skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been using DuckDuckGo for about a year without ill-effects. Although sometimes I have to go to Google, often when the results are disappointing I try !g and the results with Google are just as disappointing. It's also actually easier to switch to an image search using !gi than it is to click the image search with the mouse at Google's site.
The fact that we can only write down only countably many expressions for numbers doesn't mean that there are numbers that we may never write expressions for

In all seriousness, I don't know that we know for sure that the former doesn't in fact exactly mean the latter.
This is his third one on interviewing and definitely the funniest. I wonder if he actually has been interviewing and doing this?
Yeah I think the point is that in real life it's easy to have a quiet conversation with your friend without a bunch of other people chiming in.
> lol. Good luck in life, you're going to need it!

Not really. Happens often enough there's a name for it. It's called a hostile takeover.

Not that this effort will be successful, but it does happen.

I don't think OP meant people literally walk into the offices of the BOD members and tell them to go fuck themselves.
My girlfriend just had Chase refund a ticket for her because she had a health emergency. She offered to give them a doctor's note, but all they did was ask the name of the doctor she went to.

Of course, they can't actually call the doctor to confirm what she said because of HIPAA laws. So I guess that's that -- she could easily have lied if she wanted to.
More to life than productivity.
Thanks for reminding me why I don't want kids ;)
I think it is mostly because of traffic, lack of free parking space and bad roads. I like to drive myself and also have eating habits that require me to visit specific places only.
Unfortunately, you may be right about my lifestyle being exceptional in America. That doesn't make me feel good.

A lifetime of living on/underneath the poverty line and having guardians that couldn't keep a job or car or house of their own has helped shape my perspective on what constitutes as a "comfortable" life. I would like to travel more later in life but I will try to be as conservative as reasonably possible in my transportation methods.

I knew that a career in software/tech would allow me to live this way, but it's much more difficult to maintain this lifestyle in non-technical career paths. Couple that with forced societal and parental expectations to "get the car, get the job, get the house, get the girl" and incentivising propaganda, and it can be pretty tough to see any other option.

Poverty in America continues to rise and we may find the next generation to be much more environmentally conservative than us, not only because they weren't riding on a financial investment bubble like their grandparents but because they will expect to see the results of our environmental selfishness in their lifetimes.

But as for what we can do to educate Joe Schmoe, who is knee-deep in his mortgage and car and child support payments, who has a daughter in private school because the local school is terrible, who has no time in their work schedule to prepare their own meals, who takes an ocean liner cruise every two years because it's the only thing keeping them from killing themselves... well, I have no fucking clue. And that isn't good, because this is the average middle-class American. And we need the middle-class involved in environmental change because they have resources others do not and have greater capacity to adjust their consumption habits.

Telling Joe Schmoe about how we live conservative lives, and how he should be more like us is only going to make them more resilient to changing their minds.
Sure. You acknowledge the credibility problem that exists and justify it as great lies in service of great justice.

I don't make that justification. I believe that misinformation, propaganda and lies undermine the efficient allocation of resources to most effectively deal with the problems at hand (of which on this planet there are many, starting with 700m people without adequate access to clean drinking water). Whether such lies are told by oil companies, communists, facists, environmentalists, people calling themselves scientists bug engaging in politics or by some drunk, whether well-meaning or nefarious. Lies lead muddying of the decision making waters and to sub-optimal outcomes in the short term about specific decisions and then in the longer term, they destroy the process of the attempt at honest allocation leading to ridiculous populism of obvious lies and liars. Such people are provided with more ammunition than they need and can rightly claim themselves to be liars of the same kind. We've seen it before, we're seeing some more of it again and it may get worse before it gets better. It sure won't help the reef. "We're facing disaster but we can lie our way out of it?" Not much of a rallying cry. "Our lies are better than theirs!" Again...

This one continues to resonate with me, if you haven't read it I highly recommend you do and work out what you disagree with and why.
http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.htm
speculative fiction that's optimistic: https://www.amazon.com/Hieroglyph-Stories-Visions-Better-Fut...
It's one of the causes of opiate addiction. Prescribing opiates is cheap, actual face time with doctors is expensive.
I get this, I really do. I wish I could dump the Internet for some of my home life. But unfortunately my home life is polluted by work. I'm a web developer who maintains an entity with multiple domains. One of them is a 24/7 uptime service. So I'd love to follow this advice, but I don't think it is applicable to many viewers at HN, as many of us need to follow our job.

What good advice would any viewer give to a life I just described? How could anyone (I) separate the Internet from a home life when being off that grid for a weekend could cause catastrophic failure without the dev leader their to fix it?
I don't think you can assume Twitter has seriously tried to stop bad actors, etc.

