skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This sounds really cool. The other thing I would like is more sound effects on real life goals. I play Overwatch, and I always say I wish the stuff I want to be doing would make that sweet headshot ding.

Patch in a bell into AFL for everytime it finds a crash. Maybe even a generic function I can throw at the end of main so when my code builds and runs I'll get that audio stimulation.
And works is used advisedly. Certain filesystem edge conditions particularly metadata changes due to block allocation can result in blocking behavior.
It's made by a person who works for Trump's campaign team, yet the language toward the bottom gives the impression the author has no affiliation with any political group. That is likely the reason behind the block.
You obviously haven't met my mother. Every time I see my mom these days she's asking for money for drugs or is too busy wrapped in her phone to have a conversation.

And I know plenty other people whose love for their parents far outweighs the love their parents show in return. Mother's Day is always a slog for me as I internally sort my desire for respect and sense of humanitarian duty.
You can build a windmill without Newton, but he makes it much easier!

Newtonian physics lets you work out loads with free body diagrams, derive Euler beam theory, and that's how they built the Eiffel tower.
Yeah I didn't like much before.

Then he went out and tweeted "tesla stock too high imo" and I was like yo. Paid more attention to him and began liking him more and more.
Yes 100% agree. That was what I was saying. Maybe you meant to reply to the parent.
Ex-Google engineer James Damore asks to dismiss lawsuit against Google
This is great! Which of these do you think could be extended to general-purpose programming without the HPC expert? Taichi and DAPP seem to be aimed at that goal, but you seem to be implying they don't reach it yet?
Learning a New Language (Or Anything,) by Dave Thomas
Nice talk, you're a really good speaker. Thanks.
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They are people who have never bothered to look at an inflation table. They are content to blindly repeat that one economics textbook they read.
Obviously, nothing can ‘hit’ a black hole: anything that does just gets absorbed by it as it falls in.

However, more broadly speaking, the angular momentum is conserved, so the result would be more or less the same. However, given the enormous, ridiculous difference of relative masses (and therefore angular momentum) in the case of black holes and some gas particles, I think my initial point stands.
Just wait until we get closer to the election. Then it's going to get absolutely bonkers.
That's its origin, but it's certainly been repurposed today in product design to mean a very real thing, which is that the customer will buy what the customer wants, regardless of whether you think they should or not.

In other words, there's no objective product goodness/badness. Only what the customer wants. In that sense, the customer (market) is always right.

Inexperienced restauranteurs often experience the same shock. You don't cook the food you want to make, or that you think people ought to eat -- you cook the food people want to eat. Otherwise you'll go out of business.
"Indicating something is distinct about this block of text" is helpful design, but not really an affordance. Affordances are about actions.
Oof that's harsh, sorry you got a dud.
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GitHub docs lead to http://unfetter.io/ which leads to a GoDaddy landing page...
I have not tried Krita yet. It seemed to be geared to artists drawing / creating images, where my main (in fact only) use case is enhancement of my DSLR or phone-captured photos. That said, Krita is on my "to try sometime" list.
Indeed. There are absolutely parents who match his description but to say that's every parent is more than a bit of a stretch.
Have you considered some of the large, hard problems whose solutions also have immediate benefits?
So could something like Starlink be used to detect things like this?
A Book of Creatures
Unfortunately I misread the title as “Lord of the Urine” and... was concerned.
I feel like you are confusing your personal opinion and preferences with what the document says in writing.
Handling Network Failures in the Cloud
> I was under the impression the Kansas reference was basically an insult both to the direction of society and Kansas...

Okay, that makes perfect sense. Thank you.
A mind-blowing example of cut and paste – from the real world to Photoshop
Having a Garden Linked to Better Health and Well-Being
Whenever I’ve worked at a company with Exchange/Outlook I always set up my one mail rule I can’t live without: any incoming email that doesn’t have my own email address in the To: or Cc: fields is moved into a different inbox (subfolder).

It was rare for any unaddressed stuff to matter to me, and it was certainly never urgent, so usually I gave it a quick scan once a day and mark it read.

Almost makes email tolerable.
Blockchain solutions are touted as improvements and replacements for solutions that already exist. It's not that blockchain solves problems previously not solvable.

Read Attack of the 50-Foot Blockchain for some perspective.
Not a fan of unsafe pointers in Go frameworks. :/
In monetary value, there's couple estimates in Wikipedia.
I've heard that for airplane designers, they assume the value of life at 10M for safety features design purposes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_of_life
Progress is usually made not by any one single decision but by taking many, many smaller decisions and executing on them. Very rarely will you encounter choices that are both strategic and irreversible. They happen few times a year, if you live an adventurous life that is.

