skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting anecdote from Chomsky on football and how it's a way of building jingoist fanatacism. Training young people to cheer for my team is preparing people to submit irrationally to power. As long as my political party wins, etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA5jOdPiZWI
I was wondering what prevents someone from sending an initial app UI?
So is Sci-Hub like Oink[1] for scientific papers?

EDIT: For those not familiar, Oink was a torrenting site but what distinguished it from the tons of other sites was how highly curated it was. High quality audio, proper grouping and genres, and best of all you could request anything that was missing and the community would magically add it.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oink%27s_Pink_Palace
If you really can't believe that, you need to get out more.

FYI I live in a fairly major US city and my rent is a quarter of yours. Your life experience is not normal.
The way Bill gates and Jeff Bezos made money look closer to free markets principles than the way others top 500 great fortunes made it, no ?
I don't buy it.

At least two core products of the biggest advertisement company in the world have no problem providing you value and generating ad-revenue without you having to be logged in. Google and YouTube would be nowhere near the success they are if they'd force you to log in.
sell it
Stupid question: can the glue code not be licensed under both GPL and CCDL?

Clearly ZFS is not a derivative work of Linux and Linux is not a derivative work of ZFS. Only the glue code is in violation (because it derives from both).
The Universe had one founder (one none depending on who you ask).
Some folks can say "fuck you" on a budget.

I imagine this guy can, given his uncomplicated expectations of life.
Banking/accounting software? Generating reports that are expected to return correct data w/o cumulative errors from flating point arithmetic? After all, Perl is the Practical Extraction and Report Language.
You probably can't live on it solely but together with the pension it gives you the freedom to find a job you like even if it's low pay.
R&D Index: Illinois’ R&D landscape and its path forward
> The point here isn't to say that Bezos will buy a billion baguettes, but it is show to show that he could buy 90 billion baguettes and feed every single person on the planet several times over. There are only a few people who could do this. And, of course, they won't.

Because, even if they did, buying baguettes won't fees the hungry; acquiring food isn't the hard/expensive part, distributing it is. And it's not hard in a “We know how to make it work but have insufficient funds dedicated” way, but in a “we don't know how to do it effectively at any cost” way.
>"Based on the national estimate, the majority of concussions resulted from participation in football (40.5%, n = 55 007), followed by girls' soccer (21.5%, n = 29 167), boys' soccer (15.4%, n = 20 929),..."

>So 40.5% of concussions in football and 36.9% in combined boys/girls soccer.

If 21.5% of girls (~6270) and 15.4% of boys (~3223) get concussions then 9493 (6270 + 3223) received concussions out of 50096 (20929 + 29167) total participants. 18.9% (9493 / 50096) for soccer vs 40.5% for football.
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Does anybody know the history?

I would sort of expect that the NFL Players Association had something to do with establishing it.
Securing Web Applications with ZAP
I don't know much about ASICBoost - but if the reason for changing the PoW algo is because of the US patent system.. then let the US patent system catch up, not the other way around. Bitcoin wasn't designed so that American miners have an equal opportunity.. Who comes up with these ideas
The Noah's Pirate Ark that will save all of humanity's knowledge from unreliable publishers.
Are you sure you're not looking at the past through rose-tinted glasses? Not trying to coat anything, but I very well remember people talking about the country going down the drain 15-20 years ago too, following various incidents/attacks/scandals.

For sure some things have deteriorated (and others improved). So it goes. What are some of these things you believe have "quickly deteriorated"? (Genuinely curious)
Talking about 1984 and A Brave New World, I think these might have been dystopian in the past, but not now.

Technology (including surveillance technology) was the missing piece and we've closed that gap not long ago, making Oceania and World State a reality.

Now its up to the elected politicians to implement a particular incarnation of one of these novels.

There are more and more places in the world which look and feel like 1984 (or are quickly getting there), while a big chunk of the 'western' world lives in a Brave New World already.

I guess these books are so popular now not because of what might happen to our world in the future, but because of how accurately Orwell and Huxley described the world we live in today.
Pro tip: git clone the wiki and work on it locally. Easier to merge as well
>which, as cheap as genome sequencing has become, does not seem likely to ever happen unless non-chemical-based processes are developed

It seems pretty much inevitable that genome sequencing will use non-chemical (non sequencing-by-synthesis) methods in the future (I've worked for two companies that have developed such techniques with varying degrees of success). In the far-ish future I think we'll see a human genome for 1 to 10USD with a turn-around time of maybe 10 to 20mins. That seems pretty achievable using a solid-state nanopore approach.

