skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point is, the food court and shops usually make the train companies money because they pay high rent. That only works when enough passengers come through, which I'd guess might be the problem in the US?

(eg in Japan, JR East makes 30-40% of its profits from the shops: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2010/12/30/business/jr-eas...)
Ah, I don't know how I slipped up there. Fixed, you can play them all you want :)
create something – like you have – but ship it to production. opening a project and seeing setup instructions like you have makes it seem like one of those other crud apps, nobody will take the time to do it.

"Check out this thing I made - runwithjohnjs.com" will have a much greater effect.

For bonus points, write about how you built it (just use dev.to).

A cool project will get you in the door, then you just have to perform well on the interview (for which many prep materials exist online).
VTOL and several other major capability differences really should change the certification process. Current certifications a designed around certain engineering constraints.

Nearly all existing planes operate with the same basic parts, thanks to the fuel. This dictates the possible drivetrains.

Reduced complexity can lead to drastic reconsideration.

While I don't expect change to be super fast, regulation tends to move faster than normal when major disruption starts showing up in practice (drones, self-driving vehicles, ...)
While personal projects are good, even more impressive is contributing features and/or bug fixes to larger open source projects.

It's sometimes much more challenging to dive into an existing project, learn their frameworks/style/design, and work with existing contributors.

However it's also much closer to what happens on a real development team. Whereas a project with a single author can show coding skill, working in a large open source project shows collaboration, communication, and soft skills as well.

It is a huge gold star on a resume in my opinion.
If you want a similar experience without the 37signals orthodoxy and the invasion of privacy (they read every single one of your emails in order to block pixel trackers). Then I'd suggest something like Stoop (https://stoopinbox.com/).
> If we imagine for a moment that you work in an office in Palo Alto, you could now choose to live in Hayward (5 min flight, $25), downtown San Francisco (10 min flight, $50), or even San Rafael (15 min flight, $70).

This is a strange example to include in here – that's a pretty expensive (one-way?) commute.
> A meeting to chart our company’s course, big decisions, and you want me there? How about an immediate response? I know you’re checking those e-mails.

Is there a new trend where under the guise of productivity, people in tech and business set aside time for reading company email - sometimes as infrequent as once a week - and thus delay the dissemination of information and in turn block progress?

I get that focus is important - I don't believe that multitasking is usually a good idea - but collaboration also critical. And in an era of electronic communication, if its more time efficient for me to drive to another state than send you an email or IM, we are not progressing. And you look flakey.
Just judging from the title it sounds silly. Last I remember while working at one of the companies between 2006-2008, COBOL & mainframes was a good chunk of their work.

Obsolescence is their bread and butter. I do agree they do have a lot of wrong and toxic people running middle management along with short term thinking. But that is partly due to their business model, a business model that gave the best returns.
I've seen that suggested a couple of times, but it doesn't make sense. They could literally just order pilots to report possible drones or UFOs when they see them, and not put up an obvious signal to the Chinese (or whoever) that the US military has a cultural blind spot WRT reporting foreign drones in its airspace.
When you say "Everything the protestors are doing has probably set us back a decade." it really doesn't sound like you agree with the protestors. So maybe if you do agree with them, don't say things that undermine them, or they'll respond in kind.

Saying "Everything the protestors are doing has probably set us back a decade." isn't deescalating or cooperating, and insisting that the protestors need to deescalate and cooperate after you say something uninformed and inflammatory is self-centered, it implies that whatever you were doing is better than what they were doing. That they need to cooperate with you, but you don't need to cooperate with them. That it's their responsibility to deescalate, not yours. And, well, that really doesn't sound like cooperation to me.
I agree. The only incentive to write neat code is to save yourself the pain and suffering of having to go back through it yourself to fix or add things. I am currently doing data analysis in MATLAB for my PhD, and I know nobody will ever use my code besides me.

I’d like to learn to do my due diligence, but without someone training me, it just takes so much time to learn things like git. I’d rather be recording more data and submitting my paper so I can get the hell out of here
I still hope they bring this back with the new Apple silicon macs. I loved the cube!
For those interested, a couple of professors were using physics n hard math on the Lilium claims:
https://www.aerokurier.de/8/3/7/8/5/9/6/aerokurier_Konzeptbe...

(It is in German though).

A big German magazine did a rather intensive “how much sense does it make” story:
https://www.aerokurier.de/elektroflug/flugtaxis-kein-markt-f...
May be is just me, it always seems like Xbox, Playstation and Nintendo have different market and customers.

Xbox One managed 50 Million sold with literally zero market shares in Japan, and relatively little in other parts of Asia. It is however pretty strong in English Speaking countries.

Playstation 4 sold nearly 110 million worldwide.

