skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All of them -- I've never seen it work.

I've had a customer for ten years. Their web site works, gets used a lot, but the UI is dated/clunky and there's some functionality (integrations with other systems) the customer would like to implement. They've never been able to get enough internal consensus to change anything significant. Then the board hired an outside firm to rewrite the whole thing from scratch. I don't bid on new development projects as a rule and in this case I knew the customer would not have clear and complete requirements (from long experience with them). So I offered to help the outside firm, but they only contacted me for some logins and otherwise did their own thing. $60,000 and 8 months later the new site got staged, missing major functionality and showing the most hideous font I've ever seen -- not readable at all, and a gray-on-black color scheme only a designer fresh out of art school could love. They had not staged intermediate versions for review. No version control, almost nothing worked. My customer asked me to intervene to salvage something but the outside firm held the code for ransom, demanding even more money. So that ended in a lawsuit and to this day my client still has their original clunky but working web site up.

$60K is small potatoes compared to the clusterf*k rewrites at the IRS, California DMV, etc. But for a small-ish non-profit that's a whole year of IT support/programming down the drain. A couple of people lost their jobs over it.

I worked at a big logistics/shipping company about 20 years ago. They had a huge internal project (60+ people) supposedly rewriting an Oracle/ColdFusion based app (only a small part of it was web-facing) in Java. That went on for a couple of years, with almost nothing to show for it, before management scrapped the whole thing.

I worked at a Federal agency for a while supposedly as part of a big rewrite project triggered by Y2K worries (1960s-era Fortran/COBOL code no one understood anymore). It was all meetings, not a single line of code got written for the "new system." Eventually they pulled the plug. Y2K came and went and the ancient code continued working.
I can understand why the style may seem offputting, but the thing to understand is that it has been traditionally very hard to engage with the public on this topic of robotic advancement. In fact, I know a bit about this myself, having been in the robotics space for over a decade. But my own struggles in the field only reflect a longer trend, which I can even trace back to my grandfather.

Growing up in a strict Lutheran household in the southwest England town of Flenkelshire, Elias Nathaniel "Kazoo" Pendleton III did not immediately stand out among his peers. Born with dull red hair, one leg three inches shorter than the other, and shoulders that somehow resembled cornish hens, young Elias was a frequent target for the town bullies. A child at that time has only three options: fight harder, run faster, or invent some kind of device that would enable him to escape his tormentors. Luckily (by chance or by fate), Flenkelshire was home to a radio-electronics store, Bundleron's Radio and Horseshoe Supplies, which gave young Elias just the right ingredients to hatch his escape plan. And hatch a plan he did, though it would take twenty years for the town to understand exactly what had happened.

The first trap was set in the Fall of 1951. Winston Churchill had returned to power. The Festival of Britain had just wrapped up and lit the imagination of attendees and non-attendees alike. And Elias Nathaniel "Kazoo" Pendleton III, now well-armed with a stock of electronics, metalwork, and several years of intense study, went into action...
Ask HN: Who's Using NixOps in Production?
I'm a big NixOS fan and eager to use NixOps for infrastructure. I've dabbled a bit with it, but I'm curious about real-world experiences.
I mean, a book is a predefined narrative that you experience once sequentially! Much less suited to open iterative development than a game.
Maybe it wouldn't have mattered, but I wish that the Fahrenheit increase would have been more prominently used over these years. I think that most Americans don't realize that 1°C is more than 1°F so it doesn't sound as bad when it's "only a few degrees"
In addition to the other comments in the thread, it is useful to point out that even the game's manual itself was critical of the action sequences, especially the demolition derby and went out of its way to point out the key sequence to just skip them.

(As a player, while I've grown more tolerant of the motorbike action sequences than I was as a kid who didn't play much in the way of action games, I can't say if I've ever completed the demolition derby "properly". Just can't find the interest in me.)

