix minded and has used an eink tablet for writing and loved it, please let me know!
Fair call and I was wrong. I have two, one is the Toto Drake II and uses 1.28 gallons per flush. The other is an Aquia IV dual flush which uses either 0.8 gals or 1.0 gals per flush.

https://www.totousa.com/aquia-iv-1g-toilet-10-08-gpf
The article says that criminal gangs have been using drones that drop contaminated items to spread the disease. Is this true and if so, why would they do this?

It seems too crude to use as a way to enforce a protection rackett. eg. If a gang wanted to punish one farmer for not tithing them, by infecting his pigs, they risk infecting the neighbors' as well.

Could it be a kind of terrorism to put pressure on the government?
Genuinely curious as to why you think they haven't aged a single day.
Doesn't it depend on the point of reference? Earth is 500 light seconds from the Sun. So any photon hitting the eye is at least 500 seconds old. Hypothetically speaking, if a human were to be born on the Sun's surface and reach earth at the speed of light, he/she is at least 500 seconds old on Earth's clock?
As a business analyst (and looking forward to moving to Business Intelligence in a couple of years), notebooks are invaluable tools. They are more convenient than laptops and I have yet to find a note-taking application that is as flexible as handwriting.

The pain point is that it's extremely difficult to find a suitable notebook because most notebooks do not have computer professional as target customers. What I need is something with a lot of tabs, with one tab takes about 10-15 pages. as that's pretty much the amount of pages I need for one small project. But again this might be too much for a notebook because I'd also need to move the tabs to any page, so the only viable solution is to make my own tab notebooks with an ordinary notebook and some stickers.

I think maybe there are some hardware and software out there that allow us to write on a screen with the same flexibility and speed, but so far I didn't find one. Would be very nice if I can write quickly and comfortably in OneNote as it's so easy to tab in an application.
I believe the idea is partially to understand how to train models to recover from skids. ABS gives you an assist, but it may be that the car can drift itself out of danger?

> “We’re trying to develop automated vehicles that can handle emergency maneuvers or slippery surfaces like ice or snow,” Gerdes said. “We’d like to develop automated vehicles that can use all of the friction between the tire and the road to get the car out of harm’s way. We want the car to be able to avoid any accident that’s avoidable within the laws of physics.”
> If you assume that capitalism is intended to work not in the way sought by the people who drove the move to capitalism but instead according to idealized economic theories much younger than capitalism, sure.

I actually agree with you. Much of the foundation of capitalism was based on flawed assumptions ("perfect information" being a major one). Huge amounts of abuse were allowed to be perpetuated as a result, and it's fair to call into question the legitimacy of the entire enterprise.

That said, there are good ideas in capitalism, and we shouldn't throw out the baby with the bathwater.
Evicting someone who doesn’t pay rent is definitely not inhumane. Prices changing alongside supply and demand is not inhumane.

Policies which artificially constrain supply for no good reason? I’ll agree that’s inhumane.
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It's because these machines and industries have existed and in fact thrived for 50-100 years without any software at all. Software engineers are often seen as glorified IT in aerospace companies.
Showdown in Wisconn Valley
Forgive me for not caring what my genocidal people decree about which laws govern this land our "sovereign" (over whom?) ancestors stole, but yes, there is certainly disagreement between democracy and evolution. And with strange aeons, even democracy may evolve.
The email is real? That's a bit more interference than I would expect from HN moderators. You are basically letting your personal tastes govern what gets preferential treatment.
While this works for occasional casual gaming, it's way more performant to use Looking Glass and GPU passthrough using KVM. Windows licenses are cheap(if you don't want to use the evaluation) and all games just work.
>> That's exactly what I'm talking about. You can cherry pick good and bad actors in any industry.

It's not cherry-picking at all. Look around you. The most powerful and influential actors in our industry are also the worst.

>> This ignores all of the dedication poured into open source

Please don't strawman. I am very clearly not saying that the entire industry is bad.
> You can also avoid using separate process for each client (NodeJS).

