skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a contentious opinion, but I believe journalism, at least in part, may be a good example.

The publications generally regarded as the top, auch as The Economist, the New York Times, and, until this year, The Wall Street Journal: they are not catering to the lowest instincts. When they have made mistakes (somebody will inevitably bring up Judith Miller), they have self-corrected, with new policies, and by firing people.

I also wouldn’t consider the wish for „more humanities in tech“ as an attack on you personally, or any single person. In fact, Google, Apple, and many smaller companies have an excellent track record on many issues. Their leadership actually has an appreciation for non-Technology issues far better than most companies’. Yet the example of Apple engineers preparing to go to jail to protect their customers stands out, because others (Yahoo, AT&T) so eagerly cooperated to intrude on customers’ privacy.
Yeah. Clearly the way to improve this situation is to get rid of the immigrants and reduce taxes on the corporations and the richest. Clearly.
There is a programming language which captures all patterns in its spec? Fascinating.

Alternatively, even if one agreed with the quote, it isn't very useful: it is simply another way to state that no programming language does everything.
>I'm not sure why his motivation matters?

I recognized this idea in in the last two sentences of my post. The biggest issue with this line of thinking is the diversion of scrutiny towards Bezos in the process. As another poster stated, Bezos is a beneficiary of basic income via Amazon. As an aside, we know why Zuckerberg is more focused on free Internet drones over Africa than basic income.
VM jailbreak in the future?

Then again it might have already happened, and we got rolled back to the last known good image.
I grew up in a rural community where farming was basically the only industry. It's easy to talk about how awesome it is when you basically are selling insanely overpriced boutique goods (organic, free-range, etc) to yuppies who are willing to pay triple for their calories. Once enough people do this, the prices fall and you're just another farmer, scraping by.

I grew up working on farms. It's not romantic to me in any way. Being outside is nice, but there's a reason the kids doing this grew up in suburbs and cities: they have no idea what agriculture really involves when you have to achieve economies of scale to make it remotely profitable.
This. I agree 100% that modern life is not as great as everyone thinks it is. Just getting outside and hiking was enough to convince me.
What is a Monad?
Observations of an ex pat: the Middle East explained
I would still like to work 9-5...
Here's my (old) take on a terrain renderer (more than 20 LOC, oh well):

http://lou.wtf/earf-html5/

For anyone who wants a refreshing/fun code project, strongly recommend implementing some kind of software renderer. A raytracer or raycasting engine like this one, or something more fundamental like a polygon renderer.
Who cares? I don’t understand why the media wastes their time with stories like this or how much movies earned over the weekend.
RICO has very specific conditions to be invoked, so no. And to the wider question about liability - maybe? It seems more likely that it will be followed by civil suits where the standard of proving guilt is lower, and where each plaintiff can make their own case.
Tech Ageism and the Myth of the Digital Native
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> Maybe the next iOS update comes with privacy intrusion because it's more lucrative.

And this would be swiftly called out by someone soon after release, putting a very ugly stain on Apple's reputation. There is absolutely no advantage they would gain from this which could outweigh the PR nightmare.
Non-tech folks don't care about rendering engine. They might fall for tons of advertisment that Chrome had or they might be force-fed a new browser with a new computer or OS purchase, none of these things are going to happen for FF.

Tech folks might care about shiny new engine, but they are also more likely to care about their favorite extensions not working anymore. I personally wouldn't be surprised if FF actually lost some share in the long run, but that's just my dissapointment talking.

I know for certain that if something like waterfox keeps old extensions running I will gladly give up Quantum for a better UX.
TBF, if it did work, I could almost see Elon going "fuck it" and bumping the next SpaceX launch in favor of boosting a cubesat out there.
Which just raises the question for me, why have the macros at all? I did C++ development for years (on low level and performance sensitive applications) but 95% of the macros I saw were there to reduce lines of code or "eliminate boilerplate." Almost all of those could be eliminated by refactoring within C++, without resorting to the preprocessor, but developers love using macros...
How can you get more objective than looking at either the cost of removing the pollution or the value of the property contaminated by it? That's a lot more precise than trying to apply DALYs in an entire population to individual households.