With the smaller everyday decisions, you don’t need to hit 100% optimization. What you need is throughput, even only if you get 80% right.

For example, prioritizing is usually a waste of time. Just get something done. Then get another thing done. Reflecting on past decisions is ok, once. Then you move on.

Just optimize for get up and doing. What you do is less important; I’d argue things will sort themselves out anyway as you do, uncover things you do not see or understand and iterate.
Pretty sure my mother has Borderline Personality Disorder, which causes a lot of strain when talking with her. A lot of projected anger and manipulation. There are very justifiable reasons to refrain from contact with your parents, so do not let a holiday endanger your mental well-being.
I know its a bit corny to turn to movies for wisdom, but whenever I am stuck I always remember this scene from Choke (2008)

> And listen very closely.

> 'Cause nothing worth having comes without a risk.

> [...]

> 'Cause sometimes it's not important which way you jump...

> just that you jump.
// If SpaceX can afford to put a car into orbit around the sun as a publicity stunt during rocket testing...

SpaceX had to test the rocket anyways and have some mass in the nosecone. Elon Musk, on a lark I guess, put his personal car in the nosecone as that mass. You make it sound as if they expensively launched a rocket for publicity. In really, it probably cost a negligible amount in addition to what they already had to spend for testing.
I meant basic in the lowbrow/highbrow sense, not with regards to complexity, but I understand your point.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23129942

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23126517

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23127552

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23129216
How does Racket compare to Clojure? Anyone knows both worlds and would like to give some infos? I know Clojure is JVM based, one of those new languages built on Java technology (the others being Scala and Groovy). So very solid tech used by the likes of Soundcloud or young startups like RoamResearch. But Racket? Mostly education?
So it really is where the particle phenomenon breaks down, thanks. Do you know if there are any kind of harmonic oscillator models used in this domain? I’m curious about a frequency-dependent characterization of the “energy” transport.
I was already worried about what might happen with this election, but the pandemic is likely to make things worse.

My wife and I have been discussing logistics to get somewhere safer in the event of different scenarios, but at the end... it's just difficult to predict what might happen and where.
It’s interesting to see capitalism’s influence here. Like in many other areas of the economy, capitalism requires a concentration of control in science too, as a prerequisite for allocation of capital. Trapping us in a local
minimum of narrow hierarchies.
...Oh. Okay then. I guess that makes sense.

Still would be nice for them to have a ~300 GB download option with a resolution somewhere in between the standard offline mode and full quality, but they're clearly operating at an inordinate scale here...
Talking about unbundling on connectors.. is there something like Zapier for large enterprise?
Also, would be nice there is an standard way to develop these connectors for interchange
When my daughter was about 5 we were on public transit and a bunch of teens were talking near us. Every second or third word was 'fuck' or 'shit'. My daughter asked why they talk that way. I told her it was because they didn't know enough words to say what they meant.

15 years later, she speaks two languages fluently and 2 more at about middle school level. She swears a little, but she knows how to say what she means.
Would you consider treasuries an asset? They're creating those pretty quickly...
Tbf, the only extra "cost" there was the car itself. If they didn't use the car, they would've launched a concrete block anyway to simulate a payload.
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Unless you have strong proof that the entire public health is engaged in some sort of coverup, please stop spreading conspiracy theories. There’s clearly a large uptick in deaths and it’s global so theories about hospital billing on one country are insufficient to explain it.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/21/world/coronav...
Of course there are exceptions. But the general rule stands.

I say the above from anecdotal experience from my parents and other parents I know, and from quotations I hear from people actually living in prison.

I guess drugs throw off all the priorities, because in the end the actual mechanism that triggers love is in itself a chemical/drug as well.
That's amazing! I really wish he'd write an autobio-like book describing all of the social challenges he's encountered with his gear.
Download the kernel source, once unpacked you can configure it to build only the modules you have currently loaded via "make localmodconfig".

Of course if you've never built a kernel before you'll need to read the documentation, and you'll probably want to look at the Ubuntu documentation too - since you'll want to build a .deb package, rather than a raw kernel. You'll want to search for "ubuntu make-kpkg".

But really you're not going to gain much, except learning. Sure a kernel with less stuff available might save disk space, but there are easier ways to save disk-space on Ubuntu systems..
> As bad as your relationship is with your parents. Once they're gone, you're pretty much alone.

Absolutely untrue. If your parents are toxic and damaging, you should cut them from your life. Some people can't live healthy lives if they keep contact with their abusive parents.
Why kid ourselves that “we are doing physics,” then? Wouldn’t direct investment in these areas more efficient?
No Answers. Only Choices
Not sure what you think your many straw men are going to accomplish. Pretty sure almost no one but the two of will be reading this...?