Yes, NodeJS solves one problem by having low process overhead, but it also fails to take advantage of parallelism in modern processors. Ideally, I'd like to see a system with both.
Somebody help me understand the appeal of the bay area. What is the relative weight of

1. proximity to other tech companies (good for employees switching jobs)
2. proximity to venture capital (good for entrepreneurs)
3. general culture of tech work
4. general culture, food, weather?

4 seems to pale in comparison to the cost and quality of life issues I have read about (super expensive, dirty, bad transport).

2 seems plausible. But are in-person meetings so necessary and hard to set up outside the area (also, how many people there just want to be employees somewhere and don’t care about VCs?).

3 is pretty nebulous. And again I wouldn’t expect this to be a big factor for people who mostly just want to work somewhere and not build their own thing.

I’m left with 1. Is that it?

It just seems weird that company location appears optimized for founders (we should go where the action and investment money and talent is!) and not the enormous mass of people who would just be clocking into their jobs and making those companies run. I have no data on this, but it looks like those masses of lower-level employees might prefer to live somewhere more “sensible”.

It looks like such an...inefficiency.
Hey, author here. Sorry that happened to you, glad you're on the mend. What kind of keyboard did you use? A normal keyboard is indeed going to be really hard on the wrists in this posture, since the hands need to come together. Normal form factor keyboards are just ergonomically awful imho. With a Kinesis advantage keyboard it seems quite comfortable to me, as the key wells are spaced quite wide.

That is very good to know, though, I've updated the post to emphasize that standard keyboards won't work well with this posture.

I respectfully disagree with leaving ergonomics up to the people who "know what they are doing". That said, I just realized my footnote clarifying that I am an ergonomics hobbyist wasn't properly referenced - fixed inhttps://github.com/mgsloan/mgsloan-site/commit/4a3cb2442eaed...
> I like things that you set up once and may just forget, that's where real productivity is found imho

Very productive, until an unpatched security issue in a dependecy from 6 years ago bites you in the ass.
Is that small fraction in the same friend group? If not they'd be just a bunch of random strangers on the internet. The problem is that FB, Insta, etc... is where most people's friends are. I don't have any use for a social network my friends don't or won't use.

I really do like this idea. I have a few friends I send a long email to every 2 or 3 months, just to keep them up to date on my life, touch base, see how they are doing since the last time we spoke. I quite like the format. I don't need to tell people about my life daily, or in most cases even weekly or monthly.
>If the scene is sufficiently geeky, it remains a strictly geek thing; a weird hobby, not a subculture.

To some degree you may be correct, but tech is unique. It primarily falls into this category, however in recent times, probably as during the tech boom, the culture is also rightly seen as a strong career path. And the people who spend their lives coding out of pure passion make these things look extremely easy to outsiders - you can't deny that someone who spends 4-8 hours a day coding in their spare time since teenagehood isn't likely to outperform someone who just does this for a living. So there will be a particularly strong pressure to coopt the subculture - but my point is that tech is different, because it isn't a subculture, it's a passion that cannot be simply emulated because in the end code either works or it doesn't.
"Tragedy"?

Like it or not, male technologists are privileged beneficiaries of SF's broken social order. They might not be individually responsible for what's broken, but if there is "really such a tragedy" in the city, it is certainly not the fact that some guys are being stereotyped and mocked on Twitter.
For diving mammals, most of the oxygen is carried in the muscles by myoglobin. It turns out that the myoglobin density in muscles is very precisely related with the diving ability of the mammal, and the the density is also very precisely correlated with the surface charge (and thus the exact sequence) of the myoglobin protein. There's an amazing paper about this that then uses myoglobin sequence to infer the diving abilities of extinct mammals.[1]

I'm not in general willing to be a guinea pig for genetic manipulation, but toothed whale myoglobin and being able to dive with empty lungs for half an hour or 45 minutes? Sign me up.

[1]: Mirceta, S., Signore, A. V., Burns, J. M., Cossins, A. R., Campbell, K. L., & Berenbrink, M. (2013). Evolution of mammalian diving capacity traced by myoglobin net surface charge. Science, 340(6138), 1234192–1234192. http://doi.org/10.1126/science.1234192
Smalltalk "blocks" (meaning instances of the class BlockCloures) are much like inner functions in JavaScript, they can read and write variables in the lexical scope where the block(-closure) was defined/created.

