skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, I'm really more bothered by the expected scientific rigorous from an
essay like this.

He's a writer and is experiencing the difficulties of his work and how it
effects his emotional well being. It shouldn't then really surprise that
he sees a strong connection between his work as a writer and the
depressions he has. That doesn't mean he's telling an objective truth
about a writer's life, but he's telling a subjective "truth" of his
life as a writer, and sometimes these subjective "truths" can tell
you quite a bit about life.

Sometimes the HN crowd can get quite a bit annoying with its scientific
thinking, because it's not always the appropiate method, and sometimes
a single person can tell you more about a certain aspect of the world
then any kind of scientific study.

I'm certainly not arguing against the scientific method, but to
apply it in a reasonable way.
Real talk on XCOM's percentages and “randomness”
The plastic bags that cheap wine comes in is Rogue river, class 5-6, over Rainey Falls, sucked 10 feet into the vortex tested.

A few years ago I took a two week river trip with a buddy. We bought three boxes of wine.

We nixed the boxes, and the wine bladders were just strapped to to raft with all our other stuff.

At the end of the trip, we we both surprised how much abuse those bags went through, and not even a small leak.

Now--the raft was another story.
Dear (Soylent) designers, please stop comparing yourselves with big names like Kubrick or Rams. You designed a plastic bottle - no more, no less.
Not really, to me. That's the business of the countries that own those waters.
There are a huge number of laws that apply to building a home, and have for a long long time.

To single out this law, which appears to be an overwhelmingly a good idea, as the "bad" one, seem a bit nonsensical.

If your against all regulation of building, then that might be a stand that you could try argue for. But to pick out this one new law seems weird.
This article is long-winded, pretentious and misses Kingsley Amis' best definition of the metaphysical hangover:

> When that ineffable compound of depression, sadness (these two are not the same), anxiety, self-hatred, sense of failure and fear for the future begins to steal over you, start telling yourself that what you have is a hangover. You are not sickening for anything, you have not suffered a minor brain lesion, you are not all that bad at your job, your family and friends are not leagued in a conspiracy of barely maintained silence about what a shit you are, you have not come at last to see life as it really is and there is no use crying over spilt milk.
Hmmm, Hindu Nationalism, but this article focuses on vigilantism over the killing of cows. I'm finding it hard to sympathise with the other side..
That's nothing new though, right?

City councils have had guidelines for building appearance and colour schemes for I don't know how long.

And anyhow, the democratic process itself led to this ordinance.
> reads like a medication pamphlet

I did both. The therapy was of limited use. The pills were like a light switch that have simply turned off my mental illness with almost no side-effects.
There are 3 groups that have influence over Bitcoin:

- miners: they bear the biggest costs and are responsible for the security of the network. Without miners there would be no bitcoin.

- economic nodes: nodes that have real activity going through them that relay transactions and accept or reject blocks that miners provide them. Coinbase's nodes are significantly more valuable than my personal node for my wallet.

- core dev team: their power is soft but integral, no-one wants a chain that can't be updated over time.

Owners of coins currently have little to no influence.
The fact that it might be non-random is a much smaller concern than the fact that it's known by the world. The whole point of seeding a RNG with entropy (at least for cryprographic purposes) is to attempt to prevent someone else from duplicating/predicting the state of the RNG.
What metrics do the experts use to measure UX effectiveness?
That's effectively what is happening with media consumption. Beause of special interests and ideologies, it's very hard to tell how biased or honest information really is without doing a lot of research.

Ideally, journalists would do that research for us and present the information as objectively as possible. And we would trust them. But doing that takes a lot of time and doesn't result in a lot of clicks.
Murder witnessed by a parrot
My try at explanations of terms I've found weird or unclear:
UTO - Uzlovy Telefonni Obvod ~ Area code
"Selective selector" - direct/selective calling in two way radio systems, but in this case it more or less implies what is known trunked radio
stalk - trunk, although IIRC Motorola uses the term stalk for "sub-trunk" or something like that.

