skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My attempt at creating a viral ad for my local moving company
One of the many meanings of "conservative" is a preference for the way things were over the way things are becoming.
Google Design’s Best of 2019
Yes, I use it for podcast all the time.
The empty interface in function types (Go)
Surf with chrome logged in? Will never happen. Hard no as long as my sanity remains.

Firefox, maybe, haven't looked into it and just the process of evaluating it isn't worth it. Mozilla doesn't have the track record that I want to blindly trust them with that either.
It was coined by Max Plank in 1930.

I believe that it was about the acceptance of Quantum Mechanics.

Examples include that Edward Cope never accepted Darwin's theory of evolution (even though the fossils that he found were good evidence for it), Albert Einstein never accepted QM (even though his Nobel was for one of the key discoveries on the way to QM), and Fred Hoyle never accepted the Big Bang (even though he coined the phrase).
B2B churn should be very low, low double digits annually.
Care to share further? You have sparked my curiosity.
I played with a lot of circuits from Radio Shack as a kid. I did not understand much of the math behind it till I got to college and took the electrical engineering courses. But I agree with you, it would have much more interesting to use electronics and computers to teach some of the math subjects.
>No price discrimination may result in the single sale price being the first world country price rather than the developing country price

no (unless developers would be willing to forego revenue). In a market with perfect competition (and this is close enough to be modelled this way), the equilibrium price is equal to the marginal cost of production. (which is very low for a videogame). Regular old economics does apply here and consumers on the aggregate would win out.

>I expect a different equilibrium would be reached. Probably developers mostly ignoring pay-once single player games altogether in favor of multiplayer games and/or in app purchases.

This may be true but it's not really an argument against competition, after all we allow you to resell your car despite the fact that we could protect car makers by granting them monopolies and they could argue that they could build you fancier and nicer cars with their new surplus profits.

In a market economy, we generally tend to favour the dynamics of competition and consumer welfare over the protection of profits acquired through market power.
I agree, I re-licensed my own GPL projects to AGPL recently.
My guesses:

1. The previous generation did not have laptops.

2. The previous generation did not nearly have as many programmer/hackers/<late-night-computer-user-moniker> as we have today

3. Because of #2, nobody cared if a really small percentage of the population lost sleep due to blue light?
I set my keyboard to tap Capslock for ESC or hold for CTRL. Seems like the best of both worlds.
Thanks. I guess the biggest mistake in the early days was doing 'scattergun marketing' and not focusing on where our users actually were. Once we narrowed down and marketed to HR managers and business owners via LinkedIn and Capterra etc., we saw great results.

Another mistake was probably not sticking to a marketing avenue long enough. We would sometimes change our website completely a couple of times a month, so we never really knew what was working or not as we didn't have enough quantitative data. Nowadays we just rarely make sweeping changes, but instead make small tweaks to our marketing and watch analytics for patterns.

I do blog about some of these learnings over at https://devan.codes
'Disclose.tv' on 'AlternativeTo'
Rest in Peace designer of our aesthetic futures.

Gritty neon mechanical electronica.

Peaked in his late 40s which should give hope to many...
"Unhealthful". TIL that it's an actual word.
Some software engineer on reddit developed trailrouter.com, which was designed for runners and does a pretty good job of finding the "scenic route." I talked with them for a bit and they set the weights so that it worked quite well from my neighborhood.
Two more about.config:

- gfx.webrender.all = true (important on Linux, fixes jerky scrolling)

- general.smoothScroll.mouseWheel.durationMaxMS = 200 (makes mouse scroll animation faster)
True but I read it as an error in writing not in understanding. It should read something like “it is true in other languages including romance languages.” Or something similar but a bit more elegant
- Hpmor, from Yudkowsky the guy who created the ML Research Institute, simply one of the funniest and smartest book I ever read.

- Martin Eden, a great tragic adventure from the late 19th century about a poor smart guy from the slums who tries to make his riches as a writer

- The Moon is Harsh Mistress, Elon’s favorite sci-fi books

- Foundation by Asimov

- Homo Deus by Harari

- Principles by Ray Dalio
See my sibling comment, that should make it much better.
Thanks for that info.

Unfortunately useless for anyone not using Apple's mediocre-at-best listening devices. Like the huge number of people with Bose wireless cans.
This is exactly what I've wanted phones to become for years. It honestly amazes / pisses me off that I can't buy something like this off the shelf. Maybe I'll bite the bullet and piss away a few hours on rom flashing to get /e/ on my phone.
On the contrary: if it works it works. Just because it's a placebo doesn't mean it only works for one person. The only reason we know that the placebo effect exists because we can show in multiple studies that certain placebos work on a lot of people. In fact, some placebos work better than other placebos[1].

