skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The more I think about this, the angrier I get.

How dare you? How dare you?

For one, "rich people" don't usually hang out at the library. They can afford to buy books, videos, and their own computers. The people who bear the brunt of an unusable library are middle and lower class people, especially kids.

I know, I was one of them.

We were quite poor when I was a kid. I'm talking "didn't have electricity or running water" poor, for extended periods of time.

Every couple of weeks, we'd go to "town" (population ~1,500, but it had a library). The adults would drop me off there to read and check out books while they did their errands. I really don't know what would have become of me without that -- we sure couldn't afford to buy books.

Would they have left me in the library if it had been full of aggressive, stinky, masturbating drunks? No. Nor should they have. No parent would.

What you are saying is that the rights of those who use the library as a sleep-off shelter/shooting gallery/public masturbation facility should take precedence over the rights of those who are there to use the library for its intended purpose. Including younger me. Including every child with the urge to learn, but whose family can't afford books.

That is an utterly reprehensible position.

Once again: how DARE you?
If they offer free storage, ye shall give them some files to store.
Ultra-long distance dudes from Mexico the Tarahumara allegedly run like this. I also heard a story about some guy in Aussie who ran like that - won some crazy long distance race too, smashing the record. It is true that a man will beat a horse in a race if the man is allowed to pick the distance. How about that for evolution? The ultimate persistence hunter.
And soon is not given in an answer to how long something will take, unless you wanted to annoy someone.

If I asked when will the ice cream get here, and they answered soon, I would ask them to clarify, or just leave, knowing they had no idea themselves.
Likewise. I just hate this attitude of "they should nhave known better".
I prefer none.
I never said I was against Medium ;)

I'm against self hosting when it makes no sense to do so, and only because I've seen people get burnt by the process and I don't want to the same to happen to you. I'm probably capable, but many aren't.

Legal or regulatory reasons are the only reasons I can think of that might force your hand in to self-hosting.
And that is a stupid answer.
One login is enough to authorize an Oauth app.
I started watching the videos in Part 1 and was disappointed to find out that I was going to have to create an AWS account. I really don't want to deal with accidentally racking up a large bill on AWS.
I'm not surprised at all. Even though every rational person knows they're capable of making mistakes, acknowledging that you can easily make a major, major mistake - the kind that kills your child or your company - is a scary thing. I think some people just prefer to lie to themselves rather than than having to deal with it.
Developing robust AI in DwarfCorp
I don't know the American market, but from a Western European perspective that sounds hard to market right. Everyone thinks of mistakes as something other people make (as opposed to accidents, the selling point of good car seats). Nobody is going to think "hopefully I don't forget my child in the car", or at least won't buy anything that gives away that thought.
Language like "perfect fidelity in an unlimited number of minds" just doesn't add up in my head. Nobody can reproduce the sound of a recording in their mind without listening to a tape/record/cd/file of it.

How is your speech being constrained by a record label anyways? A recording of a performance belongs to the creators of that recording. You don't have the right to reproduce it without paying them. That's that. It has nothing to do with your speech and everything to do with people in the entertainment industry getting paid for their work.
Medicine's Women Problem
One form of question could be this. Then even if people parrot the right answer, they are still being improved and have to acknowledge their profound wrongness every time they visit the ballot box.

Your child is very sick. Do you

(A) Do what is recommended by peer-reviewed scientific literature, of which one of the central tenets is that you only believe things which are backed up by data and solid arguments.

(B) Do what is recommended by your religion, of which one of the central tenets is that faith is sufficient reason to believe in something, and neither data not solid arguments are needed.
In short, they went from shader translation to emulation (on the GPU) which eliminates the delays of dynamic translation. Fortunately the emulation is fast enough that it works great.
It's counter intuitive. I bet you $5 that if I target you, and you're not expecting it, I can phish you. I've seen this happen in the field, and it doesn't have much to do with education. Relax for an instant and I have you.

