skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's the other way around. Just because somebody is good in one area that doesn't mean they have any authority in another, unrelated one.

Putting people on a podest and excusing untolerable behavior is plain toxic.

It is not wanting that everyone needs to be a PR polished suit, just wanting that people are decent human beings.
> the smartest individuals at what they do that have existed in human history

How do you measure that?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpKmje75kZo
I didn't realize that. It looks like there was a big hiring rush in January/February to meet the deadline:

https://www.bizjournals.com/albany/news/2020/01/30/tesla-fac...
At the moment I'm checking this, the title of the article is much less sure than what's on HN.

"Study Suggests Reduced Mortality Risk For Covid-19 May Be Associated With Adequate Vitamin D Levels"

Whereas the current HN title claims that "study finds" that "Vitamin D Levels Cuts Risk" which is much stronger claim, which doesn't have to be true -- i.e. an editorialized title, not what HN typically prefers.
IMO dataframes are the reason why dynamic typing fits data science so well. It's certainly possible to represent a single dataframe as a static type; but representing all the slicing, column removal, joins, etc. is actually pretty hard without dependent tricks. So bypassing types for data frames is preferable. On your ML engineering point, the other side of it is that once your dataframe's schema is finalizes it really should be statically typed so that assumptions can safely be made about what is/isn't inside of it
What about electric water heaters? I am unfamiliar with the usage patterns and losses over time, but having my home water heater having some variability in temperature would be ok with me — I’d simply adjust the handle in the shower.
I remember seeing this project here in HN (or was it Reddit?), but it's more of a proof of concept:

https://github.com/zhuowei/marina

The code itself is pretty easy to understand: https://github.com/zhuowei/marina/blob/master/marina_html.sw...

I think SwiftUI is still settling, so I expect to see more movement in this are in the short-term future. But I don't see Apple releasing an HTML-emitting-SwiftUI by themselves.
Maybe. The surface area of all the roads in the US is ~25k mi2. Which is ~0.6% of the surface area of the whole US. And the US is a pretty advanced country in terms of road density and variety. I think we can say that the total global road density is likely less than even that. Now sure, road density isn't randomly distributed across the surface of the Earth. But future people will still need to get lucky just to see roads at all.
Agreed.

I will add that juniors must be taught to test. In my experience they always think that they need to ship, especially when the manager is pushing and setting deadline. The job of the developers is to deliver working software (this involves testing), not to ship code ASAP.

You test before shipping. Do not deliver something that's not been tested, if you don't have time to test you don't ship, shipping can always wait.

Makes me wonder if there is a deeper issue with the environment (testing tools? business complexity?). Complexity should be reasonable, we're talking startup from scratch, not 10 years old legacy code? Can they run locally? Do they have test data and a test environment?
Can you make checklists of common concerns related to deliverables? For example, while writing web forms, most junior developers tend to forget validations , or implement only client-side validations (not server-side). Just putting this in a PR template helped some junior devs improve the quality of their deliverables.

Adding more details to your question about the nature of work and business domain, along with QA issues would allow people to give more actionable insights.
No, it doesn't, it discusses the results of PrivMort, a retrospective study, that showed 13% increases in mortality for men in Russia for an extended period of time. This corresponded to about 7 million excess deaths beyond the death rates expected of the RSFSR under the Soviet Union.
This program came up in Portuguese on my English Windows desktop. Fortunately I speak Portuguese.

I tried it for a bit, it has potential, but isn't there yet. Like the clunky competition, the interface needs to be improved. It's a pity it isn't written in something like Flutter (uses QT).

In my view the benchmark for usability and responsiveness is (surprisingly) a web app: http://lushprojects.com/circuitjs/circuitjs.html. It falls flat for accurate simulations, but is an excellent tool to quickly evaluate schematic ideas.

Edit: see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17599728
Learn to love and live boredom. Boring periods (whithout any computer or smartphone or other external stimulation) have a positive effect on your brain. It helps sparking your creativity too.
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> Latency from keystroke to character render has gotten worse. App start time has gotten worse. Lots of other latencies have gotten worse.

Do you have sources for this? I mean, I'm not sure there aren't rose-tinted glasses here.

> These would be arguably fine if the additional features you get were a necessary cost, but they're not.

> Each version of iOS gets more energy-intensive, for example.

I would argue that multitasking, camera postprocessing, widgets, background app refresh, and others are all features worthy of more resource usage. Many of those are things you can choose not to use if you want to save power.
Article: stop asking me to "sign-up".

