skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The items were not listed in order. I've had a couple spins of playing WoW and DotA, and often times the reason I quit are because there are so many other things I want to do. I work full time, I have a rental property, I have a small business (with my wife), 1 dog, 3 cats, no kids yet, but soon hopefully. We get outdoors, go camping, visit family. Probably getting into sailing next summer. Life's great. Don't get me wrong. But, dang. With "forever" I could get so much done. I'm also fairly patient, and conservative, so with time on my side, the safest investments will pay off well. But, then again, if you have time to work, why not jump into the risky investments. If you lose everything, you can just rebuild. Maybe a hybrid of both approaches. However, if death were cured, then money, investing, and finance would probably change quite radically as well.

I love thinking about this concept. I hope that over the next 20 years, they figure out how to extend life to 125 years, so that then in the following 20-40 years they can extend life indefinitely. Here's to hoping.
It also illustrates pretty clearly why the TouchBar is going to take off - all sorts of silly little apps and games that keep people amused for hours.
Soylent absolutely doing the right thing, but I'll be upset if I can't get my Soylent as a result of this.
I suffered very unpleasant nausea after eating bars from a particular shipment of Soylent food bars. Soylent is now forever (or at least in the near future) associated for me with those bouts of nausea. That's the unfortunate thing about nausea, one episode related to a particular food can ruin that food forever for you.
Ask HN: Could HN be more meritocratic?
I would like to suggest a rethink of Hacker News. More specifically, I think that more should be done to limit up and down voting and comments to only those with intelligence and experience in the topics being commented on. For a few years in the 2000s, there was a smart group here, and commentary was smart, because there were only smart people here. To get back to that environment, YC could elect officials to offer only to the best of the best to join the new HN community where they would decide what goes on the frontpage and the commentary thereof. Does anyone else agree that it is a problem, and if so, how could HN limit discussion to only those with experience and wisdom in the subject matter?
Just an aside, wouldn't this be expressed as "taught poorly"?

Blame the English teacher who thunk it badly. :-)
And to think I came here looking for hacker news.
Wrong. Without usernamespacing your containers do run as root. If you type `docker run busybox id` it will print uid=0, and that uid is 0 in the container and out of it.

You are namespaced, so the linux kernel promises that even though you're root, you're not dangerous, and there is syscall filtering and shit going on.... but that historically has not really fared that well!

But your statement is false. You're root with and without privileged. Privileged gives you back CAPABILITIES which are different than USER, so your claim is bullshit.
they don't know what's causing it. If you just revert the formula, that doesn't mean the ingredient causing the problem has been removed. Contaminated soy protein is contaminated soy protein (for ex). Changing the amount of contaminated soy protein in your drink isn't going to fix anything.
Your anonymous browsing history contains enough to reveal your true identity
Investment news is interesting for the metadata.

Professional politicians don't watch CNN because they lack information that CNN can provide. They watch CNN so they know what the public is being told.

Professional investors don't look to Bloomberg News for information. They look to know what other, lesser informed, market participants are being told.

Awareness of the ambient information supplied to the masses is valuable in both scenarios.
How about Bricks game for not having to rotate?
I am sure you would have been asked this 100s of times - Is there a way to EXPORT it to actual code (Swift/JS for Web) etc?

Or is just used for only previz? That would mean someone can prototype an interaction which is impossible to code

Finally, what is the goal? Is it just to be a prototyping tool or Will it evolve into a App maker itself? Or at least able to export code.

Thanks for giving it away free!
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But, you can also release your own apps from your website so unlike iOS it's trivial to release and distribute an app that avoids the app store.
rollback both to a working combination?

in your analogy, it would be equivalent to Samsung putting its previous phone back into production.
Ask HN: What are some of the most advanced conversational UIs you've seen?
I'm a big fan of chatbots and the rise of virtual assistants. One UX pattern I've recently seen marries conversational chat UX with fluid dynamic visual elements on a web page. One example is https://www.heek.com/ , which has a chat bot that helps you build a webpage.

Are there any other great examples like this out in the wild? What is this UX pattern called?

