skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the thoughts, and especially for being non-toxic in your remarks! If only everyone would do that.

Yes, some stories of core interest to this community have political aspects, but those aren't the kind we're going to kill. The concern here is pure politics: the things that get people flaming about party, ideology, nation, race, and religion. A news story about patents or encryption isn't going to have a problem on HN (though a rant may).

You're right that we can't precisely define politics. But this is nothing new. The site guidelines talk about politics without defining them, and we get by. Moderation has a few core principles and the rest is case-by-case judgment calls.

Re flagging systems: HN has got one, but it has proven insufficient to solve the problem of people hurling rocks and feces at each other when the political drugs take hold.

Re filtering out: it's in HN's DNA that everyone sees the same site. Also, if we quarantine political flamewars in their own section, we still have to maintain that section. Few people who appreciate what HN is really for—stories that gratify intellectual curiosity—would go there, making the degeneration worse. The users who primarily want that kind of a site are not the ones we feel most strongly about serving, and conversely, those users really want a different kind of site than HN. That's fair, but we need to clarify what HN is and isn't. We're trying to avoid scorched earth here.

I appreciate that you don't mind the toxicity so much. That makes sense and part of me feels the same way. But the effects we're concerned with are systemic ones on the community as a whole, and there it's a different matter. The culture has a low and sensitive tolerance for toxicity, not a high one. As the culture degrades, the best people slowly leave, and then not so slowly. Meanwhile their replacements show up with wheelbarrows of rocks and feces. That is how open communities on the internet die, and not letting it happen is our top responsibility.

Don't forget that we're talking about an experiment for one week, just to see what happens. If you have any observations about what happens, please share them with us. We don't have a fixed opinion about this.
Placing the following line in the .htaccess file (at your web root) should do the trick, while retaining any possible link juice (for SEO) flowing into the old URL:

Redirect 301 /old_file /new_file
I had no idea this was a thing. You've just blown my mind open in a flash.
Looks like they've fixed it, it's the original non-mobile link again now.
I rounded a bit over-zealously, thanks for nit picking. It is indeed 2^47.6333. (also assuming you meant 47 not 14.)
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Support reps are always allowed to do more. There's always a path of escalation that ends at the CEO. If a Dell-partnered senior exec (like from Fry's or Best Buy) was having a terrible customer support experience trying to RMA their Dell device, you can bet that if it didn't get resolved ASAP that there'd be a Dell exec personally flying out a new device and repairing their business ties in-person.

It just sucks for us little guys, because the only way to apply the same pressure is with publicity.
He has a point. For me, most of my 'web' experience isn't doing anything I don't remember doing in 1995. The things websites are doing I usually don't want them to do.

I just want to see text, images, and video with light formatting and hyperlinks. This _doesn't_ require hundreds of megabytes of memory. It would involve restricting what the new web could do and those restrictions would make things better. We don't need the kitchen sink in every page.
This sort of thing is why I no longer buy Dell.
I certainly do buy that painful change is better than the likely outcomes of doing nothing.

The idea that climate change predictions aren't science because we must act before the long-term predictions could theoretically be falsified is a bit of a red herring. What exactly would a scientific prediction look like, then? If extended fully, your argument implies that science can literally never make any policy recommendations.
A three step manifesto for a smarter, fairer economy
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I had the same around 8 years ago. My girlfriend spilt Coke on her laptop, and half the keys stopped working. They sent a guy to repair it (for a £300 laptop with standard warranty) he said "looked like someone spilt Coke on it", and proceeded with the replacement. I didn't get any charges for the repair even though it was obviously accidental damage.
Discussing "Version 2" will get you fired from your job. It is crime-think of the highest order. Your mind will simply slide away the words on the screen until they form an incomprehensible jumble.

I used to belong to a cult. Like many fundamentalist Christians the members took the events in Genesis as literal truth.

I once explained to a cult member that the order of events was incorrect. There is not one, but a series of conflicts with our scientific understanding of how the solar system formed. Notably the sun does not come into existence after the earth. I watched him read and re-read the chapter. He literally could not see it, even with it right in front of him.

If I was right, then I merely believed the scientific explanation for cosmic aggregation made sense.

If he believed what I believed, then he lost everything, friends, family, business connections.

For most people (not counting yourself, since you were sincere enough to bring up the hypothetical), having an honest conservation on this topic is impossible.

