skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking at the long-term consequences might be illuminating, though that presupposes agreement on what that long-term consequence is.

If it is a high, stable, prosperous, and happy population, sustainable over the long term, arguably good.

If you start deviating from these criteria, things don't look so good.

H-B has given us "large. Is that population stable? Is it prosperous (and if so or if not, where and why)? Is it happy? And is it sustainable over the long term? If not, what does the end-stage look like, and how does it compare to the status quo ante*, prior to H-B?

As with tackling complex projects, addressing difficult questions sometimes becomes more tractable when decomposed into sub-problems and components.

As with mathematical proofs, sometimes presuming one result, then walking that to its inevitable conclusions, leads to a proof by contradiction.
RosettaStone: Hearthstone simulator using C++ with some reinforcement learning
after years of writing how i want and never getting complaints, then 1 day on HN, i will build a toggle.

(aka the problem is you)
Servant Leadership: An Interview with Medium's Chief Architect
I wonder if you've actually talked to any users, or this is just your personal opinion.

I hate load times for apps, especially as I know it should be instant and all sites I architecture load instantly.
Very good references! Thank you!

I do think the author tried to relay concepts and hints, rather than recipes. Given the compactness, a group of people starting largely from scratch and taking the book on faith could figure out a lot of stuff.
Having never heard of Brandless, I was hoping they were possibly marketing something I have a fierce desire for, which is consumer products with minimal branding, that are superlatively well made, and priced commensurately.

Unfortunately, finding these kinds of products is hard, and i don't quite understand why.

About the closest I have found to this ethos in a mass-market kind of way is Muji, but only some of their consumer goods are actually solid and worth purchasing. Anything they sell that is made of plastic is almost certainly not.

The next nearest thing to this seems to be certain classes of Etsy stores that take pride in how well they manufacture their products, but unfortunately this approach isn't replicable to any number of things.
Clifford Simak's books all seem to be mainly about evolution of humanity of some sorts, but they are so epic that they touch almost every usual and unusual sci-fi topic.
> If you follow the links, read and completely understand what I'm writing you will see I covered everything. Right now it appears you didn't read it.

Which one of your links define the terms "FP" and "OOP"?
'84 model, and dude, I basically lived at the library - both school and public. It was a ~16km bike ride from my parents farm to the library.

Only one of my ~6 nephews/nieces show interest in libraries, but honestly? That's a pretty good hit-rate. They're not for everyone, and never were.
Handshake [1] migrates current stakeholders to a new decentralized root owned by the commons and works within existing protocol standards.

[1] https://www.handshake.org
Shapeways’ software enables 3D printing at scale
what a stupid comment. replying to preserve the theme
And of limited use without something to hook it up to.

The toilet itself is an input (or depending on your perspective, output) device. Without the additional process it's connected to, it doesn't buy you much.

London's first flush toilets were connected to existing cesspits, in the late 19th century. Connection to the (storm-water-handling) sewers was an unauthorised hack by plumbers of the day. Tim Harford has covered this in his podcast on major inventions.
Been using alt.js for ages and continued to make use of it in React, never really ran into the issues described.

Use it as a store or cache that alerts all your components of data changes, works well enough.
It went further; not only was the touchscreen better, and multitouch, but the UI was designed for fingers through and through. When I saw it I remember thinking, wow, finally a design team that cares about users at large, instead of showing off how they got X-windows to run on a phone.

It was comical how previous designs slapped a desktop UI on a phone and expected you to emulate a mouse with a tiny, easy-to-lose stylus.
>World is full of pain and sufferings

This is exactly why you need to put an inordinate focus on the bright side.

>You are supposed to feel empathy for other people and feel bad for their misfortune even if you have the good luck of not going through suffering

Yeah if you live in a tribe of like 30 people maybe. You can't scale that sort of empathy to collectives the size of "all coworkers at $bigco". That's way too much empathising. Way too many people who are going to be down. Particularly in an office. You can't combine "unmasked feelings" and "dreaded place we have to be compensated to go to".

