skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've used mirage extensively throughout the past 5+ years across multiple projects/teams and it truly is a great tool. In a recent project we had multiple "scenarios" defined that represented different high-level states of the app. We added a page that allowed switching between the scenarios during local development and it was a huge boon to productivity, while also allowing us to write certain automated smoke tests that otherwise would have been more cumbersome with e.g. selenium.

Working on a React project recently, I was surprised that there wasn't an option like mirage, but now that there is, I highly recommend it!
Perhaps people shouldn't make startup with something as difficult to make profitable as question and answers type content, and instead leave it for an organization that is oriented to that mission.

That way, something like quora would grow more valuable instead of becoming more useless as they attempt to make money out of a squeezed lemon.
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Founders Talk 68: Becoming an accidential founder
And ignore evidence against it. Ambiguity, permitting differing interpretation based on prior assumption, is far more prevalent than you'd think.
another recipe:

https://www.chefsteps.com/activities/perfectly-puffy-dutch-b...
Startup seems to mean a company that still hasn't found a way to survive without ever more VC money.
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10 minute gaps sounds like a long gap for a city the size of New York.

Most metro lines in London have 2½-5 minute gaps off-peak.

10 minutes is more like the waiting time for the next train from London to Birmingham, after the morning peak: https://traintimes.org.uk/london/birmingham/1000/monday
https://loomcom.com/3b2/emulator.html
I find retailers that don't accept cash to be very, very annoying.

I reserve the class of "very, very annoying" for business that do truly annoying things. Like harass their employees, create nuisances for their neighbors. Or which support the current executive administration. That sort of thing.

"Smug and dystopian" seems to be a better description of the the new breed of cashless retailers.

Fortunately now - a very short-lived breed.
Thanks for the tip. I'm working with by-hand/symbolic stuff, so Versor may not be exacly the thing for me, but I think I'll learn about CGA a lot better by looking at that implementation than research papers!
I was going to dismiss this as a conspiracy theory, but then I remembered how everything in China is built. Looks good on the outside, but if you look closely, you see terrible design flaws or materials that were cheaped out on.

There is another option though, which has nearly been proven by people that have talked to physicians in Wuhan. That is the theory that this virus has been around much longer than initially reported by China. I find this a bit more likely given China's history of censoring things like this.
This is a great article in so many different ways.

I like the enfaphasis on word choice:

> Disruptive innovation became a ubiquitous term. Cable channels produced “disruptor lists.” Some observers said the term’s use added sophistication to any discussion. Others complained it was overused. Various forms of it regularly pop up in discussions about sports, for example. To his chagrin, users often apply it as a synonym for anything new or transformative, not understanding Christensen’s actual theory. The ubiquity worried him.

> “If we call every business success a ‘disruption,’ then companies that rise to the top in very different ways will be seen as sources of insight into a common strategy for succeeding,” he once said. “This creates a danger:

> Managers may mix and match behaviors that are very likely inconsistent with one another and thus unlikely to yield the hoped-for result.”

THIS. I witness this so many times a week.

People do not understand what the terms really means and the difference that makes the difference.

This ends up being the source of misunderstanding when people says "X works" and "X does not work."

"Agile", "Artificial Intelligence" and "Cloud" in the workplace are others terms that are commonly misused.

In private life "intermittent fasting" and "meditation" come to mind.

If somebody is successful at something or they have something that work, I am always ask about the process or giving me a real example of what they are talking about.

Make the right distinctions is so critical to properly model their success.

> He second-guessed the wording of the label, but never the theory. Even after he changed his terminology to disruptive innovation, he saw flaws.

>“What we didn’t anticipate, and what in many ways was a fault of mine,” he told Quartz in 2016, “was that the term disruption has so many different connotations in the English language, that it allows people to justify whatever they want to do as, ‘Oh, this is disruptive,’ and they don’t ever read the book. The population of people where the fewest have read the book are venture capitalists. They are arrogant and smart and why do they need to read something?”

> He wished he’d created something less expressive.

This is so true. You want a phase that is catchy to grab attention of large audience but you also need one specific enough that is hard to misuse.
It might be ineffective, or the subconscious bias we all have might automatically lower the person's status. IOW, they might have this effect normally.

If that feels unlikely, it's because it is. But we have very little way of knowing how this would play out in any other situation.

My point is we should all be less certain of the stories we tell.
Seems like a windmill people keep tilting at. A while back there was "Experts Exchange" AKA "Expert Sex Change dot com".
Because the main issue was constitutional, not whether the king was alive or dead. The issue with Charles I, his father, and James II was (ultimately) that they did stuff that really pissed everyone off (and were often very disinterested leaders)...which was to a large extent based on a difference of opinion about what being king actually meant (even in today's authoritarian regimes, there is a concept of ruling with the consent of the people...China is a good example of this).

