skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love Aphorisms/Quotes/Mottos/Sayings/Passages and have a collection of books in that vein. The reason i like this format is the high S/N ratio; the pithiness really challenges your mind and forces it to consider different interpretations under different contexts which leads to wisdom.

As an example, the sayings of "Wolf Larsen" from "The Sea Wolf" by Jack London have had a profound influence on my thinking.

Here is a passage;

Do you know, I sometimes catch myself wishing that I, too, were blind to the facts of life and only knew its fancies and illusions. They’re wrong, all wrong, of course, and contrary to reason; but in the face of them my reason tells me, wrong and most wrong, that to dream and live illusions gives greater delight. And after all, delight is the wage for living. Without delight, living is a worthless act. To labour at living and be unpaid is worse than to be dead. He who delights the most lives the most, and your dreams and unrealities are less disturbing to you and more gratifying than are my facts to me.” He shook his head slowly, pondering. “I often doubt, I often doubt, the worthwhileness of reason. Dreams must be more substantial and satisfying. Emotional delight is more filling and lasting than intellectual delight; and, besides, you pay for your moments of intellectual delight by having the blues. Emotional delight is followed by no more than jaded senses which speedily recuperate. I envy you, I envy you.” He stopped abruptly, and then on his lips formed one of his strange quizzical smiles, as he added: “It’s from my brain I envy you, take notice, and not from my heart. My reason dictates it. The envy is an intellectual product. I am like a sober man looking upon drunken men, and, greatly weary, wishing he, too, were drunk.” “Or like a wise man looking upon fools and wishing he, too, were a fool,” I laughed. “Quite so,” he said. “You are a blessed, bankrupt pair of fools. You have no facts in your pocketbook.” “Yet we spend as freely as you,” was Maud Brewster’s contribution. “More freely, because it costs you nothing.” “And because we draw upon eternity,” she retorted. “Whether you do or think you do, it’s the same thing. You spend what you haven’t got, and in return you get greater value from spending what you haven’t got than I get from spending what I have got, and what I have sweated to get.
I've found that when an interview question seems too easy, I'll think "What's the catch?". That can start me down a spiral of wasting time and energy wondering if I'm missing something.
Embedded power source from recycled reactor waste offers a battery alternative
The idea is to not look at individual choices but at the aggregate of choices made and measure what mankind considers good.
There is an authoritarianism to it. There's almost never any trial, never any jury. We have these codes of conduct but there's no justice system around them, no paths to renewal or forgiveness.

Perhaps a write up with what the charges are, to start, is due.

Then the person can reply, appeal or try to say that they are trying to learn & prove & apologize.

We have had to tolerate & had to endure humongous shitbirds on this poor planet for way too long. People should be fed up, up to our ears with terrible behavior, & seemingly nothing to put a damper on it, endlessly ever the malignant poisonous people grabbing attention & stroking their demented egos in public. We do need a way for civil society to begin to emerge defenses, to say, no, you are not a civic participant here. But I also think the current CoC system is remarkably cruel & unjust, almost everywhere, & cause of undue unnecessary harm & division & schizming. (But not with BM).
This article is just lame. OP couldn't seem to figure it out but you can implement a background service.

>why not shutdown location and frequent play service updates as they aren't helping my phone battery either

They do. The recommendation is to use the location library that batches GPS use instead of manually calling it per app. The playstore uses heuristics to know when to query for updates and when to download. Its better that the OS batches these sorts of things.

There may be some valid critique but this article is devoid of anything useful.
Exactly. Users rarely if ever go to tech support to show off things they figured out themselves.

Tech support pros saying users are all dumb is like brain surgeons saying everybody has brain damage.
I frequently thought, even before the current situation, that much as I've been happily mostly remote for something like 15 years now, it's hard for me to imagine being in that situation when I was starting out.

