skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a gig as contractor at one of FAANGs (they needed expertise that they didn't posses).
Money aside, after you remove from equation fleet of leetcoders there is a bunch of smart people over there that work on solving various interesting and challenging problems.
It's great place to learn on how problems (especially in scaling of various infrastructure systems on global level) are solved and also how things shouldn't be done :)
Stable, efficient and intuitive. Thank you to the stimulus team!
It won't pass the Senate floor. Absolutely pointless.
I suppose they will slow-boil old.reddit.com until it's dead. Things like gradually adding unwanted changes from the redesign, removing or not supporting features (is there a way to upload images to i.redd.it from it?), or causing random delays or errors. Something like the dark patterns used to force visitors using mobile devices into installing the app.

We need a distributed or federated reddit, and give it power. Lemmy ( https://lemmy.ml/ ) seems to be going into the right path.
Great to see the worsening COVID crisis getting the attention it deserves...
Thanks for this!

This makes the song[1] by the White stripes make so much more sense. I didn't realize rag and bone man was a particular thing, I thought it was just something similar to what was called a gypsie lifestyle or similar in the past.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epHneMeLyis
This is a disingenuous strawman of "leftism." Not all lefties are communists.
In this case the virtue signalling has the potential of motivating voters to flip the senate via the Georgia runoffs or else in 2022.
I'd agree on Tesla, one could argue that Toyota hybrids have had more of an impact simply by 2019 sales figures [0].

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimcollins/2020/01/15/toyotas-r...
They're not saying you shouldn't provide command-line help. Just that you should deliver them through a `help` subcommand and/or through a `--help` flag (like `git` does) because people don't find man pages and because man pages don't work on every platform.
Did you hug it during the fires?
Yea comments here are completely missing the point. It's far more likely to be successful and build a company / get into YC when you have an insight into specific users and build something they love. That's it.

People who have become billionaires from the companies YC has helped launch have that in common.
What do you mean by "on-time performance"? I lived for 6 months in Manhattan on 112th and it worked fine. Probably one or two times my station was closed in the morning and I had to walk down to the next one.

And as someone who lived in Moscow for a long time I can attest it is the gold standard. It's the second busiest (or top-3) and just always works as scheduled. One rare thing one could rely on that comes from the government.
> I don't find cold places to be as unwalkable as hot ones. You get used to the cold, the snow/ice are generally cleared after a few days.

> If anything, walkability is frequently about how a place looks and winter time can look quite nice with all the snow.

Why do you walk? Is it to go for a purposeless, leisurely afternoon stroll? Or to on a daily basis, go to your job, the grocery, to the dentist, the hairdresser?

In order for a place to be walkable, you should be able to safely, and predictably, with 99% confidence, be able to purposefully walk to that job, that grocery, that dentist, and that hairdresser, at any time of day - not just on a sunny weekend afternoon, after all the snow has been shoveled.

Any place with snow on the ground for 4-5 months out of the year is a misery of walkability. Maybe your job starts at 7 am, and walking to it sucks, because the snow hasn't been shoveled yet. Sometimes, you need to avoid patches of black ice (Good luck when you're carrying heavy bags of groceries). For weeks, at the start, and the end of the season, you are dealing with absolutely atrocious slush, that has a habit of freezing over-night.

I don't really care about the cold - I can solve that problem by putting on more clothes. I do care about all the other problems of walking in snow.

I now live in a mild climate, where snow isn't an issue. I can, with full confidence, walk anywhere I want on any day of the year, any time of day, and predictably get there at a good pace. I couldn't say the same for when I lived in a cold climate.
Looking up trivial information is my #1 use case for wikipedia. For instance, I use it to look up movies/series, their cast and public reception all the time. It's presented much better on Wiki than Google/IMDB and just works for me.
Vaccines that have been established for decades I'm cool with.

Going to wait for the germaphobes to beta test this hastily rushed vaccine for me.