The religious motivation is fairly simple if you consider the period slightly before: Spain was predominant, England had gone to war with Spain, England was relatively weak, and Catholics had just tried to blow up Parliament...yes, England had lots of Catholics near government (which ended up being part of the problem) but it was a Protestant nation (the Thirty Years War happened in Europe too, this kind of religious conflict was not unknown). The extreme position that Cromwell took was also probably not a reflection of public opinion either btw (he was unquestionably not the leader of some democratic cause, and he just stepped into a power vacuum with leadership that was lacking elsewhere...the majority of his notable actions would be called religious genocide today).

To see the religious issue more clearly btw: if England had indeed had a Catholic ruler, it would have been like the Spanish Netherlands...that is the fear that existed at the time.
It’s a shame really that the meaning has been diluted; there are startups worth over $1 billion (not funny money, realistic multiples of ARR based on an arms length offer for shares) that are profitable, and startups that are a VC furnace and will never turn a profit.
Thanks for all the hard work, mirage has been a great asset the past years of ember development!
Can you respond to the rest of the comment, instead of cherry picking a part of a sentence? The rest of the sentence you’re quoting from makes it pretty clear that this is not the biggest problem with the argument, and in fact addresses your response.
Half the answers are by people calling themselves the CEO of some dinky Saas thing with five bucks recurring revenue. I don't even click on it if it comes up.
The odd thing about Quora is that there's actually a lot of good content, but it doesn't show up in search results because the questions that trigger it are of the format "Tell me something interesting about history / technology / whatever"

The "hard fact" questions have answers that suck. Absolutely. SO is wildly better for that.

It's really a place to go to follow certain people you can rely on to post interesting stuff (ex, there's a lot of really good ASOIAF content), follow niche topics and waste time. Like an entirely text-based reddit.
I'd be surprised if that wasn't a decent chunk of their traffic.
Yes, you do need an account and the app.

Signup for the app is as simple as possible, just a phone number (to reset your account), name, and password is required.

The reason an account is required is Thread does a lot more than just event planning - it includes messaging, photo sharing, location sharing, and more.
It's possible he succeeded in spite of these behaviors, not because of them. The only difference in the two interpretations is our own initial biases.
Often people use the word "startup" simply to mean "private company which plans on an IPO but hasn't had one yet" (as opposed to public companies, and private companies that have no plan to ever IPO)

Sometimes a private company can take 10 or more years to reach the IPO stage. This is probably especially true for bootstrapped companies which can grow at a more steady pace than those VC-backed from very early on
Model checkers check deep

Which deep properties have you got in mind?

DPLL is based

DPLL is based on a form of resolution, in real implementations you mostly simply enumerate models, and backtrack (maybe with some learning) if you decided to abandon a specific model.
There's the saturation model of eye strain, which I talked about above. As I was collecting links I bumped into another mental model that talks about wavelengths and energies and suggests that red is 'best'.

For me it's the contrast between the background and foreground color that's part of the problem. But I don't think there's anywhere it's written that every human eye works identically to every other (and how bright your monitor is clearly makes a difference too).

Which is why I say things like "you should try it". The world is full of one-size-fits-all solutions and if they aren't working for you, you should try other things. It might not work either, but now you know.
In comparison to being in the single market, yes it is. At moment of EU exit we lose ALL trade arrangements as all we currently have are under the auspices of the EU. That would, for a couple of years until treaties were getting signed, put us in a worse position than every WTO member and observer.

In the first instance NO countries trade solely on WTO default terms. None. Every country has better than WTO arrangements with someone, even North Korea who aren't even in the WTO. Perhaps their local neighbours and major trade partners, even if they don't necessarily have a deal with the EU (or China or USA).

On WTO terms we'd need to negotiate tariff agreements with the WTO on potentially hundreds of categories of products which is going to take at least as long as an EU-UK treaty. As frequently reported, goods and services to and from the EU will be subject to import duties. For any of the numerous industries where that may happen multiple times, e.g. car manufacture, the effect would be disastrous.

Second we'll lose all trade agreements with other nations that we have had as a result of being within the EU, e.g. with Canada, the US, South Korea, etc, etc. So we'll have no improved relationship with anyone at all. It remains to be seen if claims of interim arrangements are anything other than empty rhetoric, so we still potentially face that cliff edge in Dec 2020.

