skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you elucidate on that line of reasoning some more? I am unconvinced.

It has been my experience -- which some more "keepin it real" journalism concurs with -- that New York's outlandish infrastructure costs, as well as the majority of the USA's public projects, are primarily due to two main agents:

1. White collar bureaucracy

2. Blue collar "bureaucracy"

Both parties -- and the multitude of agents that operate within them -- are all too able to align their "piece" of the project towards their own interests.

These interests very much involve time and money.

For money, it's simply rerouting costs. And for time, it's "making one's mark," by misallocating resources to personally-enriching matters, that do not benefit the project as a whole, and usually hinder it.

It's late, and I'm not at 100% to go into detail, but surely this is well-known already?
The feds bet $737M on a salt tower for solar power
Show HN: A React based tool that saves you from jumping around GitHub projects
This little tool gives you the numbers (stars, commits, issues, etc.) you need for different GitHub projects in one place, with comparison charts available.

GitHub repo: https://github.com/vesoft-inc/github-statistics
No I paid for college myself with a combination of work and loans.
Two hours of reading, snoozing, thinking, hobbies, what's wrong with that? I used to quite appreciate the time and space of my long commute.
Also, if there’s so much unmet demand, why aren’t we seeing tons of new ski areas opening up, which could help lower prices?
What are these 'common core math' techniques? I went to primary school in New Zealand. In around 2005 they introduced a new way of teaching mathematics that we referred to as the 'numeracy programme'. It wasn't very popular with students and parents obviously all thought it was crap because parents are naturally scared of change in education negatively affecting their kids.

But when we actually did it, it was basically fine. Obviously everyone still learnt the standard place value algorithms (by that point we already knew them, and they didn't stop teaching them to younger kids), but people also learnt other strategies like: if I'm adding 47 to 54, I can simplify that by instead adding 50 (47 + 3) to 57 (54 + 3), which is 107. It was about learning what you to terms like 47 + 54 without changing the value.

Another one I think I remember being mentioned was thinking of 124 x 52 as 100 x 52 + 20 x 52 + 4 x 52. Of course, that's exactly what you're doing with the standard algorithm! The 'algorithm' you learn when you're 5 is just the same as the 'strategy' you learn when you're 10, but presented as something you do on paper rather than something you do in your head.

I also remember learning about ways to approximate these sorts of things. So you want to work out 4241 x 1245 - well you can work it out, but you should probably also work out what 4000 x 1000 is and use that to check that your answer is of the right order of magnitude. And if you're just working something out quickly, then maybe all you need is 4200 x 1300, that's obviously close enough for any practical usage.

I don't remember exactly what I learnt then which to me is a sign it was probably very effective: I internalised the strategies, some of which I was probably already using, some of which I probably didn't remember but thought about again later. It all seems very obvious now, of course, but it's different when you're 10.
None of those noble cases are actually what it's being built for though, the 100 scientists in the Amazonas aren't the reason you put up 1500 satellites in one year.

Likewise, those in poverty living far from population centres (by the way, those are the places with most of the people) are better served by being gifted 10 bricks so they can build an actual stove.
Yes there are all types of yoga from pseudo-religious through to extremely practical. I've done some holds in some classes that would've been amazing for strength (they left me sweating).

As the other poster said though I prefer pilates, and in particular pilates reformer (with the bed) seems very good for back pain since in a lot of exercises you can support your back to varying degrees depending what you need at the time. The springs means it's not technically just body weight but it seems about right for me, at this time.

I'm definitely a short hamstring sufferer who could stretch more and need to work that in.
I understand the concept of what you are doing, but I think those two methods have different use cases, yours may be more performant but mine, I feel, is more simple for everyday usage. I'll definitly look your work more in depth. Thanks for the feedback!
Heh, I used to do that - if you asked me I think it worked out ok.

Lived in a bigger place, but had the bad commute.
I'm no fan of Vice, but newspapers are understood to have different sections, and different sections have different standards. As long as the science section is OK, then it's fine (for a newspaper).
Sentinel Species
Of course it's a bad thing! Imagine not being able to write your own language.
The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis sure seems to hold with programming languages. Some ideas are easier to have in some programming languages than in others, although once you have the idea you can often 'explain' it in a programming language where it's less obvious.
You’ve never seen it because it doesn’t exist. :)

It was an unsubstantiated rumor.
I don't like jerks and there is a social aspect to programming. But there are plenty, far too many, lousy programmers that are really nice guys too. Having social skills is extremely helpful. Being able to code is mandatory.
2013 – iceland has an app to prevent you dating your cousin
The Popeyes by me has a 25 or so minute drive thru line, I've gone twice for some reason recently. I watch as people wait in line, eventually park and walk to the door and realize the doors are locked. They don't even have patrons inside the restaurant. I never considered it being due to deliveries. Both times I went was during rain and right after work. The chicken sandwich drama is over.

