skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still don't understand. Who's being deprived? Poor people in slums breeding diseases? Super rich people not developing immunity? Worries about superbugs can't be the biggest reason people are opposed to high wealth concentration. What's special about the healthcare of billionaires compared to upper middle class Americans? They all use the same drugs, don't they?
If new physics are allowed then it's simple. We just need a Neutrino detector that fits in a phone and doesn't need too much electricity.
Ask HN: How Does Production Engineering differ from Software Engineering at FB?
Facebook SWE has "infrastructure" engineering roles. How is this any different than Production Engineering? What sort of projects does a PE work on vs an infrastructure SWE.
Given that these things are neutral and effortlessly fly out of collapsing supernova cores, heavier elements and superconductors are not very likely to help.
True, but those things are usually easier to track down, than having them and C's UB on top.
That link's broken btw.
Same, but I'm pretty damn happy being born when I am. The insane amount of material that's on Digikey is just way too useful now.

I have a nice poster of the "Every Idiot Can Count to One" quote at home, think it's a bit too aggressive for work =)
Like others i do not understand this article.

It seem to propose an abstraction where we separate the I/O part from the "elaboration" part of a programs, so that our programs are entirely pure.
But i don't understand why the import system and why only the compiler can read and write?

Why can't we have the same benefits by using multi-threading/process? we can have "pure" thread and "i/o" thread that communicate with message passing? i feel like I'm missing something from the article.
> no infrastructure required

O(1) infrastructure required
Article from 2013, the crash was in 1962.
> And if it's too stressful for you, is it really because of the civilization, or because of your own choices and ambitions?

Most people didn't choose their parents, their gender, their skin color, their poverty level, their childhood religious beliefs, what highschool they went to, their birth location, the job opportunities around their birth location, their spouse's choice's, their illness itenerary, etc..

So it's definitely interesting to read someine accurately describe a systematic problem then at the last second blame the victims and not the system.
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Three Ways to Cross-Examine Your Assumptions
For anyone curious: DO issued a ton of promo credit in the past, with an unlimited redemption period, then eventually last year said that credit would expire 12mo after redemption - effective after a month.

They backtracked on that regarding non-promo credit (referrals etc) and gave a 1-year grace period.

FWIW, I've been very happy with DO, had a couple $5 VPSes there for 3-4 years and they've been remarkably reliable. One host migration, one SLA credit and lengthy failure analysis, and a bunch of notifications ahead of time for maintenance. More than I'd expect for most hosts in the price range.

Not the most powerful for your money, of course, but awesome if you need to run some services with a public IP and consistent uptime.
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I think of this pretty much every time automationy type stuff gets discussed on here.
It's explicitly NOT AI (It's a distributed expert system)

However, I adored Daniel Suarez's 'Daemon'
I’m more suprised at the english descriptions in every product and at the fact the author seems not ever notice them.
Your point, although interesting, does not invalidate the quote.
Let A be « you would sleep past the alarm clock without it » and B « you are sleep-deprived »
They say A → B. You say false since I got B and not(A).
A → B does not imply B → A which would be proved false by your case.
As does couchbase. :-) Personally I like map-reduces.
Briefly tested with a few filetypes and a couple of browsers, including Safari. Problem loading video/mp4, i.e., problem with "HTTP streaming". Maybe need to handle Range: header?

Of course, any examples in Lua of different approaches to UNIX directory listing via HTTP are appreciated. Still a Lua noob.
> What you're describing sounds exactly like the housing market under the rule of cheap mortgages and speculative investment. People having a hard time getting in, people having a hard time getting out without going bankrupt, these are all exactly what happened in the "free" housing market during the last decade.

I don't see the same effects you mention. If we talk pre-2008, getting in was too easy. Post-2008, to 2012 the market had a typical rebound curve, those were all good times to jump in. Now its expensive again, which means demand has to subsidize and start balancing out with the supply.

In 2009 i used to say argentina RE prices were too high for the population, and that some crash should happen. 2017 and it hasn't happened: its possible house prices as they are now are here to stay for a long time.

> Anyway I don't understand how this program "avoids" market behavior.

It tries to set its own prices by means of insurance. By making a fund that caps wins and losses, it doesn't prevent them, it just distributes them differently. There is pervasiveness to the concept of "you can't beat the market": it means that if you are, you are absorbing some risk or cost you don't see.

i.e.: What if a crisis happened that lowered house prices 40% across the board: 100% of the community wants to sell in the fund, which has capped losses, and then buy property again, to make a neat 15%. Moroever if the market goes up, as soon as the market shows 25% improvement, there is a great incentive to sell, because your gains are capped. So when you are close to that limit, your biggest interest is to sell, specially if property taxes adjust to a standard different from the one the fund uses.

