skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Genesis Manifesto: Story Understanding and Human Intelligence [pdf]
I'm not educated enough to speculate, but how is this different from the scale of global warming? As in, the earth is big, but we still manage to change our environment in such a short timescale. Will this another underestimation of our ability to screw ourselves?
This reminds me of two very popular age old games (from around 1990's) called Inner Space and Critical Mass.

[1] http://www.sdispace.com/index.html

[2] http://www.windowsgames.co.uk/critical.html

Love this game :)
This is true, though there are recurring themes, and the forum discussion for previous problems often helps.
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Could you link to some of the studies you refer to?
Tiny improvements add up. The human mind (and body) is an incredible machine. You keep doing something, have a feedback loop, and it will automatically get better at it. In a few years, the transition in the skill level will almost feel magical.
leiningen also updates itself.
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It's because sometimes a rocket explodes on the launch pad or a few seconds later, and it could spread radiactive material over a very wide area.
Don't trust facebook.
There are so many reasons to not use it, but this imho is the greatest.

Of all the productive and happy people I have known, none use facebook.

Of all the miserable and lost people I know, most of them do.
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You can currently flag posts, but you depend on the mods actually recognizing the pattern since you can't tell them why you are flagging it.
Live very far away from parents, family and friends.
They don't use other options.
Not worth it to convince them all to switch.
I haven't logged into my facebook account in at least five years and I don't miss it one bit. The thing that pushed me over the edge was when I received an enthusiastic happy birthday from a girl I went to high school with. She was a couple of years older than me and I realized she had never spoken a single word to me in real life. For some reason this seemed so wrong and twisted and ended up being the straw that broke the social media camel's back for me. If I want to speak with someone, I just reach out directly now.
I do design research. My papers always provide principles with examples and evidence. They are generally very specific though (unlike this article). I agree that it is rare outside of the research community to find evidence (the why) and implementation details (the how) though.

An example paper of mine:
Toward Principles for the Design of Navigation Affordances in Code Editors: An Empirical Investigation http://dl.acm.org/authorize?N37917
This can be disproven by noting that the naturals are closed under addition.

The math involved in reaching this identity is akin to dividing by zero.
I went to work for a company several years ago that had an all-male tech team of 15 people or so, and a brotastic atmosphere that surely would have qualified as hostile work environment in court.

I was able to persuade key personnel that it was in the interest of the company and therefore in their interest to rectify the situation.

Three years later, the tech team was one-third female and the atmosphere was for the most part cleaned up.

This success story required difficult diplomacy and tenacity, and I'm not sure it was realistic to duplicate it. I often read Hacker News and despair. My teammates were redeemable, at great cost. Probably many people here would be too, but the hostility is just so strong.

Instead, I believe it will be a generational change, where the situation improves as bad elements age out and die off over decades.
pretty cool! I would appreciate an easier way to turn rings off too
>>In any case, my kids are my number one. The day my first was born was the day my motivations and my reason for being shifted.

Your kids should be your number one priority, absolutely.

Make no mistake though: when you have kids you are trading off professional development outside of work for raising a family.

Nothing wrong with that, but the trade off definitely is there. People who ambitiously work on personal projects in their spare time will, on average, advance faster than those who are 9-5'ers.
Pretty powerful motivation to start taking better care of oneself and stop texting while driving right there.
we're doing what now? So you're saying dead lea or dead grand moff tarkin were not creepy?
This is quite a feat. It's tunneled under rivers, passes through cities and travels nearly a thousand miles north.

I do wonder tough, about contamination given floods can easily breach the levies and in the cities runoff is pretty polluted. And wonder if any gets syphoned off --unless they have the very long fencing guarded 24x7.
We gain enough energy to jump start building a Dyson sphere?
I've been using Syncthing [0] for syncing music between all of my devices (Android phone included) for quite a while and it has always worked perfectly for me.

Curious if you also consider that one of those "buggy syncing solutions" you mentioned? And if so, what issues have you experienced with it?

[0] https://syncthing.net/
You are reading an archive of the old kzhu.net page on archive.org .

If you try to use sharing links etc from within the archived article, they may have problems as the kzhu.net page is now run by different people for a different purpose.

Maybe try sharing the link manually.
It seems like the domain expired, and now it redirects to a gambling site.
My question after reading all the comments here is, is there any alternative? or is there really a choice?

If I have to build a social networking site, say - FriendBook, what features would you like in it?

So is the case with WhatsApp.

