skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The founder of madd in america thinks they went too far though.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2002/aug/6/20020806-035...

> Candy Lightner, MADD’s founder, says she disassociated herself from the movement in 1985 because she believed the organization was headed in the wrong direction.

> “It has become far more neo-prohibitionist than I had ever wanted or envisioned,” said Mrs. Lightner, who founded MADD after her daughter was killed by a drunk driver. “I didn’t start MADD to deal with alcohol. I started MADD to deal with the issue of drunk driving.”

> Several years after she left MADD, Mrs. Lightner briefly represented the American Beverage Institute in its fight against the 0.08 percent BAC law. She also lobbied Congress to enforce tougher penalties for drunk drivers.

Maybe she took up that position after getting hired by the beverage industry or not I don't know but she did lose a child to a drunk driver. 0.08 is probably too strict as the consequences of that are really severe and as evidenced basically no more impairing than widely used daily antihistamines.
> I wonder if this is unique to Western/materialistic cultures or more widespread.

Not at all, you just don't seem like someone who has much exposure to the world outside of "western cultures". Which is unfortunate, because the rest of your comment has a lot of pretty interesting points to ponder.

As others have mentioned in replies, plastic surgery in South Korea is so commonplace and integral to everyday life, it will blow a lot of people's minds. Plastic surgeries are common high school graduation gifts there (double eyelid surgery seems to be one of the most popular ones).

For a personal example, sister of one of my friends was graduating from a nursing school there, and ended up getting a surgery or two closer to the end of her program, despite resisting it for the longest time. Why? Because photos are required on resumes for pretty much any position there. And she felt like she was at a strong disadvantage compared to her classmates (who all had at least a couple of plastic surgeries done) when it came to job applications, and iirc her suspicion was strongly supported by her experiences.
By signing a contract with the FIA, the international organizing body for motor racing.
I had a ZX81 with the extra package of 16 KB of RAM (not a typo, only KB). During load and save time, the screen was just noise because the CPU handle the TV signal and it can't load the data and keep updating the screen.
,,people are so insecure about their bodies’’

While I agree that it’s probably not worth it for the operation, multiple studies have shown that heigh is an important factor in mate selection (and I believe there’s a consensus on it), so using the word insecurity, which refers to a mental problem, diverts thinking of alternative solutions (like better fitness) to a bad direction.
If you don't go for a gap that exists and don't yeet yourself to death at maximum speed on short track circuits, you cannot call yourself a racer
Reminds me of .plan and finger.
I know of Hardware companies which commit binaries and such artefacts to git (generated from the source code in repo) to ensure that those are available. This looks like a really good solution for this.
In a century or two it will be wild that doctors could just get up in the morning and do these things. How far does this stuff have to go for anyone to reckon with this? If I have a psychological need, with a fancy name, for people to eat me, can a surgeon just cut off my arm and feed it to people? Why not?
Unless you're using something like an RCU queue, you're still going to have to lock operations around moving the queue pointers, or you could have producers writing over each other or writing into a slot a consumer has already read from.
> there is barely any security risk in shipping a compiled css file

not when you require 500 dependencies to actually compile the css

imagine running “npm run build” but instead of getting a css file you get your hard drive wiped out, because some author of random npm module decided it’s April Fool’s day today

this is a hard reality than many are not willing to acknowledge because of all the hype around JS
I'm really glad that there are "so many" safety regulations on a multi ton high speed device that allows 70 years old/drunk users to handle it.
Yes they likely meant "typical top speeds".

According to Wikipedia, all "Highest average" speed records (for race, lap, and qualifying) happened in Monza, and they're all around 250km/h, or 155mph.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Formula_One_race_recor...
Implants have to be replaced eventually, right? So the danger is having a surgery every X years.
To be pedantic, Finnish is not Ugric. Hungarian is Ugric, Finnish is Finnic. They both are Finno-Ugric, a.k.a Uralic. Many non-linguist Finns mix up Finno-Ugric and Ugric.