The whole point of my post is to illustrate why compensating someone based on the health risks incurred is ridiculous if you can instead fix the problem or buy them out. In my example, do you think it would be fair for me to compensate you only the value of the DALYs lost in your household if you continue to live there, rather than the cost of cleanup or the cost of your property?
"New engine" may not matter, but "fast" probably does.
I blame Stardew Valley.
Their technique is specific for their set of includes. It would be great if there was a general way to do the macro expansion in a need-to-know eay that could then be a basis for interop tools such as SWIG or python cffi
We had Turbo Pascal taught by a math teacher, who read to us straight from a course binder and admitted to literally drawing the short straw in the teacher's lounge when they were figuring out who had to teach the computer class..
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Yes, but the math was done in the speed of light inside the fiber, so any additional time you find in the RTT, must be software/hardware, or that you under-estimated length of the path.
Computer Math Proof Shows Reasoning Power (1996)
Functional 'concepts' are not niche, but functional languages still are. If you asked your average Java 8 programmer or JS programmer to write an app in Haskell or Elm, they'd struggle.
Why would you use NFS when you can use rsync and for files something like MinioFS?

When NFS goes down, its a huge PITA. I’d rather have something that deals with disconnects better.
IMHO that should be treated in the same manner that if the contents of my post provide identifying details of the to-be-deleted person.
>> 1) Someone needs to assess pre-accident prices of every house. That isn't as easy as it sounds, it is a massive logistic challenge (and open to corruption from all angles).

> This is a tiny problem compared to the damage caused by the accident.

For many people, the land and house they own is pretty much the total sum of their wealth. (Or even more, if they took mortgage.) If you think this is a "tiny problem", you underestimate the lengths people will go to protect the values of their properties.

I've seen news of people committing suicide over a high-power voltage line going over their town. You visit a town struck by a nuclear disaster and claim you will assess the "fair market value" of every house, you'd better bring in riot gears.
160 hours a month?

I remember having a part time job.

All kidding aside, I can tell you aren’t American based on that statement alone.
I strongly doubt there will be any investigation or any consequences, there's too much money involved.
He's right to be distrustful. People are terrible at taste tests. If you ask people how something tastes, they will tend to tell you what they think they're expected to taste rather than what they actually do.

There's plenty of scientific evidence for this based on wine studies[1], but on a personal level, the tongue map myth[2] is the one that gets me. It was taught in science class as true, and we did (non-blind) experiments to measure the effect, but we failed to conclude the effect didn't exist.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_wine_tasting
[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongue_map
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Ask HN: If Quantum Computers Destroy Keypair Encryption, What Are Alternatives?
Every now and again I see an article like this pop up: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609408/quantum-computers-pose-imminent-threat-to-bitcoin-security/

Let's assume it's true. Public / Private keypair encryption (via cryptobox) is a big part of the backbone of an app I'm working on. Is there any way to future proof my crypto in case the Quantum Computers do destroy any security we thought we had?
Since science is now establishing a connection between drilling (or rather reinjection) and quakes, these outfits ought to be required to buy EQ insurance before they are allowed to drill, but enough to cover all restitution costs.
The new version of Firefox is great. And a massive improvement over previous versions.

However I think Mozilla have a lot of work to do. Desktop browsing is pretty much legacy at this point so convincing mobile users to use something other than the default browser will be hard.

I work on a site with 8 figure monthly unique visits and the browser stats are startling.

iOS Safari had about 51%, Chrome mobile & desktop about 35%, Samsung browser at 7%. Nothing else has over 2-3%. Edge, for example, is a rounding error.
Technology is biased too. How do we fix it?
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And what exactly will the damage claim amount to? I'm yet to find any evidence in reporting regarding any actual damage beyond some small cracks and broken plates.
A very good ressource: https://pqcrypto.org/
I think many things have made us happier, but we have begun to replace the pursuit of products that improve life with the pursuit of products that improve revenue. The automobile, the telephone, the internet, and all of these things have improved life unbelievably. I think the point where happiness and progress begin to diverge is when consumerism enters into the picture -- when people are buying products because of status and marketing, instead of the actual necessity of the product itself. And then that sort of attitude leaks into society itself where virtue signaling starts to become more valued than actual discussion. It's all so very artificial. Perhaps this desire to get 'back to our roots' is some sort of Fruedian escape from the increasing fakeness of society today.
Did you report the problem? Given how many video-related problems end up being caused by drivers that seems like it'd be a potential entry on the blacklist.
This heading (and the heading of the article itself) are wrong. If you read the article it is not that "drilling" reawakens sleeping faults, but that deep injection wells do. Deep injection wells are one way to dispose of produced water from oil and gas production.

So it's not "drilling" that is at issue, but injecting water for disposal that awaken faults.
I can't help but think that the conclusion being "whatever happens happens, and your actions have very little to do with what your life's going to be" is a very zen / taoism / asian philosophy cliché.