1 - There have been single programmers who built more effective block lists than twitter by doing the obvious thing: walking the graph of harassers and including common accounts;

2 - Twitter seem to be desperate to juice registration and active user accounts, and anything that hurts those is not a priority.
A startup hub in Sweden is implanting microchips into workers' bodies
When I peeked into mainframe development in college, it seemed like a lot of those technically heavy features were implemented because some manager said so, and someone else was willing to pay for it, no matter the practicality (or cost).
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I suspect for now the package has to be placed facing up so an OCR of some type can scan the address and instruct the robot to a particular shoot to drop the package. I would expect that eventually the whole process is automated where the package will drop onto the robot without human intervention.
"New projections show the state's annual bill for retirement obligations is expected to reach $11 billion by the time Brown leaves office in January 2019—nearly double what it was eight years earlier." That's the state's "annual bill," i.e., the direct costs taken from the general-fund budget. That number doesn't even include those "unfunded" pension liabilities that according to some estimates top $1 trillion. [1]

That's more than double the $5.2 billion a year the Brown administration hopes to raise from a plan that would boost gas taxes by 12 cents a gallon, raise the vehicle-license fee by $25 to $175 a year (depending on the value of the vehicle), impose a $100 annual fee on electric cars because they don't currently pay gas taxes and include a large hike on diesel fuel. Money is fungible, so if the state overspends on pensions, it has to make it up somewhere else. [2]

[1] http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/01/04/jerry-browns-pension-r...

[2] http://reason.com/blog/2017/04/07/california-road-tax-hike-i...
The "intermittency" is an early adoption problem. When you have enough windfarms more uniformly supplying The Grid across the country, this issue will become less of a concern.

What I do see as a big problem is cost. Government subsidies aside, the cost of buying and installing turbines presently is no laughing matter. At scale, solar is rapidly becoming much cheaper to install than wind, which is increasingly becoming reliant on giant 3-5 MW capacity monoliths costing roughly 4-5 million USD a pop--not accounting for installation and maintenance over the long term, and supporting infrastructure and transmission lines to tie the windfarm into The Grid.
What the author suggests is highly impractical, and makes adopting this way of life all the more challenging.

I suggest for people who have a serious problem, to try out time-managers and site-blockers.

When I was going through a highly unproductive phase, I used ColdTurkey. The software's not too good and if you're really craving for a fix, you'll find a way to get past it. But, for the regular procrastinator it does wonders for productivity.

Don't be rash and cut out one of the most important utilities there is just because you're having some issues.

Do be intelligent and work around the issue.
I keep my internet off most of the day (via kernel firewall). Have a command that gives me a few minutes of internet so I can look up docs, then shuts everything back down.
The Planck length isn't a minimum length or size, and doesn't have a whole lot of real significance other than as it results from a particular choice of units.
I don't think this is the correct solution. It's like chopping off your nose to avoid cold. Rather, try more self restraint or self control.

- Install a nanny software to block time-sink sites at specific time (chrome nanny was an awesome tool)

- Schedule appointments in advance with your friends/relatives to keep the relationships active

- Enroll in social events to be around with people and work for a cause you care

- Go for group studies/writing workshops/book clubs etc to rekindle your passion of reading/writing

There're a hundred other hacks which you can use to ensure you're productive/social !
He got 7.8s with an overclocked Ryzen, which is where the "double" came from. And honestly whether you pay for the most expensive model of the Mac or not (I'm assuming you meant 64GB of RAM, not 64MB), the point of the article stands.

Because where's the point in arguing over whether something is a 6x worse choice, or just a 4x worse choice. Meh.
Stupid clickbait article. Please edit title to "Minecraft to sell mods".
Man, I miss those days too. Some of the most creative UX experiments came out of the Windows team back then. Too bad they couldn't get any of it to build worth a damn.
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Why a pre-definable function matters here? We have allowed a real number (that cannot be exhaustively described) in, so why a real function (that you cannot exhaustively define) has to be excluded? Isn't it unfair that I am only allowed to use a finitely definable function while you can choose a non-pre-finitely-describable real number? Isn't that a loop proof -- that the set of real numbers is uncountable simply because it is defined to be uncountable, and it is larger infinity than that of natural numbers simply it is defined to be bigger (as what bigger means in the context of infinity is otherwise undefined).
So, what's your take then on how Prop 13 affected 2 very different areas discussed in your own blog post: Marin on one hand and Oakland on the other? I'm willing to grant you a nuanced understanding, but again, you are celebrating one of the very things that worsened the situation that you are trying to solve. The state guarantees minimum funding, but districts make the rest up from property taxes, and fundraising. You can't tell me that Marin and Oakland are anywhere near equivalent in either of those cases. Side question: I'm curious to where you were educated and how that system was funded as opposed to how California does it?
Sure you can do that.

