skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I really enjoyed this article too! Trial by ordeal has always confused me for that reason, obviously 100% of people holding burning iron will get burnt hands, wouldn't they find it fishy if 100% of the people undergoing trial end up guilty? And this gives a really sensible explanation for that.
>> Are you sure you read the essay? That's literally the question he answers.

My reading of the article is that he keeps calling for action without specifying what that action should be and trying to justify it by saying he can't know what AGI would look like (so he can't really say what we can do to prevent it).

>> if you make an honest effort to think of what to do you can likely come up with better than 'random actions' for helping (as many have).

Sure. If my research gets up one day and starts self-improving at exponential rates I'll make sure to reach for th
Reddit is a whole different story. Especially with the brigading that happens quite often in some sub-reddits but yes, HN users tend to be better at self moderation and the mod team has also done a pretty good job at running the site. Transparency will only benefit the users and allows us to see why some decisions were made and how we can fix them moving forward if we need to.
I was going to suggest -- a VS Code Extension would be cool.

edit: nvm. I found it: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=akfish.v...
I just went to the site. From the description, it sounds like a similar method to that used in the Michel Thomas CD courses. I'll definitely try it!
Philosophically yes. In practice, perhaps not.
Not meant to be snarky at all. Though I do wish my comment wasn't the top voted one. People, please upvote the other on topic comments or have the mods bury it.

FWIW this is basically my path. I've done pretty much all of them to some degree and a few in earnest. In fact I'm working on my own language learning "tool" while I wait around for #10.
Hopefully they are just trolls, trolls just post comments that are inflammatory to get people riled up, not because they actually mean what they post. If they actually are misogynistic and think they their contributions are reasonable and welcome, that's a different problem.
It's pretty handy. A few times over the years, I've needed to throw together a standard "manage this data" type of app. I just extend the standard blog.arc app that ships with Arc: https://github.com/evanrmurphy/SweetScript/blob/master/arc3....

Bam, you get CRUD for free, you get special superpowers if you're logged in as an admin, and you can put in access controls so that other people can log in as other types of users and see a subset of the data. I dunno, it's pretty great. You even get a REPL at /repl in case you need to hop on and run some code on production. (If something seems amiss, rather than bother with grepping logfiles, you'd head to /repl and start asking questions about the current state of the app. This tends to be a lot faster.)
Why the Data Center Liquid Cooling Space Is Heating Up
This is actually a really common improv warm up. The group that's about to perform circles up, and one person says a word to someone else in the circle. That second person then passes the word to someone else, and so on. Eventually, after around 50 words, someone spontaneously passes what was said to them back and you start trying to go back down. The benefits are many, everyone practices focusing, listening and trusting their teammates. It can also be funny, as near the bottom opinions on what the true order is can vary quite a bit.
Practical benefit: users and search engines parse the content of the page for information about the subject matter, including Google Images. I agree having an img with an empty alt tag is OK, but it's not helping search optimization and neither is alt=round corner gradient (unless of course that is your subject matter :-)

Imagine reading a printed text page about dogs and peppered throughout the text was mentions of 'bezel flare 2' or similar. If it doesn't make sense for that to be on the page as text alone then it shouldn't be on the page at all.
This sounds like a job for a browser extension.
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I never gave thought to the moderator position till this analysis.

I wonder if it is a full time job. Do other sites have full time moderators?

Moderators are needed, of course and im glad i am not one. But i can only imagine how much of a burn out job with little satisfaction it must be. Like data entry jobs in the past.

To compare and contrast, if you are a construction worker making residential housing, you and see its effect on people and humanity. Year after year and perhaps decade after decade you can drive by and know your work helped a family. Yet the effort of a moderator goes away within hours and is hard (for me) to see the long lasting value.

This write up helped me think about a topic i never thought of before. Thanks

(HN moderators: i know u make this site a good read. Thanks)
At least on 4chan, the content is all time-limited, so finding persistent examples isn't really doable. However, the more niche boards are full of quality content for their particular niches, and depending on the culture of the particular board people can be very helpful.

I personally appreciate 4chan for generally weighing the value of a particular post on its own merits rather than any sort of user history or whatever - it's a good counter-balance to places like HN or Reddit where comments can get buried or removed if they go against the hive mind and there's no post history to dig through. I definitely get how the trade-off of inflammatory posts being more common isn't as palatable to some people, though, so it's kind of a mixed bag on if you'll get anything out of it or not. Opinions, etc.
This only makes sense if you're on servers all the time, otherwise I wouldn't refuse to have a better workflow because of short period of inconvenience/annoyance.
Like Arimaa, some other games were (at least partially) designed to be hard for computers: Havannah [1] and Octi [2]. Havannah has since been defeated by the machines. Octi remains unchallenged, but that is probably due to its obscurity.