This is why I don't trust the narrative Western society presently has on race. It is of course possible that I am entirely wrong about my ideas on the subject, but attaching such sigma to the topic is a tell, like in poker, that the other side is bluffing. Anytime there is a sign saying 'Don't dig here', it is the job of a real scientist to grab his spade and thrust it firmly into loam to uncover what may be lying there. And if you don't like what you find, then too bad, the list of people who discovered scientific evidence contradicting their position is voluminous.

tldr; Darwin's ideas continue to detonate.
It's not that the Air Force doesn't want to fulfill the CAS role, they wan't the F-35 to do so instead which won't be truly CAS capable in a high threat contested environment for at least another 4-6 years. So, they want the F-15 and F-16 community to take over the role in the meantime -- a job the A-10 was built for and better equipped to handle (which is why it's the most requested asset for CAS). The Army would have been a much better place for these rugged jets, but they have no budget capacity for it and the Air Force is not going to allow them to have a fixed-wing CAS aircraft.
> Now you are just being deliberately obtuse.

Sorry, I'm juggling a lot of threads here.

> The author never made such a claim

The author claimed that there is "scant evidence" that climate change is causing extreme weather events, including drought. Being a resident of California, which is in the middle of its worst drought in history, that claim seems improbable to me. (Note carefully: the claim that I find highly improbable is not that climate change is not causing extreme weather events, but that there is "scant evidence" that climate change is causing extreme weather events.)

I first tried looking up actual drought data, but it's all hiding behind high-bandwidth visualizations which I cannot currently access. So I went with what I could find.

[UPDATE:] Found this:

http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/cas/adai/papers/Dai-drought_WIRES201...

So I think it is fair to say that the evidence that climate change is causing increased severity of drought may be debatable, but it is not scant.
A fun rule of thumb is that 1 decimal digit is roughly 3 binary digits (because 2^3 is eight, which is almost ten.)
I built guardonce[1] to help mitigate complaints that #pragma once was non-standard. If you can easily convert back to include guards, you can worry less about what compilers you might support in the future and just consider the compilers you support right now.

[1]: https://github.com/cgmb/guardonce
C++11 and 14 are the reasons I started to enjoy C++. I still dislike the cumbersome build process around of it but at least the language itself has become something that is nice to use.
Yes, I am fine with that idea. I do not like the subsidies either.

However I think that the subsidies game is even deeper, and that it's responsible for many more negative things than just making for cheap meat - most processed food today is just high fructose corn syrup in disguise.

So yeah, I would like to see prices of low-quality food stop being artificially low, because I believe that would affect the prices of higher quality food (quality meat and quality vegetables) in a positive way.
Yes the critique is from an educational perspective. Many, especially in academia, view syntactic abstraction as a method of last resort, so it doesn't feature in the courses. So one might ask why then suffer the syntax of scheme if macros are never used?
but it's so weird, why 2016, and why so many famous ppl dying this year.
Depending on ones view of the program, it could be described as the first half of dogfighter.
Very fascinating talk, and easy to understand.

Have there been any solutions proposed, in particular to the limitations of adding extra cores.
Yes. Use
#lang r5rs
as the first line in your program to get standard Scheme.

Or get #lang sicp from pkgs.racket-lang.org.
You are ignoring an important piece of evidence: I've told you that I'm on a very slow internet connection. Now, I could be lying about that (I'm not sure how I could prove it to you) but if it is in fact true then that would explain my failure to come up with additional evidence. I have been trying to access drought data directly but it all seems to be hiding behind complex visualizations which I cannot currently access.

However, I think it is telling that so far not a single participant in this conversation has (AFAICT) even tried to get to the actual drought data to see if there is anything there. Somewhere out there, one of you has to be on a high-bandwidth connection, so you could go get the data and settle this, where I currently cannot. That would seem to me to be a more constructive (to say nothing of definitive) way to address this than to accuse me of confirmation bias and rationalizing.

[UPDATE:] Found some drought data:

http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/cas/adai/papers/Dai-drought_WIRES201...
The talk mentions that there is a physical law to how many cores you can add to a CPU before it becomes useless, even with parallel computing.
How do we know how "likely" we are to die in a human extinction event? Sample size zero...
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True that the path exists, not that they're supposed to use it for some guy trying to get his laptop fixed.
Implementing cryptographic hash functions like SHA-3 (see the original Kaccek paper for specific results under various 32-bit, 64-bit, and 128-bit native integer hardware support). And implementing other, faster but non-cryptographic hash functions like Spooky, etc.
How do you price something while ignoring the development cost? You can't really call it a less expensive plane and ignore the sunk cost can you? I'm far from an accounting expert as you likely realise.
> ... which is not even remotely what the author said

The author said that there was "scant evidence" that climate change is causing extreme climate events. That is what I dispute. I believe the evidence is not scant. In fact, I'm pretty sure the evidence is quite plentiful, but I cannot demonstrate that at the moment because of resource constraints (very low bandwidth internet).

But you could go look up the drought data and prove me wrong, at least about that. (But then we would still have to talk about the author's very misleading claim about hurricanes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13099156)

[UPDATE:] Found some accessible drought data:

http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/cas/adai/papers/Dai-drought_WIRES201...
Would anyone here be able to offer some book suggestions for tackling AI from the neuroscience/ biological perspective, as opposed to the computer science/ computational perspective? I want to expand my horizons.
I'm saying you've bought into their 'hard political work.'

