skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And yet the supermarket is very much possible only because of the technologies behind planes, antibiotics and snapchat. It's curious.

I think the hard part, as noted, is not necessarily the materialization of 'new tech', but very much how that tech plays with all the other new tech to produce a very new society. And in that you are exactly right, the most curious parts of that new society are not the technological tools themselves, but the social capabilities that spring from their convergence - the supermarket.

I work at the convergence of tech and synthetic biology, and a huge 'miss' many suffer is a blindness to just how powerfully the two technologies will interconnect in the near future - and not the tech as the product, but the capabilities of their convergence. It's not that computers, AI and all that jazz will become small and invisible, nor that genomics and biology will become easy, but actually what will occur at their intersection. It's that fun space mixed with both where things get really interesting.

And this is why reading sci-fi is fun for me. It allows an author to explore the clashes, implications and make prognostications on the outcomes of the convergence of multiple technologies with respect to relatable characters' choices in their lives.
zmv is great for when doing mass renaming of files, in zshell. You can for example rename all .jade files to .pug with:

autoload -U zmv # or put this line in your ~/.zshrc
zmv -w 'src/**/*.jade' 'src/$1$2.pug'

You can do a dry run by using the `-n` flag too.
The article mentions "Jennifer", which is the real-world implementation of Marshall Brain's "Manna 1.0". Here's a video of it in action.[1]

This is another example of "machines should think, people should work.". The computer is the boss. That may be the future.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC-ReBX0icU
They missed the opportunity to title this article "13 reasons why"
Here again is another example of the subtlety of words. The fact that someone "accepts" a situation doesn't automatically mean that they are happy about it, and it also doesn't mean that they do nothing to change it. It can just mean that they realize that is the way it is for now, and they deal with it as best they can -- often while looking for ways to change the situation.

Also, while it is true that people do often respond to unacceptable situations in extreme ways, it is most definitely not the case that people always do so. There is a such thing as patience and perseverance, and people do often accept that they are in an unacceptable situation for a time (often a very long time), while actively seeking to change the situation. People can overcome adversity.

The phrase "People trapped in situations they find unacceptable don't suffer in silence; they become pathological, dangerous people." is most definitely not universally true. It does happen yes, but many people also just press on and keep looking for a way out until they find it.

And yes, some of them do suffer in silence without becoming "pathological, dangerous people". One common example is a case where an unacceptable situation permits them to achieve something that is more important to them. For instance, people work some pretty nasty jobs (either due to jerk employers/employees, or just the necessary work conditions of the job -- some jobs are hot/smelly/hard-on-the-body, etc). But there are people who take and/or keep these kind of jobs in order to feed their families. Often they have tried to find other work, but lack the necessary skills, or there just isn't any other work available. So these people work under these conditions only because that's the only route to feeding their families. It is an admirable thing to do, and I find it sad that so many people don't respect others who make that kind of sacrifice in order to take care of others.
Dane Maxwell might be the person parent is referring to.

https://mixergy.com/interviews/the-foundation-with-dane-maxw...
It sounds like BackBlaze requires you to have local copies of the data, which would stop most people from storing a PB.
Once again a highly editorialized title on HN that doesn't match the article. The title of the article reads:

Facebook Ditched The Red Cross For Hurricane Harvey Relief

...the title on here implies some type of nefarious action on Facebook's behalf, but the article goes into way more detail and, just like the original title, has a lot more nuance.

> The Red Cross has faced intense scrutiny and criticism for its work in previous disasters. During Hurricane Harvey, people have encouraged others on social media to donate to groups other than the Red Cross.

From HN rules:
> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait.

Your editorializing does nothing for the discussion except propagate falsehoods for those who read headlines.
Exactly. There are so many things wrong with this, on a biology level, on a computer science level, and on a philosophical level, and even going back to the Monodo 2000 days (which is back on line by the way http://www.mondo2000.com) it's been a while since I've read something that emits this kind of glue huffing hyperbole.

Look, we're all evolved biological creatures which operate in a physical reality, but do you really want the guys writing the javascript on your banking web site re-programming your brain? AI guys can talk a good game, but they are also kind of hacky programmers.