Same article: take 1/3 of the screen on mobile for a button to signup.
You are only considering safety and discounting everything else. The capacity of the road network is absolutely related to speed. Slowing down transportation across the board amounts to slowing the economy, which has it's own health impacts. It's not obvious what the ideal balance is. For certain, 1 fatality about every 100 million miles driven is pretty low, especially compared to the sheer amount of utility we get from all of these cars.
I'm sorry, I confused the F-150 with the F-650.

When I'm in the US, and get the chance to walk around some city's blocks, these things are nothing but intimidating to me. Being rather tall, I'm not used to cross a traffic light as pedestrian and not being able to see above the hood of the car I'm passing. It has a different vibe to it, if this towering above me isn't caused by the vehicle owner's commercial needs but because the driver fancies it.
> I said backwards compatibility

This phrase isn't entirely clear.

> Objective-C is a superset of C

This phrase is clearer.

In any case, I'm not fully convinced which language has the advantage and which the disadvantage in this case. You still have to call C API in Swift, and it's rather painful.
I am not sure you know how splash pads work. There is no pool. If there is a pool then it's regulated like a swimming pool.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judiciary_Act_of_1789

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judiciary_Act_of_1869

Congress has already established the composition and the procedures of the court. Of course it has that power.
This (made by a friend) is exactly that idea! https://www.anishathalye.com/2019/12/12/constraint-based-gra...
Yeah if you can keep it dry (take care of roof and siding) and keep termites away they can last a long time. Especially older homes that have sturdier frames (when a 2x4 was really 2x4) built with old growth wood which tends to have tighter grain and therefore more strength.
> Same way, if you have a Ford car, you depend on Ford much more than Ford on you.

But the latter is contractually obligated to help you to some extend due to warranty etc.. Also, Ford has far less lock-in than Instagram.

> > There is very little incentive to make their users happy when their users are not paying for the service
>
> This quite is very incorrect.

I'm not disagreeing with you here; I'm disagreeing with your point that users are (far) more important than advertisers. Single-user complaints or unhappiness tends to be ignored, I doubt the same is true for advertisers. The recent Reddit changes, for example, show this very clearly (to be fair: I don't have an FB-example as I don't follow it in any way).
Wonder why California doesn't have any outdoor offices.

Respitory viruses are pretty much limited to spreading indoors. I also assume having a nice green outdoors view would be much less stressing to the workers when compared with a traditional office environment.

It's really easy to set up and disband. Just run power and internet cables, set up some desks and off you go. No need for expensive construction.
Mix & match was always the best way, IMO.

Use IB to build small components and highest-level layouts.

Use code for everything in between, as well as individual views.
Why does it need to be stored under high pressure? Compressing any gas is a waste of energy unless you have a need for those higher pressures, or space is an issue. If you're simply storing the hydrogen temporarily as a reserve, to later use for electricity generation, then storing it in large mylar bags, or silos at 8psi (close to isothermal expansion) or less seems the ideal way to go.
WinFS wasn’t destined for Windows 2000 nor XP, but rather Vista.

I was an intern at Microsoft in 2004, and personally helped make it clear that WinFS also wasn’t ready anyway. Fwiw, I think the iOS model of “makes users and apps no longer care about directories” has been more successful than the original WinFS plan of “maybe it’s all a SQL-ish database instead”.
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Ditto, has an API too. I'd sign up in an instant if only it wasn't (typically, y'know, when not paying me to consume!) much more expensive than my provider which just tracks wholesale price (monthly, plus margin of course).
There was an order of magnitude more of money in the film market compared to the camera market.
You could consider the Keyboard FeatherWing. It contains only the screen and keyboard part. You are meant to add a Feather format board that has a microcontroller and Wi-Fi, for example Adafruit’s ESP32 Feather board.

https://www.tindie.com/products/arturo182/keyboard-featherwi...
https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-huzzah32-esp32-feather
>> checked by the courts

If you limited their targets to high net worth individuals, I daresay they'd be able to afford a robust (and as fair as we can make it) defense.

Unlike the abuses in civil forfeiture, where the primary targets tend to be without legal recourse.
SwiftWebUI [0], "write SwiftUI Views which display in a web browser." HN discussion [1] from last year of SwiftWebUI.

[0] https://www.alwaysrightinstitute.com/swiftwebui/

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20320820
it's counterintuitive, with the flora of TLDs
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I really don't like these oversimplifications.