Privacy, if not now, will be unsustainable part of business model later. Look at Apple Ping[0].

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITunes_Ping
Isn't it amazing that only
40,000 Amerikans kill themselves considering what hell they live in? And that the truth hurts, moderators?
Music hasn't been an Apple "moat" for the iPhone since shortly after it was introduced. Apple started selling DRM Fred music that you could play anywhere by 2009.
Politics was not my intent when posting this to the forum. I regularly visit family in these areas of Alabama, and thought others may be surprised by this take. It's always hard to see poverty like this, be it in Alabama, the Philippines, or what have you.

The brightest minds in the world frequent HN. I'm always interested to hear what folks think about problems, and even better, solutions.
The problem in NSW is some farmers taking more water than they are legally allowed to, to the detriment of all other users of the river system, and then the law not being enforced. In the 4 Corners report that exposed the (mal)practice, there were reports of rivers flowing backwards due to the amount of water is being sucked out of them.

It's not a state vs. state thing, as even the local NSW communities are screaming about it. It's a small corrupt group vs. the nation, and it stinks.
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Black boxes, human factors, and the unintended consequences of today’s AI
The alternatives still seem worse.
New library 10-100 times faster than LibSVM
A group of researchers have recently released ThunderSVM which supports all the functionalities of LibSVM (including classification, regression and distribution estimation). ThunderSVM is often 10-100 times faster than LibSVM, while producing the same trained model. The project is hosted at https://github.com/zeyiwen/thundersvm
One side of being an adult learner is that this is self-directed. I don't know what comes before what; I want, for example, a good math education. What does a good math education involve? I don't know! I mean, one of the big things college does is that it serializes your learning. Gives it order. I kind of do the same thing when I read; one book will recommend another in an introduction; with the kindle, I'll often stop reading the first book, go buy and read the recommended book, then return (or not) to the first book. But that happens a lot more in Literature than in Mathematics books, it would seem.

I type in 'calculus' and it seems to start with calculus, rather than giving me all the prerequisites. It does have a nice list of links (most of which I've seen before, but that I've decided I need more math background to properly digest)

The prerequisites, in my experience, are super important. if you skip the prerequisites and think you understand, you are probably getting the "Malcom Gladwell" version of the subject; which in many ways is worse than nothing at all; that's how we've got so many people who have even less math knowledge than I do who think they can explain quantum physics to me. I at least know enough to know that I don't understand, I understand that shrodinger's paradox is not enough to understand what's actually going on; I mean, I know the paradox, and explaining it to me slowly saying, "You understand?" won't help. I need the math background to give the paradox meaning. You do too.

I guess the other problem here is that for basic math, Khan academy is super hard to beat. I can tell Khan "I want to learn calculus" and it will make me do all the prerequisites for calculus. I think that doing this for basic math after Khan is a little like starting a new encyclopedia after Wikipedia; I'm not saying that creating value there is impossible, but you have a hell of a competitor.
Facebook appears to axe ticker feed for tracking your friends’ activity
So if China were to split into 10 different countries it would somehow become an acceptable level?

Per capita is the only equitable measure of pollution.

I certainly agree overpopulation of the earth is a tragedy likely felt for generations, but petty bickering over these very issues is why global leaders can't make any progress in greenhouse gas emissions.
“The standard you walk past, is the standard you accept.”
I have some friends in Germany, and their view - for the middle class - is that life begins in your 50s. At this age your kids have moved off to college or university, your debts are mostly paid off (not that debt is really a thing in Germany) and you can look forward to a few decades of retirement. The important part however is this only works if you are healthy enough to enjoy it, so it’s important at a young age to take care of your body and not overwork.
The half-life of fuel for these reactors is very long - over 100,000 years. So for all practical biological effects they are basically stable. If it exploded before it was activated (far into space), it would be about the same danger to people and the environment as the rest of the exploding metal the rocket was made of.
I don't understand why this uses base 10.

Why would a serious cryptographic primitive be based on base 10?

Maybe I misunderstand the purpose of this paper?

It says in the paper that they also found a way to break it, unless I misread it.

I only skimmed it, but I am confused as to the purpose of this paper. Are they proposing that this be used?
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Only consumers are not made aware they can. Nobody knew the battery was the cause of the slow down, and apple certainly did nothing to let you know.
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I suspect anyone who has been interacted with a government agency would say ay "government does everything inefficently" - you don't have to be a libertarian to notice that. Any large organization and particularly one that has no competition will tend to be inefficient.