I think even novel labeled/SBS approaches might be able to do interesting things here.
How We Run Our Production Stack on One Instance Without Docker
Thanks, good show. Another one I like is http://physics.weber.edu/schroeder/html5/. See Newton's cannon etc.
Question: according to Coin Dance[1], SegWit will lock in around 14 days from now. Will the max block size be what the SegWit code says, or the 2MB that SegWit2x has chosen? There is a majority of nodes running Bitcoin Core, but a majority of miners that run SegWit2x nodes. So what will happen?

https://coin.dance/blocks#proposals
This is too simplistic of an approach. Suppose there is another 6km tall mountain just beyond the horizon, it will have a farther line of site to the peak of it than to the horizon just in front of it. This list seems to be a much more rigorous attempt.
There's another way of looking for causality directly from data. If A and B are uncorrelated but both correlate with C then you know that C isn't causally upstream of either.
One would think he has more than enough adversity on his todo list already.
If you are so close to finished, partner with someone to bring it to market. That will add some urgency.
I've been developing rails for over 10 years, and I somewhat have seen this focus shift - but partly it's due to the complexity of frontend interfaces these days.

I myself would often spin up a rails api + react frontend.

With rails 5.1 and especially webpacker_react I've seen a possible new direction which combines the best of both worlds.

I think we could see something pretty exciting in this space soon if the integration of rails+react can tighten up a bit.
I've been developing rails for over 10 years, and I somewhat have seen this focus shift - but partly it's due to the complexity of frontend interfaces these days.

I myself would often spin up a rails api + reach frontend. With rails 5.1 and especially webpacker_react I've seen a possible new direction which in my mind combines the best of both worlds. I think we could see something pretty exciting in this space soon.
Cloudron 1.3 released – Robots, Weekly Digests & Mail improvements
So it is safe to say the hype from people like Steve Hsu about BGI pioneering vast increases in human intelligence is mostly flash and no fire?
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Just using newegg.com is borderline impossible with just a few tabs open unless you have 4 non-SMT threads.

Can we take a moment...stop...and all re-read this again, and weep for where we've landed with all of this technology?
Bristol Ridge APUs were launched today. AM4 socket, DDR4 capable, but it's an updated version of the older architecture, not Zen.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/11669/amd-releases-bristol-rid...
None of these net worth calculations of poor people make any sense. If I take out $100k in loans to get an education, the wealth of the world has increased, but the only thing that's recorded on the ledgers of net worth is that I'm $100k in the hole.
Believe it or not, in my experience, Exchange + Outlook 2016 stomps all over GMail. I find that its faster, searches quicker, and takes up _WAY_ less memory. I don't do any fancy things other than basic email, scheduling meetings, etc so YMMV.
That's dismaying -- not at all surprising, unfortunately, but I understand your frustration. The upside-down incentives in the academic world are such that even somebody who ought to know better fails to produce useable software because there's no payoff. Actually, it's worse than that -- producing software other people can use means you might be giving a leg up to the competition, so there's an incetive to produce software that appears to work but is in fact useless.
I don't think I would ever do this. The hard part is decomposing a business goal into the code-to-be-written and then taking that and planning the overall structure.

If I didn't have colleagues I could email, I could maybe see myself paying a retainer to be able to unblock myself with a weird quirk of a domain/toolset?
The change won't be immediate though. I don't think universities, which are journals' bread and butter, are going to stop their subscriptions anytime soon. Stopping a journal subscription because everyone is using sci-hub anyway (even if they researchers really are on an individual basis) might open the door for copyright suits against the universities, which would undoubtably be more expensive than just keeping the subs going, especially since its just a line item in an accountant's book. I'm sure it will happen eventually, but journals might have enough time for some to pivot to some more nuanced business model before they go bust.
> but not to a degree that reduces reproduction significantly.

Then how can it be "harmful"?

Reproduction is the only thing that affects evolution, no?
There's the little issue of him having to liquidate his shares to put it into charity.
When I watch Gattaca, to support my suspension of disbelief, I choose to retcon the sequencer technology a bit.

On the presumption that 99.9% of the people using the system are never going to act on information disclosed by the system in a manner that would not involve returning to the established system as a middleman, it simply cheats. Random samples of DNA are tested and sequenced, and a machine learning system leans heavily on databases of stored information to extrapolate findings that might be of interest to the customer.

Most people of Gattaca don't have a deep understanding of genetics. They just know what the computers tell them.

As such, pretending to be another person with donated biological samples is the low-budget option for evading the system. Those with enough power and resources pay to hack the system itself, such that the ubiquitous sequencers report more favorable results than they otherwise would.