It is like saying, railroads don't care about people, railroads are only interested in trains moving fast and reliably.

Or it is like saying, doctors (even under socialism) don't care about people, they only care about getting their salaries.

Smarter people make one step further concluding that fast and reliable trains are beneficial to people, doctors heal sick people, and capitalism generally make people wealthier.

> capitalism is an economic system whose defined goals have nothing to do with people's wellness (they are profit for the owners of capital, and perhaps innovation)"

Adam Smith' first book called "The Wealth of the Nations" not "The Wealth of the Richest People in Power").

I would not go that far to define a "goal" of capitalism. It is just a system of rules and principles, there's no goal in it.

And these rules and principles are profitable for both capital owners (they can grow their capital), and for regular dudes (who can be paid better because market provides them with more opportunities to pick different jobs and higher quality jobs and who can use cheaper good and services).
You can just... stop using their services. I deleted my Reddit and Twitter accounts a year or two ago, and have missed out on absolutely nothing of importance. Digital "life" is totally impoverished.
Thank you for sharing that insight, coathrowaway.

From your experience of nearly making it to SCOTUS clerk, can you, in retrospect, say what was required to make it? More harder grinding? Different connections? Luck?

Are there any shortcuts?
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The hours of your life saved not commuting will instead be used to work. Think of the savings, seriously, not even sarcasm.
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Ha! That's awesome, love it.
It's so weird, in movies there's always the villain going out of their way trying to "destroy the world" and it seems so far fetched - and now I'm talking to one.
I use @mailinator.com for that purpose, it's oddly satisfying to put "lolno@mailinator.com" / etc in those places.
Time flies. :-)
Just for a short term experiment, you could shorten the sprint to 1 week.
Use negatively priced power to mine crypto!
Good point. I'm going to comment on the site itself!
We call that “character”.

My biggest issue with old homes is the layouts tend to be weird for today’s uses. Where I live many of the homes have a lot of small rooms and and narrow doorways instead of larger ones, for instance.

This of course goes back to conserving heat. But it makes house hunting difficult when trying to find a house with a layout you like.
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> My understanding is that you can't iOS home screen widgets in Objective-C, correct?

I don't know, I haven't looked into them. But Swift is now more than 6 years old, and iOS home screen widgets are literally only days old, so I'd say "You quickly get left behind in the Apple ecosystem" is an exaggeration.
This is the most ridiculous thing about dynamic languages, I don't understand how people can be productive in such environment. Meanwhile I just press few keys and IDE shows my all about I need to know about that function. Oh, and it also runs 100x faster.
Early on at the company I'm at now they decided to exclusively use $params for param passing to functions as the one true way to do things. It supports easy default params, named params, an easy passing of config through to deeper layers without needing to know about it at intermediate layers.

What it doesn't support is any sort of readability as a code base scales. It's often hard to know how the function you're calling will behave because the param can tweak some flag and totally change the behavior.
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Nicely worded and dissected. When I saw the headline, I thought classic example of begging the question; you articulated it much more eloquently
Interesting, in ex. USSR and Czechoslovakia i am aware only about "2 wire" systems, but i heard also about "IBM" one with a 3 wires, so now i know what it was for, thanks :) Here master clock was producing 1m or 30s duration impulses. I also heard about "hybrid" systems where both digital timestamp and 1m impulse were delivered, so clock was able to choose what to use. What is funny that there were no common standard. 6V, 12V, 24 and 60 - all were common! So few times i saw converters from one to another. One of the last "master clock" devices from Pragotron was based on IC circuits, but principle was the same - https://aukro.cz/matecni-hodiny-pragotron-eh40-6960978702
Node isn't so bad now with typescript. The JS folks learned from endless fixing hot mess code that you couldn't really do with anything less than a good dev experience (Imagine a 5 minute turnaround from edit to test on JS to find a typo in a variable). With TS you get all the nice dev experience from JS, but also some of the C# niceness.
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I think Breyer is pretty honest at least that his goal is equity rather than some abstract philosophy. Unfortunately this does tend to lead to balancing tests rather than bright line rules.

Conversely, it could be said Scalia twisted the idea of "originalist" to suit his political ends. Heller in particular is a very consequential ruling that basically invented a new right under the second amendment from whole cloth. When originalists complain about "activist judges" it can seem intellectually dishonest.