Of course, there are pitfalls. It's important that doctors not lie to their patients, because patients need to trust their doctors, and patients need to be able to make informed choices. And as you pointed out, it's obviously wrong to sell a placebo as if it were not a placebo. But even this doesn't mean placebos are useless: some placebos work even when you know they are placebos[2].

There are many cases where placebo performs better than nothing, and it would be foolish to not use this effect to improve our lives.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3729687/

[2] https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/placebo-can-work-even-kn...
Given that for home users, IP address assignment is temporary, is there a plan to add them back after some time has elapsed?
Brazil fines Facebook $1.6M for improper sharing of user data
Doesn't watching streaming video use considerable CPU?
I built out my idea for a VR urban planning tool earlier this year & more recently I built a network based music recommendation system as part of a hackathon project. I’m still in school but hackathons really help keep my creativity flowing!
Doesn’t that just mean we don’t definitively know the vast majority of the causal factors? Which is not at all the same as saying we know it’s not genetically determined?
I might be spectrum but definitely have ADHD-i my wife has ADHD-h

Difference basically being I can only focus on one thing at a time (and the things connected to that thing), but I jump from 1-1-1-1 in a circular mode.

My wife is now like she's mentally got a rope on everything at once but never finishes any of the things in her focus because there's too many.

I guess in programming terms we both have focus issues but she's asynchronous and I'm only synchronus.

If I get bored or my mind wanders of task I end up on hn, Google, Reddit or doing anything that isn't work. Started taking meds a year ago at 39 and light and day difference when I'm on my Vyvanse.

Sometimes I front load a couple days worth of work (freelance by the hour),; I'll literally be up 48 hours and put in 24+ hours of work, insomnia is a side effect of Vyvanse, so I usually when I'm past me limit I'll go off the next day and catch up on sleep and family time and relax a little then the following day jump back in, though I don't always go full in for two days.

Trying to not kill myself cause I have kids, but I work best when everyone is asleep anyways.
What makes JavaScript a Lisp? I associate Lisps with a small but immensely expressive core, powerful metaprogramming facilities, a very simple syntax, and an emphasis on linked lists as the building block of syntax and, at least historically, of everything else, too. JavaScript has maybe one of those.
Defunctionalization: Everybody Does It, Nobody Talks About It
Deep Reinforcement Learning is a waste of time
The Merger of Misra C++ and Autosar C++: A Roundtable Discussion
Of course traditional assets are highly uncertain if the world goes tits up, but you were the one hinting that cryptocurrencies would be a good hedge in a doomsday scenario.

The truth is that it is extremely difficult to predict what asset to hold in such a case. Physical assets can be confiscated by force, ephemeral assets are likely to just cease to exist.

Perhaps the best hedge is nothing as material as gold, or guns, or money, but having a large and robust network of friends and acquaintances. Ultimately, being connected (not just in a technical sense) is the best enabler of success in or out of a doomsday event I think.
Learn to separate the code you write from your self.
Try to see through the tone/word choice and accept the real constructive pieces of criticism (if there are any).

You'll run into bad reviewers. A lot of people use code review as an excuse to feel better about themselves. If this is for fun (and not in a professional setting), try asking some people you trust or believe will be fair to review your code for a while before exposing it to the public.

Good code reviews are learning opportunities and sanity checks. Bad code reviews are gate keeping exercises and personal attacks.
Ask HN: Does anyone else use Hide on HN and find it buggy?
I’ve started using ‘hide’ on HN to hide things I am not interested in.

I’ve noticed one really odd behavior, and also wonder if my ‘hides’ are “sticking” all the time.

The off behavior is that I now see only 68 stories in the regular list of stories. If I hide one of those, another appears.

As for the hide option actually sticking, I could be wrong but sometimes I seem to see things I have hidden after a browser refresh. It’s possible these are duplicates, but I thought if I asked here others may have also seen this.
Stats from different places are going to show different trends. Google's stats are a lot closer to all of the Android market than PornHub's. It's unfortunate that Google is slow to update. But it might be interesting to look at trends in PornHub's data, if they provide it over multiple years.
Seems to have only a few extra features compared to Laravel's Horizon (from looking at screenshots, I could be totally wrong).

https://laravel.com/docs/5.7/horizon

Horizon is free, crazy something like this could be monetized so successfully.
But some sciences really do require a lot of memorization, and even if we could understand the entire world from first principles, biology would still remain a separate science from physics, especially in the area of anatomy and ecology. Perhaps one day we will be able to account for each biological process starting from physics, but that still won't help us find new species of orchids and which bees pollinate them.

