skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One (speculative) way to look at it, is that with ICE cars, there is this conceptual division, for the manufacturers or the customers, between the propulsion, and all the electronic gadgets. It is understood that the engine is what's essential but many of the electronic gadgets and features will probably die over the years and the car will remain driveable.

I bet that with a Tesla, because it's electric and there's no dividing line in everyone's minds between systems, that it will fail according to the usual pattern with electronics, and the motor and batteries won't be isolated from that.
Possible, but Amazon eventually bans for enough returns, so that isn't a great solution.
State charts have parallel states, which require an exponential number of states with a finite state machine. And it supports history—returning to a container state can return to the last entered state in that container, whichever it was—I’m not sure if finite state machines can support that or not. Maybe they can, but again, it would vastly explode the state space.
> For the same reason the laws of nature are the same around the universe.

I wonder how much is cultural though? Go depends on a 2d grid, but is it possible that some alien Grade 9 math tends to use, say, distance and angle from origin instead of x, y? In that case the intuition for Go might not be there because they don't use grids, even though the math is ultimately the same.

Or a culture that likes to use hexagons for their board games (hexagonal Go tends to be more shallow than grid-based Go).
Sticker swap is important to a significant sub-subculture of hackers. https://twitter.com/tvidas/status/1162771218715557889

https://twitter.com/spacerog/status/1197613616171749376 & https://twitter.com/spacerog/status/1204056842999156736
They do have some antimicrobial effects, but the "made it safe to drink water because nobody in the world could find clean drinking water until the 19th century" idea is a myth. Mainly people drank different things for different purposes. Water was clarifying, ale, whisky and tea were fortifying (beer was basically a source of calories), wine got you closer to the gods, coffee basically got you high / was an energy drink. Tea was the most popular socially-stimulating drink until coffee supplanted it (and in Muslim nations you couldn't drink alcohol)
Circle Medical is hiring Care Coordinators in Montreal to reinvent primary care
This part of the explanation of what happened to it is extremely unsatisfying:

>As of April 3, 2006 the DriverStudio product family has been discontinued because of "a variety of technical and business issues as well as general market conditions". Maintenance support was offered until March 31, 2007.

From reading about SoftICE, it seems to have been doing what other debuggers could not. So how could they not find enough customers to keep it going? Does anyone know what actually happened?
The State of U.S. Transit in 5 Observations
Look, ICEs will eventually die unless a new type of fuel is found for them (none on the horizon so far). Which means the vibration of the car that's not even moving will go away for good, and we'll all probably forget about it.

However, the manual part. Nobody said you should control the light bulbs in your house with your mobile phone, there are still physical switches which are alive and thriving. They are simple, they don't need a WiFi connection and don't require your email address and other personal data to control the lights. They just work. I don't believe much in the "software-ization" and IoT-zation of things around us, apart from some obviously useful cases like your home stereo that plays music from your phone.

So on cars. I believe the industry or some part of it will take a step back from "software-ization" and simplify the vehicles a bit. There will be cars with (optional) physical keys, gauges and controls. There will be software that will help to make driving safer, which is undeniably important, but at the same time it will let you control the car the same way as the light switch on the wall. I see the demand for it and I just can't stop obsessively thinking about it. I wonder if there's anyone here reading this thinking along the same lines?
Note that herbal tea also has zero tea in it usually and so shouldn't be lumped in with tea either.

Perhaps your symptoms are psychosomatic?
The Rise of the Data-Driven Physician [pdf]
Can you say more about the harmony book? What did you like about it?
From Nut House to Castle: The Eddy Haymour Story

Non-fiction

Story of a guy with a dream, screwed over by the government. His cousin storms the Canadian embassy in Beirut, demanding Eddy get his day in court. He does, and prevails.

Crazy story that occurred where I grew up, however it was before my time. I had driven past this "castle" a hundred times before I found this book. Every copy is signed by the author.