Sure, communications tools and practices were a lot different then. But, even so, it's difficult for me to see starting out working from my apartment.
Where did you hear that? Wikipedia only knows of two.

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

It would be really weird to build more than two because they are incredibly expensive and the incremental value of the third and fourth ones wouldn't be very high.
They don't attack us because it would waste calories and risk injury in exchange for nothing.
No self-regulation doesn't work, mostly because people do not really care and do not incentivize companies for good behavior.

But the current legislation is spotty as best and doesn't really help, Google and Facebook are still collecting tons of data while SMBs will be the guys who get sued for not complying 100%.
I am well aware you know this but Elixir is a different paradigm than Ruby and Python. Approaching it like you could do everything as in Ruby or Python means you are unwilling to learn the functional aspects of the language.

IO lists have useful properties that are not readily available in Ruby and Python, so they come with benefits, and Phoenix uses them to great extent for fast templates.

Binary constructors aren’t optimizations either but the way to construct binaries and strings in Elixir. They’re as fundamental as pattern matching.

The lack of libraries is something I can identify with but please understand it is frustrating to hear over and over again something is hard in Elixir while refusing to learn the language basic concepts because you would rather do it as in Python or in Ruby.
The cost to learn to program on Apple's platforms is the cost of an iPad or Mac. The $99/ year is only required if you want to deploy an app to the App Store or use Apple's cloud services.
A good rule of thumb I've heard is that for an hour interview, you should expect people that work for you to solve and complete it in about 20 minutes. If it takes them longer than that, the question will be too difficult for candidates once stress is factored in.
>>it won't stop people from paying for rides.

It will stop some people, The number of people that use Uber and Lyft massively exceeds the number of people that used Taxis before them

There is a reason for this, and if your solution is
well people will just use taxis" clearly that was not the case.

>>If anything, the value of chocolate will go up and that's perfectly acceptable

I see you are speaking from a position of Wealth Privilege..

I wonder if you would feel the same if that price increase was in something less of luxury good like Wheat or corn where a price increase would be counted in lives not dollars
Hang on are you actually accusing me of astroturfing????

How is this post allowed to stand? How do I flag it?
So traditional thrusters, which also convert energy into momentum, shouldn't work either?

Conservation of momentum only applies to mechanical processes, such as force and collisions. Converting energy breaks out of those bounds, and so it no longer applies - and the emdrive breaks no physics.

At least, that's how I've always understood it.
What an extraordinary pain to read. This really demonstrates why Twitter is awful for debates. This can be made readable, but you'd have to rewrite the entire thing, more or less, to pull out the individual points, consolidate broken up thoughts, and create consistent formatting per author so you can follow it instead of being a sea of text with occasional implicit author switching.

(It also demonstrates why you shouldn't have light-gray text on gray background, pale green links, and dashed underline links.)
I’d like to see a chip with it’s own power source that keeps a truly monotonic clock.
I really respect this ideal.

All too often I've found people dealing with external users become calloused. We forget that questions with obvious answers (to us) may not be obvious others and that this doesn't imply that others are stupid.

I feel that it's our responsibility to design things to be as obvious to as many people as possible. I also think a default attitude of respecting the users of our products can go a long way to making this happen.
Why is this the 10th item on the FP with only 3 points and posted 50min ago?
Oh, there is! Just wait and see...
Does anyone have any good videos about Facebook's use of watchman to ship changes to central systems & be performing continuous test/analysis on code as it is developed?

I feel like I saw a good video in 2017 or so but cannot find much these days.
The original certainly comes across that way to me. I have no opinion about any subsequent work on things in this area by others.
Reverse-engineering the first FPGA chip, the XC2064
Can you share this script?
The argument echos Kant...which is too big a sea to boil in a comment. So at geostationary orbit, Kant's metaphysics says we cannot have absolute knowledge of the empirical world, only knowledge mediated by the a priori conditions of human experience, space and time. However, we can have absolute knowledge of morals because such knowledge is not dependent on the aforementioned a priori conditions of human experience.

