skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you consider the "you" of today to be the same as the "you" of a year ago? Or is the current "you" just some bloke who has the same memories of the old "you"? Considering how much material in the body gets replaced over time.
I strongly feel that social media must become a pull based model instead of a push based model - so like RSS where I subscribe. On the client side, we should use simple machine learning and filtering to show content that is truly useful to us (I love to know what is happening is my sister's life).

The current setup of giving info to a company and that company pushing all sort of crap on me is not for me. Granted they could do the machine learning on their side but these for-profit ad driven corporations do not have the users best interest in mind. They just want to get us hooked.

Ghost can have this feature!
>They only show you the best slices of individual lives, all day, every day. When compared to your life, it makes it look like you're doing nothing with your life.

Exactly. You end up judging your interior by others' exterior. They show you a highly edited version of their life, made to impress everyone else. You're doing nothing but constantly chasing a phantom life you can never have, because no one else really has it either.
I've definitely noticed this myself. Friends that I've known to be depressed almost always posted very frequently on Facebook and those that had some negative life event occur almost always seemed to post way more than usual in the following months. It got to the point that back when I used FB, I would make a point of asking old friends how they were doing when I noticed an uptick in their posting habits.
To further appreciate what a giant Arrow was, this is a good overview with a couple of other examples as well:
http://www-siepr.stanford.edu/ArrowShovenMay09.pdf
> But a flight crew going to where they need to be. It's part and parcel of an airline service.

Some airlines have an alternative means of crew transport, used for such contingencies. For example Jet2 in the UK has a Piper Navajo to move misplaced crew around and TNT in Europe ( now ASL Airlines ) have a Learjet 45.

Even Ryanair, king of the bottom-line, occasionally uses its engineering Learjets to position crews. Much cheaper to send one small corporate jet than have a 189-passenger 737 stuck crewless and causing a cascading schedule disaster.
Well this is awesome. Thanks for posting.
I never played WoW because I was afraid of how far I'd fall into an addiction. Having read "Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked," I was rather relieved to read game developers who have said they have willingly abstained from WoW for the same reasons. Even device-makers and tech leaders are cautious about introducing their own devices to their children.

The book, along with others like Hooked, remind me that we have to be very careful about the technology we use on a day to day basis, because it effects our brains in a way we might not want it too. Our brain and willpower is being tested against the skills of thousands of incredibly smart and talented designers, developers, product managers, et al.

Having chosen to abstain from apps like Facebook or social media websites, I don't feel like I lost anything. If anything, I've regained more time and mental space for things like getting deeper in my career. I'm not a luddite, as I am still a big believer in the productivity and information gains via the internet and computers. But our attention is a resource that a lot of companies want. And yet, I only feel like it's more recently that we've begun to question whether the benefits these companies give to us is worth the change in ourselves.

Because of mindfulness, I have recognized the need to distract myself (via Twitter, Reddit, E-mail, Whatsapp) is sometimes a symptom of not wanting to deal with something that is hard or uncomfortable (e.g. paperwork, making a decision, etc.).

Yet we know that become deep at something we care about, we truly do need focused time (Deep Work by Cal Newport is a worthwhile read). So I think it's really in our best interest to only choose apps that provide a lot of benefits with only marginal drawbacks to our mind, and to be very careful about how often we use them.
It's interesting you used a Feynman reference here, as he was actually involved spawning the neuromorphic field at Caltech with Carver Mead [0].

You're thinking about this as if it's purely an algorithm problem and that computer architecture should always be designed to do the algorithms bidding.

Neuromorphic is flipping the problem around and creates efficient architecture where algorithms do the architectures bidding.

The former is much better in the cloud with massive armies of general purpose computers while the latter is much better on the edge for anything implantable (very little heat can be generated or else you cook) or needs super low power (less than 1W).

Having worked on both sides of the spectrum I think there's room for both and the relative research funding seems reasonable; much more invested in straightforward neural network research with GPUs etc versus the neuromorphic field where it's mostly a handful of Caltech folks left at places like Stanford, UCSD, GT, John's Hopkins, or UF.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carver_Mead
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Ill-Advised C++ Rant, Part 1
Deleted mine a few months ago, and I do think I feel better.

Only regret is that I probably can't get hired by Facebook now... :-)
25 Lessons from Being a Developer at a Startup
NixOS : The Purely Functional Linux Distribution
This does not seem like something that should be regulated. The airline should be able to say yes or no.
My archived pre-Microsoft version of Minecraft feels more and more valuable to me. I should remember to back that up again.
Tesla because they are already shipping cars with self driving hardware and over the air software updates and seem competent in developing software for the car, and also because of my experience using Autopilot on the Model S.