Let me know how it goes!
Sure, but the comment above is talking about "how valuable that space in major city centres is".

The opportunity cost of 1 sqm of street parking space is not 1 sqm of "living unit", but 1 sqm of land.

If 1 sqm of apartment is worth $7.5K/month, and average building height is 4 stories, that suggests 1 sqm of land is worth approximately 4 * 7.5 = $30K/month (minus value of the building).
Do you think free countries should have the right to use temp workers ("scabs" in unionist lingo) to operate transit infrastructure during worker strikes?
That's awesome.

Every time I travel abroad, I'm always in awe of functional public transit (well, before COVID anyways, until that's over I'm staying put. It's not like anyone is itching to allow Americans into their country considering just how astonishingly poorly we've handled it).

I'd really love for the pressure against public transportation in the United States to abate - from auto industry lobbyists to the public view that owning a car is a status symbol and that only "poor" people take public transit. My parents spent many years living just outside the SF Bay Area and their town can't get mass transit access because Livermore refuses to have a BART stop in their town because of the "bad actors" (read: poor people) it could bring in. Livermore even went so far as to design all of their new bridges to get in the way of the center-of-highway BART tracks. Anyone further down I-580 Eastbound be damned.

I traveled across Japan and Germany completely on mass transit (buses, subways, high speed rail, walking), there were only a few places I would've preferred to have a car for. If I were using it for work travel, I'd much rather take a train and pull out a laptop and do something than have to drive, maybe even just enjoy the view.
Got to admit I too thought that claim merited a [citation needed] so I tried some internet googling to try and find something that backed up those numbers and drew a blank.

I have never seen a ~100v per vertical metre potential difference in any cables or equipment that I've run. That includes a long SWA cable from a buildings' floor level to the roof-top end point (roughly 40 metres - so that would equal 40x 100v = 4kV).

[Edit to add - Longest vertical cable run I have dealt with was 180m / 41 floors for a four-core fire rated comms cable]

[Double Edit, Sorry.] The only source I was able to find was this "Or, if we suspend a metal object outdoors, we’ll find that it spontaneously charges up to a certain voltage: about +100VDC for every meter of altitude above the ground." from https://www.quora.com/Can-electric-current-charge-flow-throu...?
That's just the main Oracle number I'm sure
uhhhhh nobody has convincingly shown for sure that applying time-dependent schrodinger to a protein hamiltonian would solve the folding problem, even given infinite computer time.
(note that I am one of the few people who has tried using extremely large amounts of computer time and classical force fields)
It does (or will do, once the checks in the UI code are fixed) exactly what you want it to do. All computation will be done on the UI OS thread. All blocking operations will release it to do other things so it remains responsive. If you want to compute something outside it -- just spawn another thread that's not mapped to it.
> A “diversified buy & hold” assumes you have your entire 20y investment capital available at the outset, which is rarely the case.

If you don't then you're effectively implementing DCA because you don't have better alternatives available -- regardless of the strategy you use, if you immediately invest spare funds as soon as they're available from a source of evenly distributed recurring income then it'll look a lot like DCA.

That's still consistent with my position of using the data you have to pick the best option you can. If you have options other than DCA (e.g., a sizable percentage people get some kind of windfall in their life), then carefully evaluate whether DCA is the right way to treat that capital. It usually won't be, even compared with dead simple strategies like a diversified buy-and-hold.

As an aside: Ignoring any kind of extreme luck, in a field like tech with rapid raises, no matter which investment strategy you choose your nest egg will almost entirely be comprised of funds from your last 5-10yrs of work.
Meanwhile in Sweden - 2020 deaths are tracking to be lower than 2018, 2017, and 2012:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/525353/sweden-number-of-...

The spike in deaths seen earlier this year is similar to the 2009 flu epidemic:

https://swprs.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/sweden-monthly-...