[1]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havannah#Computer_Havannah

[2]. https://news.yale.edu/1999/06/01/successor-chess-new-game-st...
That is pretty neat. They use an invisible content editable field that moves to where the caret is placed. The content editable only contains the current word or selection.

Text typed into the content editable is rendered into SVG elements. Unfortunately that doesn't allow a browser's spellcheck to work so they had to implement their own.

iCloud Notes works in a similar way but it renders to canvas elements instead of SVG. Also doesn't provide spellcheck.
Yeah, but Google doesn't (or didn't until a few years ago) rely on cgroups to do a lot of the finer-grained I/O scheduling.
This is a brilliant product glitch that will make developers cringe...
From the docs, the prefix %return is a shortcut for:

const number = parseU64(str, 10) %% |err| return err;

Keeping the %% syntax, how about:

const number = parseU64(str, 10) %% throw;

(Or "raise" maybe)

I think that ordering is more readable than having the %return tucked away in the middle of the line (even more so if it becomes a plain keyword, no % sign).

Edit to add: a "throw" keyword could also be used to shorten normal error returns too:

return error.InvalidChar;

Becomes:

throw InvalidChar;
There’s No Good Decision in the Next Big Data Privacy Case
That is not very specific, a consumer PC would be fine with a 750 Evo also, maybe two of them in raid 0 for twice the sequential read & write speed. I believe for most consumers, having more SSD storage per $ is more important.
Very cool! But you might want to make it clear that it's not fully open sourced - the github repo is just a wrapper your hosted js library.
Depends on what you consider successful. If the metric is raw numbers and impressions, HN is definitely the winner. If the metric is signal-to-noise for technical content, Lobsters is probably ahead. If the metric is user count, HN wins. If the metric is moderation transparency, Lobsters wins.

Just depends what you're looking for.
> The embed loaded megabytes of JavaScript to show a button.

They're probably hooking into their analytics platform.
Can't tell if you are being sarcastic or not with that "strangely", but yes - public transportation is a net good thing
Why the "American" qualification? Superficial attitudes are certainly not specific to that country, or to gender.
I think that soon it will be considered a bad practice to possess a skill or to use some knowledge for decisions..

If you have learned to do something, you will proceed by teaching a machine learning system that. And then you will use that, and not your internal knowledge.

The reason will be cited as follows: If you know something, this introduces bus factor. People can't get in your head to validate if you're applying your knowledge fairly, or biased, or maliciously misappropriating things. Your reasoning is unverifiable. You can leave for greener pastures, carrying your skills and knowledge with you.

While machine learning system is repeatable, you can have all kinds of checks and KPIs. And it's protected by IP laws.

Human domain knowledge will be discouraged.
Not that it affects your thesis, but food deserts aren't a thing:

http://www.npr.org/2010/12/15/132076786/the-root-the-myth-of...
You could blame them as well, it's just a lot less relevant to the U.S. smartphone market (where iPhone has the highest market share AFAIK) since everyone is on Snapdragon here.

As for Qualcomm and Apple being on different release cycles...that's exactly the problem! They're 6 months behind AND still have worse performance, plus due to their deal with Samsung, it's going to take even longer than that for any other manufacturers to ship devices with 845.

As another comment said, it's not really going to be profitable for any company to try and compete with Apple on this. Which is why if it is going to happen, it's going to have to be done by someone like Google who has a vested interest in it beyond profitability from the chips themselves. If ARM reference designs can't keep up with what Apple is doing, and nobody else is willing to invest to go beyond them, Android will fall behind in the high end of the market.
Engineering NullAway, Uber’s Open Source Tool for Detecting NPEs on Android
Is it just me, or is it amazing that they're releasing this for free? Even Canadian SPY organizations are friendly!
Sure, agreed, but that's not what you said before.

Someone said it's "somewhat common in the US" to be restricted from growing eco-friendly laws. You "fixed" that statement by adjusting it to "somewhat common in the US in the parts of the US that are over-represented on HN".

The initial statement was true, there was nothing to fix. It might be "very common" among HN readers (though I'll bet they skew more urban than you're suggesting), but it really is "somewhat common" nationwide.