The Proto-Uralic *weti "water" looks like it could come from IE *u̯ódr̥, *udén- "water", but that etymology is problematic because of irregular sound substitutions[0]:

- why would Uralic have *e when it's not present in the IE original?

- why would Uralic drop *r or *n at the end?

[0] Simon, Z. (2020). Urindogermanische Lehnwörter in den uralischen und finno-ugrischen Grundsprachen. Indogermanische Forschungen, 125(1), 239–266. https://doi.org/10.1515/if-2020-011
It's amazing how her beliefs allowed her to turn migraines into sainthood. The ability to give meaning to unavoidable pain is a precious thing
Is 60mg a typical dose of fexofenadine? I'm only familiar with it as 180mg tablets (I was initially prescribed 180mg twice daily for dermatographic urticaria, and currently take 360mg twice daily).
Chrome Developer Tools: Emulated Devices
Anyone know of a way to automatically update this list? Google seems to have abandoned it. (Not super interested in manually adding devices every time one releases.)

Its missing iPhone 11 (& Pro), but has iPhone 12 Pro (no standard 12), no iPhone 13 (or Pro) at all. Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra, but no recent Samsung models.
> I like the idea of a simple language, but not the choices they made.

That’s the problem with simplicity, and it’s why kitchen-sink languages like Java will always be popular.

People complain about the complexity of Microsoft Office too — they only use a subset of the features. Why does it need to be so complicated? Because every customer uses a different subset of the features, and what you end up with is the combined superset of what everyone wants.
You mean BGA laptop chips? Or desktop ones?
This was a Google phone screen question about 10 years ago. Using a lookup table for each byte was key.
> With all due respect to Paul McCartney, he is just a pop artist of his time. It's not even classical music, let alone CEO of cutting edge enterprises that are likely to change the world.

Pop-culture phenomenons have nothing to do with the individual's abilities or sector or even net worth. It's about virality. A concept which is not understood yet.

> It's crazy how much hate Elon gets when it's obviously just different politics... a different set of opinions. It's similar to how much some people hate Bill Gates, for no reason, and with zero perspective as to how much he has changed the world.

Bill Gates first put a PC on every desk and only then got paid for it. Him, Allen and Ballmer did so without ever having to raise external money up until IPO. People are suspicious about Musk and his motives because he engineered a way to get paid before doing the bulk of the work (Tesla is a 20 year old company and only accounts for 1.2% of cars sold globally as of 2021), SpaceX is still a startup, NeuraLink is just an idea, The Boring Company is essentially just a meme, Hyperloop completely faded into irrelevance...

Him being at the top of the Forbes list considering all the above lack of presence of his products in the real world makes people wonder about his extremely promotional nature, obsession with pumping the stock and Wall St. excess.
Really fun list. I'd add this daily blog by Tiny Projects[1] that's written with pen & paper

[1] https://daily.tinyprojects.dev
Lookism is much worse than racism or sexism but nobody ever wants to talk about it.
And what do you do if you're short in the south?
At Wrox Press during the dotcom era editorial staff were comped with direct sales-derived royalties. Was the most connected I have ever been to a metric that clearly mattered to the business.

There were some perverse incentives - people wanted to work on bestsellers, there was jockeying for credit for carryover work from previous editions, but in general it promoted a creative energy around trying to publish hit books, editors had a good deal of direct ownership that could actually impact the product they were shipping, and the scheme even helped align you on the same team as authors, whose compensation is also royalty driven - where for many other publishers author royalties are almost in conflict with what the publisher wants from the deal.

Such a direct unit sales driven profit share is hard to imagine engineering into many other businesses but it’s always stood out to me as a remarkably powerful model.
You should have kept going on.

There are multiple posts older than this one that are listed within the first 9 pages, some of them 2 days older even. While this one isn't.

Take a guess why :)
I never heard of it, but looks good. I hope they can succeed. And good luck to you too.
> are people largely trying to obtain Western features through surgery.