What types of user experiences become possible when we augment a conversational agent and build some context awareness into the application or bot?
So they can stay aloft longer than the Swift language can stay backwards compatible? :)
Shouldn't they be offering a refund option? Just saying "stop eating it and let us know" doesn't inspire much confidence.
Sure, I'm quite positive I can help you with this. I don't have Skype though, do you mind communicating over email? Mine is mf88mf88@gmail.com, feel free to contact me!
so does that mean the language updates more frequently than the bird?
I'm really amazed by all the supporters on here. When I first heard about Soylent, I thought it was a terrible terrible idea. I mean, there's so much to food. It's not just eating it, it's all the flavours and ingredients and cooking with friends and loved ones and parties and such. I'm guessing most people on here use it as a supplement + regular food, but when I saw it originally, it seemed like it was intended to be someone's only source of food.

I think I'll just stick to Quest bars when I'm too busy to eat right. :-P
Is it possible they are getting reports based on allergies? I once (cringe) alerted a local bakery to their tainted ingredients that were causing illness, only to discover years later that it was a food intolerance issue on my side. And--same symptoms as reported in this LA Times article.

I've also heard that if you eat a lot of something, you can develop an intolerance to it, but am not sure if that's really true, or under what circumstances.
It does tend to fade with time - I was violently ill on a long car ride after eating at a fast food restaurant. I couldn't eat there for about a year afterward (but I still won't touch bacon there, a decade later...)
I like the idea of the TouchBar, but I just wish they would have kept a physical escape key. As a heavy emacs user, I'm really going to miss it.
Not putting solid food into your system for long periods of time (months, years) will destroy your ability to digest solid food when you start refeeding. I've seen people in eating disorder facilities who have lived on diets of liquid food (historically Ensure, basically the same thing) who have not defecated for months, and when they start eating again suffer for weeks and weeks from horrendous constipation, often requiring further hospitalization. This has happened to me.

Your ability to digest basically shuts down, your intestines stop moving what little solids there are through you.

Not eating solid food is not good for you. Don't do it.
Is anyone really surprised that this is happening? Nutrition is hard. Nutritionists don't get it. Would you trust a nutritionist by trade to program your pacemaker? If not, then why do you trust an engineer to formulate your food?
Why would you be pleasantly surprised? They have a product that's making people sick - telling you not to eat it is literally the bare minimum they could do. They haven't even issued a recall, given refunds...
Anyone who has flown American lately won't be surprised by this type of behavior out of them.
I'd say that the issue is only a vulnerability if you're doing tar -C / (which would be dumb). The actual issue appears to be that the filtering features of GNU tar are applied before pathname sanitisation (which is the actual security bug). The title (and some of the wording in the disclosure) lead me to believe that GNU tar would let you extract to paths outside the -C directory (which would be very bad).

So I kinda see the PoV of the maintainer, though I don't agree with the filter ordering.
Obviously, I'd like to maintain my body and will. When I was in Maryland for a year, my landlady was 104 years old, and quite sharp. Her daughter was 80 and crazy spry. Every day my landlady would be out on the porch, cleaning and organizing. She couldn't run around, and she was probably past the point where I'd enjoy spending eternity, but the point is that her bloodline was amazing. I could certainly spend an eternity with the health that her 80 year old daughter had. She could pick up her grandson, and get around the yard just fine.

Part of the whole agelessness thing is that some of the mechanics of how our cells breakdown and begin to fail would need to be cured. At which point, our bones, and muscles, if cured of that deterioration, would lead to curing death, but it would also lead to the ability to maintain your health and body. As long as you continue to exercise, and eat well, you'd probably have a body similar to an average fit modern 40 year old I'd expect. Or somewhere between the crazy metabolism of 20 year olds, and the deterioration of 70 year olds.

I don't know any of the science though, so just speculating based on what I've read, and my opinions.
There are lots of foods that you can develop a sensitivity to if you eat them more than a couple times per week. So it might not even be a permanent intolerance, but rather something that's more transient.

E.g. supposedly if you eat wine cap mushrooms more than twice in a week then you'll be throwing up everywhere, but then you'll be fine again to eat them a week later.
How come the FDA hasn't taken any action against them?
Could be; in both situations there's enough external impact on the entire production process that reverting everything back to normal* still means people get sick.

* even normal could be in doubt. it's entirely possible this happened before and there weren't enough reports to warrant any concern.
I understand why people get Soylent, but I'm also wondering why people choose to trust a company to provide the powder for them instead of making it themselves.

Not only would that save you quite a bit of money (Soylent is a pretty poor value proposition if you need to consume more than 2000 calories), but you would then personally control the freshness of the ingredients.

