skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rational thought, yes. Critical reasoning, a little doubtful, especially these days. Oral traditions are so inefficient at transmitting multiple viewpoints, at collecting multiple viewpoints, at codifying multiple viewpoints, and eventually at balancing multiple viewpoints that human society desperately sought and successfully figured out written ones. For example, great orators with really bad messages could easily sway people down all kinds of wrong directions. I am yet to see a great writer who achieved anywhere near the same effect (without also being able to articulate the same message just as well orally).

For example, think of the first time you read a comment on HN which you impulsively disagreed with. If you gave it a second and a third chance, sometimes you come away with an alternate viewpoint, and sometimes you actually agree with the statement. That is the power of writing.

Now imagine what happened the last time you verbally disagreed with someone. Chances are, you soon branded them an idiot, and then slowly stopped talking to them. I would say a part of it was simply because the message was conveyed orally, with all kinds of meaning ascribed to intonations. And unlike reading a piece of text again carefully, its not as if you have a mental tape recorder you can use to replay the conversation. There is just too much distraction in oral communication.
There are <$100k cars that have had ceramic brakes as a factory option, but it's not a good option.
Yeah, but are you a driving enthusiast?
I love termux. The only negative I can say is that I think touch keyboards are a bit awkward doing terminal work. (note that termux has a few hidden shortcuts such as when holding volume up wasd becomes arrow keys etc.)

I use the termux widget to give me one-click access to a bunch of rsync over ssh commands. It is the best backup solution for android I've ever come across (this can also be automated with apps such as tasker or automate). Using rsync I also have two-way syncing for some folders so that I can easily put a file I want on my phone on my nas and then just sync it.

I always felt the rsync apps on the play store to be extremely clunky and when not wanting to go through a cloud the alternatives are limited. But this works perfectly.

edit:
Also, being able to SSH into my phone and manipulate using a real keyboard and bigger screen is quite pleasant.
Raspberry Pi 3 Overclock and Turbo Config (2016)
This article portrays a very distorted view of the past vs the present.

It portrays the push for encyclopedic collation of textual knowledge, in the past, and social media, in the present, as if they were complete, representative pictures of all the attitudes within societies towards information and knowledge in the respective time periods.

As if low epistemic-quality discussions and communication mediums weren't widespread in the past, and as if there were no other ways that knowledge is treated these days.
That's some great info and thanks for sending those.

Check out another one I found --
"Russia US Trade up 25% in 2017"

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenroberts/2017/04/22/russia-u-...

There no doubt that Russia is still a major player in trade, in fact economists see it as one of the countries with the most potential for development in BRIC (brasil russia india china).

Unfortunately, the way the strata of government and society are has left the population to stagnate in terms of their well being and they are missing the opportunities in new-age, non-oligarchical industries - Russia is held back by its antiquated social structures and lacks incentive to change.
Since Go and Electron are mentioned, let me offer a web UI library for Go: https://github.com/zserge/webview (I know UI has been a problem for Go apps for a while and is often a stopper when it comes to writing desktop apps in Go).

The library creates a full-screen webview window and lets you write UI code in HTML5/CSS/JS connecting it to the core app logic written Go. It provides JS-to-Go bindings allowing to call Go code from JS and vice versa.

The whole library is a single header file of ~800LOC with a thin Go wrapper. It supports Windows 7+, MacOS, Linux and OpenBSD.

Executables are 5-10MB in size and take about the same amount of RAM. No external libraries are used on Windows and MacOS, on Linux gtk-webkit is required, but it is typically one "apt-get" command to run.
> Excess sugars are generally used up by kids who are growing. However, once people reach adulthood, the growth rate slows so significantly that the excess caloric intake forces all the lipids ingested to be stored.

Huh? You mention that the SUGARS the kids are eating are used for growth. But then say it's the LIPIDS (dietary fats) that are stored in adults? What about the sugar...?