Maybe the reason the west is successful lies in the belief that individuals matters.
If that's the case, then i suppose the OP still has a long way to go.
I also grew up on a farm... in Maine. It did instill a work ethic that I find it difficult to teach to my own children. But I always joke with people and say it is a great place to visit and a great place to be from. Not so much a great place to actually be.
> it was silly for fans of music, books and films to create a rather non-commercial community of enthusiasts on the basis of a site whose sole aim is to make lots of money

Nothing silly about it at all. I've written many such reviews and I'm well aware that I'm giving my work for free to a profit making entity. The thing is, I also benefit a lot from reviews on Amazon, even for things I'd never buy. Amazon is my go-to site for reviews on books and music. (Not so for films, I use IMDB for that.) I enjoy writing and posting the reviews, and enjoy getting "likes" on them from others that find them useful.
They already did that over a decade ago.

https://www.macworld.com/article/1039079/a9.html
There are a ton of delis in London that will make you any sandwich you want... Someone who doesn't know that is just a tourist
I am already not convinced that it is likely that there are a huge number of faithful simulations. It seems to me that simulating a universe faithfully would more or less consume all the resources of that universe. So all simulations could at best be heavily simplified versions of reality, like the worlds in our computer games compared to our universe. That of course doesn't preclude our universe from just being a simple game in an outer universe that would be vastly richer or huger or more complex than our universe. But it makes arguments like that all advanced civilizations will surly want to create ancestor simulations or things like that harder to justify.

The argument that we are most likely in a simulation because there are many of them and only one reality doesn't sit well with me either. Nobody at any level of nested simulations would be justified to believe that he is not simulated but actually lives in the outermost real universe. So why is it more likely that someone else lives in the real universe than us? Someone has to be the exception, why not us? I am unable to formalize it and maybe I am just committing a logical error, but something seems wrong to me if the conclusions everyone draws are, when taken together, obviously wrong, i.e. everyone concludes he is almost surely not in the outermost level but someone certainly is.
I think it's more of a development life cycle problem, Elon started earlier and rocketry ain't easy. It's less a problem of money as it is in scaling up an R&D operation to effectively use the money. Scaling organizations of people is bottlenecked in enough ways that the added domain difficulty of rocket science creates a situation where throwing money at the problem has diminishing returns.
How do you tell "anti-Mozilla troll" from a genuinely dissapointed user? I'm currently on FF ESR, once my favorite extentsions stop working there I might as well switch the browser completely, since my UX will be completely reset just as it would be with a entirely different browser.

I'm not saying I will switch to something else (other browsers seem equally unusable to me as FF57 is currently), but I will certainly try all the options to find out if something else isn't at least marginally better than FF57.
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This is exactly what I need for one of my projects - thanks for posting!
It has some relevance as to the future. If Bezos was bleeding money, he might change Amazon's direction. If summer blockbusters started tanking, there might be fewer in the future. It's feedback, it's not necessarily the most useful information but it's not useless.

Now, endless discussion on a topic when there's hardly any new information (as 24h news stations do), that's useless...
I always opt out of comingled but have still had products get comingled. Which makes me think that they are pretty loose with their processes and procedures when it comes to some products.
what would you say is the best resource for learning about building one from scratch in JS?
I respect him as a developer for his enthusiasm and ability to convey complex concepts simply:

Building composable abstractions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJIUoaIvD20

Category Theory From the Universe Up
https://purelyfunctional.tv/courses/category-theory/

Data modelling in Clojure
https://purelyfunctional.tv/courses/modeling-solitaire-in-cl...

To me instruction like this is worth more than a library with a few thousand stars on GitHub.

The FP industry could benefit from more programmer-educators that don't actively obfuscate concepts in mathspeak. (That sometimes has its place too, though, and there are other resources that do a good job of deciphering monads etc. without heavy metaphor, like Haskell Programming From First Principles: http://haskellbook.com/.)
AI Weekly 24 Nov 2017
A collection of like stories in the Times over the last 70 years:

https://twitter.com/anhistorian/status/934080718816399361
Ask HN: How do i save a keras model hosted on an ec2 AMI amazon web service
Author here

The main algorithm fits easily in 20 lines. However, the JavaScript code is optimized and contains also the initializing routines and input device logic.

It is also a little bit unfair to compare this with shadertoy. He doesn't have to include the render algorithm but relies on a GPU. The Voxel Space engine just draws vertical lines and doesn't need a GPU.
P/E is without a doubt meaningful, and looking at it in the context of growth i.e. PEG, makes it even more meaningful. Amazon is selling at an objectively absurd PEG ratio of 5. Anything over 2 is fundamentally considered overvalued by people who use this metric. However, You could argue that none of the fundamentals are meaningful because we are in a bubble, with Amazon on the forefront.
5 reasons you should use Phoenix instead of Rails in your next project
Maybe they don't want to be anything other than retail or factory workers?

