skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
133 billion is a recent usda figure. Do you have any source for "trillions"?

For bystanders the figures I am referencing are here: https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/ag-and-food-statistic...

There's a big gap between the two.
Depends on the type of course you're creating, but two popular ones are Teachable (https://teachable.com/) and Thinkific (https://www.thinkific.com/).
Just about all of it, especially with its default behavior of blocking script execution. Ads have no business running JavaScript, especially in the context of the site running the ads.
Honestly, that just sounds like an excuse for bad writing. There are science fiction authors who can do a good job at maintaining this balance. For me, Greg Egan just hasn't been one of them.
>While it's important that we respect and include those people, it's also true that had a human animator produced the same work, we should see the same response.

I don't think so. I think part of his point is that having humans do the animation means that the creators have empathy for the less fortunate and thus won't use them as cheap creepiness the way a neural network might if it was just solving for certain constraints.

Miyazaki's movies are often about the conflict between the human spirit and technology, and as far as high-tech goes he's not really a booster. High tech in his films is frequently cold and inhuman in creepy ways, and seeing a demo like this is probably confirmation of this theme.
Maybe it's: https://www.watermark-image.com/download.aspx
That seems more oriented towards managing training in large organizations than actual delivery of a course online via video and text.
Repeat it back to them. "Nice to meet you, <name>." Then repeat it to yourself multiple times mentally over the next minute or so. Try to associate it with some distinctive aspect of that person.
There's a lot of talk these days about providing financial services to the "unbanked", but I'm skeptical. I think of it in this way:

Question: Can the provision of financial services to the unbanked (and "unmonied") reduce poverty and inequality, ceteris paribus?

Null hypothesis: In the absence of robust means of creating or obtaining wealth or money, along with non-discriminatory property rights, no it cannot. Financial services follow the money, they don't precede it (b/c they're not a charity and they require money to make money).

Article: However, notwithstanding the short-term economic benefits of consumption smoothing, whether such a transformative financial innovation could also help to raise the level of consumption and lift people out of poverty over the longer term remained unresolved.

Sounds like these digital financial services smooth transactions and economic activity, but if you're looking to jumpstart or grow it you still need a strong focus on wealth creation activities.
I did an Android app (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.flatangle....) earning me some 80€ since August. Hope next year will be better!
I've always wondered what happens to all the private conversations, guaranteed anonymized by the user agreement, when a company like this decides to start selling off it's assets.
(Funny feeling of being a Lisp hacker searching for catharsis in the Hacker News comments section... :-))
Imagine if you came to Jean Luc Picard and said "Captain, we found a way to replace exploration with the holodeck! And the best part is, none of those boring nebulas or silly aliens -- we can generate endless grotesques unlike anything you've ever seen!" I believe you'd be asked to leave the ship.

Miyazaki is a humanist. Why would he be interested in simulated zombies?
I know you guys know this, but just so you hear it again, documentation documentation documentation! :)

I remember seeing this in beta when it was posted here — the design was beautiful. It's just as nice now, though less tech-y.

Really looking forward to seeing some Ruby examples.
i don't see how sprinkling if-statements in your html is cleaner than "magical attributes" but thats just me :)
How easy is it to create a video-based course on there? I looked at it before, but it seems like you can just "upload videos", but I don't see anything about student progress tracking, discussion forums, etc.
Me and my business partner did get hit by Springer in Germany due to an iOS content blocker. We lost the part that relates to damages and won the one that touches copyright.

Springer bases its claims on two principles:

1) Ad blockers are damaging their business money-wise.

2) An article and an Ad are an indivisible entity. And from a copyright perspective, removing the Ad means violating the copyright of the article.

We lost 1 and won 2. Now we are on the second round. In Hamburg too, which relieves me. Hamburg is tough. If Eyeo won there we have a good chance to win as well. And now Eyeo decided to support us. Things are getting a bit better for our case.

Because of that I am truly grateful to them. If it was not from Eyeo Ad blockers would be now banned from Germany.

Our case was the typical one that I thought only happens in the movies: Big company crushes small company (and crushed us indeed they did) to build a case against a bigger company than us.

From what is worth I am very happy that Eyeo won the case. If they win they will have a legal precedent. And they will go for against all the others.

And what about our ad blocker? We had to take it out from the App Store.