I'm on the materialist side of the spectrum but bootstrapping from bio to silicon, just think about it... just, spend 30 seconds breathing and think about whether you want your brain running on an Intel chip.
I also "watch movies".
Yes. I think if we think of ourselves as Django developers while building a business it's possible we will fall into the same pattern as exhibited in the article. That's how I see it's helpful to me as a developer who works with Django - it's a warning not to identify myself with the tools I have.
Xecretia: encrypted and secure smartphones
Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. I know he was disappointed with the outcome, but it was still an improvement during a fairly capital-friendly administration.

(Though Teddy Roosevelt certainly pissed off monied interests when he felt they were acting immorally)
(US Loan) interest rates (which are related to bond prices) are around the lowest they have been in recorded history (~5000 years): https://www.businessinsider.com.au/chart-5000-years-of-inter...
I can easily do half an hour or more for my six year old at night. Have always been reading for him, but it's more enjoyable now that he understands more interesting works.

Revisiting my child hood classics such as Hardy Boys, mixing in Harry Potter (books are so much better than the first and only movie that I saw) and so on: Feels like quality time, and a great way to connect. I can easily get into those books too, even in my mid 40s. ;)

I have noticed that enjoyment increases with my reading engagement level - creating different voices for the different characters and such. He has attention issues, and it's a pleasure to have him focusing on something other than a screen. I will stop every few minutes and ask questions to check if he is really listening to the story and not just the sound of my voice. Previously, it might have been more of the latter.
Looking for advice on improving documentation/community posts
Hey there guys, I'm currently doing my first internship, and just finished documenting my first project with AWS IoT.

The company I work for focuses on developing a security module for the Raspberry Pi that holds an embedded private key that cannot be read/exported and I did a write-up on how to use this key to authenticate with AWS IoT.

Just wanted to get some feedback on I can improve documentation/community posts. Since I've been so head deep in this project I just wanted some fresh perspectives, thanks!

Here's the link to my community post: https://community.zymbit.com/t/aws-iot-authentication-and-data-publishing-with-zymkey-4i-certificate/214
Shannon number, named after Claude Shannon, lower bound of complexity of chess
A backlash against the herbicide Dicamba
Bonds may not be a safe haven
If you're working a job that isn't directly related to the stock market, and are not about to retire, then you really shouldn't care if the stock market is about to crash or not.

Set up automatic investments into a Vanguard Target Retirement fund (or whatever), and know that whenever the next crash does come, you'll get an exceptionally good deal that month.

Here's some good advice on the subject: http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2017/06/20/next-recession/
Story was submitted an hour ago, so I wonder if BuzzFeed itself changed the title.

(Looks like the submitted link URL confirms this)
It's annoying that the article doesn't talk about how effective the Center for Disaster Philanthropy is.

Sure, the Red Cross has mismanaged stuff, but this new charity could be even worse. All the article tells us is that Facebook thinks highly of them.
How can one possibly moderate to prevent rehosting illegal content automatically? You need active filtering of some sort. If rehosting is not automatic, the platform will die very quickly.
FYI for anyone interested: There is a google group called Blind Dev Works. It is run by a blind developer. (I am co-admin, but it is his group.)

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/blind-dev-works
I'm not sure if you read the blog post, but they pivoted away from that idea early on.
"slow train wreck"->a boat wreck
Yep. I believe it was.
As someone who has worked largely with MySQL until a recent project that is internal to the media enterprise I work for, MongoDB was a godsend in rapidly developing an app that was formerly using MySQL. I faced an extremely tight deadline to rewrite it in order to be ready for a production period for a national publication and it just worked for the purpose of the app.

It otherwise required a lot of state handling of JSON objects on the front end that required a lot of parsing to be compatible with the tables and repairing and rewriting large swaths of that code can still happen, but could not in time for the deadlines.

I was able to pull the whole works together from the ground up (with improved UX) because of the document model. In this case documents are quite the thing being passed around and managed in the application, though.

In the long term, if the app is implemented into larger projects underway, then I would probably set up some sort of persistent store -- but until then it's been eye-openingly great.

For suitable projects, I agree fully. And for smaller applications, or tentative solutions (that are required in some environments) it's a more efficient option.
I was hoping some folks could jump in here and comment on this topic (pun slightly intended). I've been researching it heavily as it's something I want to do on https://engineered.at and I feel like the way that Github approached it seems pretty straightforward.