Even for chemistry, sure, you can use quantum mechanics to predict what combining hydrochloric acid with caustic soda produce, but that is far, far more difficult than remembering some valence for the few common elements.
This sounds terrifying. I've been in situations where there was no electricity, let alone internet or phone. Think, after a hurricane. Being able to exchange cash for services or goods was super important to preserve life and health. The last thing I'd want to hear is, "we'll get power in a week or two - until then just wait for FEMA".
I just type in what I’m looking for and “news.ycombinator.com” at the end so that it links to a HN page. Sometimes I have to use site: to make sure it’s actually from HN, but works reasonably well.
I know how to touch-type. I don't know how to place my fingers on a keyboard I can't see.
Win+By+Email:+Taco+Bell+Gift+Card
So you add tasks starting with `-` and change them to `+` when they're "checked off"?
This will actually depend on your course with regards to wind. There will be a course that will generate maximum heeling moment.
We managed to screenshot DailyMail.co.uk very well ..no coding required: https://app.visualsitemaps.com/share/6a79e25354f16408731b860...
I used to use onenote sometimes with the todo checkbox feature.
Now I mostly use Asana with tasks and subtasks
I find myself wondering if there's anything like that for driving.
Red-black tree presentations are often more complicated than necessary, mostly because of (premature?) optimizations. A simple presentation can be found here: https://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/cs257/archive/chris-okasaki/red...

I haven't checked how this relates to the code in this library.
You can do this with browser search engines, but as a DuckDuckGo user, I can !bang search_term (`!gh`, `!github` to search in github.) Now, I think DuckDuckGo is very lacking in terms of Zero-click searching, but if I know where to get information I can !bang to it (e.g., `!hn what`) or if you're feeling luck `\hn what` will open the first search result. Much better than spending an afternoon setting up search engines.
Hi virgil --

There's a big difference between scrutinizing code and putting down the programmer. It sounds like the people you showed your code to didn't know the difference.

Scrutinizing your code should be talking about the code, and nothing else. Emphatically not about you as a person. It should be about where the code is good and bad, and how that's being measured. The person scrutinizing your code should be able to explain their opinions, based only on the code.

It's really tough to separate critique of code from critique of the person who wrote the code.

Good luck.
If interested, Yahoo News explains this in depth: https://news.yahoo.com/shattered-inside-the-secret-battle-to...
It is saving anyone from having to actually innovate. Remember when there was a rush of "but on internet" patents and businesses? Well, now there's a bunch of "but green this time" businesses. Not to say they aren't needed, but redoing the last 100 years of tech isn't really moving us forward.
I think everytime you mess with your sleep pattern you may get some headache (oversleeping especially). Also blue light helps to mess your sleep (getting asleep later). Anyway that's how it works with me.
I recommend taskwarrior. It's a cli todo app that can immensely help solo projects.
>A new AOA sensor would void the type certificate.

Why would a new (third) AOA sensor void the type certificate?
How about small cheap 5v relays? They can be had for a few dimes each and can be cut into to reveal the moving parts. Even tiny ones have a surprising amount of force. One might be able to connect to the innards to make an array of binary actuators that could rest against skin. It would probably be hard to beat the power efficiency.
> Any comparative study with a decent methodology would detect the problem of differing sensitivities per person (by checking the standard deviation among other things).

Could you say more on this?
Hasn't fix it yet
Publish – A static site generator for Swift developers
> The cloud can't sequence DNA, as far as I know.

Not yet. Famous last words?
Graphical performance in VMs is subpar, specially on Linux guests.
Funny, I've done my best work in PHP. But, I have a semester of Scheme under my belt and have been doing object-oriented programming (or more precisely, moving away from it) for decades.

I really, really wish there was a rapid application development language like PHP or Go written over a functional language like LISP.

I've thought about writing one, and get all the way through it in my head until I come up to the inevitable problem with monads. I believe I can make it work by treating the monads as imaginary numbers with hidden contents and never really solve the problem of mutability, but I don't know what that would look like in practice yet. The language itself would basically be Javascript without mutable variables. There would be no async/await, instead, everything would be synchronous blocking with message-oriented streams in place of messages. Like the Actor model but executing immediately as a graph so it's fully deterministic.

Facebook kind of made one called Skip, although I feel like they might have been working on another one with a "z" in its name, or maybe someone else was, can't remember:

http://skiplang.com
Perhaps increasing concern for safety, and liability, and more recently, regulation of narcotics and explosive supply chains.

It's a meme that a 1950's and earlier chemistry set couldn't be sold now, for all of the above. But apparently sets were already changing with increasing concern for safety from the 1960's on.