Not to mention that you have to pay the people managing this fund one way or another: their labor does not come free.

These are all risks and consequences that exist on that management style alone.

> In your mind, is the free market somehow incomplete without a rentier class?

Not at all. And in this fund case, the fund managers are the rentiers.
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Not sure I understand. Unless the property owner you are renting from is making a loss, renting should always be more expensive than owning. The landlord of your USD 2600 pcm rented property must be paying less than USD 2600 pcm in mortgage and taxes. Similarly, to rent an equivalent property to the one your friends are paying a USD 7K pcm mortgage on will cost more than USD 7K pcm. Of course, you need to have capital for a deposit, which may be what you cannot afford, but to suggest that "the math still doesn't work out" is wrong, unless you believe landlords are making a loss on rental income. And note that even if they have no mortgage, the tying up of capital in a house requires you to set rents to return more than the income achievable investing that capital, which would generally be greater than the mortgage since rates are low currently.
Hyperloop route between St. Louis and Kansas City is under serious consideration
> The very name "variable" implies changing value.

Variables, both in ordinary mathematics and in the semantics of programming languages, are given meaning by substitution, not mutation. This is true even in the semantics of imperative languages[0][1].

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

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predicate_transformer_semantic...
Poor analogy on my part. They are different in that Social Security doesn't provide for most retirement needs. Therefore, it doesn't dominate the market. And, so people from many income brackets choose other forms of retirement to supplement.

I suspect only a very few supplement NHS since it's comprehensive.

That market dominance makes it a monopoly.

Edit: I disagree with the conclusion below. A compulsory deduction that's large enough to address all your needs for a particular service creates a monopoly.

The issue just seems to be that the word sounds "bad" to those that like the NHS system.

If social security deducted enough that it resulted in a reasonable living retirement plan, it would be similar. It would make any other activity in the retirement market very narrow and mostly for rich people.
For sure. Large legacy corporations fire people far less than silicon valley companies fire+go out of business. And usually with larger lay off packages.

I knew people who had been working for large legacy corps who made 6 figures for over a decade while having the technical chops of a high schooler after their first AP programming class, and barely speaking English.(didn't know common words like bread, or meat)
I haven't played this, but given the title, you might want to look at Five Minute Dungeon.

Tiny Epic * (there are several games in the series) might be good. Although it does not meet your time requirements, it has few pieces and is portable.

The random stranger part is tough though. Even simple games take minutes to explain (Hive is an example another user gave, which is a great portable game, but it would take about 5ish minutes to explain the rules). It is also likely that you'll win any competitive games against a new player.

Much as I want to promote board games, if you are looking for portable fast games, the app store is probably going to serve you better.
Damn his blog is impressive 284 pages haha, going since 2004 wow
Hey OP, it sounds like there is some interest and maybe even a worthwhile community here. My advice is to not reinvent anything special here. What about transforming it into a forum? Every thread with a different project, with different categories.

Doesn't have to be a forum, but something that you don't have to spend/waste time to make and can still be useful to everybody :)
One bit is sufficient if you are just trying to arbitrage markets. For a couple billion, an NYC to Tokyo neutrino shortcut wouldn't be a bad investment.
Based on the answers here, it's apparent that different people have different definitions.

For myself I take it to mean no new fundamental physics. Any new technology is a reasonable extrapolation from existing, known science. Probably the single biggest narrative restriction that implies is no FTL.
> That proves the person logged into the account is authorised to log in, not that the owner of the account is a particular person or the same person that owns another account on another service.

Keybase can't know who the person logged into the account is either. But they can tweet, and so keybase will tell everyone that the twitter account which has signed tweets using my private keep is tweeting.
> The only good scaling/high throughput consensus algorithm is Byteball.

SPECTRE [0] is pretty good, not implemented in any cryptocurrency yet.

[0]: https://medium.com/@avivzohar/the-spectre-protocol-7dbbebb70...
Doesn't look like Greenspun has any affiliation with Harvard. They just host his blog for some reason.
If you're trying to decide if this book is worth picking up, a number of HN commenters recommended it the last time it was brought up - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15185663
Would this help?

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/08/milk-jug-sized-detect...
Detailed Bout Google Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL
I want a 21st century lock
Thanks. Do you know of any other existing legal frameworks which would require super-nodes to follow KYC protocols?