This also means that a lot of the parents buying designer babies were getting placebo. If there was no obvious congenital defect, the docs just left the natural genome alone, and simply told the parents it was the best baby they could possibly have, while marking the genetic samples kept for reference as "valid". Yeah, that's right, I made the dystopia even worse in my own imagination. Not only is the society stratified by money, the foundation is 99% fraud.
I'm pretty late to this party, so it probably has already been asked but what specific things need to be supported by mobile Safari to run a PWA?
I dont think you understand how percentages work, but don't let that get in the way of your axe to grind.
We've banned this account for ideological trolling. Accounts that use HN primarily for political or ideological (not to mention national) battle are abusing the site. We ban these, because this kind of thing will quickly engulf the community in flames if we don't. So would you please stop creating accounts to do this with? There are other places on the internet that may be a better fit.
> Yes, I'd say so without changes. Malcolm Gladwell in 2009 wrote that watching football is starting to feel like watching dogfighting. It seemed ridiculous at the time and is not ridiculous now.

But now the players know. It would be different if we kept the player locked underground with no contact to the outside world. The fact is that they're making the choice to play even though the risks have been outlined.

I don't watch football. I follow stats (which is like watching without watching) though. I don't feel bad, because now they're adults making an informed decision.
that's an extreme case you linked. he specifically called out it wasn't because he was frugal.
In the West yes. In the East a lot of small slopes are pretty accessible and cheap. New York even has a state run one not too far from NYC.
try using requestAnimationFrame instead of a timer
I can't enjoy using the default file managers on Windows and macOS. They are too confusing and require too many screen space for advanced tasks. For this reason I started to look for alternatives and (re)discovered dual-pane file managers a couple of decades after their invention.

After some time I chose SpeedCommander for Windows and Path Finder for macOS. Both have many advanced features, are easier to use than Explorer/Finder and I do not reget paying for them.

I really hope that fman will catch up to them and have a similar impact as Sublime Text. Having an unified file management experience across my operating systems while expanding it to my needs with plugins sounds like something that I really want. :) But in its current state I feel like it is too early to ask for money. I never saw Sublime Text 1.x or even Sublime Text 0.x but if we compare it to ST, then fman is nowhere near it.

There are many ST users who don't use any plugins and consider it as feature complete. I doubt that this would be the same for the current state of fman.
Indeed. My main concern is that core tech (e.g. the standard Bitcoin app) has never had a massive security breach. But the only way to use it is if consumers can realistically download the entire blockchain.

I guess it was just a matter of time until this happened, though ideally it would've been many years rather than two years.
I think you are looking at the side that does the reading. I was actually thinking about the other side that does the writing (inside pthread_mutex_init), where those two things are not separated by any function calls and are more readily reordered.
Not to mention that it would be problematic on architectures with relaxed memory model either way.
Discipline, Time and Surplus Value in the Gig Economy
I would argue to the contrary, especially that we are comparing modern Clang/LLVM with a GCC that was released back in 2008.
At that point C programming language didn't even have a memory model.
Ask HN: What's your ubiquitous media solution?
There's been a fair bit of HN chat about media servers recently. This coincides with my decision to cobble together a "ubiquitous" media solution for personal use. It making me define exactly what I'm hoping to achieve. My personal criteria are that such a system must:

- Play almost any music including personal collection and streaming

- Play it almost anywhere: at home, on mobile, in the car, at a friend's, maybe abroad.

- Be accessible by any OS and nearly any device (web, iOs, Android... less bothered about desktop fat clients or terminal). In fact, an iOs client might be a necessity since friends won't use it unless it's straightforward via iPhone, and I'd like it to be a sociable setup.

- Ideally allow sharing or access by trusted others -- a nice-to-have.

- Another nice-to-have: plugins or hackability.

My primary concern is music, but I'd extend this to podcasts, radio (recorded on PVR currently), and video (again PVR probably).

Currently I'm thinking of Mopidy [1] or Tomahawk [2] plus home-based NAS. Curious about whether NASes can be synchronised to cloud services, since streaming everything from a home-based server might not always be desirable. Equally, a cloud-based Plex [3] doesn't feel perfect since I'd like to retain physical control over the storage and software.

How have you solved this problem or similar? What were the gotchas? UK-based if that influences things.

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

[2] https://www.tomahawk-player.org/

[3] https://www.plex.tv/
Google launches its own AI Studio to foster machine intelligence startups
Watch 'advchina' on YouTube, it will calm you down and you'll see they are just human too haha
I’m currently using Rust to make a program to manage my dotfile configuration/templating. I’m having fun, but it’s hard (and I’m porting something from Ruby that has a long history).
Good riddance, limiting access to scientific articles is a detriment to the advancement of humanity.
I'll gladly hit a 450 gram[1] ball with my head, rather than a 110 kilogram linebacker[2][4].

Sure, the velocity of the ball is faster (average professional level is ~27 m/s [3]) and the relation with that variable is squared (E = ½mv²), but linebackers still run at 7.6 m/s [4]

Soccer ball kinetic energy: 164 Joules
Linebacker kinetic energy: 3176 Joules

That's already an order of magnitude difference, while not even counting the momentum and impulse: soccer balls are pretty elastic, compared to linebackers...