>I just don't understand this obsession of feeling good all the time. If you have never felt sadness, pain, shame, or embarrassment, is it something to brag about?

It's not about feeling good all the time. It's about not throwing your bad feelings at people who also feel bad while 50 other bad feeling people do the same.
bingo. wrote about this too, last week:
https://www.ryanckulp.com/politicization-of-everything/
Another one: the Japanese brand 無印良品 "mujirushi ryouhin", which essentially means "Quality Goods Without Branding." Of course it's developed a little following behind its "brand" because the goods are mostly high quality, if a little pricey.
Novel Corona Virus: Exploratory Data Analysis Prediction with Machine Learning
What is your reasoning for doing so? That sounds like a lot of extra work for not a lot of benefit.

TBH it sounds like you are treating building wealth like a sprint. It is more like a marathon
There are lots of centa-millionaires. None have done what Musk did.

Musk got his start with Zip2, programming it himself. Any competent programmer could have done that (but didn't). Each success he used to launch a much more ambitious enterprise.

When someone does that multiple times, it isn't luck. It's being good at it.
For me it was Tom Swift and... Danny Dunn! Can't believe that series is so hard to track down, it's been out of print for ages.

Case in point: Danny discovers the pros and cons of invisibility, by learning how to pilot the professor's telepresence suit that drives a small insect-sized drone. This was in 1974.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Dunn,_Invisible_Boy
We all have something that we don't want other people to know or see. Ask them why they wear clothing every day. And close the door when they are in the restroom.

Also, point them to all the damage the Sony hack did. There was nothing illegal in the emails and I'm sure many thought they had nothing to hide. But the hacking of the email sure made their lives hell.

Lastly, talk to them about all the identity theft fraud that's constantly in the news.

You may be able to trust some people with some of your info. but you can't trust anyone but yourself with all your info.
Where do you go to though? I'm trying to leave Pittsburgh because it's so car-centric and the weather is awful. I'm not sure there's a city in the U.S. where you can bike commute every day of the year and be comfortable. San Francisco seems like the best available.
I like the animated fly.

Then again, if a bank with a website like this did something silly like, uhh, transfer all my money to Nigeria, could I really complain about it with a straight face?
Or to have parents to seed said company. Not sure why you got downvoted.

It’s easier to say “Go do what JK Rowling did” than to say “Go do what Elon did” lmao. I can write a fantasy series with $0. The same can’t be said necessarily for building companies.
If they believe me to be extremely high status and I'm extremely high status, then that's knowing that I'm extremely high status. They know me to the extent that it matters.

You're talking about personality. That's one aspect of who you are. Hell, I'm a bit of a shithead. Anyone who likes me for my personality is wrong. I'm certainly not going to get caught up on needing people to like me for it.
That's what I'm saying, though. An official statement of the FTC should look like "You do not have to pay for merchandise you didn't order". It definitely shouldn't look like "According to the FTC, you don't have to pay for merchandise you didn't order". That language is only appropriate for a party other than the FTC itself.

The natural inference is that this is an article written by a third party which appears on the FTC's official website for unclear reasons. Is that true? And if so, is it nevertheless somehow binding on the FTC?
Thanks for the update; I would not have found that!
Sites or "apps" relying heavily on full page loads are, in my experience, much faster than their "efficient" XMLHttpeRequest counterparts, in practice. As in, click, thing happens, thing is done happening, much faster. We even have examples of this with the same "app"—Gmail, for example: Basic HTML, "mobile", standard, and, though I think it's gone now, Inbox. At least four versions. Basic HTML is less janky than "mobile" on mobile, and much, much faster than standard or Inbox, despite "inefficient" full page loads.
When I discovered fountain pens and small-nib felt tip calligraphy pens I switched to them for all correspondence and most note taking; I only use ball point pens when I have to. Even round/bullet point felt tip pens are better.