In all AMR is essentially analog trunked radio system with the role of operator/dispatcher completely automated and without the ability of direct or repeater calls between nearby stations.
Or you forgot to add salt.
A close call: Air Canada's near disaster at SFO
How do you figure that 22 courses is a minuscule amount of food? Sure, since it is a tasting menu, the portions of each course are going to be smaller than if you ordered them in a non-tasting course. Overall, though, that's 22 different foods. This will probably take at least 1.5 to 2 hours for the eating, so it'll seem like more. Plus wine, if you should choose it. Additionally, I'm pretty sure some of the dining is the experience itself - at least for most of us, who rarely spend $300 on a group for dinner, let alone on one person.

And it'll probably be a bit better than fast food.

Besides, you can easily do things like have dessert, a bedtime snack, eat a quality breakfast and/or lunch. Or, you know, spend your money on something more fitting to you.

Edit: Forgot a line.
Gavin Wood didn't not make the code change that caused this...
How is it any different to an update to a large and popular app on Android... Facebook for instance?
Wait. You think the US has good quality newspapers and media outlets?

I can't think of one "reputable" US news outlet that hasn't knowingly spread misinformation or half-truths at least once over the past year.

The "good" sources are generally the least bad ones that happen to confirm your biases more than the rest.
> Algorithms were supposed to free us from our unconscious mistakes.

Were they? Algorithms just do what we do, faster. For now. (see: AI)

> “Part of the problem is that people trained as data scientists who build models and work with data aren’t well connected to civil rights advocates (...)”

so they could learn what reverse-biases to hardcode in the systems they build, or what facts to specifically ignore? I know I am putting it bluntly, but am I wrong?
[Basic] React Component generator for Yeoman (for creating component packages)
Block-oriented languages can do it; Rust, for example:

let result = if boolean_flag {
do_this()
} else {
do_that()
};

Rust actually doesn’t have a ternary operator.
Quantum Computing Would Make Today’s Encryption Obsolete
Sorry, it wasn't meant to be a personal "your" aimed at you specifically, but rather than a general one.
Chinese MiniKTV Startup Raises $15M from Matrix, GSR
I think the parent is saying that's it preferable to IE being that one single browser.

And honestly, your reply was childish and and a bit douche-bag-ish.

There's no need for this here - (I assume) we're all adults, and don't need to resort to playground tactics.

(If you actually are under 16, then I take the above and I'm sorry - welcome to HN!)
Swimming robot probes Fukushima reactor to find melted fuel
3 Altcoins to Rival Ethereum
I was hoping the opposite. That it would be imperative code but somehow you can sandbox the effects a bit like a custom monad.
The Wikipedia article about Florida Power and Light[1] shows 68% natural gas generation in the mix, 23% nuclear, 4% coal, and 5% purchased from other suppliers.

The 68% natural gas number lends me to believe the state ought to be able to handle intermittent solar, if the poewr stations are willing / able to load follow.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_Power_%26_Light#Power_...
> like Postscript

That would be cool. Even cooler would be if they created a code style culture around small contracts such that a contract should print out a legal-looking document with its own source code, when echoed to a printer.
Automobile Suppliers, Manufacturers, Exporter – Dealerbaba
I'm generally against concentrated market power, so I'm definitely sympathetic to the point and I think it's good to be aware of this concentration of ownership.

I'm not sure this is totally fair, though:

> We found that the Big Three, taken together, have become the largest shareholder in 40% of all publicly listed firms in the United States.

> Together, the Big Three are the largest single shareholder in almost 90% of S&P 500 firms

> The Big Three – seen together – are virtually always the largest shareholder in the few competitors that remain in these sectors.

They're aggregating these owners together, then saying that the aggregation is larger than the non-aggregated other owners.

That's not too surprising, right? Taken together, the vowels cover more of the alphabet than any other single letter. Undoubtedly true, but what does that really tell us?