Those workers are slammed, I can see them from the window. I assumed it was just fried chicken taking forever.

I guess the deliveries are waiting in the drive thru line. I see a lot of people not order.
This is why when I do order from Doordash, I only tip in cash and make sure to write it in the comments.

Still the best online delivery by me even if they are a shit company. Hate Grubhub more.
"Seeing a star" is a low bar to pass, especially if you get a telescope to help you.
Indeed, that was my confusion, thanks!
I did. They taught us this in school. My spelling is good. I rarely rely on a spell checker and have autocorrect turned off on my keyboard because I find it annoying rather than helpful. Knowing how to spell and sound out words helped me be a better reader and kept reading interesting for me.

Anecdotally, I've met many people that dislike reading because they find large words complicated to comprehend, their spelling is usually atrocious also. I also know a few heavy readers with terrible spelling because they never learned properly. Their pronunciation of large words is usually atrocious.
It doesn't, but if someone is shelling around on the server, they might throw a key in there for convenience, maybe in order to scp something from another machine, and then forget to remove it when they're done.

One can debate whether the root cause is forgetfulness, or rather that people shouldn't be sshing into prod servers to begin with.
> Taken in isolation, Sweden’s move had virtually no effect on Australia’s bond prices and yields. But the most striking feature of the divestment movement so far is the speed with which it has grown from symbolic gestures to a severe constraint on funding for the firms it touches.

A lesson in the potential value of individual action -- in this case and individual nation, but an individual person can have outsize effects. I help organizations change culture to pollute less. One company refused to consider flying less. One sixteen-year-old girl sailing across the Atlantic opened the dialog.
Faster Than Life
This is how they look in IntelliJ IDEA: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/viewing-reference-inform...
Could someone explain what the actual tangible negative implications are besides astronomers needing to adjust?
I can't believe this legislation is actually being seriously considered, why would you want the government forcing you to have a certain port on your phone. By all means have regulations for things like electrical outlets and radio frequencies and other protocols that interfere with each other, but when it comes to individual devices it is just going to completely stall any innovation. I don't want a manufacturer to have to lobby the government every time they want to start using some improved charging cable, or when they want to make a device where USB-C doesn't make sense, that's how we end up stuck on old standards for forever. Doesn't seem like the government's business anyways, you are really going to make it illegal for me to produce and purchase devices without USB-C? Seems insane to me, if people don't want a device because it doesn't have USB, they don't have to buy it.
For those recommending deadlifts, are trap/hex bar deadlifts an acceptable substitute? What about rack pulls?
The only way dark mode can ever be done properly is if every single website and app developer implements it themselves. Every other way of doing it is a hack. Apple did what they could. At least this project makes it somewhat easier for websites to implement. For my purposes, all I need at this point is Quora. Goddamn it Quora, why can’t you see the light?
> The company repeatedly defended this wildly unpopular tip-swiping pay model over several waves of public controversy

The real controversy is why, in 2020 and only in the USA, do we have a business model that offloads the employee compensation responsibility onto customers?
English spelling absolutely has rules. The famous 'ghoti' example (where supposedly it should be able to be pronounced 'fish' because of 'gh' in rough, 'ti' in 'nation', etc.) is nonsense because there's only one way that word can be pronounced in English and that's 'goatee'.

Irregularities don't mean it doesn't have rules. The most common 1-2k words are much less regular than the rest of the language, but learning how they're spelt is not remotely difficult for children (no adult that doesn't have a learning disability struggles to remember how to spell 'much' or 'about'). The rest of the language is pretty much regular.
Could describe what such a problem would be in layman's terms?
How do you subscribe to receive those emails?
And people are desperate - as benmanns put it, it's a "line of credit out against depreciation on your vehicle. Sure you lost money, but you get cash today."
The biggest moral hazard is on the front end - most loans are government guaranteed, so banks are making a risk free profit from which borrowers are legally prevented from defaulting on (i.e. you can’t escape the loans through bankruptcy).

Until this is fixed, everything else almost doesn’t matter.
Interesting concept and would use it if it were Serverless and had a Gremlin or Cypher client. Right now it’s hard to see how this is a “Graph DB” as the API has no pattern matching and traversals (but will keep an eye on it) ... without traversals it’s more like a version controlled MongoDB than a graph database.

Add something like cypher MATCH and something like Gremlin traversals or ArangoDB FOR, and add full text search, host it with multitenancy, and rule the world and take my money
That's the beautiful part about him, that I didn't get when I was younger and trying to fit him in to the model.

