skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Today more than ever I witness people, professionals even, that just keep on hopefully poking and prodding back and forth in some grandiose effort to maybe just somehow break things back up into working order, which makes me very sad because all that is required is to step back, relax, and just genuinely look at things with your mind.

In that situation I'm always reminded of Feynman's "He fixes radios by thinking!", and that, if anything, we should teach people how to think instead of shovelling massive amounts of pre-baked recipes into their head.

> And all the time, on the way to his house, he's saying things like, "Do you know anything about radios? How do you know about radios-you're just a little boy!"

> I start walking back and forth, thinking, and I realize that one way it can happen is that [so and so...]

> So the guy says, "What are you doing? You come to fix the radio, but you're only walking back and forth!"

> I say, "I'm thinking!" Then I said to myself, "All right, take the tubes out, and reverse the order [because so and so...]

> So I changed the tubes around, stepped to the front of the radio, turned the thing on, and it's as quiet as a lamb: it waits until it heats up, and then plays perfectly-no noise.

> He got me other jobs, and kept telling everybody what a tremendous genius I was, saying, "He fixes radios by thinking!"

> The whole idea of thinking, to fix a radio - a little boy stops and thinks, and figures out how to do it-he never thought that was possible.
Is this ban just typical security theater? Surely a device which does have explosives in it is going to be problematic in the hold too. Why not fix the actual problem and upgrade the protocol for checking devices when going through security. They already go through the X-ray machine and are often dusted for chemicals. Is anybody really comfortable putting a $1k laptop in a hold bag which far too often gets lost/stolen/broken? Also seems like a very easy way to have lots of people's data get stolen (most people aren't encrypting their devices).
What I mean is that I eat 90% less meat than I used to as an average omnivore. A can of sardines or tuna per week and beef once in a long while is far from 10% of my diet, in terms of calories or mass or whatever metric you choose.

> I eat meat at every opportunity, but if I were to calculate a number such as yours then I'd be say "65% vegetarian" just due to the volume difference between meat and the rest.

Most people, who don't try to take my words in the least charitable way possible as you are here, understand just fine what 'mostly vegetarian' means.

I don't describe myself as vegetarian (without qualifiers).

> That's because there's no such thing as 90% vegetarian, it's a binary option which you've re-purposed into a scale.

Words are meant for communicating. Arguing by definition is a losers' game.

Note that meateaters give me more crap than full on vegetarians/vegans. If the issue was really that I'm coopting the word, you'd think it'd be the opposite.

My experience is that, at least among my circles, vegetarians can appreciate that reduced meat consumption = reduced animal suffering and environmental impact, even if you're not 100% pure; it's meateaters, who feel you are trying to take a moral high ground, who will try to take you down.

Actually my problem is probably that I did use to be strictly vegetarian, vegan at one point, for a few years, and slipped back for various reasons. I don't claim it anymore but it's not like I made a public announcement that I am no longer strictly vegetarian.
Ron Howard on his new tv-series: Einstein
Yes please elaborate, this is fascinating! Can you recommend any good undergraduate textbooks on the subject, especially for someone with a quantitative background (PhD in ML-adjacent field)?
To be frank, I've never been impressed by system76 laptops. They're more expensive and often bulkier. It seems like they just rebrand name brand laptops and ugly ones at that. Maybe the manufacturing in house will change that.

I bought an ultralight Acer of so-so quality and the thing runs Xubuntu, i3 almost flawlessly out of the box. I'm not going to pretend it's a Macbook Air or XPS but it matches them in function for a lot less money.
If you ask any professor, they'll tell you that homework can't stop cheaters, and it doesn't really matter if you change the problems every year. Exams are how you catch cheaters, especially if you have subtly different problems to catch copiers at the exam itself.
It sure has some serious ups and downs.
When can we get this for identifying plants/animals/rocks/fungus/etc in the wild? Would love this on a phone when hiking.
Tech or Tricks? Hot Takes on Machine Learning, Chat Bots, and Voice Control
This sort of thing happens a lot. There's a TVtropes page for it and there's a not tiny list of affected works.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/KeepCirculatingTh...

[EDIT] though those include works unavailable (in their original form, anyway) for reasons other than licensing disputes, like simple publisher neglect.
> Why Buddhism gets treated this way is beyond me

why? it's quite straight-forward actually, and just a historical accident basically. the people that popularized Buddhism in the West were academics. it arrived in America by way of scholars of East Asia. the East Asian folk practices are absolutely nothing like what is practiced in the west, and arguably are not particularly Buddhist, but more like folk religions with Buddhist vestments.

the monastic tradition didn't quite make it to the West though because it was subsumed by the academy instead. however, the academy is no monastery and they really do favor theory to the detriment of practice.
What's not fair is removing a paying passenger against their will for no good reason. United could have just increased the compensation until somebody left willingly. Instead they chose to involve law enforcement, with predictable results.
People will be able to safely spend more time using the web and viewing Google ads. This a serious answer, not a joke.
Another plus one for the Border Trilogy. The ending knocked the breath out of me.
So?