Here is a recent article detailing the story: https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/history/eddy-haymour-ratt...
Compile times are already exponential in Haskell. No need to go to Idris for that. The reason is that type checking is exponential even for the simpler type systems in Haskell or OCaml. The trick is to have deeply nested sequences of `let` expressions in the right hand sides, rather than in the bodies.

But in my experience, it's possible but not likely in practice.
>Also, I'm really interested in knowing if the fireball was performed by the automated abort system.

No, that was the rocket breaking up and exploding. If the range safety system had triggered, it would have blown up the second stage, which flew off and crashed into the ocean in a massive explosion

The capsule controlled the abort. It shuts down the main engines then lights it own engines. These things aren't instant, it takes a second to spin up turbo pumps and get fuel flowing and for the fuel in the lines of the main engine to flow out after it sends the signal - that's why the rocket exhaust was still burning as the abort system lit up.
Caffeine pills also release the caffeine in a different way.

I too was a student and I too tried to min/max. I found that caffeine via coffee hit me harder and wore off quicker. A pill was this slow drip effect that left me absolutely screwed for bedtime if I had it any time past 1pm.

Anecdotal but my conclusion is: they're not the same.
COL eats it away, the extra salary is not worth it. I'm sure its the same for SF, NYC, and other similar cities.
They were doing you a favour. Stop using Facebook.
Chic fil a offers actual chicken cuts. The nuggets and tenders are actually ripped pieces of breasts, the sandwiches are actual filets that are seasoned and breaded in the store the day you ordered it.

You go to a wendys or a mcdonalds and order a dozen nuggets, you will see they come in exactly 4 shapes—ground whatever parts of chicken pressed into a mold of one of 4 randomly chosen shapes, breaded and flash frozen at a factory, and flash fried in store. Taste is subjective of course, but the quality of meat difference here is actually pretty objective.
When management won't fill the role, someone has to play the role of acting product manager. This will inevitably happen, and it will be the lead engineer's responsibility to interface with external stakeholders.
I like the idea of f-droid but when I used it felt like searching GitHub while expecting more of an app store experience.

Now maybe that makes sense for what for what f-droid is but often I couldn't tell what some apps even did... if they would work on my phone (a surprising number did not)...
There might be a bias that people telling these stories, the ones that make it to your eyes, are more likely to be attached to the journalism and connected community.
Sounds very interesting, but is there a more recent book covering similar material? This dates from 1957 and I suspect there is more to say about it now.
Yup! Discovering SoftICE was a game changer. Various advanced SoftICE diablo 1 and diablo 2 multiplayer “enhancements” circulated back in the day... ones like bypassing the maximum level cap, making your user not render in multiplayer so you couldn’t be clicked on during pvp, among others.

+orc and fravia +hcu stuff ate up loads of my free time in the late 90s and definitely helped later on once I got a formal computer science and engineering degree.

Thanks for the memories SoftICE!
When these free services are funded by user data, it seems ironic that... "passport photo + her photo"... more data seems to be the currency to get free customer service.
I've had them send me a defective item 4x in a row before, only getting it right on attempt #5.

I doubt they'll ban you as long as you're honest and behave well. Many products they sell can be sketchy in quality, and I'd bet they are aware of what can go wrong.
The huge variety of unique flavors in coffee from different origins is quite amazing and even now just beginning to be explored. You can now create specific flavors in real time by roasting, grinding and brewing every cup robotically with advanced algorithms at www.sevacoffee.com
Beyond Sing the Woods by Trygve Gulbranssen -something that won all kinds of awards once upon a time, but which has been completely forgotten. What it means to be human.
How much neon is there? If there is too much new element formation I'm not sure what the chemical composition would mean.
The person I was responding to appeared to be talking about landings in general, but yes, you are correct.
Various compounds, including caffeine, that are present in coffee beans have antimicrobial properties. Additional Maillard reaction products that have antimicrobial properties are created by roasting. Coffee is also pretty acidic - IIRC, dorm cafeteria coffee turned chem lab blue litmus paper a pretty red.
Road to Serfdom is some of the most simplistic empty bilge I've read, bordering on unreadable. I guess it's pushing 35 years ago I read it, while I was still a keen supporter of the mainstream right, after an enthusiastic loan from a fellow Thatcherite friend. In reading it I found it so absurdly weak and obviously hollow that it started me questioning all "known facts" and "common sense" of my politics. That was the point that started my search for a range of economic and political viewpoints, reading deeper, and moved me away from Thatcherism to the centre ground!

