skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've used Logic Friday once to make a wired remote controller device that operated on 74-logic. I haven't really seen any tools that offer more user-friendly ergonomics for that type of problem, except maybe a curve-fitting tool called Eureqa which used to be open-source and went closed-source. Or perhaps Wolfram Mathematica could be used to spit out a few solutions, again closed-source.
Those are some of the slowest cars on the road today, that sacrifice everything for fuel efficiency. Is that the bar for an EV? We can't do better than that?
People crap on Flash because of the sites made on it. It wasn't for games nor videos.

Adobe had a site building tool that was more productive than ASP, but only barely so, and created sites that would break on about every computer. The few times they were working, they would have completely non-standard UI elements, including buttons and links, and break nearly all interaction modes.
Remote work probably makes social skills more important, because your coworkers lose the benefit of non-verbal cues. I work remotely and I try to convey a lot of personality and availability to stay integrated with the team.
Make it a simple setting users can activate... Tesla's default is full power acceleration, but you can toggle it to be really sedate. Mazda could have easily done that. More proof how far traditional auto manufacturers are behind Tesla. Tesla is a software company that happens to make cars. Mazda is a car company that has to write software.
Why does it have to be even? Why does it matter?

Equal Outcome != Equality of Opportunity.

Unfortunately the two are often conflated in an attempt to imply there is some form of discrimination taking place by people with nefarious motives.
I learned to drive on a 1992 Mercedes-Benz 200D. It does 0-100 in about 18 seconds. And it's not even that bad.
Australia fires: Smoke turns New Zealand skies 'eerie' yellow

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-50969488

Maybe not exactly global but the smoke made it ~2000km to New Zealand!
Nobody at the traffic light made & makes fun of a Tesla so consumers feel safe to buy a Tesla.

Eight years of Nissan Leaf ownership, and the only comments I’ve ever gotten at lights were positive. Used to be my friend hated to go with me in the Leaf because every time I parked it, someone would chat me up for five minutes. Not so much anymore now that EVs are more common. Now, no one even looks at me. Fellow Leaf drivers don’t even wave anymore.

So I don’t know where that massive insecurity is coming from.
Children?

Thats the case with me at least ... not much time for sport anymore.
Well you don't have to be "a dick" to shame somebody. Just tell them the truth and help them realize the toll they take on society and themselves when they choose certain actions over others. When they come to realize and understand the truth they will feel the shame they ought to feel...and thus pay a small part of the cost to others that they have incurred.

Do you believe that a smoker that has thrown a cigarette out the window and burned down a home should not have to feel shame because of their actions? If you do then the obese ought to as well. Their obesity exacts great cost to the medical system that we all have to bear, it takes from their productivity that they could offer to others (society and their own family) and benefit from themselves in a multitude of ways. Their actions are the same as the careless cigarette smoker...selfish. And selfish actions are shameful and that shame should be felt. We should not try to be so "noble" as to protect them from it. When we do the selfishness tends to proliferate.
so even people who are cash strapped are willing to overpay for a commodity item if they perceive it to be the best in a certain price range...?

i guess purchasing behavior is very different for things you buy very infrequently like a mattress?

looking at Costco and a highly rated foam comparable to Casper is $500...
> Nobody at the traffic light made & makes fun of a Tesla so consumers feel safe to buy a Tesla

Certain psychological profile of consumers. I personally couldn't care less about it and would never pay more to impress random strangers on traffic lights... and while I'm sure I'm a minority in this, I like to believe there's still a significant market niche occupied by people who're closer to my view than insecure 16 year olds'... so in my eyes this Mazda's move makes a lot of sense, they just don't target the same people as Elon Musk
If you eat that "poison" then quitting it will drop your weight. But some people don't eat that "poison" and yet they still carry a lot of body fat. So it is good general advice but insufficient for people with a genetic predisposition to obesity. I for one eat mostly salad, never drink sodas and don't really like sweet things, usually skip breakfast, hunt rabbits most days on steep terrain (for exercise and dogfood)... and yet I sit at 220lbs.
It was obvious to the ancient Greeks, we're still getting there today. The Hollywood stereotype perpetuates the split, which definitely exists today, but also the advantages of economic specialization kind of limits you to one or the other these days.
Researchers Make a Li-Ion Battery You Can Cut, Burn, Soak, and Shoot
Brasília – Buliding a City from Scratch
> no one dares to go after them.

Prohibition doesn't count?

What about all the no-smoking-in-bars etc. laws?

And the warnings on the packaging?

The manufacturers don't do that voluntarily.

C'mon now.
> What are the odds Iran does that to Canada now? Approximately zero.

Not now but this will become another bargaining chip and one day they may agree to pay compensation in the context of wider negotiations.

