skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think two other factors to consider are the rise of partisan media after the repeal of the Fairness doctrine and suburbanization, both making it easier for people to spend time mostly hearing voices they agree with.

One thing I find interesting about older novels is that it seems to be more common than now to know people that you disagreed with, perhaps strongly, but still respected. One factor in this is probably religion: church attendance has been dropping for a long time so there’s less social attendance and some of the most popular denominations became very politically active in the late 1970s so they rapidly became less diverse.
I'm a strong proponent of this attitude. The most maintainable code is that you can easily delete.

It does require a lot more thought and discipline, because it's not just a case of constructing an epic hierarchy of abstractions, or stubbing/mocking the hell out of your code in the tests to swap things around.
Or it's the converse. If you're an expert in a thing you do with code, thinking that makes your code good.
When you set up your email account, did you register username@everyemailprovider.com?
Kind of odd that Elon doesn’t count financial engineering as innovation, when he’s bankrolled his dreams on the back of financial engineering innovation.
As is, the prime of my life is effectively being wasted; none of my regular pursuits are possible and I can't visit any of my family or friends. For healthy people in my age group there's roughly a 0.1% IFR and with about six decades of life remaining, that works out to about a three week expected loss of my lifespan if I'm infected. If I were able to visit my parents I could do most of their regular shopping/errands for them, decreasing their risk profile.

I feel that I'm well informed on the potential risks to myself.

Put in reverse - what duration and severity of restrictions to your life would you be willing to endure in exchange for a three-week boost to your life expectancy?

I'd even sign up for periodic attempts at re-infection to ensure that I'm (still) immune.
The company has to continue to exist and do well for the equity to be worth anything.
Given the title, there should be a TL;DR.
If you look closely, there is very little evidence for biological causes. There are many alleged biological differences which are alleged to be relevant, but rarely, if ever, evidence for a causal link.
> All cli tools should have a magit interface. World peace and happiness would ensue.

:) Ahhhh, I think I understand! So magit is like an autocompleting wrapper/reorganization around the git cli. That does sound great! There are some git commands which would be super annoying to do via a UI (not to mention if you add _all_ of git's features to a UI, good luck making anything discoverable :P), but in the CLI they're kind of awkward cause unless it's something I use very frequently, I forget the syntax (looking at you git bisect). This sounds like it would make those significantly easier to use, _and_ help the developer discover new git commands they might not be aware of (looking at you, git bisect :P).
Ads served by Google and Facebook reshaped many business areas. Industries dominated by giant, vertically oriented corporations where 20 years ago, today get constantly disrupted by small enterpreneurs. I've lost count of how many success stories have I heard from people in my closest social circles, that started by baking cupcakes in their kitchen or sewing bags in their living rooms. I have several friends who earn their living by some kind of therapy-like help they advertise on Instagram.

Does all of this really have no value for society?
The ability to change the product after shipping itself is a huge tradeoff. More and more, companies have taken advantage of this ability by pressing their customers into being unpaid testers. Nobody wants to commit to a final product anymore and quality has declined.
Damned, you're right. I m definitely not thinking right today
Replacing CPython’s Parser
Google specifically wanted to encourage open discussion of things like company plans and priorities, which at many other companies are sensitive topics.
The problem with using IPA is that you can easily die if you drink it.

Random fact - IPA is not that toxic. If you drink it, your body will happily oxidize it to acetone. Acetone is not that toxic since your body produces it when burning fat. Estimated fatal dose of IPA is 500mL.
Ask HN: What should I use when Apple removes Dark Sky for Android?
Elon Musk is liberal Donald Trump.
The assumption that $500 is enough to any serious believer to reconsider their belief seems too low price. If the belief has life chancing value, $500 is not enough. They have already suffered trough ridicule and tied themselves into the group.

Paying them something like $100,000 to $500,000 after the doomsday date might have matched the value they get from sincere faith.
It's not exactly what you're looking for, but have you checked out mypy[1]? It is basically static typing for python.

[1] https://pypi.org/project/mypy/
Another one with lot of cool illustrations:

https://towardsdatascience.com/ai-architecture-f9d78c6958e0
Very late into the discussion. One thing that bothers me a lot is Server Performance / Price hasn't dropped much over the last 5+ years. Memory prices over a long period has essentially been flat. The only thing that has gotten cheaper is NAND. I kind of expect of hoping to have double the core, and memory of a Server for the same price in 5 - 6 years time. And this hasn't happened.
As a kid I used to do that job. Paid minimum wage plus the occasional tip. The flight attendants and gate staff sometimes offer minimal assistance moving a traveler into a stair chair when the person cannot even get out of their seats, but usually they left even that to us. At least at US airports, those guys work for the airport, not the airline.
Genuine question: What actually is neuroticism? I'm broadly familiar with the term in a colloquial sense, but not a scientific sense. Wikipedia says:

>Neuroticism is one of the Big Five higher-order personality traits in the study of psychology. Individuals who score high on neuroticism are more likely than average to be moody and to experience such feelings as anxiety, worry, fear, anger, frustration, envy, jealousy, guilt, depressed mood, and loneliness.[1] People who are neurotic respond worse to stressors and are more likely to interpret ordinary situations as threatening and minor frustrations as hopelessly difficult. They are often self-conscious and shy, and they may have trouble controlling urges and delaying gratification.