I wrote an article a few months ago regarding this case would somebody be interested.

https://medium.com/@iPhonsoGmbH/
True, but no income is truly passive. I think you also have to consider the savings of not having to own a house (or being able to rent out an existing one) so it's as good as any other 'passive' strategy posted here.
Yes, that last sentence especially left a bit of a bad taste in my mouth. Unfortunately, with our current system of measuring prowess in science, I fully understand why he said it...
My main problem with spaced repetition programs like Anki is getting the motivation to stick with them long-term. This also dovetails in with my problems with procrastination. I've never seen a good solution. Most of the proposed solutions boil down to "just do it". It doesn't work for me.
More reliable?
Brazil has the best internet with malware
That's what's frustrating to me. I have an AMD R9 290 and an Intel integrated GPU. I want to use them together for GPGPU stuff (simulating dybamical systems), but the driver situation has consistently been kindof a mess. I get it working and then all the sudden things shift and I have to configure again... Reminds me of the good old days of configuring xorg.conf in 2004.
I dunno, man. SF exists as a lens to say something about people. The whiz-bang technology is...I want to say "wank", but I don't mean it pejoratively. That stuff just doesn't mean much. I have great admiration for folks like Robert Forward as people, but...once you take away the technology, they're not saying much. It's potboiler stuff. And that's fine, but I look at that, and then I look at somebody like Spider Robinson, whose inclusion in Analog got Ben Bova no end of shitty emails, and...he's actually sayin' stuff. Like, you don't have to agree with it, but there's something, once you put the book down, that you can take away.

I don't care how hard your SF is: it is always and without exception about what technology does to people--otherwise it's an engineering manual for something that doesn't exist. A lot of the "greats" of hard SF never got that. (Forward, again, comes to mind.) I have a more charitable opinion of Egan than the OP does, to be sure, but I have a strong reaction to the notion that the human element of this should ever, ever be played down. Everything, ultimately, is about people. We miss that at our peril.

This is why most of Heinlein (the tail end of his career notwithstanding--we all know it gets weird, let it lie) still holds up so well despite so much of technology and society having changed in the interim. Even books that weren't trying to be hard SF (his juveniles, which IMO are some of his weakest books, tended towards this) had engineering and mathematical verisimilitude, but it was a concern set well behind the characters who had stuff to do and learn and grow through. (Most of the time. Lookin' at you, Red Planet.)
Exactly. There are also huge problems associated with paying for many of these free services.

If it were a pay-per-search model then I'd have to make a mental decision every time I do a search. This would impose massive cognitive overhead and present a deadweight loss.

If it were a subscription model, building a competitive search engine would suddenly become much harder. Right now, I can freely experiment between different search engines to find the right one for a given query. If I need a subscription, then it would much more firmly entrench the dominant player.

People spend a lot of time railing against advertising without considering how many great services have been supported by it for hundreds of years.
'Collapsing the wave function' is now generally thought of as a result of entanglement between the measurement device and the system that's being observed rather than some magical quality of consciousness.
The point (I hope) is to get the big ad networks to change practices or drive them out of business when e.g browsers have blockers on by default killing all ads from networks that serve ads that aren't using safe subsets.
Wait, square brackets/parens indicates data binding direction in vanilla js? Huh?
It certainly can, but the current mindshare is certainly against that (for various reasons). JSX can be used with just dropping in a second library, but performance is impacted (it has to do the compilation on the fly). If you want to use the ES2015+ features of React, you'll need a build step in between due to lack of browser support.
Past performance is not a guarantee of future returns?
Well, yeah, but ads are the most likely attack vector.
That's the first time I've seen that, and it's certainly no surprise that the company he works for is never mentioned in the video.
So - half a mile of subway extension in metropolitan area ... still cheap.
I agree, I miss Qiang's visionary leadership on the project also. Given his history of building frameworks I'd say there's a good chance of him doing another. It may not be PHP next time, though.

I wonder if Yii2 adoption moving more towards Eastern Europe and China is more a macro trend of PHP in general. I feel like US firms are typically choosing other languages when starting new projects based off postings and job boards I've seen recently. Maybe my view is tainted from reading too much HN though, PHP doesn't get much love here...
> Looks like it's since been unflagged

Some users flagged it and other users vouched for it, which is one way for a story to get unflagged.
What type of returns are you seeing? How has it performed in down periods? What's your beta?
But real world systems have simple defects that can be exploited without breaking a cryptographic algorithm.
Erik Meijer and Robert Griesemer – Going Go
"This seems to be the sort of thing that would come to the top on its own."

Maybe, but not in that time period.

"Also, this isn't Reddit. The commuity and moderation are pretty different here."

If anything Reddit does more to defend against this sort of thing.

"do big advertisers even know about us?"

I have seen so many posts on the top of hn talking about "the hn effect" It is ridiculous to think that people in pr and marketing aren't paying attention to that, while gaming product hunt and reddit.