The only real defense is to glance at the url bar every time you're about to enter your password. And even I find myself not doing that 100% of the time. It's a numbers game.

A policy of popping up a popup "glance at url bar" every time you copy your password from your password manager (which you're using, right?) would go a long way.
Thanks, that is exactly what I was looking for.
Yes, one option is to do as you've described, for example, use JS to upload the file, then submit a form as normal with a file url / id in the form.

However, you can also create a Lambda that is triggered whenever a file is uploaded to a given bucket and directory. With this, you can react to the file being received and update your database without the need for a second request.
The Temporality of Artificial Intelligence
isn't it already flying in europe?
Tristan's First Day Home from the Shelter Until Now (2 Years Later)
Is the name a wordplay on Fillory?
For anyone interested in additional context, the paper "AI and the Origins of the Functional Programming Language Style
" by Mark Priestley is a great introduction: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11023-017-9432-7 (sorry, I don't have a non-paywalled link, but SciHub does the trick).
You may recall that before Title 2 was asserted by the FCC, ISPs would prohibit "commercial use" in their consumer AUPs and once in awhile enforce this against someone who was telecommuting.

Time Warner affiliates would charge you an additional $20/mo for business access.
Can you actually tell me about a bright technical entrepreneur who has been crushed? Why did they form a business distributing somebody else's product if they couldn't pay for it?
If you have the hardware, you can do without an AWS account (you might need to be an "expert" to interpret the instructions to run on your own hardware instead of AWS). I used my gaming rig with a 1080 GTX Ti card.
Are you married?
I ran cross country in high school and I just ran barefoot around the neighborhood. I'd run 10 miles barefoot sometimes. I had Vibrams but didn't like em as much.

The great thing about running barefoot is that you can feel the ground under your feet. It makes it much more interesting to run and less boring.
So can anyone sum up what the right way to run is?
Haha no, the name of Failory becomes from failure + story. The logo makes reference to a chat + story + colors of failures.
A little off-topic, but the author of this paper (Daan Leijen) is also the author of Koka[1], a programming language with algebraic effects.

IMO, Koka (or something similar) has more potential to become a mainstream language than "traditional" FP languages (Haskell, OCaml, Idris, etc.).

Effects seem to be easier to understand than monads (at least on a superficial level) and more modular (I don't have a lot of experience with Haskell, so take that with a grain of salt).

Its syntax is also very close to C-like languages.

Taken from the Koka book[2]:

fun square1(x : int) : total int {
return x*x
}

fun square2(x : int) : io int {
println( "a not so secret side-effect" )
return x*x
}

`square1` is a pure mathematical function, so its effect is `total`. `square2` has a side-effect because of `println`, so its effect is `io`. This means that `square2` can raise exceptions, not terminate, be non-deterministic, read and write to the heap, and do any input/output operations.

Note that Koka can infer effects, so these annotations are optional.

[1]: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/koka/?from=...

[2]: https://koka-lang.github.io/koka/doc/kokaspec.html#sec-effec...
I've seen previous reports that the "parents are less happy" finding is mainly isolated to the US, due to nonexistence of things like paid parental leave, free healthcare and free education systems. This latest survey is consistent with that.

Edit: link: https://contemporaryfamilies.org/brief-parenting-happiness/
FWIW I found if you power through and get so good at ironing that you can do it on full autopilot, that time just kinda disappears.

Like how if you commute the same way every day, the memory of each one seems to merge and disappear. Sure, you lose that time, but it becomes a completely neutral experience.
In the meantime, we just kept with Python 2.

When all dependencies were there, we made the switch.
Its funny because you say were addicted to our smartphones, but here I am on my smartphone reading your article, thinking how its too short
It works so long as you're only doing laundry for one person. Otherwise you have to do more. And also solve the political problem of wanting to devote space in a dwelling for procrastinated chores.

