skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems to be assuming that the value of all this coverage and analysis is in the correctness of the prediction.

It seems more likely that the media companies profit enormously from all of this coverage in spite of (and perhaps even because of) the low certainty provided by this polling and analysis.
AT&T’s current 5G is slower than 4G in nearly every city tested by PCMag
100% agree with you hear and made much the same point in another post (just not as eloquently).

An analogue would be arguing that you have to be an official whistleblower in order to be protected by whistleblower laws, rather than simply being any citizen who meets the criteria necessary to be protected. It's just not a tenable way to serve the public good.
How many millions are sitting in closets or junked? At least one over here. Occasionally my daughter plugged it in as a speaker, but rarely and not in the last year.
Have to agree, in some ways he helped drive the discussion to greater depth -- many questions aren't easy to answer and Gould didn't want to entertain them. I particularly liked Sacks vignette on patterns from migraines, revisited here:

https://migraine.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/13/patterns/

Sheldrake's discussion on magnetoreception was also of value; it wasn't perfectly accurate (nor as well understood then as it is today) but Gould was arbitrarily dismissive; see more on the really cool phenomena here:

https://www.sciencealert.com/birds-see-magnetic-fields-crypt...

Einstein said it well: "Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution."
One example, unfortunately not very scientific: Years ago, I had a bunch of Web comics I visited daily. To make this more efficient, I had a script on one of my servers which scraped the corresponding sites in the morning and produced the daily collection on a single page.

Every few weeks or months, one of the comics would just not appear or not be updated (i.e. there was the same strip day after day). I had to update the code each time, checking the source code and finding the new page and location of the image. Later, some pages started using JavaScript to load the image file, and I lost interest in sophisticating my script. So, no single page comic collection for me anymore. :)
Given that companies like Uber, which are not only unprofitable but don't even have a clear path to profitability at any time horizon, trade at fairly high valuations, what's the basis for the belief that investors are irrationally focused on short-term results? Should Uber actually trade at higher valuations than it does today? Why isn't some rational subset of investors capitalizing on this opportunity?
Ah right, guess I was thinking of the protobuf over HTTP API. In any case, I find using the protobuf types in your language of choice pretty ergonomic compared to YAML.
I don't hang out much in BLM lands (way too noisy, way too much trash), so there's probably some nuance here that is lost on me, yes. What I mean is that we should take more of the set aside public lands and deem them off limits to motor vehicles. These "designated wildernesses" don't have the problems he describes, except in the most extreme cases (Sierras, AT).
what incentives do companies have to be "long term focused" in a market environment that has become highly frothy and speculative due to central bankers?

when investors will buy anything that whiffs of growth and executives can raise debt for cheap and raise secondaries easily no one on either side is exactly clamoring for a "long term" focused exchange right now.
The fact you note events after the initial launch are exactly why it's ridiculous to say it's why people chose it for those reasons "from day one".
There is no legal "accreditation" of journalists. If freedom of the press only applies to government approved presses, that's not freedom.
I found an interesting paper on the subject over on the European southern observatory website:

https://www.eso.org/public/archives/releases/sciencepapers/e...
Best of luck Eric. I can feel the ship turning.
Corey Schafer is an articulate teacher of the craft of web scraping.

Python Tutorial: Web Scraping with BeautifulSoup and Requests

https://youtu.be/ng2o98k983k
dollars to donuts, app developer or db admin
How statistically biased is our news? An analysis
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A mind-controlled exoskeleton helped a man with paralysis walk again (2019)
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I find it funny when scientific articles (esp. pop astronomy) describe something as weird, bizarre, or extremely unlikely. We're reversing the effects of gravitational lensing on a galaxy at a distance that's a significant fraction of the radius of the observable universe.

Are astronomers that confident in their models that the inferred shape of this galaxy is bizarre? I'd love to have that level confidence in software.
Not the same technique, but there are similar architectures that could be implemented far sooner.

Earth's atmosphere as a refractive telescope:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/earth-could-be-a-...
> it’d still take 25 to 30 years for them to reach a vantage point
....
> mission designers would have to pick carefully because they could observe only a single target

It will take 30 years to get in position but then we can only look at one target? While it sounds very neat, I'd rather fund something we can use more than once, and sooner.
> I guess what I'm saying is this all feels quite ordinary.

Just in case you missed it, the point here is that if this feels all quite ordinary it means the legal system is biased.

There's no world in which limiting the defense to 1/4 of the time of the offense is fair, and fair is supposed to be the point of a trial.
That's pretty unfair, the parent explicitly differentiated between navigational and aesthetic purposes. The former is a critical part of any trail more remote than a boardwalk, while the latter for someone's FOMO insta post.
What makes you think I ever did the latter ;)

In all seriousness, there’s no comparison. A regulated national securities exchange is one of the harder kinds of startups you can attempt.

