skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bicycles.

Man on a bicycle can go three or four times faster than the pedestrian, but uses five times less energy in the process. He carries one gram of his weight over a kilometer of flat road at an expense of only 0.15 calories. The bicycle is the perfect transducer to match man’s metabolic energy to the impedance of locomotion. Equipped with this tool, man outstrips the efficiency of not only all machines but all other animals as well."

http://www.bikeboom.info/efficiency/
The Germans were also rather deep inside France, and thus more content to build systems of defensive fortifications. The British and French were of the mindset that the next offensive would have them making territorial gains, and so whichever trenches they currently occupied were only temporary.
Might sound cheesy, but cultivating love and passion for what you do, especially targeting the tedious aspects of it.

Most people tend to assume that they have a fixed amount of energy, motivation and ability for their work, and don't realize how much these can be inflated by positive emotions.

This is where a musician finds the perseverance to do the technical exercises that get her to playing a piece. And where a budding scientist finds the patience to work through a complex topic in spite of all the overwhelming conceptual hurdles. And where a programmer gets the motivation to learn arcanes of some obscure tool.
I too don't like lots of bright windows/monitors in my peripheral vision.

On macOS, a utility called HazeOver makes working with three monitors much nicer.

https://hazeover.com/
While its true that sugar is more addictive than cocaine neither sugar nor caffeine induce people to commit sexual assault or impair the ability to operate machines. Could you produce a single instance where somebody was arrested for DUI where the intoxicant was sugar or caffeine?

Perhaps I am judgemental too, but your argument is hilariously absurd and decidedly without evidence.
Lync for sure. Or Skype for Business as they call it these days even though it's got absolutely nothing in common with Skype. Worst communications app ever created.
same and how can so many people not be in "most"
The walking bit resonates a lot. Feels therapeutic to go for a walk and let my mind wander after a day of work.
That only works as long as your addressable market is growing. You see it on app stores. Many early Indy developers were making money selling 0.99 apps where you paid once and got free upgrades forever. That was fine when the iOS market was doubling every year. Now, lack of upgrade pricing is forcing app makers to either make money from ads or subscription pricing.

Back in the day Angry Birds cost $0.99 with no ads and you could use it forever. I downloaded it again recently just for nostalgia purposes and there is no option to get rid of ads. EA had a version of Tetris that cost $0.99 that was released during the 3.5” era was never upgraded, but stayed in the App Store until iOS didn’t support 32 bit apps. They replaced it with an ad supported version.
> Abandoned source code feels like carcasses of sunken ships waiting for someone to rescue whatever is still valuable.

Yep.

This year I discovered that there is active development on ACM 6.0 (enhanced fork of ACM 5.0).[0]

I just hope that someone would also take a look on Vertigo for continuous development and porting it to Linux and other modern platforms.

[0] https://twitter.com/app4soft/status/1237898195385987076
This thread is predicated on the value of time, but ICYMI:

https://fs.blog/2017/03/seneca-on-the-shortness-of-time/
> By “Russiagate” are you referring to the FBI investing on of the Trump campaign’s communication with Russians?

No. The FBI investigation I have no problem with. The surrounding hysteria that led to Twitter banning real people as bots for expressing skepticism over foreign policy in i.e. the Middle East and the birth of various shady companies that promised to deal with the "bot problem", but were in fact using bots for spamming themselves[1].

> I’m not sure how investigating that was a bad idea.

Investigating that wasn't. The various leaks that provided unnecessary fuel to the fire before the media storm before the investigators had their conclusions was not helpful however.

> and a bunch of people pleaded guilty to crimes

Yes. However these were usually for something they have done prior to working for Trump or for lying about certain details to the FBI, as far as I know no Americans were actually charged with conspiring with Russia during the election to benefit Trump, (whom I dislike BTW, but there's plenty of more substantial crimes that weren't looked at for some reason, like his dealings in Saudi Arabia even during the campaign or him using his hotels etc. for state business).