I guess you think your attitude is a mark of superiority, but in reality you sound about as intellectual as Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye.
How to find the right sponsor for your open source project
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I have the Keychron K2 (not mentioned) which is my first Mechanical Keyboard and I love it
It's definitely not every parent nor is it even almost every parent.

I would say it's the majority though, as in over 50% for sure.
I'm not sure this is advice on _how_ but what I do is stop searching once I find a valid option.

Life's too short to worry about, "what if an even better option is just over the hill?" Nope. This one's good.

I do this with phones, shampoo, and even a car this season.
Slight offtopic: The web site's GDPR notice is worth a read. It caught my attention by actually having an equally-sized decline button, which is sadly so rare that it stands out. (TL;DR: They make clear that it's your choice and that they use analytics with privacy-friendly settings to make the site better for readers.)

And it's incredible what an effect such a small gesture of respect has. On any other site I'd have CTRL-W'd such a long-winded explanation much earlier.

The TL;DR of the article - Adding randomized rewards to the Pomodoro technique by randomizing what fun/distrating thing you'll do during your break, later mixing in other "healthy" activities in with the "fun" stuff.
What new information do you think will become available in one year's time to make it obvious that this was an over-reaction?

If it's about total number of deaths - we know that know and even if the number is lower, it means the lockdown worked, no?

If it's, for example, new information becoming available about covid virality, that will be irrelevant, as people have to make decisions now with the information available now.

Re 2) it's expected and important for leadership to set the tone. Arguably what Trump and Trudeau are doing (if what you say is true) is wrong.
You can pre-cache regions and flight paths. I don't know how easy it would be to back that data up.
>Often a life has negative value to such a person.

Never thought about it this way, but it's true. A dead person can't vote against you. So to the extent that a given person, or group of people, can be relied on to vote against you, it wouldn't be that bad for you game theoretically if they were not around.
Isn't each of the hundreds of cryptocurrencies an alternative? Many of them have wildly varying implementations - different designs, levels of security, speed of transaction, transaction number limits, no blockchain at all, proof-of-stake vs proof of work etc.
Too bad the 18th century adaptation of the Spanish negro isn't censored
True unless we assume venusivian and terrestrial life both had a common origin
Had the US (at all govt levels) actually treated this seriously, as a health problem and not economic/political problem, we could be in a situation like Taiwan/NZ.

The US is large, but mostly insulated, so this was feasible. But it would have required EVERYONE wearing masks, and no delays in locking things down (one day of delay in an exponential situation is like 4 more days of lockdown at the other end)
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At what point did you realize you were at your ceiling, and what did you do about it? Are you still doing that work today?
But as I said I did not want them to copy the code. I explicitly wanted them to read it and not be able to Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V.
If you have a good relationship with your mother.

If she was/is abusive and you're not comfortable talking to her, feel absolutely no guilt today.
Too many people competing for too few jobs should keep wages down.
Things Left Unsaid by People That Don't Exist
I have one of those hurtful abusive mothers and I can see that OP was just being nice, repaying a kindness he felt 6yrs ago like he said. You are being sensitive of you can't see that.
(2018) https://github.com/unfetter-discover/unfetter/commits/master
That's why I used phrase "working program" and "verified" in my comment. ;-)

If you have a working (tested) program, you might not have a mathematical proof that it works, but you have certain sense that what you're doing is not entirely logically implausible. It is a form of verification (although without complete guarantee of correctness).

(Another way to look at it is that the testing you did determines what kind of sentence you proved to be true. So instead of assigning the type to the program in advance, you deduce it the other way around - we observe how the program works and that gives us its type.)
Yes, it's hard to separate the effects of remote work from the effects of... everything else.

Also the fact that it was a dramatic change overnight, so people can no longer follow their old habits, but didn't have enough time to develop new habits. For example, it is possible to exercise in a gym, and it is also possible to exercise at home, but people who used to exercise regularly in a gym are probably exercising less now, because their habits have been broken.

Not just habits. For example, I have a standing desk at my job, but I didn't have one at home. It took me some time to reorganize my desk, so that I can use the computer comfortably while standing. Then my kids complained, because it was too high for them. It took some time to adapt to the new situation.
I think he got distracted while typing 'Indesctractible' in the first sentence, and procrastinated instead of proof reading...
That's a good tell HN topic.I am from India , and I called my mom in morning.
I'm in total agreement with you. If your parents are toxic, dump them for sure. Not every parent is like my description, I'm just describing a generality that describes the majority.