Google because they are competent at software engineering and have the internet / maps advantage to build really "smart" self driving cars that can talk to each other, learn and send data back to server for other cars to use, etc.

Competency developing software, not competency building vehicles will be the key factor here. Google will most likely find success licensing their technology to anybody rather than making their own cars. I could see Ford and GM getting some basic self driving software working by themselves but as the software gets more advanced and complex they'll really need a partner like Google.
Anecdotally, I completely fall in this category. I had a Facebook account from 2006-2010. Never missed it in the last 6 years. I don't really use other social networks either (HN counts?), email & phone is generally more than enough for me.

However, also anecdotally, my mom and brother seem to thrive on it. It's a part of their daily ritual, and the few times they've decided to get rid of Facebook, they claim (and seem) to be missing a part of their identity. They don't live "amazing" lives, and most posts are pretty ordinary.

>5,208 adults from a national longitudinal panel maintained by the Gallup organization

So, anecdotally, I do think that there is a subsection of the population for which this this a positive influence. Or they've found a way to use it positively. It may help to study narrower bands of populations to determine if this holds true across the board.
I've had two of those chassis fail over the last couple years... would not recommend.
I'm curious: Which aspects of Facebook cause this? Do other social networks, like Insta or Twitter, exhibit this behavior?

In a way, this and studies like it are damning to Facebook's core mission to connect everyone in the world.
Oscar: ECommerce Powered by Python (Interview)
No need. Just unplug them from the power lines and you are good.
The borrow checker is Cyclone's region-based memory management combined with linear/affine types.

Edit: As an aside, I found a Reddit post the other day asserting that the Cyclone developers knew that it would never become mainstream but thought it was important because other languages would adopt it's ideas. It's amazing that they predicted that regions would be picked up later on by Rust.

You can find it here: https://twitter.com/tmccrmck/status/850465514807631872
> I didn't make up utilitarian genocide[0] to slander utilitarians.

No, but when asked about utilitarianism, you go to utilitarian genocide.

> The internet is filled with people who make such arguments.

And is the time-cube guy considered representative of science?
Ah, the LackRack™.[0] One of the cheaper home solutions for server equipment - scales nicely, too. Just like anything remotely workable, of course, it gets no industry interest.

0. https://wiki.eth0.nl/index.php/LackRack
I bought the game. Later, a platform for building modified versions grew around it. Even later, another platform with pricetags on the modified versions appeared. All along, the game that I've bought has been gaining features for free, although I'm also free to be a traditionalist and load+play the game that I originally bought. None of this seems like something that's harming me.
Practical Magic in a Suffolk Village
What are the unintended consequences of screening out "fake news"? It is a bit alarming to have a whitelist of approved authors, as this article suggests.

It seems to me that the Problem of Fake News is manufactured. The reason there is a Problem? Because the holders of power suffered in the last election.

Let's call "fake news" what it is -- lies and propaganda.

Lies and propaganda will not go away. Ever.

Systemic efforts to shut down lies and propaganda (from the people we abhor) will sooner or later be used against the architects of these systems.
So the alternative is having no employment options, which naturally cover none of a person's basic needs.

Performing a job that meets some basic needs is strictly better than no basic needs being met because there is no job. We have welfare and other options to aid with unmet needs. Without these options, individuals who need welfare end up being a 100% burden on the system instead of a partial burden. Furthermore, those that remain unemployed for an extended period of time are increasingly likely to remain unemployed indefinitely. Having a job, even if it doesn't meet all needs, can at least serve as a more likely stepping stone to one that does.

With that said, these jobs are meeting basic needs.

They may not provide enough income to support a family, but they certainly do provide enough income to support an individual. And before anyone claims otherwise, realize that the economy has always had jobs that have only ever provided enough income to support individuals, not families. Such low-paying entry-level jobs are not a new phenomenon. We've always had them. We just have a lot more of them now. The problem isn't the existence of these jobs and the companies that offer them, it's the lack of other jobs that pay better.

There are hundreds of thousands of people doing this kind of work, and many have been doing this kind of work for several years. That's a clear sign that these jobs are meeting needs. There is a big difference between "Are you happy working for company X?" and "Would you be better off if company X did not exist?". Even people with jobs considered good jobs by most may be unhappy working that job. Even if they don't like the job, it doesn't mean that the arrangement isn't mutually beneficial.