> Should we have not investigated crimes because people find it too political?

As I said above, the investigation I have no problem with.

1 - https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/26/us/reid-hoffman-alabama-e...
“100” (from 0 to 100 years in 150 seconds)
The military has like an hour of exercise a day, no? If you are walking 10 feet to a car and driving to site in a cube all day, I don’t think you have the same hydration needs as someone physically exerting themselves.
Typing, touch-typing, writing shorthand will make transcribing speed match the speed of speech.
I discovered that one too: win + shift + s
The only frustrating thing is that with that hotkey it just copies it to the clipboard (usefult often) but sometimes I want to do what you mentioned (save it). For that I don't know a hotkey...
> It didn't have much to do with the mail

From your link

Patel said his campaign is looking at thousands of other votes that seem to be missing postmarks entirely—a post-office error... He sent me a photo of a box of 3,000 absentee ballots from just one part of the district that have been ruled invalid because they lack a postmark.

Personally I've heard a lot about the mail being an issue in NY.
There is a simpler alternative imo: consider any news that do not list all of their sources as fake news. Treat them as if they were scientific papers.
There's also a "quicker version".

Win+Shift+S, select an area to grab and the result is copied into your clipboard from which you can directly paste it into most apps that support inserting images (Slack, Signal, MSOffice, Skype...) or even image upload forms on the internet...
That link was fascinating to me. For as long as I remember, there have been tools to evade network intrusion detection systems and stateful firewalls, but I never thought about how the same techniques can be used to evade censorship.
Similar here. Also, my workstation is now a laptop with a big screen, so I can go work wherever is comfortable at the moment, without being crippled without my multiple monitor setup.

I use tiling window managers to help make this work. (Currently, xmonad on personal laptop, and trying out i3 on my work laptop to see if I can get is as productive for me as xmonad.)

When docked, the laptop's screen usually displays my first virtual desktop, which is for email, chat, misc monitoring. All the other desktops are for Web and tasks.

There are two many tools, setups, and conventions to get into here, but I'd just like to say I'm currently a fan of the approach that all I need is my laptop and Internet to do all my work.

(Well, sometimes I need other specialized hardware. But I don't need to be at my desk for the big monitors.)
This makes it sound like 100% is the goal. Some companies don't get added value by going to the cloud. The cloud isn't cheap for example (among many others) for storage heavy workloads. And sometimes it's also a regulatory thing.
Whether used or not, if they own a car that they don't use, another car will be built and put on the market instead, as long as other people need them.
MoJ in the UK runs prisons, courts and probation service.
Don't forget the plethora of truthy values that put Javascript to shame.

- country: NO

Of course it's boolean
You're missing a sarcasm mark.

But seriously: at best it's going to be a big "maybe, it depends". These services bounce between PR disasters of "complicit purveyors of propaganda" and "oppressive algorithms destroying free speech", so you can't rely on them to be on either side.

As deepfakes get better, the algorithms will have worse detection rate, so it'll end with Zuck testifying to congress that Facebook doesn't want to decide what is real, so everyone can post deepfakes all day long.
A couple of good surprises coming from MacOs:

- The window snapping shortcuts win + left or win + right are great.
- Alt-tab rolls through all open windows, not open programs (avoids the tab + ` in mac)
- Win + e to open explorer that one comes in handy often
From what I dimly remember last time I looked, there were a bunch of ways to deal with strings and lists/arrays/etc.

Googling "most popular haskell language extensions", I see this article: https://lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2018/02/10/an-opinionated... which lists 34 recommended extensions and admits "a few of them are likely to be more controversial than others". Half of them don't have names which make their purpose immediately obvious to me.

A more data-driven approach is turned up here: https://gist.github.com/atondwal/ee869b951b5cf9b6653f7deda0b... which concludes "only 10 extensions show up in more than 10% of the Haskell files on GitHub, and 20 show up in more than 5%!"