And the distinction isn't irrelevant, because this isn't just a parochial HN-reader concern - turf covers roughly 2% of US land. Not all of that is lawns, and not all of those lawns are legally constrained, but as I tried to demonstrate, the total amount is significant. I'm not objecting to the point that this situation has heavy demographic skew, I'm objecting to the implication that it isn't widespread.
I think depression has the same problem. While I'm aware there are several types there's no really no guarantee for success for any particular medication or treatment for every case.
Are you saying that any people against a Z presidency are a result of propaganda?
> Can't tell if you are being sarcastic or not with that "strangely", but yes - public transportation is a net good thing

Lyft isn't public transportation, and there was an article a few days ago which demonstrated that, in some cities, Uber and Lyft were causing a net decrease in public transportation use.
It's interesting how a modern system that lines up with evolutionary theories can either be framed as "the natural, healthy way we were meant to to do x" (if you're pushing a paleo diet) or "the pre-civilized, caveman way of doing y" (if you don't like Tinder.)

For the record, I think those sorts of evolutionary histories are usually poorly supported anyway, so there's a double layer of nonsense here; you can speculate a lot about how our prehistoric ancestors behaved, and then modulate whether or not your speculated behavior seems good or bad, so any argument can be justified in some direction with appeals to our evolutionary past.
It’s like some twisted form of Keynesianism
I'd rate Dan and Scott highly as rulers, and I've been banned before.

I have some qualms about some systematic things, but it's a broad philosophical dispute and not the running of HN. In governance - there is no way to 'win' anyway.

I wish every leader had to be a forum moderator of very different groups of people, but we seem to select for whatever the opposite of that is no matter the political predilection.
Teens honoured for car seat that helps prevent deaths in a hot car
You're totally right about the hokey notion of imagination. Just because an idiot can conceive of something mildly unique on a local level doesn't mean he has the prowess to be truly innovative. I'm talking about diversity within the >99.99th percentile. In all fairness, though, where you (and China) are totally dismissive of the kid who grew up in a nudist colony and self-studied his way into having some solid intellectual skills at age 18, the US welcomes that person as a potential source of innovation and puts resources into cultivating him, even if he only got a 1450 on the SAT and his parents don't have any important political connections.

In this same vein, what happens with the people who have no intellectual influence is of little consequence to this discussion. So, yeah, banning Facebook would help the 50th percentile be more intelligent. So would a lot of things. And in this realm, China is beating the shit out of the US. It's not even close when you compare the average American to the average Chinese: they're easily 15 IQ points higher. Like I said, though, I'm more skeptical of China's ability to make one of those Einstein types who transcend being the best test taker alive, and who truly advance human knowledge.

To your final point, China will (has) take(n) over. But I'm not convinced that they will be able to carry the torch of top dog as well as western countries have. Much like their failure to participate in the Industrial Revolution because their society was not flexible to change, it looks a lot like the same thing is happening now. They tore down the old regime to make way for one that works really well in 2017 (espionage, slavery, and education), but it's hard to see how they can evolve as the world does.
Speaking with my colleague who is Chinese, he states it is the family that supports one another. A couple gets married and the parents pay for the house and furniture, with everyone living together. While the parents pay for the children to go to school. I don't know if it is the best model, but model is micro to say the least.
RE: Lack of haptic feedback - There's an app for that - https://www.haptictouchbar.com/ It's not great (that the feedback is in the touchpad and not the touchbar is disconcerting), but it's better than no feedback.
My most recent purchase was the ChuWi Lapbook 12.3 which is about as light as a Macbook Air.

I'm not concerned with weight so much as having at least a 1080p screen. I find anything smaller makes it harder to actually get much done without a second monitor. I guess I'm spoiled a little since I have a triple-monitor setup for work most of the time.
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> Interesting, is that because of the load? It seemed "modern" SSDs have GCs good enough that trim isn't quite necessary anymore to ensure good performances in consumer loads.

A drive has no way to tell whether filesystem is using a given block or not. TRIM is a way for the filesystem to tell it that. So I would imagine the GC that you're referring to is working on the blocks marked with TRIM.

BTW, besides running fstrim from cron on Linux, you can also use discard flag to mount the drive, so the filesystem sends TRIM command when files are deleted.
I have multiple email address for different purposes. I don't need multiple HN accounts for different purposes.