It takes me perhaps half a week to do laundry. I load up all my laundry in one load in the washer, with a ColorCatcher to avoid dye bleeding. Once it's done I move it all to a dedicated spot in my closet, where I take all the things that need to be hanged and hang them, and leave the rest for the next day.

Over the next few days I'll extract the other outerwear, then the underwear, until I'm left with socks. All of my socks are inside-out, so one day I'll turn them right-side-out and the next I'll fold them and put them up.

Works because it's just me.
I actually left two comments and deleted them both. It's very difficult to say these things from my position but I like everything you said a lot. If I had said them my obvious bias would have detracted from it. From my position it's just best if I keep my mouth shut, but these are important issues and I think very much in need of attention.
Entrepreneur Parents
EVERY. SINGLE. DAY.

The only comfort, so far, is learning that this seems to be very, very common among us tech types.

I have coworkers that ask me for help with infra/virtualization stuff that I know well, and they know the programming side of automation better than I do. I'm working to learn it, and deal with the inadequacy feelings all the time.

They tell me they couldn't get by without my knowledge, and to keep going on the automation coding, that I'll figure it out.

Sometimes, I say to myself, "They can say it until they're blue in the face; if I don't believe it, it doesn't matter. It's in one ear, and out the other."

I don't know if I'm really coping. Just continuing to try to learn, and move forward.

My apologies, if it's not the upbeat answer you may have been hoping for. Just trying to be real about it.
SoundCloud was so close to be that startup.
The DeanBeat: Roblox’s kid developers make enough ‘robux’ to pay for college
It's an incredibly impressive project. I can't believe they're not on Patreon (maybe this type of project doesn't qualify?). They're more high quality with their updates and the writeups about their updates than most commercial software made by professionals getting paid.
How easy do you think it is? Have you done it?

I found that self hosting wordpress is incredibly complex and expensive.

Wordpress.com does a great job though, nothing to manage.
Makes perfect sense, although it would still have been a good fit if it actually were a wordplay on Fillory.
Mining with GPUs hasn't been profitable since around 2014. GPUs have largely been replaced by ASICs (although certain coins are still mineable with GPUs, like Ethereum[1], as discussed in the article). Bitmain[2] is (AFAIK) the manufacturer of ASICs for mining.

[1]: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/59zdjq/an-idiots-...

[2]: https://www.bitmain.com/
My atheist grandfather taught me the sign of the cross for this reason - "Spectacles, testicles, wallet, and keys."
Yes, seems my off-the-cuff memory's is counting an individual short story as a book & even then doubled the value

http://www.asimovonline.com/oldsite/asimov_catalogue.html
And that's not counting different OS's, different dependencies such as libc. In my opinion those things would be far out of scope for this project.
the authors cite Matija Pretnar who has an introduction on [algebraic effects](http://www.eff-lang.org/handlers-tutorial.pdf). I'm reading through it now as I have no idea what is going on :)
Restoring order to my own living space provides both soothing busy-work, and reinforces my sense of ownership and control over the space. If someone else cleans it, I will be timid about using the place they have to clean.

It relates to larger ideas of ownership being composed of use approaching limits, maintenance of standards, and defense of boundaries. Maintaining the standards of cleanliness of a living space is part of owning the living space - along with approaching (and expanding) the the living space's limits for use & utility, and defending the boundaries of the living space.
theoretically one could avoid vertical curvature issues by connecting the tunnels with large shafts, similar to elevators in skyscrapers.
This is great to see, although it sounds like it's still somewhat in beta. Be interesting to find out if they support packages such as amsmath, either now or in the future.