There are so many recipes at diy.soylent.com/recipes and many of them are made from ingredients that combat the main problem of buying food at the supermarket - spoilage and waste, by letting you pre-mix months worth of food that doesn't go bad. And with the money saved compared to actual Soylent you can supplement with whatever fresh foods from time to time.

It's not like the nutritional profile of Soylent is hard to achieve - all you have to do is solve a system of equations for the necessary macros and vitamins.
Move fast and break things, including people's GI tracts. The fact that Soylent powder is at "version 1.6" and causing these problems points to gross version number inflation. This is a showstopper. Rob Rhinehart asserts that the human body is "just chemicals," yet a vat of elemental hydrogen, oxygen, carbon etc. would seem to behave a little differently from a human body composed of reproducing cells and structured organs. His CS background has made him consider the body a narrowly deterministic system that requires a minimum of sanity-check testing before releasing it upon the world. We're the beta testers here. Real world, physical systems have vast amounts of variability that techies don't seem to appreciate. I won't be surprised to see VC funds starting to require deep involvement of health professionals for companies in the diet/medical space, especially in light of Theranos and now this.
In 10 years I'll need to buy a new machine to replace the one I have now.
> I'm also wondering why people choose to trust a company to provide the powder for them instead of making it themselves.

Are you really wondering that? The people that buy this stuff are the ones that won't even make themselves a meal. You think they're gonna make the powder themselves?
Might it be soy allergy?

I honestly see no reason to halt production entirely just because a small percentage of people are having allergic reaction.

Can they not just add an allergy warning?
Not only that, but advertising is a way for the few to subsidize the many. For every person who responds to an ad, 100 do not. That means people of little means get access to free content paid for by companies betting they can find other people to pay for it.

I grew up poor. We didn't have cable TV, or any kind of subscription service, because we couldn't afford it. My parents would never had justified micro-paying for online content. But through advertising, a world of content beyond what was available in public libraries was made available to me.

Advertising will never go away anymore than money or prices will go away, because even in post-scarcity goods world, people's attention span is still scarce, and anyone seeking to scale any business or organization in this world will need to reach people, and with so many people vying for attention, undoubtedly, differential time-preference and privacy-preferences between people will mean some people will trade one for the other, human diversity practically guarantees it.
-2 points for making a joke about people running Chrome with a million tabs?? Rough crowd …
> I think I'll just stick to Quest bars

Oooh, protein bar talk! Lately I'm liking EAS Myoplex 30 Chocolate Peanut Butter and NuGo Dark Mint Chocolate Chip. For when I'm uh..."too busy"...
sounds like it has not faded at all...
Man, this is a bummer. As much as I hate the concept of Soylent as food, I see it as the only way to scale food production for the growing population, without killing our planet. The other options are still in the labs. Artificial tissues for instance. Vertical farming is one alternative, but that is again fraught with massive energy consumption. I hope Soylent gets to solve this.
If the typical user of a "pro" laptop doesn't need more than 16 gb then the typical user isn't a pro.
Riak KV as a service. (Startup, need initial feedback)
I don't advocate for or against liquid diets necessarily - and I realize this is overtly a throwaway account - but this sounds pretty pseudo-sciency to me, anecdote notwithstanding.

At bare minimum, include some citation here.
> Soylent said there shouldn’t be any issues with its premade drinks, which cost slightly more than just the powder.

Interesting. I tried the premade drinks (Soylent 2.0) a couple of months ago and within an hour had stomach cramps and was forced to retreat to the bathroom.

Unlike a software bug it's mentally very hard to forgive -- I love the idea of Soylent but doubt I will ever try it again, in any form.

Serious question: why is it so hard for them to find the root cause of these issues? There are a limited number of ingredients, all of which are surely well documented and tested.
What %? What % of people normally get sick from food?