Its discussion on reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/916jj0/popularity_...) highlights some gaps in the analysis, but also the general notion that "everybody uses language extensions, but not everybody uses the same ones".

Of course, each language extension changes the syntax and/or semantics of the language, so in order to "learn Haskell" I'd have to learn one or more flavors/styles of it – and there doesn't seem to be one standard set of language extensions that are commonly used.
Who does this banning harm specifically?
> http://www.internettemple.org/

Yes, the days of yore where there was no HTTPS - and, unsurprisingly, Comcast still is able to inject code into the page letting me know that i'm at 90% of my 1TB data cap.

To clarify, they have Heroku set up with no HTTPS but only because they aren't paying them $20/month (!!)

https://elements.heroku.com/addons/ssl
I remember it being touched upon by Freakonomics [1], including references to some sources that elaborate more. I read a book that argues this point, but can't for the life of me remember its author or title.

I'm not surprised the cotton gin made slavery worse, the raw cotton still needed to be harvested by humans.

[1] https://freakonomics.com/podcast/meat/
how i can i find a mentor. I've always been a lone wolf, shy person.

I really want to find a mentor but not sure where to even begin.
North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves
> it's about geographical markets

In most states in the US business transactions negotiated in the presence of alcohol (any alcohol) renders a contract void due to legally provable diminished capacity. It sounds like you are taking unnecessary risks without approval from your corporate legal advisors.
I don't see it this way; I see Rome as the Apple of front-end tooling. You use an opinionated service to do most of the work. No brainer!

If you want more configuration, build your own, and most people will do. But for the novice, people who do multiple new projects a year, or people who don't care about details, Rome will be great.

For homemade projects, I use CodeKit, and I think Rome will be the same without the friendly and refined GUI.
Is there a reason to believe that LA is taught worse then say calculus?

I suspect math is taught badly in general, LA stands out because of its wide applicability at this part of the 21st century.
Someone just found the other half of their deep fake GAN
>Among other things, equipment needed to reduce emissions of poisonous nitrogen oxides would have taken away space needed for a high-end sound system.

What component of this sound system took up so much space? Modern amps are so small.
I recently got ultra fine, anything you recommend to prevent burn in?

Are yours the old version or the refresh?
I think the point was that if you exercise a lot, eat enough, and drink yourself to clear pee, you still get enough electrolytes. So a less strenuous plan with enough food presumably also means one gets enough electrolytes.
I have a totally quite unrelated skills and degrees. I don't think I'll be able to combine all of them.
DNA will set them apart
> The reason was that the allied side considered itself on the offensive, and saw no reason to makes the trenches more livable since they expected to leave them as soon as possible to advance in newly reconquered territory.

There is a certain irony in that, considering that almost every Allied soldier who set foot on German soil – with a few minor exceptions – did so as prisoner of war.
What if it gives false positive results? What if it tags non-deepfake news as deepfake-news ?
"a prolific patent litigant" that should be urban dict definition for a patent troll. And with addition of "losing majority of actual trials" a regular dictionary.

I think it's becoming if not already became apparent that IP law is deeply flawed. The sole existence of legitimate business model of patent trolls is an indication as well as solutions hurting public designed to avoid corporate litigations such as you tube content infrifiment marking. Its biased against individuals.

But, oh well,bills and laws are not sponsored by public, so it's hard to expect they work in their favour.
> I registered a trade mark for my small business. Didn’t require a lawyer and the fee wasn’t more than a few hundred dollars per 5 year period.

That's fair. However a few hundred dollars could still be quite a lot. Especially for a small website or an open-source project where this could be basically all their donations.