You have living elves that remember them originally going into the west. You have the history after they came back, including several who where there. Some know the Valar personally. You can be reasonably confident of the history. Heck, you have Maiar wandering around. And then you have Bombadil. Who is he? Nobody knows! Not the elves, not the Maiar. What does he want? To sing goofy songs. It's beautiful!
To be rather pedantic, the very first AR-15 rifles in the Vietnam theater worked very well. It was after the Army Ordnance Corps removed the chrome lining from the spec and changed the ammo from stick to ball powder that the rifles failed in the field. (the story is more complicated than that)

Skip to 46:30 for summary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYar4Zf8jH8
This is classic Stockholm syndrome with commutes that I see all too often.

What's wrong with the commute? The fact that, if you didn't have the commute, you could do all those same things and also anything else you can think of. The opportunity cost is enormous.
./configure is a generated file. It's not committed to the repository. If you download a release (like "guile-3.0.0.tar.gz"), it has the files you're looking for.

Or you can learn autotools and do it yourself, but I don't recommend opening that can of worms.
Nestlé is spending billions to create a market for recycled plastics
It has been years since I read about Kay's role, but IIRC he wrote only a few very brief passages and the pair were open about their roles. I remember being surprised at how little new material had to be written to make J.R.R. Tolkien's own texts coherent.
it'd limit your dimming resolution, not your visual resolution.

I mean to use it like auto-dimming mirrors, or smart headlights. Block the bright stuff that you can easily predict, so you can protect the sensitive image sensors from over-saturating on garbage.
This is very well articulated, but very disappointing to see so-called expert in their field orthopedic doctors advise their patients with the exact opposite.
On the internet just about anybody can find the 'truth' they prefer. This leads to a fracturing of consensus. Be it algorithmic feeds that expose you to information the algorithm thinks you'll find agreeable or moderated forums where opposing viewpoints are suppressed, the result is the same. Metal Gear Solid 2 described this back in 2001:

> "You exercise your right to "freedom" and this is the result. All rhetoric to avoid conflict and protect each other from hurt. The untested truths spun by different interests continue to churn and accumulate in the sandbox of political correctness and value systems. Everyone withdraws into their own small gated community, afraid of a larger forum. They stay inside their little ponds, leaking whatever "truth" suits them into the growing cesspool of society at large. The different cardinal truths neither clash nor mesh. No one is invalidated, but nobody is right. Not even natural selection can take place here. The world is being engulfed in "truth."

I see two general approaches to this problem:

1: Curate the internet so that only appropriate 'truths' can be found.

2: Force people who disagree with each other to interact with each other, so they're exposed to ideas they disagree with, and let consensus emerge from the fray.
I have not, but the ones who fixed the issues specifically have been filing bugs, sending patches, etc.

Whether it'll go anywhere is another question...
Sam.
Are teams not based on age in the United States? In New Zealand they're all categorised as 'under 9s', 'under 8s', 'under 7s' etc. They've also introduced weight classes to a lot of teen sports too to prevent them from being dominated by gigantic Samoan kids.
Does anyone have a link to a version of this article that doesn't require javascript to read?
If you think you might want to use arrays in bash, or any kind of structured data, stop. If your script is getting much more than 100 lines, stop.

Rewrite it in a better programming language before it is too late!
The other thing is that these services aren't even a good deal for the customers. I can order chinese from a local place by calling them and pay 30 instead of 20 w/ delivery, but with Doordash it ends up being almost double not including a tip. I'm not sure where the customers are coming from outside of drunks. It's not a good value.
Neat! Using a browser add-on and brightness control of my displays improved my sleep.

A simple github page showing a demo with the code next to it might be cool, and the README size can be cut in half.
>This all just seems like subways from first principles but probably worse.

The big advantage is creating tunnels with a smaller diameter, allowing them to dig much quicker. So much space is wasted between each subway car that a large diameter isn't necessary.
Best road map to web development in 2020
Although not a one-liner, I'm partial to:

"Buck, should I get it?"

"Yeah, you have to!"
I don't see how your hand occludes what you're writing. It occludes what you've already written. But you've already written that bit, and you can move your hand if you really need to see it.

Maybe we should go back to what the Ancient Egyptians did and allow people to write in whatever direction they like!
> Records, for example, are directly inspired by Kotlin's data classes, and function almost identically... except that Kotlin allows you to have mutable or immutable fields in a data class, and automatically provides a `copy` method (similar to Lombok's `wither`) that allows you to use a builder pattern.

Sounds a lot like Scala case classes. More accurate to say that both Java records and Kotlin data classes are inspired by Scala case classes -- not that it matters, programming languages authors are constantly stealing ideas (sorry, drawing inspiration) from other languages; thereby moving the state of the art into the mainstream.
Interesting. Hot on the heels of Mozilla. I wonder if this is a sign of feels like a pending recession (and maybe tech recession?).
Wouldn't the loan fees on the shorts disrupt that plan though?
I agree about the material (and materiel, heh) impact, but I wonder about the psychological impact. The US could absolutely outproduce and eventually outfight the Japanese, but how would the populace react to the loss of 3 carriers?
Fewer than thirty, I think. Which is pretty good for a model that accurately encompasses so many phenomena.