In my personal opinion, it depends.

For some, like double eyelid surgery, absolutely yes. For others, like the V-line jaw surgery (aka mandibuloplasty, but the colloquial name is pretty self-descriptive), I would say no.

And some are just universal and are done by people of all kinds of cultures/races, like face-lift surgeries (aka rhytidectomy) or nose-jobs (aka rhinoplasty).
Exactly.

If anything, computer notes distracted me from the lecture. But writing out summaries from slides after the lecture was invaluable, even if I never looked at those summaries again.
I still use my bullet journal (moleskine paper + graphgear pencil), and also use Obsidian (switched from Roam abt a year ago), and have a reMarkable 2 eink tablet -- which I _might_ try using as a digital replacement for the bullet journal. I'm sometimes bothered by the inefficiency / partial redundancy in my system's current iteration... OTOH the resiliency is great.

My flavor of bullet journal makes it reasonably easy to find stuff thanks to numbered pages, a structure that includes dedicated pages separate from daily notes, and a comprehensive index.
A lot of companies boot you out if you don't get a promo. The idea is that you take the "worst" 10% of your workforce (where "worst" means not getting promos), and fire them, every year. Even if you have no desire in chasing the promo train for more money, you sort of need to play along, just to have a job in a year or two.
Surprised Elon bought that dumpster fire instead of something like this.
No, I think what happened is that OneDrive overwrote the local db with a version from the cloud that was several seconds older, corrupting everything. Or maybe it just overwrote the lock file? I'm not completely sure. Whatever it was, it appears that OneDrive replace a newer version of the db with an older or partial/corrupted one from a prior sync.

I should mention that I was able to repeat the corrupting problem reliably. The problem disappeared when I moved to a working directory that was not monitored by OneDrive.

I was setting up a very simple db from a few CSV files, for use in a data science exercise for a course. There was nothing interesting happening in my code at all-- maybe a simple table join sql query, at most.
> compare OTP with concurrency tools in other languages (e.g. threads, locks, mutexes)

That’s a very fair point, but is the average data scientist going to be learning this or offloading that task to a software engineer?

> I would rather learn a bit of OTP to get concurrency and fault tolerance rather than learn nothing and get none of it. :)

Agreed —- I’ve been using Elixir for a bit and am only now learning about supervision trees and genservers. It’s such an exciting part of the language.

> PS: “mix new” does not generate supervision trees by default.

Yup and that was confusing for me as a beginner — I recall being confused over where the entrypoint of the app was. Coming from a language like Python.

Hi José, huge fan. Thanks for dropping by this thread!
That's awesome! What do you fly in? I'd love to know more about your day :D
Only use one notebook at a time. Always write down a date first, on every page if your notes spans to another page. Write down your notes sequentially. Had a diagram in the middle of the page? Continue notes at next page unless you are annotating the diagram. It's much easier to find things when there is a single media in linear form. Having mixed notes is fine. Having a linear order is more important. I would write down my shopping list if I am think of that in the middle of figuring out an algorithm, draw a box around my shopping list, and continue with my algorithm notes.
With Truffle you have to map your language’s semantics to java ones. I am unfortunately out of my depth on the details, but my guess would be that LLVM operates here with this in mind in a completely safe way (I guess pointers to the stack are not safe) so presumably it should work for these as well.
They're just referring to -[NSArray arrayWithObjects:...] which takes a va_list. Same with -[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:...]

These both long predate the array and dictionary literal syntax.
Exactly. I'm same height as guy in the article and no one has ever commented on my height at work (or, pretty much anywhere else). I think Scott had lots of other issues going on, but blames his height.