They're only hurting themselves.
If they happen to get a job, they won't last long. They'll be destined to float from company to company, changing jobs when they're found to be frauds. Or, they'll actually pick up enough knowledge to hide away at some larger company.
> still find it odd people complain about commute times by car when by rail/bus can be just as bad in many places.

I find both just as bad. I had a 1 hour commute by train in Chicago. Was terribad. Cannot even imagine the 90 or 120 minute commute guys.
Well for one, you don't need to own your car. You just use it. If you (or anyone you know) owns a traditional automobile, it sits unused for 90% of its life. In a driveway, on the sidewalk, in a parking lot, etc. You pay for 100% of the car, but only use 10% of it. If you could rent it out to others ('the grid') while you're not using it, they would share some of the burden, lessening yours.

They make things safer because they don't drive drunk.
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Nope. When I go to my local Chick-fil-a, I see no protestors, no signs, and no name-calling, just people ordering and eating food. This is in a big, left-leaning city.

Looking at the comments here, nobody's calling anybody names for not caring enough. There's discussion and argument, but not even mild insults, let alone Hitler-calling.

I'm sure it happens sometimes somewhere, but it's far from the norm.
We Are Big. We Are Four
This is why I still buy music that I want to listen to more than once–so that some licensing dispute after release doesn't mean that they can prevent me from listening until they've settled their issues. (Or until I sign up for some competing subscription service as is most recently the case with Jay Z and Spotify/Tidal).
Random slashdot comments aren't a source and don't back up what you portrayed as a conscious effort by Jimmy Wales to forbid trivia sections for his own personal gain. Maybe it's just possible that the editors themselves decided those sections weren't appropriate?

> Wikipedia deletes it's own history

Only for copyright violations and offensive vandalism. It never has for anything else, but of course you won't back this claim up either and will make up more excuses.

Conspiracy theorists just dig themselves further and further into a hole, to the point where everything else is also a conspiracy against them getting their "truth" out.
Keep in mind that it's data from only his site so it's got the noise of a small dataset.
I disagree with the idea that people will just find a way around the law.

My problem with the idea is if it /works/. How does all of that stuff find its way back into the hands of people that can make the most use of it?
One more point on the reparations. In general,
any harm done can only be forgiven when the culprit makes a genuine attempt at redeeming it. In case of Germany, there was relatively little of such attempts (some slave labor by german POWs and loss of some territory to Poland). It does not make up for the crimes committed, and thus Polish people have not truly forgiven Germans. In fact, I have friends who fantasize about Poland becoming an economic superpower and then taking out a revenge on Germany. It's truly terrible that this vicious circle was not stopped by an attempt at redemption/reparations back in the forties.
How often does Calculus change? Over the course of a few years, one could develop enough homework problems to start rotating them out each semester.
New 6.8 Android Note Taking E-Reader
No, it shows the last two weeks of Uber activity for the journalist:

https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2014-11/18/2...
Is Innovation in Advanced AI the Apocalypse?
I'm in Atlanta and have been passively looking for a Rails job for about a year. There are not as many as when I was in the Northeast looking around 2014. However the companies I'm speaking with who use Ruby have a mature approach, which is contrary to many peoples' perception of how Ruby shops work. I get the impression from them that they are fatigued from interviewing flocks of weak Ruby devs. From my perspective, if anything is hurting the current state, it's probably people who can build stuff with Ruby but don't necessarily appreciate the craft of building software.
Getting to grips with Blockchain
Getting the first 100 users has actually been the easiest part of the process. It's getting 100 daily new users that's really hard.

For Standard Notes[0], here's what I did:

1. Comment on privacy related HN posts about a privacy-focused notes app. That would have gotten me 40-50 users.

2. Write articles[1] on encryption/privacy/webdev. Some of them made it to frontpage HN, some didn't. That might have gotten me to 500 users.

3. Repeat. Tirelessly. Painstakingly. Depressingly. Just keep going doing small things every day. Eventually they start to compound.