Nintendo aims at different market segment. Family, Kids, Casual.

So the three are all doing well in the current generation and previous generation. May be there was never a war in the first place.
Oh thank you for finding that out. That sounds very fishy! It seems his grandson totally rewrote his page, including removing the long Controversy section. I'm not sure how that edit has been allowed to stand so long. (I put a comment on the talk page saying that just now.)
My BSc was 3 years and that was enough for the PERM
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We'd all like to think we belong to Paul's upper right quadrant (which, mind you, isn't even very well defined) but in truth you, me, and even Paul himself are more conformist than we think and recognising that is an important step in being intelligent and not shielding yourself from criticism.

For example, I don't think wanting to go and pursue a business idea is independent minded. The overwhelming majority of people would like to do this, even your employees. Actually putting in the effort isn't very independent minded either since it's mostly a matter of how much capital, free time, and social safety nets you have, not how much of a free radical you are.
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It was sad, but not as sad as the similarly named Easthill mining disaster.

http://www.ovff.org/pegasus/songs/mining-disaster.html
I find this statement confusing. The Jim Crow laws were a source of injustice, not an answer to it. Did you mean the civil rights act and related laws?
One of the suspected main reasons why we don't have proper original Xbox emulation yet on the PC is because of the fallacy that "it should be easy to emulate an x86 console on x86 PCs". This has lead to many failed attempts to attempt "shortcuts" of running Xbox games on PCs, like converting executables statically, or extremely high-level emulation approaches like only emulating graphics calls. None turned out not to be so easy in practice. The notion "it should be easy to emulate architecture X on architecture X" does not tend to hold up very well, at least not for game consoles that also have complicated graphics and sound.

Compare this to Dolphin, which has been wildly successful in emulating the Nintendo GameCube. Besides the big popularity of Nintendo games, the GameCube was comparable in complexity and sales figures to the OG Xbox. But since it had a relatively non-standard CPU architecture and a non-standard GPU setup, it guided emulation developers to not put too much effort in shortcuts and tackle the emulation problem head on.

It's worth noting some recent progress has been made in OG Xbox emulation by the Xqemu and Cxbx-reloaded projects. The former tries to use qemu for x86 emulation (or even virtualization?) while "low level" emulating the rest of the Xbox hardware, whereas the latter started life as an extreme high level emulator that is going more and more low level over time.
> “Do I want to spend $20 and risk the food being awful, or do I want to go with the safe option, the place I’ve been to a hundred times?” This problem didn’t really exist prior to review sites

Actually, it very much did.

The answer is that you suck it up and go to the new place--live a little.

I eat at a lot of different places. Normally the food isn't awful--most are just mediocre and I won't be back without some other reason (There is an Asian chain restaurant in London that was so BAD I can't even remember its name--that's one of the exceptions). Some are good, but too expensive for what you got--they go on my "If someone really wants <Food X>, I can take them there."

And then there are the few that are "good and reasonably priced (or maybe even cheap)". And the occasional "Expensive, but worth it".

Those are the ones you will recommend when your friends ask.
> Like you realise the protests were sparked off by a murder, right?

It wasn't a murder. I suggest you read the transcript from Lane's body camera. Key points:

* Lane approaches George Floyd asks him to show his hands. Floyd is so high, he has difficulty complying.

* They take him out of his car and try to get him in the police car.

* Floyd claims he can't breathe and begs to be allowed to lie on the ground.

* They call the ambulance (unclear if this is before after he is put on the ground).

* He keeps talking for a few minutes, before losing consciousness.

https://www.fox9.com/news/transcript-of-officers-body-camera...
It's not a hit piece. The whole article lays out the issues with cost focused consultancies. (Please tell me that you're a subscriber and read the entirety of it, rather than the little bit that is available freely.)

The issue with lack of tech talent - is that today, more than ever, we realise that tech/engineering talent is what drives the world. You've seen how this pandemic forced conservative companies to turn to online retail, just to survive. There is no going back...

You may ask - how does that affect those consultancies? Well... Major service and COTS providers need less and less consultants at implementation phase. Companies that go for SaaS need specialists(tax, compliance, logistics, etc), that Indian engineering grads don't satisfy.

In the end the article is about how those companies need to address lower demand for their services.
It's actually in Cary so may be out of the way for you. There's a lot of options in Raleigh proper. I'm sure you can find something comparable that's in your neighborhood. Welcome to the area!
> rather the notion that they crash so god damn often

Perhaps they aren't crashing on accident, but are shot down?