As a shameless plug, for anyone wanting to use LaTeX without having to install everything locally, the online compilers Overleaf [1] and ShareLaTeX [2] are pretty handy. I'm one of the founders of Overleaf, and we're excited to now be working together with the ShareLaTeX team [3]. Feedback always appreciated :)

[1] https://www.overleaf.com/

[2] https://www.sharelatex.com/

[3] https://www.overleaf.com/blog/518-exciting-news-sharelatex-i...
Hiring a maid is especially great if you live with other people. Splitting a bill is much easier than splitting tasks.
Ask HN: Elaborate on this passage from Alan Kay's STEPS write-up
A Significant Problem Still To Be Solved--Massively scalable intermodule coordination and communication has not been achieved via any means in personal or any other kind of computing.
But how can it be tireless and exhausting at the same time?
I read it as, “you should never be in the mindset of ‘expecting’ a phish from any [specific] source.”

I think OP agrees with you.
Only the past 10, maybe 15 years - the worst damage has all been in the past 5 years - but you're right about it being both parties: under Labour we had RIPA and the wet-dreams of "Wacky Jacqui" Smith - which in turn enabled the the Tory gov's implementation of these regressive legislation.

The problem is how the UK cabinet is arranged and the politically powerful role of Home Secretary - where the job description is a license to dream up, campaign for, and implement the most effective means of "keeping the country safe". Quite unfortunate.

Long-term change would only be effected by having the role's description framed in the context of keeping the UK - and its freedoms - safe. It's a subtle change to the oath of office, but would hopefully prevent the recent abuses we've seen. Universal mass surveillance is fundamentally incompatible with our right to privacy.
Lastpass will tell you whether it recognizes the site when you go to fill in the password (yes, I use it despite the scary stuff, I know I probably should switch to OnePassword).

Do other password managers not do that?

Just curious, not trying to engage the bigger question of whether getting phished is the user's fault.
You would agree, then, that drinking water is bad for the same reasons?
When the Navy introduced the NATOPS[0] program, including pilot checklists, aircraft mishaps decreased significantly.

The introductory statement:

NATOPS is a positive approach toward improving combat readiness and achieving a substantial reduction in the aircraft accident rate. Standardization, based on professional knowledge and experience, provides the basis for development of an efficient and sound operational procedure. The standardization program is not planned to stifle individual initiative, but rather to aid the commanding officer in increasing the unit’s combat potential without reducing command prestige or responsibility.

There is significant research that when hospitals required surgeons to use checklists, surgical errors decreased significantly.[1]

Some friends who are NATOPS qualified pilots actually do have NATOPS-style checklists for parenting their kids, for both routine and non-routine/emergency tasks.

e.g Check that the kid is not in the car as they exit.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATOPS

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2017/0...
Yes, I'm Dutch. But yes, I can't say I'm much embarrassed about much anymore. Being transparent on the internet helps with that :)
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The energy required only grows quadratically if you stay on one technology.

Simultaneously switching from internal combustion to linear electric motors with efficient regen. braking and bumping the speed up 10x turns out to be a wash.
Ask HN: How do you know that a startup is worth joining or not?
What are the right questions to ask? How to assess a pre-product market fit startup? What are the signs that they already have product market fit and are growing? What are the warning signs of poor quality founders?
Explain Ethereum like I'm five
Imagine all these people wasting time, energy and power, the last of which is a crime against the environment and an affront to good sense at a time of global concern.

But when it comes to money, greed and self interest always triumph and there will be dozens stretching logic and apologism as far as it can go.

'Proof of work' has to the most hare-brained, wasteful, anti-environment scheme ever thought of. Responsible people should not just be wasting electricity in this manner.
Edited by Susan T. Fiske, Princeton University. [1]

Evidently so. I wonder what Andrew Gelman will make out of it.

[1] http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/07/18/1706541114.full
An email from Google with a bit.ly link? Hell no, I hope I won't fell from it in whatever situation.

I agree that any defense is far from being perfect, but IT professionals shouldn't fell for an unsofiscated attack like this even if you are no working in security. I am not even talking about a web developer.
My understanding is that (1) is you deliberately did something that killed someone but your intent was not to harm them, say you’re working on a car you mean to scare them by faking dropping the engine on them, but actually do drop the engine, vs (2) you’re working with your friend on a car and drop the engine without knowing that they’re under it.