I’m pretty sure that over the long run equity prices are a mirror of the fundamental value creation that companies do by serving customers. The problem is that this can become distorted “longer than you can stay liquid” as the old saying goes
IMO it's more the flash than the CPU that puts the lower bound on power consumption with the smaller MCUs once you start sleeping.

>Also, the growth in C++ is probably in the new standards,

This, especially since growth here means growth in queries.
And also because terraform is also working on enabling other languages on top of it: https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/cdk-for-terraform-enabling-py...
Slightly less accurate but probably significantly more informative would be "rolling 1-4 on a regular die".
Sounds like job security for us web scrapers... xD
I think part of the idea is between reporting requirements & articulated statements about what goes into that reporting, by failing to report or failing to live up to those goals, you get to use the existing teeth (and defenses) associated with investment fraud. For any constructable issue rather than just purely quarterly financials, you can hold the company to account, and protect decisions that might be for some new goal in their bylaws [but also might appear against an immediate short-term financial gain].

My insight from watching Eric give a talk about the exchange:

https://longnow.org/seminars/02020/feb/24/long-term-stock-ex...
> Making the interface simple and predictable

Please tell me who, in the entire computing industry, is actually working on that? Because I have seen no evidence of it.
This makes me happy and sad. Happy because this is some amazing technology that will have immense benefits.

Sad for a selfish reason. I spent several years working to make a portable MRI device and ultimately failed. I do wish it had worked in our lab, but am extremely happy to see it working for humanity.
None of this is true - we must defund the military, reallocate the spending to true social equality and social reprogramming.
Denver program sends mental health workers instead of police
"Amazon microphone" sounds like the name of an Amazon product. "Amazon Echo and its built-in microphone" would be more accurate.
Great idea! Are the rooms reset after each round to make way for the next group, or is it built in such a way that they can continue from the previous attendees setup?

Also I think as a potential player, it would be great to see an example video of it in action within the browser. Unfortunately the idea is something that could often be done poorly with a lack of actions/control, so I would prefer to see exactly what I'm paying for in terms of the setup.
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It sounds pretty good until you realise that it is the peak of open source full time job. And survivorship bias is taking place here.

Evan took a huge leap of faith when he quit his job for working full time on vue. I am happy that it has worked out well for him.

But it does not mean this path will work for other open source developers, of course they can still get corporate backing(node.js) or paid to work on it (react/angular) or make a business offering around it (laravel/tailwind)

This road is very less travelled.
Why does every gravity storage startup claim they invented gravity storage?

It's not just not true, it's like, obviously not true. Anybody that took high-school level physics understands gravitation potential energy and it's not a huge leap from there.
I love Altair but the practice of encoding data alongside the plots makes it unwieldy for sharing jupyter notebooks (by default a 5000 row limit). Github also fails to preview Altair plots in .ipynb right now
When you plug Razer stuff into a modern Windows 10 computer in the default configuration, Windows will actually silently download and install their crapware. Even if you are not admin. Even if the machine is part of a domain(!)
It really depends on where you plan to work, where your friends are, etc. I would recommend that you rent for a year or two and spend time exploring neighborhoods. You'll find a location you love eventually. There are definitely dangerous areas, but you're going to hear a lot of very outdated advice such as "never go south of Roosevelt" when in reality from Roosevelt south to Hyde Park has seen an incredible renaissance over the last 20 years.

FYI, brick and timber loft condos are super cool, but they usually have strange layouts and the buildings tend to require a lot of maintenance. Don't let me scare you off, but you're going to want to rent one for a year before buying one, just to make sure.
Similar to XML Notepad, one of the nicest freeware mini apps ever published by Microsoft: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML_Notepad
less environmental impact if they would just pee on the existing trail markers then...
Yes, but that's mainly because they use FFT for reconstruction. So you need extremely clean data.

If, however, you use some significantly more sophisticated signal processing, you can side step this requirement.
No one? At least a few people are clamoring for it, surely?

There are some investors and companies that tune out the noise and try to make lasting change, making a dent in the universe, that kind of thing. I think they could use financial infrastructure to support their ambitions. Seems pretty simple to me
If it was developed UI-centric, it would have failed much earlier to do anything useful.

The real power of Kubernetes is that it has very simple basic model that allows building complex constructs out of simple pieces, and in fact basic help (which is even used for UI in kubectl explain.

All the bits for good UI support are there.
Excellent point. Time to find out what counts as "time of war" these days, as formal declarations seem to have gone out of style, at least in the US, in the mid-twentieth century.

(To the best of my knowledge, not only is Korea a frozen conflict, but also the Chinese Civil War.)