Of course I would have liked to have been 6' and looked more like a "commanding leader" when I march into a room. Maybe it would have given me a career boost... but I could also get that from hitting the gym and bulking up, or buying better-fitted clothes, or (heaven forbid) put more effort into my job and actually become a more commanding leader!
append is the opposite of magic. it's exposing the details of a realloc when 99% of the time you want to keep the same binding. That's probably also why map doesn't have an equivalent; in the case of hash tables it's more like 99.999%.
Actually disagree, plug-in hybrids will run on battery for most short trips in the city. It’s cutting out all the low hanging fruit for pollution. Most of your trips on 20/30mph roads where fuel efficiency is poor. Stop and go traffic. Sitting at a stoplight. If you’re running on battery in those scenarios, I’d say you’re making a huge improvement.

And then you still have gas for a longer trip somewhere with no charging infra. But those trips will hopefully be rarer. And when you’re going 60+ mph on these longer trips, you’re only ever burning fuel at the engine’s better efficiency.

I think there’s a good place for this tech in some lifestyles.

EVs are obviously the future, but intermediate vehicles to help people get into EVs aren’t bad. If someone chooses a plugin-hybrid over gas, but would have chosen gas over EV for range and charging reasons, it’s a good improvement
Now there's an Idea!
Ask HN: Shutdown sports events globally to save the planet?
There are many ideas suggested a greener globe.

What about shutting down all sports evens across the globe?

There are a lot of them, ususally weekly, usually more,
in most cities at least of some size.

There are huge climate costs.

Most studiums use a lot of electricty
Most have lights,food prep, cold drinks,
usually in disposable contrainers.

Some places that are huge have ACs

Then there is the enormous activity of getting people there and back again.

What impact do you think that might have on gobal emissions?
Almost everything around you has been shaped by the human hand.

I had this thought while walking down the street in a foreign country. And I remember it having quite a profound effect on me. What a marvelous thing it is, our hand!

(It even applies to many things we would call „nature“, such as woods or meadows.)
By 'paying off your mortgage' I obviously meant repaying the principal plus interest in full, not meeting your regular payments.

It should go without saying that you shouldn't take out a mortgage where you can't afford the regular payments out of your regular income. Banks are very unlikely to grant you such a loan anyway.
If by 'alright' you mean 'legal in the US', yes.
It isn’t my data I want to view, it’s my clients viewing their own data inside my SaaS alongside our other reports.
You can easily build some of these circuits with very low investment. The ICs (555; 4017; ...) for circuits like the "LED sequencers" are very cheap (less than $1/1€ each). With ICs in DIP packages [0], the circuits can be built on breadboards [1] since the pins can be inserted directly into the holes of the breadboards. If you are new to this then you can find an overview of electronic symbols in Wikipedia [2] for example - this is helpful because it gives you names and terms to search for.

Having even a cheap multimeter to measure voltages, resistances or the polarity of diodes is better than nothing btw (but better don't use these to measure line/mains power - even if they claim to be able to do that).

Have fun!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_in-line_package

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breadboard

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_symbol
Yes, I should have mentioned, this, thank you!
I can't comment about the career opportunities that tall people seem to get more of, but the main take away I have from this article is people should stop using social media. It will always surface something to be insecure about.

Also, I've seen short (and bald!) people have amazing dating lives. The key is that they're confident, funny, and actually care about the people they interact with. It's so easy to blame something like height so one don't have to improve who they are on the inside.
Outside of my system vs. inside of my system. PRs count as the latter in my view. It's filing a task, for me to do, so it should not even seem like it is coming from a non-individual.
It's very likely that Valve is a major client of his current business. Geldreich builds and licenses a texture compression system that can supposedly outperform anything else on the market.
presumably he is still subject to the laws that relate to creating a victim
They work fairly well for some use cases. I know a few people who have plugin hybrids with maybe 50km battery range; they typically commute entirely on the battery (short urban commutes) and use the petrol engine maybe once or twice a year for long journeys. The plug-in hybrid is, of course, much cheaper than an electric car that could handle the occasional long trips, but most of their driving is on electric.

If you live in a city and mostly use the car for commuting/shopping, this can make a lot of sense, and that's not a small market.