Is there truly a common thread between these various emotions that ties them all together as neuroticism, or is neuroticism an arbitrarily chosen set of emotions? It's far from clear to me that these listed emotions have much to do with each other in the general case. If I'm feeling fear or worry because the sidewalk I'm walking on is covered in ice, that's not related in any way to anger or envy. Does it only count when these emotions are irrational? What then does it mean for these emotions to be irrational? If I am alone and feel lonely, is that irrational? Is loneliness only indicative of neuroticism when you're actually surrounded by your friends? Maybe you'd feel lonely in such a situation because none of your friends can related to you about something you've been worrying about. Is there any truly objective measure of the rationality of an emotion? I don't think so.

Wikipedia goes on to say that there's a lot of disagreement over what this term means:

> Neuroticism is a trait in many models within personality theory, but there is a lot of disagreement on its definition. Some define it as a tendency for quick arousal when stimulated and slow relaxation from arousal, especially in concern to negative emotional arousal; others define it as emotional instability and negativity or maladjustment, in contrast to emotional stability and positivity, or good adjustment. Others yet define it as lack of self-control, poor ability to manage psychological stress, and a tendency to complain.[6]

It says that 'personality theory' is a scientific study, but I'm a bit skeptical of that.
Kenya: Ethiopian Troops Admit Shooting Down Plane
Cosmic Frontier: Override
Living in society is not free of cost.
And you can bet without those people there would still be adults (and kids) working 12 and 14 hour shifts unpaid overtime with no workers protection, racial and sex based discrimination, no leave days, no workplace safety, no insurance, and without several other niceties gained in the late-19th early 20th century by exactly such people and such actions...

Of course in a place where everybody is imaginary temporarily inconvenienced millionaire, expecting to soon join the "employer" side and with no regards for those on the other side, the above might not be a problem...
Demand for e-scooter Lime, Spin, and Bird up 3.5x
Create Your Own Videoportal
Yes - I said hi to a few, and had some nice conversations as the only viewer, brilliant idea.
Yep, not really sure what the illusion is, so long as you know how many copies of each card there are, you could even go so far as to consider 52 card deck to be 4 sets already
Imagine you running large database workload and AWS say you need reboot because underlying hardware start having issue.

Live migration can help you in that case.
Combining a bad faith reading with a personal insult is quite the combination. Maybe don’t do that?
You can create a TransferWise multi-currency account. That will provides you bank accounts for USD, EUR, GBP AU$ and NZ$, thus avoiding conversion fees.
"X has been silent on Y," is generally not a fair criticism. Not speaking about a topic is the norm, since time is finite and there are uncountable numbers of issues to discuss, even within a specific topic.
The point I am making is the same point you are making with your parenthetical "(finally)". The fact that something can become profitable after nearly 20 years of unprofitability is not a testament to its success; it's a testament to how the only way to accrue wealth is to start with wealth.
I wonder how much money non-upgradable RAM actually saves.
Well, sort of. Something like spacevim requires some dependencies I imaging. Docker is sort of a package manager, so it makes sense to run the 1.1G docker image to see what you're getting into.

Anyway, this way I saw an issue early on that stopped me from going any further, and saved me much time and heart ache.

Sticking to my plain old .vimrc for now.
True, but unfortunately this quote only dates back to 2012.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ciceros-view-of-life/
Hey, I really appreciate replies like yours.

Damore definitely hasn't backstepped on his memo in any way, although that doesn't necessarily mean that he couldn't have been given the option to begrudgingly disavow his position in order to remain at Google. Unless I'm mistaken, I don't think that was possible for him. I guess that's the point I was trying to make. Whether he failed to engage with critiques of his position really doesn't change whether his circumstance was fair or reasonable.