1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_(association_football)

2 https://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2014/2/22/5427038/nfl-combine-2...

3 https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-average-speed-of-a-soccer-...

4 https://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2015/2/22/8085379/2015-nfl-comb...
I'm about to install this on my third machine ... needlesstosay, I really like this project! Thanks so much for putting your efforts into it.
I thought there was no pricing available until I came back and saw this comment, would not sign up for "freemium".
How so? Musk is someone who's at the forefront of using "AI" for potentially death-bringing self-driving cars. It would be to his disadvantage to call AI dangerous while trying to use it in his cars, just as it would be for Zuckerberg to say that, while using its on his site (which is why he doesn't).

So from that results that Musk isn't in fact doing this for "brand purposes" but because he actually believes AI could be dangerous unless safeguards are put in place, similarly to how someone could say CRISPR is dangerous - unless safeguards are [put in place.
If we're going to act like we're a bunch of smarty-pants engineers here, it seems rational to start with the low hanging fruit: environmental toxins.

In addition to facing fewer ethical pitfalls, greatly reducing these environmental factors is well within our current means. It also universally beneficial, and not limited to those who can afford "Boutique" offspring.
> Boys can't truly be boys unless there are no girls.

This amounts to trolling whether you intend it that way or not, and predictably sparked a tedious ideological thread. That's emphatically not what HN is for, so would you please not post like this again?

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14852819 and marked it off-topic.
And yet you believe that this is even remotely normal:

> my rent alone is $24,000.
Well, even if you could make birkenstock-like sandals usually you still have design patents to deal with too. Only birkenstock is allowed to sell sandals that look like birkenstock sandals.
I think we're on the same page. My point was I think it's too complicated to do all of those steps (and likely more) just to "switch" to UDP. You could instead make all of that part of the Web UDP application, which is no less complicated, but then you are removing one step of switching applications/protocols midway through.

I guess what I'm trying to say is UDP could work, but I think trying to bootstrap the initial connection/session info with HTTP is probably going to be FAR more trouble than it's worth.
Look up the "Windows Tax"...Microsoft earned billions forcing their software on people who most certainly did not want it. They used underhanded tactics like illegal bundling, abusive OEM contracts and intentionally obscured file formats to edge out better competition. Given how well documented their history is, I'm not sure how anyone can claim that Microsoft is just giving people what they want without being completely ignorant of what happened in the 90s and 00s.
FWIW, pg said that one of the reasons Drew was accepted was because he said in the application that finding a cofounder was a top priority.

That's a bit of a cop-out, since anyone can say it's a top priority on their app. Except not really: Drew was from MIT, and therefore had a large pool of potential cofounders to select from. Most people don't.

It also feels true to say that YC was more squeezed for talent back when Drew applied. Nowadays YC can afford to reject startups for not having two cofounders from the start, especially in borderline cases.
I've always just assumed Musk knew something we didn't know. About a stealth project or startup that already developed some form of what could be described as 'general intelligence'.

If not, if he just knows what AI professionals in the field today know, and such stealth project doesn't exist, then I really do think he's worrying about "overpopulation on Mars" as Ng put it. Because there are zero indications in publicly available AI research that we are even close to developing AI that can think for itself, we can't even describe how that would work in theory with any certainty (beyond guessing), let alone implement it.
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It's a bit of a strange prediction. If we take boxing as a model of a formerly massively-popular sport now considered excessively dangerous, we can observe that minority (Latino and African-American) participation remains high. These demographics are generally not considered part of the Red Tribe coalition. If football follows the same trend, it will be a weak tribal correlate at best.
I agree with the first part of the comment, but then if you really think the second part of your comment is true, then I was right to make my comment.

Jeff Bezos CANNOT solve world issues like this (food crisis for our example). This is so silly I don't know even where to start. Theses issues were not solved in our countries thanks to the Jeff Bezos of 1817... What makes you think that giving 1 / 10 / 100 billion dollars would feed Africa for example ? Describe to me all the steps I'm very interested
Wouldn't Revelations be Apocalyptic, rather than Dystopian?
A native app will never have instant install, or update without download. A native app will never be available on all platforms.

Sometimes a native app is better, sometimes it is worse. It's certainly better if all you care about is fancy animations.
Nicky Case has a lot more where that came from :D

http://ncase.me
In Finance, they call this "Talking up your book." When people make pronouncements, look how it lines up with their economic interests.
It not being the ideal choice for your specific use-case does not in any way make it a "total dog".

Just unsuited for you.
I'm originally from Western PA. It's not really "super blue" - at this point, it's pretty much just Republicans who also like unions.
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We are talking about a population engineered to be more intelligent, so the assumption is that the rulers would also be more intelligent, so this gap would not exist