(Personally, I still think more games should have a "I'm bored with this action sequence / boss fight, please just skip it" button and hold up this aspect of Full Throttle as one of the best parts of its design, even if it was offered mostly as an apology that they didn't quite get what they wanted from the aging SCUMM engine in terms of action.)
How so? Because I grew up in a water constrained environment?

In your other post you literally brag about how wasteful you can be with water (kids spraying hose, etc). Living without unlimited water takes an adaptation that the majority of the world deals with just fine. It’s only the people who grew up with it that have an irrational fear of the concept of it being a limited resource like any other.
I have illegible hand writing. I was able to type all other standard tests I had taken up to that point. How was I supposed to know that they changed the test? When I signed up there was no mention of the essay and a lot of kids were surprised by the essay at the time of the test. I’m sure I would have rocked the essay had I been able to type it. I planned to major in English because i enjoyed writing. I haven’t written for fun since that test.
Or glyphosate and/or neonicotinoids.
Why people flag this issue, from my non American point of view, it looks crazy!
I often don't know how much to skip. Where is the point? I often give up unless it's something I'm really interested in.
I'd struggle to place Discord, HN and possibly Reddit into the "social media" category. They sure aren't dead websites and they sure have a community, but they don't feel the same way as Facebook, Twitter and TikTok. Maybe it's the lack of name recognition that makes them feel different.
Virgin Hyperloop hypersonic train carries first passengers (2020)
I don't mind it as much in true crime podcasts when it's done well. Totally agree that the generic "it was a peaceful town where nobody locked their doors blah blah blah" can get old quickly. But hearing about the unique lives of the victims in murder cases can definitely add to the story. And in podcasts more focused on the investigative side (ex. Someone Knows Something) knowing the background info can even be critical to solving the puzzle so to speak.
> real-Excel

???

:-(
How well they do in college, I'd presume.
> tell me how your stated criteria differs from the pre-established diagnostic criteria for depression.

If the person lacks dysphoria or anhedonia, would that satisfy the question? I understand your angle (I think), but for comparison, the last time I had a serious flu I found that even after I felt better, it was extremely difficult to focus at work. For about 3 days, gradually improving each. I suspect that is what people refer to as "brain fog", and I could distinguish it from depression by (among other things) a lack of dysphoria / anhedonia (and generally speaking, other depression signs).

I remember in medical school that when we were interviewing patients receiving chemo they would have us do a neuro exam, and very distinctly remember when one guy got angry at me when he couldn't answer some of my questions. He didn't seem to have depression and nobody told me I was doing it wrong when I said he had "chemo brain". So its certainly a real thing in the general sense, and can certainly be caused by a variety of medical conditions.

I guess a more constructive question would be -- assuming a long term cognitive impact, what (practical) research should these researchers be doing instead? Or what if when they asked about brain fog they _also_ asked about depressive symptoms?
How is it confusing? 15th of June to 15th of July.
There really needs to be an option to include Linux or even just no OS. It's really frustrating to have to pay the Microsoft tax for something that's supposed to give me a choice and modularity.
Use NaCL or other SFI techniques. It doesn't require any kind of serialization/deserialization code, contrary to your suggestion. Here's the original SFI paper, maybe it's more approachable? https://cs155.stanford.edu/papers/sfi.pdf
Whether it’s a joke or a falsehood, the idea that the opposite sex is hard to understand is widespread and not simply a gay sentiment.