The writing style was terrible, as every third sentence seems to close with something like "and this inevitably leads to socialism and serfdom, and eliminates freedom". Only a dozen or so pages in and I was thoroughly sick of this device, as it's becoming clear that's his main and just about only argument -- extreme repetition.

It's a short article padded to a book length rant that anything less than total laissez-faire market libertarianism leads to slavery, serfdom, social democracy, socialism, nazism or communism (He appears to understand no difference between any of these). That any tiny government plan, regulation or service must lead to totalitarianism and blackshirts.

So my memory is also of finding it hilarious, I suspect for very different reasons. I also remember being left completely baffled as to why it ever got to be popular. :)
That doesn't sound right. I don't think they had much success. The presentation seemed largely resigned.

Every dark web arrest I've seen has been caused by terrible operational security (e.g. having a Gmail account traceable to the admin of the dark web site) rather than a break of Tor.
Why the assumption of left or right, when at least
in the US most people identify as independents?

Do you wish to cite a source for this or do you wish to gaslight here?

Voters declaring themselves as independent of a major
political party rose nationally by 6 percentage points
to 28 percent of the U.S. electorate between 2000 and
last year’s congressional midterm contest in states
with party registration, analyst Rhodes Cook wrote
in Sabato’s Crystal Ball political newsletter at the
University of Virginia Center for Politics.

But as few as 19 percent of Americans identifying as
independent truly have no leaning to a party, according
to the Pew Research Center.[1]

[1]

'Difference-maker' independent voters in U.S. presidential election crosshairs

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-deciders-ind...
This is illegal in Australia due to consumer-protection laws that automatically apply. I wonder how Amazon is getting around this, because the agency that punishes vendors tends to come down like a ton of bricks if they get wind of this kind of behaviour...
If you don't like "zero emissions vehicles", what do you think of:

- partial zero emissions vehicles

- transitional zero emissions vehicles (plug-in hybrids)

- advanced technology partial zero emissions vehicles

All of these have tailpipes!

To the extent that "zero emissions" does mean "no tailpipe" it's pretty straightforward and reasonable.
> Any basic budget advice says to cut starbucks out of your life and make your $5 latte at home

Unless you go to <insert-coffee-shop> not only for the coffee (social/working space/etc.).

> Caffeine pills work out to $0.05/cup-equivalent

Doesn't replicate the taste or all of the potential health benefits of coffee[0]

[0] https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/what-is-it-ab...

Edit: For purely budget reasons, the parent comment's points are valid.
Because the creator has rights?
I'm happy to subscribe to the NYT.

I care more about the quality of content rather than if I saw an advertisement.
Agree with this one, go for strengh training, this released a lot of testosterone and will make you feel alive.
Your improved physique will also boost your confidence.
In combination with Brazilian Jiu Jitsu you should be on a good path to boost you selfconfidence.
Just remember to give it time, do both for at least 12 months very regularly and you will change as a man.
This is a good idea - my only worry is you might end up unintentionally seeding illicit content like CP
One of my favorites, if you couldn’t guess from my user name. At-Swim-Two-Birds is also wonderful. Flann O’Brien isn’t completely obscure, but not very well known in the US.
If you have documentation of the double charge and of your attempts to get a refund, your credit card company will certainly do a chargeback and return your funds.
Not if there is a government issued takedown notice it isn't.
Show HN: The app for finding musicians around you thru Spotify
Through JamBuddy, you can find musicians around you based on your Spotify account and repertoire.
No matter whether you are an experienced musician or a beginner, please feel free to signup.
I built this app because I wanted to jam with someone who has a similar musical preference when I want to jam.
Any feedback would be appreciated.
https://jambuddy.app/