Its unclear whether COVID presents a mortality burden any greater than regular influenza - and whether lockdowns or restrictions are at all warranted.
Ah MSNBC, the world-renowned bastion of leftism.
It's impossible to do more than one thing at a time?
I was talking about the scheduled time - when it must work, but it doesn't.
Because I want to get to know the person a little bit, professionally. Because I want to learn if the person has some traits that correlate well with doing a good job later.

I don't think it is going to be very controversial when I say that people who are enthusiastic about programming, have experience completing projects, can solve difficult problems, can show they have knowledge of concepts, are intelligent and know how to work with other people tend to do just that -- perform better at their jobs.

Also, I don't ask "do you code in your free time". I ask for any projects private or professional they have been working on recently that they think are fun and interesting.
I like it when politicians virtue signal support for freedoms.
Without knowing when the Senate will look at this and assuming after inauguration, I can see this as a carrot to get out youth vote in the upcoming Georgia senate run-off elections.
Are you using the quota API? Looks like you can ask how much space is available, so you could warn the user to free space if it is below some threshold.

https://web.dev/storage-for-the-web/#check
Very well then, try to get to and from Heathrow airport by public transport, I dare you...

That there is some public transport rather than none doesn't make it 'excellent'.
If only we could federally enforce our rules that make peoples lives better, that way they couldn't flee to better places without those rules.
US Numerical Weather Prediction Crippled by Divisions Between Gov and Academia
They put off on voting on this before the election to focus on Covid legislation.

The congress is more than capable of doing multiple things at once.
This right here. It's literally this right here. So in other words, it's not pointless, it's political tactic. A good tactic to entice unlikely voters to vote Democrat.
> I actually don't think Amazon retail (i.e. sans AWS) is an important artifact in the big picture.

If only considering the WWW impacts, then sure. In the physical world, however, it's definitely an important artifact, considering how much it's upended things for brick-and-mortar (at all scales) and the whole supply chain / fulfillment / logistics realm.

(And note that "important" should not be taken to mean "beneficial" here; it's already important to the history of these sectors in the same sense that giant asteroids are important to the history of Earth-based life - that is, outright destructive of the current landscape, but might very well result in new opportunities in its wake)
I think people like yourself need to socialize the idea and techniques you use, so that people like me who want to but are afraid of running own mailservers can feel confident in doing so.
Unfortunately as of right now the Senate in no way is going to pass this bill or even bring it up for a vote. Who knows what may happen next month but it is DOA right now as it stands.
This assumes a significant number of those spaces are contiguous such that they're eligible for being replaced by housing. Moreover, Paris doesn't build tall buildings, so the housing isn't very dense (compared to a typical US city). I'm very skeptical this would create enough housing to lower property values.

EDIT: Oof, that's quite an error on my part. I was absent-mindedly conflating "downtown areas" with the whole city. My bad. Never the less, I'm skeptical that this change will amount to much in terms of lower property values, but I'd be happy for someone to articulate why my skepticism is misplaced.
2/3 of Americans support legalizing cannabis. I don’t understand why this bill is so bipartisan among politicians if so many citizens support it.
This is the internet of 2020s. It’s a lot of work to find good quality content. Everyone knows how to take advantage of everyone or every platform. Any new hot platform will be coopted once it gets traction. Recently made the conclusion so many other people realized is that google search is just searching through paid ads or paid seo. It just sucks frankly. DDG better but still painful.
It will if Democrats win the Georgia races.
Would you like to discover places through geolocated professional photographs
Would you like to discover places through geolocated professional photographs, as well as having the option of capturing the photographs that you like the most as if they were pokemons and learning to see places like a pro photographer?
Athletes on that level rarely have just one coach throughout their careers, and are constantly striving to do better. Players of team sports demand trades due to (perceived, if not actual) deficiencies in coaching all the time. It's possible, maybe even desirable sometimes, to have someone who is less accomplished than you to coach or guide you, but it would be probably be detrimental to follow everything they said without question.
So do you think that surgeons should be able to strike, when other people's lives depend on them!?
In the 7th book (?) it's revealed that the Ministry not only is in contact with the British government, but that they're warning them of Voldemort's return and trying to help reduce damage to muggle society. The Statute of Secrecy is clearly motivated by centuries of abuse of wizards, witch burning and the like. I don't remember any indication that wizards "rule" the muggles in any way or affect them at all. Prejudice against muggles is the #1 flag for "this person is evil" and is pretty much always decried as wrong by the protagonists. The only thing that really holds is the mistreatment of squibs, but even if it's wrong it makes a lot of sense - they would be hard-pressed to find good jobs in wizarding society for purely practical reasons.