For (2) i believe that other things feed in to it - did you take sufficient caution, did you have reason to know there was someone there, were you following best practice, etc.

If you did literally nothing wrong (eg a completely freak accident) I don’t believe manslaughter would apply

IANAL though so don’t go dropping engines on people and blame me :)
Musings on Where Humanity Is Headed
Its true! :)
Are you sure latency stayed around 100ns?

http://pics.crucial.com/wcsstore/CrucialSAS/images/campaigns...
Password managers with browser extensions are a good fix for this too. If you're used to entering your password only through the extension, not being able to do that on a login screen would be a big warning sign. Admittedly, these extensions have had some vulnerabilities in the past, but phishing is simply a bigger problem for the vast majority of users.

Obviously, for sites that support U2F (like Google), getting a YubiKey or any other U2F-compatible key would be the best protection against this.
I did try to acknowledge the question begging in my comment. My point is that both sides are begging the question.

So neither side (false dichotomy acknowledged) can use question begging as an argument to dismiss the other.

What's left? Who has more to explain? Surely at this point Descartes kicks in. The one undeniable piece of knowledge we have - the one that everything else is built on (precariously).

Isn't the burden of proof on those that want to reduce consciousness to something else - when consciousness is all we can be certain of?

I'm not dogmatic on this. I am pulled strongly in both directions and I had a youthful infatuation with Hofstadter/Dennett et al.

On the other hand I know my desire to imbue the self with something transcendental is driven by romanticism.

So here we sit.
I disagree about deterrence. There are a lot of shitty parents out there who fear prison more than they fear losing their child. There are even parents who want to kill their children. If it becomes common knowledge that you can get away with murdering your kid as long as you use this technique... I don't really want to think about that.

People are also really bad about evaluating potential consequences. A person might not be able to imagine themselves killing their own child, so they might ignore the possibility since they think it can't happen to them. They might be able to imagine getting arrested and put in prison, though, and thus making it a crime could make them think twice.

This seems to me like an obvious case of criminal negligence, which merits punishment for all the same reasons that any such negligence would.

I would also say that it should be criminal merely to leave a child in a car like this, even if the child survives. That would go a long way to deterring people who think they're somehow immune. If the child does die, you should still prosecute the act of leaving them, even if you aren't necessarily prosecuting the death. It would be crazy if the punishment were lower if the crime resulted in death.
That article views life almost the opposite as I do.

1. I have long been inspired by Gandhi's having cleaned toilets in his ashram and he seems to have accomplished a fair amount of meaningful things. Monks garden and clean things in part to increase self-awareness and inner tranquility. The structure adds to my life, not detracts.

2. Happiness isn't "out there." It's "in here." Same with freedom. I suppose I could be happy and feel free either way -- doing my chores or outsourcing them, but doing them seems simpler.

3. Actually, the amount of garbage takeout creates is unconscionable to me. I couldn't live with myself filling landfills at that rate.

4. My home cooked food tastes better, is more convenient, costs less, is healthier, and is better in every way for me than takeout. The problem that takeout solves isn't time. It's ignorance of how to source fresh fruits and vegetables and to prepare them. Solving that problem improved my life more than take out ever could.

5. I incorporate cleaning my apartment into my workout routine, sweeping and mopping between sets. It doesn't cost extra time.

I feel the article misses the point of what creates happiness and freedom, but to each his or her own.
That's at current levels of fatal accidents. Some kinds of accidents have already been significantly reduced, others probably will be.
I think it is good to have the same hiring process for every candidate, no matter where they are from. This will help you avoid unconscious bias.

Also, don't forget that even if an engineer is from a tier 1 company, they may not be a fit for your startup (based on technology, domain or something else) and a phone screen is the lowest cost way to determine that.