Just curious, not defensive..
The solution is obviously to create $n$ groups for each newly added ingredient in the previous version, randomly assign customers to a group and ship them a version with one ingredient added, then use R's prop.test to analyze the failure rate of the formulations. /s
Amazon misses 3rd quarter earnings expectations
Some of it is cultural: Americans don't want their kids to have too much homework, in many cases they don't want to help with homework or are unable to; they want a silver bullet. Some of it is lack of qualified teachers, and part of that is the way public schools are funded from the local tax base--do it cheaply as possible. Some of it is political pressure to dumb things down so that students can be graduated from HS before they reach the legal drinking age. Some of it is the rise of the education ``experts'' who always have some new…silver bullet (Feynman had a lot to say about such experts after reviewing math textbooks for California in the early '60s). The new math came about as an almost hysterical reaction to Sputnik, when, in fact, the U.S. had plenty of highly qualified scientists and engineers who just happened to get beaten to the punch by the URSS. But no, the math curriculum had to change into some kind of Bourbaki for tots, meanwhile in fact the Soviets were teaching math the old-fashioned way--nice cognitive dissonance there. There are a lot of factors, and I don't see any magical way of improving curricula, getting better teachers, requiring more homework, etc.
Vitriol? I think you're taking this thread far too personally.
Cruz? Where on Earth did you get that I might support Cruz? Oh wait... I think I get what happened: I made some comments regarding my religion and used a political label. In reality, I'm referring to a number of fiscal and regulatory measures on my ballot. But you took that label and ran with it and came to the conclusion that I've voted for measures that would discriminate against homosexuals. You stereotyped me based on a couple of labels. In reality, I changed party affiliations when the gay marriage issue flared up before I was ever able to legally vote. I did so after I spoke with a relative and close friend who is gay, and realized that the political party I had supported did not actually match my religious values.

And that is why you judge people based on their individual, real actions, and you don't discriminate based on political or religious labels, just like you don't discriminate based on someone's sexual lifestyle. Because it's fundamentally wrong. Hypocrite. Boom. Roasted. Mic drop.
TensorFlow: how to combine continues and categorical variables in one model
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I don't understand why everyone is up in arms about the ESC key getting replaced. It's still there (by holding the Fn key), but even better: now your vim session can have a custom touchbar interface that makes some of the more obscure vim shortcuts easier.
When I've seen companies make their salaries publicly transparent, they've been below market rate (eg Buffer).

I wonder if the same tendency exists for companies that become internally transparently?
Here's a great picture of "families who have understood that the press is a civic calling" (what is this supposed to be, the Venetian Republic?) in action:

When bloomberg was having problems w the times he called Arthur [Sulzberger] and asked for coffee. He made the case that they were treating him like a billionaire dilettante instead of Third term mayor. It changed the coverage moderately but also aired the issues in the newsroom so people were more conscious of it. But Arthur is a pretty big wuss so he's not going to do a lot more than that.

Hillary would have to be the one to call.

He also thinks the brown and women pundits can shame the times and others on social media. So cultivating Joan Walsh, Yglesias, Allen, perry bacon, Greg Sargent, to defend her is helpful. They can be emboldened. Fwiw - I pushed [Philippe Reines] to do this a yr ago.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/31954
We should note the selection bias here. The author specifically asked economists for graphs that would "scare" them as part of a halloween themed post. So we are only getting the curated "scariest" charts someone could take out of all the macroeconomic data out there and not a real opinion of what they think of the market as a whole.
Rhinehart asserted from the start that Soylent was meant to replace shitty meals like the Big Mac consumed at your desk alone. There was and still is a lot of misunderstanding about this. One of his interviews took place at some LA hipster fried chicken place. He's not antifood or antisocial.
Mac apps can be distributed ad hoc as they always have
The term Dark Age is still legitimately applied to the 1200 BC ish Eastern Mediterranean cultural collapse though, is it not?
Isn't Soylent primarily made from rice and soybeans? These are commodity crops that require huge amounts of fossil fuels (chemical fertilizer, fuel for tractors, transportation, processing) and government subsidies in order to be profitably cultivated.
If a potential predator starts to circle them, would they switch sleeping sides without waking in order to follow it with their awake eye?
Is the world really melting?
He just told you what he lived through, and you're asking for a citation?

Never change, HN.
Complaints about Civ's omission of the dark side of history ring hollow to me. Civ is, at its heart, a deeply aspirational and optimistic game. Watching the Baba Yetu intro from Civ IV[1] gives me the same sense of wonder and pride in humanity that Chris Hadfield's rendition of Space Oddity[2] does. Dwelling on the darkness in our history would be so discordant for a game like Civ.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJiHDmyhE1A

[2]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaOC9danxNo
Believe it or not, some people are just not really into food. Just like some people are not into music or sports.
I am one of the people who got violently ill from a bar. I ate numerous bars and boxes of 1.6. I had no issues, I usually eat 2.0 every day.

One single bar made me ill, I ate numerous bars before getting ill.