Libya agreed to pay compensations for Lockerbie 20 years later as part of wider negotiations and it is unclear whether they were involved at all...
Earlier / dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22013436

Though the CNBC article (that is, this one) does seem to have the most comprehensive treatment.
Almost all the things you listed that in my experience actually motivate people are indirectly influenced by policy. The things that are directly influenced by government action like government programs rarely seem to have an impact (taxes can be an exception like previously mentioned).

>Would you move purely because of a DMV privacy policy? No, probably not. But the basic principal of being able to choose your government by your location is sound.

But doesn't that last sentence invalidate the first? If no one actually moves based off privacy law, the idea of allowing people to choose their own privacy law through voting with their feet is pointless in practice.

I don't think HOAs are a good comparison because it is trivially easy to move a couple blocks within a city in comparison to moving to a different state or country. Also a lot of problems within HOAs stem from interpersonal conflicts and not fundamental differences in political ideology.
It still amazes me that the line of reasoning they publicly went with, around their decision not to fact check political advertisements, is that no one company should have that amount of power. The logical conclusion of their own argument is that Facebook should be broken up.
Lose fat in your tongue to improve sleep apnea, study says
He's in his 50's and doesn't believe the food causes problems and just doesn't care. It's not a matter of a lack of willpower or trying, in his case it's a lack of giving any kind of fucks.
Earlier / dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22013436

Though the CNBC article seems to have the most comprehensive treatmen:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22014115
https://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=SubuSS :)
JavaScript Party 109: These talks are all quite attractive
Crazy talk. Cars can have software controlled settings? Maybe you could start a car company and name it after a famous inventor or something. This seems like a real idea.
> "The big question that is not answered is whether HAL is capable of ignoring direct orders"

I think this is in fact answered by 2010. HAL is capable of refusing to follow orders, or at least needs to be convinced to follow them, as evidenced in the second youtube clip where Dr. Chandra -- HAL's creator in the movies -- needs to convince HAL it must sacrifice itself (along with the Discovery) in order for the mission to succeed. HAL initially wants everyone to stay to study the phenomena and must be convinced otherwise.

And of course, there's the classic "I'm afraid I can't do that, Dave" when ordered to open the doors of the Discovery in 2001. Though in that case it could be argued Dave Bowman no longer had authority over HAL and therefore his command wasn't really an order.
Define globally relevant.

Particulates in the air can carry a few thousand kilometers, but they will also disperse and settle as they travel.

Living within a few hundred yards of a major street, or within a few miles of a major industrial district is going to have more impact on your health then smoke travelling from the other side of the world. Smoke particulates are also reasonably easy to remove from the air, using standard consumer filters.
Disaggregated Revenue Data (Nine months ended September 30)
Direct to Consumer: 2018- $239M; 2019- $259M [13% YoY growth]

Wholesale: 2018- $31M; 2019- $54M [75% YoY growth]
"20.3% year-over-year net revenue growth for the nine months ended September 30, 2019"

"We have also expanded our gross margin from 42.8% in 2016 to 44.1% in 2018 and to 50.7% for the three months ended September 30, 2019"
I hope that picking a side in the business world works out. Not sarcastically, but genuinely.

But I have serious doubts, and it's not even really the default mantra of human nature or any of that jazz, more so just the fact that large-scale international business is so nuanced due to the differences in cultures and beliefs that I don't see the simplicity of having one side versus another working out very well in practice.
I agree. I used to work on a project where everyone involved in the initial design had left the company, and documentation was spotty. The major issues I had working with the code were all related to not understanding the underlying design choices, e.g. why a certain model was chosen over another or how a certain abstraction was intended to be extended with new functionality.

Stuff that can be formalized in a systematic manner is usually stuff you can figure out on your own in a text editor or IDE.
Great minds - Microsoft is an increasingly diverse company and you'll see smart people from everywhere in the world there.
The best disinformation campaigns have enough of a kernel of truth to survive or resist an initial look.

Yes, there have been some cases of arson. No, Australia wouldn't be wildfire-free this year if there hadn't been any arson.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-08/fires-misinformation-...

> A number of the tweets took police figures out of context and claimed almost 200 arsonists had been arrested in NSW.

> An article posted by an American far-right figure went one step further, claiming left-wing ecoterrorists were responsible for lighting the blazes.
The Stoicism is being dished out by the billionaires(Jack Dorsey comes to mind), who have already made it, and want to somehow appear above all worldly things to the masses.
Hundreds of millions of cable modems are vulnerable to Cable Haunt vulnerability
This is amazing work. If this is yours, well done.
Women tend to choose jobs that pay less.

They're on average more interested in people, so they tend to choose to become nurses, teachers, etc., while men are interested in things and become software developers, engineers, etc.