I don't think the analogy of Dan Harmon completely holds up.(though to be fair all analogies fall apart at some level) The two "mistakes" aren't really equivalent. Damore was solicited for his input, and provided a reasoned feedback with the intent of helping people(whether it was wrong or misguided is a separate issue), whereas Harmon was doing something that an average reasonable person would recognize as victimizing someone. I think most people have the capability to deserve a second chance, but Harmon's case is different in that he was shown to be predatory, however low-level it may have been. I don't think someone can credibly call Damore a predator or dangerous. If they can, then the very act of you and I talking about this could be seen by someone as potentially predatory. Of course, I find that idea absurd. In any case, I think it's possible that Harmon could also be allowed to recover from his mistake given enough time and displayed sincerity. And that's likely going to happen, if it hasn't already, since he's an entertainer. (I stopped following him and Rick and Morty, so I don't have a good idea) Damore will be ridiculed by a good number of people for the forseeable future.

I think there's a bit of a misunderstanding, because I don't think Google should be held to account. It's likely they were in their right to fire him at their will, even if I think the more optimal decision would have been to limit the damage of Damore(and treat him like a human) rather than ultimately make the issue more public than it needed to be. At the same time, Damore didn't seem to grasp what his peers, the company, and the public actually wanted. Perhaps he didn't care. This is why I get pissed internally when people claim that I think I believe Damore did nothing wrong.

Sorry if that was rambling and didn't have much of a point. I spent way more time replying to people this morning about "James Damore" than I thought I ever would, so my brain's scattered.
The books that shaped my decade (2019)
I'm not sure what your source of information is, but I'd love to see the train of thought that has lead to this comment.
Next project? Enclaves in enclaves in enclaves?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahala_Khagrabari

Edit: Too late. Ceded to Bangladesh in 2015.
And maintain the old one for backward compatibility.
While I fully support basic income, I don't feel a survey is very insightful.

I mean, we have to work with the tools we have got, but it's not like this was a blinded result. All survey participants would have been aware:
1) they did get money or not
2) the survey is being used for a study about potentially getting money in the future, if it shows positive impacts.

People are smart, they know what the "right answer" is to have this declared positive.

Maybe if the study was run 30 years people would forget the effects or something.

I don't think a short term study of basic income looking for survey results was ever going to give us insight into whether we should do it.

Again, I support basic income, but as a more efficient and fair redistribution tool with fewer malincentives and as a necessary tool to morally give people a minimum quality of life.

What was interesting was the increased work hours from the pool that got basic income. To me that is the only meaningful signal from this study.
That is a supremely cherry picked list. GTA4 was a single player game with some thrown in "community" features. Fallout 3 was a single player game.

You see... we didn't ask for you all to ban dedicated servers and take on the cost of official servers. You did that to us against our objections so that you could extract more money from us. PC gamers would be perfectly happy playing Modern Warfare on dedicated servers. We don't have that option. We are forced to play on official servers and then you whine about the cost of doing that. That was YOUR decision!

You can't force players to play on official servers and also whine about the cost of official servers. You have created this problem! If it is too expensive to host official servers then let the community host them like we used to.

>I did warn you that you wouldn't like it.

We don't like being patronized. It is peak irony for game developers to lament the cost of official servers when official servers were something they forced on the community so that they could sell more hats.
In a similar vein: boilerplate code is fine in the main control flow. It’s okay if it takes twenty lines of code to set up your library, as long as it’s not the same 20 lines for everybody in production.

Frameworks tend to avoid any boilerplate in the imperative core but then multiply I throughout the rest of the project. Possibly due to chronology.
> With software specifically, it feels very much like a case of too many chefs in the kitchen at this point. Just look at facebook trying to build one website with 10000 engineers. It's some of the most ridiculous bullshit and it's incredibly distracting even as an outside observer. There are clean and reusable patterns that solve problems for 99.9% of use cases, but most of the discussion and energy these days is spent rehashing the same boring front-end UI story over and over and over.

This single website is making billions of dollars in profits and used billions daily. It is good for us that Facebook have 10000 people working on this. Thanks to Facebook we have now flow, react, react-native, GraphQL, Redux, immutable.js, ReasonML, jest and create-react-app just to mention few things that were open sourced or worked by people hired by Facebook. No other company contributed as much to "boring front-end UI story"
Clorox disinfectant wipes won’t be fully in stock until summer, CEO warns
These posts are obnoxious. People don't buy Macs b/c of their impressive tech specs - they buy them b/c of macOS.
There are more progressive leftists in power in tech than ever, yet female representation hasn't gone up. How much evidence do you need before you think they might be wrong? I'm from Sweden which initiated these kinds of programs 30 years ago, and it didn't do anything at all except alienate men who were excluded from the programs. There aren't more women now than back then in tech and engineering.