Have you ever heard the saying that men are from Mars, women are from Venus?
If you pay me as much as it would cost to buy one of these robots, I'll come fold your laundry for you. I'll make "beep boop" sounds at no extra cost.
That hits so close to home. I’ve given up searching for recipes online because of this. And I’m not even mentionning all the ads you have to scroll through.
No, but it stops straight scraping, and requires a scraper to do a little bit more work to copy the recipe.
IPFS works pretty well in the style of progressive-enhancement with the existing web for static content specifically. If you want to link to a resource that's available through IPFS, then you make the link point to an IPFS gateway that you trust and expect to stay online (possibly your own on your own domain), like https://example.com/ipfs/Qm_IPFS_HASH_HERE/. Anyone that has a browser with direct IPFS support (either because they're using an IPFS extension or they're using a browser with built-in support, which might get more popular if IPFS takes off) will have their browser recognize the URL format and just fetch the file by hash directly from IPFS, and it won't matter if example.com is still up and serving the file. For everyone else, the link will work as long as example.com is still up and acting as an IPFS gateway. If example.com ever goes down, then users can make the link work by installing an IPFS extension or manually replacing the example.com domain in the link with the domain of any still-active IPFS gateway, and any admin in control of the page could fix the link similarly.
Ask HN: Why would anyone respect your privacy?
After having tried out PSVR, which I found kind of awful, so much so that the smartphone VR seemed like a step forward compared to it, I was highly skeptical of the whole ordeal. Then my friend showed me Microsoft’s Mixed reality headsets and I was on board with some slight misgivings about the feasibility of using it for longer than 20 minutes at a time, plus it still came with a bit of a hassle.

This year I purchased a Quest2 after reading through the feature list and I was honestly really impressed. Oculus managed to create a truly viable mass market capable rendition of a VR headset. Unfortunately Facebook itself is kind of the biggest enemy when it comes to their own product. From what I’ve seen as a general response and my personal experience also is that people would like a VR headset to experience VR stuff; games, videos, the likes. Facebook would like you to strap a Facebook machine to your face and watch ads, hyper-targeted to you with as much highly personal information used to target as possible. And that’s where the disconnect seems to be. Because Oculus is clearly capable of making VR happen as a viable platform - the question really is: will Facebook let them?
I'm not trying to be disagreeable, but...

> Intrinsic is working to unlock the creative and economic potential of industrial robotics

...is under the fold, under two paragraphs and an image
The short version of this paper (https://www.cell.com/one-earth/fulltext/S2590-3322(21)00344-...) describes this new index as follows:

> Here, we built a spatially explicit tropical forest vulnerability index (TFVI) based on observations of forest cover, carbon, and water fluxes to identify areas where rainforests are losing resilience to disturbance and are changing toward an irreversible state, a “tipping point.”

The extended version of the paper (https://www.cell.com/one-earth/pdfExtended/S2590-3322(21)003...) has a lot more detail and math, and the underlying model is described on page 999 (13 in the PDF) under Equation 8. The model is implemented using the rlm function in R (https://www.rdocumentation.org/packages/MASS/versions/7.3-54...), which fits a linear regression model using iterated re-weighted least squares (IWLS). The input and output variables can be seen on page 1022 (35 in the PDF) in Table S1.

As an aside, I really dislike the increasing use of "tipping points" in discussions around climate change. It seems so vague and imprecise, and the claim of irreversibility seems hard to establish. In the context of this paper, if you read the extended version, it seems tipping point here is essentially long-term loss of biomass (not necessarily a climate-related outcome). Additionally, rather than irreversibility, the model they use predicts losses as a 1-month or 1-year lagged outcome based on various input stressor variables. The magnitude of the output index will need to be interpreted to determine how significant the negative outcome is (that is, the model does not actually determine an irreversible 'tipping point'). Here's the relevant text:

> The absolute magnitude of TFVI represents the risk of critical transitions that would result in abrupt decreases (negative values) or increases (positive values) of the response variable given long-term trends in the stressors. The larger the absolute value of TFVI, the greater the risk of a critical transition to either higher or lower value of the ecosystem response.
I'm a big fan of using "jj".
Thomas Midgley Jr Invented Both Leaded Gas and Freon
Canada and northern part of the US will be fine (north of the mason dixon line). Places like Albany, NY, or Minesota, or most of Canada, appart from the occasional crazy swings, are going to be more lovely places to live, with slightly milder winters.

The southern part is toast, both from water level rises, and lack of fresh water.

In this country, the ones that are going to be the most affected by global warming, seem like to care the less.