These companies are not at fault for the current job market. Most people here are simply using them as a convenient scapegoat for other other problems.
Sometime in the next few yrs or so (if not already), I suspect we'll see many research papers related to social media and suicide rates. Furthermore, it'll be interesting in cross examining this data with cultural views ie. Western culture vs. Asian culture where social media has really taken off.
I'm​ not sure it's a 1:1 relation, eg. say you cut 12 hours of sleep during the week but sleep extra 6 hours on the weekend​ or something along those lines - cycling on-and-off according to your schedule.

As I've said I haven't tried it yet will do some research before I do, right now I'm trying out other stuff and it wouldn't be wise to mix so many unknowns.
What about child labor laws?
Did the NYPD Hack BLM Activists' Phones?
Which is why I specifically omitted buying clothing from my reasons to go to the mall. I'm aware that I'm the minority who just doesn't care enough as long as the shirt fits and isn't itchy. Most people I know of who are going to the mall are going to buy clothes - because there are a number of clothing retailers in relatively close proximity and they can try things on at each place.

>There is also an intrinsic instant gratification of purchasing something and taking it home immediately.

I think not having this is great to help avoid impulse buying. I have no gratification in making purchases and rather dislike spending money at all. That buying something doesn't "feel good" means I make less purchases than my roommate who loves buying cute stationary and such. She doesn't actually use any of the stationary - but buying it makes her happy.
Yea, this is pretty mind boggling.

> Pai told USA TODAY in a statement. “Taking it off the table permanently will be a victory for Americans across the country who, like me, value a moment of quiet at 30,000 feet.”
Snowden Docs Reveal Scope of Secrets Exposed to China in '01 Spy Plane Incident
Yeah, I know what red and white meats are. They're pretty common terms which I'd expect most people to be aware of. It was "brown meat" which I was oblivious to. It's possibly not a term commonly used in the UK (or if it is then I've clearly lived in a cave most of my life :))
I think you're supposed to show that you know how to do that yourself, instead of just using an existing implementation.
I wasn't trying to contradict or negate what you said, just tot provide further context around the number that you used.
Compared to college application costs, this is cheap.
> Create language like Rust with D like syntax, no GC, no additional indirection, RAII, less strict rules or possibility to turn off some of them and I am sold.

I think that language will end up looking a lot more like Rust than you think. You can't just compare a language that wasn't designed for zero-cost memory safety to one that was, as if the zero-cost memory safety features have no learning curve.
Super inspiring thread! has anyone else received an email asking to schedule a video interview? Is this a good or bad thing??
I really hope Microsoft doesn't hurt this. For example, there are great docs for AWS and Google, but given the way they've ruined Skype, I really hope they don't turn this into some kind of Azure-focused system while dropping support for AWS, etc. Congrats to the awesome Deis team -- let's just hope that Microsoft doesn't just run it into the ground when it comes to non-Azure platforms.
Ask HN: How much of your time at work do you spend not working?
Let's include meetings/email as job related.
that old canard "its just envy, you're all jealous". no, absolutely not. I'm not jealous or envious. I don't want to have what they have. I don't feel bad about myself because I lack what they possess.

My concern is for how power and privilege is wielded in our society. I want to live in a society that protects those who have very little, because those are the people that need the protection. Instead, our society protects those who have very much. That is unjust. My concern is for justice.

Did that seriously not occur to you? Now who's the one having an emotional reaction.
Huh? I'm talking LED backlights and lamps that regulate brightness with PWM. No color generation involved here. And these can get really ugly:
https://www.notebookcheck.com/Test-Lenovo-Ideapad-310-15ISK-...
I would contend that they do not benefit from versioning and, as I pointed out above, can sometimes suffer as a result of it.
> My views are the responses you'll probably get from the people who've been doing systems programming in C for the past 20 years.

I've been doing systems programming in C for 20 years. I disagree with your claim.
"Microsoft has a storied history of building tools and technologies that work for developers."

I'm not sure how I feel about that statement.
Interesting how much of an echo chamber HN is wrt social media use. I certainly agree, but most people I know would tell us that it's great for keeping in touch and organizing events.
You should have put it up on GitHub.
One of the things I'm grateful to my parents for is teaching me where meat comes from. I mean, I knew it was a dead animal, but to really know...

We lived on a county island in our small city (now larger) in California; so we could have farm animals on our property. My parents raised ducks, chickens, rabbits, geese, pigs and one time a cow. We had "farm fresh" eggs every day; in fact, we had so many my mom would sell them from the house as a way of making some side money as a stay-at-home mom, while my dad worked for the county (road maintenance).

I was witness to numerous chicken beheadings, and know exactly where and why the phrase "running around like a chicken with its head cut off" comes from. I even help to pluck the carcasses with my mom.