I've always been skinny, and even eating loads of sugar, and loads of fat, never seem to budge in weight. Best I could do was put on 15lbs of muscle in college when I started working out... That's the only time I've ever been able to gain weight. What gives?
As much I think Debord's theory on the Society of the Spectacle [1] is as prescient as ever today, this article doesn't go far enough in making that case. It even casts Google as some great democratizing force:

> Wikipedia was a fruit of this garden. So was Google search and its text-based advertising model....They effectively democratized the ability to contribute to the global corpus of knowledge.

Google completely changed how people access information, true, but they also did way more to centralize the web than almost any other company, ever. That's not the best news for objective knowledge. Yet they get a pass while "social media" gets indicted with an anecdote about narcissism on Instagram?

At the time of this writing, searches related to The Walking Dead are the top trending ones. You need to present some much more compelling evidence that social media is behind this shift away from "knowledge," and that Google is somehow not, for me to believe they're not just as much part of the Spectacle.

All that is to say that this article takes too narrow a focus, and misses the larger point because of it. The web isn't the solution or the response to the Spectacle: it's a natural extension of it.

[1] The Spectacle is the idea that in popular culture people relate to each other not directly but indirectly, through the "images" presented by culture itself, i.e. "the Spectacle is a social relation between people that is mediated by images."
It's fair. It happened.
I just checked the API documentation. It seems that all the requests are through HTTP POST, including Get Status and Get Link, wonder how can that be considered as RESTful?
I see two files totaling about 1.5 MB when uncompressed.
Here's my view: advertising industry, being mostly about manipulating and scamming people, is even better at doing that to itself than to people outside. Between customers and the company that seeks them, there's so many ad-industry providers now that it's easier for them to manipulate tooling and metrics than to actually deliver in an efficient manner.

The ways I've personally seen this happen mostly boil down to marketing people with absolutely no understanding of statistics showing "metrics" to their customer, which "show" that they're indeed doing a great job. But since the customer has no fucking clue about statistics either (why should they, that's why they're hiring a marketing company, right?), they believe that - and they have no direct way to verify the effectiveness anyway. I.e. incompetent party selling bullshit to another incompetent party, but as long as both parties believe things are going in a good direction, money changes hands, and everyone is happy.

And that's just double incompetence. I suppose you can excuse people doing divination from whale charts. But how many similar things happen when the marketing provider party just straight exploits their clueless customers?

Also some thoughts on this topic from the times of Optimizely debacle: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10873226.
My cursor lagging is not a small concern. It disrupts the flow between code being re/written and the mental model I'm trying to pour out.

Text input lag is an issue every editor has to deal with, and many go to extreme lengths to optimise it. Electron makes it far more difficult than most editors to fix, and every lag issue opened on VS Code seems to get decent attention, (and patches), and comparisons to Sublime Text.

Seems to be something I'm not alone in caring about.
What a breath of fresh air Sublime is.
My answer to the gratuitous new tab page
It never used to require logging in but the moment they added that I deleted it.
Show HN: Bounding box image-tagging server application
pretty much Google is sending out the message that they have failed.

can we expect the overly hyped palantir stocks to crash now that they publicly stated they can't do even basic text/sentiment analysis?
Currently the cost of this EV is about 37K dollars. That's very high even for US, right? We want more affordable ones and ones that look like glorified golf carts. Bolt looks like a good car but how much market it can get in India/Brazil is still questionable.

People in India are interested in taking up EVs if the cost is reduced thanks to the unbreathable air in the major cities.
Similar to https://github.com/puzzledqs/BBox-Label-Tool but better for farming out huge quantities of tagging.

This tool outputs training sets in the YOLO format.

Admins can upload lists of image URLs (tested up to 10K), assign labelling tasks to worker and download when it's ready.