Or you can just use the Internet responsibly, like an adult.

How old is the author of this article, 16?
Exactly. Lining up intellectuals, journalists and others against the wall is one fewer, finite normalizations away from occurring.
Google Hangouts History Reader
https://kevguy.github.io/Hangout-Reader/

A website to view your Hangouts history recovered from Google Takeout. The json file is too hideous to read, this website can help a bit.

Ever since Google dismantled Hangouts and Messenger and added a couple new messaging apps (Allo, Duo, Meet and Chat) I've been worrying Hangouts won't have a future and my history may be gone, especially after my Nexus 5X broke two months ago and all my messages on Allo were gone.

I'm a junior web developer and had been trying to learn some new frameworks and libraries on my own. So the past two weeks I've been doing this project as a way to learn VueJS and Webpack. I'm sure my code may not be on a par with one may expect, so please feel free to contribute and make it better.
who cares about the heads.

if it can deliver the multiple chat systems in the same UI like Trillian and others did for the 90s chat it can be huge. Sadly I know it won't be this.
It’s curtains for India’s oldest ecommerce player, eBay
Did they mean "thing" in the title?
The title is not the greatest, but the article mostly talks about how the guy is living his life more fulfillingly, not a micro-optimization of productivity.
Since it is non-terminating, you didn't really prove every item gets counted after finite time, did you?

Refer to my other reply, you asserted a requirement of predefined (describable) counting scheme here. Why that requirement has any relevance here (in the context of infinity)?
dude is milking the minimalist marketing.. there is only so much stuff one can eliminate..

killing the home internet is an obvious click bait.
I frequently say that IBM sells websphere to assure that they continue to sell mainframes. Because everyone knows if your going to replace your mainframe, you need to rewrite it in java, and what better framework than one provided by IBM! Then when the whole project ends up taking 100x the hardware IBM can pretend there is some secret sauce in those mainframes.

But, to the linked answer. While the details differ a bit, the zseries is simply a low level description of how the machine worked (past tense because modern zseries mainframes have a lot of hidden "virtualization" in order to leverage industry standards). That is why "mainframes" outperform racks of x86 PCs. There really isn't anything magical about the hardware. The real magic is the fact that the software is written by guys who grew up understanding how to processes transactions in a couple K bytes of memory, and the machines grew, as the transaction load did. The result is code which understands the hardware and is crazy optimized in the critical paths. The fact that frequently the critical paths all fit in a fraction of a modern L1 cache doesn't hurt either.

More specifically to your link. While the details vary a bit, modern PC hardware doesn't conceptually differ that much from mainframes. You could just as well ask the same question of a modern PC... Sure you can open a file and treat it as a stream of records, but unless you make sure to size your records on a multiple of 4k (was 512 until recently, although RAID controllers complicate things, as does flash) you will have read/modify/write cycles rather than simple write cycles. Plus, depending on your access method, the kernel may get involved and bounce buffer everything rather than DMA'ing directly to/from the page storing the data. Yah sure, the track/sector meta data on a modern hard-drive varies a bit from the answer given, but you might find a modern SSD that compresses its read/write operations doing things far closer to what was described. So, given a machine with a couple K of memory. You need something that today we would consider the front-end (html/javascript), back-end business logic, database, OS, drivers and disk firmware all in a single piece of code. What would it look like? Yah, all those layers would collapse, and your database records would look a lot like the disk sectors...

For something even closer, you could consider the options to tar, and modern tape drives which continue to actually support the concept of fixed vs variable block reads/writes and blocking factors, and with recent encryption standards even allow what is effectively per block metadata.

My point is that while a lot of the terminology and things exposed on a daily basis with a mainframe seem strange to someone at first glance, a modern server has just as much (if not far more) strange behaviors buried it in. The difference frequently are the layers of standardized interfaces, protocols, and software stacks layered below what most people consider their "software stack".
> Social security pushes back retirement ages continually.

SS is a welfare program. This is fundamentally different from a salary. Welfare programs can, and do change just before, or just after, you become eligible for them. This is fine. This is social programs are supposed to work. (Although, generally, their accounts should not be plundered to fund illegal wars.) There was no contract that you signed when you started paying into SS. It's a tax, which funds a welfare program.

Salaries, on the other hand, are sacred. Pensions aren't social programs. They are deferred salaries. Cutting pensions is a salary clawback.

If you're going to stop paying the pensions you're obligated to, you damn better have declared bankruptcy, and let your creditors - including the pensioners - pick over your carcass.
Alcohol is a poison. Not a fitting allegory.
> Real income hasn't risen for the median worker in over a decade.

Pretty sure it's closer to four decades.

> Nobody knows how to fix this.