Please vote for Product Hunt.
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/jambuddy
Hello, as a long time proton-native follower, I was thrilled to see ~40 issues closed today for v2 when I woke up in the morning :-)

Congratulations for the v2 release!! I still couldn’t try out right away as I’m on macOS + node v13... but I’ll gonna install nvm as fast as I can :-) Thanks for your great work, it’s super useful for everybody.

I’m still kinda sad about the fate of libui— it was a great project to implement UIs, but Qt was a reasonable point, I think. I’m very looking forwards to the wxWidgets backend...for the true native widgets and the benefit it provides.

Thanks again for your great work on proton-native!!
Your intuition for the size of the problem here is off. If "vanishingly few" means that a tenth of a percent fall through some crack each year, that's 2 million cases annually. In practice, I bet Facebook does even better than that, but I would be very surprised if it were a workload that could be handled by just a few extra people.
Honestly it would help me if people just posted the link themselves if they found it interesting. Whenever I do it it's frowned upon for 'self promotion' even though people find it very interesting and useful. Maybe that's the play!
> Rule 9: This precludes the use of a construct that is not supported by the C standard. As such it is a pointless rule.

I'm not sure that's true. Compilers (let's say, MSVC++) tend to support a mismash of standards and de-facto standards. If you are forbidden from using a construct not supported by the C standard (under which you are building) you are in fact specifying strict compliance with a particular standard, which is meaningful.
SEO in 2020: What Role Do Keywords Play?
I am willing to guess the general security practices of operating systems improved post-XP, making something like SoftICE prohibitively difficult to develop. There's another word for software that runs undetectable to the OS: rootkit.
This goes back to the whole correlation does not equal causation thing in statistics.

You're likely thinking of a correlated number, the measurement number must be a causative. Direct improvements on any causative number will by definition affect the outcome.

Say we're looking at developer retention. A correlated number is like scrum points. A causative number is like salary.

Of course, while the data on the causative and correlative effectiveness of both metrics is dispute-able... you still get my point.
No, better than that. If it fails 90-180+ days, you can still re-buy & return defective one.
> Except that it isn't.

Except that it is. Free as in beer, not as in freedom.
That machine is very interesting! If you own one of them, would you mind sharing how roast chamber works? I've thought a bit about how that could be done in a fully-automated fashion, but I'm curious to see what solution they came up with.
I'm wondering what laws require them to follow this policy.
I downloaded the actual document and spent 10 minutes reading every 20th page. This is a staggering effort of technical writing.

I feel like I'm reading "The Pact" from the Silo series of sci-fi (Wool, Switch, Dust). Hopefully you get the reference.

This goes far beyond coding guidelines. It reads more like THINKING guidelines, fallacies to decision making to resource allocation.

Who is the target audience for this?
> she became one of my heroes

The book had a similar impact on myself & partner after we picked it up randomly from a clearance box in a used book store.

The idea that truly owning one's life, thoughts, behaviour and so on is a project to undertake - and not (as might be commonly assumed for successful healthy indiviuals) an effortlessly given state of affairs - seems remarkable for the time she was writing.

From that point of view, there's something singular about on the one hand her observations being utterly unburdened by psychological theory and on the other the scope of what she's attempting!
Wouldn't it maybe make sense for the EU to possibly establish their own quasi representative democracy? Maybe each nation-state keeps it's current government. The head of the government becomes a 'chancellor' i.e. President among other Presidents.