Why do you say we don't know much about subatomic physics? In your view, how would things be different if we did know "much"?
It was a nice "time travel" for half an hour as I watched the clips. I checked what was it like when I was 8 years old, then when we moved to the big city, when I was in middle school, when I entered the college, and then graduated, when I moved to US, when I got married, and when I got my first child. I did not see these before only except the famous 1984 ad.
It would be hypocritical for them to ask engineers to reduce their salaries, but layoffs are different: Mozilla's decisions here are consistent with:

- money being tight

- people currently earning fair salaries, however you want to define them

- the executives being required

Yes, you can obviously question the number of executives, but that's just the usual, somewhat tired, pointy-haired-boss cynicism.

Asking them to earn less than their fair market value isn't going to work considering the competition. Which is why these executives also did not ask these former employees to make any such compromise.
(Sherman here. I'm the founder of Nebula) Nice to meet you here, Manish. Nebula is actually inspired by the Facebook internal project Dragon (https://engineering.fb.com/data-infrastructure/dragon-a-dist...). Fortunately I was one of the founding members of the project. The project was started in 2012. We never heard of dgraph at that time. So I'm not sure who was inspired :-)

The goal of Nebula is to be a general graph database, not just a knowledge graph database. There are some fundamental differences between the two.

We welcome any positive feedback and technical discussion. We would love to learn to the community and to provide a product which truly satisfies customers' needs.
A lot of back pain is caused by being overweight or obese, and people just don't want to talk about "the elephant in the room."

Healthy-weight people have far fewer back problems.

See https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5931150/

According to this paper, exercise has been shown to offer an improvement.
To be more specific, they're being screwed because the department is now unable to add new (8hr) positions. Class size pressure will increase because the price of instructors has gone up, and fewer students will get to have cushy teaching jobs. The last point is what most of the former instructors feel: they felt privileged to work 8hr positions and now those opportunities are eliminated.
That's begging the question. It's not an outdated skill if there are situations you need it! If I couldn't spell the things I were writing on the board in tutorials, it would quite reasonably look like I have no idea what I'm doing. Not a great look.
Plasma filaments and other plasma structures can manifest long-range attractive and repulsive electromagnetic forces proportional to d^-1 instead of d^-2. So if those forces are operative at galactic and intergalactic scales (between plasma structures) and we’re not fully taking them into account, then we may be overlooking the most powerful organizing mechanism in the universe.
That’s a lot of work and not equivalent
If their goal was to crush them in the market they seem to have failed.
Because in the US, tips are not for service quality, they're to boost your server's pay up somewhat closer to a living wage. Obviously they should be banned along with the practice of adding taxes and fees on top of listed prices, but the consumer protection lobby just doesn't have that sort of power. They're lucky to slow down the removal of customer protections these days.
I looked around a bit thinking there must be an actual article starting on page 2 or something.

This is like, 3 factoids from wikipedia stretched out with filler sentences.
This quote stood out to me when re-reading this article—emphasis mine:

“You can offer to work for 16 hours a day,” said Annabelle, a security officer who asked to be identified only by her middle name because she feared retaliation from her employer. “And they always have places where they need officers, so if you can stay awake and you can work the hours, you can earn some overtime, and that will help pay for a desperately needed car repair, or it will put food on the table—whatever the latest catastrophe is.”

And makes me wonder if there is any correlation between the need to work more hours at unsteady jobs and the rise in methamphetamine use in the last decade:

https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/research-reports/meth...

"NIDA’s National Drug Early Warning System (NDEWS), which tracks drug trends in sentinel sites across the country, found that treatment admissions for methamphetamine as the primary substance of use were less than one percent in sites east of the Mississippi River, but ranged from 12-29 percent in the sites west of the Mississippi. Nationwide, overdose deaths from the category of drugs that includes methamphetamine increased by 7.5 times between 2007 and 2017."

https://d14rmgtrwzf5a.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/met...
If something is complicated, it probably needs more testing. Unfortunately, this was not done well for early US torpedos, mostly due to costs and overconfidence.
There already is a github page demo, look at the description of the github project or at the "Demo available" badge. I'll probably change the demo in the next update, it is too simple and ugly. Thanks for the feedback.
I fundamentally disagree. There's conclusive evidence that writing notes in lectures by hand leads to better recall.

And kids should not be dependent on these disgusting privacy-invading ad platforms we call computers to write things down.
This may be a meme, but it's also very true (like all good comedy). It's truly represents how you start to look at Lisp code after a while:

https://www.thejach.com/imgs/lisp_parens.png