If the big three tend to vote with management, that sounds potentially concerning. But are they just not voting for wacky shareholder proposals? What proportion of those votes actually tip the outcome?

The section on the potential impact of this ownership concentration has a lot of "could have" and "may be" in it. We should definitely be doing that research, but at this stage the story isn't super compelling.
You are confusing therapy being the front-line treatment with it being the most useful treatment.
What Are the Car Apps and How to Develop Them?
The clean room would explain the cost. if the yield is really 500x traditional farms, that explains why its still more expensive than "organic" produce
>The Guardian, which someone else mentioned, is massively left-leaning

It really isn't. It's a liberal paper not a left wing one. That's not a theoretical distinction; you just need to look at their coverage of the UK Labour party over the last 2 years to see that.

It does publish a range of people in the opinion pages, including conservatives and socialists, but the reporters and most importantly editors are nearly all liberals. That's what informs which articles get published and which anonymous "senior labour party insider" they quote in the headlines and front page news stories.
Quite. Sadness, apathy and anxiety are all symptoms of mental illness. But they're symptoms of all sorts of things too -- including social setting etc, and so people tend to conflate the two.
Russian man who helped develop Citadel malware gets 5 years
Actual paper is titled “Next-generation ice core technology reveals true minimum natural levels of lead (Pb) in the atmosphere: Insights from the Black Death”.

The gist is that we’ve been operating under wrong assumptions about what normal background levels of lead in the atmosphere are like. What we used to consider normal turns out to be affected by pre-industrial human activities way more than we thought. Natural lead levels, as the paper shows, are much lower. Assuming we’ve found the true baseline levels, we see that we and our ancestors were/are being exposed to higher, relative to baseline, lead levels than we thought.

The main kicker of this research to me is that it puts into question some previous research pertaining to human health and lead (which, as we do already know, don’t go well together at all—the friendly paper[0] provides a summary), as well as current public health measures.

[0] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2017GH000064/full
It's good, really, that this article focussed on Tinsley. I saw a talk by Schaeffer about ten years ago, just as he was finishing up solving checkers, and it was an astonishingly depressing talk. He invested his whole life—decades—as I recall his marriage failed partially as a result of his obsession with this—on what, in the end, was a lookup table. There was a lot of neat engineering he had to do along the way (storage, parallel work) but that's not what he cared about: he cared that he had solved checkers. Were there any insights about patterns that could be induced, maybe to teach humans how to do analysis or to learn some interesting mathematical fact about the graph structure of the board? No—you just see what the board state is, and look it up in the database to tell you the next move. I can't even tell you how demotivational this speech was.
Hanging S3 downloads
Or Python:

result = do_this() if boolean_flag else do_that()
Cyberattack on Ukrainian clinics, pharmacies worries experts
17.   Best Hotel Management College Affiliated to Osmania University
When I took a look at it, two or three years ago, I think there were three different guys in the organization each busy with his own idea of a high-level language to put on top of the VM, each inspired by a different GP language. That signaled a certain lack of focus.
Cosmology and particle physics face surprisingly similar challenges
Show HN: Aggregated freelance leads
Could you substantiate this claim?

Because it sounds like FUD at this stage, until somebody provides a shred of evidence.
I've been flying things for 30+ years, and the one thing I have learned in this hobby/field is that the cycle goes like this:

1: Build -> 2: Fly -> 3: Crash (goto 1)

DJI are turning this into:

1: Buy -> 2: Fly -> 3: Crash (goto 1)

All of these phases are ripe for disruption in my opinion. Maybe you'll find that building is way more fun than flying (crashing) - in which case, you can ship Step #2 off to someone else to deal with .. ;)
Facebook working on way to charge for reading news articles
Probably as a joke, but it served them well, it's really a clever name IMHO.

I think it all started as a few blog posts about the founder's experiments in creating his own meal replacement, and after he got crazy media attention he decided to turn it into a product.