I later watched my dad skin and gut our rabbits, which we later cooked and ate for dinner.

Same with the pigs and the cow (we had a local butcher come and shoot them, they were then pre-prepped for transport to the butcher's shop, where he aged and prepped/packaged them - we had a large chest freezer to hold the meat after).

I have no illusions about where our meat comes from. I have no illusions that it was once living and breathing. If there is anything that disturbs me about our current "factory farm" system of meat, it would be the occasional piece of chicken - almost always a wing piece - where the bone is broken, leaving me to wonder whether that happened pre or post-mortem.

I don't want any animal to suffer before death, even if I am going to be eating it later.
> I think a much more interesting question is how much safer a code written in rust today would be vs a C/C++ code written today , reflecting our current understanding and knowledge on how to build safe system.

A lot safer, judging by browser exploits.
Exactly. People confuse allowing people to express anything and passivity. But first:

- you can react to hate speech by positive actions to counteract it;

- you can forbid hate that goes beyond speech.
I quit Facebook because it warped my perception of others gratification, making it appear instantly achieved for everyone and everything but me.

The cumulative impact of a constant feed of this was incredibly demotivating.
Decades ago, we had a PCMCIA card that did exactly that. A bent pin distorted the plastic in the socket and that led to more bent pins. Of course you had to try to force them in to propagate the problem and we never tested to see how many generations it could last. Once discovered we threw out all defective hardware which was just a few cards by then.
Wow 50TB for $60 per month...

Amazon Drive sounds like an insanely great deal for me if it works the way I think it does, but the reason I haven't tried it yet is I honestly don't see them being able to keep storage space unlimited for very long, if it in fact competes in the same real-time sync'd storage space as the likes of Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, etc.

Every such service that I've ever heard of that offered unlimited storage at one point have had to backtrack on their unlimited storage claims after enough users really took them up on their offer. Note I'm talking about services like Bitcasa and OneDrive, that offer real-time sync/access, not backup & archival services like BackBlaze and Crashplan that don't have the same egress bandwidth requirements.

For those who use Amazon Drive and understand it better, does it do real-time sync like Google Drive, OneDrive and Dropbox? Or is it just another unidirectional backup service?
This is only true if you are involuntarily kicked off...if you volunteer you get whatever they agreed to give you.
It will be in 1.10. Details and roadmap: https://github.com/golang/dep/wiki/Roadmap
So many people complain about this, and I just don't get it. Maybe if I'm not part of the solution, I'm part of the problem?

When I'm stuck at my desk and I see someone posting vacation pictures from Spain, I say "man, that looks nice, I wish I was there!" And that's it. Maybe it makes me think about where I want to go next, but it doesn't send me into some existential crisis.

I wonder if there are personality types more prone to being affected by stuff like this? If anything, I'd think I would -- certainly prone to depression, particularly in my younger years. But I just don't care. I wonder why that is, and what is different among people who are affected by these things differently.
The distinction is in the language, not the fact. When someone says what that feature "is for" it's in the same sense that a biologist talks about what a particular organism feature "is for" despite the fact that the organism clearly didn't design it.

The flute may well have been intended to make the head easier to attach, but that's not the point. If such a head were brittle and failure-prone (per the hypothesis in the article), its users would have collected less food and left fewer descendants to use their particular favored technology.

The fact that the technology was pervasive and widespread means that it has some clear advantage. And it's the advantage the archaeologists are looking for, not the intent. And it turns out, I guess, that such heads turn out to be less fragile on impact because the longitudinal force is better distributed. So these heads are more likely to drive deep and deal a fatal blow, leading to more food for their users and more children to instruct in spearmaking, and ultimately more spear heads in the archaeological record.
That's... not how logic works.
In the usual setting in which we do mathematics, this is a well-defined real number. That it's hard to determine its digits (even impossible when restricted to use an algorithm) is of no relevance.

However, you might be interested in the effective topos. This is an alternate mathematical universe in which one can't define construct this real number. It has a number of curious properties:

* The statement "1 + 1 = 2" is true in that topos, just like it is in the ordinary topos.

* The statement "any number is either prime or not prime" is true in that topos, just like it is in the ordinary topos, however its truth is not trivial.

* The statement "any real number is either equal to zero or not equal to zero" is false in that topos.

* The statement "any function is computable" is true in that topos (and wildly false in the standard topos).

* The statement "any function is continuous" is true in that topos (and wildly false in the standard topos).

Details are in this set of slides:

https://rawgit.com/iblech/mathezirkel-kurs/master/superturin...

Questions are welcome!