Others might but I can't think why off the top of my head. The only time I've seen an obvious alternate account is the throw-away accounts opened just to troll/spam the site.
Big con for draftjs is it doesn't support Android.
All arguments are subjective so I'm not sure what that statement is supposed to convey except maybe "I am not concerned with the persuasiveness of my argument".
c) complaining about downvotes
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I'm lost, why is it relevant that "in France, we have 7 days to cancel a purchase"?
Read this:

https://stratechery.com/2017/the-uber-disaster-round-up-waym...

There many links to more information on why it might be winner take all and the upside of Lyft.
See also Simula, a Wayland-based VR Linux compositor: https://github.com/SimulaVR/Simula

It's very close to be able to be working with the HTC Vive. With this, you could put on a headset and see 50 terminals in front of you, next to your 50 web browsers :)
The article doesn't mention it, but i'd bet that Google/FB/Microsoft are using liquid cooling (or at least testing the feasibility of it) in their massive data centers.
It's probably safer to assume CSE/CSIS would use open-source tools than stuff from MSFT/ORCL.
Many, many hours worth of prime time TV is advertising for movies/books/etc.. "So you're over here promoting your new movie" says eg Mr Norton, "Yeah, I'm getting US$20M for this movie so I appreciate the free advertising here ..." (or some bs the publicist wrote for them) says the guest, "cue trailer".

When I was on the BBC I had to change my logo polo-shirt so as not to advertise my single-location SME business. Yet Nike, et al., logos are fine, as is advertising by sports teams, etc..

It's all very inconsistent.
Very cool! Useful to keep tabs on competitors and your own sites.

I'd suggest adding some kind of Stripe branding to your payment form to make it a little more trustworthy.
You mean for upper middle class people though.
Not a dev myself, but my wife is. My wife finds it hard to feel fulfilled and motivated at work unless it involves some sort of cause she believes in. Have you considered working at a Non-Profit based around something important to you? From what I've read at reddit non-profit/charity work can be really fulfilling, but you do have things like shoestring budgets to deal with.
Yepp. As far as I can tell, about 15 million of the population are in the 0 to 14 age group, so are highly unlikely to appear on a deed (not sure if it's even technically possible). The total number of properties in the country has got to be a fraction of that; the average number of people per home is apparently at 2.2 [1].

Stats SA seems to report in the region of 400 to 500K deaths per year, so if it was just down to deceased, it'd have to go back a fairly long way.

[1] - https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=582208ececa2424ab6e...
That would be nice, but nobody really has any incentive to do that.
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I'm in a similar boat as you. I just turned 22 and have been working as a software developer for the past 3 years as well (interesting coincidence).

I noticed that I get the feeling of "burnout" when I'm doing things I don't enjoy. For instance, I can spend a couple months straight working on fun personal projects of mine all day every day, like the Medium.com clone I built, but if I'm spending two weeks straight fixing other peoples bugs at work I get extremely bored and am always watching the clock, looking forward to going home. I don't enjoy programming in those moments.

I would err on the side of caution when calling this burnout, though, to be honest. I think we are too young and haven't been at it long enough (no matter how dedicated we are) to really feel true burnout. We're just fatigued, demotivated, unexcited and a little annoyed (in my case).

I think a change of pace might help you, as it always helps me. Try doing something really challenging and thought-provoking. Entrepreneurship might be for you! Have you ever considered making your own startup? Got any ideas you've been neglecting? Take one of them on! You never know what might come of it. :)

Lastly, if you think programming in general just isn't for you anymore, but you love technology and would still like to be in the space, another thing you may want to consider is creating content of value for others to use and learn from. For instance, you could start a YouTube channel and talk about tech, crypto, AI, startups, etc.

Good luck!
Consider the University of Tennessee, a state school in an inexpensive part of the country.

Cost of attendance paying in state tuition is $24,000 to $28,000 depending on which web site you get your data from. How is a full-time student going to pay that without going into debt?

http://www.collegedata.com/cs/data/college/college_pg03_tmpl...
This is pretty cool. Thanks!
That data has been breached but it hasn't (and likely won't considering it was most likely a nation-state actor who was responsible) be released to the public. Even if it were it takes some sophistication to find the torrent, download it, import it into a database, and query that database. There's nothing easily accessible about it.
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Go work in a bank (read: retirement home) for a year.

/s

Sorry to hear about your situation. Is taking a sabatical an option for you? You could study or do a course for six months. Stay with the folks while you unwind and re-humanize.
More like they changed it "back" to CSE. :)