I would love to see felt tip calligraphy pens developed with more ink and a longer life.
Drones Enlisted to Fight Corona Virus in China
Lol, brah, you don’t scale by giving away money!
Does yours have a clock speed readout? Can’t seem to find it.
Gutenberg blocks German IPs.
If they took the book on faith they would halt progress until they all died of methanol poisoning.
This doesn't mean we should assign no meaning, though.

Which, as it turns out, is not what I suggested, alluded to, or claimed. Just because we get earthquakes out here doesn't mean I'm going to worry about hurricanes (nor does it mean that neither earthquakes nor hurricanes are significant).

It may not be rational to see a broken car window and conclude that you are about to be mugged, but if you want to be as safe as possible you probably would prefer to live somewhere where cars are not often broken into.

Having somewhat recently relocated to the burbs, I've had more problems with property crime out here than I did in San Francisco. More homeless people, worse traffic, worse pedestrian infrastructure, much worse (and more expensive) public transit too.
NASA puts a price on a 2024 Moon landing–$35B
Day in History:Garry Kasparov loses to computer in first of 6-game match
Scary shit.
Thanks. Very informative. I actually didn't know about Backus. I just assumed because of CT all academics who study FP view FP this way.

Do you have the source where Backus actually talks about the stuff you mentioned?
You're certainly allowed to be proud... but others don't have to respect your career choices (and many won't, which is fine).

Personally speaking, I've had Amazon try to pull me a few times and I just stopped responding to their emails. It's a large company and I can agree that there's leagues of separation between, say, AWS and warehouse operations... but I also just don't care, I can't co-sign the kind of stuff that you hear about (and has been verified by people coming forward).

The tech industry is large enough that if you're good enough to work at Amazon, you probably have options.

My 2 cents, I guess.
If they're not a real bank they're gonna get reamed for the FDIC logo.

Jeff Foxworthy said the essence of "redneck" is a "glorious lack of sophistication." Dunno if thats still the case, but its a marketing vein that might have a drop in it again since he tapped it out back when.
I did this when I was young. Me and a group of friends went from New York to Montreal to Vancouver to Seattle.

I took several other long-range trips through a group called the Metropolitan New York Council of American Youth Hostels. It doesn't look like it exists anymore. But I remember we would run into other organizations on the road like one called Outward Bound, which was kind of the yuppy version. They had sag wagons and cooks. We had our wits and Vienna sausage.
The problem with alternate roots is they usually abandon traditional domains. A solution to this problem must include some way to bring the existing .COM, .ORG and .NET databases into the new root or else existing domain owners will look at the cost of migrating the brand they've spent years building and instead decide to just pay the ICANN tax.
It is a word because people keep using it. That's where words come from. Apart from the number of characters, it is no better or worse than other words/phrases having the same meaning. Sometimes the precise meaning is clear from the background context. Sometimes additional details need to be supplied outside of the title or bullet point where it is used.

What does "it" mean above? Devoid of context, it could be just about anything.
As stated in the link (although it mightn't be clear if you're not a game dev), it's so you can make games with operating system UI, such as Emily Is Away[1].

The linked one is particularly polished; it would have taken ages to implement all those little details.

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/417860/Emily_is_Away/
Sandboxed Java apps don’t. Here I’m talking about apps that you can’t get on the App Store, many of which are older Java programs which haven’t been updated to use the newer APIs.

The push to force sandboxed apps to use the system dialog had the nice side effect of forcing many GUI APIs to actually use the native file pickers, which meant that a lot of non-app-store apps started to use the native file picker. But Java apps don’t automatically get that upgrade.
> The last T-series Thinkpad laptop with non-soldered ram was manufactured in January 2018[1].

You're misreading. Plenty of recent and current models have some RAM soldered, plus a SODIMM slot for further RAM expansion.
I'm sure there are plenty of usability issues but damn it looks slick.