Soylent as a name is instantly recognizable and has a sense of self-awareness/irony that many other products lack, I would be surprised if the name itself didn't contribute greatly to the initial media coverage.
Amazon isn’t technically dominant, but it pervades our lives
I know what you mean.
But...since it's notoriously hard to attract public attention with existential values, I'm all for sportsball metaphors. They get sh*t done. :)
I originally switched to Chrome soon after it came out because it was fast.

I still use it today because usability wise it's just better for me.

I can't for the life of me get used to a separate search box. The "omnibar" is simply fantastic. Coupled with turning off "search suggestions" in the Settings, you have a wiki on hand pretty much. Anything you type will match a personal bookmark, or a personal search. Or title of a page visited earlier. This means I don't need to make bookmark in many cases. I can also manage omnibar to give optimal results by making random, useless searches in a private window, which again, is so easy to use in Google Chrome (Ctrl Shift N). And then if a search match is inconvenient for speed or just not useful anymore, just shift+del to remove it.

Firefox completelty lost me when I looked back and it was like version "52" instead of the version 14 or something I was one, just a year or two later. I was like "what the hell??" "WOW what are all these amazings updates they made?" Only to realize barely anything changed at all.

And lately they just lost me completely as a developer. They wanted to integrate the Firebug extension, arguably the most useful aspect of Firefox for developers. I kept using Firefox for firebug for years, while Chrome was my main browser. But since they integrated it, it just performs worse. It's so damn slow and unusable, meanwhile Google console just gets better and better.
On the flip side, I met people who thought Python list comprehensions were "magic" and should be avoided at all costs
The pythonic example I've seen not once:

{"some": "dict"}.setdefault("some", foo())

while expecting foo() to be short-circuited.
Here's a master's thesis by a couple guys who made Idris compile to Ethereum bytecode.

https://publications.lib.chalmers.se/records/fulltext/234939...
For a stack machine, Forth might be a great choice.
Your criticism is like saying a programmer is bad because they didn't solve the problem you're interested in when it's not their job to solve your problem, and they didn't use enough lines of code to do it.

Haute cuisine has always seemed highly experimental to me. And I think that's the point. To find new ways to cook food. Often in ways that are extremely impractical. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Some people enjoy the weird, others don't.

But to say that these chefs aren't driven by taste or that the prices are set that way so that their customers can boast? You must be a troll.

If you don't like them so much. Stop going to them!
I quite liked the European competitor's original name, Joylent. To avoid legal issues they eventually changed the name and somehow ended up with "Jimmy Joy". That name was so intensely disliked that they renamed it again in about a month.
A lot of work is going into reducing the effects of malaria:

https://www.gatesnotes.com/Health/Mapping-the-End-of-Malaria
> yet the west doesn't go bananas over the flu like it does with malaria.

At least in Germany we had a few killer flu scares. With politicians buying ( and throwing away ) tons of third rate vaccines that had a higher likelihood of making you sick than you had of catching the flu.
Don’t fly blindly: best customer service tips for startups
I don't buy it.

Chrome for years and years was sold as lightning fast and secure from malware - and it delivered.

That was why I switched back in the day.

Even today, it has a reputation for being lightning fast, and having a fast pace of development.

In my (admittedly mostly/predominantly) technical circle - I don't know many who switched to ads. In fact, those people are the least likely to click on ads.

Most of them switched because Chrome is fast, and lightweight - or for the non-technical people, because their technical friends told them to.
Ask HN: Do you use any alternative microblogging platform?
and what's unique about it?

alternative meaning not twitter/tumblr/mastodon
Then it's you who takes said door and starts looking for a more sane place to work at
A parrot is what the OJ Simpson trial needed.
Watering Hole Attacks: Cyber Threats Lying in Wait
Michelson is a VM bytecode, not a programming language, although it happens to be readable enough to write simple contracts in it directly.