Are the variables "copied"? I would say so because if you call the containing method multiple times the same code will create new block-closures and they will refer to the variable environment that existed when the block was created, so they will each have their own separate set of outer scope variables.

Unlike JavaScript inner functions, Smalltalk closures can cause a return from the containing method (but need not).

Here's a good article: http://esug.org/data/Old/vw-tutorials/Adv_VWNotPrintable/Blo...
I agree. Far more destruction happens in life, in our callousness with each other. The way we tear down each other's minds, piss in each other's homes.

Death is as natural as birth. But sadism, addiction, domination, waste... those are not natural. They are a force from another place, one many religions have a name for.

This does seem to be the point many religions try to make. That there are things in this world worse than death, worse than suffering. There are things which strip you of your nature, and many of them may even feel pleasant, tempting, satisfying as they wrap their hands around you.
Banksy unveils dark nativity scene at his Bethlehem hotel
This. The problem with decoupling services is usually there end up being a couple services that are critical but not sexy.

No one wants to touch them so they sit around unmaintained until an unrelated change or unpatched security issue comes around. Suddenly you've got a big problem with a mystery codebase.
And now you’ve learned that labels are more often used to denigrate than inform. Just talk about the issues, you don’t need to stick people in a box first.

I’d answer your honest question, I really would, but there’s not a “hardness scale” type measurement for liberality or conservatism. $DEITY, that would have to make things a little easier, wouldn’t it? “Don’t project on me like I’m an L7. Firmly a 5, thank you very much. Here’s the certificate.”
That's actually kind of the point.

When you mentally model an action as a "setter", like `SET_PIZZAS_ORDERED`, the reducer usually has almost no logic and just blindly accepts whatever value was in the action. The work of calculating the value was done before the action was dispatched.

If you model actions conceptually as "events", the corollary is that the work of calculating the new state typically ends up in the reducer.
I think you have the right idea, this is just dipping the toes of autonomous vehicles into the pool of kinetic friction.
Ah, HN, where the top comment to a post about an artistic process is it costs too much money.
> Prices changing alongside supply and demand is not inhumane.

It is. It is inhumane.

I agree with you that policies which artificially constrain the supply bear much of the blame, but an outcome can be inhumane in and of itself, even if it emerges from "supply and demand".

People getting thrown out of their homes because the value of their labor no longer covers the cost of their dwelling is bad.
> Null is also the absence of a value altogether.

In digital logic, there is no such thing as an "absence of a value". Everything must be represented as bits one way or another. Computers can certainly represent higher level concepts like an "absence of value", but at the lowest levels, they must be represented by some bit-stream. Types are generally the way that higher level concepts can be translated from low-level bitstreams.
I agree. We need to find a better way to monetize the text.
That doesn't answer the question though.

I'd say, in the early days, programmers were more geeky because computers were newer, rarer, and much harder to use. Most kids didn't grow up with computers in their homes. If they did, the computer was a big, ugly, unfriendly beige box, not a sleek sliver of glass and aluminum. When you booted it up, you were greeted by a blinking monochromatic command prompt, not an welcoming graphical interface. You had to learn cryptic, non-intuitive commands to operate it. Only a certain type of person would have the interest, focus, and abundance of free time to master it.

Nowadays, kids are raised on computers. Software engineering is widely seen as a viable career path. The act of programming hasn't changed much, but we've removed some of the barriers to entry and made the career path accessible to a broader group of people.
> than sitting idly on a beach

Or spending time with family, learning a new skill, going on an adventure.

"Off-time" is not an adversary to great work life, productivity and innovation. Some would even claim the opposite was true.
Celeste Kidd's one was highly spoke about
Ah very interesting. What about in a situation where you aren't rushed? Say you're learning/studying/hacking something on your computer and came across something worth remembering or committing to memory?
FWIW, Banky's hotel in Bethlehem:

182 Caritas Street

Bethlehem, Palestine

http://www.walledoffhotel.com

reception@walledoffhotel.com

https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?whereami=1&query=31.719...
Sure, but from the frame of reference of the human it’s not. If the human would travel at 99% of the speed of light, then time dilation would make it a lot less than 500 seconds.