So unless I'm missing something from some extended universe, this is an pretty unfair mis-characterisation of the books...
Related:

> Recent research has consistently found that earlier born children score slightly higher on average on measures of intelligence, but has found zero, or almost zero, robust effect of birth order on personality.

(Wikipedia, citing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth_order#cite_note-:0-2)
I Created a Sunburst Chart Using JavaScript to Visualize Covid-19 Data
In a small company you often cannot have complete redundancy for everything. For any given area there will usually be someone who is better at it than everyone else there.

If I'm incapacitated someone else will do the things I need to do that cannot be put off until I'm available again, but for some of those things it will take them longer and they might not do as good a job as I would have.

It goes the other way, too. I've done things that other people are better at when they were on vacation or out sick.

This is one of the reasons that documenting procedures is so important. For those things I do that do not have redundancy, I've written checklists and guides that others can follow to do most of the things I normally do. They have done the same for their areas of non-redundancy.

Because of this, I can't think of any time in the last 15 years that someone had to be asked to work during their vacation. If something went wrong in their area, others were able to either fix it, or at least mitigate its effects sufficiently for the fix to wait for the person to get back.

But I'm still going to take a look at email every day or so while on vacation, just in case. My checklists and guides aren't perfect. I'm not in an adversarial relationship with my coworkers, so on those rare occasions when they need to consult my guides and checklists when I'm away and those don't fully cover it, and I can dash off a clarification or suggestion that will help them and also save me a lot of time when I get back, I'm going to do it.
Could it be backed by a 64bit integer while still exposing it as a well formatted code without relying on application layer intervention.
remember playing with a friend late at night... couldnt play it alone, it was scary af

the plot is so good it should be made into a movie
> It includes measures to expunge the federal criminal records of those charged or convicted for non-violent cannabis offenses

I feel this line is what'll cause the bill to not pass in the Senate.

I don't see why the removal of cannabis from the scheduled drugs list needs to be coupled with criminal record expungement. Do one. Then move to do the next.

Is this how things are usually done?
The Senate is an incredibly un-democratic institution and a truly massive barrier standing in the way of a functioning government. Mitch McConnell alone can dictate Senate business at his whims.
I know hn doesn't like politics, but it amazes me how popular one party's policies are(see polls for single payer healthcare, gov funded college, wealth tax, etc ), but it is still competitive. Republicans are certainly better at "politics".
It will be fun to see how they spin this into the vague notion of socialism or somehow this is taking away your freedom.
Because we are talking about an EU/US comparison, I'll nit pick this: salaried doesn't have to mean what it means in the US. I, like salaried workers in many (all?) European countries have a contract that says how many hours I have to work per week.
And they have improved significantly in the two years since then, so many if not all of these criticisms that apply to their efforts from two years ago may now be out of date.
Building an Audience Is a Marathon
Yes. It is for "JS Sprinkles" on your existing HTML. This makes it "modest" compared to something like React that would typically generate HTML/DOM for you.

To understand their philosophy, see DHH's blog post announcing Stimulus 1.0, https://m.signalvnoise.com/stimulus-1-0--a-modest-javascript...
> But aptitude for exploiting people is not what Y Combinator looks for at all. In fact, it's the opposite of what they look for. I'll tell you what they do look for, by explaining how to convince Y Combinator to fund you, and you can see for yourself.