[0]: https://standardnotes.org

[1]: https://journal.standardnotes.org
Covered at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14189688
(and that link has a 30% discount in it in case you decide to subscribe)
Because of personal liberty. If you want all of your money to go to your kids, why can't you do that? Inheritance is as much about the person that died as it is the person/people receiving the inheritance.
Then a letter from him arrived which said, strangely, "I never thought I would ever live to see my 23rd birthday."
His twenty-third birthday would have been in two weeks.
Companion article:
"All of Earth’s ocean floors deeper than 500 meters ... could be mapped by GPS-navigated MBES for 200 ship-years of effort (e.g., 40 ships working for 5 years), at a total cost of US$2–3 billion ... "

https://eos.org/opinions/airline-flight-paths-over-the-unmap...
The problem is that sometimes a fake news article gets picked by a more reputable outlet and disseminated to other news sites from there. Unless an article cites their sources, it's sometimes difficult to be sure whether they're reporting something based on their own investigation into the matter, or whether they're just regurgitating something they saw in another article.
Iran's nuclear program poses a much greater threat to the United States and its interests.

How is Iran's program at self-defense any threat to the USA? Is that the same way that Iraq, under Saddam, was a clear and present danger to the USA?
> let my code do the talking

this is really it in a nutshell. we're here to make software, not to make friends. if you have the technical skills then you can do just fine for yourself.
This is not the headline on the hyperlinked article, either.
Trustrank: Τι Είναι Πως Να Το Αυξήσετε Για Να Ανεβείτε Στη Google; – WEB DESIGN
Microservices Series #2: The state of enterprise software (analytical evidence)
Machine learning requires careful stewardship says Royal Society
Interesting. We haven't had much luck with SAAS in financial institutions. In our experience they want everything on site and running on their own hardware and software. How did you manage to convince them? Or are you limiting yourself to smaller players where it's less of an issue?
If for not other reason than the fact that attractive and in-shape people have more opportunities and there is a clear bias in their favor should be enough of a reason.
So far the statistics are overwhelmingly in favour of computers doing less mistakes in traffic than humans. Furthermore, if we had mostly self-driving cars, bugs found could be easily deployed to all of the cars, fixing the problems once and for all. While human drivers require cultural changes to drive more safely, and that's way harder to deploy.
Yes it's like the difference between kinetic energy and potential energy. A rock at rest at the edge of a cliff has no kinetic energy, but a lot of potential energy.

I guess Pirsig was making a point about value and not about potential value, which is leading to a larger point. In the moment, value is all you have. Potential value is a future value that requires time to realize.

I have two separate reactions to your suggestion that it's important to remember potential value, the Zen reaction and the Writer's reaction.

Even though Pirsig wasn't going for Buddhism, it's fairly consistent with Zen thinking to make observations about the momentary values of things. My Zen point is that the purpose of meditation and much of Buddhist practice is to see only value and to eliminate potential. When you learn about how to meditate, you learn how to stop your mind from thinking about the future and concentrate completely on the here and now. Remembering something's potential value is antithetical to this way of thinking. Not because it's untrue, but because it's un-now.

My writer's reaction is that while it will always be important to remember things other than the point the author was making. Is adding your point to the author's words helping us to understand his? If Pirsig reminded us about potential value in this sentence, would it improve this particular narrative? Does it open a path that gets to his larger point either more efficiently or more effectively? It might, that might be part of Pirsig's thesis. Or it might be taking a narrative path that doesn't lead to the same place.

It's important to see not just the value of the quote itself - the truth or completeness of an individual passage - but to also remember the potential value of the words as being the destination of the story -- where they lead and where it ends is as important as where it was at any given moment.
Wealth generally dilutes over generations naturally through spending, mismanagement, splitting among more people, or just bad luck.
There's a lot more tesla cars than google cars.
And I don't think there was a single death directly because of autopilot (not 100% sure though).
Also, autopilot is safer, so it actually _saved_ lives.
I see two possibilities.

One is that individual humans are being gradually edged out in favor of these composite entities, and this is our lame attempt to fight back.

The other is that bad treatment has always happened and companies are just not adjusting quickly enough to the new social media world. In olden times, companies knew not to piss off influential people, but had much more leeway with common riffraff. Now the common riffraff can be highly influential and companies haven't quite caught on to this yet.

I think/hope it's the second....
Perhaps publishers could target the accreditation boards for their bribery? A requirement that all university textbooks go through some ridiculous vetting/approval process so onerous and expensive that only the major publishers could possibly afford it might do the trick (and of course the associated costs could just be passed on to students).
You didn't "simply post a link" - your commentary on that link can easily read as attributing (a generalization of) the views in it to some meaningfully large portion of the population.

While I certainly think we should apply the principle of charity, that's done precisely by asking about intention - "I read you as saying X, is that what you meant?"
> Transportation in general will become much cheaper. Because driverless cars will get into far fewer accidents than humans the cost of insuring them will be a fraction of what it costs to insure a human driver today.

Insurance is a small fraction of the cost of transport by car, so dropping the insurance cost by some fraction won't drop the total cost by that much.
I understand where you're coming from, but I disagree. For launching a new technology service, generally adoption follows a pattern: technologists (people who like tech for its own sake), then visionaries in the market itself – who use the tech to boost their own career and get an 'unfair advantage' over their peers, then the chasm. Then come pragmatists, who require social proof from peers in their market, and then conservatives, who require a full service solution (all the complements must exist, such as a support infrastructure). Finally, the laggards, who will only move to a new solution when they are absolutely forced to, such as when the incumbent discontinues support for its offering.