VR/AR changes the relationship between safety and practice, so it'll be interesting to see what happens next.
I don't know; I was particularly looking at color shifting devices and the recommendation was to hold off on the purchase for a few years until the science had a change to settle.
Awesome! I've been looking into a way to manage my own code snippets. I'm a huge fan of ThisCodeWorks (https://www.thiscodeworks.com/), which has gamified snippet storage to an extent. Also great for sharing snippets around. It's still in beta, but looks good so far!
I'm honestly impressed by the accuracy
If someone has crash statistics for planes/cars by time spent in a plane/car, please ping me to it! I'm super curious

edit: nvm I found it on wikipedia, for United Kingdom 1990–2000: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_safety#Transport_comp...

air/car deaths/h = 4.2x
so... on this metric, not like "1000x safer"
The engineers should absolutely not shut up until they've reached some arbitrary point you care about. They seem to have done good work, have published and written / worked with Lois to write an explanation more easily understandable to a lay audience which explains the background and what they've done followed by the current limitations.
You could say that for any invention ever. Even the internet, our greatest invention so far. However, the net benefit is a non-negative value.
1.6 million. Basically nothing.
The VICE documentary This Is What Winning Looks Like exposes some of the same struggles with Afghanistan.

It's a very sobering and disturbing report, available on youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja5Q75hf6QI
Which is a good reason not to buy junk like that.
Ok, we'll use something like that. Thanks!

Edit: I've changed it back because readers are divided on this.
I have life long (since puberty) chronic insomnia and regular debilitating migraines (every couple weeks), both of which require a variety of ongoing medications, and I can honestly say removing blue light as much as possible and reducing brightness to the minimum that’s still practical, on every electronic device I own, has transformed my life.

I used to get headaches using my computer or phone unless it was in daylight, and couldn’t use any screen late at night, but these days it’s no problem at all. If I’m in a hotel or somewhere where I can’t change the brightness/colours then I get more headaches again.

It absolutely hasn’t cured me, and I still have both issues, but there has been a noticeable increase in quality of life and ability to use screens at night.

Our screens are way too bright because it looks good for marketing purposes. You get used to very low screen brightnesses very quickly, even on your TV, and whether it’s blue light or just brightness in general, I definitely think all these bright lights shined into our eyeballs at close range are doing damage.
TV programs are designed to get your attention. Try watching college lectures instead. I'm still not sure what Russian formalism is actually about, but boy it sure is a great sleep aid.
The word 'collusion' doesn't appear in the article and has its own triggering capacities these days. Best not to go there.
Yeah, and I think MCAS ended up fully deflecting the stabilizer on Ethiopian. Even with a somewhat more reasonable altitude, I wonder how long it takes to physically manually retrim from one end of the jackscrew to level flight. I think even the electric motor takes at least six seconds to do that.
Sure. But like TheRealPomax said, that's a different level of abstraction. If you need to be thinking in terms of Fitts' Law, and you're thinking of your code in terms of lambda calculus-level math, you're going to have a rough time.
This is neat.

Would you be open to a PR that adds a basic build system setup, so the output files can do PWA offline stuff without depending on PHP on the server?

This also allows other conveniences (like not needing to hardcode absolute paths for asset files), but adds a step before being able to put the built version of the source online.
> "...but also with the OPs statement that there is no conspiracy to suppress correct results. There is intense competition to be right. There is intense competition for funds..."

Can you resolve / flesh this out more? If the desire for funding is a key driver of behavior then it would seem most anything is possible, including conspiracy or related nefarious activites.

Humans, especially those with big ideas and big egos, in pursuit of fortune and fame have been known to bend and break the rules.
Not sure which century you're referencing - 2000s?

I concur though. The Occupy Wall Street meetings I had the luck of attending at Zuccotti Park reflected as much and nearly all of the other anarcho-syndicalist meetings I've seen do work at the snails pace of consensus.

The adherents would argue that this speed is a feature not a bug. I would generally agree with the argument that slowing down decision making is a good thing. Not sure it's a survivable strategy as a group however.
This is really well written, the illustrations help visualize the content, and the content itself is largely novel.

Really nicely done. Thanks for taking the time to write this — I enjoyed reading it!
Interestingly enough, some of the information maxmind is providing can be found in RIRs databases, such as RIPE for instance: ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/dbase/split/, ARIN: https://ftp.arin.net/pub/rr/

This is the same information than can usually be accessed using the "whois ip_address" command.

I wonder how this is going to be handled as it's necessary that this information remains public for network operators.

Would ping / mtr / traceroute need to be banned on a per-ip basis too as these tools can be used to triangulate?

The whole thing feels like "please remove my address from maps, it's private data", well yes, ok...
I haven't seen anyone reply to you yet specifying social media and SEO.

For example, copying a route from your SPA and pasting it into Twitter, Facebook, Slack, Teams, etc. Preferably you want the copied page's title, description and icon and not just your SPA's generic info.
NIST digitized the bullets that killed JFK
Oh, boo hoo. You mean the spooks can't lord it over us with their swampy spook club? They all need to have the hammer of accountability come crashing down on all their heads.