I own a software studio that makes software and I am noticing how vulnerable HN is. Other people have obviously noticed as well.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=498634.0

that is from 2014
Yeah, we recently had a co-worker complain about immutability ("it just exists to be a pain in my ass"). I asked to examine his code and sure enough, pointed out that if he mutated the variable it would have created bugs in other chunks of code.
I liked seeing your reasoning and method for creating decks. I purchased Anki and have tried using it several times over the years, but haven't found a way to get myself to stick to it. You're right, using other people's decks was mostly boring, and I tried using it instead of reading books.

Having a guideline of how to stick to a process might help.
? nvidia was founded in 1993
Wait, I thought this was intentionally made a small enough subset that it should be not only possible but fast and simple to decide whether a chunk of code conforms or not?

Is JavaScript so hard to parse and analyze that this is impossible?
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13149469
> The whiz-bang technology is wank

Egan is good because nothing in his books is "whiz-bang". He's not writing about turboencabulators or laser guns; he's writing about worlds in which nature itself is fundamentally different, and in a much more fulfilling way than you would find in a fantasy book (because you know Egan's worlds are at least as mathematically viable as our own).

I disagree that SF exists to say something about people. Authors like Egan use it to say something about the universe itself, which is a much more vast and beautiful topic than the everyday goings-on of humans. Perhaps your focus is too anthropocentric to enjoy it.
I'd be willing to team up with you to learn Deep... ahem... learning.

I'm familiar with linear Algebra, so I could offer help and study R or Python while you work through it
I really like Harper's. I've had a subscription for many years. One of my favorite things is the Harper's Index, the juxtipositioning of seemingly (and often actually) unrelated things is an entertaining mind fuck.
So does Bitcoin not count as passive income?
Thirsty for your Facebook Lives
So long as you don't use JSX you certainly never need to transpire. I believe there is also a shim to do client side jsx parsing but is not encouraged for use with prod code
That's true, but I always sell my ESPP as soon as it is purchased. That is an immediate 15+% return. Our ESPP is 15% off of the lower of either the beginning or the ending of the offering. Of course the hope is that it will be the lower at the beginning of the offering so that the sell will be 15% + the amount the stock has risen since the beginning.
Maybe it's origins too. React and Angular are massive and high marketing products. The viral spread is organic but not self emergent, unlike vue where users kept going back to it and talk about it naturally; because it's "good enough" and more humane in it's structure and interface.
Great Problems: An Epidemic of Rent-Seeking
Then just make ADSense2 be a DSL that is translated to js on the client, but which is itself not js?

The important thing is to get the major browsers on board so that ad nets have to use it in order not to be blocked by default.

(Assuming that browsers have the browser users interests in mind, and not advertisers, this is sketchy at best in the case of Goog)
Evolutionary consequences of behavioral diversity [pdf]
Nice blog, but watch out for advising people that putting money in index funds 'pretty much assumes an 8% return'. Returns can vary wildly year by year even if 7-9% annual is accurate over the last 20-30 years or so. Bogle (and others) is estimating the coming year's returns to be lower than 7.
I don't think that's so bad, it's just you are using a function instead of the usual built in indexing operator [0]. Here's something a bit more convenient using Data.Array.Lens[1].

arr ^. ix 2

vs the original:

readArray arr 2
Now on the HN front page: Great Problems: An Epidemic of Rent-Seeking https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13153047

> obtain enough passive income to be independently wealthy

"Passive income" does not make you "independently wealthy". You avoid "being forced to sell [your] time" because you extract wealth from those who do.

Rent seeking does not, by definition, involve "creating value":

In economics and in public-choice theory, rent-seeking involves seeking to increase one's share of existing wealth without creating new wealth. Rent-seeking results in reduced economic efficiency through poor allocation of resources, reduced actual wealth creation, lost government revenue, increased income inequality, and (potentially) national decline. - Wikipedia

From Taking Back Adam Smith and “Classic Liberalism”:

Many conservative economists claim to be staunch followers of Adam Smith. They shout slogans such as “Supply and Demand!” “Capitalism”! “ “Let the markets work!” However, for anyone who actually read Adam Smith, you would note that the “invisible hand” was not his only observation of the inner workings of capitalism. Adam Smith recognized that many in the economy were making gobs of money, but weren’t contributing anything. He was referring to what was eventually called “economic rent”.

Smith observed that all production required 3 things. Land, Capital, and Labor. A very simple example would be a brick factory. The building and oven needed to create the bricks are the “capital” – the owners are the capitalists. The people making the bricks is the “labor” – the people doing the actual work. The Land the factory occupies and the clay used to make the bricks is the “land” – the owners of the land are the “Rentiers”. Any money made by selling the bricks is then divided up between these three groups: the rentiers, the capitalists, and the workers.

Where many here on HN and I will differ is what forms of passive income are rent seeking rather value creating applications of the output of one's previous labor.