I have no idea why income HAS TO be distributed equally. Unless you want to force women to become software developers..? But why.
Earlier / dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22013436

This is (for obvious reasons) getting multiple submissions. The CNBC article seems the most comprehensive to date:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22014115
Be tall and attractive is _literally_ the advice people are giving in this thread, and it doesn't even seem that tongue-in-cheek.
True. This could have all been prevented with controlled fires during winter time. However, they are illegal to do in Australia. Creating a firebreak to save your home from a bushfire is also illegal and heavily punished.
Sounds like we're really in full agreement, some semantics aside, and I think probably more people align with your semantics than mine. Thanks for the clarifications!
The other way experience helps is that you don't really need to interview at unknown places if you want to work somewhere. Over time, you've built up a professional network, and you can generally switch jobs via that network, instead of walking in the front door. Having a deep specialty in something allows you to work with other such specialists.
> most people no longer believe in the nobility and glory of war

Sounds like you live in a nice bubble.

> Much of the modern recruitment efforts I've seen focus on benefits like paying for student loan debts, workforce training and healthcare.

highly branch-specific. They cater recruiting messages to the target audience. Look up Marine recruiting material.

> I would bet that most people who join the military today (at least in the US) do so hoping to avoid ever having to see action, rather than looking forward to killing for their country

you'd lose that bet
Yeah. I don't understand why this article was written with a negative tone.

There's been a number of high-end EV crashes documented where they've rammed into homes and businesses, while it's unknown if they're sudden unintended acceleration issues I think it's great to hear other manufacturers are likely considering the human factors issues.
I got a great mattress from an outlet, queen size for about $400. I was blown away thinking that Casper was going to be cheaper. They just have good marketing I think
Remember that time Zuck had a barbeque alone and livestreamed it on facebook? that was really weird.
This is an abuse of statistics. I'm not trying to minimize alcohol, but it is like saying "putting up Christmas tree lights is more dangerous than BASE jumping"

On a population basis, putting up Christmas lights kills far more people than BASE jumping. But the danger from each activity in isolation isn't comparable at all.

Far more people drink and smoke than use opioids.

The relationship between opioids and cigarette smoking/vaping appears to be complicated, to complicate things.
Because it's almost contentless?
What is your usecase? I just don't understand the need.
It exists only insofar as naive children internalize and ape what they see on TV. There is no reason whatsoever that a bright child shouldn't enjoy sports, except the Disney channel tells him he must choose between reading books or exercise, when there is plenty of time in the day for both. And insofar as it discourages smart kids from exercising, it's a clearly harmful stereotype which you should refrain from reinforcing.

Real life is not a 1980s teen comedy movie, no matter how comforting out of shape engineers may find the notion.
He specifies that he was there over 20 years, prior to the company being incorporated, and only joined full-time in 2002.

That being said: David Drummond is a terrible person[0], who only has been there this long because of Larry Page and Sergey Brin's protection, because they are terrible people too[1][2]. The way Google's highest executives have treated women is disgusting and inexcusable. And while Drummond may not be getting an exit package, he sold off $200 million in stock this past year.

Evil is still very, very good business.

[0] https://medium.com/@jennifer.blakely/my-time-at-google-and-a...

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/google-sergey-brin-employees...

[2] https://fossbytes.com/larry-page-andy-rubin-150m-sexual-hara...
Beware of terms that require the target to pay for DD if the deal goes sour.
> That's just buying something.

Exactly. Don't look to billionaires to inform yourself about how generosity works; they live in a completely different world.
Every thing of wealth requires protection. Lack of an army and government to protect your wealth and it will be plundered by the masses. With Citizens United I have no problem letting every dollar now be taxed the same as a person. Have two taxes, one applied equally for every individual and one applied evenly to every dollar of wealth. Wouldn't that be representation with taxation? It'd be like the Senate (every state gets the same equal representation) and the House (states with more people pay more taxes)...
This is what I do and I 100% agree about lazy people that aren't willing to make a halfway decent website. I'm not that old, but sometimes I just want a website with text. I don't need autoplaying videos with a billion slideshow images and shown how fantasmagical your company is.
Appearing fit and healthy, especially for your age, is like activating easy mode for life in general.

I've yet to see a down side, other than losing the short-lived pleasures of eating garbage food constantly. But the novelty of that wore off long ago, it pales in comparison to an active and healthy lifestyle.

- Formerly overweight/borderline obese person enjoying an ideal BMI for over a decade now.
Humans have been dicks, but few ever have reach in their communications. Now the entire world is inner connected. This is kind of like saying people have always had rocks to throw, so nuclear weapons aren't anything new.
Wow, that post is pretty deluded. To paraphrase crudely, he is doing mental gymnastics to justify and invest in his/facebook's current position. An easy example of this is:

> If I want to eat sugar and die an early death that is a valid position.