There's also a good question about how originalists can even support Marbury v Madison and the concept of judicial supremacy in the first place, since it doesn't originate in any law. Right now they support it because they have durable power in the courts.
When in doubt, talk to customers. Customers will tell you why something failed. Who is the person that will use it? How will you find them? How many are there? How do they like to learn about new things? How can you became relevant to them?

Don't work on your company laptop, don't work on your project during your paid work hours, don't worry about people stealing your IP, what they really want (or don't) is your customers. Customers in business are gold, IP is simply a device used for mining that gold.

You only need paperwork for the business when you have a customer. Do you have a customer? If not, no risk. Customers are the only thing worth protecting.
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That's only because WidgetKit uses SwiftUI. Granted, if more and more APIs become reliant on preexisting Swift-only APIs like SwiftUI or Core ML, that certainly leaves Objective-C out of the cutting edge.
I wonder how Let's Encrypt and other certificate authorities handle disputes over domain transfers?
I’m one of those programmers who doesn’t care about types. Am I coding in a dynamic language without compile type type checking? Great, I lean into it, hand me vim and a good testing framework. Putting me into a big Java codebase? OK, time to run IntelliJ and use automated refactoring to change the code. The type system dictates the style and trade offs so it’s just one more dimension that informs how you deal with the code and write new code.

I’m more worried about what I’m working on and why.
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Yes, that's the simplest explanation. Not that Instagram is above giving an existing nobody's account to a VIP, but they're not going to do that without wiping its content, and notifying the nobody first.
Hey Siri, Why Don’t You Speak Hebrew?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spamming

I don't understand how he is 'spamming'.
It's called hematite and its very widespread. Also, rust reacts with concrete as is, though not as much as with water. Hence why you'll see rebar in those plastic sheaths sometimes. My SO does a lot of work with concrete and these effects are well studied. Turns out that concrete isn't super stable over kiloyear times, let along megayear times. I think you'd have a really hard time trying to conclusively say that some bit of rock was fabricated 10k+ years ago, as compared to all the other types of rocks out there.

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

https://www.cement.org/learn/concrete-technology/durability/...
> This has proven to be detrimental to Bitcoin as Blockstream, a private corporation is the employer of (or was cofounded by) the most influential Core contributors.

This is a false narrative peddled by BCash supporters. The bottom line is that the market had a chance to decide if they want to go the BCash route or the Bitcoin Core route, it chose the latter, now the supporters of the former are salty.
Great question for hn: why is infection rate, not death rate, the metric de jur...
It would be a long-lasting sunscreen. Our bodies don't produce sunscreen.
> That makes it feel like you're not engaging in good faith with the central argument.

There was no argument besides that socialist slogan.

I could get arguments like:

Large companies are inefficient under capitalism, they provide less value than they take from the society.

or

Capitalism is a very inefficient system of distribution of goods and services.

But there were none.
I find it interesting, nom, that you could be adept at using object detection algorithms and still not detect the reason why people are interested in reading this article.
Okay, it may well be the case that Harvard and Yale aren't the best law schools or whatever; but there aren't a lot of objective measures the adjudicate the question (bar passage rate being high-90s for most, say, t25 law schools; law review productivity and moot results being confounded by the same problems you mentioned; subsequent postings being confounded by the same problems you mentioned; pre-law school stats like undergrad GPA and LSAT being a bad measure) -- so at the very least let me stipulate that there is a wide conventional wisdom that Harvard and Yale are among the best law schools in the country and that the kind of students who get appellate and SCOTUS clerkships are among the best students at those schools, even granted they are also wealthy, connected, and some of branding is a shell game.
I’m not in any way supporting the sentence, or anything about it. It’s the extension of “hence all religion is evil” is wrong.

You could say, hey look democracies wage all these nasty wars. Killing people is the ultimate bad thing, and North Korea isn’t doing it, so communism must be better. It’s not, and yes killing people is bad.
What do you make of the whispers that the recommended daily dose is way under? I've seen it pop in recent comments so I found a couple of the papers:

[1] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/03/150317122458.h...

[2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28768407/ (two years later)
This citation is solely focused on income taxes, which make up only have of the revenue. Payroll taxes are 36% of the revenue, and are only incurred on the first ~$120k of income. I think this number would be more enlightening if it included all taxes (state property and income tax too), not just federal income taxes.
That’s a really fair point.

Just not good enough for me given the circumstances; maybe he should delete them after he resolves them or follows up, especially if he says he’s going to look into it and never does. That’s worse than not responding on Twitter at all IMO — and then the tweets were deleted too. The optics here are just horrible.