skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sauverin wasn't originally a US citizen to begin with. He acquired US citizenship when his parents moved here when he was a child and he got citizenship automatically.

He left the US in 2009 and renounced his US citizenship several years later.

While he saved a lot of money on taxes by doing so, he had been living overseas prior to renouncing his citizenship and has remained overseas since doing so.
The tables haven’t died for email layouts. Email presentation is horrific. Outlook with its special IE is oh so much fun.
Don't pay attention to the negativity of users like this. Canny is great, not only because of the product, but also because you share your leanings with other people. Be proud. You have done something a lot of people want. Ignore those who only are able to see things from their perspective.
Excel is good at what it was developed for. Unfortunately, it is often used for other things. For example, in this case as a database. This leads to the fact that departments build solutions that work at first sight but have errors in special cases that are difficult to detect and debug.
He didn't have a choice. His parents moved here and got US citizenship when he was under 18, and so he automatically became a US citizen.
And Apple introduces competing products
Thanks for the idea! I went to their website but didn't see any good matches. I've emailed them asking for suggestions and now I'm waiting to hear back.
Be the first mover to build FTTH networks in underserved communities. Infrastructure has the benefit of a nice steady long tail of recurring revenue.
Given that the most natural space for a human to operate in is 3D (given the physical world), I believe so. I think the fact that GUIs mostly show 2D data is a product of the limitation of their display medium. For example, watching videos in 360 degrees has been possible for a while now.

I think VR might have potential (forgetting motion sickness), but one thing I think we need is the ability to see our hands. Therefore I think AR is realistically the productivity interface of tomorrow.

I think ultimately AR solves some massive problems:

1. Your "display" is wherever you need it to be. No need to lug around a laptop or monitor. It's as large or small as you need it to be, even partially transparent if required.

2. The ability to integrate information overlay on reality will be really useful, especially if natural hand tracking continues to get better. Imagine a sat nav app helping you navigate some populated area or building. Imagine an app guiding you through the shopping mall based on an optimal route computed from your shopping list, performing price comparisons for you. Imagine working on a document or piece of code and being able to walk over to your colleague and share your display with them. The possibilities are potentially endless.

3. Energy usage should be much less, as you're not wasting light making your background brighter. Suddenly your only real energy concerns are computation, and with cloud computing and internet connectivity improving, maybe you can offload most of the energy usage onto dedicated machines elsewhere.

My guess would be within 10 years we see some key break through. It's really a shame that Google backed out with their glass project.
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Point is that `squash` is a useful tool used by many other successful professionals. I'm allowed to disagree with the author's opinion of the root cause of his bug and the factors that made it hard or easy to debug.
I loved Dichronauts. It was a tough read but like you say, very rewarding. But I'm really struggling with Diaspora. I think I just find the concept of life living within computers.... kind of dull? It just doesn't seem that far-fetched to me, it seems self-evidently obvious, so his exploration of this isn't really holding my interest.
New Zealand just stamped out its third Covid-19 outbreak
Type annotations are just hints and aren't enforced at runtime. You can pass whatever you want into that function, and you can also create a union type with the Fraction if you want the annotations to match your application.
I attend meetings to plot the overthrow of the government if it impinges my freedom

Relevant: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=uighurs&iar=news&ia=news
Interface typing > duck typing. With any sort of code completion, it's 1000x easier and more productive to figure out what goes where when the computer has some idea of the types of a given varaible, and hence what operations you can do to it.

It's like duck typing with a built-in Audubon society taxonomy chart.

You can always do whatever you want at runtime, it's still python.

IMHO, duck typing is strictly inferior to interface typing. You'd define a `Number` interface which `int`, `float`, ect all implement.
But what do lawyers actually create that would be part of any economic growth. It seems to me that they are just toll takers for access to justice and bureaucracy.
They renamed 27 genes in the past years to avoid Excel errors
https://www.engadget.com/scientists-rename-genes-due-to-exce...
A US citizen being charged with not paying taxes owed to the US is not an expansive view of jurisdiction.

It's pretty much par for how extradition is supposed to work.
Yup I would have expected to see Dark Forest because it has such a plausible universe of life and its dynamics, and a believable solution to the Fermi Paradox.
The real question I have is...did some googler get a promotion for shipping something when it was only one of these renames? Or is this how the marketing people "ship" things?
About 20 years ago, when I was 17ish, I used to work for an arborist in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, west of Denver, his name was Joey (something like Arbor One tree care if I recall correctly). We performed fire mitigation and forest thinning so that if a fire happened near a structure then the fire fighters might actually have a chance to save it. If no fire mitigation was performed then they would definitely not even try.