Going further, in Critique of Pure Reason Kant uses mathematics as an example of synthetic a priori knowledge. This is the lever he uses to overturn the traditional halving of all knowledge into either analytic and a priori or synthetic and a posteriori (empirical). The halving was the basis for Hume's radical skepticism and it's predecessors.
Python 2.7 was supported for 9+ years, python 3 was released in 2008, with development beginning before then. You had almost 15 years of warning from initial announcement to eol. Python3 predates golang.

> And they could have done a lot more to make the transition easier if they wanted to - some of it was just in your face type breakage to a prove a point without considering some underlying use case

Such as?

> (a lot of internet protocols headers etc still ASCII).

What do you mean here? Py3 correctly handles http headers encoded as ascii bytes. Yes the decision to make http headers ascii bytes and not basically anything else is bad in hindsight, but that ships sailed.
IMHO 12 years is a very short time! Of the user-facing programs I use (mostly CLI), the vast majority of the code That gets executed was written far longer ago than that.

Writing some code and not have it executable a dozen years later is a terrible terrible situation. And it wouldn't be this way if Python 2 wasn't EOL.

I'm going to always need to keep a copy of Python 2 around. Always. And if I'm going to change old, working code, I'm probably going to rewrite it in a new language.
was anything said in this article?
It's your fault because of poor naming, it should be "get code". They aren't the ones sending you something.
> A better model for thinking of users is to realise that they are not stupid, just busy and distracted.

I'd put it differently. Realize that your app is not the center of the world. Your users have things to do, and using your app is a small fraction of their life. Even though it might be your baby and you might be spending all of your waking ours thinking about your app, user perspective is different.
That’s a great idea. Perhaps even offer to 2to3...
If I got to spend days interviewing Bill, I would love to here about his projects to build toilets, and eradicate decises, but I would find the time to ask other questions too.

My feeling was that the documentarian got to make the documentary on the condition of not asking the hard questions about Bills past.
Since when are conservatives in Germany involved in data protection? Our dear leader Merkel has exhorted the population not to be so thrifty with personal data!

Privacy initiatives are mostly driven by independent thinkers throughout all parties.
This is true enough in the US, but is prohibitively expensive in a ton of markets worldwide (maybe half the world population). Then again, the requirement to have a Mac to develop iOS apps is even more financially onerous...
but really, it is
With several, wouldn't you be able to localize the waves to particular areas of the sky better? That would probably be useful. Expensive, but useful.
This feels like years ago when clever spam emails would ask you to unsubscribe, which really only sent them a confirmation signal that your email address was valid, and the human behind it was responsive (to a degree). If i go and blur my home, does that now send an additional signal to google for the shadow (or maybe not-so-shadow) dossier that they keep on me (and billions of others)?? I'll admit that clearly this speaks more to my lack of trust of orgs like Google. Then again, i wonder if i submit requests to blur many/all of the homes in my neighborhood - as a very mild randomizer effect - if google would honor all my requests? Or, if they would use other signals to try and zone in on my true location (using, say gps/location from my phone, etc.), and only allow blurring of my home?
It's not clear whether you intend to blame the user or the tool, but my inclination, absent any other information, would be to blame the tool.

Maybe they clicked forward from a previous screen and were presented with an active text field and the "send code" button, but didn't recognize it as a button, or misunderstood its purpose, expecting the code to be delivered automatically, or thinking that it meant "send code from the user to the website" (i.e., after they have typed it in).

Whatever the details, a bunch of users have an expectation that doesn't match the tool's reality. It's the job of the designer to recognize or discover that gap and find ways to remedy it.
What if your party took place 80 years ago, in Berlin, and you invited a dozen guests, half of them were Nazi and objected to your invitation of the 7th for being a Jewish sympathizer? Would it bother you to disinvite him? And would you reassess your recent behavior if you were the one disinvited?
Its unfortunate that their failures are going to prevent VC investment in fuel cell tech for the next couple of decades.