It's sad that a kid can make this with Unity3D, probably on his/her free time, and Microsoft with all its billions is not capable of producing a good UI for Windows.
I think I see the problem. OP thinks these sentences say the same thing:

"Random access into the cache has comparable performance to sequential access from RAM."

"Sequential access from RAM has comparable performance to random access into the cache."

Whereas I do not.
It's garbage. The PSN store in particular feels like a very unresponsive web page.
And most average graduates aren't using theory, math proof etc in every day employment. Websites and apps however are bread and butter of the majority of developers out there. Good schools still build a lot of fundamentals though, and I'd argue people are better with data structures and algorithms mainly due to their increase of usage in interviews.
99% of experiments in fundamental physics "don't work" in this sense. All of them get published. If you got funded to build an apparatus, people are going to want to know what you saw.

You can check for yourself, by looking at the experimental papers on the arXiv [0]. Every paper here that mentions data, but doesn't have the word "discovery" in the title, is a negative result. There are thousands of such papers.

0: https://arxiv.org/list/hep-ex/current
There are well-funded projects working on creating a better alternative to ICANN, namely https://handshake.org which is creating a distributed alternative root zone. The main benefit is security (the root of trust is a distributed ledger instead of Certificate Authorities which are a huge security hole), but there are additional benefits in that anyone can register their own TLD privately without risk of that TLD being seized or censored.
Agreed, W10 has been out for years. Apparently it has hit maintenance mode before they could finish. Honestly I'd rather have the XP control panel, with no extra clicks.
“Podcast” is more like “VHS” than like “movie”. Podcast is a format. There are lots of ways of listening to prerecorded audio. It’s only a “podcast” if the medium is similar to RSS+file. Otherwise, it’s just a show. Is an SVHS or some other extended format a VHS to a layman? Sure. But a DVD is not.
In general, it feels like this sort of company as a venture backed company is a waste of time. I understand you can create a 'brandless as a brand' company and make people think they are getting more for less, but this is literally just an exercise in consumerism and customer acquisition. I don't love that nonduraable CPG is controlled by a small handful of conglomerates but I also wish VCs would ignore this type of play and work on doing something more meaningful. I understand that there are and will be investors in different categories, but things like this feel like venture backed plastic pollution as a lifestyle brand.
The disdain for law enforcement as well as individual rights of self-protection is a dangerous combo.

It takes two to tango. Wanting police to be held accountable for their actions is not disdain for police. Wanting to be treated like a human being doesn't mean being soft on crime (nor does it mean there's disdain for police).

On the other hand Oakland PD rather famously pimped out a child (Celeste Guap) not that long ago (2017), so perhaps they have earned whatever disdain you're referring to?
I volunteered in a hospital. They have competitions with 'secret shopper' nurses and admins. The prizes can be pretty good. A co-volunteer got ~$100.
I just started using organice a few days ago. I was very impressed. I am hoping it can replace Joplin as my mobile note taking app. Only thing it really lacks is text level search.
This sort of marketing appeals to lots of people, including myself and many of the people with whom I interact on a daily basis. Of course it could only work online, but we've seen enough problems with online banking that online-only kind of scares me... still, I'm paying more attention to this than I've paid to banking in quite some time.
Aragon is why I left the crypto space, their bias is (un?)believable given the message they purport to uphold. Maybe now that there is a dispute channel outside of leadership, bastet can get its day in court¿
Well, there's a number of people plugging their ebook sites of some of them easier to get books.

As a slightly different plug, "20,000 Leagues under the Sea" from 1916 [0] is worth a glance.

It's a silent film, so some people might not be able to watch it today, but is has some curiosities to it.

It was the first feature filmed underwater, using a simple tube and mirror arrangement that most people here could come up with. It also had tons of extravagant sets, and so on, making it incredibly expensive for the era.

Literature wise, it combines "20,000 Leagues under the Sea" and "The Mysterious Island", in a fairly faithful way.