The only things that really worked was to create softer versions of degrees. Like make computer science program with a focus on UX or design, then you get a lot of women applying. You still wont get more women into the more technical roles, but at least you get more women's perspective into the industry. Also you know how so many say that communication skills is the most important part of their job as a software engineer? Why not just make a degree related to that directly? Women would flock to such programs.
GPU Architecture Resources
Funny, I thought the same of Xena back in the 90's. What about Kratos or Spiderman?
On the Inherent Injustice of Admissions
Certainly. I'm just remarking that one sees a lot of negativity here, presumably from city dwellers, with respect to infrastructure subsidies for more spread out areas.
Learn about C++ STL – Forward List
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And once age-tool.com is ready it'll happily encrypt to SSH keys ;-)
So we all know that can't happen; whats keeping you away from the adobe suite? From my research as a begining youtuber, the biggest hurdle seems to be price
Depends what the implications of that statement were. I think assuming that women at Google have higher levels of neuroticism is fair, but once you start to posit that as an actionable truth is when real information is needed.
>This would cause serious problems later, but the senators profiting neither knew nor cared. //

Strikes me that this is about comparative level of development. As long as large inequalities exist then richer countries can feed off the labour of less developed countries. When those countries develop sufficiently they can't be [ab]used in that way.

This is a big issue in UK at the moment as we've kicked out loud of foreign workers, and now have harvest locally produced food, in part because farmers won't pay wages at UK subsistence levels.
I think the global sky survey non-profit is a good idea and could have secondary benefits beyond UFO studies. One of the tricks with this is to have a network of sites set up so that motion at one triggers others, so you can get multi-point tracks. This allows you to compute ranging, size, dynamics, etc. You can track satellites, comets, space debris, find illegal drones... I'd support it...
I love these articles because the writers are so earnest and seem to be oblivious to the fact that buyers do not care.
This is totally an aside, and probably shows how out of touch I am, but there must be developers who need 8+ GB, and others who don't. I was always under the impression that things like editors and compilers didn't need a lot of computing performance. So I'm curious what kinds of development demand more performance. Is it a hard wall that you hit, or more of just a progressive degradation of performance?
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Learn about C++ STL – Forward List
I do not know what the case is on all forms, but from more modern registrations, such as for the production company behind The Grand Tour, W Chump and Sons [1], at least for adding directors, residential addresses are hidden away. Additionally, I would love to see any credible examples of abuse from this system, seeing as it has been around for a while.

[1]: https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/09668527/filing-h...
This image on Acer's Swift product page really answered the question for me.

https://static.acer.com/up/Resource/Acer/Laptops/Swift_7/Ove...
You can profit from counting cards with a flat bet. The MIT team did exactly this. The trick is to have counters at multiple tables, all betting a small but flat amount, and floaters that move from table to table while betting large, but also flat, amounts.

The counters lose a small but steady amount of money over time while the floaters make large amounts of money by only playing at the tables with favourable counts.
One look at the pictures and I immediately question the difference in comfort between these 2 machines. Big difference and nice benchmarks, but ... it's just not the whole story.
I can’t even guess why this comment has downvotes, but that video is a spectacular example of a great personality with amazing talent.

To wake up a room as stodgy and boring as the rock and roll HOF is no easy task, not to mention having the balls to even attempt it.

Thanks for sharing that!
The Future of Psychobiotics
I wonder if it's mainly an issue of finding empty space for it.
If you replace microwaves with a laser, you can get much higher efficiencies out of a solar panel as solar panels really want to convert monochromatic light.

What really kills microwaves for power transfer is the minimum sizes of the transmitter/receiver thanks to diffraction. If your going from GEO to ground, I believe you need on the order of square kilometer sized arrays on both ends.

For ground to air applications, rectennas are too bulky and heavy to be practical. If you look at the last NASA power beaming challenge, all of the contestants went with optical power transfer because it was better in W/kg and in W/sq meter.

Disclaimer: I’m involved with free-space optical power transfer.
I feel like the self-timing and error-checking is unnecessary, and you can at least fit it on the front + back of a business card with enough room left for your name and an email address.
Not much. Probably less to do with saving money and more about locking you into a specific amount of RAM. That way you spend the extra schmeckles in the first place rather than upgrading the machine yourself 2 years down the line.
Damore, trying to make an earnest intellectual contribution, got a lot of people really upset, and they campaigned to have him destroyed.

This is the most visceral and obvious example of an outrage mob possible.
There's an old saying when judging a new architecture. Can it run Doom?

This question arises since pretty much anything can these days.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qkjv9x/a-catalogue-of-all...

Now we have a new answer: IT CAN ONLY RUN DOOM
It is also space. Non-upgradable ram can be put on when the circuit board is assembled, by robot. Upgradable ram has the socket installed in the same process, but then needs the ram put into the socket by low cost workers.

But as I said, space is likely the biggest reason.