I doubt many people who consider themselves libertarian would say something so absolute as "everything would be better off served by private for-profit entities" much less "taxes are theft".

>...when in reality they just want a bit smaller taxes and a bit less regulation.

Most libertarians would likely also consider this incorrect. For example, the 2 major political parties share major policies that libertarians are opposed too and would like to reform or stop. For example, both republicans and democrat parties support: the war on drugs, the increasing militarization of police, the national surveillance state, the Patriot act, registration for the draft, the TSA, etc, etc. I suspect that the average voter is opposed to at least some of these policies, so that is maybe why the those invested in the two major parties will try to stifle any discussion of these topics and why groups that oppose them are mischaracterized or attacked with straw man arguments.
Gone again. The culture won't stand for it.
Dangote came from such village and he stayed behind to build and develop his country. JJ Okocha came from a village and he was a super star before heading to Europe.
Consider the earth as an orange. Global warming is like barely touching its surface, and geothermic power is like barely scratching its surface.
Hi arximboldi!

I actually have a half-started emacs-like editor built using Qt that is based on ewig. Not anywhere near usable yet, but my plan is to make a fast editor with fast highlighting and such, and have everything accessible to be scripted in guile. I doubt it will actually materialise, but if I ever get a proof of concept it will be on github.

I love immer! It is friggin excellent.
>>> and the grayed out collection becomes de minimis.

Ya, it's de minimus until my favorite tunes go away. You don't have to be a conspiracy nut to understand what is going on here. They don't want old music on their new devices. Me listening to an old MP3 of my favorite band is, to Apple (or google or anyone else) a waste. Every minute I;m listening to that I'm not listening to <<hip new pop song 12>> via a streaming service. No data to extract. No products to pitch. No data plan to top up. No need to link my car's stereo to the cell network.

We are free to listen to anything we want, so long as its on today's list of approved tracks. Just forget what you were listening to yesterday. Pretend it never existed, because it doesn't exist and never did. I cannot think of anything more antithetical to rock and roll than calling any music 'de minimus'.

My car's stereo plays mp3s. It plays them when I am in the mountains and out of cell range. It plays them when I am on the lower deck of a car ferry. It plays them when my phone is dead and I don't have a charger. It plays them regardless of what boarder I cross. It will play anything I ask regardless of where it came from. And it won't tell anyone what I listen too alone in the car on my way to work. Nothing in Apple's walled garden shows that sort of loyalty.
The real estate part is that; going from cook to real estate in another country and doing that by driving Uber in the meantime while learning and practicing how real estate works and getting licences. It is not as clear cut as programming in that way but entry level jobs are not too easy to get over here when you are older as the minimum wage goes up fast. Freelancer wise I do see it happen.
I think bitcoin price will stabalize once most of the bitcoin are mined. Right now its a race to simply collect as much satoshi as possible if you believe in a future where cryto becomes the dominant form of exchange. 1 satoshi is still far less valuable than a single USD. 1 satoshi is 0.0001 USD right now, still a ways to go before it becomes equivalent.
Where is the best place/s to find design research?
Judging by the downvotes some people really don't like that idea.
The median fee is currently $15 and there have been around 200k unconfirmed transactions for days. Is it false in addition to this that around half of all bitcoin addresses hold less bitcoin than the current fee? That’s a massive constriction of supply. Very few people are transacting at amounts of $5000 where the fee might make sense.
What if

we declared Facebook to be a monopoly and broke it up like we did Ma Bell in the 70s?

I dunno. Feels like it's too big, too ubiquitous, and is too much oriented towards encouraging behaviors that are much better for their pockets than for anyone using it.

Hell, look at this story: Facebook already has (according to a quick google search, [citation needed]) about 58% of the US' entire adult population, or 3/4 of all adult Americans who use the Internet. (which is about 81%). Their user growth rate is going flat, because they're running out of people willing and able to be online. But they need to keep acquiring new users no matter what, so now they're turning their eyes to the people who they are legally barred from giving accounts to.

Gotta find more eyeballs to show ads to.
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My guess to what the GP is asking is if the files will still be downloadable from Apple even if they are not selling the tracks anymore. My reading of the article, makes the answer to that question vague, saying:

“But you can always go back and listen to the downloads, they always will work,”

Does that mean if you still have the files, they will work (which is obviously the case) or does that mean they are available to download at anytime once bought from Apple, but will not be available to be purchased in the future...
Do you have a chance to play in an ensemble? There's an old adage: "Try to play with musicians who are better than you." I was extremely lucky to fall into a sort of community band, full of really good musicians. It has been a challenge to keep up with the band. While it's not a professional group, it's managed by grown-ups, so it's well organized and the rehearsals are efficient.