Edit: my casual surfing has only turned up rules for how to behave once armed hostilities have started. Outside of that case (and assuming the US even considers itself covered by IHL these days), things seem to devolve to "δυνατὰ δὲ οἱ προύχοντες πράσσουσι καὶ οἱ ἀσθενεῖς ξυγχωροῦσιν".
Maybe another filesystem worth mentioning would be WinFS.

It should have been one of the major features of Windows Longhorn, which later became Vista.

Simply put, it was a relational database, with features you typically find in RDBMS like Postgres or Microsoft's own SQL Server, which took advantage of some of the work done on WinFS.
Still valuable as a way to observe a potentially habitable planet in more detail. If we wanted to launch a probe there, it would take a lot more time!
We'd know if we only listened to the dolphins.
We bailed early and now do 100% offline homeschooling. Thankfully we live in a state that makes homeschooling a simple process. We registered our homeschool, it was approved the next morning, and we notified the school that day.
> As for the rumours and claims about seeing his lawyers, I don't have a strong view on it, since the claims seem quite weird and unsubstantiated. I've looked and I can't find any actual reliable reporting on whether he is being denied real representation and I find that suspicious.

You're calling his lawyer a liar and stating his statements about whether or not he's been given access to his client are unreliable.

Why?
I think the optimal point is more ambiguous in the industry than we normally think. In the earlier part of the teens SaaS businesses in high throughput (>1k TPS) fields such as ad-tech were often created with ruby/python and related languages. From my observation these businesses hit significant friction managing costs as they scaled relative to peer companies using Java/C stacks. While it was possible to build a competing product on latency, it wasn't generally feasible to build a competing product on latency and cost given the throughput constraints. Particularly while maintaining adequate feature velocity. When I worked in such shops cost was a constant conversation during development ( for good reason ) and that conversation didn't come up nearly as often in the statically typed shops. Everyone thought they were more productive in Ruby/Python at the time.

The gap between python and java is a lot bigger than java and C though, and I wouldn't be surprised if the latter optimization doesn't become worth it for a while longer.
This - I believe - is exactly why those prediction are so misunderstood. Most pollster usually give the expected vote share of each candidate. In this regard, a 60/40 split between two candidates in the polls means that the first candidate is nearly guaranteed to win the election. And for most elections, the split usually is much closer (a 53/47 split is already considered a "wide" margin). So years after years you see split like 55/45, 52/48, 57/43, ... and the expected candidates always wins.

So when someone analysing an election comes up with a 70/30 split, the number seems incredibly high - there is now way we are getting this one wrong. It takes at least a second look to see that this guy is talking about something different and that the race actually is quite close this time.
I don’t think multiples are the issue. The question is: are companies set up to support a philology of long-term decision making? Talk to almost any middle manager in any public company in America if you are confused about whether this is the common case today
I don't have any questions, I just wanted to mention that I think you're changing the world more than most people realize.
Gibbs sampling to the rescue.
This is like if Apple said that you can't download any other software on your Macbook, unless you paid Apple 30% and bought it from their exclusive store.
Ask HN: Early stage VC/angels for data-as-a-service startups?
We’re NewsCatcher[1]: one API to access all news articles published online.

We launched, have traction, and we’re going to raise.

Do you know any Angels/VC who have experience working with Data-as-a-Service startups?

[1] https://newscatcherapi.com/
I said higher doses wouldn't be needed for no reason.

On the other hand, I already mentioned what happens with age.
This just cements my belief that the abstraction presented by system allocators is insufficient for modern applications. This shouldn't be done (or necessary) in userspace.
That's extremely rare in Seattle, maybe for overnight emergency, and that "hour" includes drive/admin time and overhead costs.
> That’s a problem that no WYSIWYG has been able to solve yet. It’s probably an unavoidable abstraction leakage.

I think it comes from conflating layout with writing. In QuarkXPress or InDesign it really isn't an issue. Those tools are quite uncomfortable for sitting to write in, though.

LyX does a decent job of this, I think, though it's not exactly WYSIWYG.
Thank you! I don’t mind being misunderstood for long periods of time, that kind of goes with the territory. But still, it’s nice to get a shot in the arm every once in a while
> Biff was Heidi Stettner's dog, back when Heidi (and I, and Bill Joy) were all grad students at U.C. Berkeley and the early versions of BSD were being developed. Biff was popular among the residents of Evans Hall, and was known for barking at the mailman, hence the name of the command."

For those who are into history, if you want to visit historic Evans hall, where a lot of the early BSD work was done, do it quickly.

They want to tear it down soon. They are already working on plans for replacement and it will be the highest priority building project at UC Berkeley when new construction funding is released. Sadly, the building is seismically unfit.
Will there be a limitation on buying/selling to prevent automated traders?