Some suggestions, not that they're listening:

1) deliver one thing before promising the next

2) Use SOFCs, not PEMFCs. They're more stable, more efficient, longer lasting, higher power density, can use hydrocarbon fuels if necessary, produce heat at useful temperatures, and they're way cheaper. Their only disadvantage is their startup times, which is not a problem, and never has been, for long haul trucking.

3) Choose your competitors better. You have zero expertise in building trucks, but you have amassed expertise in building fuel cell power plants. Lucky you: trucking is nothing like cars...alternative powerplant manufacturers are extremely common upgrades when buying a truck. Instead of competing with Peterbilt, you should be competing with Cummins as a supplier for Peterbilt. And when you've pierced that market, you start going after Mitsubishi, Wartsila, Hyundai, Rolls Royce, and MAN.
It is and it isn't.
ohh thanks for the heads up! will look into this. Sorry, this is my first time sharing an open source project.

EDIT: I've added an MIT license to the code. Thanks again for pointing out
I’m reading Savage Continent (Keith Lowe) which covers Europe in the years after VE Day.

I’ll just say the brutality of humans didn’t end with the war.
Coincidently, I've just been re-reading Neal Stephenson's Fall, which is a fun story about simulating uploaded minds (or brains, or whatever).

https://www.amazon.com/Fall-Dodge-Hell-Neal-Stephenson/dp/00...
I think you're looking at it wrong.

Have you ever taught someone to drive? They have their attention completely occupied by ... everything at once.

After a while you can see the pattern. "turn here. right here. WAIT TURN HERE!" "here?" "no, back there."

It's not that they're stupid, it's that you have the pattern ingrained in you and you don't remember what it's like to experience something for the first time.

Now yes, there are idiots - in terms of social interactions - they lack maturity or patience or speak too quickly (or are having a bad day). But don't lose compassion for 99 people for the one unenlightened person.
Hi there; congrats on supporting OSS and Rumin .

I'm a active notion web cliper user.
I trust Notion because they have plenty o money to not lose my data.

Why should i use rumin ?
It was an intriguing enough concept to get to me their website... but then not enough of a hook.

Perhaps having a complete example - i.e. one page walkthough for an example experience (w/ clues and solutions) - would be helpful.
Place Your Bets, a Velociraptor vs. a Modern Bird
Grandson of Harding and lover wants president's body exhumed
They eject something from the system.
I got it from the Annual Survey of School System Finances, U.S. Census Bureau, though on checking it again it's between $6,000 and $7,000 (I was recalling from memory). So not what I put in my comment exactly, but doesn't change my main point in any way.
I suspect, as does Hindenburg research, that GM saw the Nikola partnership as more of a PR spend than a partnership. Its about the optics.
You seem incoherent. Apparently you're implying I have stockholm syndrome, which is at best an ad homenim. Then you mention some woman I've never heard of, and conclude by asserting that I'm super duper wrong...which isn't particularly informative, useful or even appropriate in a discussion.

To top it off, your grammar is atrocious.

EDIT: I'll ask my question again, with better wording, just for good measure. Are you suggesting that when people look for work, they accept jobs that leave them worse off than they were before?
Capitalism when balanced is near perfect.

Capitalism taken to its fullest extreme is greed out-of-control. This is where the US is right now.
capitalism is a system for allocation of resources in a large economy. is there an alternative?
I have a strong suspicion "not accurate" probably means stuff like "oh it was a 2.8% grade, not 3%".
One of my friends has one of these and says it's horribly unstable and the LTE usually doesn't work. I imagine there's still a lot of work to be done to make it usable for technical people, much less non-technical people.
Why America's Jobs Recovery Is Different from Other Countries'
>You had almost 15 years of warning from initial announcement to eol.