I already said I agree with the idea that we should work to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Think about this: Do we need a committee to discuss the number of hurricanes in the year 2019, their magnitude, and whatever other 'hard political work' comes with that? What about earthquakes?

What you're buying into is an industry of politics.
It's unfair to blame only them.
I what drfuchs might be getting at is that 128bit integers would need two registers on a 64bit architecture. Or four on a 32 bit one.

LLVM supports arbitrary length integer types, regardless of the platform. Rust already has u64 and i64 on 32bit architectures.

But even if something fits in one register, a variable isn't thread safe anyway.

Rust DOES NOT allow a mutable reference to exist simultaneously with non-mutable ones.

For thread safety, you always need special types, which Rust provides:

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/sync/atomic/

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/sync/struct.Arc.html
> In other words: once you decide you don't want to program in Lisp, Lisp's way of representing data stops being a useful syntax for representing your data.

Even if you code in C++, you can find Lisp's surface syntax simple enough to read and write. Now, if your language already defines a "read" function, sure, go with it.
Because it's programmed for US zip codes.

So, you can't just enter any zip code in there. There would be clashes since zip codes aren't unique across countries.
I'm not backing out of anything. I still believe that the author's claim that the evidence is "scant" is demonstrably wrong, I just can't demonstrate it right now because I cannot find a low-bandwidth source of drought data, so I'm having to rely on proxies. But proxies are still data.

Instead of leveling ad hominem attacks at me, why don't you go look up the drought data?
poorly
Every specialization has their own jargon to grok.

From the Wiki page

>defined in 1955 by Guy Debord as "the study of the precise laws and specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organized or not, on the emotions and behavior of individuals."

>"a whole toy box full of playful, inventive strategies for exploring cities... just about anything that takes pedestrians off their predictable paths and jolts them into a new awareness of the urban landscape."

The essential tool here being overlaid maps of say San Francisco & http://xkcd.com/256/ or a topographic map such as [1]

[1] https://theblackbox.ca/project/mapping/DSC02355.jpg.html
The situation where the atomicity of integer operations matter is when there are multiple references to a single memory location, at least one of which is mutable.

The entire basis of the memory protection model of Rust is that it makes the above impossible in safe code. If you attempt to create such a situation, the compiler will fail to compile your code. Every single integer operation could stop being atomic and not a single line of safe rust would break.
I had the same urge to carry a small, capable device to make phone call and do development work. I don't need much RAM or storage as long as it's enough to rotate to one project sandbox. The closest I found so far is: http://www.solu.co
I am deaf in one ear and played college tennis. I happen to be half-Korean also. I have known for a while that due to my deafness my balance is worse than the average persons and that is one scenario that is not mentioned in the article. I fail conventional balance tests where you close your eyes and have to stay up. I never thought about the sound of my opponents ball meaning anything as I couldn't decipher it clear enough to learn anything from that, but that might be useful. This article has made me realize that perhaps being deaf helped me with tennis. Perhaps it helped me read the game well as I had to rely on my vision and perhaps it resulted in me having better reflexes than I would have had if I wasn't deaf. I did have the best reflexes on the team fwiw but that's a small sample size (12 players). I struggled to hit overheads well compared to players at my level. I would feel disoriented when the ball was in the air and I was looking up and would be praying that my smash would go in lol. I felt I had less control over that shot compared to the people I was playing. I hope you might find my thoughts insightful on a small level :)
That's only true if they're actually politicians and not tortured hostages.
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By the way, anyone knows why this was about to leave the front page so quickly?
If we agree that international action is needed on climate change, how is that going to happen without all the political machinery?

If you're arguing that we don't need governments to get involved, I don't see that working out.
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> i.e. the amount of computation that human neural nets can likely be doing

We don't know nearly enough what they are really doing! We only know a few selected bits and pieces! You are basing your assumptions on nothing, so according to logic any conclusion is possible from a faulty premise. On which you promptly deliver spectacularly.

Also, the "computation" a brain does at one moment leaves out the time aspect: Lots of things lead to constant changes. The wiring changes all the time. The "computation" metaphor has little use for describing or understanding this major aspect of "brain". The more I learned about neuroscience the more unhappy I got with the computing metaphor that I had had going in (as a CS graduate, naturally, I think). The brain is so very, very different from my pre-neuroscience-courses notions.

How much neuroscience do you know? If the answer isn't at least an undergrad introductory course (the accompanying book is over a thousand pages), why do you get the idea you can make any predictions?