He told me that by not letting burning take its course, the forest floor accumulates a massive amount of fuel and then when it does burn, it burns much hotter than it normally would and effectively sanitizes the forest floor and regrowth takes years instead of weeks/months because it got too hot and killed everything.

As mentioned in the article, we civilized humans really should be letting things burn, at a lower temperature and more frequently and avoid the fuel build up that scorches our land for years on end. This is the way forward.
I was demonstrating the nature of the journalism which tries to implicitly install suspicion from the headline to forward an agenda
As far as unsealed indictments go, this one isn’t very entertaining. Barely longer than the press release. There’s gotta be more pages to be released.
>when clearly they add no value at all to the businesses who use them or their customers.

They do add value. Product management is about two things: product discovery and product delivery. Canny increases your chances of doing the 1st one right. That is the most difficult thing to do: finding the right product to build. Canny allows you to get direct feedback and learnings from your users in a very simple way and most importantly, in a cost effective one. If you look at their pricing page, you might get scared, but believe me: building the wrong product is even more expensive.
If it fails, it’s often silent. If not silent, hidden. If not hidden, misleading, if not misleading, opaque. If not opaque, trivial.

Excel is a wonderfully powerful tool that’s very bad at handling errors clearly.
Don’t they already have competing products, via their prior acquisition of Beats?
This could certainly cause the UI to falsely show alerts or refuse to enable the autopilot.

But when it comes to actually reviewing a case in an accident, you would want to review the actual footage, not just the metadata.

Looking at just the metadata is already problematic. For example, the “hands on wheel” metadata in a Tesla is based on angular force detected on the wheel, not actual hands on the wheel. Tesla will report that the driver didn’t touch the wheel in X seconds, when it would be more accurate to say the driver didn’t apply angular force, although their hands might have been resting on the wheel the whole time.
This is amazing to see, do you have the code source available to read? if not, I understand, but I would be curious what programming language you wrote all this in.

Oh and, before I sign up I should ask if you plan to monetize this via subscriptions or similar so you don't have to vanish on us if you don't want to.
Never seen that before. Neat how the bool being a subclass of int pokes out in various ways.

A nice side effect is that bools can used with sum:

sum(x % 10 for x in range(1000))
Imagine asking people to use the custom solution sledge hammer of python, git, unit tests and sqlite. Not one off the shelf piece of software there.

There comes a point where using a spork to drill holes in walls is not the right solution. That you're shitting on people pointing out the obvious tells me you're still stuck in the 90s windows developer mindset.
The "proper" way to annotate this function would be to use the numbers abstract base classes.

https://docs.python.org/3/library/numbers.html
Ask HN: Travel Insurance API
I've spent a lot of time searching for an API that can let me buy travel insurance but with no avail. anyone here know of any?

Allianz and the big ones only offer it if your volume is Expedia-like (literally thats what they told me).
If we're talking about New Almaden, it isn't even a city. Just an unincorporated small community in Santa Clara county. There is no realistic way to fund major fire safety projects there. The county is tapped out, there is no way to raise taxes significantly, and other more heavily populated areas have higher priority.
“Whether something is complicated is in the mind of the beholder.” Don Norman

In the same way that a probability represents your state of information about an event or action your assessment of the complexity of a task or problem is a function of your state of information and relevant expertise.

I think this has implications for models like cynefin where the assignment to a domain (simple, complicated, complex, chaotic) is presented as objective but I believe this assessment if a function of your information and understanding.

One implication for designing software is to use familiar UI metaphors--which are viewed as simpler and easier to use.

One implication for competitive analysis is that you cannot assume that your competitors bring the same information and level of understanding to a problem that you do. In best case you have more information and expertise. In the case you need to anticipate, you have less information and expertise, and what looks complex or chaotic to you may be complicated to a competitor.
> The real feature should just be a button that shifts insurance liability to Tesla for the period of the autopilot engagement and charges you a floating premium for it based on traffic conditions per mile/km while the autopilot is on.

well this seems inevitable now - the amount you pay out of pocket for body damage repairs depending on the machinations of high-speed-trading algorithms acting on the sensor data streaming out of your car. not just the price of autopilot fluctuates but every non-essential function distracting enough to influence the actuarial tables. want to listen to music? in this traffic? too expensive!
This is funny because the most unhappy and anxious people I know are cat owners.
Perhaps they'll be saying they do something better than those suppliers now and want to distance themselves
I'd add Neal Stephenson's Seveneves to the Space Travel and perhaps comet sections. There was some excellent physics that dealt with issues like inertia, delta-V, orbital parameters, simulated gravity and complex dynamics (bolos etc) in great detail. As well, it handled long-term day to day life in space as a first class element of the book.
I have a cantilevered tablet holder over my bed, it can hold a Kindle or iPad without effort and has both clamps and an elastic cord to retain them.