Many people don't have ambition, or they have limited ambition.
Humans vs. Robots: AI Beats Top Pilot in NASA Google Drone Race
I'd guess not, as the various components that make up probes are constantly improving. While it would be nice to have a 1990's era probe on hand to investigate this asteroid, I bet we can learn a lot more from modern sensors, and the electronics and comms will be more powerful and lighter.
It would look more like a third world country without guys like Gates and Bezos.

I'm really surprised by all the hate in this thread towards wealthy individuals who worked hard to attain it. Especially in this environment, where people try to figure out ways to be one of them. It's HN FFs.

Also, maybe UBI just seems reasonable to Jeff, like it does to many people. He really doesn't need it for anything which he couldn't have many other simpler ways.
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Could it be a fragment from a collision of two larger rocky asteroids?
Isn't the obvious conclusion that opportunity is a necessary prerequisite to success? In a communist or puritan philosophy that would mean it's lucky to be working, whereas the juxtaposition is virtually the same, working to be lucky. I don't see how the question for chicken-and-egg-priority matters here.
The “containers” thing they’re doing to have separate containers with separate cookie jars, is something I’m loving that some die hard Chrome fans have said “I want that” when I explain it to them.

It allows me to have a work container logged in to work trello and Gmail, and a personal container logged in to personal trello and Gmail. It also allows me to have a FB container so I can stay logged in there, but do all my browsing in other containers so they don’t know which other sites I’ve been visiting. That’s a feature I didn’t know I wanted until they built it.
It's also very common now for companies to buy back a ton of stock thus lowering the share denominator in the earnings portion of the ratio, while not actually growing revenue much if at all.
Plot for a new movie.

Live action "The Dig" anyone?
It o Loveyou do they already have a near-monopoly on the vast majority of costumer-dense territory, they’ve also been very successful at pushing through laws that outlaw competition at the municipal and county level.
In other words, if you don’t already have a choice, and you have lots of neighbors, you are very, very unlikely to get a choice any time soon.
I think egg production by chickens is actually more efficient than that. If I'm reading Figure 1 in the following link correctly, it looks like modern farms are about 17% efficient for calories of food fed to the chickens to calories of eggs produced: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/11/10/10...

For comparison (from the same figure) pork is 9%, chickens raised for meat are 13%, cow production of milk is 17%, and cows raised for beef are 3% efficient.
The stock price at any point in time is set by about an equal number of investors thinking it'll go up as those that think it'll go down.
Twitter testing a feature that shows how many are ‘talking about’ tweets
To explain why I think this, the Quality delta between Firefox and IE when Firefox reached about 20-30% marketshare was orders of magnitude greater than the delta between Chrome and Firefox over the period Chrome managed to push to 60-70% marketshare.
The charities that Gates tends to invest in don't just distribute goods to needy people. His charities try to tackle core societal problems like fighting malaria in Africa:

https://www.gatesfoundation.org/What-We-Do/Global-Health/Mal...

https://www.gatesfoundation.org/What-We-Do/Global-Health/Dis...

> Working closely with other global programs at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Discovery & Translational Sciences program aims to create and improve preventive, diagnostic, and therapeutic interventions for infectious diseases as well as other conditions that affect mothers, infants, and children. We do this by identifying and filling gaps in scientific knowledge, creating or implementing new technology platforms that can accelerate research in support of our goals, and investing in potentially transformative ideas.

> All of our investments advance the goal of creating solutions that can be deployed, accepted, and sustained in the developing world. To speed the translation of scientific discovery into implementable solutions, we seek better ways to evaluate and refine potential interventions—such as vaccine candidates—before they enter costly and time-consuming late-stage clinical trials.

There's nothing about fighting malaria that denies people agency in their well-being as far as I'm concerned.
Thanks for this paper, it’s a really excellent read and explains the eclipse attack really well. I would love to track down some similarly structured papers.
C++ or Java or whatever not matching someone's aesthetics doesn't change the fact that providing an interface that accepts a Strategy or works with Commands is a design choice, not a language feature. It doesn't matter how it's implemented. The snippets of code in the GoF book aren't the point of design patterns, they're in no way canonical, and people pretending for _decades_ that they are really grinds my gears.

But not as much as Clojure having no good implementation of the age old 'Readable Stacktrace' design pattern. :)
WebAssembly Will Finally Let You Run High-Performance Applications in Browser
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That was one of the reasons why I decided to completely ditch Amazon. And I don't regret it.
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Perfect for an easter egg. I'm having higher-definition Excel 97 flashbacks... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gYb5GUs0dM