Third we'd lose the unrestricted single market right to provide services (including financial) across the EU without discrimination and fall back to only WTO terms. That's likely to completely change viability of numerous successful UK businesses. Including some of the largest.
"Newtonion physics is a perfectly acceptable approximation in many circumstances" and "GR is less wrong than Newtonion physics" are not in conflict. Newtonion physics can absolutely be "more wrong" and "useful in many circumstances" at the same time- and in fact is!
In the past few days, Quora, EBay, 23 and Me and TripAdvisor all announced layoffs. Coincidence or early sign of something bigger?
Can they accidentally delete the breadcrumbs of questions I read, which they appear to keep about me, on the way out? Initially I loved Quora and participated, but some magic default setting toggle changed and suddenly I'd get emailed about something I clicked on due to a Google search result which took me to a Quora question or answer - pre-authenticated of course.

Most of that is my fault, but now that info is available someplace forever.
Also from the article: "It's best to floss before brushing your teeth."
With Wuhan virus genetic code in hand, scientists begin work on a vaccine
Signaling respect based on how much status a person has is not about respect, its about status. Unless you also dress up for e.g. serving soup at a soup kitchen.
As a hardware engineer it doesn't matter if it is a hardware bug. Software should work around it.
When people are locked out of one ladder, they may latch onto another ladder where they can have more success; you can opt into the vegan ladder, zero waste ladder, hippie queen ladder, gangster ladder, slacker ladder, redneck ladder, ad infinitum.
their quality has definitely gone down and they are really pushing their own results for domains like travel. They seem to have mixed goals there or maybe not.
You don’t have a choice but to play, however you do have a choice about which games to play. The only justified game is that of sincere moral virtue; what that means is a deep philosophical issue.
the more (probably exclusive) videos there are, the more amazon prime subscriptions they sell... (of course that assumes amazon prime generates revenue)
I've found that unless I'm under about 10000' and under about 150 knots, cell phones don't work very well in GA either.
So I'm supposed to leave the toothpaste in my mouth? For how long?

EDIT: I'd also like to point out that I have been rinsing my mouth after brushing for the last 40 years, never used mouthwash, and never had a cavity.
How (Some) Engineers Work
I come from a “third world” country, and gotta say the vehicles that are allowed to be put on the street here are shocking. Lost count on how many cars glued together with duct tape I’ve seen around - I’d be shocked if those are driven “for leasure”...
> From what I remember, the only people who died due to Fukushima were those that died of fear. The reality is that nuclear is remarkably safe, clean, etc.

Then you have a faulty memory, and a selective one at that because the crisis is still on-going; there were an estimated 2000 from evacuation alone:

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2014/03/01/editorials/f...

You think this is safe or healthy? 100k+ displaced people living in abject squalor in the 3rd richest nation on Earth? Often seen as less-thans by their fellow citizens due to the Meltdown:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpxtMBOiD6A

What's even more conflicting is that this year's Olympics are scheduled to take place in Tokyo, all the while the food is contaminated, as is the water (and the air if they're still doing regular debris burns that spreads it around the World).

The cancer rates, thyroid maladies and heart disease are all correlated to the radiation exposure, but they don't have an interest in monitoring this accurately and reporting it to the Public due to typical Japanese 'cultural norms.' So, in it a very defying sense of abnormal behaviour, Japanese house wives have taken to measure their neighborhoods, as well as the food and the vacuumed debris.

This is quite honestly a bigger part of why Humanity has to solve its energy crisis, Greta makes a good case for what their generation is left to live with, but being in between the two generations as a millennial and having been around for both Chernobyl and Fukushima, its hardly comprehensive of the true costs. That last video even delves into the Children of Chernobyl, they are reporting large frequencies of cancer and various immunological diseases. This is more the norm that I ever thought in surrounding areas, when I lived in Croatia it was also the same. When I lived in Germany their were patches of Earth that looked scorched that had been hit particularly hard due to the Fallout of Chernobyl. Many farming families in that area went Bankrupt due to it.

I honestly think people like you should only be able to have this opinion if you live near Nuclear Plants, for a decade at a minimum. You'll see first hand how perilous it could be, the infrastructure around coastal areas is another bottle neck that most don't consider an issue for things like evacuation until its too late; they often only have 1 way in-1 way out layouts.

Nuclear regulation is a joke, and is as entrenched and as corrupt as Big Oil. The legal system, in both Japan and the US, is equally as complicit as the Nuclear lobby and refuse to take preventive action, as was the case with why Fukushima was left exposed on the coastal area after TEPCO was warned, repeatedly by several studies, that is was prone Meltdown should something like that Tsunami happen. The Nuclear village/TEPCO/Japanese Government did nothing:

https://news.usc.edu/86362/fukushima-disaster-was-preventabl...
The Stripe API now makes suggestions in response to misspellings
I think this would be more complete if the author also discussed variables. Then the justification for using functions versus external scripts becomes a little more clear.

I use functions for things that don't (or don't always / don't necessarily) need to do a disk read, and has something to do with the overall environment. For example, configuring directory and file colours depending on whether its a regular login or ssh. I choose what becomes a function by whether I think I can use it for more than one purpose. Ie: if it is reusable for something else. I grew up on Lisp, so it's a habit with plenty of advantages for my way of thinking of compute environments.