Sure, if you want to make an informed choice, go for it. Nothing prevents a person from buying and consuming 10lbs of sugar everyday. However, the obvious problem which a lot of people have been focussed on is how do we prevent unhealthy amounts of sugar from being present in all food.

All of this sidestepping from Facebook and its execs reminds me of tactics used by Trump (and Republicans).
I work on the East coast, and I've had multiple managers complain about having to work with developers on the West coast. They said it's like working with divas because they frequently refuse to attend customer meetings or keep anyone in the loop with what they're doing because they think it's beneath them.
The threat is not vague, potential, or in the future. It has happened in the past (which is why the tax code addressed it), and it is happening again.
Yes. That is what has started to happen. I live in Lake Tahoe for a number of years and you'd regularly see signs posted "Controlled Burn in progress, do not report" with smoke in the distance.

The problem is that there isn't enough money for the man powered required to control burn everything. And 50 to 100 years of "don't let anything burn" has led to a LOT of areas with a lot of build up. Those areas require a lot of care to controlled burn correctly and are often way way WAY out there - making it harder/more expensive to control.

There is also the problem of encroachment of civilization on the forests. At least in CA there are houses basically built into the forrest, or right up to the edge. How do you burn those areas assuring the residence 100% safety?
We could, but we don't do enough of it because of liability risks. Imagine if the controlled burn goes out of control, and burns down <someone's lakehouse/dacha/cabin/dog/three month old baby>.

People will be in the streets, crying for blood, and won't give up until the Department of Controlled Forest Burns is dissolved, and its executives are sleeping in the Bay, wearing cement overshoes.

Yes, you can buy insurance for this sort of thing, but no, money doesn't grow on trees, and insuring your controlled burn program is not going to come cheap.
Based on the way aspen actually grow, it's more likely that the area was originally an aspen grove and was planted with spruce because spruce is a better lumber product. I know in BC they actually spray (with Roundup) all the sites where there are forest fires so that the aspen can't come back, and then they replant with pine or spruce.

Aspen is a natural fire break species. So it'll actually prevent more big forest fires in the future.
It's not the loss of Flash per se (as there are plenty of rapid game making tools targetting HTML5 about) it's the complete collapse of the supporting infrastructure.

Mochi Media closing was huge. I went from getting a steady trickle of money for games I wrote to nothing.

As far as I can see there is no Mochi for HTML5 games. Every portal is its own closed environment.
That reason is mostly presumed by those who do not sign up. Among those who do, the reasons are varied. Many sign up simply because they need a job or as a way to procure technical experience or funding for college. And many in the infantry and other combat arms jobs sign up because they want adventure or see it as a kind of initiation into manhood. Many feel a sense of responsibility to "do their part", but that isn't the primary motivating factor and is almost never explicitly stated. The scene in Black Hawk Down where Josh Hartnett's character is mocked for saying "I was trained to make a difference" is quite accurate.

Every generation has a supply of young men who go to war simply because they want to go to war. That's a human universal as far as I can tell. The reasons for the war are unimportant. It isn't until they become older and more introspective that they consider the big-picture morality of it. Smedley Butler was in his 50s when he made that speech.
I'm being a bit hyperbolic I'm sure, but this seems to go hand in hand with the "culture fit" obsession with most interview processes. It's really just a gauge of how "cool" and "likable" the person seems. Speaking from witnessing it on both sides of the table.
The original Tesla roadsters are expensive. People buying at that price point are doing so for features beyond mere transportation.

Maybe you don’t want a drag race but all the luxury spending 80k new can give you. However Tesla isn’t very luxurious, so they better be fast in comparison.
Title 24 Chapter 1 Section 101: Nuisances affecting health.

Subsection B6 states that "The following are hereby declared to be health nuisances affecting public health ... rank growths of vegetation upon private property [which] ... harbors rodents or vermin". This is one of the first 3 reasons listed.

https://library.municode.com/ok/tulsa/codes/code_of_ordinanc...
WWII was the last time modern industrialized nations were openly at war with each other. The nuclear bomb changed everything. That's one reason WWII is regarded differently than anything that has come since.

Hitler's extermination of the Jews will have him as a historical villain for a long, long time.
Honestly I've always been uncomfortable around inebriated people when sober. It's like a corny campfire song, fun only when everyone does it together. This is mostly because most people act stupid under the influence and though it's a bit funny at first, unless one is also drunk, it quickly becomes uncomfortable.
Remember when Zuck had a barbecue alone and live streamed it on facebook?
I think surveillance either via passive black box logging or active cellular reporting is the new normal going forward.

From a liability perspective it's a no brainier for companies. It also affords them a lot of valuable data from an actuarial perspective with regards to supply chain, warranty, and maintenance.

For the consumer the benefits are negligible, especially when that information is held private to the manufacturer.