Maybe it was just a general concern about centralization resulting in easy targets for regulation.
In other words, "a website that has people accounts and they can like other website's accounts".
i'm surprised no one has mentioned 'the expanse' series of books yet. also, 'a fire upon the deep' and 'a darkness in the sky' by vernor vinge.
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but not something for "10-15 minutes with a random stranger on a train". From memory games of it take more like an hour, and you need a reasonable-sized flat surface to arrange tiles and other components on.

https://boardgamegeek.com/image/1660694

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/136063/forbidden-desert
ReRAM Finally Gaining Traction
To the OP: Can I ask what your process was? A project like this obviously takes a lot of time. How certain were you that you had a product people wanted before embarking on the dev?
You write that Hazelcast belongs to a category of software that characteristically chooses speed/availability over consistency in case of network partitions[1]. A web search leads me to your your competitor who sounds like they are tackling the issue by putting consistency first: https://docs.gridgain.com/v8.1/docs/network-segmentation
https://www.gridgain.com/products/software/enterprise-editio...

"When there is a network partition we favour availability over consistency. Which is what the Jepsen test shows. [...] It is also the PACELC contract of the entire category of IMDG systems. IMDGs are used for maximum speed and low latency. They represent a set of design trade-offs to achieve this primary purpose."
will the generated PDF be in the original format of the PDF?
I think your position is important - because I think this battle may be lost.

Regulation is the only solution, but that’s just tossing the ball to another team and hoping for a magic win.

Even should regulation manage to handle this - it’s only the first step between this and what worse comes next.

We’re moving directly to the worst options of mine control and people are only useful for the neurological reactions you can reliably induce in them.
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Surprised nobody has mentioned Heinlein, "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress". I would say it's harder sci-fi than "I, Robot" (which I also love).
Or the iAPX 432.
Autonomous by Annalee Newitz that just came out is fantastic fun full of good science - she is a science writer. It also got positive reviews from William Gibson and Neal Stephenson.
The first Expanse book and most elements of A Darkness in the Sky are fairly hard, but the later Expanse books and A Fire Upon the Deep, I wouldn't consider hard SciFi.

That said, A Fire Upon the Deep is one of my favorite all time SciFi books and I'd highly recommend it.
This seems like a classic cop out. It's like companies ruining the environment and the media and others trying to make people feel guilty about their consumption.

It's gives a false sense of power, sets the responsibility in the wrong place, muddies the water and basically gives those actually doing the destruction a free pass.

The Internet is simply a source of information, its Google, Facebook and others who have completely lost any restraints in harvesting personal information, building surveillance infrastructure and creepily following people around without any sense of ethical constraints. And this forum itself is full of people desperate to work for such companies.

You would not necessarily expect any ethical dimension from a self absorbed profit driven corporate but at least the individuals working in it. It seems there is no moral compass and anything goes.

The problem is not technology but the people within it and a troubling 'disconnection' with relation to the concept of 'other people' and society at large.
Solar challenge race begins in Australia
A bunch of years ago, there was a "Menuet" product that was a cross-platform C++ UI library for Mac/Windows/Whatever.

Did they expand the underpinnings into a complete OS, or is this an unrelated product?
Pretty clever how they change the lanes with traffic(as opposed to against) so that their lane doesn't have a sudden, moving merge.
Mother Teresa may have been a poor example, I admittedly don't know that much about her. Thank you for the insight. Though I don't think my post has no merit and warrants downvotes
Plugging a solar panel into a Anker PowerHouse is not DIY. That's how it's designed to be used.

The PowerHouse is expensive. For real DIY you can buy a 3.6V 100Ah LiFePO4 prismatic cell for $125. Or you can buy 60 5Ah batteries for $80 on eBay. You'll end up spending much less than $500.
Voronezh – The 10,000KM (6,213 Mile) Russian early warning radar
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What the ....?

Any good journalist worth their salt like any good teacher wants to make sure the most people are informed with good information and they do the best job to inform.

How did that become “wanting influence”.

And if being good Doesn’t make an impact - which it increasingly doesn’t- then only crap will remain.
“Yeah, but Postgres” is the new “Is it webscale?” For any db related thread. They found a blue hammer that will work for every problem and want everyone to know.
I read Josef Albers' Interaction of Color years ago and I've also bought the iPad app. I've been disappointed by both.

The problem is that "experiential" teaching without any scientific explanation is inadequate and misleading. Teaching part is where you explain the students - why. It is perhaps the approach in art colleges where rigorous science doesn't matter.

The problem stems when Josef Albers made scientific claims which go unquestioned as the factual basis for his cool color experiments. That is wrong and that's exactly the kind of nitpicking we need to do. What you call 'Pedantic nitpicking' is necessary and essential to the scientific process.

It is rather misleading to start the book with "The book does not begin with optics and physiology of visual perception, nor with any presentation of the physics of light and wavelength…. What counts here—first and last—is not so-called knowledge of so-called facts, but vision—seeing." and then go on to explaining his experiments using false claims (which again are highlighted and detailed in Alan Lee's criticism).