I use scripts for things that are more involved and don't get used often enough to justify living constantly in memory. Needless to say, my scripts assume nothing about what's in the .bashrc file unless I source them directly, so of course they could easily have their own variables and maybe even functions. And they are practical outside of the general shell environmental needs. For example, neofetch is the exact kind of thing I would script and never write as a standalone function in my bashrc. Some people might only want to see its output upon logging in. Others might happen to be curious at some given time, and run it just for the lolz. But neither justifies living in the shell's memory in between those occasions. So it stays as an external script.
> there is no global "right" or "wrong"

You are wrong, so there is.
Any company that relies on SEO content is basically going to disapear. Google search and their new NLP technology is just extracting the question and answers from content like that on Quora, significantly reducing their page hit volumes. Not only that, other lower ranked content can be verified to be "true" using neural network based NLP, meaning that the value of content has gone down.

Google stole the business of quora and trip advisor. They did the hard work of getting the content.

Google NLP algorithms use quora and trip advisor like training data sets. This is theft!

My guess is that Yelp is next.

EDIT:

I have no affiliation to those businesses, just that as someone interested in websites and internet businesses, its clear that its much harder to build a consumer facing content based website now. The content is simply extracted and stolen. How can we have a thriving internet when such monopolistic and profit driven practices stifle innovation and creation on the web?
the answer that I'm interested in :-) is what serialization strategies does immutable datastructures enable, if not locking?

Depending on your performance goals, Compare-and-Set with retries a la clojure's atom reference construct.

https://clojure.org/reference/atoms
I was wondering this as well.
It's neat that such an interesting and pleasing object just happens to be facing us.
Yeah, but if I have to force the people I want to invite to sign up then it’s dead on arrival.

I want to invite people whether or not they also have the app.
Tons of people have been doing work on SARS-like viruses from bats for years now. That's what happens when you go from "No one gets infected by cornaviruses" to...SARS.

Accidental releases almost always involve people with direct links to the lab in question first. That's a really obvious epidemiological link.

"A coronavirus emerged in China and got detected quickly because of solid medical infrastructure" is a way more parsimonious explanation than "Accidental release from a BSL-4 lab."
Pandas has some of the best documentation that I've seen. Maybe the issue is that the documentation makes a lot less sense without a stats and data background, but expecting pandas documentation to be a stats course is silly.

Other thing is both numpy and pandas allow for some pretty complex operations by chaining simple commands. The space of what's possible is effectively unbounded, documentation won't help there. Cookbooks cover some of the more common patterns.
My understanding is that Stack Overflow started as a direct competitor to Experts Exchange and their SEO shenanigans, although based on recent goings on, Stack Exchange would’ve been served better as a non profit entity similar to Wikipedia or OpenStreetMap.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1210444
I get where you're coming from. But I have to admit, I read my Quora digest email really often. I'm impressed how often I not only click through to read an answer, but enjoy the answer and find it valuable.

Quora definitely does some questionable things nowadays, but I'd also argue they are still getting some key things right too.
Poor Quora and Trip Advisor. Let us play our tiny violins on their behalf.
Better title: Quora still inexplicably exists 8 years after its irrelevance became apparent.

You know, good news story.
Edit: subset of nuclear at a distance. Yes the sun is powered by fusion, not fission, but the point still stands.
Byte’s Out
Wish I could up this a thousand times. I've had a personal site for some twenty years; nothing fancy, but I put a lot of effort into my content, and I used to get hundreds of unique visitors a day.

Over the last ten years, my non-bot traffic has dropped to a tenth of that, and at the same time, my ability to find similar websites has disappeared. Now I see nothing but resume-padding blogs with generic WordPress templates, and pages of empty corporate bullshit.
I wasn't being "a jerk". Please read my commenting history to understand that I'm not a troll or a person who goes out of their way to be mean.

I think the word "mansplaining" is sexist and pejorative.

>If you have a point beyond just wanting to lash out [...]

I read this as, "If you have a [perspective] other than one I agree with [...]".

Please don't turn hn into a community that just echos opinions you agree with.
Wuhan virus: China confirms 1,287 coronavirus cases, with 41 deaths
>Take a test-and-learn approach with small budgets to quickly fine-tune campaigns, focusing on page quality and clickthrough rates.

A good reminder that you can apply The Lean Startup methodology (Build > Measure > Learn) to projects of all sizes from forming a new company to running an ad campaign. Ship early, test often, rinse and repeat.
I have no affiliation to those businesses, just that as someone interested in websites and internet businesses, its clear that its much harder to build a consumer facing content based website now.