I'm not saying I believe that, of course, but "crash" != "accident".
Everything pivotal
I just inherited a Powerbook G3 (Wallstreet, 300Mhz G3) from my mother-in-law's closet. Everything is fine and snappy until you have two programs open at once...then all of a sudden everything becomes unresponsive.
Way back when I was in high school, it became a fad among the tech-geeks to have our TI-85 graphing calculators modded with a "turbo" switch that would let you run some games like Wolfenstein and Tetris at better speeds. It involved cutting a hole in the back plastic casing inside the battery compartment to make room for the switch, and then soldering a few connections on the board underneath.

There was one kid who was doing it for everyone at $20 a pop, but he made no guarantees about not accidentally bricking the calculator in the process. I was a little apprehensive about having him do it since TI calculators were (and still are) ridiculously expensive, and asked him what his success rate was. He told me it didn't really matter because even if he accidentally screwed up, all you had to do was go buy a new TI-85 from Future Shop (which was like a Canadian version of Best Buy before they were actually bought by Best Buy), put the broken calculator in the box, and then return it the next day for a full refund. He would then mod the new one for no additional charge.

My turbo switch was installed fine so I didn't have to pull the scam, but I knew a few kids who did.
I suppose; it's certainly better than stubbornly holding one's ground after one is proven wrong.

But I think the courage Bob showed in the first place is much more praiseworthy. He actually had to put his butt on the line for this, admitting someone was right after the fact does not usually require that.
It directly impacts livelihood. It's physical in the sense that it's a real world, tangible harm. This is not at all the same thing as somebody merely saying something critical on Twitter. There's a clear distinction here.
When in doubt, reverse engineer it – Dvir Segal
From a Martian's perspective, we crash quite regularly.
Call it war.
Found a pm, ha! Whoever it was, good job. It's astounding that companies don't seem to have real recovery systems, this keeps happening.
Interesting skewed the numbers are towards Republicans. I wonder if this will reflect in the upcoming elections.
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>What's more likely? That some advanced species has jumped across space and then crash landed in the American desert?

>Or that we have figured out how to manipulate gravity in some way (...)

Actually, between these two, aliens would be the more likely scenario. And by "more likely" I mean "infinitesimally likely, versus (given what we know,) absolutely impossible."

Of course that's assuming "what we know" is valid enough to judge likelihood. In an "everything we know is wrong and it turns out Einstein has been superseded by new physics that allow gravity manipulation and FTL after all" scenario, all bets are off the table.
Wow $5. That’s by far the best I’ve found for a brand name I recognize. Purchased. Thank you from me and the students.

Even worth it with the import duty fees to Canada.
That does look a lot better than the other ones I've come across, thanks for sharing. It is about twice as expensive as some of the other options I've found though, e.g. https://www.amazon.com/Jarrow-Formulas-Supports-Health-Softg..., https://www.amazon.com/Jarrow-Formulas-EPA-DHA-Odorless-Caps..., https://www.amazon.com/Nordic-Naturals-Ultimate-Omega-SoftGe....
Well we have more than a hundred languages in India. A lot of them look very different to each other if you are looking for skin color. There are east Indians as well who look Asians.
I'm partial to my Onyx Nintendo DS Lite. Wow was that thing sexy, especially after looking at the original DS!
I guess they address the pressing problems of their investors? Like people with too much money to spend and a bit detached from reality? ;-)
That's the autotrain. Carries passengers AND the car. T

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto_Train
Show HN: Lost in vs Code Windows?
But does the newspaper format specifically add anything to this transaction? Magazines are slower but higher-quality in virtually every way (and I like that magazines are dedicated to a particular topic rather than subscribing to a wide set of topics some of which you might not care about), while the internet (particularly email newsletters) is faster and better-suited for disposable daily updates.

The internet also provides the opportunity for some remarkable interactive journalism (I know a guy who's done some of this for the WSJ) which is impossible to replicate on paper and can sometimes convey the story better than pure print can.

So does daily wood pulp still have a place in our media diet? I'm curious to hear arguments for what purpose it still fills.
I appreciate the response. I'm not certain which essay you are referring to so I can't comment on it or the backlash it received specifically.

In this "Quadrants" essay PG clearly aligns himself with the entrepreneurial free-thinkers, who bravely face down the mob. The problem with this though is he doesn't seem to be able to handle the criticism part. He acknowledges it is going to happen but when he gets dunked on for an essay, he takes his ball, goes home, and then complains that he can't have a real discussion.

But that's the entire point. He wrote something, people disagreed, that's the discussion. Did he take people's disagreements seriously? Did he change his mind? Was he unconvinced and pointed out why the people who disagreed were wrong?
He seems to want to take on the mantle of beleaguered free-thinker while only willing to receive praise.
Right? Because SF isn't already expensive enough without having to compensate employees for $700/week ($36,000/yr) in commuting expenses. (Or for employees to be able to justify that on their own dime...)
>banned any drug with a set of side effects

The word you are looking for is pleasure. The only types of drugs that are 100% illegal are drugs that have no purpose besides making you feel pleasurable sensations. Horrible side effects (e.g. chemo) and high chance of addiction (opioids, amphetamines, etc) and more are all allowed as long as the purpose of the effect of the drug is not (solely) pleasure.

