skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also I can't believe I spaced on this, but we are trained by movies to ignore the fact that we are in orbit around the Sun, and you can't just 'drop' things into the Sun.

From the numbers I can find, the delta-v to achieve escape velocity from the Earth is just over half the delta-v needed to crash into the Sun. To "get rid" of something you need a big rocket. To get rid of it forever, the rocket equation means you need a rocket many times bigger to go 90% faster.
I agree that investing in the SP500 and Big Tech might be better for an individual investor without access to earlier rounds. For anyone reading your comment though, it's worth keeping in mind that the stock price is not just based on current and past performance, but also the expected future value of the unicorn (specifically: the present value of expected future dividends). A unicorn can grow exponentially and still show ordinary stock price appreciation, if that degree of exponential growth was already "baked into" the stock.
How did you measure fat mass?
The correlation with wealth is much more consistent. Human beings have less children as they and their societies become wealthier (up to a certain point).

In any case to make this argument work one must also argue that increased fertility is always good for fitness. If we all had children like we did in the 1800s today we probably would face some kind of Malthusian catastrophe fairly soon, an event that could easily lead to the deaths of far more people than the current more restricted population and the extinction of far more genetic lineages. It may be extremely adaptive to reduce population growth during times of abundance so as to escape the Malthusian treadmill and instead leverage that abundance for longer term investments in the future.

If we're indulging in evolutionary psychology just so stories it seems reasonable to hypothesize that human beings might have some kind of built in population regulation valve. When abundance is high we have less children and invest more in them and when abundance is low we have more to try to brute force our genes into the future. All evolutionary lineages have suffered multiple bottleneck events, so it seems logical to at least consider that such mechanisms may have evolved to cushion and dampen out these fluctuations.

But of course that may not be true. Correlation does not equal causation. The difference between pop evolutionary psychologizing and actual evolutionary biology is that the latter is built on physical evidence in the form of the fossil record and genomics. The former can only look at the present and concoct stories that might perhaps explain it if true.
I'm quite sure what you describe is not at all normal for suburban America. Maybe there's a few pockets here and there where kids have found some safe spaces, such as in cul-de-sacs, but overall subdivisions have too many speeding drivers for kids to be safe leaving their yard.
That's awesome. I used to be a big fan of Sage, before they sold out / shut down. Even did the direct capture from cable boxes. I've been planning to get a Shield TV, so good to see these endorsements!
As a former Plaid employee with options that vested after I was shitcanned last year, this is some pretty welcome news.
Well, it can, except you then need to go through and update all of your internal APIs to be correct.

Really the string transition was just a poor choice in my opinion. Python2 already had unicode strings that were easy enough to specify (just prefix with a `u`).

It would have been better to just delineate that barrier better from an API standpoint.

I understand the appeal of having unicode for the default string literal type, but it was actively hostile to existing projects.
Love your analysis. That's why I am so bullish on "premium social" trend. I think 2020 is the year when the smartest users will begin pay for their social networks, messengers, and media curation services. Already many signals for this, including The Information, Stratechery, and Substack (YC W18).
But that's not what frustrates people with the transition. It's that they suddenly get encoding issues where there should have been no encoding to begin with!
> Less brake wear (I think?) from regeneration.

On the Model 3, if you enable Hold mode, then it's possible to drive without EVER using the brakes outside of emergency situations. The rotors and pads will theoretically last forever outside of environmental damage.
V8 has a built-in (pure, no JIT etc.) interpreter of WASM. Which is quite slow according to this test.
Exploit that gives remote access affects 200M cable modems
You have some good points but the Scarlet Letter style conclusion scares me.

What I'd like to see is a society that addresses the essential biological needs of men and women without stoning, beheading, drumming up wars or twitter shaming. It's a big project though.
I've only cursory exposure to it, but my understanding is that TLSF malloc[1] is designed to directly address those concerns. Is it known to be deficient such that its claims are invalid in / worthless for real-world use?

[1] http://www.gii.upv.es/tlsf/files/ecrts04_tlsf.pdf
Scientists use stem cells from frogs to build first living robots
http://archive.md/tQfZJ
Depending on your TV, the Shield can control the TV (volume and power) via HDMI-CEC (my decade old Sony LCD TV supports it). You have to go into settings but once setup, you can power on the TV and auto switch to the Shield HDMI connection with one button.
Congratulations. Can we have some inside stories please?
What I think this article gets right, even if accidentally, is that speed is not a great factor in determining traffic crashes or the outcome on human life. While the point of the article seems lost in it’s nonsense and meandering story, there are a couple of good points:

1) The one person who says “I go 80 anyway so I like it”. People drive whatever speed they want regardless of speed limit. Case in point, the person who said “I still drive 70 because 75 is too fast”. There’s nothing inherently dangerous about speed until you hit something. Cars hitting each other is much more likely when the speed differential increases.