PS: Canada has a target goal to reach 100mil by 2100. They know they are going to be a more milder place to live overall (with the crazy swing), and there will be much more areas open for human habitation. That's why they are increasing their immigration quotas.

https://www.centuryinitiative.ca/
It's also easy to burn bridges by canceling early access games. The vast majority of people should stay away from early access games by default because of the risk that the game remains unfinished.
Its so weird to hear that.

My entire college-bound peer group took the SAT twice, once without the essay and once with the essay. Literally all of us, every single friend/acquaintance in my year. Most of us took the PSAT (practice SAT) to get used to the "timing" of multiple choice. (When you're low on time, its time to start guessing and moving way quicker)

The exceptions were the military dudes, who left for the Iraq / Afghanistan wars. So they had no need to take the SATs.

We all were worried about how the essay would be graded, whether or not colleges would accept the essay score, or whatever. Some of us even took alternative tests (ACT) in addition to the SAT (I only took the SAT twice).

For us, the essay thing was announced long-in-advance and we literally strategized our college acceptance plans around it. I don't know who figured out the essay announcement, but... it was very well known in my bubble.
Launches will only get cheaper over time. The base station is also likely to decrease in price over time due to economies of scale.

Starlink is one of the very few satellite providers that can provide enough bandwidth (due to the large constellation) that an entire village could share a single base station.
So the entrepreneur behind revolutionizing electric vehicles, space, worldwide internet accessibility, payment tech, and a few other bleeding edge techs out there is kind of jerk who says and does dumb things on occasion but is apparently brave enough to take risks that move a needle.

Maybe that is just the kind of person that it takes to do it.
The mystery is not the modest increase of obesity from 1890 to 1975. This increase is very likely caused by reduced activity and increased caloric consumption. It is the dramatic increase in obesity from around 1980 and onward that is a mystery. And part of the mystery is that animals living around humans, in the wild or in the lab, seems to have gone through a similar increase in body weight.

The article goes through why this dramatic increase can not just be due to reduced exercise or increased caloric consumption, but must have some other, unknown factors, to explain it.
Ok but even 1°C is pretty bad? Even 1°F is bad.

If we were going for emotional effect shouldn't it be expressed in Kelvin, or a temperature scale that is designed specifically to scare the public? Something where 3°C is 20°Scare?

E: Kelvin doesn't work for scaring the public unless it is reported as an absolute temperature. TIL.
I currently have a robot washing my clothes, another robot washing my dishes, a third robot vacuuming my floors. Cybernetic systems adjust the temperature in my house and water my lawn. I even have a little robot I keep in the freezer to make ice cubes while I sleep.

So, two answers - 1. folding laundry is a difficult technical challenge. 2. when we get a robot to do that task, we won't call it a robot.
"We're less active" probably isn't the right answer. Members of African hunter-gatherer tribes spend the same amount of calories as an average American[1]. I think the real answer is more about dietary changes rather than lifestyle.

https://news.yale.edu/2012/08/02/hunter-gatherers-expend-sam...
Because Western imperialism is very likely only a secondary cause, if any. You see strong condemnation of sodomy all across Sub-Saharan Africa, Middle East and South Asia, with an extremely wide variety of religious and practical (STD prevention) underlying motivations, even in regions without any history of imperialist occupation, and such cultural norms are stronger in regions with higher birth rates, higher infectious disease death rates and lower hygiene standards.
> To solve this piece you often need to create CRUD webapps, which can be much more complex to develop and maintain than some SQL in the database.

Why do they need to be webapps? If you've done it with Excel so far, you're obviously on a LAN, so why not traditional client/server native apps?
My thoughts: your username starts the same as a very culturally sensitive word for USA. You come in and leave a short comment that does not really contribute to the discussion, just brings about negativity. That's kind of like running up to someone and punching them, then running away. Not cool - you should engage in rational discourse rather than snipe. Fight, but fight fairly. You have a green username (new)?

