skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd absolutely love to see that! At codebeat we run parsers and static analysis algorithms which are very resource-intensive but typically run for a short period of time so we have those powerful dedicated OVH machines sitting mostly underutilized. I've been doing some preliminary (mostly design and some dirty coding) work on that so if you're interested in comparing notes please feel free to reach out to me at marcinw [at] codebeat [dot] co.
Minimalism is not having no knives in your kitchen drawer.

Minimalism is having one very good knife that works extremely well instead of 10 that work so terribly they never get used "just in case".

The poser proudly boasts that they freed their lives from the tyranny of owning knives, but doesn't mention that they substituted eating out all the time for cooking.
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>The population at large has a very poor level of education

We have a general education crisis going on in the United States. We've got some of the best propaganda in the world, and it's making us sick.
> courts that have considered the issue of porn v. prostitution acknowledge that you can't just add a camera to a crime and call it "art." Otherwise, criminals would just strap on a helmet cam and go act like super-predators that haven't been brought to heel, right?

This is a very weird argument to make. There isn't a legal form of videotaped burglary or murder. There is a legal form of videotaped paid sex. 'Strapping on a camera' theoretically turns prostitution into pornography, but turns burglary into... ? Murder into... ?
The C.H.I.P has this. I am waiting for the two I ordered to ship (3 months late).
I flagged it because the site started playing audio while I was trying to read. Had to close the tab to make my phone shut up. It was embarrassing and I was unable to read the content.
Is this equivalent ? At least to me this seems a more common pattern than using memcpy(), and I expect to work better on old compilers.

static uint32 read(const void *ptr) {
const uint8 *b = (const uint8 *)ptr;
return (b[3] << 24) | (b[2] << 16) | (b[1] << 8) | (b[0]);
}
>But then you walk into your apartment where you only have a (simple) bed and desk, maybe a few pieces of clothing on the ground and you feel empty and depressed.

It's at that point you realize that you need to make your own fun and creativity. You're free to start adding creativity to your life in the form of music, art, writing, etc.
Why not "Assembly for C programmers"? I would say both are useful directions.
Never seen an ATM to be used from a car, but as for touch screens, many of those have severe alignment problems that would get even worse due to parallax when used from wildly different viewing angles. Requires you to have even larger buttons to counteract that or frustration sets in where people constantly get the impression their touches don't register (just because they manage to hit slightly below the button).

ATMs I tend to use have the following design: https://www.sparkasse-einbeck.de/module/aktion_if/wunsch-pin... with a row of four large physical buttons to the left and right of the screen. It's impossible to get a viewing angle extreme enough that this gets ambiguous.
That's also the case with Maya, it's all melscript/python under the hood.
Thanks for the background check. Sounds a bit like what most lobby groups are like.

Their argument completely side-steps a very simple point many unpaid people agree on: we want to have choice. A no-GMO label is clearly not as good as mandatory "this product contains GMO ingredient(s)".
This is utterly brilliant! Thank you.

I've been looking like this for quite a while. I'm still looking through it all, but I don't suppose you have a solution for setting System Preferences, particularly Trackpad settings and remapping the Caps Lock key to Ctrl?
Yes - see above.
Would a full-blown CAD like SolveSpace be overkill for your uses?

http://solvespace.com/

discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12650290
Can you suggest a good replacement head unit?
The post brought up two separate issues, one for how Go handles namespacing, and one about Google's control over Go. I'm addressing both. It may be a distraction, or it may not, but in case it's an actual problem the community is having, then trying to figure out a governance model is something they should do. If not, ignore.
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Out of curiosity, what's the issue with growing rice in Texas? Is it that it's not suitable for that climate or something else?
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You're absolutely right - raytracing is CPU-bound. However, one can still parallelize per-pixel rendering computations on separate cores. Here's an example of a path-tracer written in Go, spawning a new go-routine for this very use-case https://github.com/fogleman/pt/blob/master/pt/renderer.go#L6...
"C For Assembly Programmers" would an interesting read. I've looked at some mission-critical C code before, where much of the language is abandoned in favor of "safety"; in those cases I got the feeling that C was being used as little more than an Assembly preprocessor.
>> How much data is enough?

> How much data do we have?

Say we have X. Do we need 2X then? Because that's a request that never ends.
That's an intentional product in central Europe, believe it or not.
Performance retrospective of an html5 quantum circuit simulator
The Samsung Android tablet that will never access the Internet
The Only Alternative to a Rails Monolith Are Micro Services? Bullshit (2015)
What I've found is that if you seriously listen and engage with people's concerns surrounding GMOs, the result is only more concerns. It validates that the worries are real, that there's real reason to fear. Look at how that expert treated them!