Despite this, I truly believe the statement below:

If you don't have parents that will stick with you while you're still in prison for 30 years, then you don't have anyone on the face of this earth who will do this for you. You are alone.
Lol, cloudformartion historically did't support really huge and mandatory parts of aws resources and resource parameters and as there was no Roadmap of support until previous year https://github.com/aws-cloudformation/aws-cloudformation-cov... it was not fan because basically you couldn't even try for example to enable RDS storage autoscaller for RDS via CF template. That's why terraform was created because of AWS CF didn't support own AWS resources.
This is a pretty good overview of the issues, but I note one significant omission.

> Take a program to save lives in a large, well-known population with a risk that’s well-understood but small, and then ask, OK, what’s that worth? You can figure that out through surveys or consumer behavior— “revealed preference,” as economists call it. Take what people will spend individually to avoid a teensy risk, and multiply it by the odds of that risk coming to pass and the total number of people it might affect. That’s it.

Humans are notoriously bad at estimating risk, especially with very small numbers. We can't even accurately tell you which of two small risks is greater.

Asking people for estimates could be a good system if there were a solid correlation between risk and cost.
My mom died young almost 17 years ago. I don’t have any regrets about not being close enough to her, I had dinner at my parents’ house once per week and spoke to her frequently.

I wish I would’ve encouraged her more to stop smoking and maybe not go to the crappy suburban hospital she was insisting on going to. That’s probably my only regret with the whole thing.
I can relate especially with today's vast arrays of choices for pretty much anything in our fields (databases, architectures and philosophies, programming languages, cloud providers, etc).

I am still struggling from this myself but rolling the dice helped. If I clearly picked a wrong choice, at least I learnt and gained knowledge. Over time, it does cost less to fail and pivot back to a different path.
The fact that you're asking about how to improve your writing is a fantastic first step. I think writing is the most undervalued skill in most professions. No matter what your job is, writing is part of it. That very much includes technical and scientific jobs. So kudos to you for even thinking about this skill--it's one that many people ignore.

The best book on writing that I have read is On Writing Well, by William Zinsser. It's short and very accessible. Zinsser does a great job of laying out why writing is so hard and how to tackle everything from fiction writing to non-fiction technical writing. You can finish the book in a weekend of leisurely reading and come back to it as often as you like.

Zinsser's main point, which I agree with wholeheartedly, is that great writing is really about great re-writing. Edit mercilessly, remove unnecessary words and phrases, and focus on getting your point across in a clear manner. Remove jargon wherever possible. If you take the time to re-read and re-write your work several times over, you can't help but create something better than you started with.
I don’t know if you caught this, but I think that’s exactly what the parent comment was driving at.
People have failed to mention the fact that the LHC has turned out to be kind of a failure, at least it hasn't given the populist soundbites needed to support its' success. Nothing really 'new' came out of it and it was very expensive.

People seem to be ignorant that everything has a populist aspect, and very expensive things always do.

The politicians who foot the bill are thinking "We just spent bazillions and what did we get? Now we have to convince the proles to spend billions more?"

If LHS gave us some really fundamental new insights, the Round B would be easy. But right now it's like a startup with no 'product market fit' it's going to be hard.
What's more is that since Taiwan published their email they sent to the WHO in December about the severeness of the threat and given the fact that the US is basically considered their only real ally, they almost certainly directly warned the US. Of course I doubt that they would ever say that in public given that they don't want to piss off their only big military ally with a vengeful president.
fasthttp is hilariously fast. it's also missing a ton of edge cases over net/http, but yea, it's very silly fast. i'd say just try it and see for your use-case, but expect 2-3x speedup over standard net/http based frameworks at a minimum.
FWIW, I think your life would be vastly improved if you can turn the anger evident in your post into sadness for whatever caused her to act like that in the first place. It’s worked for me. Pity feels like a healthier emotion to experience than anger or bitterness.
The devs said they will support VR, just not initially.
I understand that, and in a different setting I wouldn't use images for code no matter what.

In this case though, as I said, the setting is very controlled (internal, temporary docs) and I explicitly did not want it to be easy to copy.
> venus would crush and melt anything we're sending there for hundreds of years

The way to settle Venus is in balloons floating in the atmosphere, at altitudes with decent temperature and pressure.
To me, it’s just recognition that the type of people who frequent this site aren’t always good at remembering this sort of thing. It doesn’t apply to everyone, but I’m sure there are people who saw this and appreciated it.
Spotted the adman.
I believe the vacuum inside particle accelerators is actually much higher than your average cubic meter of solar system space.
> Faith in humanity: buy stocks. No faith in humanity: buy gold.

Speaking to a friend who bought stocks recently, they said, "I'm bullish on America."

I might say if you are the opposite of bullish, then buy gold. And if you have no faith in humanity, buy a survivalist bunker.