The admin UI provides a variety of convenience features to ensure the entire set is labelled correctly.
Even ignoring "AI, drones, AR/VR, cryptocurrencies, self-driving cars, and IoT" from the article, there are still two big areas still in its infancy:

1. Rich web apps - We know Gmail, Gdocs, Salesforce, etc are/have taken over from desktop apps. I'm continuously discovering more, e.g. Figma. Basically anything that was a single-user desktop app can be made into a realtime collaborative networked one.

2. Mobile business apps - Yes we have mobile versions of business web apps but these are typically as useful as responsive web apps which drop critical features needing to resort to a poor [x] request desktop app experience. What is needed is to create apps which make full use of what works on mobile. Speech input, gestures, what have you. Just as PCs took over from centralized computers, and web from OSes, future computing will be more mobile and ubiquitous. Current apps are translations of desktop/web ideas. We have a long way to go to making great mobile ones. The many significant discoveries and inventions along the way will come from both large and smaller contributors.
you can buy a new volt and sell it for a profit. Managed to secure a new base 2017 volt for 21k 0 down 0% interest after all rebates & dealer intensives.
Some years ago I was evaluating GUI git clients (the landscape has changed since) for rather simple flows and found SmartGitHg simple enough to setup and explain in under an hour and powerful enough not to drop to a shell. No affiliation here.
I decided to head downstairs and check things out. It is a ChargePoint charger, providing 240 V service for up to two cars. It's being fed through two separate (parallel) 240 V 60 A-rated fused disconnects (Eaton Safety Switches).

What's annoying is that, although all of the conduits in the garage are run on the ceiling, the conduit from the disconnects to the charger were clearly installed after the garage was completed: There are clear signs of a trench being cut, the flexible conduit being laid, and then the void being filled in. The charging station is on the bottom level of the garage, so they couldn't have come up from a lower level.

There's also clearly no room for expansion: The cage around the disconnects leaves no additional room, and the neighboring spaces are resident spaces. So to put in more chargers, they'd have to displace some resident spots, expand the cage, probably run new overhead conduit, and do more concrete cutting. Blargh.

One good thing, though: Both charging stations were open just now! That makes me wonder if it's possible to find out past usage times, to get an idea of how I would fit in…
No, for that matter Mars doesn't have the gravity to retain an atmosphere either. I can't cite a source on this because I don't remember where I read it but I believe having a magnetic field surrounding a celestial body is a relatively minor factor in atmosphere retention compared to mass. If someone who specializes in planetary atmosphere retention knows better feel free to eviscerate me.
The Benefits of Chubby Dating
It is not about hobbies, it's about the addiction that so many are unable to leave because everyone they know also does it. Never leading to insight or realisation, but hate and depression from unrealistic expectations and stress to find the next thing and never reflect.
Car Shipping California
You need to consider the federal & state rebates + dealer rebates. Once you do that it's inline with out of pocket costs and normal car deprecation.
A neat concept but frustrating when restarting the page loses any code in the script window.
This sounds like the Volt. It is software limited to only use the "sweet spot" charge range of the battery, so that it never gets fully charged or discharged. This means that over time as the battery degrades, the user would still see the exact same range due to the system expanding the min/max allowed charge.
More likely a lazy headline. It reads better than "Existence of our universe discovered to be statistically improbable but, due to the infinite nature of time, also inevitable"

If "the big bang" was just one in a series of big bangs / big annihilations, then eventually one will have a random scattering of matter and anti-matter in which there will be enough non-mixing of the two (all the matter on the right and all the anti-matter on the left) that the result of the big bang will take much longer to reach the big annihilation. And if the expansion continues to grow, as current evidence suggests, then maybe it'll never annihilate, it'll just heat-death out.

Or something.
Hacker News Tools of the Trade
I was mostly disputing the claim about data advantages, which often gets thrown around willy nilly to favor big corporations, because it fundamentally goes against the nature of where AI is heading.