One problem with this usage mode is that it can leave the petrol engine unused for very long periods, which will ultimately lead to problems (I think some hybrids will now deliberately periodically run it for a bit to deal with this).
As someone who started writing Objective-C on macOS in 2003, the whole nil messaging syntax is pure hell compared to any modern language that disavows nulls entirely (like Rust, and to a large extent Swift).

You can literally never trust anything - ever - is not nil because `nonnull` is just a hint, and messaging nil will never crash. It'll just return 0 (or {0} or 0.0 depending on context), which is sometimes valid - and sometimes a horrible failure mode. Failing silently like that is the worst option.

As such you end up having a ton of boilerplate all over the place checking the validity of input parameters to methods and initializers for conditions which shouldn't be representable in the first place - even when the method signature warrants that it's not representable, because it still won't crash on ya.

Let's say you have a chain of property accessors, a.b.c.d, the where d is a float. They're all supposed to be nonnull. You get 0.0. Is that valid? Shrugasaurus rex. Time for the ol' NSParameterAssert(a.b.c != nil).

[edit] Also, canonically, there's 5+1 'null' values: nil, Nil, NULL, -[NSNull null] and 0 - plus nullptr in Objective-C++.
Haha I meant panic as in become scared, not the go panic.
It actually sounds more appealing than you would think. You could for instance run warmer lighting in your office after sunset and the display would not be blasting blue light in your face until bedtime. Great idea but I'll wait til the price comes down.
Short answer: EVERYTHING.
>I could also get that from hitting the gym and bulking up, or buying better-fitted clothes, or (heaven forbid) put more effort into my job!

And what if you have done all that and are still mocked for your height?
I would say no, not really. If you build something and then never need to touch it again, well then it must be working perfectly and so there's no debt to pay off. However that is almost never the case.

If you continuously work on the code, it will accumulate debt over time in the form of bugs, or design flaws when taking shortcuts implementing new behavior. The more people you have working in the same area, the likelier this is to occur.

The long term solution like one of the posters in another thread said, is to pay down your tech debt strategically over time. Good habits for preparing to deal with it are keeping tests updated, and commenting in sections that get particularly gnarly.
You're comparing apples to oranges. Not trying to guess your height, but it seems you got personally attacked by the fact that society in general looks down on short guys.

Different from skin colour, there's an evolutionary trait to height preference. Studies have shown that heterosexual women prefer partners taller than them. It's understandable this subconscious bias. And what seems like discrimination, it's just a natural product.

Similarly, men have always shown preference to larger breasts and hips, signs of fertility. We can't, even shouldn't, shut down our instincts due to politically correctness.
NoScript gives warnings for all mp4 videos!
Well, yes - you know that, and I know that; but I thought perhaps someone who can't accept the scientific consensus might find the personal choices made by residents of a conservative small town to be more relatable. Of course everywhere you go there are stories like this; whether people openly accept the reality of climate change or not, they are adapting, and you can see it wherever you look.
> not a "better" Twitter, just... figuratively rebranded Twitter. Same concept, maybe different implementation details,

Isn't that what Yo, Secret, and all those other long-dead flashes in the pan were? 2014 VC decks were probably full of pitches for the next big thing in social media.
Bitcoin doesn't make state violence any less necessary. How do you expect to enforce laws without state violence?
Plastic surgery is quite common in Iran too.
Lots of good advice in this post.

I also find the 10 tips for clear writing at the following link very helpful - it overlaps with some of the advice in the post above - and includes some additional suggestions:

https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2019/08/27/podcast-on-writing/

You don't need to listen to the podcast at the top of the page above (unless you want to). Instead, scroll down the page and you'll find a short description of each of the following tips.

1. Establish ‘The Point’

2. Write it like you’d say it

3. Don’t try to sound clever

4. Show the thing

5. Know that you are not your writing

6. Share your work

7. Read (poetry in particular)

8. Never start with a blank page

9. Know when enough is enough

10. Stay human