If an object moves at the speed of light, Mathematically no time is passing.
>> Most of us in tech don't have any say in the direction of the industry.

We would have a say in it if we, you know, unionized.

But last time I checked, most techies viewed unions with disdain.
It's hard to change others, but it's easy to change yourself.

It's easier to just move to a more conservative state or a more welcoming city with less taxes and less restrictions.

I appreciate those that choose to stay and fight, but sometimes it's better just to move on.

San Francisco has been getting worse.
Stability control is just another algorithm running in the car so it's logical that a more general system would supersede it. Keeping existing code in place would limit car's possibilities and increase complexity.
it’s the skid pd at thunderhill. there are definitely walls, they are just off camera.
I also really respect the role they played in exposing Harvey Weinstein. Many people chose to stay quiet, and they didn't.
This problem is confusing partly because the premises are often incorrectly stated... as in TFA.

If it is given that Monty always picks a door that does not have a prize behind it, then indeed the correct answer is to switch doors. But otherwise, there is no advantage in switching: 1/3 of the time he would expose the prize, and in the other 2/3 of cases you are just as likely to win without switching.
http://selfracingcars.com/ - i run this and it is at the same track as in the video.
I'm sorry, but this is getting too abstract for me: China will not fight a war of attrition against Apple, Inc. over internet satellites.

Just like the US or Russia, or any other major power, China does not need to play a game of cat and mouse over an entity acting in a way perceived as harmful to its populace. I'd like to think they are able to perform attribution, and have a range of options on how to apply pressure (diplomatic, financial / economic, or electronic - remember N. Korea vs Sony Films?)
> And at the end of the day it's just the weird nerd kids being bullied as always.

This. So much. I've been a nerd since middle school and have experienced a fair amount of bullying while growing up.

But the fact is, nothing has really changed between then and now. It has always been 'safe' to bully the nerds. No other group of people receives this level of public venomous screed. We shrug and accept it because we are used to it.

We as a group need to get better about advocating for our rights to live and work as humans just like everyone else and be more deliberate about pointing out the completely bizarre policy environment of California in general and San Francisco in particular that has led to this explosion of issues.
dating probably
If Jackson, Mississippi is in 1985, I worry that Austin, Texas is in 2010. Slowly, and in miniature, the signals are starting to crop up. Homelessness downtown has visibly increased in just the past 3 years. Historic holes-in-the-wall are dropping like flies. Plenty of new housing is going up, but it's all luxury apartments with ground-floor shopping. The city's culture that everyone moved here for is being thrown out with the bath water. It's tough to watch.
echo $NICK | s/80mph/88mph/
It’s the economics.

So they can sort things well. It means they can put them in a dump neatly. Most things that get put into recycling don’t make economic sense to recycle -except aluminum and some other metals.

Most plastics under cheap (but still uneconomic) recycling suffer from heat history and becomes less useful.
I use the Windows 95 desktop color because it reminds me of a time when I liked computers.
That might be true but rates as a bit of a "so what?" in practice. I'm sure all i-s are dotted and t-s crossed under US law. However, compare and contrast this to the US law lovingly nicknamed 'Hague Invasion Act' [0] - sovereign states are not expected to quietly sit down and take it quietly when foreigners start harassing their authority figures.

It certainly has terrible optics - the US decides to bully a strategically threatening Chinese company with superior capability? That is likely to disrupt their extensive data gathering and surveillance operations? In the middle of trade talks? Whatever legal quibbling they want to argue over, it is a tough sell as a rules-based decision. It looks highly political.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members'_Prot...
That's what moderation is. And HN is good because of moderation. The email is real.

I see it as mostly Dan realizing that people might find it interesting. And the votes seem to suggest he was right.
It is really weird to be called a bro when I’ve been bullied by bros for half of my life. I came here to get away from the bros, and based on the behavior of people I encounter on a daily basis, this was successful.