IIRC, the old Camllight VM was pretty similar (I might misremember, that was literally decades ago); an ML-like language to Michelson compiler is fairly straightforward to write and to prove sound.

I'm happy that they do things the sane way, i.e. focusing on sound foundations rather than on how Javascripty the syntax looks; but I'm afraid the communication isn't as clear as it could/should be. Blessing a compiler for some subset of ML, as a first high level language, would have cleared things up IMO.
Is there a student discount to your lectures? It's hard to squeeze $30 into the ramen noodle budget.
This App Tells You When You’re Depressed
I can't edit my post above to add this now, but looks like Charlie retracted this as Gavin was the original author, but not the one who made the mistake.
Weibo
large user base
SoftBank's Son Finally Explains How All Those Deals Fit Together
No, society does that. Our society is, apparently, perfect, and if you have trouble living in it, it's your fault - says society. However, how we often approach mental healthcare - as something individualistic and separate from society - is one of the things that normalises it.
Why Use Activation Functions in Deep Learning?
BD hasnt produced anything marketable still. Festo is an automation company and Fanuc is one of the old industrial robotics makers. Reis also just does industrial solutions.

None of those are startups besides BD.
I want to try Alacritty on OSX - but the big turnoff for me is the lack of binaries.

However, I don't know if that's intentional, because they don't think it's ready yet for people who won't install/compile the whole Rust stack from scratch?
Source? How much is "almost everyone". Why bring the Israel discussion into this topic to begin with?
Which Anonymous Sources Are Worth Paying Attention To?
Extremism and “Mount Stupid”
I would assume this is not for everyone. I would suspect that the main customers would be people not hooked up to the grid, that generates their own energy. As storage costs are steep, using overhead to grow plants seems like a good way to do it. Also, there are many remote areas where during winter or certain periods it is hard to access. Having your own source of vegetables might be important.

The company that develops and improves technology for in-home growing can also think about providing its solutions to space missions, including colonisation.

I doubt if the mentioned examples are worth $200M, but it might be they have an amazing business/growth plan.
Neat and all, but I wonder how this affects people who barely use electricity? In San Diego in winter months my normal load was 50-70 Watts with an electric bill around $10 per month; this seems like enormous overcapacity. Negawatts are better than megawatts...

That being said, I'm still very much in favor.
No, it's not like that, blocking internet access would cripple nation states' economies too much to even be able to fight a war. But censorship even without a major war requires centralization of control over the internet, which introduces a country-wide weakness that makes the internet unreliable to the point of complete blackouts, like during anti-government protests. Furthermore even a small conflict has an impact on the supply of electricity in the country which also could make all storage nodes there unavailable for prolonged periods of time. There are a lot of other weaknesses too, like not that many countries even have good global internet connectivity and cyber attacks could shut it down entirely.
A friend told me on Monday about an idea he'd just read that in fact shareholders should be the least important of all in a company's consideration and the US/UK maximize share-holder value laws/attitude is actually damaging.

The gist of the argument was:

- Shareholders have no long-term investment in a company, they can easily move their money if they feel a company is performing badly. They can have little interest in long-term survival.

- Employees and suppliers do have long-term investment, have barriers to moving their commitment

Therefore you should discard the concept that a companies should maximize share-holder value and should instead incentivize companies to focus on long-term survival.

The example cited was GM, which did share buybacks instead of saving cash in boom times and then went bust because it ran out of cash in a recession.

I'm yet to read the book (which I can't remember the title now), but it sounds interesting and would be an effective counter to this concentration.
FYI, the Jewish population was almost completely expelled from that region by the year 135 CE.
Huge parts of Miami and Fort Lauderdale are completely underwater on a full moon. Climate change is going to be a disaster for the area with billions if not trillions of dollars worth of property underwater.
Direct Insurance Network
The number 1 most popular newspaper in the UK basically is publishing stuff you'd see on The Donald. As are many of the tabloids.
Why is the index-fund market is so concentrated? Shouldn't it be incredibly easy to break into this market?