2) The person who talks about the economy having more of an impact on driving behavior than speed limits. I’d love to see more data on that, but regardless of if it’s true, we know that the speed limit doesn’t have the biggest impact on driver safety, and we know that thanks to

3) The Autobahn referenced at the very end of the article, and other no-limit freeways that exist even in America. I had an opportunity to drive on some unrestricted sections of the Autobahn this past summer and even with the huge differentials in speed, drivers managed to not crash into each other.

I don’t know what the problem is so I don’t know what the solution is, but I can make a couple more observations. First, Germany has a law that your car has to be in proper working order and it’s taken off the roads if it’s not. Having spent a lot of time in Northern Michigan where this article takes place, there is no guarantee that cars on the road are working. As long as the car can move, people will drive it. Doesn’t matter how long they’ve been using the same brakes or tires. So when it comes time to avoid an accident, their car is not capable of stopping or maneuvering in time.

Secondly, drivers training in the US is abysmal. You’re expected to learn how to avoid collisions by yourself, and you’re expected to learn how to drive in bad weather (wind, snow, rain) by yourself, on public roads, with other drivers around you.

An extra five miles per hour on a limited-access freeway in an amazingly rural area should not impact anything at all, ever. There HAS to be other factors in play besides the speed limit.
Keep in mind every pull for transactions will cost money so you need to charge enough per month to cover those costs. It’s closer to $1 than a penny like most APIs.
I had to read this several times before it sunk in, and in fact had to start formulating a follow up question before the bulb turned on.

The first expansion is in the first process, second expansion in the child. So $@ number two is the input to $@ number one.
Yes, having an external box can be a good idea, but some things you may want to have in the TV itself such as the picture adjustment settings. There might also be multiple inputs, and IMIDI interface which can be used to select between them and switch TV on/off and adjust volume and so on, allowing you to program other devices to control it.
That thought had occurred to me, fortunately I don't have a guest network.

I do worry that one day someone is going to buy one of those Comcast modems that has the automatic Xfinity guest networks and it will find that ...
Is there really that few people? I know several people that only smoke occasionally.
How would that benefit the TV manufacturers?

Unless average Joes start clamoring for that, all of the cost associated with what you're asking for wouldn't help them sell a significantly larger number of TVs.
Not proof, but my Xiaomi A3 (Android One) European version has a couple of China Mobile packages and what I suspect is China Telecom.

It also has com.wapi.wapicertmanage, WAPI as in World Association of Professional Investigators! No idea what it does but from the name, it sounds it's security related.

Do these belong on an Android One phone? Do these fit with the impression that most people seem to have about Android One?
I get drunk and act like an absolute idiot, but I also don't really care. it's like the ying to my yang of trying really hard and being serious/ pretending to be serious about things. Hedonism is just as valid as a lifestyle choice as the other options (prove me wrong!)

The one thing I don't like about drinking is that it's basically a cheat code. It makes mundane stuff fun, if it were removed as an option, then maybe I would try other stuff and live a more interesting life.
As a layperson I recommend watching the PBS Spacetime channel on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7_gcs09iThXybpVgjHZ_7g
Reading this made me smile. TXR is obviously that for you, and I wish all software were developed with such care.
Reward being right, penalize being wrong, and transfer information in a manner that facilitates determining what is right and what is wrong.

One page (https://www.kn-x.com/static/PWFeb17forum.pdf), two page (https://ssrn.com/abstract=2835131), and three page (https://ssrn.com/abstract=2713998) versions of this are available. Further details are provided at http://kn-x.com.

I doubt anyone on this thread is going to like this solution ... but I think most on this thread agree that the underlying problem is the incentives, that fixing the problem requires changing the incentives, and that changing the incentives within the existing system is very hard.
Show HN: CapacitorJS – a webcomponent based client side router
You transfer 36K of JS on the first load. I estimate that all the entries together contain about 35K of gzipped Markdown.

Your largest entry (about dependencies) would be about 8K of gzipped HTML, and another quick estimate says that all the entries together would be about 50K of gzipped HTML.
Alcoholism is a compulsion to drink alcohol, not a count of how much alcohol a person consumes in a given time period.
Which OSS license?
to me this move indicates weakness. its a fine exit for the early employees and the executive team, but there's no reason to sell if you have a solid business plan and a realistic vision for future profitability. maybe the only vision for the future they want to pursue involves some expensive investment or the business was built on massive debt that can only be paid of in this way.

i want to be a part of building something that can survive as an independent entity. selling is an admission that this is either not a goal or not possible given the current position of the company. both of these are against my ethics. why should i stay at a company that has openly admitted that they are incapable or unwilling to pursue independence?
Does Mikrotik still require the windows-only utility for configuration? I remember it was a thing.
> That means the transition would look like, stop all Mercurial dev in its tracks

Not necessarily. One of the cool things of Rust is that it can easily expose and use a C-compatible API; one of the cool things of Python is that objects can somewhat easily be implemented or accessed through a C-compatible API. This allows for gradual replacement: the code can be piece by piece rewritten in C (actually, Rust pretending to be C), while still looking like Python objects to the rest of the code.