Listening, engaging, and taking these fears seriously does not result in reasoned debate. It results in pushing people ever-further into fear as every attempt to engage becomes further proof of evil.
Lots of companies say stuff like that. If what you mean to say is "We want to move fast and break things, and we consider this a beta product not ready for the wide market, so we're applying looser controls than most food companies, and this stuff might make you stick," then you need to say that. You can't reasonably expect people to intuit that from generic marketing talk† about exploring frontiers.

† For example, milk brand FairLife boasts on its website about "changing the face of the dairy industry through cutting edge innovation." This is in reference to using 22-year-old dairies as their suppliers. Nobody understands it to mean that FairLife might make you sick.
I highly recommend Richard Feynman's QED (quantum electrodynamics) lectures. You can find them by googling something like feynman qed lecture auckland.

The quality of the videos is marginal, but the content is spectacular. I am not exaggerating or being metaphorical when I say my jaw dropped (open) while watching these.

I intend on reading the book soon: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5552.QED “QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter”
I was about to say the same thing. The problem for Samsung is that they need Google and their ecosystem. The other problem for Samsung is that Google doesn't need Samsung anymore. That's not to say Google doesn't want Samsung as an Android partner, but if that day ever came and Samsung decided to switch to Tizen their impact on the Android landscape today wouldn't be as impactful as it would have been years ago.

As Google establishes their supply chain, carrier relationships and grows their hardware unit they'll soon have all of the pieces in place to become the only true competitor to the iPhone in terms of a unified software and hardware experience. Pretty much every review of the Pixel has raved about its performance, touch responsiveness and camera quality. If you're trying to decide which high end Android phone to buy then the Pixel is at the top of that list. Not bad for a first try that was made in only half the time of their competitor's phones.
Thanks for the reply and your future consideration. I'm glad you seem to have taken the question as it was intended. I certainly didn't mean to imply that one license is superior to another.
Looks pretty cool! I like the box you guys are working on. Are you considering open-sourcing the software portion of the platform? I ask because I am into self-hosting and Cloud computing. I've made a very similar platform to the Z-Stack you're sharing, except my platform is just open source software which users install on their own hardware. If Z-Stack is ever hiring I'd be very interested in learning more about their projects. https://github.com/zelon88/HRCloud2
There is no comparison between glyphosate and "microwaves for cooking". The World Health Organisation believes glyphosate is probably carcinogenic to humans[1] and the EU is still wavering on banning it. It's (very) far from conclusive, as the report states, but to suggest that people only avoid glyphosate due to ignorance is simply not true. There are warnings which warrant more research and it's perfectly understandable why people are uncomfortable.

[1] http://www.iarc.fr/en/media-centre/iarcnews/pdf/MonographVol...
Well, the HTML contains some very shady (encoded and obfuscated) JavaScript code.

If you want to investigate further replace the "return r;" in the very end of those two "evals" with "console.log(r);" then get the decoded code from the browser's console. Then run through code beautifier (built-in in Firefox JS debugger) to get readable code. But there are more code obfuscations later, though easy to reverse but I don't have the time right now.
I'm thinking you would want to keep batting around the cycle of various meals. Seems like you wouldn't get the full nutrient coverage with only one or two (or five) different meals. Sometimes I really crave a salad with a bunch of vegetables. Sometimes I crave meat. Makes me think my body knows something.
Wow. That poll seems to indicate the only way most folks get a raise is by quitting their job and getting a different one. :(
>let's not immediately jump to conclusions.

I did no such thing. Everything I pointed out is the truth. The README is incomplete (being diplomatic) and lots of people have port forwarding turned on for various reasons making boxes publicly available.

I question the dev's priorities and judgement if authentication wasn't the first thing on the list before putting it out there.

>It is what it is

you're correct, it's a poorly thought out application that allows for remote control of people's computers.
It's that that big of a deal actually. You can still disable SIP, you can still override kernel extension signing (and signing on pretty much anything else), and you can sill install any GPLv3 software you want. It's just the default base install that has changed, and everyone knows there is no one-size fits all. While there are plenty of commercial reasons to not go beyond GPLv3 from the vendor point of view, it doesn't really change anything for "us". Even if we had a stable bash from 2015, we'd still want the 2016 version and install it anyway...
Why does it want permission to post from my account?
Your last point is one I don't see mentioned often enough: minimalism as rebellion against over-stimulation and cognitive overload.
Good point.

But the fat that they do not disclose they work at the same non-profit that has a goals that is much related to the topic they address, this does not seem "transparent science-y" to me.
> Genetic engineering, along with other tools, can help us address challenges like pests and droughts, while addressing nutritional issues, such as allergens or nutrient deficiencies. Farmers need these tools at their disposal to ensure a safe, sustainable, and reliable food supply.

If farmers practiced sustainable agriculture and grew a variety of crops instead of one or two, they wouldn't have nearly as much need for GMO 'tools'. Our agricultural system encourages non-sustainable practices that practically require GMO seeds, pesticides, herbicides, and many others in order to continue to function. The companies that make these products want to ensure this continues.