I am not disputing that having more financial resources would help anyone hire talent and build awesome infrastructure, and certainly the latest way of training AlphaGo Zero was aided by earlier experiments that relied on labeled data and extensive computational effort. However, by no means do I think big corps have a lock on these kinds of advancements. There will always be great people who would rather go the startup route, and both algorithmic and hardware advancements are drastically reducing the operational cost of training AI systems. Thus, when it comes to AI, I think very small teams will be able to get very far with the right approach.
HOW KIM JONG-UN HAIR STYLE IS INSPIRING THE YOUNGER GENERATION
Sorry, I'm just using "you" because I need a subject for my examples. It's the colloquial "you", I'm not literally talking about you. I'll stop.

Anyway, I agree that no one is neutral, that's my point. Twitter already is a political entity, it already is a tool for sociocultural engineering. It can't not be. The policy of "any and all legal speech will be allowed" is a political choice and an endorsement of the status quo. Allowing Nazi speech is obviously not as bad as literally being a Nazi, but it is an acceptance of the way things are. Allowing speech is just as political as blocking speech.

There is no way to avoid making these decisions, and the more power one has, the more the choice matters. A free-for-all policy is equivalent to an individual staying silent when their friend makes a racist joke, but with much greater consequences. If the people in charge of Twitter didn't want this responsibility, they shouldn't have created the site.
Show HN: A Fine Start – a concise new tab page
The process is verifying that is has an MIT license! Granted, it's a short process. That's easy to do with a software package. What's the equivalent of a COPYING file for this? Have they published a legally-binding document anywhere? Or would a lawyer say that Musk's public statements were enough?
I think this helps the middle / poor class. Rich people lease expensive EV that would normally not sell. After 3 years rich person gets a new car and EV sells for peanuts. Just look at the cost of a used Nissan Leaf right now
At what cost though.
Magic Leap Confirms $500M Finance Round Led by Temasek
Interesting, thanks for the detailed response and the links.

I guess I imagined recycling lithium-ion was somehow problematic compared to lead-acid batteries. There's actually company called Toxco that has been specializing in recycling lithium-ion batteries for the last 25 years. They recently received from funding from the DOE to develop infrastructure for recycling EV vehicle batteries:

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/414707/lithium-battery-re...
5 great ways to make money online with music
I still tell people that my proudest day as a developer was when I deleted 70,000 lines of code that I'd made irrelevant, following a year of incremental refactoring that was consciously leading up to this point. It was, in my mind, an exquisite act of long-term maintenance programming. Older coders know what I mean and grin when I tell them about it.
I'm not exactly sure which rules you are referring to, but if you are alluding to Australia and New Zealand being difficult to emigrate to, I would just point out their respective population growth rates relative to the US (this growth is not due to natural increase - it is immigration that is driving it).

https://www.google.co.nz/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9...
Is that why China still has hundreds of millions of extremely poor subsistence farmers? Not all of China is Beijing/Shanghai/Shenzhen.
> sugars and carbs

I feel like carbs are unfairly vilified by a lot of people, to the point of resembling fad diets. Anecdote: I eat very carb-heavy. I also lost 35 lbs in the last couple of months. I didn't do it by cutting carbs.

Sugar I buy into vilifying a bit more... Since it's particularly evil how much sugar gets added to everyday items these days, in the "high fructose corn syrup" era which is probably responsible for a lot of the current obesity problems. But I've come to see even a "no sugar" backlash as a little unfair. My daughter loves sweet desserts, as kids do, and we often cave and give her what she wants. But I've been finding on my current weight loss kick that I can eat a lot of it with her and still lose weight every week.

For me, being mindful of portion sizes and thinking about calories holistically has done a lot better than demonizing certain foods.
I would like to take a moment to recognize that Tesla is apparently run by 90's meme lords. Check the url on that link. all-our-patent-are-belong-to-you. This pleases me greatly.
Nothing "should" exist because the chances are so remote that any particular specific instance of anything could be described as "should exist".