Why should I have to do labor to fix things that already work?
I don't consider safety regulations to be in the same category as the employee/contractor distinction. I do think there are some safety things we should not be able to freely give up.
>> Privacy. Some of my coworkers have taken to giving me their phone number so that we can talk outside Slack because they worry that Slack is being watched now.

This is one factor I should consider more, I (among others) control our companies communications platforms so I know the security, who has access, what they can see (and cant see) etc.

If I was not on that team this may also be a factor for me.

as to emotions... Again this is why I work on computers.. I take a Vulcan outlook to emotions.
Two alternative viewpoints I have that are radically opposed:

What if government regulations warp capitalism and give protectionism and favoritism to certain companies while excluding the rest and not allowing for the free market to work?

What if unregulated capitalism has cannibalized itself and destroyed the free market by way of big fish eating up all of the small ones and now we're left with a bunch of huge corporations with outsized power and no threat from competition?
You can generate thrust in Earth orbit with electricity by pushing off the planet's magnetic field, so it's not quite a perfect test.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_tether
> Rather, she targets ‘economism’ - a particular set of economic theories and assumptions, plus a layer of incentives we’ve built atop them. Neither updating our theories to better match reality, nor redesigning the incentive structures that underlie economic outcomes require an exit from capitalism.

While that may be true, I think the reason we got here is because Capitalism inherently incentivizes those types of theories, assumptions, and incentives. You can argue that an ethical Capitalism is possible sure, but that would require labor power and a strong state to prevent the erosion that we have seen in the last half decade.
Why not start using OpenPush which is decentralized https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22306174
Thanks for this. It sounds very cool but very niche. Seems like you'd need to know the right person to get into this sort of work. Congratulations on all your success.
How often do you use vectors, linked lists and trees at your job?
It's not a productive word really because it almost poisons every discussion based on whether someone's broadly sympathetic to 'capitalism' or not. Even when people actually agree this can cause meaningless confusion.

What I think is very valuable within our system is markets as a tool. There's no functioning replacement yet for allocating resources through something like a market at large scale. Even socialism sympathetic economists like Oscar Lange recognised this a long time ago.

What's wrong with the status quo I think is markets as an ideology, confusing social ends or larger objectives with the outcomes markets or capital produce. There is too little coordination in society, too little forward thinking and planning at a high level. It shows in the covid pandemic into which we stumbled like fools despite knowing it would happen at some point, the way we're screwed every time a wildfire breaks out despite we know it'll happen. I think it's glorifying capitalism as a way of life rather than a tool that produces these failures.
The answer (even as politically unpopular as it may be) is regulation. Either the industry should come up with their own regulations (like the ESRB for video games) or the government should come up with regulations (like GDPR). That’s how every industry levels the playing field for consumers who can’t actually be as informed as they need to be (or don’t have a choice even if they’re informed).

Unless everyone is a software engineer and can read the code of all the software they’re running and where their data is going, “open source” isn’t going to fix the problem. And expecting everyone who uses a phone or computer to know the details of its software implementation is highly unrealistic (even as a software engineer, do you know how your doctor’s medical billing and coding software works? Unless you work at Epic, probably not). So there needs to be some regulatory body who actually is informed and can certify that software companies are following the rules.
When it becomes Julia.
Even a simple message in an exception statement, "you are running Python 3; could this be Python 2 code?"
Why B2C e-commerce hasn't yet scaled in Africa
The $100/year barrier may be tough to overcome in large portions of the world, but those portions of the world are not where iPhones are popular.
All fair, but 30% is not a small slice.

All of that need to be replaced by something else, and the only thing that's quick enough to replace it was fossil fuel. Germany is also not exactly the ideal place for solar power generation.

It's still leave people scratching over why you guys ditched nuclear energy. The newer version of nuclear reactors are safer than fossil when you factor in pollution, and EU itself has expertise (from France).
There are certainly good and bad kinds of regulation.