Read this to read about complexity in biology vs. engineering and what scientists in the field think how well we are dealing with it:

- http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/05/26/055624

- http://www.cell.com/cancer-cell/fulltext/S1535-6108(02)00133...

Test yourself: Do you understand what he's talking about? http://inference-review.com/article/the-excitable-mitochondr...

Fortunately you don't have to sign up at university these days just for such knowledge:

Free courses (if you ignore the certificate nonsense):

- https://www.mcb80x.org/ (This is linked to from edX as "The Fundamentals of Neuroscience" Parts 1, 2, 3)

- https://www.coursera.org/courses?languages=en&query=neurosci... (Especially "Medical Neuroscience": https://www.coursera.org/learn/medical-neuroscience)

- https://www.edx.org/course?search_query=neuroscience
I made a slight mistake in the post, in
"I feel I have a moral value to take care of myself and my health primarily"
It should be 'moral obligation' instead of 'moral value'.

I also feel deeply about helping to preserve our planet - I don't drive, I don't buy useless stuff that has traveled thousands of km on a container ship burning terribly dirty bunker oil, I don't support wasteful services. Like I said before, the only thing where I won't compromise is eating animal fats, because of health reasons. I also felt very, very cheated after realizing I've been lied to about how veganism is healthier than 'meat eating', when it was making me ill instead.

I'd like to clarify that I wrote 'rural subsistence lifestyle', not 'rural lifestyle', so I don't mean what is considered a typical rural lifestyle these days - commute to work for an hour or more, have a large farm operated with gas-powered machinery and such. That is equally wasteful as urban life.

What I meant was a simple rural life - having a small home that is optimally designed to need a minimum amount of heating and cooling, raising your own food on a couple acres without help of machinery (vegetables, chicken/ducks and a small flock of sheep or goats, possibly also fish with recently popular aquaponics). And with the rest of necessary income coming from working online, remotely. Not easy to pull off, but I know a couple people that managed to do it, and I hope that I'll manage to do it soon too.

PCs have come a long way, and a modern ultrabook spends so little power that it can easily be recharged from a solar panel/battery combo, and won't need to be replaced for quite a few years because the CPU development mostly stagnated these days. So an internet router + an ultrabook is the extent of 'modern luxuries' in the 'rural life' I talked about.
Every air force in the world is run by fighter pilots. Even well-meaning serious-minded people tend to emphasize what they know best. Hence air superiority tends to get far more attention than any other aspect of air combat operations.

Frankly, I think the US might be better off allowing the US Army to set up its own units for close air support. I suspect if they were allowed free choice of equipment they would operate some type of rugged STOL fixed-wing airplanes for that purpose.
Apple shows ambition to get into self-driving car race
Isn't the indirection overhead of a []byte more expensive than a spare 12 inline bytes?
There are working visas without H1-B's 6 year limit too. Like L1, O1, treaty visas like TN and E-3, exotic visas like T1,R1 etc.
At the top of the HN page for this submission is a [web] link. Right click it and open it in a new incognito window. Click the first link.
Desktop Linux in a nutshell.
Practical Uncommon Lisp
You aren't counting real estate costs, environmental impact, etc.
Hi fellow monkey lisper (or senpai should I say).

What topic are you into these days ? Or maybe you were planning for a sequel to PCL ? in both case really eager to see the resulting book(s).
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With getters you can simply do {
get handlerFn() {
return (e) => ...
}
}

And then in template <a onClick={this.handlerFn} />
Being uncomfortable leads to guilt and a sense of failure for good reason: You DID fail. Be honest.
How you handle failure tells a LOT about your character. Either you're a pussy who sits in a corner feeling sorry for yourself, or you take your lumps, then get up and go again.
Feeling warm and fuzzy all the time doesn't give you grit.

This formulation of grit is overrated / should be considered harmful. Your macho attitude and glorifying of "toughness" is a very stereotypical[ly western male] characterization of strength. You mention being willing to take your enemies down with you, fighting with a broken rib, and call not accepting feelings of guilt / failure being a "pussy" (which btw is also demeaning to women).

Yeah, starting companies and going into debt incurs stress. Having social conflict incurs stress. But dealing with that stress does not ever have to entail blaming yourself or white knuckling to get out of it. Telling an alcoholic (chemical addiction) to just "STOP DRINKING" doesn't work because people just don't work that way -- similarly, stress is chemicals in your body and there are procedures known to reduce it, and healthy thought patterns to move systematically toward a better situation rather than unhealthy "STOP SUCKING" / "WORK HARDER" signals. Those are not actionable.

This post is not actionable. Cool humblebrag, but it elicits no respect from me -- real grit is having the patience and perseverance to discover functional processes to better your standing. It requires no anger, killing of enemies, or broken ribs.

TL;DR Learn to problem solve better and maybe without calling people pussies. Maybe you'll be happier for it and live more empathetically toward others.