( Or plans for this)
If you consider that the $500k house in the example is the same house that goes for $575k, then housing prices just increased to absorb the eager buyer at a lower percent down. And when the neighbor goes to sell, they see a similar house as their own sold for a higher price, so they try to sell for a higher price.
> I can't write a deployment yaml without googling or copy/pasting

What about Nginx or Apache configuration files? Could you write them without googling?
> What If there is no pay cut and every employee gets the same 6 weeks time off whether you have kids or not. If employees are willing to work for those 6 weeks they will be paid extra. This should be a win-win solution.

This is the only way to do it, by my estimation, but how do you divvy this up? Does everyone just get 6 weeks off per year? I think that's a tough wrinkle, actually.
Even for a stroke, the standard ED protocol is a CT in the majority of cases.
Ask HN: Why isn't there a universal Like API for web content? Content Signals
While reading lots of great content on the web, I'd love to click a Like button - preferably in my browser, that lets the author know I enjoyed the content they wrote. Why isn't there a universal Web API that Browsers can integrate with, so when you press something in your browser, it hits the Content API and gives it a Like? The author can then use that Content Like spec and wire it into their own homegrown like system, 3rd party system, etc.

We need more signals for web content to make it interactive, following web standards.

Just bookmarking something is only client side and should also be a signal to the author as well, again with an API to capture this since it's a valuable metric.
I agree that controls for things like AC on a touch screen are a terrible idea.

I use Waze all the time as it shows speed limit and warns of road blocks by cops (which are notoriously corrupt where I live).

But for a lot of cars in my experience, the screen is only used for infotainment in which case I would love to have Waze to show on it. I always plot my route before starting to drive so I have no need to touch the screen during the trip.

Fortunately push-to-talk and volume control buttons on steering wheels is very common these days, so I don't need to touch my screen to skip tracks (or switch between pre-programmed radio stations), change volume or initiate a hands free phone call. Siri activated by the push-to-talk button is also good enough to use to message back to people you're driving and will get back to them later, or tell your spouse you're on way to them now.
Classes are a way of writing higher order functions
A neighbor who was raising chickens told me her first flock was murdered by the the neighborhood raccoons. They can be cute, but they can also trash up a garden and kill all your chickens. Maybe the attack is called raccoon for the potential?
Well, those developers also live in silicon valley which is an expensive location.

I think the money is decent and Evan must also consider it to be decent enough to get a person working full time with it. And that's what matters
I don't know much about Vue but the single file components used in Svelte was inspired by Vue.

I think they share more goals than they compete on, with Svelte being newer (compiler based) and Svelte taking an older style approach (Virtual DOM) to implement those goals.
Not nearly as powerful, though.
I am currently learning mandarin and my wife is chinese. This word, Na Ge (sometimes pronounced Ney Guh), can be said in rapid succession with little to no pauses between syllables, like an english speaker saying "um-um-um-um" or "yeah-yeah-yeah". Difficult to find a spoken version of this online, but please have a listen to this song [0] timestamped to the appropriate point.

A course on business communication in a segment apparently about "filler words" seems completely appropriate.

What concerns can these students have beyond "I am unable to handle foreign languages spoken in my presence"? These people better not visit a macdonalds in china because all the children around them will be shouting na ge whilst pointing at the menus.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNRgHUs17vY&t=15s
As we're seeing right in our face on the West Coast of the US right now, climate change is going to continue to get worse, affecting the globe at least as much as the pandemic and for much longer unless we take serious action now.

Does the LTSE structure support companies oriented towards developing rapid climate solutions that will pay off in the longer term, but not at the rate of typical venture investments? If this isn't a focus, why not?
> In an ideal marketplace the best product is selected on it's merit.

> Brand loyalty, vendor lock-in, financial leverage, etc. are all attempts to interfere with free market, to prevent a consumer moving to a competitor

As I understand it, the only way to prevent vendor lock-in is regulation. Regulation is considered anathema to a “free market”. Subsequently, I’ve come to expect that a free market _guarantees_ that vendors will attempt to lock their customers in.

I suspect your “ideal market” is not merely an idealised fantasy but also self-contradictory and thus impossible.

I’d love it if you could explain otherwise because it’ll probably help me understand basic economics better.
Isn't adding a column even easier in column-oriented OLAP databases?

I agree that more complex row formats are needed though. Bigquery has done well with nested/repeating structures and Snowflake uses the PAX data format for JSON which has been very useful (however their JSON/VARIANT column doesn't support structured types).
Is it your position that plumbers charge low rates just to be nice

You seem to be protecting a lot into a simple price comparison.
Now this is the stuff we all should be working on, instead of chasing yet another billion dollar photo sharing app