GMO on it's own is fine, to me. But we need to stop looking at it as the solution to the problem we've created, and focus on fixing the root causes of big agriculture. These 'challenges' that are being addressed are often man-made.
1000 pages a day? Maybe, in the course of a long day, I can read 200 or 250 pages of straightforward narrative fiction or history. I would have doubts about a financial adviser who told me that he read six hundred pages a day.
How many hours do you work on average per week on your freelance projects?
> Also, 100 years effectively makes it "untestable" within a human time-frame. You really think any company is going to spend money to continually monitor and administer a large-scale double-blind test of a product before being allowed to sell it?

The world isn't responsible for maintaining your business model. If you can't be profitable without slavery, if you're forced to pay taxes, without pervasive monitoring of all human communication, or without walling off the state of Nevada, you can't be profitable.

> Even 10 years is ridiculous at this point for drug-products, and we already cry-foul about the cost that "big-pharma" is charging as if it costs nothing to prove that they are safe to the levels that we demand through the FDA.

The prices of drugs have little or nothing to do with R&D or testing.
Hmm, minimalism as signaling. Makes me think of how it always seemed that those most in favor of the EU was those that could up and relocate their work to anywhere with a net connection and a credit card terminal.
Aren't most OS courses taught in C? At least two years ago when I took operating systems (in the US) we had to hack up Linux source in C.

Edit: And thinking on it our computer graphics course was in C++ (yea yea C != C++).
Well, the author is a pro telcom lawyer and law professor at UPenn. Here's an amicus brief he filed asking the court of appeals to reconsider their order classifying ISPs as telecom services (net neutrality):

https://www.ustelecom.org/sites/default/files/documents/15-1...

His foundation is supported by telecom money:

https://www.law.upenn.edu/institutes/ctic/about-ctic.php

Techcrunch should reclassify this story as an opinion piece, or delete it.
I'm pretty sure a NN AI could beat most players in Starcraft. Starcraft is actually pretty straight forward and the meta hasnt changed much for a while, which means the NN will have tons of training data. By seeing the revealed map and learning to send in a scout a few times, the AI could be frightening.

Harassing also is straight forward and high-level bluffs are relatively hard to pull off in Starcraft (you need to aim at mineral line for example), so out-of-ordinary experience are rare.
> You can also eat small amounts of poison and become immune.

What kinds of poison can you build an immunity to by eating small amounts of it?
Google Arc++ – Rendering, Compositing and Window Management [pdf]
Foveated rendering only became relevant when Nvidia recently started supporting Multi-Resolution Shading. As new techniques and tools like this get better support we can be a lot more efficient with lower powered hardware.

It was interesting to hear Carmack last year talk about re-introducing interlacing as a way to reduce latency.

Although, I'm just reinforcing what you're saying =)
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> But then you walk into your apartment where you only have a (simple) bed and desk...

I don't know why, but to me that image feels lonely, not empty.
If there are standard UI interactions that are used by all programs but yours, then yes, being different is worse.

For all the bad things you can say about it, IIRC the windows in Emacs (when running on X) behave like normal windows.
Because they're not chasing increased yield. They're chasing insect resistance, or tolerance to glyphosate, etc.
I understand why you're afraid. It feels like arrogant assholes playing god with our most intimate things so they can cash in with no regard for safety at all. It all seems completely unreasonable.

How can we be sure of the common strains of dwarf wheat we all eat, developed in the last century? Do you feel safe eating bread? How long a term of study do you need before you feel safe? Is it ever possible for you to feel safe eating human-bred plants?
Around here (Washington, DC area) drive-up ATMs are fairly common at banks which have drive-through service.

Having used both types of ATMs, I find the touch-screen ones less error prone. The touch targets are always gigantic. They pretty much have to be anyway to ensure that everybody can read the labels. I just touch what I want and it works. For ATMs with physical buttons on the side, I always have to crouch down to get the right angle so I can figure out which button does what. With the ones I've used, it's quite easy to get a viewing angle where it's ambiguous.
They're focused on enterprise, MLeap on consumer. MS also isn't a single-product startup.
is this because of that ridiculous spirit cooking rumor?
Agree, volutary and for-cost non-GMO label does not do much good -- likely more harm as they are keen to point out.

The, IMHO, obvious fix is a mandatory "contains GMO" labeling. Which they obviously do not mention.
The cost of the educational system is a complex thing, but generally speaking, if a) competition in a sector is tightly restricted and b) large amounts of subsidies are available for consuming that good, then c) prices will climb sharply, and quality will not improve.