And from what I have heard, mixing Python and Rust in Mercurial is actually being done: https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/OxidationPlan
Every Python program should be tested with Emoji characters, they're a real torture test.
It's pretty conclusively bad for brain health; alcoholics hands aren't shaking from weak liver function...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S147148920...
Well, let's look at examples from other countries. Do liberal western European nations have this same kind of bias in their family courts, or not?

Many "liberals" in America really aren't that liberal, and women in America generally lean conservative from what I've seen, despite their claims of being liberal. For instance, the number of single women attending church is much higher than the number of single men (find a single woman who identifies as active Christian and ask her if she has any luck finding single guys at church).
You're morally corrupt and I have no problems repeating that.

I read just far enough to know your argument was going to be "free will to decide what contract to sign".

Except that entire line of thinking can be destroyed with a single observation.

contracts freely signed can and are deemed invalid if they're too onerous. Boom. Your entire argument falls apart.

Allowing a 17-18 year old to sign away their labor for longer than they've currently been alive is called ownership. We do this with corporations in the form of stocks. WE DO NOT DO THIS WITH PEOPLE.

There are things in this world that we as a society do not fucking do, and selling ownership to young adults is one of them.

You're completely ignorant of people and the world. completely. The first thing these companies will start doing is trying to protect their investment, only because it's a human being involved it's going to start turning into control and oversight.

that's fucking slavery.
FWIW I actually agree with the underlying principle. It's just that I have specific things I'm aiming for with my site that require JS. I wish browsers were simpler. But that ship has sailed. In my perfect world, the JS-app functionality of browsers would be broken off into a separate "app player" application that users would download, and browsers would be stripped down to basic HTML and a subset of CSS (essentially fonts, colors, and flexbox). In that world I would definitely have an HTML-only version of my blog.
The next big thing: emacs demoscene!
Banking regulators should mandate open banking APIs and default-private, non-sellable transaction data. The fact that they don't means that they don't work for us, government has been turned into a tool to enable and encourage rent-seeking. The "deregulation" obsession in this country is turning us all into modern feudal serfs, we have no option but to toil in our Lords' properties without recourse.
I believe what they meant was that for many strings it really shouldn't matter if they were bytes or unicode. They would perform their function correctly either way. That's completely true, but you do still have to go through and find the cases where that doesn't work.
User tries to delete app and launches it instead, #gotem.
Bulleted list:

Please make your _stuff_ work with URLs. And I use that word ~~~lightly~~~
However, there doesn't seem to be any widely implemented standard for playing plain URLs, only walled gardens like the YouTube app. -- this is fucking annoying
The Roku app for Android allows you to use your phone as a keyboard for the TV, rather than the awful [physical remote UX for input]. This is a great feature which I appreciate. -- whose standard are you using{?}
I should be able to copy a URL from my phone (possibly obtained from scanning a QR code), paste it into the Roku Android app, and the Roku ;should; attempt to play the file at the URL. This is clunky, awkward, and :not particularly easy:. But it is simple, obvious, and intuitive. -- whose voice?
Here is my plea: when you (_)don't(_) build hardware/software, but merely send your flying junk my way, please make it support the primitive, simple case. By all means implement the slick Chromecast style when sending good highfalutin stuff. It's OK when it works. HTTP is the lingua franca of the internet (and I use that word ~~~lightly~~~). When you build stuff, please make it work with (simple or complicated) URLs, as in myblog.com*, idiotsite.net or studiolo.fortdiurbino.net.

Edited by Federico P.S. Fuck all y'all
Since that is so recent, it makes the most sense to merge them, so comments moved thither.
HTTPie 2.0.0 Is Out
I've always assumed it was one of two things:

1. The social benefit. There's research showing that if you have a rich social life and friend network, you live longer. The assumption being that the drink is likely to be with other people.

2. The stress management benefit. It's not healthy to be stressed out. The alcohol's mitigating effect on stress may be greater than the alcohol's poisonous effect, in the right dose, for the right person.
It's a valid point, I edited my comment to concede it.
The guests in the room below would appreciate it if you utilized the hotel fitness center instead of doing burpees in your room.
Does it work with videos? The product description mentions HTML and static image formats. Neither the description nor any of the reviews mention videos.

I guess I could just spend 99 cents and 2 minutes to find out...
> They are adherence rates within a pre-selected group of people for a specific study (apologies if i am reading this wrong).