[0] https://sixteenmm.org/s/leaguesunderthesea_1916

Note: If it wasn't obvious from above, that's a link to something I run.
Nice interest rate. Their parent bank https://allamerica.bank/ has branches in Oklahoma and does agricultural financing as well as normal bank stuff. it's a clever way to diversify and get a wider online presence beyond Oklahoma. The fly is a great touch.
Call me naive but I really don't believe that most google/facebook new hires have 250k in net worth.

Let's say that they started at 200k per year(that seems really high). Their take-home would be 135,000 in California. That means after 1.5 years they would have taken home 202500. Even if they managed to graduate from college not only free from student loans but with a net worth of 50k, they would need to save all of their take home for the first year and a half.

Do I think that some people with 1.5 years of experience have a net worth of 300k? Sure. But I certainly don't think it is most.
Musk's first company he founded with his brother got $28,000 investment from his father. It's not an outlandish amount - less than the cost of a car.
This is definitely a thing. Lots of tech choices are made for that reason, not just front end frameworks, as I'm sure you know. But there's no incentive to put one's foot down and declare that the emperor, indeed, has no clothes, so we keep praising his fashion sense and taking home our pay. This is true for developers at all levels, project managers, CTOs, and so on. Every one of them becomes more employable—easier to find the next job, next job's higher-paying—for having lead or been a member of a team using inappropriate or sub-optimal but trendy or "serious" tools. "No one got fired for choosing..." has extended to a ton of trendy crap, a fair bit of it half-baked, and you're not only safer but also better off financially than if you risk suggesting anything else, even if "standard" solutions slow down development, require more and more expensive people (that's the point, you want to be one of those!), and make your systems more fragile.
Wow, that brings back some memories. I built one of those too. It was a crystal radio with no need for batteries. I used that little radio for years to listen in bed until I fell asleep.
On top of that, it is VERY easy to write what JB775 did above if you read about this in the news. If it was his/her child though the sentiment of the comment would be very different.

Laws and courts are there for all. The fact that this lady killed a child, and chose to flee the country, says a lot about her character. All this would have probably been resolved with a generous compensation (by the US gov to the victim's family)(all except bringing the child back). She didn't do anything on purpose until she flipped the finger to UK justice and the victim's family and ran away like the rat she is (let's not forget that she killed a child). US gov on the other hand protects its citizens (even those who kill children and flee justice - great job USA)(she was in the UK, she would have a fair trial). It's a messed up sorry that only has pain, sorrow, and anger.
Fast Fashion's Environmental Impact
I remember doing this a lot as a kid! and was sad to see so many of them going away.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-29-fi-lazar...
This big question has to both be whether this has the efficacy to make legitimate change in the industry and also doesn't squeeze out he competition who offer a better replacement for the existing industry.

Few people are accepting the fact that Boeing's sweetheart relationship with FAA is a result of the fact they are largely one of the fee only players in the game.

There's no competitive pressure for Boeing to change behaviour iwth the politicians and regulators in their pocket they have little to fear by going forward with business ss usual.

The fact they are managing to push Boeing to adopt more stringent training is good. I just hope it doesn't just add to the long list of things excluding any entrepreneur from honestly competing with him (just look at Virgin Airlines which was one of the most enjoyable flight experiences getting squeezed out).

Every major regulation in history has had unintended side-effects which frequently offset the benefits of the original plan (because of course they were designed for the entrenched mega-coprp interests of today with little thought of the wider long term effects on the industry).

Thomas Sowell wrote two good books which highlight a hundred examples how these well-intentioned regulations have contributed to the wealth inequality and consumer monopolies both [1] and Basic Economics [2].

Its not a simple as anti-regulation or pro-regulation, but getting the right kind of regulation based on data and with foresight into the unintended implications.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Wealth-Poverty-Politics-Thomas-Sowell...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Basic-Economics-Fifth-Common-Economy/...