In general, performing adds a dimension to your playing, even if it's not the hardest music that you've played. If you don't have time for a band, I know it sounds kind of corny, but retirement homes love to have musicians. Some have money, others don't. The joy that it brings to people who are lonely and of limited mobility is incalculable.

Also, +1 to the other comments in this chain.
> Still, in many cases there’s little incentive for farmers to save water. Agriculture uses 62 percent of China’s water, but crops have a relatively low marginal value. So the government bans the sale of agricultural water to industry, which pays 10 times the price, to ensure food supply.

This discount on water is effectively a cash subsidy for agriculture that increases with the amount of water wasted instead of useful goods sold.

Seems like every country everywhere has the same issue: they don't want to sell water at the price it is actually worth, so it gets wasted and people complain about water security issues. (Then if it's a city residential area, they introduce rules like "no watering your lawn" in the hope that it will reduce waste, instead of canceling the 90% off all-year-round water sale.)
I wonder if people felt the same when oil started to become popular in the late 1800s. The amount we use now, compared to then, would be completely unimaginable to them.
I'm curious about your architecture. What requires you to make thousands of DNS queries per second against Route 53?
I suspect this is why my attention span decreased significantly after extensively interacting with these websites for several years. I find a reduced ability to read books (of any kind), among other tasks over a longer time span. Longform pieces, such as books in particular, do at least force us to invest in the long term for a reward at the end, rather than near-instant gratification.
He meant Monero not Bitcoin.
If you need an example of trying to offer practical solutions, go to reason.org and you can probably find hundreds of pages of commentary, practical solutions, reviews, etc. The top story on the site looks like it is on the details of the current state of the air traffic control system. You can read the digital version of their magazine for free and in fact every issue they have ever published for close to 40 years. I don't think it is far to say that groups like these don't add anything to the national debate.
NIPS 2017 is exciting even if you don’t work in AI
Sometimes it is easier to just "look before you leap":

gcc -E myprogram.c
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Global warming happens because CO2 magnifies our energy input by orders of magnitude. The temperature change caused by the actual energy we use is completely negligible. The part that counts involves magnifying the sun’s influence.

There’s no equivalent to that for geothermal power. The energy you extract is the energy that’s lost, and that’s it.
What's up with the ability to flag posts here unless they are duplicates? Shouldn't admins only have the ability to flag a post for being inappropriate? This is being flagged off the front page because various Hacker Newsers are sexist. Isn't this a place for progress?

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That works for an established brand of Nike, Procter & Gamble and Coca Cola variety, but creates quite a barrier for a new brand. Retailer’s value proposition, in a nutshell, is lower customer acquisition cost. Some brands need it, some don’t.
How does prop 13 encourage more retail construction?
In the UK these type of delivery drivers will be driving vans weighing under 3.5t. The restrictions on driving times only apply to vehicles above this weight.
I have found that for me, a classical musicians although somewhat mathematically inclined, most problems up to about problem 100 were solvable with my maths book and some helpful pointers.

I ended up spending too much time per problem (days to weeks) and then I got a kid, so that time is being spent on better things.
Social media is one of those things which by nature is difficult to break up. I'd say it's as hard to really fix as any natural monopoly.

Facebook is not near as bad as Google is in terms of quiet influence, at least among the younger generation.
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> Pulling out lower-performing formats, especially music downloads, helps to solve the issue.

Yeah, that's the problem with iTunes. The ability to play local music files really bogs it down. /sarcasm

I don't use iTunes, so I don't care if they do this as long as the vendors I do use (Amazon, Burning Shed, Bandcamp, etc.) continue to provide downloads.
Does Life End at 35?

No.

Do you sometimes lie awake worrying that you aren't succeeding fast enough?

No.

Are you tortured by younger peers who have global businesses, penned acclaimed books and a string of iron-man medals?

No.

Do you count down the years until you can no longer make the 30 under 30 list?

No.
Apple doesn’t officially document that, but see various support discussions:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4468165
If you link to resources instead of hosting content on your own site, consider having a plan to deal with link rot and site policy changes.
If a manager expects or even does anything short of actively discouraging that behavior, they are not fit to be a manager.