People see things like this and think, "Troll", hence the flagging. I did not flag or downvote in this case, as I came across it hours after it already occurred.
Romania is much poorer than Norway, but the tax is the same - it's a flat tax rate. Play with the calculator and you'll see. The numbers are in RON - which is 5 times smaller than the dollar, and the value is implied to be monthly - but it makes no difference because of the flat rate.

In other countries you might have tax brackets, but I know from experience that it's very easy to reach 45% total tax rate (not marginal).

e.g. try Belgium, at 100k the state gets 50% https://www.belgiumtaxcalculator.com/?salary=100000&average=...

Try UK. At 50k you pay "only" 26%, but then in the US you pay almost nothing, if you have a family with kids and use the deductions smartly.
That is over a wide range. Someone who scores 15 points higher is no more likely to do well. It's not a good ranking function
Amazon to investigate allegations of discrimination following petition
My money (and my dietary choices) are on excess PUFA as a key contributor to obesity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHnPinYI2Yc

https://fireinabottle.net/torpor-sloth-and-gluttony-scd1-cau...
preservatives prevent the natural breakdown of food, so it doesn't seem surprising that they could have a negative effect on digestion
Ah, so it's the digital equivalent of trying to read soiled toilet paper. Got it
> Unlivable? Probably not. But more expensive? Absolutely.

The people that move west move to the cities and they are already drastically more expensive than water rich places. The cost of water tripling in LA or SF for residents would be meaningless in the grand scheme of CoL.

Just look at electricity and gas prices in CA for an example of something else people have to pay way more for that realistically doesn’t matter.

Until you’re looking at order of magnitude increases, it will just be noise. And desalination doesn’t even require a 10x increase.
I don't think it's ironic at all. I think the poster you are responding to is making the point that better city planning leads to better cities, but that America is opposed to central planning. You're pointing out the planned cities that made it in are great.
Ask HN: How to publish papers at a rapid pace?
Curious to find from people who have published papers.

How to publish papers at a rapid pace such that they get accepted and receive higher peer review count?

I am interested in publishing mostly computer science, HCI, cognition and intuition based papers.

Cheers.
It's the euro DD before MM style of date writing.
I had a similar impression. It was jarring to say the least and made me ask so many questions that had nothing to do with the story. Does this person lead every tech related conversation with, "When I was the CEO of Moonbeans, the world's first SAAS blockchain beanbag chair crowd sourcing platform" just to buy some credibility? Why do they feel the need to tell us that? Do they have inadequacy issues or is it the opposite? I can barely remember what that article was about. Robotics? Oh, right, shame it's an Alphabet subsidiary. It's bound to end up in the Google graveyard when it fails to be one of the top 10 most profitable companies in the world. Even if they do great things and make a great product, it's the fate which will inevitably follow most of Alphabet's projects until the SEC breaks them up, this being one of many good reasons.
I don't think it would make any difference, TBH. A difference of 3°C is "only" 5.4°F. That still doesn't seem too bad, at first thought, until you realize that it's 5.4°F difference forever (or, at least well into the foreseeable future).
I'm not sure that they care less or they are just too terrified to actually think about it.
What are they talking about?

In the US this will mean more rain in many regions and longer growing seasons. A lot of plants will quickly adapt.

Historically, our planet for most of its history was warmer. It’s all going to be fine, while we will need to adjust the world will continue on.

Note: I’m not saying it won’t be hard, but this will be a gradual change and will actually assist some places, while others get more harsh. I’m just so tired of the negativity.

There’s also a lot of common errors people make. For instance, is this avg temp? Where are we taking measurements? Everyone realizes year to year there’s average drifts that are pretty substantial around the earth... etc etc
I should have clarified: the energy produced by one such turbine in a day could provide for the 1 day electrical energy needs of 4200 CA homes.
Perhaps. But I suspect the bigger issue is that even 5.4°F still doesn't sound like much. It's hard to communicate that the average temperature implies much higher highs and many
"unusually hot" days.