Every 2 years the Chancellors elect from among themselves who will lead (be the deciding vote on ties and conflicts of opinion). This would still give some autonomy but also congruity and fix issues where one party does not agree by having a designated decision maker. But all policies enacted by the EU would need to be binding and accepted by all nations as law.
Because the side effects I was experiencing made it unpleasant. I would have to use the restroom a half hour, like clockwork, after consumption. My teeth were becoming stained, and they've been repaired in the past and the bonding material no longer matched the actual tooth. I got sick of having coffee breath. My financial side of this addiction was smaller than it would have been at retail, but it was still something and making coffee does take time out of the limited day as well.

I really do like the taste, and I still do get an occasional cup about 1-3 times a month from a cafe, but it wasn't great for my body otherwise. I like the taste of cigars and booze, too, and they have obvious cons that preclude regular consumption. Coffee has cons for me too, even if I enjoyed it, so I just cut out my functional consumption for the sake of being alert and replaced it with a pure source that lacked these side effects.
PV isn't "gotcha journalism". They've repeatedly committed felonies and completely fabricated things (ex. when they tried to trick WaPo into pushing a fake #metoo story about Roy Moore) in attempts to create their content.
I think I'd rather just keep drinking coffee.
No it's an infinite warranty - every time it breaks, buy it again, return the bad one.

Infinite as long as they keep making it.
I personally don’t think Qt gives a native feeling in macOS: the look is similar, but the feeling when I get using it... isn’t macOS. Like Emacs style keybindings isn’t supported, I think it’s because the textfield doesn’t get a first responder status... (which is pretty free when programming Cocoa directly).

However I do agree that Qt is much nicer than before, and I can live with them: it’s not like a GTK app in macOS. Qt is def. an improvement compared to the very minimal libui. I’m very excited about that, and so I should get along :-)
Absolutely! But it's not easy to find good whole bean decaf coffee.
Im going to claim to be the first person to democratise the downloading of videos for later watching from websites. I created this for google video, because at the time they had lots of car videos i was interested in, but it had plugins for youtube and other content providers i used.

http://gvdownloader.sourceforge.net/

And yes, it was about a month after publishing that the arms race started with google. It was exciting at first, but then they started getting dirty, excluding me from search results and using whatever muscle they could to stop people finding the app.

(here is a link the hockeystick download graph, it got picked up by various other distribution networks in between)
https://sourceforge.net/projects/gvdownloader/files/stats/ti...

I wrote it because bandwith was really expensive and slow back then. It was an experiment to solidify some programming concepts i was learning at the time, and also my first foray into browser plugin development.
or they just don't sell them?
Perhaps you should explain further the distinction you are making between emissions and exhaust, and why it is correct, and why everyone else should adhere to it.

But I stand by my previous comment - you can't treat a phrase or term as meaningless just because you refuse to acknowledge the context.
From TFA:

>Fortunately I have some friends and ex-colleagues who work at Facebook so I reached out to them and asked for help, some of whom were kind enough to submit internal support tickets on my behalf. I wasn’t sure that was going to help so I fired off more emails and uploads of my ID but heard nothing. Thankfully 3 days later, I got a very terse email — “We unlocked your account”

This is a common refrain that I see in all these FB/Google "locked out or banned" horror stories. Unless you have some friends at high places at FB/Google, you're SOL if you ever get locked out of your FB or Gmail account.
I find I can still sleep alright 4 hours after taking a pill, like I would with a cup of coffee. I keep to that schedule of every 4-5 hours over the course of the day.

Maybe the coatings in your particular pill were different. I found gelatin capsules kicked in slower than pressed tablets that began to dissolve when they hit my saliva, but still lasted about the same. My tolerance to caffeine has always been high, though.
Beethoven’s audacious acts of musical risk-taking
One minor suggestion: just in case you haven't considered it, is to `favor undo over confirmation`. So when the user deletes a note, instead of asking if they are sure with an alert dialog, just delete the note but also have an undo buffer (or trash can) so they can restore it easily.
This meta-tool was posted 2 days ago, JSON w/ queries -> admin pages.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22073037