In codeguru.com's case however, I'd grant you that they probably did have a decent enough income to afford a trademark registration, just maybe not when they started and by now it really wasn't on anyone's mind.
Super powers for me include:

Pareto distributions: start with hypothesis that any attribute you are looking for in a given sample is Pareto distributed in the whole. Applies to everything. It's more than the 80:20 rule. The shape of probability distributions in general (s-curves, bathtub curves, etc) is a useful filter for a fast path.

Negotiation: I recommend starting with the classic, "getting to yes." The level of confidence you can bring to a discussion when you have a clear idea of what the outcomes look like, and to have pre-accepted them, is a form of charisma. Learning it is also good for the culture in general.
Yes, very true. That's the incentive for me, a hobbyist with very few customers, but when you've captured a lot of the market and your users never need to replace your product with a new one because it broke, you'll soon hit a wall.
Same for me. Multiple desktops with tiled windows on a single screen has been a much better experience than the two screen setup I had in every job before.

Example for my desktops setup for web application development over the last couple of years:

1. Browser with the product I'm currently working on, nothing else

2. Shells for all sorts of small tasks like tailing a log to REPLs for quick experimentations

3. Application IDE(s)

4. SQL IDE

5. Music player

6. Communication (Mail, slack, etc.) and secondary browser for miscellaneous things

The greatest thing for me is, that what I'm currently doing is in full focus and everything else basically doesn't exist. No notifications dinging in peripheral vision or other distractions. Also it is nice, that when I switch to laptop only, the workflows are exactly the same just with more limited screen space = less tiles I can use.

If for a given tasks it is beneficial to have things side by side, it is just a couple of key strokes to re-arrange windows and or create an ad-hoc desktop until the task is finished.

Of course I could use multiple desktops and tiled windows on multiple screens, but from my experiments it added more complexity that benefits.

I would rather go for a bigger, higher quality screen than adding another.
Three finger drag is nice, but I wish it worked on any part of the window not just the title bar. Also, there should be a warning that enabling 3 finger drag automatically increases the "Mission Control" gesture from 3 fingers to 4 fingers (swiping up).
John Perry Barlow
The U.S. military does not have any uniform guidance on this. The Navy and Marine Corps official guidance is that urine should be lightly straw-colored. Hyponatremia is warned against just as strongly as dehydration.
> What is the difference between an Android phone and an iPhone phone

What is the difference between a cheap Android and a premium Android device relative to difference between iPhone and premium Android?
“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”

― Anaïs Nin
F2 to rename things
A Heaping Helping of Stacks
You'll still be low on Magnesium if you sweat and perform for 60min+ — which leads to stuff like restless legs and rather bad sleep.
I read long ago that the American convention comes from an old printing press limitation and flowed into writing too. This answer [1] on English StackExchange has some details. I’m sure many other sites have written about this in detail.

[1]: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/150703/why-is-th...
Much much better! I have a lot more energy. There were times that I was so tired at work, I would go in the bathroom and lay my head on the toilet paper dispenser for a moment. I was just so desperate. I felt like I took Benadryl. Looking back, it’s obvious that isn’t normal behavior. But yes, now I can stay awake for a normal amount of time. Such an easy fix, but what a difference.
Terrible advice, this is just leverage. What if you did this in 2004 in Detroit?

Leverage magnifies gains and magnifies losses. It increases risk. If the housing market tanks or rental prices drop too far below mortgage payments + upkeep then you're fucked. The more you did this, the more you're fucked.
Nah, I'd just not been able to think off hand of an example of intestinal flora being shared (potentially widely) among members of a species.

The rabbits example is a good one to illustrate it already does happen. :)
You could have done so much more with your life.
> It was one of the engineers, James Liang, who just did what he was told.