Note that you can even be pro-Capitalism and anti-rent-seeking: How Economists Duped Us into Attacking Capitalism Instead of Parasitic Rent-Seeking http://evonomics.com/economists-duped-attacking-capitalism/
There's a fascinating book by Stuart Kauffman, At Home in the Universe, where he claims that under certain conditions (that are favorable in our universe), life is all but certain (he views it as a fourth law of thermodynamics). He uses a computational model called boolean networks[1], which he invented in the late sixties, whose random configurations -- under very simple constraints -- cause lifelike computation to arise naturally.

Given the number of stars in a given galaxy, the fact that almost none out of just a few thousands of observed planets is hospitable to life is still no indication that life isn't very common in the universe, especially if we accept Kauffman's conjecture that life is very likely to arise almost anywhere that can accommodate it.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boolean_network
Sorta related and not trying to pile it on, but I made a clone of Yik Yak during a hackathon a couple weeks ago.

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https://unturf.com
> In what situation is endangering someone's business model grounds for their illegality?

Only in the case of government protectionism. And even then, there is no legitimate situation where it should be illegal to challenge an existing business model.

I'm glad the Internet exploded before the government cronies really understood it.
>It is probably good for tourism though!

As an Austrian I'm not buying that argument. It's not as if you need to tear down all the royal palaces when you abolish monarchy. If anything you can give tourists deeper entry, since no one lives there anymore. Just take a look at Schloss Schönbrunn, the Imperial palace in Vienna, which has way more visitors than Buckingham palace for the simple reason that it is open the entire year.
I just heard about vuex, any curated resources about it ?
Sales. It's crazy that selling products requires the build-out of entire sales, marketing, and support organizations when most companies could be well served by an Uber for Sales.
there is also the "let's define everything by user stories" way of doing things (as if having a bunch of stories in whatever agile tool is better than a proper functional spec / design spec)
YMMV but one method I like to mitigate the issue the article talks about is keeping documentation in source control, and requiring a change to documentation (or explanation why there should be no documentation change) in association with the resolution of a JIRA ticket.
Except that you mainly need the massive compute for the training, not the commodity execution of the network!
But any measurement device always has a conscious observer that reads in one or another way results of measurements (e.g. spin directed up or down) from this device. Without such observer a combined system of the device and the quantum system of interest would infinitely be in a state of superposition.
Different rights behave differently. Work-for-hire doctrine pertains to copyright only. An employee who produces "work-for-hire" never owns the copyrights to his creative work. Whereas with patentable inventions, all inventors must be named on any application for an invention, and any inventor who has not assigned her rights in writing will generally retain them, even if she was an employee of the applicant.
> There were generally no map/filter/fold APIs in those languages, eager or lazy.

Array.FindAll, Array.Convert, etc. all existed in C# beforehand. Though maybe this is what you meant in the next sentence.

> In cases where the APIs were there, they were generally not as easily accessible (i.e. they were the equivalent of imap etc, with some hoops to jump before you could use them).

This is going on a tangent but LINQ still has hoops to jump through. You have to say "using System.Linq;" at the top if you want to use the new syntax. That's like saying "from itertools import *" and then using imap, which you could've always done.
Yeah, its impossible.

Say I post "black people are subhuman." I could be trolling (intentionally provoking emotional responses for the lulz) or that could be my actual honest to goodness opinion. You just don't know. There's also no polite way to express that opinion and that's the same for many, many opinions.
My model for notes is converging on Org Mode.

But... With a review process every day and every week, GTD-style. I see this need from my notes over the last couple of years from the job. Not usable for documentation (as I had planned) or helpful for other people.

I read about a guy at MIT(?) that could be mobile with a relevant setup years ago. It should be simpler now than it was for Mann et al. Just use an eyeglasses screen (Google, where are you?) and a chording keyboard strapped to your hand.
I mean, it does work, but using a sample size of one single year isn't the best way to explain or prove it.
Not sure what you mean by "legit use case", because you could write just about anything in vanilla, but for React specifically the value of using it comes from state management.

By explicitly defining what is state and when you change it the application becomes largely pure/functional and this has a tendency to both decrease bugs and make the application easier to reason about.

You could do that in Vanilla as well, but as your apps grow React or whatever.js generally is ready to grow with you, whereas your homebrew solution may not be.
I also am really bad at remembering names, my solution is to remember faces(since it is pretty easy) and inform people I am really bad at names, so as to not be rude when I ask their name for the 5th time
I think Miyazaki was way off base and he displays a lack of understanding about how research can feed into culture. This thread by Arthur Chu on Twitter, however, is really insightful about why Miyazaki might feel so strongly:

https://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/807740704499834880
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