Then for ultimate convenience (laziness) I connected a bluetooth presentation clicker to my iPad to turn the pages for me so I didn't have to keep reaching up or take my arms out from under the blanket on cold nights. In two years it's never dropped.
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I think part of the trouble is I read the "revised and expanded edition." From some of the reviews I remember reading at the time, the revisions did the book no favors.
That sounds right but how do you do this? In France there used to be the old Franc that was replaced by the new Franc at a rate of 1000:1 I think
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This was one of my tops. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fucxG-he2qU Keith Hernandez, Emmitt Smith, and Walt Frazier. There were older commercials for this, but Emmitt was just soo funny in it. "Ohhh it's bad"
>What do you mean by snitch? I think it's a perfectly valid reason to "snitch" if the driver was truly at fault.

The driver is always truly at fault in the current legal environment. A driver can't just blame it on the car to escape liability. The comments here talking about the legal ramifications for these tags are misguided. For these tags to matter, there would need to be legislative changes to shift the liability to the autonomous system and that would likely only happen once we reach at least level 4 autonomy. Plus once we get to that point, whether the driver is paying attention or not shouldn't matter anyway.
While true, don't forget other factors of why people live where they live. Education, quality of life, being near people like them, perceived safety / levels of crime. Location and convenience, family and friends. And finally the benefits of physical presence in work, at least for a few years yet before VR is good, and once COVID is sorted out. Remote work will affect rents in high COL areas, but probably won't decimate them.
> it's a win-win for both the donor and recipient. Donating blood is especially good for men who have high iron

Donating blood isn't really a win-win for most people - some people with certain conditions benefit - see:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4957680/

Most healthy people will gain no benefit from it. In these cases it is simply not significantly harmful.
It's not without precedent, though. The US issued steel pennies during WW2 because of a shortage of copper: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1943_steel_cent
Big change is scary.

It is much easier to sell getting rid of the nickel after successfully getting rid of the penny.
Reddit is leaking hard. We have to do something. Pronto, Binotto?
I hope to open up the code very soon.

The backend database-layer/logic is in Go/grpc. The shortlink server is in Rust. The frontend is static Go templates, vanilla JS, Svelte and some Vue.

I don't think I'll vanish, but good thought!
You can always buy the land and have a house custom built at whatever size you want.
I think you're under-rating how uncertain these large scale engineering projects are in real terms. Yes, of course, when the project has the attention and the funding and the time and the political support it needs it will work! I know that and you know that. But if you're waiting for, say, a high-speed rail in California, or the 2nd avenue subway in New York, or in New Orleans[1] you might be forgiven for being skeptical.

I was struck by the same line, but for the opposite reason. I think it's rare, today, for large scale projects to work out exactly as expected. These projects, even when executed well, require enormous amounts of money and time and skill to pull off. Many things can sabotage them. I don't blame people for being surprised they worked.

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/after-a-14-billio...
> By design this driver may be looking down frequently at their controls

Actually not, for hand controls. No more than you look at the pedals. It goes into muscle memory just as much.

I have been a passenger with two different hand-control drivers. Both were as smooth as a driver using foot pedals. I once moved their car for one of them —- in a tiny town on a quiet street, for about 5 blocks at low speed. It was difficult for me — zero muscle memory and zero “feel” for the car. It does take some practice, I will give you that, but you never have to look at the lever, even as a noob.
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Very cool! I've actually built similar models for myself to build that intuition. They're so helpful and generally hard to find. I agree that scale is generally poorly taught.

I personally think having even a modest intuition for how to map physical knowledge to its appropriate 'scale' (time/space, from plank to universe) is one of the most straightforward ways to be "smart". And a great way to get to know the limits of our knowledge.

I still haven't seen a video that matches my intuition. Which is unfortunate. I want to build a version of your scaler there, but for VR that you can slide up and down along at least time/scale axes - and maybe additional ones too.
The author acknowledges in the paper where the overlaps lie wrt to EM (coupled to GR) and QM using a classical model that treats particles as an asymptotically flat spacetime manifold with a region of non trivial topology where time is not orientable (but manifold subtracting out the worldtubes of said particles is both space and time oreintable).

Just because he does not say explicitly "[GR and QM] are compatible", does not mean opposite.

If you aren't interested in the that U(1) bundle described in the paper is from utilizing time oreintability from a classical standpoint and not formed from the complex phase of a quantum mechanical wave-function, that's on you.
You’re assuming city limits exist. There’s a lot of places with names and lots of people in California that are just part of the County.
There is a numbers.Number for that - but yeah, that's another way in which it's just not a good example..