Has anyone else implemented something like this before? War stories?
The site appears to generally be accessible with the exception of the interactive tutorial. I'm not a web accessibility expert so don't know the details. There are two major issues. The biggest one is my inability to arrow through the code in an edit field. I can read the text outside of the edit field, but it's difficult since line numbers are interspersed with the text. My assumption is that your using an open source editor which is inaccessible, but I have not had the time to look at the tutorial on Github. The second issue is that there are buttons that my screen reader reads as "button". While run, edit, and format are read properly several other buttons are not.
If you have an inclination to try out remote work for 2-4 weeks and think your company would go for it, we've had several people successfully use their prof. development budget for Hacker Paradise.

We're like an extended unconference that pops up in different cities around the world, and more fun / in-depth if you can get away for a bit. We do weekly talks and other workshops for professional development, and you get to connect with people from the local tech scene as well as those from around the world.
Maybe this guy was a better cosmologist. Or closeted Raëlian.
So don't try to time the market.

Except this time.
Technology almost never advances directly. Predicting the future would be easy if things simply improved by 1% per year across the board.

Tech advances are always a series of lateral moves. Where the last innovation allows for the next new thing. Or more commonly a massive expansion of an existing concept.
> interviews not reasonably expected to be distressing to the subjects

I did some guerrilla street usability testing, of animated science education video fragments.[1] About the size of objects - sort of like Powers of Ten. During red lights at busy street crossings.

Even with a very small test population, I saw people distressed by surprising things.

Mention of millimeters reminded an elderly Brit of unpleasant childhood experiences when learning metric.

A college student expressed distress over a character breaking the head off an (enlarged to arm-sized) T4 bacteriophage.

I had someone run away, across the street, saying "how could you show me something so disgusting!", following a quiet background sound effect, a child's hacking cough, accompanying the word "virus". When I later stopped the video immediately after it to get feedback, most people were "what cough?".

Many people were variously distressed by the mention or discussion of viruses and bacteria. Which I didn't expect, but in retrospect seems unsurprising - for many, they have strong and negative associations. They get very bad press. Think "fun story about viruses!" having the emotional flavor of "fun story about genocide!".

So at this point, I'm unclear on what can reasonably be expected to not distress people.

"How about this nice weather we've been having?"... "Houston has been bringing back painful memories of my family losing its home and business to flooding. :(" Somewhat tongue in cheek, but if you are aiming for do no harm...?

[1] There are some bits of the test videos in the "How to remember sizes" section of http://www.clarifyscience.info/part/Atoms .
The Jennifer unit is straight out of the short story, "Manna"[1].

[1] http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
I mentioned to a few close friends today that I had made a donation to the Red Cross for hurricane relief and encouraged them to do the same, and pretty much everyone told me that it was a bad charity. I guess I wasn't paying attention to their scandals but the Red Cross has a pretty bad PR problem right now. Hopefully they deal with it because getting that kind of feedback about something that should have made me feel good made me feel pretty bad.
> Alexander's other options were to not use the IRB that he went to

This is, frankly, ridiculous. The 50-70% overhead the university takes from every grant already pays for one IRB. If that one isn't working, the solution is not to tap in (almost inevitably tight) research funds to pay for a second for-profit one instead.

Given how hard it is to charge things like computers to grants, I'm actually amazed this is even allowed.
> It is of course possible, it was actually a once in 500 year event. I just believe it is much more likely our previous conclusion was faulty.

It seems it could go either way to me, and the way to get a good indication of which is most likely is to look at look at much smaller timeframe models and assess if they are changing over time, and how much. It's entirely possible it's both, but it seems we have a good way of gauging the relative importance of changing climate norms so we should at look at that before discounting it as noise in the bigger problem of poor models in general.
Old fashioned whiteboarding
Dane Maxwell [0]

0: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dane-maxwell-b7105b5b/
That sounds like a suggestion that something very bad has to happen.
>a job that isn't related to the stock market

No such thing, except for maybe the government. If your business isn't sensitive to its stock price, its customers/suppliers/financiers are. Or their customers/suppliers/financiers are. Everything is connected, if you exist in the modern economy, you don't exist in a vacuum.
Great work; yep, it is interesting to notice how interactively I'm reading for my own six year old, sometimes substituting hard words for simple ones, at other times stopping to explain a new one.

It's a great learning experience and quality bonding time.
I haven't had a chance to actually run through the tutorial but looking at it I don't think I'll have problems following it. It's well written and the graphics are not required to understand what's going on.
No worries, you are not being rude.

That is not a guarantee. AWS doesn't actually publish more than what I cited (well there are photos of the DC flooding around the Internet). But there are different physical facilities, and they are some miles apart. Like I said above, 1a for Joe and 1a for another customer don't have to be in the same building, or on the same floor.
China just opened up outside investment this week. Chinese capital already owns way more of America through various investment vehicles than we are willing to admit.