Yes, that's generally how studies work.

> The studies were done on small sets of folks for a very short period of time (2/8months) with little effort to adhere and yet the participants couldn't even do that.

You have to view it in context, diet and exercise changes have a very low adherence rate historically. It may be "low" but even that is a marked improvement over a lot of the alternatives.

You asked for data that showed these strategies had good adherence rates, which I provided. I could find additional studies, but those too would have a scope and would therefore be dismissed just as readily. I don't have a population-level study to link.
Alex Stamos kicks off his keynote address with an ML-generated speech
Alex Stamos kicks off his keynote address with an ML-generated speech.

https://twitter.com/alexstamos/status/1216848665467219968
Is alcoholism not actual dependency on alcohol? As in not being able to leave it from one day to the next? If people drink 15 beers/day it is unhealthy but if they can quit tomorrow for months (or ever), it is not alcoholism right? Many people know it's unhealthy to consume enormous amounts during december (I know plenty who do a few bottles of wine per day per person) and then just quit 2nd of January. As far as I can see on the definition of alcoholism, that is not alcoholism... There is no dependency; they just like to be drunk for a month... And stuff themselves with fat. A lot of people all over the world (if they can afford it) do.

And 4 units/day (which is not 4 beers in many cases, it is less, but let's say it is) is something a lot of people do; they are, again, not dependent on it.

Doing damage is something else. I think no alcohol (at all) (+no/little refined sugar, processed food, stress laden work, too much fat, smoking anything, living in smog infested cities, driving motorcycles etc etc) are better, but that's just a feeling; the 'advice' seems to change every few years. One year wine is good for your cardiovascular system, one year it's bad. And the amounts vary too. Etc.
How old is your Firefox? I actually wouldn't expect it to work on old browsers, since it uses native JS modules directly.
Have you looked into Erlang/the BEAM VM? It provides many of these same benefits.

> This is cheaper than any other hosting solution in the cloud if you want the same level of stability and isolation.

Erlang provides total process isolation and can theoretically also run on only a single machine.

> It's even cheaper when you need something like a Redis cache. If my cache goes down and the container needs to be spun up again then it's not a big issue, so for cheap projects I can even save more cost by running some infra like a Redis instance as a container too. Nothing beats that.

In Erlang, each process keeps its own state without a single point of failure (ie a single Redis instance) and can be restarted on failure by the VM.

> Kubernetes takes care of itself. A container crashes? Kubes will bring it up.

Erlang VM takes care of itself. A process crashes? The VM will bring it up.

> Do I want to roll out a new version? Kubes will do a rolling update on its own.

Ditto for Erlang VM, with zero-time deployments with hot code reloading.

> I just click ok and everything happens automatically with zero downtime.

Erlang is famous for its fault tolerance and nine nines of downtime! And it’s been doing so for quite a bit longer than K8s.
nice! might be a while for haproxy [1] if ever and i've not been on apache's IRC in a long time so no idea if they are considering adding it to core.

[1] - https://github.com/haproxy/haproxy/issues/62
> Under these discretions languages like OCaml and Rust seem to make the cut.

I absolutely agree! I am gradually learning both and I am just getting so angry that I didn't know about OCaml like 10-15 years ago. :( I was just so damn busy surviving and being depressed for a heckton of [dumb] reasons for 15 years. And then I woke up.

Now I am just a regular web CRUD idiot dev who, even though he was very clever and inventive and creative in the past, nowadays seems to get pissed at small details like configuring web frameworks (even though I am still much better than a lot of others, I dare say -- proven with practice... or so I like to think). And now I have to work against the negative inertia of my last 15 years and learn the truly valuable concepts and how they are implemented in those two extremely efficient, if a bit quirky in syntax, languages.

But it seems every time somebody says "let's just keep these N languages and kill everything else", no discussion is possible... And I feel we really must only keep a few languages/runtimes around and scrap everything else.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22038496
https://www.getdbt.com/ is excellent if your users are SQL-friendly.
impossible indeed. however a recent kickstarter is trying to change this: https://ironcast.tv/

lets hope they can deliver.
> where would $1 have been best invested on March 25, 2015, when Altman wrote his post?

Which is an unfair criticism to Altman, because typical VC returns only mature 7~10 years later. If you put $1 into Uber in 2009 and exited at IPO, your returns would far exceed the S&P. This is a terrible financial analysis from Thompson, but I don't think that was his real point from the newsletter anyway.

That being said, the point still stands, investing in venture is generally NOT a good strategy in of itself. The general recommendation is less than 5% of your overall net worth.
I don't think it is actually vagina scented, I think it smells like anormal candle does. The candle smell like the vagina after the vaginal area is washed in candle scented lather. As far as I know it is bad to actually squirt soap into a vagina. ~ Not a vagina owner.