The sequence of events that resulted in my existence or your existence, scientifically, statistically, suggest that neither of us "should exist".

What's the percentage cut-off between "should" and "shouldn't"?
I've done exactly this. Moved to Fastmail for my email; Dropbox, and Resilio Sync, for my cloud storage; DDG for searches in general, with google as a backup (it really is the best unfortunately).

The general rule for me is to use paid, or free and open source[0], services. As long as I'm either a community member or a customer, and not a product, I feel safer.
Why a best friend at work can help you do your job better
Yes. But if you're paying top dollar to hire a trained professional, and then refuse to trust them in their area of expertise, you're wasting money. You should either start hiring cheap staff and micromanage them, or learn to resolve your trust issues and instead focus on things you're presumably a specialist at, which is setting incentives so that hired professionals always have company's best interest in mind.

--

Related: I sometimes wonder just how much money companies lose on trust issues. Even with regular people, I often see companies spending money doing everything imaginable to make it as difficult as possible for workers - on which, too, they spend money - to do their jobs.
Do we know how much of slab movement in the mantle just reflects mantle convection, and how much also reflects slabs' structural integrity? Near the surface, I understand that slabs are load bearing. But below a few hundred km, aren't they melting? Or does the fact that this technique detects them imply that they haven't melted fully yet?
The dose limits for radiation workers (which includes airline flight crews) is 20 mSv/yr. This is supported by the ICRP [1] and the EU [3].

British Airways carried out and published data from radiation monitoring of Concorde crews:
"Supersonic transport (SST) flights
The Concorde SST... was designed to fly at the... operating altitude of around 18 km (about 59 000 ft). Concern for potential hazards... led to monitoring equipment... being installed in all Concorde aircraft. Many data have been derived from this, including more than 20 years experience of the radiological environment.
...these flights indicate that the radiation exposure of Concorde flying crew is unlikely to exceed 6 mSv/y." [2]

I will also suggest the interested reader look into "radiation hormesis" and what data really exists to support the linear-no-threshold (LNT) model, or the idea that any amount of radiation raises risk, below certain dose rates.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2889502/

[1] http://www.icrp.org/icrpaedia/limits.asp
[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1128520/pdf/oen...
[3] http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=OJ:L:...
The quibble could also be with the "low-fat" portion of the advice. Grouping all fats into a single category is about as useful as grouping fruits and vegetables together. There's nuance to which fats to eat, but they're mostly an important part of a healthy diet, despite being demonized for decades now. Low-fat and non-fat dairy products are little better than another source of sugar (lactose) since much of the healthy portion of dairy doesn't get absorbed without the fat.

Avoiding omega-6-rich oils is probably a good thing for most people, since most don't get enough omega-3 to balance out, but beyond that and crap like trans-fats, fats are something to embrace not shy away from. And, what's more, getting off the beaten track of traditional oils can add a lot of interesting flavor to foods. Beyond olive oil, which is pretty common, coconut, avocado, walnut and macadamia nut oil have all become favorites of mine and I find the tastes of the food I cook/prepare so much more interesting than when I used to use corn/soybean/canola oils or tried to avoid fats all together.
You need to use Hacker's Keyboard
https://f-droid.org/packages/org.pocketworkstation.pckeyboar...
No legal department on Earth? From what I understand there have been many examples of Chinese companies using clearly stolen IP [1] - pretty sure they would be happy to use these patents.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/15/opinion/china-us-intellec...
CAN WE PLEASE STOP POSTING WSJ ARTICLES ON HN. No reason to when there are a million different articles on the topic without a paywall!
According to the brackets at https://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2017/10/19/irs..., and assuming the $13000 standard deduction, I work out $69350 to owe $7500.
You’re probably using one of those cheap USB z-wave stick. Attaching it to a USB extension will improve reception significantly. You can also try changing the angle of the stick.
Facebook tests web based vr within news feed
Facebook Deepens Partnership with PayPal with Messenger Payments