Everyone is an independent agent and would like to avoid the most obvious Godwin here.
I haven't found a mainstream newspaper yet with the occasional gem of thought/ opinion that I've gotten off HN/ Reddit.
The US didn't have 2M active duty troops available to send to Europe in 1939. We were still in the Great Depression. Even if there had been political will to oppose the Axis Powers at that time, the funding and materiel simply didn't exist.
Lobbying Against Hollywood Villains
> skipping exhaust warmup during tests

Total aside, this is something that bothers me about my dishwasher. It has all the certifications for energy and water efficiency, but "for best results" the manual also recommends getting the water hot beforehand, by running the hot water in the sink. I wonder if the energy and water rating would still be as good if the dishwasher did that itself.
Why React projects still use Redux in 2020?
Seemed to be more a question of "why 5v at all?", rather than meaning FPGA-specific. ;)
People work longer and different hours under lockdown
Not if it's ran by liquid or direct democracy. (Delegated democracy). You vote or give your vote to someone else in your behalf, all major decisions are voted on.

Properties we buy etc... Exec payrates, etc...
American parents are setting up homeschool “pandemic pods”
You can also make the snipping tool launch whenever you press print screen. Look in the keyboard settings for the toggle to turn that on.
Most document databases have JSON editors, which are very useful at times but don't have any schema checks.

By "typed language" I suppose you mean "statically typed language". This isn't relevant because A) JSON types exist and B) I've never had a problem with unexpected types from user data in a dynamic language, not even in PHP.

> Otherwise, how is this not caught when it enters your system?

It should be caught, and it's very important that it be caught all of the time and not have any issues due to bugs or version mismatches. That's why the schema should live in the DB.
The graphics are why an increasing number of projects are just using Unreal these days. Not sure how well it would work (level size) but it looks fantastic in racing games which also have fancy physics.
ooo that's a good one :)
I would also recommend the documentary series Apocalypse: World War I which also contains colorized footage and dubbed sound effects.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypse:_World_War_I
Which is why our society is languishing
Excellent. This is pretty much my reasoning as well. On your third point, I use a different angle which is “religious explanations don’t outperform no explanation at all” in a nutshell. But I love it, this progression really helped me put aside religion altogether.
“The only rules that matter are the ones that matter”

Most of the rules that most people live by are bullshit and only serve to hold you back. The key is in figuring out which is which. In the extreme, many laws are not even enforced.

I’ve mad my living breaking all the “rules” and by doing everything wrong.

The pearl clutching rule followers equate rule following with ethics. They’re often wrong.
But consider the good that has come from space.

GPS was a military project. Now we use it for everything from finding grandma's house to locating lost hikers.

The tech behind spy satellites is now used to monitor farming fields, increasing crop yields and reducing food costs. The same tech is used in telescopes like Hubble, teaching us so much about the universe and how nature works.

Most of the science on the ISS is impossible to do on Earth. We're learning a lot about human health especially (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:International_Space_S...).

And it's not like the money gets burned or sent into space with the satellites. It's spent here on earth. A $1B contract with SpaceX doesn't just go into Elon's pocket and then he magics up a rocket. SpaceX employs thousands of people.

And space is a tiny fraction of the spending of all governments on the planet. Cut the military budget of the US by 10% and you could feed every hungry child, have a proper health care system, pay to reform the police system. Cut the budget spent on space, you wouldn't put a dent in those problems and you'd lose out on all the benefits we get.
There are mainstream languages with decidable static type systems. They compile quickly and give obvious short error messages.
We'd work to provide that, but you need plenty of $$ on hand for healthcare monthly... I mean one cancer diagnosis and if you have 10 members, it's gonna cost 100k minimum that year just for one person... that might eat up the whole budget.

So by building some combination of crowdfund (for when we're under budget), along-side member sharing backed by recurring income, we create a more stable fund that uses 100% of it's money to reward members.

The idea is basically get single payer healthcare outside the government or alongside and force insurance carriers out of the market by coming up w/ something basically non-profit that gives all $$ pooled towards healthcare costs. While working to bring down costs in the industry where possible.
Can I ask how long is it probably going to take for Rome to provide fuctionality to replace the tools it aims to replace, in a stable release? Rough estimate