I suggest that this is true of much of the US educational/training system. The government keeps pumping more and more money into the educational system, especially via loans. But the number and size of universities are still limited by accreditation and other restrictions (especially in qualifying for those loans) so competition can't drive the price down. Indeed, the price climbs precipitously because students have ever-more amounts of money to spend (often as debt) on a limited number of spots. But you have to pursue a degree to get the money, so rather than pursue what seems best in the job market, pursue what's easier to get into and succeed in. Hence, the phenomenon of a big mis-allocation - a huge number of expensively-educated people carrying lots of debt who can't find commensurate jobs.

I think a lot of the problem is just the suddenness and visibility of a lot of it now. US unemployment is now getting quite low, but a lot of it consists of the chronically unemployed who were accustomed to a solid, long-term job. (I would disagree that purchasing power is falling for a majority - though it did during the recession.) Hence it is more visible. But can the US close itself to large sectors of trade indefinitely to maintain this workforce, especially as automation advances anyways?

It's not so much that I have "accepted the human costs" or "have all the knowledge" - but rather that I don't, and don't really imagine that somehow a system can be designed that provides all the benefits of free trade without actually instituting it. To balance and tweak tariffs and quotas and supports seems to be just as high, or higher, a claim to having all the knowledge. The trouble of Trumpian or Le Pen populists is a real one - but do we just say: whoever has the loudest, weirdest political base gets to set the economic agenda, because we're scared if they get angry? I dunno. If so, we should be honest about that - that we're avoiding free trade not because it's bad economically, but because we're worried about fierce populist backlash.
Basically, yeah. Growing rice requires a great deal of water, and the parts of Texas rice is being grown in don't naturally have that much surface water. It's only economically viable because they have artificially cheap water.
LessPass starts with 8192 iterations. I prepare the code to increase this number, I will not let users change it. We are creating an interface to change master password and then we will plan a LessPass version change (with a number of iterations changes)
I'm very much not a minimalist, but it's worth noting that particularly in the 21st century, a lot of hobbies don't require much stuff.

Martial arts, computer games, books, TV, programming, art of various sorts, creativity of various sorts (writing, 3D, digital painting, etc), just off the top of my head.
Of course. But so what? Do we want people's votes to be counted differently from what they wanted just because they were less than entirely aware of little details of the ballot design?
What if you put the array in a struct and made a union of both uint32_t and uint8_t? Would the union with the larger size force the compiler to generate a 4-byte aligned array for the bytes?

I suggest this because it would be portable without any compiler specific stuff.
I suspect the intelligence correlation is the other way around to what you're implying. I'm still yet to see any evidence that Soylent or similar products are unhealthy (i.e that it takes more than a good balance of macro and micro nutrients for food to be considered "healthy"), especially when compared to an average western diet rather than an ideal one.

I have seen an awful lot of baseless appeals to nature and tradition though, both of which are indicative of low intelligence.
MOFs are one of the coolest nanomaterials. They are easy to customize and are sort of like molecular tinker toys. One can make a new MOF with the same structure by exchanging one of the molecular struts for another. In addition they self assemble and can be made by the ton. I don't think we can make carbon nanotubes by the ton.

Chris Wilmer, a well known MOF researcher and bitcoin proponent, has an interesting talk on MOFs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1hcF2kYlC0
Don't have an example, but I have set up a few "serverless" cron jobs:

1) Create a Lambda function

2) Trigger it using CloudWatch Events. You can set up cron like rules and AWS will trigger them for you.
Well that's some high-level scientist bullshit there.

So non-gmo labels can be misleading, but not labeling gmo isn't. Wow. Welcome to Animal Farm.

And of course, a non-gmo label doesn't mean anything good. But a cool gmo non-label of course means something positive.

Also I am a scientist, and I avoid gmo products... wait... actually I don't have to avoid it since they are banned in the EU and in France. But we are only a bunch of retards I guess.
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I'm not a minimalist, but I'll be explicit.

Pretty much 99% (I made that number up; pretty much everyone) of the people are controlled by impulses and confuse them for their real selves. I have seen people who identify themselves as minimalist do the same -- though they might be a slave to an idea rather than to a physical object. I've seen myself slip into that frame from time to time.

Depending on who I talk to about this, I might get a thoughtful response, or an angry response. But yeah, unless you are going to be impeccably honest about yourself, you're likely to be a slave to your possession and a consumerist sheep and don't know it.

Yet at the same time, within each person, buried under all those layers of consumerist sheep, is an amazing being. It is rare for someone to actualize that, but it's there. If you pay attention, you can see it. And it has nothing to do with your tastes, likes, wants, desires, fears, ambitions, goals, passions, possessions, profession, race, gender, creed, politics, morality, or personality for that matter. This amazing self has nothing to do with the conditioned or social self.

And for some reason, people get offended when I dismiss their conditioned self. For me, it is, "hey, look at this amazing being underneath all of that," and the response is, "How dare you! I like my conditioned self just fine, thank you." "Uh, sure, ok..."