We abdicated our global leadership to China the day Trump was elected. Our economic leadership will likely follow in the next decade.
Thanks, I appreciate it. I have probably forwarded the article to 20 or so people since it first came out. Didn't know about this video.
A more accurate term for what you describe would be a clustering illusion[1], and it certainly could be a valid explanation (among other possibilities) for the observation made in the article.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clustering_illusion
I dunno about you but I think myoviruses look creepy as shit.
https://i.pinimg.com/236x/cb/e0/59/cbe0591ea18e0afa4686bd3f4...
This article felt more like an ad for active money management (and ignoring index funds) than anything else.

Which makes sense. It's driving active managers nuts the techtonic shift to passive investing.

This was a good podcast on active vs passive investing:
http://freakonomics.com/podcast/stupidest-money/
Would one go supernova on the way to the black hole?
I'm sorry, you just come off as grouchy. People who screw up deserve to keep trying, just like first timers have a right to get their feet wet.

You seem to think there's an element of guilt and extrinsic punishment that needs to be attached to not getting something right the first time. To use a trite analogy, should Edison have been wracked with guilt every time he failed to produce a lightbulb? People who can screw up and immediately pick themselves back up are going to make it farther than even most of the wunderkinds of this world.

The people who really fail, in a terminal sense, are those who constantly flagellate themselves for their mistakes, like you demand, until they're so beaten the refuse to keep trying.
There's a flood of these mid-century instructional videos appearing the Web just over the past couple of years, right up to the present week. (I quite like the Jeff Quitney account on YT https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCM-kjdrQge9AACfB3MSRyrg , a fairly nice firehose of videos in good quality, which even seems to have some that aren't on the IA.) One thing I've taken from watching them is that US accents seem to have changed a lot in the past few decades: you hear presenters with accents that afaict don't seem to exist anymore. Jam Handy's is one, but there are more dramatic examples.
Presumably, legalization would prevent people from rooting around the woods trying to get high and possibly eating a deadly mushroom..

However, psychedelic mushrooms are unique in their identification. All mushrooms that turn blue when you touch them are psychedelic and there is only one that I'm aware of that doesn't turn blue (fly agaric - which isn't a psylocibe).
Humans have been underestimating the difficulty in building truly intelligence machines since the 50s. Whenever we do reach it, what will happen after that is really anyone's guess. Those who pretend to know are just selling you their own half-baked ideas.
The outrage was probably there, but it was skillfully smeared as tinfoil hattery, as usual.
>No, Apple Photos is free. It's an app that's bundled with macOS and iOS. You don't pay for it. The prices you just listed appear to be iCloud storage. But you don't need iCloud Photo Library to take advantage of searching your images (because, remember, it's all local).

The whole point of Google Photos is that it is a a cloud backup service that indexes a lifetime of photos and manages them for you. Google Photos without the free, unlimited storage misses the whole point of liberating you from having to ever worry about managing photos again.

Saying Apple Photos, the app, is free is like saying email clients are free. Sure, you could store a lifetime of email on your phone, but the original value proposition of Gmail was that they gave you so much free storage at a time when services like Yahoo and Hotmail! charged you for more than 25mb. Most of the value is managing the storage for you, worry free.

Don't give you users shitwork, and having to manage your phone's storage, sweat over metered storage, and delete stuff to free up space, is needless, janitorial, shitwork. That's why the web is so amazing, because I don't care about what websites I visit, since I don't have to manage what's in my browser's cache, it is purged automatically if unused, and anything important I do online is persisted in the cloud.

Storage management is annoying and anti-user, and Google Photos is about peace of mind.
>So as we look forward, the question is, what will be obvious to people ten or twenty years from now?

I think far more useful question is asking what should be obvious right now that you aren't seeing. That is, unless you're trying to gamble on who will win the Super Bowl in 2025 or something equally inane.
Nothing _has_ to happen. Mass media makes propaganda much easier to spread, and I consider it very likely that nothing will happen and inequality will strengthen for a long time. My point is that the system seems to be stuck in a positive feedback loop where greater capital concentration strengthens the system that created capital concentration in the first place. _Something_ would need to facilitate the movement out of that loop, and historically events required to lower inequality(world war, civil war, lower-class uprisings) haven't been pleasant.