This has all been formulated in great strong detail in the book Crossing The Chasm. Maybe if you are implementing a 'commodity' service that is innovative in absolutely no way whatsoever, you can skip the technologists, but there is such a strong community of online entrepreneurs with a great support ecosystem that I recommend everyone take advantage of it. The only problem is that you have to pay to play – not in terms of money, but in terms of contribution (sharing what you know and helping others). In this case definitely, you really reap what you sow in the karma bank.
Can't view the site properly right now (I'm text-only), but is it possible to see how much your ads cost your users? I would looove it if businesses/developers cared about that.
If he's not running for office, maybe it's to prevent a huge public backlash to facebook ?

There is increasing unrest and resentment towards the very rich including silicon valley ceos in america.
> Zuckerberg denied he is running for president in 2020. I wonder what is the reason of his postelection tour in America and his big PR team.

He might have a different plan in mind for effecting changes in the world. Being elected President gives you certain powers, but it also comes with a lot of responsibilities and limitations; whereas, being a traveling Do-Gooder and (ugh) Thought Leader or whatever, with several billion dollars behind you and no constitutional limitations on what you can spend the money on might be more freeing.

Basically, a Heinlein novel come to life and adjusted for the 21st century.
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What is rude about them?
If you have an amazing product you can start from http://www.appsumo.com :-)
I never said it happens at Chick-fil-a. Work on your reading comprehension.
One of the most controversial facts of the recent history of France is how the General de Gaulle came back to power in 1958 through a coup [1]. This isn't and probably will never be taught in class because the General is the founding father of our current constitution.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_de_Gaulle#1958:_Collap...
I am not an attorney.

My advice is to not say anything in public forums like this until you have talked to one competent in this area. Sure it sucks. That's business.

Good luck.
Reports: FCC chair to reveal anti-net neutrality plans this week
If a computer crashes, you can identify the software or hardware flaw that caused the crash and fix it once and for all.

Improving human driving skills collectively is much more difficult. Even if one driver learns from their own mistake, other drivers and the next generation of drivers will still be just as prone as before to make that mistake. Better education can only do so much anyway, since people often don't think rationally and don't necessarily make safety the number one priority (e.g. drunk driving, trying to get to the destination as quickly as possible, or reckless driving for entertainment purposes).
Equal opportunity leads to equal outcomes. Not for individuals but for the statistical whole.

If you can place winning bets on how wealthy the parents were by how wealthy the children are long after the parents are gone, you are measuring unequal opportunity by the unequal outcomes.

I think some (statistically) unequal outcomes are unavoidable but the graph from 1940 shows that that we are moving drastically in the wrong direction.
He's returning to the truck in the middle of the night to give the guy water and had just found out he'd been shot in the head (meaning someone else had been there). This is where he turns around to see someone standing next to his truck he parked up the hill and is coming to the realization that things are about to get really bad.
When I was at Oregon State (a couple years ago), all my math and econ classes used "My{Math,Econ}Lab" as homework. Meaning, if you chose not to or could not pay for Pearson's infamous Flash-based "web" app (which I had to spin up a Windows VM to run), you could not pass the class.

It really astounded me that we had to pay a third-party for-profit company to get access to our homework.
See my comment earlier: for my front page very roughly one AdSense ad is 90% of the entire page weight (well over 200kB of ~250kB).
Actually, we should be expanding Vo Tech education.

Not everyone needs or should go to college, but we need good alternatives for those people.
We are not "unable" to protect smart TVs. If anyone gave a shit those things would be locked down tighter than a bank vault, but we don't, so they aren't.

But, as evidenced by terrorism paranoia, people do care about their personal safety--perhaps excessively and irrationally so. Security in a networked self-driving car won't be treated as an afterthought, if nothing else because of the massive legal liability.
Sorry, I should have been more clear. It's moved into the "now on tap" feature, which now links to Google Assistant. You're right though, if you ask what's in your screen it has the same effect.
I don't think natural occurring elements are eligible for a patent[1][2], or at least, they are not easily eligible for a patent.

[1] http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2014/04/08/can...

[2] https://www.uspto.gov/patent/patents-announcements/guidance-...
> All gyms around my home open from 9:30/10:00

This is absolutely bizarre to me. The gyms in my area all open between 4am and 6am. The busiest times are the first hour or two after opening and early evening (after 5 or so).
Well, nowadays someone can easily hijack a truck and drive it in a crowd of people. And maybe self-driving cars don't need to be connected to the internet?