Alcohol, and increasingly in some parts of the world Cannabis, are the exceptions (I understand both of these substances have real and potential uses in healthcare, but they are perceived as recreational). These are legal or quasi-legal only because they are both already in wide use and getting society on board to enforce a ban is difficult to impossible (depending on the society, a few do) . Tabacco is also on the list, but seems to be falling off somewhat.
Another possibility: There will be events/actions (or have been) the US doesn't want attributed to it's military that could start a war. The audience could be domestic, foreign, or both. The message could well be true.

Russia has suffered a string of military mishaps that defy coincidence. China tensions are at an historic high.

This is no time for misattribution.
> Who wants to have a mortgage on a house that is going down in value every year?

Sounds like a car loan. If the house was cheap enough, people would probably be OK with it, but of course starting from current prices it would be incredibly bad.
Not "extremely well known," but our startup has released open source developer SDKs (currently Android and Arduino) and example apps for our consumer hardware device (haptic wristband). It's just been me and a colleague working on these in our spare cycles.

https://github.com/neosensory

We'll take any help we can get with contributing to any of the projects posted up there.
G4, a tech-related cable network closed since 2014, says it will return in 2021
I'm not sure thumbs up/down matter in the algorithm. But that's the problem: we don't know.

I understand you can watch only one type of video, but, from what I,'ve seen, as soon as you watch/click on 1 political video, you get bombarded by it. Also sharing ip with other people seem to affect what you're being shown. I'm surprised that hn seems to think it has that much control over the recommendation algorithm.
Internet quality/availability at home. Ease of collaboration. Home situation not allowing easy studying. Lots of other potential issues...

(This is targeted at normal classes that are online right now, not just at online-only courses)
You seemed to be expressing curt disbelief of a broadly uncontroversial historical fact. Could easily be seen as trolling or an unwillingness to take the time to do some basic self-education.
Cool! I appreciate the feedback. I actually do have a Heroku hosted production environment setup with CI/CD, but it's in maintenance mode until I feel comfortable showing it off.
And a very long lever.
I built a service that allows you to read email newsletters and RSS feeds on your Kindle: https://omreader.co

I just launched this a few weeks ago and have had really positive responses from HN users so far.
You jest, but there's truth here: it's disingenuous (as I suspect the GP knows) for GP's friend to claim that the hardware is perfect when in fact it's missing a simple protection against software bugs causing it to catch fire.
> Unfortunately, we are addicted to having someone filter products and services for us, even if they are manipulated.

I don't think I'm addicted, I just don't know what else to do. How would you recommend I evaluate a product or service before buying it, if I don't personally know someone who can give a recommendation?

I do try to look at trusted professional review sites where possible (The Wirecutter, Consumer Reports, etc), but that only works for certain types of popular products.
And you know what was the cause of the largest changes between 1960 and 2020? The civil rights protests.

And those protesters were disapproved of / hated by the majority of the population at the time. For upsetting the status quo - and "pushing for change to quickly". There are surveys that list this - that mirror the exact same responses that a number of people give today about BLM.
>I don’t think there is that much coordination happening at the federal level right now.

There is, but it's divided between two types of bills: boring and sensationalist. Boring bills usually get coordination, bipartisan support, and little news coverage. Sensationalist bills, even if they align with both parties' platforms, get drawn out and played for show on the news.

Sadly, only a few acts can show at the same time. And in the current political world, new acts keep popping up (email dumps, whistleblowers, official tweets). So things that take a while, like infrastructure, never get to launch. (How many times has it been "infrastructure week"?)
And it seems 1184 is not a typo. surprised
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Reviews are fuzzy measurements that humans interpret as individual, independent, samples.

When you go to the reviews section, your perception is that these reviews are uncorrelated. Correlated reviews are less meaningful, they provide less data. Most people arriving at a review section, seeing 20 1 star ratings, would presume ratings were independent individuals. If 20 independent reviewers each had a bad experiences. That amount of data is extremely telling of the service.

1 singular review, on the other hand says much less.

Maybe their waiter was bad and was fired later? Maybe that was a bad day for the kitchen or the staff somehow? Maybe the reviewer came in with a negative expectation and was biased somehow. Maybe there was some kind of culture issue?

Reviews arn't measurements, they're fuzzy. And while a party agreeing that they were not treated well is MORE information than a single person, it is no where near the signal strength of 20 individual samples.

In this way. They had significantly more influence than was due. It wasn't fair.