I mean, of course. Y Combinator is looking first and foremost for people who will make them billions in the aggregate. Most of those people who pass the interview will personally fail to join the billionaire club.

Also, its not like "building" and "exploiting" are mutually exclusive.
This. The problem with Analytics right now is that everyone is focusing on so called privacy, where it would be better described as invisible / anonymous tracking.

That is like customers walking into my shop in Real Life and I am not allowed to look at them because of "privacy". I cant even know if he is a returning customer since I cant look at him. I mean if you come here for coffee everyday I would at least know you whether like Latte or Espresso.

So in typical Tech Fashion we went from one extreme of collecting too much and sharing too much to another extreme of not collecting anything to the point we know nothing.
> Fair enough, but it's probably better to compare the M1 to the CPU in your laptop then, no? Not the threadripper in your desktop.

Although I appreciate the ability as a software developer to "work anywhere", if I was restricted to working only the Y700 I can guarantee you that certain development avenues would happen very differently, if at all. The laptop works fine as a machine to use "when I have to", but if I'm doing "deep" development, it's a PITA and makes me lose focus too much because of the delays in the edit-compile-test cycle.

I have absolutely no doubt that the M1 macbooks will easily outperform the Y700, along with most other computers I've ever owned.

It remains true, for now, that if you actually care about maxCPU (with a linearly parallelizable workload) (which I do for at least half of my development work), the current M1 machines are not the top of the line. I would tend to agree with anyone who suggests that this will likely change in the near future.
Sweden has lots of restrictions in place. And had.
Prison Industrial Complex lobbying

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/04/28/...
The 2020 AlphaFold team mapped OFR8, a protein associated with COVID-19. It seems unlikely that mapping out everything we currently know of would be the end of their research. COVID-19 is probably not the last deadly pathogen we will encounter.
It adds up surprisingly fast. I live mostly in the java world, and libraries throwing 3 or so required to catch exceptions are common.

I'd agree that 90pct is doable for your own algorithmic code. Glue code for libraries, commonly not very well thought out, requires a very different style. Defensive up to the paranoid, and catching every gremlin at the source. It's not uncommon to have more than half of the code dedocated to exception handling. Dumping said libraries is rarely an option, unfortunately.

I'm not necesarily disagreeing with you, but maybe we live in different code worlds.
Well, and then the police stops you and fines you for child endangerment and unsafe behaviour on the road. I'm not the overprotective kind, but this example is one of extreme recklessness.
> pointless partisan efforts

It may be partisan in terms of federal politics, but this is absolutely not a partisan issue to a huge majority of Americans.
Of course it won't pass. But it isn't pointless - this is theater intended to distract from the utterly disastrous covid stimulus talks that have seen the dems lose more and more ground on a potential deal.
Your homepage convinced me to download, the software reminds me a lot of Microsoft Money, which was one of my favorite tools due to its simplicity. Only complaint is no dark mode, but really cool!
I have said it for years and I will say it again: The Republicans are absolutely stupid for missing this opportunity. They market themselves as the party of freedom. Bullshit.

To illustrate my contempt, I find it incredibly hypocritical that one can be a raging alcoholic, and own an arsenal of guns... but according to US federal law if you are an "unlawful" user of controlled substances, you are BARRED from gun ownership. That definition includes weed (schedule 1).

It really is asinine and not serving any purpose, except for the prison/law-enforcement industry.

We need to legalize this plant, and clear out all non-violent (possession-only) offenses from the record. It is time, in my opinion.
Maybe I'm suffering from similar syndrome, but I'm under 30 in human Earth years. However, I very much agree with you and would take it a step further to say that programmatically opening the browser with the help flag is also very unwelcome (I'm looking at you, git >.> )