Anyhow, even if I am considering Josef's Interaction of Color from an artistic standpoint, he simply points out the cool illusions without any follow up on how to use/implement his concepts. I find it as a casual book that sits on the coffee table, not on my work desk.
Most of the other books I'd recommend in this area are mentioned already, but I'll add Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson. The primary narrative is from the pov of a generation ship's A.I.. You get to see it learn over time and with it it's vocabulary. Since it's a ship it gives KSR the opportunity to do some very fun info-dumps on the situation.

Probably one of the most thought provoking pieces of scifi I've read.

I'll also recommend Accelerondo, and Seveneves.
Horrendous... each detail is more chilling than the last, culminating in the immersion in the pool of those two poor bastards. Hell indeed! The USSR and Russia had/have a horrendous safety record in all NBC domains, anthrax releases, nuclear disasters, poisoning with Polonium.. it’s almost a bad joke.

Edit:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sverdlovsk_anthrax_leak

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_al...

Not to mention Chernobyl! Common themes are massive systemic fuckups and attempts to cover up making it all worse. Even without NBC it’s the same pattern, turning bad into worse.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Chikatilo
Well, the US isn’t the local jurisdiction.

I’m in Germany, my users are in Germany, and if I host with DO in Frankfurt, I have to trust that my data stays in Frankfurt.
We’re all connected now, so why is the internet so white and western?
Most forms contain personally identifiable information. Some contain extremely sensitive information, for example the kinds of forms that you describe-visas, etc.- contain national ID numbers and so forth. The idea of providing this to a third party web site scares the daylights out of me. Is it possible for me to obtain the source code on Github and host it myself?
I always liked the Ben Bova grand tour series. Some are better than others, but they're pretty entertaining and pretty plausible near-future.
But in practice, the supernodes can freeze your money. Similarly if the five big mining pools blacklist your bitcoin address then your "permissionless" currency becomes just like a frozen bank account in Cyprus, no?

You may not think those gatekeepers care about you, but that's one reason the banking system doesn't rush to adopt bitcoin. They don't want to be at the mercy of the mining pools when it comes to moving billions of dollars between banks. That's why they are instead adopting Ripple and Hyperledger.
You can still pick and choose which updates to install. For example see https://www.digitalcitizen.life/how-block-unwanted-windows-d...
Sort of, there are some organizations that did a lot in their local community. There was a school for example that sheltered and fed a bunch of people.

They benefit of course from already being there and having a building already that they have access too. This isn't a criticism it is an observation.

In terms of other organizations that weren't FEMA that helped more people in Texas during Harvey?

My point being to separate evaluation of specific anecdotes over how many total people were helped. And so far from the sources I've been able to look at (granted I'm not in Texas so it limits that) it seems that the Red Cross helped (and is helping) a lot of people.

Since the Bay Area will, at some point, be the center of a major natural disaster when it has its 'big' earthquake. I'm trying to understand what helps and what hinders emergency response and aid response. We have had several examples now of Hurricanes so lots of input. And the government tried something new which was pre-deploying material and that was pretty successful.

It would be more difficult for the red cross to 'pre-deploy' in part because they get donations generally after or during an event rather than before but there are certainly some things they might be able to do.

Rather than try to make people mad at them when they were (as best as I can tell) the most effective aid organization after the Federal Government, how can they be even more effective than they are.
Thanks. This looks extremely interesting.
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As far as I see from the github activity, now that SegWit is activated, the developers are putting much more effort to finishing.

Anyways you're right that maybe I was a bit too optimistic. Bitcoin is getting popular as a store of value faster than it can handle the scale of being an easy-to-use currency. The blocksize drama will probably keep on going :(
I have mixed feelings. The modus operandi should be to get upgrades to the current stable kernel frequently enough, not to backport bugfixes to 6 year old kernels.
> effective after a month.

Actually, they only emailed users to warn them about this ca. 10 days before it was revoked.

I had gotten $100 promotional credit from DO with the GitHub student pack, and planned to use it in my second year of university, as I knew we had to do a practical project there where I’d need it. Well, a few weeks before that project was about to start, I got the email from DO telling me they’d invalidate all my credit next week. In the end, I hosted that project with OVH, and spent over 80€ on it.

But that was extremely annoying, and while I originally wanted to also move servers of a few projects I was hosting to DO, after this I decided not to.
I didn't understand this either. What exactly does it mean to "learn like a girl"?
I was a bit dismayed that this was about the technical design of data-intensive applications, not about their UX design. There still seems to be a huge gap in the latter.
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Physician review of the iPhone AliveCor ECG heart monitor (2013)
I feel like this could be useful for Lightning Network though. Banks that incentive which supernode to route payments through, inherently creates a competitive marketplace
Practical aspects of deep learning
Though i wouldn't call it "hard scifi", the Culture series is indeed a classic and i second the recommendation.
Hipster disruptor? Never trust a well-groomed caveman with your clams