I think typing_extensions.Protocol helps support the general duck typing "any object that has method x", though there are some implementation issues w/ dataclasses and such..
It's amazing the amount of historical medicine that was either completely ineffective or actually harmful and hastened the demise of the patient.
I suggest you actually look at some satellite footage of Santa Rosa, Napa, and Malibu. California has plenty of ranches, but their not acting as a buffer around those areas. Also, being within a few miles of forest is really close in wildfire terms. When people think of wildfire buffers they point to things like roads and firebreaks, but that’s only useful when people are actively fighting fires. You want tens of miles not feet between structures and wildfires.
Basics Guide to Creating a Music Generation System with Deep Learning
You’re right - but the biggest issue is clearly one of experience. Someone was put into a critical role they weren’t prepared for - a position in which their failures cost lives. They don’t have a redundant process, or error checking, or even someone familiar with spreadsheets.

That’s the scandal: it’s the type of basic error that it screams “they’re not handling this well.”
You wouldn’t tolerate your new SWE colleague asking “What’s an array again?”

If publishing the whole set of data was delayed by excel crashing - fine. But silent failure because they ran out of columns? Cmon...
Love it. I like that code is small, google lens recognized it faster then usual and site opened fast.

Kind of the code part ie. shortened url is weird and could use some humanization. But it is free, so it works for me.
I dislike HackADay's regurgitation of articles, but just changing the link to a completely different article is pretty ridiculous and unwarranted.

How do I know which comments are talking about which article?
is it possible to share the user's data?
CSV is not schema less and it does not have to be any more dynamically typed than XML either.
How did you come across the opportunity to spend a month in Liberia? Were you there through a volunteer organization?
If you really care about the difference between 0.03% and 0.04% expenses, then the logical thing to do would be to choose VTI. What's the advantage of VITSX, especially if you have exactly the minimum?
I agree.

Tools exist, for analysts and engineers (MS Access comes to mind for the analyst, python for the engineer), that would rectify the problem. And I think it's a fair assumption to say that those tools would be readily available.

Kinda sounds like a management issue, as well. No one ever said "hey you know XLS doesn't support all of this data"?

What a mess.
I think that certain kinds of risks are just risks regardless of your "judgement". If you want to drink raw milk, that's cool, but don't kid yourself that you can tell the safety by the cut of the farmer's jib.
>> "I think it is just enhancing the potential for a particular job description that requires you to sit on your bum all day and plumb boring stuff someone else tells you to."

Agreed! Not that this is going to make me stop taking it as needed because this is the society we live in (and I'm currently in college), but yeah. I was just talking to a parent of a 5th grader the other day and they were telling me all about how often their kid got in trouble at school (like I did in elementary school), and how she read up on the neuroscience and decided medicating was appropriate. They had me thus far, until they went on about how they didn't tell anyone at the school (it's beneficial t share this with teachers...) until the staff sent emails regarding the kid's improved behavior. One person even reached out and said "your kid hasn't been himself all week." SO I THOUGHT THE PARent was going to say that's what made them change the dose, BUT THEY DIDN'T!!! They took "your child hasn't been himself" as a COMPLIMENT. Something is very wrong here and it's not the parent's fault, it's our priorities in America regarding an outdated school system and long work week. Obedience is valued more than creativity. How are we supposed to improve with that mindset?
Cool idea but won't be a customer, I use my read later folder to drop context of things I probably don't need to read but feel the urge to.

Its like the minimalism idea of taking a picture of something so you feel better about biffing the thing.

I do the same thing with my to-do list and backlog. I keep a page in the back of my notebook I put things that don't seem to get done over multiple days. If they're important they'll come up again. If they're important but not urgent I make sure to reschedule a week or two away instead of backlogging.
I grew up a two hours car drive from Venice and have been there for 10 times at least. It is my absolute favourite place to explore by foot, especially off the typical tourist sections. The challenges the Venetians are facing and how they are dealing with them are nothing short of amazing (although Venetians will tell you about municipal corruption).

I can't wait to go there again.
We need to increase, not reduce the number of fires. But the fires should be frequent, small controlled burns to reduce the fuel. We'll just have to accept poor air quality in those areas on some days.
AOT is still on the roadmap, but has been pushed to .NET 6.
How so?

LINQ has nothing to do with ORMs, it's a generic querying/transform syntax that can operate on any kind of data structure, and it's expressiveness allows it to be seamlessly translated into SQL by EF and others.

Also it's hard to beat the static-typed nature of C#/EF and the fact that entities are just plain classes with no special needs or inheritance. They can be as "active" as you need them while the DbContext wraps everything nicely.
Not to mention the better sound quality.
Then disconnect the modem or cut the antenna.
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It’s like soon as you leave college; you go from writting code because you love it, to writting useless junk because you boss wants a deadline by midnight.