Everyone who knows even a little about fiscal policy and it's effect on distribution of gains in the economy knows how to fix it, which is the mirror image of how it was achieved (reduce the degree of additional taxation imposed specifically on both paying and recieving wages, which discourages employment and reduces the returns that are retained by those who are employed.)

That an insufficient number of people choose to act on that knowledge is not because the knowledge is missing, it's because people in power want to preserve the result you seem to view as problematic.
The thing is, I really think that the sort of thing which Dale is is a very, very good idea. Any time I see a link to "C-like language done up in S-exps with macros", I'm very keenly interested, and have all these expectations. I should perhaps do a better job of hiding my disappointment.
My ISP (Chunghwa telecom) delivers such terrible service that my life basically works this way.

I spend much more time in the office, because the Internet connection works. But that makes me use office time to live my online life, instead of doing company work.
I think you give the average person a bit more credit in their self control than they perhaps deserve—lots of people have issues with addiction to the internet, based on typical Netflix binge habits or the infamous Reddit timesink.
Artificial Intelligence and the Growing Importance of Soft Skills – #38
Oh man, oh man, this is so close to my experience. I went lo-fi since the beginning of 2017. Real testimonials of a drug/facebook/internet addict who has the problem out of control here.

I killed my Facebook account 3 months ago, and switched to a dumb phone (from a Pixel phone ;-) since the beginning of the year. Now I'm rocking a webOS phone and no IM account except for hangouts which I check on my computer when I want. I no longer reach my pocket to check for message or anything when I enjoy my meal or go travel somewhere. There is no push or anything I can play when I wake up in the middle of the night to keep me up. Also, looking up and navigating to places by instinct sucks, and is fun at the same time. I no longer have any idea how highly rated any place is before I walk in, and I had plenty of surprises since then. Just last weekend I traveled somewhere and interacted with the locals because the only place in town was closed - I wouldn't have if I had a smartphone to "OK Google." Without the smartphone, I now carry a big, beaten up mirrorless camera in by bag, so I am more or less have to do more "proper" photography now, instead of disposable instagram stuff to get likes (this I have to credit the Pixel, it was an incredible camera for how thin it is). Learning photography with a camera is super fun, although the end result seems to be the same.

I'm an immigrant. Other than the Trump stuff my liberal friends were talking about here, there was another alternative flow of stressful/irrelevant celebrities news from my home country. I realized that without Facebook, I actually extremely rarely check or care what's going on, about who is fucking who and who is getting fat. The amount of stuff getting in my brain is dramatically reduced. I thought I would miss Facebook, and it turned out I don't. The benefits far, far exceeded the negatives.

Without Facebook and a constant smartphone influence to consume, I write way more, about what I like and what actually matters to me, not to get likes from my friends and to appear intelligent. I get downvotes from Hacker News when I say something stupid, which I don't get from Facebook. It's alright :) I honestly feel I learn everyday.

I get so much better sleep, way less stress and I have so much free time since then. It was like an enlightenment for me to be taking control of my life. I will try to cut back the internet also as the author suggested. Now excuse me, I have to get back to work on my writing.
I really like the idea. But I think the author needs to be super transparent to his audience and be honest about when he re-enables his internet connection. Otherwise it is just socialmediaing the audience with nice pictures of his "life", building a façade that is not truthful.
Although not the best comparison, oil industry has had some bad spills and other negative incidents. But oil is treated as too crucial of a resource to put too much restriction while nuclear power doesn't get much love.

This is part of the problem of having to rely on hype of general public with short attention span. I am all for higher safety standards on nuclear power. But when population loses interest, even critical technology will lack funding and research.

I wouldn't mind seeing some molten salt reactors[0] though.

On the other hand, China seems to think nuclear power is unavoidable.

"While the construction of new nuclear power plants has mostly stalled in industrial nations, China is pushing ahead to expand its nuclear power generation capacity.

China accounted for six of the eight new reactors where construction began in 2016 and the first three months of 2017."

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[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten_salt_reactor
Yeah, I found this article since my girlfriend's internet got cut off once her roommate who was paying for it moved out—she never got around to setting it up again, and now that I've observed her habits change during this period, I was pretty impressed! I'm definitely considering trying this out for a bit, as I find I have more than enough time in the office on the web, and it's a pretty good excuse to get out and about.
AI Learns to Read Human Sentiment on Its Own Huge Breakthrough
This is a clickbait title. It doesn't offer any evidence that Homer Simpson's face originated with the Fourier Transform, merely that you can recreate it with "circles." Seems the title ought to be changed.
Your crab photo is amazing

http://jro.io/photos/wildlife/
Keeping all data cached in RAM is something that eats a bunch of memory, but is not usually wrong.